The Express.
London, England, 1861-06-19 00:00:00

WURTEMBURG.

The friends of the concordat in Germany are un-
fortunate. It may be remembered that, in compliance
with the wishes of his chambers, the Grand Duke of
Baden some time back declared the concordat con-
cluded with the Holy Soe under the inspiration of
Austria null and of no effect, and he made his go-
vernment propose a series of bills destined to re-
gulate the civil and legal position of the catholic
church in the country. The mine thing has just
occurred in Wurtemborg. In consequence of a very
categorical refusal of the Chamber of Deputies to
approve of the concordat and discuss the bills for
carrying it into execution, the government of Wur-
temburg has declared that it considers that COl/ -
tion of no effect, and that the rights of the catho-
lic church in the kingdom shall for the future be
regulated by civil laws.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)
FRANCE.

PARIS, Jeta 19.

The Mumifeur of this morning announces that
the session of the Corps Legislatif is prolonged
until the 27th inst. Iu yesterday's sitting of the
Corps Legislatif the new law on the pre's; was dis-
cussed.

M. Jules Favre dem.inded the suppression of the
administrative regime of the press, and the re-es-
tablishment of the law of 1819.

M. Billault, minister without portfolio, refuted
the arguments of M. Favre, and the government
bill was adopted.
News haft been received here from Beyrout to
the 7th inst., stating that Fuad Paella was proceed-
ing through the Druse districts and engaging the
inhabitants to preserve tranquillity.

The destruction which the Druses had committed
was confined to the demolition of the roofs of the
houses in • village.

TOULON, Jots 19.
Admiral Chappart ham arrived here, in order to
form a new naval divimion.

SPAIN.

MADRID, Jeri 19.

Spain will preserve a strict neutrality in the civil
war in America. The Bank of Madrid has afforded
assistance to several mercantile houses whose affairs
were embarrassed. The Foudre has quitted Cadiz.

MADRID, Jazz 17.

The Correspondeuria Autograja of today says :
" Spain demands the solemn promise of Mexico to
execute the treaties before she entertains her pro-
position with regard to reparation on account of the
late differences with the Spanish ambassador in
Mexico."

HUNGARY.
PESTH, Jura 17, Etter.;.
The diminution cm the address was continued to-
day in the Upper House.
The Primate of Hungary in his speech laid stress
on the necessity for a reconciliation between Hun-
gary and the Emperor, and for a revision of the
laws of 1848.

All the members who spoke were in favour of
sending au wicks'' to the Emperor, in the form
proposed by M. Desk in the Lower House.

PRAGUE, Jun 19.

The Emperor has promised to grant an amnesty
to those person"; committed for political crimes in
Bohemia who should request his Majesty's pardon.

POLA ND.

THORN, iC7fi 18.

It is stated that a courier arrived yesterday at
Warsaw, bearer of the Imperial decrees granting
reforms to Poland. These reforms are said to make
satisfactory concessions to the country. Their pub-
lication is expected very shortly.

BERN, Juni 18.

The English Minister Las protested before the
Federal Council against the assertion of France
that the opposition offered by England to the an-
nexation of Savoy and Nice was the principal
reason why France had not ceded the neutral ter-
ritory of Savoy to Switzerland.

Count Waleweki and the countess, as well as
Prince Crartoriaki, sod the Prince and Princess de Metter-
nich, are at present on a visit to the Emperor and Empress
of the French at Fontainebleau.

On Monday eeveral personagei belonging to the
Siamese Embassy were seen driving out in open carriages in
the Avenue of the Chanipa•ElyMea and in the Buis de
Boulogne, Paris. They were drafted in green or licac
figured silk, with a red turban or black cap.

A pretty little theatre, al fresco, ban been opened
at the lake in the Bois de Boulogne, where the spectator
may sip his coffee or take hie ice, sod gratify both ears rad
appetite at the same time. The inauguration has been cele-
brated by au operetta called Les dsewairs des ScAalt, a little
musical prologue. This sew rival to If ward's and the Coo-
emu of the Champs Elysies is rolled the ?bistro da Chalet
des isles.

Wu read in Galignaiii :—" The now opera of M.
Berlioz, Lae Troyes', the subject of many paragraphs, hae
this week, we learn, been definitively accepted for repro.
sentation at the Orand Opera. Our readers know the
subject is from the Iliad the libretto ea well ss the music
being from the pen of Berlioz. We are curious to know
whence tho singers are to come from. Without efficient
additions to the present troupe, we seriously believe that
snoozes would be impossible to the pains of Mozart
himself."

The last &dykes from Poland are• that Priuce
Waldemar Csetwertynaki has been arrested ►od sent to the
fortrim of Mania. Count Tyukeiwics lum been suspended
from his function. of Murshal of the Nobility of Wilo►, ►nd
the countess, his wife, exiled for having made a collection
fat the purpose of giving en Easter banquet to the working
slaw.

COUNT CAVOUN ON REARMING OFTICE. —As
everything counected with the greet Italian 'Uremia who
has just died is peculiarly isteresting at present, we here
traescribe the following passages of a letter adilressad by
bun on the 24th July, l&iO to M. de Csloone, and published
in the new number of the Reree Conteasporain, Count
Cavour, it will be remembered, had just resigned ofu" in
consequence of the peace of yillafraues :—" This course,"
he says in his letter, " has neither been dictated to me by
anger nor by discouragement. lam hdl of faith in the
future success of the cause for which I have hitherto
contended, and I am still ready to devote to it
the life and strength I still possess ; but I feel a deep coo.
victims that my participation in polities at this moment, to
nay degree, would be detrimental to my country. It fate
has been given into the hands of diplomacy. Now, lam In
bad odour with diplomatists; my demise is so agreeable to
them, that its effect will be to render them more favourable
to those unhappy populations of Central Italy whose dams,
they are to Itz. . . . . There are circumstasees in
übi.• %. statesman cannot bring himself too moth in view;
there are others in which the intend of the cause he serves
requires that he should retire into the shade. The p„ms
, rtnatmetencre require this of me. A man of action, I con.
I sign myself to repose for the welfare of my country..

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, TUESDAY EVEMNO.

It is stated that M. Andral, M. Trousseau, and
another eminent French physician, have been re-
quested by Vely Pacha to go to Constantinople
with all speed, to sec the Sultan, and that they
start this evening. There are strong reasons for
believing that the Sultan's malady is beyond the
aid of medicine.

The Monifenr, with that inexplicable capricious-
ness in which it often indulges, shrinks from re-
cording the marked fact that the French govern-
ment was represented at the Cavour mass 3-ester-
day, and merely mentions in three lines of the
" Faits divers " that the Abb4 Deguerry performed
a mass at the Madeleine for Count Cavour. This
curt description of a ceremony at which not only
the household officers of the Emperor and of the
imperial family (with the exception of the Empress)
attended by command, but also the leading minis-
ters and the presidents of the Senate and Corps
Legialatif, is quite out of keeping with the importance
of the news. I suppose the officials who manage
the Monitritr must have some reason for their mode
of proceeding ; but I cannot guess what that rea-
son is.

The Patric repudiates a recent article of the Con-
stitutiounel reproaching other French journals for
their sympathy with Poland.
The government journals crow like Chanticleer
at the success of the " administrative " candidates
at the elections of the Councils-General. Out of
1,000 seats it teems that the government has only
lost 12. This is the wonderful unanimity which I
led you to expect. I was mistaken (owing to a
misprint in au evening paper) when I said that M.
Havin, of the Mete, had been elected; he is thrown
out. The clerical candidates have come worse off
than the democratic owe—a fact quite accounted
for by the nature of the orders given to the pre-
fects. M. Keller's friends are for the moment in
less favour than those of M. Emile 011ivier.
Several members of the Corps Legislatif, who were
the elect of the people when patronised by the
government, bud themselves everywhere " no-
where " when they presumed to go on their own
hook. The machinery of universal suffrage may
be reported to be as perfect as ever.
The Bourse gave way to-day, but without any
particular reason. The Rente fell 20c. for cash
and 15c. for account, closing at 67fr. 75c. awl
67fr. 85c. Mobilier fell 2fr. 50c., and the railways
from lfr. 25c. to 2fr. 50c.

In a cause of " Harding v. Muriel," the Imperial
Court, presided over by the Chief Judge I)evienuo,
yesterday delivered a judgment of great import-
ance to foreigners. Harding, the plaintiff, an
Englishman, had obtained in an English court a
judgment against Muriel, a Spaniard, ordering
him to pay, at the rate of ID. ss. per share, the
value of a certain number of shares in a mining
concern in Mexico and South America. The
defendant Muriel, being a resident in Paris,
Harding brought an action against him here "upon
the judgment " of the English court, and the Tri-
bunal of Commerce, acting upon what has been for
a long time the generally understood notion of
French law, pronounced a decision in his favour.
The grounds upon which the Tribunal of Commerce
proceeded were that, according to Art. 546 of the
Code Napoleon (de procedure), foreign judgments
wore capable of being made executory in France
when approved of by a French court. But the
Imperial Court has reversed this decision, declaring
that the Article 546 referred to was merely
intended to apply to foreign judgments obtained
against Frenchmen, and not to judgments between
one foreigner and another. Tho following is the
substance of the reasons given by the court of
appeal
Considering that ma a general principle the French courts
are only bound to render justice to their own countrymen :
Considering that this principle of law is drawn from two
main reseals :-1. The judge belongs exclusively to his own
people. 2. He cannot be called upon to judge of matters
depending on a legislation of which he is ignorant : That
thine two reasons are applicable in • case where a foreign
plaintiff relies upon a judgment pronounced in his own
tonntry in a cause not involving any French interest : Con-
sidering that when the execution of a judgment in which a
Frenchman is interested is demanded, it becomes the duty
of the judge to decide clerequatur, and this duty is easy
because he has only to grant execution, conformably to the
general principle of French legislation. But when the
discussion arises between foreigners the caw is dif-
ferent ; their engagements can only be executed in ac-
cordite°e with their own national laws, and it is against
reason that an Englishman should be entitled to ask for a
judgment against his countryman modified according to a
French law. Considering, that if it ware so, the French
judge would have to appreciate the merits of the English
judgment, both in form and substance—in other words, he
would be bound to know both the law and practice of a
foreign country : Considering, moreover, that although the
execution of a foreign judgment may appear • very simple
thing in tho case of a mere ordinary debt, the principle, if
once admitted, would apply to every possible judicial deci-
sion of • foreign court, and foreigners would have • right to
discuss questions of personal strati., and rights of all sorts
before the French courts which would be manifestly inad-
missible.

It is important to observe that the circumstance
of the defendant being a Spaniard and not an
Englishman had no influence upon the decision of
the court. The judgment would have been the
same had both parties been English. The marginal
note of the case in the Gazette des Tribenau.c is—
" The French courts are incompetent to declare a
foreign judgment executory in France when the
come concerns two foreigners, whether they be of
the same or different nations."

LA GLOIRIL —A Paris letter says :—"Tho rhino-
ceros scales of La Gloire have not hung so heavy about that
frigate as to prevent her distancing by tea home the quickest
steamers on the station between Toulon mid Algiers, she
having just accomplished the paaserptin sixty-six hours."
PUBLIC "Frit:JAL Lill AT AIIJIL—A Naples
letter says .—" What shall I say to you of acity where the
enervating influence of the summer is so severely felt?
Nsplesat the present moment is all asleep. A day or two
since, about 9 o clock in the morning, Count de San Martino
went to the office of Public Instruction, but found no 000
there, all the odioes being empty. After some time be met
a man, from whom be inquired what had become dell the
clerks. ' The clerks' replied the man, ' they will be Isere
lin an hour or two. came here before my time because I
was tired with loitering at the café. This was the answer
given with a laugh to the Count de San Martino, who at
such an hour of the rooming certainly expected to see a
Neapolitan administration at work. He then left, saying
to the man. ' lie kind enough to announce to the Secretary-
Geoeral, when be shall have risen, that Count de Han Mar-
tino, the King. lieutenant, has called to pay hint a visit.'
The surprise of the man may be conceived.
Tea INDIA —A strong opposition to the
Civil Service Bill has been organised. The objec-
tions lie exclusively against the second clause of the
bilL The ostenaible object of the bill, it is contended,
is attained by the first and third clauses ; but the second is
resisted as containing an entirely new principle. The sum-
mary of the objections in given the following presage
with which the statement of the opponents to the
measure concludes:- To sum up: The tendency of
the second clause of the bill is injurious, because-
1. It is unjust to the members of the existing ser-
vice, and especially to those who have entered it by
competition. 2. It is detrimental to the public service, as
tending to deter the beat men from competing in future
examinations. 3. It opens the door to abuses in the dig.
pemstiou of patronage. 4. It confers a power which ora-
lorssdly requires restrictions, yet does not incorporate thine
restrictions in the bal.—Grind/me/Home News for India. '
CIIYsTAL rautcr.. Ozea Ellimurro DAT. H
TUFADAT, JONI. 18.—Firrn Aim? Of IL BLONDEL—
Adminsions op payment, 12,860 ; ditto by LOMA tickets.
2,199 ; total, 15,068. W. Bloadla wal make his sixth ,
ascent to-morrow (Thursday).

INSPECTION OF THE NORTH MIDDLESEX
RIFLES.

1 The first official inspection of the 29th Mic]!ems
Volunteer Corps, commonly known as the North Middlesex
Rifles, took place yesterday evening in Regeut's-park, oppo.
I site Holford House, in the presence of about 20,000
spec-
talon. The regiment assembled at 6 o'clock on the parade
' ground of Albany.street whence they marched
at about leafiest 6to the ground Barracks,hosen for the inspection.
The officers present were the commanding officer, Lieut•
Colonel Viscount Enfield, M.P., Major ROW Captain and
• Adjutant It. Walden Jones, Captains Cameron, Goode, lb-
' betson, Lemnion, Porter, Hopkinson, Boosey, and West;
Lieutenants Stoneham, Ahsolon, Cowhand, Buser' and Boyd;
; Ensigns Oughton, Upward, Findou, and Browne.. Lieutenant
and Quartermaster Greene was also on duty, being assisted
by yew-Sergeant Dixon. The Rev. C. Williams,
. the regimental chaplain, and Dr. Sutherin, the assistant-
' surgeon, were likewise present. The ground was kept by a
' detachment of the 2nd administrative battalion, under the
• command of Major Wilkinson, Captain Whines, and
Lieutenant Mulford, aided by the Kensington Company of
the '.Doh Middlesex and a number of recruits. This
' duty was admirably performed, the task being rendered
comparatively easy by the excellent temper and demeanour
*of the congregated multitude. Amongst the company as-
sembled at the saluting flag were observed Earl Grosvenor,
Lord Fermoy, M.P., Sir J. V. Shelley, M.P., Mr. Harvey
Lewis, M.P., Sir T. F. Buxton, Colonel Buxton, and many
other persons of distinction.
About half-post 7 o'clock Colonel li•kfurdo, C. 8., the
• Inspector-General of the Volunteer Force, arrived on the
grimed, and was received with a general salute. The gal
taut colonel immediately commenced examining the 'Me
. with great care. To show the minuteness of his inspection
of the anus'a accoutrements, &c., it may be observed that
' Colonel .'Homordo singled out at random a man in the ranks
and demanded his rifle. It was at once presented, and was
found to be in admirable order. The series of evolutions
which followed the preliminary survey occupied about an
hour, and elicited frequent applause from the spectators.
There was much cheering as the successive companies mi-
med in the evolutions—six in number—marched past the
saluting flag, and the volley firing manifestly won the
admiration of all present.
At the termination of the inspection the regiment funned
square, and Colonel M'Munlo, being with the other
officer* iu the centre, spoke as follows :—" Lord Enfield,
have watched with great interest the movements you have
made to-day. The military precision of the corps under
your command, and the steadiness of their movements, have
struck me more and more as you have proceeded with your
drill. When this movement first began the utmost that
the government expected from the scattered compiwies
which were formed was ordinary company drill ; it was
not imagined that the volunteer movement would at-
tain the efficiency that it has done. The more I inspect the
volunteer corps the more I am struck with the cohesion of
their movements, and the intelligence of the commanding
officers who lead them ; and, supported as the commandants
are by the officers, non-commissiouers, and those who form
the rank and file, the movement must flourish. I can
only say I have watched your evolutions with
the greatest admiration, and I have to thank you,
Lord Enfield, for the zeal and efficiency with
which you have disciplined the corps under your lordship's
command, without which it could not have attained the high
state of proficiency which, I am happy to say, it has exhibited.
Considering the way in which this corps is brought together,
under officers who have taken great pains, and under your
lordship, who has evidently a perfect rapacity for command-
iug, I cannot express in too high terms my approbation of
what I have seen, and I shallows great pleasure in making
my report of the condition of the North Middlesex Ride
Corps to the Secretary at War." The gallant colonel, after
some remarks as to the necessity of an alteration in the
pouches of the effective', complimented the men upon their
attendance, which was, he said, numerically the strongest
compared with the entire roll of members that he (Colonel
MMurdo) had yet witnessed.
The regiment loudly and repeatedly cheered the gallant
colonel before be left the ground.
. . .

ii;;;;;;Pan were Wrormed, and marched back
to Albanystreet Barracks. Before the dismissal, Viscount
Enfield expressed him high satisfaction with the inspection,
and his gratification at the compliment paid to the regiment
by Colonel hi 'Menlo. He also acknowledged the valuable
services of the adjutant, Captain R. W. Jones, to whose
ability and assiduity he ascribed, in a great degree, the high
date of efficiency to which the regiment had been brought—
a tribute which was responded to by several rounds of cheers
from tho electives.
The number of men of all ranks assembled on this occa-
sion was about 500 in addition to whom there were 70 or
80 cadets. The regunentsl brass band and two drum aad
fife bands were present.