The Express.
London, England, 1866-03-21 00:00:00

MDLLS. THSRIL94.

According to the Temps, the following tang.
offer has bean made by M. Paul Dupont, the manager
the Alcazar, of Marseilles, to Mdlle. Theresa, the vac
lebrated diva of Paris : 20,000 fr. (4001.) for her services .
one month, or 401. per night, travelling an.
hotel expenses in the first hotel in Maresalies
paid; a carriage and pair with liver► servants
during her stay ; illuminations in the hotel on the evening
of her arrival ; a serenade with torches ; en official ream-
lion at the railway terminus and grand saloon of the hotel
by the manager and staff of the Marseilles Aloaxer ; ea
entry int* the city in a celeste drawls by four boner,
which will be announced beforehand by special creeks ; a
grand dinner the day after her arrival ; the alicassr to be
brilliantly illamieated and decorated during her stay, and
200 seats to be reserved for the dite of If armillaiee micilety.
Temptieg as this offer ka,Mdlle.lTheresa has declined it, and
the Temps asks, `• What more does she require—e. salvo of 21
guns, the National Guards drawn up to receive her, end the
keys of the city presented to her on a silver dish r

CHUMS PRISONERSIALS.ND BRITISH
OFFICA

This morning was printed, for the information
of parliament, at the instance of Cloload Sykes, M.P.,
copies of correspondence ia the Colonial-Mice Tweeting
the rendition by the acting governor of Hong-Kosg, Mr.
Mercer, to the Chinese authorities at Canton, of a person
described in the public journals as the Yo-Wang and his
execution. The following despatch frees Mr. Cardwell is
an abstract of the one
"Sr,-1 have to acknowledge the receipt of Mr. Mercer's
despatch of the 20th September leak No. 138. furnishiog
the required explanation of • deb:meet which had been
submitted to her Majesty's government by Calmed Sykes,
M.P., recreating an alleged illegal delivery of a Taiping
refugee to the Chinese authorities by the government of
Hong Kong. It is shown by the explanation now before
me that • mac carrying on balms in Haag Hoeg, under
the name of How lid Low, wits claimed by the Chinese
government in visits, of the treaty of Tiestsio as having
submitted robberies in Chia& ; thsths was brought before the
polite magistrate in purenanos of the ordnance, N 0.2 of 1852.
The charge rested on the evidence of two witnesses. How
Heal Low was defended by rousse% and although • variety
of technics' objections were raised, it doss not app esr to
have been alleged that he was • politioslow Magee, still less
Mo-Was
that he was the Taeping gas n stated. If the
statements which have been laid before her Majesty's go-
vernment respecting the mode in which this man was put
to death are at all true, it must be a matter of
great regret that he was delivered to the Chinese govern-
meet, and, as you are aware, fresh instructions have been
braid which will precast each an ocearrenoe hereafter.
But having reference to the teams of the twisty under which
Mr. Mercer was acting, I am satisfied, after full considera-
tion, that ha adopted every precaution in his power to carry
the provisions of the Treaty of Extradition into proper exe-
cution. The men was not charged with piracy, which would
be justiciable's! Hong-Kong,but with robbery, whisk brought
him within the terms of the treaty. The oath less properly
investigated, and there wee abundant ',Meese to support
the decision of the magistrate. I have therefore mesh
pismire le stating that so blame attaches to Yr. Maros,
in this matter whilst he wan admirditerieg the groarameet
of Hoeg-Kong.—l have, ho.,
(Signed) " HawAso Omumaz.z.."