The Express.
London, England, 1866-09-01 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PAM, TEMA! Emma&
The treaty of peace between Prusais and
Austria his been completed with unusually little
diplomatic( delay. The koniteur du Soir announces
that the ratifications were signed at Prague
ritterday, August 80, sad that the Mkt •1411•:be
simultaneously published at Vienna anellerlin

the day after to-morrow (Sunday )-
A letter received this afternoon states that the
formalitiat relative to the cession of Venetia to Italy
are conaluded ; that the Austrians will probably
evacuate the Quadrilateral before Sept. 5, and that
en that day Victor Emmanuel will make his entry
into Venice. Great news indeed'.
The Paris, in announcing that the yo g Mexi-
can Pries 'turbid/1 is now in Brusse.;, dates
parenthetically, and as if the fad were already
well known, Chat he has been " adopted by Maxi-
radian." 1 remember hearing, when the lad's
mother nine to Paris some months. ?kilo? ,that his
neme might possibly he made the centre *of an
sessitmaladabination to get out of *difficulty, but
lam not aware that the adoption, if a reality, has
yet been made public.
Hausa-Ali-Khan, the Persian Ambassador,
whose personal qualities and intelligent apprecia.
tion of European civilisation left indelible recol-
lections in Paris when he returned to his country
some years ago to assist the Shah in carrying out
reforms, was some time !Luca reappointed as chief
of this legation. He arrived st Marseilles on
Wednesday, where he was received by Mirza
Suleyman Khan, the Paris chargd d'Affaires, and
Maw Agali, the secretary interpreter, who speaks
both French and English perfectly. The ambas-
sador and his suite are expected in Paris to-day.
There is great commotion in the Faubourg St.
Germain on account of a rumour that the noble
quarter is about to be Hansamannised. The Paris
sillies propose, it is said, to out this sanctum 'one-
time' of armigeri in two, just as if it were only
peopled by simple bourgeois. As many as twenty
" hotels" redolent of high family recollections in
the Rues St. Dominique, Greneffe, St. Germain,
and Lille are to be demolished for the sake of
making a new Boulevard.
The Mari:ores caricature to-day represents a
Prussian general sitting on a marble bench in a
public garden smoking a cigar. A pretty little
girl whom he has been noticing says to him :
" General, my papa likes you very much." " What
is your papa's business, my dear ? " "He makes ,
wooden legs."
The Presse adds to a mysterious paragraph in the
Mo►ning Post about a marriage in prospect for the
King of Greeoe, that the bride contemplated is a
daughter of Queen Victoria.
Courbet, the painter, had an attack of apoplexy
a few days ago, and for several hours was con-
sidered in a desperate state ; he has now re-
covered..

The Bourse was very firm under the influence of
the lowering of the discount and the smooth course
of foreign affairs. Rente rose 25c. for cash and
acconat, closing at 69fr. 15c. and 69fr. 800. Italian
rose 25c. ; Mobilier, 6fr. 25c. ; and Credit Foa-
-1
cier, sfr.

The London Labourers' Dwellings Society
(Limited), held its half-yearly general meeting on Tuesday
last, Mr. Richard Foster ix the chair ; at which the
report for the six months ending June 30 was presented.
From this it appeared that the capital lad increased to
24,8001. ; and that the net profits were sufficient to pay
the members • dividend on the half-year at the rate of
5 per cent. per annum. The directors, however, recom-
mended that only 5 per cent. per annum be divided, and
that the balance be carried to the reserve fund, which,
with the profit on • forced sale of some property to the
East London Railway Company, will exceed 4,4001.
TES EXTINCT/UR Flag-ENOINE.—Some experi-
ments, similar to those which have been tried on former
occasions, took place yesterday on a piece of open ground
attached to the premises of Messrs. Wilson, omnibus pro-
prietors, Higbbury, with a French invention now patented
in this country under the above designation. As she ap-
paratus, which is of the simplest character, has often been
described, it would now be superfluous to lay more than
that the contents of the vessel (which is small enough to
be attached to a man's back, like a knapsack) was on this
occasion thrown, in several instances, upon mares of
burning wood and other combustible materials, and the
flames were extinguished immediately. In short, the im-
pression forced upon the minds of the spectators was that
the liquid (which appears to be nothing more than tartaric
acid and bicarbonate of potash, mixed with water) cannot
fail to subdue fire the instant it comes in contact with it.
The patentees of this ingenious invention have the good
sense not to claim for it any merit beyond that which it
strictly deserves, and they therefore acknowledge that it
would be of no avail in the case of a conflagration of ex-
tended dimensions ; but they contend that, as an apparatus
for checking fires at their commencement it win be found
of considerable utility. In this character it is well worthy
the attention of the public, and it may fairly be com-
mended to the notice of all who feel something more than
idle curiosity in regard to the extinction of fires.
GOVERNMENT INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES. —The
following additional post-offices in England, Scotland, and
Ireland will be open on and after the 3rd of September for
the receipt of proposals for the insurance of lives or the
purchase of government annuities, under the act 27 and
28 Victoria, cap. 43 ; and for the receipt of the premiums
becoming due to the Postmaster-General, from time to
time, under contracts for the insuranceof lives or the pur-
chase of government annuities, and for the payment of
any sums which shall become payable by the Postmaster-
General under the said contracts:—lnverary, N.B. Kelso,
N. 8.; Killarney (Ireland), Navan (Ireland), Wicklow
(Ireland), Lisburn (Ireland). These offices will be open
for such purposes during the boars appointed for the
transaction of money order business. A hand-bill eon.
mining the principal rules of the Government Insurance
and Annuity-office and of the Post-office Savings Banks
has been printed for gratuitous distribution, and copies
may be obtained at the above-named offices. The mea-
sure will, from time to time, be extended to other poet-
offices than those named above, and due notice win be
given of such extensions. If application be made to any
postmaster for the extension of the measure to his office,
he will at once report the circumstance to the secretary.
NEw hirritoPoirreae COMMONS ACT. —The new
act to improve, protect, and manage commons in the me-
tropolis, which was the lest statute passed in the late ses-
sion, is oos of considerable public importance, and now
that London and the suburbs are being built upon, pormis-
aim is granted to procure " open spaces" that the poor and
others who cannot " go out of town " may breathe the fresh
air, and commons be secured. The mode is a simple one.
The Enclosure Commissioners are not to entertain an ap-
plication to enclose a common, but a local authority—the
Metn.politan Board of Works, or the load board of the
Public Health Act, or a vestry—may present". memorial to
the Enclosure Commissioners, and a scheme is to be pre-
pared and published. Objections and suggestions are to be
made, and a public inquiry instituted on which a report is
to be made, sad if the scheme is settled it is not to have
effect until confirmed by an act of parliament. Inthis way
commons will be secured. As to the expenses, they are to
be paid out of the rotes. A portion of the royal manor of
Greenwich may be obtained, and a common lard out for the
public benefit, as also any common in which the crown or
the Duchies of Lancaster or Cornwall have manorial rights.
All that remains is to carry out the set ; it may remain a
dead letter, unless adopted by local authorities and others
who &d emote that the poorer classes should enjoy fresh
breezes.
The LATE RAILWAY ACCIDENT EARSNLT.—C4tro-
fain T ler, of the Royal Engineers, one of the government
laspeeton appointed by the Board of Trade, yesterday
etenzaenced an inquiry into the accident to an 'amnion
train on the Great Eastern line, between the Ely and
Chittisham stations, on Saturday last. Fuller, the guard,
and Shepherd. the fireman, were reported as still unable
to attend, bat their medical attendants truer they will be
enabled to appear before the coroner on Monday. The
sufferers in Ely are still processing favourably, and, as
before stated, their recovery w new meeeiy a qesenon of
time. It now turns out that the exact number of passen-
gers on fiatunlay was fatty-eight.