The Express.
London, England, 1866-10-30 00:00:00

RUSSIA.

The Corriere italic") states that it knows from
a sure source that Franoe and England are pre-
paring an energetic note to be addressed to Russia
respecting the maritime armaments of that power
in Nicolaieff, which are in entire opposition to the
letter and spirit of the treaty of Paris.

(aurris's Trarowni.)
FRANCE.

PARIS, Ocr. 30.

A report addressed to the Emperor by Marshal
Bandon, Minister of War, has been published to-
day, nominating the commission which, agreeably
to his Majesty's order, is to inquire into the ad-
visability of modifying the military organisation of
the empire. The commission, the chief presidency
of which the Emperor reserves to himself, is to
seek the means of placing the national forces in a
condition to ensure the defence of the territory and
maintain the political influence of France. The
commission is composed of six ministers and several
generals.
The Moniteur publishes a report of Minister
Behic to the Emperor on the late inundations.

THE BOMBAY MAIL.
SUEZ, Ocr. 29.

The Carnatic arrived at 6 a.m. to-day.

OUTWARD MAIL OF OCT. 12-18.

The Malta., for Bombay, and the Norna, extra
steamer, for Calcutta, left Suez on the evening of
the 27th inat. -

AMERICA.

13017THAMPTON, Ocr. 30.

The North German Lloyd's steamer America, from
New York, passed the Needles at 12.5 p.m. to-day.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(allow °tit OWN CORRESPONDLNT.)

PARTS, MONDAY EVE'NING.

The Emperor goes this evening to the Italian
Opera to hear Patti in one of her best characters,
Adina in Crispin ela Comore. He is to go out
shooting on Thursday at Meudon. M. Thouvenel's
successor has not yet been gazetted, but it is now
said, on good authority, this lucrative office will be
bestowed on M. Ferdinand Barra, who is at
present the senator-secretary.
Letters from Turin give two pieces of news—
one, which appears in several of the papers, re-
lates to the marriage of the King's second son,
Prince Amadeus, to a young lady of very large
fortune, the Marquess de La Cisterns. Her
mother is a Merode, related to the warlike prelate,
M. de Montalembert and the Prince de Croy.
The other seems too improbable to be true, but
it is not at all impossible, so I give it. M. Kossuth
is said to have written a letter to the members of
the Hungarian Legion advising them to go to
Greece. This seems improbable, because Greece
is a poor country, where foreigners without capital
have no chance of existing. Of course he cannot
contemplate repaying the courageous hospitality
extended to hint by Turkey by organising an Hun-
garian attack on her frontiers.
A Vienna newspaper says that the Belgian ca-
tholic' have presented his Holiness with 2,000
needle-guns, a very useful present, although a
strange one to give the Pontiff. But the old me-
dia val is still true :
Accipe, some, cape,
Suet verb". plsoeutia Papse.

and all is grist that goes to that milL
The news from Mexico continues to be most un-
favourable to the Emperor Maximilian. The
Liberte of this evening states that General Castel-
nau has carried with him instructions to enter into
negotiations, in case of the Emperor's abdication,
with whoever of the rival presidents may seem to
have the best chance, but to treat preferably with
a liberal. Having yielded to the United States in
the essential question, the Emperor Napoleon
gracefully squares his policy to their wishes in
minor details. The whole of the French army will
be embarked, and will probably have already
landed in France when the chambers open.
. .

Several proposals for laying a cable between
America and Frame have been made to the Em-
peror, and it is said that measures are in prepara-
tion to insure one of the plans he has examined
being carried out.
We are at the eve of the settling, and prices are
slightly better, but there is no real improvement
in the tone of the market. Rents is 69fr. 10c. for
cash and account—a rise of 22ic. for account and
of 10c. for cash. It is said that the Commission'
of the Inundations has nearly completed its task,
and that the indemnity which will be granted will
amount to 80 or 90 millions. In 1856 they were
much heavier—as much as 170 millions. The
necessity of providing this sum, and the trans-
formation of the weapons of the army, seem to
make the loan which has been so much spoken of
and so often denied, highly probable. Mexican
obligations are in request, and are quoted 150 to
1511 x. Italian were also in considerable demand,
and, after several fluctuations, closed at 56fr. 90c.,
an improvement of 50c.

The Indipendattoe Beige mentions a report that
the health of the Emperor of the French, which appeared
to be re-established a few days since, is not quite
satisfactory.
The correspondent of the Indipendance Beige in
Paris reports that the Marquis de Levalette has been tele-
graphed to at bis seat, near Bergerac, to come to England,
where his uncle, the Count de Flahault, is so ill as to give
anxiety to his Mends.
The Avenir Commercial announces that the num-
ber which appeared yesterday is the last it will publish.
The Avenir was founded about seven years ago for the pur.
pose of advocating free-trade doctrines in France.