The Express.
London, England, 1864-10-21 00:00:00

THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA IN FRANCE.

The Temps of yesterday, referring to the arrival
of the Emperor and Empress of Russia in France,
says :—" Sinoe yesterday the Emperor Alexander
11. has been upon the soil of France, where no
Russian sovereign, if we mistake not, has set foot
since the fall of the first empire. It was at eight
o'clock in the evening that the Czar and the
Empress Marie arrived at Mulhouse, and it was at
nine o'clock this morning that they resumed
their journey to Nice. Them was a time when
the presence of an Emperor of Russia,
taken in connexion with various cireamstaness that
we need not refer to at this moment, would have
excited passions in France of more than one kind.
But we are difficult to stir now ; sights the
most worthy of attention find us all but in-
different, and it is from listless curiosity rather than
ardent emotion that the French of the present day
ask themselves, in passing from their business to
their pleasure, whether the nephew of Napoleon I.
and the nephew of Alexander L will renew at Nice
the interview of Erforth."

The Inetipendanee Beige says : "There has been a
rumour in Turin that during the stay of the Em-
press of Russia at Nice, King Victor Emmanuel
will pay a visit to her ; it was even added that the
visit of the King of Italy would coincide with the
presence of the Emperor Alexander and the visit of
the Emperor Napoleon. We should then have the
counterpart of Kiesingen. The second part of this
news meets with oar profound incredulity. In the
first place the meeting of the two Emperors
is not certain ; next, the Russian sovereign,
who travels under the strictest incognito,
would not willingly lend himself to an
interview which would have the appearance of
a political demonstration. We only allude to this
rumour because we shall probably find it in the
papers one of these days"

The Nord thus refers to the same rumours : "It
becomes more and more likely that the Emperor
Napoleon and the Emperor Alexander will have
an interview at Niee ; this meeting will in all
probability take place at the commeneetnent of
next week. It is also asserted that King Victor
Emmanuel will profit by the stay of the Emperor
Alexander at Nice to pay a visit to him."

We reed in the Sieck of yesterday: —" Our col-
league, M. Ferdinand Flax*, fonnerly a member of the
provisional government, and minister of commerce under
the republic, has just been compelled, owing to his failing
sight, to give up the translating be was engaged in at
Zurich, and proceed to Lausanne, the climate of which Is
more favourable to the complaint from which he is suffering,
• complaint which seems to have lost within the last few
days something of Its threatening character. Preach de-
mocracy unites in praying for the recovery of a mail who
has honoured it by his intelligent* and devotion."

Letters from Tangier mention au attempt that is
being made on behalf of the Saes Canal Company to engage
labourers for their work@ from amongst the subjects of the
Emperor of Morocco. The chief ioducemeot held out to
the Mahometan mind, in addition to a free passage. food,
and wages, the latter at the rate of 10 ounces, or about
Is. 3d. per day, is the promise that, after working for ors
year at the Suez Canal, they should be conveyed to the
shrine of the Prophet at Mecca. This pilgrimage to
Mecca, which confers upon the Moor who haa
soooerdally accomplished it the emoted titJa of
Headj, or Pilgrim, is deemed by the Mahometan 'objects of
the Sultan a religions duty of the highest order, and some
thousands of Moore, moat of them of the very poorest
chases, are conveyed annually between Tangier and Alex-
aodria by British steamers on their way to the Prophet's
shrine at Mecca.

It appears that the stimulus given to ootton
cultivation in Egypt and Syria by the high price of cotton,
mosequent on the American civil war, has caused a coo-
Mutable emigration of Jewish families from Morocco to
the above-named countries, where they find profitable
employment in the cotton plantations. The present Sultan
of Morocco has absodooed the oppressive exaction of 100
&Mariam a licence fascia every Jessie quitting his dominion/.

THE OUTWARD CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUS-
TRALIAN Mates.—The Peninsula and Orieatal Company's
steamship Ceylon, Captain B. W. Evans, was despatched
yesterday with these mails, a full cargo, and 339 boom of
specie, value 90,209/. 14e. &L, viz. :—For Gallo, silver
coin, 9001.; ditto, gold coin. 4,3301.; for Madras, bar silver.
33,22614 ditto, bar gold, 9001.; ditto, gold win, 824/. 10a.;
ditto, gold thread, jewellery, &a., 2,3391.; for Calcutta,
jewellery. watches, he., 1.649/. 14s. Gd.; for Singapore,
beads, 1501.; ditto, dollars, 2,9801.; for Hoag Kong, bar
silver, 12,1821.7 a. 8.1.; ditto, silver coin, 35,000/. 7s. 6d.;
ditto, jewellery. watches, &c., 1,4271. Is.; for Shanghai,
bar silver, 1,0001. ; ditto, salver coin, 1,0004 ; ditto,
jewellery, ko., 1,31.51. 10a; for Kies George's Soused,
jewellery, lie., 3801.; Hobson's By, jewellery, &c., 2,50014
for Sydney, jewellery, &c., 4951.
GUNPOWDER LOADING IN THE MRESEY. --SOLD
attar the fearful explosios of gunpowder oo board the Lotty
Sleigh, in the Mersey. eight or aineroonthe ago. the Docks
Board sad the Tows Council appointed committees to con-
fer as to the best mesas of preventing a recurrence of any
such accident. The matter appears to have rested is obey.
sacs until a' week or two ago, when the tionotry was
alarmed by the disaster at EMU'. The oommittese then re.
opened the questioe, and it is proposed to r•Port, with
practical soggestioes. shortly. Mr. John Laird, M.P.,
stated yesterday, at tie meeting of the Docks and Harbour
Board, at Liverpool. that he had seen vessels loaded with
gunpowder within 100 yards of the Birkeelosad aide of Use
river ; sod that, a few days ago, ow of them drifted amongst
• number of tugs that were getting op steam at the time.
Clovirrht eaLaco. —ON E SHILLING DAT...—
THURSDAY, OCT. EE. A desio...ss ea payment, 1,617;
ditto by mama tickets, 1,005 ; total, 2,622.

MUSIO.

ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT GARDEN.

Masoniello has now had four performances, the
last of which, on Wednesday, was the best, especially OD
the part of Mr. Adams, who, no loeger under the agitating
inflame of • debut, was able to display to greater advantage
than he had done before, the fine qualities of his voice.
Still, however, the part is not one that suite him. It
demands s low tenor -a tenors robusto—whereas has voice
is high-pitched, and lightness and sweetness, more than
strength, are it, special characteristics. We hope that his
next character will be more in his way.
Last night Plotow's Martha was performed to a verY
good house, and much to the eatialaction of the audience.
This opera cannot be highly estimated as a work of art, yet
it is very pleasant. The mimic is light and pretty, and the
alibied is one of those happy mixtures of the oasis and the
romantic, which create intermit as well as amimement. Few
foreign operas are more familiar to the English public,
yet they are by nu means weary of it. Its
announcement always attracts, and, when well per-
formed, it never fails to be well received. So
it was received last night. In It. easeetbk it had all the
advantage derived from the ample resources of the theatre ;
the magnificent orchestra, the excellent chorea, and the
elegant wise ea Kew. The Richmond !tit, with its gay and
homy poops, and the graceful dances no full of quaint and
antique colour formed one of the most animated eights
imaginable ; and the whole spectacle was an ad-
mirable specimen of skilful stage management. But
the greatest attraction el the performance lay in
Madame Lenimmisaterrington's entice and singing in the
part of the heroine. Same the err-to be-lamented Hisao
no one bee ever personated the character more delightfully,
or sang the music more beautifully, either on our stage or
(we verily believe) on any other. She warbled, in parti-
cular, the famous Irish melody, "The last Rose of Sum-
mer," with so delicious a voice, inch price, simplicity, and
feeling, that she fairly enraptured the audience, who encored
the air with demonstratioas of enthusiasm. The other
principal characters were exceedingly well enateined
—Nancy, by Miss liuddart ; Lionel, by Mr. Ilaigh ; Hun-
kett, by Mr. Corri ; and Sir Tristan, by Mr. Ansley Cooke.
This very excellent performance deserves to have many
repetitions during the season ; bat it is now full time that
this national establishment should produce a new and
original English opera. We °leery, that Mr. liederna's
Harelips stands announced for Wednesday next, and we
hope that the public, in this respect, will meet with no
disappointment.