The Express.
London, England, 1866-01-08 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 8; 1866.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

ITALY.

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FLORENCE, JLN. 3.

PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING.

The impression that the revolutionary movement ,
in Spain is most serious gains ground in conse-
quence of the paucity and obscurity of official news'
from Madrid. The telegraphic despatches of the
lwit two days furnished to the newspapers are
etidently fabricated in Parte. It is well known
that the telegraphic line is not working. The in-
surgents are said to be in possession of a great
part of the railway. Escoda, an old republican of
Catalonia, has joined Prim. Letters state that no
less than three corps Warm& have been put in mo-
tion to suppress an insurrection which four days
ago was officially represented to have been insig-
nificant from the beginning, and then upon its
last legs. Saragossa was expected to pronounce.
The garrison of Malaga was known to be disaffected.
Numerous private letters confirm the statement
that Prim is strong in Arragon and Andalusia.
Barcelona will certainly rise if the movement goes
on, as there is every prospect of its doing. The
rumour runs that Burgos, on the Northern Railway
line, has declared for the insurrection. The govern-
ment had plenty of indications of what was coming,
and took the beet preventive measures they could.
Nine colonels of regiments were changed only a
fortnight ago. According to one statement, Gene-
rals Pierrard and Contreras have been arrested at
Valladolid ; this evening's Moniteur merely says
they were sent away from Madrid as being suspected.
Orders have been sent to Badajos to arrest General
Toire. It seems that the day before the insurrection
a message was sent to General Prim's house, ordering
him to come to the Ministry of War. The pleasant
answer given by his servants was that he had gone
shooting in the neighbourhood of Toledo. Colonel
Ganuda is arrested. Commandant Bustos, who,
119 I mentioned yesterday, headed the pronuncia-
mento of the Aranjuez regiment, had only joined it
by seniority eleven days ago. His loyalty had
been long suspected. Bustos was on duty in Cuba
in 1843, and then left the Spanish army for
Mexico to offer his services to Santa Anna. With
him he fought against Comonfort and Alvarez. He
afterwards was restored to his rank in Spain. He
took part in the progresaiat movement at Valencia

The welcome tidings that General Ls Marmora
has at last succeeded in constituting a cabinet are
further conhnned this morning.. The chief point,
however, the hinge of the difficulty, which as soon
as it was conquered rendered all the rest compara-
tively easy, and which, until it was overcome, ren-
dered everything impossible, was the discovery of
a finance minister willing to inherit a deficit of 600
millions. And this bold and patriotic individual
having been found in Signor Scialoja, all the rest
"goes upon wheels." How far they will continue
to run remains to be seen.

This morning, at about nine a.m., our late
Finance Minister, Signer Sells, was attacked and
hasten by a ruffian in the Piazza dell' Indipendenza.
Signor Sella happily did not receive any severe
injury. And my principal reason for mentioning
the circumstance is that it miy possibly be sup-
posed tq have had some reference to Signor Sella's
ministetial career, and to have partaken of the
nature d a manifestation of the popular feeling. It

is of seine Importance that it should be under,
stood that this was in no degree the case. The
aggressor was a common ruffian, and the outrage
might just as well have happened to any other man.
One incident of the matter, however, is worth men-
tioning for the sake of showing the efficiency of
our police and the popular notions of the privileges
of a deputy in Italy. There were near at hand a
couple of policemen, who on seeing the attack ran
up, and were on the point of arresting the fellow,
when be pulled from his pocket a card bearing the
name of "Molinari," and showing it to the officers
declared that he was a Deputy of the Chamber.
Whereupon they suffered him quietly to walk off.
Of course he was no Deputy at all. But if he had
been, conceive the notion that a Deputy is privileged
to commit assaults in the public streets

THE BOMBAY MAIL.

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last year. Narvaez is said to have offered his
military services in the emergency to his rival
O'Donnell.

The Memorial d'Amiens publishes the text—
with a slight suppression—of a letter which has
been much talked of, written by the Emperor to
M. Nothomb, the Belgian deputy, with the view, as
it has been represented, of emphatically repudiat-
ing any idea of the annexation of Belgium to
France. The passage omitted refers, the Amiens
paper says, to an entirely private matter. It must
be remembered that Napoleon 111. was a friend
of M. Nothomb a quarter of a century ago. The
letter as published is in these words :

Monsieur, -I thank you for the sierra and eloquent
words which you have pronounced in the Chamber of Re-
prosentativee. France and Belgium are sisters ; they speak
the same language, have the same interests, and the rme
history. I am convinced that Belgium will continue to
develop herself, as she has been doing ever since 1830.
NiPOLEON.
Without putting " too fine a point upon it," I
cannot help thinking that the above language will
not strike thoughtful readers as so reassuring for the
future of Belgium—so far as that future depends
upon the designs of the Emperor—as it has been
described to be.
Lord Cowley, who as already mentioned, was
prevented by tempestuous weather from crossing

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the Channel from Folkestone in time for the new

year's receptions, bad at his own request a special
audience of the Emperor yesterday, for the express
purpose of offering his Majesty the Queen's compli-
ments and best new year's wishes.
The cholera has travelled from Caen to Cher-
bourg ; but the cases are not numerous.
The following paragraph in the Pays is an indi-
cation that the government has no thought of re-
voking its legislation in the direction of free trade ;

We have very satisfactory information from our prig•
cipal iron districts. Orders How in regularly, and all the
factories are busy. The only complaint is that fuel is
scarce. In the eastern group for instance, which comprises
the Moselle, orders are so numerous that the ironotasters
cannot keep up with them. We have similar reports from St.
Dicier. la preemies of such a prosperous situation can the
partisans of the old system of prohibition still dare to say
that the commercial treaties with England and Belgium
have ruined our metallic trade ? _ _ _

The public will not, as was hoped a few days ago,
have the gratification of bearing a public lecture in
the Salle Valentino from Madame George Sand.
The following letter to Baron Taylor, containing her
reasons for retracting a promise to lecture, has been
made pnblic :
You extracted a promise from me which I cannot keep.
You and the eminent writers who seconded you were per.
suasive, atiectiooste, indulgent, irresistible; but I presumed
too much upon my powers from the wish to fulfil a duty. It
would not be right to allure the public by holding out an
attraction which I really feel incapable of justifying. Yon
would regret having got together a large meeting to look
at a timid and awkward person who would certainly break
down. My children and friends all with ooe voice exclaim
against the ides of my lecturing. They know that I have
never been able to get over a feeling of timidity and abso-
lute want of self-confidence in public. Ask me, command
me to do anything else, but not that. I trust you and the
members of the committee who honoured me with a visit
will believe that my only consolation for my incapacity
acid my defection is the souvenir of their goodness.
Nohant, Dec. 11 Crocus SAND.

The next homeward West India mail packet
will be the Tasmanian. She will be due next Sunday,
and will bring news from Jamaica up to the 25th colt.
FALMOUTH, SATURDAY.—The New York and
Rene Company's steamship Fulton, from New York on
the 23rd ult., arrived off here to-day with 20 passenger.,
31i,520/. specie, 515 bales cotton, 159 packages general cargo.
After remaining hove to off the port about an hour to land
eight pamengerr, she proceeded on her voyage for Havre.
THE CARRIAGE WORKS OF THE GREAT WRSTER3
RAILWAT.—A (tar all the speculations and misgivings as to
the transfer of the above works from Paddington to Oxford
any doubt as to the conclusion of the negotiations is now
at an end. On Friday, Mr. Daymati (the legal represen-
tative of the company in Oxford) witnessed the signing of
the deed of conveyance of Cripleymeadows between the
company and the corporation, and all that now remains to
be done is the making of an application by the company
for additional powers to enable them to purchase a few
acres of adjoining land. Against that application neither
the University nor City authorities have signified any
opposition, as the transfer arid a larger area will be
mutually beneficial. The site of the works is now entirely
submerged, together with the entire pasture district our.
rounderiog it as a consequence of the recent heavy rain-
falls, and the w►ole area is rather suggestive of a site for
navig►ble purposes than for any other, and an immense
outlay must be made before it can be rendered eligibleeither
es a manufacturing depot, or u a spot of ground upon which
the residences of the company's employis can be erected
with any regard to sanitary results. Nevertheless specu-
lator. in many parts of the city are proceeding rapidly
with the erection upon good sites of dwelling. for the ope-
retires, and as far as the occupiers of small tenements are
imocereed this is the more desirable inasmuch as the owners
of existing houses her., in anthipaties of the treader at
the works to Oxford, hare given notice to their re-
spective tenants of a rim in rent varying from 10 to 20
per ant.

By the arrival of the above mail we have advice*
from lombay to Dec. 13, and from Calcutta to
Dec. 7.
The Viceroy has now settled down at Calcutta.
Lady Lawrence had fixed the let December for the
holding of the levee and drawing-room, but it was
postponed for a few days in consequence of the
decease of a near relative of the Viceroy. With
some sections of the Calcutta public the feeling of
anger because of the treaty with Bhootan has been so
violent., that a proposal was made for the non-official
public to absent themselves from Lady Lawrence's
drawfng-room.
On' Tuesday, November the 28th, his Excel-
lency Sir Bartle Frere, K.C.8., held a grand
durbar at Belgaum, for the reception of the
Sirdars and chiefs of the Southern Maratha
country. The following first class Sirdars were
present on the occasion :—Abdool Rhyre Kban,
Nawab of Savanoor ; Dhondeerao Tatia Saheb, chief
of Sarglee ; Gunputrao Tatia Saheb, chief of Mee-
ruj ; Luxnmonrao Anna Saheb, of Meernj ; Rog-
hoonathrao Dada Saheb, chief of Koorundwar ;
Ramehanderao Appa Saheb, chief of Jamhhundee ;
Ramrao Rao Saheb, chief of Ramdoorg ; Gunpntrao
Bapoo Saheb, Venayekrao Abba Saheb, and Trim-
buckrao Abba Saheb. _ .

Th. first marriage of a native widow in the pre-
sidency of Bombay occurred on the 23rd of Novem-
ber at Bandora, near Bombay, and it is said to
have been celebrated in presence of a goodly
assembly of native gentlemen. The native who
has thus boldly set the prejudice and traditions of
his race at defiance is a pleader in the Judge's
Court at Poona, to which city the object of his choice
also belongs. The families of both are stated in
a native journal to be "equally illustrious and in-
fluential in the capital of the Peishwas." The
marriage has been followed up by a curious, but it
is believed boos Me advertisement in the columns
of the native organ already referred to. It is
headed " Wanted persons willing to marry Hindoo
Brahmin widows."
Gentlemen who have a heartfelt desire to see the pray
tics of re-marrying Hindoo Brahmin widows according to
the tenets of Hindoo religion it.trodneed are requested to
commuoicate to the office of the Indo Prakaalt the names
of persons who are willing to contract such marriages.
Noce but the name' of Chitpawno Brahmins of other than
Shandilya sod Kuhyup Gotras (tribe) need at profilist be
communicated, because the widows whose ages average
between eight and nine years belong to the Chitpawno race.
Persons desirous to contract such marriages ought to be
between the age of sixteen and twenty years, and of good
education. If not already well educated, they should at
I least be prosecuting their studies. Persons of independent
means will be preferred. but others with educatioa and
good character will not be rejected. These marriages will
be solemnised with due form and publicity.
A FRIIND OF WIDOW mAinuAci.
The Maharajah Jung Babadoor, who visited
England fourteen years ago, intends paying a
second visit very shortly. He will be accompanied
by Lieut.-Colonel Richard Lawrence.
Dr. Livingstone has been presented with 13,450r5.
(0451.) by the Bombay branch of the Royal Asiatic
Society in aid of his projected exploration of Africa.
The cattle disease has appeared in the Madras
Presidency. Upwards of 3,000 bead of horned cattle
have died of the disease, which is now raging in
Burmah, and in one or two districte it has affected
the inhabitants. Veterinary-surgeon T. Gudgeon, of
the Queen's Bays, has volunteered to go to Burmah
I to investigate the malady.
An awful tragedy has taken place at Cannanore.
The daughter of the Prime Minister of the ex-Queen
of that place had been married, and while the wed-
ding' festivities were being celebrated, the brother-
in-law of the Rajah rushed into the house, sword in
hand, and cut down the bride, her mother, and a
servant He then attacked the bridegroom and the
bride's father, but was disarmed and arrested
before he had inflicted any serious wounds. The
I Rajah has been arrested.

THE SECRETARYSHIP OP THE A DIIIRALTY. —A
correspondent of the Manchester Guardian has revived a
rnmonr of the appointment of Mr. Stausfeld, M.P. for
Halifax, to the Secretaryship of the Admiralty, end alleged
that the appointment is to be immediate, instead of waiting
for the estimates to be moved by Lewd Clarence Paget. We
believe the statement to be premature for the best of all
reavons, that the office is not vacant.—Observer.
ABANDONMENT OF THIS PROPOSED KILBURN
RAILWAY.—One of the new projects for which notices of •
bill in parliament in the Ginning session have been given wee
the construction of a branch line connecting with the Me-
tropolitan Railway at or near Baker-street station, proceed-
ing for nearly a mile is a northerly direction by the side of
the authorised Metropolitan and St. John's-wood Railway,
and then diverging north westerly, forming • junction with
the London and North Western, near its Kilburn station. It
appears, as we are informed upon good authority, that
in face of the formidable opposition, not only from
the local authorities and inhabitants, but oe the
part of the Metropolitan, sod more especially
from the St John's-wood and Hampstead Junction
Company, that its promoters have felt the utter impracti-
cability of their being likely to induce parliament to sanc-
tion their scheme J
; and that they have, therefor*, without
incurring an further expense, very wisely abandoned it.
As the St. John's-wood Company now contemplate that
which we have so frequently urged—the necessity of carry-
ing out a double instead of • single line—it was scarcely
likely that they would tolerate the attempt to introduce
that which, to a very great extent, could only be looked
upon as • competing line, with impunity. Moreover, it is
said to be ultimately • part of their own plan, by means of
• short line diverging at a point near the St John's-wood.
road westerl7 toward, the Edgware-read, to afford the
rapidly growing district of Kilburn direct railway oommuni-
catioo with the Metropolitan line.—Observer.
CRYSTAL PALACE. FIALI-A-CROWN DAY.
SATURDAY, JL.Y. 6.—Admissions on payment, 1,492 ;
ditto, by season ticks* 3,489 ; total, 4,961.