The Express.
London, England, 1865-10-28 00:00:00

THE STUDENTS' CONGRESS AT LIEGE.

The students' congress, which is about to as-
semble at Liege, have addressed letters of invitation to
Mg. Dung, Gaisot, niers, Mittermayer. Victor Hugo. J.
Winos, Peßetas, Littr6, Oonvreur, Thery, rinspach, sad
Mgr. Dupleloop. The following reply was returned by
Victor Hugo, dated Smoak, October 23 :
" Your honourable invited= reached me just as I was
starting for Guernsey. I regret that I cannot be present at
your noble end affecting meeting. Your students' congress
is taking a generous initiative. You are moving on with
the tendencies of the age. It fie well. By the fraternity
of the students you am :ounce the fraternity of the
taw
;
you are realising today what we are dreaming of for to-
morrow. Who should be the advance guard but you, young
people! The union of peoples, the great aim, though far
remote, of thinkers and philosophers, is now visible in you.
I applaud your work of oonoord and of peace amongst
meo„ which is already made between our children. I love
in youth its resemblance to the future. One gate is open
before us. Oa that gets is written, ` Pew" leght, liberty:
Be the am to per through it. You sre worthy of the
honour; it is the triumphal arch of program—Yours from
the Lottom of my heart, " V. Burro."
The reading of this letter was received with loud applause.
H. Jules Simon, in his reply, dated Oct. 22, says :
"Jar prepense in your midst would change the character of
your work. We should not like to be there es prolesaors,
and we meld not be there as students. Those who like
myself have been mixed up in religions, pleilcreophical, nod
political controversies, would bring to you the sod conger/
of J enmities and calumnies which the purest amongst us
dr-g after them. I prefer to applaud your aorta at a
distance. I shall read the report of your debates, sod shall
ru heart be with you. lam certain beforehand that this
fen al uf youth will be • festival of freedom, cad that yore
will only give expression to words of liberty, concord, and
toleration. What readers youth so beautiful is its
6.th:wise= for every noble came."

His Excellency Sir Frederick Williams of Kars,
Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia, leaves this day by the
American steamer from Liverpool for Halifax.
The profits of the Exhibition at Alton Towers
'armlet to enough to delay the mei of completing the
Wedgwood Memorial Institute at Bonk=
The annual Exhibition of the Society of Female
Artista will open in the middle of Jimmy-, next, and
remain on s:ew anti' the first weak *-i The Gallery
of •-• Institute of British Architc:ts, i Condr:totrest,
rat-st.est, will be occupied by the 1- lies' erhibition
dun 4 the interval &med. Works of art 'nlended for
nabi'itiou awn be mat to this Or"ely on the Ist r id 2nd
Jauurty next.
The private view of the fourteenth winter exhi-
Lit...a was held this day in the French Gielet7. Pall•mel•
Mr. Tallis's Exhibition was also °mood to private view in
the i'offolk-etrest Gallery. Both exhibitions ICI be open
to .Se public on Monday.
Mr. Moens's Narrative of his Capture and Cap-
tivity by the Italian Brigands is annoy trot for publi • tion
by Manors. Hurst and Blsokett
a entirely new collection of Eastern stories, of
the same dasmiption as times in the " Arabian Niels*"
ei.i 'hotly be pub"sha by Messrs. BO ...a a tdy.
They ere taken from the Arabic, Turk'sh, and Persian lan-
guages, by Mr. Charles Wells, Member of the Itoyr'
Asiatic Society. The book is entitled, "Mehemet the
Hurd. and Other Tates from Postern Souross.*
It is in contemplation to givo a musical perfot.n-
anne at we of orr theatres for those whom Mr. Whoa
has halt behind him. His toe eons, who are desoribed as of
malaal promise, are studying at the Conservatory of Pais.
Mr. Fechter's theatrical season will commence on
the 6th of next month.
A touring party, consisting of Madame Lemmens-
lffixringlea, Miss Whytook, Mr. OuLaminp„ Mr. Patsy,
awl M. Lemmeus, will set forth. to sing in the provinces,
dining the month of Jarmo/ and part of Febriu•
J.
The Channel Fleet is still at Queenstown, where
all commankations intended for the different -hips should
V lammed natil fa thee orders.
The Army and Navy Graf :He believes that the
report of the committee oa the Armstrong and Whitworth
competition will be is favour of the shunt system of Sir W.
Armstrong. As th's system has 'freed, been mucus- 3, I
by the modified French system, embodied in what is celled
the "Woolwich gun," our contemporary presumes that
this will be our future service gun for siege and geaison
purpmes.
The Press of to-day says :—" We have reason
to believe that the Royal Commission ou the Cattle Plague
are about to present a preliminary report, In which the
segliseam displayed by the government this matter will
be strongly censured. Tim commissioners will probably
recommend that parliament should be at once suifmoned,
so that remedial measures may be r
The Moscow Gazette publishes a biok,:aphical

sketch of Lord Palmerston, in which it declares that the
late Prime Minister of England wee the systeinatio and im-
pluable enemy of Russia. "It wax he," it ways, " who
opposed the conclusion of the treaty of Paris after
the Crimean war, tiepinse he thought its prowl/us
were not sufficiently decisive against Russia. The violent
measures he adopted against Greece in 18573 were inspired
by his desire to put an end to Russian influence in that
country. There are also many reagmls to iostifY the
conclusion that he instigated the Poles to rebel against
Raisin in 1882 and 1863."
"The Prince of Augustenburg," says the Nord,
" must begin at present to be convinced of the vanities of
mundane grandeur ; the good time when he set himself up
se the Duke of Sleswig•Roistein is puma away, sad he has
jut received a rather rough intimation that if he
again accepts the homers due to • sovereiv,
he will be arrested like any other maa who should indulge
in such *Way. What a deception I Fortunately for the
Primo, if he hes found it too palatal, after having been so
welted, to descend again Mb the hart of simple mutes,
he has a resource left ; that of resuming the grade of major
in the Prussian service which be eo lightly abandoned to
run after the chamois of a throne
An experiment was made at Paris on Wednesday
on the Qua! d'Oisay, between the Champ de Maze and the
Pont de la Concorde with a locomotive dragging a large
carriage, not unlike the diligence, of the olden times, laden
with peerengers inside and outside. The same kind at lora-
motion bee recently been tried in Algeria in presence of a
committee who reported warmly in its favour, stating that
the engine in question weld easily run 12i miles per hoer
on ordinary roads, and could go futer or slower, and stop
or turn with es great facility am carriages drawn by the beet.

Mined horses.
Advice. from Russia state that the winter is very
early there this year. Snow has not only fallen at Moscow,
be already stated, bat at Kid sad Rigs. At Parlour
(Livonia) dodges have bees used for some abort time past.
The Colombo Observer of Sept. 30 announces the
fatal termination of an ilineee contracted by the Ron. B. T.
Ponnefather, auditor-general of Ceylon, oa a journey be-
twine Trincomeles and Randy with the members of the
Military Commission. All 'aired from fever. Mr.
Peandatbor on his return bad to direct his attention to •
mess of °Moist paper' on which he worked night sad day.
The fever armed the form of men ages fits, sod dyne°.
tray siipervineo.
RZADI24O 1.1101178T8.1AL , EXHIBITION. --The most
satisfactory MOM US attended this Eibibition, and it is ,
believed that there will be • bandsmen surplus after the i
discharge of all liabilities. The guarantee Mod. which was
libereily Prod, will not, therefore, be required. To the
public generally the Exhibition closes this day (Saturday),
end snd on Monday nest the closing serercosy will
The Earl of Oanarves ban kindly promised to atistaered
deliver an address os that amnion, and afterwards to dir
tribute the prim and certideates of merit. Nearly 70,000
persona harro attended the exhibition dace its °peeing on
the 13th of September last.