The Express.
London, England, 1867-12-03 00:00:00

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENGE.

(turns% nisoisms.)

FRANCE.
PARIS, Disc. 2, Eviarnsa.

In telly's sitting of the Legislative Body M.
Jules Plavre submitted his interpellation on the
Roman question. He hoped that the Legislative
Body would express its disapproval of the expedi-
tion to Rome for four reasons. The expedition was
contrary to the principles of right, and compromised
the interests of France ; it was especially detri-
mental to the cause it wished to serve ; it placed
France in a series of complications out of which it
was only possible to escape by committing an error
or by provoking legitimate discontent. M. Jules
Favre reproached the government with acting
without consulting the Legislative Body. It was
the duty of the Chamber to provide for the
consequences of accomplished facts. M. Jules
Fevre then entered into a long historical narra-
tive of the facts which preceded the expedition.
He did not admit that the French government
was forced to consider itself bound by the conven-
tion of the 15th September, when so many violations
of other treaties had been accepted without a pro-
tart. He regretted that the government, which
had expressed to the Senate its sympathy for
Italian unity, should not have sought an amicable
arrangement with Italy. M. Jules Favre regarded
the proposed conference as a chimera. A conference
would necessarily be animated by the spirit of
modern ideas, and the only result would be
humiliation to the Papacy. M. Jules Favre con-
chided his speech by saying that the French
government had had the encyclical torn to pieces
by the Council of State, but it had picked up the
fragments to make cartridges for its Chassepot
rifles. The debate will be resumed to-morrow.

The Patrie of this evening says :—Despatches
from London deny the rumour that England had
made the immediate withdrawal of the French
troops from Rome a condition of her acceptance
of the invitation to the conference.
LYONS, Dec. 2.
All the councillors who recently retired from
office have been re-elected.

ITALY.
FLORENCE, Dzc. 2, 11 P.W.

The late arrest of 12 Mazzinian conspirators at
Florence basted to the discovery of a plot for a
general insurrection, having for object the
destruction of the monarchy. Committees had
been formed in all Italian cities, and an active
propaganda was being carried on in the army and
amongst working men.
There will be no speech froth the throne at the
opening of the Italian parliament on the sth inst.,
but the ministry will make a communication in
both houses.

SOME, DEC. 1, Evarnos.

The Pope continues to enjoy good health. To-
day he gave audience to various diplomatic per-
sonages.

THE TELEGRAPH TO INDIA.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 30.

The interruption of telegraphic communication
by the Indo-European line is not caused by a fault
in the Persian Gulf cable, but on the land lines be-
yond Angora. An eatafette service has been or-
ganised to convey messages between the points
where the interruption has taken place. The re-
establishment of the communication is daily ex-
pected.

BERNE, DEC. 2.

The Federal Council has accepted the invitation
to attend the Conference on the Roman question
under certain conditions, one of the first of which
is that consideration should be shown for the wishes
of the Italian people.

THE PARIS BOURSE.
PARIS, Dec. 2, 3.30 rar.
The Bourse has been firm. Rentes closed at
69.20, or 20c. higher than on Saturday.

INDIA.
BOMBAY, Nov. 26.
The transport Malabar has arrived.

AMERICA.

LIVERPOOL, DEc. 2, 11 P.M.

The Cunard steamer Java, from Boston, has not
yet arrived, being detained outside by stress of
weather. There is no likelihood of her being
boarded before the morning.

(BY ATIANTIO TILZOILVYL.)
NEW YORK, Du. 2, 6 F.M.
The steamers China, Nestorian, and Pereira
arrived out to-day.

Closing Prices 136 f. Sterling exchange
on London, 1091. 5-20 United States Bonds,
1071 i; Illinois, 134; Erie, 71f. Cotton : Middling
Upland, 15g.
PHILADELPHIA, DEC. 2.
Petroleum Standard white, 23.
(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

The Gillen rteamehip Chicago, from Now York, arrived
at Queenstown at 5 p.m., yesterday, with 113 passenger.
She landed some of them, and proceeded for Liverpool
immediately.

(Per the Chicsge, vis Queenstown.)

NEW YORK, Nov. 20.

The steamer Panama left Havana to-day for Bt.
Herein, having on board as passengen Baron Magnus, the
Prasaian minister in Mexico, and the Prince and Princess
Solms-Solms.
The New York journals state that Mr. Seward bad ap-
pealed to the English government for clemency to the
Manchester Fenian'.

It is semi-officially stated at Washington that Juarez
will permit the transportation of American war material
through Mexico to Arizona.
In the Alabama convention a motion to substitute the
report of the minority fur that of the majority on the
suffrage question has been voted out.
The elections in North and South Carolina so far have
been confined to the negroes, who unanimously support
the convention candidates.

KING THRODORIIS IN LONDON.—A portrait-
model of King Theodore of Abyssinia is now added to the
Talmud collection in Baker-street ; and the dress is ortgi•
nal, having been brought to England by the Rev. Mr.
Stern, one of King Theodore's captives, after his first visit
to Abyssinia, and kindly presented to Madame Tnuand by
Mrs. Stern.

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THE EXPLOSION OP THE GREEK WAR STEAMER
AT LIVERPOOL—Up to last evening no bodies of those
killed and drowned by the explosion of the Greek war
steamer Bubulina on Saturday morning last had been
found, but after the present stormy weather it is expected
that portions of the wreck will be so much shaken that
some of them will in all probability come to the surface in
the course of the week. Mr. Paul, the diver for the under.
writers, has mado an examination of the wreck. He found
the vessel parted abaft the after boiler. Forward from this
she was intact, and as the cargo was all stowed in the
forehold, it will in all Probability be saved. The after
portion of the vessel, where the coals were placed (under
the saloon), was completely broken up, and no portions of
any value can be raised. The wreck at present lies in
about five or six fathoms of water, and as soon as the
weather moderates the divers will commence operations
for saving as much of the cargo as can be brought So the
surface.

FRANCE.

ODOM OU3 OWN CORRIMPONDINT.)

PAWS, SENDAT Evaiaire.
The interpellesiona in the Senate were brought
to a conclusion yesterday. Not • single senator
ventured to say a word in condemnation of ,the
second expedition to Rome. Some hope was en-
tertained that President Bonjean, who had put
down his name to speak, would have broken the
monotony of discourses which were either unqua-
lified eulogiwns of what the government has done,
or exhortations to carry an ultramontane policy
much further. But he, the meet liberal, and
perhaps the most eloquent man in the
ultra-conservative Senate, thought fit to
remain silent. He would smrcely have ob-
tained a hearing if he had questioned the
policy of maintaining the temporal power by the
arms of France. Viscount de la Guerronniere, an
ultramontanist at bottom, but a trimmer, consi-
dered to be tainted with a certain leaven of libe-
ralism, was put down by clamour when he
attempted to reply to the Marquis de Meunier.
This minister, as M. Emile de Girardin says in the'
Liberte, " spoke to say nothing, or spoke only for
the purpose of breaking silence and to seem to
have spoken." A far harder task awaits him to-mor-
row in the Corps Legialatif, when he will be pressed
by the lay opinion of the country, represented by
MM. Jules Fevre, Picard, Pelletan, &c,
In the Senate the clerical party hob it all its
own way. M. Rouland thought the Archbishop of
Rouen's speech a little "exaggerated," but de-
fended the expedition, contended that the govern-
ment had done exactly what was right, neither
more nor less' and that the Senate could not do
better than have implicit confidence in what it
might please the government to do for the future.
The Archbishop of Paris, who, as one of the latest
ecclesiastical creations of the empire, is supposed
to be as imperialist as a churchman can be,
and who passes for a "moderate " man,
showed his moderation by not abusing Italy so
virulently as Cardinal de Bonnechoso. He affected
I to believe in the conference, from which his emi-
nence of Rouen, more candid, expects nothing.
He claims for the Pope a right to have his old
provinces, now in the possession of Italy, restored,
but admits that the fait accompli would make it
difficult for a conference to go this length. The
guarantee of the status quo he, however, calls for,
and fervently thanks the Pope for having consented
to send a plenipotentiary to a conference.
The only thing really important in the Marquis
de Mowitier's speech was the confirmation of the
rumour that the Pope had agreed to a conference.
But the terms on which he has agreed are
evidently such as to offer no hope of a settle-
ment. All the minister says is, that the Pope
is willing to send a plenipotentiary to "claim all
hie rights." This is clearly mocking at the scheme.
The great powers will certainly not lend themselves
to the farce upon which France pretends to rely as the
, only possible mode of getting rid of the present diffi-
culty. M. de Mouatier alleged that the " true majo-
rity' of the Italian people is not now represented by
its government, and professed reliance upon another
Italy shortly to arise, which will be more tractable.
This looks as if the French government is calcu-
lating upon the coup d'itat, which I said yester-
day many people were expecting in Florence. For
the rest, M. de Moustier repelled all curious inqui-
ries by saying that as people in their prayers only
auk God for " daily" bread, it cannot be expected
that government can give any information beyond
what it is doing to-day ; it is too much to ask
what it may do to-morrow.
The announcement of the approaching marriage
of the Duchess de Morn), is now what is called
" official." Her fiance is a Spaniard of high family,
' incorrectly described as Duke de Sesto. That was
' his title, but now, by the death of his father, he
has become Marquis d'Alcanices. Contrary to
general usage, the dukedom in his family is a
second title. . _

The Duke de Fitzjames, a lieutenant in the
navy (tho same who was second to the late Duke
de Gramont Caderousse when Mr. Dillon was
killed in the forest of St. Germain), fought a duel
on Friday last at Toulon with M. Capron, a mem•
ber of the French bar. The result of the meeting
is not yet stated.
The Patrie asserts that the health of the Prince
Imperial is excellent, and that there is no founda-
tion whatever for the reports that the Empress and
the Prince are going to pars the winter at Nice.

EARTHQUAKE AT THE ISLAND OF ST.

THOMAS.

(3T ATLANTIC TELBORAPH.)
NEW YORK, Dze. 2.

According to telegrams from Havana to the
Ist inst., received here by the Cuban cable, and
published in the New York papers, a severe shock
of earthquake, with volcanic eruptions, occurred
at Saint Thomas and the adjacent islands on the
19th November, canning serious loss of life and
much damage to shipping.
The Austrian frigate Novara, with the remains
of the late Emperor Maximilian on board, arrived
at Havana yesterday.

LrvEaroot, Dna. 2.—The Cunard steamer Java,
from Boston on the 20th alt., has arrived off Holyhead.

DISPATCH OF AUSTRALIAN MAILS.—SOUTHAMP-
TON, Dec. 2.—The Royal Mail Company's steamer Mast°,
Captain Jeßime, sailed this afternoon with mails for the
British and Foreign West Indies, Mexico, the Pacific,
California, Central America, Australia, and New Zealand.
She took out 128 passengers and a large cargo :—Silver
coin, 840/. ; gold coin, 500/. ; English jewellery, 2,6001. ;
Elena jewellery, 8,414/. ; and 350 bottles quicksilver,
value 2,4501.
EDUCATION OF THE NEGROES IN AMERICA.
General Howard, in has report of the operations of the
Freedmen's Bureau, mentions sotue interesting (seta illus-
trative of the continued eagerness of the coloured people
for education—facts which show that their haste to avail
themselves of the privilege of being taught sprang not
from • love of novelty, as some supposed, but from •
genuine appreciation of the advantages of education.
The total number of day, night, and industrial schools
under the supervision of the bureau is 2,207
with 2,442 teachers, of whom 699 are coloured.
The number of scholars is 130,735, showing an
increase of 40,000 sines the last annual report.
The freedmen own 391 school-houses, support wholly or in
part 1,056 of the schools and pay on an average 14,555
dollars a month for tuition. These figures are certainly
encouraging, and other portions of General Howard's
report are not less so. For example, the expenditures of
the bureau have been so much less than the appropriations
that there are funds enough still on hand to carry it on till
July, when its existence terminates by limitation. Com-
missary supplies to • limited extent have been issued to the
indigent, but every effort is making to induce the civil
authorities to undertake the relief of their own poor.—
New York Tribune, Nov. 15.
THE HURRICANE RELIEF FUND. —YClftelYilly the
following additional subscriptions were, among others, re-
ceived at the Mansion-house :—Messrs. Glyn, 106. ;
Messrs. Roberta, Lubbock, and Co.' 1001.; Messrs. Bar-
nett, Hoare, and Co., 100/. ; Messrs. Barclay and Co., 1001.;
Messrs. Alexander., Cunliffe, and Co., 1001. ; Messrs.
Martin and Co., 1001. ; blew*. Matheson and Co., 100/. ;
the Right Hon. G. J. Gmehen, 50/., &c. The total sum
now received amounts to about 5,0001.

PATENT-OFFICE MUSEUM, SOUTH KENSINGTON.—
Number of visitors for the week ending Nov. 30, 2,145.
Total number sines the opening of the Museum free daily
(12th May, 1858),1,206,587.
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