The Express.
London, England, 1868-08-15 00:00:00

Thu reported reception of the Corps Diplomatipis
will not therefore take place, an .1 theft will be nu
interpretation of the oracular Troyes speech.
To-day the prosecution of last Suttiplay't
'erne was brought to a hearing before the.
gable Judge Delesvaus. M. Itoehefurt, ill 1111
absence, was sentenced to a year's imprisonment
and a fine of 10,0001 r. M. Dttlmison, the print.qr,
was sentenced to three months impnsonw,•nt
and
a fine of 2,000 fr. It is unlikely that M. Ito.:Leturt
will surrender to undergo his imprisonment. 11,
will probably say to the Emperor, in we.ll-kuown
historical words, "Sire, j'attendrai."

M. Emile de Girardin publishes, as applii•slily
to the present time, the following letter, wheal,
he says was found among the papers of his istlier,
Count Alexandre de Girardin, who was firsiii
Veneur at the time it was written :
THE EXPEROR XICHOLAH I. TO NINO CHAIII.I4I
November, Is!"
My Brother • This is not a letter from seven,,.,, to
sovereign, but from one great people to another. yoo
have no frontiers, and you are no longer a ivtir,
of the first order. 'rake the limits of the Icon%
tho Alps, and the Pyrenees, and thee I nln &
will be constituted. As to me - tho population of
amounts to HO millions—;. e., 50 million& of Norif, -u:t t
millions of freemen. It is impossible f,r me too f•0r.0.,
what may be the state of Russia a quarter of ,t
fser, if I judge by tho difficultios I meet isql,
day. I must go to Constantinople in order to I. ire
three necessary elements of wealth—agrieultue.,
tures, and commerce. At present lam deprive.l „1
two last. Make a treaty offensive and defeiiiic- ,„1
will sign it directly. well persuaded that )-.,,,r
will be my friends, and your enemies my
are the conditions of this treaty.

M. de Girardin sap; the original of t;:.,
mud be in the archive a, and that .11t
would do well to look for it.

At the Bourse the Rent.. 1,,
70fr. 50c., under tho influence of rev at, e 1%,
loan has been covered 11 time,, but It .;o-.t
weaker, at 70fr. 30c. for (ash, an I 70:r. for
account, with a rise of 12e. and 17;e.

SEIZURE OF A BEITIsH SHIP ON THE
(.VAST.

The flibraltar Chronicle of August 7 • .0. iini
the following:—" It will be remembered that ~11 th • lith
of June last a British schooner. the Fanny, tea,
boarded by a Spanish guaradeo,bl off Eump
The Fanny returned to Gibraltar, and finally h•r• th.
port under the convoy of her Majesty's ship Sky!ark fir
her destination—Oran. She reached Oran on the ?;v
dirchargcd her cargo, and again sailed on the I!4th of [sly.
hound to Carthagena, with a cargo of harky 117 pi,.
sengers on bard. The curgo wus in part owned
of the paasengers, flatlet% of Carthagena. Her so 6-1 ;
adveuturea and treatment at the hands of th.•
authorities are of such an extraordins ry character that
siderable indignation must be cauaed by their
The Fanny arrived on the Spanish enact on 111, !2!:1
When five miles off the coast of Carthagena. at ..,t 1.
pest four that morning, a Spanish revenue fain. h •:.
Amalia, came alongside, and hailing the Funny. t. 1,•:
where she came from. The master myth,' t.,t •‘.;
schooner came from Oran and was destined for :.1 ri 11
with passengers and a cargo of barley; at the. Nun, tse.
he hoisted the English ensign. It was then annalin•ol
board the revenue boat that the Fanny wre. ;.
prise, and orders were given to get the gun rely t
in view, we suppose, of meeting any

opposition. After this, the captain of the Ai,:
ordered the Fanny to follow, and the
thus escorted was taken to the quarantine styli,.
age at Carthagena. On arrival at the gnu inns.
gruond four seamen from the Amalia were oil hurl
the Fanny, to remain there until the expiratisi .ii V. •
three days' quarantine imposed on all arrivals I:•rta Orin.
During the performance of these three days' v•iti•in
the captain of tho port came alongside the Fantly ind
said he suspected the vessel to be a pirate; and at th •
expiration of the quarantine the English crew were tat.
to the Port-office to give evidence. Although the ma.tq
of the Fanny declares that the ship's pap r•
were perfectly correct the port authorities pro•
feseed to be dissutisfiel with them, and sent th•
whole of the crew at once to gaol. They were kept h.
close confinement in the prison for 30 hours, at the cal
of which time they were set at liberty, the Span
local officials informing the sailors that they had eau, t
be thankful to the Queen of Spain for her lenity tow.: I.
them. The Funny was, however, detained at Carth tg• n
until the certificates of baptism of every mats in tlii•
had been obtained from Gibraltar. Eventually •!. •
schooner was allowed to leave the port of Cartbsg• i,i.
and arrived at Gibraltar this morning. As 'night ,!.-
rally have been expected, the British consul at earths::
has protested most strongly against these outragrutt, ,•
mailings. To treat in this high-handed, arbitrary ms:::.
a harmless trader, on a peaceful voyage between .r •
foreign port and another, carrying the flag of Eu4l L
with papers all correct, and nu shadow of
against her, calls for more than reclamation.
preaches an insult to the British flag, and tvluitt, •
plete and ample explanation."

THE RAMBLES OF SOVEREIONS.—Them
sent a very active movement amongst see..ral of ft-
European sovereigns. The King of Prussia has 1..1, 1::
motion along the banks of the Rhine, from Ern. ' •
Schwalbach, Sehwalbach to Cobleni, trot
Wiesbaden, and from Wiesbaden to Disiel.lorf. Tf.•
Emperor of Russia, who arrived in Kissmigoi f•-‘
days back, went to Schwalbach to -4, the Kin.: "
Prussia, and has now returned to Kiwueen from Sehwal-
bachthe CcaTil•leanliidnEalmpores.if Bavaria
hisaufadvoWn‘riirtrechm.,b;h7alLvsl.'''Utl".le
Bavarian King has now gone to Stmith..t.;
Emperor Francis Joseph who has gee t., st,it th, Em•
press, his wife, at Pooeuhofeu. The SWcatAl au I Dix:::
royal families have been visiting and retu I lung vest; tat
one another lately, and the latter, with the exol•pt:,11
the Prince Royal, who has remained at home as r.
embarked three days ago to pay a visit to the ituletl,l
family of St. Petersburg. Queen Victoria is cujoyu4 tl;
scenery of Switzerland.
The sale of paper lanterns is prohibited in Piri7.
and of cigarettes of a red colour with a design ot
lantern upon them.
An American paper states that tho last wintm•
in the Polar Seas was the mildest known for 25 ye,srs,
sal
that the natives of those seas lost all their winter supp4Y
of meat, which is usually preserved by being frozen. It
is likely that the whalers, through the mildness of la,t
winter, will be able to penetrate during this summer erea
farther than they did last year into the Polar Sea.
At the beginning of this year there were in
Europe 102,061 miles of railway, and throughout the
world 162,600 miles.
A project is on foot in California to estab-
lish a telegraph line from thence to China and Japan. It
would be a land line through British Columbia to Alaska.
A series of short ocean cables would connect the Aleutian
peninsula with Kamschatka, which is only .100 miles f
tr.lnt
Japan, and from the latter country Shanghai is only a or
hundred miles.
Letters now reach San Francisco front South-
hampton in 26 days by the German mail steamer
New York, and by the Pacific Railway to California.
THE GREAT VOLCANO IN TIIE SAlcuuT.i
vvolcano(
letarins.—A San Francisco paper says :—" The
which proved t• be a ' nine days' wonder, has entirely
eaabaided, and furnishes nothing for travellers to weld
but the ruins and desolation which it left. The sudden-
ness of its cessation is a perfect contrast to the prolonged
exhibitions of ioniser years."
THE PARTICLE "DE " AGAIN.—An action
.was
onsl
brought yesterday before the Court of Correct'
dPeorezedbyLoCoui.untxldle.
bßeetze,oregrathendsoßenyool
against M. Legny, publisher. of a " Kistory of FnMee
by Ile. Laurentie, to compel him to. rectify
.the sPelhnlf °P,`,
his ancestor's name, which appears vol.. of that worn
as Deserts that is to say without the particle being rPr"
ted from the main word. The plaintiff, before instituting
futthioensadryv°"Tritinawhl.."
the suit, had offered to pay N. Lagny .50c. for esSII
correction on the stereotype plates, but the latter had sl:
lowed the error complained of to remain. N. Isignyrdp!
not deny that the name was improperly.spelt. bet to
was waiting for the issue of a new edition of the boor
make the rectification. The court now ordered.N. Lager
to make the change immediately on the conditions tir_
posed by Count de Sam, but eharged the hitt.,r Inth
payment of the costa of the suit.