The Express.
London, England, 1862-05-06 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY ~,WNING, MAY 6,1„,1801.,_

foreigner in a thousand tli•ju... us its glance,
with all the penetrati . ,4 . .y S'
akdis-
cernment
which M. Egon .. sho *his
admirable sketches of .-4 '. . lbih
" Life." An intelligtut ' .• . man M.
EBQUIROS or M. Lode'B 4 .4"— . has ten
or a dozen years amongst us as one of ourselves,
must know more of real English life and manners
than the most trustworthy gentleman who spends
' • week of turmoil and misery in s dingy lodging
near a dismal square—devoured in the gross by
landsharks as soon as he emerges from the chamber
in which he has Wen mangled by curious domestic
monsters in detail—who cannot speak two words of
the native language, who shudders at cannibal
meals of beef and beer, whose first. medita-
tions on Albion are composed in sea-sick,
ness, and whose stay in London is one long
access of nostalgia. Everything in such a capital
as this repels and revolts the sensitive stranger,
whose native heath is the Boulevard ; not only the
immense indifference of all populous cities,
but the feudal isolation of the pro-
verbial Briton's " Castle," the Want of
out-of-door resorts of refreshment and recreation,
the stiff, exclusive, uncommunicative life of
luxury and wealth sneering listlessly in carriages,
frowning heavily from mansions on the lonely
Parisian wanderer, whose strangeness in our Parks
and streets is one that can be felt ! Nor is there
anything in the wilderness of bricks around him to
lighten his solitude. It is only when he mounts
a 'bus and rides as far as Kew or Richmond that
he divines the possibility of living in England even
on a Sunday, when he cannot get his cup of coffee
while the English are at prayers.
Let us hope that international Exhibitions may
do something towards mitigating, if not removing,
the terrible disabilities which afflict the souls and
bodies of our foreign friends who are tempted to
set foot on these shores. Suppose we teach them
the alphabet of political and personal liberty, while
they teach us something of that delightful social
liberty which is the charm of continental cities to
travelling Englishmen, and, after all, is a more
appreciable privilege to nine-tenths of mankind
than the freest enjoyment of the hustings, with
which, besides, it is perfectly compatible.

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Prince Oscar of Sweden paid a to the Crown Prince
of Prussia, at Buckingham Palace, yesterday morning, to
take leave of his Royal Highness.
The Crown Prince of Proada visited the International
Exhibition twice yesterday. His Boyd Highness was at-
tended by Count ?tickler and Lieutenant Colonel the Hoe.
D. de Roe. Me' Royal Highness paid a viiit to Prince
Oscar of Sweden, in Stratton• street, and also went to the
Houses of Parliament.
The Crown Prince visited both the Water-colour exhibi-
tions.
The Duke of Cambridge visited and took leave of his
Royal Irishmen at Buckingham Palace in the evening.
The Crown Prince of Prussia Jett Buckingham Parne:th five
minutes before eight o'clock last evening for the Victoria
Station, and travelled by the London, Chatham, and Dover
Railway to Dover, where the Prince will embark' for Cable
on his return to the Continent.
His Royal Highness was attended by General Baron
Hiller de Gaertringen, Count Herrmann Puckler, Lien-
tenantOolonel Baron Obernits, Captain de Lueedon, cod
Lieutenant von Hots.
Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. Dudley de Res, Equerry to
the Queen, attended the Crown Prince to Dover.
Mr. C. Darling, Governor of Jamaica, bad an interview
with the Duke of Newcastle yesterday, at the Colonial-
office.
A deputation of guardians and trustees of the poor of
Chatham, in relation to the Parochial Assessment Bill, trans-
acted bunnies' yesterday at the Home-office.
Captain Kennedy, Sir R. Barry, and the Bishop of Char-
lottetown, bad interviews with the Duke of Biweekly
yesterday.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office
from the governors of Canada, the Falkland Islands, and the
Mauritius. Dispatches were sent to the governors of the
Cape of Good Hope, Natal, and*, Helena.

711.1RkEt3T INTELLIGENCE. 5,
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r-4i GERMANY AND DipfIEARK.
.I
It( will L remembered that- die envoys of
Prusahi Austria oommuniii4esi tin fie
1111(11 h last the profilist of the two
great German Powers against the dealtelit
the King of Denmark, which had
object to enforce in the Duchy of Schleswig the
fitsdamental law of Oct. 2, 105. Baron de Bulow,
the Danish envoy, immediately protested against this
new pretension of the German cabinets to interfere
in the internal affairs of a country which is en-
tirely beyond the political action, the exercise of
which was conferred on the Federal Diet by the last
Congress of Vienna. The Diet, in its sitting of
the let of May, resolved, on this motion
of the President, that the protest of the Danish
envoy mould not be taken into consideration, and it
must be regarded as null. The Federal Diet, in
consecrating by this resolution a new principle of
intervention in Schleswig, has officially made known
to Germany and to Denmark their intention of im-
mediately subjecting this Duchy to its supreme
political authority, in the same way as it has
already done with regard to Holstein and Lawn-
bourg.
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-EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

'.(suoir out OWN oommaroNDENY.)
PARIS, MONDAY Emma.
The Paisis preserves a discreet silence about
the atOgriph letter of Victor Emmanuel to
Napoleon 111., the authenticity of which it ques-
tioned yesterday. The Pays gives the following as
the text of that letter :

I have just visited the fleet which you have been pleased
to send to this port. This act of kindness on your part
towards me personally and of sympathy for the Italian
cawse has deeply touched me, and I thank you. It is long,
Sire, since I felt such emotions as as this day. The order
which reigns is these southern provinces, and the warm tes-
timonies of affection which I reoeivis on sll sides, reply tri-
umphantly to the calumnies of our enemies, sad pill, I
hope, convince Europe that the idea of unity rester upon
solid bases, and is profoundly graven in the heart of all
Italians. Accept, Sire, the wistOsants of my .lessee and
unchangeable friendship. Vieroa
Thursday appears to be the day definitively
fixed for Prince Napoleon to leave Paris for Italy.
His yacht is expected at Marseilles on the 10th,
and, according to present arrangements, will sail
the next day.
The announcement in the Manikiur that there
would be a "communication from government" to
the Corps Legislatif caused considerable excitement
in the lobbies, it being supposed that the remodelled
Palikao dotation bill, which has been so long kept
back, was at length about to be presented. The
anticipation, however, turned out to be incorrect.
The communication turned out to be merely the
presentation of two bills of no great interest-Ist,
the matter of course bill for sanctioning the sup-
plementary credits, of the last budget (which
amounts, by the way, to the good round sum cl
177,775,381 fr.); and 2nd, a bill for enabling etock.l
brokers to have sleeping partners, which, in point
of fact, most of them have already, although the
law does not allow it.
For the first time since the translation of the ashes
of Napoleon L from St. Helena to Paris, the fune-
ral service commemorative of the day of his death
(May 5) was performed at the new altar in front of
the tomb in the Invalides. Hitherto the ceremony
took place in the chapel of the hospiteL It was
only in April last year that the body of the Great
Captain was placed in the porphyry sarcophagus,
which is intended to be its final resting-pipe. A bat-
talion of soldiers of the first empire, in the uniforms of
the time, were drawn up around the tomb. After the
service these debris, many of them minus legs and
arms,whose appearance naturally provokes curiosity
and sympathy, made their usual procession to the
column in the Place Vendome, where they deposited
bouquets and crowns of immortelles.
The mass at the tomb of Napoleon was attended

by few people beyond the personages officially bound
to be there. Another mass for the court was cele-
brated simultaneously in the chapel of the Tuileries,
where the Emperor and Empress and the whole of
the Imperial family were present. The Archbishop
of Paris officiated, and a chorus from the Con-
servatoire sang.
The Bourse opened with extraordinary anima-
tion, and more business was done than people re-
member to have seen for a very long time. But
towards 2 o'clock a reaction set in, too violent to
be explained by "realisation of profits," and which
• • 'bated-to the rumour of an attempt to asses-
ablate King Victor Emmanuel at Naples. The
Bente cloaed.at 70fr. 75c. for cash, and 71fr. for
account, being 25c. lower than the highest price of
the day, and 10c. lower than on Saturday. Mobilier,
after having been quoted at 867 fr. 50c., dropped
to 852 fr. 50c. The Italian Loan oscillated be-
tween 72/r. 25c. and 71fr. 30c., the latter, which
was the closing quotation, being 250. lower than
that of Saturday. Railway shares lost fully lOfr.
from the highest point of the day. At the close
Lyons was 6fr. and Northern 3fr. 75c. higher
than last week ; and Southern, 6fr. 25c. lower;
these were the only material changes. Cakes
Mires rose 3fr. 75c.
A despatch from Brussels, published in the
evening papers, gives better accounts of the health
of the King of the Belgians. The fever has
almost ceased and the alarming symptoms have
disappeared.

The following telegram has been received at Mr.
Renter's office, from the Peninsular and Oriental
Steam Navigation Company, May 6 :
CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN

ALEXANDRIA, far 5.
The Vectis and Ripon leave with the aboiemails
at 10 a.m. this day for Marseilles and Southamps
ton respectively.
The Bengal brought the mails to Suez, arriving
there on the 3rd inst.

General Tarr is at present in Paris, on his way
to the Exhibition of London.
Two new protestant places of worship havb re-
cently been opened in Paris ; one on the 30th March, at 10,
Sue du Grand Chaotic; in the parish of Saiat-Jsao-ffisiat-
Francois ; and the other on the 27th April, ►s No. 17,, Rue
des Petits-Hatels, in the parish of Saint-Vincent-de-Paul.
A protestant chapel was also inaugurated on the 16th March
at Chateauneuf, in the diocese. of Verriers. In the course
of the year 1861, 21 protestant churches were finished or

inaugurated in France.
Amongst the strange rumours which are circu-
lating in Paris with respect to the intended voyage of Prince
Napoleon to Italy, it is eerioludy affirmed by some that the
prince is to be made viceroy of Naples under his father-in-
law, King Victor Emmanuel.
A letter from Marseilles states that the son of
Drouet, who caused Louis XVL to be arrested at Variance,
has, in consequence of a reverse of fortune, just been re-
ceived into a charitable asylum at Marseilles.
DEATH OF Da. WOLPY.—We regret to announce
the death of the Rev. Dr. Joseph Wolff, the well-known
Eastern traveller, which event occurred a day or two ago
at the vicarage, Isle Brewers, near Taunton, of which
parish he was the incumbent. He was the son of a rabbi,
and was born at Weilersbach, near Foreheim and Bamberg,
in 1795. He was received as a pupil of the College*
Romano, and then of the Collegeo Propaganda, from 1816 to
1818, but his sentiments having been declared erroneous he
was expelled from Rome. He came to England, and placed
himself under the care of the Rev. Charles Simeon and the
late Mr. H. Drummond, M.P. Afterwards he went to
preach in the Fist, and made two journeys to Bokhara in
order, if possible, teasel the liberation of Colonel Stoddart
and Captain Connolly.
NEWSPAPERS FOR THE REBEL STATES.—The Poet-
office department has received information that newspapers
from nearly all the principal cities of the north and west,
addressed to the rebel Mates, and to aloes keg since &men-
tioned, are being sent in large quantities to the pant-office at
Nashville, Tennessee, for distribution. Th.ss papers can-
not be forwarded. They accumulate at that pant to such
an extent as to make it difficult to find room for them in
the office. To relieve the postmaster from the heavy
burden thus improperly imposed upon him, it has become
necessary to instruct him to sell, as waste paper, such as
cannot be delivered or forwarded under the present postal
arrangements—Anserican Paper.
Mr. Charles Purkisa, the naturalist, of Wool-
stone, in Hampshire, thus records the first appeeraace of
the birds this season—viz., the barley herd, April 1,
nettle-creeper, on the 3rd, the black cap, on the 18th the
nightingale, nut-hatch, and white-throat, on the 19th, the
cuckoo, on the Plod. On the 29th ult. all the siNang
birds about Woolstees wens mute, owing, it is believe& to
a cold east wind that blew all day. Cuckoos are very
numerous this year at Woolskoee. Mr. Purkise is a native
of the New Forest, tad a week or two since he Invited
a party, fond of singing birds and teen* of
.estare, to
accompany him in a tour to the Forest, pronesi
their guide. Mr. Porkies claims descent from the charcoal
burner of that name, who conveyed the body of Rufus, the
Norman King, from Stoney Cross, in the New Forest, to
Winchester.

CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY MEET/.v,,
(THIS DAY.)

The annual meeting of this society was hold Co,
moaning at Exeter Hall ; the Earl of CHICHESTIM pro ding.
On the platform were the Bishops of Loodoe Ripon,
Nova Scotia, and Sierra Leone, Lords 01 'Metal
and Cs:-
thorpe, and all the principal members of the metropolitan
and provincial clergy. The area of the large hall was
much crowded.
The noble Camay art, in his openieg remarks, made a
feeling allusion to the late Priem Consort., who had always
taken • lively interest in the labours of the society, and re-
ferred at some length to the disastrous straggle now going
on in North America u one demanding the prayers of all
Christians that it may speedily cease. He was afraid this
strife would have a bad effect upon the .kmeriessinnimin
hitherto exercising so important an influence on the %titian'
world. He was happy to say that they would have a moo.
cheering report laid before them of the operations of the
last year.
The Rev. JOHN VISO read thereport, which congratulated
the society upon its improved financial condition. Last,
year cloud with a deficit of 6,000/. To make up the de-
ficiency the committee sat about reducing their expenditure
where possible, and making a special appeal
' for increased aid. This appal has been well responded
to, and the income for the past year has amosated to
MAW. ; if the special fund contributions are added to
this. the amount would be 140,0001. ; and if, agaib, the
ammo expended directly at minions be added, the total
meant received during the year would be about liailsiot.
The committee were happy to saythat, after deduct-
ing all expenditure, there was • balance remaining
en the year of 5,0001. Of the above count
of 136,8984 considerably more than 100,0001. bad been col.
lected at the various churches and auxiliaries, Larma-liiire,
notwithstanding the present distress, having contributed us
fall quota. The number of missionaries sent out daring
the past year has been less than usual, and death had hen
busy amongst those employed. Arrangements, however,
were in proper by the committee to meet the deficiency.
The report then went at great length into the present
state of the African, Indian, and colonial missions, 'hid on
the whole were in a satisfactory state. In many of the
African states the minions were now selfoupporting,
sin
native ministers and missiouries were actively at work ta
the canoe of the society. In India the disastrous effect, of the
late mutiny were subsiding, and the mina:wary work su
again going on with satisfactory results. In New %ea.
land the renewal of the policy of the late government
bed had a good effect upon the natives, and facilitated the
efforts of the missionaries. In China the work of the min.
notaries had been' much interrupted by the proceedings of
the Taepingitea. Looking at the whole of the operatam. of
the past year, the committee felt that there was especial
cause for congratulation, and giving an incentive to still fa-
ther exertion on the part of the frds of the sodaty. The
report occupied one hoar and a ball in reading, 'stilts full
and ample details appeared to give much satisfaction to
the bearers.
The Bishop of RIPON moved the adoption of the relent.
As • prelate of the church he felt proud of it, as proving
the great 'radios' of friends at home and the self ucrifices
of the mutionaries abroad. In the great success of these.
ciety be witnessed the blaming of the Almighty. One of the
most interesting features in the report was thelact of so
many of the African sad Indian minions being self-sup.
porting, and the large number of native pastors and miti
eionaries working in connexion with these missions. He
trusted that the work of this society would go on so long
as an idol remained, or an Mathes was uncionverted.
The Rev. Canon listna moonded the adoption .of the
ret.
The meeting was afterwards addressed by several minis.
ten and gentlemen in terms of congratulation, and the re.
port was adopted.
The Bishop of London was prevented from addreselog the
meeting, having. to leave the platform to fulfil another
wgagement, owing to the long time occupied it the readieg
I report.