The Express.
London, England, 1864-10-12 00:00:00

WEDNESDAY EVENING}, OCTOBER le, 1864.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

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AMERICA.

The following is the despatch from General
Grant announcing the movement of the Federal
rforces against Richmond :

Head-quarters, Olivia's Farm, 10.45 a.m.

I Depend Ord's amps advanced this morning, and carried
the strong fortification and long line of entrenchments
below Chapin 's Fatal, with some 15 pieces of artillery and
from 200 to 300 primmer& General Ord was wounded,
though not dangerously.
General Birney advanced at the same time from Deep
Bottom and carried the Newmarket road and entrench-
ments, and scattered the enemy in every direction, though
'he captured but few. He is now marching towards Rich-
mond.

I left General Birney where the road intercepts the New-
market and Richmond road. The whole of this country is
filled with field fortifications thus far.

11. 8. Gum.

S. M. Stdinton.

Reinforoements were constantly going to General
Sheridan.

Jeff. Davis, in his speech at Salisbury, North
Carolina, said—" Though late reverses had befallen
their arms, the spirit of the Confederacy was un-
broken, and it will yet wring peace and independ-
ence from a hated foe." He called upon all to
I enter the army, and urged the women to marry no
man who shirked the duties of a soldier.

LIVERPOOL, Oct 12.
The Canadian steamer Hibernian,from Quebec on
the let inst., arrived here at 7.30 this morning.

(1110T1301 TELIONAMIL
THE FRANOO-ITALIAN TREATY.
PAWLS, Ocr. 12.
The Constitutionnei of this morning has an
article signed by M. Limayrac relative to the dis-
quieting rumours concerning Austria. The writer
says :—" The convention solely affects Rome and
in no way modifies the position of the other parts
of Italy. Without doubt agitators may continue
to work in Venetia, and committees may issue
proclamations speaking of an offensive and defen-
sive ►lliance and of war in the spring. But this is
not a new state of things, and is one for which the
convention is not responsible. All sensible men
must understand that France has no desire to
complicate the Roman question by the question
of Venice, and to kindle in the north of the
Peninsula what she seeks to extinguish in the
south."

SPAIN.
MADRID, Ocr. 11, Evrinta.

1 The Minister of Finance is unable to effect any
credit operation under the conditions voted by Con-
gress, and will therefore await the deliberations of
the new Chambers.

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minward Ilnegand sad Norte Sea.

It has been stated that a commission has been
formed at St. Petersburg for the purpose of preparing the
Printer Dagmar for the reoeptioa of the rite of baptism
acoording to the form in ass in the Greek church. The
Emperor has presented her royal highnem with a pearl
necklace valued at 12,0001., and the Empress has also pre-
sented a costly pair d diamond bracelets.

A letter from St. Petersburg mentions an extra-
ordinary affair which lately occurred is this town of Orel. A
peat local landowner had a large sum (43,000ailverroublen) to
receive through the police-office of that town. On applyint
for the amount he was told that the money amid not be
banded over to him unless be presented the offios with
5,000 silver roubles. Hs refused, and immediately re-
ported the case to St. Petersburg, and the money was
paid over to him. But on the evening of the ume day, as
be was quietly smoking in his study, s loud ring was heard
at the bell. The gement on opening the door wee instantly
pinioned, and four men, their faces covered with black
crepe, rushed into the room. The landowner naked them
what they wanted; they plainly told him he must hand
over his 43,000 roubles. With the greatest coolness be
west over to his strong boa, opened it, seised • revol►er,
which was laid on the top shelf. and shot two of the
robbers dead, the other two immediately taking to their
heels. He then sent for assistance, the polies, Ice., and on
the crape being removed from the faces of the dead men
they were recognised as the heed of the police and his
secretary. The body of the former has been remo►ed to
Nice for interment.

Two acts of L' fricaine were read "an piano"
last week to the artiste' of the Grand Opera, Paris. The
Wes are thee distributed:—Vasco da Caine, Nandin ;
Don Pedro, 13eliral ; Nelsen*, Faun; the Heed Inquisitor,
Obis; Doe Altar, Warot ; Sells, Marie Sax ; and lois,
Mario Battu. The action lakes place in Portugal, on the
saa,'and in Africa. Mancha is to get 6,000 franca a month
from M. Perrin, sad 4,000 from the family of Meyerbeer.
The following circular has been irsued by the
French Miniater of Public Instruction : -" Monsieur le
Recteur,—By virtue of a decree dated 13th August, the
young Poles compelled by tenser events to meek refoge in
France can obtain as exemption from the fees payable in
the French colleges. You are requested to forward to me
all demands for such coseesaioe, with full details of the
claims put forth."

The Italian Opera Company have just concluded
a satisfactory engagement at Dublin. The most prowl-
Dent member of the company was ?JUN. Tietjeca, who
appeared in some of the grandest operatic characters, and
mug and acted In all to perfection. She appeared almost
every night, and woo the most Battering marks of public
appmbation, being called before the curtain and almost
overwhelmed with bouquets at the coeclusion of each act.
The formation of the great military road between
Freshwater and Cbale, on the south-west coast of the leis
of Wight, has ocumenced. The most important part of the
work will be the viaduct over Braxton Orange

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PARIS, TUMIDLY Evian'',
It is, I believe, settled that the Emperor el
Russia will accompany his Empress to Nice. They
are expected at Straabourg on Oct. 17, where they
will be received by the local military authorities,
reinforced by some high civil functionaries from the
Tuileries. From Strasbourg they will proceed to
Nice by way of Lyons and Marseilles. Whether
Napoleon 111. will go to Nice to see them is a
question still open. Re owes the Empress of
Russia a visit, but it is very doubtful whether it
may suit him to pay his debt this year.
Pepoli, who took a leading part in the nego-
tiation of the Franco-Italian convention, is said to
have declared, in an after-dinner speech at Milan,
that "this convention is in no way whatever con-
trary to the national programme, and that it breaks
the last link of the chain which bound France to
the enemies of Italy."

The clerical press cite this passage as evidence
that the temporal power is doomed.
The Bourse was rather firm to-day, but it was
remarked as a symptom of persistent want of con-
fidence that numerous purchases failed to produce a
rise. There is scarcely any change in quotations.

PARIS, MONDAY EV12111:NO.

The Boulevard des Italians lost last week by the
hand of death one of its oldest frequenters. Major
Fraser is dead—Major Fraser, an old dandy, who
from 1827 to 1864 inhabited Paris, and who, when
in town, was rarely to be seen elsewhere than on
that small but choice section of the boulevard which
extends from the Chausade d'Antin to the Rue La-
fitte. Who was Major Fraser I The Parisians
would reply that he was a fashionable eccentric
Englishman, who dressed oddly, rode well, loved to
make queer wagers, and was a member of the
Jockey Club. But his history is curious, and few
people knew it. Major Fraser was the great grandson
of the Simon Lord Lovat executed for high treason
in the reign of George 11. Some of his family then
settled in France, and took service in the French
army. Major Fraser's father emigrated to Portugal
in 1790, and took a Portuguese wife. The issue of
this marriage made its way in the world. Two
daughters yet living are the wives of rich noblemen ;
the one is the Marquise de Bombellee, and the other
the Marquise de Gargallo, of Naples ; one BCC was
a secretary of embassy in Austria • the other,
Henry Erskine Fraser, was the Major Fraser
who has just 4oue to his grave. He was
born at Badajoz, in Portugal, where be lived up to
the age of eleven years. He had then lost both
father and mother, and was committed to the care
of M. de Lebseltern, the tutor of Prince Felix de
Schwartzenberg. The two pupils were sent toge-
ther to Russia, where they entered the military
service as cadets. Their friendship, dating thus
early, was continued in Paris. The Major need to
be fond of recounting how he took part in the bat-
tle of Leipsic, and rode into Paris with his regi-
ment of Russian hussars. But of late years he
left off telling these stories, because they
made him out to be older than be
wished to be thought, and he was a singularly
well-preserved man for his age. He left the Rus-
sian service in 1827 with the rank of major, and
ever after lived in Paris, in an apartment in the
large house on the Boulevard des Italians belong-
ing to the Marquis of Hertford. The furniture of
these rooms was simple, and not in proportion to
the high rent of lodgings in that quarter. There
was little to be seen in them beyond an lion bed, a
I large map, a bearskin, afew books, a large assortment
of polished leather boots, and a barrel of Cyprus
'wine always on tap for the accommodation of friends.
One day when his bed was broken he replaced it by
a coffin, in which he was wont to say that he slept
better than in bed, because he was not liable to
tumble out when disturbed by the nightmare, to
which he was very subject. He once made a bet
with Lord Henry Seymour that he would ride to
Brussels and back in thirty-six hours, and be did
it. Another time he rode for a wager to Cora-
-1 piegne and back every day for six days
running. With all this he was an ao-
complished scholar ; be habitually capped
Latin verses with Jules Janin, and was the friend
of Alfred de Musset, Briquet, and Romieu. He
was a member of all the most gambling clubs in
Paris, but never played himself. Notwithstanding
his eccentric, and as many supposed frivolous life,
he had a practical taste for the industrial pursuits
[of the present age. He was a director of several
railways, and died ultimately from a fever caught
'in Portugal, whither he had gone to organise a
company.

The Gazette des Etrasgers states that the Queen
of Holland, as her way to Nice to pane the winter, went
through Chanabery, and visited the rainantio residence when
Rousseau made botanicsl researches with Madame de Var.
rens. Her Majesty touched the keys of the old h►rpsichord
which Rousseau used in compering the are of his Derin du
Village.

The Chamber of the Duchy of Darmstadt has
now under consideration a subject which has produced a
certain Agitation in that country. A props al was made
that the bodies of persona committing simile should be
given op to the anatomical class of the Universityat (Nemec.
The Chamber has, however, pound an amendment that to
the university shall be sent only those bodies the interment
of which no one will undertake.

A letter from Jerusalem says :—" The Duke of
Modena has just sent ken e• • soaeeni► of his recent
pilgrimage, three splendid lamps ; one, the largest, is in-
tended for the Holy Sepulchre ; and the other two for
Bethlehem and Nazareth. The illastrioas pilgrim has also
presented • vd•able rersontrance in silver to the Latin
Patriarch. The Empress-Dowager of Austria has recently
sent a fine oil painting representing • Descent from the
Cron. I have nothing new to conseaunieste respecting the
cupola ; after all that has been said on that question, very
little indeed bee been done."

FRIGHTFUL DOURLE MURDER IN lEF:LIND.—•
DCBLIN, TVEBDAT EVE/INC.—A frightful double murder
has been committed in the county of Dublin of two
sisters, named Murphy, aged respectively 25 and 35.
It appears that the father of the murdered women
died some time ago sad left them some property. On
Monday, their brother, Richard Murphy, a small farmer,
living four miles from Balbriggan, with whom they resided,
went to see a married sister, and he states that when be
returned in the evening be found his eldest sister lyiog dead
in the house. He then sought for &mistime, and acoompa-
nied by another =so, searched for the younger woman, who
wm found deed in a field about thirty yards distant from
the house. The skulls of both women appeared to have
been broken in with a pitchfork or some such weepoa. No
instrument was found with which the deed could have been
committed. An inquest was held to-day, sod a verdict
of " Murder" returned against some person or w-
oos, unknown. The brother is in custody.
THE NEw ROUTE THROUGH ST. J All ES'S- PA RR.
Th• new road from the houses of parliament to Bucking.
ham Palace, along the Birdcage-walk, new is mune of
formation under the direction of the Commissional' of
Woods and Forest., is advancing rapidly towards comply
Con. The portion set apart for a carriage thoroughfare, to
be added to the old causeway, is already ilohhed, and oa
Monday last was rendered aeosesible to the merge of
vehicles. The other alley, under the shade of the seer,
reserved for the nee of equestrians, Is in a very forward
state of preparation. The stonework for the fixing of the
iron fence is laid throughout the length of the route, and
a considerable extent of rails has been placed in position.
From the large number of workmen employed it is apparent
that this judicious alteration for the public convenience
will shortly be effected.

A MAD SENTRY AT HOLYZOOD. —On Sunday
rooming, betweee 7 end 8 o'clock, estrange occurrence took
place, in which one of the sentries stationed at Holyrood
Paso* was the chief actor. He left his poet and emended
the adjoialeg Salisbury Crap, and deliberately fired hie
musket three or four times in the directioo of people who
were walking about in the valley below. The guard, hear-
ing the shots, turned out., and had him immediately secured,
when it was apparent that the poor man had goes donated,
and he was forthwith taken to the hospital in the castle.
Another case of stabbing, making three within
about as many days, occurred at Liverpool, yesterday. A
young man, mid to be of sotorione character, gave hie sweet-
heart a serious wound in the neck with a 'gasp-knife. She lies
in a dangerous cooditios. Fleming, the man who wee cut
down in a Liverpool public-house last week with a scythe,
died on York.