The Express.
London, England, 1865-12-04 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

INDIA.
(Via Trieste.)
BOMBAY, Nov. 14.
The Viceroy has addressed a letter to the Bhootan
Rajahs. The campaign has commenced, and
Dewangri has been occupied. No Bhootanese have
been seen.
rted to
The tribes on the north frontiers are repo
be arming. General Wilde is employed visiting
our outposts.
The chief Kattiewah has been detected importing'
I Enfield rifles, and a consignment of those weapons
I has been detained pending reference to the political
agent.
A famine has broken out in Lower Bengal, owing
to a failure of the crops.
The cholera is again at Nusserabad.
Numuch is closed to European soldiers until the
new barracks are constructed.
Kurrachee has been visited by swarms of locusts,
which have destroyed the vegetation in the neigh-
bourhood.
A collision of two goods trains has taken place
on the Great India Peninsula Railway, near
Faunah. Two natives were killed, and several
Europeans and natives were injured.
The Soldiers' Industrial Exhibition was opened
at Poonah on the 21st by Sir Bartle Frere.
The weather is cool, and public health good. The
state of the crops is satisfactory. Business quiet.
Prices of exports and imports steady.

THE JAMAICA RloTs.—The ar of Newtle-
oil-Tyne, at the request of 600 rateMpayyoers, has convened •
meeting of the inhabitants of that town to be held on Thurs-
day, to memorialise the government to cause a strict inquiry
to be made into the proceedings of the governor sod military
authorities of Jamaica in the recent =macre of the blacks
in that island.
DANGEROUS STATE OF THE REGENT'S-CANAL.—On
Saturday Mr. Richards, deputy-coroner, held an inquiry at
the Royal Sovereign Inn, Brook-street, Upper Clapteo,
relative to the death of Benjamin Prior, aged 27 yearn. The
evidence went to prove that the deceased was • bricklayer'
labourer employed in the construction of a new chapel at
Cambridge heath. On the previous Saturday eveing he
returned home to his landlady at 1, Nursery-place,n Upper
Clanton, and stated that during the afternoon he went on
board a barge at the Csmbridgebesthbridge of the
Regent's-canal, and he saw the water looking "very pretty,
all manner of beautiful colours," and that he was quite
dazzled, and could not help looking at it for some time.
There was a dreadful stench, however, coming from the
beautiful colours, and he became ill, and he was unable to
set during the rest of the day. He continued ill until Wed-
nesday, when he became alarmingly affected. Mrs. Sarah
Hayling, his landlady, deposed tbat his eyes became sud-
denly red and swollen ; " bladders of blood" an inch long
appeared about the lido, and in a abort time the eyes be•
came a black jellylike mass. The dec,e4sed said that he
could not see, and a doctor was immediately sent for. Mr.
C. W. Walsh, M.R.C.S., said that he found the deceased
insensible and dying. The body was swollen, and the eyes
loaded with blood, sod stating. There were spots of effused
blood over the body. The deceased died at 2 o'clock nn
Wednesday afternoon. Dr. Denny, who saw the case with
witness, said that it was the worst instance of fever that he
had seen in all his practice in either India or Eogland.
It wee, in fact, the black fever of the books. Witness
believed that it could have been caused, as stated by the
deceased, by the inhalation of poisonous vapour. In
answer to the Coroner, the officer of the court said that
he had seen dazzlingly beautiful colours in t
verhe Repinating ot's-canal
near Cambridge-heath, and they were y fasc to
the eye. He believed that they were caused by the refuse
matter from chemical works on the banks of the canal.
Mr. Clark, a juror, said that he believed the exbelatioes
which caused the deceased's death were the result of an
accidental overflow of poisonous matters from either the
independent or the Imperial Gas Works, which were
both situated on the canal books. The companies were
not allowed to discharge their refuse matter into the canal,
and they therefore sent it away in covered bargee, the
smell from which, as they went down the canal, was
something dreadful. The Coroner having summed up, and
said that the existence of such a dangerous animate
ought to be seen after by the proper authorities, the jury
returned a verdict "That the deceased died from the
mortal effects of typhus fever of the moat virulent
character, secolerated by the iehalstion of tome noxious
vapours while at work on a barge ea the Regeat's-canel
at
Oasobridge•heatb•bridge."

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PARIS, Bomar EVIXING.
The Sid& says its box is crammed choke full
every day with letters in verse and prose, epigrams,
elegies, and lampoons against the mutilation of the
Luxembourg Gardens. The agitation on the
subject has so far awakened the attention of go-
vernment that M. Boniface signs an article three
columns long in the Constitutionne/ to-day, plead-
ing extenuating circumstances. He urges, in the
first place, that the " systematic opposition " ex-
aggerates the changes contemplated ; but, as be
admits that 10 hectares out of 24 will be sacrificed,
the argument that what is left will after all be as
big as the Tuileries is one that would be
good for robbing the Archbishop of Canterbury.
The plausible part of his excuse is that the inhabi-
tants of the streets on the west side of the gardens
cannot if they wish to ride get to the Pantheon
and the Quartier Latin, of which the Pantheon is
the centre, without going a roundabout way. That
might be a good reason for allowing carriages to go
across the garden, although five minutes at the
utmost is all the time that would be saved ; but it
in no way makes out a case for the destruction of
the nursery grounds where instructive lectures on
pruning fruit trees are given on summer mornings,
the shaws and bowers, where the seats are placed,
and the cherished lawns and flower beds near to
them.
The Gazette de France gives currency to the
really astounding rumour that it is proposed to cut
up, or rather to abolish altogether, the Tuileries
Garden. A carriage road, it is said, will connect
the Rue Castiglione with the Solferino-bridge, and
then all that—far the best—part of the garden to
the east of the new road will be railed off from the
public and annexed to the Emperor's private
garden. In that case the Tuileries, so far as a
public promenade, would be a mere prolongation
of the Champs Elysees. I fully expect a contra-
diction of this really afflicting statement.
A Brussels letter reports King Leopold a little
better. For a long time he could not be got to
take any nourishment ; but on Dec. 2 he ate a
small piece of underdone meat and drank a glass
of champagne. His constitution is wonderfully
elastic ; and when it is remembered that a year ago,
after he was supposed to be at the last extremity
from an attack of dysentery, a few teaspoonfuls
of broth and a glass of claret were followed by a
favourable reaction, hope is entertained now.
The King, who is always greatly soothed by music,
asked yesterday for his pianist, M. Ermel, who
played some airs to him.
The news that the Belgian Minister-at-War,
General Chitral, was at the point of death from the
bite of a monkey, and bad received extreme
unction, is not true. His wound in the wrist is nos
cured, and an operation has been recommended,
but his life is in no danger.
M. Gerome, the most rising painter of the day,
has been elected a member of the Academy of Fine
Arts by 19 votes against 14. He is only 41, but
his name has been in the front rank for the last ten
years. Ever since the Basis de l'lndustrie in the
Champs Elysees has been the locality of the exhi-
bition; M, Gerelnea works have always been the
gems of the collection. His " Phryne before the
Areopagus," "The Death of Caesar," "The Cock
Fight," "The Duel after a Mased Ball," and
above all the " Augurs," who, while feeding the
sacred fowls, laugh heartily at the credulity of
those who believe in them, are all masterpieces.

AMERICA.

(nom on BPICIAL COZIMPONDINT.)

NEW YORK, Nov. 21.
It is, I believe, not yet certain that General
Logan has accepted the Mexican mission, and it is
doubtful whether he will do so. Juarez has his
headquarters now at some out of the way place oc
the borders of Arigona, where it would be somewhat
difficult to find him, and when found, by no means
comfortable to live with him ; and Logan is said to
have remarked when he heard his appointment
first talked of, that he would rather not join him
unless he could take 20,000 men with him. The
accounts one gets from Mexico are notoriously un-
trustworthy ; but if anything can be gleaned from
them, it is that Maximilian is in a bad way ; that
he has not force enough to bold the open country,
but is compelled to concentrate at one or two points ;
that guerillas swarm in every direction, assailing
his outposts and convoys, and often with success,
and thus rendering communication between the
capital and the provinces difficult and uncertain.
Be is said to be now awaiting reinforcements from
France or Belgium, or somewhere ; but whether
they come or not, it is safe to say that the experi-
ment is a failure, and that abdication, after a short
and troublous reign, is the fate in store for him.
The close of the war here, and the expressions of
popular feeling with regard to the empire in
Mexico, which one bears on every side, have re-
vived the hopes of the liberal party there, and
mutated them into renewed activity. The partisan
corps are again reassembling, and Juarez is re-
ported to be reorganising his forces. Moreover,
small parties of Americana begin, as was expected,
to find their way over the border to join the ranks
of the natives. Seventy of them are said to have
taken part in the recent attack on Matamoros, and
once a movement of this kind begins, there is of
course no knowing where it will end. The Mexicans
here, including Romero, the minister in Washington,
are very confident, and 1 think it not unlikely that
even if the United States were to make no move in
the matter this winter, the expectation that they
will move before very long would make Maximilian's
position, without the aid of large reinforcements
from France, all but untenable. A single sentence
let fall by General Grant the other evening, in which
he simply expressed his concurrence in what a pre-
vious speaker had said, " with regard to the future
of Mexico," has added to the popular expectation.
Grant's extraordinary reticence of course gives
unusual importance to everything he says, and ic
this instance I think it is fair to assume that there
is a good deal behind his words. He makes no
secret in private conversation of the importance
he attaches, in a military point of view, to the early
expulsion of Maximilian. He is satisfied that an em-
pire in Mexico, established by foreign arms, and pre-
sided over by a foreigner, can only be maintained by
making it a great military power, and he is of
opinion that any such power holding the short
lines across the southern frontier would be a source,
if not of danger, of continued disturbance to the
United States, and would call for the maintenance
of a large standing army. He is therefore of