The Express.
London, England, 1861-10-07 00:00:00

T: E AMV:IItrAN GoVERNMENT AND THE

TIMES- CORRESPONDENT.

the text of the reply sent by Mr.
+u•l to a ourner..u.ly .igoed pttitiou forwarded to him.
ht. t )pre%rlit the continuation of the
,0..-poalrore of Mr. izuss.-11....1 the 1-010.0 •
•' lATartmeat of State, Wiehiogtoe.
Sept. 21, Heil.

• • )1.. n v intelligent and patriotic citizen. have applied to me
.1 asking the atteutioci of the government to what
ti ',lament aka tmamiaable matter contain...l in a letter
boo; the ,Lit.• of Wa.ltington, .tuipi.t 10, published iu the
I. 1.42 and they eapress their conviction that the
•• I no tL.t eso. 33333 uni.vtion are untrue, and
.• • '-e sigh of the twitter to heir; the credit and
boor ..1 tLi. ~oberiaitmit into disrepute in foreign countries.
It ;era a habit of the government of the tailed
•i ta take boo n .tilt of representation., however obsoxi•
losatir I, the pr.-soot foreign nation., or even iajurious
oil. nuke made by miniatersorotheragents fur foreign power*
iu tb.- ordinary tromaction. of their own attain. The
ono., •nt. ..a the cmtiary, has hitherto recopied as
s.•itl:y 4 it. olpervation only the language and the action
the rte.:mime wpm. of feeetra stales.
For at, adf. 1 ...whoa I have not read the whites-
•anolaitied of, and I am quite sure it hag
.• . the attention of any other veto.
1.• • of the adminktrati"n, etigroonal as we all
.vai ily are with urgent public duties soil
c.a.,. However erroneous the facts or the inferences
i Vie enter may be, they nevertheless stand as
Li. own ipliyidaxrl authority, while the whole patriotic
prom .4 nor own cooniry is free. and is intermted to refute
Wa is. The govornneut of the rotted Stalk.. depends
not uooe h. Liver oe good will of foi riga
...tom., hot ape. the just supped of the Anii•rican
Its ermlit and its Lune seem to toe
"...re than ever heretofore sole in their keeping.
if a he assunied that the oteogions piper may do harm
!pie. es it a. 4 a mdliciest reply that puliably rad 50 copies
.4 the Lefties an. had their way to our shore.
If d to sad ogais that the obootions communication
luau widely piohleibml in the I toted States,
it +in.,. to Itio• a oolfflo•ii et repainler that the CelSaUrt. of a
bto.l obit:m.lli groVIVOIII •tot is that COYr• ought to fall gal tMeic
if it. oola, museum who reproduce the libel rathei that, on
the fore:acme who wrote it exclusively fur remote pith-

" int. rferray with the press, area in the es.° of
an ototing insiorrectioe, can be justified only on the ground
1,41.1 e: ilam;ir. 11, riot see iusy such &eget in the pre.
beat ease, even if ono foreigner does pervert our hopitalitv
ehelt-r •If a writing injurious publications
..?east as f-r 4 foreign press. A hundred other foreigners,
4.1 iateni4eat. a. ‘irtuom., spa as respectable a. be is,
4,4 ron.llim; themselves in the army of the l'oik4l
hiatra, to iieferal awl lissiatria the union, as the chief Imps
el hunisintv a ell -centric. wad be all ogre. Coul.l there
he a I. tier ill•orriama of that great furioLunrutal truth of our
..joitrai that error of opesioe may safely be tolerated when
melee kit free If comlat with it!
" WILLIAM H. SEWARD."

DILITRUCTIoN nI BOWERR rs AIUsEUM, IN
TIIS STILIND.—(THIS 1)A1*.)

This (Motrlay) morning, between the hour t of
and i o'clock, a fire broke out on the premises belonging
t. 1f r. John Calvert, Mat knows . Sowerb)'s Museum,
senate at Nu. 164, Ia the Mood, between Strand.lane and
the darned Theatre. The premises were five doors, M-
elodies the hmeinent, nod were expensively furnished. The
tT•„al floor was titud with cohost, containing meowed',
fossils, cal descriptive (ooks, cod the upper floors were
wisl as 1110.11111.. Lein stocked with all deveriptioes
'tidied hints, animal., named in natural history, me
well as with large collations of mineralogical nod geological
'premien.. The buddies wee adjoined on one side by the tea
■nl grocery establishment of Idr. Eve, and on the other
side by the odic,: of the Ervint, r newspaper. A door or
two to the oast was s clump of antique houses, let out to
poor lodger*, funnies ffidilee.buiklinp, east the stage of
Mined TheJtre r.. within a few feet of the ill-fated pro-
perty. A tire In•aking out in such a district, as
nu, naturally be suppress!, caused the greatest ezeitemeet.
In the course of a few memos a distreesiug sight waa wit-
nessed in Golden.buddings, for there must have been over
7,0) persons- men, women, mad ehildree—in the court,
with little more on thee their night clothes, ea.
pectin; their humble tenements would be destroyed. They
well, .4 desperate attempt to remove [their furniture, and
partially succeeded in doing so. The engines were set to
work from an abundant supply of water, and the &e-
-escapes having been called into requisition, the breams, sad
elsi maperintendeat Shaw, mounted the machines, and
threw copious streams of water into and around the
burning premises, which had the effect of cutting
off the further epees* .1 the ere. The three upper
museums of Mr. Calvert ars, however, burnt out, and
the cabinet compartments on the ground door an
seriously damaged by water. The cabinets and books mom
insured is the Mentz Eirwodico, but the other portions or
the ennui...se were not insured. A great deal of damage ham
been dose to the premises of Mr. Eve, who mei not is-
m:red. The roof of tho Regimeer office is also damaged by
ere—imerance unknown. rtir houses is l:oblea•buildiage
are also dumped by Wl4lllr and the hasty removal of the
I inuture, none of the occupiers being insured. The origin
of the fire is enveloped in obscurity.

The .Itofryar Suite states that the Earl of Derby
has Lase at Prath for mom dayi with his family, and has
lately paid a rid to And.

According to othcid returns just made up, there
ars 4,7rgt soldiers at this moment suffering from ophthalmia
la the Prussian army.
The Prussian Minister of Commerce has ad-
dressed • circular to the directors of railways ioviting them
to halite' a fourth dace of trains, Is order to reed=
railways ensemble to a greater number of travellers.
A letter from Stutganit, dated the 3rd, says,
"An incident, which has provoked • certain amount of
smedal, took place to-day in the Chamber of Deputise.
Several orators having indecently attacked the protestant
pralatea, who to this number of six sat is the chamber by
Altos of the coostituticio, Ave of them rase sad quitted the
ha"

The Berlin journals announce a sad accident to
tie Grand Deka of If ickliaborg.Schwerin while shooting.
One al hie mite, through inadvertence, shot, the duke is
the leg. Hie royal Wiliam was carried oa a litter Se a
chateau. It o bet the.ight that the acvident will lead le
eerv.ua rrguits.

At Florence the other day, King Victor Em-
aanwl • deputation fres Peru, begging him to
rapt the office of President of the " Ifiserisertila" of that
city. His Majesty agreed to the requeeL These ratite-
tire— which have for their object re eying earieturce
car of accident. soil decent burial Wryer who may die
Retiree in the city—date hare me far as the Insisting of
the thirteenth century. A eerier sinialier of ow mhos are
,/wars cm duty, sal "then " wassof," se that they come
it the mood of • belL They premed, earrying • sort of
covered bier, to the place of the aesident, sad Mho pom a.
tar of the killed or wounded. On duty, they are ell clad
from heed to foot ia black, ail wear hire merm.
A letter from Naples of the 30th alt. Rays
" The city is very quiet, sod, except • religious fete now
sad thee, nothing occurs to create an excitement. There
wee a procerion last week is homier of the Madonna de
Nntte Dolor . awl a fact aceurred worth ,shag, r shown(
the ancaushag influence of a same. When the rummies
arrived sear the l'alaszo Naddalier • reactioelet raised the
cry which hese* often created such terror ie Naples, of
' raja, Iruja! ' sad for the mourn there was a meat
Mar, but the Hyma of Ganbeldi err snack up, his pot-
tiest ems hung out from a shop, mad the effect was magical.
No nine shutters weer closed, end everyone remained
tcsojuil awl composed."
in the small concert room of the Philharmonic
soeivty of Flower, • few days ega, Oriel erg four soap—
Vlea, dant° " iPentaA,), the "Leh one " (Noire),
the due from Tronitorr, and " The Lest Wee of Summer."
ne inhere were le raptures. The ohmic was the "Lest
Aar," which was encored. The delight of Gina at her
reeeptios wee rider.

A Limerick corresposdas t of the Daily Erprraa
guts tits hillmmeg amour* of akW amideat him akem
11011 that city : —•• eaplinin L 1 well etweldwi wow is •
cal t.ts flare side of tie river, arm Dosomm and balms
mumA Maiking accurately with the ,t lee test sent
%eh:epees, Lloyd war carried rarer tie rapids. the zurrest
" the haw. .4 which was so extremely violent that there
vs. so possibility of escape. It is raid limn was s boy with
ken, win ltrkily neared. The Asommi geetlenyin was I
I's Erre L 1.1.1, Prospect. sod IMO much esteemed
c ha• smuhlc and na.fleorive eltareohr. The holy bee
1.4 let bees reaeceml."