The Express.
London, England, 1856-11-10 00:00:00

ENGLAND AND PERSIA.

The English expedition—says a French dispatch—
es' to leave Bombay about the end of October.

The Epsom of Muscat would furnish reinforce-
ments and munitions of war.

Ferakh•Bhan, the Persian Ambassador, ie engag
ing European officere at Constantinople for the service
of his sovereign.

TURKEY.

The diplomatic sittings, for the examination of
the Firmans relative to the Principe Hies, have com-
menced.

Accounts from Alexandria of the 20th ult., state
that two new lines of steamers are about to be organ-
ised to navigate, one between Suez and Arabia, and
the other between Suez and Australia.

Said Pacha was about to leave for Upper Egypt
with 12,000 men,—his object being to make safe his
authority in that province, and put a chcck to the
encroachments of the King of Abyuicia.

FRANCE.

(PROM OMR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, Sur:DAT EVENING.
This afternoon the Emperor and Empress left
Compiegne, and returned to St. Cloud.
The Bourse yesterday was again heavy. The Rents
closed at Friday's prices both for cash and account,
after having been somewhat lower, but there was a
further very he►vy fall in railways. Northern fell
20f., Orleans 12f. 30e„ Lyons la., Mediterranean
40f., and Grand Central 15f. Credit Mobilier fell
32f. 50e.

The Union contains the following :—" The muni-
cipal council of Paris has fixed the Ist January next
for the period when the entrance to the Bourse will
be subjected to a fee. It is said that the syndicat
of the agents de change bee drawn up a petition to
the Minister of Finance, in which the inconveniences
of this proposed system are enutneratee."
I mentioned two or three days since that some
friends of the late Mr. Alfred C. Brettell entertaining
suspicions that the cause of his death had not been
truly stated, bad applied to the Procureur Imperial
for a post mortem examination. The funeral took
place before any order on the subject was made. Bat
the result of a judicial inquiry has so far confirmed
the grounds for suspicion that the authorities have
thought it right to have the body exhumed. A post
martens examination was made this day by Dr. Tar-
dieu, the eminent surgeon usually employed in such
cases, and the contents of the stomach, the heart,
liver, and lungs, enclosed in two sealed jars, have
been taken away to be examined. The subject
causes so much excitement among the English resi-
dents of the Faabourg St. Honore, and is so generally
talked of that I no longer fear to prejudice any one
by giving an outline ot the case as it has been repro.
seated to me. Mr. Brettell was a gentleman of large
fortune, amounting, as some say, to 60,0001., and as
others say, to 100,0001. The whole ot this forties is
understood to be left by will to an English lady, now
in Paris, who was no relation to the deceased. He
was in a bad state of body, owing to intemperate
habise,acd it appears that he was shaken and injured
a good deal by the fall from the box of his carriage,
which occurred, not at Chantilly, as stated by mis-
take, but on the Lamarche race-course. After that
accident he was taken home and placed under
the care of his ordinary medical attendant, Dr.
M'Carthy, an English eubject, but • ►icensed
member of the French Faculty of Medicine. He got
considerably better, and Dr. M'Carthy did not
consider him in any immediate danger. However,
whether by his own wish or not I have not heard, a
Dr. Jones, who it seems had attended him on pre-
vious occasions, woe sent for by telegraph from
London, and it is alleged that Dr. Jones prom eded to
treat him without putting himself in communication
with Dr. M'Carthy, which it is said, acoording to the
medical etiquette usually observed, he ought to have
done. This Dr. Jones administered to the patient a
white powder which he took from his waist-
coat pocket, and two hour, after taking this
powder Mr. Beattie died. Now, the circumstances
which are considered to call for explanation
on the part of Dr. Jones are that he at first signed a
certificate that the deceased had died from epilepsy,
that he subsequently stated that he and Dr. SliCerthy
were both prepared to certify that concussion of the
brain was the cause of death (the fact being that Dr.
M'Carthy declines to concur in any such cert.ficate),
that he has on several occasions admitted that the
medicine he administered to Mr. Brettle was a most
potent one, and that when pressed to say what it was,
his only answer is, " I hat is my acre•." On to leg
interrogated by the commissary of police, and asked to
produce a specimen), of the powder, he said he had none
left, but he finally wrote a presc:iption for mekiitif it tin.
Although the circumstances certainly c.. 11 'or .' at
thorough investigation which they will tee, .
cannot help thinking that it will turn t--u' tt.,.! a. , tr.
has been r.o wilful poisouiog in the case. I'
meantime Dr. Jones has been ordered not to `:arc
Feria, and is under surveillance.

The statue of the Duke Chalets de Mecklenburg,
father of the late Qoeen L^uise, was stolen a few nights
sines tram the gardeu at Potsdam. The metal wts stolen
from the original thief, and both the fellows were dine-
Tired through the isle of the metal at a very low price.

Oue of the piece• placed before the court at Com-
piegne was called "The Nosy Toilettes." The entry upon
the stage of Mollie. Deiaporte, in an sero.tatic dress of
sivaral yards' cire•o&reneo, was the signal for • uni-
versal buret of laughter. _ _

The Roman correspondent of the Brumeis Lae.
petulance says it is clear that Admiral Deeds@ selected the
meets °lvry and Cent►ur for the trip to C:vita Vecchia,
ea account of the many Boman Catholic officen on board.
The sovereign Pontiff hes received these gentlemen with
special kindness. There has been kiming of feet and pre •
ceatattoa of chaplet' blessed by the Holy Father. Impor-
tant indulgence' an "Molted to then choplen."
The Vienna correspondent of the Inclei)entionee
Beige says it is biyood doubt 'bat since the publication of
eoneordat, numerous persons in Santa, Moravia, sad
Bohemia, have *abroad the reformed religion. A mom
published in the north et Germany says that 11. de 11—,
one of the richest manufacturers la Iluagary, his embraced

the evimplieal reliant, together with 300 of tie workmen.