The Express.
London, England, 1866-02-10 00:00:00

THE GREEK MINISTRY.

ATHENS, Fzs. 7.
A new cabinet has been formed, of which the fol-
lowing are the members :
M. Roufos President of the Ministry,
and Minister of Public
Worship and Justice.
M. Provelegios lnterior.
M. Canopoulos Finance.
M. Valaoritis
M. Petmezas War.
M. Sahinis Marine.

SWEDEN.

STOCKHOLM, FEB. 10.

The Franoo-Swediah treaty of commerce has
been sanctioned by all the four chambers of the
Swedish parliament, by the burghers and peasants
on Wednesday, by the clergy on Thursday, who,
however, attached thereto a motion of blame to the
government for having proposed it, and by the
nobles yesterday.
The debates on the treaty were most violent.

OUTWARD CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS.
GIBRALTAR, FIB. 9.

The Mongolia, from Southampton on the 4th
inst., arrived here to-day at noon, and leaves at 3
p.m. for Alexandria. She experienced bad weather
to Finixterre. All well.

(aroma's wires.)
JAMAICA.
(Pot the Europese.)
• KINGSTON, Jan. 18.
Pursuant to the Governor's proclamation the
legislature met yesterday for the despatch of busi-
ness.

His Excellency opened the session with the fol-
lowing speech :

Mr. President and Honourable Gentlemen of the Legit-
Latina Council, _ _

Mr. Spe►k or and Honourable Gentlemen of the House of
Assembly, _ _ _

_ .
I have requested your attendance here to-day in an ex-
traordieary WASiOn, and I am afraid at some amount of is-
oonvenience to yourselves, for the purpose of submitting
to you a bill to provide osetain statutory powers which
will enable the royal commissioners to compel the mitten-
duos of witnesses, sod to examine them on oath
under a royal commission about to be issued by be;
Majesty the Queen fcr an inquiry into the origin,
nature, and circumstances of the late disturbance
in this island, and with respeot to the measures adopted for
the suppression of the same. The bill will be placed before
you without delay, and I confidently trust in your wisdom
and prudence to give the royal oommissioners such powers
as will facilitate the inquiry ordered by her Majesty.

In the sitting of the House of Assembly imme-
diately after the speech, M. De Cordova said he
considered It unnecessary to pursue the usual
routine of appointing a oommittee to prepotre au
address, as they had met for the purpose of passing
one particular measure. He therefore submitted
the following address, in reply to the Governor's
speech :

To Hie BiceHaney Sir Henry Knight Storks, Knight Grand
Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Knight
Comnisoder of the Military Division of the same most
honxtrable order, Koight Graod Cross of the most die-
tinguished Order of St. Michael ►nd St. George, a Bente-
nent-genend in her Majesty's army, Governor and
Commander-in-Chief of the island of Malts sad its
dependencies, and Commander of her Majesty's troops
serving within the same, C►ptain-General and Governor-
in-Chief in and over the island of Jamaica and the terri-
tories depending thereon, Governor and Oommasder.
in Chief of ear 00l say of British Hondtwes,
Chancellor of oar said ialaod of Jamaica, and Vice-Ad-
miral of the same, and Commander of her Majesty', troops
serving within the same. The humble address of the
Assembly.
May it please your excellency,

We thank your excellency for your speech at the opening
of the present session. It is our anxious desire that the
most searching inquiry should be instituted late the
origin and circumstantiates of the late disturbances, and the
suppression of the same; and it is gratifying to us to and
that her Majesty has selected so able an administrator as
four excellency to preside over the commission appointed
for that purpose. We shall be prepared to aid your excel-
limey in the carrying out of the object contemplated. and
to that end will give the 0302Mi116011 such statutory powers
as appear necessary to facilitate and render efficient this
important inquiry.

An amendment was moved proposing the appoint-
ment of a committee, but this was rejected, and the
address, as proposed by Mr. De Cordova, was ulti-
mately adopted.

Mr. Westmorland then introduced a bill to
authorise her Majesty's commissioners of inquiry
into the late disturbances in this island, and the
measures adopted for the suppression of the same,
to enforce the attendance of witnesses, and to ex-
amine witnesses upon oath. The bill was read a
first time.

Mr. Westmorland moved that the rule be sus-
pended, and the bill be read a second time.
Messrs. Lewis and Osborne objected.

The hon. gentlemen eventually withdrew their
opposition, and the bill was read a second time and
oommitted generally.
The following is the text of the bill to authorise
her Majesty's commissioners of inquiry into the late
disturbances in this island, and the measures
adopted for the suppression of the same, to enforce
the attendance of witnesses, and to examine wit-
nesses upon oath :

Whereas; the origin. nature, and circumstances el the
bate disturbances in this island, sad the sasseures adopted
for the suppression of the same, are about to be investigated
by a royal ornomissinn for that purpose ; and whereas, for
the effectual prosecution of such inquiry it is expellent
tbat her Majesty's ooressimioner or ceinailedaeas of sub
inquiry should examine wither ea upon oak, sod eaforce
the attsedenos of eecesetry ettwessee. Be it, aid it hereby
is *metal by the Govan:or, Legielitive Coned', and As-
eembly of Jamaica :

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fresh, some snow or strong to moderate,
rain. unsettled.
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gale to fresh, with and. back, strong,
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to moderate.
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moderate, some
ralo.

Northern=ficotaand. Wertarn=byland. Wales sad adja-
sancta& Boathern=inalleh Channel and By se Biscay.
fnatarn=lan& ward iand snd North ens.

The Council of the Royal Horticultural Society
have given notice that the, wdl propose to the fellows the
following changes in their body, at the ensuing anniversary
meeting, which is to t►ke place on Tuesday next :—Mr.
John J. Kandy, Mr. John Kelk, and Major Trevor Clark
to retire, in favour of Viscount Bandon, the Right Hon.
W. Cowper, M.P., and Mr. Sigismund Rucker, proposed as
new members ; Mr. George F. Wilson to replace Mr. Kelk
as t,easurer ; and Lieut.-Colonel SAO, R.E., to replace
Mr. Wilson Saunders an secretary.

The members of the Geological Society will
dine together at Willis'. Rooms oo Fratay seat week.

The Microscopical Society will hold their annual
meeting at King's College, on Wednesday, February 14.
The Arundel Club, Salisbury-street, will, between
the 16th and 23rd instant, exhibit a floe collection of
etchings, pictures, drawings, engravings, old glass, tro.
A French paper describes the effect, of the great
storm on the Cherboarg breakwater. Two hundred-and.
twenty large blocks of stone, many of them weighing
several toss each, and w►ich formed pert of the external
barrier against the waves, were tarried away and thrown
up on the coast above the mole. Forty guns were die•
placed, 14 of which of heavy calibre were blown into the
water.

A fear days ago died Friedrich Ruckert, the
oldest and one of the greatest of the modern German poets.

The Spanish railways have for the moat part
eadured grievous loses dark% the lest sumo.

Alluding to the ecsrcity of forced flowers in
Paris at this sews, owing to the dry simmer of 1865,
Horticulteur Prancais says that dowers have met with
serious rivals in the form of sugar-plums and turnips. " Is
the practised hands of the market demi:ens the homely
Wrap is transformed into charmiag-looking dowers. Ovid
did not foresee this metamorphosis, and Alfred de Massa
scarcely thought that

De presser tendrement an navet mss son roar
would cease to be bitterly ironic Factitious camelliaa
are made so successfully in this way, the* even bachelor.
in miaow might easily be demised. The beet-root also
becomes transformed into camellia Donakelaari and osmium
rettoulata, and the variegated beet modems charming
doyen of camellia pompous variegate. These turnip sad
beet flowers are tied on the ends of the branobess of yam
Oleanders and Portugal Marsh, which reonable the
camellia pretty beserstoly when seen at a diehastoe."

The correspondent of the Times at Path writes :
—"Five themand head of horsed cattle are about to be
mat from Austria to England, and it might psrhops be
well to keep and daughter them in the inunetliabe neigh-
bourhood of the ports at which they may arrive, instead
of driving them to the markets in the Interior of the king-
dom. Darin any eajosra in 'this ally I hare repeatedly
Eakin with MCI* of the real landed proprietors about
the rioderpett, and they all say the pestilence will eoa-
tieue to rase in lieglaed 'as long an the governmeet
allow rattle to be drives from ono pleat es, district to an-
other.' May fully /wpm* the idea of seadimg the butcher
to the settle babied of the cattle to the igateleh, total
isolation,' say they, ' of the different farms, dairies, ho., Is
the only means of prematieg the spread of the malady."