The Express.
London, England, 1866-11-29 00:00:00

Mr. Field's speech appears to consist mainly.

The death of a remarkable rabbi of the Jewish
church in Germany is annonncod. M. Frank was a native
of Wilna, born in the year 1758, so that he had attained
his 108th year. At that advanced period of life he was
without any of the infirmities of old age ; his hearing was
perfect, he read without spectacles, and took long walks
up to the last week of his life. He was a Hebrew scholar
of some note, but has not obtained the seine reputation
that his brother rabbi, Zechariah Frankel, has enjoyed for
his many learned works upon the Scriptures, and who
still fills the post of Grand Rabbi of Dresden. These
two individuals have been looked upon by the Jewish fra-
ternity as the most orthodox of Israelites.
A Paris letter, in the Inclepewlattee Bet says
" The following piece of intelligence which is circulating
in the diplomatic world is strictly true, however singular
it may at first sight appear. The Vatican has just opened
negotiations with the Court of Berlin,taking as its starting
point the intention of his Holiness to abandon the Eternal
City. The government of King William immediately re-
plied to this overture that it was entirely disposed to do
whatever was agreeable to the Sovereign Pontiff, but on
condition that nothing should be required calculated in the
least to weaken the close alliance of Prussia with France
and Italy. At the residence of the Papal Nuncio these
negotiations are denied. They are, however, not the leas
certain."
Mr. Cyrus Field, in his speech at the banquet
given to him in New York, on the 15th, remarked that the
Atlantic Cables were so delicate that they could be worked
with the smallest battery power. When the first cable
was laid in 18.58 electricians thought that to send
a current 2,000 miles it must be almost like • stroke
SPAIN lof lightning, but now Mr. Collett wrote to him
t --" I have just sent my compli-
Narvaez and Gonzalez Bravo are proceeding
from Heart's
Dr.'s Gould,Conten
of. Cambridge,who is at Valentin,
(says the Tunes) with their strong repressive mea-
sures. Ncewithstanding wholesale transportations mwitht a battery camped' ed ot a gual cap, with a strip o?
zinc, excited by a drop of water, the simple bulk of a tear.
to the Philippines and to Fernando Po, the cite- " A telegraph (added Mr. Field) that will do that, we think
debt of Cadiz and Cartagena ate described as nearly perfect ; it has never failed for an hour or a
crowded with liberals chained in couples like galley minute."
slaves, after the moat approved Neapolitan fashion. Mr. Henry Vincent gave a lecture to a large
The streets of Madrid are startled at the dead of ainudioetnteheealt6tthbe Co°l:rivlelonst yitorut:' NewT►ibnYeork, ens the even-
warm
' night by domiciliary visits, and the seizure of
preig se of the lecturer, and states that the audios's* was
persons, papers, and all that comes to the algua- `very
enthusiastic. Mr. Vincent was engaged to lecture at
zil's hands. Letters are unsafe at the Post- Buffalo and Philadelphia.

a narrative of the whole enterprise. The,Fonelu-
sion of his speech was as follows :
Of the results of this enterprise—commercially and po-
litically—it is for others to speak. To one effect only do
I refer as the wish of my heart—that, a 4 it brings us into I
closer relations with England, it may produce a better un-
derstanding between the two countries. Let who wig
speak against England, words of censure must
oome from other lips than mine. I have received
too much kindness from Englishmen to join in this lan-
guage. I have eaten of their bread and drunk of their
cup, and I have received from them, in the darkest hours
of this enterprise, words of cheer which I shall never

forget ; and if any words of mine can tend to peace and I
goo twill they shall nit be wanting. I beg my country.
men to remember the ties of kindred. Blood is thicker I
that water. Americ w.th all her greatness, has come I
out of the loins tf England, and though there have
b -en sometimes family quarrels—bitter as family quar-
rels are apt to be—still in our hearts there is a yearning
for the oil home, the laud of our fathers ; and he is an
enemy of his country, and of the human race, who would
stir up strife between two nations that are one in race, in
language, and in religion. I close with this sentiment—
" England and America, clasping bands across the sea—
May this firm grasp be a pledge of friendship to all genera-
tions!"

The chief speakers besides Mr. Field, were
Mr. Low, the President of the Chamber of Com-
merce, Mr. Jay, President of the Union Club,
Mr. Peter Cooper, the Rev. Dr. Bellows, Admiral
Farragut, and Professor Hitchcock.