The Express.
London, England, 1864-01-08 00:00:00

GREECE.

VIENNA, .TAN. 8.

Advice. from Athens announce that Major-
General Petmoaas has been appointed Minister of
War. The troops garrisoning Tripelitza and Lamia
are said to have refused to recognise their new
chief.

FRANCE.

PARIS, THCZEDAY EVENING.

The first grand ball of the season was given last
night at the Tuileries, about 5,000 persons being
invited. A considerable number, however, were
forced to absent themselves by the rigour of the
season.

The Emperor went the day before yesterday to
the Bois de Boulogne and skated on the small lake
near the cascade. The Empress and the Prince
Impirial were present Several ladies known in
the fashionable world of Paris were on the ice.

The report of K Larrabure on the Supplemen-
tary Credits of 1863 is considered by the Paris
journals as a further proof of the desire felt by the
Legislative Body to discountenance every act that
might lead to war or prevent the exercise of a rigid
economy. _ _

The cold yesterday was not altogether so severe
at Paris. The large arm of the Seine is covered
with floating ice, which is blocking up the river
at the bridges. The Saint Michel branch,
on the south of the Citii, where there is
scarcely any currrent, is completely frozen up
from the Pont de PArchevklid to the Sluice
of the Mint. The navigation both on the Upper
and Lower Seine, as well as on the canals, is entirely
stopped. The lowest temperature at 8 o'clock the
morning before last was 15 5-10ths degrees below
zero Centigrade (5 Fahrenheit) at Leipaic ; next
comes Berne at 14 2-10ths below C. (7.25 F.), and
at Limoges 11 below C.(11.75 F.) At Cherbourg the
thermometer only marked 1 7-10ths below zero, C.
(30.25 F.) There has been heavy snow at Marseilles,
and also at Ancona. The cold has also become
infinitely less intense at St. Petersburg, marking
two days ago only 21 below zero, C. (27* F.) In
Paris. at 6 yesterday morning, the thermometer of
M. Chevalier stood at 10 degrees below zero C. (14
F.) ; at noon 5 3-10ths below C.(221 F.) ; and at 3,
2 below C. (28 2-sths F.)

Paris is about to be enriched with another flower-
market, to be established on the Boulevard Richard Lenoir,
between the Bast/le and the fountain of the Boulevard du
Temple.
"Brussels at the present moment," says the
Ind:prndance, "is in raptures with a German female
dancer. la classic dancing her performance is nothing ex-
beard/nary, but she has created for herself a marked
superiority in the (labia.) stile, and far exceeds Rigolboche
is her gymnsatie movement., She is moreover young,
about 20, very pretty, and lives in good style. She is maid
to be morganatacally a princess, and her house is inaccessible
to the numerous admiren of her person and her eccentric
talent."

SNOW MORNS IN NORTH-Wishoim AMERICA.
Mote snow has already fallen I. Colorado than was ever
knows to fall as entire mina before. At Denver the
thermometer stood fourteen degrees below zero on the
morning of the 27th of November. The Atchison Cham-
pion learns from passenger, who arrived on the overland
Beach OD Sunday, that the snow is also four feet deep be-
tween Denver and Rock Creek. All along the route from
here to Salt Inks, the cattle belonging to trains are dying
from cold and 'Writhe). The depth of the snow bee
greatly impeded the progress of the overland stages, and
in some lesbians, they have been delayed for several days
—Bt. Joseph New, Dee. &
PROSTITUTION AND LEO ISL AVON. —Those Who
support the idea of putting aside the orbiting English laws,
sad of rat:educing French laws for the suppression of pros-
titutios, are probably not aufliciently conversant with that
wish they propose to introduce. At the present time,
if the unfortunates of England are by their oc-
cupation degraded, at the worst they are free,
that is, they are sot slaves. In Franco the wo-
man is degraded and infamously enslaved. The first ordeal
to which this slave is subjected so amply manna to disgust
the treed =IX and to make the Wed the slave herself the more
sorely sawed She must register, make knows her age, her
parentage, sod all else to government officials, slid salmi*, to
after observatios of the most regular sod stringent ofileialcia-
ruder. After this it is most common for her to sell her-
self to some authorised and legaliaed occupier of • registered
house—end then what is her bandage 1' To sew that her very
seal is sot her own is • mild term ; neither her body,
sor seal, nor the habiliments of her body are hens.
She hos no power of residing any indignity. Tbssw
who seek her attractions may be worse than the wont lepers
of antiquity, she mast subject herself to their advance'.
If the wretch woo rules choose, she me even dispose el
her arrant en hire for a week, • =oath, • year,
take ell her ilkotten earnings, clothe her as the
and hold her with more [Modish grip by leollog her
which ennui be repaid. The late 'wisestDr,
l°enollasd. whose researches on prostitution sod he
I MOM are equal almost to those of Dochataet himself, told
the writer of this article, after his inquiries in Paris
were imeelstled, that no words could possibly express
the loathsome picture of ore of the 'isitS MOi•Oni
Wait/. To know them, their outer life meat sot
be considered ; all the show, all the glitter suet be
transinerced, and the islet, the grosser, the loathsome part
must be seen. Thee the &armlet of the liosneed
dwelling becomes truly apparent, sad the system that
provides for it la sees la all its mime se an am, end all its
melamines as • remedy. In England the wean would be
inoperative, from ha very eaverity. It could sot, M-
ufti, be canted oat. And If it sena, what
woad be the effect! This. That cartels quarters of
Londe. and other kris tows. would be hensformed into
outset and cities of refuge ter mho,. while in
t .tic
ether gores, endow of the law of every. kind and
shag would be constantly and persinimotiy pursued. Eves
in Paris the law doss sot seeemplisk what it ahem at. How
mock less se in Enema ?--&roket Saws Ran tee.