The Express.
London, England, 1863-10-20 00:00:00

BAPTISM OF THE PRINCE OF PORTUGAL

LISBON, Oar. 19.

The baptism of she royal infant, Don Carlos,
took place today in the church of St. Doraingos,
Biters grand procession.

Bing Ferdinand and the Princess Clotilde
officiated u sponsors.

The Lisbon and Italian squadrons were illumi•
natod.

The Italian squadron sails for Spezzia on Thurs-
day.

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, Ocr. 19.
The Trausylvanimi deputies will take their seats
in the Lower House of the Reicherath to-morrow.
The Reichwath will afterwards declare itself com-
pletely constituted.

SWXDKN.

BrOCKHOLII, Oce. 19.

The entire Swedish press, except the Allehaticla,
are unanimous in dating that the stipulations of a
treaty of allianoe with Denmark are agreed upon,
but that the ratification of the treaty will not take
plaee until German troops are despatched to Hol-
stein.

THE lONIAN ISLAND&
ADDRESS TO THE LORD HIGH
COMMISSIONER.

CORFU, Ocr. 15.
The lonian parliament has discussed the draft of
a message to the Lord High Commissioner.

One paragraph of the-address states that the
fortresses should be handed over to King George
in their present condition. This is considered as a
protest against the scheme attributed to England of
their destruction.
Public rejoicings on account of the annexation of
the lonian Islands continue.

POLAND.
THE GREAT FIEF IN WARSAW.

DRESDEN, Ocr. 19.

The Dreainer Journal of to-day publishes a tele-
gram from Warsaw stating that a fire broke out in
three places in the archive department of the Hotel
de Ville on Sunday morning.
No doubt is entertained that the conflagration
, was wilful.

The securities and notes, together with the
amount books, were saved.

THE PARIS BOURSE.
PARIS, Oct. 19, 3.36 r.x.
The Bourse has been firm. Routes closed ai
67.60, or 20c. higher than on Saturday.

INDIA.
(Bytdomsph from Som.)

CALCUTTA. Seer. 30.

Grey shirtings sod mule twist advancing. Er-
change on London, Baring's credit, 2s. 00.
Government securities—Four per Cents., 99g ;
Five per Cents., 108 k ; Five-aad-a-Hall per Cents.,
lit Freights active.

BOMBAY, Ban. 30.

Exchange on London, 2s. 01d. Government
ascuritiee—Four per Cents., 90 ; Five per Cents,
1081 ; Five•and-a-Half per Centr, 1171.
The outward mail arrived at Bombay on the 24th
September.

CHINA.

(By tologroph from Bner.)

CANTON. ear. 10.

Gloy shirtier and water twist dull Tea im-
proving. Total export to date, 49,000,0001b5.
lixohange on London, 4s. 10d.

SHANGHAI. Barr. 4.

Tea : Congon firm, but little doing. Silk gene-
ally unchanged. Settlements in fortnight, 3,000
balm. ; export to date, 13,125 bales. Exchange on
Locdon, Se. std.

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ITALY.

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LA SPEZZIA, Carona 13.
Tide phial is at present a scene of immense
The railway which is to connect the town
with Genoa is in process of making so vigorously
that at least 2,000 navvies are at work upon it in
the immediate vicinity. Travellers who have oome
by the beautiful road along the edge of the shore
(nearly equal in loveliness to the Cornice rood on
the opposite aide of the Gulf of Genoa) will. remem-
ber how the indentations of the coast esquire such
continual turnings as to double, or perhaps treble,
the direct distance. To cut across all the spurs of
the Apennines which form these hundred little pro-
montories will be an immense labour. The number
of tunnels required for the railway is so great that
it is said they will altogether amount to as many
mules as the one great tnnoel of Mont Ceuis.
Besides the railway-making, other, and even
greater works are goeng.forward, in the formation
al the arsenal and the deepening of the port. Some
of your readers may not be aware that it has been
the purpose of the Italian government for some
years to make this the principal station in North
Italy for the national fleet, leaving Genoa for the
future for mercantile vessels. The gulf itself is
ably qualified for the purpose. A long and
peseethla, endingia Me inerserdinaryjeid•
town Of torts Veneto (*heroin so road exmhi,
only steps detains), looks in the beautiful hey, soots,
ten miles long by five or six miles wide. The
water is always sufficiently calm, and at the
upper end, near the town of Speasia, it gradually
shallows, so as to afford convenient anchorage to'
vessels of all sizes. On one side of the bay is Lerici
(once the home of Shelley) with its castle, and ow
the other Garibaldi's prison of Varignano, with
several minor forts. It is at the extremity of this
splendid natural harbour, on the large plot of low
ground between La Spezzia and the olive-clad
mountains, that the arsenal is making. The cloths,
as already partially laid out, seem to be of great
size, and I sin told the whole works are intended to
equal those of Toulon. The estimated cost is
48,000,000 francs.
To enable large ships of war to approach these
docks, the portion of the gulf opposite is being
deepened. Six huge mud-drags pull up the sand,
and twelve attendant steamers carry ft away, and
empty it beyond the entrance of the gulf. Bess
these there are six pontoons for carrying away
rubbish. The noise of these vessels, and of the
continual hammering of stone for the arsenal and
landing of wood along the shores, echoes all day
long, and at sunset the bleating of the rocks &die
not a little to the sound. Speznis has become a
very different place from whet it was when poor
Shelley wrote of it—indeed, very different from
what it was three or four years ago. The number
of labourers on the harbour and arsenal is
said to amount to about 2,000, besides
those on the railway, and 1,800 more are
expected immediately. They come from all parts
of Northern Italy—Panna, Genoa, Milan, dm.
and some of them are wild-looking fellows from;
the Apennines, with a very scanty allowance of
clothes. Of course the little town is quite inade-
quate to house such hosts of visitors. They are a
merry set of fellows, and as they pass our door
, morning and evening seem always singing songs of
a sufficiently mill east. If the volunteer move-
ment be inaugurate as is promised immediately in
' Indy, there will be no difficulty in obtaining re-
cruits by thousands everywhere. It is curious to
live among a people ',who all, from the highest to
the lowest, seem so profoundly interested in
pdi-
tics, so proud of the efforts of their reviving
country, and so anxious for her entire consolida-
tion.
One of the meet promising features of Italy at
' the present time is the earnestness with which the
education of all classes is being carried on. For-
merly every sort of difficulty was thrown in the
way, from the discouragement by the priests of poor
parents willing to send their children to schoo to.
the regulations in the universities requiring all the
' unde•graduatem to produce every three months
' tickets of confession, and purposely neglecting the
instruction of any who showed themselves recal-
-1 threat to priestly influence. Now everything a
• altered, the universities and the schools for the
poor. The latter combine every sort of school for
boys and girls—ealle Muth.° for small children,
and communal schools for older wag, besides
evening schools for boys and adults. All these
are crowded, and all are free to everybody, so thatlic
a boy or girl can be entirely educated at the pub
, expense, as in Massachusetts.