The Express.
London, England, 1865-05-31 00:00:00

SPAIN.

A communication from Madrid of the 26th says :
At the oommeneement of yesterday's sitting IL Gonzalez
Bravo entered the Chamber of Deputies in a state of agita-
tion which was Immediately remarked. Ha 'make a few
words to the President, sod shortly atter several deputies
were seen to leave. The police and gendarmes surrounded
the hall, and no one knew to what to attribute this unusual
movement of the public force ; the astonishment was at its
height when several civil officers were placed at the door of
one of the reserved galleries, and a rumour circulated that
an important arrest ass about to be made. The govern-
ment has no right to have anyone arrested in the interior
of the legislative assemblies without the formal and written
authority of the President. What had therefore bar
pens] : It smears that M. Gonzalez Bravo had met
I stranger of tall stater', singular expression of countenance,
and wearing a dark beard, who in entering one of the gal-
leries had fixed his eyes on the Minister of the
'lnterior. N. Gonzalez Bravo, imagining that the stranger
meditated a criminal attack on his person, put into execu-
tion the precautionary measures above referred to. The
supposed criminal was arrested and takes to the questor's
office adjoining the chamber, where he was interrogated ;
the result showed that there were no grounds far the fears
of M. Gonzalez Bravo, as the individual in question was
found to be a well-known perms, and even a friend of
Marshal Harms, so that the affair terminated all at once.
In the course of the same sitting M. Rios ROW presented
a petition signed by all the professors of the Oentral Univer-
sity, praying for the restoration of M. Castelar to his fuse-
Mean

RAILWAY RATIEL—Our readers are, dobtless, I
aware that there has bean appointed in Liverpool a'u Town's
Committee,' representing the various branches of e,
with the object of securing, if ;orb* • redaction trades
rote of freight by railway and canal from Liverpool to the I
iaterlor. those rates being at present nearly twice as high
they are on goods conveyed to and from
•
ether large seaports. A areiderable sum of m
has been raised to enable the committee to accom=
their object, the Docks sod Barbour •Board
Mersey
sad the Town Council having each subscribed 5001.
towards the fund. Last week the town seat op delegates to
oppose a bill promoted by the London and North-Western
Railway, with a view to a revision of t heir general tariff ; I
hut after hearing the case of the petitioners the select
committee decided that the character of the bill before
them was not such as to warrant their interference in the
question of the general tolls and charges of the London and
North Western ay tern On the return of
the delegates to Liverpool a meeting of the sabecribers was
held, and it was announced that 5,000/. bad been gua-
ranteed by various parties io the town. It was then deter-
tiate
mined to prosecute the opposition, as well as to nego
with the directors of a new lien about to be constructed
from Manchester to Liverpool to connect that town with
the system of the Great Northern Railway. It was alto
decided to seek the co-operation of the inhabitants of Man-
chester and Leeds, and judging from the determination ex-
hibited by the Liverpool people, and the probability that the
agitation will spread through the counties of Lancashire
sod Yorkshire. it would appear inevitable that a arte-
rial reduction will have to be made by railwuys in convey-
ers of merabandies.—Tima.
DISCOVERY OF CANNEL COAL IN SEW SOLITE
WALl&—Adirioes have been received, by the last overland
mail, of the discovery, about 80 miles from Brdoey, near a
line of railway now in coarse of construction, of a workable
ram of rand coal, which sorrows the hitherto unrivalled
Boghead in richness. Its yield per tun is reported to be
17,500 cubic feet of gas of 31-candle illuminating power,
and /45 specific gravity. The discovery most exercise
great inflamer os gas lighting in Australia, the East Indies,
Opiny California, and [loath America, by enabling the gas-
works of those countries to use their inferior local coals,
and bring up the quality of their gas to a satisfactory
minatlog power by the addition of a small quantity of
Australian cannel.—..rournal of Oas Lighting.