The Express.
London, England, 1867-06-20 00:00:00

THE EMPEROR MAXIMILIAN.

The Vienna correspondent of the Paris LiberfE,
writing on the 16th, says :—The serious anxiety
felt at the court of Austria respecting the fate of
the ex-Emperor Maximilian is gradually diminish-
ing, and there is now every reason to believe that
in a few days it will completely disappear. The
intervention of the Washington cabinet has, it ap-
pears borne its fruits. The imprisoned archduke has
even been permitted to correspond with his family,
and yesterday the Emperor of Austria received, it
is declared, by the Atlantic cable, a despatch to
the following effect :
I am a prisoner of war ; but do not be afraid, I am
treated in a manner which in no way violates the laws and
customs of civilised nations. MAXIMILIAN.

The Court of Austria being now reassured re-
specting the fate of the prisoner of Queretaro, it is
more than probable that the Emperor Francis
Joseph will soon respond to the invitation of the
Emperor Napoleon, and set out for Paris.

THE CANDIAN INEUERECTION.—ATHENS, JUNE 8.
—The Candian Revolutionary Government has addressed
a protest to the foreign consuls against the devastation re-
ceutly carried out by Omar Pacha in Crete. Subjoined are
extracts :—" Omar Pacha, furious at not having succeeded
in his expedition, revenges himself upon the weak, upon
children and women ; in a word, upon those who do not
carry arms, and upon their possessions. Thus he has
ravaged and burnt the villages of Episeopi, Arcoudena,
Quridi, St. Constantin, Coma, Courpy, Argyropoli,
Sylaki, Fatima., Castello, Courmi, Dranic, Safe, Nipi,
Blaster*, Calamito, Exopoll, Margarita, Tripe, Lump.,
Agra, Soordello, Episcopi, and St. Jean. At the same
time he destroys churches, sets fire to the olives, vines,
and all kinds of fruit trees, pulls down the mills, and
burns the crops. In addition to one hundred women and
children who were found slain at Dramia, the enemy put to
death, at Arcoudena. the ladies Marie Coudanopula, Helene
Stamalopula, and Ecaterine Meletopula. At Qarissi he
put out the eyes of the brothers Manoli and
Constantin de Demetia in presence of their wives, muti-
lated their bodies, and finally put them to death. At
atrrpoll he massacred Jean Mores, Manoly Varidaky,
our women; at Metochia, Nicolas Marina, Manoly
Francesco, Maratambo Drulisco, Antoine Pitari, George
Francisco, and Marco Trulisco ; at Atzipopulo, Marco
Harkia ; at Vederi, Georges Coronaky and Manoli Safi-
fachi ; at COlll9ll, Patuna, and Castello he slew four old
men, two of whom were seriously ill, and six women ; and
he also burnt some women alive. In the attempt to
escape such tragical tortures nearly one thousand women,
children, and old men, who had fled to the White Moun-
tains, perished at the close of April from exposure and
privation."
THE HEAVY INDIA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN
MAILA. —SourtwortoN, Juice 19.—The Peninsular and
Oriental Company's steamer Delta, with the above mails,
has arrived. She brings 219 passengers, ES packages of
specie, value not stated, and 1,009 packages airv,of which
100 are packages of raw silk, value 25,000/. On the 10th
she experienced squally weather with much rain, and seve-
ral waterspouts in the immediate vicinity of the ship.
Up the Channel light winds and foggy weather. The
fallowing vessels were at Alexandria:—Peninsular and
Oriental steamship Syria; Menageries Impenales steam-
ships Peluso and Gangs ; Austrian Lloyd's steamships
Neptune, Progresso, and Juno; French frigate Andro-
mache ;- English steamers' Danube and Crimean : and
the usual Egyptian ships. Gibraltar, June 14.—Exchanges
are :—London, 90 days' date, 50; Paris, ditto, sf. 26e. to
27c.; Marseilles, ditto, M. 27c. ; Genoa, ditto, sf. 27e. ;
Brussels, ditto, sf. 27c. ; Madrid, sight days' sight, par ;
Cadiz, ditto, par; Seville, ditto, par; Malaga, ditto, # to
# die. ; Barcelona, ditto, j to # prem. • Almeria, ditto,
par ; Valencia, ditto, par ; Alicante, date, par to # dia.
Premium on five-franc pieces, # of a dollar per cent.
THE BELGIAN REcarnoN.—Yesterday his Grace
the Duke of Devonshire waited personally on the execu-
tive of the Belgian Committee, and gave a special invita-
tion t 1 the Belgians to an entertainment with the Derby-
shire Volunteers at his seat at Chatsworth. His grace was
cordially thanked, but the utter impossibility was explained
to him of the Belgian visitors being able to accept any
country visite, or indeed any not organised by the recep-
' Lion committee, in connequence of the brief period of their
stay in this country. This same circumstance will, it is
understood, also prevent their at one time contemplated
visit to the naval review at Portsmouth, it being found
necessary, in consequence of the variety of load enter-
tainments offered, to adhere in the main to the originally
proposed programme, the only changes in it being that
the Belgians will arrive a day earlier—Thursday, the 11th,
instead of Friday, the 12th July—and that the visit
to Ilia. Bunlett Coutta'swill take place, not on Tuesday, the
16th, but on Friday, the 19th, for which evening the grand
concert at the Agricultural-ball is announced. These
alterations will enable the committee to accept on behalf
of the visitors the conrersa:imir which has been tendered
at the South Kensington Museum by the Lords of the
Council of Education. With regard to the ball at the
Agricultural-hall on the night of NVednesday, the 17th, an
invitation has been forwanled to the Sultan in the name
of the committee by Colonel Loyd Lindsay. Subscriptions
are still coaling bit and amongst them is a first instalment
of rol. from the Victoria Rifles and other corps ,- but there
are several which assume a very high position from whom
no response has been heard. Amongst theme are the South
I and West Middlesex, the End Administrative Battalion of
Middlesex (Highgate and Hampstead), the 20th Middle-
' sex, /sc. Amongst prominent individual cases of exertion
in behalf of the fund, it may be mentioned that Lieute-
nant and Hon. Quartermaster Walker has collected per-
smelly over 100 guineas for the fund.
UNIVERSITY REPRESENTATION.—Yesterday even-
; ing a meeting of the St. Andrew's Medical Graduate Associa-
tion was held at the Freemasons' Tavern, under the chair-
' manship of Dr. Richardson, the president, principally for
' the purpose of promoting an organised opposition to a
clause in the new Scotch Reform Bill, by which the gra-
duates are excluded from voting for a representative of
their university. The Chairman said he was happy to
state that since their last meeting, when the question of
the enfranchisement of the university was discussed, their
efforts had to a large extent been successful. It was true
they had yet to exert themselves, but he was
glad to be able to say, from a correspondence which
had taken place between Dr. M'lntyre, Mr. Sclater-
Booth and Mr. Beach, that in co sequence of the represen-
tations which had been made to the government the Lord
Advocate, who had the bill in hand, said he had reason to
believe an amended clause would be immediately intro-
duced.

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Poaramounc, Joss 19. —The Euphrates, iron
screw steamer, Captain M. B. Dunn, grounded yesterday
afternoon off Gillkicker Point, Stokes Bay, while com-
pleting her steam trials. She was floated, however, by
the rising tide, and an examination by divers proves that
she has not sustained any damage. She was appointed to
sail last evening for Plymouth, on her Brat outward voy-
age to the East Indies.

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PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY.

The following is the programme of the seventh con-
cert, which took place on Monday night, and was announced
as "by special desire," having been honoured with the
presence of their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales.
Prince Arthur, and the Prince and Princess Louis of
Hesse.