The Express.
London, England, 1861-08-22 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, WIDNBADAY ECZNING.

The peculiar crotchet of the Prase is the mori-
bund condition of the sick man of the
East. It will not believe that any good thing can
come out of Turkey. "The negotiations," it gam
"of Omer Pacha with the chief of the Christian

insurrection will probably have the same result as
on past oocaaiona. The parties will not come to an
understanding. They cannot come to an under-
standing. The representative of the Porte may
yield to the legitimate demands of the Christians in
arms, but the Turkish government is linable to exe-
cute them." The Pere foresees nothing but the
moat formidable insurrection spreading throughout
Montenegro, the Herzegovina, Bosnia, and Bul-
garia, and supported by Servia and Croatia. In
short, according to this journal, we are shortly to
find ourselves " in preeenee " at oace of the Oriental
and the Austrian questions. In spite of these som-
bre anticipations, we learn from the latest intel-
ligence of the Pattie that matters look well and
peaceable in the Lebanon, where the measures
of Daoud Pacha are producing excellent effects ; and
that the harvest is excellent throughout Syria,
while peace reigns everywhere in that fruitful land.
Fuad Pacha, it is supposed, will continue to exer-
cise the functions of commissioner extraordinary to
the Porte.

The long stay of the English fleet in the
Neapolitan waters is much commented on, and,
as may well be imagined, with no little jealousy and
acrimony. People here are puzzled to know what
means the landing of our Marines by detachineuts,to
go through their evolutions, according to some au-
thorities ; according to others, to do guard
duty over the houses and shops in the ab-
sence of the troops and national guards.
The Patrie says;with mysterious caution :—" Some
English journals have announced that negotiations
are on foot for the cession of Venetia to the king-
dom of Italy. Without wholly denying this asser-
tion, we are enabled to state that as yet nothing
authorises us to believe it." The same journal
has an article on the panics caused by the terror of
French aggressiveness. England, it appears, is
now calm on that head, but Germany is
" menacingly unquiet" as regards her neighbours.
" France, however, provokes nobody, but she fears
nobody. She most certainly desires peace ; but
as to what our neighbours may so or do, she acts
with regard to the menaces of the Germans as she
' did during the alarms of the English. She shrugs
her shoulders—and laughs."
Our Bourse does not answer to the rise announced
in Consols. This arises partly from the general lair-
guor of business, and partly because the harvest
here promises to be inferior to that in England. ,
Still prices were maintained to-day. Bente fell sc.
for the account, leaving off at 68fr.45c. forcash, and
68fr. 50c. for the account. Credit Mobilier fell
lfr. 28c. for cash, and sfr. for account, its closing
price being 740 fr. for both cash and account.
Railways, with the exception of the Eastern, had •
downward tendency.

The municipality of Metz has resolved to have,
in addition to the exhibition of manufactured and agricul-
tural proinctions which is now taking place, a grand ride-
shooting match, which is to commence on Sunday, the
25th. It is to last Ave days, and foreigners will be allowed
to compete for the prizes.

M. Oranier de CaMeliplaC, in an article on the
canoe of the high rents now paid in Paris, declares that
then at present ten thousand apartments vacant in Paris,
• greater number than was ever before known, and he
thence draws the conclusion that the present high rents are
not caused by competition among tenants.
The Pays announces that the Sultan intends to
visit Paris and Loolon in the month of October next.

The King of Prussia arrived at Ostend on Sunday
afternoon, and the Crown Prince was to join him the next
day.

A Vienna letter states that, for some years past,
there has not been so large an attendance at the churches on
the occasion of the Emperor's birthday as on the 18th in-
stant, when his Majesty completed his 31st year.
At Milan, last week, a sad accident occurred.
As a French company was representing at the Theatre of
St. Radegonda the fame La Marie.: du Mardi-grae, the
long veil worn by one of the actressci, Mdlle. Harsch, who
personated the bride, caught fire at the footlights, and she
was an a few seconds oompletely enveloped in flames. The
spectators raised a cry of horror, and her fellow performers
rushing to her aid tried to extinguish the fire by rolling her
on the stage. Before, however, they could accomplish their
purpose she jumped up and ran away. That caused the
flames to break forth with renewed violence; but she was
again seized and rolled on the ground until the fire was put
out. Unfortun►tely no medical man was in the house, and
she was conveyed to the hospital in a deplorable plight.
The Lombardo, of the 18th, maker the following

announcement :—" General Turr is about to marry the
Princess Weiss-Bonaparte, a young lady of 17, of great
beauty, and uniting to noble sentiments a brilliant educe-
tioe. General Turr has to-day made known his marriage
to the Prince de Carignan, who has • particular predilection
for the Magyar."
FRENCH PacrrasTaFrs.—The Delia& stated some
time tine the grievance under which the protestant
of the department of Haute-Vienne laboured in not being
permitted to have their children educated in their own coin-
munioo. Our contemporary now makes the following an-
nouncement :—" We have already alluded to the complaint
of the protestant of the Haute-Vienne against the ad-
ministrative measure which had ordered the closing
of the schools specially devoted to evangelical wor-
ship. We learn with pleasure that this question,
which has for some time past been agitated by
the liberal press, has just been settled in conformity with
the principles of religious liberti . In its sitting of the
14th, the departmental council of the Haute-Vienne, on
the suggestion of the Minister of Public Instruction and
of the Prefect of the Department, has removed the oppo-
sition against one of these schools, the ' Institution Jusnel,'
and has authorised the toaster to open at Balledent a
special establishment for pupils belonging to the evan-
gelical creed, on condition that be only receives the children
of his co-religionist. The other teachers of the same creed
may also open their schools on the same conditions."
Tai FRENCH IN COCHIN CHINA.—A letter from
Saigon, in Cochin China, dated the 20th June, is published
in the Gazette de Midi. The following extract describes
the afireigene of the occupation :—" Our town is most mo-
notonoua, and we really do not know what is going to be
done with us. Militarily speaking, our work is at an end, and
a colonisation is to be attempted that does not concern us ;
we hope that our general, on his arrival is Paris, will induce
the government to order our return to France, an event
which we look for with the greatest impatience. The cli-
mate of Saigon is not suited for Europeans ; we are ob-
liged to conceal ourselves from the sun, to fly
from it as though it were the plague, and keep
ourselves hermetically abut up. Our huts, moreover, are
not pleasant residences; reptiles of all kinds—enormous
scorpions, snakes three yards long, lizards, frogs, tcsels,
i
favour us with their company, sod at night, n spite of
mosquito curtains, we are tortured by those fearful insect.
When the weather is a little cloudy I take a ride on horse-
back ; this is the only amusement we can procure, but the
animals are such brutes that there is not muchplessure in
i
mounting them. Bathing is a thing not to be ndulged in,
on account of the crocodiles, added to which fever is fro-
! queutly the result of such a recreation. I have completely
abandoned drawing and painting, for with the hest which
devours us 1 have notths streugthor the inclination to handle
• pencil or a brush.
DIANCHENTEZ UNITY OF ODD FELLOWS AND THE
ANCIENT ORDER or FORENTERS.—TotaI number:
Odd Fellows 267,394, Foresters 159,838; Wales, Otret
lows 23,011, Foresters 5,661; Scotland, Odd Fellows 3,277,
Foresters 625 ; Ireland, Odd Fellows 1,013, Foresters 164 ;
abroad, Odd Fellows 10,666, Foresters 2,066 ; total, 1860,
Odd Fellows 305,361, Foresters 168,576 ; 1861, Odd Fol-
lows 316,215, Foresters 189,584. Numbers in particular
counties : Essex, Odd Fellows 2,250, Foresters 2,035 ;
Kent, Odd Fellows 5,349, Foresters 5,437 • Middlesex, Odd
Fellows 9,752, Foresters 18,519 ; Surrey, Odd Fellows
4,801.1, Foresters '5,596; Loodos (Post-orice eight mile
circle), Odd Fellows 11,185, Foresters 18,414.