The Express. — 1865-08-21 (London, England)

LXXIV. of liberty that there still exists in France' • class taiiabfe d taerci. The Minister of War cannot persuade himself that a soldier who has neither a bayonet nor • sabre at his side can be as respected or loved—this is put of a soldier's rights —as one who has no such means of making himself feared. He seems to forget that they would still have belts with buckles. I have only three lines of gossip to Bend. The Princess Frederick of Augustenberg, wife of the Bleswig-Holstein pretender, is said to have been invited to visit the Queen at Coburg. This will probably be interpreted into a sort of moral 'support offered by England to the lady's husband, for on the continent such acts of politeness are always supposed to indicate a political leaning. In the present state of the question, when it is still doubtful whether the liberation of the Duchies from the Danish yoke may not produce a German I war, we English know that such an interpretation is unwarranted. The Queen of England can receive whom she pleases without giving the public press the right to pin political importance to her private reception of distinguished persons. As next in rank to the Princess, Abd-el-Kader's visit to Brest to-morrow to be present at the meeting for the second time of the two squadrons is to be chronicled. He goes with a suite of some 20  persons. I have had to send you, if not theatrical news, at I least gossip connected with the theatre, thanks to M. de Ginzdin. Until something fresh turns up I shall be silent on the subject, after mentioning that be printed in the Pram of last night some verses written in his own praise. Let him, like everyone, have his due. The public is much mom likely to be interested in the announcement that Offenbach is engaged in writing music for Molihre's Bourgeois Gentilhornme. Mr. Russell's account of the voyage of the Great Eastern with the Atlantic cable has given so great an interest to the enterprise that most of the French papers have begun the translation of his log. In the last week the manufacture of machinery has received a fresh impulse. Spain, Italy, and Switzerland have added to the local demand. The retail houses have done a great business in the last week, thanks to the crowd of travellers who have thronged Paris for the rather abortive festivities of the 15th. All the more and, more generally, less useful articles which make so tempting a display in the shop-windows of the boulevards and the I Palais Royal have been carried off by those good folk who, of course, could not return to their villages without some such tangible proof that they had really visited the capital. In the wine growing districts the prospect of abundance is so good that business is at a stand still. The effect is worth noting ; while in some districts they boast of the splendid vintage which is certain, there are others, where there is old wine for sale, which predict all aorta of calamities as likely to destroy it entirely.  Mosrozna.--The statistics of carder in gogiand do not give Ages of the &ohne ol this pottoot of prima. The another of oonvitions tor minim sus bat 153 in tie I tee years 1022431 ; it advanced to 172 is the Ma yews 1.83241, to 179 Mie ton yew* 1842451, and to 182 I. the me veers 1852.81; it rose to 28 in 1862, 29 ia 1863, and 32 I is 1864, the last three years averaging nook, ar doable the useego of 40 years ago. The esseations few murder wont 132 is the tea years 1822-31, 103 in the tea yams 1832.41,166 is the tea years 1842.51,104 is the ten jests 1452.81, lb is 1482 ions committed suiside), 29 is 1863, 19 in 1964. The verdiets of murder fogad hr 014•410 r juries avenged 209 a year is the six years 185641 ; they yea In in 1963, 270 in 1963, 246 in 1964. The tune latiooily of these isquerts were upon infests, whose list year of life II .Lo their last.