The Express.
London, England, 1863-10-28 00:00:00

THE EVRES,r, IKEDNESDAW EVENING, OCTOBER 28, 1863.

, to raise other objections ; aad it' is_ probable Ilhat
the coming winter will be occupied by-their discus-
ision. It may be hoped, however, that the Great
I Powers may succeed in arranging this dispute be-
t fore the revival of the question of annexation in
the spring.
But in the meantime a great injury is inflicted
upon Greece. Until the lonian question is settled,
the Greek Government must remain really and
virtually provisional, whatever may be its outward
form. Few of the questions awaiting a settlement
in Greece can obtain it until the Greek and lonian
budgets and legislatures become one ; or at least
luntil it shall be known whether the annexation is
Ito take place or not. Moreover, Prince Wim.tam
has accepted the crown on the distinct understand-
ing, as is set forth in the protocol, of his obtaining
both the lonian Islands and the additional 10,0001.
a year out of their revenue, which the lonians ap-
parently refuse to entertain as mush as our own
claims against them. The course now pursued both
by Austria and the lonians is exposing Greece to
the contingency (which we trust may not arise) of
the young KING withdrawing from a mission which
his family are understood to have never very
cheerfully accepted on his behalf. Indeed, there
is too much reason to fear that the active intrigues
of King OTHO and his friends, which are well
known to have taken place both in the lonian
Islands and at Vienna, may have fomented the
present difficulty; for that party have throughout
counted upon the annexation of the lonians as
being essential to King Gsoltow's accession.

Or Court.

BALMORAL, Ocr. 25.

The Queen, accompanied by Prince and Prin-
cess Louis of Hesse and Princess Helena, drove yesterday
to Loch Bulig, and returned in the evening by the Siouan
Water and Invenrauld.

Princess Louise, attended by Lady Churchill, went out
riding.
The Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia have made
frequent excursions from Abergeldie, including the ascents
of Lac/maim and Benm-Bourd. and a drive by Strathdon.

Oct. 26.

The Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia took leave of
the Queen yesterday, previous to making a short tour in
the Highlands. Their Royal Highnesses leave Abergeldie
this morning for Gordon Castle.
Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse, with the Princess
Victoria, and attended by Baroness Schenck and Major
St'esterweller, left the Castle this morning for Edinburgh,
where their Royal Highnesses will remain until Tuesday
evening, when they leave for Darmstadt.

Mr. Yowler, Chairman of the Committee of Spanish Ame-
rican Bondholders, had an interview with Earl Russell
yesterday.

THE QUEEN'S RETUALV FROM SCOTLAND.

EDINBURGH, TUESDAY NIGHT.

The Queen and the youogdr braucheb 4 the
royal family reached Perth at 6.18, stopped sa hour for
refreshments, sad resumed the joansay to Windsor.

The Prioce and Princess Louis of Hesse arrived at
Douglas's Hotel bars last night from Balmoral. spent to-
day with Priam Alfred and Priam William of Hew at
Holyrood, and left for London by the 10.15 express, rid
Great Northern.

WORST 124TE1.6GiNCE.
THE BRITISH GOVERNMENTieIb THE

HOLSTEIN QUESTION.

To-day (Wednesday) expires the period fixed by
the German Diet for the concession by Denmark of
the demands respecting Schleswig-Holstein. The
Cologne Gozette gives the text of two English de-
spatches communicated to the Diet of Frankfort.
The first, dated as far back as the 29th of May,
1863, and addressed to the ambassadors of England
at Vienna and Berlin, was laid before the Diet on
the 22nd inst. It is as follows :

Sir,—Her Majesty's government has learnt with anxiety
that the Federal Diet of Frankfort intends to take into
consideration a federal execution in Holstein. Without
discussing the ordinance of the King of Denmark of the
30th March, her Majesty's government desires you to sty
bow very desirable it is that the complkatioos and
dangers existing in Europe should not be further
increased. Austria and Prussia refused in 1861 to
negotiate upon the affairs of Holstein without
at the same time regulating those of Schleswig. Hut the
affairs of &Masotti are of au international nature ; they
ought to be discussed with the greatest calm and delibera•
tioo by the great European powers and naaaot be decided
by the Federal Diet of Frankfort.

The ;despatch of Lord Russell to Sir Alexander
Malet, dated the 14th of the present month, and
communicated to the Diet on the 18th, is as
follows :

filir,—Be so good as to represent to the President of the
Federal Diet that her Majesty's government has reason to
believe that the reply which Denmark will make to the
Federal Diet will prove its readinee• to modify the patent
of:the 30th of March in the sense of the federal resolution
of March, 18G0, that is to say, to render it provisional
until an understanding be come to with Germany upon
the definitive position of Holstein. In this way
the states of Holstein will preserve their consti-
tutional privileges as recognised by the royal pa.
tent. But if this is done, Denmark hopes to obtain
the adjournment of the execution. Represent to the Federal
Diet that a federal execution, even supposing it be
rigorously restricted to Holstein, cannot take place without
increasing thedifficttlties already in existence. It is very pro-
bable that the Danish government will reply by reprisals, and
• blockade very prejudicial to German commerce. But such
measures would provoke as much irritation in Germs ey
as the execution would do in Denmark. The mutest
would be examined; demands of indemnity would be,
raised on both sides ; and new difficulties would oppose them-
, selves to • definitive arrangement. If, then, the war were
again spread to Schleswig and to Jutland, there would be
cause to remember that Austria and Pruuia, as weß
as Great Britain and France, are compelled by the
treaty of the year 1862 to respect the integrity
and independence of Denmark. These obligations would
be naturally fulfilled ; but they would give rise to new
complications at Frankfort. Her Majesty's govern-
ment admits completely the pretensions of the confederation
respecting Holstein and Lauenbourg ; but is of opinion ,1
that if the demands of the Diet are confined to the German
duchies, they would receive satisfaction without federal
execution, sod without the dangers resulting from such an
extreme measure.

You are requested to send a copy of this despatch to the
president of the Federal Die,. RUSSELL

We should state that as the above despatches
have been translated from English into French,
and then from French into English, they are not
to be considered literally correct.

(11Z1712101 TILIGIAM&)
POLAND.
PROHIBITION OF MOURNING.
WARSAW, Ocr. 28.

General Berg has issued orders forbidding
mourning to be worn after the 10th of November
next.

Passengers on foot violating the ordinance are
to be fined 10 roubles ; the proprietors of private
carriages with mourning emblems, 100 roubles ;
persons in hired vehicles, 15 roubles ; officials
transgressing are to forfeit one month's pay.
Mourning for the dead is permitted.
BRESLAU, Ocr. 27, Eclogue.
The Breslancr Zeitutig of this evening publishes
the following from its Warsaw correspondent :
"General Trepow, the chief of the police, has
paid a visit to the Consul-General of Saxony, Herr
Lesser, and has explained that the steps taken with
respect to him were the result of a misunderstand-
ing. The seals placed upon the Saxon Chancellery
have been removed.

" Railway communication between Warsaw and
Vienna is interrupted, the insurgents having
destroyed the bridge at Skieruiewice."

SPAIN.

MADRID, Ocr. 2s.

The Queen of Spain, on quitting the impress of
the French, presented her Majeity with a bracelet
bearing the word " Recuerdun (keepsake) in dia-
monds and rubies.

WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.)

WIDMIDAT, ones= 28. s A.ll.

I &
M60411L1 Lk W. 7. &I Q. & &I s.
.-- 1
Naill . ...... M4l 1 W.N.W. 121 r 0.46 .-- 1 1
Ab0r446...... 2242 411 1 W.S.W. 1 • r ON
Leith 14.47.41! 1 W. ,24 r
31delds 110.&a. li R.N.W. 126 to 0.20
scarcoroath 14.141 441 1 8.8. W. I 120 et
0 reeametle ,20.68 44i 2 N.W. tO o 0.60
Galway 20.7244 1 W.B.w. 18 14 0.60
Videntia ;04.7e 421 2 N.H.& 24 o 0.62
Queenstown 20.60 46, 1 H.W. lld o 0.42
Liverpool
Holyhead 120.66 601 1 W. 1; 6 0 1.20
Pembroke 120.6660, 1 W.N.W. .14 C
Peessoco ,27.72 el 1 1 N.W. 20 C 0.16
Brett 3O. .11 Ed 1 W.N.W. I ;12 t
L'Olieet Man 461 0 LILL ,16 0
Yoohefort 3 ..76 12 1 0 0.2 L I -
14
cr 0.04
Plyrooeth .. .11101 61; 1 W.
Weymouth 120.66 64! a LW. 2. 1 • a
Portsmouth 13.74 63 6 W.S.W. 3 1 4 at
Loudon
Dora 4.72 60 2 A.W. 2 112 m
Yarmooth 11.70 41 1 W.& W. 1 1 1—
kielloolaod 10.31 43 0 0.4 6 12 I

PIONMILS
1111111 DAY. ON TRU rittlAT.
B.R.W. to N.N.W.. liosrii•tisgr. S.W. to N. W. and N.L,
troth to strong, some strong, unsettled.
rein.

As atx.;re. wise CoBaTS. W. to N. and bark to
8. W., cBaler•t.: t
*trona, citmuy,
showers.
B.E. to B.W. and N.W., NOINHCOLgra. S. s. W. r • N. N.W..
'nab to strong, strong, um ttled.
showers.

.h.E.t-OiW.N.W., 1100113-FAST„ S.W. to N., fresh to
deoste to steam rain grow& some run.
in places.

Noitit-/inat=oLithneas to Lincoln. West=Donegal to Corn-
floath=Channel and Hmay coasts. South-East=t3trait of
Dow to Lincoinsidre and Ilellgoland.

B.—ltszometer corrected and to marl to Ittv at half tide level.
Each ten feet. of vertical elevation, a attaillit emote one hundredth
of an loch Ingnierion . and each ten degrees, above 32=. tans-
tag nearly three hundredths INCAV-1111 K—lzposed therm..
meter in Made. I/.—lSlTerence of wet bulb (foe rragoratio.., and
de* polot;. W.—Wind, direction of Mang—two points ten of
magnetic). T.—Yovee (1 to IS—estimated(. X. —.Ea 'rem° tom,
VOW Wingert. Q.—Quarter whence airman force (NNE,--v,
to St=ll). 1.-Initials: b.—blue sky; n—clouds (detached .1
t.—fog —hall:h. I—lightning m.—misty buy ; 0. —overcoat
ideli r.—rain; a.—mow ; g—thoudar. knialmfmoome or
boil "aloes last report. B.—gsa dlstaehatice (1 to Su

It is announced in the Paris papers that the
brothara Godard are about to wake a balloon to contain
14,000 cubic matron of gas, whores, N. Nadar'a "Giant"
oaly eontained 6.000.

Large quantities of seed corn are now being ex-
ported to Frame from Soutboin peon for the purpose of im-
proving the quality of Preach grain. It is curious that
French corn, if sown in England, will DOt improve the
quality of English grain. Cereals when grown in a cold
climate do not deteriorate when transplanted to a milder
one the same as t►ey do when the opposite practice is
adopted. The same rale is also observed with respect to
potatoes. This root may be trauspluted with advantage
from Scotland to the South of England, hut not rice area.
An association of religious reformers is at this
moment holding sittings at Frankfort, under tie presi-
dency of the former cure, Rouge. The assembly, which
is very numerous, has pronounced against cascortlas.
against the power of the bishops over the lower clergy, sod
is favour of the marriage of priests.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

GOVERNMENT DEPUTIES IN DANGER
' OF LOSING THEIR SEATS.
(FROM 001 OWN 00111N1PONDINT.)
PARIS, TUESDAY EVNIMIO.

Several government deputies are seriously uneasy
at the prospect of being unseated in consequence of
a legislative incapacity which has been overlooked.
By a law of 1849 all government contractors,
government tradesmen, and all railway directors
are prohibited from sitting in the legislature.
Legal writers have demonstrated in public journals
by arguments which seem unanswerable, and, in
point of fact, have not been answered, that the act
in question has never been repealed by the empire.
All that the Pays can nay against these arguments
is that since two parliaments have passed without
any objection of the sort being raised, there is a
strong presumption that there can be nothing in it ;
but this reasoning is quite worthless when we
remember that it is only within the last
two or three years that Frenchmen have
begun to consider whether it was worth
their while to claim any rights at all under the
imperial constitution. In the early days of the
empire the word " legality" was altogether tabooed,
and the wildest republican would have thought it
lost time to study the meaning of articles of the
constitution. In those days Emile de Girardin's
compendious version of the constitution, " The
Emperor can do as he likes," was practically
accepted without contro►ersy. The opposition, no
doubt, sought as far as it could to discredit the
empire, but never dreamt of trying bond
fide to live on good terms with it, by
means of mutual conoeuions. Those times
have now changed. The new elections have
scut to parliament a set of men, considerable even
in point of numbers, but more considerable still by
their individual talents, and by the opinions they
represent, who are determined to try, without the
sacrifice of any principle, bow far it is possible
on the constitutional ground of the empire to do
battle for more liberty. Respect for the law is the
very first thing that they will unanimously insist
upon. Much difference of opinion exists as to the
policy of the law of 1849 on parliamentary "incom-
patibilities." It is said, with much reason, that
if all public functionaries, and all the eminent
commercial men whose talents and wealth ream-
mend them to be the leaders of such great enter-
prises as railways, are to be excluded from parlia-
ment, there is great risk that, in seeking a most
fallible test of honesty, capacity will go to the wall.
The opinion of the bulk of the liberal party
is, no doubt, that the electors, with free-
dom of election, are sovereign judges of the
II trustworthiness of their representative, and
that provided an appeal is made to them, as in
England (and as in France in the time of Louis
Philippe) when a member of parliament accepts
office, there ought to be no such thing as incom-
patibility. That system has this double advantage,
that it forces the government to choose its servants
among men who stand high in popular scheme
and that every re-election of such men adds to the
strength of the government. The two principles of
liberty and authority are thus fortified. But
whatever may be thought of the merits of
the existing law, the great thing now is to see it
honestly executed. If it appears beyond question
that the contractors and railway directors in
question are disqualified, it will be shameful
and scandalous if M. Chair d'Estange, who,
it is understood, has the government brief for the
"verification of powers," should make an Old
Bailey speech to a complacent and interested
majority on behalf of an indefeasible abuse.
I mentioned that the other day the illegal creation
of fifty-two councillors of state, whereas the coustitu-
[ tion only allows fifty, had beau slurred over by the
translation of two councillors to the Senate. But
the question whether the Emperor has power to
create three vice-presidents of the Council of State,
whereas the constitution only authorises one, still re-
mains unsolved and unnoticed. It is suggested
that unless the Senate should settle the question
in the meantime, it cannot fail to be raised by the
court of accounts when the salaries of the new vice-
presidents come to be audited.
These questions may seem to some trivial at a
time when the opening or shutting of the Temple
of Janus occupies all minds ; but it seems to me
of the highest importance with reference to the
future of France that the imperial government, in
spite of all its power—in spite of its overwhelming
majorities—in spite of the unscrupulous conduct of
its prefects and their long impunity, should at
length be brought to bay, and compelled to parley
with the advocates of law and right.

Various estimates are made as to the number of
government deputies who will be sent adrift should
the above objection be maintained. Some say fif-
teen or twenty, while others speak of so high a
figure as forty. I incline to the lower number,
because it is only in case of very flagrant awl noto-
rious proof that the law, which I admit to be
odious in its nature, could be enforced. M. Pereire
as a great railway director would certainly be one
of the victims. It is a curious fact that the late
lamented M. Billault was the reporter of the law
which his successor is now likely to find very em-
barrassing ; and he recommended it most energeti-
cally on high moral grounds. One of the strongest
arguments of those who insist that the law is yet
unrepealed is that a state paper on which a part
of the imperial constitution was founded expressly
proposed not to diminish but to extend the lists of
"incompatibilities," and thereby adopted and even
improved upon the strict views of M. Billault,
The Bourse, after rising in the morning, was
much depressed at the oloae, and the Rents left oft'
with a fall of 10c. and 15e. at 67fr. 10c. both for
cash and account. Mobilier fell 12fr. 50c. Rail-
ways continue to undergo very trifling fluctuations.

THE Rim Me. Itzscauta IN LIVERPOOL. —Mr.
Beecher is at present staying in Liverpool, and on ELiturtlay
morning next be will be entertained at a public breakfast in
St. James's-ball, in that tows. After breakfast.the rev.
gentleman will at once go on board the Cunard steamer
Asia, en route homeagain to America.
I CITY COURT 0? SEWERS. —The Commissioners
of Sewers met yesterday at Guildhall. Mr. Deputy De
Jersey presiding. Dr. Letbeby reported on the state of
394 houses that bad been inspected during the week, and he
submittal a list of 52 places:or sanitary improvements, end
produced certificates for the use of four houses in Ballalley,
' Golden-lace, as common nightly lodging-homes, it being
neoeseary that they should be registered as such. The
merkets•od slaughter-houses had been inspected during the
week, and the officers bed seized 3,Cd7lbe. of mat as unfit
for human food. The greeter part of it was in •
diseased state, and in one case in which • bullock had
bees sent from Boot Wartos, the meat was so bad
that the medics! officer was of opinion that the circum-
stances required investigation by the solicitor, with n view
to further proceedings being taker'. Dr. Letbeby also re-
ported oci the illuminating power of the gas that had been
supplied to the City during the week by the three cont.
pentes, and it appeared that that supplied by the City
Company was equal to 15.99 sperm candles of standard
goshly ; the Chartered, 12.33 ; the Great Central, 13.39.
The amuse& of sulphur in the gas supplied by the City
Company was 19.4 ; in the Chartered, 23.1 ; and in the
Great Central, 22.2. The average illuminating power of
the am had therefore been in each cam above that required
by the act of parliament ; bet the proportioos of sulphur
had, except is the ease of the City Ompany, *reloaded be
quantity allowed by the mt.
Funnuri-orrn,A OCYOII6R 24.—The Queen has
been pleased to approve of Mr. Edmond Pictet as Vim-Con-
sul at Liverpool for the Swiss Confederation.—aaretie.

i

4 BALL AT MADRID.

A letter from Madrid of the 22nd gives the
following account of the grand ball at the palace, in honour
of the Empress of the French:
"The Queen and the Empress entered the ball-room at
20 minutes before 11, and were followed by the King• Con.
sort, the Princess Anna Murat, the Infante' Don Fran-
cisco and Doe Sebastian, the Infanta Christina, the
whole diplomatic body, including the Papal Nuncio
and his first secretary, Baron Cavalchini, the charge
d'Affaires of Italy, arid the Count de Han Martino,
who represents the ex-King of Naples. Queen Isabella was
drooled in white. Her robe was oovered with the richest
lace; her crown of large diamonds and her necklace of
stones jest as large were most dazzling. The Empress, who
was also In white, wore • crown of diamonds mixed with
ruble" and emeralds, and a necklace of eight rows of pearls.
Their Majesties wore the Grand Cordon of the Order of
Maria Louie*. The Princess Murat had on a white
dress covered with small leaves in embroidery. • rich
pearl necklace sod a head dress composed of •
comb ornamented with diamonds and some ears of
corn. It would occupy too much space to describe the
splendid toilettes displayed on this occasion. I must, bow.
seer, be allowed to say that the Duchess de Medina-Celi,
bee stater the Marquise de Villamica, Ildme. °nation, wife
of the director of the General Credit Company, the Du-
cheese de la Torre. the daughters of General Roe de Olano
and of the Marquis de Miraftores, shone pyre-eminent
by the elegance of their toilettes. The inw
the Grand Cordoe of the Legion of Honour. sod the
French ambassador the Grand Cross of Charles IL Queen
Izabella did not dance, in consequence of her interesting
position ; and the Empress; only twice. Princess Murat was
ois.d-ow in the fir.t with Don Sehestien, and in the second
with the King. At midnight their Majesties withdrew to
the grand gillery, where a splendid supper served, and
successively and without the slightest confusion, the whole
of the company invited (1,500 in number), took their sesta at
table. After supper the Queen and the Empress walked
through the salons, and conversed with a number of persons.
At half.past 2 their Majesties retired, but the great ma-
jority of the company numbed at the palace for nearly two
hours after."

HOSPITAL FOR CONSUMPTION AND DISEASES
OF THE CHEST, BROMPTOIY.

Oa Sunday last, being the day appointed at St.
Paul's, South Keasingtoo, as a day of thanksgiving for the
late abundant harvest. sermons appropriate to the occasion
were preached by the Rev. Capel Ramey:, the incumbent.
It having been previously anneouoced that the thank-offer-
ings of the congregation would be applied io aid of the
funds of the Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the
Chest, Brampton, situated in the same pariah, the preacher,
at the close of his eloquent and impressive discourses, com-
mended the charity, briefly buta;very earnestly, to the
sympathy and support of his heart's as one eminently
worthy of their aid upon every ground. He referred to
the vast amount of good—both temporal aed spiritual—
effected by its means, and dwelt upon the great value
of this hospital to the poorer classes, amongst
whom it appeared, from public statistics as well as
from his own personal experisoce, that consumption was
the most prevalent and deadly disease. The er thee
stated that with the exception of about . a year, the
institution was wholly depsodeat upon voluntary contri-
butions; that its expenses exceeded 9,0001. a year, but
that its annual subscriptions were less than half that
amount. He therefore earnestly appealed to the liberality
of his coagregation, and urged all who could do so to become
annual subscribers. The collections after the sermons
amounted to the bandeaus sum of 2091. Bs. 11d., and in-
cluded several new subscriptions.
Collections in churches, wholly or in part in amnesiac
with the thanksgiving for the recent bountiful harvest,
have already been devoted to the assistance of the above
oast ul charity during the present month, as follows :—At
John's, Ricbmood, IN. Via, by the Rev. J. D. Hales ; St.
John's, Blackheath, 38/. 194., by the Rev. R. G. Lewis ;
the pariah church, Isleworth, 131., by the Rev. H. W. P.
Richards, the vicar ; St. John's, lakworth, 141.16 a, by the
Rev. John Yorker; St. Matthew's. Danmark-hill, 121. 125.,
by the Rev. Stephen Bndge ; Park Chapel, mama, 12/.
12a., by the Rev. C. J. Goodhart; and at St. Paul's, South
Kensington, 209/. Ba. 11d., by the Rev. Molyneux.
The Bishop of London having a:premed his intention of
preaching to the patients of the hospital, of which his lord-
ship is a vioe.president, did so in the beautiful little chapel
of the institution, on Sunday last, selecting for his text,
2 Cor. ail. chapter, 10th verse, "When I am weak, then am
I strong." These were several visitors present, whose
offeriogs, amounting to 7f. Os. Oil., were given to the " Rose
Fund,' which is intended for the relief of the more destitute
of the patient+.