The Express.
London, England, 1865-12-25 00:00:00

SPAIN.

It is semi-officially announced that since the re-
cognition
of Italy by Spain, the Pope has sent an
affectionate letter to Queen Isabella, rendering
justice to her Majesty's religious sentiments.
The Epoca states that the Queen received Father
Claret yesterday.
The Madrid journals approve the circular of the
Director of Public Instruction published yesterday.
The report that the ministry intended to propose
a tax upon incomes derived from stock in the public
funds is unfounded.
The 2nd of March has been appointed for the
payment of the interest on the coupons of the
public debt.
The Epoca of to-day, in confirming the intelli-
gence that the Pope had written a letter to Queen
Isabella, says that no reply was given to the same.
The government has taken precautions against
depredations by Chilian privateers upon Spanish
• commerce.
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CHINA. AND JAPAN.
(Via Alexandria.) 1
HONG KONG, Nov. 15.
Sir Rutherford Aleock has set out for th Taku
forte, en route for Pekin, and out
hitherto met
with no opposition.
At Shanghae and in this city bin Excellency was
met by deputations, by whom be was entrusted
with several matters to be laid before the Imperial

cabinet.
The English consul at Swatao has gone to
Cheochow, in order it is presumed to open that
place to Europeans under the Tientsin treaty.
The maritime customs are working well.
Some gunboats have attacked a fleet of piratical
vessels, destroying 10 craft and capturing a lorcha.
A registration office for Chinese servants has
been opened at Shangbae.
A great advance has taken place in piece goods.
The Albeona and Shakespeare have been lost.
Advices from Japan state that the British,
French, and Dutch ministers had started for the
residence of the Mikado, with the object, it was
supposed, of obtaining his consent to the Tycoon's
treaties, and of opening Ossaca and Hiogo to
foreign trade.
Another of the murderers of Major Baldwin and
Lieutenant Bird had been captured at Yeddo. He
confessed his crime and was executed.
The crop of raw silk was short. Piece goods had
advanced to unprecedented rates.
(By Overland Telegraph f rem Gas.)
BLIANGBAN, Nov. 25.
The anti-foreign party are actively intriguing at
Pekin.
Intelligence received from Japan announces that
the Mikado had refused to open the ports. The
foreign ministers bad referred the question to their
respective governments. The fleets had returned
to Yokohama.
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TROOPS DOH JAWAICA.—A draft of the second
battalion 6th Regiment, consisting of Lieutenant C. Whyte,
one sergeant, and 30 rank and file, left the camp at C
toolches-
ter on Friday afternoon for Liverpool, and embark join
the service COID pinks of the regiment at Jamaica.
A LETTsa FROM DR. Bets.—Tbe following
letter from Dr. Beke has bees received by Renter's Tele-
gram Company (Limited) :—" Suez, Dec. 6, 1865.—We
rived here yesterday, and are looking for the means of con-
veyance to Mamowali. There is no news from e
ill
Coon' Ca-
meron and his companions in captivity, though ther
intelligence from Maasowah down to the middle of Novem-
ber. At that date the rebel chief Direen Gobasye occupied
the whole country between the capital Gondar and the
river Takkszys Globaxie. the Waaphum or hereditary
prime of the province of Wee& was in Tier* with an
army, and • pitched battle between him and to
was
imminent. The Emperor Theodore was gone to Shoe in
pursuit of Meailek, toe crown prim, of that country, who
had escaped from Arabs Magdala in the beginning of July Wt.
Since Mr. Itassam's departure from Masowah on October
15 with forty loaded camels, nothing has been heard of
him. His road lay through the frontier districts of
Bogie, Beres, Teka, Kedsref, and Kaleba', at the chief
place of which last-named district he ought by this time
to bare arrived. His progress thence to Gondar rosy
probably be impeded by the presence of the troop; of lk-
rem Cotes's. Padre Giovanni Stella, the head of the
Roman catholic mission at Kern. the capital of Bogire-
e, is
reported to have gone to Paris for the purpose of rep
senting to the Emperor Napoleon the deplorable condition
of the inhabitants of that country from tTake.he A aggS ish pro
two of
ressions and
cruelty of the Egyptian troops in wed-
testant mission is about to be established in 80004,
the members of which have arrived at Cairo. The iDI
ileDlT.is
rection in the Egyptian poisonous on the Upper N
said to be quelled."
EXHIBITION OF NATIONAL PORTP.AITS.—The gal-
lerim in which Lord Derby's great schema, so historically
suggestive, is won to find its realisation ere in rapid pro-
gifts of completion at South Kensington. The galleries are
perfectly dry. The arrangements to maintain a proper
uniform temperature (excluding al
ly fire from the premises)
and for constant watch by the po give every security
that an be provided. They have • quiet look of fiteess,
both in their simple arrangement ad decorative colouring,
sod are calculated to contain about 800 pictures, about Nis
number of British oil paintiop exhibited in 1862. We
understand that they will not fail to he adequately filled.
On all hands there has been a hearty reopens, and many
family immures which have Dever before lett walla where
they have hung for generations have been placed at the dis-
posal of the committee. It has been proposed that the
first yeses exhibition, which it to open inApril next,
should extend to the revolution of 1688 ; bet we learn that
the number of fine portraits offered may perhaps compel
the committee to terminate the first year's exhibition with
the portraits of the Commonweelth.
DE. DE J LIGHT-BROWN COD Liviat On.
OFVIIO3I 01 TEI LANtwr."—A p.enricloss falser, much too
paystent. Is the impression that Cod Liver 011. et for medical
can easily be precared. The -lancet- observe,—
"
T
X"eilipewitten of palette cod we? etl is red so simple as
might be supped- len carats that oils. which are anything but
the oil of the liver of the cod, ere onen sold as much. We End Dr.
de Jnoutesahl to be genuine, and rich In iodine and the elements
of the bile." Sold age csesillwilwrial beE-pints, U. nth ;
pints. is. 9d. quarts. SA : by Dr de eagles sole consignees,
enter, iiarford, and Co., 77, Strand, londen; and chemists.—
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