The Express.
London, England, 1866-01-10 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

THE MILITARY REVOLT IN SPAIN.

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PARIS, TIMMS EVZIII3IO.
The Moniteur dr &is says that, according to
telegraphic news, Prim was at Urda on January
& General &cheque had been despatched from
Madrid at the head of a fresh column towards the
Sierra of Toledo. General Concha and the Mar-
quis de Duero had received reinforcements from
Manzanerbs. According to local information Prim
was compelled by the state of his health to follow
his`troops in a carriage. Being closely pressed by
three pursuing columns, those of Zavala,
Concha, and Ecbaque, it was expected that he
would shortly be surrounded in the mountains
of Toledo. This I may observe is rather a modest
expectation after the reports from the same
quarter four days older, which represented Prim as
in a desperate condition. It will be remembered
that in 1854, when O'Donnell " pronounced," the
troops sent in pursuit threw up their caps and
joined his standard when they got near him. A
similar phenomenon is greatly apprehended now.
Jet' despatch states that forty men of the
Avila .insurgents—a corps totally distinct
from that marching under Prim, although
the telegraph yesterday confounded them—
had surrendered to Spanish Carbineers, and
been sent prisoners to Valladolid. The rest hav-
ing crossed into Portugal had been disarmed by
the Portuguese authorities, and were cantoned
under surveillance. Of course it is impossible to
attach implicit credence to these despatches.
A French journal has taken the trouble to publish
the despatches from Madrid repeated by the Mani-
tent and other French journals in 1854, when
O'Donnell, now the " defender of order," was
a rebel, and doing precisely what Prim is
doing now. Those despatches were almost word
for word the same as those which O'Donnell
is now sending from Madrid. Then it
was affirmed for a fortnight together that O'Don-
nell was wandering about in distress, that his
miserable followers were falling off from him every
day, that he found no sympathy among the popu-
lations, that Madrid was never more tranquil, and
that the Queen was confident in the loyalty and
affection of her subjects. A little while after
O'Donnell entered Madrid as a master, and com-
pelled the helpless Queen to submit to his terms.
The Pays of this evening is of opinion that the
latest news from Spain coutioues to have the
" same character of uncertainty." Some " demon-
strations" have been made at Barcelona, but the
authorities " not considering them important "
did not interfere with them.
One letter says that Prim was marching and
countermarching with the object of tiring out the
troops sent out against him and gaining time. It
was expected that be would shortly issue a mani-
festo. At Tarancou, a town near Toledo, about 40
kilometres from Ocagua, where Prim appeared
on Jan. 5 at the bead of about 1,200 men, he sent
for the Alcsde, and obtained from Lim 1,500
rations, assuring him at the same time that the
whole country was about to rise, and that he would
shortly march upon Madrid at the head of a large
army, and overthrow the government of the
" oppressor," O'Donnell. He asked to see the
curd, but the latter refused to come. The priests,
though angry with O'Donnell for having recognised
Italy, are not favourable to Prim, because they
know that if he succeeds priestly domination will
be overthrown altogether, and Spain will no longer
enjoy the bad pm-eminence of being the most
intolerant country in the civilised world.
The Bourse has lost the rise of yesterday under
the influence of the fall in Console. Rente fell
11c. for cash, and 15c. for account, closing at
681 r. 320. and 68fr. 40c. Mobilier fell llfr. 25c.
Italian stock was much depressed, and fell 30c.
Spanish was not quoted.

The Royal Mail steamship Athenian, Captain
Griffiths, arrived at Liverpool yesterday afternoon
with advices from the West Coast of Africa, Tene-
rife, and Madeira. Her dates are—Benin, Dec. 6;
Fernando Po, 3; Cameroocs' Nov. 30; Old Calabar,
Dec. 2 ; Brass River, 6; New Calabar, 5 :
Bouny, 5 ; Lagos, 9 ; Accra, 10 ; Cape Coast
Castle, 12 ; Cape Palmas, 15 ; Sierra Leone,
20 ; Bathurst, 24 ; Tenerife 30 • Madeira, Jan. 2.
She brings a large cargo :-4,888 goys., 2,950 ozs.
gold dust, 3,000 francs, and 6,804 dollars, and 21
passengers. The Athenian eiperieuced very heavy
weather in the Channel, and at four o'clock on Mon-
day morning a tremendous sea struck the ship and
washed one of the 8011M011, Richard Wennington,
ovethoard. He was drowned.
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_-DEATH OF A ROYAL " FAVOURITE."—We read
in the Paris Temps of yesterday :—" The Coon.
tees Millefiori, known by the name of Eosins, is
dead. Some years ago the newspapers &spoon ed.
it will be remembered, the morganatic marriage
of Victor Emmanuel with the Comities Millefiori.
This news was not contradicted. The Countess Mille-
foci leaves two children—a son and daughter. They
have received the titles of count and countess. No one in
Italy is ignorant of the influence exercised by the Countess
Mrllefiori over the mind of the Kiog. People agree, how-
ever, in saying that she was very charitable, and often
gave the King better advice than his ministers. She bad
for a bog time hesitated to go to Tuscany ; she, however,
decided to do so, and a splendid reradenoe was being pre-
pared for her. She died aged 42, of a cancerous tumour. It
arse for the purpose of being present at her deathbed that
Victor Emmanuel left on Sunday, in the height of the
ministerial crisis, for Mandria. The countess wee the
daughter of a drum-major, who became an officer in the
corps of the King's Guards."
THE HOCSELYES POOR AM—The house com-
mittee of the vestry of St. Paean presented a report
to the guardians on this subject, in which they
stated that they had had an estimate prepared of the
pro able expense of erecting a separate building for
wayfarers, but they were not prepared to recommeed the
board to incur the estimated expanse to meet what might
prove a temporary emergency. All wayfarers who had as
yet applied, had been accommodated. The average number
of applications per night since the 7th November hat had
been 17 men, Mx women, and three children. The com-
-1 mittee recommended that before the board provided in-
creased accommodation the labour test should be applied,and
that a abed for male wayfarers to work in should be provided
at a 005 a not exceeding 1001. That ablsbodied men should be
required to break two bushels of stows, but that men sot
physically capable of performing that task should pick two
pounds of oakum. That able-bodied women should be
required to pick one and a half pound of oakum, but if not
able-bodied, one pound of oakum, and that children over 12
years of age be required to pick one pond of oakum. The
report was left in abeyance in estimation of a recom-
mendation from the Poor-law Board of a uniform system.
THE WAPPINO TUNNEL ACCIDENT AT LIVERPOOL.
—Yesterday, at the adjourned inquiry into the fatal sad.
• dent from the falling of an arch at the Wapping tunnel
(Liverpool), scientific and practical evideoee was given to
' the effect that the usual mode of testing iron-girders was
by striking them with a hammer. and that this was doomed
superior to a test by weight. Bat whatever test was
plied it was stated that a flaw might still exist in the
iron without being detected. In the present cue the
girder had been tested by the hammer and not by weight.
The result of the investigation was that both the railway
company (London and North Western) and the oontraaces•
ialltrzret.oTtioni the arlil woregistoserary tad from all
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death" was returned.