The Express.
London, England, 1862-04-22 00:00:00

MEXICO.

Advicce from Vera Cruz are to the 23rd March.
The /Norio Marius says :—" The Juarez govern-
ment has imposed a forced loan of 500,000 dollars on
six commercial houses of the city of Mexico; three
Spanish firms having to contribute 300,000 dollars.
The allies were about to send an ultimatum to the
Juarez government, to the effect that if the loan
from the Spaniards was not annulled war would be
declared."

CA I 4 Ann. 21.

According to &dykes received he-re from Vera
Cruz to the 23rd ult., General Prim bad occupied
Orizaba, and the French Tehuacan.
President Juarez had ordered the collection of •
forced loan of 10 millions. The Allies had decided
upon sending au ultimatum to Juarez, stating that
they would commence hostilities if be persisted in
collecting the loan.
Marquez and Cuernavaca continued at war with
the government in the interior.
Juarez had ordered the arrest of General Almonte.
A conspiracy had been discovered in the city of
Mexico, in consequence of which the capital had
been placed in a state of siege. Numerous arrests
were taking place.

Tie "Lair THING" IN FRAM:B.—The Ern-
prms hrjust adopted a new style of petticoat which is the
despair of nearly all the women of moderate fortune who
are ambitious of bearing on their persons the latest novelty
that is to be found at the celebrated Ileodistes' of Paris. Her
Imperial Majesty is not ambitious to popularise the ern-
mean of the toilette. She detests everything that is com-
mon, and lately begged of her tire-woman to invent some-
thing in the shape of • petticoat that could not be
worn by every boar9rois. That marvellous gar
went has been at last brought out. It does not altogether
supersede crinoline, but greatly circumscribes it, and its
peculiar virtue is that, get it up in the cheapest manner, it
must be as dear as seven or eight ordinary petticoats, and '
cannot possibly be washed and smoothed for lees than as
many francs. Petticoats are a very sacred subject, and in
any case difficult things to treat of ; but the Jupon Eugenie
—that is a subject of serious disquietude to so many women
—is particularly so. Nevertheless, as it is destined
to limit that terrible bore—crinoline—to try end make
public its peculiarities is a task that should be
attempted. Beneath • ball dress it produces an effect so
charmiag as to call forth a torrent of the most flattering
adjectives of which French is capable. It certainly forms
• graceful contrast when its wearer dances to the light
skate of some other lady coming in contact with the stiff
steel ban of the cage she carries about her. This wonderful
petticoat is said in most instances to be made of cambric
muslin, so that washerwomen cannot stiffen it too much.
Its circumference is six yards at the widest point, and it is
covered by nine flounces of still greater circum-
formica. The lowest of these flounces is by all accounts
• mere frill; the second, a few inches longer sod
considerably wider, completely covers the first ; the third
does the same to the second, and so ou till one great I
Bounce falls completely over the other eight, each one of
which, to arrive at the standard of imperial elegance, must
be bean-stitched like • lady's pocket-handkerchief, and the
outer one iu addition be nearly covered with the em-
Lroulery done by the women of the Vosges. This inven-
tion also seta it. face against the sewing-machine, as nearly
every part of it must be handwork. It was purposely so
designed toprevent an immense number of seamstreseasbehig
soddenly thrown out of work by the increased demand for
roachinenwing, wLich is not yet capable of effecting hem-
stitch or embroidery. The Empress's new petticoat is thus
calculated to be at the same time a very exclusive institu-
tion, and one that will give as much employment to the
poor DeetneWOMlM as the new streets and boulevards do to
the blouses—Letter Poet Paris.
ArarillteAßlSn' HALL—The following gentlemen
r=their examination in the science and practice of me-
sa , and received certificates to practise, on Thursday :
Frederick John Roberta, Manchester ; Henry Gordon Shea,
Leedom Fertilised Theodore Fonda, Baleall-heath, Hie-
iningbam • Thomas Kemuel Berme, Carmarthen, South
Wales ; Samuel Wordsworth Poole, St fiery Cray ; James
Blake Maurice, St. Mary's Hospital ; Edwin Chisholm, St.
Mary's Hospital ; Thomas Frawley Salisbury ; William
Villiers.street, Strand; and William Henry
• Cox. Plymouth, Devoe.
Elotrm Eattantarox Munntrit.—During the week
amine April 19, the visitors have been as follows
Monday, Tuesday, sad Saturday free days, open frees
10 a.m. to 10 p.m, 15,897 ; on Wideenday, Thursday. sad
Friday, Mediate days (admission to the public 60, open
from 10 a.m. till 6 p.m., 1,063; total, 16,950. Nom the
opening at the Musenns, 2,623,020.