The Express.
London, England, 1866-10-20 00:00:00

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'1866.

LATEST.,

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SED UNION OF THE GREEK AND
LATIN CHURCHES.

EXTRAORDINARY STATEMENT•

The Incligendanee Beige of yesterday evening
contains an account, coming to it from highly re-
spectable sources and respecting which great eacresy
has been observed, of an extraordinary negotiation
for the purpose of bringing the Greek church into
the bosom of the Latin church. According to our
contemporary negotiations have been carried on for
some months, through the medium of a foreign power
which is not designated, but which it assumes to
be France, between the court of Rome and the
Patriarch of the Greeks. A basis having been
formed and accepted, these negotiations bare been
continued and pursued up to the present time,
directly between the papacy and the patriarchate,
encouraged and seoonded by the good offices
of the same foreign power. A grave diffi-
culty which at first presented itself has
been removed. The patriarch held absolutely, and
the Pope on the other hand resisted, the marriage
of priests. The court of Russia yielded on the prin-
cipal point, restricting, however, as it has done for
the Maronites, the power of marrying to simple
priests, the bishops being excluded from this privi-
lege. Such is the position of the questionat present.
The patriarch, disposed to admit this compromise,
is at this moment putting forth all his efforts to
bring about its acceptance by the religious dig-
nitaries of the East. It is not difficult, remarks the
indipentiatios, to perceive the bearing of such an
event if it should be realised, as the mediating
power appears firmly to hope that it will be.
The Christians of the Levant, recognising as their
chief the Pontiff of the West, would be thus re-
leased from every tie on the side of St. Peters-
burg. Russia would in consequence lose au
power over them, and the West would
thus find itself secured against future dangers
from Russian ambition towards Constantinople. It
is added that these negotiations are connected
with the establishment of a constitutional
rdgime in Egypt, and with a vast plan which would
definitively remove the Eastern question from the
number of those which weigh upon our European
policy.

(morn's famissal
THE CANDIAN INSURRECTION.
VIENNA, Our. 20.
The Vienna papers publish telegrams from
Constantinople announcing that dissensions con-
tinue to prevail amongst the insurgents of Candle.
The Turks have captured a stock of provisions and
munitions belonging to the insurgents.

INDIA.
(Vie Trieste.)

CALCUTTA, SEPT. 22.
It is stated that one-half the population of Orissa
has perished from hunger.
Cholera has appeared in the famine districts of
Bengal. Large subscriptions are being made for
the relief of the sufferers.

A plentiful harvest is expected.
It is reported that Captain Jervis intends to
appeal to the Duke of Cambridge and to parlia-
ment against the decision of the court-martial.
He will probably proceed shortly to England.
The rebellion in Burmah has proved a complete
failure.
The report of the Indian Currency Commission
is now completed. It declares in favour of the
immediate introduction of a gold coinage in India.
The James Crossfield, from Calcutta to London,
has gone ashore at Point Palmyra,.
The Rajpoot, from London to Calcutta, has been
totally wrecked.

CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN
MAILS.
SOUTHAMPTON, Ocr. 20.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Ma:milli*, with the heavy portion of the above mails,
has arrived here. She brings 102 passengers,
432,0731., gold dust value 17,0001., Turkish Bonds
value 9001., jewellery, &c., value 1,4611., and a
general cargo, including 1,706 bales raw silk, value
160,0001. sterling. She experienced fine weather
throughout the passage.
The Spanish frigate Isabel Segunda, with Senor
Dies Dado, secretary of the Spanish Legation at
Tangiers, on board, had arrived at Mazagan, and
demanded satisfaction for the alleged insult to the
Spanish flag by the Moorish Governor Bomejedi, in
having seized and punished two Moors under the
protection of the Spanish Vice-Consul at Mazagan.
The Moorish Governor acceded to all the demands
of the Spaniards, made a public apology, ordered
the soldiers to be flogged who had carried out his
orders, and saluted the Spanish flag.
Exchange on London at Gibraltar, 49g to ;on
Paris, 5.23.

AMERICA.

SOUTILUIPTON, Ocv: 23.

The North German Lloyd's steamer New York,
from New York on the 7th, has arrived with 92
passengers, but no specie. On the Bth she spoke
the steamer Bremen.
The New York experienced fine weather to the
morning of the 13th, when a heavy gale commet
from the eastward, increasing to a hurricane at
4 p.m., and at 7 she shipped a heavy sea, com-
pletely sweeping her forward deck. The ship's
chief carpenter and two seamen were killed and two
others wounded.
No news has been received of the Saxon* which
left New York at the same time as the New York
and doubtless encountered the same weather.

(Br Arurrno rusozArg.)
NEW YORE, Ocr. 18 (Prisura).

Gold, 148 i. Exchange on London, 1611. 5-20
U.S. Bonds, 115. Illinois, 126 i. Erie, 83}•
Cotton : Middling Upland, 4l}.

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