The Express.
London, England, 1859-12-08 00:00:00

RUSSIA.

ST. PETERSBURG, WEDNESDAY.
The French Ambassador end the charge d'affaires
of Austria communicated yest2rday to Prince
Gortschakoff the iuvitationa to the congress of their
resin ctive governments.

These irritations were brought to Bt. Petersburg
bye courier of the Austrian cabinet.

Prince Cortscbskoff will be first, and Count
Kirwleff second plenipotantboy of Russia.

THE MEDITERRANEAN.

MALTA, Dec. 3.
We have at Malta H.M.S. Renown, Racoon,
U. qtflocurge, Osprey, C.r.doc, BOZO,, and Intrepid.
. Vigilant has left for England, calling at Gibraltar.
The Paseveranos returned from Corfu op the 30th, and
haves for England on Monday next,
We are eat a from telbgreph communication, ow tag to
gems' miles of wire having been destroyed by lightning in
likely. The Elba, Mr. Newell's steamer, hes left for Eng-
lead, bat re rests she is to sound on the bank between
Malta and Sicily. From the accounts which have reached
Malta it is supposed some great change has taken place ia it
be volcanic @rangy. During the Elba's stay is the Levant
Messes. Newell and Co. have successfully laid telegraph
ambles from the two Castles forming the entrance to the Golf
of Lepanto; from Otranto to Vetoes across the mouth of the
Adroitly ; from Cause to Selo, from Bicto to Sighighik,
la the Oalf of Soak Nueva, sad from Boated to Seraglio-
point.

An advertisement whieh has jut appeared in the
Daybtait of Copenhagen, has created a sensation which Is
by no means favourable to the heir apparent, Prince Fee-
dinand, the purport of which advertisement is as fol•
laws.—" doorptaaose of the Crown Prince Ferdinand in
Net Various bills prowled in i&ii and 1866, amounting
toget►er to 2,100 We dialers, which are all subwribad by
Primo Ferdinand on his royal word of honour, sod endorsed
by his valet de ckassebee, Plotarr, are for sale at each prism
as the purchemrs of this description of billa may be *mod
to offer, provided they he not leas than 60 per cent. of their
nominal value. Apply," te., no.

A letter from Paris says :—" At the Italian Opera
in Paris we begin to nowise those among the sadistic*
who tell WI the awns le again close at hand. Madams
Pence continues to play sad Mai Norma with an intelligence
earl voice which entitle her to the epplau-s she receiver.
It was whispered about at the Opera the other nigat that
Olagliel bad been engaged to sing • aerials number of nights
here, sad that he would appear on ileturdsy next in the
lrovatore, which is the most pmlitable opera the manager
can play. At the Orand Opera Pelham David's Hereu/ittrunt
was given on Tuesday Mitt."

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

CIROK OVA OWN

PARIS. WIDNIUMAT EVIPING.

I observe—l had very nearly said, "my sten-
tion has been called to"—a report in the London
papers of a meeting to organise a corps of Irish
volunteers, at which the Marquis of Donegal, while
standing forth as a surety for the friendly intentions
of the Emperor of the French, said that the feelings
of the army, of the clergy, and of the people of
Franoe in general were in favour of the invasion of I
England. A Mr. M'Dermott said he did not
believe the people of France were opposed to England
and desired war. He believed that it was a foul pro-
testant calumny. The Marquis of Donegal, who sus
in the chair, said he had only stated what he had
read in the papers. Mr. M'Dermott replied
that these statements proceeded from " our own cor-
respondents" in Paris, who were not to be relied
upon. As an "own correspondent "of many years'
standing, whose principal pride it is that hie date-
meats are generally accepted as reliable, I beg to say
that I for one have always, on all fitting amens,
strenuously maintained the direct contrary of the
proposition which the Marquis of Donegal has
" collected from the papers." When, two years ago,
the offensive and too celebrated addresses of contain
(*loads, hungry of promotion, were inserted in the
Moeiteur, and when, subsequently, the Emperor
told his friend, Sir France Head, that he alone re-
strained the desire of the French people to make
war upon England, I asserted that there was
no animosity on the part of the people of France
towards England. This assertion I now repeat, on
my credit as a professional observer of French
polities. No doubt there is in the heart of the'
people a certain jealousy of England, such u might
exist in one village against another village on
account of the last cricket match that was lost. But
this is not greater now than it has been any time
for the last fifty years—or, indeed, for untold cen-
turies. I don't deny that if the immense calamity for
the world, and for France above all, of a war with
England, were to take place, the French people,
who, unfortunately, love glory more than judos
or prudence, would in the first instance merge every
other feeling in an ardent hope for the suc-
cess of their flag. "If 'twere done, then 'twere
well 'twere done quickly," would be the feel-
ing. But the true opinion of a nation is not to
be gathered from those who, making no account of
intervening difficulties, would hail an impossible
result, or from men who, having nothing to lase,
would experience a reckless pleasure from the ex-
citement of war. All the intelligence, all the
property of the nation is convinced that no valid
reason, no plausible pretext could be found for
pranging into a war with England. Those who
believe that the Emperor alone prevents his people
from rushing upon us fall into a trap for the simple
minded which has been artfully baited here. I care
not for the ill-will of the nitre's ontane
clergy. M. Louis Vendees ravings have
very little effect in the country. I don't
deny that the army, which habitually makes no ee-
-1 count of life, would march joyfully against England
if desired. But what I deny is that either the army
or any other constituted body in Franoe has either
the desire or the power in the slightest degree to
force the hand of the executive, and urge on war
with England against the real wish of the Emperor.
The department of Public Safety, acting upon
the old principle that the duty of every court is to
extend its jorisdiction, has just exercised its power
in a new way. It is well known that all new publi-
c/Alone—whether books or journals—are liable to be
seized; but it never yet occurred to anybody
to imagine that standard works, being on
sale at libraries and bookstalls, were amen-
able to an arbitrary interdict when offered for
sale by auction. This stretch of power has, how-
ever, been tried on, and of coarse with success, for, as
I have often had occasion to say, the essential and
distinguishing character of the imperial system is
that no private individual, however much he may be
aggrieved, has any legal redress against the admi-
nistrative anthorites. A collector of historical books
and pamphlets relating to the periods of 'B9 and
'93, lately proposed to sell his valuable collection by
auction. The sale has been stopped by an abuse of
power which it is es impossible to question u to
justify. It is reported that the Procureur-General, M.
Chair d'Estange, said, apropos of this subject, " We
will not have the revolution of '93 spoken of either
in terms of praise or censure ; we require silence."
The Bourse was to-day rather dull. The hopes
entertained, that the quotation ex di,. would be 70fr.,
have not been quite realised. That figure was for •
moment touched to-day, bat the closing priose (ex
div.) were 69fr. 70s. and 69fr. 83c., being a fall of
10c.,for cash and the equivalent of yesterday's price
for account. Mobilier fell lfr. 26c., and Spanish
Credit Mobilier, 2fr. 60c. The Western Railway
fell 6fr., but Lyons rose 10fr., and the other lines
were about 2fr. acoo. higher.
A sentinel, at Vslenciennee, was severely wounded
on November 30, by two men, who seized him by
the throat on the sudden and stabbed him in two
Places with a knife. The colonel commanding the
garrison has issued an order of the day recommend-
ing soldiers not to hesitate to use their bayonets
against people, who, no matter under what pretext,
came near them in the night time.
The official adhesions to the congress of Rowe
and Portugal arrived in Paris to-day.
A duel was fought this morning between the
Marquis de Galiffret, the young husband of Mdlle.
Laffitte, mid the Marquis de Lauviaton. They had
a quarrel, and came to blows, coram populi, at the
Opera. I have not heard the result of their deadly
meeting.

The trial concerning the publication of the apo-
cryphal letter in the .dini de la Religion terminated
to-day. Ita responsible editor, the Abbe Sisson, has
been sentenced to three months'imprisonment and •
tine of 1,000 francs ; and the printer to one month's
imprisonment and a fine of 600 francs.

The French papers publish oa behalf of M. de
Latoartine a contradiction of the report, which, It seems, hes
been circulated, that he proposes to deliver public Imam's.
He had waived In Perla, from Mama, and is working at hie
aerial, the latretivie Litterairta.

AUSTRALIAN HORSE TRADE WITT! INDIA.-
Our readers ere aware that unconnected ems have been
male from time to time by settlers in tile colony to oyes up
a trade in horses with the presidencies of Indic But, like
the commencement of taut' other important branches of

treffic, there esterpelisi !Mire not been. always profitable,
owing chiefly to the disasters of the voyage. But we have
evidence before no, in the communication of s gentleman
who last year took forty-two horses to Bombay, and from
informstiou derived from the Indian newapapers, that thia
unsatisfactory result may be avoided with are, mud that the
hems trade with India may be made as valuable to this colony
se it i. to Raw Booth Wales sod the Ceps of Good Moro—
/WM Iwfr.i.M Rsgiattr.
CANADIAN etatemeut of the imports
into Canada for mos months of 1869, as compoe4 with the
ism. brut of 186,, issued from the department of the Minis-
ter of Finance, shows the following results:—
Dols. Dols.
18651
1869

Increase.. 4,.:93,346
—Cosahas Nowa.
Tno, MAtis.—The steam-ship Sultan, Captain
Vincent, kit Southampton yostaday with the soul Fouls.
Rest own, a fall moo, sou is passmora,

ITALY.

SARDINIA,

The Corriere Mercantile of Genoa, of the 3rd,
states that the sum to be applied to fortifications in
Lombardy during 1880 does not exceed 15 millions
of francs, end that the remainder of the 40 millions
is to be inscribed in the budgets of the following
years.
A letter from Turin of the 3rd, in the Debate,
says:
A grand council was bald yesterday evening, at which
were present, with the Z.g, the Priem de Caligula sod the
ministers, MM. Cavour, Buonoompagni, BiaseciU, Ming-
hail, &a. M. illeasoH arrived her, the day before
yesterday, end M. Beacom:nasal, who had been
summoned by telegraph, yesterday morning. bring-
ing with him some political pereonsges from Bologna,
among whom was M. Minglatti. An understand.
ins was come to on the subject of the opposition made by
M. Biased' to the mission of M. Buoncooepecoi. The
Monitore Tomas° gives two fondsmental reasons for the
refuel made 0 the Buoncompagni regency—lat. That the
substitution of pram contrary to the vote of the assembly
formed a particular anion of the four pro% 'noes of Central
Italy, separate tad distinct frsee the Baedinlen government,
and did not constitute the strong mks Cahed for by T
easy; sad 2edly, that such a sake of Chi's, appeand So the
Tuscan government to be dangereas. "It wished for a
general Italian Woes, and was opposed to any partial ones,
which, under a unitary sppearsace. were in reality cal/ -
redoes." To these diffloul des • remedy had tom, it was thonOt,
found in the interview at Modena. MM. Seivignoli sad
Formal had seeeptsd the plan proposed by M. Beaman-
pegs', the essential point of which was the &matins of two
'overman* Trensappesine and Chappenine. What
generalbest accepted by MM. Selvage' and Format' wee not,
however, sufficient for Y. Massa, and hence the amanita•
Lion which took plea mania', evening, Ms result of which
is not yet distinctly known. There has not been as yet say
confirmation to reports which have been =rent reletlve to
the Morn of Count Cavour to power. His hat's( been
called on to take put in the important council yesterday was
probably the came of those rumours, but this is certain—
that the mutt still exercises his 'Micmac°.