The Express.
London, England, 1865-03-11 00:00:00

SPAIN.

MADRID Mums 10.
The Gobierno of to-day says :—" The rumours
that are current of a ministerial crisis and of
apprehended rising' in the provinces are without
foundation."

SLESWIG.
COPENHAGEN, MAacm 10.
The Dagblad of to-day says :—" Several respected
citizens have been arrested in lelensburg for sending
an address to the Zmperor ',Napoleon, requesting
his Majesty's support to ohthin the restoration of
North Sleawig to Denmark."

The Schools Inquiry Commissioners held a meet-
log at 2, Vieterisotreet, Westminster. on the 7th instant,
wher all the comseheieneds Were pervert ; and oe the iith
Wet.. whoa there were precut—lead Uinta' (the chair-
maa), Lord Staalem, Lord Lytteltoe, fir Stafford IL North-
eel., the Doan of Chichester, • Bev. A. W. Thera& Mr.
It4lold, Mr. Wow Mr. Forster,. Kr. P. Eris, Dr. Maass.
and the Simehary Mr. Roby.
A meeting of the of the Patriotic
Peed was held at the Palace at Weetmioster 7esterdey
Genie the Deice of Somerset (in the chair),
The Earl of Dalhousie, the Earl of Hardwicke, 'Lord Rokeby,
Lord Oolcbeeter, Lad St. Lebeards, Lord Leveden,
Bight Boa. IL T. L.-Ossig Right Hon. Bir John Peking.
tot, Sir John Si:Troyes*, ter 'Morton Pete, M.P., Sir Hew
D. Boss, Mr. Themes Balm M.P.,. Colonel J. W. Patten,
ME, and Mr. John Ball: Captain E. G. Fielsbourne,
R.N.. 0,8.,and Bridgialler-Gilietral J. L. Lamy, RA., her,
atteeded..
istI7:IB:IASTEL MONDAY VOLVNTEZE REVIEtW44
The committee appointed to report on Folkestone as
site to be cheese frw Ureßarer volunteer vet=
inspeeted the emo& tomerebie
estoruised. The fait that the troops from Shorecliffe=
Dover, to the number of 8,000, could be brought into reqnt-
sitioe for military wee/Mims on the occasion. said that the
important fortification could be explained to the volunteers.
would, it ma thought, form an important argument
in &weird Deem The 'abject will he decided on Tues-
day sent.
ExiiiitrelOie 07 Aare AND MANUFACTURES FOR
NORTN-EAM7IOI LONDON.—On Thursday lest a meeting of
employers of labour end artisans iatereated in the manful-
tura of north-eastern London was held in the board-room
of the Agricultural-hall Company, far the purpose of taking
into consideeatioe a proposal for a local exhon ot arts
and manufactures during the ensuing autumn. The chair
was taken by Mr. W. IL Bodkin, sasistant-judgn The
proposal was Immediately adopted, and also a resolution
appointing a mmeral committee et gusrantan, to make
arraegements for carrying the said proposal into effect. The
movement is entirely uneoesected with working men's
industrial exhibitlosa, having solely for its object the pro-
motive of the art-workmaaship of the district. The exhi-
bition will consist of three distioet divisions—a manufac-
tures department, as milieus,' department, and a loan
department. The guarantee fund asked for by the pro-
moters of the exhibition is 2,0001., of which about me-
third was guaranteed by the meeting, and a considerable
portion el the remainder promised.
METROPOLITAN BOARD Or WORES.—The weekly
meeting of the Board of Works wee held yesterday, at their
offices, Spring-gardens, Mr. Thwaites in the chair. The
financial statement showed the current accounts to be
276,3971. Os. Id. ; duce% accounts. 350,000/. ; and govern-
meat securities, 51,371/. 10s. Mr. Taylor presented, in the
names of hie colleagues, to Mr. Thema** the chairman, a
testimonial sea mark of their respect and appreciation ct
the uniform and courteous manner in which be had fulfilled
the Milos. It cosseted of azisrtrait of Mr. Thweites
painted by Mr. Alexander Mel and bore the following
ioecriptioe :—" Presented to Jobs . Thweites, Rm., J.P.,
D.L. Middlesex, Chairmen of the Metropolitan Board of
Works, by his consegess, March 10, 1865." Mr. Thwaites
returned thanks in as appropriate !peach. Mr. Tito spoke
in complimentary terms of the uniform good temper and
firmness with which Mr. Thweitee hod fulfilled the office of
chairman of their board. A report was received upon the
subject of the material used fur the filling in of the Thames
Embankment. The report suggested that the material
dredged from the river should be carried in barrows and
placed above the water until it bad dried, when it would
form a solid embankment, instead of being thrown loco the
river from a bergs. The subject was, after a long discus-
sion, referred to a committee for coned/ratios and report.
The board thee adjourned.
ALanturro RAILWAY ACCIDENTS IN SCOTLAND--
On Wednesday morning (we learn from the Glasgow Sven.
leg Citizen) a collision of an alarming nature occurred on
the Hamilton line of railway, near to Cambizelang, between
the 10 a..m. down train and an up mineral train, bat which
wee attended by no fatality or very serious bodily injury.
In coneequeme of certain operations going on at the jsac.
tins of the Coatbridge lien at present in comes of construc-
tive, it has been found requisite, within the lad two or
three days, to close up one line of rails on the Hamilton
Railway at a point between Itutherglen and Combas.
laog, thee musing the trafsc to be carried over
a Meg% line only. Shortly before the collision
took Oboe a mineral train had been halted on this
single line at the point indicated. We are informed that
the danger signal was hoisted as a warning to down trains
of the obstructioa ahead. The melee-driver of the Hamil-
ton train does nolliessex to have noticed the danger signal, or,
if he did so, he failed to slacken the speed at which he was
running in proper time. When the trams came into colli-
sion the shock produced is described as sometbieg terrific.
The panisegers seated opposite to mob other were dashed
against each other with great violence ; some were thrown
from their seam upon the dos of the carriage ; and the
screaming of ladies, crying of children, confusion and gene-
ral uproar that followed were alarming in the extreme. As
no one could tell the extent of the damage done, the
passengers for some time were kept in a state of great men-
tal trepidation sad apprehension, and it was not until the
train began to move liackwards towards the Comboslmg
station that anything like calmness or order was restored.
As soon as the line wee cleared the train again moved or,
and arrived at Glasgow about 40 minutes behind its usual
time. Several of the puseegers have sustained coutusioss
on various parts of the body. The Edinburgh Courant
reports that at shout 3 o'clock on Thursday morning an
accidest involving a serious destruction of property', but hap-
pily unattended with any personal injury, occurred to a goods
Vain on the North British (Wavle:l4o lise. thee, which
was **mowed of shoat 30 waggons, priacipally laden with
fish and potatoes for the Ludas market, was about 400
yards beyond the tunnel between Stow and Bowland-bridge
Statham when as axle el one of the waggons (the third
from the maim) gam way, by which the rails were here
an, and sweaty-one of the trucks wen precipitated over
the embenhiseet, which at this poiat of the base im very
high. Way of the meggees woe sully mashed, and
peat part of the cargo rendered useless. The engine with
the two "magma at the ens end of the train, and four co
five waggons and the guard's van at the other, kept an the
line, aad temps& say dump. A large teem el men yore
employed daring the day Ia repairing the effects of the
disaster. and the Was was serried as with ltd.
intozroptios.