The Express.
London, England, 1862-04-21 00:00:00

'NO, APRIL 2'

eetrod at ioulon last week, lirosight precticly
Lois to the minds of the inhabitants of Omit great
arssualto: fact that an immensi revohtion in
naval has been suddenly aosomplishesl. The
Yemkssoy line of battle ship was about to take her
artillery on board, but oounter orders wek sent,
on the ground that vessels of her class will here-
after be considered as transports only, and have no
need of guns.

PARJE, BA7VIDAT Eviorara.

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Great surprise is felt that M. Michel Chevalier,
of all people in the world—M. Michel Chevalier/.
the member of the Peace Society, should have
Biped au article in the &rue des Deux Mender, not
merely in favour of the French expedition to
Mexico, but in favour of it on the assumption
that its object is to overturn the republic there
and set up a monarohy. He regrets that the
prince chosen should be an Austrian, and a de-
scendant of Philip IL, but nevertheless put up
with this secondary objection, and warmly advo-
cates the principle of the intervention as calculated
to further " Catholic interests and the influence
of the Latin race." He moreover intimates, in
stronger terms than even the Patric has done, that
France will not only occupy Mexico,' but establish
herself there for all the time necessary to " assure
the institution of a dynasty." Wonderful, indeed,
is the effect of a senator's livery. Nobody
who knew M. Michel Chevalier before he put
it on could ever have expected to hair from
him the gratuitous utterance of sentiments which,
lying quite out of the way of those special subjects
on which he is an authonty, tend to unfathomable
intervention in remote countries, dissensions with
the powers of Europe, and ultimately to war with
the United States. I shall be surprised, indeed, if
his great friend and fellow-labourer, Mr. Cobden,
approves of his appearance in this new character.
I have heard • story of She Japanese embassy
which, if true, is very interesting. It is said that
they have concluded a treaty with the Emperor, in
virtue of which lie undertakes to send to Japan 80
millions of franca worth of machinery and metallic
goods, and is to receive in return wool, cotton, and
textiles to a like value. How the question of profit
and Ices is to be arranged in such a vast commercial
transaction between two governments I have not
the least idea.
A shock of an earthquake was felt yesterday in
several parts of the departments of the Doubs, the
Cote d'Or and the Haute Saone. It lasted but a
second, but is described as being so severe that in
several localities people fancied the houses were
coming down. Glass and china are said to have
been broken.

EARL CANNING AND THE CALCUTTA ADDRESS.

The Englishman gives the following as the reply
of Lord Canning to the address which was tad
to his lordship by the inhabitants of cotes :
" At eleven o'clock in the morning the sheriff of
Calcutta was received at Government House, attended by a
deputationof about 40 gentlemen, representing the Eu-
ropean sad Armenian merchants, civilians, bankers, tinders,
*sten, railway, clerical, and professional classes, who at
a public meeting held in the Tows-hall on the 7th instant,
had adopted the address to Lord Canning on hie retirement,
which we published in our report of that meeting. Pre-
cisely at the appointed time his lordship entered the throne-
room, and, after the usual courtesies, the sheriff reed sad
presented the address, to which, in his usual earnest sal
impressive style, Earl Causing made the following reply e—
" Gentlemen : 1 receive your friendly farewell with plea-
sure, and I thank you for it. After the trials through
which the British Empire in India has poised, it is sates-
factory to rue to be assured that you appreciate the mea-
sures
by which the attachment of the people to their
government has been strengthened, and confidence in the
stability of the state restored. The foremost of then sess-
sures were the exercise of mercy and forgiveness as mesa
as authority had been vindicated, and the reposing of Mud
and responsibility in classes which previously had no lime I
of either. The restoration of financial credit is i
controversy. The measures relating to the tenure of
to which you bare referred as opening the way to the bene-
ficial influences of European enterprise, will not, I hope,
disappoint you. It is not merely the employment of
European capital which, in framing those measures, has been
had in view. They have a further and a higher 'cope.
England has before her one of the most difficult problems
that state policy can be called upon to solve—the drawing
together with harmony, and without injustice to either side,
two great mons radindly different in everything that forma
the character of men. but which, by the course of events,
are being gradually brought face to face. And I know no
measure which is more likely to teach to each skis its duty
to the other, as fellow-subjects and neighbours, than one
which shall enable the interests of both Lobe bound together
more permanently than by those uncertain, precarious, and
fleeting ties which have lutherto characterised the connec-
tion of Englishmen with the soil of Indio. Gentlemen,
I am obliged to you far your expressions of regret
at me being about to leave India, and for your good wishes.
The intercom of this country will for the red of my life
seldom be absent from my thoughts. But lam far from
thinking that it is upon the exercise of high official power
skies that those interests depend. Year by year larger in-
fluences than those of mere official position will be brought
to bear upon the relations of England with her greatest
dependency. That which I look to with the greatest con-
fidence is a correct knowledge and appreciation of India and
her wants by the parliament and the people of England ;
and it behoves us all most earnestly to desirethat such
public opinion should be just and well founds', and, above
all, generous towards the people of India. Again, gentle-
men, I thank you for your courtesy, and I wish you
heartily farewell' "

The Emperor Napoleon gives a grand dinner at
the Tuileries to-day, to be followed by a concert
The Stabat Mater was chanted in the chapel of
the Tuileries on Thursday, in presence of a numerous atten-
dance. The Emperor and Empress, and the princes and
prince sex of the imperial family, a ith the household,
were present The Abbe Frappel mashed the sermon on
the Pennon. The .Miserers was chanted in the imperial
chapel at half-past son Friday evening by the choristers of
the Conservatoire. The visito:a who received levitation,
were very numerous.
A Naples letter says :—" We have now entered
on Passion Week, and Stabat Meters are the order of the
day. Last Friday Pergolas?, inimitable &abet Mater was
performed at San Francesco Paolo. The church was
crowded, and the music was admirably executed, Tiberini,
Aldighieri, and the other singers at San Carlo taking a part.
On Saturday we had a novelty, and a most agreeable one,
in the form of a Stabat Mater by Mr. George Douglas, one
el the respectable officers of the English Legion, who has
dace settled sad married as English lady is Naples. All
the great musical judges were present, and it is a sufficiest
praise of this composition to say that Thalberg spoke of it
' as most promising music.' "
Amongst the latest departures from Paris for the
International Exhibition have been a number of colossal
bow instruments, of dimensions which seemed to place
them beyond the power of practical application. A number
of Brobdignagian trombones, bassoons, and other wind in-
struments have been sent, together with violins, altos, and
stringed instruments of every description. Several organs
have also been forwarded. Amongst the pianofortes, the
most perfect, as regards tone and furniture, are said to be
those of Henri Hertz, who will perform at the Exhibition
on one of his own instruments. _

The Paella of Egypt will be iu Paris early next
month on his way to the Great Exhibition in London.
Private letters from Alexandria mention that his highness
would probably pay a visit to Constantinople or to Venice,
but it was uncertain to which be would give the preference.
He will be accompanied by a numerous suits, and will
bring with him all his jewels of priee,and about 3,000,04Pfr.
His stay is London will not be short, as he is wait anxious
to no all that is worth seeing besides the Exhibition. It
not said what time ho means to devote to Paris.

A French naval officer holding a high command
hes tendered his resign►tloo, in order to devote himself to
the oompletioe of ► new fulminating spur which he hes in.
vented for iron-cesed ships, which will not only drive in
the side of soy ship, but will lodge in its interior en explo-
rive shell of the most dangerous oh /eater.

A letter from San Franehmso,vrritten by a resident,
states that XlLanus died is a meet pitiable condition.
" They let the poor fellow die a paper in the common
comity hospital in Ban Francisca, and now make all this
fuss about him. Many of those who subscribed largely to
the expenses, to my owe knowledge refused him pecuniary
assistance while alive and in actual want. A few nights
beam the poor man died I gave him a glass of hot whisky
and meter at a bar mom in this city. He had not enough
to guy Igor a drink himself. The cant I heard of him was
that he wee picked up in a Ilk and brought to the hospital,
where he died, and was buried as a pauper."
In 1848 the copper minas of Lake Superior yielded
only 1601. worth of copper. last year they yielded copper
meth 600,0001.