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

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE

(aso7s's Turaiass.)
THE PEACE NEGOTIATIONS.
VIENNA, JULY Si, Mostrerc.
It is positively stated that yesterday's sitting of
the Conference, which lasted five hours, brought
about • favourable result. There are prospects of
the speedy conclusion of peace preliminaries, as
well as of an armistice.
VIENNA, JOLT 31, Arrmoomr.

A sitting of the Conference was:l;eld at 1 p.m.
to-day. A preliminary treaty, u well as an
armistice, will probably be signed to-day or to-
morrow.

LUBECK, JULY 31.

State Councillor Fenger, the former Danish
Minister of Finance, arrived here from Copenhagen
to-day. He leaves at 5 this afternoon for Vienna.

PROLONGATION OF THE ARMISTICE.
VIENNA, JOLT 30, EIMSI73O.

To-day's sitting of the Conference resulted in s
prolongation of the armistice to the 3rd of August.

FRANCE.
PARLS, JULY 30, Esirsu:G.

Earl Clarendon bas left for Wiesbaden.

It is stated that Prussia has addressed notes to
the Cabinets of Paris, London, and St. Petersburg,
purporting to give re-assuring explanations re-
specting the occupation of Itendsburg.
The Court of Caseation has annulled the decree
of the Court of Appeal in the prosecution directed
against M. St. Charon. It has decided that the
transmission of a periodical political correspon-
dence for insertion in existing newspapers does not
of itself constitute publication.

THE PARIS BOURSE.
PARIS, JULY 30, 3.40 PAL
The Bourse has been dull. Ratites closed at
66.00, or sc. lower than yesterday.

SPAIN.
MADRID, JULY 30, EvENENG.

The news reosived from Cuba is unimportant.

At Hayti the population bad risen to compel
President Geffrard to give assistance to the
Domincan insurgents.

THE SPANISH PASSIVE DEBT.

MADRID, JOLT 30.
The usual monthly auction for the sinking fund
of the Passive Debt took place to-day.
The government asked the following prices :
First class interior, 3810 ; second class, 24.10 ;
exterior, 3410.
There were no tenders for the first and second
interior ; but 33 was offered for the exterior.

BOMBAY AND MAURITIUS MAILS.
MALTA., JOLT 31.
. _

The Masailia left at 8 p.m. yesterday for South-
ampton, and the Suxine at 1 a.m. this day for
Marseilles.
OUTWARD MAILS OF JULY 20 TO 26.

The Ceylon, from Southampton 20th inst.,
reached Malta on the 29th at 5 a.m., and left at
7 p.m. for Alexandria.
The Ripon, from Marseilles the 28th, arrived at
11 p.m. yesterday, and left at 4 am. this day for
Alexandria.

THE BRAZIL MAIL.
LISBON, JULY 31.
The Royal Mail Packet Company's steamship
Magdalena arrived here this morning.
The Messagaries Imperiales steamer Navarre, with
the outward Brazil mails, had arrived at Pernam-
buco on the 14th inst.
(Par the Magdalena via Lisbon.)
BUENOS ASSES, Jug! 27.

The basis of peace has been arranged, and the
ratification of General Flores is being hourly ex-
pected.
Exchange, 49} ounces 2,910 ; wet salted ox
hides, 39 ; dry American hides, 33 to 39. Market
weaker. Wool firmer. Tallow, 14} ; Lumber,
37 to 40. Good demand. Flour, ci to 74. Re-
fined sugar, 22.

MONTEVIDEO, Jos! 29.

Exchange, 511 ; wet salted bides, 6.25 to 5.05,
dull ; dry American ditto, 4.60 ; dry German ditto,
5.60 to 5.70. Wool, no stock. Tallow, 180.

RlO, JULY 8.

Exchange on London, 27k, 271. Coffee—Price
of good fiat, 6,900 to 7,000 rein. Shipments of
coffee since the departure of the last mail, 38,173
bags, 14,576 of which were for the CbanneL Sales
of coffee 31,060 bags ; stock 60,000 bags.

BAHIA. Jrtir 13.
Exchange on London, 21, 2i e ; cotton, 26,000
robs ; sugar, 2,700 to 2,800 reis.

PERNAMBUCO, JCL[ 16.

Exchange on London, 27i to 2%. Sugar : whites,
5,200 reis ; browns, 2,900 to 3,000 eeis ; cottons,
27,000 to 27,200 rein

THE CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS.

The following telegrams have been received at
Mr. Reuter's °Ries from the Peninsular and Orien-
tal Steam Navigation Company :
" NABSEILLES, Jur 3L
" The Baroda, with the above mails, arrived at
10.90 a.m. this day.
" The mails leave for London at IL3O a.m."

Tim GREAT Wear.-111 the hat ten years there
hare been built at the wait, 3,656 miles of railroad, at •
cost of 253,820.464' dole., most!! by eastern or imported
cepitaL The Illinois Cestral Hadrad Company alone seat
into Illinois 30.000,000 dole., and built • road which enabled
the Federal government to mall 11.000,000 dole. worth of
land, and the company to sell 20,000,000 dole. were to
actual settlers ; staking over 61,000,000 dole. concentrated
In that State by the operations of we company. The chief
effect of this has been to swell the aggregate receipt, of
'n at Chicago, during the ten yeas, to 158,544,554
which, at an average price of 66 cents per barbel
(the value for 1860 at Chicago), would be worth 126,000,000
dole., thus exceeding by 31,000,000 dole. the cost of the rail•
roads, through the agency of which the grain wee made
available. la 1861 the gram increased to 47,617,409 bushels,
the Southern routes bang shield ; and in 1862 the snood
me 60,150,390 bushels.—Chicago paper.

FRANCE

Omit oos cane 00itaMMONDMIT.)
FARM SAIMIDAT EVENT3G.
M. Jules Fevre has been pleading at Bordeaux'
for three days consecutively in an appeal suit for
nullity of marriage of very great importance. His
client, a respectable French gentleman named
Balnette, seeks to set aside a marriage into which
he alleges that his son, a young man of weak intel-
lect, was entrapped at Rome. Be charges a con=
spiracy against the bride and her mother, and an
interdicted priest named Arcangeli, to bring about
the marriage by fraud, intimidation, and false
imprisonment, the papal police conniving. It
appeared from M. Jules Pavre's statement that
young Jules Balnette, who has a tad conforma-
tion of the brain, was not long since
confined in Charenton and other lunatic asylums.
Some medical men thought him incurable, and
prophecied that if he were at large he would inevi-
tably relapse from time to time and become a
dangerous lunatic. It was admitted on all hands;
that be was addicted to druaketatures and low I
debauchery ; but' being an only child, his father,
who was very indulgent to him, cherished the)
hope of • possible reform, and at length obtained
bin release from Charenton od the strength of a
medical opinion that if he were to go to Rome and
pursue the study of Fainting, for which be has a
decided vocation, it would be for his benefit. To
Rome accordingly Jules Balnette wai sent in the
(winter of 1860. There he took lodgings in the
house of a woman named Giobbe, whose daughter,
by her first husband, Teresa Cenotti, is the defen-
dant in the cause. Teresa, a single woman of thirty,
who is represented by the plaintiff's counsel as •
girl of loose character, soon acquired an influence
over Jules Balnette and became his mistress. The
interdicted priest, Arcangeli, who was the lover of
Madame Giobbe, got possession on various pretexts
of the remittances which M. Balnette, sen., sent to
his eon, and thus reduced him to great distress. I
One day Arcangeli told Juice Nanette that he was
liable to three years' imprisonment for baring
seduced a Roman girl, and recommended him to
gat married to her immediately. The weak young
man was so frightened at this intimation that he
consented to go off at once to a church, where a
priest was interrupted while he was celebrating mass,
and induced to perform the ceremony of marriage.
None of the forms required by the Roman law
having been observed on this occasion the marriage
was palpably illegal, but this very illegality served
the purpose of the conspirators. By the aid of
the police they got Jules Balnette put in prison
for having been married clandestinely, and while
he was under duress they told him that the only'
way to escape a very heavy sentence was to be mar-
ried again with all due legal solemnities. Mean-
while Jules had written to his father to say that
he had been entrapped into a marriage, and begging
his assistance. The father, half distracted, tame
to Rome, complained to the French =bony,
and lodged there on October 19, 1861, •
declaration that he distinctly and positively
refused his consent to his eon's marriage.
It should be here explained that Jules Balnette was
not a minor, be in at this time nearly thirty years
of age ; but the French law requires that every
person marrying, no matter at what age, shall
"ask" the consent of his parents, and can ouly
dispense with it by serving a legal document called
a " respectful intimation. Whether in the case
of a marriage abroad the want of this respectful
intimation necessarily entails nullity of marriage is
one of the questions in the cause. The Tribunal
of First Instance of Cognac, which held that it was
in the discretion of the court, on consideration of
all the circumstances of each particular case, to say
whether the absence of this intimation was fatal,
in the present instance ruled that it was not.
Unfortunately a few days after his arrival M.
Balnette, sen., receiving news from Paris that his
wife was seriously ill, suddenly left Rome, leaving
his son in prison. On October 31st, 1861, Jules
Babette was taken in a back carriage lucked with
a padlock to a church in the parish of St. Augustine
in Rome, and there at the altar he was offered his
choice of being sent to the galleys or marrying
Teresa Csnotti. Pressed by this alternative be con-
sented to be married, and the Tribunal of Cognac
holds that under the circumstances this was the
"free consent" which, according to French
law, is of the essence of the marriage
contract. The court below construed the
previous clandestine marriage as evidence
of the young man's real intentions, and it was in-
fluenced by the fact that since the marriage he has
several times returned to Teresa Cenotti, and
written her affectionate letters as his wife. Teresa,
who has been living for the last year and a half at
Angouleme, produces a certificate of good conduct
from the bishop of that diocese, who, however, it
is insinuated, bas received orders from Rome to
support her. M. Jules Fevre, in supporting the
appeal, pronounced a terrible invective against the
immorality of the Papal police, and eloquently
claimed the protection of the court for Freuch
families. In the course of reading his evidence be
produced a very curious letter from a former grand
provost of the army of Rome—a witness who must
have had unusual opportunities of knowing what
the Papal atthorities really are. This old soldier,
now commanding a company of gendarmerie at
Marseilles, wrote as follows to M. Balnette, senior :
My antecedes* my prior:Spies, and the rank I bold of
superior officer in the geadarmene, should place my testi-
mony above all suspicion, when I pre facts which mast NOM
incredible in France, even though I say they tressed before
my own eyes. Were I yet in Rome I could be able to get
you the certificate you wit of the " Chaste Teresa's"
way of life. But it would be idle to apply direct for it to
the Roman police. In the gut place, they would not take
any steps to procure one miler paid in advances very con-
sidemble sum. Than, were there any doubts held as to
the use which might be made of it, they would
represent her as • cruelly. deceived virgin, torn
from the arms of afflicted parents by • scamp
of • Frenchman. lam oo intimate terms with K.
FOiseau d'Estraigues, the chancellor of the French embassy.
I shall apply to him for the certificate you want, because
he is used to such things, and knows that he moat be a
diplomatist when dealing with wily Indians, who makes
merit of deceiving " French canaille. believing not in God;
for in France we do not believe in God se the Romans do.
I hare arrested at Lome assassin of the blackest dye, who,
under the pretest of serving legitimacy in Naples, bad cm.
mated time most atrocious crimes, keeping in dtuaoce those
whom they had captured until ransomed, and betiding them
home in a mutilated condition. I remember well the names
and crimes of these brigands, every one of whom was
provided with regular passports, and had often been nos.
coaled in convents when not reosomed. I have often ar-
rested to the peat scandal of the clergy others is the
churches is Asgranie delide, in consequence of which the
Roman police connived at their escape. It is well to
know all this when one is about to seek justice in a place
when it m sever practised.

BELOT Di LA DIGAZ.

The case stands adjourned till Tuesday, when
Teresa Cenotti's counsel, a provincial barrister, will
address the court. M. Jules Fevre, who has now
returne t to Paris, promises to go back to Bordeaux
to reply.
In the Correctional Police court of Lyons, on
Monday, a young scapegrace named Bertholey, who
was placed at the bar to take his trial for writing
a threatening letter, suddenly rushed upon one of
the witnesses, knocked him down, and hit and
scratched him in a frightful manner. For this
outrage be was then and there condemned to five
years' imprisonment. For the original offence he
was sentenced to only one year.

AMERICAN MAIL STRAYERS Dr w THIS WERE.—
Tin following steamers an due at Liverpool this weak with
the mails from the United States and Canada :—The Pen-
nies, with dates from Qnsboo to Judy 23, is expected to
mac► Loodondarry in the course of tomorrow (Tuesday).
end the Etna, from Saw York also as the 23rd, will se
doubt arrive either off Caps Class or Quesoatotta ow Wed-
nesday. On Friday nett or early on Saturday the Amtrak-
lonian will probably mat Qateostowa, with dates from
New York to the 27th July.