The Express.
London, England, 1866-01-24 00:00:00

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OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
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ens behind the iiirion of the coon %pees
aaroas4 hopes tbakilb cotifilltriboo will and
not allow themseivis to be overboose by IG+ ‘tgreste or
the pity created by what ars called hard mom `c If the
country is to be rived from this calamity it most ha done
by the country gentlemen, who, if they stand firm, may
I probably avert it by a few weeks of inconvenienoe.

LATEST IVELLIGENCE

AMERICA AND FRANCE.
IMPORTANT DESPATCHES OF MR.
SEWARD.

The following are the despatches of Mr. Seward
to the French Minister at Washington and the
American Minister at Paris, on the subject of
French intervention in Mexico which have been
briefly mentioned in the ordinary telegrams :

HIS TOPICS.

Describing the preparations which are reported from the
United States on the part of the Pemians, the Time ob-
serves that with such fade before us, and the circumstance
that Dublin has been placed under the provisions of the
Pled Preservation Act, it would be folly to ignore Use
mischievous energy of Fenianism. A refreshing and in-
structive contrast is to be found in snob displays as the
other day took place at Limerick, where a banquet wee
given by the mayor, a protestant independent, to nearly
600 gentlemen of all denominations, and where industrial
enterprise was described by the speaker. as the real enures
of Ireland's prosperity, and the true cure for her midor-
trines.

KB. SEWARD TO THI XAXQULS DX XONTHOLOX.

Department of fits* Washington, Dec. 6, 1865.

Sir,—Having made known to the President the Em-
peror's views on Mexican affairs which you communicated
to me on the 29th ultimo, I have now the honour to inform
you of the disposition of this government in regard to the
same subject. It seems proper, however, for ins to say
in the first piece, that what I have to communicate has
been already fully made known to Mr. Bigelow, with
authority, in his discretion, to impart the same to M.
Dronyn de Lhuys.

Many of the curious facts narrated in the Post-office Re-
port which appeared in yesterday's Express, are introduced
by the Times into an article upon the 'general working of
our penny postage system. It believes the grand secret of
the prosperity of the office is the great multiplication of
letters in the metropolis, where it is made every man's ser-
vant, carrying small messages at all times of the day.
The Tinto suspects mach more would follow from the
multiplication of deliveries in populous towns than from
the extension of free deliveries to thinly inhabited spots.
The Post speculates upon the effect which the recent
military troubles in Spain may have upon events in the
Chinon waters. At all events Spain will have to learn that
the times in which we live do not lend countenance to
any paper blockades, and that it takes more than seven
ships, however wall appointed, to blockade effectively more
th►n fifty seaports.

The effect of the Emperor's suggestions, when they are
reduced to a pr►ctial shape, seems to be this : That France
is willing to retire from Mexico as soon as she may, but that
it would be inconvenient for her without first receiving from
the United States an assurance of a friendly or tolerant
disposition to the power which has assumed to itself an'
imperial form in the capital city of Mexico. The President
is gratified with the assurance you have thus given of the
Emperor's good disposition. I regret, however, to be obliged
to say that the condition the Emperor suggests is one
which seems quite impracticable.
It is true, indeed, that the presence of foreign armies
in an adjacent country could not, under any circumstances,
but cause uneasiness and ►nxiety on the part of this govern-
ment. It creates for us expenses which are inconvenient,
not to speak of dangers of collision. Nevertheless, I cannot
but infer from the tenor of your communication, that the
principal cause of the discontent prevailing in the United
States in regard to Mexico is not tally apprehended by the
Emperor's government. The chief cause is not that there is
• foreign army in Mexico, much lees does that discon-
tent arise from the circumstances that that foreign army
is a French one. We recognise the right of sovereign
nations to carry on war with each other if they do not invade
our right or menses our safety or just influence. The real
cause of our national discontent is, that the French army
which is now in Mexico is invading a domestic republican
government there which was established by her people, and
with whom the United States sympathise most profoundly,
for the avowed purpose of suppressing it, and establishing
upon its rains a foreign monarchical government, whose
presence there, so long as it should endure, could not but
be regarded by the people of the United States as injurious
and menacing to their own chosen and endeared republican
institutions.

The idea of inert resistance on the part of the Pope to
We new kingdom of Italy appears to the Telegraph to be
abandoned. Non posTamtu is no longer the watchword of
the papacy ; and even in the Vatican itself the idea that a
reconciliation with King Victor Emmanuel might afford an
escape from the overwhelming embarrassments of the
Holy See appears to be making way. Under these dream-
steams a provisional character must necessarily attach to
all the arrangements of the Italian government, whether
political or financial.

The Herald refuses to believe that the guardians of the
poor, watched over by a central administration, cannot
keep the inmates of a workhouse in order without the
agency of the police. The fact that the police regimen,
when introduced into an east-end workhouse, reduced
the numbers of the applicants, amounts probably to no
more than the sending so many additional appli-
cants to workhouses where no such superintendence
existed, for it is obvious that where a miserable
pellet and a dole of breed is the extent of the relief,
any other argument from the decrease of those accepting it
would only show that there are coalitions connected with a
police regimen on which men would refuse even the aid
cecessary to existence. Dreadful as is the poverty of our
great cities there is nothing so sad about it as the ignominy
which debases what is already sufficiently defiled ; but
surely we have not yet reached the point of national deo.
neracy where even our almsgiving mast be done by officers
of the criminal code.

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THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 24, 1866.

the Aloe& of Enoinascia, in Spain, his arms and those of
his troops, well ea the small supply.of war munitions in
his possersion. He appeared in very low virile, fatigued,
end suffering in health. On arriving in Portugal he found
a Painters colonel with his regiment. He .es told that
he could not reside in the country. He Lb n asked to ea
authorisation to embark in the Preach steam packet, on
which he was informed that it had fast put to sea, and was
recommended to take the English boat for Soathamptea,
with an intimation that thence he could go wherever he
pleased. His troops will be assigned quarters in Portugal
till further orders.

ROME.
NAPLES, JAIL 24, 9.28, A.m.

A loan has been concluded, it is said, for a
nominal sum of 80 million lire, at 60, with the house
of Erlangen and Co. The decimal system will be
adopted.—Second Edition of the Time,.

(arurzes narawes.)
TURKEY.
CONSTANTINOPLE, JAN. 17.
(Via Marseilles.)

The nomination of the members of the cholera
conference has been completed. Its constitution
will be entirely diplomatic. It is expected to meet
in the first week of February.
The'disturbance excited in the Lebanon through
the arrest of some partisans of Karam by Daond
Pacha has been put down.

THE BOMBAY MAIL.
13017TRAXPTON, JAN. 24.
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The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation I
Company's steamship Pen has arrived here with the
heavy portion of the above mail, 33 passengers,
7381. in specie, and a general cargo, including 387
bales of raw silk, value 33,0001. sterling.
She experienced from Alexandria to the Bay of
Biscay strong westerly gales and heavy sea, up
channel northerly winds and much sea.
On the 22nd she spoke the steamer Ripon in the
Bay of Biscay.
Fourteen British war vessels were at Malta. The
American frigate Colorado was at Gibraltar.

Exchange at Gibraltar, 49k, 49i ; Paris, 5.14 ;
Madrid, i dia.