The Express.
London, England, 1866-03-05 00:00:00

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

(surrEes snacssmEs.)
THE CORPS LEGIBLATIP.

PARIS, Ithaca 3.
To-day in the Corps Legislatif the Committee
proposed the addition of the following paragraph to
the address in the reply to the speech from the
throne :—" We give our adhesion to the policy
followed by the Emperor towards Germany. This
policy of neutrality, which does not leave France
indifferent to events, is agreeable to our interests."
U. Jules Fevre and others proposed an amend-
ment, the object of which was explained
by MM. Fevre and Emile 011ivier M.
Rouher said the government accepted the
paragraph as drawn up by the committee, since it
approved the policy of the government, and at the
same time reserved its liberty of action in the
future. The amendment proposed by K Fevre
was then rejected by 218 against 21 votes. Another
amendment, demanding that the inhabitants of the
Duchies should be consulted relative to their go-
vernment, was rejected by 215 against 30 votes.
The paragraph, as proposed by the committee, was
then adopted by 238 against 14 votes.

ROUMANIA.

BUCHAREST, MAWR 4;

The National Assembly has approved the project
for a national loan. The success of the loan appears
to be assured, several bankers having alret.dy sub-
scribed for large amounts. The bills organising the
civic guard, and calling out 4,000 men for military
service, have been taken into immediate considera-
tion by the Assembly. All unconstitutional con-
osesions granted under the late Government have
been referred to the Senate for examination. To-
morrow a bill will be laid before the National As-
sembly for the separation of church and state, and
the complete independence of the former.

AUSTRIA AND PRUSSIA.
RLYBURG, MAR= 4.

Great uneasiness prevails here, in consequence of
the rumours of • probable collision between Austria
and Prussia on the question of the Duchies.

THE ITALIAN PARLIAMENT.
FLORENCE, lidos 3.

The Chamber of Deputies to-day adopted the
treaty of commerce between Italy and the Zoll-
verein by 186 against 16 votes. The Senate passed
the bill for the abolition of the office of Sub-Prefect
throughout the kingdom by 68 against 20 votes.

PORTUGAL

PARIS. litAzoic 4.

A telegram received here from Lisbon stake that
the Chamber of Deputies has approved the new
railway contract concluded by the government with
Senor Salamanca.

THE BRAZIL AND RIVER PLATE MAILS.
SOUTHAMPTON, %Awn 4.

The Royal Mail Company's steamship Rhone,
with the above mails, passed the Needles at
10.50 p.m.

INDIAN APPOlN'rltinCll.—Tbe Queen has been
grantondy pleased to make the following appointmeats,
viz.:—Mr. Justice Couch, see of the judges of the High
Court at Bombay, to be chief justice of the said court ; Sir
Charles Sargent, Hot, to be a judge of the High Court at
Bombay; Mr. William Markby, berrister•at•law, to be a'
judge of the High Court at Calcutta ; Mr. Charles Collett,
of the Madras Civil Service, to be a judge of the High
Court at Madras ; Mr. Justice Morgan, now a judge of the
High Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal, to be
chief justice of the High Court for the Nortk•Weetera Pro-
visos' of the presideaoy of Fort William ; aad Mr. Abeam-.
der Roes, Mr. William Edwards, Mr. William Roberts, and
Mr. Francis Boyle Pearson, all of the Bawd Civil Service,
and Mr. Charles Arthur Turner, barrister-at-law, to be
judges if the mid High Court for the North•Westera Pro.
vinoss.

Ansrvaza ow AMERICAN BYEAMEIIB.—The Royal
Mail steamship Aturtralselan, from New 'York on the 21st
ult., arrived at Queenstown at 3.30 p.m. on Saturday. She
brinp 59 passeepra. She landed nails, psneogers, sad
telegrams, and prooseded at 3.40 p.m. ; all well. She ex-
perished easterly winds throughout the passage. The
extra lamas steamship City of Oork, from New York on
the 15th ult., also arrived off Holyhead at 11.30 a.m. The
National Steam Navigation Company's sorew steamer Hel-
vetia arrived off Queenstown from New York at 1 o'clock
a.m., on Saturday. She had 16 cabin and 43 steerage pas-
sengers. Havieg landed 11 pansespn, she proceeded for
Liverpool at 1.30 a.m.; all wall. . .

There being at present 11 vacant cardinals' hats
to complete the 70 which form the complex of the
Sacred College, it is decided to place six of them on the
heads of the following prelates st the ensuing Jane Cop-
ulatory : Monsignori Mettenoel, ex-governor of Rome;
Hohenlohe, the Pope's almoner; Chigi, Papal nuncio at
Parte, when be will be imeceeded by Monsignors Franchi ;
Manning, Archbishop of Westminster; Lynch, Bishop of
Charleston, and a Mexican prelate.
. .

The Pope, it is said, has been displeased by
the publicity given to the Italian tendencies of the young
Roams noblemen who dined together during the carnival,
and drank to the health of Victor Emmanuel sad his
speedy arrival at the sapid. Irritated, also, at the &a-
loyalty of these scions of the principal patrician families,
and disregarding the excuses made by their respective sires.
Pio Nono would have sailed the offenders summarily had
not Cardinal intonslii demonstrated the impolicy of such
as set at the present moment, sad counselled the milder
obsstisemeat of a week's spiritual exercise in some con-
cept. "The young prises, however," writes the =re-
spondent of the Post, "hays shown themselves reale:Went
to the paternal rod, even in this mitigated form ; sad, as
they obstinately refuse to enter the silent cloisters, their
misdemeanour will be most likely overlooked as a rogazzota,
at the earnest entreaties of their well-affected parents."

Mr. Foote, the ex-Confederate senator, has just
published a book respecting the Confederate secession. In
it is the following passage :—" It is really astonishing to
hear that men in this enlightened age should for a mo-
ment hesitate in redard to the propriety of allowing per-
sons of African descent to testify in oonrts of justice,
especially in cases when their own life, Ilerty or pro-
perty, are involved. . . . it is heartlessly unjust to the
black man to eased that he is less a respecter of truth,
and lees inclined to the exercise of justice than the white
man. I base lived among th's rote all my life, and what I
now say on this subject, is the fruit of more than half a
century's experience sod observation."
The third annual meeting of the Metropolitan
Association for Promoting the Education of Adults, which
now enjoys the patronage of the Prince and Princess of
Wales, took place on Saturday is the Theatre of the Society
of Arta, John-street, Abelphi. Berl Glaximmtn, the pre-
sident of the association, was announced to preside, but in
consequence of his lordship being compelled to attend a
meeting of the Privy Council, the chair was occupied by
the Bight Hos. H. A. Bruce, who was supported by Sir
Thomas Phillips, Sir Praneis daadford, the Sew. It. Sitter,
Idr. Many Chester, Mr. Slaw, the Rev. Kr. Oakley, sad .1
other gentlemen canner:bed with the educational movement.
Letters :were read from the Bishop of Winchester, the
I Archbishop of Caaterbury, Sir J. Hay Shuttleworth, Viee-
Clianeellew Wood, and a amber of other noblemen and
gentlemen, expressing regret at tioaroideble sinews.
RIPIMINTATION or Kraat.—Captain H. A.
Herbert has intimated his intimation of seeking the rope,-
esslation of thin county, is the room of his deceased father
the Right Hoe. Colossi Herbert.Y.P. He wilt act issue
. his Wirer to the electose until the blued of his father.—
Cork Heroki.