The Express.
London, England, 1863-01-26 00:00:00

&LW. to W.N.W., W. Mina.
itroag, oasottled.
W.S.W. to N.N.W., N.
strong, squally.
As next above.

B.W.Ziewin.

&S.W. to W.N.W., &Z. 1001.11 AD.
strong.
W. to N. and IL, It. noun. N.N.W. to E.N.E.,
strong, unsettled. fresh, unsettled.

Prince William of Baden, who has just arrived
at Media from Rossi; had • narrow escape on the 21st. On
hie return from a reception by the Queen of Prussia the
home ran away, and dashed with fearful speed to some
distance from the city. The prince contrived to slip out
emburt ; but • man who triad to atop the horses was
knocked down and grievously injured.
A police razzia was made in Paris the other day,
and the sheets of the Duke d'Aumale's historical work were
carried off. The publisher of the work, the duke's agent,
and those charged with seeing it through the press, are not
disposed to let the matter drop. They purpoee carrying the
matter before the tribunals, in order to ascertain whether
the police prefect can employ his agents to give force of law
to a simple ministerial circular, extra-legal if not direatly
illegal. There is not in the whole code a single clause
which prevents • Frenchman, even though be be • Prince
and in exile, from publishing in his native country, • work
which is purely historical. It is one of the few rights
which the law that banished the Duke d'Aumale has left
bins.
The Smyrna Herald says :—" Among the new
institutions rapidly famillareed in the East is that of pho-
tographic albums, which are spreading amongst our
Ottoman friends. The portraits of Ottoman celebrities on
cartes de riade and in albums can now be found throughout
the empire. Only one Turkish lady as yet has given her-
self to the public gaze—a well-known leader of fashion in
Constantinople, or rather Pers. Persian ladies are not so
Goy, and painted portraits of them have long been known."
In a letter from Beyrout we read :—" The cele-
brated Algerian chief, Abd-el-Kader, arrived three days ago
from Damascus, and left last night by the French steamer,
en route for Alexandria, thence to proceed via Suez and the
Red Sea to Mecca, being the third time be has gone on the
Hadj to the holy places of Moslem devotion."
It appears, from a notice in the Debats to-day,
that Captain Maul, of the French frigate Normandie,
whose death at Vera Cruz is just announoed, was one of
the proprietors of that journal. Death did not take him
by surprise; be had expected it for acme weeks. "The
navy," be wrote to the Dibrds, while depicting the ravages
of yellow fever in the Normandie, " the navy des, but does
not complain."
We (Renck') hear that Captain Burton and M.
Du Chianti have settled to visit the gorilla country in one.
pony on a sporting tour. A Deane time for the great apes
ought to be approaching. M. Du Chaillu visite New York
before starting with Captain Burton.
A nephew of Abd-el-Kader, married to a Chris-
tian wife, is about to be baptised in Paris, and intends to
proceed to the Sahara as a missionary.
Roatate Carnoucism care Moaoooo.—A letter,
from Rabat, Morocco, says : " After an interval of a
century the Roman catholic religion has been imeta-
bulged here. The Spanish monks of the convent of Tan-
gier having last year made en exploration on the coast to
ascertain if there we. a possibility of turning to profit the
right which Art. 6of the treaty with Morscco conferred
upon them on the subject of alumina, accorded the prefer-
ence to this town. the central position and importance of
which had been already remarked by the Spanish fours-
meat. In preemies of the diMoalty of finding • suitable
beildieg for the exercise of worship, and until the project
of constructing a church can be realised, • catholic chapel
1 has bean provisionally established at the Vice-Consulate of
irelbee, and Father Pedro Lope; superior of the church of
Tangier, gamely committed it on the 7th of December
I last."