The Express.
London, England, 1863-11-30 00:00:00

SPAIN.

MADRID, No►. 29.

The political sections in the Congrem have nomi-
nated three members, each of a different party, for
the committee on the address in reply to the speech
from the throne.

TURKEY.
CONSTANTLYOPLF., Nov. 28.
The Sultan has despatched an autograph letter
to the Emperor Napoleon, accepting his invitation
to the Congress, with the full idea of being present
thereat in person.
The telegraph convention between Turkey and
Persia has been signed on the basis of the conven-
tion of Brunette. (1) Special advantage is conferred
upon the new telegraph line to India.
A rumour is current here of the death of Abd-el-
Kader at Mecca.

THE BRAZILS.
(By Uldgraph from Limbos.)

BUENOS AYRES.
Exchange, 87 ; ounces, 430. Wet malted ox
bides, 40 ; dry hides--American, 34 to 48, declin-
ing. Wool—Small arrivals of new clip, high
woo:rs demanded. Tallow, 15. Lumber, 32 to 34.
unchanged. Refined sugar, 17. Business
very dull. Imports unchanged.
MONTE VIDEO.
Exchange, 52. Wet salted bides, 5.40 asked by
contractors, buyers offer 5.10 ; dry American,
4.90 to 5.28; dry German, 5.30 to 5.60. No
sales have yet taken place in wool ; prima nominaL
Tallow, 1.70. Business dull. Polities remain
• unchanged, in their forum unashatactory state.

Itie Maki& saiilds*MY thee the Keriseteb is Oa
*Ma sad Semi art iveeelfille Waetaaps riDvincimat with
Erma. whisk, it is believed.. wjR Fred, to eamplentions
Igetween the French and Anodes; govaipmete.
a. New Gem& ph,* mite!' were gemeally unper
tidaatcryial eas engaged that the rpm yro?l4 elect
Seim es peusidelik. Feat pardono• was
attached to attitude lie will assume in thi ensuii4 year.
War begweie Nor Griped& and Ecuedor WWI artaidered
.
ilionbeset
Smog Mask its Ain .1a AiSe. Five thonmad mei
wen mess the !NW"s. d'li Misbartth• way to
i is
CIA, the wie agl=
mind. &dial
.medaeed fairtfla e • Saf
#had been in a peat nomensehmii, Wl* W1111:111111fhail
latheOsbMmharYhrafdlilliAlalliMaidg die
Poo* nominee/11s as MilbillelielleisilieglOnlhhhei
Mee phew Saheariptions were losing amemedi. Welke
viiiithspeammil MM.. • Daldhoies was- 400eigesielit,e08
boll,'" bat the hugaftaill, was ham Basgriatell Ilada of.
gol4 won **MOO haat Obel POW"
aoseartahaticos was mimed axe the Roan mai. At ,
yatamism exams eta lamella* pig.
.tidy
The Paravia government wee aeirsoting troops Om.wps
northern frontier, to be prepared Weise war should
out, between Ecuador and New Granada. Thro medling
was raying is Lima. At COW, exchange on Leedom, Mid,
per dollar. The Englieh steamer mall bad been captured
between Markle and Savannah with a slug* of cotton. SU
was mat to Key West.
Jamaica was visited by a ernes earthquake as the Bth
blatant. The first shock lasted 40 seconds, and was rapidly
succeeded by a loud rumbling and a second shock, causing
the people to 8y into the open air in a state of great alarm.
L Business wee generally deli. Km:hang 1 per oust, premium.
At Demerses the weather wee favourable and the growth
of cotton hugely fostered tato, which was expected to revive
trade meraiderahly.
A meow lie hod mooned at SL John's, LaVigne, destroy
nog anaddlenelde property.

The text of the proclamation addressed to the
German native by the peramoset committee of the Natioorl
Vermin is addreemed both to the Priem and to the peoples
of Germany ; the address is even more premier on the
former, whom "legitimacy." haw, "is menaced."

Ad;ioes fromStuttiard siate that enthusiasm
fee the ammo of Schleswig-Holstein is rapidly sprain in
Wartembag. luidnines are being signed la all the towas
urging the pverantent to ad sampaisolly, and committer
are also bong formed to promote the mew
" A rumour has been in circulation," says the
Jarman! do nenSis, de Per' " that a treaty had been mi-
tered into between the Banheel Pewee and of Savoy. We
cos affirm that up to the pretest Noe nothing el the brad
ha. taken pleat"
AMLSICAS Man &SAHEBS cos Tsui WIJI.—
The following shaman are dm at Liverpool this week with
Ise. hen Hamada and Me Hatted Stabs r—Ths
Bone-
mien, the last boat of Me mama from Quebse, is due at
Londonderry on Wednesday earl, with data bent Quakes
on the 21st ; the Edinbargit, from New York, on the 214,
is also dee at Queenstown oa the some day. Oe Satan*
next the Cunard steamehip Asia is dee et Queenstown with
dates from Boston on the 25th, and from Haifa: early ca
the morning of the 226. After the elat fated the Omit.
dine mail steamers will atom to cell at Qualms daring the
winter mouths, their port of cell and departure uatil next
vein being Portland, Maine.
THS Bon BAT AND MAIISMITS Mule.—The
following telegram bee been received at Mr. Heutees ease
from the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigates Oem.
pany :—" Alexandria, Nov. 28, 1863.—The Valetas sod
Mora galled hence with the above mails at 9 a.m. this day.
The tamer may be expected at Idareeilles on the 4th, and
the latter at Southampton ce the 11th Dessesber. The
Salton. from Mantiliaa, reached Sum on the Mb, and the
Safest% Dem Bombay, on the Beth last.'

DESPATCH OP AMERICAN MAME —Oll Saturday
the Cunard /loyal Mall steamer Canada wee despatched
from the Mersey for Boston, with mails for the Vetted
States, &c., together with about 10 pawners and a full
oars% On Wednesday next the lama Company's 'Wainer
City of Washlugtoo will leave Liverpool for New York with
the United Slates mails. Lettere, U., will be resolved at
the Gomel Peat-oak* until 11 o'clock a.sa., sad far despatch,
ria Code, ep to 6.30 gam

The R4lll Mail steamship Canada arrived at
Quesseaseas at 14.3 D p.m. yesterday. Me embarked the
essionssrs, sad telegram, sad proceadad for Haifa:
and Bastes as 4 p.m.; all well

DITIOXATIC COURTESIES no JAPAN. —M. Hum-
bert, andimmaor at Japan of the Federal Council of Switz-
erland, has forwswild to his govanimeat an SOCOCIA of an
official nit Made to him by a minister of the Tycoon. Oa
the !di *irk. gene Japans alike galled ea M. Hmaliert
Meek him who he wad& lie d be resolve the Minister
of lareign Alain met by the 9mieip. The remptioa
was lied for the same day at four ta the adenoma. At
that hoar K. Brenawalisad Kennon, ittarpreasre to the
Swim mimics, int/minced tb minister Tamara-lhgoao-
Kann and his snit* into the peat edam of the legation.
After the Int exchanp of mintadoss Tamura pm orders
to his savants, who deposited adder the nreadak the cus-
tomary pressata, comistieg of shoot 90 live dunks, per,
sad fowls; • bogs braises basket /lied with *site al the
season. awl tear kwwwse boxes of tee and swestamals wars
brought isle the admen. Another lawnimairy amosenpanisd
Ihmura. who WY Mewls, assisted by the istarpreasr Mow-
pas. wend lei liosnilny to townies/a. Timms sarefully
avoided touching on politioal subjoin, awn that his
minion was manned to a purely Geoid vidt. if. Humbert
pressated ramurs with awns chumps sad a photograph
of ths town of Base, with which the Japiesse isismed
Tank 'Willed.

Ahtente istlede Om, • litbeetele:, ego ed Mores
hasteeep easiont sad
.lebrllriafillierfettnont Jfactiotlero to
Inv it rip to ate present gratifying and attractive
WO% .euitieation. The ground was originilly
obt toy*. Our, •and the' ernionentlif
lesielni ' their 06001 Viands,
0111M1.44!1134' noel knielfhirasei 'west
Angle . .(leksma, • pnelaut. minas.
ion dalen *Ulnae 1P k.; ICink3 . fpf..949
-11Nei*a.t.beat4eillociern •Oincsi
likfainous,,En"*shl , garden, of the
period—the public hew indreVee# 'tp
' the oferekebillekinglieduri'm
=0 'lagoon noised of alma in the weal
.dosser garden. at Kan.. It teak the whole
liliFweaperiod from ISO down to slie present
ttolortrout all these spec ssin designs ; but
result now' triumplien both (n the appear-
ance of the park itself—. *hi& wOuld,well repay a
visit from the most distant er-aristoeriaic part of
the town—and in the innocent amusement it yields
to thethousands of waking people who swarm like
bee* in a. hive throughout the streets, lane., and
alleys which abound in the great eastern gectio4
the metropolis. •
Victor* Park may now take its place amongst,
the best of the London parks. It is fiat so large as
the *Regent's Park, but is larger thib St. Janies's
and the Green Pak together, and very nub'
cerninhlea. the Wax is anything hat the altitude/
of the trees. The ornamental water is much more
exteneiveakezt Plat ef. J 41111114 Perk, end guits
as biennia Apo& stud tbe_leirp with highly.
tares
dltalleat of bealiiikie ample
mope and qiie etedidlons of • ahmteur
Tbe 'dentin et the Sett ale Chi
neneenikedelenidieye,:sieniglstb main
. striike celes-ceen of. Ste
baturiOneilltarn caned with I •
blff • MT° ,T)Ae gr°74 •
• these 3931111011 hae
,been re
I). • • ;.* etag Is*,h.plinted inns saplings On
" • . 4 the • peiik,- tiny barn. sprung' np and-
. • in eighteen years to an extent which.sne
• lavelmenillybellevedpoinettleelidsw•holknott
err
Ihnflietionffneel ell *Orf ral ids w 4„
of A!A
' • igierlticedsiaa this
tivva* t orq
Hevener, by an: equafie"rild
• to delay. Rut this canoe)* he
woricing-clasiolorthepresentgenerbtiohood hardly
have waited for the maturity of "theta ancestral
trees" which form the gloryof "Thestately homes"
of rural England. The gene point to be achieved
is the formation of Victoria Park was the esta-
blishment of an airy, healthy, attractive exercise
ground for the working people of the eastern dis-
tricts of London, and to have it done in as short a
time as possible ; and looking at the work from
that point of view, it would be impossible to deny
that it has been a great and creditable success.
The working classes of eastern London have now,
almost in the heart of their own territory, •
spacious and pleasant park, with plenty of pro.
monde ground, plenty of grass to refresh their
poor eyes, dried up, as they too frequently are, by
working under flaring gas lights, or dimmed by
smoke and bad air, plenty of water, stocked with
rare and beautiful waterfowl, and well provided
with boats, in which the visitors when tired of looking
over the palings and feeding the birds may give
their muscles a stretch, and take lessons in an art
which ought to be second nature to the descendants
of the sea kings. In addition to these attractions
there are two gymnasia which are immensely po-
pular, both being kept in fall work every afternoon
by delighted children of all ages. As there are
no turn-tables at the entrances, it is not pos-,
sible to ascertain the exact numbers who daily
avail themselves of the facilities here offered
for muscular education, but it would be no exagge-
ration to reckon the self-taught pupils by thou-
sands, and to the credit of the working people it is
to be said that notwithstanding the constant crowds
and the boisterous character of the amusement,
thee, has not been a single case which it was neces-
sary to take before a magistrate since the opening,
of the park. Next, there is the swimming lake,.
still more important as affording opportunities
of learning what no man should be ignorant of,.
namely, the art of keeping himself afloat in the
water in ass of emergency. So great is the popu-
larity of this feature in the programme of Victoria
Park amusements that so many as 13,200 intending
bathers have passed the turnstiles leading to the
swimming lake between the hours of four and
eight am. on a summer's morning, and the
average attendance is 3,000 daily during the whole
of the summer months. Here the good conduct of
the people has been almost but not quite so conspi-
cuous as at the gymnasia, there having been one
case since its opening in which a boy was taken
before a magistrate for changing shoes with a visitor
who happened to be better supplied with pedal
furniture than himself. Next we have the cricket
grounds, standing deservedly high in popular esti-
mation. Of these there are no leas than sixteen of
three-quarters of an acre each, regularly mowed
with • machine and levelled every week or
ten days, and accommodating (es we were
informed) no less than 130 separate sets of
wickets. As many as twenty matches have been
simultaneously played here on one Saturday, and
the ground is often as crowded with players
as if it were a fair. The boats are on the
summer afternoons a great attraction, but it is com-
plained that they are not half numerous enough.
There is often a struggle amongst intending and
contending passengers, but all in good humour,
and there has been here as elsewhere a perfect ab-
sence of any conduct that called for the inter-
ference of the conservators of the peace. The
archery ground exists, but does not flourish. The
days of in Hood and his merry men have
passed away, and the practical mind of the English
working man cannot regard such primitive weapons
as bows and arrows with any great favour in the
days of Whitworth guns and Enfield rifles. Two
of the City volunteer corps have rifle grounds
within the boundaries of the park, and both are
very well attended whenever the weather is suitable
for practice.

We have now given a pretty full list of the
attractions of Victoria Pork, but the feature in
which the working people of the east end of London
take most delight has yet to be mentioned. Allusion
has been made to the floral decorations which
have been recently introduced u an embellish-
ment to landscape gardening, and it is the

flower-beds of Victoria Park that give the
greatest delight to its thousands of hum"
tile visits:les. These flower-beds amid grass •
were first introduced at Kew Gardena, and
there it was that Mr. Prestos, the present gar-
dener of Victoria Park, became an adept in their
production and culture. With the moat slender
means, and with one purpose steadily in view—
namely, that of offering to the inspection of the
working man such flowers as he could most wily
cultivate in his own little garden—Mr. Prestos has
studded the park all over with brilliant beds of •
fuchsias, dahlias, geranium', asters, verbenas, and
the whole family of what are commonly known as
" general florists' flow as," contrasting their varied
sod brilliant colours with the taste of a true artist.
ft is to these flower-beds that the working man
IA attracted al if by some magic spell, and from
their contemplation he learns how best to cultivate
those little home gardens which, where possible,
formthe (Wight of his leisure hours. It I. satis-
factory to know that Mr. Preston's labours in this •
lssautifal as wall as most maul dvarrat
at his art have not passed unappreciated b 7
neighbours. Very recently a body of subscribers,
comprising persons in all classes of society, and
he ided by Nth Node* Coin* presented him
with en appropriate testimonial and a purse of
sovereigns, "as a recognition of him INOW•11 IS •
bloc :icareer siatfgasex_of their
c44:lta sapiteity - T
St IMAMS Ptak. • - •
*nun edthonkiteljihniolrli Ath
as its • his, and there are thine points elms!
Vittoria
b. eleditt.'t 43=Aalit' of fifty ilk
houses have sprung up within a radius of fifty
seeds all jouai the Pare thine It stet first throw*
era< tie maths at obtaining light and innocent 6
'takaents within have been left lama* •
ldieficient. - Over the whole of the
Ibitaisive grounds, covered as they sometimes
Awe 70,000 et 30,000 visitors, there ate ,
only three small tea, coffee, and ice houses, and
even.the:ehrrt
thea let thei would
kind stoat enit•ble to the
N
811° teowd
Z, andbe wbereths
seYP
andsePa
garden attached,
With itelittle suniessohoniesi, in each of which a
Working man and his family might be accommo-
dated. Such is the arrangement in all the public,
priess of the continent, and it is well known that •
thq are the favourite resorts of the working theses,
and that the refreshments are all of the lightest and
past innocent kind.. There is also a general cry
the visitors for more drinking fountains.
Theiamility of Miss Ihadett Coutta has provided
.cos noble fountain ;but that is not much in a park
of 150 acres, and which is always crowded with
eliildren, who prefer water to all other drinks.
tiny enthusiastic supporters of the park would 41
" merry-go-rounds" and other mirth-making
thachinee, which are, so plentiful in the, Champs,
4111ysied, and sthiihnieently • hive been with teeth,
success added to the attractions of the Crystal
'Falane. s ZOOM in plea" of tithe between this and
ikezkagraigartelisive all these antlers attended to,
ilite saen
thestliapsstions we now ofler be thought
r
• • ' '
;16141.eTypal meeting of the Chippenhnui •:
too/ plus on Thursday and Miday lain On
keen' asp Mt. flogruza Mesa* who ins& almost
1/4►.1"1"4, terma
• fir amount': hs srahw
IW7lnektp therindingua pars' example d the •
waa a:alarm:pan
seMlieftlM dburend Mien so
• •Pieetie
vas mom ir iget'mnst=sviillitr4
ithille New-hal sad frem
tested by alleritiorlit leading of the
district. Sir John Neeld, Bart., presided, and the Hon.
&diem Esteourt, M.P., Mr. Poulett Scrape, M.P., Mr.
R. P. Lae& M.P.. Ms. lintey, ILP., Sir Jobe Autry, Me.
Mereweather, Q.C., and about • dozes of the clergy of the
neighbourhood, were preset. In the course of the evening
the health of the carroty limbers wee giro' from the AIM
sod Mr. Bother= Fannon returned thanks us • speech of
oomidersble length, which, however, was ecedned to the
subject of British and foreign agriculture.
BOARD OF TRADE, Wunristaz, Nov. 25.—The
Right Mom. the Lords of the Committee of Privy Causal
for Trade have received from the Socratic? of State for
Fee** Alaimo soapy of • despatch from her Majerty's
Churl d'Affaires in Chile sedosing • copy of the Chili=
Anne prennigaing • sew Chilies customs tariff, which
mane into seen ma the 11th October last. The dame can
be ineusted es application et the Board of Trade, White-
WORKINO Mgi's CLUB MOVEN ENT. —MY. Sully has
sttendsdael sadrened mc icings at the following pleas :—On
Mantayat Widthauttow, B. Fart Barelay,Fen., intbsebein
Tuseday,etßrestferd,—Tete,Eaq.. in the chair ;Wedrassday,
LthzySchool-room, Great Portland-street, the Ray. E. R.
Wilmot in lisseissie,- sad Omega Comikalseek. Fag.,
on the pietism ; Thursday, at Alton. when the deb pew
mimes hays been enlarged ; Friday, at Devizes, Wilts., when
a gunk vele delivered' by Darby Griffiths, Esq., M.P., *he • '
finielffatiesett Bud* to Weed the smititilig. Lenin id
we tented mad regoettifig unavoidable absence were rind
,has Mr. AMtsgtts, M.P., end Yr. Ewart, M.P., and •
eaten hem the mane (who led to fittest es egrienitned
sestina at Chippenhain that sight) also unseat the en-
ure interest he felt in the movement.. All than meetiop
were will saseled by the cites sought to be round to pro-
mote their owe sad inch other's besellt, and they Skewed
sessidatable enthusiasm in the objects set before them on
basil of the Working hien'c Club and Instinte Union.
83131111,11R0 CLUB Carets SHOW. —OD Saturday
the whole el the implement galleries were spend oak, aid
• large number of implements. to be exhibited at the m-
iming show, arrived at the Agricultural Ball ; Thursday
next is the last day on which they will be reesived. The
suggestion thrown out • week or two since. is retinue to
the placards distinguishing the prize azimak, which was •
soars of so math dismatidaction last year, has been adopted
by Mr. Gibbs, the 'WOW y of the Smithfield Club, and Mr.
Sidney, the secretary of the Agricultural Ball Company,
sod on the ensuing menu they will be fixtures. Pr= the
Lap number of 11111,111 it is expected that navy el the
ambush will arrive eery early during the ensuing week, as
Saturday next, at ten o'clock, will be the hat hoar at
whisk soy 'peel:nue will be received into the show-yard.
Then an mome two or three Mustiest shepherds mmally
attendant upon the 'animals,- and the Rev. Daniel Wilma,
the vicar of Islingtos, has tuadertalcm to read sad preach
to them in the huge roma of the club on Sunday next.
New RAILWAYS AND PUBLIC INPROYIIIINTR.—•
17p to Saturday • coosiderable number of Aiwa and sections
for the new railways and projected public improvement",
for the ensuing parliamentary manias were lodged with the
railway department of the Board of Trade, but the majority
of them will not bedelivered until today, thelast &yellowed
by parliament for the papas. The total number of
notices for all kinds ref Sew entertskins amounts this ses-
sion to 450, being en increase of 100 on all preceding me-
tone, mid of this number *early 300 are for new railways,
beeches, ezinipmstions, and exteesions.

GMAT Nurses RAILWAY.—The Queen, upon
Miring of the retirement of Mr. Charles A. Meanders from
the °Mose which he has so keg and so worthily filled on
the Great Western Railway, hes been graciously phased to
denote her entire satisfaction with the efficiency end
puzAuslit. of he arraegenients for the comfort and ma-
mmies:* at the royal family both is bisnapsrity of secretary
and of general suporintendeut, by the preeestatien of a
Madames testimonial inscribed, "From the Quire." This
royal gift, consisting of MI epergne of silver, beeriest an
appropriate immiption, was accompanied by a letter from
Str Charles B. Phipps, *swearing by her Majesty's owe.
mend entire approvul of the company's arrangementa for
her comfort, and her gracious regret for the loss of Mr.
Seceders' services.

BOIL= EXPLOSION AND LOIC OF LITZ AT WAIL.
117 MD.—An explosion occurred about Mill-pain six o'clock
on Friday morning, at Messrs. Csrtwright's Miami: Flour
Wakeieid, by which three men and one boy were
killed. The boiler bow was outside the mill, cossequeotly
the axplosion found altar vent. The end of the boiler-
house and part of the roof were completely demolished,
bricks, tubes, sad *west Ibis boiler being strewed about,
Several ontbuildiogs, stabler, kc., were blows down. The
cause o/ the explosion is said to be over•pressure, as a plen-
tiful supply of water was is the boiler at the time.

fAdVentiIiOMPIA.I—HOLLOWAY's OINTMINT AND
ITIAIL-1111.411. ADD REAtitsr. —Timmy are many eavis of Beatles.
tiodolorenx, and neuralgia Dow wearing out the patieuee and
of thasiads who might derive incredible ease by the
'I f tuwolloway's ointment and pills. No matter what has peen
the duration of the complaint, nachow severe and exernciating
Mee been the nifferinni, they will be diminished by warm
fosseetstione brisk friction with this unguent, and suitable doses
cd these rips The treatment has often succeeded when every
variety of sedative bad proved perfectly muless. The dose of
these pills most depend upon the constitutional habit. as their
=aid stresetbsnien properties are more required 1-
as of nen ous diseases than their aperient powers.

HOW COLD IT HAB BEEN.—NEORETTI
4 ZAMBIAS onlinestad THIRMOMMITIS irM oca
recta tor lb° loan tamperanin. Prices Ss. tit —l, Batton.
wdes : , Ceaddll 123, Plestarat. and 122, Smentareet.
Agenic wilatirL

ALFRED WEBB MILE%
Everybody knows Mr. MILKS.
REMOVED from Bond-street, to 73, BROOK STREET, Hanover-
equals, in MO. The Ids TROUSERS 'originated by Wail In all
the New Patterns for Winter. " better than ever."
SPECIAL NoT ICE TO GENTLEMEN.
A. W. mum ben most respectfully to announce that his
stock to the various departmente of bin esiabilehsnent le now
replete for Overaoata. Vesting'. Bedford Cords, and leaflet
waterproof cloth for hunting. The wool-dyed Blank and Blue
Frock Oasts, &Oa A choice of co pieces of indestructible wooded
West of England Cloth► IiNTABLISiI ED IS4I. Only "Adria&
SPECIAL NOTICE.—THE BOOKS Of THE
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NORTH BRITISH and MERCANTILE
I Niit BA Nei COMPANY,
For the reef 164,9, clime on Slit December.
Life Policies effected on or before that date will rank for an
additional year's bonus in comparison to later entrants.
During the Four Veers preceding lut division of
Profit' :NM', the Company lamed 1,695 Life Policies,
assuring
During the Four succeeding Years the number of Life
Foliates Issued amounted to 5,168, and the sums
assayed to Akttl,llll2
. . .

Being an Increase of 81 per cent.
The SIXTH SEPTENNIAL DIVISION of the Compaq's
Profits will take place on Sist December. 1885.
The whole Profits which have accumulated deco Mat Deana-
her. 1868, will then be divided, and ninety per ceat allassiel
among the assured on the participating scale.
Certificates of hidisputability granted, and every facility offered
to insurers.