The Express.
London, England, 1867-07-17 00:00:00

CROATIA.

FII'ME, JiLi• 16.

Great preparations are being made for the cele-
bration of the reunion of the Littoral districts to
Croatia, which will shortly take place.

Some Russian emissaries who had been ordered
to leave Agram arrived here, but were immediately
sent out of the town.

Stores of arms, which had been smuggled into
the town, have been discovered at Porto-Re.

ITALY.

FLORENCE, Jets 16, EVENING.

In to-day's sitting of the Chamber of Deputies
the discussion on the Ecclesiastical Property Bill
was resumed.

Signor Ferraris, the reporter of the committee,
spoke in favour of the scheme of that body, and
supported some of the amendments which had been
proposed. All the other proposals and counter-
proposals were either withdrawn or rejected. The
house then commenced the discussion of clause 1
of the bill.

SWITZERLAND.

BERNE, JOLT 17.

The official reception of the three Japanese
ambassadors by the Federal Council took place
to-day.

CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN

minA.

MALTA, JULY 16.

The Ceylon left here at 11 p.m. on the 15th, and
the Mooltan at 4 p.m. to-day. The former may be
expected at Marseilles on the 18th, and the latter
at Southampton about the 26th inst.

THE BRAZILS.
BUENOS AYRES, dire 12.
Exchange on London, 481 ; hides, 42} ; wool,
45 to 86 ; lumber, 38 to 48 ; sugar, 19i.

AMERICA.

FALMOUTH, JULY 17.

The New York and Havre Company's steamship
Fulton, from New York on the 6th inst., arrived
off this port at 9.45 yesterday evening, with
423,200 dole. in specie. She landed 33 sacks of
mails, 16 passengers, and embarked Capt. Wotton
and family for Havre.

(DT ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.)
NEW YORK, JULY 16.
The Cunard (extra) steamship Hecht arrived here
to-day.

EXPRFRS FROM PARIS.

(raox 001 OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, TURROAT EVENTS°.
. _ _

How rightly to understand M. Rouher's dia-
monds is a problem upon which there is very little
difference of opinion. The Univers, a popish
organ, nearly neutral in secular matters, hits the
nail on the head when it says that the Emperor's
letter to M. Rouher proves what nobody of common
sense doubted that " M. Rouher, in act, word, and
deed, and even in his inaction, is nothing but
the faithful and docile exponent of the im-
perial policy." The Liberte says that those
who defended M. Rouher against the
attacks of MM. Thiers and Jules Favre,
are now triumphant. Opposition journals, and
tiers parti journals, though in different
language, all agree with the government press that
there is no conflict between the Emperor and M.
Rouher. This is no revelation. Everybody knows
that it was only by a decent fiction that the oppo-
sition speakers assumed that M. Rouher stood in
the way of the Emperor's wishes. It was in the
evening of July 13, after reading M. Emile
011ivier's speech, that the Emperor chose to cover
M. Rouher's breast with diamonds. The amsti-
tationne/ calls it a great act. I believe it to be a
very wretched one ; sad one of very little signifi-
cance. It shows irritation on the part of the sovereign
for the moment, but does not at all prove that the
fear and trembling for his dynasty which prompted
the letter of January 19, may not when a new fit of
it comes on lead him to send M. Rouher to the
right about, or to give him fresh instructions which
he will kindly follow.
The King and Queen of Portugal are now on
their way from Ems to Brussels, and will not be
in Paris till Saturday.
Prince Hohenzollern, the father of the reigning
Prince of Roumania, Charles 1., is now in Paris,
and had an interview with the Emperor yesterday.
The King of Wurtemberg had a " long audience"
of the Emperor yesterday.
The Queen of Prussia yesterday visited the
Exhibition, and in the evening went to the ThO.tre
Francais, to see the late M. Ponsard's //orave et
Lydie, the Mimi nthrope, and tho Pleader rs.
The walls of Paris are now and forsome weeks have
been extensively plastered with a portrait, or rather
a caricature of Mr. Sothem as Lord Dundreary,
with an eye-glass tightly jammed under his eye-
brows, hair and whiskers arranged in exaggerated
Dundreary fashion, and a camelia in his button-
hole ; he is demonstrating that celebrated pro-
position that he has eleven fingers on his
two hands. In some streets you may see
as many as a dozen of these portraits all in a row ;
and lately the bill-stickers, by way of variety, have
taken to posting them head downwards. Parisians
are immensely intrigtiLt to know whose picture this
can be ; and as his lordship himself would say, a
great many never "make it out." The Liberte
says that a provincial inquiring the other day who
was represented by the quaint-looking man count-
ing his fingers, was told, " That is M. Durny, the
Minister of Public Instruction, giving a lecture on
arithmetic" !

The island of Oparo, or Raps, in the Pacific
Ocean, which is to be made • coal depot for the New Zea-
land and Panama mail steamers, is about nine days steam-
ing distant from Wellington. It is mountainous, has •
goad harbour, and is inhabited by about GOO friendly
natives.

A closed mail is now made up at Panama for
England, and sent by every New York steamer leaving
Colon. The postage is le Id., and prepayment is optional.
Dr. Burnstall, passenger from Gallo by last mail
steamer, was incautiously playing with a pet cobra di
capella on the Zird. The snake bit his finger, and he died
immediately alter. —.Melbourne (Australian) paper.