The Express.
London, England, 1865-08-24 00:00:00

FROM PARIS.

Ma ova ova

NIVIIIIIN TlLiGliabUkk

The negotiations for the final setlement of the
question of the succession to the duchies have not
yet led to any results u far as the most important
points are concerned.
The Emperor of Austria and the King of Prussia
have agreed that a conference of the ministers of
both powers should continue the negotiations.
Herr von Bismarck will acoompany the King of
Prussia on his journey to Munich.

Nairn
Aberdeen
WWI .....
Ardroesan
Gremsenetle
Valentin
Cope
I I verpoul
Beet
VOriont
v ()chattel
Plymosth
Weymouth
Portsmouth
f smooth
Scarboroupw.
Obtains
elloolend

r.)

PARIS, WZDNIMDA Ethrmrs
This morning's Moniteur contains the law on
syndicates, or speaks' associations, applioable to
the proprietors and contractors for public works,
such as embankments, draining of marshes, drain-
age, irrigation, 4to.
M. Paulin Limayrac again heads the Constitution-
nef in type which seems to say, " Let no
dog bark," with an article on coalitions. It is
too long for reproduction, and admits of easy
condensation, which is a distinguishing merit
of M. Limaythe's compositions. The law which
permits coalitions is, no one denies, a vain-
pble reform favourable to the freedom of
labour. If, as is said, it be not complete, he
answers that no law in these days of rapid
change can be regarded as perfect. This cri-
ticism he would, therefore, be willing to accept,
but the right of meeting is claimed as the
corollary to the right of coalition, and he knows
too well what that means to accept it at any price.
It would only endanger the advance which has
been gained. The education of the workman is
still too backward to enable him to exercise the
right of meeting. The proof of it lies at band in
the conduct of the committee of typographers, who
refuse the right of labour to women. The punish-
ment of the so-called delegates of the hackney-'
coachmen was inflicted, not because they were
delegates, but because they were not really dele-
gates. The right of appointing delegates has been
exercised on a large scale, and its abuse has been
punished only in one ease. The law of coalitions is
both liberal and just, but it is not yet under-
stood.
This will come with time, and for the
present M. Limayrac exhorts his readers to seek,
without preconceived notions, the means of facili-
tating a great experience ; and, as good things can-
not be repeated too often, the article concludes with
a reuewal of the proposal to publish periodically
the rates of labour in the different trades.
The position of surgeons in our navy has from
time immemorial occupied public attention. It
may, therefore, interest some of your readers to
know what their treatment is in the French navy
according to the last regulations. There are in all
492 surgeons of all ranks in the French navy,
without counting the apothecaries. The lowest
rank is that of aide-medecin (assistant-surgeon),
of whom the number is fixed at 120. These
places are gained by competitive examination,
and the age of entry is fixed between 18 and 23.
An assistant-surgeon cannot be in charge of a
ship containing more than 150 men, and that only
by a special decision of the minister. tip to 180
men a surgeon of the 2nd class is appointed, but
above this only those of the Ist class can bare
the command-in-chief of the surgery. The
rank of 2nd class surgeons is gained by the
possession of a diploma of doctor of medicine, and
by a certain number of years ef service ; their
number is 200. For the let class three years' navi-
gation is necessary ; these are 125. There are be-
sides 32 chief surgeons (midecins principaux), 12
professors attached to naval hospitals, 10 midecins
en chef, and 5 directors and inspectors. Advance-
ment is gained both by competition and for services
rendered, the justice of which arrangement is self-
evident, for many of the most deserving and labo-
rious may be retained for years on distant stations,
where no chance of presenting themselves for
examination is offered them, but the examina-
tion is imperative for the rank of assistant-surgeon,
2nd class surgeon, and 2nd class professor. Those
of the Ist class will be appointed henceforward one
half by competition, the other half for services.
The highest pay is 12,000 fr., and this is only given
to the inspector-general; the surgeons en chef re-
ceive 5,000 fr.; the Ist class, 4,000 fr.; the 2nd class,
3,0001 r.; and the assistants only 1,200 fr. Our
navy surgeons may have to complain both of their
pay and their treatment on board, but so far as pay
goes they are certainly better off than those in the
service of France.
The government has made its annual diatribn-
tion of works of art to the museums, and of re-
ligious pictures to the churches of the departments
end colonies. These are works bought by the
government at the annual exhibitions, or ordered
from the artists whom it is wished to patronise.
The painters of great historical pictures would in
fact have no chance of living but for the market
thus opened. With the present architecture in
France, where, as Lady Mary Wortley said. an
apartment consists of two closets and a cupboard,
no one can find room for anything but miniatures
and statuettes. Hence the vogue of the Pradiers
and Meiesouniers.
The Tribunal of Commerce has held its last
sitting in the Bourse. After the vacation it will
take possession of the splendid palace built for it
in the Isle of the City opposite the Conciergerie.
The president took leave, in tender language, of the
rooms which for 49 years have sheltered the useful
labours of the court and been illustrated by the
presence of so many eminent men. They were
very iuconvenient, but M. Berthier proved himself
a man of the world who does not take final leave of
an old acquaintance without some civil speeches to
hide his joy at getting rid of her.
The evening papers announce that the Emperor
and Empress slept last night at Meyringeu, and
will return to Fontainebleau to-morrow evening.
Some of them remark on the silence of the Moni-
teur regarding his recent movements, as if they
grudged him this little " outing." There are also
speculations as to the cause of M. de Persigny'e
remaining in Paris, when he ought to be pre-
siding over the Council-General of the Loire.
The reason has not been published, but the fact
is that he found it impossible to separate
himself from his speech, which he was forbidden
to take with him, as it is well known that if he
had had it in his carpet bag he would have found
or made an opportunity of pronouncing it. It bad
been rumoured that M. Ponsard, the author of the
successful comedy 11014elet4T et Argent, was danger-
ously ill. This evening it is stated on authority
that though he has been slightly indisposed at
Vienne, his usual residence, he has never been con-
fined to his room.
The fetes of Cherbourg and Brest, which have
created so much interest in England, have occupied
comparatively little space in the Paris press. This
is natural ; the navy is lees popular in France than
the army, and no fetes really excite the interest of
the democracy but those at which the Emperor is
present.
Tess MARCH or ASTILLRRY TROY Maow TO The Bourse has been very dull, although there
KIRCHER—This morning a parlimosetary return was limed has been a slight advance on nearly all descriptions
of the Glacial oorreepondence relating to the disesteem of securities. Renter have unproved 6e., end
march of a detachment of artillery from Mhow to Kirchee.
Credit Mobihe' r 7fr. 50c. The want of activity was
PRINTING FOR Mt PUBLIC DEPARTH
From a parliamentary return Mimed this morning it sp. ascribed to the fall in Consols and the fear that these
pears that the amount paid fee printing (exeloniee 04 will be an advance in the Bank of England rate of
paper) for the public departinects In the United Kingdom discount to-morrow. Since the beginning of the
and the ooletlia by her MatkoeYY-oilloe in the month there have been about 27,000 Mobilise and
year waded 31at December, 1864, was 88.6334 13.. 2d. Tbis 34,000 Nord d'Epagne discounted. This prevents
in examinee ef the east of prieting exeented seder the speculative sales. It is said that the legality of this
ceders of the two homes of millrace*. and of the coat of
tan rep„tu scd papers pfematia to mum." by system of discounting will be brought before the
Ispriutiegar Ns
swarm& courts of law. There seems to be some doubt on

BREST, Tommy Roams% AUGUR 22.
The English fleet arrived yesterday, and had
splendid weather for its entrance into the harbour.
It was sighted at sea as early as 8 o'clock, and at
9 it passed Cape St. Matthew, fifteen miles off; under
steam and canvass. The fleet, greatly diminished
by the separation from it of the wooden frigates
at Cherbourg, now consists of only the following :
Edgar, bearing the admiral's flag, Commodore
Hornby ; Defence, Captain Phillimore ; Hector,
Captain Preedy ; Achilles, Captain Vansittart ;
Prince Consort, Captain Willes ; Black Prince,
Captain Lord F. Kerr ; the yachts Osborne
and Enchantress, and the despatch boats
Salamis and Trinculo—in all, one wooden
two-decker, five ironclad frigates, two yachts, and
two despatch boats. Sir Anthony Perrier, the
English consul, in a gunboat bearing the English
flag, went out some distance to meet the squadron.
It was about 11 o'clock when the Edgar, passing
the Porzic lighthouse, left the passage called the
Goulet and entered the harbour. The exchange of
salutes then began, and the first shot was the signal
for a general rush of the inhabitants of Brest to the
cliffs. ♦ great many had indeed been there on the
look out from an early hour, but after being
wearied by repeated postponements the general
public did not seem to expect the arrival
quite so soon as it took place. The morn-
ing was an unusually beautiful one for
Brest., and seemed made on purpose for the occa-
sion. Instead of the familiar damp muggy atmos-
phere, there was a deep blue sky, with light fleecy
clouds, and • refreshing summer breeze. The
echoes of the cannonading in the rocks, the rushing
and shouts of the multitudes, the music of mili-
tary bands, and the hurrying to and fro of belated
naval and civil officers of rank in full uniform, and
not knowing exactly where to go, formed a
most animated and exciting ensemble. And yet
truth compels me to say that, the first thrill of
curiosity over, the feeling among the French here
is one of disappointment. The Ocean, though,
like the other local journal, the A rmoricain, it has
been working might and main and almost frantically
to make the most of the feta, uses the
very word "disappointment." Such tremendous puffs
preliminary were circulated long ago, and oon-
tinually repeated, about the unparalleled and ma-
jestic "spectacle" that would be seen atßrest, and so
many thousand people have come immense distances
to see it, that as the time for the fulfilment of the
' programme approached the ancients of the town
felt a nervous anxiety lest the whole thing should
be voted • failure and a deception. They are now
appalled at thinking how far the dazzling promises
made have failed of realization. The original idea
was that the united English and French squadrons
were to come here in company from Cherbourg,
join the Mediterranean squadron under Vioe-Admi-
ral Bouet-Villaumez, and then perform "evolu-
tions" together. It was even frequently said that
Russian, Austrian, Italian, and Spanish ships
would be here to take part in a great maritime
congress of peace and fraternity. Now, only look
at the shortcomings ! The Dauphin seism on which
I was a passenger, is the only French ship here
from Cherbourg. No foreign ships of war, except
the English, are here at all. The Russian navy is
represented by an admiral without a ship—Rear-
Admiral Gregory Boutakov, whose face is well
known in Portsmouth, and who came from Cher-
bourg in the Edgar, as a guest of Admiral
Decree. As to evolutions, there seems to have
been the utmost pains taken that there should
be none. The grand, the magnificent, the
unheard of spectacle consists, after all, in
this, that five English iron-dads and one wooden
two-decker, accompanied by a couple of despatch
boats and a couple of steam yachts, steam
into Breit harbour, cast anchor by the side
of a French squadron, remain foe four days,
and then go away again by themselves. This is
certainly not the spectacle that the crowds of
strangers here "came out for to see." The official
dinners may be very good and very sociable, the ball
on the Ville de Lyon, for which 3,000 invitations
are issued, will no doubt be very brilliant, and bring
together some of the best society in Brittany, as
well as French and English naval officers ; but
for the million, when once they have seen the
little knot of English ships at anchor and
visited one or two of them, if they can afford the
considerable expense of a boat for the purpose,
there is nothing to amuse them but boat races.

VOYAGE FROM THIS DMZ OF WIGHT TO NOTTING-
uax.—Ack extraordinary feat of navigetion hos jest been
performed by a young men named Samuel Smith, aged 24,
a native of Button-on-the-Wolds, a village distant some
seven miles from Nottingham. Mr. Smith was formerly
employed by Mr. Plummer, gardener to Mies Preen, Stan-
dard-bill, and left about three years ago. Mee thee he
had been employed in various capacities. He was engaged
cook on board a collier from use of the northern porta to
the Thames, and with this eruption he bee had no oppor-
tunity of knowing anything of seamanship. Latterly he
was employed sea labourer oe the Isle of Wight fortifica-
tions ; prudent he saved as much money out of his
earnings as sufficed to purchase a boat, sod be employed his
leisure hours in fining. This year, feeling desirous of seeing
his father and mother, sod being unwilling to spend
his money in railway fere, he conceived the notion of
making the trip to Nottingham is his fishing boat. Had
be hese a more experienced mum* be would have shrunk
from the experiment, under any circumstance, perilous
and Were, but with the weather be had to encounter,
dangerous in the extreme. He had • companion of his
voyage, a prudent Sootahmen„ who was serious to see his
relatives in Aberdeen. The boat is only 14 feet in the keel
laid 5 feet Jo the beam ; the rig is simply • sprit end
mainsail. There is so deck, and the few stores sad change
lof clothing which the daring navigators took with them
were stowed away in a rough sea-chest which Mr. Smith
knocked together from some old boards, and which he
placed amidships under the thwarts. Ou the lat of August
the start was effected from a marine village sear Stedown,
sod, despite the fearful weather that prevailed, Hall wee
made oil the 14th of August In many instances Mr. Smith
sal his companion kept the open see when sihooners and
imn:pies MIT* obliged to rue for shelter. They landed at
Dover, Margate, and Lowestoft foe water, and enjoyed
themselves at sight-seeing. But their only lodging mime,
lea well as afloat, was in the little boat. Them slumbers
were not always the most mineable, as the couch war
' the lid of the seasthest or the bottom el the host, and
the corselet a piece of canvas. On several roomier a, she.
woes oat with fatigue, Mr. Smith hay down le snatch a
few hours' rest ; the passing thunder was his lullaby, and
on waking be found himself anima Stating ha water. The
difficulty of the voyage was enhanced by the abeam* of a
comprise. The voyagers steered by the sae is the daytime,
and by the polo star et night ; bat when thick weather pre-
vailed they had to atom by guess-work. Freqnsetly they
were in danger of being driven on a les shoes, end they were
twirls grounded oe seadbaisks. Throughout all, the stout
little craft behaved admirably, Mr. Smith's companion
left him at Hall, and from that port to Nottingham Mr.
Smith pulled his brave little bark up the Trut unaided,
save for about 12 miles at this side of Geineborassls, where
be was taken In tow by a barge laden with Sour sad timiser.
IThe boat is named Rover. and is now moored elf Mr. Siva
keg's wharf. below the Treat-bridge, where she is ma abject
of much interest to mil who ban heard of the soccessfel
voyage her owner secemplished In her. The leg of the
trip must be a carious desamset, and we expect to be far-
' aided with it io a few days—lfotterikaes Guardian.
A CArai or GOLD.—la very sploodid oaks of go/d,
got from the Prises Alfred Oompany's claim, Vetoes Reef,
Bendico, will be exhibited la the window el Mame. Rallis
sad Batten's ales, Oelliesotrestmest, dreier the aeon
day er two. It weighs ekes as 1,20115 e, mod its value is
wady 6,0001.-1 f see