The Express.
London, England, 1866-12-20 00:00:00

SPAIN.

MADRID, DEC. 20.
The banking firm of M. Fould has undertaken
to lend the Spanish government 90 millions of
francs. Tho contract for the loan was signed by
the Minister of Finance on the 18th inst.

HUNGARY.
PESTII, Dac. 19, Evairrnio,
Count Majlath has arrived here.
The Upper House of the Hungarian Diet has
voted by a large majority the address passed by
the Lower House.
Baron Bay, former chancellor, and Count For
gach, spoke in favour of the address, which was
opposed by the ex-minister, Herr von Szesen.
The Taveniicus Count Senycy spoke in defence
of the government, and expressed the wish that a
compromise might be effected in principle in order
to tranquillise the non-Hungarianprovinces• Count
Senycy was confident that Hungary by accepting
the principle of common affairs would become the
centre of gravity of the empire. In conclusion he
stated that his Majesty was determined to re-estab-
r hall the constitution of Hungary.

OUTWARD BOMBAY MAIL.
1B
ALTAR, DEC. 10.
The Tanjore, from Southampton on the 12th
inst., arrived yesterday at 7 p.m., and left at 10
p.m. for Alexandria. She had experienced bad
weather.
Quarantine upon arrivals from Southampton has
been reduced to three days.

AMERICA.
Orr ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.)
NEW YORK, DEc. 19, Emma.
Gold, 1361. Sterling exchange on London,
109 g. 5-20 United States Bonds, 1071. Illinois,
118; Erie, 73M.
EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(PlOll ORS OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVESING.
Two days since a deputation of a dozen conser-
vative members of the Corps Legislatif, with the
Vice-President Schneider at their head, waited
upon M. Rouher, to remonstrate against the pro-
posed plan for the reorganisation of the army. If,
they said, the measure should come before the
Corps Legislatif in anything like the shape
set forth in the 3foniteur, they, as habitual
supporters of government would be placed
in a situation of cruel embarrassment. They
received every day piles of letters from their con-
stituents urging them to vote against the project.
They could assure M. Rouher that throughout
France—in cities, towns, villages, and hamlets—in
every class of society, among the dwellers in gilded
saloons as among those in rosin-lighted hovels, the
feeling against it was unanimous. There had been
no such an upheaving against a government pro-
posal since 1848. The plan, if persisted in, would
be the "45 centimes of the empire." (This is an
allusion to M. Gamier Pees extra tax, which, by
its unpopularity, is supposed to have contributed
to the overthrow of the republican government
and the advent of Louis Napoleon.)
M. Rouher, seeing the determined attitude of
the deputies, and, moreover, well knowing that
they were in the right, thought it necessary to
temporise. He received them with what is called
eau benite ; begged them not to give way to un-
necessary excitement, assured them that the mea-
sure would be thoroughly considered in all its de-
tails, that it had to be examined by all the sections
of the Council of State, and that if amend-
ments should be found necessary they would
certainly be made. These assurances were
too anodyne to give much comfort to the
alarmed deputies, who know they represent the
opinions and feelings of the vast majority of their
colleagues now in the provinces. The majority of
the marshals and generals who voted the ominous
project (for there was a minority of the commission
against it) will do their utmost to urge the Empe-
ror to carry it through ; and, with professional dis-
regard of civil opinions and constitutional scruples,
will make small account of the remonstrances of
the country. A nwt attributed to a marshal who
when a simple colonel took a leading part in the