The Express.
London, England, 1868-08-05 00:00:00

SPAIN.

MADRID, Auorer 4.

The Official Gazette of to-day publishes a decree
entrusting the Minister of Finance with the
Ministry of Public Works ad in/Prinz during the
absence of Senor Cabulina.

PORTUGAL
LISBON, Arousr 4.

The Duke and Duchess of Montpensier have
landed and taken up their residence in Lisbon.
The Spanish frigate Villa de Madrid has left for
Cadiz.

EGYPT.

ALEXANDRIA, Aro= 4.

The Sultan's firman promoting the son and heir
of the Viceroy of Egypt to the rank of Vizier was
read publicly in the citadel of Cairo to-day.
Cherif Pacha, the regent, the ministry, delegates
from the assembly, and the consular body were
present.
The Egyptian press is warmly discussing the
question of the consular jurisdiction.

AMERICA.
NEW YORK, Arotnrr 4.
The Cunard steamship Scotia arrived ont at 1
p.m. to-day.
Closing Prices :--Gold, 1464. Sterling exclumge
on London, 110}. 3-20 United States Bonds,
1882, 1144 ; ditto, 1885, 1121 ; 10-40 ditto, 109.
Illinois, 1501 ; Erie, 58}. Cotton, middling
Upland, 301. Petroleum, standard white, 33.
Flour, extra State, 8 dole. 95c. to 9 dole. 33e.
Corn, old mixed, 1 dol. 17c.

OUR PARIS LETTER.

(t ROM Ont OWN COENZSPONDENT.)
PARIS, Maus Evzvrsa.

M. Grevy, the opposition candidate for the Jura,
was this day elected batonnier of the Order of
Advocates of Paris. This is entirely a political
nomination, because M. Orevy, though a man of
great talent and an orator, has not sufficient prac-
tice at the bar to be placed at the head of the pro-
fession on forensic grounds only. The prefect of
the Jura, to oppose his election ass deputy, haspub-
lished in three semi-official journals of the depart-
ment the wild proclamation calling for the assassi-
nation of the Emperor which M. Paul de Cassagnac
Sat brought out in Paris, and the authorship of
which has been falsely attributed to IL Felix Pyat.
The prefect tells the electors that this bloody
facture is the programme of the opposition in
general and M. Chevy in particular.
The government candidate, N. Dumas (son of
the celebrated chemist of the Academy of Sciences),
has been returned a member for the Gard by a
very large majority. He polled 13,832 votes,
against 4,427 given to M. Cazot, democrat,
and 4,338 to M. de Larcy, clerical. This
is a considerable ballot box triumph to the
government, because its candidate scores nearly
1,000 more votes than in 1863. Why, however, if
it was so secure of the affections of the consti-
tuency, did it resort to violence and scandalous
measures to put down electoral meetings' There
were 12,000 abstentions, and the opposition will
now say that it was violence alone which prevented
these 12,000 from voting. At the last election,
almost all the opposition votes were for clerical
candidates ; the republican share in the opposition
now is symptomatic.
The meeting which for several weeks has been
held every Monday in the Salle Pilodo (otherwise
called Wauxhall), to discuss the question of
women's labour, was dissolved by the police com-
missary on the watch last night, in oonaequenoe
of what he considered a " tumult." M. Horn,
the eminent political economist, who was in the
chair, admits that there was a great deal of noise,