The Express.
London, England, 1862-06-18 00:00:00

GENEVA.

We learn that in the elections which took place
on Sunday at Geneva of the Assembly entrusted
with the revision of the constitution, the inde-
pendent party, composed of former conservatives,
and of the democrats opposed to M. James nary,
' appointed 83 members against 21 nominated
by the old radical party. Only one member of the
government, M. Fontunel, has been elected. The
majority obtained by the independents is consi-
derable.

(azonnee ruzawi.)
THE ELECTORAL HESSE QUESTION.

BERLIN, Jung 18.

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The semi-official AUgemeine Prettatische (Stern)
Zeitung of to-day concludes an article on the
recent measures in Electoral Hesse as follows :
"In the whole of Germany there exists no
difference of opinion as to the inevitable necessity
of rapidly progressing with this urgent question.
Prussia is the least able to look quietly upon any
intentional hesitation on the part of the Electoral
government.
" We confidently expect that no such hesitation
will occur, and that it will not, therefore, be no-
omaary to give to the undiminished military ar-
rangements of Prussia that effect which was
only postponed on account of a hope of the rea-
diness of Camel to carry out the desired reforms."

" Priem Alfred of Englend," ears the Phare d.
la Mayas, "visited, et Cherbourg, the iron-plated frigates
Normandie and Couronne. sad the steastmewel Nepotism,
which we in the roadstead. He also west over the break-
water, arsenal, and other maritime establidanents in the

town."
Queen Christina and her suite have arrived at the
chits:an of Mon-Noir, so picturesquely situated on the cliffs

at Said-Added, near Havre.
The following masonic goesip appears in the
Echo de la Preset, a sew journal.aordseted her Coast Da
Hamel, a member of the Corps Legislatif :—" Than sea-
tinns• to be some agitation in the maaaoioworW, and It would
appear that the affair between M. Vistula mad Marshal
Magian is not the only difficulty which the latter has had
to encounter. At the solemn assizes of the Grand Orient
now going on in the Temple of the Rue Cadet, the illus-
trious marshal meets with many impedieneata to the exercise
of his presidential functions as he understands them. We
►re armed that the ancient& of the Grand Orient, who
were freely elected by their peers, pretend to impose a sort
of tutelary council upon their grand master, and claim the
exclusive management of the common funds. The cold re-
ception which the venerable brethren have given to the
marshal, and their marked distrust of his government,
have so leach offended him, that he has tendered his resig-
nation to the Emperor, who, however, has hitherto refused
to accept it."
Thu Courrier de Lorient announces in the follow-
ing paragraph that the French navy has no longer any need
of English coal :—" French coal has completely replaced
English ooal in the imperial navy. Oar port receives every
day several boatloads of coal from the mines of the Loire,
which reach us by carol and river as far as Lorient, without
the necessity of unloading them. Thus, this vexed question
of supplying our navy with coal has been resolved to the
advantage of French coal, which may by a trilling change
in the heating apparatus replace on all occasions the coal
we were accustomed to draw from Eegland."
The Paris journals state that M. Dentu, the pub-
lisher, is about to marry Edits. Decamps, daughter of the
celebrated painter, who lost his life by the accident last
year at Fontainebleew.
According to letters from Warsaw, nine Polish
ladies accused of haring participated is singing hymns and
reciting prayers considered by the police seditious, were re-
moved from the citadel of that city on the 10th, and trans-
ferred to convents.
During the last two or three years the French
government has paid great attention to the cultivation of
fish, both in ash and fresh water, as an alimentary neces-
sity. The principal person to whom France is indebted for
most awful piscatorial labours is M. Coate ; his nomination
ref inspector, both of the river and cast fisheries, appears
en the Ifertienir.
"Three evenings back," says the Figaro-Pro-
gramme, " the public entered the theatre of the Porte Bt.
Martin as usual, but at the beerier eammemeleg the per-
formance, on the curtain risiag, a essareiwanY of peaks
came forward, and announced to the aseenee that, as
several of the performers had raised to play, the tepe►
imitation of Ferriage Leclerc could not take place, and that •
the money would be returned at the doors. The direseue;'
M. Fournier, has been authorised, we understand, to slew
the house for 10 days."