The Express.
London, England, 1863-08-15 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS. FRIDAY EVIAING.

The Florida, just arrived at St. Nazaire, has
brought news from Vera Cruz to July 17—a week
later than the original advisee of the Archduke
Maximilian's election. It appears that after Mar-
shal Forey's couple of hundred "Notables" had
spoken in the name of the Mexican nation, some
kind of an electoral farce to sanction their decision
was gone through in the city of Mexico. The bare
statement now before us is that, by a popular vote
—it does not appear how constituted and taken,
and, sooth to say, it matters very little-10,241
voices against 250 declared that all that the
Notables had done was rightly done. It
is admitted that the French troops have
still plenty of work cut out for them in
this country which is represented as unani-
mously desirous of having the archduke
for an Emperor, or, if not, anybody else that the
Emperor Napoleon may be good enough to send to
reign over them. An expedition has been organ-
ised against Minatitlan to prevent the introduction
of contraband of war at that point. The French
troops engaged on this service are facetiously styled
"counter-guerillas." The city of Tampico, which
it will be remembered was formerly taken by the
French and then abandoned, is now in the posses-
sion of a Mexican general named Gazza, who is
fortifying it, and the French are going to besiege
him. Juarez, who it was pretended had fled
the country, is still at San Luis Potosi,
bat the writers of the despatches concocted for
circulation in France hope that he will go away
"before very long." General Ortega, the defender
of Puebla, is in command of the state of Zacatecas,
and it is complained that "he is very severe
towards foreigners." General Doblado, who com-
mands the state of Guanajato, is said to have
offered to recognise the French intervention on
condition that no French troop's should occupy his
district ; but Marshal Forey refused this condi-
tion, and therefore it stands admitted that Dob-
lado is still in a state of hostility. As a matter
of course it is alleged that the health
of the occupying force is excellent ; but,
there being "some cases" of yellow fever at
Vera Crux the 143 passengers on board the Florida
are kept in strict quarantine at St. Nazaire. An
English brig, baring 10,000 muskets on board and
other munitions of war, has been seized by a French
vessel in the Matamoras waters. This event is
said to have produced a " lively impression."
Drouyn de Lhuys is going to a German
watering-place, and M. Billault will take the port-
folio of Minister of Foreign Affairs ad interim
The following communique bearing upon the pub-
lie health in Paris has been addressed to the Union
Medicak :

The Union Medicole, in its number of August 11, eoatains
erroneous statements concerning maladies now prevailing in
Paris. Diarrhoea and dysentery are always common at this
time of the year, when the consequences of extreme heat
are aggravated by drinking sod eating fruit. There is, how-
ever, nothing abnormal in these diseases this year. There
is never a year without some isolated cases of cholera ; op
to the present time only two instances are known of this
disease with an epidemical character. With regard to typhus
fever, it is true that a good many cases have occurred,
bat it is incorrect to say that they are deadly ; on
the contrary, medical men are agreed that, generally
speaking, the type of the malady is singularly mild. In
the Is RiboisCre Hospital, where, according to the writer of
the article, there has been a mortality of fifty per cent.,
the fact is that out of thirty-three cases of typhus there
have been only five deaths. It is much to be regretted
that a journal which has the means of being well informed
should heedlessly publish statements calculated to alarm
the population.

Aa communigugs do not probably command uni-
versal assent on your side of the water, I think it
as well to add that in the present case I believe the
official statement to be well founded. As tar as I
know, the health of Path, notwithstanding the
extreme heat, is very good.

A little yacht, built at Havre for the Emperor
and Empress, and intended for excursions on the
Seine, was tried last evening between Paris and St.
Cloud. This vessel is christened the Pu.:bla.

SIR JOHN TRELAWNT AND HIS CON-
STITUENTS.

Sir John Trelawny, Bait, M.P., in accordance
with his annual custom, delivered no address on Thurs-
day, at the Bedford Hotel. Tavistock, on the business
of the parliamentary session. Elie speech included •
very wide range, bat the main points may be briefly
stated. He wished to see the franchise given to the
Otte of the working classes—to houeeholders, bat
the reflection of public events furnished no prospect
of any measure of advanced reform. The purchase of
the Exhibition building would have commenced an un-
limited expenditure, therefore be voted against it;
and he opposed the Galway and Dover mail contracts
as corrupt proposals designed to curry favour. Sir John
Trelawny entered at much length into his reasons
for disapproving Mr. Somes's Public-house Bill, urging that
to compel the working classes to drink sour beer on Sun-
day@ was • soar doctrine indeed. If that had passed, places
of recreation for the denizens of alleys must have been at
once thrown open. With reference to enmity rates, the
hon. member for Tavietock urged that the..." who paid the
money should control the expenditure, and that woodlands
and mines should not be exempted. The revision of the
liturgy, the sale of benefices, and cognate subjects, were
touched upon; and in speaking of the question of church
flies, Sir John said that he thought it undesirable that it
should be again raised in the present parliament, sea canoe
was injured by being incessantly brought forward, and he
would leave the conduct of the contest for the future to
younger ono.

THE BRAEMAR. GATHERING.—Great preparations
are making at Mar Lodge for the Braemar Gathering, at
which the Prince and Princess of Wales are expected this
year to be present. The Earl of Fife has ordered the clans
to &swear at the family mansion for an inspection of the
garbs, and the men are to commence drill this wrek. The
Parquhmon Highlanders will likely muster upwards of
100 strong altogether it is thought that toe display
will be such as has not occurred since the Stet visit of her
Majesty to Decode.—Caledonian Mercury.