The Express.
London, England, 1863-04-06 00:00:00

CONTRABAND OF WAR.

TO THZ EDITOR OP TIM ZIPRZBIL
Sta,—We hasten to oommunicate to you a fact
which we hays learned from a perfectl asthmatics souse,
and we seen to the public the apple • of its quality
mid motel wile.
Some ten or twelve days ago three bales of lint, prorated
by the Paris ladies for the woctockd Poles, were stopped sad
confiscated by the Premises as snide of war.—l am, ko.,
A I.P.X ANDER HEREIN,
Editor of the Kokstoi.
Omett-house, Westboormotemece, April 4.

We (Northern Whig) learn by a telegram from
Londonderry that the submarine cable connecting Green-
castle with the whole telegraphic system of this and other
countries wee successfully submerged on Wednesday even-
ing by B. D. Wallook, Esq., chief, and Messrs. Y. C.
Greeohill arid H. Black, assistant engineers to the Mag-
i 'retie Telegraph Company. Messages were yeaterdagle7nt
direct to London, Liverpool, Dublin, Belfast, and
sad replies received instastaneonaly. This accession to
THE CONVICT WARD.—The reply of his Excel-' the telegraphic where will be of the greatest importance to
limey the Lord-Lieutenant to the memorial from the pan- the whole of the United Kingdom. The American steamers
goner for a commutation of sentence has not )et arrived in will now be signalled imwdiately they enter Lough Foyle,
Behest, but it is looked for every day. In the meantime, sod a saving of from two to three boars will be effected in
all the necessary preliminaries for the execution have been the transmission of despatches and news between America
made. which, if uo respite or reprieve is granted, will take , and these countries.
place on Wednesday next. —Nor thern Whig. THEBTALYBEIDGERIOTS.—TheStaIybridge rioters
blarsorourax AND GREAT NORTHERN Jtnrc- were tried at Chester eosins OD Saturday, before Mr. Jas-
VION RAIL WA Y. —The two junction lines coenectiog these ties Mellor. In oar ease fourteen pprvrsooooeenawere indicted
railways are new nearly completed, with the eremition of for sacking the relief stores and wearing to set them
laying down the rails and constructing the signals. The on fire, but the judge said this charge could sot be
down line or hotel curve has been constructed at theorist of substantiated, and they were then Indicted for riot. Of
the Great Northern Company. and is 1,600 ft. in length, this charge the roajority of them were, with 26 others,
loviell • single BM, of rails, The tunnel part is 14ft. Gin. found guilty, and sentenced to tams of imprisonment
wide and 16ft la height. The Wand, oe leaving the varying from one to six months. Most of the prisoners
Metropolitan line, rime on a gradient of shoat 1 in monied', their ages ranging from 14 to 20.
and Passes under the Fleet sewer. Oa reaching TRIPLE B/ETH AND ROYAL BOCIITY.—A poor
Northampton-street the line is coodrueted in an open woman named Cox, living at 11, North-place, Bethnal-
setting until it reaches the level of the Great Northern grew°, having recently been safely delivered of three fine
Railway at the end of the malice. The east curve, or boys eta birth, her most gracious Majesty, upon being in-
!? Bne, is • "We line, constructed at the wet of the formed of the eintureetenee, lass forwarded most kindly mid
mes"F•uta• a•Uwaf °omen's', and is 600 ft. is length, promptly. through the Rev. John Teem, the clergyman of
Mein a rising gradient of about lin 42. On Wail) the the district pariah, the earn of towards her relief. The
Metropolitan line it passes under the Pantos and children ere all Befog ad doing well.
Fleet sewer, which has been most skilfully ward is each The Echo die Nord states that the inhabitants of
ease. It thee passes under the houses em the north side of
Pentooville-road, Pear King's-cross, to the tunnel ender the commune of Lesimin (Nord) have been surprised within
the last few days by the specialism's( a singular spectacle
York-road, leading to the end of the Great Northers ar- in their immediate neighbourhood. The soil rood certain
rival platform. shafts which were sack some time back in searching for
Tam HOG TRADE OP CINCINNATI.—III Cincinnati coal hen begun to crack and tremble, and clouds of smoke
5101,462 hogs were slaughtered this season. The average and sabre Mine from the shaft', always preceded by explo-
weight of each was Melba, the Odd of lard t Mho., and slam, which ooneteritly become louder. In the night the
the prise 113 e. Si. In MI, 20 years ego, only 85,000 hogs columns of smoke mid ashes fill the air with a phosphor-
were sleaglatered la Cinsineati, ement appearance, visible at seam distance.