The Express.
London, England, 1863-09-23 00:00:00

THE SCANDINAVIAN KINGDOMS.

Advices from Stockholm mention that • com-
mission of officers of the navy and of engi-
neers of the three Scandinavian kingdoms has been
for some time assembled in that mpitsl to deliberate
on the measures to be adopted for combining in a
common action the land and sea forces of Denmark,
Sweden, and Norway, in use that former power
should be attacked. One of the proposals taken
into consideration by the commission is that for
the future the vessels of the three powers shall be
constructed and armed in the same manner, in
order that they may form • compact fleet in the
Baltic, and as much as possible of the same rate
of speed, so that they may execute the same
manceuvres with perfect regularity. The command
will, it is said, be conferred on Prince Oscar,
brother to the King of Sweden, who is already ad-
miral of the Swedish fleet.

A curious fact has just been established in some
of the communes in Franca. It has been found that
the use of threshing and winnowing machines has produced
an immense amount of bronchitis and disease of the throat
and chest among the labourers employed, who are exposed
to an atmosphere charged with dust, which effects them so
powerfully, that in some parishes there are whole families
of confirmed invalids. To such an extent hes this evil gone
that the mayors have issued an order that labourers em-
ployed near this machinery must work in veils.
The Post learns that a marriage has been ar-
ranged between the youngest brother of the Emperor of
Austria and the eldest daughter and heiress of the Em-
peror of the Brazils. The Archduke Louis Joseph Antoine
Victor is now just twenty-one years of age, and the Donna
Issbelle Christine is seventeen. "In this union the hope et
the Brazilian sus:amnion will rest, and an Austro-Breailian
privoe will some day in all probability ascend the imp,-
I rial throne of Ftio Janeiro. That oontiogency, no
doubt, is distant enough, for the Emperor Pedro
11. is not yet forty. The Austrian Archduke, however,
when his princess ascends the throne, will probably take the
title of Emperor, as the consorts of Maria-di-Gloria in Por-
tugs!, and of Isabella in Spain, took that of King. The
fispiburg succession in Brazil will probably become as
established a fact as the Hapsburg sucoession in Mexico.
Three imperial crowns in possession or in remainder fall to
a single branch of one family that seemed, only thirteen
years ego, to be struggling for existence even in their here-
ditary dominions in Europe."
The French Minister of Marine has just sent M.
Durand Brager. the marine painter, to Cherbourg, to be
present during the experiments with the sew iron-clad
vessels, in order to give a representation of the scene if
deemed edvleable. _

"Notwithstanding," says the Pays, "th, great
number of anathemas now plying in Paris, they are found
altogether issuflieleut for the accommodation of the public,
and the company has therefore determined to plc°, on the
principal lines much larger carriages, which will take 52
passengers iiisteed of 26, as at present."
The Rues Marivaux, F►vart, and the Place
Boieldieu, which surround the Opera Omniclue, Paris, bare
just had the pavement replaced by asphalt., in order to
de Wen the noise of carriages. The same plan is being car.
lied into executiou in front of the church of St. Paul, is
the itue St. Antoine, and is to be also adopted sear several
other public buildings.