The Express.
London, England, 1867-05-31 00:00:00

LATEST IN MLUGENCE.

(Yuma% TELSORAIIi.)
SAXONY.
DRESDEN, MAT SO.

Her Royal Highness the Princess Mary Anne,
the wife of Prince George of Saxony, was safely
dglivered of s daughter this morning at 2 a.m.

CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS.
SOUTHAMPTON, MAY :n.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Nyanza, with the above mails, arrived here to-day
with 149 passengers, 2,4801. in specie, and a gene-
ral cargo, including 893 bales of silk, value
75,0001. sterling. On the 24th she spoke the
British barque Nora and the steamer Smyrna ;
and on the 27th the schooner Roseland and the
steamer Louis Laird.

GIBRALTAR, MAT 26.
Exchange on London, 491 to 50 ; on Paris,
Mr. 26c. ; on Madrid, par to dia.
Her Majesty's ships Caledonia, Victoria, Are-
thusa, Skylark, and Reilpole are in the harbour.

AMERICA.
(BT ATLANTIC TgLEGRAPH.)
NEW YORK, MAT 30.
The steamers Virginia, from Liverpool, and the
St. Patrick, from Glasgow, arrived here to-day.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, THURSDAY EVINLNG.

The unusual spectacle of a government defeat
was witnessed in the Corps Legislatif yesterday.
The complicated, elaborate bill for amending the
law on public companies, which has been for years
under the consideration of the cabinet and the
Council of State, failed to satisfy the majority.
Ono of the most important articles—that which
proposed to allow a stipulation in the statutes of a
company that subscribers selling their shares should
be responsible for calls only to the extent of half
the amount—was rejected by 101 votes to 97. MM.
Jules Simon, M. de Janze, and other members con-
demned the clause as immoral, and insisted that
the " publicity" upon which the government
relied was not a sufficient protection to the
public. M. Duvergier, one of the most able
lawyers in the Council of State, argued strenuously
in favour of the clause, but, as you see, without
success. The number of abstentions is remark-
able. Parties were completely broken up on this
division, every member voting according to his
own private views. There is a great difference of
opinion upon many other clauses, and it is not
easy to predict what course the government will
take when the adjourned debate comes on to-
morrow.

The police are taking the most minute precau-
tionary measures to prevent any hostile demon-
strations against the Emperor of Russia by the
Polish refugees. Several of the most influential
Poles in Paris have been warned that they would
do well to recommend their countrymen to be very
prudent. A good many Poles have gone into the
country to be out of the way. Prince Czartoriaki
is one of these.

More litigation growing out of the Universal
Exhibition ! M. Ber, the founder of the Pr,l
Catelan, who had obtained a contract for the ex-
clusive right of bill-sticking over 7,000 yards of
wall in the Exhibition, has brought an action
against M. Le Play and Mr. Cole, claiming a miL
lion of francs damages on the ground that ho can
only got 5,000 yards. He moreover complains
that he is injured by the English commission al-
lowing exhibitors to advertise on the window-
blinds of the machine gallery. The case will be
heard next Wednesday. M. Desmarest is counsel
for M. Ber, and M. Truitt for the English com-
mission.

M. Cl4ment Durernois, M. de Girardin's princi-
pal lieutenant, is about to leave the Liberte, and
intends to bring out on June 15 a new morning
paper, to be called La Discussion.
The banquet offered by the bar to M. Jules
Fevre on the occasion of his election to the Aca-
d4mie Francaise was to have taken place to-day in
M. Triat's gymnasium, Avenue Montaigne, but it
is postponed sine die in consequence of an indispo-
sition of the guest.
This being Ascension Day the Bourse is closed.

THE EARL OF CARNARVON AND THE JAMAICA
OUTBREAK.

In a blue-book issued to-day containing further
correspondence relating to the affairs of Jamaica, are the
following despatches from the Earl of Carnarvon to
Governor Sir J. P. Grant :

" Downing-street, July 30, 1866.

" Sir,—By Mr. Secretary Cardwell's despatch No. 173,
of 18th June. your predecessor was instructed to institute
• careful investigation of those cases in which grave
offences bad been laid to the charge of civilians during the
suppression of the recent disturbances in Jamaica, in order
that such further proceedings might be taken as were re-
quisite and just. I have no doubt that this most serious
and painful duty will occupy your immediate attention,
bat it is not the less my duty to express to you the gre►t
importance which her Majesty's government attach to a
close and complete investigation of those cases which ap-
pear to you to call for it, and their anxiety that all classes
in the island should know that in thew as in all other
cases they may rely on • strict and equal administration of
justice without fear or favour at the hands of the law and
the representative of the crown. I have to instruct you to
furnish me at the earliest day with a report of the pro-
ceedings which you have taken.—l have, Ice.,
(Signed) " CARNAHVON.
"Governor Sir J. P. Grant, K.C.8., La."
" Downing-street, August 1, 1866.

_ .
"Sir,—Your predecessor forwarded in his despatch to
Mr. Secretary Cardwell, No. 7:i, of the 24th of March, a
return of the sentences inflicted by the special commis-
sion of Oyer and Terminer, held at Kingston between
24th January and 9th March last, on persons implicated
in the disturbances in Jamaica, or arrested on charges of
sedition and treason. I find on examination of this re-
turn that many of the sentences thus inflicted are of great
severity. Thirteen men and two women are sentenced to
penal servitude for life, and seven men And four women to
penal servitude for twenty years, the charge being felonious
riot. I have no wish to express any doubt of the justice
or propriety of sentences thus inflicted by a legally con-
stituted tribunal; but it appears to me that as
the investig►tion of the royal commission has enabled
the government to appreciate more clearly than
was possible at the time the nature of the recent dis-
turbances and the guilt of those implicated in them, it
would be desirable that the proceedings of the commission
specially appointed to try those persons should now be
revised ; and I wish you, therefore, to call for the judges'
notes, and, after consultation with the presiding judge
under that commission, to report your opinion whether,
in any of the cane, there are grounds for remitting any
portion of the sentences.—l have, &c.,
(Signed) " CAJINAIVON.
" Governor Sir J. P. Grant, K.C.8., &a."

President Juarez, who has captured the Em-
peror Maximilian, is the son of poor parents, Zspetek
Indians, from a small village in the Sierra de Oiaca.

The Exhibition of the Works of Living Artists,
which took place in the Champs Elysies, will be closed on
the sth of June. The pictures which have gained prizes,
by the solicitations of the artists, will be hung in the fine
art galleries in the Champ de Kars.