The Express.
London, England, 1868-12-16 00:00:00

GN NEWS.

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RAIN.
THN SPANISH LOAN.
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• MADRID, Des. 14.
ilatar"rared dim to nez the gc.ara tt
1111111 it hauls of the new loan. This
aaawar. -however, was completely &Ina and the
imams& wM be paid in cash. The government
has given orders that the half-yearly interest on
the Spanish debt shall be paid in London and
Paris immediately. The payment was to com-
mence yesterday.
The government has received sesuranoes that no
further disturbances will take plaoe. A perfect
agreement exists among all parties, including the
republicans, to await and respect whatever deci-
sion the Cortes may arrive at for the solution of
the situation.

The suppression of the insurrection at Oaths has
considerably strengthened the hands of the govern-
ment. and has dissipated the alarms which pre-
vailed last week.

The papers announce that a rich English
capitalist har arrived at Madrid with the object of
making important proposals to the Minister of
Finance.

The subscription to the loan will be closed at
midnight to-day. It is calculated that the amount
subscribed will reach 600 millions of reale.

Dio. li, Imam

The subscription for the shares of the Baltic
Port Company, amounting to 24,010,000 silver
roubles, the interest on whioh is not guaranteed
by Government, has been opened to-day. Almost
the whole amount has already been taken up.

SICILY.

PALMMO, Das._l6.

Yesterday afternoon Prince Humbert and the
Princess Margherite arrived here, and were re-
ceived by General Medici and the civil authorities.
The people gave their royal highnesses a most
cordial and enthusiastic welcome.

OUR PARIS LETTER.

THE EASTERN QUESTION.
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PARIS. TIIIIIIDAT EMIIIIO.
The telegraphic news that Grew* had dispersed
the insurrectionary bands, ordered its officers not

to take part in the insurrection, and allowed the
emigrants to return home if they pleased, not only
falls far short of the Turkish ultimatum, but is not
even accepted as authentic as far as it goes. The
Patrie says expressly, " We only reproduce this
despatch under all reserve.' The France
hopes rather than expects that the news may be
true, and notices a rumour that the Greek reply to
the Turkish ultimatum was so insulting that Pho-
tiades Bey, the Turkish Minister, had left Athens.
Omer Pecha is said to have concentrated an army
of 60,000 men in Thesesly.
The demands, which (even assuming to be true
the relatively good news which the France
doubts) Greece has refused to comply with are:-
Ist. To punish the Greeks who violently opposed
the return of the Candiote emigrants. 2nd. To
prevent, for the future, the departure of steamers
with supplies for the insurrection ; and 3rd, to
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undertake for the future to sot in aooordance with
treaties and the law of nations.

On tho whole it is yet probable that the Greek
government, so far from fearing a rupture, is de-
sirous to provoke one, and thinks tho time is come
for a general conflagration.
I think it pertinent to recall to mind a forgotten
paragraph in the Gaulois of Oct. 16 last. That
journal, which at the time was a favourite organ
for the dissemination of official intellisrenoe, then
said:

The eternal eastern question is at this moment more
threatening than ever, although people go to sleep over it
with tbe beedlemnses of the palmate who lin at the foot
of Nast Vesuvius. The latest news is that the Ottoman
government has sent an energetic despatch to Athens re-
lative to the troubles of Candi% and that the Greek ca-
binet has aide ano lem energetic reply. Unless we wil-
fully shut our eyes, it is impossible not to see that grave
events are preparing in that quarter, and the man must
be insane who does not also see that the ostenible adver-
saries are but puppets in Ike hands of higher powers►
I look upon the above paragraph as a pro-
phecy which passed unnoticed at the time. The
higher powers are now at work, and I think it by
no means improbable that the crash which must
come at some time, and which naturally will
be thought impossible till it doss come, is at
hand.

Viscount de la Clueronnirtte, the new French
minister at Brussels, has made his debut by a
check. At his first audience with M. Van der
Btichelen, the Minister foe Foreign Affairs, he
asked for a customs union with France, and
the demand was refused. In order to mark the
refusal more strongly, the minister took occasion
to declare in the Chamber of Deputies the next
day that no change would be made in the laws
regulating the Belgian customs.
At the Bourse the

of Greece

were read well at first, and Bente, which yester-
day closed at 71fr. 171 c., rose to 71fr. 320. ; but
a gloomy feeling prevailed later, and the closing
prices were 71fr. 100., both for cash and account.
There was little change in other seourities.

♦ marriage has just beea celebrated at Bonen
Uterus two dwarfs, IL Argot, well known for hie per.
formasess in the Berm Albers, and MUM Onaniont, a
sempstrem even sesallsr then her husband. The bride is
It years et see, and the bridegroom fl. Not less than
1,100 persons were present as the ememony.
Th. marriage of Y. Barrot. nephew of X. Odilou
Banat, with Nisi Tarbes, an. Amerioaa lady, took plum
es Monday at the Noddies& N. 0. Banat and N.
Drag* de Lime won witasems to the bridegroom
Count Choriaski, who was some time back oon-
damned to imprisonment for life in Germany with his
mistress and amomplica, the Barone* elliturgenyi, he
poisoning his wile, has, after .sedating symptoms of
metal alissalice, per raving mad, and has to be mo-
aned with a sinight jacket.
The Boat* des Gems de Lettres held a meeting
on Sunday to sleet* president, is the plea of IL Jules
iiimos, rue Fridirlok Thomas obtained &I

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