The Express.
London, England, 1858-10-13 00:00:00

DEPARTURE OF THE PACIFIC FROM

GALWAY.

(BT BRITISH AND wtomsno TELZORAP H.)

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GALWAY, WEDNESDAY.

The Pacific has just sailed, with 337 passengers
for America, and over-full of cargo. Lord and Lady
Bury were among the passengers. Lord Bury has
plenary powers to conclude mail contracts with
Newfoundland, Canada, and the United States
government, for the Galway line. Over one hun-
dred persons, who came expecting to secure berths
here on their arrival, were refused accommodation,
much to their disappointment.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING.
A Pais letter in the Semaphore of Marseilles
ter:_

Ta ths last aeries of criminals and politioal transports sent
to Caymans there was a man who filled a prominent position
In the early stage' of the revolution of February, H.
Delwin's. This former oommieaary of the provisional
government was some time ago senteneed to a term of
imprisoameat, which he has undergone, and it is only under
the partakes of the law of public safety that he is now
trassportad-

The marriage contract between the Duke of Ma-
lakoff and Madlle. Sofia Valera de la Paniega was
signed at nine o'clock yesterday evening at
Madame de Montijo's house, the Hotel d'Alba,
in the Champs Ripen. Nearly two hun-
dred persons were present on the occasion. The
witnowes for the Duke of Malakoff were Marshal
Valliant, the Minister at War, and Count Walewski ;
and for Madlle. Paniega, the Marquis de Caaaniera
and M. Fould. The civil marriage took place at
noon to-day at the Mairie of the lit arrondissement,
the Rue d'Anjon St. Honors!. The religious ceremony
will be performed, as I have previously announced,
at nine o'clock this evening in the Imperial Chapel
of St. Cloud, in the presence of their Majesties, who
must by titie time have returned from their triumphal
visit to Rheims, of which you will see long accounts
in the illoolteur.

The latest rumour touching the Portuguese diffi-
culty is that the Portuguese Minister here has pro-
posed to Count Walewski to give up the Charles
Georges, and to set the crew at liberty, bat that his
government is not prepared to pay any indemnity.
I can say nothing as to the truth of this report.
The Bourse continues to be heavy. The Rents
has to-day sustained a farther decline of 130. both
for cash and account, the last prices being 73fr. 23c.,
and 73fr. 35c. Mobilier fell 13fr. 93c. The rail-
ways were all lower. Northern fell 7fr. Mc. ;
Southern, 6fr. 230.; and the other lines from
2fr. 50c. to 6fr.

The minor journals of Paris, whose name is
legion, are making desperate efforts to procure the
reversal of the ministerial circular of a few weeks
back, requiring a stamp upon every paper contain-
ing advertisements, and which if maintained will be
their destruction. There is great reason to believe that
the author of this circular is wrong in his law. So
long ago as June lest the Journal de I 'Enregistrs-
meat et lee Domains, which is a great authority
on the stamp laws, pronounced an opinion that the
law of June 23, 1857, whick abolishes the duty on
" public announcements, whether printed, cried

in the streets, or circulated in any other manner,"
applies to advertisements in a journal. The ob-
noxious circular is understood to be the work of M.
Dronsard, an official of republican antecedents, who
is now candidate for the Legion of Honour. Hopes
are entertained that his extra " zeal" may yet be
fruitier.

The Mayor of Lourdes has been forced by eccle-
siastical pressure to revoke his decree interdicting
access to the miraculous grotto of Massavielle. It
may, therefore, be almost taken as certain, although
the commission appointed by the bishop has not yet
made its report, th►t the Lourdes miracle is in-
tended to take rank with that of the Salette and
others held to be authentic by the church. Some
people think that miracles are now becoming so
frequent in France that the priests must be getting
ashamed to own them. There is, however, a very
wide 'margin yet, if the church is to have no other
restmint than the capacity of its own swallow. In
Italy, when the Jesuits were predominant, there
was scarcely a town, or even a village of any conm-
queue, that had not its duly authorised modern
miracle.

The Presse says, in its weekly commercial re-
•iew :

Although a general amelioration in the state of trade has
been observable for the last six weeks, and although moat
branches of manufactures have emerged from the protracted
dead ems" there Is not yet that activity in business which
we have been expecting to see. Psychs...ea to a certain
extent an daily made by foreign agents; considerable orders
for particular ankles have been received from Ruasia,
and Spain, and the United States are rousing themselves
hem their inaction; bat business revives but slowly with
deenmay, which emu yet is feel the effects of the late
sift The hour which do Intainees with South America,
' these sunneabil with the Brazils more especially, have re-
' eared very fow orders. We learn by the latest advisee
fres Rio, that at the end of August the trade of that place
wee still la difficulties. The Brazilian back had raised he
lilietsewille 11 per cent., and as much as 13 per oust. was taken
for updating drafts upon Europe. In Paris the cabinet
makbg business is the one which hitherto has benefited the
lirst by the improved feeling. The Fanbourg St. Antoine
paralli complains of the diMeulty of doing buaions. The
rug ebrips,which Wel, active at the beginning of September,
found *des bushier very slack afterwards, and it is only
within the lad few days that ft has to some extent revired
again. These fluctuation are attributed to the influence of
the weather. The protracted summer has kept people longer
than usual in the country, and at the watering-plane.
Timms have suffered from this circumetence, and it is only
since the weather has become oomparatively cold that there
is a little more demand for them. Melancholy news has been
received this week from Lille. The speculation In sugar
lid to a failure which t►rew the trading classes of that
city Into a stele of oonefernetion. The fall In sugars hie
been severely felt by several honer., which have been large
purchamrs for several months past. The depression of our
home sugars has reacted upon colonial produce, which I.
down in ell the pinta. The most favourable news centimes