The Express.
London, England, 1846-12-15 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

THIS DAY. Four o'clock.
The Acadia, with the American mails, had not
reached Liverpool this morning at six o'clock.
The Newcastle train, due at the Euston Station at
a quarter before five o'clock on Sunday morning,
1 arr.ved this morning at eleven.

Oar foreign Express arrived this morning, bring-
ing Paris journals and letters of Sunday, but they
contain no intelligence of particular interest. The
municipal elections had commenced, and were occa-
sioning some excitement, as the contest had assumed
a semi-political character. At all events, it was so
regarded, doubtless because one of the candidates for
the office of Mayor was the personal friend of M. Thiers.
The feeling was, that this gentleman had been put for-
ward by the ex-minister with the political design of
testing public opinion and the influence of the
present government. The Conservative party had
accepted this move as a challenge, and the result
was watched with much interest. The king and
royal family were to reach the Tuileries, for the
winter, yesterday.
The price of bread for the last fortnight of Decem-
ber will, it is expected, undergo a slight reduction.
The price for the first fortnight was 46c. per kilog.
In the last fortnight it will be reduced to 45e.

The Madrid journals and correspondence of the 7th
were received in. Paris on Sunday, giving a report of
the commencement of the elections in that city. We
give elsewere, in our Paris correspondence, the
substance of an extraordinary express, which arrived
late on Saturday evening, with the first intelligence
of the results of the Madrid elections. The ordinary
mail received on Sunday brings the details more fully.
In the six colleges of Madrid the result of the first
day was as follows :—College del Rio : Pidal, 147 ;
Socoro, 141. College of Maravillas : Evenato San
Miguel, 194 i Martinsdo Is Rosa, 111. College del
Rarquillo : Cortina, 124 Mon, 147 ; Stamm 22.
College de Vistillas : Gomez de la Seena, 119; ds
Forar, 132. College del Dimples : Marquis Peralez,
103 ; Mendizabel, 186. College del Pmdo Francesco :
Lujan, 221 ; Don V. Juan Perez, 106.
These results of the scrutiny of the first day, says
El Herald°, show that the chances are balanced be-
tween the Moderados and the Progressistas. The
success of the Opposition is explained in the minis-
terial journal, by the fact, that the Opposition is
always successful in great cities.
El Clamor Public°, in a second edition, published
on the 7th, says that the ministerial crisis continued ;
that Armero, Minister of Marine, had taken leave of
his subordinates, and that MM. Isturitz, Sanz, and
Fueja were pressing her Majesty to accept the resig-
nations they had offered.
The Heraldo of the 7th says that the Minister of
Finance had signed a renewal of the contract between
the government and the Bank of St. Ferdinand. The
same journal admits that the first results of the metro-
politan elections give a probability of success to
MM. Mon, l'idal, and del Povar, and to MM.
Lujan, Nlendizabel, and San Miguel, Progressista
candidates.
Munn's., 7.—Th steer, Centa., 34 ; Four per Cents., 21
Fire per Cents., 21 ; e6f ; Coupons, 194.—Eschange on
London, 361.

The correspondence of the Levant was received at
Marseilles on the evening of the Bth by the steamers
Cairo and Hellesnt. The Cairo left Beyrout the
26th, and Alexandria the 30th ult., and Malta the
4th inst.
The Pacha of Mossoul has completely defeated the
rebel tribes. The cholera prevailed with terrible
intensity at :Mossonl. A terrible Are bad ravaged
Salonica, by which several thousand persons were left
homeless. 'the Maltese continued to complain of the
treatment which persons coming from that island
were exposed to from the Neapolitan government.
This government, on the other hand, says that Malta,
by the connivance of England, has become a focus of
revolutionary propagandism.

German papers report the receipt of correspondence
from Vienna, which adverts to reports prevailing there
of a great banking house being on the point of stopping
payment.
From Gladsbach, Rhenish-Prussia, it is stated that
the deepest misery reigns among the working classes
of that town. More than six thousand looms were
standing idle, and, in consequence, fifteen thousand
workmen were thrown out of work, and this at a time
when all articles of food are excessively dear.
At Lyons, according to accounts from thence lately
received, coalitions anddrikes are still the order of the
day. The operative silk dyers bad entered into a
combination, and ceased to work. The leaders sub-
sequently called upon the masters, and signified to
them the conditions on which they were willing to
return to their employment and continue to work in
future. In the mean time the workshops were closed.
The conditions presented were—the diminution of one
hour's work in the day ; the fixation of a minimum of
wages at 4f. per day ; interdiction of the masters from
employing more than one apprentice for ten work-
men ; the creation of a bureau for the latter, which
shall be charged with the duty of assigning the work-
men between the various dye works, and to regulate
the number for each. To these arbitrary conditions
the masters of eourse refused to subscribe.
This combination was deemed the more inexpli-
cable as the class of operatives embraced in it
were the most favoured of all, both by the con-
stancy of employment, and the rate of wages received,
which are stated to be, without eontradiction,the highest
paid in the Lyonnese manufacture. The additional
grievance inflicted by this coalition is, that it will
necessarily throw out of work other classes of opera-
tives dependent for occupation on the dyeing industry.

A bulletin has reached this country from Portugal,
by way of Vigo, dated Valencia Do Minho, 3rd Decem-
ber ; it announces the capture of that fortress by the
royal forces, and adds :
The enthusiasm with which the liberating force was re-
ceived here is indescribable. It has saved this province
from the destructive grasp of the Septembrista and of the
Miguelite bands, who, though few in number, would spread
wide their desolation.
The words" Queen" and " Charter" have been every-
where triumphant. No untoward occurrence has intervened.
The Governor, Joie Maria de Souza, has conducted himself
gloriously, giving one more proof that he knows well how to
combine the duties of the soldier with the loyalty be owes to
hi. Queen.
The important conquest of the fortress of Vslenot must
shorten the life of the rebel faction, already struggling in
agony. It is worthy of remark that the Queen's loyal troops
have not been guilty of a single excess. The worthless fel-