The Express.
London, England, 1867-08-05 00:00:00

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TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

(SLIITZA'S TELEGRAMN.)

FRANCE.
PARIS, AUGUST 3, EVENING.

M. Router, . the Minister of State, leaves on
Monday morning for Carlsbad, where he will stay
about 25 days. The preparations for the budget of
1859 have already commenced in several of the
ministerial departments. The Coustitutionnd of
this evening confirms the intelligence that the
Emperor and Empress of the French will leave for
Saltzburg on the 16th, and that they will stay three
days with the Austrian Imperial family. The visit
is to be strictly incognito. The statement that the
Emperor and Empress will be accompanied to
Saltzburg by the Marquis de Dloustier, Minister
for Foreign Affairs, is believed to be incorrect.

PARIS, AUGUST 4, EVENING.

The Prince Imperial is expected to return to
Paris this evening. The Emperor has received the
foreign oomnussioners of the Paris Exhibition.
Replying to their address his Majesty said, " Like
you, we shall ever remember with pleasure this
ureat international festival. As representatives
of the principle of labour in all parts of the
universe, you have been able to acquire the con-
viction that all civilised nations now tend to form
a single family. I thank you for the wishes you
express for the Empress and my son. They also
share my gratitude for your exertions, my
sympathy fur your persons, and my wishes for the
peace of the world." The Emperor's speech was
received with loud marks of approbation. The
King and Queen of Portugal will not take their
departure until the 13th inst.
The l'atrie of this evening, commenting upon a
recent article published by the Correepotakinee de
BediN, says :—" It is a calumny to allege that
France, after advacing too far, drew back before
the impression which her first demands produced in
Germany. Our country is in too lofty a position
to be reached by insult. We are convinced that
the Prussian government will be anxious to do no
leas than France, in order to secure the triumph
of pacific ideas." The Freare of this evening pub-
lishes an article, in which it says :—" We must
refuse to believe that Signor Rattazzi will make
concessions to the extreme parties, and recall Ca-
valier de Nigra, the Italian minister at this court."

FRANCE.

THE FRENCH CLAIMS ON MEXICO.
PARIS, Auuctre 4.
. .

A decree has been issued to-day, (13ted the 10th
of July, appointing a special honorary commission,
in connexion with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
to proceed to the revision of the provisional settle-
ment of the French claims upon Mexico concluded
in the Mexican capital, and also to distribute the
amount in hand among those entitled to indemni-
fication.

PRUSSIA.
BERLIN, ACCUKT 3, ECZNING.

Count Bismarck will return here from Ems on
the evening of the 6th inst. Count von der Goltz,
the Prussian Minister at Paris, will stay at Ems
while Count Bismarck is there. The Ojficial Gazette
of today says :—"The statement of the North
German Gazette, that Herr von Savigny would not
take part in the labours of the Federal Council, in
consequence of a misunderstanding with the govern-
ment, is erroneous." The conferences between the
government and the Hanoverian notables close
to-day. The latter are believed to have expressed
their satisfaction with the result of the negotiations,
and are said to have agreed to a proposal to
establish a general commission at Hanover for
regulating the relations between landowners and
peasants. A council of ministers was held here
to-day, and a cabinet order has been issued ordering
plans to be made for the foundation of a war port
near Elberbeck, in the Bay of Kiel, together with
an establishment forthe constructionot armaments.
Doctor August Boeckh died early this morning, at
the age of 83.

HAMBURG.

HAMBURG, Araryrr

The representation of Austrian interests in this
city by the English Minister, Mr. John Ward,
having ceased at the latter's request, the Austrian
government has nominated Consul-General Cheva-
lier Westenholz as chief of the Austrian Legation
for the Hansa towns.

AUSTRIA.
VIN\A, Aucusr 3.

It is stated that Austria is prepared to join the
International Monetary Union, and that negotia-
tions for that purpose are shortly to be opened
at Paris.

BAVARIA.
MUNICH, Aram 3.

The statement published by some journals that
the French government had endeavoured to pre-
vent the entry of Bavaria into the new Zollverein
has been denied. All that France has done in the
matter was to express her disapproval of the pro-
posed step in a despatch addressed to the French
minister at this court, by whom the contents were
communicated to Prince Hohenlohe.
EMS, AUGUST 3.
Prince von Hohenlohe, the Bavarian Premier,
arrived here yesterday.

ITALY.

FLORENCE, Arorirr 4.

The Chevalier di Niura, the Italian Minister in
Paris, has gone to Venice. The Opitanne dis-
credits the report that he is to be replaced in his
post at the French capital. Intelligence received
here from Rome states that the cholera has some-
what decreased in that city, but has broken out
with great virulence at Frosinone: and several
villages in the mountains.

TURKEY.

CONSTANTINOPLE. Acourrr 2.

The Grand Vizier has started for Rustchuk, to
meet the Sultan. Immense preparations are being
made for his Majesty's reception. A great fire
occurred here yesterday, destroying the old offices
of the minigtry of finance, with many valuable
papers. Seventeen persons arrested on account of
the last conspiracy have been exiled to the
interior.

The American frigate Sacramento, bound for
Calcutta, was wrecked on tha 21st ultimo at Maaun-
tippa (1 Masulipatam). AU lives were saved.
The cholera in the north western provinces of
the Punjaub has nearly disappeared.
During the four months ending with May the
mails from London to Calcutta took on an average
20 days.
The weather is cool.

BOMBAY, JULY 9.

The Bombay government has now spoken so
strongly in favour of the reconstruction of the
Bombay Bank as virtually to render an amalgama-
tion with the Bank of Bengal impossible.
The ship Bombay has gone ashore in Bombay
harbour, and become a total wreck. All the cargo
will probably be recovered.
A frightful accident has happened on the Great
Indian Peninsula Railway, near Bhosawul. The
train was precipitated into the Suttee River, a
tributary of the Japter. Thirteen persons are re-
ported killed and twenty injured, and a large num-
ber are still unaccounted for. The government has
ordered an official investigation into the matter.
The latest intelligence from Afghanistan repre-
sents the rival Ameers to be preparing their forces
for a battle near Cabul, which apparently cannot
much longer be delayed.
The state of the public health is still satisfactory.

JAPAN.
HONG KONG, Jut• 12.
Intelligence received here fnmi Japan announces
that the English settlement at Nagasaki has been
damaged by a severe storm

(PROM OUR OWN coaßEsposolarr.)
PARIS, S %Tr RDAY EVEVINC.

(lIT ATLANTIC

The elections for a third of the Councils-General
take place to-morrow. The opposition journals
complain of the want of activity of the liberal
party. I expect, however that more independent
candidates will be elected than on any previous
occasion. The two most salient pieces of electoral
news at present known are, first, that Admiral
Rigault Genouilly, the Minister of Marine, has
come forward at the maritime port Of Rochfort
against the popular candidate, M. Bethmont, who
is a member of the Corps Legislatif for the same
district ; and M. Bethmont, thinking this not fair
warfare, has retired on the ground that
"if liberalism is the honour of Roch-
fort, the patronage of the Minister of Ma-
rine is its life, and he will not be a
party to placing the constituency which he loves
in a cruel alternative." Secondly, that at
Lyons, where the opposition is known to be strong,
the government at the last moment (only two days
ago), with that shameless contempt for fair play in
which it revels and glories, has remodelled the
electoral districts, so that no elector knows exactly
to what poll ho belongs, and has only two days to
find out ; and the opposition has only two days in
which to fix upon candidates, while the govern-
ment, which has worked in secret, is quite ready to
take the field.

Six journeymen tailors who took a leading part
in the serious strike of March last were tried yes-
terday by the Correctional Police for having be-
longed to a society of more than twenty persons
without authorisation. The prosecution originally
embraced many other grounds, but the law officers
were ultimately of opinion that all the proceedings
of the prisoners, except the one on which it was
at last resolved to frame an indictment, were justi-
fied by the new law on coalitions of 1864. Advo-
cate-General Lepelletier said that the prisoners, in
order to keep up the strike had falsely given out
that they had received 20,01j0f. from sympathizing
English workmen, whereas in point of fact the
utmost they had got from England was 750 f.
The prisoners said they did not think to do any
harm ; their object was to keep up the dignity of
man—a phrase which drew from the judge (Presi-
dent Delesvaux) the facetious observation : " The
dignity of man as a journeyman tailor." MM.
Floquet, Picard, Arago, and Durier defended the
prisoners. They could scarcely deny that the
association, to which the prisoners admitted up-
wards of 2,000 persons belonged, was one not
allowed by law; but they argued that it was but
inchoate, as the whole thing broke up before there
was time for the statute to be acted upon, and
moreover that the act under which the indict-
ment was drawn ought to be repealed if
the law permitting coalitions was to re-
ceive its full effect. The court found the
prisoners guilty, but with extenuating circum-
stances' and sentenced them to fines of 500 francs
each. There is no doubt that the two thousand
will subscribe the money, and but for that conside-
ration I do not think the judges would have mulcted
working men in so high nn amount.
The lioness which wounded M. Batty, and led to
a general order of the police prohibiting wild beast
" tamers " from exhibiting their art in future,
died yesterday, after a Cresarian operation, per-
formed by Dr. Sorel, the veterinary surgeon.
At the Bourse, though it was not animated, the
Rente achieved a slight rise, the closing prices
being 69.15 f. for cash, and 69.71,f. for account, with
an improvement of 15c. and 7tc. Italian rose 15c. ;
Mobilier, 1.25 f. ; and Compton d'Escompte, 2.50 f.

SOUTHAMPTON, AUGUST 6.—The North German
Lloyd steamer Hermann, trout New York, passed the
Needles at 1.5 a.m.

THIS BOMBAY MAIL.—MARBBILLES, AUOCKT 4.
The Delta arrived at &15 with the above mail, and left
for London at 11.30 a.m.
CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND ArSTRALTAN MAILS.—
Suez 4.—The Candia, with the above mail,
arrived here at 5 ►m. to-day (Sunday).

Qtrzasyrowx, Auousr 4.—The Cunard extra
steamship Heals, from New York, arrived here at 7.30
p.m. to-day with ISt passengers. She landed 41 pas-
sengers and despatches, and proceeded fcr Liverpool at
7.45 p.m. All well.

DESPATCH OF THE CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS.
—ScumAunts, Almwer 4.—The Peninsular and Oriental
Company's steamship Eaxine, Captain Eckel, sailed
hence at 9 a.m. this morning, with mails for Gibraltar,
the Mediterranean, Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, Calcutta, and
China. She took out 64 passengerl, and on fremht a
general cargo, including dollars, 5,506/.; gold coin, 1,09. V.
gold thread, 1,7401. ; pearls 2001. ; silver cup, 0/. ; and
watches, jewellery, 828;.
THE ITALIAN MINISTER AT THE FRENCH COURT.
We read in the Memorial Diplomat iketl : The Journal
de Parte imputes an intention to the cabinet of Florence
to reply to the mission of General Dumont by the recall of
the Chevalier Nigra, Italian Minister at Paris. We were
the drat to announce, in our preceding number, that,
according to an opinion accredited in diplomatic circles,
M. Nigra will not return to his post. We are now in a
porition to add that this distinguished diplomatist, differ-
ing from the Italian cabinet with respect to the incident
alluded to by our contemporary, did himself send in his
resignation, which has been accepted. Be will be replaced,
it is said, by the Marquis Carractoli di Bella, lately Italian
Minister at Lisbon. M. Nigra who, under the most diffi-
cult circumstances, has represented Italy at the French
court with rare distinction, will leave behind him unani•
moos regrets among his colleagues and in Parisian
society."
AN UNFORTUNATE GERMAN PATRIOT. —After
long exile, a former member of the provisional govern-
ment of the Saxon revolution, Mr. Ttschirner, has re-
turned to his native country, broken in health, end in a
condition of utter misery. In the absence of any pecuniary
aid he was treated by the communal administration of the
town of Bautzen as a pauper, and accordingly provided for
in the Armen-bans, with a paupers scanty fare ! On
the news of this disgraceful occurrence a committee has
been established in London, under the presidency of Karl
Blind, of which Fend. Freiligrath, Dr. Bronner, E. Juch,
E. G. Ravenstein, W. Ehrlteli, and Dr. Schrible form
part and which has addressed an appeal to all Germans
in England to come forth with subscriptions in favour of
Tuchirner.

CRYSTAL PALLOR. HALF-A-CROWN DAY...—
SATURDAY, ATGUAT 3. —Admiadons ca payment, 1,388;
OW by asenatiolosts, 3,129; told vidlork 4,517.

LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 5, 1867.

AMERICA.

(nom ova SPECIAL COR118PONDI1T.)

NEW YORK, Auousr 3.
The Inman steamship City of Washington and
the Anchor steamship Caledonia have arrived out.
The steamers leaving to-day for Europe take out
1,000,000 dole. in specie.
Closing prices : Gold, 140}. Sterling ex
on London, 110. 5-20 United States Bondschli.T27.
Illinois, 117} ; Erie, 70k. Cotton : Middling Up-
land, 214.

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PHILADELPHIA, AUGUST 3.
Petroleum, standard white, all.

NEW YORK, JULY 24.

Congress has adjourned in some haste. The I
weather was very hot, and the hotels in Washington
very uncomfortable, and everybody wanted to be
at home, so that the business which had called
them together once done, it was impossible to
keep a quorum fur the transaction of business.
Members began to steal away in spite of the
efforts of the extreme radicals to close up the ranks.
The impeachers on the last day made • supreme
effort to get their evidence, or a report, or some-
thing, before the house, but it was all in vain. Their
champion was on the floor, making a motion in
their interest, when the Speaker's hammer fell, an-
nouncing that the hour fur adjournment had come,
and in a few minutes the house was empty. Before
this lame and impotent conclusion had been
reached, however, there was an interesting squabble
between the members of the Judiciary Committee,
in which charges of treachery, and chicane, and
divers cognate vices, were freely interchanged, and,
to crown all, Mr. Stevens declared himself so dis-
gusted with the whole subject of impeachment,
that he wished he might never hear it mentioned
again. in the Senate there was a little " mill" be-
tween Messrs. Chandler and Fessenden, the one
representing for the nonce the conservative, and
the other the radical wing of the republican
party, and each being thoroughly dissatisfied with
the other's performances on all possible occasions
during the session. Mr. Fessenden is a precise,
cautious, steady-going New England lawyer ; Mr.
Chandler, a wild, " self-made man," from Michi-
gan, with little or no education of any kind, and
in fact no qualification for his position beyond
thorough-going radicalism. To him and Mr.
Sumner, whose minds work in a gear so loose and
disorderly, that their appearance on their legs
seems to irritate Mr. Fessenden intensely, he
has been a severe, and even harsh critic, and has
often given Mr. Sumner, who is patience and
good-temper incarnate, rather a rough handling.

The Speaker, Mr. Colfax, was serenaded in the
evening, and made a speech from his window,
which was an admirable summary of the history of
the whole quarrel between Congress and the Presi-
dent, and put in a veryclear light, and in a very few
words, what Congress has done. The great recon-
struction job, as far as it is concerned, may now be
said to be complete. There is no longer room for
any possible misconstruction of the act ; the
military officers are armed with full power,
the duties of the registrars are more strictly de-
fined, and their powers enlarged, and the South is
given clearly to understand that there is no escape
—that she must either come into the Union
through the door now opened, hateful as it may
be, or stay out under the sword. We have had
during the last two months very few expressions
of opinion from the Southern press. Those who
speak of the political situation at all recommend
submission ; others only allude to it occasionally,
and always with some expression of despair.
During the recent college " commencement" at
New Haven, some of the old Southern students
returned to the reunions of their classes, the
members of which, or as many as can make it con-
venient, meet every ten years, after taking their
degree. Yule College was, until about ten years
ago, a great resort of Southern youths. It was
orthodox, which Harvard was not, and Connecticut
did not become an anti-slavery stronghold till
long after Massachusetts had gone over
to the enemy, so that Southerners con-
tinued to send their sons to Yule for
years after Harvard had become a name of horror.
After the election of 1856, and the excitement
attending the Kansas affair, the Southern students,
however, began to fall off, and when the war broke
out there were only one or two in the college.
During the recent commencement exercises, as I
have said, a few have wandered back to attend
their " class meetings," and amongst them a
gentleman who occupied an official position in the
Confederate government, which gave him a closer
view of what are called in the newspapers here
" the inside workings of the rebellion," than all
butone or two other persons could boast. He has
since, like General Lee, become a professor in a
Southern college, and is a man of a calm and
philosophic turn of mind, who, while a Southerner
to the core (his father was one of the ablest
Southern generals, and fell in the antis of victory),
yet has never indulged in any of the common
Southern illusions about the future of slavery, or
its economic value, or, in fact, on any other sub-
ject except the possibility of the success of the
Confederacy. He was asked by some of his old
friends during his stay at New Haven what his
feelings, and those of men like him, were as to the
prospects of the South. He replied that they
were in utter darkness, and knew not what was
coming ; the hope of a separate nationality was,
he said, for ever gone. Nobody entertained
it ; no man of intelligence spoke of it without
scouting it. The South was irretrievably
beaten, and her condition could not be worse than it
is, in his opinion, economically or politically con-
sidered. How a revival could take place with the
negroes admitted to the suffrage he did not well
see ; but about the future he said that he and his
friends avoided speculating. They were devoting
themselves to the work of education, as the work
which, come what would,was sure not to be wasted,
and about all things else gave themselves no
thought. His tone was, however, on the whole sad
and despondent, as might be expected in the case of
menwho had staked so much and lost. But, never-
theless, there is in the tone of the best Southerners,
as well as in the course they are pursuing, much to
admire. As far as I can learn they indulge in no
vain regrets, and, as I have said, in no illusions,
and are working hard t, retrieve their fortunes.
In fact, the etlect of their misfortunes has been to
quicken their industrial energy and wean them t
from politics; a not uncommon result of great social
and political convulsions, it is true, and one which
was witnessed in France after the events of 1848-
49, but I doult if it was ever witnessed in

ono feels that it is

the practical good
munity. Some of

done more than oth4

of Northern ideas, and amongst them, as I have
more than once told you, Genbral Lengstreet, who
has, in fact, made no secret either of his desire or
intention—it is hard to say 'which—to act with the
radical party at the South, his enemies say with
the hope of going to the United States Senate from
Louisiana whenever the work of ranonstruction is
complete. He is accordingly undergoing a vigorous
bombardment from the more violent of the Southern
papers, which, amusingly enough, now begin to
doubt whether he was of much value in the war.
In fact some of them talk of him as a military mar-
plot. The truth is, of course, that from nobody
did the Confederacy get. more efficient service., He
was not lucky in his independent enterprises ; but
as Leo's lieutenant he was everything a lieutenant
could be.

Mr. Johnson's organ, the Washington Int,lli-1
ycncer, for many years under its former proprietor
one of the calmest, most judicial-minded, and re-
liable of the newspapers, but now ono of th9nost
blatant ranters of them all, announces in earnest,
language his intention of executing the act to the
beat of his skill and ability. He has given up corn
pletely the theory which he held at one time, that
he was charged to a certain extent with the duty
of seeing that Congressional legislation was consti-
tutional, and of obstructing it if it was not, rind
that he was entitled to a policy of his own, and to
carry it out as far as his metros allowed him,
whether Congress liked it or not. In fact, his
mental confusion as to his own place in the govern-
ment seems to have entirely disappeared. He now
ackncwledges that Congress is the law-making
power, and that if it abuses this power, there is in
reality no remedy except an appeal to the ma;
jority at the polls, and that his business is to carry
into execution any laws that are sent him; whether
he likes them or not, and in fact that he is a very
much less important person than ho thought he
was a yet ago.

The last bill has placed substantially
the whole control of the reconstruction'
movement in the hands of General Grant, who
now alone has power to remove the mili-
tary commanders, or in any way interfere with
them in the discharge of their duties. This the
President considers an unconstitutional interfer-
ence with his prerogative, and perhaps it is ; but
what help is there for it t There has been a good
deal of guessing as to Grant's political opinions,'
and his great reticence made it very difficult for a
long while, even for enterprising newspaper corre-
spondents, to get at them ; butthey were brotight out
very fully in his examination before the Judiciary
Committee the other day. He declared himself
frankly and fairly in favour of the policy of Con-
gress, and expressed his strung desire to see it
carried out, while he at the same time was, of
course, anxious to have the South released from
military control at the earliest possible moment.
This declaration of his opinions, combined with the
general confidence in his character, will, I have very
little doubt, in the absence of some very unlooked-for
change in the meantime, procure for him the re-
publican nomination for the presidency. It is quite,
true that, as a general rule, the more a man is calked
of for the nomination beforehand the leas chance I
there is of his getting it, inasmuch as the mere fact of
aman'sbeingmuch talked of proves that he is a very,
prominent politician, and therefore has many
enemies as well as many friends, and is likely to
be as strongly opposed as supported, even in the
ranks of his own party. But General Grant is not
a politician, and has no enemies in the political
arena, and his military fame is so great and his
services so brilliant, that nobody of any party, ex-
cept Wendell Phillips, ventures to decry him.
Wendell Phillips abuses him roundly, but, as well
as I can snake out, it is for not executing some
kind of coup &Rut against Johnson, and taking the
executive power into his own hands—apiece of neg-
lect which, however, is hardly likely to tell strongly
against him in the eyes of the public, for whom
his silence, his modesty, and his shrinking from
all assumption, constitute his principal attraction.
The democrats, of course, do not like him. His
success has been the ruin of their party, and the
cause which ho vindicated has always been
detestable to them ; but they have never ventured
to attack him. At one time his persistent silence,
and abstinence from all participation in political
gatherings, led some of the democratic papers to
hope that ho was perhaps secretly hostile to Con-
gress and its policy, and the result was some
months of eulogy.

Even now, when the delusion is exploded, pro-
bably none of their papers or orators will venture
to speak disrespectfully of him, and if the repub-
lican party should nominate him, I think it is
very doubtful whether the democrats would "run"
anybody in opposition to him. Of course, letting a
presidential election go by default, as it is called,
would be a formal confession that the party had
ceased to exist ; but the fact is that it has ceased
to exist for all practical purposes. The only hope
of its revival after the war was over lay in the chance
that the South would once more unite with it, as
in the olden time ; but that hope has, I believe,
vanished. The bond between it and the South
appears to be completely broken, and whatever po-
sition Southern politicians may assume when they
come back into the Union, it seems certain that
they will net take their places in the old demo-
cratic ranks. They feel not only that the Northern
democrats betrayed them, but that they are so
weak that their alliance is not worth having.

In ref erenoe to the Sultan's gift of 2,500/. to the
poor of the City of London, the Lord Mayor has notified
that him Imperial Majesty had left the disposal i f the
money to his aLsolute discretion, and that he meant to
apportion it among em h of the humane imititutions as
dealt more immediately with the homeless and destitute
poor, rather than attempt to distribute it himself Amen
individual& " -•

W ILLCOX AND GIRBS SEWING MACHINZ. —" Ita
sewn is stronger and lea liable to rip in me or wear than the
lock-stitch.'—" Judges' Report," at the "Grand nisi." fiend
for the Report," and eawspies of work, containing both kinds of
stitches on the same piece of goods.—W. and G. & M. Conipany,
135, logentatrost.—(Adreetinetwent)