The Express.
London, England, 1866-11-30 00:00:00

FRANCE.

Count Lallemand and M. Noel have been ap-
pointed French ministers to China and the Argen-
tine Confederation respectively.

ITALY.
FLORENCE, Nov. 30.
General Fleury will shortly leave this capital for
Rome.
The Nazione of to-day declares the rumours pub-
lished by the Florence journals relative to the
projected mission of Signor Vegezzi to Rome, to be
premature.

ALARMING ACCIDENT AT CHATHAM.

(THIS DAY.)

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
(raox oua OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
CHATHAM, FRIDAY.

An alarming accident occurred at the Royal
Marine Barracks this morning, by which a number of
workmen were seriously injured. At the rear of the barracks
a considerable space is being covered over with an iron
and glass roof for the purposes of a drill shed. From some
cause which at present seems inexplicable the roof for
some distance gave way, bringing down the massive iron
girders and beams, leaving only the walls anti pillars
standing, and carrying with them the workmen employed
on the works at the time. Niue of the workmen were more
I or leas seriously injured, and these were at once conveyed
to the hospital at Melville, the other workmen having only
received trifling injuries. An investigation into the cause
of the disaster has been ordered by the authorities.

At the theatrical performance given at Com-
piegne this week, the Empress Eugenie wore a headdress
with a white plume, fastened by a crescent in diamonds,
and a magnificent dress of white silk brocaded with
flowers and trimmed with ornaments of green velvet.
Her Majesty's earrings, necklace, bracelets, and clasps,
were of the most beautiful diamonds. The ladies of the
court appeared in the most costly toilettes.
Thedailyconsumption of oysters in Paris amounts
to upwards of three quarters of a million (which reach the
capital in something like 6,000 baskets, each of which
I contains a gross), and furnishes altogether on an average
TILE PRINCE ANI) PRINcEss (IF Wat. Es.--
The half an oyster per head of the population. The number
visit of the Prim e and princess of Wales to Sir E. C. Kepi- I of snails,
" now so favourite an edible with the Parisian
son, M.P., and Lady Caroline Kerrison, at Brome-ball, gourmands," says Gafignani, "as to have thrown the frog,
Sutfolk,haa been postpoued to Monday week. Tuesday next
the national delicacy par excellence, completely into the
was the day originally appointed for the visit, but as the I shade—brought daily to the Paris market is not so easily
Prince is not expectedtoreturn from Russia until Saturday, ' ascertained ;
;
all one knows is that from Burgundy and
a slight delay has taken place. The arrangements for the Champagne, the great snail-producing districts, upwards
reception of the prince are still in a very incomplete state, ' of 100,000 are despatched to Paris every day."
and beyond the probability that he will alight at the Diu Gavarni, the late French artist, was passionate
station of the Great Eastern Railway, and that he will be
for aerostatics, and like Leonardo do Vinci, had the con-
escorted thence to Brome-hall, little or nothing is known.
; viction that aviation, or the fly of the bird, was the prin.
The visit of the prince and princess is not expected to ex-
ciple and the alpha of aerial locomotion. He spent the
tend beyond two or three dayr. I last ten years of his existence in experiments and studies
Their Royal Highnesaes the Duke and Duchess I on the length of the wing and its level, and he con-
de Chartres have arrived at the Clarendon Hotel from ; structed many apparatuses which never answered.
Woodnorton. I A Berlin correspondent writes:—" Two years
The Duke and Duchess of Wellington have en- ago a society was established in Berlin, the rce:ubers of
tertained a select party at Strathfieldsaye during the week. which agreed to preserve all the points of their cigars,
The Earl and Countess of Carnarvon leave town instead of biting them off and throwing them away.
towards the end of next week for Highdere Castle, near These ends are collected, and then sold in large quan-
Newbury. ' titles, either for the manufacture of snuff or for smoking
Yesterday the Ludy Adeliza Hervey, sister of in pipes. The sum thus raised is applied the maintenance
the present, and eldest daughter of the late, Marquis of and education of orphans, and some idea of the extent of
Bristol, was married to Viscount Dunlo, eldest son of the the society, and the intensity of its affection for the weed,
Earl of Clancarty, in the parish church of Ixworth, near may be gained from the fact that the cigar ends of two
Bury St. E hounds, Suffolk, in which parish the marquis's years' saving have brought in a sufficient stun for the main-
seat is situated. The ceremony was performed by the tenance of twenty-two children. Such a society might be
Ven. Lord Arthur Hervey, and the Hon. and Rev. Lord established in London to support an hospital for persons
Charles Hervey, uncles to the bride. suffering from the deleterious effects of excessive
We (Post) understand that Mr. Francis Beilby smoking."
Alston is appointed to succeed Mr. G Lenox-Conyngham • The French government is asked by the South
as chief clerk of the Foreign-office. Mr. Alston core- Eastern Railway Company, to suspend the baggage search-
menced his probationary career in the diplomatic service Mg in Paris during the Exhibition of 1867. The South
in December, 1839, and attained the rank of senior clerk Eastern Company have reduced the time of travelling
in April, 1857. • between Paris and London to ten hours, and the waste of
Mr. R. C. Banbury says that arrangements aro time involved in the existing system of baggage transit and
being made for a meeting of the laity, under the presidency search is estimated at half an hour on the average.
of a distinguished nobleman, to consider what steps should i The Mandicster Exam;ner publishes a correspon-
be taken to put a stop to the "pernicious nonsense" in dance between Mr. Mills, the manager to Messrs. Bright
the church of Eir,laud. and Co., and Mr. Harris, of Bradford. Mr. Harris a short
Sir J. T. Coleridge, the late judge, writing of time ago was reported to have stated at a conservative
the proposed Keble College, says he believes he is not far dinner that, while Lord Derby subscribed largely to the
wrong in laying down thus much with regard to it : fund for the relief of distress during the cotton famine,
"We shall encourage simple and economical habits by and attended regularly at the meetings of the cora-
example, precept, and rule, by the size and the furnishing 'suttee, Mr. Bright did nothing. Mr. Mills says,
of our rooms, by a common breakfast in hall, and the for- " I now have to inform you that the firm of
biddance of breakfast parties ; but our ball dinners will be which Mr. Bright is &member gave as large a sum to the
like those of other colleges, and we shall not discourage Rochdale Relief Fund as any other firm in the town, and
that intercourse which now subsists usefully between men have the authority of the gentleman who was chairman of
of different colleges, nor the moderate use of wine We the committee here, for saying that throughout the whole
shall pursue the usual course of university studies, of that period he had only t. ask Mr. Bright to have what
with perhaps, a larger admixture of religious instruction. he wanted. At the same time he and his partners were
Our students' rooms will he smaller, and the architecture dispensing numerous bounties of which the outer world
of them and of the residences of our principal and tutors knew nothing." Mr. Harris, called upon for an explana.
may be simpler than that of other colleges ; but we hope tion, denies the right of Mr. Mills to ask an explanation,
to have a spacious and handsome chapel, hall, and library. but says the word " nothing," representing what Mr.
We do not expect to enrol the sons of noblemen, great Bright had given, was not his, hut the response of the
proprietors, or rich manufacturers, but we hope for a very audience when he asked what Mr. Bright had done.
large proportion of liberally educatel sons of gentlemen ; A combination of working men, of an unusual
and we trust that our young men, if they be known as kind, has been formed in connection with the Stavelcy
poorer than others. will yet be able to hold their own in Colliery at which a strike, promoted by the recently
the university by their numbers, their busting, and their formed trade union for the midland counties, has been
proficiency." going on some weeks. A number of the men are opposed
The Prince of Augustenburg has sold his chateau to the union, and at a meeting held the other night they
of Dalsig. in Lusatia, and is going to quit Germany with resolved to form a " non-union society," and nearly
all his family and .ettle at Geneva. He is at this moment 100 members were enrolled.
SURPLCSODI AND SINKING FCNT9. lat Coburg, and had addressed himself to the duke there to A PANACEA FOR NATIONAL CALAMTTIES. The
Mr. Dudley Baxter writes to the Times in defence of his i obtain his intermediation with the King of Prussia for an people also has its sorrows ; may we add, its claims? Thu
suggestion for making railways a sinking fund for the appanage, in return for which he would renounce his year has been a sad one : murrain among the herds, pep
national debt ; hut the Times tells him there is no way claim to the Duchies. The Prince Royal of Prussia is said pitioustoe isnumourmegrre:ltsintioews,
tliNe commercial
eery gravest politiaenaluaule-
of paying off debts, except by surpluses. Sicking to be favourable to the application, and he proposes ties—all these gave afflicted us by turns ; and all these we
funds, terminable annuities, and the like, are only so ,to grant an annual income of 100,000 thalers (3fr. 73e. could bear better if the Queen were to resume her old
much machinery for hiding from the House of Commons' each). position.--Doily Myosin&

receive for that vessel full belligerent recognition, en-
titling it to take shelter in and procure coal and supplies
from neutral ports. It must be remembered that we could
nut now, as in former wars, give protection by the system I
of convoys, for a single fast steamer could find its oppor-
tunity to get by day or night into the centre of the fleet
under convoy, and when there, a single shell, at almost
any range, would suffice to sink or burn the stoutest wooden
1 merchantman, or to destroy the crew and cargo of an iron
ship. The Federals adopted as their sole remedy the
selling of their commercial marine to neutrals, and such
will be the fate of our own merchant ships in a time of
war, unless the principle is previously accepted of the im-
munity of trading vessels from capture by a belligerent.
No nation has such an interest as we have to adopt and
to recommend this rule, and the Daily Nara trusts that
the commission which is to consider the present state 4,1
international law will be sufficiently well advis.d. in
respect of naval practices to see the necessity and recom-
-1 mend the speedy adoption of the change which our altered
circumstances demand.