The Express.
London, England, 1864-01-29 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS. THURSDAY EVIMING.

The Pays professes to have some " private,
precise, and very recent" information about the
dispositions of the " English people ;" and to judge
by the tone of the Pays, which is precisely that
of the Constitutionnel, for some days past, one
might almost fancy that a notion is entertained
here of making a French appel au peuple in England
against the government of that country. Here is
the text of the very important and private informa-
tion which the Pays solemnly says will "entirely
enlighten the French public as to the state of men's
minds on the English side of the Channel:"

The English people highly disapproves, as we stated yes-
terday, the vague and illogical policy of Load RuselL The
English people, whale good sense and right reason sere well
known, is fully persuaded that an understanding with
France is the sweet means of preserving Europe from war—
were it merely a local one. Finally, the English people,
notwithstanding the rapidity with which events seem to
march, m►intains a confident belief that this understanding
will be established.

There is just one little circumstance which leads
me to doubt whether the Pays' London correspon-
dent can be such a very well-informed person as he
is represented to be. In yesterday's number of that
journal the same correspondent quoted, as events
of sensational importance, the matter-of-course
parliamentary circulars issued by Lord Palmer-
ston and Mr. Disraeli to their respective friends,
asking them to be in their places on the first day
of the session.

There was a great row at the end of the Mexican
debate in consequence of the majority refusing to
great the old parliamentary privilege of the oppo-
sition to have the last word against a minister.
M. Thiers cried out vehemently, " You are deter-
mined to hide the truth."

The Bourse was depressed. A rumour of Lord
Russell's resignation was circulated. Rente fell
23c. and 15c.

The Daily News is seiud.

At the select ball given by the Empress Engdnie
in her private apartments at the Tuileries at the beginning
of the week, her Majesty wore a white dress shot with
gold, and with gold fringe at the bottom of the skirt and
at the upper part of the comae. A belt of gold encircled
her waist. Her head-dress was in green velvet, orna-
mented with diamonds and emeralds, and the neck-
lace formed of several rows of pearls with drops
of emeralds. The Princeton Clothilde wore a blue
dress, trimmed with line and looped up with
bows of crimson velvet. The Princes Mathilde was in
white and black ; the Countess Walewaka in lilac and
white ; the Dachas' de Matey, in pink ; and the Countess
de Pourtal.s, in blue, with a veil of blue gauze forming a
turban, and fastened on the front of the head by an orna-
ment of precious stones. Mdme. Fleury was in white,
black, and gold, and wore a headdress of an original kind.
♦ plate of dead gold came forward from the comb and
advanced so far so the forehead.

Golignani of yesterday says :—" As the Empress
was, the afternoon before last, returning to the Tuileries in
carriage draws by four horses, one of the leaders fell on the
Piers de la Concorde, and broke its knees. Ths postilion
who was riding it was thrown and hurt his leg. The horse
and its companion were unharnessed, and the carriage dross
on with the other two."

On Tuesday night Mario made hie first appear-
ance this reason at the Ramis, Teri', in /1 Bartiere, with
Patti for Roam Della Sadie as Figaro, and a &llama
(Scalsee) as Doe Rotolo. It was the most complete per.
forename of the 'seam ; and the public, anticipatiog that it
would be so, thronged the house so that, when the curtain
drew up, there was scarcely a box, except the imperial one,
or a seat, vacant. Mario received a great ovation when he
appeared, and the first notes of " Ecco ridente ii cislo "
proved that be was in very tine voice.
At one of the theatres of St. Petersburg a piece
is now being played, entitled "A Profitable Flare," by M.
Gitrowski, the popular Russian dramatic author of the day.
The comedy shows up the abuses and collusions in practice
in the government offices in Russia ; it is rapid in action and
witty in language, and doet not conceal the truth. The
attack is directed against the old Hessian party, against
which the government allows a war to be carried ou by the
press and by retiree, of which the Russians are passionately
fond, and which the censorship allows to he brought epee
the stage as if before the bar of a tribunaL
Ou the 19th the Pope gave audience to Captain
Grant, the discoverer of the sources of the Nile, and ap-
peared to be much interested in the maps submitted to him
by that intrepid explorer and by his amounts of those
tropical regions. His Holiness recalled his own experience
of a tropical climate in his jouruity to Chili, and inquired
what route would be most practical for penetrating to the
interior of Afrka, no doubt with a view to future missions,
the last sent in that direction having been obliged to return
after getting or far as the fourth degree of latitude. Mr.
Chomeley, who speaks Italian as firm* as a Roma% ac-
companied Captain Grant, and acted as interpreter between
him and the Pope. His Holiness was pleased to express his
ectisfaction at the captain's visit, and requested him to
accept a medal as a souvenir of it.

Mr. BaiNis Cochrane M.P. (whose admiration
of King Bonita will be remembered), has been allowed to
visit the principal prisms of Rome in company with Mr.
Wreford, who recently went to Rome from Naples. These
two gestlemea, with Monsignors Talbot, went over the
Caroori Know* (criminal prisons with • separate political
ward), the Termini, or female prisons, and the San Michele,
or political prisons, in which they saw 101 political offenders
undergoing their sentence, amongst whom they saw and
conversed with the celebrated Chevalier Fausti, and heard
from him the oft-repeated assertion of his lanoosses.

of PDu.

PROSAISM
OS SOMIIIIIN

.11111 DAT.

JCL, A. Y.& M N.M. and
fresh to modemste, nielseate, gene-
fine. rally Inc
&E. to 8. W. and NIIIMIRS. N.W. N.E. and back
N.W. moderate to to S. W.. moderate,
fresh,, some rain to generally One.
places.
N. W. to N.E. and SA., Woman. N.B. to S.E. and 3. W.,
moe
oderate to fresh, moderate, One.
W. to N. and E., sums. L to S. and S.W.,
fresh, One. fresh to moderate,
One.
NI

Wokn. Ireland, Wake, and ad-
jacoadea aaataarn=lastlak Clamed and Biscay Bay. fasters
.laatward logiend and ieltgaiaad.

B.—Barometer corrected and reduced to 32° at half tide level.
Each tee feet, of vertical elevation, causing shoot one hundredth
of an loch DIIIOII7IIIOW ; and each ten degrees, above &V, cata-
log nearly three hundredths mama H—Exposed thermo-
meter In shade. D.--Diffarepos of wet bob fort evaporatioe and
dew point). W.—Wlnd. direction of (race—two Ppaaionlo LINT of
magnetle). 7.—lrona (1 to 12—antmated). L—Ycteeme form
since last report. Q.—Quarter whence =WM force (NtflE=2,
to I4°=lC). : h.—blne sky: c.—cioads (detached) :
I.—fog; h.—hail; L—llgittolog m.—edaty (hazy) ; e.—overcast
(dull, • r. —eel n a. —mow ; S. —thunder. K = ltalo-fal/, snow sr
hail Melted), since last report. B.—Sea distort/mace (1 to 9).
L—Calm.

The cause of the unhappy Poles was very warmly
advocated in the Town Hall of Manchester, last night.
Lord Campbell, Mr. Beaks, and Mr. Zaba represented the
metropolitan Polish sympathisers, and many local gentler
men of Musses supported them on the platform. The
audience was also a good one, and very enthusiastic. The re.
solusioas were in favour of recognising the Pals as
belligerents, of giving the imamate the moral support of
the nation, and of siding them materially so far es was
consistent with the laws of the country. The meeting
heartily endorsed these propositions, and the speakers went
rather beyond them.

The next number of the cornhill Magazine will
contain the first part of a new story by the late W. M.
Thatkeray ; aLo a portrait of Mr. Thackeray, wowed Oa
Meek from a (booby by 81220.1 Laureate.

On the new iron frigate Bellerophon being com-
menced at Chatham it was decided by the Chief Constructor
of the Navy to introduce steel stringer plate', and steel in
other farms in various parts of that vessel. From the
superiority of steel oven iron as a material for ships of war,
that. is little doubt that it will form a principal material
in all our camels hereafter to be constructed.

A letter from Rome of the 20th save :—"Last
night the Eoglish bachelors gave a splendid bell in the
magnificent oakum d the Brraohi Palace, which were
crowded on the ocomicia by the elite of the Roman no-
bility, the corps diphimatione, and the British, Ameri-
cas, and coatinental visitors to the Eternal City. The 41
subscribers were distinguished by their scarlet mattes,
whilst blue was the colour adopted by the members of the
committee—Viscount Pollington, Sir Charles Stewart,
Bark, Sir Robert Canliffri, Bart., and Mr. Moore Esmeade
—by whom the most judicious arrangement^ had been nude
to ensure a perfect moors. The heirloom jewel of the
Borghese, Dories, Massimo, Hoenighos, Pallaviciso, Riguano,
sod other princely houses, sparkled on the necks and heads
of their respective wearers as they occasionally met in aris-
tocratic coteries, and soft Italian accents or vivacious French

exclamations were ever and anon audible amidst the crash
of the °reheats& sod the orerwhelmisg Anglo-Saxon ver-
nacular. A capital sapper waa supplied by the Brothers
Spillman, and dancing was kept up with great spirit until
4 o'clock a.m."

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The Dibats states that MM. Legronri, Labon-
lays, F. de Lositeyrie, H. Martin, F. de Osreil, and Habit-
Mare Girardio, have obtained the authorisation from the
Miniater of the Interior to open a swim of lectures on lite-
rary subjects hi aid of the wounded Poles.
Levassor, the French comedian, is at present
acting in various cities in Italy, where his entertainment
enjoys considerable mama.
An opera on the story of the " Orco," by Mdme.
Diadevant, with music by M. &cameo, him been produced
M Brussels. The music is said to be better than the bosh.
ELECTRICAL SCIENCE AT OSBORNL—Her Majesty
the Queen has honoured Professor Tyadall with an invita-
tion to Osborne, in order that the professor may deliver
two lectures on electricity, for the instruction of the younger
members of the royal family. The lecture for this evening,
the 29th inst., will be upon Static Electricity and the Phe-
nomena of the Leyden Battery ; and that for the following
day on Dynamic Electricity and the effects due to the
voltaic current. We have reason to believe that the late
Prince Consort, whose claims to scientific reputation are
generally underrated rather than the contrary, was par-
ticularly interested in electrical science ; and we are glad
to perceive that her Majesty has thus given to her family
the opportunity of acquiring the Mat principles of this
Important branch of natural philosophy.—The Electrician.
THE ROYAL BENEVOLENT INNTITCTION TOR AGED
FREEMASONS AND TIME WIDOWS.—The annivenity fes-
tival in aid ed the feuds of this institution, which was esta-
blished by the Grand Lodge of Freemasons in England in
1842, and still further extended in 1849, was held on Wed-
nesday eveoing at Freemasons'-bell, under the presidency
of his Grace the Duke of St. Alban's, provincial grand
master for Lincolnshire, who was supported by nearly
200 of the members of the craft. The object of the
charity is to afford a resideoce, together with an annuity,
to aged and distressed mason sod their widows. In
the asylum at Croydon, it eppeare from the last published
report that the number of males so provided for are 71. at
an annual expense of 1,5861. Of that number 18 belonged
to London lodges, and 53 to provincial lodges. There are
41 widows similarly provided for, at an annual cost of
8651,D) of whom are she widow, of London masons, and
the remainder from the provinces. There are, besides,
five widows receiving half the amount of their deceased
husbands' annuities, the amount of which is 57/. 10s,
After the removal of the cloth, the noble chairman and
brother proposed the customary loyal and masonic toasts.
He next made an earnest appeal on behalf of the charity.
which was responded to by the secretary announcing the
list of subscriptions to be over 2,4001.
ANOTHER HuirTtwo Dv:T.—Following dose
upon the fatality with Mr. Johnstone's bounds comes
another serious accident with the Hoidens's& During
the run ce Tuesday the hone rode by Mr. W. Golkon, of
Wham= Percy Howe, became unmanageable, and fairly
res away in the Madmen pastures. One of Sir Tattoo
Sykee's men, seeing the impetuous career of horse sod rider,
threw open • gate, but in passing the horse raa against the
"fall-post," throwing Mr. Gorton on the road and rolling
over him. Mr. Gorton was at once attended to by gentle.
men of the hunt and conveyed to Fimber station, and,
a train just oomiog up, themes to near his own house ; medi-
cal aid being telegraphed for from Melton. Mr. °altos is
most seriously injured, but was reported favourably of en
Wednesday night, when the eurgeons were of opinion that
no
boom were broken.
Tlis TIN-PLATE TRADE.—A meeting of the tin-
t:ands was held at the King's Heed, failiesiesster, ea
y. The =MAW was the most aninsevesly
tended one seer remembered, there being no less than
about thirty works represented. Mr. Waffe. of the
Machin Works, was unanimously called open to preside,
and after • great deal of interesting discumios, it wee deter-
mined to advance the prices an average of per bar.
The present peeitios and future papas of the trade
were dwelt upon at considerable length, and a decidedly
hopefel feeling prevailed. From the staleaste ads by
the several mesas it appears that decks are fysitiag na-
sally low hi the Northern States, sad there is cagy proo-
fed el larger eaters from that =miry drag the gusset
year. The States formerly took aka 5.000 lees yea*,
but is eamaince of the war the demised bee fella al to
boa 1,000 toss yearly. The advance determined epos at the
meeting had hese anticipated to a great extent. The nem.
hers et the trade alter the meeting dined tegether.