The Express.
London, England, 1868-02-19 00:00:00

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k. PARATIONS IN FRANCE.

Accosting to the correspondent of the Ltd&
'military prevention' are befog
urged forward with extraordinary activity in
Francs. The National Guezd mobile is being
formed with wonderful haste. " This," it adds,
'"s not the only indication of the
anxiety of the government to be prepared for any
contingency. The provisioning of the arsenals and
the army clothing stores is vigorously going am.
The deficiencies which were left behind by the &dad-
nistrationof Marshal Randon will soon be supplied.
No doubt the object is to secure peace by prepar-
ing war. But if the old Roman adage be correct
it did not seem to have the same force before
Badowa as after that battle. If our arsenals
and magazines were then unfurnished
it was because they were emptied principally to
carry on tho war in Mexico without being
obliged to impose fresh burdens on the
taxpayers. The security was so complete
that a few months before the war in Germany
Marshal Randon received orders to do away
with even the cadres of the battalions and squadrons
which were dissolved from motives of economy.
The present war department has repaired all this,
and is taking such vigorous and active steps that
people begin to think they are not prompted by
something that may happen in the remote future."

(ham's nammums.)
AUSTRIA.

SPEECH OF THE KING OF HANOVER.
VIENNA, Fn. 19.

The Vienna papers publish an account of the
dinner given by the King of Hanover yesterday in
celebration of the 25th anniversary of his mar-
riage. They state that in the toast his
Majesty proposed he returned thanks to those who
had come from a distance to be present at this
family meeting, held to show the intimate
connection of the house of Guelph and the
Hanoverian people. He entertained the con-
viction that he should return to Hanover
as a free King. His ancestors had been compelled
to leave the country, but found upon their
I return a larger Guelphic kingdom. Providence
justified him in the belief that he too
would go back to the country as a free
and independent sovereign. His Majesty con-
cluded with drinking prosperity to Hanover, and
a speedy reunion in the land of the Guelphs.

The dinner was attended exclusively by Hano-
verian'.

TURKEY.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Fre. 18.

The Porte is preparing for early publication a
Grey Book, which will contain about fifty official
despatches concerning Crete, the brigandage on the
Hellenic frontiers, and the privileges granted to
Christians in Turkey.
An address to the Sultan, signed by 1,500
Cretans, has been received here, in which the sig.
nitaries ask permission for their families to return
to the island.

Tho Grand Vizier is expected back from Crete
this week. His house at Stamboul, with the
whole of the furniture and a most valuable library,
was destroyed by firs yesterday.

The Levant Herald states that Admiral Lord
Clarence Paget is expected shortly to pay a flying
visit to Constantinople in H.M.S. Psyche.

AMERICA.

(IT ATLANTIC TILRGRAZH, THROUGH ma. isurza'a AGENCY.)
NEW YORK, Yrs. 18.

The Inman steamer City of Washington and the
Allan Company's sterner Peruvian arrived out
to-day.
Closing Prices. —Gold, 1401. Sterling exchange
on London, 1091. 5-20 United States Bonds,
1882, 11111 ; ditto, 1885, 1091 ;10.40 Bonds, 105 i.
Illinois, 139 ; Erie, 761. Cotton : Middling
Upland, 23}. Petroleum, standard white, 25.
Flour, extra State, 10 dole. 40c. ; corn, old mixed,
1 dol. 32c.

M=AT'S= BATORT.-(THIS DAY.)

WIIIIIBDAY. FIBZUAIT 18, 8 LW.

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2.--calm. Weather: a.—aloe shy: —clouds (detached): L
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(dull): r.—rain: a--treow ; t.—thunder. Itain-bil, mow or
hall ;melted), during hag Xi hours. Ilea disturbeace.

REMARKS:

The harometriesldepreasion noticed yesterday afternoon as In
za.progrees In the sonth-weet of Ireland has extended to Greet
. At Liverpool the reading Is less by 048 Inch; and In
the south of England, the present area of low presentee, the
diminution bee been nearly seven-tenths. The In pres-
sure at Valenti& sod adjacent places have bean ex grist
during the last 24 bouts, amounting to (Jett-tenths of an Inch
yet this morn*, the reading' in the west dicier little from
those of yesterday morning. Al the southern Agitates the
thermometer is higher but In ilootland and Ireland a diminu-
tion In temperature Is shown. The gale which commenced
yesterday afternoon In the west Of Ireland continued during the
night with tin:reseed violence. In ges Milt Channel, and et the
entrance of ths English Channel, a northerly gale is now re-
ported, and on the east wag Its direction is from north-east.
Pala has fallen everywhere dace yesterday ; of large amount to
the west of Ireland. A high sea is reported is prevailing at the
entrance of the English Channel. Weather is very unsettled.
Warnings leaned yesterday afternoon.

Ll7l/10AT SZRYXCZ.—(BY TILLIORAPH.)—ST.
IVES, CORNWALL, WEDNWIDAT MORNING.—Mr. 0. ()rou-
te% banker, reports that the St. Ives lifeboat
of thsWaal Lifeboat Inalitutkm, Ibis morn-
fiisyeared the mew of five persona of the
of Chepstow, wrecked off this place. A
gig had previously gone off to the mama, but had capsized
sad drowned one of her crew. The lifeboat picked up
another of the men. She shipped some tremendous see.,
which washed overboard the oolawain and two of the crew,
who were some minutes in the water, but who were fortu-
nately soon got into the lifeboat again.

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Tan Lira/rem ()Amon's or Com=as AND
MS BANKRUPTCY Lawm—Yr. A. T. fignarey (the recently
=bed solicitor to Use Kersey Doak Board) ban been
secretary to the committee appointed at the
general 'meeting of the chamber held on the 29th Mt el
consider the subject of the bankruptcy laws and of other
laws bendier upon ecenniereisi credit and morality.
STATINTICAL BOCIBNY.—Last •ht Mr. Archi-
bald Hamilton reed before the afaWltoal society, Mr.
Gladstone, H.P., being in the chair, a On the emm
memo between the coloured or Ethiopia mom of Africa,
end the civilised world, and the means by which that scan-
mares, hitherto confined to the coast, may be attended to
the interior." A paper wee also read bry Major-Oesseal
Balfour, C. B. "On the Comparaelve Medea of Snell
and French Budgets."

N NEWS.' OTTR PARIS DER.
DAY.)

(nom on on consoonirr.)

, Tuss Iva
It has often been stated RTS
, and it is otT
quite n%
hethat when M. Thiers makes • great speech he
puns the g."satar put of the night in the Mundell
office to revise the proof sheets of the repoit,
which he corrects with the greatest care. His Wit
is to take several cups of chocolate to keep up hie
strength for prolonged work, which, at his age,
very severe. M. Berryer, an older man and
greater orator, leaves the short-hand writeand
the Moniteur " readers " to make up his speeches
as best they can. After his great effort of bias,
last on the question of the composition of the
courts to try press offences, the principal short.
hand writer asked whether he would not like to
revise the proofs. " I read over a speech that
have spoken !" said M. Berryer, " that would be
like taking soup after coffee." M. Jules Vivre,
like M. Berryer, does not care to revise his speedo,.
M. Emile 011ivier, on the other hand, is gnite
anxious about them uM. Thiers. M. Rouher his
his corrected, but leaves the work to his private
secretary.

Fifteen opposition deputies have presented a
amendment to the bill calling out 100,000 men fq
the annual contingent, to reduce the number
to 80,000. If all is true that the government josr•
nals and the Havas telegrams say every day about
the pacific intentions of France and ita friendly
relations with all foreign powers, the amendment
ought to be carried. Unfortunately we know that
it has not the remotest chance of a favourable eon.
aideration.

M. Mille Nod, editor of the Globe ; M. Juke
Vallds, a writer on the paper ; and M. Serre, the
printer, are summoned before the correctioad
police (President Delescaux) on Friday next to
answer a charge of having "insulted agents of
public authority on account of acts performed is
the exercise of their functions." If the new
" liberal " law were in operation, the Globe might
be fined upwards of 3,0011. for this one article.

M. Greppo, a representative of the people in the
Constituent Assembly of 1848, who has, I believe,
been for some years quietly carrying on the bald-
ness of s wine merchant in Paris, was arrested the
other day at Lille, where he is now in prison on a
charge of having brought into France prohibited
books from Belgium.

The students of the Quartier Latin made a row
at the Od6on yesterday, on the occasion of the re•
production of Kean, • piece brought out at the
Varitftefs in 1836. Between the acts they cried con.
tinually " Ruy Bias !" and " Vivo Victor Hugo!"
and they " underlined " every phrase in the tent
which could possibly be construed as marina upon
the politics of the day. For instance, nLa Kean
is made to say :—" In England there is tiival
tine for great and small," the students exclaimed,
" Not in France." I have not heard of any
arrests.

M. Auber was summoned to the Tuileries after
mass on Sunday to receive the congratulations of
the Emperor and Empress on the success i his
new opera. It is recounted that when the Emperor
reminded the Maestro that the title of his new
work was Le Premier Jour de Boldseetr, Auber re.
plied, " Yes, sire, yesterday was the first day of
happiness, but this is the second." I cannot think
this jets de mots a fortunate one. M. Auber would
be very sorry if the most favourable critics ‘,l his
latest work said it was his first success. I sue.
pact the ill-timed exchange of compliments to be
the invention of court journalists.

FASHIONABLE AND POLITICAL ANNOUNCE.
.VENTS.

The OirT, which reappears to-day, has the
lowing announcementa :
Owing to the necessity for preventing unnecessary
crowding at the forthcoming drawing-roonis to be 12,14 by
her Majeety, orders have been given that only the lady
and maid of honour in waiting are to attend the Queen.—
Her Majesty is about to confer upon Dr. Jeener the
dignity of a baronetcy.—We hear that it is not unlikely
that a certain section of advanced liberals will invite Mr.
Adams to a farewell dinner before his final departure to
America next April.
Mr. Bowra has received permission from the Pekin so.
vernment to return to Nepaul withthe Nepaulese Embassy.
We need hardly point out the importance of this journey
to the came of geographical science.
A marriage is arranged between Mr. Edward MarcielJ,
of county Kildare, Ireland, and Mies Magruder, sister to
Lady Abinger, and niece of Major-General Mi
gruder, late of the C.S.A. ; also, between Captain
C. Laprimandaye, A.D.C. to Lord Napier, and
Miss Blanche Le Merchant, daughter of Lents
tent-General Sir Gaspard La Merchant, late Governor et
Madras; also between Mr. Julian Goldsmid, M.P. foe
Monitor), and Virginia, elder daughter of the late Mr. A.
Phillipson, banker, of Florence—and between Mr. Francis
William Lowther, Flag Lieutenant to Admiral Sir liablvin
Walker, Commander-in-Chief at Sheerness, And Miss
Louise Beatrice de Foublanque, daughter of Mr. Ueorge
Barrington de Fonblanene. _

Yesterday the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Saha,
land were enabled, during the Sr. at the Clinting-crow
Railway Station, to make experiments with the portable
machine called the " Extincteur," which the Prince him.
self worked, under the direction of Captain Shaw, the
chief of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade.—We are enabled
to state that, pending the report of the oommiatiou
appointed to inquire into the best plan for facilitat-
ing the business of the courts of common law
and equity (of which Lord Justice Cairns is
chairman), no further steps will be 'skin
towards appointing architects for the New Palace of Jas•
time.—lt Is understood that the Irish Reform Bill will
propose to reduce the borough franchise to 4f. rating ; ta
divide the county of Cork and give each division or riding
two members ;to the Queen's University a member ; sad
to the City of Dublin an additional member. The font
members are to be obtained by the disfranchisement, or
gronping,of Portarlington,Mallow,endothersmall boroughs.
—Last year a conference of deputies from certain nations
met at Paris to consider the monetary system of various
countries with a viow to their assimilation. A royal
commission, with Lord Halifax at its heal, will shortly
be appointed to examine the report of the gentleman who
attended the conference on the part of Great Britain.—
The Admiralty have ordered 300 old 8-inch guns of 63 cwt.
to be immediately converted into Gi-pounder Palliser ritled
guns for the use of the navy.—We understand that the
civil ►ppointment accepted at Constantinople by Captain
the Hon. A. Hobart, R.N., is inspector of naval school'.We hear that an active system of rattening is going on at
the Foreign-office, the Diplomatic Service being celled
upon to declare that they are in favour of agencies.

THE RZPRFARICTATION OF LAMBETH.—Another
candidate is in the tell for the representation ei
Lambeth at the next general election. An address
has been aimed from Mr. William BleArthur, abs
dates from Gwyder-houses, Brixton, and offers him-
self in the liberal interest.
Carman Hanta.—A deputation appointed
_by
some bodies of dissenters had an interview with lir. Gm&
stone yesterday, at his house, upon the Compulsory
Church Rates Abolition Bill nssoared and brought in by
Mr. Gladstone, air George rey, and Sir Roundel' FM'
mer. The names of the gentlemen antrohited "re gr'
William Edwards, Mr. Edward 111,11, Mr. Charles Seedy
Mr. J. Williams, and Mr. Shipboard.
ADMIRALTY, Fee. 18.—ArPOINTMEWM.—Stib.
lientensat Wm. B. Bend), to the Beacom Middripre,
Frederick Maitland, to the Achilles. Samos
to the BeisteL Amostent-Bargeon Samuel Mellon, addl.
Ronal, to the Wellesley. Amistant-Paymaster Seamed
R. Lek, additional, to the Mercy. Feb. 17 : Liewsiant
Robert H. Harris, to the Britannia. Chief Itlincem
Win. H. Bundle, to the Indus, for orrice in the
Primer, Royal ; Edwin Bonitos, to the Lion ; Thomas
F. Hall, to the Fianard, for service in the Wolverene.