The Express.
London, England, 1866-01-17 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, TOZBDLY EVIENT2IO._

The election for the Orne, which I may possibly
have stated was to come off bet Sunday, but which
in reality stands for Sunday next, is looked to
with more interest than any appeal to universal
suffrage since the Paris elections of 1863. It is
felt on all hands that the reactionary feeling in •
liberal sense, which then resulted in the return of
all the opposition candidates for Paris, is now per-
meeting the departments, and is rising and riming
with such force that if the dynasty is to last to
the general election of 1869, it will then, if not
sooner, be obliged to curry favour, either by a
radical reform such as even Prince Napoleon would
not now dream of, or by some grand foreign
enterprise which will pander to the French
passion for glory and distract attention from
domestic servitude. Belgium, many people think,
has a respite till 1869, when it will be felt neces-
sary to swallow her up in order to prevent an
opposition majority at the general elections,. The
following is a letter written from Argentaa in the
Orne by a person in nowise favourable to the
opposition :
The electoral struggle is much more animated now that
it is marled to two candidatures only—Baron de Mackau
sad Dake d'Audiffret Pasquier. There is a war going on
each as might have been thought scarcely compatible with
existing institutions. The walls of every town and
even the smallest village are literally covered
with bills, some of which are worded in stronger
language than we have been of late years accus-
tomed to see. The agitation pervades all classes
of society to snob an extant that we might fancy ourselves
on the English hustings. The chances of the government
candidate are very great. Baron de Meehan offers himself
under the auspices of a name which enjoys well-deserved
influence. His father, Admiral de Median, was a man of
mark in the country, and has left many sou rcnirs of the
good he did to it. His son was only adopted by govern-
ment ss the official candidate because it was thought his
local position designated him to the suffrages of the electors.
Against any other opponent than Duke d'Audiffret Pasquier
the success of If. de Madan would have been certain.

I can hardly give you a better idea of the state
of the Parisian mind in regard to Spanish news
than by quoting the following paragraph from the
government journal, the Pays :

The sews Wein Spaiii amount to nothing. According to
the telegraph. Prim in still flying in the direction of Portu-
gal ; but we would humbly observe that, after flying for
so long, the Count de Roue must by this time have arrived
somewhere or other, and that the official accounts of his
iuovemsnk are anything but eider.

There is great reason to think that the Emperor's
speech at the opening of the Chambers, on the
22nd, will contain some decisive announcement—
or, at least, some announcement meant to be un-
derstood as decisive—on the subject of Mexico.
The real great object now is to get out of a bad
business with as little loss of dignity as possible.
Government writers beg and pray in really piteous
accents that neither the opposition nor the Ameri-
can government will do anything to augment the
difficulty which France feels in withdrawing from
an expedition which has cost so much blood and
treasure, and which has so manifestly failed. M.
Forciide, in the Rerue des Deus: Months,
recommends " moderation to the opposition."
But this review, not being written in a govern-
mental point of view, sternly calls for a full state-
ment of the sums spent and the number of men
lost from the beginning, and au exposition of the
actual financial state of the Mexican empire. It
also wants to know was what the real object of the
war from thu first, and what has been done towards
liquidating the claims of those French creditors of
Mexico whose interests were said formerly to Lave
prompted the expedition. All corresrondenos on
the subject with the United States is also called
for by the Rerue des Deus. Mondes.
There will be a fancy ball at the Tuileries on
January 31. The second full dress ball is fixed
for February 7. As already stated, the first takes
place to-morrow, the 17th.
The Bourse was decidedly heavy. The quota-
tions of Consuls did not come to hand. Rents
closed, fur account, with a fall of 121 c., at 6Sfr. 45c.
Mobilier fell 2fr. 50c.

The monument to the late Joseph Locke, at
Barnsley, which has foe some time past been ea its pedestal
in the Locke-park, Barnsley, will be inaugurated to-marrow
by Lord Alfred Paget.
THE NORTH LONDON MUSEVM.—A public meet-
ing was held last evening at Myddelton-hall, Upper-street,
Isliogton, for the purpose of adopting measures for the
formation of a museum on the principle of the South
Kensiogton Museum for North London. The meeting,
which was numerously attended, was presided over by Mr.
Harvey, who stated that the objects which would be
embraced by the proposed museum were, in the first place,
science illustrated by the most novel poetical and popular
applications; second, the arts of design and decoration.
illustrated by those examples which might best tend to
raise the standard cf taste and artistic refinement, and to
show the progress of art workmanship in this and other
countries ; third, technical and inventive industry • and,
fourth, domestic and sanitary, eoonomy, for the furtherance
of health and comfort, and with a view to improving and
turning to the best account the common things of every-
day life. On the motion of Mr. Lucraft, seconded by Mr.
Torreus, M.P., a resolution was adopted to the effect that
in the opinion of the meeting it was desirable to form a
Museum for North London of Art, Science, Industry, and
Domestic Economy. Another resolution was also passed,
requesting the representatives of the borough to support in
parliament the views of the meeting as expressed in the
previous resolution, and an influential committee was ap-
pointed to carry out the object.
THE HEALTH OF LONDON.—The return issued
by authority of the Registrar-General states that in the week
that ended on Saturday, January 13, the births registered in
London and twelve other large towns of the United King-
dom were 3,205 ; the deaths registered 3,453. The annual
rate of mortality wain per 1.000 persons living. In London
the births of 967 boys and 961 girls, in all 1,928 children,
were registered in the week. In the corresponding weeks of
ten years 1856-65 the average number, corrected for in-
-1 MM. of population, was 2,045. The deaths registered in
London during the week were 1,506. It was the second
week of the year ; and the average number of deaths for
1 that week is, with a correction for increase of pomp
lotion, 1,675. Tne deaths returned for last week
are leas by 169 than the number obtained by calculation.
The most fatal diseases in the zymotio class at the present
time an whooping cough and typhus, each of which is re-
turned
as having caused 72 deaths in the week. Typhus
was fatal in live cores in the sob-district of Poplar, and in
1 four in that of Battersea. Whooping cough was chiefly '
fatal in the east districts, where almost halt of the total
Dumber of deaths from that &ease occurred. There were
170 deaths from phthisis (or consumption), 201 from
bronchitis, 100 from pneumonia. On 3rd January, at 20,
Lizard-street, City-road, the wife of slaw writer, aged 42
years, died of inflammation of the lungs, accelerated by
exposure and insufficient covering by day or night. On
Deo. 26, at 31, Surnmerford-street. Bethaal-green, a
box-maker, aged 70 years, died of fines* of the heart,
accelerated by want of sufficient food and other necessaries.
The following 3 deaths from earriage accidents he the streets
were registered in the week :—An engineer, aged 59 yews,
! run over. Died on 4th January at 25, Montague-street,
1 Burnell-square. The wife of a general dealer. aged 43 yeah,
run run over by a van. Died nth December in the
Free Hospital. A potato salesman, aged 20 Paw, "111
I
i over. Died at the 6th January in Spitalfiekle The as-
; nual rate of mortality last week was 26 per 1,000 in Lon-
' don, 26 in Edinburgh, and 31 in Dublin • 42 In Liverpool,
34 in Manchester, 31 in Belford, 31 in Birmingham, 37
in Leeds, 29 in Sheffield, 32 in Bristol, 29 in Newsier
on-Tyne, 29 in Hull, and 33 in Glasgow. The rate in
Vienna was 30 per 1,000 dieing the wear ending the 6th
iost, When the temperature was 13.7 Fahreehilit lower
than in the same emir in London. when the rate was 26
per 1,000.