The Express.
London, England, 1865-09-02 00:00:00

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tries—would not the recollec, _ of _ hos-
pitalities do some good f Would it not toad, in all
probability, to bring about a more speedy pesos
Or, if the war continued, should we not fight more
like civilized beings, and have • kinder feeling
towards our prisoners on wither side ? Of
this there can hardly be 11 doubt. And,
therefore, the peat fortnight of mutual
civilities between the two fleets has certainly not
been thrown away. France and England have
both oast the bread of kindness upon the waters,
and each will sooner or later find the results in
that mutual consideration which ought to dis-
tinguish two so powerful neighbours, living so

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FRANCE.
PARIS, Sam 2.
Oonnt Walewski has been appointed President
of she Corps Legislatif.
&vend senators, deputies, and councillors of
state have received the order of the Legion of
Honour.
M. Darimou has been nominated to the grade of
chevalier in the same order.

THE NEW PORTUGUESE MINISTRY.
LISBON, Szer. 1.
A new cabinet has been formed composed as
follows : _

near each other.
Have our naval authorities learnt anything of
the French, or has our neighbour gained any nau-
tical knowledge of us, during these international
visits t If report speaks true, we have not given
only, and taken nothing in exchange. The French
will be able, perhaps, to take a leaf out of our book
in the construction of a turret ship, for the Ito,*
Sovereign has been an object of the greatest possible
interest to our visitors. But an advantage of this
kind will be only useful in times of war, which we
hope are very far distant. On the other hand, our
highest naval authorities have been able to witness,
both in the French and English ports, how ex-
tremely useful are those steam launches which our
neighbour has attached to all his larger vessels.
Those who in hot countries have seen an English
man-of-war's crew toiling at their oars under a
burning san for several hours, and labouring
literally like galley-slaves whenever the ship's
launch was sent for water, will understand
the immense advantage of having these un-
wieldy boats propelled by steam. The French in-
troduced this sensible improvement some three or
four years ago, and have gradually extended it to
all their line-of-battle ships and large frigates.
Our naval officers have seen in foreign ports, have
greatly admired, and have reported most favourably
upon these steam launches to the Admiralty. As
yet but two or three have been built in our dock-
yards, and these as experiments ; for although
lavish enough in large things, in small matters
"my Lords " are often curiously penurious. The
saving of men, the preservation of life, the preven-
tion of sickness in hot countries, from this very
simple method of working these large boats, must
be evident to all who know anything about the
wear and tear of • seaman's existence in tropical
climates. This our Board of Admiralty him now
seen for itself in the French fleet, and it is to be
hoped that no time will be lost in putting all our
large ships on the same footing in this respect ea
those of our neighbour. If the nautical festi-
vities between France and England do no greater
good than to cause us to copy our neighbour in the
matter of steam launches, this taking stock of each
other's resources will have had at least one prac-
tical result.

Viscount de Castro ... President of the Coun-
cil and Minister for
Foreign Affairs.

Senhor Rodriguez _
Sampaio . Minister of the Interior.
Senhor Pequito de
Seizes ....
Senbor Fontes
Count Toms Novae Minister of War.
Seebor Tavares de
Almeida
Senhor Serpo Pimentel Minister of Public
Works.

The Emperor of the French is sail to hare
offered the King the use of the palace of Cour
pibgne during his stay in France.

PARIS, Szre. 2.

It is asserted that at the request of the King of
Portugal the Emperor of the French bas agreed to
stand godfather to the infant son of his Majesty.

SPAIN.

MADRID, BUM 2.

It is considered probable that General Serrano
will be the government candidate for the presidency
of the Senate, on the assembling of the new Cortes.

DEPARTURE OF THE FRENCH FLEET.
PORTSMOUTH, Szpr. 2,11 A.m.
The French fleet has just left Spithead under
steam.

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iltOkt itENING, SEPTEMIfEit 2, 1865.

s :seams ricialsrs ABROAD.
" About this time (writes the Paris correspondent
of the Mese) the tooriat's .seen may be ediddered to be
at its day height. It cannot be mid to have fairly bogus
until the middle of August, although a esesparatively thin
stream of ninth/ors had been posting through Paris peter to
that day ; but latterly the hotels have beat throned
sod glutted with travellers, and all the amounts
that reach us tell at a similar slate of things
in the tidal haunts of thaw who love gaiety or
gambling, bathing or the picturesque. Baden and Ham-
burg are having en unprecedented season, Switzerland is
in the hands of the English, and his been so for the last
fortnight or more, notwithstanding very uncertain weather,
frequent rains, elond-shronded =audios, and landscapes
lost in the fog. At Lucerne the Sunday before last, e
friend than there assures me, there were at least GOO or 700
English at church. Into all the other favourite towns and
districts of Switzerland the Influx of our countrymen has
been equally great, to way nothing of the usual hods of en-
thnsiesii • 0 mass e v Yng A'p n 'took% riniwlnd
with Alpine r ems, ant when' gram. for months before
staring have benne' eiroadse-hosatifni land of Helvetia.
The dolt ei the Em, e-or earl Empie• of the Pico& bas
given a fillip to the touriit word in Switzerland this year,
and has been en one:pooled boons both to travellers and
hotel hew re. They seem to have travelled in the pinest
way, sod to have giver little trouble ; their retinue was
small,
small, and they took the earrings. of the country, and
west on just se if they had really been oily the Count
and Count:. de Pisrrefondo. The Emperor made
a paint of seeking out old friends and acquaintances,
and took plinth» in abetting with them of the time
when he lived in Switzerland. At the houses of
some be took refreshment ; others he presented to the
Empress. Not only the German spas and the Swiss valleys,
but the French seabatbieg please also, are full of refuge's
from the towns. It was tremendously hot in the Lower
Pyreriees last week, but, nevertheless, Biarritz is exceed-
ingly full, and the daily arrivals far exceed the departures.
St. Jean de Lin, to my mind a most dreary-looking fishing
town, and of itself one of the dullest resorts imaginable, '
is crowded to the very roofs of its houses. Hy letters'
from Biarritz say that the Emperor is expected I
there on the 7th oe Bth hist. The life there is mnoh
the sense as usual; in fad, there is no room for any
great variety. Crowds on the beach in the monde'
to bathe or to see bathing, ladies and gentlemen attired is I
the various fantastical datums. of which the Paris shop
widows at the present time afford some specimens. By
noon beach and streets are deserted ; the sun is hot, and it
is pleasant to stop indoors and breakfast. At 4 p.m. they
an again erewded, every woman dressed to admiration. It
is the fashionable prorneoado, to the mimic of the military
band. Late in the evening come concerto, conjurers, walk-
ing by moon or Maar, and. it may fairly be presumed.
no small amount of illation."
A letter from Baden says :—" Little will it avail a
careful traveller to bespeak accommodation by post or
telegraph, for the number of boobies who never know
how to make up their minds is very great. Letters aod
melded often corn. from passes who only 'aped they
shall go to Emmaus, when they at last decide far Jericho ;
and rooms and whole suites of apartments have so
often been got ready for parties who never made their
appearance, that the faith of mills host, at last. and
DO wonder. is shake., and "the bird in the
band" has oftentimes got the preference over that In
the bush. I know I came in for No. lin the Hotel
de Runde the other night at Frankfort—No. 1
Whig. neither more nor less than a sitting-roomy bedroom,
drawing-nom, and boudoir, St fors prince's family, simply
because the hotel was otherwise ebokelnll, and the princely
family who wen due on that evening had either taken the
wrong train or broken down in tbe eight one. Somehow or
other, probably because I take no heed of the morrow, the
morrow invariably takes oared itself, and I have not been
doomed to sleep d fa belle /teak yet, as by my improvi-
dence I richly deserved. Here at Bodes a bedroom was too
absolutely out of the question ; but a ' shakedown' bas
been vouchsafed to me in a bath-room at the Stephanie°
Bad, and any deficiency in light or spate or furniture is so
amply made up by the atteetion sod cayman:tent of the
bewildered landlord that I must declare myself perforce
content"

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