The Express.
London, England, 1866-05-31 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(rßom oun OWN COIRTOYONDENT.)

PARIS, WZDNYSDAY Emma.
The latest official indication of the prospects of
the conference is in the Moniteur du tioir, which
resumes the questions to be submitted in
the terms already known, adding this, which
I think is new, that the powers at
variance were to be asked " either to put their
armies on a peace footing, or to suspend their arms-
..ments." There is a great difference between the
two propositions. It is quite certain that the first
has not been assented to, and it is more than
doubtful whether the second requisition has been
more successful. Something about countermands
of marches in Prussia we have heard of, and there
was a momentary suspension of recruiting
volunteers in Italy, but the latest news is
that Victor Emmanuel has signed a decree
augmenting the volunteers from 20 to 40 battalions.
The Moniteur oontenta itself with saying " it is
thought" the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of all the
powers will come to the conference, whereas the
semi-official organs had announced their presence as
certain.

The Bourse was decidedly buoyant. The rise
in Consols had a great influence, but it is observed
that many buyers for this settlement have sold
twice, thrice, and four times as much with primes,
and they have a manifest interest to get quotations
up in order to sell for the next account. Rente
rose lfr. fur cash, and 80c. for account, closing at
65fr. 75c. and Gsfr. 35c. Italian rose 55e., closing
at 42fr. 65c. Mobilier rose 12fr. 50c., and Credit
Foncier 25fr. The Northern and Lyons railways
rose l 2 r. 50c. each.

THE GREEK RAID INTO THESSALY.

SALON ICA, MAY 12.

The small band of hot-headed Greek patriots,
combining revolutionary and predatory designs, whose
landing on Longoa I reported last week, is now, happily
for its own safety, securely bilged in Salonica jail. The
band numbers 32, all told. In Greece, its head-quarters,
it musters SOO men, mostly Wigan, who wear a self-con-
ferred badge or order of St. John, which serves the
double purpose of mutual recognition and saintly protec-
tion and patronage. Leonidas Bulgaria, who holds
the commission of " colonel " in these Hellenic " Moss-
troopere " or border-raiders and late leaders of
" Freedom's " battalion, with a staff of four captains
and a henchman, a certain well-known Capitan Georgiaki,
and 24 paliksizia, sailed from the Pirmus in a leaky boat,
and after a perilous passage landed safely in Porto Konfo,
marked " fair haven" in the sailing directions of the
" Menageries Imperiales."
After a discordant council of war the band dispersed.
Their compatriots, whom they came to liberate from the
Turkish yoke of oppression and misrule, received them
warmly—by firing upon them, stoutly opposing their ad-
vance inland, and sending an express into town to apprise
the governor-general of their descent on the peninsula. In
a smart affray which followed two of the country people
were shot. Akif l'acha despatched his Binbashi with a
handful of Zaptiehs, who with the assistance of the rayahn
of the district, made an easy capture of the lot. Capitan
Georgiaki, the robber chieftain, with a solitary companion,
are believed to be still at large. Colonel Leonidas Bul-
garia was taken in the peaceful guise of a monk skulking
in the cockloft of a monastery farm. Ilia excellency pro-
cured him a decent suit of clothes as soon as he aster.
tained his distinction, has his food sent from a locanda,
his room furnished and supplied with writing materials.
The Pacha is no fanatic Osmanli, but himself a magnani-
mous Albanian, descended from a long line of illustrious
ancestors, and can sympathise with knight-errantry in its
misfortune. This same Leonidas Bulgaria, I believe, com-
manded a Greco-Russian regiment during the Crimean
war. His late escapade, independently of his antecedents,
would have cost him his neck in any more civilised country,
such se Russia or Austria. He is, however, generous
enough to acknowledge the gentleness of his treatment,
confesses the madness and impracticability of his scheme,
and charges his deception upon the Greek journals and
political intriguers. This is a much better lesson to
Greek politicians than political martyrdom.—Levant
Herald.