The Express.
London, England, 1865-07-31 00:00:00

EXPItEI3B FROM PARIS.

(PROM OUR OWN COI

PARIS. SUNDAY SVENIND.

The announcement of the Menikur that the 1
municipal elections throughout the country had
passed off with perfect calm and order is generally
mod true ; but an exception must be noted at
Vitr6, in Brittany, where there were some serious
disturbances.
The Jour al de Rennes says :

After the declaration of the auto of the poll the mayor
and his adjoiets marched through the town with drums
beating and colours flyless followed by a crowd of men and
womee, who cried out against cert►in persons for having
exercised their electoral rights with independence. At 9
in the evening the mob went to the house of one of the ,
new oonncillors, and took possession of a manes, which
they dragged about the town firing it off opposite the rail-
way station end at various other place. This cannosade
went cm till near 2is the monde,. Ories were uttered
in the streets of " Down with the priests, down with Use
ratotins," sad it is even said there ware miss of " Vivo
to Republiqne."
' • '' • •

It does not appear whether the partisans of go-
vernment or the oppoeition were the disorderly par-
ties. The priests, however, in Brittany were likely
to have used their influence against the " municipal

Lettere from Belgium deny two recent assertion
of the Paris press. They say it is not true that
the Duke of Bassani) has gone to see King Leo.
pold, and that Queen Victoria will palm a day with
him at Luken.

It appears that a company has been formed, the
prospectus of which will appear in a few days, for as-
suming the proprietorship of both Covent Garden Theatre
and Her Majesty's The Are, under the management of Mr.
Gye, with a guaranteed dividend for a oerisin number of
years.
We regret to learn of the death on Wednesday
last, at Use Lodge, ()wheat, near Cardigan, at a noncon-
formist darts», who has enjoyed for • long period of time
the esteem and respect of a large *els of friends, the Rev.
Caleb Morris, for many years pastor of the congregational
church, Fetter lane.
Meat safes are now need in which there is a con-
vene:me for piecing ice, and by which joints of meat ma
be hung in them long enough to get tender, MA in the winter
time.
The potato blight has made its appearance in the
Isle of Wight.
Kew thaDINS. —Daring the past week it was an-
nounced that there was to be a dementratin yesterday is
favour "Of the free Sandray" in the Gatlin, at Kew. It
cased some alarm amoeg the officials, but it was set
considered necessary to take soy special precantiorm The
tide was so low in the river as to shut up the trails
by the beats, vet visitors began to arrive in large num-
bers about 3 o'clock. They proved, however, to be el
meek more respectable elms than had bees expected by
she officials ; at 5 o'clock upwards of 10,000 persons had
passed through one of the gate; sad before the hour
of closing it was competed that folly 20,000 sliders had
entered the gardens. The biehest number veeringly
recorded on any Sunday during the present vesoo was
under 10,000, and the largest number in say previous year
has bean 15.000. Su. WMiam Hooker, in his published
ports, has alluded to the orderly coadon of the Sunday
winters, aod yesterday proved no exceptieu to the rale, nsi
it was *widen that the crowd consisted of reepectable work-
ing men and their families. Nothing unusual was ease
but a few persons with green and white Absorb in their
buttes holes, who, on bang asked if any spawns were to
be mean directed the inquirers to the old alma near the
ferry. At that spot the ceounittee of the Seeds, Leagues
including mazy delegates from various nmereeolitas trade
societies, assembled at 5 e'en* to listen to • few brief od-
dness, explaining the advantages to be derived and the less
eons to be learnt by a visit to Kew Gardens. DOMOOSINIV
don which are to take place deniers ware announoed.—
Times.
Tres BUILDERS' STSTILL—A general meeting el
the nies on strike at Cabin's Inn, 400 in number, was Wit
The Bt. Petersburg journals announce that a op Saturday at the Sevier-wells Tavern, Begeigge-welle.
squadron, composed of 73 VIIIMMIS, is shortly to leave the road, when the resolutions of the delegates aispead es Fe-
nn of e.t.a, under the coatrend of tbe Grand AA- day evening for eosin the strike, mod Oh. slorfolloro of
label, the Grand Dube Constantine. It will be composed toe men.ar s to
.re tem tbshfitiadv"werae„thatbweas beft.r.
411 Minn. seresnocerveldes, sad different arnionr-plated eeeeim- with men should
numb. Tao &ideation of this squadroa and the length of take in their tools this (Iffooday) . ?became:Mee,
RI mine are sot stated by the Ronan journals, but d- however, will ell at the Begeligeswelb yarn daring the
vitas from Copeohagea bin already sammeasd that the whole of to.dsy to per the mss their dividend for the rat
squadron in questa** was expected it that port. , week, which it is expected will exceed that of the previous
Monday, when it was 15e. The amount al levy paid in on
govesorrroi, Jut? 30.--The Spanish screw- Saturday evening was about 2501.. whisk will he divided
resegaer Mavis Pis, with a genial cargo sad 37 memagere among the strike men tide day. It is wonky of erodes that
from gjekos, arrived maw today on bee way to biodeek thedosen men who bad OWN up from** monetry, sad pas
Are
Ike asottespi landed at this port is bar Grans the iete work at Cute der* tin m their paid ther May es
Dubs= el Palmetto. Bahirdsy.

Five hundred copies of Ledru Rollin's new
pamphlet have been seized at the Boulogne ,
Custom-house, through which it was attempted to
pass them interleaved in protestant bibles.
M. Horn, a writer of some eminence, thus com-
ments in the Avenir National upon the ministerial
changes in Austria :
The mew cabinet is manifestly provisional and mama-
plebs. K. de Mensdorff at the last moment refused the
presidency of the council, while still remaining prime
minister. IL de Planer, finance minister of the late cabi-
net, is only "temporarily pieced in retreat ;" the Minist.i
of Marine remains vvsnt ; the Ministry of Police is pro.
visionally entrusted to IL Belcredi, who is besides President
of the Council and Minister of the Interior. That so better
arrangement could be made after five weeks of laborious
negotiations shows how difficult & task it la to replace M.
de Sclunerlioes cabinet. But a still more striking proof
of this is the composition of the new cabinet. They
are all new men, beginning with M. Beleredi, who was
but yesterday, vmpletely unknown except by a small
circle of private friends. During the fortnight that hi
name sod the names of MM. Homers and Larisoh have
been before the public the Vienna journals have made
serious efforts to find out something about them, and with
ell the pains taken little more has been ascertained than
that they are real Being beings, ready to accept portfolios.
That Is pretty rawly all that the Austrian people know of
the men who have undertaken the heavy task of making
substantial conoessions to the Hungarian provinces without
displeasing the Slavo-Geeman provinces; of restoring dual-
ism in the monarchy without abandoning the unitary
centralisation. The meaning of this is that all the " old"
and "knows" political personages—and leAustria more than
asywhers else old names are looked for in high places—
have refused to accept the responsibility of the new
stemapt at reconciliation and reorganiatioc. This eclipse
of the "ancients" is not perhaps a bad thing per se, albeit
the situation is net very favourable to experiments and
apprenticeships ; bat the fact shows at soy rate how diffi-
cult the situation is considered to be by statesmen of
experience.