The Express.
London, England, 1867-02-02 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, FIB. 2.

M. Marino Papadopoulo Vreto, a Greek publi-
cist, has been nominated chevalier of the Legion of
Honour.

RUSSIA.
ST. PETERSBURG, FEB. 2.

The concession for the railway from Kursk to
Kier has been granted to Messrs. Merck Dolgo-
rucki. The length of the new line is to be 438
versts. The capital for the formation of the com-
pany is fixed at 41 million roubles, and the shares
will be issued in pounds sterling, francs, thalers,
and Dutch florins.

DENMARK.
COPENHAGEN. FEB. 2.

It is understood that Prince John will leave
this capital to-morrow for Athens, to undertake
the duties of Regent during the absence of the
King. Immediately upon his arrival King George
will start upon his visit to Copenhagen.

SYRIA.
MARSEILLES, FEB. 2.

Advices received here from Beyrouth to the
23rd ult., state that France has obtained the resti-
tution of the confiscated property of Joseph
Karam, and a general amnesty for the Maronites.
Joseph Karam had entered Beyrouth with the
French Consul-General, when the population, it is
added, raised shouts for France and the Emperor.
Joseph Karam had visited the foreign consuls, and
had left Beyrouth with hie friends for Algeria,
where he will in future reside.

INDIA AND CHINA MAILS.
MARSEILLIO, FEB. 1.
The Menageries Imp4riales steamer Said, with
the above mails, arrived here at noon to-day.

THE BRAZIL MAIL.
SOUTHAMPTON, Fes. 2.
The Royal Mail Company's steamship Oneida
arrived off the Needles at 11.25 a.m.

AMERICA.

QUEESTOWN, FEB. 2.

The Royal Mail steamship Persia, from New
York on the 23rd ult., arrived here at 1 a.m. to-
day with 69 passengers and 76,220 dole. in specie.
She landed all the mails, except those for Liverpool
and Scotland, and proceeded for Liverpool at 1.20
a.m. All well.

NEW YORK, JAN. 23, MORNING.

Resolutions have been introduced in the House
of Representatives declaring that civil State go-
vernments do not exist in the South, and that the
South is not entitled to a voice in ratifying consti-
tutional amendments.

The Supreme Court of Alabama has decided that
Alabama was de facto a government under the Con.
federacy.

It is reported that a serious difficulty has arisen
between President Mosquera, of Columbia, and
Mr. Burton, the United States minister to that
republic. The latter had demanded his passports.
A meeting in aid of the Cretans was held yester-
day in New York, at which the mayor, Mr. Hoff-
man, presided. Funds and clothing were sub-
scribed.

The Indians in the Western plains are becoming
warlike and troublesome, and have recently perpe-
trated numerous assassinations.
N. P. Willis is dead.
Two more Fenian prisoners have been sentenced
at Toronto to be hung on the Bth of March.

(BY ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.)
NEW YORK, FEB. I.

Gold, 135 k. Sterling Exchange on London,
108;1 ; Illinois, 114 ; Erie, berk ; 5-20 United
States Bonds, 1071.
The stock market is firmer, but trade generally
is depressed.

MEXICO.

NEW YORK, JAN.

It is reported that a severe conscription is being
enforced in the city of Mexico, and that the Em-
peror Maximilian has decided to abdicate if the
National Congress should refuse to sustain him.
Mexican advises received in Washington on the
23rd of January assert that Juarez is in possession
of Matamoros, Monterey, Chihuahua, San Luis
Potosi, Agnes Calientes, Guadalajara, and the
greater portion of the roads leading to the city of
Mexico, so that in the event of a successful tight
with the Imperialists, who had gone to meet the
liberals, he would be able to occupy the capital.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDM:T.)
PARIS, FRIDAY EVFMNG.

Joseph Karam, the Christian agitator in Leba-
non, who for years has been a thorn in the side of
the Porte, is now safe in Algeria, and the influence
of France, by whom he was always patronised, has
obtained the removal of the sequestration of his
property, so that he will have a handsome income
to live upon in Algeria, where doubtless he will
long remain quiet.
The Memorial Diplamatique learns with regret
that the efforts made by the court of Madrid to
induce the Italian government to restore the pri-
vate property of the ox-King of the Two Sicilies
have not been successful, although supported at
Florence by the French and Russian envoys. The
sequestration is to be maintained unless in the
case, not to be at present expected, of Francis 11.
formally renouncing all pretensions to the crown
of Naples, and taking himself away from Italy.
The Opinion Nationale looks with fear and
trembling upon the hardihood of the concessions
which the Italian government is prepared to make
the church, and fears that under the pretext of a
free church and a free State it is paving the way for
an imperiani in imperio.

Prince Paul de Broglie, the second son of the
Duke de Broglie, who was an officer of the navy,
has determined to take holy orders, and has just
been received in the little seminary of lay, •
branch of that of St. Sulpice.
A marriage on the aoliciaire principle—i.e.,
without the assistance of the church—is thus an-
nounced in the Sii'cle

The marriage of M. Albert Regain!, editor of the Litre
Pais& with Mane. Caroline Deicher takes place to-day.

The ceremony being entirely a civil one, Regina,'
invites those of his friends who have not received letters
to be present at that solemnity, which will take place es
11 o'clock in the mains of the sth arrondissement.
. .

The fashionable organ, La Gazettc desitr,f,vpw,
giving an account of the court ball, says A
great many guests, on leaving the Tuileries, went
to supper at the CaftS Riche, the Cafe Anglais, and
the Maison Dor6e, which were glittering with Uni-
forms up to a late hour. Perhaps there may
be room for some improvement i❑ the
organisation of these magnificent court 1...t.c5,
to; make the supper tables accessible to a greater
number of guests. We have heard the obs,r,a.
tion made, and, therefore, we desire to submit it
to consideration in the proper quarter."
At the Bourse Rente closed with scarcely a frac-
tional change. Cridit Foncier recovered bfr. from
the fall of yesterday, and Mobilier rose lir. 2.k.
The market was inactive.

ARRIVALS AT SOUTHAMPTOP.-( THIS LAY./

(BY ELZCTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY.
Lieutenant Brand has just landed.

The Tanjore has arrived. Among her passengers are 14
Japanese princes and seven Japanese conjurors ; two of the
latter are women, the first that have ever left Japan.

THE MORT HON. MR. BRAND, M.P., Limb
PELHAM, M.P., AND THEIR CONSTITUENT\

LEIVPS, FRIDAY NIGHT.

This evening a crowded meeting was held at the
Lecture-hall, in this town, for the purpose of hearing
addresses from the borough members. The chair eu
taken by Mr. B. GoDLiv, the president of the Liberal
Registration Society.
The Right Hon. Mr. Bruen, on coming forward, waa
received with loud cheers. He spoke chiefly upon the
topic of reform, observing that the development of the
wealth and prosperity, together with the growth and eds.
cation among the working classes, since the passing of the
Reform Bill of 1832, were such as to fairly entitle, not
all perhaps, but a very large proportion of them, to a
share in the representation of the country. The new
class of working people which had risen up since that
time were indeed full of intelligence and full of ceder
and were by no means to be confounded with the buel
of metropolitan roughs who pulled down the paliege
of Hyde-park. The abolition of the nomination
boroughs in 1832 and the transfer of the seats to the
centres of wealth and industry admitted the middle classes
generally to the franchise, and it was now time that the
most intelligent of the working classes should be ad-
mitted also by some wise and comprehensive measure.
When Lord Pahnerston's government was compelled is
withdraw the Reform Bill of 1811 e, he stated
to the premier his opinion that it would be
difficult to carry any measure of reform unless it were di.
vided into two parte, one dealing with the franchise and
the other with the distribution of seats. Lord PalmerstooX
reply was characteristic, for he said it was quite
plain that the then House of COIIIOIOIII was not
disposed to deal with the question in any shape
whatever, and that was why it was not mooted
again till the parliament was dissolved in DOW.. He
justified the course taken by the government of Lord 1.
Russell in dividing the bill into two parts, and exposed
the objects of the then opposition, who, under the pre-
tence of making the measure more comprehensive, so
overloaded it that not only did they propose that parlia-
ment should treat the question of the franchise
and redistribution of *eats is one measure. het
also bribery and corruption. He thought himself
that in order to give the country the full benefit
of reform they should deal with one question at a time,
but not satisfied with overloading the bill with so many
objects, the tories, under the leadership for that occasioa
of Lord Stanley, actually proposed and carried a vote the
the last part should be taken first. The liberals might
indeed have defeated the tories in fair cod
open fight, but, unfortunately, the government PI
not from the assaults of its open enemies. but
from the defection of the false friends of liberalism; and
the unholy alliance formed between the vexed and gloomy
spirits of the cave of Adullain and the tories were to
many for the administration. If he had to write the
epitaph of the Reform Bill of 1866 it would be, " Hers
lies a bill which even its enemies owned to be honest, but
it wax lost from the defection of those who ought to hoe
been its friends." (Cheers.) What sort of a bill there
would be introduced next session, not being in the secrets
of the cabinet, be could not say ; but he assumed there
would be one, the working people having so unmistake-
ably pronounced their desires in that direction. A bill
framed and proposed by an angel from Heaven would
probably not have satisfied a tory opposition ; but parlia-
ment might have become wiser, the tones might also have
become converts to liberalism, though be did not think it
was very likely ; and it might be that the parlia-
ment of 1885 would still settle this question. He
could net but think that reform had receded in so
much as it was now in the hands of Mr. Disraeli, instead
of those of Mr. Gladstone, and he could not help esi.reen
lag his conviction that the working-classes had so mud i
suspicion of the liberalism of the tones that they would
not receive such a bill at their hands, even though the
time should come for gathering grapes from thorns or Igo
from thistles. (Cheers and laughter.) Fur ha
part he should gladly receive converts to refenu
from whatever quarter they might come, but he was not
the less of opinion that the boon would not be rrgarJed
as complete unless it came from the hands of Mr. sdlsd•
stone. He concluded a somewhat lengthened ablrev4 by

stating that his opinions in favour of a compretiessas
Reform Bill were not those of a day, or formed for the rt•
pose of catching astray vote, but a ere the matured ;,:tir•
ment of his mind that the institutions of the country (.41,1
be materially strengthened by admitting the working,:b.ss
generally to a larger share in the representation than the!
now possessed. (The right hon. gentleman resuna.l
has
seat amid much applause.)
Lord also expressed his strong attachment to
the cause of reform, and his opinion that recent gorill•
ments had done wisely in confining their attentt,s
to the domestic affairs of the country. (111
avoiding enemies in foreign quarrels. (eher,".l
next touched on church rates, observing that mush at lo
respected any measure on that question winch tntaaaol
from Mr. Gladstone, he could not hut think it would It•
better for the church itself if it were left entirely to the
voluntary principle, but at the same time lie drpkitd
the
growth of ritualism, and should not he :a% ,rse to tc
troduction of a measure that would check the prer'sl4
a movement so dangerous to protestan tistn. tO .
question of reform he concluded his whin,• by a
tints from Mr. Gladstone's speech on the n bignation t:t
late ministry, when he said, " Time is on ear sale. t''
working men are marshalled in our support, and althokt,
the banner we carry in the fight may in some um,
of the struggle droop over our sinking heads. yet •
rise and (tort again in the eyo of Ilea( eu, nod nll.l
borne by the hands of the free people of the I 'nited hat,:
dom, if not to an easy, to a certain and perlt.,p, tO t
Cant, victory." (Cheers.)
Moth the hon. members met with a ern' enthoan.7.:
reception, and on the motion of Mr. IV. r.si 1.. tte,oultti
Mr. VERRAL, the following res tlution
" That the meeting having heard the opinion' of
Hon. 11. Brand and Lord l'elhatn, the member, for
borough, on the leading political topics of the .1 .)..10'7
to express its entire confidence in those gehth 10.
to thank them for the very satisfactory tnatno
...-
which they have discharged their parliament iry
A cordial vote of thanks to the chairman cm: :ludo at
proceedings.

" Disturbances," says the F0i,..,..1.13..,33t
Turin on the '..2lth ult. Bands of workmen, lalenn.:
the most part to the government establid
the streets shouting ' Bread and work r Th.-y
some bakers' shops, but raised no sedition. clic..
butcher's shop was rifled, cud, strange to ~)• theLod.
was not carried away or eaten, but thrown
trampled under foot. The national guard iiit.irowa.
order was finally restored."
DEATH OF' LORD GRAY OF GRAY.—We
announce the death yesterday morning, st ki. rcai.len,%:,.
the Champs Elysies, of Lonl Gray of Gray, nt leis
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