The Express.
London, England, 1853-12-03 00:00:00

WITHDRAWAL OF HAMBURG MAIL PACKET

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GENERAL POST-OFFICE, NOVEMBER, 1833.—After
the despatch of the direct contract packet appointed to leave
London for Hamburg on the 2nd proximo, the correspond-
ence for Hamburg, 'Bremen, Hanover, Brunswick, Meek-
lenburgh Schwerin, Mecklenburgh Strelitz, Oldenburgh,
Denim rk, Norway, and Sweden (which correspondence has
hitherto been conveyed, as a rule, by the hamburg packet)
will be forwarded from this office daily (Sammy excepted)
by the route of Belgium and Prussia, unless specially ad-
dressed to be sent by any other route.
Letters not exceeding half an ounce will be liable to the
following rates of postage, viz. : Hamburg, Bremen,
Hanover, Brunswick, or Mecklenbur4h Nchw•rrin, $l.;
Mc•cklenburgh Strelita and Oldenburgh, 5.1.; Denmark,
Md.; Norway, Is. bd.; and Sweden, Is. 20.
These rates, which include the whole postage, British and
foreign, to destination, will increase far heavier lettere, oc-
cording to the scale in operation fur charging letters in the
United Kingdom; and the postage may be paid in ad-
vance, or the letters may be sent unpaid, at the option of
the sender.
Newspapers for the several countries and places above-
mentioned will not be liable in the United Kingdom to any
postage ; but periodical works, not of daily publication,
which have heretofore been forwarded by the. Hamburg
packet to Hamburg, Bremen, Lubeck, Oldenburgh, and
Denmark, at a reduced rate of postage, cannot be sent i
Belgium acd Prussia, excepting at tae usual rates charge-
able for letters.

THE FATAL ACCIDENT TO DESCHAMPS THE
AEHON T.—A letter from Nimes (garde, of the 29th ult.,
announcts the death of the aeronaut Dechamps, whilst
making an ascent fr.m. that town. It appears that his
second ascent having been fixed for the pn virus day from
the amphitheatre, all the neemary preparations were made.
The weather was so exceedingly stormy that M. Deeharnps
thought it nece.sary to signify to the mayor that there
would be danger for M. Letur to d.veend by means of a
parachute, as had been publicly announeed.‘ lit consequence
the mayor authorised M. Letur not to 1:t rprm his part of
the enoogemeut catered into with the public. A little after
three in the afternoon 31. Dechscrips entered the car, and
the ropes being cut, the balloon rose rapidly above the walls
of the amphitheatre, the wind then cany'int it rapidly in
the direction of the south-west. In proportion as it rose, this
huge machine appeared to become lest. nait.ttel. About ten
minutes after the balloon had quitted the tarth it was ob-
served to commence descending, at fine 'lowly, and then
much more rapidly, its form at the same tunic becoming Per-
pendicularly elongate d, as if from a sudden escape of gas.
Its fall then became so rapid that every one that was looking
on felt convinced that an accident bad occurred. The bal-
loon fell nearly seven miles from the 'own, in a field abut
half-way between Generac and Besuvoisin. M. Dechamps
w.ay found lying at a little distoace from the ear, without
any sign of life. The body was at once carried to Beau-
suisin, where medical aid was called iu, but without any
result, as life had fled.
PRI:z•SIAN RAILWAY.—A letter from Berlin says:
The government is at present hsvuig carriages of the fourth
class built for all the railway lines in order to have pas-
sengers carried at the charge of 2 groschen and a half (28 cen-
times) per mile (about four miles English.) This measure is
altogether in the interest of the po.der classes, the present
charge on the l'russian railways being doubt* that sum.