The Express.
London, England, 1864-06-17 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, TUNE 17, 1864.

Cbt Court.
WINDSOR CASTLE, Imo 16.
Prince Philip of Wurtemberg arrived at the
castle yesterday, and dined with her Majesty.
The Duchess of Weibull= also arrived, sad had Ihe
honour of joining the royal dimwit party.
The Queen, sorompanied by the( Priaasm Louie of Heave,walked and drove this manning.
Prince Alfred. attended by Lieut. Haig, went to Loudon.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer had an audience of the
Queen.

The Prince of Wales, accompanied by Prince Alfred, sad
attended by Lieutenant-Colonel Koppel and Lieutenant
Haig, went to Gravesend yesterday, to witness the ruling
match of the Royal Thames Yacht Club.
The Primer of Wales took a wrings drive, attended by
the Marehiomme of Carmarthen.

The Prince and Prince's of Wales, acoompanied by Prince
Alfred, west to the Haymarket Theatre In the evening,
attended by the Marchioness of Carmarthen, Lieutenant-
&blob.' Koppel, and Lieutenant Haig.
Nies Westphal has had the honour of attending at
Marlbotough Howe for the purpose of taking • portrait of
the Princess of Wales.

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Coaocil oat yester-
day, sod heard the clime of the three days' argument upon
the " Petition for the Prolongation of Loader's Patent in
the Construction of Fire Arms." Judgment deferred. The
Lords present were the Lords Justices Knight Bruce and
Tamer, Sir J. Coleridge, end Sir E. Ryan.
Despatches were received at the Colonial-ofßoe yesterday
from the Governor of Canada. Despatches were sent to
the Governors of the West India Wanda and British
Columbia.

Viscount and Viacounteas Stratford de Radcliffe
received at dinner last evening, at their residence in
Grosvenor-squire, the Duke of Devonshire sod Lady Louisa
Cavendish, the Earl of Dudley, the Earl St. Maur, the Earl
and Countess of Shaftesbury, Lady Churchill, Sir Edward
and Lady Caroline Benison, Sir Roderick Morchisoo, Mr.
Vyner, &a After dinner the noble viscountess had a
email and early party.

The Archbishop of York and Mrs. Thompson
received at dinner laat evening, at their mansion in Bel-
graveaquare, Lord and Lady Wharnaliffe, Lord Hotham,
the Right Han. Sir George Grey, M.P., and Lady Grey, the
Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, M.P., and Mrs. Cardwell,
Hon. A. Gordon, Admiral and Mrs. Dnecombe, Mr. and
Mrs. Thomson, Mr. and Mm Gathorne Hardy, Mr.
Skein ; and on the previous evening the Earl and Countess
Stanhope and Lady Mary Stanhope, the Earl and Countess
Grey, the Earl and Countries of Dude, the Earl of Zetland
and Mims Barclay, Lord Houghton, the Right Hon. the
Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mrs. Gladstone, the
Right Hon. the Speaker and Day Charlotte Denison, the
Right Hon. Sir Charles Wood, M.P., and Lady Mary
Wood.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duchene of Cam-
bridge and the Princess Mary will honour the Dathem of
Somerset with their emcees at her wood dance on the
Ti th inst., at the First Lord's official residence at the Ad-
miralty.

Lord and Lady Edwin Hill Trevor entertained
at dinner last evening the Right Hoo. Benjamin and Mrs.
Disraeli, the Right Hon. Sir John and Lady Pskingtoc. the
Vieoorintees Ingests*, Lord Burghley, Lord and Lady
Easton° Cecil, Mr. and Mrs. S. Hansom
Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston will be
kmioared by the company of WI Royal Highness the Duke
of Cambridge to-morrow evening at Cambridge House, Pic-
cadilly.

The Duchess of Wellington will have an assem-
bly on the 27th last. at Apsley House.
The coneersarione at the Mansion House to the
members of the Society for the Encouragement of the Fine
Arta is unavoidably postpoaed its consequence of domestic
bereavement in the family of the Right lion. the Lord
Mayor•

Baron and Baroness Meyer de RotbseHd had a
dinner party last evening at their mansion in Piccadilly.
Vioconnt and Viscountess Newport. Lord and lady John
Manners, Sir Samuel and Ledy Martin, Mr. Fleming, Mr.
and Kn. John Tombola, he., were among the guests.

The Hon. H. 8. Sanford, United States Minister
at Brussels, has arrived at the Clareodon Hotel.

The Right Hon. Joseph W. Henley, M.P., has
sustained a severe domestic loss by the lamented death of
his wife, which occurred on Wednesday last. Mrs. Healey
was the fourth daughter of the late Mr. John Fans, sepbew
of the eighth Earl of Wertasochuid.

LeiTINT INTELLIGENOE.

TEN CONFIRENCIC.

The Poys says of the news of the fresh adjourn-
ment of the Conference :—" These delays show, it
is true, that the work of the Conference is very diffi-
cult, but they also leave us at liberty to suppose
that the plenipotentiaries are determined not to
meet without a previous agreement upon divers
essential points, and when they do mumble their
meeting is likely to have a more satisfactory result
than heretofore."

THE EMPEROR MAXIMILIAN'S PROCLA-
MATION TO THE MEXICANS.

A letter from Martinique gives the following as
the text of the proclamation which the Emperor
Maximilian meant to issue as soon as he landed at
Vera Cruz :
Meximas,—You have desired me—your noble nation, by
a spontaneous majority, has designated me to watch over
your destinies. I hasten joyfully to respond to this appeaL
However painful it is for me to say adieu for ever to my
native country and my family, I have done it ; being fully
persuaded that the Almighty has assigned to me, through
your call, the noble mission of devoting all my strength and
all my heart to a people which, tired of eomb►ta acid disas-
trous struggles, 'inanely desires peace and well-being—to a
a people which, having gloriously assured its independence,
desires to-day to enjoy the fruits of civilisation and of true
progress. The confidence with which you and I are both
animated will be crowned with brilliant success, if we re-
main always united valiantly to defend those great prin-
ciples which are the only true and durable foundations
of modern states—the principles of inviolable and im-
mutable justice, of equality in the eye of the law,
eligibility of every citizen for every career, ► social position,
complete liberty of the subject, rightly underaoc i in-
cluding in itself protection of the individual and protection
lof property, the development of national riches, the
improvement of agriculture, of mine., and of manufactures,
the establishment of means of communication for an ex-
tensive trade, and, finally, the free action of intelligence in
all its relations with the public interest. The blessings
of heaven, and with them progress and liberty, will
assuredly not be wanting to us if men of all parties,
suffering themselves to be guided by a strong and
loyal government, wire unite to attain the end
which I have indic-Jed, end if we continue always to be
animated by that religions sentiment which has ever been
the distinguishing characteristic of oar magnificent country,
even at the most unfortunate epochs. The civilising Bag of
France, borne so high by it. noble Emperor, to whom we
owe the resurrection of order and peace, represents those
same principles. That is what you were told some months
ago in sincere and disinterested language by the commander
lof the French troops—a prophet in some sort of a mew era
of felicity. Every country which desires to have a fu-
ture will succeed in becoming great and strong by pro-
ceeding in this comm. Being united, loyal, and thin,
God will give us strength to achieve that degree of pro-
sperity which is the object of our ambition. Mexicans, the
future of your fine country is is your own hands. As to
me, I offer you a sincere will, loyalty, and a firm intention
to respect your laws, and to cause them to be respected
with inflexible authority. God and your confidence con-
stitute my strength ; the flag of independence is my
symbol; my motto, IS you know, is impartiality sad
justice. I shall be faithful to that motto all my life. It
is mine to grasp the sceptre conscientiously, and the sword
of honour with firmness. On the Empress has de-
volved the teak, worthy to be envied, of de-
voting to the country all the noble sentiments of a
(arrest Christian and the troderneee of a fond mother. Let
as unite for the common end. Let us forget the sombre
past Let se bury party hatred, and the aurora of peace
and well deserved felicity will dawn radiant upon the new
empire. MAXIMILIAN.
Vera Crux, 1884.

Pursuant to the arrangements made for avoiding
the yellow fever, the Emperor will only stay 24
hours in Vera Cruz, and will proceed rapidly to
Orizaba, where he intends to halt some time.

(asansis Tzzaawis.)
DENMARK.

COPENHAGEN. JUNZ 16, 10.52 P.M.

Baron von Scheel-Plessen, the Danish ambassa-
dor at the court of St. Peterburg, has arrived
here. It is thought probable that be is the bearer
of the Russ;su proposals for the settlement of the
Sleswig-Holstein question.

FLENSBURG, Jura 17.

Seven of the most respectable inhabitants of the
Island of Sylt (on the western coast of Sleewig),
some of whom were members of the deputation who
recently went to Berlin, have been conveyed to
Copenhagen by Captain Hemmer, of the Danish
navy.

THE PRINCI PALITIES.
CONSTANTLNOPLE. .1m 16.
. .

It is asserted that the arrangements suggested
by Sir Henry Bulwer have been agreed upon between
the Porte and Prince Couza. These relate to a
new constitution, with a Senate and other impor-
tant changes. The Conference regards the late
proceedings in the Principalities as null. Prince
Couza has been greatly feted here.

AFFAIRS IN MEXICO.

PARIS, JCNIC 17.

The Mcititeur of to-day says :—" Lettere from
Mexico announce a series of encounters which re-
sulted in favour of the French. A brilliant advan-
tage has been obtained by Colonel Dupin at San
Antonia.

"The Mexican Ices amounted to 200 ; that of
the French to 12.

"The Emperor Mazimo:so, on his st.:val, will
find the pacification of the country almoet com-
pleted. Juarez is wandering about the country,
but is unable to form any town into a centre of re-
aistanon"

PERUVIAN DIFFICULTY.
MADRID, JrNo 16. Emma.

. .
The Epoca of to-day, speakin of the Peruvian
difficulties, says :—" Our troubles in Peru are
owing to our policy in Mexico. It is necessary to
be firm. Let us respect the independence of Peru,
and we shall ourselves be respected."

WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.)

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KXPRESS FROM PARIS•

DOMICILIARY VISITS EXTRAORDINARY.
(mg con ow' vosawainuoir.)
PARIS, THVUDAT EVINDIO..

I have to-day to report a grievous freak of arbi-
trary power, which reminds one painfully of the
worst days of the present empire. At an early
hour this morning the polies made domiciliary
visit at the houses of MM. Garnier Pagbs, Carnot,
Dreo, Ferry Gambetta, Etienne Arago, Glamorgan
Herold, Durand, and several other equally re-
spectable members of the late electoral oommittee
of Paris, to search for papers. The residence of
Floquet, late an opposition candidate for the
Legislative Corps, in • southern department, was
also visited, and in his absence his desks
and drawers were broken open. The pretext
for this act was that lists of members of a
secret society were likely to be found at the houses
of these gentlemen. The true motive—as I state
without any hesitation—was to tet_ify the electors
of France on the eve of the elections for the coun-
cils-general. Most of the men whose homes have
thus been violated are young barristers, whose
great crime is that they have written conjointly a
valuable manual of electoral law, instructing
citizens what to do when illegally interfered with
by prefects, mayors, and gendarmes, and showing
how the present constitution, with all its artfully
restrictive clauses, nevertheless leaves a large mea-
sure of real power in the hands of the constituen-
cies, if they have only the intelligence and
the courage to make use of it. This book,
no doubt, greatly contributed to the un-
looked for success of the opposition at
the general elections of 1863, and it is greatly
feared by government that systematic attention to
its counsels sill most seriously change the com-
position of the councils-general, the elections for
which stand fixed for Sunday next. It is highly
probable that some of the gentlemen whose domi-
ciles have been invaded to-day have taken part in
that organisation of the country elections without
which universal suffrage must ever be a fraud and
a delusion. No doubt they have endeavoured by
all legal means, and in spite of many calculated
legal difficulties, to prevent votes from being
thrown away, and to recommend names to
the notice of the constituencies. The ob-
ject of the violent measure of the police is to get
possession of the names of their correspondents
in the provinces. To punish electoral committees
as members of secret societies, and at the same time
to prohibit all public meetings, is a genuine kite
Napoleonienne, and a beaut4ul illustration of the
way in which universal suffrage may be made to
wort-

The Patrie, allud;og to the above event, says that
it made an immerse sensation in the Salle des Pas
Perdits of the Pala de Justice, end that the
number of domiciliev 'sits was not less than
twenty. Participation in an unauthorised society
of more than twenty persons is stated by the Pattie
to be the offence suspected. It adds the conso-
latory reflection that the police were, in every in-
evince, " extremely civil."

A special train yesterday conveyed a large party
to Havre to witness the first departure of the
French transatlantic steamer Washington for New
York. A banquet, presided over by M. Emile
Pereire, the President of the French Transatlantic
Company, was given at Frascati's. Mr. Dayton,
the United States minister, MM. Michel Chevalier
and Le Roy, senators, M. Ancel, deputy for Havre,
and Viscount Napoleon Duchattel, were among the
company. The Washington left the port at 6in
the evening, and was saluted by cannon from the
shore. The Pays' reflection upon this event is :
"Our country will now have nothing to envy in
regard to England, whose monopoly on this line is
at an end."

The Federal corvette Kearsage has appeared off
Cherbourg, looking out, as it is supposed, for the
Alabama whenever it shall come out of port.
A young fellow, named Tournier, • working
manufacturer of artificial flowers, conceived an
idea of turning a penny on the day of Blair Athol's
defeat at Longchamps, which got him into trouble.
Knowing that there was always a great crowd at the
Buresne station on the return from the races, and
that people have sometimes to wait for hours
before they can get tickets for the special trains,
which ran every quarter of an hour, he went to
the station early, and presenting himself several
times at the bureaux, bought as many as 60 tickets
at the ordinary price of 15 sous. Later in the
evening, when the crowd began to thicken, he
sold his tickets at a profit. Many people despairing
of their dinner gave him four or live
sous extra rather than wait for their
turn, and thought they made a very good
bargain too. The newly invented trade which be
was driving getting wind, Tournier was arrested
on a charge of swindling, and be passed ten days
in prison. But being tried yesterday before the
Correctional Police, the Tribunal was of opinion
that the case did not come within the criminal
code, and they accordingly acquitted him.

The dead body of a justice of the peace,
named Deesen, who had been missing since
1853, has just been discovered by a fisher-
man at Gonfreville, near Havre. It would
appear that, on returning from a public din-
ner, be must have fallen into a dock basin, and his
corpse floated to a part of the Seine where the
sands are shifting. A recent change in the state of
the shore at this spot laid bare the remains, which
had been hidden for nine years. A gold watch,
suspended by a chain round the neck of the skele-
ton, was ideutiSed by his widow. Four Mr. pieces
and a centime of 1853 were found Adhering to the
thigh bones, the pocket which had contained the
coins being completely rotted away.

THE EMPRESS ECGMiIL AND ROSA BONTIErit.--
Ths Empress F.ugetie this week, when resting through
Thconery during a drive is the environs of Fontainebleau,
stopped at the residence of Mdlle. Rosa Bonbon, and re.
quested to see bet studio. The artist at once acceded to
her Majests's wishes, and showed her the differeet paiutiap
as which she is at present sogaged, as well am many 800
studies of animals. A painting representing a stag leading
• herd of binds along the summit of a rocky eminence,
especially attracted the notice of her Majesty. After passing
au hour to the studio the Empress took leave, having ant
obtained a promise that bar private collection should be
enriched by a picture by Mdlle. Bouheur.
ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE FROM • PRISON VAN.
Last night, on the arrival of the prison van at Newest'
which conveyed there the prisoners who ware committed for
trial at Bow-street politmeourt, basing been charged with
Post-offloe robberies, it woe fated that an attempt had been
made by the prisoners to make their escape. The sergeant
of the van, upon taking the primmer, out of it, saw that
Richard Walker had his coat anbuttoned, and then wan an
Tiralace about the other prinooess—Henry Parker and
ra
Heavy Robert Rime, the poet-cam carrier—which exalted
hinsuricione. After be get the prim:men into the