The Express.
London, England, 1868-01-10 00:00:00

by the Metropolitan to find that
that line were unable to comb
miscellaneous crowds which
train than to lose the hope of getting ,
impartment. We hope our Conservatil
men are not going to withdraw
the cause of law and order at this
It is not long since one of the most enthusiastic
of Mr. Duisrou's followers in the House of Com-
mons, and a county magistrate, on being fined 51.
for an assault, told the bench that under similar
circumstance,' he should act in just the same way
again. When • man who 'can hardly make his
pound a week by labour, forgets himself in pre-
sence of the police, our superfine moralists ask
us what better we could expect, when the Reform
League has fatally weakened the principle of
authority throughout the country. Let them tell
us of whom our wealthy and well-born offenders
have lately been learning.

THE QUEEN'S BOOK.

Majesty
for the first time, and thus speaks
October 29, 1854.
We went to kirk so odMI at 12 °Work. Tim movie,
was performed by the Bev. Norman W 1414 of Oloadow.
son of Dr. WLeoi, and anything Gam I nom heard.
The sermon, en*ely extempore, was quite admir-
able ; so simple, and yet so eloquent, and so beau,
Wally argued and put. The text was from the so-
oount of the main of Nioodeurns to Christ by
night ; 81, John, chapter 3. Mr. Di'Lsod showed
in the sermon how we all triad to plaaas self, and live for
that, and in so doing found no reek Christ had coma not
only to die for us, bat to show how we were to live. The
second prayer was very touching ; his allusions to us were
so supe, saying, after his mention of vs, " Woes their
children." It gave me a lump in my throat, se also when
be prayed for " the dying, she wounded, the widow, and
the orphans." Every one came book delighted ; and how
@airlock:ay it is to come back from church with such feel-
ings. The servants and the Highlanders—ail—were equally

Despatches were received yeetesday at the Colonial-
odles from the Governor-General of Canada. Despatches
were sent to the Governors of the Cape of Good Hope,
Natal, St. Helena, Sierra Lame, Lips, and to the Go-
vernor-General of Canada.

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[GENCE.

TEE WU& OF FRANCE.
Cie Avenir National has the following :
The oewalista of Berlin appear to be pommeled of miracu-
lous power. IL de Colts, who left Paris on the 2nd, to be
treated by Dr. Grate for a complaint in the eye, returned
on the 7th completely oared, after having transacted a
good deal ofbnsineswtihM. deßisniartk and King William.
TherapidityofthismewMastosiehthewarkt Unbelievers,
who form • large number in these days, will probably
maintain that the voyage of M. de Celts is not without
some oonnexion with those of XII. de Budberg and Igna-
tieff to Bt. Petembarg they will even suspect
that the energetic minister received some communi-
cation from IL de Ifoustier of sufficient importance
to make him consider that it would be useful
to consult H. de Bismarck as well as De Grife.
The absence of If. de Colts was not long enough for any
important resolutions to be adopted at Berlin, and besides
we remember that the interview at Biarritz produced
nothing of which we should be proud. What France
wants to raise her prestige, to reassume her part in the
history of the world without fighting, is not an alliance
with Prussia which some persons now talk about to-day,
nor an alliance with Austria which was spoken of but yes-
terday, nor as alliance with Russia which was the expec-
tation a shaft time ago ; but an alliance with liberty first,
and afterwards with Busload and with Italy. Unfortu-
nately, instead of an alliance with Italy we have an army
in Civil Veochisi' , and instead of an alliance with liberty
we have sixteen journals under prosecution.

(sauna's TILZOILLIL)
AUSTRIA.

VIENNA,Jair. 10.

The Presse of this morning says that during his
recent stay in this capital General Ignatieff took
the opportunity of expressing himself to several
diplomatists in a peaceful sense as to the policy of
Russia in the Eastern question.
The same paper states that the British Consul at
Belgrade presented a note to the Servian govern-
ment on the 26th of December, recommending:it
to maintain a pacific attitude.

It is alleged that the Austrian and Hungarian
delegates about to assemble shortly will have a red
book laid before them by the government, consist-
ing of diplomatic documents dating from the war
of 1866, and including the latest negotiations in
the Eastern and Roman questions. _

A rumour is current that Baron John, the War
Minister for the Empire, will resign his post prior
to the meeting of the delegates, for reasons con-
nected with the position of the defence of the
country.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDINT.)

PARIS, THURSDAY Evnnlo•

In consequence of the formation of a Menabrea
ministry, Chevalier Nigra's summons to Florence
was revoked, and he has been out shooting
with Prince Napoleon lately.
M. Larabit, the senator, was the great man of the
place who presided at the inauguration of the statue
of Marshal Davoust at Auxerre last month. A short
time before the inauguration he wrote a letter to
Marshal Canrobert, from which the Ceiotitution of
Auxerre extracts the following passage :
I have written to his Majesty that I shall make a speech
blaming three who preach peace when it is necessary to
fight.
A few days later the warlike senator was
honoured with the following letter from his Ma-
jesty :

Paine of St. Cloud, Dec. 2, 1867.

My dear Monsieur Larabit,—l have read your speech M
Auxerre with niuch:interest. Your language breathes the
most elevated patriotism. lam not surprised to find in
your words the noble sentiments with which I know you
are animated towards France and my family. Receive
with my thanks and congratulations the assurance of my
sentiments. Naroi.rox.
If you object to the tautology of "sentiments,'
I can only say the fault is not in the translation,
but in the original letter. It is thus that almost
every day, while we are told the Bourse is sustained
by the " efforts" of official writers in a pacific sense,
something oozes out to show that in regions para-
mount to M. Rouhor and the Marquis de Moustier
war is contemplated.
M. Vermorel, the editor of the Co)trrier Francais,
having received a challenge from Captain Perrin,
an officer in the late Mexican expedition, on ac-
count of an article by M. Leon Mires, charging this
officer and many others with acts of cruelty con-
trary to the laws of civilised warfare, put himself
in the hands of General Clusoret. This general,
who was a distinguished captain in the French
army before Sebastopol, and afterwards obtained
his higher rank in the service of the United States,
will not allow M. Vermorel to fight. With all the
authority of a man familiar with the cannon's
mouth, he declares himself opposed to duelling in
principle, because it can never be an equitable ad-
justment of a quarrel. In the particular case ho
says the captain, who thinks himself aggrieved,
should address himself to his brother officer, M.
Leon Mirbs, the author of the article in question,
and not to M. Vermorel.
A second night skating fete in the Bois de Bou-
logne is projected for to-morrow, but it is very
doubtful whether it will come off. In the centre of
Paris it looks like a decided thaw this evening. The
thermometer, however, only marks a quarter of a
degree above Zero ; the wind is still in a cold
quarter ; and it is probably freezing in the country.
Thnillier, the pretty and clever actress of
the Odion, has resolved to take the veil, and is
about to be received as a nun in the Carmelite con-
vent of Blois.
At the Bourse Rents recovered about half of yes-
terday's fall. It closed at 68fr. 8.5 c. for cash and
68fr. 72c. for account, with a rise of 17}c. and 10c.
Italian rose 12ie. Mobilier, Credit Foncier, and
Comptoir d'Escompte closed without change, and
railways were rather lower.

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