The Express.
London, England, 1866-02-08 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

OWN OUR owl 0011,116POIDIMPT.)
PARIS, WIDNIODLY EVENING.

The author of an article on Leopold 1., King of
the Belgians, in the Revue franyaise is said to be
none other than Leopold 11., who had previously
written in the same publication a review of the
" Life of Crow." _

A false report that Poncet, the murderer of M.
Lavergne, was executed at Versailles yesterday, is
given in many of the Paris journals this morning,
with copious and minute details of the demeanour
of the culprit on the scaffold. The fact is that the
execution has been postponed for a short time in
the hope (as some suppose) that Poncet may
make some additions to the oonfession be has
already made about his escape from Cayenne.
The belief that the execution was fixed foe
yesterday morning was general; a great many
people passed a night in the rain on the
place where the scaffold is habitually erected ; the
lodging-houses of the town were over-full, and the
night trains from Paris were unusually crowded.
Poncet has had an interview with his brother,
who brings every day to the prison door
some wine and tobacco for him. But by way of
of extreme caution, and lest any poison should be
contained in the present, the wine and tobacco
brought by the brother are destroyed, and an
equal quantity is given to the prisoner. Thus a
pious fraud is committed at small cost upon both
donor and recipient. Poncet has refused to see
his mother. She has changed her name to
that of Poirier, but continues as hereto-
fore to drive a cart laden with vegetables
and fruit through Chalon Croissy and the
neighbouring villages, hawking her merchandise
from door to door. There cannot be the least
hope of a pardon for Poncet, and his execution
will probably take place before the end of the
week.

The Pays announces that it has dismissed a
member of its staff, M. Ladimir, for having pent a
report of Poncet's execution written in such a way
as to lead to the supposition that he had witnessed it.
The Bourse was rather firm, but with little busi-
ness doing. The confident tone of the New York
journals in speaking of the Bagdad affair as of no
importance has somewhat reassured the speculators
who were alarmed by it. Rents for account rose
Tic., closing at Mfr. 900. Mobffiee rose sfr.

Frequent attempts have been made to revive the
eeriest sport of hawking in Prase'. The Derby Dow
issaannees that by the Soeparer's order Marshal Bandon has
authorised the erpnbatioa of a bloom es a harp stale in
the pbin of the camp of Chalons.
A. veteran of the Seven Years' War, named
Sebes, bas jest died at Meade (Upper Silesia) at the ap
of 120 years. He had served MI yews in the Prtuaian
army, and wade several earagaisto at the hashish% et the
present ecstasy. Two seam back be wee shill in the
behit el weibing a Wine to shunts case or twits, a week.

question hers. It might be thought that to listen
to speeches of which you do not understand a word
would be tiresome. But it really was not so. The
Hungarian language is so peculiar, it has so many
modifications of sound, and the speakers so modu-
late their voices in order to give the fullest possible
expression to their words, and so carry convic-
tion to the minds of their audience, that you
listen to and follow the passionate speech
with a strange interest. Perhaps you expect that
an attack of another sort will soon follow, affording
more for the eye than the volley of mere words,
which, however, seem as if they must dash to pieces
whatever or whomever they light upon. How
sonorously the speaker begins to set forth hisviews.
And as he combats opposing assertions, with what a
fine ironical tone he gives the adverse opinion, and
then, in a storm of words rattling with consonants,
as if it were raining thunderbolts, be comes down
upon it to destroy utterly. The genius of the lan-
guage is such that a single word or articulation ex-
susses as much as we should require many words
to express—a verb in a particular tense, and its
pronoun ; a substantive, with its cue and corre-
sponding preposition, and soon. After such a tor-
rent the speaker would, perhaps, pause ; then
a couple of words would be uttered demandingly ;
then a single one, then another, and the effect
of We resolute, calm tone, the change to this
monosyllabic manner from the passionate volubility
which quite startled you just before, cannot be
appreciated by any description of it—it must be
heard. The language, too, seems to abound with
abort words of three letters, ending in a consonant,
" in," for example. After such a volley as above
described, there comes abruptly a dead stop, the
whole speech is brought to a standstill, and down
comes the speaker with all his might on that
ominous final em. Whether it be intuitive in the
Hungarians (which I rather think), or whether it be
done with forethought, I do not pretend to say,
but certain it im, that as regards the effectiveness of
arrangement and commanding effect of delivery—
owing in great measure to the nature of their
language—it would not be easy to find orators who
could compete with their best speakers.
As I said, your attention is fixed, even though
you are not able to follow the argument. How
must you be borne along by the eloquence when
you understand each reverberating word, and sound
and sense combine to win you over and persuade.
What struck me particularly in every speaker
was the total absence of hesitation. There was no
seeking for words, no stuttering or repetition ; but
what was said was uttered as flowingly as—thanks
to the reporter—the speeches of our members
always read. How different that printed is from
the spoken one we all know, and have not seldom
felt.

PAPAL finenninismer AT CITITA VIDOONIA..•
no Persevere's:a says that a surobant ~aril, named the
Nuovo Caere, of Anoons, befog at Civita Vecchia when
news eeme of the death of Priem Oddone, the captain
hoisted his Sag half-mast. "This harmless dernoostraiioo,"
adds the journal, "was regarded by the local authorities
as a high crime and misdemeanour, end six moo were
therefore sent from the Pontiloal corvette, who
boarded the Ancona ship like to many pirates, arid. with
'trouts and imprecations against the Bieg's Majesty, hauled
down by force the symbol of mourning. The copra% pro-
ceeded to the British Consulate to protest agslut the TU.
limos he bad suffered as an offence &plea both the law of
notions and the public conscience. You knew that the Papal
government will not recognise the English Clorissils es re-
presentatives of the kingdom of Italy ; so that when the
Cowed 'eked the Pontifical authorities to respect ;e
symbol of mourning and not offend the laws of proper roe.
dart or °amnion medals, he mere'y received by way of
reply a few cootemptuous wards and a sardonic smile."
LONDON AND NORTH WiSTERN ReJI.WAT.—We
have reosived the followiag communication from the sure'
tary of this company :—" With a view of making the public
aware, at the earliest period practicable, of the viand
likely to be declared by this eompaoy at the ensuing
general meeting. I sin authorised to state that the amounts,
though trot yet luny audited, or approved by the board of
directors, Wiest, a dividend for the pest tan-year at the
rate of 71 per cut per annum."
BRISTOL AND SIMI RAILWAT.--W0 learn
that the dividends ea the Bristol sod Ruth', Railway stock
will be at the rare of 52 per goat. ; sad en the Bristol sod
Routh Wass Realm,' Wages Company, 10 per coot, sod
3s. beau.
Resort:rm.—The notice respecting the Irish
March Establishermat wee gives is the Howe el Cowman
by Biz John Gray—not Sir George Grey, es erroneously
stated yesterday.
Of the petroleum, crude and refined, tree
over the entire lies of the Atlantic and Greet 7=
Railroad In 1514, there were 565,623 barrels serried out-
ward, sad 1011,400.barrah westward. Of Outgrow • Lugs
1110Piegm wen *Upped in the ands state to Belem end
mesh of the remelt ter woe the reload rodeo* le
the erode
oat Biel met westward, or rained le the ell regiows„—rim
morri Democrat.

with me.
Like almost every rebellion or revolution in the
world there are two sides to the present question,
and thiTovernment as well as the governed has its
story and its complaints. There can be no doubt
but that, as a general rule, Daoud Puha, since he
has rated over the Mountain, has been con-
siderate and conciliatory towardsi the Ink.
rious tribes and meta which compose the
population of Lebanon. Although an Ottoman
official, be is a Christian, and, like the Maronites, he
belongs to a sect—the Catholic Armenians—which
acknowledges the supremacy of the Pope. But the
very fact of his being named by the Porte is enough
to make him disliked by these fierce mountaineers,
who inherit from their forefathers a morbid and
undue hatred to the very name of s.ll that is
Turkish. or that even comes from Constantinople.
Still Daoud Pacha might in time have gained the
confidence of these tribes had he not been obliged,
by orders from a higher power, to injure them iu
what an Oriental always feels to be his most
tender point—namely, the pocket. The Porte,
like an Irish landlord whose account at his banker's
is overdrawn, is now seeking to raise new and
heavy . taxes in every part of the Ottoman
dominions, and the inhabitants of the Lebanon
have begun to feel that a government which pro-
tecta life and property must, like every other
luxury, be paid for. Until lately the mountaineers
have never been taxed, or, at least, they were al-
-1 lowed to pay their almost nominal tribute very
much how and when they liked. Latterly this has
been changed, and taxes, which in some 01114111 are
exceedingly heavy, have been imposed upon them.
Their chief grievance is the tobacco tax. Formerly
every Emir, or Sheik, or peasant, was free to cul-
tivate as much of the weed as he liked; and unless
be took his produce into one of the towns on the
plains, be paid no duty for what he grew. Nay,
he was at perfect liberty to barter and
sell the tobacco anywhere, or to anyone within the
Lebanon district, and neither was duty demanded
nor question asked. All this has been changed.
The custom duties upon tobacco are now four times
what they were a few years ago, and they are en-
forced with the utmost severity, even upon a few
pounds of tobacco being taken from one village to
another. This is the chief reason of the revolt, foe
the mountaineers feel it to be an intolerable
nuisance to have amongst them tax-gatherers who
are not only more severe than there is any real
necessity for, but are generally aliens in language
and religion to the people of Lebanon.
Joseph Karam, the leader of the revolt, is not
by birth a chief or a leader amongst his people ;
but has attained his present position by
his superior education, and by being a great
favourite with the Maronite clergy, who have an
Immense influence over their co-religioniete. Ks=
was educated at the Jesuit missionaries' school on
Lebanon, and afterwards travelled for two years in
Europe, residing most of the time in France. He
speaks French well, and, for an Oriental, he is well
read. Although of a peasant family, he is compa-
ratively wealthy, and is looked upon all over the
Maronite part of the Mountain as the leader of his
people. He is a young man, considering the posi-
tion he holds, and is exceedingly mild and quiet in
his manner. After the massacres of 1860, before
the commissioners of the Five Powers bad settled
what was to be the government of Lebanon,
Karam was, chiefly, I believe, by the influence
of the English commissioner, Lord Dufferin, made
temporary Kaimacan, or Governor of the Mountain.
This made him for the moment very unpopular
with what is called the "French," or the " priest"
party of Lebanon. When Daoud Pacha assumed
the direction of the Lebanon in 1861, Joseph Karam
was accused of plotting against the new order of
things. The way he was treated was peculiarly
oriental. At the request of Daoud Nobs, Cahoon
Paella, then Governor of Beyrout, wrote a friendly
letter to Karam, requesting him to come down to
Beyrout and confer on some matters of business.
Not suspecting any underhand work, the moun-
taineer at once went, but no sooner was he in the
power of Cabooli Pasha, than he was shipped
off to Alexandria, in a sort of honourable
exile, without trial or examination of any kind.
This was in 1861, and from then until about a year
ago be was kept in Egypt away from his family,
his property, and all that he valued. In 1865,
owing to great influence being used by the French
ambassador at Constantinople, Karam was allowed
to return to the Mountain, but the moment he did
so all the discontented spirits of Lebanon rallied
round him, and he was from that time forward
considered as the chief of the anti-Ottoman party
in the Mountain. Latterly the discontent caused
by the gathering of the tobacco-tax reached its
climax, and Joseph Karam joined the movement.
He and his followers have failed, but not until
Turkish troops were sent into the Christian districts
of Lebanon, and the insurgents, although vastly
outnumbered, showed great courage on more than
one occasion. So much for this revolt from the
Maronite point of view.
On the other hand, it must be confessed that
Daond Pacha has a very difficult task to perform.
He is bound to keep the Lebanon in order but is
not allowed to employ Turkish soldiers to enforce
his orders, save under very peculiar circumstances.
This time--end for the first time—he has done so,
and the revolt has been put down as a matter of
course. But to lend Moslem troops amongst the
Christian villages is an offence which will never
be forgiven by the French party in Lebanon.
And yet, what could Daoud do ? Had he attempted
to put down the rebellion with Christian Zaptias
(policemen), not a man of the latter would have
fired a shot at his co-religionists. Had be made use
of Druse Zaptias, they would have slain every
Christian they could have laid hands upon, and
the flames of civil war would have blazed forth
again as it did in 1860. My own opinion is that
the Lebanon will ever be a thorn in the side of the
Porte, and that, with all the evils of the system,
the scheme which Colonel Rose (now General hir
Hugh Rose) and the other commissioners settled in
1840, was the only one which could be devised for
this people. By it the Maronite part of Lebanon bad
Maronite governor, and the Dross districts a Dross
ruler, both of them nominally subject to the Go-
vernor of Beyrout,. but practically independent
chiefs. It is martian that the Mountaioesse will
never be ruled by any one but those of their own
tribes, and it is very doubtful whether to enforce
the commands of a Pasha throughout Lebanon
would be worth the trouble, and the intricate ques-
tions it would cause. As ft is, this petty revolt
woos likely to ss Nan the whole question of
the Lebanon -damty, of which we had mere than
enough in 116041.

TRe Deamileci-noOns.—lt is stated that the
Queen intends not only to mourns the holding of Drawing-
nom the eoseing season, bat to introduce some imper.
tent reforms is the atesegemest of them. Instead
allowing ea unlimited number of persons to attend
oar or *event drewbg-roonas in the season, men
lady dashing to present beseslf is to mod her 'sae
before a given time to the Load Chanabsrlaia's ofill"
which will be entered on a list in the order in er
le is resolved. According to the number of epplimate the.
'umber of receptions will be regulated, and each 'Wheat
will be limited wordier to the date of sending in her
same. The number of poem. for each dung-nom
will be limited by the capacity of sixonamedathe ; oily
such a somber will be admitted as eta be allowed to sit is
comfort and thus await their torn for preeeetstion. It is
supposed
.that sesommodation for about Mt mimes at
one wassum can be provided. To do this, Mr. Cowper has
bees making some alteration. and additions to the palace
of St. James's.
TEE " ROSH " TO TIIN BAN.—" W. D. B." (Mr.
W. Damped Bromley, M.P.) describes In the risme the
rush of the members of the Home of Commons to the bar
of the Upper House os Tuesday, os the mad= of the de-
livery if the lord speech. "At one moment the proem.
Dios," he mye, ' booms a disorderly and outrageous mob►
brutally shunting for premidecos. Reckless of everything
swept this o*tot. they pressed so closely me the Speaker
that their feet become estangled in his taboo. brume's
hie dignified to a sodden sad moil tar
seemly halt. T e tableau for the moment wee lee, sad the
seises, if it had possessed soy historical or palatial isle.
rest, would have made a splendid addition to the frescoes
aroused. It war the oily rush' spoken of by the prophet
Healey. The SrtrAsi,illilethelp tethered to the
ativertheless bon himself as a Speaker, and, toria7lBr 011'
his usailsata, Sashed bask glance of outraged dipity,
of solemn and Jeve-like sager. which for the time was
not without Its grandeur or effect, and a lead my
of Order ' arose. Meanwhile, the dignified sad
estimable figure of the Black Rod was seen feebly defend-
ing himself with his back to the wall, epee which he
bad bees violently bustled. Lord Charles Russell baited
and turned back 'resointe, apparently debating whether
his duties did not requite bite to employ the mace on the
heeds of the wisdoms, of whom
Those hailed cried ' Cloward,'
Lad those before cried ' Back I'
and some little time elapsed before the 'first 0061110•44` al
the realm' maid extricate has trampled robes from Oasis
profane treed." Later of "W. D. B." found himself es.
closed is a Hells wall and bore forward with somisaseeli
velocity in the 86eetiaa of the lefthead doorpost of the
antrum to the Uppin Home. " Ail steerage power wars
gone, and I drifted helplessly os, and Melly dashed vio-
lently against the entrootios ; my bat, seeing as a
buffer. brokethe shock ; but I was whirled roead sad
carried sideways into her Majesty's presses, even-
tually settling against the bar with a thump whisk
seemed to member both surprise sad alarm to •
very pretty woman on the other aide of it. There
I remained, of course, a fixture till the Queen retired. I
had the admen,* of a front place and could see her Ma.
jesty, bat, obliged to emotes the whole muscular power
I possessed to avoid being crushed Sat by the pressure
from bellied, I was not much the wiser for her nosh,
which, indeed, eves had I been is a position of remise
physical ottenfort, snob were the jostling., strugglinp, we-
clatostions, impreostioos, end laughter of those behind me
I meld not have heads word of. Howe since beard that
one boa. member war thrown down, and I believe tin
• home' walked over him. The Chancellor of the le-
chequers was so maltreated that he retired from the eon.
test, sad was seen wending his solitary way bask to the
lower home, mournfully monlisieg on the Paton of the
unruly assembly of which be is the leader."
RAILWAY AND OTPINZ BILLS IN PARLIAXIINT.—
Yesterday Messrs. Smith end Freer, the examiners upon
steadies order proofs, held smarts at Westminster. The
list was unusually lenity, and the following weft the
meta. The standing orders were declared complied with
in the 0814011110 d eases s Wrexham end Misers Railway.;
Bray sad Enzaskern Railway ; Aloe Valley Railway;
Coln, Aerefair, sad Rboeymedre Waterworks • Winnbee
and Brightlingese Railway ; Manchester, 5h:46.111, sal
Lieoolaseire Railway (mutest etatien and lines) ; 0131141111
Cornwell Railway• Formes Railway; Foresee Railway sad
WhilebsTen and 'Fusses Junction Railway Cosepsaiss
Greenwich and Woolwich Turnpike LOW. Road t Vide=
Gas sod Water ; }Litheness and Bellew lover me:a
Ebbw Vale, Beaufort' Sirhowy, and Victoria mi
Water; Waterford and Limerick Railway (extesedon);
Beet and Won Justice Railway (Souther Es-
tension) ; Sediabary and Yeovil Railway; Moth-
bridge Railway ; Beam Valley Railway • Themes
Teeing Compaey ; Glasgow sad Smith Weston
Railway (Ayrshire, he., lines), Shrewsbory Bridees ;
Chathem, Mad Dover Railway (Chatham Dockyard ;
Deal Down Dons ; Stockton Gas ; Kinpbridge sad
math Reeds • Huntley, Mitobeldean, and Elton Beads;
Commercial limos end Arita Assurance Companies ;
Improvement .• Newcastle sod Gateshead Waterwmu •
Bristol sad Hiner Bailers, (additional powers), '
and Exeter Beltway ins Valley Railways) ; Maranon
and Taunton& (heal and Bristol and Exeter Railway ; Drsy.
ton Jusetios Beilwey ; London, Chatham. aid Donor Bah
The
way (various power.); sod Cesteal Inked Railwals.
unopposed petitioos of the Hull and Horn-ea and North
Eastern Rainer. South London Market, Glasgow Milne
and Bobwhite Railway, leedes, Worcester, sled Soma
Wales Railway (derriatioe), Midland Rail way (breathes. are),
Brecon mid MerthyrTdvilJuostios Railway (capital). Braga
and Merthyr Tydvil Junction Railway (emalpinationo). Mid
the oaboknom Railway (lEilayth trenches) were otHeurned.
The examiners declared that the standing orders bad nee
been corn hid with in the unopposed witticism of the
Anglesey Gimbel Railway sad toe Gleam,' sod flostb-
Wigton Railway (addition' powers). There was se ap-
se entered by the parties to Caledonia' Railer",
forks at Duadee), &abash sad Hawes Railway, Hodges
mid Osebdeld Road, Cardiff sad Newport Railin7.
tad
Pier, Vale if Llsegellm Railway (opposed). and the
Downs Rafters., (opposed). Mr. Fame deci.red that
women erases lot net been omisolied with is the ad-
trdcame of the [lease Weldon Railway Vanilla peen)
apposeill. The comidaratioa of the rosewood martins
of the Castle ftn _sad Leesport Railway and the Mush.
pains sod Oh elle Wood Hallway was Armee& aril
Ude day (Thrueday).
011inefel. Farm. Oxs Mamma
Waansawr. 7.—A .' oa psynes4l,lBll; Atte
by wow' dome Len ; load Mahn. 2.165.
Ica la assn Gamma& Oinaws 00111/ANY (Laos*.
viwiras ter week wad* Maw 4.
7a, la.

LIFEBOAT SERVICES.—During the storms of
tits past year the National lifeboat tion. by Its lit -
hoes aad other mews. contributed to the saying of 707 psfona
from different wrecks on our cassia. The • Bon ex-
pended 421.574 in the same period es its lifeboat sitabllslunents,
leadditlon to granting /Aso for rewards for saving Lift sad
*amidst the
The *enmities of lbs Inditatiou earnestly APPIAL b the
public fOr IMISTANtat, to enable them to meet the continued
heavy demands on the institution's 153 Lifeboat Stations.
Oosiributions ace noshed by the Load= and Country
Benham : and by the nem yrs, Richard Lewis, Bp., at the In-
stitution. 14, Jotalaresk Adlilphi, Loudon.

JOHN BROGIMIN'S GOLD CHAINS by troy
weight, at realisable mina, and the workmanship at
wk.:Asada mattfactuieri prima. The gold In the chains gua-
ranteed, and roptirchaeed at the price charged.
.• Here a tin note.
Row math your chain weighs to the utmost carat
The Immo °Me gold, and charge tor Cashion.
AEII9IIIII.

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