The Express.
London, England, 1866-10-01 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

THE NEW AMERICAN MINISTER AT
PARIS.
(ram ow' ows coazzarcannwr.)
PARIS, SoNDAI Eiz►.lKO.

The unexpected news telegraphed from New
York that Mr. Bigelow, the American Minister
here, is superseded by General Dix, is thus com-
mented upon by the Patric :

This news is important in • double point of view. As
far as concerns France, if our relations with the United
States have nothing to gain by tb's change of the.- pleni-
potentiary we have cm Airily nothing to lose. It was
durzug the embassy of Mr. Bigelow that Mr.
Seward addressed to the French government a great
many despatches on Mexican affairs which were
by no means rendered more affable by the
minister through whom they were preempted. If
Mr. Bigelow was too gentlemanly to envenom the discus-
sions about Mexico, it cannot be said that he did anything
to soften them. His successor, General Dix, has no
diplomatic antecedents to commit him to an irrevocable
opinion upon this question, or any other. His character,
as high but more ooncPiator/ than that of Mr. Bigelow,
leads to the hope that not only will be contribute
to the maintenance of the friendly relations
now existing between France and the United States,
but will endeavour to draw them closer. General Dix
will the more easily be enabled to do this because he is
chosen directly by the President, whereas Mr. Bigelow
owed to the death of Mr. Dayton him promotion from the
post of consul-general to that of minister plenipotentiary.
It remains to be seen whether the Senate will confirm the
new appointment. According to the letters of the consti-
tution this confirmation is indimpensable. Mr. Johnston
alleges, however, that he has a right to fill up vacant planes
when the Senate is not sitting. It is probable that when
the next sess:cn opens the Senate will have something to
say on the subject.
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Mr. Bigelow is now at Biarritz, and lately ac-
companied the Emperor during his inspection of
the ironclad fleet.

ARRIVAL OF TROOPS AT HALIFAX.—Late 011 Sa-
turday evening last the Admiralty received per Atlantic
Cable a teleg.am announcing the safe arrival, on the pre-
ceding Thursday, of tho Cunard steamers Tarifa and
Europa with the 13th Hussars on board. AU well.
Eighteen horses had died on the passage.
_ _ _ . _

The Emperor Napoleon has caused himself to be
inscribed as an exhibitor of the 10th class at the Great
Exhibition of 1467. That class comprises ameliorations of
the moral and physical state of man. His Majesty has
designed a model for a workman's house, which to lowness
of price unites all the accommodations desirable and the
conditions required by the public health. By paying a
moderate rent, one part of which would be devoted to a
kind of sinking fund, the tenant would in a few years
become the proprietor of the house, such being, in his
Majesty's opinion, one of the surest methods of insti`li-,g
habits of order and economy in the working classes.

General Prim is now stopping at Brussels. Mr.
Adams, the American minister, and his family are stopping
in the same city.
. . .

According to the Berlin journals the expenses
to the city attending the entii of the army on the 20th
and 21st amounted to 30,000 t.

The annual congress of the 00-operative and
similar societies in Germany I% PI be held at Camel on the
7th instant, lasting three days.
The chief of the feudal party in Prussia, M.
Gerlach, president of the Court of Appeal at Magdeburg,
and one of the founders of the Kreuft-Zeihnw, has just
published a remarkable brochure, entitled '• The Annexa-
tion and the Northern Confederation," in which, on behalf
of bis party, be expresses his regret for a war which has
caused Prussia to lose her best and strongest ally
(Austria) against the revolution. He does not believe in
the crowning of German unity effected by Prussia, and con-
demns in the policy of the cabinet all which seems to tend
toward liberal ideas, which he describes as the old and
sworn enemies of the crown. This pamphlet is looked neon
as a proof of the schism between Count Bismarck and the
Prussian conservatives.

The Rev. George Ridding has been appointed
head master of Winchester College, in the room of the
Rev. Dr. Moberly, who filled that office for 30 years.
An elder brother of the late Sir A. J. D. Tich-
borne is stated to be on his way from Australia, to claim
the baronetcy. He has been away from England many
years, and was supposed to be dead.
. . . . .

It was stated at Dorchester market last week that
wheat before next harvest will be 17/. a load, and bread
IBd. a gallon. The consumption of breed in the United
Kingdom requires, in ordinary someone, the importation of
a cargo of wheat of 2,000 qrs. daily, and owing to the
bed harvest that quantity will now have to be doubled.
A great portion of the English wheat, owing to its damp.
non, will have to be mixed with dry foreign grain for the
purpose of being pound. lb/. a load has been refused for
thy stacked wheat. . .

An American paper describes a duel between
Mn. Martha Stewart and Mrs. Roberta, of San Antonio,
Tao. • The weapons were revulvas. Mrs. Stewart is
dated to have beau bully wounded.

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SERIOUS ACCIDENT ON THE SOUTH EASTERN
RAILWAY.'

Yesterdiy morning an accident of a rather serious
nature oecerrod to the missies mall train of the South
E• 141111. Railway at Tunbridge Junction. The train leaves
ChariAPCSOB at 7.25, and London-bridge station at 7.38.
It had proceeded all right to the Tunbridge Junction, at
which point • portion of the train, containing the
passengers far Tunbridge-well end Hastings, is de-
tached—the front pet ties terming on to Dover,
By some iniaadventure the detached portion of
the train, consisting of four well tilled car-
riages, was sent into a siding, instead of forward on the
main line to the station platform. The passenger car-
riages ran with considerable speed into • train of empties,
which was standing on the siding. A considerable num-
ber of the passengers sustained rather severe injuries
in scalp wounds, bruises, contusions, and concussion,
but the rumours afloat this morning as to the number
and severity of the injuries snstained—of two persons
having died of than, &a, are, we are glad to learn, greatly
exaggerated. As far we can ascertain there were no bones
broken, although three of the carriages were shivered to
pieces. The accident is supposed to be attributable to two
causes—the pointeman having sent the carriages on to the
wrong line, and the guard of the detached carriages having
been too late in uncoupling, so that he could not check the
momentum.

WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.)

MOSIDIT, OCTODIE 1, 8 A.M.

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Naho 3929141 8.8. E. 1 I 8.8. W. b 0.05 1
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Leith
drdroman 110.2Z158 N.E. 3 3 S. bo I— I 2
Valautia 110.09 64 Z. 0 1 Nat.& bl 1-
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lArerpoot 30.2158 E.S.E. 1 2 W.N.W. ot 0.11 1
Holyhead 30.170 N.N.E. 1 2 I N.N.E. ct • I 2
PSIII2IIIOO 30.1566 Z. 0 4 N. N.E. d —' 2
Brost I .
Lorieut 30.0061 N. 3 4 3 .E. ob 0.03 2
Plymouth -
Weymouth
Portamouth lO.ll 68 N.N.B. 3 3 LBW. Iro ' 0.14 2
Louden -
_. 30.13 54 N.E. 2 3 K. too 0.01.1
Yarmouth 30.14 67 N.E. 1 2 8.9. W. V' —I 1
Scarborough. 30.21 64 N.N.E. 1 1 N. m 0.03 2
I , Intlelds 130_17 65 N.H. 2 2 lt.E. o; 2
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