The Express.
London, England, 1867-04-25 00:00:00

Eta Court.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Aram 24.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Beatrice,
drove out yesterday afternoon, attended by the Hon. Flora
Macdonald.

Princess Louise, Prince Arthur, and Prince Christian,
went out riding.
Lady Churchill and Major Elphinstone were in attendance.
Her Majesty walked and drove this morning, accom-
panied by Princess Louise and Prince Arthur.
Princess Beatrice rode in the Home Park

The French Amtwasador arrived at the Castle yesterday,
and had the honour of dinirg with the Queen and the
Royal Family.

Loni Raglan and Major-General F. Seymour, C. 8., have
succeeded Lord Skelmersdale and Colonel the Hon. A.
Liddell as Lord and Groom in Waiting.

The Prince of Wales rode out yesterday, attended by
Captain Ellis.
The Queen of Denmark and the Prince of Wales,
attended by Madame de Bille, M. de Cutenschiold, and
Captain Elie, visited the Exhibition of the Institute of
Painters in Water Colour at their gallery in Pall Mall.
A Committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most
Honourable Privy Council sat yesterday at the Privy
Council Office, Whitehall, on the subject of the cattle
plague. The Lords present were the Lord President and
Lord Robert Montague. Mr. Harrison and Dr. Alexander
Williams attended the Committee.

His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, her
Majesty the Queen of Denmark, and the Prince Teck,
attended by the Duke:of Sutherland, Madame de Bille,
Captain Ellis, and M. de Cartenschiold, honoured the Insti-
tute of Painters in Water Colours with a visit yesterday,
previously to the exhibition being opened to the public on
Monday next.

The Earl and Countess Stanhope and Lady Mary
Stanhope have arrived at their residence in Grosvenor-
place from Chevening, their seat near Sevenoaks, Kent.
A marriage is announced between the Earl
Brownlow and the Lady Adelaide Talbot, fourth daughter
of the Earl of Shrewsbury.

The marriage of Viscount Pollington and Miss
Venetia Stanley Errington was solemnised yesterday at St.
George's, Hanover-square. The bridegroom was attended
by Mr. Charles liana Gaskell. Sir Rowland Stanley
Errington entertained a large circle of relatives and friends
at breakfast ►fter the ceremony, at his residence, Stratford-
place.

The marriage was celebrated at Aldeburgh,
Suffolk, on Tuesday, by the Rev. H. T. Dewier, vicar of
the parish, assisted by the Rev. James Porter, Fellow and
Tutor of St. Peter's College, Cambridge, of Henry Fawcett,
Esq., M.P., of 42, Beesborough•gardens, S.W., Fellow of
Trinity Hall, and Professor of Political Economy, Cam-
bridge, to Millicent, daughter of Newson Garrett, he' of
Aide House, Aldeburgh.

The Lord Lieutenant presided at the distribu-
tion of prises of the Royal Dublin Society cattle show last
night. He congratulated the society on the success of the
show, alluded at considerable length to the importance of
flax culture, and believed it would not as present flourish
so well in other provinces as in Ulster. He referred to
emigration, and stated that those who deplored it might
set about improving the dwellings of agricultural labourers,
and increase their comfort and keep them at home.

There are not so many English in Rome just now
as is usual at this season ; on the other hand, the place
swarms with Americans, including a great many naval
officers from the ships at Civita Vecchia..

The Emperor visits the Paris Exhibition almost
every day, normally between 5 and 6 p.m., and seems to
take the liveliest interest in the wonders collected.

At Mr. Hancock's stall at the Paris Exhibition
a French pickpocket, on Saturday, attempted a feat which
was a source of some merriment to those who witnessed
it. On the top of a glass ease of jewellery, which serves
for a counter, there seem to be lying carelessly strewn
about several very precious diamonds and other stones.
They really adhere to the under surface of the glass.
They are so finely cut that by mere pressure the air is ex.
eluded from the surface of the stones in contact with the
glass, and in this way they adhere. But they seem to be
lying outside. A very gaily dressed Frenchwoman, seeing
that nobody was watching them, covered them with her
handkerchief, sad attempted to sweep them away, while
at the same moment she directed her inquiries to another
part of the stand where some of Mr. Hancock's most
brilliant productions are displayed.

The want of conveyances at Paris is an evil uni-
versally felt. To go to the exhibition, like the descent of
Avernus, is easy enough ; the difficulty is to get away. The
police do not allow a cabstand within a mile ; and when
40,000 or 50,000 people try to get away all at once, the
confusion is frightful, and the suffering of women (not to
speak of the men) very severe. The only remedy at pre-
sent is to keep your cab or to engage • carriage. But to
keep a cab costs two or three francs an hour ; to engage •
carriage and pair for some gay afternoon costs 60fr. ; and
few persons care to add these to the other expenses of •
capital where everything is dear—where, for example,
what the French are pleased to regard as the prime part of
beef, the fillet, is sold in the market at 4fr. a pound.
Letters front Toulon mention that the engage-
ment of volunteers for the crews of the fleet, which had
been provisionally suspended, has now been reestablished
and on most favourable conditions by ministerial instruc-
tions, which order that no great rigour should be exer-
cised in selecting willing young men who may present
themselves. It is hoped by this measure to man the ships
without having recourse to any levy of the seamen on tho
maritime inscription, who would in that case be reser►ed
for cases of urgency.

The Austrian Reichsrath has been summoned for
the 20th of May. The strength of the two parties, " Fede-
ral." and " Constitutionalists," will be about the follow-
ing :—Bohemia—Federals, 14 ; Constitutionalists, 40 ; Mo-
ravia— Fetbluls, 3 ; Constitutionalists, 19 ; Lower Austria
—Federals. 0 ; Constitutionalists, 18 ; Upper Austria—
Federal., 0; Constitutionalists, 10; Balsburg—Federal,
0; Con.tittatiocaliata, a ; Bile.ia—Federals, 0 ; Constitu-
tionalists, 6 ; Tyrol—Federal., 10 ; Constitutionalists, 0 ;
Vorarlberg - Federal., 0 ; Constitutionalists, 2 ; Styria—
Federal., 3 ; Constitutionalists, 10 ; Karinthia—Federals,
0 ; Conmeltut: Hata, 5 ; Karniole--Federals, 5 ; Consti-
tutionalist, I ; Trieste Federal, 1 ; Constitutionalist, 1 ;
Gore 4:nuliaca- -Federal, 1 ; Constitutionalist, 1 ; Istria
—Ved..r.l. 1 ; Constitutionalist, 1 ; Galicia—Federal., 34 ;
l'on.titctiontdintm. 4 ; Ittikovina—Federals, 2; Constitu-
tionalists, 3. Total, 75 Federal., 128 Constitutionalists.

LATEST INTELWIGENCE.

THE LUXEbIBURG QUESTION.

A Paris correspondent of the Journal de Gere
writes as follows :

Do not believe in peace : war is inevitable. The provo-
cations of the German journals, of some deputies of the
Reichstag, have exasperated the nation which believes its
honour to be hurt and trAidi is ready. France bas
employed in making preparations the time which
Germany has lost in saying France was not ready.
Five hundred thousand excellent troops only await the
signal. In truth, it is Germany that is not ready ; it is
Germany that has lost a year. Phrases, however diffuse
and obscure, will never make up for preparations, and
except phrases what has Germany been doing for a year?
Where is the assimilation to the Prussian army of the
new contingents, of that eighth corps in particular, whose
operations during the late war caused some amusement
here ? The Prussian officers complained a good deal of their
artillery at Wows. Have they had time to improve it ?
People here are convinced that Germany as usual will be
taken by surprise. The German journals have been more
calm for some days. This is an improvement, but it is
late. I fear that the evil is now irreparable, for the war
has become national.

The Paris correspondent of the Indepoulance
&lye says :
There is no mystery made of the preparations of all
kinds which are making in order that the nation may not be
unprepared if war should break out. It is said that several
hundred pieces of cannon have been sent from the south
to Strasburg. Gun vessels have also been sent by rail, but
their destination is not known. The greatest activity pre-
vails in the Ministry of Marine, and all the military com-
mandants in the principal porta are arriving there to receive
orders. To-day a report is circulated that a fleet will be
sent to the Baltic as a squadron of observation even before
a declaration of war, but this is no doubt
one of those rumours to which no importance
is to be attached any more than to another
which states that England and Russi► have objected to
the employment of a French squadron in the Baltic in case
of war. It appears to be certain and admitted that the
French Emperor will take the chief direction of the war.
Count de Palikso is spoken of as chief of the staff, and
General Fleury as chief commander of the cavalry. Im-
portant commands are to be entrusted to Marshals
M'Mahon and Baraine ; and one would no doubt be
given to Marshal Forty were he not afflicted with
cerebral hemiplegia.. The publication in the Moe deer
of the warlike preparations in Holland has been much re-
marked on, and it is surmised that Prince Napoleon's
visit to Prangins may have for its result the hastening of
an armed union between France and Italy.

The Aveuir National contains a private telegram
from London, stating that a note from Count
Bismarck had been received, to the effect that
Prussia was disposed to evacuate the fortress of
Luxemburg in order to avoid war, but that the
national feeling in Germany compelled him to
maintain the static quo till the Prussian parliament
had met and decided.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

PARIS, Amin. Z.

The Constitutionne/ of this morning publishes an
article signed by M. Paulin Limayrac, in which it
protests against the idea that France desires war.
"The policy of France," it says, " is a policy of
peace and conciliation. The French government
sincerely believed that after her increase of terri-
tory Prussia would have made it a point of honour
to show moderation and consideration for the
rights and interests of her neighbours. The go-
vernment of the Emperor has never seen in a
settlement of this question conformably to the
intersta of France and the wishes of the
population of Luxemburg anything but a
guarantee not only of peace, but of a dur-
able peace. The French government never
thought that it could in any way be to the interest
of Prussia to maintain a garrison in an indepen-
dent country—never thought that Germany could
claim the same national rights and a common origin
with a small country, the population of which by
Count Bismarck's own avowal entertains a deep
repugnance for Germany, and would, if consulted,
vote with enthusiasm for reunion with France.
And now the government of the Emperor does not
aim at raising a war out of a question in
which it had seen but a pledge of peace.
France, animated by no ambition, has put aside
every claim. As far as she is concerned the
question has become a European one, and
even in this new phase France holds aloof in
order not to embarrass the pacific action of the
powers and not to involve national susceptibilities.
Without fearing war, if a war, though God forbid,
should be unjustly provoked, France desires
peace and is anxious that no doubt should exist
with regard to her intentions."

TURKEY.

CONSTANTINOPLE, APRIL 24.

The official journal La Turquie of to-day says :
" We are authorised to deny in the most formal
manner the assertions of the Paris journal La
LiberN concerning the state of things in Crete and
Epirus. Omer Pacha is on the point of crushing
the last remnants of the Csndian insurrection."

SPAIN.

MADRID, APRIL 24, EVENING.

Senor Corradi has presented in the Senate the
following amendment to the bill of indemnity de-
manded by the government on account of the recent
exceptional acts of the administration :—" The
Senate declares the ministry free from responsibility
for all acts which have not been opposed to the
principles of justice, but it does not adopt as laws
the decrees which have been promulgated, because
they render difficult the constitutional conciliation
of parties, upon which the existence of our national
institutions depends."

PORTUGAL.
LISBON, Ann 24, 5.17 P.M.
The President of the Council of Ministers is
slightly better.

Disturbances similar to the last again broke out
in Oporto in the evening of the 22nd instant, but
were suppressed by the troops. At 9 p.m. all was
quiet, and since then tranquillity has not again
been disturbed.

LISBON, Aran, 24, 9 P.M.
One regiment of infantry and two squadrons of
cavalry have left for Oporto.

The Spanish soldiers who entered Portuguese
territory during the last Spanish revolt have been
sent to Madeira.

The Prussian government in Luxemburg is
purely a military one, and it interferes in no way in
civil matters. Otherwise the attacks on the Prussians,
of which the newspapers and pamphlets published there
are full, would, no doubt, soon come to an end.

The Etendard publishes the following telegram :
—"Stockholm, Tird.—The Duke of Dalecarlia, youngest
brother of the King of Sweden, has been struck with apo-
plexy. All hope is lost of ►wing the life of the prince,
who had just completed his thirty-sixth year."
_ _

The Vak.ofremuf, a Roman catholic journal of
Vienna, thus refers to the project attributed to Baron de
Beast of applying to the Holy See for a revision of the
Austrian concordat :—" The Roman court is not disposed
to consent to such a step, which would infringe on eccle-
siastical right. The Holy See can only yield on points on
which concessions have been made exceeding the strict
right and clear doctrine of the church. M. de Bengt. there-
fore, has no assistance to expect from the church in his
efforts to revise the concordat."

The GaletB is going to bring out a piece called
Lel Commixes, which is made up of sentiments and events
connected with the invasion of France.

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EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, WED:C[BMT EVEEING.

The prosecution of the Arenir Nathrna! for
false news has had a ridiculous conclusion. The
correctional tribunal this morning, after hearing
M. Peyrat, the editor, who defended himself,
sentenced him to pay a fine of 41. The judgment,
which alone may be reported under the Napo-
leonic law, states that the article incriminated
contained false news, more especially in so far as
it stated that some horses belonging to the
gendarmerie had been taken for the regular cavalry,
and that certain regiments were to be exercised
in camp drill and made to sleep under tents, eight
at a time, and cook their provisions in the open
air. The judges felt that when notorious news of
vast military preparations crape up every day, it
, would be absurd to pronounce anything more than
a nominal sentence against the A rcnir Natinnot for
a trivial inaccuracy among a great deal more news
which was in the main true. But what shall be
said of the folly of the government in instituting
such a petty prosecution at such a time!
The rumour current two days ago that Marshal
M'Mahon had arrived in Paris was not true, but
ho is expected very soon, and there is no doubt
that if there is to be war he will be commander-
in-chief of the army of the Rhine. It is probable
that his successor in the governor-generalship of
Algeria will be General de Montauban, Count de
Palikao, who will in that event be made at once a
marshal of France.

The Preset gives an " latest news" a report that
M. de Bismarck, who is supposed to be at his
country house in Pomerania, has merely sent his
horses and carriages there as a blind, and has gone
off on the sly to St. Petersburg.
There was a rumour in the Faubourg fit. Ger-
main a day or two since that an attempt has been
made to assassinate the Pope's Nuncio. The origin
of the story was this. Two young men from be-
hind the counter of a draper's shop went to the
papal legation, and rushed upstairs, paying no
attention to the concierge, who roared after them
to ask where they were going. On being asked
by an employe what they wanted, they said they
wished to speak to the Nuncio on urgent business.
Being told that they had come at the wrong hour,
one of them drew a sword from a stick in his hand
and flourished it in the face of the person who
stood in his way. The men were arrested, and
when asked to give an account of themselves only
said that they wanted to enter the pontifical army.
They are still in prison till inquiries about them
can be made. They are at all events guilty of the
specific offence known to the French code of for-
cibly entering a private house with arms in their
hands.

The fashionable season, unusually dull at the
commencement, will this year be unusually pro-
tracted. There are to be grand balls at the
Tuileries at the end of May and beginning of June.
The city of Paris will give two splendid fetes at the
Hotel de Ville. Prince Napoleon, whose stay in
Switzerland will be a short one, intends to have
some grand receptions at the Paleis Royal. The
Austrian and English embassies, which were not so
gay as usual before Lent, are about to make up for
lost time. Lady Cowley has issued cards for re-
ceptions on Saturday, April 27, and the three
Saturdays following.

It is feared that Prince Oscar of Sweden will be
obliged to leave Paris in consequence of alarming
news of the state of health of his brother, the Duke
of Dalecarlia.
The France states that the band of the Guides
is excepted from the general suppression fixed for
the French cavalry regiments, but that it will be
transferred to the Cent Gerdes, and be supported
from the Emperor's privy purse.
The committee of master•tailors decided yester-
day that the placards with the words Fermi pour
cause de greet should be removed from their shutter►
but that their establishments should still remain
closed.

The Bourse has sustained a further fall. Rente
closed at 65fr. 30c. for cash, 65fr. 25c. for account,
with a decline of 20c. and 35c. Mobilier fell sfr.;
Credit Fonder, 12fr. 50c. ; Comptoir d'Escompte,
Mr. ; and Italian, 50c. The Northern Railway
fell 10fr., and the other lines about 2fr. 50c.

I spoke some time ago of • new caricaturist of
wonderful talent who had arisen in Paris, named,
or at least called, Gill, and whose drawings appear
principally in a pictorial periodical called La bow.
It is such a ticklish thing under the French law of
libel to publish a caricature, that few people will
venture to do it without the consent of the parties,
lest they should be prosecuted for an attack upon
the " consideration " due to every citizen. Ac-
cordingly Gill's admirable caricatures of Lachaud,
Emile de Girardin, Jules Fevre, &c., are accom-
panied by lithographed reproductions, which add
greatly to the value of the pictures, of letters
authorising the publication of the caricatures. The
Lune lately applied to M. de Lamartine for per-
mission to publish a caricature of him. The pen-
sioned poet wrote the following answer, which
strikes me as an extraordinary excuse for sensitive-
ness and vanity :
However great my gratitude for the biographical ar-
ticle of which you speak, I cannot authorise in my person
a travesty of the human face divine, which, although it
might not offend the man, would be an offence against
nature, and turn humanity into derision. I have
already told you, and I now repeat it, that my consent
would be false magnanimity, which would countenance
in regard to others a like outrage on the dignity of God's
erestures. I will not be an accomplice of such a deed. I
told you when you did me the honour to call upon me that
my face was common property, just as the sun and the
river ; but that such as it is, I will not voluntarily pro-
fane it, for it represents a man, and is • present from God.
Receive, km, LAMARTIN E.

P.B. I fully authorise you to publish this letter.
Surely it would have been far more dignified if
M. de Lamartine had said, " When I was at the
head of the French government there
was no occasion to ask permission to pub.
lish a caricature. lam sorry that there is less
liberty now, and would be far from wishing to
a% ail myself in any case of restrictive laws, which I
abhor. But what would be disagreeable to me,
and what I have a right to refuse, is to have my
autograph published in direct connexion with the
caricature which you want. lam quite indifferent
to the caricature, and you may be quite sure I
shall not prosecute you. But Ido not want to
publish a caricature of myself, and therefore beg
you not to affix my signature to the sketch which
you propose to issue on your own responsibility."
He might thus have avoided making himself ridi-
culous. M. de Lamartine was, and even is, one of
the handsomest men of the century ; but it is too
much that under the pretence of keeping God's
image sacred he should condemn en nurse all such
artists as H.B. and Gill.

FIRE ON BOARD THE ST. VINCENT.—FLYNIOCTII,
Arm. 24.—The steamship St. Vincent, from Adelaide
January 21, with 61 passengers and a cargo of wool, copper
ore, and wood, for London, put in here this evening with
her cargo on fire. She has been towed into Clovelly Bay
Cutwater, grounded on the mud, sad filled with water, by
• party of seamen from the Ordinary, with government
fire floats. The fire was first discovered on boanl on Good
Friday morning, while the St. Vincent was nearing the
English Channel, and fearing the smouldering fire might
burst oat into flames, 56 of her paesengers were transferred
to the barque Delta, from Havannah for Falmouth for
orders. The Delta bad not arrived at Falmouth up to a
late hour tu-night.—Reufer's Telegram.

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