The Express.
London, England, 1862-12-30 00:00:00

SWEDEN.

The Swedish Chambers have just adopted a bill
presented by the government to authorise marriages
between Christians and Jewa. The passing of
this measure, which has caused a certain impres-
sion in Sweden, is generally considered as a first
step towards civil marriages, of which a member
of the Upper Chamber has just, by a special mo-
tion, demanded the introduction into the constitu-
tion.

GIBRALTAR.

We read in the Prase of to-day :

Letters from Spain mention an extraordinary movement in
the political world of Madrid relative to Gibraltar. The
cession of the lonian Islands to Greece bar awakened old
hopes. The Spaniards begin to speak of the cession of
Gibraltar to Spain u a necessary consequence of the cession
of the Seven Islands to Greece. We should add that these
hopes are encouraged by news which the Madrid cabinet
appears to have received from London. Whatever may be
the present disposition of the English government, such ►
result, sooner or later, is inevitable. Another breach in the
old treaties and in the ancient diplomacy! Another recogni-
tion of the great principle of the liberty of the seas ! An-
other triumph of rational policy !

(azurzies nuoasma.)
SPAIN.
IMPORTANT MINISTERIAL DECLARA-

TION.

MADRID. Dec. 29.

In to-day's sitting of the Senate Marshal O'Don-
nell, in his speech upon Mexican affairs, said that
the treaty of London did not imply any interven-
tion for upsetting the government of Juarez. The
allies, he said, were to take possession of Vera Cruz
and the fort of San Juan de Ulloa, and to wait
until satisfaction should be accorded them. Spain
had never spoken of intervening in the interior af-
fairs of Mexico. The plenipotentiaries of the other
powers found the claims of France excessive. Mar
shal O'Donnell further stated that it was not Gen.
Prim who caused the rupture. The re-embarka-
tion of the Spanish troops became indispensable on
account of the general state of things. The real
cause of the rupture was Almonte, who had de-
ceived France. In conclusion, Marshal O'Donnell
censured the conduct of the government of Juarez,
and made an appeal for the union of parties.
His speech produced a great sensaticn.
The address to the throne was then adopted by
96 against 23 votes.

THE BRAZILS.
(Per Tyne, vil Lisbon.)

MONTE VIDEO, Nov. 29.

Exchange, 413 d. Wet salted ox hides, 614 rls.
Dry hides, American, 48i rla. Wool, nothing
doing. Tallow, 19} rls.

ARRIVAL OF A PORTION OF THE MAILS
OF THE COLOMBO.
SOUTHAMPTON, Dir. 30.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Mauilia has arrived here.
She brings a portion of the mails from the
Colombo, 47 passengers, 7501. in specie, and 274
packages of cargo.
She experienced rough weather throughout the
passage, and was detained twenty-four hours at
Malta in consequence of a heavy gale.
The Delta left Gibraltar on the 25th for the East.
On the 29th instant the Masailia passed the
Dutch barque Pudderskirk, standing up ChanneL
The Manilla reports having observed a large ship
on Cape St. Vincent ; her crew had erected four
tents. She held no communication.
The Confederate steamer Sumter was sold at
Gibraltar on the 19th instant for 19,500 dole.
Gibraltar Exchange on London, 90 days, 50k to
50i ; Paris, 527, Marseilles, 528 ; Genoa, 530 ;
Madrid, 8 days' sight, prem.

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(MN OUR OWN COEUMPONDINT.)
SOUTHAMPTON, Dam 3
The Manilla has brought home about 350 boxes
and bags of mails from the Colombo. The corre-
spondence is in a very damaged state ; some of the
mail boxes were in the sea nearly a fortnight.

The appeal of Mr. Bishop spinet the sentence
adjudged by the Court of Assn= was heard on the 21st in-
stant, before the Court of Caseation at Naples. The appeal
was rejected. There were six judges present and the Procu-
rator-General. Thus terminated (says the correspondent of
the Times) a cause which has created considerable sensation
and given rise to much angry recrimination. Before the
Court of Arise and the Court of Cess►tion, it has been con- I
ducted with much patient investigation, with strict impar-
tiality, and with a dignified calmness strikingly in oat-
treat with the impassiooed and even furious demeanour
which marked judges appointed to try political priseeere
under the Bourbons. These were the paid advocates of a
despot, while the judges who have presided in ►ll the oases
I have board tried under the new regime here shown them-
selves to be honest and impartial searchers after truth.
It is impossible not to feel regret for the painful
position in which our countryman stands ; but he has
bad as fair a trial as any man could have in our own fres
and blessed land. During the Attorney-General's speech
the booming of cannon announced the snivel of the St,
George, with Prince Alfred on board. She anchored off the
Castel Owe, and soon afterwards his Serene Highness Clap-
' lain Priam Leiningen went no board, sad later in the after-
noon the Vier-Consul, Mr. Edward Bonham, made an in-
effecooa effuse to get out. The sea and the wind war%
however, insuperable obstacles. To the great grief of all en
board, and all in Naples, the St. George starts in an hoar
for Bane, where she will remain during the winter.

FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, WOZDAY Emma.

The Archbishop of Paris died this morning at
half-past 6. The archiepisoopal chapter met this
afternoon to appoint vicars capitular to govern the
diocese provisionally, until a successor shall be
appointed. The body will be embalmed, and lie in
state at the palace for one or two days. The
malady to which the archbishop succumbed, after
much suffering, and which has been variously de-
scribed, is now said to have been a disease of the
heart, complicated with a sanguine congestion of
that organ and of the lungs. He had not been
seriously ill for more than a fortnight. When
the Emperor paid him a visit on Saturday all
the attendants were sent away, and his
Majesty remained alone at the bedside
for half an hour. Tho France says that
at this interview the archbishop communicated
to the sovereign his last ideas and wishes on the
subject of the church. Shortly before his death,
and with a consciousness of his approaching end,
he went into his study, supported by attendants,
and pointed out several important papers the,
destination of which he mentioned.
Cardinal Morlot was a remarkable instance of a
great rise from an humble origin, his father having
kept a small cutlery shop in the little town of
Langres. From the school of his native place he
was sent to the seminary of Dijon, where he made
such progress that he was received as a private
tutor in the family of M. de Saint Seine, a rich
gentleman of Burgundy. It was owing to the
influence of M. de Saint Seine that he became •
canon of Dijon Cathedral, which appointment was
the stepping•atone to his fortunes in the church.
He was at the time of his death a senator, a privy
oouncillor, and a member of the Council of
Regency ; but these important posts will not neces-
sarily be filled by his successor in the see of Paris.
He was a senator because a cardinal, and the other
two honours were special favours of the Crown, and
in no way appurtenant to his primacy.
The two names moat prominently mentioned as
likely to succeed to the vacant archbishopric are
Mgr. Bonnechose, Archbishop of Rouen, a man of
great ability, and who stands well before the
public just now on acoount of an eloquent speech
on behalf of the distressed cotton manufacturers,
and the Archbishop of Bourges, who has the ad-
vantage of being brother to the Prince de la Tour
d'Auvergne, the present ambassador at Rome.
I request you to remember that I insisted very
positively, a long while ago, that the French army
in Mexico was not in a condition to go forward,
and that I reiterated the assertion more recently
when the French official press stated that the
postponed march upon Puebla was to begin in the
first fortnight of December. A short paragraph in
this evening's France, disdaining, as usual, any
explanation of previous misleading statements,
says According to the last letters received
from Orizaba, General Forey would not be able to
begin hostilities before the second fortnight in
January."
The Marquis de Gallifet had a private audience
with the Emperor this morning to receive his
Majesty's final instructions for his mission to

Mexico. He leaves Paris for that destination on
Wednesday.
The France states that the day after President
Lincoln received the news of General Burnside's
defeat, he sent for M. Mercier, the French minis-
ter, and had a long conference with him. " The
peace party in America," says the France, meaning
to insinuate that Mr. Lincoln is now desirous to
listen to the Emperor's proffered mediation, " see
in this interview an indication of a conciliatory
policy."

- Napoleon Prince N has returned to Paris from
Switzerland. His frequent and prolonged ezeur-
, sions are attributed by the Independence to the
present tendency of the Emperor's policy.
The V igie of Cherbourg announces that Lieut.
de Mercy, whose name was rendered notorious by
a trial some years ago, 18 about to take service in
the Chinese army.
The Bourse was acted upon rather favourably
than otherwise by M. Fould's report ; but as K
Darimou, one of the members for Paris, remarks
in the Prase, the minister would inspire more con-
fidence if he stated more facts and indulged less in
prophecies, which are almost always sure to be falsi-
fied by events. Rents rose 20c. for cash, and 10c. for
account, closing at 70fr. fic. in each case. Mobilier
rose 44fr. 50c., and the Italian Loan, 35c. The
Southern Railway rose Ilfr. fioo., and the other
lines about 2fr. 500.

,-(THIS DAY.)

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