The Express.
London, England, 1865-10-31 00:00:00

THE HONOREES OE STUDENT' AT LIEGE•

On Sunday last the first meeting of the Congress
of Students took plat
In °retry Osehio at Liege. These were
from 800 to 900 student' meant at ths inanguratkm. The
universities of Brawls, Ghent, and the Institute of Ant.
warp were largely repreented. The heeds of the Boman
Catholic traiversity of Louvain did all they could
is prevent the steam& of their university
from attending the congress ; but, bower, 41 of their
number acted far thenuelves, sad were preach at the meet-
Mg, where they were noticeable by the number 41 inserted in
• rosette of bias silk. Them were also students from Hol-
land, France, Spate, and other °mettles. The opening
&dame was spoken by IL d'Hoftschmidt. the President of
the LiZ:ge Committee. He explained the ebjests of the
congress ia a speech which was received with • grest deal of
applause. The steeling was then addressed by B. Smil.
gate, Y. Berke, Y. Dumareseu, and Y. Neetreit. It woe
reported that the bishop was about to isms • Laster
against the cengress. In the *mien a grand aseart was
inn to the stodents.

TEE OPENING OF THE CITY BRANCH OP THE
NORTH LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN
RAILWAYS.-(THIS DAY.)

This morning the preparations at the City termi-
nus of the new extension of these two lines, to the opening
ceremonial of which the Lord Mayor and corporation have
been invited, were completed, and the marquee on the
platform prepared for the reception of the 300 pests ex-
pected to take pert is the proceedings.
' The City terminus in Breed-street-buildings extends from
Liverpool towards Sao-4feet. the platform being
about 350 feet long. The building Is 194 feet 8 inches
wide, and the roof is supported in the metre by a row of
large columns 39 feet 6 inches apart, the roof " ridge"
being 62 feet from the level of the rails.
At 2 o'clock this afternoon the Lord Mayor and corpora-
tion, the direction and officers connected with this impor-
tant uodertakieg, which will have cast between 800,0001.
and 1,000,000/., will assemble at the Liverpool-street ter-
minus and proceed over the new line to the Deletes station,
and then return to the City station where a grand banquet
will be sena
to and
Among the well-known localities in Bishopega
Shoreditch through which the route of the new railway
lies
the line has been taken moss Holy well-Lae, and through
" Jem Macee's " hones, the " Ring John," supposed to have
been the Ste of King J ohm's palsies, Rhoreditek Church,
the new Unioe, kfaggerstoe Chase, and other public
buildings and prominent features along the route, the
only two stations being at the Oldartreet-read and
Dalstoerlane, the latter being erected on the pound
between the floes which branch off westward to Camden
and eastward to Hackney and Bow, the station lying be-
tween the two junctions with the North London Railway.
The two-mile post (that is, from the back of Liverpool-
street terminus) is placed in the middle of the platform at
Delstoulane station.
Although the line will be publicly opened to-day (Tarr
day), with as much osremony as on the *maim of the
opening of the Underground Railway, trails for passenger
traffic will not run till to-morrow (Wednesday) morning,
whey the geoeral traffic to Chalk Farm, Bow, Deletes,
Hackney, to will be commenced.

THE ABTSEINIAN Bake intends
leaving Loudon on his mission to Abyssinia in connexion
with the .kbysioian Captives Liberation Fund, on Saturday
next, the 4th of November•
King Victor Emmanuel appeared three days back
at Turin, on the balcony of the palace, between his two
daughters, the PrieceseClothilde and the Queen of Pxthetal.
The population repeatedly raised enthusiastic cries of welt
cease to the royal family, sad manifested their joy at
seeing the two princesses.
The Emperor Napoleon has ordered a scientific
. minion to explore the Cambodia from the source of the
. Meititou to Tbibet, where all traces of the river disappears.
The conatry which it traverses bee hitherto been unexplored,