The Express.
London, England, 1866-04-03 00:00:00

GREAT VICTORY OF THE IMPERIALIST

SHANGHAI, MARCH 9.

The imperial troops have gained a complete
victory over the rebels in the north. 50,000 of the
latter are said to have been slaughtered or captured.

THE BRAZILS.
RIO DE JANEIRO, ILisza 9.
There is no news of importance from the seat of
war.

The Brazilian Admiral Viscount Tamandare has
arrived at Corrientes.

OUTWARD BOMBAY MAIL.
GIBRALTAR, Area 2.

The Ripon from Southampton on March 27,
arrived at midnight yesterday, and left at 5 a.m.
to-day for Alexandria. Experienced foggy weather
to Cape St. Vincent.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(num ma OWN oolszsroxparr.)

PARIS, MONDAY EVENING.

There are no new symptoms here worthy of
notice on the great question of peace or war. The
silence of the Prussian telegraph, which the
Presse clings to as a good sign, is probably owing
only to the Easter holidays.
Prince Napoleon's arrival in Florence is tele-
graphed. He has had several interviews with
General IA Marmora. One version of his " mis-
sion"—for it seems that, notwithstanding his die-
I grace at court, he has a mission from the
Emperor—is that his instructions are to
dissuade Italy from a Prussian alliance, and
his own private opinion is said to be in ac-
cordance with that of the Tuileries. One does
not readily see why such a very confidential and
extra-ministerial adviser as the Emperor's cousin
should have been wanted for such a mission, which
might have been well fulfilled by ordinary
diplomatic agents. If, indeed, this news should be a
blind, and if, as the public begins to suspect, it is
really true that France meditates a great war to
humilitate and diminish Austria, aggrandise

Prussia, give Venice to Italy, and the Rhine to
France; then, indeed, one can conceive that
the unavoidable task of furthering such a combina-
tion should be confided to Prince Napoleon. His
imperial highness is to go from Florence to Milan,
where the court will be this week, and where grand
fetes are coming off.

The government journals for the purpose of show-
ing that M. Glais Bizoin's play, Le Vrai Courage,
was not prohibited by the censorship in Paris,
publish a letter from Marshal Valliant, minister
of the Emperor's household, to the author,
informing him that according to established
rules, the censors could not look at a play unless it
had been accepted by some Paris theatre. Marshal
Valliant therefore regretted that he could not give
the permission demanded to represent the Vrai
Courage in Paris. The correctness of this state-
ment is not questioned. It was not in
Paris, but at St. Brieuc, in Brittany, that
M. Glaia Bizoin's play was interdicted. M.
Glais Bizoin is a Breton. The loyal prefect, with-
out any reference at all to the subject matter of
the play, thought it undesirable that an opposition
member of the Corps Legislatif should have a
chance of obtaining popularity in his department
by a successful drama. The prefect's decision was
approved of by the Minister of the Interior, and
thereupon M. Glair Bizoin resolved upon the Ge-
neva campaign, which is now so well known.
There were great fluctuations at the Bourse.
But quotations coming higher from Vienna,
Frankfort, and Berlin the closing prices here were
considerably better. Bente, for account, after
having oscillated between the extreme point of
67fr. 70c. and 67fr. S2c., closed at 67fr. 60c., with
• rime of 20c. Mobilier rose 16fr., and Italian 25a.

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VIENNA, Mises 30.
•.r ! war ! is still the cry sounding hitherward
from the north—from the sister State. That Count
Bismarck is bent on fighting there can hardly be a
doubt. When he was here some years ago with his
royal master he said, in conversation, that a state
of peace had lasted too long; that" a little blood-
letting was wanted" for Germany, and that to fight
would do everybody good. He evidently thinks the
time is come for his prescription to be adopted.
The Emperor Ferdinand Northern Railroad has
contracted for a great number of Bessemer steel
rails with the Carinthian and Moravian works.
These will be the first of Bessemer steel laid down
in Austria. _ _

When we see the inveterate hostility shown by
the Hungarians to whoever differs from them in
their political creed, it is a proof of no little oourage
on the part of Count Bela Szecheneyi openly to
declare his opposition to the system at present pur-
sued of unbending " Rechts oontinnitat." How-
-1 ever, he has done so in the public press. Though
it will be without the least effect, it is still a little

cheering that a single voice is raised against the
uncompromising system which is being pursued
now at Pesth.

The dislike the Hungarians bear to anything
German, though whatever culture they have is de-
rived from Germany, is shown by the unpopularity
of a bishop just dead. He, in order to procure
some sort of education for the children roving wild,

as one may say, on the vast plains of Hun-
gary, erected small schools in different parts of
them, and placed there German teachers. This
was the great delinquency, the introduction of the
hated foreigner.
Again English capital is embarked in commercial
enterprise in the Austrian empire, men who have
had an opportunity of judging of the capabilities
of the land having seen that with industry, care-
ful and honest management no better field could
be found for the investment of capitaL What,
too, is sure, is that every year will make it a more
eligible one for well-considered speculation. Three
Germans, with George Grant and William Powell,
have united to form a society at Prague, to be
called " The Anglo-Austrian Sugar-producing
Society," and the different ministries have sanc-
tioned the undertaking "in principle." Whether
from this to " reality " is only a step, or whether
the delays and opposition and vexatory proceed-
ings not wholly unknown in Austrian ministerial
bureaux lie between, I am unable to say.