The Express.
London, England, 1864-07-11 00:00:00

SPAIN.

MADRID, JCLT 8.
The king will go this year to France, to pay a
visit to the Empress of the French. The Queen
will go to the sea baths.

MADRID, Jun' 9, EVENING.
The Official Gazette of to-day publishes the con-
vention between France and Spain for the Interna-
tional Railway Service between the north of Spain
and the south of France.
The apprehensions of disturbances at Madrid
which would justify the adoption of precautionary
inessares are now believed to be unfounded.

Mg CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN

The following telegram has been received at Mr.
Beater's office from the Peninsular and Oriental
Steam Navigation Company :

MALTA, JCL! 9.
The Poonah will leave at 8 p.m. for Southamp-
taw, and the &mine at 10 p.m. for Marseilles.

FRANCE.

trim ova own

PARIS. SATITIDAY Evssnra.

The Courrier du Dinauche gives the substance of
M. Drouvn de Limy.' circular of the 28th ultimo
on the Dauo-Oerman question. After reviewing
rapidly the different phases of the negotiations
inaugurated by the English cabinet, he states
" That after their successive failure the French
representative proposed to take the votes of the
parishes to determine the line of demarcation."
The circular then remarks on the uneasiness which
the renewal of hostilities is calculated to pro-
duce, both as respects the interests of the
saaritime powers of the North and the
European equilibrium." France is desirous of
preserving the attitude of perfect impartiality which
she has maintained up to the present time, and she
would regard with regret any complication which
liaight force her to take up a different line of con-
duct "

This morning's Moniteur publishes the decree
which gives force of law to the convention oon-
eluded with the Italian government for the service
of the telegraph between the two countries. The
despatch of 20 words will in future goat 4 frame.
These is in the same paper a circular from they
Minister of Public Instruction. In bis brief
tenure of office, M. Duruy has already signalised
himself by various measures tending to improve
the position of the most hard working and worst
paid class of public functionaries, the schoolmasters
and schoolmistresses. Much still remains to be
dine, but he has made a first instalment. He has
just taken a fresh step in the same direction in
favour of the inspectors of primary schools, whose
=larks range from 641. to 961. a year. Those of
the third class are now to be the same as the pre-
sent scale for the second, that is 801. ; and he pro-
mises, as soon as the funds at his disposal permit,
to make equivalent additions to the two other
clasres.

The empire has a wise care for the position of
its defenders. A fresh instance of this solicitude
may be found in the Moniteur de I'd rya*, which
announces that the Minister of the Interior has
platted at the disposition of the War Minister a
certain number of places as managers of telegraphic
offices, to be given to retired officers. In addition
to free lodging they will receive about 241. a year,
a welcome addition to half-pay, and, so far as the
public is concerned, a good measure, as it secures •
superior class of servants, whose station and in-
telligence are calculated to improve the efficiency of
these establishments.

____
The Kearsarge is shortly expected at Havre. A
commission, presided over by Rear. Admiral Didelot,
has been named to examine the questions raised by
the combat with the Alabama. It has visited the
Sacramento, a ship of the same build and armament,
which is now at Cherbourg.
There was a rise of 15 cents on the Bonne to-
day, bet there were few transactions. The minis-
terial victory in England was foreseen, and had no
effect on the market.

The Mustifeer, on the strength of letters from
Madagascar, dated April 13, announces that King
Rada= is decidedly dead.