The Express.
London, England, 1861-10-14 00:00:00

THE OUTWARD BOMBAY AND MEDITER-

RANHAN MAILS.

sOUTRAMPTON. 0cr.19.

The Peninsular and Orieutal Company's steam
ship Entine, Captain Rakell, sailed hence to-d►y at 2p m..
with the mails for Gibraltar, the Mediterranean, Egypt,
Aden, Bombay, Ire., together with 55 first and 40 second
class passenger, including Lady Walpole and family, Colo-
nels Jacob and Birdwnod, and Captains Palsied, Clarke,
Browne, Stephenson, Bagley, and Woodio. The Kathie
took on freight 422 boxes specie, value 135,4961., et which
is for Bombay, bar silver 106,4301., sovereigns 13,1001.,
pearl beads, jewellery, Etc., 3001. ; sad for Alexandria. sove-
reigns 15,500/., watches, Pte., 1651. The Fuxin also took
out a full cargo of general merchandise, principally British

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(nom ova ows comarompurr.)

PARIS. SC:I3AT EVENIyI;

It in worthy of notice that the Moniteire, in an-
nouncing the arrival at Compiegne of the sovereign
commonly known as the King of Holland, styles
him the King of the " Low Countries," which con-
tinues to be his diplomatic title, although he was
stripped of Belgium in IMO. It is said that the
King insists so much upon this point that letters
addressed to the "King of Holland" are nut
oisnied at the Hague. The special correspondents
who were sent from Paris to Compiilne to see the
Kiug of Prussia remained there on duty for this
occasion. There are some funny discrepancies in
their statements this evening. We read in the
Ophiioa Natieriate :—" The ceremony of the recep-
tion was the same as that observed fur the
King of Prussia, only that there was a little
less etiquette and more familiarity." The
Preset says, on the other hand :—" Contrary
to what was the case with the King of Prussia, the
reception of the King of Holland is altogether
official." This much appears certain—that the
sovereigns met in full uniform, instead of in plain
clothes. According to the Patrie, the first words
of the King on meeting the Emperor were, "It
must be said that I am punctual, for I am here
five minutes before the time." But the chronicler
of the l'rexse says that his Majesty's exclamation
was, "Oh ! Sire, I have kept you waiting;" to
which remark the Emperor graciously replied, "Not
at all, your Majesty. I believe it is scarcely the
time." It is to be hoped that history will settle
these important differences. The following is the
programme of the entertainments provided for the
King : roday a visit to Pierrefonds. On Monday a
court stag-hunt, at which the Imperial Prince will
appear on a pony, and will be dressed like his
father, in a hunting snit of the time of Louis
XV. On Tuesday the Emperor will accompany
the King to Paris, and the two sovereigns will dine
at the Tuileries. On Wednesday there is to be a
shooting party at Versailles, and a breakfast in
the forest. The King will afterwards stay two
days in Paris.
Prince Napoleon and the Princess Clothilde
arrived at Compiegne this morning.
The French freemasons are now in a very extra-
ordinary fix. In the spring they turned omit Murat
and elected Prince Napoleon fur their grand master.
Murat declared the election of his rival void, and
the Emperor, corning to his aid, made Prince
Napoleon resign, and adjourned the election till the
autumn. The other day, as you were informed,
Murat summoned a grand lodge for Oct. 14 to pro-
ceed to the election, and Prince Napoleon's secre-
tary, iu a published letter, stated that his imperial
highness, for the reasons which led to his former

resignation, did not wish to be again chosen. But
it being fully ascertained that the freemasons will
not have the pretender to the throne of Naples at
any price, the Emperor at the last moment comes
forward again to give him another respite. Only
yesterday (two days before the day fixed for the no-
minatiou) the telegraph was set to work to order the
prefects of all the departments to warn freemasons
not to come to Paris. The craft is prohibited from
meeting to elect a grand master .until May, 1862,
and the reason alleged for the prohibition is that
the election would " endanger public tranquillity."
That is a most miserable pretext. A more peace-
able body of men than the masters of the different
lodges of France cannot be conceived, and the idea
of their meeting with their aprons and trowels in
the grand lodge of the Rue Cadet being a danger
to the public peace is perfectly ridiculous.
The article of M. Neiftzer against the idea of
any further extension of French territory is thus
commented on by the Independaliec Beige :

These remarks are based upon good sense and justice.
They are true, loyal, and holiest, and we cannot but con-
gratulate the naps ca its courage in uttering them. If
l! right thinking men in Franco were this to oppose, every
one to the extent of his means of action, that Houriniute,
which, unfortunately for that country and Europe, spill
constitutes the sole political creed of a great many French-
men, peace and harmony among nation, would make rapid
progress, and the development of their moral and material
resources would proceed amidst mutual confidence.

An infernal machine exploded on Wednesday
last in a house in the Rue Bonteuil, at Toulon,
did great damage to the furniture, and occasioned
much alarm iu the quarter ; fortunately, although
there were fourteen persons in the house, none of
them were injured. Nothing is known as to the
author of this atten.pted massacre.
Thu Monitenr, in its buUetin of to-day, says :
" The King of Holland arrived at Compigne at
5.30 p.m. yesterday, and was received by the
Emperor at the terminus. The Empress awaited
their Majesties at the foot of the grand staircase?'

The Moniteur also mays :—" The letter coutaiued
in a recent pamphlet, and alleged to have been ad-
dressed by the Emperor Napoleon to the King of
Petunia, is a pure invention."

The provincial of the Order of the Jesuits has
addressed to Father Palmeri a letter to the foltowing effete
—" In the order of Jams you are like a finely-chiselled
block in the front of an edifice; by withdrawing from it
you leave a disfiguring blank which can, however, be soot
filled up. But by doing so you will be disunited from the
building, and weak in ieolation become like a stone cast to
the earth, where it becomes broken and trodden under foot."

Front France an offer has been received by the
International Exhibition Committee, front one of that class
.1 sanguine and amateur mechanicians who are always on
the look-out for the discovery of perpetual motion. The
applicant states that he bas really discovered the long-
sought treasure, and that he will exhibit the machine in
motion during the whole time the Exhibition remains open.
The same inventor also asks spate to exhibit a flying
machine, and this, too he proposes to exhibit in actual
motion. Startling, however, as are these novelties in
mechanical engineering, they are by no means so important
u the proposal which has been made by some practical English
engineers of eminence in their pretension to lay down a
monster iron tube from the Marble-arch to the Exhibition
building, through which passengers will be despatched by
the pneumatic process. The difference between this mode
of conveyance and that of an atmospheric railway is, that
in the one case the passengers are conveyed over an ex-
hausted tube, and is the other they are shot through it la
is a gigantic pea-shooter. Taking their places at the
Marblearch, visitors would be delivered at the other end of
the tube at Kensington in about two minutes.

Tue GREAT EAST/SRL —At • meeting of share-
holden representing 1,000 shares each, held at the office of
the Great Ship Company, on Friday, Mr. Baker, who occupied
the chair, after expressing his confidence in Capt. Walker,
said the previous serape bad resulted iu profit to the cool•
pany, a sum of nearly 10,0001. had been netted by the eon-
veyaoos of the troops to Qesbee, and it was anticipated
that the receipts for passengers and cargo from the present
voyage, which had been brought to so unfortunate a close,
would have yielded 15,0001. The directors had begun to
see their way ahead, and were satisfied that a very rema•
restive trade might Piave been opened up between Liver•
pool and New York with the great ship. The cost of the
repairs would be from eight to tee thousand pounds. The
damage done to the interior could be repaired at much lem
cost than was originally supposed but the rudder, stern-
post, and wheels would requite a large amount of expea•
diture. The claims on the part of the passengers had been
fairly met by the directors, and the majority of them had
accepted the terms which had been offered. A return of
eighty per cent. of the pawge•money had given satisfaction
to almost the whole of the passengers. Thor* were some
claims still undecided with reference to the luggage, and
there were some questions still unsettled between the
directors and the shippers and owners of the cargo. le the
present position of these affairs, it would be necessary to
raise a further sum of 20,0001.