The Express.
London, England, 1866-12-27 00:00:00

BROWN and POISON'S CORN FLOUR
for CHILDBIMI
To obtain mire Watt by the sale other binds ere sometimes
eared Instead of SZOWN and YOLSOWS.
John brown," " John Polson." ts dined by WI make" oo
°Kb Peck"'

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'TO CORRESPONDENTS.
kdvevilsesteeta Intended foe " The lipthee," London P.'venhog
Paw, mast be at the Moe, 10, Bouthrioatreet, by Two
o'clock on the dm of pablicatka.

DRURY LANE.
Sole lessee and =war, Mr. F. B. Cluitterton.
Tsui Eve!lmo, A DAY AFTER THE WPMDINC —To con-
clude with the Pantomime, NUMBER NIP. Mesdames Lydia
Thompson, Hudspeth, Bodenham, Seymour, thirdonni, and H.
Vandenhod ; Messrs, Tom Matthews, hereby. Clifton, Mester
Percy Roselle, Bolen Lauri, Cormack, Saville, Morris, Hale.
Bolen°, and Marion. —To commence at 7.
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WAYMIRRET.
VII 9 Berman, A MERE CHILD. Messrs. Howe, Gordon,
White, /to. Mesdames Chippendle, Fitswilliam, Law'.
Pim ell, dte.—A LESSON FOIL -LIFE. Mr. Sothern.- JENNY
D AT LAST. Mies Barke.—And the BALLET. Mdlle.Septna.

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nuarcasrs.
'nue Imam, BARNABY MIDGE. Messrs. 8. Calhsem,
JP. Wilms, J.o.Bbore, and 0 Honey- Wales Augusts IR-m-
-oon and Katherine Rodgers, Mrs H. Vining, and lan. C. Hors-
ms THE INVISIBLE. PRINCE

LLCM: M.
TM SWIM°, THE TWO POLTS. Mr. Vitddlcomb. —And
ROUGE ET NOIR. Mews. Fechter, Killen, Cowper. Moreland,
Fitzpatrick. Dalton, Reynolds, Loinaa, Andrew and CC. LeAcrenerson. ;
Mrs. L. Murray, and Misses Remade, Grattan,.

--Ernuar.
Ting Immo, NEIGHBOURS DAttl be
AprodTHE
uced
a Grand Burleague, GUY FAWKES.—ARd BOer which wilOT T
SWAN.-----------

HOLBORN.
THIS Evvrnia, 'MY TI'RN NEXT. Mr. Be'more; Woes
Foote and Lennot.—And FLYING sCED. Messrs. Neville, Bel-
more, Btake, YoHaire, &c. : Mesdames r. Josephs, C. sunders,
Bessie Foote, Made', Leonoz, Raymond, Re.

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BRITANNIA.
THIS ETIDoso, THE PRINCESS OF THE PEARL ISLAND:
oR, THE THREE KINUUO OF PEARL, GOLD, AND
SILVER. Um Lase and Mile Jacubs.—Finit-rate Pantouilmlats.
~And THE SKELETON CREW.

man WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
14m.
TWO DDS —orning. th. slot..”..Afternoon. 66.
TO-tiontoW—Yorning, Oh. W.na ...... Afternoon. 76. 2m.

LONDON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27.

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circumstances in the money market which had in.
duped the Anglo-Italian Bank, as a measure of
prudence, to contract its business during the past
financial crisis.
I conclude by providing your readers with
food for a laugh. At the last sitting of the Chamber
here certain members sent in their resignation et
I their seats. It would seem that this measure is
expected to be ?noticed, so one gentleman states that
" various small irregularities of health have tor-
mented him ever since last June, to which is wow
added a cold !" while another hon. member declares
that "the occupations of the Chamber disturb the
functions of his digestion !"

ROME.

(rams one smut. coaarmrotromrr.)
ROME, Dec. 22.
When one finds it gravely stated in the Gtc.e, tug
di Milano that the elcders still continues its rarer"
at Rome ; in the bazione of Florence, that the
Roman streets are crowded with disguised, and the
convents with tuuliaguised, brigands ; in the &ado
of Milan, that " the Roman people are iu a state of
supreme exaltation," after one hs spent a whole
fortnight in a fruitless search fora corroboration of
any one of these phenomena, one cannot but agree
with that truly humorous journal, the Osseteators
Romano, that to the Roman correspondents of the
Italian newspapers must be given a miraculous
power of seeing and hearing things which am
effectually hidden from ordinary mortals. The fart
is that there has not been a single case of cholerain
Rome, and that the attitude of the Roman people
continues calm and undemonstrative to a degree al.
culated to drive correspondents craving for incident
wherewith to supply the demand of newspaper
readers for sensational matter to a state bordering
on despair. When one came to Rome on a more
or less distinct understanding that one would find
the Roman people ready to go off, like a firework,
at any moment after the departure of the Frelich,
it surely will amount to something like breach of
contract if Christmas and the carnival are allowed
to go by without an explosion. It is a fact, melan-
choly perhaps in so far as it upsets all the precon-
ceived theories and prophecies on the subject, but
none the less true, that you may walk the Roman
streets from morning till night without witnessing
any case of insolent treatment of the natives by
the Papal mereenaries, on the one hand, or any
altercation between tho Zuuaves or Antibes
Legionaries on the other.
Week by week the notice taken of the Pope by
his subjects is gradually getting less and less, and
the cheering which greets his successive appear.
ances in public is becoming so feelde that it bids
fair to die out altogether before the arrival of the
new year. On Monday last, in spite .d the employ
ment of the usual appliances to stimulate it, the
cheer, which should have been raised as the Holy
Father got into his state coach at the door of the
church of tho Capuchins at the conclusion of the
ceremony of proclaiming the approaching canoniza-
tion of a new saint, was positively still-born, the
half-dozen persona, on whose tongues it rose for an
instant being frightened into silence at the sound
of their own voices in the midst of the general

silence.
On that occasion, by the side of the usual pair of
Swiss giants in motley, stood proudly leaning on
his halbert a very small boy, whose dr.:ss, con-
sisting of a brazen helmet with white plume, black,
red, and yellow tunic, and black and red hose, w-as
the exact counterpart of theirs. The small boy was
not, as was generally supposed. the offspring of either
of the giants, look as he might a chip of those
blocks, but belonged to a lady in mourning, who
stood behind him, and who was bent upon publicly
dedicating her child to the Holy Father. Inexor-
able, however, was the master of the ceremonies on
the occasion, and—unwisely as it [teemed to me—
n-
steadily refused to gratify the whim of the u
happy woman, who might so easily have been sent
to her home rejoicing.
When the Holy Father made his appearance on
the steps of the church. it was of course necessary
to remove one's hat fur a few moments, but the
act of doing so was almost enough to give one a
sun-stroke, with such extraorainary fierceness wa
sl
s
the noonday sun blazing, as if it had been b
into a redder heat than usual by the blast of the
piercing " Tramontana," which rose to a gale in
the afternoon. Luckily for him, the Holy Father,
who wore no other headgear than a small skullcap,
was provided with a huge red umbrella, which was
held over him to shelter hint front the sun.
It is not often that the Romans experience rails
a gale of wind as swept over the city on Monday
afternoon. That graceful weeping willow-like
pepper tree, which so many travellers will rarancebyemem-
ber as presenting such an attractive appe
the entrance of the Hotel d'Augleturre, was blown
down with a crash, and everything presenting •
broadside to the wind, including the broad-brimmed
bats of the Roman ecclesiastics, who carry a vast
amount of sail on their heads, had a very trying
time of it. The narrow Roman streets, and the
suburban roads, which, shut in between lofty walls,
lead to the Campagna, were converted int
ough 1
o
many pneumatic despatch tubes. Alth
the last few days the brilliancy of the weather has
been extraordinary, and there has hardly been •
hour in the twenty-four during which yes
could not see to read either by sun
by moonlight, I can haraly conceive
wh
any climate more trying than that of Rome
the Tramontana is blowing and the sun shining.
Nothing can exceed the beauty of it ; but it is
m
to sound ridiculous to hear pe,Tle who h
caught bad colds in visiting the Colosseum:
moonlight, or lost their voices by any other similar
imprudence, croak out, whot you meet thew,
" What lovely weather this is
As for Signor Tonello, Isis preser.ze here is
lutely ignored by the Roman papers, winch
full of what is going on at Madrid or i Mel
n
but give wonderfully little info:mallet' about I
which concern us more nearly.
Although the number of 'visitors is steal
the increase, Rome is still deciaedly eturtY,
,
s
there is still almost as great a of lodging
a watering-place out of the season.

CotuL Ftslicia;.—Coral fishing is earrit
at different points of the basin of the :Mediterranean.
French have, have, from time immemorial, ilea oted theowt/
to this industry on the shores of Algeria. The "_r.
procured on the coasts of Sardinia grows more tertian
in the depths of Carloforte, of the
Alghero. At the latter 'dace, where the set
vegetation in question is most abundant, the total. Dt,
ber of vessels engaged in the fishery cannot be ereoo7,
at fewer than 2110,
of which are Ncipolitsg,
Tuscan, and 20 Sardin;an, planned by 1,930 men. The ar,e'
commences each year iu March and ends. Oetober.
value of the coral exported annually is l,:e10,001gr•
tsells at 'a.te.
pale pink kind, which is most esteemed,
high price ; this is a matter of fancy and
of rare beauty, weighing nine ounces, WAS
for 2,0001 r. The ordinary price is GOOfr. the kilt
Red coral is worth 150 fr. ; the white, which is vi
deteriorated by perforations mule by worm",
iiofr. Corals of all kinds are for the molt
putoinia
Torre del Greco, near Naples. The Sard
Tuscans forward the produce of their fishery tom
Leghorn. From the 1,500,000 fr. mentions
1,170,000 fr. must be deducted to cover expense
remains therefore a net profit of 330,x*, to be
among the few employers who are at the
be
fishery.

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