The Express. — 1864-01-05 (London, England)

MURDERS ON THE HIGH SEAS.  FRANCE.  PARIS, MONDAY EVENING.  A grand reception took place on Saturday evening at the Tuileries. The ladies of the Diplomatic Corps and of the great officers of the crown were accompanied by their husbands in full costume, military uniform, or court dresses, as far as the Galerie de la Paix, whence they proceeded alone into the Salle des Mar4chaux and the Salle du Tame. The Emperor and Empress on leaving their apartments were accompanied by Prince Napoleon, the Princess Clothilde the Princess Mathilde, and the other princes and princesses having rank at court. Their Majesties having placed themselves on the throne, the doors leading to the throne-room were thrown open, and the ladies advanced, their names and titles being announced by the grand chamberlain. After the ladies had all passed, their husbands followed with the same ceremonial. Their Majesties, after conversing for a short time with some foreigners of distinction who were present, returned to their apartments.  The Archduke Maximilian and the Archduchess Charlotte were the first among' the foreign princes to send by telegraph in the morning of New Year'sday their congratulations to the Emperor and Empress of the French. During a rehearsal of the ballet of Fiammetta, at the Grand Theatre of Trieste, last week, the dresses of several of the figurantes caught fire, nod before the flames could be extinguished one poor girl, only 14 years of age, was so dreadfully burnt that she died a few hours after.  The C7iarireiri publishes a wood-cut in which Old Father Time is represented seated at a table acting as an examiner, and scrutinizing the performances of a number of pupils. One, representing the year 1863, is just being sent away in disgrace :—" You are nothing but a silly fool," says he with scythe and hour-glass, "you have not been able to resolve any of the problems set before you. Be off ! We must see what another can do. This one next you (1864) looks more intelligent." M. Guizot, having completed the six volumes of his memoirs, is said to be about to publish three other volumes, entitled " MiSditatious Ittligieuses." The cold in Paris continues with full intensity, a strong frost taking place not only at night, but during the whole day. Yesterday at three the thermometer marked 3 below zero C. (261 F.) The accounts received at the Observatory of Paris show that severe weather has set in all over France. The lowest temperature in Europe is at St. Petersburg, being 10 below zero C. (14 deg. F.)  The five men who were brought home from Monte Video in the Brazil mail steamer Parana, and landed at Southampton on Saturday, charged with the murder of the captain and some of the crew of the ship Flowery Land, and scuttling the vessel, were taken before the Southampton magistrates yesterday for examination. There are in all ten of the crew implicated in the crimes, five of whom, with two witnesses, were sant away from Monte Video in the steamer Uruguay for Liverpool, and the other five, also accompanied by two witnesses, came home in the Parana. The British Consul was afraid tossed them all in one batch, they being such • desperate set of characters, and offered to send a file of soldiers to keep guard over them, but the above arrangement was ultimately adopted. The men brought by the Pantos were heavily manacled. Their names are Marco Varto, a native of the laden Islands ; Marciliano Lacroix, a Greek ; Miguel Lopez. a Malay George Carlos, and John Williams, three of them being men of colour. The magistrates on the beach yesterday were ?deems. J. R. Stabbing, F. Perkins, J. H. Cockney, and R.