The Express.
London, England, 1867-06-29 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTICLLIGE-NCE.

Closing Prices :—Cold, 1381. Sterling exchange
on London, 110. 5-20 United States Bonds, 1103 ;
Illinois, 122 ; Erie, Obi. Cotton : Midland Up-
land, 26i. Petroleum, refined, 24.

The Crown Prince and the Crown Princess of
Prussia, with the royal children, will shortly repair to
liiisdroy, in the Isle of Wolline, in the Baltic. They in-
tend spending the autumn at the chateau of Erdman/4mi,
in Silesia.

Curious anecdotes are in circulation at Rome
respecting the Oriental customs of some of the bearded
patriarchs now here, and of the pious honor they excite
in the mind of the Cardinal Vicar. One venerable old
Byzantine is accused of having repaired to the Pincian
Gardena, at the rear of the promenade, attended by his
Tshibookjee, who spread his master's carpet in a suitable
spot on the ground, where the cross•legged patriarch en.
joyed the tahibook ►nd the music with Asiatic serenity.
Spanish and Portuguese prelates roll their cigarettes in
the Café Greco, and French cures visit the seven Basilicas
accompanied by demure white-capped bonnet. " But the
greatest infraction of etiquette was perpetrated by two
patriarchs who met the Pope walking on the Ponta Molle-
road, and, after prostrating themselves on the ground to
receive his Holiness's blessing, suliequently arose and im-
parted to him their own benediction, to Pio Nono's great
amusement, and the surprise and alarm of his noble
guards and household prelates. The Chinese Apostolic
Vicar, in his audience of the Pope, could not get on in any
language possessed by his Holiness, who, addressing the
court prelates present, said Quest* povoro pre-
lato c un gran brutto servo di Dio.' "

Richard Wagner has had a serious quarrel with
his royal patron and friend, King Ludwig of Bavaria, and
has left Munich. A letter from Berlin says :—" For the
last three or four weeks, Wagner and the celebrated
pianist Hans von Billow had been drilling the company at
the opera for a very magnificent representation of
Lohengria, and had engaged the services of the somewhat
elderly tenor, Tichatschek, of Dresden, for the principal
part. The first great dress rehearsal took place on June
10, when the King, as well as all the art-loving world,
were present. The audience generally were extremely
well satisfied, but net so hie Majesty. The next morning
Tichatachek received a delicate communication from the
royal critic, that the princip►l part was to be entrusted to
another and a younger man, Herr Vogel. Some little ob-
jection to Tichatschek's costume was alleged as the reason
of the King's displeasure. Both the public and Wagner
disapproved of this summary dismissal of the great singer,
and Wagner left Munich a few days afterwards."
An Arab writes to the Timr2 :—" I called on
Abdel Kader when he visited England, and was truly sur-
prised to hear from his own lips, in Arabic, that be could
not stay any longer in this country, giting me to under-
stand that he expected a better treatment than he had met
with. I spent two hours in the room of his secretary—a
Christian of Damascus—and I shall only repeat one of his
remarks, 'Do not,' said he defend this people ; we came
to see them, and they allow us to live in • Khan ' Ever
since Abdel Kader's visit I never spoke with an Arab who
did not complain very bitterly of that reception. Now,
England is to be visited by the first Arab Prince, ' Kadiawi
Messer,' will the English government allow him to live at
the house of hia own agent and at his own expense' Was
the Prince of Wake thus treated in Egypt'!"
A German named Kancke was arrested at New
York en the 12th inst. as be landed from the Bremen
steamer America, charged with stealing ,00(.) Premien
thalers while collector under the government of the Prince
of Lippe. An Atlantic oable telegram reached New York
several days before the arrival of the America, and or-
dered Kaneke's arrest.