The Express.
London, England, 1868-10-21 00:00:00

DISSOLUTION OF THE CENTRAL lITNTL.

MADRID, Om. 20, Rvifinro.

Tbo Central Junta has issued • proclamation
to-day stating that order and public security being
now firmly established, it is henoeforth incumbent
upon the government fearlessly to apply and put
into practice the principles of the revolution.
Tho Junta declares itself, therefore, dissolved, and
invites the juntas in other towns to follow its
example.

FRANCE.
PAPS% Our. 11.

Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess of
Prussia went to St. Cloud yesterday to visit the
Emperor and the Empress. Their Majesties will
return the visit at the Louvre Hotel to-day.
The Moniker of this morning says :—" The ple-
nipotentiaries of the governments of the six states
bordering the Rhine signed on the 17th instant
the Rhine Navigation Convention as recently re-
vised, together with the regulations and protocols
thereto annexed."

OUR PARIS LETTER.

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PARIS, Terzenki Emma.

The Princess of Prussia, attended by a numerous
suite, arrived at the Grand Hotel du Louvre at
I o'clock in the night. This morning she proceeded
to Mt. Cloud to pay a visit to the Emperor and
F.mpress. The visit was returned by their Ma-
jesties at 5 o'clock this evening. They stayed with
Ler royal highness exactly half an hour.
Owing to the best apartments in the hotel being
occupied by the Egyptian princes, tho Princess
was obliged to be content with the next host,
and her carriages had to come in by the public
entrance instead of the private ono, which is
monopolised by the Egyptians. In the course of
the night a screen, quite a novelty in the Hotel du
Louvre, was put up in the first-floor corridor, near
the common reading-room, to preclude the possi-
bility of intruders opening, even by mistake, a
door of the rooms assigned to the Princess. Her
oyal highness leaves for London to-morrow morn-
ing on a visit to the Queen.
The ministerial council yesterday is believed to
have transacted nothing but current Liminess,
postponing till a " more convenient season " all
the great political questions which it was expected
to treat of. It sat from 9 to 3 o'clock, and the
" Empress," says the Patti", "settled" several
quettiens relating to charitable establishments.

Five colonels of the staff are to heave Paris on
Thursday with a uti,sion to complete the organisa-
tion of the Mobile National Guard in the depart-
molts. The clothing is all ready, and the more or
less willing pupils of this new institution will have
to undergo at least five days' drill in the
course of the month of December. Apropos
of this militia the Guuteis states that while at
Biarritz the attention of the Empress" was called
to certain serious inconveniences apprehended from
the too literal execution of the law on the Mobile
National Guard, and that in consequence some
important practical modifications are likely to
be made. This is, I think, the first time that
a French paper has openly taken for granted the
fact long whispered in private that France is now
governed by the Empress a great deal more than
by the Emperor. The Spanish revolution came
very ammo, to check the propagation in
France of the principles of the bankrupt firm
of Isabella, Patrocini, Claret, Marfori, and Co.
But their spirit is still but too influential at the
court of the Tuileries, where dreams are enter-
tained of repairing the disappointment caused by
the bieakdowa of tho shameful alliance contem-
plated when the Count and Countess Girgenti
were feted at Fontainebleau, and which was to
have been consummated at Biarritz.

The Opinion Nationale says that before the
court left Biarritz precise instructions were sent
to M. Mercier, the French Minister at Madrid,
ordering Lim to press the provisional govern-
ment to come to a prompt decision as to the
choice of a sovereign. The reported acquies-
cence of Prim and his coadjutators in the
advice of the Junta not to hurry, seems to show
that another failure is to be added to the many
which have lately diminished the prestige of
Napoleon 111.
The opposition at Avignon, which has long been
put upon its mettle by the high-handed proceedings
of Dr. Pamard, formerly the mayor, and now
deputy for the district, has just obtained a signal
victory at the municipal elections. Out of 21
town councillors elected on Sunday, 14 belong to
the opposition list and only 7 to that of the
government. M. Poncet, the mayor, is ono of the
defeated seven. There must be a second ballot for
seven more members, and it is expected that the
opposition will gain most of the seats yot unde-
cided.

The Boum goes on conquering and to conquer.
Rente closed to-day at 70fr. 45c., both for cash
and account, with a further rise of 25e. Credit
Fonder rose Mfr. 75c ; but Mobilies fell lfr. 23c.
ltalian rose 93e.

The fl.ueritr de Bayohne states that the ex-
Queeu Isabella received on the 10th a telegram congratu-
lating her Majesty on the double anniversary of her birth-
day and her marriage.
_

An inters ding lit racy discovery has been acci-
dentally made in the Library at Frankfort. The full of a
shelf holding volumes containing the corrupendenee of
Voltaire and Frederick the (inset brought to light certain
ItISS., yellow and dirty, which turned out to boa series of
kttcrs exchanged between Voltaire and Pyron. Their
authenticity being duly certified, they were forwarded to
the Royal Academy of Berlin.

A communication from Vienna, in the Frankfort
Aroma!, says :—" It is asserted that the Catholic clergy of
Cronstadt (Transylvania), who had been invited by their
bishop to make known their views as to whether it was
advisable to introduce any reforms into the catholic church,
aro said to have replied that the suppression of celibacy
seemed to be the most useful change and most urgent, as
the prohibition of marriage had consequences most detri-
mental to the clergy in public opinion."
The Nouvelliate de Bourn mentions a case of
quadruple birth at Neueville-Coppegueule. A woman
there, named Quillent, has just given birth to four female
children, three of whom are now alive. The mother is 22
years of age.
THY FEUDS OF MM. PEBEIRE AND M. MIRES.
—The announcement of the termination of the differences
between MM. rendre and M. MirZs seems to have been at
least premature. After the causes of dispute had been
submitted to a tribunal of arbitration and a truce had
been established, the former state of antagonism hes been
revived. In • letter to the Presm M. Xi:4s says he has
made every concession possible but in vain.

In 1848 there wore 12,000 miles of telegraph
wire in the United States. In 1858 the number of miles
was 40,000, and before the does of this year there will be
120,000 miles. From New York in 1803 two wires went
eastward and three southward. In 1868 eight wires went
eastward and ten southward, and at the present time
there are from 30 to 36 wires on both roans. A good
operator can send 2,000 words per. hour. The message,
" Cannot came ham till next trauk,' requires the operator
under the present system to transmit 66 delude By a
now system Invented much a tmessis would only regain
21 Mpasks.—New lark IWiapar.

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• IiI.IOLAD6TONN IN LANC4BHIRN.

Last evening, Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Gran&ll
addrvesed a sassing of the electors of the south-western
diviners of t►e county of Lance/ter at Leigh, the meeting
Wag held in the weaving shed of the Co-operative Mill,
and about four thousand perinea being present. The fact
of its being held in that place led Mr. Gladstone to make
• few remarks on the subject of the relations of capital and
labour. There were those, he said, who considered that this
was among the great difficulties of the day, but he was not
of that opinion. He bad sufficient oonfidance in the good
sense of his conntrymen, and especially of the two great
dames immediately concerned, to feel • perfect convic-
tion that they will dad their way through the mattes
and manes of that quietism to a sada/eatery pieties. De-
ferring to the question of the increase in the public mien-
diture, and to the attacks which have been made
upon him for not resisting it, he having, as alleged, a
majority, the right hon. gentleman observed that no one
could tall when the majority wee on any particular ques-
tion, and stated that at meetings at his hones they con-
sidered seriously the question whether they shaskl a* •
►ote of the Home of Common' as the state of the public
expenditure, and deliberately decided that they should not,
became it would interfere with the program at the Re-
form Bill. Mr. Gladstone comdanned the conduct of
the Conservative candidate in various parts of the
country is primal*" the •id of government for local
expenditure. Proceeding to the question of the Irish
church, the right hon. gentleman said that since
last spoke ea that subject the government
had toms& a new ally in the Querlerly Review. Last
year there was a remarkable paper in that publication
entitled "The Conservative Surrender." Any words
need by the opposition of the liberal party were watery and
faint compared with the bleating, withering, and
scorching acorn which this writer in the Review be-
dewed on the government, but now the conservative
surrender itself bad surreadered—(laughter and cheers)
there wee • new article in the Review, in which, having
blackened the government twelve months ago with every
epithet the ingenuity of man could extract from the voca-
bulary to destroy the last rag of that character and the
last hope of prosperity and sumer, the article wound
up by saying that now that an election wad
taking place, the result would be the return of
• decided conservative majority for the government.
This (continued the right hon. gentleman) is the
date of things at which we have arrived. I may refer
to it because I do not think the judgment of that
or of any other Review, or the judgment of any man
or of any united body of men, can contravene the judg-
ment of public opinion, and because this Quarterly
Review itself has been for so many years ono of the
loudest and most open-mouthed advocates for paying the
Homan catholic* in Ireland. and of course the preebyterian
clergy along with them.