The Express.
London, England, 1861-05-28 00:00:00

THE FRENCH IN COCHIN CHINA.

The French Minister of Marine has remised a
letter from Vioe-Admiral Charner, announcing the
capture of Mytho, an important town in Cochin
China. The letter is dated 14th April. The
town was captured on the 13th, with the loss only
of one officer.

"The occupation of this town," says La Patrie,
" which is situate at the southern extremity of
Cambodge (Lower Cochin China), assures to us the
entire possession of a country which may be con-
sidered one of the richest of Asia, and which,
from the amount and variety of its produce, will
become a flourishing colony for France."

THE WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC MAILS.
SOUTHAMPTON, MAY 27.

The Royal Mail steamship Tasmanian, Captain
Weller. with the West India, Pacific, and Mexican
mails, has arrived here. She brings 322 passengers,
1,860,180 dollars in specie, and 2,100 packages of
cargo. She left St. Thomas on May 14.
Several heavy commercial failures are reported in
Chili, and business was not improving. Peru re-
mains in an unsettled state.

Prices of merchandise and produce had generally
declined at 'Valparaiso, owing to a shortness of
money. Bar copper was quoted 18 dols.
There is no political news of importance from the
Pacific.

Business at Jamaica was very dull, owing to the
unsettled state of affairs in America, and the pro-
spects were very gloomy.

The weather atßarbadoes was favourable for the
young crops, and bad for sugar making. The
island was healthy.
Governor Wodehonse left Demerara for England
by the present mail steamer.
The prices of bresdstuffs at Demerara had a
downward tendency. Rice was firm at full rates.

THE GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS ON
SLAVE INSURRECTIONS.

Governor Andrew, of Massachusetts, has ad-
dressed the following letter to General Butler, the
commander of the Massachusetts troops, Mary-
land :

CoancilChamber, Boston, April 25.

General,—l have received through Major Ames • despatch
transmitted from Perryville, detailing the proceedings at
Annapolis from the time of your snivel off that port until
the hour when Major Ames left you to retain to
Philadelphia. I wish to repeat the assurance of my
entire satisfaction with the action you have taken,
with • single exception. If I rightly understood
the telegraphic despatch, I think that your action
in tendering to Governor Hicks the smistance of our Ma&
sachusette troops to 'apprise • threatened servile insane*.
tiers among the hostile people of Maryland was unnecessary.
I hope that the faller despatches which are on their way
from you may show mesons why I should modify my
opinion concerning that particular instance ; but in general
I think that the matter of servile insurrection among
• community in inns against the Federal Union
is no longer to be regarded by our troops in
• political, but solely a military point of view,
and is to be contemplated as one of the inherent weaknesses
of the enemy, from the disastrous operations of which we
are under no obligation of a military character to guard
them, in order that they may be enabled to improve the
security which oar arms would afford, so as to prom
cute with more energy their traitorous attacks upon
the Federal government. The mode in which such out-
breaks are to be considered should depend entirely upon
the loyalty or disloyalty of the community in which they
occur ; and in the vicinity of Annapolis I can on this
occasion perceive pomace of military policy why • force
summoned to the defence of the Federal government, at
this moment of all others, should be offered to be diverted
from its immediate duty, to help rebels, who stand with
arms in their Lands, obstructing its progress towards the
city of Washington. I entertain no doubt that whenever
we shall have an opportunity to interchange our views
personally on this subject, we shall arrive at an entire con-
cordance of opinion.—Yours faithfully,
(Signed) JOHN A. ANDREW.
To Brigadier-General Butler.

General Garibaldi has merit the following reply
to an address received from the inhabitants of Csstelneoro•

in•Mooti :—" The debate is boded ; I am agaic General
Cialdini's friend. AU that remains to me is the recollec-
tion of your affectionate words, your thoughts worthy of
Italy. I take advantage of this opportunity to send you
some ideas relative to the parricidal acts of the unhappy
comedy which is now performing at Rome, and which the
Italians must once for all put an end to. I should be glad
to know that you Aare my opinions.—GARIIIALDL"

Count Cavour's plan for the separation of church
and state u being gradually and surely carried out. After
the celebrated law dispensing with the services of the clergy
at the annual festival, a law the sting of which has been so
severely felt by the bishops, we now have a circular ad-
dressed by the keeper of the seals to all the magistrates of
the kingdom, inviting them to take henceforth no official
part in the procession of Corpus Christi day.
The Madrid Gazette announces that the Queen
of Spain has scut the usual notice to all the bishops of the
kingdom, mentioning that she has entered the last month
of her pregnancy, and requesting them to have prayers
offered up for her safe delivery.
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It appears from the Halifax advice, that one of
the Cunard steamers sailed from that port on the 15th of
May, with 200 troop., the Adjutan►-General, and seven ether
Olken, Pr Newfoundland, where there were riots her
tween ,atholice and protestanta which had already aimed
the death of four persona

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

,for on on

PARIS, MONDAY Evaxuco.
It is oonfirmed that the court goes to Fontaine-
bleau on Thursday, May 30 ; but in the abort in-
terval the Emperor is going to take a run to Havre
to inspect the fortifications which have been going
on there since 1853.

I believe I can now give you pretty nearly the
rights of the great masonic quarrel. The Emperor,
who in this, as in many other cases, likes to hold with
the hare and ran with the hounds, has counte-
nanced the interference of the police, under cir-
cumstances which give a certain countenance to
both parties. Murat, it seems, even if he had not
disputed Prince Napoleon's election, would have
remained Grand Master till October. The adjourn-
ment of the general meeting till that date, by the
I aid of the police in pursuance of his decree, is in-
tended to be what the French call a fiche
de consolation► to him, and in a certain way
a redemption of the Emperor's pledge, con-
veyed by the Moniteur, that he had not
withdrawn his friendship from him. On the
other hand, the Emperor has no intention of forcing
Murat upon the Freemasons, who will not have
him. Prince Napoleon's resignation merely moans
that he will not, against the Emperor's wishes,
take advantage of an election the formal validity of
which is disputed. But in all probability he will
be again elected in October, and by a much larger
majority. M. Donmet, a member of the Corps Le-
gislatif, is to be acting master of the Masons in the
meanwhile. The only thing which may possibly
stand in the way of Prince Napoleon's ultimate
election is that some of the Emperor's advisers
warn him that the considerable influence which the
Grand Master exercises would be dangerous to
entrust to his quondam republican cousin. His
Majesty will think of this during the recess.
The Opinion Nationale, referring to the animosity
of the Orleanists of the Academy towards George
Sand, says a spirituelle thing which will not soon
be forgotten :
Every party in haws Ands in the almanac a favourite
mouth. In this owe those who love July indemnify them-
Balm for the venison°e which they dare not take in Decem-
ber, by falling foal of February.

The revolting case of priestly rapacity which I
recounted on Friday last, on the authority of M.
About, as having occurred at a funeral at Mont-
martre is admitted to be true by the Archbishop of
Paris, who has repudiated the conduct of the priest
in the following paragraph communicated to the
Opinion Nationale:

A moat regrettable circumstance occurred on May Min
the Church of 81. Pierre, at Montmartre, on the occasion of
the funeral of Madame Conard. M. About has thought fit
to send an account of this occurrence to the Opinion Na-
tionak. The cure, of Montmartre lost no time in calling
the attention of the diocesan authority to the matter, and
inquiries were at once made, both at the church of Mont-
martre and among the members at the families interested. ,
It results from these inquirieethat the Fiat inquestion does
not belong to the diocese of Paris. He ha Polish refugee, for-
merly an officer, who left the army to become • priest.
Like many of his countrymen he was received many years
ago in the diocese of Paris, where be has been employed in
order to help him in his exile, his personal conduct having
been irreproachable. This priest is old and in ill health.
He does not speak French fluently, and has never been
thoroughly acquainted with our customs. It is impossible
to explain otherwise the unfortunate scene which occurred,
the responsibility fer which ought not to fall upon the
clergy in general. The clergy know very well that the
offertory is anentially optional, and that no offerings can
or ought to be exacted.

A letter from Alexandria of the 18th says that
the Siamese Ambassadors have at length arrived
at Aden. M. de Beanval, the French charge
d'affaires, had set out for Suez to receive them.
It is also announced that the Princess L'Hurque,
sister of the Emperor Theodore of Abyssinia, is
coming to France. The latter statement must pro-
bably be taken in connexion with a piece of news
very ostentatiously givln by several French
journals, that France, with a view to secure the
preponderant position which she means to assume
in the East, has obtained from the Emperor of
Abyssinia the grant of a station on the Red Sea.
The Bourse was extremely dull. The " dead
season" is commencing. The Rente closed for
account at Saturday's price, 89fr. 40c., and fell sc.
for cash, closing at 09fr. 35c. Mobilier rose
2fr. 50c. In railways there was hardly any change.