The Express.
London, England, 1860-01-04 00:00:00

THE BRAZIL MAIL.

The Royal M►il Steams Packet Company'. ship
Tyne, from Brazil., passed Hurst Castle at 9.60
a.m. this day.

CHILI.

A correspondent writing from Copiapo, Nov,. 16,
1869. soya:—" The truth of the old saying that 'evils never
mem alone Ism been more then verithid in the history of
the provisos of Chill during the present year. No simmer
was the revolution finished than the water which lows from
the Cordillera spa supplies the valley of Cop** baps to
diminish, not sufficing to irrigate one half of *elands wider
cultivation; and Melly, Mascot terrible earthquake occurred
that has ever been experienced here. The earthqsake happened
int the morning (about 8 o'clock) of the 6th ut Oaths,. Of
thou terrible oosettleions there are two kinds felt hen. The
one has a lateral movement, sad the ether • perpendicular
our; but sometimes the two are united, sad thee the 'Seeks
are tailiunitina. This was the case in the last disastrous Mei-
lotion, sad is lees tbs. one Waste ass half of tha homer la
Cooky° min levelled with the mead, and the majority of
the Muses that reamistil etimellag were madered
Wis. Tee ems eslassity has boodles all the villages suattared
lima* tiw vslby up ao law Cordillera. Toe greater pert of
my eon hems ha dowa, bet
MULL
my family
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abaft bike Me mot biggeraL" Wilma about ten

EXP • S ,FROM PARIS.
(PROU eippielng COZBASPONDINT.)

PARIS, TUESDAY ZPININO.
The Pays says it has no reason to think that the
adjournment of the congress is indefinite, although
it is not yet known what may be the " probable
epoch " of its convocation.
The Constitutionnel publishes the third and, I

presume, the concluding letter of "A Catholic
Journalist "to the Bishop of Orleans. It is signed
like its predecessors, "Pour extrait, Emile Ferriere ;"
but at the end there appears the following decidedly
funny paragraph

P.B.—Several liens!, have indulged in all sorts of con-
jootares beaten the lotion published in the Closstitutionosi he
answer to Konordeneur the Bishop of Orleans were Wood
"Pour extra., B. Perriare." Our contemporarke might have
divined the antimsat of reserve and nepeolful modesty
which Wooed us to suppreas our name In a controversy
with a bishop of Francs; but since we would not have this
two on our part construed as • fear of roopsesitility, tra
now without hesitation lay claim to our own work.

A. QW!DOUtLLOT.

M. Grandguillot, therefore, is the confessed and
responsible author of these letters. His courage in
coming forward to claim them is all the greater be-
cause the Preen, which, in common with many
other journals, thought at first that the :authorship
of the celebrated pamphlet and that of the letters
was identical, came afterwards to a different con-
clusion, on the ground of a certain manifest infe-
riority which M. Nefftzer fancied he could detect in
the latter. M. Grandguillot, however, attributes
somewhat extraordinary powers of divination to his
brethren of the press, when he reproaches them
for not guessing that a reciacteur in chief, who noto-
riously owes his position to high government
' influence, should, while the law requires every poli-
tical article to be signed with the name of the true
author, write leaders in his own journal under a
false signature. Primo facie that was certainly
a very unlikely thing to happen. It is a flagrant
breach of the law. The law, it is true, is broken
every day ; and, on account of the absurdity of the
law, and the manifest impossibility of ascertaining
who is the " true author" of an article when one
man chooses to give his composition to be signed by
another, the government dues not inquire too
curiously whether the names" Boniface" or " Grand-
gnillot," which may stand at the bottom of any per.
denier manifesto, represent other brains than those
of the ostensible writers. This is the first time,
however, that an editor of a newspaper has fur-
nished palpable evidence against himself in regard
to the law of signatures ; but M.Grandgnillot being
a privileged person, the fact will doubtless escape
official notice.

A new circular of M. Billault to the prefects
reminds them that they have lately been urged to
" wage incessant war upon useless writings." The
minister does not allude, as one might fancy, on a
hasty reading, to books, and pamphlets, and news-
papers, which would run a risk of utter annihila-
tion if the government were to constitute itself a
judge of their usefulness; he refers to the multipli-
cation of letters and reports in government offices.
He wishes to do away with written records, proces
verbattz of an infinity of trivial affairs which mul-
tiply paperatars and distract the attention of the
higher functionaries of government, who are often
condemned to peruse them. M. Billault's perse-
vering efforts as a reformer in this field are highly
praiseworthy, and one can only hope with himself
that they will lead to a " practical result."
The Bonne his recovered to some extent froni the
depression of the late disastrous settlement. The
Rents opened with much uncertainty, and dropped
at one time 10e. lower than yesterday ; but the tone
of the market was decidedly better at the close of
business. The final quotations were 68fr. 60c. for
cash, and 68fr. 76c. for account, being a rise of 25c.
and 30c. Mobilitr rose 7fr. 60c. The Orleans rail-
way rose 16fr.; Northern, Mr. ; Lyons, Bfr. 76c. ;
and Eastern and Western, 2fr. 60e. each. Southern
fell lfr. 260.