The Express.
London, England, 1865-09-25 00:00:00

INDIA.

BOMBAY, Amon 25.
The Viceroy will leave Sinila next month, and
will hold a grand durbar at Delhi.
Orders have been issued for the renewal of
hostilities in Bhootan in the cold season, and great
preparations are being made.
A collision has occurred between two trains on
the Rut India Railway at Cawupore. Six natives
were killed and several injured. _

The reported murder of lieutenant Campbell, of
the 90th Foot, whilet on a tour through Cash-
mere, is untrue.
There has been incessant r►in in Bombay for 13
days, during which 35 inches have fallen.
Land slips have occurred on the Bhore and Tbul
°haute, but they were not of a serious character.
The traffic on the Bombay and Baroda Railway
has been suspended beyond Surat on account of the
floods. No serious damage has been done.
The steamer Lord Clyde, d espatcbed by the govern-
ment with supplies to relieve the famine at Aden,
I has returned from stress of weather.

Money easier. Commerce is reviving, and con-
fidence is returning. The latest London date is
August 17.

BAYTL

PARIS, SEPT. 24.

The Spanish journals of to-day publish a de-
vetch from Havana announcing that General
Geffrard was on the 2nd September compelled to
relinquish the presidency of the Ha) tiau Republic.

CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS.
The following telegram has been received by
Reuter's Telegram Comp Any (Limited) from the
Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Com-
pany, Sept. 24

ALEXANDRIA, Rrrr. 7.3.

The Ripon left here for Marseilles at 6 p.m.
yesterday.
The Messina left at 6 a.m. to-day for South-
ampton.

AMIJSICAN MAILS DI7II AT LIVZILPOOL THIS
watt—Them are three atemiwre deo et Liverpool this week
with the mails from the Coifed State. &ea Canada. le
the
steamers City of London, from Wes Yak ors the 16th, and
Perevian from Quebec oe the same day. may be expected to
reach Liverpool. aed on Friday origins mist the Scotia,
from New York Os the 20th, will, cm doubt, reach the

THE AMERICAN MAIL.

A grand banquet was given on the 9th in Mead-
ville, Pa., on the Atlantic and Great Western Bail-
road, to the English capitalists who are now on a
tour of iuspection of the public works and other
enterprises of America aqd Canada.
Sir Morton Peto, in reply to the toast, " Eng-
land and America, may they be united in the bonds
of friendship and in the cause of liberty and pro-
gress," spoke as follows :
I deeply regret the absence of the Hon. A. Sienaird, who
should have responded to this toast. He, however, has
gone to Weehington to pay his mopeds to the itesidect of
the United States, and joins our party spin at Cineionati.
I cannot, however, refuse to respond to • matinaeot so fully
in aomedanos with every seatinesat of my beset end
vibrating with every feeling I possess. (Loud
cheers.) There is nothing so much to be deplored, nothing
so mach to be avoided, an the slightest alienation Mtwara
the two peoples; but, air, the (rank, mealy, sad out-
spoken manner is which you did us the honour last night
to speak ea this subject, induces me also to speak wit►out
the slightest reserve. The policy of the goverameet of
Eaglaad has berms policy of noriatervention end of strict
neutrality, end America is too powerful, too great, too just,
and too independent to mak more than nondeteefereees in
her domestic concerns, ►nd Ibis to say distinctly that such I
wee the policy of Lord Pahnerstoe's administration through-
out the whole of the peat struggle through which yon have
peeled, and which now happily has terminated ; end I may
add also my belief that them ma no cause •rise
In which antral Menem' may so► be settled
by calm explanation and friendly negotiation. (Loud
cheers.) You have made greet sacrifices far year
country. You have expended treasure and blood in sup-
port of the great mineiples of human freedom, and 1 be-
lieve that, deeply as we may deplore the blood which has
flowed, the result of the straggle will be to cement • bond
of union which no future time will ever sever. (Loud
cheers.) The world says you have accumulated a mighty
debt. Well, the figures do look large ; but it may be some
immolation to know that your debt is not so large as
ours, the figures being as eight hundred million to six
hundred million pounds sterling. The interest at present
will be at • greater rate of charge in your country then our
own ; but such is the enormous cocci of your territory,
and such its rapid development, and such T believe, the
'self-reliant attitudeof your people, that no diftleulty will
arise in your meeting the annual charge. Our
own progress as a adieu was shown to be
Re great in • recent speech by Mr. Gladstone
since the adoption by us of a free trade policy that, by the
showing of the people themselves in their income tax and
property returns, the increase in ten years has exceeded the
total vales of our entire national debt. Let me adopt
familiar explanation :—Suppose each American spent on his
dinner one shilling a day for • year, your people would com-
mune as much as the entire national debt you have incurred.
(Laughter.) Look at the railway whom completion we are
here celebrating. Why, it has cost one+i:tieth of your
entire national debt, and yet it has been subscribed mainly
by foreign capitalists during the period of your struggle, and
the receipts show it to be a highly remunerative invest-
ment. Again, let me refer to another fact. We pay is
London on cab hire and omnibus hire yearly, in that
single city, as much as the income and property tax of
our entire kingdom ; end when I look to the enormous
development and rapid increase of the population sad
wealth of your country—when I look, for instance, at the
oil districts over which I have paned today, where I saw
evidence of unexampled wealth and proeperity on every
side, and where I saw in one place where on the let of
June last not a single shanty had been erected, at the
present time, on the 9th September, four hundred
houses finished and inhabited, two churches built, six
books establiehed, two telegraph ►tations and the eaten.
.iota of the Atlantic and Great Western Railway, began
truly four months slam within a month of its comple-
tion—l my that when I see such facts SS these,
there is nothing in your debt which need create anxiety or
make yen feel you ham incurred responsibility which you
cannot honourably meet. I say, sir, though we cannot too
much deplore all the blood shed and its lamentable come.
quences, there is nothing for you to deplore in your future.
Yon have only to bans your taxation equitably, fairly, and
in such a transparently hoeset way that every class may
see that none are excepted and none are unfairly treated.
Be true to yourselves and the world will not be slow to
appreciate your position and do you full justice. (Loud and
prolonged cheerios.)

FRANCE.

(MON OCR OWN COBAKSPONDENT.)

PARIS, SATURDAY EVENLY°.

Most of the opposition journals make very free '
remarks, both upon the substance and the form of
the curt announcement in yesterday's Mon iteur that
all the rumours of governmental change, whether in
men or measures, are " invented by malevolence."
The Presse heads its article on the subject with the
word " Deception." It cannot imagine what
"malevolence" there can be in imputing to the
government liberal intentions. If the Empire had
ever held out the organization of 1852 as definitive,
if it had not promised that the edifice should one
day be crowned by liberty, it might have been
imprudent if not malevolent to speak of liberal
reforms ; but liberty having been explicitly pro-
mised its restoration is only a question of time and
opportunity, and to have mistaken the hour can
hardly be deemed a malicious act.
The P ruse did not repeat the rumours in question
until many days after they bad been repeatedly
published in foreign journals ; and it confesses that
it did attach a certain amount of credit to them,
because it agreed with public opinion that the full-
ness of time was come. The elections of 1863
showed the existence of a liberal current of opinion,
and the isolated electious which have occurred since,
far from attenuating the significatiou of the general
election, have given it a more marked and decided
character. The main question for the government
to consider is whether its interest is to make con-
cessions at once, or to wait till the demand for them
becomes far more imperative, as it assuredly will
do at the next elections ; in other words, whether
the crowning of the edifice shall take place in 1865
or 1869. Sooner or later a government eman-
ating from universal suffrage must grant what
the popular voice demands. The Prease also laments
that such a "vigorous commentary" on M. Drouyn
de Dhuy's circular on the Gastein Convention as a
liberal reform issued on the anniversary of the battle
' of Jena should be wanting, and that the sensational
date of October 14 should turn out to be a fable
and a dream.

The Gazette de France says :
The Moniteur with a puff of its breath dispels all the
drams of liberty and the 14th of October. This we fully
expected. Bet we cannot help supposing that the last
word in the paragraph which set the question at rest this
morning must have been written inadvertently. There is
no malevolence is keeping in memory promises made, and
believieg in their realisation when the proper time arrives.
The only fault of the impatient people now so harshly re.
buked was that they anticipated the hoer, bat surely they
are soffic:ently punished for this by the disappointment of
their hopes. We are free to say this much without being
suspected of pleading our cause, became we never shared
in the illusions which they sought to propagate.
The Temps also protests against the word " male-
volence :"
If the rumours contradicted by the Moniteur bad is
certain detail., and from the very date of October 14, •
(pertain fantastical character, the probability is nevertheless
that they had s very natural origin, and one quite pure of
say malicious suggestion. That origin must be sought In
the present movement of opinion—of opinion which likes to
believe what it desires, and which now calls for liberty as
it did formerly for authority. We never hollered in
October 14 ; but as opinion always gains the final victory,
we shall continue .to hope is: spite of the note is the
Moniker.

The Debats gays :
Whoa the drosueur attributes the propagation of rush
motto to mhos, nob eel) do we hesitate to believe sash

en iestatmtion, but we do sot even understand he meaning.
What soil iatentioe was there In supposing than the Empe-
ror's piwernmeut intended to develop, in wee:dame with
theta/Ms end camisole which seem to be the natural cones-
gamer of the course of events, the situation created by
the decree of the 24th November! Above an, whet malice
could there be in supposing that the Marquis de Lavalette
would pass from one ministerial departmeat to another,
that M. Henri Chevreau, senator, and M. Genteel; ceased-
los of state, might replace certain ministers at present in
oaoll, and that the principal state departments might be
imagined from the devoted hands by which they are now
held to others not leas devoted _ _

An election, expected to be hotly contested, takes
place to-morrow and next day for a deputy in the
Oise. I have little doubt that it will result in another
bread hiut to government that the country dues
expect the crowning of the edifice. The candi-
date patronised by the Prefect, although professing
to be independeut, is M. Barillon, a wealthy and
influential resident of the department, who was a
republican member of the Constituent Assembly
of 1848, and who, judging from his latest known
public acts and speeches, would yet pass for an
ultra-liberal. But he is suspected, and no doubt
with good reason, of keeping his colours
concealed until after the slection,with the intention
of catching opposition votes on the a= of his
antecedents, having all the while the go-
vernment that he is their man. A dead set baa been
made against him by the Paris opposition papers,
who taunt him with having issued no "profession
of faith." He remained for a long while silent, and
now, on the eve of going to the poll, he has issued a
short address saying that he should think it an
insult to the electors t 3 answer the question put to
him, and that he leaves himself and his cause en-
tirely iu their hands. The Temps says this is a
novel way of understanding universal suffrage ; he
fears to offend his electors by telling them what
his political principles are, and thinks it more re-
spectful to leave them to guess. They will, I fancy,
form their conjectures from the strenuous efforts
making by the Prefect, and every functionary of
the department in M. Barillon'a favour, and from
three columns of abuse of his opponents MM.
Corbin and Buffard, published in the Moniteur de
VOise, too late for any reply to be made to it
before the election is over. A rumour has been
circulated in Compiegne that if M. Barillon is not
elected the Emperor will punish the department by
not residing there any more. This is no doubt an
empty threat. M. Barillon will probably be de-
feated, and the observations of the press above
quoted upon the note in the Moniteur will probably
have the effect of precipitating his defeat.
The Duke de Persigny is announced as having
arrived at Bordeaux on his way to Biarritz.
Count Waleweki is going there also, but will first
pay a visit of thanks to the electors of the Laudes,
who have just qualified him to take the poet of
Preside ut of the Corps Legislatif.
The Italian legation, which hitherto has been
very poorly lodged, has just secured the handsome
hotel in the Champs Elysees belonging to Madame
Leine), and next door to the private residence of
the late Duke de Morny.
The congress of students to be held at Liege will
be very numerous. As many as 700 young men
from the Paris schools are. expected to attend it.
M. Victor Hugo has promised to preside, and MM.
J ules Simon and Jules Fevre will take part in the
proceedings.
The receipts of the Brothers Davenport at the
Salle Herz are falling off rapidly. Their latest
idea, that the higher they fixed the price of ad-
mission the more the public would be likely to
think the entertainment worth the money, has
proved a failure. The Figaro says, that at one of
the.leet representations only six tickets were paid
for. This is a sort of argument which must con-
vince them more speedily than any other that the
climate of Paris does not agree with "mediums."
M. Rohl example has been followed at the
Hipprodrome, where a conjuror imitates the
Brothers Davenport's "spirits" to perfection in
the performance of the rope-trick.
Letters from Rome state that the Pope in the
approaching consistory intends to pronounce an
allocution, in which he will allude to the Vegezzi
negotiations. It is said that his Holiness will
speak in severe terms of the Italian government,
but indulgently of Victor EmmanueL This mani-
festation on the part of the Pope is attributed to
an autograph letter of the King, recently delivered
by M. Boggio.
A good deal of speculative business was done at
the opeuiug of the Bourse, and the Bente was at
one time quoted a fractiou higher than yesterday,
but it left off a fraction lower. Mobilier fell
1.20. The Mexican Loan rose I. There was
a sudden and considerable rise in Coniptoir
d'Escompte shares, owing to its being under-
stood that M. Pinard, the managing director, has
obtained the concession of the Mexican Bank. He
has gone to Biarritz with the members of the
Mexican Commission of Finance to confer with
the Emperor, and it is believed that a public sub-
scription for shares will be opened in the offices of
the Comptoir d'Eacompte, and that shareholders
in that institution will have a preference.