The Express.
London, England, 1864-01-01 00:00:00

LAN MAILS.

The Candia, which hit Calcutta on the 9th De-
cember, reached Suez on the night of the 30th idem.

AMERICA.
SOUTHAMPTON, ..4.1r. 1.

The North German Lloyds' steamer Bremen,
from New York on the 19th inst., has arrived off
Cowes. She brings G 3 passengers, 102,950 dollars
for England, 162,000 dollars for France, 500 dollars
for Bremen, and 36 mail bags for England.
Her news has been anticipated.

A circular, lately addressed by the French Minis-
ter of the Interior to prefects of departments requiring in.
formatios with respect to the offspring of near relations
united in marriage Is exciting great ettention. The facts
collected by the committee appointed by the Academy of
Sciences give to the minister's circular additional interest.
At the last sitting of the institute one of the members, •
medical practitioner. called attention to some facts observed
by him in his practice. Of marriages between relations
of the third and fourth degree 14 were sterile, seven pro-
duced children who all died in their infancy. 16 produced
scrofulous or rieketty children. The offspring of the re-
maining 15 families gave no cause for observation.
A Paris letter says :—" We have bad a brilliant
night at the Grand Opera, Emilia's 3fo,se was revived
(Moser in with great splendour of scenery. The
Emperor and Empress were present. The great musical
event is the approaching representation of a new opera, by
the veteran Auber, the most decided genius of tie lyrical
French drama. Auher's melodies have become familiar all
over the civilised world ; and. as • French author observes—
' Soagez-y, rappelez.vous cette pence : c'est la melodic et
non Pharnionie .jui ale pouvoir ds traverser ins ages.' The
title of the new opera is Li Itane:t do Rot de Gar4g, the
libretto by M. Saint Georges. The opera is promised for
the 6th of January. Patti and Mario are to appear soon at
the Italia° Opera. To, i'.,,i.iao winter season may be said
now to have commenced, although the weather is any-
' thiag but wintry."
A considerable sensation has been created in
Mexico by the circulation of a printed paper beaded the
"Censures of the Church," declaring that any person who
should presume to convert to his own use or usurp under
any pretext whatsoever property belonging to the church
should be " Cursed in his house and out of his house, in the
city and out of the city, waking and sleeping, eating and
drinking, sitting and walking ; be is to be cursed in his flesh
and is his bones, from the tip of his toe to the top of his
head ; the vengeance denouoeed by God against the children
of iniquity is to fall upon him ; hie name is to be effaced
from the book of the living, and not to be inscribed in the
book of the just ; his lot an.l inheritance is to be with the
fratricide Cain, 'When. and Abiram, with Ananias, with
Simon Magus. and with the traitor Judas ; he is to perish ow
the day of judgment, devoured by eternal fire, with the
devil sad his angels."

OUTWARD AMERICAN MAIL—The Hamburg and
American Company's mail steamship Teuton* Captain P.
Haack, which did not arrive till 2 a.m. on Tuesday morn-
ing, being detained by the weather, sailed from Southamp-
ton at 10 a.m. yesterday, with the United States mail,
2.5 cabin and 60 steerage passengers, and a large eargo.
On freight the Tentoma took jewellery from Havre.
vales 400 f.

Toaseco CVLTt. It e.—California lout some advan-
tages over the eastern states for cultivation this article.
The strength of the tobscco ie in the gum which coven the
top of the leaf. sod i■ soluble in water. This gum la dis-
solved and washed away by rain, and the crop is worthless
if a heavy shower f►lls upon it just before the leaves anent
or pulled. In the eastern states rains frequently COlllO
about the time of ripening of the tobacco, and the crop is
thus often lost. Here there is no danger of such an event.
The lobate* of California is, however, not so sweet, nor dose
it contain so much saccharine matter by 60 per Gent, as that
of the east, but this deficiency can be supplied by curing.
—Ca.Vvrnia paper.