The Express.
London, England, 1866-10-04 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, Oct. 4.

By order of the Emperor Generals Vaubert de
Geniis and Jav6 have proceeded, one to the Loire
and the other to the Allier, to examine the scene of
the devastation caused by the recent inundations.
They are also empowered to distribute aid amongst
the most necessitous.

BELGIUM.

BRUSSELS, Ocr. 4.

The li:ng has nominated the Lord Mayor of
London a Commander of the Order of Leopold as a
mark of his satisfaction at the reoeption afforded to
him by the Corporation.

SPAIN.
MADRID, Ocr. 3, EVENING.

The Governor of Madrid has hurtled a circular,
in which he announces that tranquillity has been
established, and praises the zeal of the authorities.
The Pemsamiento of to-day says that measures
will shortly be promulgated consolidating public
order and regulating the freedom of the press with-
out preventing legitimate manifestations of public
opinion.
EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

WIDNLSDAY EVI.NTNO.

The following are some diplomatic changes under- I
stood to have been made by the Marquis de Mous-
tier on his taking possession of the portfolio of
foreign affairs :—The Marquis de Banneville, now
" director of political affairs " in the Foreign-office,
will go to Rome to relieve M. de Sartiges, who is
appointed to replace M. Benedetti as ambassador at
Berlin. M. Benedetti, now in Paris, will certainly
take the Marquis de Moustier's vacant place at
Constantinople. Baron de Malaret, now at Flo-
rence, is designated as the successor of the late
Marquis Turgot at Berne. The new Italian " am-
bassador " is, I believe, not yet named.

The first instance of the enforcement of the new
law of June, 27, 1866, for the punishment of crimes
and misdemeanours committed by Frenchmen in
foreign countries, and which, being regarded as a
political snare, was hotly opposed by a large mi-
nority of the Corps Legialatif, has occurred before
a court-martial at Lille, and under circumstances
not likely to provoke remonstrance. Three men
of bad character in the 6th regiment of the line,
quartered at Lille, crossed the Belgian frontier,
went to a tavern, got drunk, refused to pay the
reckoning, broke windows, and went a long way
towards breaking heads. On the complaint of the
Belgian gendarmerie they were placed under arrest
at Lille. The court-martial has sentenced two of
them to a year's imprisonment, and the third,
whose offence was complicated by the additional
charge of striking a French corporal after his
arrest—a crime for which he might have been
shot—is condemned to hard labour for ten years.
There is much in the evening papers about the
late journalists' duel and a great deal more than
would be interesting to English readers. These
fighting gentlemen presume too much upon
the long vacation when they suppose the
slightest details of their very ridiculous quarrels
worthy of publication. lam happy, however, to
mention that M. Sarcey is not likely to loae his
eye. A medical certificate states that M. Clement
Duvernois' sword penetrated exactly a centimetre
and a half (something like half an inch) between
" the orbit and the ocular globe without touching
the latter." M. Sarcey has taken a carriage siting
to-day. _ _

M.Arnould, one of M. Sarcey's seconds in the
abortive duel with M. Pessard, has sent a challenge
to M. Clement Duvernois, which he, albeit a
fighting man par excellence, refuses for a great
many extremely complicated reasons, the most im-
portant of which are that the earns Belli alleged
against him would involve the necessity of his
fighting every one of the writers in the Opinion
Nationale until somebody killed him.
The Bourse continues to decline slowly. Rents
fell 10c. for cash and i c. for account, closing at
69fr. 15c. and 69fr. 20c. Italian fell 65c., Mobilier
11fr. 20c., and Credit Fonder 2fr. 50c.

In Hanover the change of rulers is becoming
everywhere manifest. The arms of the Guelphs and all the
insignia of the dynasty, those even which were placed over
the royal box in the theatre, have been removed. The
Prussian flag has eveifwbere replaced Hanoverian colours,
—the latter even floating over the palace lately occupied
by the Queen. _ _ .

According to the Cologne Gazette the Prussian
military employee who have not found occupation in the
civil functions which they filled before the war, wiD receive
half-pay for three months.
.... . .

Tiere are now growing nearly one million
cinchona trees mil the Neilgherry hills in India, some of
which have reached the height of seventeen feet. It was
but • very few years wince the first cinchona trees were
transplanted from Peru to India. Thom trees produce
the famous Jesuits or Peruvian bark, front which the
medicinal specific for the cure of fever is derived.
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The Bombay papers state that a telegram reached
Kurraohee, in the Indira Ocean, from America in one day
sixteen hours, and this telegram was six days in nothing
Bombay from Kurrachee.