The Express.
London, England, 1864-06-11 00:00:00

THE EXPLOSION AND LOSS 07 LIFE

AT TRIPOLL
(Pim the Mehe Paw of :sae 2.)
Several telegrairui were received from Tripoli on
the 30th May, announcing an ex-plasm' g at 2.30
p.m. same day, of a government powder magazine,
occasioning the death of some 520 people, of whom
500 are said to be Ottoman soldiers in a barrack
close by.

All the buildings in the town were so shaken by
that catastrophe that many of the inhabitants
have taken to the shipping, fearing that their frail
tenements will come down. The telegraph station
is said to have been unroofed and otherwise in-
jured, and indeed telegraphic communication was
suspended for some 82 hours after, from the neces-
sity of removing the instruments, which ware
covered with the debris.

A later telegram from hie Excellency the Go-
vernor of Tripoli to the Ottoman Consul-General
at Malta, reports the destruction by the explosion
of a fort and several houses, denies that any of
the population have sought refuge on board the
shipping in port, reduces, we are happy to say,
Ithe number of victims to 150, and announces per-
i led tranquillity among the people.

The Malta Observer published the following tele-
gram as having been reoeived by his excellency
Sir J. G. Le Merchant, from the British Consul-
General, Colonel Herman :

Tripoli, ilay 30, 5.12 p.m.

For six or seven days part the ainiannition in the
Spanish Fort has been in process of tailwind to the castle.
This morning the residuum—as reported by the general to

be some 3,000 patio& of powder, and a coesiderable quantity
of musketry ammunition—exploded, and totally destroyed
the fort, the Castom•house, and the adjacent maritime.
The loss al life has been very great—smong the casualties
7 or 8 Maltase. The telegraph station and her Majesty's
consulate have greatly 'offered. Two 18-pound shots fall
through the roof al the latter. Had the explosion occurred
five or six days ago, the whole town would have been
destroyed. Consternation was great, but tranquillity pre-
vails.

Another telegram in the Lloyd reports :

Tripoli, flay 30, &30 p.m.
Explosion of powder magazine. 500 'Turks, 3 Jews, and
12 Mallen killed.

(ssorm's

DENMARK AND GERMANY.
PARIS, Jun 11.
Constitutionnel of this morning, in an

The

article signed by M. Limayrac, observes that Den-
mark consents to a sacrifice, since with Germany
the question is more or less one of increasing her
territorial acquisition. The writer continues,
" The situation of the two parties is entirely dif-
ferent ; the ona making a sacrifice should clearly
inspire more interest than the one making an
acquisition."

RUSSIA AND DENMARK.
COPENHAGEN, Joan 10, 8.48 p.m.
Dagbladet of to-day says :—" It is asserted
that Baron von Plessen, the Danish Minister at
St. Petersburg, has left for Copenhagen.
" He is the bearer of a proposal on the part of
Russia to re-establish Sleawig and Holstein within
the Danish monarchy, thereby preserving the
integrity of the kingdom."

RUSSIAN CLAIMS ON HOLSTEIN.

ST. PETERSBURG, Jon 11.

The Deutache Pekrsburger Zeitung of to-day, in
announcing the transfer by Russia to the
Grand Duke of Oldenburg of her claims
upon Holstein, says :—" By this step of
Russia the succession question between the houses
of Oldenburg and Augustenburg is made an essen-
tially internal question of Federal right to be
settled by the Diet."
Prince Gortchakoff left yesterday for Berlin and
Hissengen.

THE INTERNATIONAL SANITARY CON-

FERENCE.

BERNE, Jan it.

The International Conference, for the organisa-
tion of a sanitary service in cases of war, will
re-assemble definitively on the Bth of August at
Geneva, under the presidency of General Dufour.

RECEPTION OF PRINCE COUZA AT
CONSTANTINOPLE.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Joys t, 7.30 P.lt.
Prince Coura arrived here yesterday, and was
received by the Sultan to-day.
In consequence of this visit the concentration of
Turkish troops on the Danube has been counter-
manded.
The Circassian emigration still continues. The
emigrants are dying by hundreds.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Ram 10, Evauro.
Prince Coosa has been splendidly received here,
and marks of unusual distinction have been be-
stowed on him by the Sultan.
To-day the Prince dined with the French ambu.
@odor.