The Express.
London, England, 1866-11-26 00:00:00

RUSSIA.

ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 25,

The Ministry of War has ordered the conversion
of 162,000 muskets into breech-loaders. The
work is to be executed at St. Petersburg, Moscow,
Kiew, Odessa, \Vilna, and Warsaw. Tenders will
be received by the artillery department of the
War Ministry up to the 9th of December.

HUNGARY.
PE:3TH, Nov. 24, Evorma.

M. Majlath left yesterday fur Vienna.
It is believed that newspaper reporters will be
allowed to be present at the sittings of the com-
mittee upon common affairs.

PESTH, Nov. 25.

1:pon the proposal of M. Deal, the party under
his leadership have resolved that in the address of
the Diet in reply to the royal rescript the Emperor
shall be urged to restore without delay the laws
of 1848, leaving the settlement of common affairs
to the committee appointed to consider that
question.

CHINA AND JAPAN.
SHANCHAI, OCT. 9 (vitt Trieste

Disturbances are reported to have taken place
among the Chinese soldiers at Nankin. The
Viceroy beheaded 54 of them who were caught
robbing the inhabitants.
The murderers of the captain and other per-
sons belonging to the Lubra have not yet been
discovered. The foreigners in Hong Kong have
memorialised the Secretary of State for the Colonies
upon the subject.
Two tea ships, the Westminster and J. E.
Boyd, have been wrecked.
Advices received here from Japan announce that
the death of the Tycoon took place in September.
His successor has been appointed, and it is be-
lieved that he is favourable to foreign trade.

The civil war was supposed to have terminated.
Prince Choisu dictated his own terms, and it was
believed they would be accepted. He has retained
the command of the Straits of Simonosaki.

DEATH OF GAVARNI, THE FRENCH ARTIST.

Paul Chevalier, better known under the name of '
Gavarni, died on Sunday in his villa at Auteuil, at the age
of t 5, having been born in Paris in tool. In early life he
WWI a mechanician. At the age of 53 be turned his attention
to the art in which he subsequently became famous. From
the first his success as a caricaturist was decisive.
Under Philippon he carried on, together with
Granville, TravKs, and Danmier, a bitter war against
the bourgeois government of Louis Philippe. Having
escaped from the political influence of Philippon, Gavarni
began to sketch Faris life and manners. A catalogue of
his designs would fill some thirty folio volumes. " Pos-
sessed of a fine organisation," says Champfleury, " of a
scientific mind, and acquainted with literature, Gavarni
might have been a savant, a romance writer, a poet, or a
BrurnineL But he remained Gavarni, and his work
has the elegance of the name he selected. A painter
of students, of their loves, of Blinci Pinwale, there is in
him the elements of a Believe, of a ?Russet."
It is 'elated of him that in 1849 he intended
to come to live in London, but that his
spirits all at once gave way at the spectacle
of the tenable misery he witnessed. The frequenter.,
of taverns, thieves, street-sweepers, the beggars of
St. Giles and Whitechapel, became the subjects of
his pencil, but even rags themselves acquired a
kind of dignity under his touch. It was in Paris,
however, that he del:glited, in Paris he remained,
and it is P is life in its gaiety and its pleasures that is
chiefly reflected in his light and facile compositions. He
took the name of Gavarni after • sketch by him of the
Circus of Gavarni, one of the most beautiful situations in
the Pyrenees, which appeared originally in the Etta& des

WEATHER. REPORT.-(THIS DAY.)

MONDAY, 2, OVEWBEIt 28, 8 LW.

a 17.1 W. IL 1,-.."1" W. 3r. 3to
1..-. 11 I. • D. a 9.
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Nairn
Abardesa ,29.86!9 N.W. 1 1 W. ro O.OL 1
Leith 129.94 42 W. 2 4 &W. um 0.02 1
Ardrocum. 129.96 45 W. 4 7 N.W. c 0.30 8
Greencactle 30.06 45. N.W. 2 6 N.N.W. ro 0:1 1
Valentia 30.27 49 N. 3 8 N.W. 00 0.08 3
Cape Clear I
larerpool 19.98 46 N.N.W. 2 1 W.N.W. oc 0.16 !
Holyhead
Penzance 30.1650 N.H.& 7 1 N.N.W. 0 0.17 i 6
Brest .. '3O.OS 48 N.N.W. 7 , W.N.W. rc 0.20 6
Lancet . 30.00 43 N.W. 3 1 W.N.W. eb 0.201 8
Rochefort 30.00 46 N.W. 4 1 I N.W. c 1.42 4
Plymouth
Weymouth
Pretionoath 20.9141 N.N.W. 3 N.N.W. rc 0.06 II
London -
Yarmouth 29.72 42 N. 4 i N. ,ro :0.121 1
Scarborough. 29.82 43 N. . 6 W. eb 10.131 IS
Shields 19.9343 N.N.W. ; 8 N.W. co 2
Helder — 1 - -
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REMARKS.
In the horth of Scotland the barometer fell yesterday EL! in.
Pressure has subsequently Increased rapidly, and the ',lnds have
become more northerly, but a ithout any important clet line of
temperature, The winds are still strong our the western coasts
of England, with considerable sea.