The Express.
London, England, 1868-03-24 00:00:00

THE PRESS PLAGUE IN CROATIA.

A cardinal of the church of Rome and an Aulic
Councillor—George Von Hanlick, Archbishop of
Agram—has issued a pastoral to the faithful of his
diocese, in which he speaks in the following terms
of the press and its members :
When we see that those who devote themselves to the
prat-for the most part men without piety or oon-
soignee are endeavouring to ruin or to ridicule
the sacred truths of the Christian faith, and the
very principles of sound reason and to bring unjust
accusations even against distinguished public authorities,
we are *ended in saying that the liberty of the press has
become one of the greatest evils of human society ; or, to
speak more precisely, a veritable public peat. How can
we hope to see the sad progress of general depravity and
the spirit of resistance to legal authority arrested, when
this herd of irreligious and conscienceless men, who are
up to all the mincenvres of deriving therefrom personal
lucre, are allowed with impunity to scatter everyday over
the monarchy copies of their broad sheets by thousands? lio
great, unfortunately, is the publication of these sheets, and
our large towns especially are so inundated with them,that
there may be found, in every street and spot, even in the
hands of cabbies and old clotheswomen, these journals
filled with the most pernicious instigation.

. _
What will his Eminence say of the vote just
passed by the Upper House of the Austrian parlia-
ment I

(urns's nasown.)
FRANCE.

PARIS, MARCH 24.

Various imperial decrees have been pnbliahed
to-day. One promulgates the convention of the
28th Jannary, 1868, concerning the issue of Post-
'office orders between France and Luxembourg.
Another approves the declaration of the 26th
February, 1868, by France and Bavaria, relative
to the arrest of criminals ; and a third exempts
cargoes of grain and flour from internal navigation
dues.

PORTUGAL
_ _ LISBON, MARCH 24.

Further returns show that the government can-
didates have been returned by overwhelming ma-
jorities throughout Portugal. All the ministers
have been elected.

The weather is very dry and the Caws are suffer-
ing for want of rain.

A letter from Rome of the lath says :—" Cardi-
nal Bonaparte has now taken up his reddence at the
family pekes as the Pimmt di Venetia' , and commenced
the midi= existeme of a Roman cardinal, whisk mama
alaselloatka is the more important for his harm easier,
as it opal= him for election to the Papal WOOS,
whams, had be bean mated an entirely French cardinal,
would have been excluded from such a candidature.
It is, of comae, premsture to speculate en the poseible
result of the next conclave, whenever it may take pleat,
bat it is undeniable that the Imperor Napoleon's amain
Lucien is sow one of the heirs presumptive is the Perla
Means, and perhaps his Ilajesire anxiety to pressen the
imisposul meweignty of the Pepe is not entirely mow
nested with ibis oentisamey„"
!NDU, OirrigA' aro AueriumAir (Uim)fAna.
—OIIIAI2A4 Has= Xi —The Pan left at WPM istelep.
She may be espettld •as Ileellimmeen abet* 4lmt. 25
instant.- • • >»

Barometer corrected and redtwed to 112 deg. at sea level. The
letteri r (rising;, t (falling), a (steady), indlocte directke at
the mercury within last 14 hours, Thermometer expoul
In shade. Krireme force, with ita direction daring last ft hems.
Z.—cotm. Weather: b.—blue sky: c.— cloud. detached, . f.—
fog : h.—hall m.—misty (Lars, o.—everail
(dull); r. —rain ; 11.-600 W t.—thunder. Eitio fall, tour or
ball 'melted), during last 24 hours. Sea dlaturbuce.

Bammsirical pressure has increase REMARK&
d rapidly on our north not
east comae dnce last evening: but at southern atattona readings
are lower than they were yesterday. Prounires are compare•
lively high, and are more uniform than they have lees
for the previous two days. Temperature °ter these
Islands is generally low, but on the west coast of
Yranort there has been an increaae since yestert:AY.
High north.weiterly winds prevailed yesterday to the
English and Irish Channels, Increasing to a gate in *es
In Ireland the wind this morning is light from the south Jet:
In England moderate winds from the north are preva'ent. it. or
Is reported from northern stations, and from Bruise's and Pent
Had showers fell In London yesterday afterzoon. Mitt Lao
fallen in the north and west.

Answer. or THE Romair.—Pmrsotrrn, 3fas.
24.—The Union Company's Cape mail steamer Roman has
just arrived in Plymouth Sound with the homeward Caps
mails.
A STEAM Max.—The advent of a "steam WWI"
in New York has added another to the novelties io that
sensational city. The " steam man "is • new locomotive
for common roads, invented at Newark, New Jersey, and
is intended to walk or run about as • man would and draw
carriages after it. The particular " steam man" who is
now astonishing New York is a person of commanding
presence, 7ft. 9in. high, weighing 5001 b., men'
swing 200 inches round the waist, and decidedly
stout in general appearance. His legs are male
up of iron cranks, screw., springs, and other
intricate machinery, and have • motion similar
to the human extremities ; his stomach is a furnace, has
chest • boiler, and the 'molts passes up through his heal
and towering bat. He bears a good-humoured comer
mane., with a handsome moustache, while in his mouth is
Axed • steam-whistle, and • gauge and safety-valve ornw
meat the back of his head. He is the figure-bead, as it
were, of • phaeton, capable of accommodating four
POrsOns.beir with • teak to carry water and
..V box for The driving machinery is at bin but.
and within easy grasp of the persons on the phaeton,
who can start, stop, curve, ko fast or go slow at
their pleasure. The inventor claims that 20 pounds ve
steam will set him in motion, and 20 mats' worth of coals
work him • day. He also claims that he can scoomplah
a mile in two minutes on a level Gonne, and can step rive
all obstructions not higher than a foot. His engine e
four-horse power and the man takes thirty inches inat
sash stride. This " steam- however, has not yet el•
üblic, he is hibited himself in ;p promised a ram
down Broadway when the is fit, and meanwhile
his owner offers to manufastare steam men at short notice
for 300 doh. • picas. Whether they prove of any practice'
good or not, the one at New York is niquertionably
great curiosity.—Tinsea.
We learn from Om Weeders Morning Noes that
on Saturday morning, at four o'clock, • call/doe oonuved
between the Dove, of Alarm and an American barque
galled the Arlington, about 40 miles N.N.W. of the LOW
ships. The Dove, shish was bawd for Cork, went
down instantly, and three oat of Ave hands were lost.
Verna Van sad bey saved theassekvat on • pieta .f the
%eta the barque got bar boat out, whit* new.
way took saw lbw Ths other men were not see after
the chip gosh- The *Ames., outward baud. fof,
tea{, afterwards pee the gnosis and boy ea leec!
a Salves ereihsrel heal, Mid& kola them at that Po"
about midday.