The Express.
London, England, 1866-01-16 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, MONDAY EVENING.

The only news from Spain is that Marshal
O'Donnell has ordered the three generals who have
so long been in pursuit of Prim not to catch him,
but to try to drive him into Portugal ; and that
now the most uncivil Prim won't go there. For
three or four days running the Madrid telegraph
affirmed that Prim was trying to escape to Por-
tugal, but that as the Queen's troops occupied all
the bridges and principal roads he would certainly
be intercepted, and now that the Spanish govern-
ment, adopting an opinion already expressed
in the Paris press, that the very best thing
that could happen to it would be for Prim
to oroes the Portuguese frontier, he per-
versely refuses to be driven over it, and has
marched in another direction into the mountains.
The latest exploits of the three generals Zavala,
Serrano, and Echague, who are pursuing Prim by
forced marches, consist in the capture of a carriage,
a revolver, a mule, and one soldier named Fran-
cisco Gomez Arices, who belonged to the rebellious
Baylen regiment. It must be conceded that the
three generals admirably act up to their instructions
not to make Prim a prisoner. The opposition
journals of Madrid, tired of publishing blank
columns, have resolved to suspend their issues alto-
gether until the crisis terminates one way or
another. It isimposaible to know from the despatches
what Prim is doing. Campello, whither he is said
to have marched when quitting the Tagus, is not
marked upon the maps of Spain. It is suggested
that his plan may be to countermarch through the
Guadaratna mountains to the neighbourhood of
Madrid, where his presence would be extremely
likely to provoke an irresistible pnmtmeiameatet.
A singular contradiction is contained in the
Madrid Gazette, which says that the Captains-
General of Catalonia, Arragon, Valencia, Navarre,
Seville, and Old Destine, report that the most
perfect order prevails everywhere, and that *" the
efforts made to disturb order are powerless."
How can order be " perfect" when efforts are made
to disturb it I

The Empress lately did a popular act through
the Imperial Prince, which naturally fills a certain
apace in the newspapers. A soldier of the 3rd
Voltigeurs of the Guard, named Anaemia, having
re-enlisted in order to send the premium (no leas
than 1,500 fr.) to his father and mother, lost the
money in a tobacco shOp, and was in despair about
it. His comrades got up a subscription for him,
but the amount was trifling compared with the
heavy loss. The other day the Imperial Prince
went up to the colonel of the 3rd Voltigeurs on
parade, and put 1,500 fr. into his hand, begging
him to give it to Audouin as a present from `• a
grenadier to a voltigeur." On Sunday lad the
colonel, at a special parade, formed bis regiment
into a square, and informed them of the Prince
Imperial's generosity. The Pays, at this
moment, like the Constitutionnel, under se-
questration pending the investigation of the
heavy charges against the late managers of
the united government journals, MM. Grand-
guillot and Giblet, thinks this event of sufficient
importance to devote a leading article to it. The
marches and countermarches of Prim, the adven-
tures of Juarez and Joseph Karam, the travels of
Count de Sponneck, and the speeches of Count de
Manteuffel, may amuse a frivolous public, and
give employment to Havas's clerks, but in the eyes
of the Pays they are all trivial and insignificant
subjects compared with the gratifying assurance
that " he who will be called Napoleon IV., and will
reign over our children, possesses heart and tact."
I suppose it would be considered ill•natured to say
that the child only did what his mother told him,
and therefore the inferences drawn by. the Pays
are rather strained.

It is rumoured that M. Jules Favre, as executor
of M. Fiorentino, the dramatic critic of the Moni-
ten,• and antstitutionnel, intends to bring an action
against M. de Villemessant, the editor of the
Ev,-,nement, for a series of libellous articles alleging
that Fiorentino systematically and habitually levied
black mail upon the authors and actors whom be
criticised.

The Mcmiteur dtt Soie yesterday published
a paragraph contending, as the Constittationnel
had done before, that the recent convention
with Monaco being merely a customs union
(oth;ou dettaniere) and not a commercial treaty, does
not admit other countries to the benefit of it under
the "most favoured nation clause." The French
government is evidently ashamed of its own argu-
ment, for the big Moniteite does not venture to re-
produce it. A more important question, however,
ct.uld scarcely be raised ; and I suspect the diplo-
matic correspondence on the subject must by this
time be very embarrassing.
A letter in the Arvenire of Naples says that
Francis 11. has broken his leg by slipping down-
stairs in the Farnese Palace.
The following story is told by the Temps, I
would be sorry to vouch for its not being a canard :

On Saturday evening three mysterious personages entered

M. Grosstete's restaurant at the corner of the Passage de
l'Opera, and asked whether he would serve a supper in a
private room for some " poor exiled Fondant." Although M.
Grosstae had probably never heard of Fenians before, he
agreed to give a good sapper for 3 francs a head without
wine. The banquet lasted from 2t05 in the morning, and
was understool to be given in honour of the news that
Head Centre Stephens had safely arrived at Boston. When
the bill was sent for it turned out that the unfortunate
Fenian, who made a bargain to sop for half a crown had
drank wine extra to the value of about 201. Poor Ireland.

The Bourse opened with some buoyancy, but
became flat on a rumour that the discount in
London was raised to 9 per cent. Bente closed
with scarcely a fractional difference from Satur-
day's prices. Mobilier fell 7fr. 50c.

THE FENIAN TRIALS IN DUBLIN.--Tbe trial of
Cornelius 01[ebony, who bad been assistant bookkeeper in
the Irish People office, was resumed at the Commission
Court on Saturday morning. Mr. Butt baying addressed
the ju, ou behalf of the prisoner, the Rev. Mr. Horgan
was called and examined to show that Nagle's evidence, as
to the certificated by which he had received the situation
which he held at St. Lawrence O'Toole's chapel
WWI not in accordance with the fact.. Mr. Dowse '
then addressed the jury also on behalf of the
prisoner. The Solicitor-General having replied, Judge Keogh
summed up. The jury thee (at a quarter to six o'clocck)
retired to **wider their verdict. They returned into
court at half-past seven, and asked for some papers, adding
at the same time that there was little cbanoe of their
agreeing. In about half an hour they again came into court,
and made a similar statement. They were again directed
to retire, their lordships iatimating that they would return
at eleven o'clock. Oa their return at twenty minutes to
twelve o'clock the jury were still unable to agree, ani the
court discharged them. The prisoner was to be again put
en his trial yesterday.
PATIENT Orncz, 311781171 E, BOOTH KINEINOTON.
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