The Express.
London, England, 1867-07-11 00:00:00

LATEST INTKLLIGENCM.

OLLCTER'IS TELEGL&XL)
THE SULTAN.
VIENNA. JULY 11.

The Sultan, on his way back to Constantinople,
will positively pay a visit to the Emperor Francis
Joseph at Vienna.
The Sultan will also meet the King of Prussia.
According to present arrangemehta the meeting
will take place at Coblentz.

ITALY.

FLORENCE, JULY 11.

In yesterday's sitting of the Chamber of Deputies
Signor Ratazzi laid on the table the correspon-
dence relating to the last negotiations with Rome,
declaring, however, that he considered the publica-
tion to be unnecessary. In the course of the de-
bate on the Church Property Bill, Signor Ratazzi
said that no difference of opinion existed between
the government and the chamber on the principal
foreign and home questions, and urged the cham-
bers to show by deeds its unalterable determina-
tion to meet the engagements and to organise and
e-establish the credit of the country. (Loud ap-
plause.)

Tr RKEY.
CONSTANTINOPLE, JULY 10.

The Imperial Ottoman Bank has issued a notice
requesting the public to present for payment the
coupons of the consolidas due this month.

CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN

guts.

SUEZ, JULY 11.
The Golconda arrived at 6 a. m. to-day.

OUTWARD MAIL OF JUNE 27— JULY 3.
SUEZ, JCLT 11.
The Delhi will leave for Bombay to-morrow.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

THE SPEECH OF K PAYEE.
(PROM OUR ORR 0011ROPORDIIIT.)
PARIS, WRIMSDAT BYRUM.

In consequence of the unusually protracted sit-
ting yesterday—it did not finish till 7 o'clock, a
closing hour which, in the eyes of French deputies
thinking of spoiled dinner, implies killing hard
work—it was impossible to get any full note of
M. Jules Favre's speech in time for yesterday's
post. Having now read it in the itioniteur, I think
it far more " telling" than that of M. Thiers. In
the midst of many interruptions from the President,
the majority, and ministers, he held his own
throughout, and showed by "fact and argument"
that the government deliberately and year after
year deceived the country as to the real object of
the Mexican expedition, and when well aware that
it had failed, and there was nut the remotest
chance of Maximilian's empire lasting, men-
daciously represented, week after week and
month after month, in the Moniker, that
Juarez was crushed and Maximilian every-
where popular and triumphant. Moreover, that
the government had by every art and device, and
the example of subordinate functionaries under its
influence, encouraged the poor and ignorant to in-
vest their hard savings in the Mexican loan long
after they knew it to be a bubble. He cited dates
and documents proving incontrovertibly that when
the ministry, pressed by questions from him, de-
clared that the government knew nothing whatever
of any scheme to make the Archduke Maximilian
Emperor of Mexico, negotiations with that
object to which France was a party had
been going on for two years; that the
suggestion originally came from Spain with a
view to advance the Roman catholic religion, and
that it was adopted by Napoleon HI. with a view
to support Jefferson Davis and to break up the
Great American republic. When told by Presi-
dent Schneider that it was not parliamentary to
impeach the veracity of ministers, M. Jules Favre
always returned to the charge and said that how-
ever desirous to frame his phrases in the most in-
offensive way possible, the undoubted fact was
that in the Mexican business ministers had con-
stantly told the chamber and the country the
reverse of the truth, and it was his right and
duty to say so. You may observe from the
Moniteur that when M. Rouher, to show
that France was not responsible for Maximilian's
tragical end, averred that the government had re-
peatedly pressed him to come home with the troops,
he gave not one word of specific reply to M. Jules
Favre's incontrovertible allegation that when Maxi-
milian had got as far as Orizaba with the inten-
tion of going home on board an Austrian frigate,
which was waiting for him at Vera Cruz, a pres-
sure was put upon him by the French general
which forced him to go back to Mexico city. M.
Rouher's denial rests upon a wilful confusion of
dates.

M. Rouher spoke for two hours to-day in a vain
attempt to show that the Mexican expedition was
a meritorious conception ; that the chamber had
been sufficiently consulted about it ; that the failure
had not diminished the prestige of France ; that
it had not weighed upon her conduct in regard to
Germany, and he concluded by taking in vain the
much abused name of Providence, which ho was
persuaded would yet accomplish the grand and
generous ends which the Emperor Napoleon had
in view. These are all reckless assertions by a
minister at bay before the country, but holding in
hand the majority of the chamber, which are not
worthy of serious refutation or even examination.
The Moniteur announces the dissolution of the
Ecole Normale, on account of the congratulatory
letter of Student Lallier to Senator Sainte Beuve
and the " strike" of all the students with a view
to obtain the revocafion of the dismissal of Lanier.
A hope was entertained that M. Duruy, who was
absent from Paris at the time of the event, would,
on his return, devise a means to settle the dispute
amicably. The students of the Ecole Normale are
not boys. They are young professors, most of
them over twenty-one—the Taines, Prevost Para-
dela, and Weisses of the rising generation. No
doubt as long ‘s they are subject to collegiate dis-
cipline the Minister of Public Instruction cannot
tolerate rebellion. But the discretion which
provoked the present rebellion may well be
doubtol. The sympathy with M. Sainte Beuve of
the highly-educated young men composing the
Ecole Normal° against the attack upon him by
Baron Dupin and a musty set of old senators, fit to
be judges of a revived inquisition, was embodied in
a private letter, for the publication of which, with-
out sufficient reflection, M. E. Arago, the bar-
rister, assumes the solo responsibility. Here was
a case in which the minister might well have
winked hard, instead of being lynx-eyed. As it
is, he will break many a career and convert into
implacable enemies of the government many of the
most rising young men of the day, who might have
been its friends. The Normal School is to be "re-
organised " on Oct. 15, but if its members are to
be made to think in a governmental groove, its old
prestige will be no more.

The Cuurrier du Havre persists that Victor Hugo
ham been in France, and that the cummuniqui sent