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

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, JAN. 8.

The Emperor has addressed an autograph letter
to Count Belcredi, remitting the punishment of
those persons belonging to the former Lombardo-
Venetian Kingdom who bad illegally emigrated.
The sequestrated property of such persons will be
restored to the owners, and all legal proceedings in
reference thereto still pending are to be quashed.
The Governor of Venetia is empowered to release
the aforesaid persona from their allegiance to the
Austrian throne, as well as to permit them to return
to Austria free of penalty, and also to reinstate
them in their rights of Austrian 'sitizeuship, pro-
vided petitions to that effect be sent in within the
course of the year.

The annual balance-sheet of the National Bank
of Austria shows a clear profit of nearly eight
million florins, 2,459,323 florins of which will be
applied for the payment of a dividend at the rate of
53 florins per share.
The Hungarian deputation which has arrived
here to invite the Empress to Buds was received
to-day in solemn audience by her Majesty. The
Cardinal Primate of Hungary, who headed the
deputation, addressed the invitation to the Empress
in Hungarian, and her Majesty replied from the
throne in the same language, promising to visit
Buda at an early date.

NEW ZEALAND.
SYDNEY, Nov. 22.

Advice's from New Zealand announce further
skirmishing with the waives. They have been
attacked at Opotiki, and several were shot, among
them one of the principal murderers of Mr. Vol-
keur.

The natives at Poverty and Hawke. Bays were
laying down their arms.
Kawa Pah has been captured by the volunteers.
The rebels suffered great loss.

THE MINISTERIAL CRISIS IN VICTORIA.
(Via Alexandria.)
MELBOURNE, Nov. 26.

A motion of want of confidence has been intro-
duced in the Legislative Assembly, and resulted in
a majority for the ministry.
The Tariff Bill has been rejected by a large
majority in the Legislative Council.
The ministers refused to bring in the Appropria-
tion Bill, and announced the prorogation of parlia-
ment and an appeal to the country.
A. petition to the Queen to recall the Governor
has been signed by members of the Executive
Council.
Great dissatisfaction prevails.

CHINA AND JAPAN.
SHANGHAI, Nor. 26.

Sir Rutherford Alcock has arrived at Pekin at a
critical moment. The anti-foreign party are endea-
vouring to carry out an exclusive policy.
The Inspector-General of Customs has been
dismissed without a cause.

Articles of war are being manufactured in large
quantities.

General dissatisfactiqn is felt at the irregularity
of the mail service. Several mails in succession
have been days behinihand.
Trade generally is brisk.
The cotton crop has failed.
Advices from Japan state that the combined
expedition had returned in consequence of the
Mikado's refusal to open the ports of Ossaca and
Hioga.

Advice. from Shangbae to the 9th December,
received rid Galls, and published on the sth
instant,announced that the Mikado bad since sanc-
tioned the treaty, and that the forts would be
opened on the Ist January.
A chamber of commerce has been established at
Yokohama.

GOOD Nnwa FOB ALDZILMEN.—A turtle wee
washed ashore on to the beach at Ifemmick, Conan. Corn-
wall, last week. When toned it was crawling up the
beach towards land, shore there is a small fresh water
HYMN Some boys at Trevemon Farm pulled off its head
with a crab-hook, and killed it. A d's roan (who
has been at the Island of Ascension) cawed on ite head, that
the folks around might see the creature in its entirety. Its
weight was about Mks. The turtle wow taken to Maya.
glassy , for removal to London, to be sold.—Western
Morstng 3ew,.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, MONDAY Evzsnta.
The official news from Spain continues to be so
stale and so manifestly inaccurate as to lead to the
supposition that the insurrection must be making
great way. Old despatches of the 4th are hashed
up again and again, but there is nothing reliable—
nothing beyond loose dicta in private letters as to
the state of things on the sth and 6th. It is
repeated continually that the Almanza insurgents
are pursued by three columns sent from Valladolid,
Zamora, and Salamanca. Thia is very much
as if it were announced that a revolt having
occurred at Lyons three columns were on the
march to put it down from Soissons, Rouen,
and Saint-Brieuc. There are two distinct
centres of revolt—one in the east and the other in
the west. Madrid lies between the two. General
Zabala, the Minister of Marine, was ordered to
pursue Prim, who, after destroying the bridge,
and thus checking the pursuit, marched towards
Almanza—i.e., in the direction of the Mediter-
ranean. In the westerly direction a regi-
ment "pronounced" at Avila, and marched
towards Zamora. It is this regiment and not
Prim's force, as might be inferred from some of
the telegrams,that was in the neighbourhood of the
Portuguese frontier. The governor of Zamora
telegraphed on the evening of the 4th a very poor
acoouut of his attempts to get the better of
this insurrection. "The fog," he says, "was
so thick that it was impossible to see what
the enemy was doing" and moreover the enemy did
not give him time ! The last news from the go-
vernor was that he " believed " the enemy had de-
stroyed the railway line, but he had sent a pilot
engine to see and would act according to circum"
stances. The opposition journals in Madrid come
out with numerous blank pages, the intended
contents of which were struck out by the censure
acting under the state of siege. The Correspon.
dencia, a most innocent paper, was not allowed to
be posted for the provinces. Among the many
persons arrested in Madrid is M. Uselete de
Puente, a former secretary of Prim. He is to be
tried by court-martial.
A postscript in a Madrid letter of the 6th to the
Aveni r National says :

Between ourselves I believe the triumph of Prim cer-
tain, but we must wait fifteen or twenty days. The minis.
try reckons very little upon the garrison of Madrid, which
it hea just reinforced by 5,000 " trustworthy" troops seat
for from the provisoes.

The Debats, repeating news at least six weeks
old, says that the Ottoman government will not
allow any diplomatic character to the cholera con-
gress,and countenances it unwillingly, as the Debats
insinuates, merely as a scientific meeting. This
evening's Pays, replying to the Dakar, and com-
plaining of the pleasantries in which it indulges,
admits that it is perfectly right, and that M.
Dronyn de Lbnys never dreamt of anything
but a " purely scientific conference." It is
the conviction of the perfect sincerity of this
declaration, which obtained the prompt assent to
the international investigation of other powers
whose independence cannot be doubted. "If," it
says, "any measures are to be taken against the
invasion of cholera, it is not in the Ottoman
Empire alone, but in India and Russia that they
will be necessary, and the adhesion of England and
Russia to the sanitary conference is a proof that no
such interference with the internal affairs of other
countries, as the Debats gratuitously supposes to
have been apprehended by Turkey, was ever con-
templated."
M. Place, the new bishop of Marseilles, began
life at the bar and afterwards went into diplomacy.
He passed a brilliant legal examination nearly
fifty years ago, and for a short time frequented
the courts of law in Paris. Ia 1819 be went to
Rome as an attache; to the French embassy, and
there his mind took such a strong religious turn
that he resolved to enter into holy orders. He is
the elder brother of the M. Place, formerly
French Consul• General at Jassy, who directed
successful searches at Nineveh, the results of
which may now be seen in the Museum of the
Louvre.

The Bourse was not much disturbed by the
Spanish news, and upon a rumour that the Mexican
question is likely to be settled, the Rente sud-
denly sprung up from the lowest quotations of the
day, 681 r. 23:.. and 68fr. 30c., to 68fr. 50c. and
68fr. 55c., closing with a rise of 25c. for cash and
290. for account. Mobilier rose Bfr. 75c. Italian
fell 30c. Spanish securities are not quoted with
any change.

SLESWIG-HOISTEIN AND THE LONDON COMMITTEM.
—At a general meeting of the cootributors to the Shawl/-
Holstein fund of Germans in England, which was held in
the large Gymnasium-hall, in St. Pancras-road, Karl
Blind being in the chair, the report on the activity dis-
played during the last two years by the London committee
was read and adopted, and • vote of thanks passed. The
principle was laid down that those of the subscriber' who
wished to do so, ars at liberty to claim back, pro rata, that
portion of the fund which is still in the hands of the
treasurer. At the same time, an opinion was strongly ex-
pressed, and finally carried es • resolution, to the effect
that the tyranoic treatment under which the people of
Slestrig-Holstein at present suffer, renders it necessary to
continue the labours in behalf of the principle of self-
government. With this view, it was resolved to re-oonsti.
tuts the committee, and the following gentlemen were
elected :—Messrs. Karl Blind, Berodes, Jebsos, Gottfried
Hubei, Bauer, and E. Jock, In cooolusion, the
meeting rose in remembrance of • departed member of
the former committee: and after an enthusiastic tribute of
thanks to those who, as the officers of the aseociatioo,
had worked with devotion and ability for the furtherance
of the objects in view, foremost among whom the chairman
was noted, the meeting separated at a late hour.
THE SOVEREIGNS OF EUROPE.—There are at the
present moment forty-three reigning sovereigns in Europe.
Of that number ten belong to the Roman catholic religion,
but one is excommunicated ; thirty are protestants, one Is
of the Greek orthodox church, and one a Mahometan ; the
forty-third is the Pope. The catholic* are, two Emperors—
of Austria end France ; five Kings—of Bavaria, Belgium,
Spain (a Queen), Portugal, and Saxony ; two Princes—of
Lichtenstein and Monaco ; the excommunicated sovereign
is King Victor Emmanuel. The thirty protestants are,
sight Kings or Queens—of England, Prawns, Sweden, Den-
mark, Hovland, Hanover, Greece, and Wurtemberg ; six
Grand-Dnkes—of Roden, Hesse-Darmstadt, Mecklenburg,
Scbwerio, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Oldenburg. and Saxe-
Weimar; seven Dukes—of Anbalt, Brunswick, Nassau-
Sexe-Meiningin, Saxe-Alteoborg, Saxe-Coburg, and Sleswig-
Holttein ; nine Princes—of Lippe-Detmold, Lippe-Schaum-
burg, Reuss-Groin Reuss-Schleis, Schwartzburg-Sooder-
houses, and Waldeck ; the Elector of Hesse-Cassel, and
the Landgrave of Hew-Homburg. The Greek orthodox
sovereign is the Emperor of Russia, and the Magenta's's,
the Sultan of Turkel. There are also seven republic* in
Europe ; two exclusively catholic —San Marino sad As-
done ; and five in which the majority of the inhabitants are
protiestaote—Switzerland, Hemburg. Bremen, Frankfort,
and Lubeck.—Gationani.
ILLNESS of Ma. RARE; THE FAHOTIS HOnsn
Tarn& —We are pained to learn that 111 r. John S.
Ram, of Grovsport, was, on Saturday mania( attacked
with paralysis. The left side it implicated. Our informant
tells as Mr. Rare y was stating Saturday afternoon, end on
returning to the house met some friends with his accus-
tomed geoial cordiality. After chatting a short time he
excused himself on the plea of seeding air. feeling faiat.
he., afed walked out toarrrob the etabloi. Ia • short time
after he was attacked as stated, and carried isto the hone*.
At last accounts he was slightly improving in his ooadi-
tioa, although still unable to oommunicate
Columbia, (Otto) Journal, Dec. 18.

DRAMA.

STRAND.

A romantic drama in three acts, by Mr. John
Brougham, called !iellie's Trials, which first saw the toot.
lights about two years ago at Astley's Theatre, under the
title of Might and Right, or the Soul of Honour, was pro.
dueed at this house last night, as a somewhat solid intro-
duction to the burlesque. This drama has no literary
merit to recommend it, sad the plot is extremely comph.
elated, dopeoding much upon documects conveying family
estates which are lost, stolen, and regained ; but it
seems to amuse the gallery audience, for whom it has
probably been specially revived. We cannot better describe
the nature of this drams in a few words than by saying
that it has nearly all those transpoatise peculiarities which
Strand burlesques have so constantly sod worthily satirised.
The actors, knowing this, hardly seemed as comfortable as
usual in their parts, sod the occupants of the stall, and
boxes appeared inclined to " guy" the performance. Miss
Kate Racal made her first appearance at this house In •
alight serious character, and acted in an Interesting man.
tier. The drama is elegantly put apes the stage, the period
chosen being the Wit of Charlie IL