The Express.
London, England, 1859-10-04 00:00:00

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lows or Woe UNCelan& River must be dammed to keep
ones the pert, bet ft le utterly out of the question that the
isbabltaata of Ws two eau attempt it.

There is no mere dAs French Canal Company. There
are noes of ark rein here, nor do we bear of any work
brims carried ea

Tii Unita Stalsattigate Sabine end sloop of war hall*.
town sea at mem entallis.

TOE FATHER or sits PurstAot—ln several
L.ndun journals It le rated, la coesequeoce of the demise
of Viscount St. Viacent, that Baron Sinclair, in the peerage
of Scotlend. becomes the oldest peer of the realm. This is
incorrect. Field Marsha the Eon of Strafford is now the
I father of the peerage, henna been born is Jane, 1768,
I while Baron Sinclair, lately a representative peer, was born
July 30, 1768. Theme peers ere followed sacosaleely by
Bane Lyndhurst end the Earl of Gueldford, who some both
bon in 1772, sod the Bail of Jerry in 1773.—Sonnese.
I DEATH OP TUE EARL 0/f JERSLY.—Wo regret to
have to announce this even, which took place yesterday
morning at tee o'clock, at 38, Berkeley-square. The deceased
min, George Child Villiers, Viscount Villiers of Berthed.
Had Baron of 800, was born on he 19th of August, 1773.
I He entoseded to the Wenn the 22nd of August, 1805, baying
been maned on the 23rd of May, 1804, to Lilly Sarah Sophie
Few. fideat daughter of Jobs, tenth Earl of Westmorelead.
The deceased earl had seven children, two of whom are now
deed. Gong. Ammons Fredenetk, the new earl, wee horn
me the 4th of April, 1808, end monied on the 14th of July,
1841, lo Jells, sheet daughter of the late Sir Robert Pen.
Ina HIGHT HON. JAMES WILSON, IN LIVER-
/00L.—Yietterttey the Right Hon. James Wilson, visited
Liverpool mid wee met at the towe.ball by deputations from
the Past India sod China Areociatkies, end also from the
Liverpool Chamber of Critemsece. Mr. Wilson dined in the
evening with the mayor, W. Preston, 800.
The Lord Mayor of Dublin entertained at dinner
on Saturday, et the Mansion• hotter, the Irish committee of
the Oelway Atlantic !Imam Minutiae Company, the mem-
bers of No. 2 committee of the corporation, sad the directors
of the Ceryiket Wang Company, together with several of
the nobility sad gentry of Dublin. Amongst those paeans
ware the lettemisig : Lord Clnecurry, the Lord Mayor Elect,
Sir J. J. Coghill, Ben. (High Sheriff county Dahlia), Sir
1. Mersed Oniess, Bert. M.P.. C•P4a)a Boyd, R.N. (84a)
Mae. Age, Y.P. H. L. Ottieseea, Bet. D. L., J.P. ;
O'Reilly Deese, Seq., D.L. f.P. ; Colonel 8. Browsing",
Norms Roe, Beg., J.P.; A. H. Weir, Esq., hey. P.
Del!, Ike.
Cle LIGHTHOVIL—A new lighthouse is in course
of treetioa mar the ladle Arnie, in Nuetbfieet Hope, by the
commandoes of the Theater, for the purpose of eaeletteg the
purse ell the rim et night.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(TROY ova owX

PARIS, MONDAT ETZNIAO.

The Patric, which professes with great pertinacity
to have information which does not appear to have
been communicated to its more official contem-
poraries, says this evening :

- The treaty of peace., which as we announced on Saturday is
to be signed at Zurich in a very few days, will confirm the
cession of Lombardy, end regulate the amount of le debt.
Them will be three instruntente of peace, One between
France and Austria, another between France and Sardinia,
and a third between the three powers. A congress will be
called upon, as we have already said, to regular: the situa-
tion of Central Italy.

I cannot say what authority the Patric may have
for its reiterated assertion that there is to be a con-
gress, but this much is certain, that its information
if correct is very exclusive. All the other journals
speak of a congress as being postponed to the Greek
Kalends. The Preset says that the "perspective of
a congress is lost in remote vista, which becomes
daily more and more nebulous." The Opinion Na-
tio/tate considers the idea of a congress at Brussels
to have "evaporated in smoke." There may indeed
be a congress elsewhere, but, as the Berms Halle
of Hamburg remarks, months may elapse before the
powers will be agreed upon the elementary bases of
the deliberations. The Vienna corn pondent of the

latter journal asserts that King Leopold " completely
failed" in his attempt to arrange a congress, and
that things remain in the same position as they were
before his journey to Biarritz. The Presse sumo
up the existing situation as presenting this alarm-
ing dilemma :—" A congress very difficult, if not
impossible; and yet a congers indispensable."
That something or other to be called a treaty of
peace will be signed at Zurich before the Emperor's
return to Paris, I think very likely. It is reported
that a French courier arrived at Zurich lost Sitar_
day with Anal instructions for the plenipotentiaries ;
but that (contrary to the improbable statement or
the Paris, and in accordance with precedent rumour)
the treaty will be between France and Austria alone,
Piedmont having nothing to do with it. According
to this version the treaty between the two great
powers will maintain the restoration of the Grand
Dukes " in principle," from which expression I
hope it may be inferred that their restoration '• in
fact" is abandoned, and that the Lombard debt is
to be fixed at 200 millions instead of 400, which
Austria asked for. M. Beneditti, the political
director of foreign affairs has, it r. said, been sent
for to Zurich to draw up the treaty.
Some people think that the Emperor of Russia,
who you will have learned by telegraph has sum-
moned all his principal envoy■ in Europe to meet
hun at Warsaw on the 17th, intends to propose a
congress.

A letter from Algiers says that General Martini-
prey is centralising a very large force of all arms
upon the Morocco frontier, from which it is inferred
that his instructions are not merely to revenge en
accidental attack by some of the western tribes on
the French outposts, bat to take a great part in the
expedition concerted with Spain against the 11.4
pirates
I regret to announce the death of Mr. Meson, the
American minister in Path, which took place sud-
denly this morning, from en attack of apoplexy
with which he was seized during the night. He
had been long in Paris, and was much esteemed by
a large circle of acquaintances.
The Bourse was prejudicially affected by the
news of the diplomatic rupture between Rome and
Sardinia. The Rents tell 60c. for cash and 26c. for
account, closing at 69fr. 30c. and 69fr. 60c. The
fall was the more remarkable because capital is
very abundant, and two or three brokers bought up
with great avidity all the stock offered. The closing
prices were firmer than, the quotations in the middle
of the day, the Rents at one time having been quoted
at 69fr. 30c. Mobilier fell 16fr. 250. The Orleans
Railway fell 16e., Lyons, 7fr. 50c., and the other
lines about Mr.

I have been favoured with the sight of a commer-
cial•letter from the south of France, which gives
the following account of the vintage :

Nearly three-quarters of the wins crop ts now got in, and
although the greater part of the sew wine is yet In the mast,
wean in a position to forma tolerably accurate estimate of the
new vintage, both aa to quantity and quality. In the early
spring great hopes were tote:netted of an extraordinary
year. The quantity of fruit wee at least as great as in
1868. But tea white frosts in the spring, °idiom in some
pleas, and, more than all, a few Intesmily hot daps In July
which dried up a very considerable quantity of grapes, re-
duced the crop to less than half an average one. Oa Ilse
other hand, the quality of the new wines le far saperier to
anything we have seen of late years, sad will
vie with that of 1847. The red winos will have
mock body, strength, and oolour. The white wines
also promise well, but they are more backwrrd than
thetabee", and therefore we are not able to speak with
equal coetidence about them. The winos of 1858 (the cur-
rent year) were so eagerly bought up that the priest have
been rising for some time peat. The crops of many vine-
yards were purchased on the ground by anticipation. At
the peewit moment the new wines are selling for three or
four times the price which they fetched in October last year,
and we doubt whether the upward movement has yet sea
Its higbeet, for, in consequence of the excellent quality of
the wines, scarcely any me sold for distilling.

A Paris letter in the Nord says :—"A Belgian
journal ken prireuded that the Princess Clothilde was likely
to he called to the throne of Etruria, and that Prison Napo-
leon would dud in the position of Prince Consort. Patting
side altogether the denial given by the Emperor Kaneko=
to such reports, it is astonishing that any journalist as
imagine such an absurdity. When the passage detailing
this fine project was mentioned to the Princess Clothilde, she
expressed her wonder that any French writer could be so
little acquainted with the laws of France u not to know
that they did not almit fora husband, even if he had the
rank and title of a prince, each a condition of relative
inferiority. lo fact, the principle of the salic law prevails
throughout all the French legislation, and the Princes*
Clothilde, when she become the efts of Prince Napoleon,
Mame Finch, eunsequently she could not occupy a position
which that legislation does not allow women to UMW."

The Italian opera at Paris opened for the season
M Saturday night with Verdi's Traelati. Madame Pence
wee the Vitdo,ta ; Gardoui, Alfredo; and Orrazieni, Orr-
moot ; the remaining characters were respectably tilled by the
ordinary working artiste, ad the company. Madame Bored-
Mamo return@ this year to the Italian Operas. well as Alboni.
At the end of the means Tamberbk singe for a few nights, for
w►ich he IA to lw paid 49,000 fr. Badiali and &whin(
/demi) aro to do the comic business. The opera. promised
lathe programme arm:—ll Peat° Magira and Le home of
Mogan; the Cronato of Meyertater; the Refines dr Gol-
an& and !warm of Dmizetti, with the following of the
gemeral repertoire:—ll Barbiere, L'ltaliarta in Alfieri,
Semiramide, Matilde di Shabrau, Welk Go Curiae. eirri-
dente, riarnia, I Puritaxi, Capaletti c Montreal, /nee
Babas, Luria di Lammermoor, Foliate, Gauramento, La
ragiata, II 7:orator', Ligoi Ito, Erwani, dojo, Marta, II
Malrimoxio Stgreto, Loa GiorarueL

_ •
Tns NIOEMONS.—The state of things in Utah
continues to be moat disgraceful to as. Polygamy is on the
hareems there. Old men starry (?) yoga( moan by the
half-dons, and came are brown to which mother. and
daughters ere the wires to-called of the mins 'god radians.
One instance is mentioned in which • "venerable gentle-
men" has anions his wives a mother sad four daughters;
end la another a mu has Ma Ville, three of whom Sr.
Waters, and be is aboat to espouse their sister, who is bat
thirties yarn old. Of his edam wives it iv ao;statod they
ars realm. Five theasead Mantas have strived in Utah
this memos from Europe. The Mormons hare just beaten
the Gentiles in the denim of • territorial delegate to con-
gem. His name Is Hooper, and, as he bar but one wife, I
Nippon he may be called a compromise caadidatei—(Lotter
kin Datca)