The Express.
London, England, 1852-09-17 00:00:00

ROMAN S'L'ATES.

Letters from Rome of the 10th state that among
the political arrests at Perugia is that of the bon of
the governor of the place. The persons arrested
have been sent to Mantua.

GERMANY.
AUSTRIA.

A letter from Vienna says :
From the I%t October next the mails betwern Austria and
France will no longer be sent by Vienna, 'wreck, and
Bale, hut by Vienna, Leipsick, Frankton, Carleruhe, and
Struburg. They will thus arrive thirty-six hours sooner.

PRUSSIA.

BERLIN, SECT. 14.
A meeting of the Zullverein conference is ap-
pointed for to-morrow.
A royal ordinance has just appeared addressed to
the collective mi. istry, and fixing the official rela-
tions of its various members to the minister presi-
dent. Its object is stated to be to bring the different
departments of internal administration more imme-
diately under the eye of the premier, to guarantee a
greater unity to the proceedings of the government,
and to give the King readier intelligence upon every
important act of his servants. The ordinance pro-
vides that every chief of a department must, before
taking an important step, come to an understanding
thereon with the minister president. When in the
ordinary course of government any measure requires
the royal sanction, the usual report thereon must be
forwarded to the premier, who will lay it before the
King with his own remarks thereon. When the
chief of a department has immediate audience of the
King upon any subject connected with his office, he
must previously apprise the premier, so that the
latter may be present. 'fho audiences of the minister
of war are excepted from this regulation.

OVERLAND CALCUTTA

MAIL.

(BT ELECTRIC TELEURATR.)

We have received the subjoined intelligence by
electric telegraph, rift Marseilles :
MARSEILLES, SEPT. 15 HALF-PAST NINE P.M.
The East India Mail has arrived. Calcutta,
August 8; Bombay missing. Nothing important.

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.
TILE TREATY WITH THE BOERS.

Everybody recollects tho extraordinary event of
3,000 Boers leaving their homes and property, with all
they could carry with them, to go into the wilderness, to
be tree from the tyranny of the Colonial. office, which never-
thelesa followed them with troops to compel them to elle-
gianoe. The Boers refused, and retired into the wilder-
ness, determined rather to return to the Equator than re-
mato under British sway. That transaction, when history
shall tell the truth, will be the most extraordinary in modern
history, and most disgraceful to the British character.
At last the British government, after paying the two
Kaffir wars, which the Boers would have promoted, have
agreed to the independence of the Boers. This fact has
been before announced, but the proclamation will be read
with interest :

PROCLAIILTION'.

H. M • " Her Majesty's ouinnssiouer, Major-General the
Honourable George Cathcart, in notifying to the Trans Vaal
Born his assumption of the government of the Cape of
Good Hope audit" dependencies, has to express the great
satisfaction it gives him, as one of the first acts of his ad-
ministration, to approve of and fully confirm the convention
and arrangements entered into and completed by the as-
sistant commissioners and a deputation of the Trans Vaal
emigrant', headed by tha Commandant• General Mr. A. W
J. Pretoria'.

" The lligh Commissioner trusts that the freedom which
the emigrants are thus graciously permitted to exercise
may result in lasting peace amongst themselves, and in fast
fliendship with the British government, neither entertain-
ing put prejudices or adopting former causes of quarrel.
He is, on the contrary, most anxious, should it be in his
power, to contribute to their welfare by promoting religion
and education amongst them.
(Signed) " ORO. CATHCART, Lieut.•Cleneral,
High Commissioner.
" Fort Beaufort, May 13, 1852."

IYTERNATIONAL POSTAGE ASSOCIATION.

The following letter has been addressed by
the aesociation to the Foreign Ministate in London' and re-
plies of the most favourable description :have already been
received from their Excellencies the ministers for Austria,
the United States, Spain, Brazil, Sardinia, and Portugal.
Society of Arts, 18, John-street, Adelphi,
London, 16th Sept. 1852.
Society of Arts, Adelphi, London, September 7, 1852.
I have been desired by the Council of the International
Postage Association to make your Excellency acquainted
with their proceedings, in the hope that you and
the government which you represent in this csin-
try will yield the association some assistance in
its researches into the best mode of simplifying
the complicated system of postage which has hither-
to proved such an impediment to commercial trainee-
lions, and to that frequent friendly communication between
the citizens of different countries, which must be one of
the surest bonds of union between nations. The associa-
tion trust that your Excellency will find that their object
is not merely to raise a popular clamour for cheap postage
in this and other countries, but calmly and deliberately to
discuss the best means of obtaining their object without
proposing to sacrifice the independence of the postal ar-
rangements of each state, which must depend in • great
measure upon the taste and habits of its people and the
form of government under which they live.
"The emaciation would esteem it as a favour, if your Ex-
cellency would take an opportunity of communicating this
letter to the government which you represent, and the
association will at all times be happy to consider any obser-
vations, suggestions, and even difficulties, which your
great eaperienoe may enable you so well to offer.
The Right Hon. Earl Onsaville is president of the asso-
ciation ; and I have the honour to enclose a list of its mem-
bers, meet of whom joined it during the Exhibition of
1851. Should your Excellency require any further infor-
mation oa the subjtct, I and other members of the council
will think it an honour to have au opportunity of waiting
on you, and giving every explanation in our power, if you
will name a time for such an interview.

I have the honour to be, sir,
Your Excellency's most obedient humble servant,
MANUEL DE YSASI,
Honorary Secretary to the Association."

MANSLAUGHTER AT MANCHESTER.—Jame/ Con-
nor, an Irishman, was charged before the magistrates at
Manchester, yesterday, with causing the death of Edward
O'Brien. Oa Tuesday evening the prisoner and the de-
ceased and several other persons were in a public-house in
the neighbourhood of Oldham-road. O'Brien noticed some
peculiarities in the conduct of the prisoner towards de-
ceased's wife, who was also present. O'Brien was very
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gone away in Connor's company. Next morning O'Brien
was seeking his wife, and when she came into the street he
was very angry and threatened to strike her. Connor was
with her. WOrds ensued between him and the deceased,
and the prisoner struck him at his own door. Deceased at
first refused to fight, but Connor continued his attack, and
at length they both fell strumtlirg to the Boor, the deceased
being undermost. He fell with the back of his head against
the kerbstone, and bled profusely from a cut. He was
taken home, and afterwards to the Infirmary, where he ar-
rived in a state of insensibility, and died at 11 o'clock the
some evening. The prisoner was remanded till to-day, to
allow time for a post ',torten+ examination to take place.
LETTERS FOR EDlNnulinli.—The letters leaving
London at eight in the evening are in future to be in the
coulee of delivery at eleven a.m. next day, instead et, as
formerly, at two p.m. ; and that the letters from that city
for London, which now leave Edinburgh at twelve noon,
will not be despatched until 3.16 p.m. by the night mail fur
London. A similar acceleratidn will also take place as re-
gards Glasgow and the north, and the branch posts through-
out Scotland will be re-arranged to suit the alterations in
the London mail, and will also receive the benefit of the
intended acceleration. It is also intended that the accelera-
tion shall take effect on the Berwick line.