The Express.
London, England, 1867-10-14 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING.

Many various dates have been given as the period
when the court was expected to return to the
Tuileries. The Gmstitutionnel of this morning
states positively that the imperial family will leave
Biarritz on the 15th. Their Majesties will set out
about 9 o'clock in the morning, breakfast at Mor-
ceux, at the buffet of the station, and arrive in
Paris the following day, a little after midnight.
Tho Emperor and Empress will pass through
Bordeaux without stopping.
A Toulon paper states that the Prince Imperial
will next year take a short maritime excursion
with the pupils of the first year of the naval school.
A grand ball to be given by the city of Paris to
the exhibitors in the palace of the Champ de
Mars, will take place at the end o: the month at
the Hotel de Ville.

News reaches Paris from Rome and Florence,
coming from all parties, those who are favourable
and those who are hostile to the movement, con-
tinuing to confirm the reiterated statement/5 that
a veritable guerilla warfare is now going on in
Italy, and that the pontifical troops are powerless
against it. Great emotion prevails throughout
the whole of the country. Public opinion calls
louder than ever for a prompt solution of the
Roman question, while the demands of a large
section of the Italian parliament require the solu-
tion to be full and final, and will not listen to any
half measures. A despatch received by the Liberti
last night says that M. Crispi has announced to
M. Rattazzi, in the name of the Left, that
the Italian parliamentary opposition is op-
posed to every compromise with France on
this question. It seems that the liberal
party would not even assent to a revision
of the' convention of September, if it were
based on the occupation of Roman territory,
excepting the city of Rome, because, by such an
arrangement, the solution of the question would
be adjourned ad injinitetm. It is thought that M.
Rattazzi will at the opening of the Chamber lose
the support of the left, and that he will find the
moderate party likewise opposed to him.
A letter from Florence says that in the midst of
the disorder and agitation which reign in Italy, the
government cannot think of issuing by way of public
subscription the whole orpart of the loan guaranteed
by the ecclesiastical property which the parliament
so lately voted. The treasury, having great diffi-
culty in meeting its engagements, has resolved
upon applying to the National Bank, the Bank of
Naples, and other banking establishments, to ob-
tain an advance of 125 millions, at what rate of
interest is not yet known. The negotiations are
said to be in an advanced stage ; and there appears,
indeed, to be no time to lose.

The Augsburg Ga;ette gives the following expla-
nation of the somewhat brusque rupture of the engagement
of the King of Bavaria with the Princess Sophia :—" This
rupture," it says, " hes taken place by muturl agreement,
the two august tiaras having come to the conviction that
there does not exist between them the sinew e inclination
and that entire harmony of heart which alone can guarantee
happiness in marriage. His majesty the King has never-
theless given instructions to endow, as he had before pro-
mised to do, out of his private purse, eight young married
couples, one for each of the eight circles of the kingdom of
Bavaria."

A letter from Pesth says that General Turr has
just paid a visit to M. Doak.

The Wins and Gloucester Standard says that the
Maharajah Dhuleep Singh has disposed of Hatherop Castle
and estates near Fairford, in Glouorsterabire, the purchaser
being Mr. Sebastian Bailey, son of Mr. Bailey, for
Manchester.

A disgraceful outrage is reported from Birmingham.
The church of St. Albans in that town has acquired • certain
notoriety on account of the ceremonial adopted in the ser-
vices, and the incumbent, Mr. Pollock, has made himself
obnoxious to the people in the neighbourhood by the "ex-
communication "of a woman. Yesterday morning, •
mob broke into the church, and stopped the service. One
account of the affair says that the rioters " mimicked the
prayers" and " raised a song."
The annual meetings of the supporters of the
Union of Lancashire and Cheshire Institutes were held in
Manchester on Saturday. Mr. Alderman Rumney pre•
sided at what may be called the business meeting in the
morning, and Mr.llazley at the distribution of prizes in the
evening. Resolutions were adopted urging the pressing
necessity for a national system of technical education,
and on this subject Mr. \V. Fairbairn remarked that
" though he had great confidence in the skill of the Engliah
working man, it was evident th►t his productions did not
compare so well with those of foreign nations as they did
twenty or thirty years ago." Dealing with the subject of
general education, Mr. Barley urged that nothing short of
a compulsory system would meet the dangers and dislical.
ties of the times.

The Stalybritlp Liberal Association, formed in
prospect of the enfranchisement of the borough, was
formally inaugurated on Saturday evening, under the pre-
sidency of Mr. J. F. Cheetharo. Mr. Ilenry Y. Thompecin
and the Hon. Auberon Herbert addressed the meeting.
Mr. Herbert is the brother of the Earl of Carnarvon, and
the chairman stated that what Mr. Herbert " saw of our
people during the cotton famine" had completely changed
his political convictions.

The Lancet report speaks of an old man who has
brought up five children on 15s. ♦ week as one of the
gardeners to the Queen, dying as an " old worker," in
other words, as a pauper servant to other paupers—in •
dreary ward of Windsor workhouse, and of another, in
the same house, who had been 30 years in the employ of
the Thames Commissioners, and brought up nine children
on similar wages !

According to a parliamentary return the Royal
Mail Company are to receive 2,000/. a year for landing the
West India mails at Plymouth.