The Express.
London, England, 1866-09-26 00:00:00

ITALY.

FLORENCE, SEPT. 25.
The Empress of Mexico has passed Bologna on
her way to Rome.

THE DISTURBANCES IN PALERMO.
TRAPANI, Sr.E 25.

News received here from Palermo states that the
normal condition of things in that city is completely
restored.

THE PAPAL STATES.
ROME, SEPT. 24.

Yesterday a grand banquet for 300 persons was
given by the officers of the Pontifical army to the
officers of the Roman legion. The French generals
were present during the banquet. M. de Sartiges,
the French Ambassador, the Duke de Montebello,
and Colonel d'Arcy, drank toasts to the healths of
the Pope and the Emperor.
To-day his Holiness gave his benediction to the
Roman legion, which defiled before him.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, TCE.DLT EVENING.

The long vacation articles of the Patrie, Opinion
Nationale, and other journals which seek to alarm
Europe by stories of an alliance between Russia
and the United States, may safely be classed with
the annual paragraphs about big gooseberries and
phenomenal turnips. Captain Fox, who went to
St. Petersburg to congratulate the Emperor of
Russia, in the name of the President of the United
States, on his escape from assassination, had no
diplomatic mission whatever, and all the infe-
rences drawn from the cordiality with which
he was received are purely idle. The United
States have long wanted a commercial
station in the Mediterranean, and are doubtless on
the look out for any opportunity to get one. But
between this desire and the Crete question, and
the compliments paid to Captain Fox at St. Peters-
burg, there is no connexion whatsoever. The
Monroe doctrine, which repudiates the interven-
tion of Europe in the affairs of the American con-
tinent, is conversely practised by the United
States ; and if ever such an unhappy event as a
war between the United States and any European
power should take place, it will most certainly be
provoked by an American and not a European
question, and the theatre of war will not be in the
Mediterranean.

The trial of Berthomit, the cashier of the Sous
Comptoir de Chemins de Fers, charged with hav-
ing, in the coarse of three years, embezzled up-
wards of three millions of franca, was commenced
at the AllB 12e Court of the Seine yesterday, and is
going on to-day. This is the case in which the
Prince deCrouy-Chanel is accused as an accomplice.
Ho is in contempt of court, having escaped to
Italy, and will be tried "by default." The allega-
tion of the indictment is that Berthumd,
tempted by his offers of half the estates which he
expected to recover by his action in Italy against
the Duke of Modena, supplied him with

money to carry on the suit, this money being ob-
tained to Crouy-Chanel's knowledge by fraud and
forgery. The third defendant is M. Dupray de is
Maherie, the editor of Prince Crouy-Chanel's
pamphlet, proving his descent from Attila Stephen
of Hungary, Andrew 11. of Hungary, and his title
as the " last of the Arpads " to the crown of
Hungary at the present day. The prosecuting
counsel was unmannerly enough not only to deny
the title of prince to the absconding defendant, but
to admit his descent from Attila in this sense, that
he was a robber and a miscreant.
The Bourse was very much better. Rente rose
15c. for cash and 20c. for account, closing at
69fr. 36fr., and 69fr. 40c. Italian rose 56fr.,
Credit Foncier, 2fr. 30c., and Mobilier 6fr. 25c.

The Paris correspondent of the Times writes :
" If very little has been heard of Spain since the whole-
sale military executions last summer, it would, upon the
other hand, be extremely erroneous on that account to
suppose that things are going on satisfactorily in that un-
fortunate country. Spain was probably never worse go-
verned or more suffering than at the present time." The
correspondent then gives a number of cases tending to
show that the country is ground down by the most odious
tyranny ever witnessed even in Spain since the abolition
of the Inquisition. People are arrested on more suspicion
imprisoned because their opinions are known to be un-
,
, favourable to the government, and transported without
trial. - _ _ . .

A St. Petersburg letter of the 19th says :—" A I
fact which may at first sight appear trivial is worth notice.
Apples have been publicly sold in the fruit shops and at
stalls in the streets since the (Ist) 13th of this month
only. This is unprecedented in the annals of the city.
From time immemorial the blessing of the apples takes
place early in August, and quantities of green and unripe
fruit are forthwith exposed for sale. This year, however,
General Trepoff, director of the police, fearing what the
consequences to the public health might be if the practice
were adhered to, issued peremptory orders, in consequence
of which the apple was a forbidden fruit up to the 13th
instant. To our ideas such paternal solicitude applied to •
whole city seems very strange, but here people submitted
without much murmuring, and can now make up for lout
time by eating apples to their hearts' content.
News from Rome states that Queen Maria Chris-
tina of Spain has sold her palace caned " Quattro Fon-
tana "to her son-in-law, Prince Drago, for 1,500,000 fr.,
her Majesty baying renounced all idea of residing in that
city.
M. Gamier Pages has just addressed to the Pre-
sident of the United States • letter in favour of the aboli-
tion of capital punishment in the American republic.
The Southern Railway Company has just adopted
• tariff by which children under twelve years of age, going
to or from school, are conveyed at one-tenth of the ordi-
nary fare on the lines of Bordeaux, to Arachon, Mont de
Marian, and Pax. M. Bible, Minister of Public Weeks,
has written to the director, of the company to thank them,