The Express.
London, England, 1864-10-05 00:00:00

AUSTRIA AND VENETIA.

The Wanderer, one of the moat trusted organs
of the liberal party in Vienna, recommends
Austrian statesmen to recognise the new prin-
ciples which form the basis of the French policy.
It recalls to their memory the isolation of Austria
in 1859, and asks whether it would be prudent to
expose her to a new war in expectation of 6nd4ng
allies. The if andever shows that Austria could
place no firm dependence on Prussia, and for the
disgrace which, in certain circumstances, would
result from the assistance of Russia, it would even
prefer the voluntary abandonment of Venetia.
The Austrian ministerial journal, the Bot-
schafter, seems to entertain pretty much the same
view, for it gives a letter from London written by
" a sincere friend of Austria," maintaining that
the cabinet of Vienna could not do better than
recognise the kingdom of Italy. By this means,
says the correspondent of the Bofschafter, a double
end will be attained : satisfaction would be given
to France, and the way opened for an alliance with
England.

(IIXTITI:el TIMM:MANS.)
FRANCE.

PARIS, Oct 5.

Delegates from France, Belgium, England, and
Holland have lately met in Paris to draw up a col-
lective convention relative to the sugar duties.
They have come to an understanding upon the
general nature of the arrangements which are to
form the subject of a diplomatic convention, to be
carried out within a month at latest.

THE EMPRESS OF THE FRENCH.
BADEN, Ocr. 4, Errcrso.
The Empress of the French is staying at the
residence of the Duchess of Hamilton.

SPAIN AND PERU.
MADRID, Oct 4.

Advioes received here from Lima to the 28th
August announce the discontent of the population
and the commercial stagnation produced by the
conflict with Spain. The attitude of the Peruvian
government was considered adverse to the general
interest.

Several Peruvian deputies had brought forward
a proposal to treat Spain amicably.

CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN

MAILS.
SUEZ, TUESDAY MORNING.
The telegram of yesterday which announced the
arrival of the above mails was a mistake.
The Candice is not yet in eight.

The Italian Opera at Paria recommenced operations
for the 1111110Y0 es &tardily wilh Verdi's Ri9oktto. Madame
de Lacrasge appeared is the part of Gilds.

The ingenious M. Babinet, of the French Insti-
tute, has aisoovered the means of cooking a:tbout fire.
He has just laid before the academy the result of his
experiments. His recipe is :—Place your food in a blink
pot, covered with sundry panes of glom, and stand it in the
sun. The water soon boils, and the food is said to be of
better fl wear than if cooked in the ordinary way. But
we are in a season when, in London at least, it will hardly
do to trust to the sun as a substitute for a kit!lien fire.

"The Franciscan Order," says the Monde, " which
has been vo happily re-established in Frazee, and which
increases in number every year, now reckons 200,000 men
and 300,000 sisters, including the Tertiares. It porcine
252 provinces and 7.6,000 convents, of which 3 are in Pala-
tine and 30 in Turkey. It has given to the church 7 pops'
sod 3,030 bishops. More than 80 emperors and empresses,
kings and quests, have been admitted into the order, which
has the glory of having tarnished 3,000 saints or beatified
perms, among whom were 1,700 martyrs."
The religious journals announce that the bare-
footed Carmelites have opened an establishment in Paris.

Prince Murat arrived at Constantinople on the
23rd nit. en board the French paddle-sloop Cacique, Captain
',raisins& The prince intended remaining a few days only.
The Lyons journals give particulars of a horse-
flesh banquet that has just takes place in that city. A large
number of amateurs assembled in the diniog•room of one of
the principal res'auranti, and to them were served up no less
than 11 dishes, all of horse beef. These were two soup*,
bouilli, bone it Ls mode, truffied sausages, fried brains, lion
▪ Fltalienne, caulidlwer au fur de Memel, cold horse pie,
and other chevaline delicacies. The fare was generally ap-
proved. Among the guests were merchants, manufacturers,
professional men, journalists, veterinary surgeons, and ph;.
'Bane--thew last, it is added, were not numerous.

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LADIES AT BIARRITZ. —A letter from Biarritz
says :—" It does not fall to the lot of many travellers in
search of health and pleasure to visit, is one season, the
British queen of watering.places and the reeky little resort
of French fashion on the shores of the Gulf of Gummy. It
has been my fate to journey, at all possible speed, from the
Pyrenees to Yorkshire, and, with the Casino and the old
port of Biarritz fresh in my mind's eye, to find myself on
the Spa, and in the midst of the refreshing smedal. and a
witness of the vivacious dirtations which are among the at-
tractions of the queen of watering-places. The contrasts
in externals and in manners and habits between the imperial
and the royal watering place are infinite. The great ladies
of France mid Spain make holiday with a graceful &madam
and • costume—or tea costumes—for the part. They are
free to laugh and rollick. They are not above &okay-
riding. They don't parade before the gm with stately
steps and set features. They don't sit, in calm arid admit
rows, round an id
!rum orchestra, listening to the airs
with which London organs have made every gropes boy
familiar. The great ladies of Franco and Spain throw asidtt
the robes of state, sod go trooping through the narrow
street, and chaffer at the wood and ivory carving stalls, and
show their dainty white feet on the weeds in their bathing
dress, and laugh as the waves play about their shoulder. -
awl take their ices and coffee in the open air—free and
frolicsome as mermaids! They give reins to their rich
flume, and invent original dresses suited to the occasion.
Old Neptune rolls shells sad seaweed to the shore only to
Provide them pretty trimmings for jacket sod skirt, and
Garibaldi and sissf-rii.feseque. These dainty nymphs
gather shells' not that they may list to the echoes of the
sea in them, hut that they may steal a march on the inven-
tive Powers of fair neighbours."

Pirmourn, TrESPAY Eviruniro.—ln consequence
of the heavy easterly gale the Austriso frigate Schwerin-
berg, Captain &roe Sternech, and the iron-cled omen
steamship Doe Joan, 31 goes, Captain Count Pokormy,
from Breams Haven for Brest, put jab Plymouth Soned
yesterday (Tuesday) morning. Thia gale, which has pre-
vailed there for the last three dare, Imo eompsll d upwards
of a hundred vessels. chiefly masten bound up Channel, to
take shelter is the Sound.

CAPTURE OF A SHARK.-00 Siturdiy i fioe spe-
cimen of the diodon, or basking shark, weighiog nearly
7cart., was eaptured Newquay, Cornwall, eboat a mile
from the slags.