The Express.
London, England, 1863-04-03 00:00:00

AIISTRLI.

VIENNA. Ana 2.

The Vienna papers of to-day publish a telegram
from Constantinople, dated the 28th ult., stating
that the Prince of Berri& has expressed to the
Porte a desire to re-establish friendly relations
with it, and to make every concession that the
interests of Berrie will allow him to do.

According to the same telegram the second divi-
sion of the Turkish army has received orders to
occupy the line of the Balkan as far as Donas. It
is stated that Aeli Pseha will be appointed Grand
Vizier. The rumour of the taking of Herat was
unfounded.

RUSSIA.

ST. PETERSBURG, Ann. 2.

The resignation tendered by Prince Lobanoff, the
Russian ambiumador at Constantinople, has been
accepted. . . . .
... . . .. . .

ASI imperial decree has been published fixing the
duty on raw sugar imported into Rings by land
at 2} roubles, and that on refined sugar im-
ported by sea at roubles.

of his weather predictions. He at the same time
prophecied afresh that " between March 29 and
April 2 there would be violent gales and very heavy
rains in most parte of western Europe, and that
the navigation in the Channel would be particularly
dangerous." " Millions of people," he went on to
say, " will be able to verify my predictions about
the rains from March 29 to April 2." M Mathis,
de la Drams being really a learned man, and IL 1,
de Girardin and others having complained that the
Institute of France did not pay sufficient attentioe
to his prophecies, I made a note of the above in ray
pocketbook, and I now send my report of the ached
weather, during the period assigned, in that part
of western Europe called Paris. The morning
of the 29th was cloudy, but not a drop
of rain fell, and there was a soft, saw,
western breeze. At noon the sun came out, and
there followed that unusually fine spring 'Niue*
which was enjoyed by the thousands who west to
the Vinoennes steeplechase. From that time to
6 o'clock in the evening of April 2, the hour at
which I am now writing, there has been no rain in
Paris. For the last 24 hours we have had a cloud-
less sky. The moonlight night was soft and balmy,
and the north-east breeze to-day is singularly gentle.
Daring M. Mathieu's four dam the Channel,
which was to have been so dangerous, has delivered
its mails backwards and forwards with the utmost
regularity ; and multitudes of meteorological tele.
grams attest that the weather generally throughout
western Europe has been neither stormy nor wet.
It in, therefore, for M. Mathieu de Ls Drome to
show cause, if he can get listeners, why his predic-
tions are better than those of a Murphy's almanack.
"M. Mathieu de la Drome," observes the
Saint Public of Lyons, "had predicted tempests
and heavy rain in all the south of France, and prin.
cipally at Lyons and Geneva, from the 29th March
to the 2nd April. We have now reached the latter
of those dates, and the sky has not been obscured
for a single moment."
A Poitiers newspaper, the Journal de la Vienne,
contains an account of the arrival in that city by
railway of the Duke of Beaufort's hounds. The
natives were greatly struck by the appearance of
the hanteman and whips. "Their faultless dress,
their scrupulous neatness, the dignity of their man•
ners, the order and regularity which go•
yarned all their movements" are said to have
attracted general attention. After leaving
the railway they were in marching order
in a few minutes. A detachment of regular
cavalry could not have done better or quicker.
They proceeded in perfect order to the Hotel le
France and thenceito Nienil-l'Eepoir, where his
grace is to stay. The duke is accompanied by
several friends, among whom are members of the
Paris Jockey Club and the Imperial Hunt. Easter
Tuesday is fixed for the opening day of this grand
wolf hunting.
It is rumoured that Verdi is at work upon a new
opera called Sala/sea°, to be produced not later
than 1866, and that K Flaubert will be assisted
by M. Theophile Gautier in the composition of the
libretto.
On Sunday last a number of the tame doves
which perch upon the trees of the Tuileries, and
feed out of the hands of visitors, were poisoned by
some villain or madman who has not yet been dis-
covered.