The Express.
London, England, 1866-10-16 00:00:00

DISTRESS aT BOHEMIA•

Letters from Prague state that Bohemia has suf-
fered more from the last war than any other part
of the Austrian dominions, and that that unhappy
province is now enduring extreme misery and pri-
vations. The peasants, especially in the neigh-
bourhoods of the great battlefields, are without
bread and without the means of cultivating
the fields ; and the government, in place
of coming to their aid with the 400 mil-
lions of florins which it granted after the
war, has instituted special commissions
for Bohemia, charged with the duty of
slowly verifying, in accordance with bureaucratic
traditions, the demands of the unfortunates who
are dying of hunger. These commissions are not
authorised to do justice in relation to the demands
justified by receipts of the enemy ; they exact also
from every one complaining other evidence which
it is almost impossible to furnish. The peasants,
exasperated by these requirements, have resolved
to address a petition to the King of Prussia, in the
hope of receiving from his pity that which they
believe they cannot obtain frotn the justice of their ,
own sovereign. At the moment of the grant of
400 million florins, the government promised to
undertake great public works ; but up to this
time nothing has been commenced, not
even a single line of railway, although one
was announced six months ago. The number
of people destitute alike of food and shelter
increases every day. Entire families, it is said,
sleep upon the pavements of Prague, while dis-
charged soldiers wander and beg through the
streets.

(RECTI3.B
THE INSURRECTION IN CANDIA.

PARIS, Ocr. 113.

The Moniteur of this morning says :—"Accord-
ing to intelligence brought to Constantinople by
the Sultan's aide-de-camp, Djemil Pacha, who
left Candia on the 12th inst., no engagement had
taken place to that date. The Turks had com-
menced an offensive movement, and had occupied
an important and advanced position in the direc-
tion of Dapoconio, the principal centre of the
insurrection. This point was to be attacked on
the 14th inst. Dissension was beginning to arise
among the insurgents."

ITALY.

FLORENCE, Ocr. 16.

It is stated that Count Opezzoni, formerly charge
d'affaires at Frankfort, will take charge of the
Italian legation at Vienna until the appointment of
a plenipotentiary.

AMERICA.
(BY ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.)

NEW YORK, O. 15.

The Hamburg and American Company's steam-
ship' Bavaria and the North German Lloyd's
steamer America arrived out to-day.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(nem( OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, MONDAY EVENING.

The Moniteur du Suir reports that the long-
pending and difficult negotiations between Prussia
and Saxony are now in a fair way of settlement,
and that the conclusion of a treaty of peace between
the two governments may be very shortly expected.
The papers say that General Fleury has been
created a count. Nothing is more likely. It has
been the custom of the Second Empire to confer its
patents of nobility secretly in the first instance,
and only to publish them after the public, by
common rumour, has become familiarised with the
idea of certain titles as associated with certain names.
When General Fleury shall be gazetted Minister
at War, as he no doubt shortly will be, "General
Count Fleury" will look well in the announcement
and help to make up for the want of such military
antecedents as the public has been accustomed to
look for in the recipients of such high appoint-
ments. I say this without expressing any opinion
on the fitness for the office of General Fleury,
which may be very great. The Emperor generally
shows great sagacity in the choice of his servants,
and if he never loses sight of favourites seldom
puts them into positions for which they are unfit.
Although General Fleury's promotion has been
singularly rapid, and although his military laurels
were principally gained in coup d'etat warfare in
Paris, he is known to be a man of talent and
energy, and may be a very good administrator.
The diplomatic changes lately on the tapir are
said to be postponed. M. Benedetti, now on leave
of absence in Corsica, will shortly return to Berlin
—it may be, however, only to present his letters of
recall. The Prince de la Tour d'Auvergne and
Baron Talleyrand are both now in Paris, but will
shortly return to their respective posts at London
and St. Petersburg. Count de Sartiges is also here,
and he will certainly be replaced at Rome.
The Temps, after noticing the "transports of
joy" of the Patrie at the news that Mr. Harris had
asked the Swiss government to prosecute the
Gazette de Lausanne, and quoting the remarks on
the subject made in my correspondence in the
Daily News of Oct. 13, says :
The case of Mr. Harris does not prove that countries
which enjoy the advantages of a free press are disposed to
hold the privilege cheap to please the Patrie ; it only
shows that ewers of zeal in functionaries is a fault com-
mon to all countries, and, furthermore, that vigilance is
as necessary to maintain as to conquer liberty.
The Avenir National alludes to the subject in
precisely the same spirit as the Temps.
The France Centrale of Blois says several pro-
vincial journals have received an authoritative
communication to the following effect :
It is desirable to contradict at once a rumour persistently
circulated in foreign countries that cholera prevails in
Paris. It results from most positive information that the
deaths from cholera in the metropolis do not amount to
more than five or six per day, a very inconsiderable figure
in a city containing two millions of souls.
In this instance I believe the contasuniqu4 to be
quite correct. There has been no cholera worth
speaking of in Paris for some time.