The Express.
London, England, 1866-08-23 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(nom ors °wit conassroNDzarr.)

PARIS. WIIDNESDAT EVENTNG.

The money article of La Presse, speculating on
the causes of the fall at the Bourse, says :—" Many
pieces of news were in circulation. We shall wait
for their confirmation before reproducing them."
I do not find any allusion to this mysterious news
in any other quarter, and, so far as I can learn,
there has not been " much," but remarkably little
news in circulation. _ _ _

The Patric contradict& the story it circulated
yesterday, and which I repeated with incredulity,
that France contemplated raising difficulties, by
an appeal to universal suffrage, in the way of the
annexation of Venice to Italy. It now says that
as Francis Joseph ceded Venetia directly to Napo-
leon lIL , so the latter will cede it directly to Victor
Emmanuel ; "whatever measures of detail may
ultimately follow will emanate from the govern-
ment at Florence."

The Princess Mathilde leaves Paris this evening
for her villa near Milan.
It is confirmed that the Emperor and Empress
are going toßiarritz in the first week in September.
The very absurd story is told by the Gauge du
Midi that the French transports about to sail from
Cherbourg with the view (as it was supposed) of
bringing French troops home from Mexico, are in
reality to carry out reinforcements in order to
" make an end of the Juarista." This would be
contrary to all the indications of the Emperor's
policy which we have here. The Emperor and
Empress again paid a visit to the Empress Char-
lotte to-clay at the Grand HoteL
At the Bourse Rente fell 32,c. for caah and 10c.
for account, closing at 68fr. 90c., and 69fr.
Mobilier fell Mr. Italian rose 30c., closing at
53fr. 35c.

The Moniteur de r Armee gays :—"TheEmperor
has decided that the soldien of all arms of the guard and
of the line, whose time expires in 1886, shall be sent home
on the Ist September, and inscribed on the lists of the re-
serve."

" It is announced," says the Opinion Nationale,
that between the present time and the middle of Sep-
tember, that is to say, in lees than a month, the manufac-
tories of arms of the French government will have deli-
vered to the army 200,000 breech-loading muskets."
The Indipendanee Beige says :—" At present the
Germanic Diet, the ghost of which still remains at Augs-
burg, has not pronounced its own dissolution. Its
existence in feat has just received a fresh convocation by
the arrival of a representative of Spain who, now that
Russia has withdrawn her minister, represents in his own
person the diplomatic corps accredited to the old Germanic

GARIBALDI.—We read in the Diritto of Monday:
—" It bas been rumoured that General Garibaldi intends
to withdraw to Carers. We know, on good authority,
that the general is resolved to remain at his post."
THE Naw CHOP or AMERICAN COTTON.—Private
aonaineveial advbies state that the cotton crop is progress-
lag favourably, the weather in all parte of the country
having been highly advantageous. The alabaster of the
yield vary very much, but those mod reliable place it
at from 1,800,000 to 2,000,000 bales.

ARMLIKE.
Barometric presume continued rath
Central and Eastern Europe. but fn the
siderahly, 'Minx to 30.1 in. at Christian
of the British Isles, an area of conipar
pears to mast A considerable fall of n
west of Ireland, and about the entre.
winds have freshened from the lout ea

er low yesterday over
North Itcreased ors-
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ROBBERY OF &LYLE. PLATE AT AN HOTEL.—
On Monday afternoon a fashionably-dressed man, carrying
a large black glazed leather bag, entered the Royal Rail-
way Hotel, Folkestone, and ed tea and a (shop, with
a bed for the night. He then requested to be shown to
his bedroom, to refresh himself with a wash. His desire was
complied with, and he was shown upstairs to a room on the
first door. This chamber, it seems, opened into* corridor,
at the end of which was a room containing a large cabi-
net, in whlcit the silver plate and other valuables
of the establishment were kept. In about half
an hour the gentleman cams down, carrying the
black leather bag with him, which he had taken
upstairs. As he passed the bar he mentioned that he was
going out on business for half an hour. Several hours
passed away without the return of the " traveller," when
it just struck the landlady to go upstairs and bee whether
all was safe. On going into the room where the plate had
been left, she found that the cabinet bad been broken
open, and the whole of the plate, amounting in value to
about 701., abstracted. In one drawer in the cabinet there
were two gold watches, several diamond rings, and other
articles of jewellery, altogether valued at about 4001. This
drawer, however, fortunately escaped the notice of the
traveller, who, it need @overly be remarked, did not come
back for his "tea and chop."
FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION AT RllNooll24.—Thin
morning (Wednesday) about a quarter past 9, as the steam
yacht belonging to Mr. Buxton, of Daresbnry Hall, was
leaving the Old Quay Basin, at Unworn, the boiler, from
some cause at present unknown, exploded. At the time
of the explosion the yacht was in the lock leading from
the second or tidal basin at the Old Quay, Runcorn, into
the Mersey, and was about to praised thence to Liver-
pool. Captain Wakefield was at the helm and had just
given the order, " Ease her," Tillie the boiler burst,
was blown over the tidal basin, and fell upwards
of 100 yards off against a stone wall, a portion of which
it knocked down. The engineer, John Walker, and his
wife were blown into the air, and the head of the
latter fell on the south side of the lock, and her body on the
north side. A female friend who was on board was also
killed. James Lee, the dock-gate man, was struck in the
forehead and fell down insensible, bleeding profusely. Ho
was carried home, where be lies in a very precarious eon-
dition. Henry Pegg, steward of the steamer, is very badly
melded. George Dutton, the male, has one of Ms lags
broken, and a young man named Joseph Shepherd who was
on board is also slightly injured. Captain Wakefield, who
WAS at the helm and in charge of the vowel, received a
slight cut on the chin and a bruise on the right arm. The
entire deck and fittings of the vessel were blown into
thousands of pieces and scattered on the quay, but the
hold has sustained very little injury. The whole of the
medical men in the town were quickly on the spot,
and rendered all the assistance they coultL—Weeeinent
Getooline.