The Express.
London, England, 1863-01-16 00:00:00

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

(aaaraa►i fumauss.l
BRIGANDAGE IN GREECE.
ATHENS, JAN. 14.
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Brigand' in the vicinity of this city having
captured a young man of a wealthy family, have
demanded 70,000 drachmas as ransom.
The National Assembly has declared the elec-
tions of forty deputies null and void, on account of
irregularities of form.

GERMANY.
THE FEDERAL DIET.

FRANKNORTAN-THE•MAINE, JAB. 13.

In to-day's sitting of the Federal Diet, the
representative of Baden stated that his govern-
ment rejects the proposal of the majority of the
committee upon the chamber of popular delegate
question, and declines co-operation. Baden is
however ready, by unanimous vote of the diet, and
with the consent of the chambers of the different
German states, to concede to an assembly of popu-
lar delegates associated with the Federal Diet the
right of vote upon Federall,financial questions, and
propose/a to increase the contingents from the
different states.

The proposition of Baden not being formally
weeded to by any other representative, was merely
entered upon the protocol of the Federal Diet.

ELECTORAL HESSE.

CASSEL, JAN. 15.

The Headache Morgenzeitung of to-day says :
" We learn from a reliable source that the super-
intendence of the Electoral household and the port-
folio of Foreign Affairs have been provisionally
entrusted to Cabinet Councillor Koch.

" A ministerial council, lasting several hours,
was held yesterday evening at the castle of the
Elector."

RUSSIA.

ST. PETERSBURG, Jar. 14, EVINING.

The Gazette of the Senate announces to-day tbat
Privy Councillor Ivan Tolatoy, formerly attached
to the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, has been ap-
pointed Director-General of the Postal Adminis-
tration.

THE LEVANT.
TRIESTE, Jew. 15.

The latest news from the Fast received here states
that Omer Pacha's resignation had not been ac-
cepted.

A Russian steamer has been wrecked near Kertch.

Lost Mahomet has withdrawn his troops from
before Herat, in order to negotiate for peace with
the Sultan Achmet Khan.

THE BRAZIL MAILS.
LISBON, JAY. 15.

The Messageriee Imperiales steam-ship Feltz's-
=dere, with the above mails, arrived here last
night.

RIO, Theo. 23.

Exchange on London, 27i, 271, 27i ; on Paris,
345 to 348. Coffee, gocd first, 7,000 to 7,100 refs.
Shipments of coffee since the departure of the last
mail, 91,500 bags, of which 39,000 were for the
Channel. Stock of coffee, 80,000 bags.
At Pernambuco, exchange on London was quoted
28i, 28i. Sugars : white, 3,350 to 3,500 eels ;
browns, 1,850 to 2,100 rms. Cottons, 14,000 to
16,000 refs.

The Estramadura spoke the Royal Mail steam-
ship Magdalena between Bahia and Pernambuco.

AMERICA.

The Montreal Ocean Mail steamship Bohemian,
Captain Borland, which left Portland, Maine, on
the evening of the 3rd, arrived at Liverpool at a
very early hour yesterday morning. The general
news by this arrival is virtually the same as that
received by the Etna, which Las been already pub-
lished ; but from the afternoon telegraphic de-
spatcher from New York we extract the following :
" The steamer Ocean Queen, from Aspinwall on
the 24th ult., has safely arrived at New York,
bringing 1,300,000 dollars in specie, a large
number of passengers, and a company of ca-
valry for the Massachusetts 2nd Regiment.
" The steamer Caledonia, already reported to be
ashore near Cape Cod, has broken her back, and
will be s total loss. Her cargo is floating out of
her, but a portion may be saved in a damaged state.
There is no further war nor political news to report
since the Etna left New York. The cotton, bread-
stuffs, and produce markets have undergone no
essential change. Erie and Illinois shares have
declined, the former to 68}, the latter to 83. The
premium on gold has receded to 34 per cent. Ster-
ling exchange without alteration."

A Mos Durrimcrom.—A Vienna letter of the
lttli 'aye :—" One of our journals is now being prosecuted
nadir rather singular circumstances. The li'eusk Nada.
riding reproduced some time back an article concerning the
Queen Dowager of Naples, which the public prosecutor
considered as °Renoir* to • member of the imperial
family, the Queen Dowager being a daughter of the
Archduke Charles. Upon the protest of the editor-in-
chief of the journal, who pretended that the Archduchess
Theron had by her marriage ceased to belong to the impe-
rial family, the tribunal applied to the Minister of Foreign
Affairs, who admitted that, according to the statute of the
ezisting family, Queen Theresa had certainly ceased to be •
member of it. The public prosecutor has not, however,
withdrawn the prosecution ; as, according to him, if Queen
Theresa had reamed to be • member of the imperial
she is still • member of the imperial house."
SOCIETY FOR THE ENCOCRAUEMF.NT OF THE FINE
Arra.—The lecture season of this society commenced last
evening at their rooms, in Conduit-street, W., when Mr.
F. Y. Haddam, President of the Society of British Artiste,
delivered • moat able and interesting discourse " On the
Poetry end Drama of Spain"—• subject which he illustrated
with abundant examples of great force and humour. An
interesting discussion on the Spanish national character and
literature followed. The room was crowded. _ _

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AULD HADDRKL MONDAY. —The " London Dun-
fermline Association " met at dinner in the Green Dragon
Hotel, Bithopegate-street. on the 12th inst., to cele-
brate "Auld Handsel Mooday." This is the festival with
which the people of the comity (kingdom) of Fife begin the
new year. Its origin is very remote, and its cause uncer-
tain, sod it is a thigular instance of the firm hold a custom
takes of the elections of the mind, several unavailing
attempts having been made to substitute the usu.! new
year festivities on the Ist. The chairman, Mr. Lawson'
after the urinal loyal toes* gave the toast of the evening,
"Dunfermline and it. Associations." H. spoke of the
affections of home, the memories of school days, the friend-
ship of youth, giving quotations from Motherwell, 't Delta,"
&a It was somewhat illustrative of the Scotch character
for travel that two townsmen were present from the
extreme ends of tee werld—the Hon. Alexander Hay, of
Adelaide, and Theethe Canal, Esq., her Majesty's consul at
Nary., in Kumla, who both expressed themselves much
gratified in having the opportunity of being present ; Mr.
May testifying to the warmth of affection with which the
good old time was remembered in the new world. After a
few appropi ate speeches—in which the notabilitivw were
not forgotten, especially their townsman, the Earl of
Elgin—and some excellent Scotch songs, the evening was
wound up with "Auld Lang Syne."
Ditarautrriva Flax—At an early hour yester-
day morning a fire broke out on the premises of Mr. H.
Lovell, carpseter and cabinet maker, No. 1, Carthusian-
'street, Aldersgate-street. The engines were speedily in at-
tendance, but owing to the nature of the stock the fire
spread with alarming rapidity, and was not extinguished
until the shop and contents were burnt out, and the rest of
the house considerably damaged by fire and water. The
1 lou will fall on the Leal' and Yorkshire Fire Office.
1
Importing tea without colour on the leaf pre-
yenta the Chinese nimble off Weeks brown keret as in the
usual kinds. Horulussna Tea Is uncoloured, therefore &lea)s
pod sake. fold in packets by UP grata—(Advertlsomant.)