The Express.
London, England, 1867-05-13 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

010111 OUR OWN 001IRESTONDENT.)
PARIS, MONDAY EVENING.

The decisive announcement in the official part of
to-day's Mosiiteur leaving no doubt that war is
happily averted, we may expect public attention
in France to be seriously directed to the realisa-
tion of the liberal reforms promised with so much
ado on January 19, and which have hitherto
been a dead letter. The only part of the pro-
gramme as yet executed is the substitution of in-
terpellationa for the address and the extension of
the powers of the Senate at the expense of the
Corps Legislatif, neither of which can be seriously
described as liberal measures. The bills on the
press and the right of public meeting are still hung
up in the committee rooms, and very serious ap-
prehensions are entertained by the opposition de-
puties that an excuse is sought for to throw them
over till next year.
Yesterday M. Jules Favre made an eloquent but
ineffectual speech in favour of the principle of
granting pecuniary indemnity to innocent persons
wrongfully arrested on criminal charges. The go-
vernment speakers would not admit that there was
any solidarity between society at large and the
false witness or erring judge or jury, to whom the
misfortune of an unjust conviction was imputable.
The example of Italy and Switzerland, where the
principle of indemnity is acted upon, was cited in
vain.

M. Chassepot is at the present moment in St.
Etienne, superintending the manufacture of the rises, large
quantities of which are being delivered every week to the
regimente of infantry.

In the Austrian state lotten• connected with the
loan of 1840 the Bishop of Bruns, Count Schafgotache, has
just won a prize of 300,000fi.
Thu eighth volume of M. Guizot's "Memoirs"
has appeared. It comprises some of the most important
foreign questions which occupied the July gonna:lent
between 1840 and 1848 ; the Spanish marriages, the affairs
of Rome, and the Swiss Sanderbund were the precureers
of the great catastrophe of the latter year. M. Guizot
seems to dimwit all these questions with much frankness.
The report of the Famine Commission of India
is severe in its condemnation of the Board of Revenue.
The commissioners estim►te the mortality ie. Orissa and
Midaspore as certainly not less than one-fourth of the
whole population, but state that they have no reliable
statistics of the whole population of the province. The
statistics vary from :t3 to 5 millions, which would make
the mortality from three-fourths of a million to a million
►nd a half, in an area of 28,738 square miles, or half that
of England and Wales. The deaths from starvation and
its result, disease, in the Cols and Soothe] districts of
Chats Nagpore have just been officially reported by the
commissioner, Colonel Dalton, as 33,296 among a popula-
tion of half a million. It is not known what sentence the
commissioners have passed on Sir Cecil Bowdon.

Loss or A STEAnsn P.—The fine steamship Prince
Consort, trading between Edinburgh, Aberdeen, and the
north of Scotland, struck on the rocks two miles south of
Aberdeen during the thick fog of Saturday morning.
The sea was running high at the time, end ail efforts
to get the vessel off proved fruitless. Fortunately,
the disaster was seen by the fishermen of a coast vil-
lage half a mile distant, and without loss of time boats
were manned and desp►tched to the wreck. About 100 pas-
sengers were on board, many of them in bed, but, warned
by the crash of some danger, 'they hastened on deck an•
clothed, and through the energy of Captain Parrott and
his crew, 36 in number, and the providential arrival of the
fishermen, every soul was got safely to land. Not a particle
of anything in the shape of luggage was brought on shore,
and in the course of an hour or so little remained together
of the steamer but the portion amidships with the machi-
nery. The scene of the wreck was visited by large num-
bers of spectators during the whole of Saturday and Sun-
day. A good deal of luggage and cargo has been washed
ashore and otherwise recovered. The Prince Consort be-
longed t ) the Edinburgh. Leith, and Clyde Shipping Com-
pany. Captain Parrott, her commander, ia an experienced
seaman, and was the last to leave his ship.

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Brest 29.49 56 B.W. ;3 5 B.S.W. ru 0.59 2
Larlent 29.4554 &K. : 3 4 &W. on 0.65
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