The Express.
London, England, 1862-01-13 00:00:00

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THE PRIVATEER SUMTER.

MADRID. JJ. It
The report that General &maw has been
toasted a duke is unfounded.

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The American Consul has protected against the
admission of the Sumter into the amend at Cadiz
to repair damages.

THE WEST INDIA KAM
901:1THAULPTON. MONDAY.

The Royal Mail Compaq's steamship Seine,
with the West India and Pacific mails, arrived of
the Needles at 12.10 p.m.

17DDEN DEPARTURE OF THE TUSCA
FROM SOUTHAMPTON.

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• Imam; Two Welber.

C14.11.1172.WANJ0.
The Federal steamer Tuscarora aehlaalli sit
her cable at four o'clock this smelling, add •
Southampton water. She was discovered after-
wards at anchor about a mile outside.'
Oalshot Omtle in this position. She is below
the Dauntless frigate, and commands the west
channel and Spithead, ready for a start, either
to the westward or eastward of the Isle of Wight.
News has reached Southampton that a suspieione.
looking ship has been seen off Belem Cast* near
Lisbon.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, SONDA.T Evamto.
The Emperor has made a coup d'itot against free-
masonry. He has abolished the right and universal
pastime id. the craft to elect its own grand master,
ant ilea ibtiust upon it in that capacity, for a period
ssiita ' . three years, Marshal Magnan, the soldier who,
will be remembered, officiated in chief at the
1 'cal and bloody coup &Etat of 1861. The
°pineal/anomie, which, oonsidering its relations
with Prince Napoleon, ought to be well informed
on such • subject, says that Marshal Magna is a
freemason of only one week's standing, and has
ben berried through all the degrees of the order
iip to the very highest in that short space of time.
Innilon this as a circumstance which ought to be
known, but I regard it as of no account
*never in comparison with the grievous
tyranny involved in the appointment of a
grand medic by imperial authority. I hap-
pen 6o to a freemason of considerable experience
oproill, tool therefore cannot help having an ex co-
*km aphion on the subject. But I an not,
Oberdink a very prejudiced witness, benne I am
tif no mss an enthusiastic member of the !rater-
idty. Indeed lam not sorry for an opportunity of
ventilating one humble opinion, which I think it
useful to make public, that masonry in the present
day is not an institution of that vast utility and
merit which manyof its adapts lash Univalves into
believing by long practice in mutual admiration.
At the same time my luirewarmuess about masonry
does not blind me to the rights of the more devoted
brethren. I know no harm of it (except that it
sometimes leads to extravagance and imprudent
conviviality), and it is, beyond doubt, often the
channel of much good. With these chas-
tened feelings on the subject of the
craft generally, I denounce the appointment of
a grand master of the freemasons of France by
the Emperor as an set of highly vexatious, most
uncalled for, and paltry tyranny, which will
gratuitously interfere with the innocent habits of
many thousands of worthy citizens. I look upon it
as tantamount to the dissolution of the eider. I
lately heard that many freemasons were leaving
the lodges, and I am quite sure that the resigna-
tions will now be on a tremendous scale. Happily
railways and steamboats render travel easy, and I
have no doubt that numbers of the most distin-
guished French freemasons will become members
of foreign lodges. There will be a masonic
"emigration," which will make the government
repent greatly of this most Pi-advised measure.
Marshal Magnan will preside over government
people only in the gmat majority of oases.