The Express.
London, England, 1864-11-18 00:00:00

PRUSSIA.

BERLIN. Nov. 17.
Ills Excellency Lord Napier arrived here yester-
day from St. Petersburg.
M. Benedetti, the new French Atobassador, in
announced to arrive in Berlin on Saturday next.

NEW JAPANESE EMBASSY.
BERNE, Nov. 17.

The Japanese government has announced to the
Federal Council the proximate arrival of a fresh
embassy from that country, who will visit Switzer-
land in the course of their traveLs.

THE INSURRECTION IN VENETIA.

(From the 7enetian correspondent of the Unita Daliana.)

Nov. 9.

1 send you satisfactory information. On the
evening of the •;th, in the neighbourhood of Aspe-
daletto, a band of 120 men attacked, and I may 'Ay almost
destroyed the garrison of that place which, warned of the
approach of the insurgents, bail moved against them-; the
conflict over, the band separated into small detachments.
and dispersed amongst the neighbouring mountains.
On the morning of the 7th, in the neighbourhood of
Auroozo, half way between that place and Camellioo,
sharp encounter took place with the worst of the troope.
It appears that this band was composed of Carnioli and
Camellitani ; we wait impatiently for news from Cadore,
because a very large number of the compromised are there,
who, to escape from the cruelty of the Austrians, are
compelled to take up arms and flee to the mountain and
woods.

The country is beyond meastire amazed that no help comes
from them, and knows that the government reeorte to any
means of falsifying thedeeds that occur.

We hope in Ganhaldi, and we believe that the govern•
meat will not &airs a second Aspromonte in favour of
Austria.

if the correspondents of the moderate journals should
tell you, as usual. that all is over, and that the people are
not absolutely willing to respond to the movement, though
confident they should do so under other command, it is that
they lack courage, and perhaps believe, or pretend to be-
lieve themselves good patriots by lotting off harmless
croakers.

N.B.—From other communications Put received it would
appear that the band of Vensone is the same as met with
the encounter mentioned in the corcespoodeuce, which is
commanded by young a brave an intelligent Gail-
baklian.

General Garibaldi, in a letter to the Working Men's So-
ciety at Chieti, which sent 130 lire to the sufferers at
Aspromonte—dated from Caprera, 31st ultimo, says:—
" At this very hour you know that our brothers are fighting
against tyranny. I hope the Italians of every province will
do their duty in these last battles for the regeneration of
their ooaatry."

DitiPATCII OF THE WEST IN DIA ♦SD PACT FIC 'MALLS.
--..Souromirrox, Nov. 17.—The Royal huil Company's
'teenier Shannon, Captain Woolley, sailed hence at 4 p.m.
today with the fortnightly maila for the British and
Foreign West Indies, the Pacific, California, Contra
America, &c. She took out 207 tempters ; French gold,
1.4802. ; jewellery, 2,950 f.; English jewellery, 1,0471., and
• general cargo of French and English merchandise.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(Rol[ ova OWN 001ULNIPONDENT.)

PARIS, THURSDAY Einunso.

M. Fould is said to have settled his budget, And
the accounts are so made out as to show a surplus
of one million. The Emperor said long ago he
would have uo more deficits, and I don't think you
will ever see any iu the estimates. When the
budgets come to be wound up people have ceased
to take any interest in them, and a deficit may then
be, as it almost always is, confessed without any incon-
venience. The financial statement or expos; which
usually precedes the publication of the budget will
probably appear in the Moniker in a few days. It
is sail that reductions to the extent of 25 minims
are announced in different branches of the public
service.

The Emperor, ever ready with his purse, as his
worst enemies and his beet friends must alike admit,
has subscribe) I,ooofr. to a fund for erecting a
monument on the ruins of the chateau of Bayard,
the prier theraher, "without fear and without
reproach.•

It is said that M. Raussmann, being recently
complimented by a senator on the marvellous em-
bellishments of Paris due to his initiative, replied,
" Wait five years, and you shall see what you shall
see ; I have scarcely begun yet." One plan attri-
buted to him is the erection on the heights of
Montmartre of a (ac-simile of the Parthenon, to be
called the Acropolis of Athens.

Since the discussion on the Convention has been
going on, most of the Italian journals are daily
seized in the French Poet-office. The two govern-
ments are doubtless agreed, but the way in which
the free Italian press speaks of the probable conse-
quence.% of the Convention la too strong for the
stomachs of French functionaries, who know that
whatever may be the Emperor's ultimate intentions
with regard to Italian unity, he is not yet prepared
to break altogether with the catholic party at home.
To-day, it is said, that among the Italian journals
seized is the Official Gazette—the Turin Moniker.
Upon this fact the Gazette .k France remarks :
This is really going a long way. What will IL Nips lay?
Unless, indeed, the paper was seized at his request.
A Paris correspondent of the Gironde, of Bor-
demi:, wrote to that journal on Nov. 15, as
follows :

The great news of the day is the letter sent by M. Drouyn
de Lhuys to IL. MensdorfVouilly on the subject of Venetia.
This note is said to be worded in excessively vague language ;
the questions of the day are alluded to with impenetrable
reserve, and if we may credit the details given us, this diplo-
matic note is so softened down that it cannot possibly wound
the self-love of Austria however susceptible it may be,
The Gazette de France, however, hears from
Vienna, but its wish is perhaps father to the state-
ment, that a really important despatch from
M. Dronyn de Lhuys has been received
there. The French government, it says, has asked
the catholic powers to adhere to the convention,
representing to them that their adhesion would be
an indirect way of guaranteeing the temporal
' power. I greatly distrust this news, and attach
more importance to the declaration of the 3larquis
de Pepoli, that one of the Emperor's main objects
in the convention was to settle the Roman question
without the other powers, as a set off to the vic-
tory against the principle of natioualitivs which
bad been gained in Poland in spite of him.
' The Pope has written a letter to the Bishop of
Limoges condoling with him on the terrible fire
which lately caused ro much suffering in that
town, and regretting that he had been only able to
send a trilling subscription fu the relief of the
inhabitants on account of the " distressed state
of his own domestic affairs."

The Marquis de Radepont, an attach 6 to the
French Legation in Mexico, has arrived in Paris
with despatches from the Marquis de Montholon,
which are said to be important. There is a talk
of forty conspirators having been arrested, but
the Pays makes light of the news, describing it
as either " not true or of no consequence."
The Ind.ipendtther Beige says that 200 share-
holders of the Libourne and Bergerac Railway have
presented a petition to M. Behic, the Minister of
Public Works, complaining of a series of acts of
bad management and peculation ou the part of the
directors, or some of them. Among the charges
made there is this astounding one, that a lot of
sleepers charged to the company at the rate of 25fr.
had been in reality purchased of the Southern
Company, as rubbish, at the rate of lfr., and that
they were actually laid down with the word "rebt,t"
marked upon them.
The Bourse, after opening with a slight improve-
ment ou the strength of a rise of Console,
dosed heavily at about yesterday's prices. Route
for ca,li fell 10c. ; for account there was no change.

FATHER IGNATIUS AND BROTHER MARTEN.
Mr. NV. Bell, late o- Martin, ()A.S.& io Father Ignatius's
monastery at Norwich, in a letter to the Norfolk Nen.,
tell us that having taken the Penny Poe from the library
without permission, hut intending to ask for it to !luta
during the night watch, was condemned to the following
penance, to which, however, he did not choose to submit,
li and left the place. He writes :—" I was ordered to say
100 rosaries, all paternosters (the Lord's Prayer). Now, as
there are i;1 beads on the rosary, and I was to say a pater-
noster for each, and go round 100 times, you will observe
that my punishment for this staht unintentional offence was
to repeat the Lord's Prayer 1,1)00 times! And what was
more, instead of going to bed at half-past three text
morning, as I should otherwise have done, after
watch and services, I was to sit up to perform
this task, and then resume my watch the oex*iight'af ter all.
Hut this was not to be the whole of the penalty. The prior
directed also that I should write out the "Rule of Silence"
fifty times ; and sa each time would occupy about twenty
minutes, here was the prospect of the additional occupation
of about 17 hours, whenever I could rind the time between
services and work. The result was, that the thorough dis-
gust which bad been for some time crowing in my mind
with the monastic Miss carried out on Elm Hill reached its
climax, and I left the same evening. having good reason to
know that this severe penance was more the consequenos of
personal ill-feeling towards me than of any peculiar regard
to the law which I was said to have broken. Another
brother had read different newspapers at forbidden Lours
and without leave, but no notice had been taken
of his offence. I question whether, were the prior so strict
with others as he was with me, they would not also refuse
submission, seeing that the prior (Brother Dunstao) is like
myself but a young man (he is only seventeen !), and the
two others are about three or four and twenty. I may say
in conclusion that Ignatiaa's profession that the rule of St.
Benedict is strictly kept in Norwich is altogether a mistake.
I have spent four months and a Intl there, and have scan
such irregularities as have convinced me that this 10-called
Anglican Order of Benedictines is all a sham. I took my
vows for sin months; and therefore, though I have for some
time been surprised at what I witnessed, and of which the
public outside have little idea, I thought I would at least
stay out my time. lam now glad, however, at the step I
have taken, and shall, with your leave, lake au early oppor-
tunity of trpoaing the hollowness of the whole affair.—
I am. Sr, yowls, ,kc., W. BELL (late + MARTIN, A. 0.5.8.).
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