The Express.
London, England, 1861-07-06 00:00:00

PRUSSIA.

The formation of a fleet of gunboats for the
North Sea is at present the object of negotiations
between Prussia on the one hand and Oldenburg
and the town of Bremen on the other. Hanover
has declined all participation in this measure,
because it is proposed to place the fleet under the
orders of Prussia. It is part of this plan that the
expense of the first establishment of the fleet
should be borne half by Prussia and half by the
two small states above named. There is a hitch in
the negotiations, arising from a demand on the
part of the small states for compensation in the
form of a diminution of their contingent. Now,
this cannot be granted except by the Diet, the
well-known deliberateness of whose proceedings
renders any immediate execution of this plan very
improbable. Great activity prevails in the manu-
factory of arms throughout Prussia, especially at
Buhl. This is owing, in some measure, to large
orders from the United States government.

Permourn Jew s.—The Duke and Duchess of
Montpensier andi suite arrived here this evening. They
eame per railway from Falmouth, where they Laded to-day
from the Spanish war vessel, Patino, which left Santander
on the 2nd instant. The Duke and Duchess will leave
Plymouth by to-morrow morning's express train, ca route
for Claremont. _ _

JULY 4. —The Queen has been
played to appoint Simeon Jacobs, Esq., to be Attorney.
Gen seal for the territories of British Kuffraria ; and
liam Branch Pollard, Esq. (the younger), to be Assistant
Civil Engineer for the colony of British Guiana.— 0a:elle.
CROWN-OFFICE, JULY 4.—The Queen ha been
pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great
Seal of the United Kingdom, constituting and appointing
Sir William Atherton, Knight, her Majesty's solicitor.
Cieeerol, to be her Majesty's Attorney-General —Gazette.
ST. JAMES'S, CURTAIN-ROAD.—On Thursday last
the children, 700, belonging to this district parish of Shore-
ditch, were conveyed on an excursion to the llyo House,
Hertfordshire, and were accompanied by the Rev. J. W.
Markwell, M.A., the respected incumbent, several friends,
neighbours, and parents, and had a day's enjoyment in the
fresh air. They amused themselves in a variety of ways
throughout the day, the latter part of which, it being
rather showery, confined them to the old banqueting hall.
Every thing pawed off well. The Misses Cutbill, Hawes,
Marshall, and Stevens, end Messrs. Soutter, hod, Lewis,
and Godbar paid every attention to the comfort of the
party, as did also the Rev. Mr. Markwell.
THE ARMY or EGYPT.—A letter from Cairo of
June 24 says that the Viceroy of Egypt complimented
General de Beaufort d'Heutpoul, at Alexandria, by taking
him toe review of 8,000 infantry and cavalry and 15 batte-
ries of artillery. The general was particularly struck with
the latter force, and made comparisons in their favour
greatly to the disadvantage of the Turkish troops which he
had lately seen in Syria. After the review, General de
Beaufort having expressed a desire to see Cairo, the Viceroy
graciously placed • special train at his disposition for him-
self and his staff. The general was to leave Alexandria far
Marseilles on June 25.

THE Loss Ow THE CANADIAN.—The inquiry into
the loss of this vessel was resumed on Thursday, at Liver.
pool. Mr. James Martyr, one of the shipwright surveyors
of the Board of Trade, was called, and he deposed that he
had surveyed the Canadian on two occasions—in March,
1860, and on the 6th of May last. Strictly speaking, they
could only deal with the parliamentary bulkhead.. The
ship was divided by five water-tight bulkheads, having a
water-tight door in the forepart of her forward coal hunker.
It was not necessary that the door in the after-pa tof the
coal bunker should have been closed. The act of parlia-
ment had been complied with, and in his opinion the thns-
dims was a very good iron ship. This closed the inquiry.
and Mr. Raffles intimated that the report would be for-
warded to the Board of Trade as soon as possible.
THE NEW Cowgr.—Dr. Bachhoffner, the inde-
fatigable lessee of the Royal Colosseum, has, with his
usual promptitude, seized upon the newly-arrived comet,
and made it the subject of a most popular and interesting
lecture. The modals and diagrams, which have been pre-
pared to illustrate the lecture, greatly assist in reodenog
the subject intelligible to even the common capacitl., and
will do much to destroy the lingering superstition which
still exists in the minds of many, even in this the 19th cen-
tury, of the malignant influence of these erratic wanderers
of the heavens, and of their eventually being the Ph/6°4
cause of the destruction of our globe. As the lecture is
only to be given for a very short period an early visit to the
Colosseum is desirable.