The Express.
London, England, 1863-09-19 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE CON-
GRESS.

The labours of the congress were continued with
unabated vigour on Thursday. The subjects
discussed in the various sections were " The
execution, of legal judgments in civil
and commercial matters in foreign coun-
tries ;" "Liberty of education ; "Has material
progress been injurious to thought and feeling in
art r "Should the moral life of the artist, if he
is to exercise a beneficial influence on his age, cor-
respond with hie works 1" " Ought art in its
various manifestations to afford pleasure or
instruction r " The mode of treatment for
lunatics," "The improvements introduced into
the dwellings of the working classes," and
"Co-operative societies." The question as to
whether the moral life of the artist should cor-
respond with his works was opened by M. Weill.
M. Potvin pronounced strongly for the affirma-
tive. To be really free, he said, the artist ought to
understand and practice the moral conditions
of his art. The immoral artist was doubly
guilty, because he disgraced humanity by
his life, and corrupted it by his works. In place
of the Bohemian maxim, "genius and irregularity,"
there should be substituted the motto, " liberty,
but conscience." He should distrust the
works of writers whose lives are not pure.'
On the evening of Wednesday a Venetian fete
took place on the river Lys, and on the same day
a banquet was given by M. de Kerchove, the bur-
gomaster of Ghent, to the representatives of the
press.

(anynnee Tzisoßims.)
FRANCE.
THE RUSSIAN REPLY.
PARIS, Syrr. 19.

The Cuurrier dt Ditnandv, says :—" In the
memoraneum appended to his note to Prince
Gortobakoff, M. Drouyn de Lhuys compares the
ancient Polish provinces to the kinedom of Poland.
In the document attached to his reply Priuce
Glortcluikoff does not hesitate to declare that, upon
that ground, it would b 3 impossible for him to
accept even a simple exchange of amicable and
confidential views."

The same paper says :—" The statement that
Baron Budberg will leave Paris on leave of absence
is unfounded. The Grand Duke Conatantine's
journey to the Crimea is partly owing to the oppo-
sition his views relative to the Polish question en-
countered at St. Petersburg. The Grand Duke
will not return to Warsaw."
The Courrier du Dimanche states further that a
rumour was current in Madrid that Marshal
O'Donnell would again be placed at the head of the
government.

MEXICO.
NEW YORK, Bar. 11.

Advices from Mexico to the 15th ult. state that
Miramon had declared his allegiance to France,
and General Forey had appointed him commander
of the Mexican forces. The United States and
Central American ministers, in reply to a notifica-
tion from the Triumvirate, had declared that they
must recognise the Juarez government until other-
wise instructed by their governments. Comonfort
and Doblado had appealed to the Mexicans to
respect the French.

The venerable King of Wurtemburg, who is now
is his sightyueoood year, has bees seriously ill for some
days.

The Ambrosian library at Milan has just suffered
• heavy loss. An entire case containing the autograph
respondewee of the Medici with the Dukes of Milan from
1496 to 1510 has disappeared from the very study of Dr.
Gatti, the conservator. AU the Milan journals have spoken
of this robbery, committed with strange effrontery and ad-
dress.

The squadron of iron-cased ships now assembled
at Cherbourg, the comparative merit. of which are about to
be ascertained by a naval commission, is composed of the
ship of the line Solferino, armed with a spur, and built at
Lorient ; the ship of the line Iltgmita, armed with a spur,
and built at Best ; the frigate Normandie, built at Cher
boors ; the frigate Coltrane., built at Lorieut ; and the
frigate Invieciblit, built at Toulon. These ships are covered
with bel•poof plates, and carry from 36 to 50 riled guns
of the largest calibre. Their steam power is equal to that
of 900 and 1,000 hones, and they are moved by screw pro-
pellent These ships are to be compared in speed and
manoeuvre with the screw ship•of-the•line Napoleon.

" Pocket-picking was so rife at Malhies during
the late Mee," says the Prose, "that in one field no lees
than &hese empty portwsnoenaies were found."

The Gazette de Frooa publishes the following :
" We learn from London that King Francis IL of Naples
has sent as autograph letter to Lori Henry Lennox, M.P.,
in which his Majesty Unwire the noble lord for
the kind sympathy be expressed for the sufferiop
of the prisoners and of the Neapolitan people,
in hi speech in the Hones of Commons on the fith May
last. King Francis IL is well aware that Lord Henry
Limo: is not a partian of his dynasty, but that considers.
tion, far from stopping him, has, on the contrary, more
strongly urged him to render justice to the part so worthily
fulfilled by the noble lord, and to express to him his
gratitude and his admiration for the mange which be dia.
played is making kerma the whole truth to the English
parliament and people."
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The Italian clerical journals have been indulging
their readers with the following extraordinary instance of
retributive justice:—"A rich man, residing in Northern
Italy, after uttering horrible menaces against the Pope and
Rome, actually manifested the desire to cut off the heed of
his holiness himself. Five days after, by the special die.
peasation of Frovidanoe, his wife gave birth to twins aria-
out heads I"

The Patto Ya:ionale of Palermo tells us of an
entraordiosry instance of celestial intervention in the
pelltical affairs of Italy. A nun of the eoeveot of Caput-
einelli in that city has been hoeoured with a direct resole.
tion to the effect that the vines of the clergy have brought
upon the unhappy peninsula the scourge of Cad, Victor
Emmanuel, and that the only means of getting rid of him
are penitence and prayer. In consequence of this importaot
eensmaoicatioe all the monasteries of the city have cele-
brated • tridso, or three days service.

The prospectus of the Italian Opera at Paris is
mum more before the public, The old manager, M. Cal.
•ado, is still in prison, and M. Barer, who obtained the
theatre when (beet Walewski was Minister of State, now
invites old patrons sad new friends. The theatre no longer
receive' a subvention from the government, and the
expenses of the first year will be beery, for the house
is being renovated, and we sat promised new scenery
and drawee; both much wanted. The new impresario
introduces us to some old favouri'es, and has not
engaged others. Thus the prospectus does not contain the
games of Noon, alboni, or Tamberlik, hitherto annually
engaged. The prime donne are—Mme'. Anna de le
Orange, Borghi-Mauro, CaleNron, Gassier, de Marie-
Lableche, Carlotta sad Barbara Ilarcheeio, sad Madlim
Patti ; with the exception of Patti, these are old
Moods. Strange to say the lady Masers appear to
get more scarce in proportion as the demand inclose's.
Fetichist, an old tenor of the Ban Carlo at Naples, Pi
engaged, with Mario, and others leas known. De le•Bedie
returns, with Morelli, Niociliai,aadothisa.

We (Atheneum) understand there is some chance
of Madame Viardot oomiog to Loudon early next year, to
rive some performances of Olach's Orpheus.
AFFAIRS IN NORTH CAROLINA.—A copy of the
Raleigh (North Carolina) Standard, just received, wedelns
numerous reports of peace meetings held throughout the
state. This is the ant movement in the Coofederacy to sod
the war, sod bodes no good to the fast cmnabling Richmond
dynasty. That journal still maintains Its fearless sod high.
toned worm agaiast the Davis conspirators. The revolution
there is fast ripaning.—liets York paper.