The Express.
London, England, 1861-10-25 00:00:00

SPAIN.

MADRID, Oct 24.

In consequence of the death of the Infanta
Donna Maria, the opening of the Cortes has been
adjourned until the Bth November.
The Pope has sent a message to the Queen con-
doling with her Majesty for the loss of her
daughter.

GREECE.

ATHENS, OCT. 17, vu NAissit.us.

The student Dousiott, who lately attempted to
assassinate the Queen, has made an unsuccessful
attempt to escape from prison.
Four persons have been arrested.

CHINA AND JAPAN.

CANTON, Ssry 12

The death of the Emperor Hien Fung took
place at his palace at &holt in Tati;aryt on the
22nd August.
Ndn►nking has been captured by the Impe-
rialists.

Trade at Hankou is hourly increasing.
The state of affairs in Japan is still unsatisfac-
tory. Mr. Oliphant returns home with de-
spatches. Sir Hercules Robinson has made a trip
to Japan, but did not land at Yeddo on account of
the disturbed state of affairs there.

It appears that, although Father Pasenglia
mainly owed his concealment and subsequent escape from
Rome to the protection and aid of an English lady, the Bri-
tish government was also disposed to use every exertion
la his behalf should he have required any more potent
orAcial mediation to avert the impending wrath of
the Court of Rome. The reverend father was
appointed Mr. Severn's secretary, and Mr. Severn received
a telegram from Lord Russell, instructiog him to make
every exertion in behalf of Father Passeglia, sod autho-
rising him, if sucks step were necessary to remove him from
persecution, to grant the father a passport as if to a British
subject. At Poggio Mirteto the news of the reversed
ecclemartic's arrival spread like wildfire. Congratulatory
visite poured is upon him, and in the evening he was sere-
naded by a band under his windows. Ile telegraphed at
ones to the Governor of the Province of Sabina, Signor
Mastricols, who came to him the following day from Rieti,
and took back Father Passaglia with him to that town,
where he was likewise received with all possible festive
demonstrations. On the lath he was to leave for Term,
by which route he will proceed to Florence.

Pere Laeordaire is represented as sinking day
by day. His malady defies the efforts cif the French
physicians ; and has during teh pint week made •
program alarming to his friends. The disease has
taken • nervous form, and the patient's sense el
touch leas become so fiue as to be almost • torture to
him. He bre been obliged to throw aside on that account
►is mane Dominician robes and a sackcloth shirt, which it
appears that he has worn for several years. But in spite of
all his bodily sufferings, Lsoordaire's intellect seems to in-
crease rather than decrease in brighteess. .He speaks
much on the politic, of the day ; or, rather, improvise dis-
coursed, when conversing with men of intelligence, that
would electrify an audience, and that far surpass, bammes
wore natural and illuminated by an abnormal brilliancy of
thought, everything that he has ever said in public.

The Messager (.14 Midi states that throe days
book a waterspout burst over the town of Saint-Form near
Avignon. and did • great amount of damage. Five bridges
were swept away by the ruddeu rising of various streams,
Yd several factories were obliged to suspend work. The
prefect thought it neesmary to proceed to the spol, a great
number of men being thrown out of employment.
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A Paris letter, in the Isubspendanct of Brunels,
states that the marriage of the Prioress Anna Murat with
the Prince of Oranze is much talked of, and that if such
as event should take place, the Emperor would give the
princess a dowry of two millions.