The Express.
London, England, 1867-06-11 00:00:00

SPAIN.

MADRID, Jume 11.

Trustworthy reports are current that the Queen
will go to Rome to be present at the centenary,
and that either before or after she will visit the
Paris Exposition with the Infanta Isabelle. The
King of Spain and the Prince of Asturias will also
go to Paris.

INDIA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS.
MALTA. Juxic 10.
The Syria leaves at 8 and the Delta at 9 o'clock
this evening.
The former may be expected at Marseilles on the
13th, and the latter at Southampton about the
19th inst.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(IIION 001 OWN 0011111111PONDZOT.)
PARIS. MONDAY EVENING.

The Patric, although not generally aspiring to
the character of a " liberal" journal, joins under
present circumstances with its " habitual adver-
saries" in protesting against the suggestion that
the liberal reforms promised on January 19 should
be withdrawn because Berezowski, a Pole, fired a
pistol at the Emperor of Russia. The Figaro, by
way of illustrating the logical force of the reaction-
ary argument, says that if a man were to go the Pre-
fect of Police and say, " Sir, I have been insulted
by a hackney-coachman, please to shut up all the
pork butchers' shops," he would certainly be sent
to a lunatic asylum. The government, if it does fail
to realise the press and public meetings reforms this
year, will certainly not use any such insane reason-
ing. But there are symptoms of &disposition to en-
courage delay and throw the blame upon the oppo-
sition for proposing numerous amendments. M.
Rouher on Saturday very vehemently assured the
majority that they need be under no apprehension
of a dissolution ; but he carefully abstained from
intimating, as he knows how to intimate when a
proper cue is given, that government expects the
bills to be passed this session. The time lost in
considering amendments is attributable not to the
deputies who move them, but to regulations art-
fully devised for the very purpose of making the
right of amendment troublesome, and in general
practically inoperative.
The Pays persists in its monstrous proposal that
in consequence of Berezowski's crime the pension
of 35fr. a month generously granted by France to
a great many Polish refugees should be withdrawn
from all of them. Par parenthese, 1 believe I
stated that the assassin received from the French
government 35 centimes a day ; I should have
said 35fr. per month. The unpopularity of the
miserable suggestion of the Pays is confessed this
this evening with great naireti. It receives, it
says, every day, and every one of its staff receives
individually, heaps of anonymous letters full of
sarcasms and insults.

Deputy Granier de Cassagnac, who wants to
annihilate tho Council of the Order of Advo-
cates because they have declined, by a
majority of one, to punish M. Flocquet,
for crying " Vive la Pologne," thinks it neverthe-
less good taste now that the King of Prussia is in
Paris to say because Camiar strove to make the
Rhine an impassable barrier to protect Gaul from
Germany, all Germans now on this side of the
Rhine are intruders, and must prepare either to
tramp or make their submission to the French Em-
peror. All Germany, he nays, is now a regiment,
of which the King of Prussia is the colonel. It
cannot be suffered that any part of this regiment
shall be quartered on the French side of the Rhine.
This question presses for its " inevitable solution,"
and M. de Cassagnac is good enough to hope
that it may be " a pacific one " ! I doubt
greatly whether M. Rouher ventured to hint
anything of the kind at the dinner he gave on
Saturday to Count de Bismarck and Prince Gort-
chakoff, at which were present the Marquis de
Lavalette, the Marquis de Moustier, M. Baroche,
and M. Benedetti. Neither do I think, although
M. Rouher has taken the affairs of Germany under
his peculiar protection, to the great disgust of the
Marquis de Moustier at such interference with his
department, that he will have broached anything
so formidable as the Rhine question during the
visit which he paid to Prince Gortchakoff to-day to
meet M. de Bismarck with him by appointment.

Prince Humbert will be at the ball at the Tuile-
ries to-night.
The Pram, which, with a certain leaven of inde-
pendence, is a sincerely imperialist journal,ventures
to say of the present position of the Army Bill
" The difference between the government and the
committee is one of principle. The government
wants, under one form or another, to have every
clam of the men capable of serving entirely in its
own bands ; whereas, the committee desires to
maintain the right of the chamber to fix the
annual contingent, and not to seize upon every
able-bodied youth in the country for military ser-
vice, but still to give the peasant the cherished
chance of escape by drawing a good number.