The Express.
London, England, 1857-11-23 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 23, 1857.

THE RONAN CArauLic DISHOP OP BIRMING-
HAM ON THE INDIAN WAR.

Yesterday morning, a pastoral from Dr. Ulla-
thorn., the catholic. Bishop of Birmingham, wee read at Bt.
Peter catholic church, Leamington, by the Very Rev.
Cllll2Oll Jeffries, the resident priest, from which we extract the
following npon the Indian war
We need no longer read old histories to tuadergand what
men become' whose gods en demons or whoee prophets are
impostors. Deluded by the demons to Weeks them In the
name of gods, their impiratione are internal, and their works
are devilish. Whatever harbarous sod denioniecal cruelty
men can Indict on mm—abet...li their corrupted
hearts no coseslrs of show end dishonour--all that,
was bsysed the extent of oar Itniginstion, have the
Hisao. end the Mahoruedan perpetrated on MC. on
helpthe women, and even on tender end innocent bebee.
And we must tied anew St Augustine's peat week of the
City otOod and the City of Babylon, whether we would Ind
• parallel to them anal:them stuanget the Vandals, or would
seek the inert smitmsats to math end esthete the bases
el Christians who the witnesses of each awl's' ans...
It le net foe us, nor is this the place, to inquire whittling
hem done, or what haa been left undone, in times already
gone by, that God may have expected from them to who..
iswer Ile committed thaw dark-minded nations. But what
this this cry of vengeance which resounds on every side of us
Dreadful and past all imeginatiou se have been the crimes of
s email) number of our eneniier, what means this hot cry far
Indistriminote vengeance upon MI? Is then. then, to he as
more detinction between Mfonce and offence, sod an
the thoisdiag to be swept into ose Immo( (sindemorittoo
with the guilty ? le the peactifol dote, who is blionli
$ sufferer, to be slaughtered with the rebel, the robber, the
ravisher, and the murderer ? Brethren, beware of tido ets-
holy cry. Give it not your countenAnce, but your reproof.
To the powers that be, Cod hes alien the sword ofjostios,
but not the sword of vengeance. Revenge is mine, with the
Lord. Jubilee is the virtue of thee who rule the air* and
ft is to to 'leeched with judgment ; but revenge, sod Ills
desire of revenge, are always crimes in area, rod mare 4111Ef•
dolly in the Chrielso. Vila Clod himself essreissi ILI
mom terrible venom:me It was not ups. us, poor weak and
sinful mortals, but upon His own Almighty sad most km-
owe don; and alter that most divine awl aided v
' He rested revenge, aod leek swsy the word,.. warorthisra
the beer t and lips of Chrthithe:

ME INDILY ItUTINIZB.-MESTING IN

DORBZTBIIIIII.

A inciting was held at Starcoinater Newton, in
Dereeleides, on Thursday afternoon, to express sysy
with the suffirem in India, and subscribe to the .an■
Mkt Fund. The chair was sampled by Mr. Kto Sus ett et.
M.P., and the Hon. end Rev. Sydney Oadolphin Osborne 1
woe one of the speakers.
It.
The CHAIRMAN took &vesicle, in his opening speech, to 8.
murk that • Doeseeshire man was the hero in the @smolt tin
as Delhi. There could he no question that of .11 the men et
who so dstggn.slllf distinguished themdves on that memorable M
secedes, Lieutenant Salkeld was the lest to enter the city. L•
Lieneeeent Salkekl, the son of a asighboar of his (the a
tffildeman's), was called upon with the rest of the body of aj,
Beigismes to perform the most arduous duty ever under- N.
Yam; they were to go in broad daylight across • plain IL
mem/ to a most mementoes lire of musketry, to
blow tep eas of the gates of that city. Almost every ;
autedizespel In the work was killed or injured. Lieutenant gi
inn first struck with a bell in the arm; he still went os.
as; Ito mu thee badly wounded in the leg; then it was he b.
SWIM So match to a sergeant to apply to the gunpowder SI
"Mb woo to Mow up the pm. He had since received, u ••,„.
ls desented to receive on the spot, the Victoria Crew • bet
flip osooosto sold still
to a precarious ;tate. a.
elmikatrinso) rim-rely hoped that young hero would $
emit esteem in eifeey to his native otunty. As he was in
eion matters of local interest, he would mention that IL
cerz coroodasioner of Delhi, whose death all depived,
nes • Dui-mishits man ; sad, when the now. of the mutiny irk'
list mashed tblo country, • Itoreetabire man wee home- is
Middy sent for from the Cape to take • high command in N.
todb—Gosoral ttklel, who distinguished himself so much IS.
In Lir war. Stich items of local ciongranalakkin ought IL
ad Ink trot aight of at • local meeting like the present.
N
One of the speakers who followed, the Her. G. F. St. *
John, tested that he believed his young friend, Philip si
&Held, the hero of Delhi, had laid up f COL in the Delhi It
task, that he had sent means for a younger brother 18
to being him out to India, that he bad always Pees
lOW. • year towards the education of his other younger
brother; sad he not only lent by the plundering of th
ki
tank the whole of his savings sod the whole of his income, e
bat he setually lost his clothes and everything he purred.
The reverend speaker saw Mr. Salkehl, Lieutenant Salkeld's
father, on the perfects day, and he woo deeply affected by •
the late occurrence. in India. Young ttalkeld at the *akin
of Delhi having escaped aeries the ditch of 18 feet Ws which
the wither fell who jumped to mire himself from beingbius
op. then, after he had sealed the will, heard the err of
women instautly he went beck, sued the women, sod it N
we into that that very ditch he fell, being wounded by • at
tall. He afterwards was stripped of his clothes hy • mer g
reading party, and had not a single farthing hit is Mes Wu rt.
tack to England to care hito of Die wounds. Se.
In the morn of the Hon. red Rev. S. O. Otheresfe
eddies be rid --" We sow hear • great deal of bow ell
this came about ; yea enure go into a coffee-room, yea sup la
not travel to • train, and you cannot meet See people in the Mr
street, but whet three of them at leant will tell you how this
mutiny in India wee. Some will tell yen it was because the A.
regimenta had their officers taken away to be made civil err- it.
wants ; others tall Joe—preaching the gospel with want of ten.
judgment; others say it wee the reseed carts idges, and so
on. What is the real feet? I • ill defy any ow, after
having rest everything and haring rutted every tepid, *
from the seat of will, after having cseefully aonel&eed allm.
to Coma any really satisfactory opinion of how this great N.
judgment upon it. hes come about. AU that we know is this Or
—that this vast judgment is on us, and that it is our duty to N.
eedeavour to bear it in that spirit which Englishmen and t:
Christians rhould ever show." After setting aside the dif Is
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[remit suppotit ions shore referred to es to the error* alleged e•
to have provoked this sootlay, be .lead—" Why, then, SI
should we go to look for the moo f Lit It be sufficient for 114
as to know the reel coodblos t state of thing., MR
sad let sbuckle me our meatstand up like men to a
tautest spier those boo by don we ere beset, and rightly .t,
le employ the mot room yid* God ha. /bowl one a.
hands." - nia

"‘ Thc financial crisis which now weighs upon
Europe," rays the St. Petersburg correspondent of the
Nord, " baa had a amanita. influence on Naas Oold has IL
brooms extremely MHOS. For notes of 100 roubles the dio•
mat aloe ghee only Sr. roubles in specie, and yet It la S.
Wort am day with crowds of persons who wish to get gold It
for their paper. On the 14th at November the balf-Imperlal,
the vans of which in ordinary times ia 5 roubles 15 cops,
Ina quoted at the Bourse at S roubles 68 00,0011. The gg,
bakers an charging 16 per cent. for diacoasts:

IT
PRINCE ID.—The public generally does not ga
know that we have hie Royal Highness Prince Alfred (dr le
'geed, at se very UMW day it Is presumed, to become Lord H
High Adnhal of England) sojourning at Alverstoka. As
estabilarmat nessed Aker Beak, • small but ample marl- m.
Wm, ham bean mpg* sad Is it the sailor prima hes tor ei
moan little thee pod heft domesticated. He has sa ample 111.
retinue of serves* end a ideated staff of attendants, H.
among* whom we may nag Lieutenant Cowell. of the LL
Royal Engineers, who wee hie highaess's companion and In
guide doting hia criathiestsi tea; Dr. Mater, rumens ; st
mad she Rev. W. Jolly, as easel and petal inetructor. Is.
His little priumbip gives dimmer prise, sad may be fre-
quell, seta . Wear " about this part.—Haute Adaertiamr. ..n.
THE DECMESS OF 1110N1/7ENIER PORING THE ;
Revoirrios.—Auther iseident (mentioned In Lord ga.
Nermesby's work) was, lOW more dramatic. The you(
Daemon of Iffestpmmier, the Sprinted miscue, " whose
in France wu so deftly connected with the
Lmmfatal dream" of the King's " insatiable esa-
bition" only then Just sixteen, and reported u IN
bluely shortly to heroine a mother—after
Oust vainly alone on the outskirts of the
at the Tuilerim, eu gl id ultimately to avail herself of • is
1...fr0m France under a fictitious name, granted by the gi4
of England ! The adventures of this "laterest isa
-
lig•;lllEasstimm child" did not terminate with her moue
her Paris. Again, at Abbeville. she had to wander about
sheehat mil slaking ev. ry step M mud above her ankles,
la the semplay of a bewildered aide-de-mrop of her fugifig
-
the hid, until providentially discovered by • pale- ft
ma nut In march of them, who conducted her ft eftel.
*
tam she awaited the arrival of a carriage " awaggluil* est
a the here en the pc re. Notwithatanding lend 3 r,
doubt on high concept on. of a daughter. is
la▪
-lads duty, we will venture to swept H. Leamatinee „so
dem that the little primers bed soli spelt sed maw too
era* ft say :" Eh hat, raise oaken ees annligoes nee "•
le rowel is de la Mble roads de travail der he mhos
dank et sonatas: des Telltales I"—Emormist.
DEATH OF PROFENIOR NUS with
deep regret that Dr. John Fleming, the dlstingeleited Par
Ana oaf Natural Science in the Free Chunk Collage
here, died on Wednesday at two o'clock, ot • spu-
me& complaint lie had bees rather unwell for •
few dayr, but his death was amides end naespeolod.
He hes long hold a place la the first rank of British
astaraliste. From an early age he was • What
student of nature, and an able and original observer, while
he spend so labour to store his mind with all that had
been Inane, as the science in this, and other munstries. He
penned a *erase intellect, was distrustful of speculation,
candor end proceed in his Mews. His "History of British
Animal.," sad " Philorophy of Zoology," though wrier
alegy peen ego, are still standard books. He was beades
the caner at a met variety of papers and treatises In
1110 Ditultlepleda BriMalliell, the Maxwell Philosophical
Aar& Wetter publicatiose. He had reached hie seventy-
ildid pair, sad until within a tow days his activity mented
insbalsi Dr. Fleming wee, till 1A34, minister of the pieta
el
Pik, in Fillsabbs, when he was appointed Traimeat sf
Rebel Philseephy In King's College, Aberdeen. Se the
Pahnentip in the Free Church College he reantwol from
Abeam ft 1146.—Scenaint.

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Mak Imikl•Mly apparel fa portfen of dm pukka
pow see ellbrat lbeekika, mad that the fret. numbs, era
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character. Prices are still declining. Lancashire
and Yorkshire stock has fallen to 88 to 1, and
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' chief depression. Great Western is quoted 471 to
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Northern, 221 to 23 per share; and London and
South Western, 44 to
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MONEY MARKET.-THIS DAY.

Two o'Ciooi.

The fuLds opened more firmly this morning, but
have since become latter, owing to rumours that
_ . . .

the question of granting financial assistance to the
Indian Government will come before Parliament.

Prices are now quoted i per cent. lower than on

Saturday afternoon.
Consols for the ith December were first marked
901, and arc now quoted 891 to I. For money
the present price is 891 to The Three per Cent.
Reduced are marked 881 to 89 ; the New Three per
Cents. at 88! to 89; Bank Stock, 212 to 214;
Exchequer Bills, Its. to 9s. dis. ; and India Bonds,

335.
Turkish Six per Cents. have been dealt in at 88,
but are now rather flatter. In other foreign
stocks very little business has been done.
Sales are recorded as follows :—Brazilian Old Five

per Cents., at 99 ; ditto Four-and-a:Half per Cents.,
1862, at 961; Mexican Bonds for account (Novem-
ber 30), at 181 to 1; Portuguese Three per Cents.,
1863, at 421; Russian Five per Coots., for account,
at 108; Turkish Six per Cents., at 88.
The Bank of England on Saturday purchased

the important sum of about 400,0001. in gold, out
of the 525,9001. brought by the Australasian, from

Alexandria.
Much satisfaction is expressed at the fact that the
Persia has arrived at Liverpool from New York with
more favourable advice., and with as much as
120p00/. in specie on freight. The exchange at New
York on London was quoted 108 to ; the money
market was easier, and no new failures of impor-
tance had been announced.
The amount of specie taken out by the America,
which left Liverpool on Saturday for New York,
was about 22,0001.
It is stated that the stock of bullion in the Bank
of France has recovered to an amount about equal
t. that shown in the last monthly return.
It is stated that the arrangements for enabling the
City of Glasgow Bank to resume payment are
making such progress as to encourage every hope of
a satisfactory issue. It is considered that the old
Edinburgh banks, which may themselves be affected
by a continuance of the public distrust of the banks,
ought, under proper precautions, to do their port
towards promoting an arrangement, the success of
which could not fail to have a great moral effect in
the disturbed districts.
Our Manchester advices mention the st of
Mr. Leopold Sampson, in the African e, with
liabilities to the amount of between 60,0001. and
70,0001.
From Hamburg it is announced that Messrs.
Ullberg.and Cramer have resumed payment.
The imports of the precious metals during the
week, ending Saturday, have been very large. Our
list includes 75,0001. in Russian coin, from St.
Petersburg; 525,9001. in Australian gold, by the
Australasian, from Alexandria; 16,1001. by the
Indus, from the same port ; 47,0001. by the Baltic,
1,3001. by the Europa, and 120,0001. by the Persia,
all three from New York ; 20,0001. from Constanti-
nople; 5,1001. by the Britannia, from the Peninsula;
6 cases of specie by the Vesta, from Oporto; 1 case
by the Warrior, from Lisbon ; 1 package of bullion
by the Tempest, from New Orleans ; and 1 box of
specie by the Phoebe, from Smyrna.
The total value of these arrivals is not less than
820,0001., consisting almost entirely of gold. The
imports of silver from the Continent have this week
been unusually small. The quantity ascertained to
have arrived in the Thames is only about 35,0001.
The Custom-house weekly statement of the ex-
ports of the precious metals direct from London in-
cludes 19,130 oz. of gold and 1,200 oz. silver, repre-
senting a total value of about 74,0001. The par;
ticulars arc as follows, viz.: Gold coin, to Boulogne,
4,500 oz. Gold ban
, to Belgium, 2,000 oz.; to
Boulogne, 12,630 oz. Silver coin, to Boulogne,
1,200 oz.
The shipments from the ontports have embraced
318,7171., almost entirely in silver, by the Nemesis,
for Alexandria and the East ; 15,5601. by the
Alhambra, for the Peninsula; 21,3001. by the
Fulton, 8,7001. by the Kangaroo, and 22,0001. by the
America, all three for New York ; and 18,3001. by
La Plata, for the West Indies.
The total ascertained shipment. of the week, as
officially reported, are thus raised to about 478,000!.,
of which by far the larger proportion consisted of
silver. The private remittances of gold to the Con-
tinent have comprised, in addition, a portion of the
gold by the Avon, which arrived from Melbourne
last week ; some parcels of newly-imported Russian
coin ; and a very small proportion of the gold ex the
Australasian, from Alexandria.
The Egmont has arrived from China, with
699,300 lbs. of tea.
A feature of Saturday's business in the Stock Ex-
change consisted of a considerable fall in the shares
of most of the joint stock banks. Those of the
London institutions suffered especially, London
I and Westminster closing at 37 to 39 ;
London Joint Stock at 24 to 26 ; Union
of London at 14 to 191 ; and Commercial
at 16 to 18. The stock of the London and County
Bank was comparatively firm, being quoted 27i to
28f. It would be odd if Bank shares were exempted
from the general depreciation of all descriptions of
securities. Holders of this chum of property feel the
pressure of the times in common with other people,
and, owing to the limited extent of the market for
Bank shares, the appearance of two or three sellers
is sufficient at any time to affect prices. Much more
is this the case at a period of anxiety like the pre-
sent. It would appear, however, that an attempt
has been made to excite distrust of the
joint stock banks, in consequence of the part
which some of them have taken in the arrangement
for affording relief to the great house in the Ameri-
can trade whose temporary embarrassments have of
late engaged so much. attention. It may therefore
be advisable to explain that the transaction in ques-
tion involves the furnishing by the Bank of England
of 800,0001. in the course of the next three months,
although it is doubted if so large a sum will be
needed. The parties who have pledged their re-
sponsibility to the Bank to this extent are
eight in number, including some of the joint-
stock banks, but ample security for all ad-
ranee. has been lodged by. the American
house. As this firm, moreover, is fully believed
to be not merely solvent, but ossessed of • large
surplus, it is clear that the transaction cannot,
except under the most extraordinary and improbable
combination of circumstances, result in any loss to
the parties who have combined to guarantee the
required sum, and who, meanwhile, have the satis-
faction of averting the fall of one of the most
respected houses us London, together with all its
evil consequences. Whilst touching upon this
subject, we may refer to the ramous which have
been maliciously circulated that the Union Bank of
London must have sustained loss through acting as
the London agents of the Western Bank of Scotland
and the City of Glasgow Bank. If we are
rightly informed, the Union Bank are so well pro-
tected that were the affairs of the two suspended
Scottish banks to be brought to an immediate settle-
ment, the Union Bank would have to hand over to
them securities to the amount of something like
400,000!. Moreover, as we have before stated, the
City of Glasgow Bank are understood to have really
sustained no losses of any importance. They keep
their doors closed because they are unable to pay
their deposits in gold. It must not be forgotten, too,
that the ability of the shareholders of each of these
Scottish banks to liquidate every possible claim is
unquestioned.

SATIJADAT XV ANIIIIO.

The funds opened this morning with firmness.
An extremely unfavourable Bank return had been
anticipated, and the fact that, of the two 11111110111
issued by the Bank beyond its statutory limit, a re-
serve of 1,632,6861. in notes and coin remains in the
Bank's till, was considered to be more satisfactory
than, under the circumstances, could have been ex-
pected. Purchases still predominating, a total ad-

ranee of 1 per cent. was temporarily attained.
Subsequently a relapse took place, and the
closing quotations were per cent. below
those of yesterday. This unfavourable reac-
tion was partly attributable to a report,
which gained general currency, that a joint stock
bank in the north of England was subjected to pres-
sure and had stopped payment. To the latter
allegation, we believe we can give an unqualified
contradiction. It is understood, however, that
200,0001. in sovereigns was to-day despatched to
that quarter from the Bank of England, probably as
a measure of precaution.
At the Bank to-day the demand for money was
still extremely active, but not quite so heavy as
yesterday. In the discount market the position of
affairs presents little alteration.
Consols, which closed yesterday at 90 to 1 for
the 7th December, opened this morning at the
nine price, touch.d 901, " buyers," and closed at
891 to 90. For money the last price was 891 to
1. The official business report is as follows:—Three
per Cent. Consols, for money, 891, 1, I, 90; ditto,
for account (7th December), 90, 901, 901 ; Three
per Cent. Reduced, 881, 881, 89; New Three per
Cents., 881, asi, as; ; Bank Stock, 214 ; India
Stock, 216 ; Three-and-a-Half per Cent. Exchequer
Bonds, falling payable in 1868, Kt ; ditto, 1859,971.
The New Two-and-a• Half per, Cents. were also
officially marked 731.
Exchequer Bills maintained their improved quota-
tion of 14s. to Bs. discount. India Bonds were
quoted 435. to 355. di s.
Turkish Six per Cents. showed much steadiness,
but closed a trifle lower than yesterday, at 87,i to /.
The Guaranteed Four per Cents. were inquired for,
and were last quoted 971 to 98. Other foreign
stocks were well supported, and, in some cases, met
with more inquiry.
Advices dated Ceylon, Oct. 23, mention the ar-
rival at that place, from England, of the transport
steamers United Kingdom and Australia ; the former
with 410 men, and the latter with 424.
The Admiralty will receive tenders on the 24th
inst. for the conveyance of stores from the '1 henna
to Gibraltar. Tenders are also required for the con-
veyance of a limited quantity of stores to Cape Coast
Castle and Fremantle.

MINES.-THIS DAY.

Two o'CLoca

The market for home mining stocks to-day is
very dull. In the Stock Exchange no business is
reported ; prices, in many cases, are little more than
nominal. _

As regards foreign and colonial mining shares we
have really no report to make, business being almost
suspended.
Subjoined is the official list of prices in the
Mining Exchange on Saturday :
East Tamar, lb., 155.; Herodsfoot, 7; Redmoor, 10e.;
West Grenville, 68.; Wheel Edward, 7i,1.
Cobre shares were dun, and nominally quoted 39
to 41. All copper mine shares are to some extent
prejudiced by the reduction in the standard for
copper area.

SATVRDAT ERNINO.

In the home mining stock market to-day business
was somewhat brisker. Shares in Lady Bertha,
Wheal Edward, Alfred Consols, East Russell, Sor-
tridge Consols, Great Wheal Alfred, Wheal Mar-
garet, and Providence Mines, were inquired for. The
following may be given as some of the closing quo-
tations, viz.:—Alfred Console, 15/ to 10 ; Wheal
Edward, 71 to t ; Lady Bertha. 235. ; Sortridge
Conga's, 21 ; East Russell, 21; Wheat Margaret,
50; Providence Mines, 72 with div. ; Great Wheal
Alfred, 5.

COMMERCIAL AND MARKETS.

MARK-LANE.-THIS DAY.

The 'apply of English wheat was only moderiVe this
in 'ming upon the Ewes and Kent stands, and there was no
enmity experienced in targeting sales at the extreme gum"-
Won. of Monday last. Them wee an improved demand for
foreign ••beat end flour at that day's rates.
Barley also appears t, have reached its lowest, =dun some
instances rather more money was made.
Oats must be noted lid. to ls. dearer, and beans and piss
sold on fully as good terms.

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