The Express.
London, England, 1865-07-08 00:00:00

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

THE AUSTRIAN REICHSRATH.
VIENNA, JULY 7.

In to-day's aitting:of the Upper House of the
Reichsrath, Count Thun, in a speech upon the
financial question, spoke against modern consti-
tutionalism, and combated the idea that absolutism
would cause financial difficulties.

The Count proposes that the Upper House should
peas a resolution declaring an increase of the taxes
impossible, and recourse to loans inadmissible,
unless equilibrium between the revenue and expen-
diture be thereby establiabed. Count Thnn ex-
pressed • desire that the government should intro-
duce changes in the different branches of the public
administration, and concluded by proposing that
the Upper House should express its expectation
that the government would not again require it
to approve such a budget as that presented for
1865.

Count Than's motion was referred to a com.
mittee.

RAILWAY ACCIDENT IN FRANCE.
MI, RSRTmv% Juir 7.

A railway accident took place yesterday between
Lyons and Marseilles. Three persons were killed
and twenty wounded. An investigation has been
commenced by the authorities.

INDIA.
(By direct Overland Telegraph).
BOMBAY, Jou 30, 3.10 P.Y.

Markets improving. Shipments of cotton since
the 23rd instant, 17,000 bales. Exchange on Lon-
don, 2s. Od. Government securities : Four per
Cents., soi ; Five per Cents., 104 ; Five-and-a-
Half per Cents., 110 f.

Tire New Kai' Act.—The new act to allow the
charging of the excise duty on malt acceding to the weight
of the grain used has just been painted. Except where
otherwise provided the act is to take effect on the Ist of
September next. it is enacted that say manatee desiring
to kayo the duty payable on malt made by him charged ac-
cording to therein used is to give notice in writiog to the
Excise-dike. The cistern in which the grain is deposited
is to be covered and faked up, and .a declaration le to be
made of the write. The duty I. to be calculated, sad
the imitator is to provide sealed sad weights. Thera is a
stringent provision ie this act as to penalties. It declares
that "if any act, matter, or thing by this act required or
directed to be dons or performed by any maltster or his
workman, or servant, shall be omitted or neglected, a re-
fused to be done or performed by them respectively, or if
DEATH BY LIGHTNING. —The effects of a shock of any act, matter or thing prohibited by this act shall be done
artificial lightning on a gentleman of our acquaint- or permitted by any maltreat or him workman or servant,
saes, who is very 'amities to the electric die- the imitator shall in every such cue forfeit OA sum of 100 f.
charge, may be here described. Under ordinary dream- over and above any other penalty or penalties to which he
stances, the discharge from a smell Leyden jar is may be subject under ay other act now in form." Some
inay noptonsint to him. Some time ago h. happened to pros s:we are substituted for acoditions contained is former
stand in the presence of a numerous audience, with a oath The PrewleWetwte et le =Awe* In force for a Peeled
battery of fifteen large Leyden jars charged beside him. of four yeam
Through some awkward/Nss on bin port, he touched a wire CHRIST CHURCH SCHOOLS, ST. G2Ol4:ll'S EAST.--
which he had no right to touch, and the discharge of On Thursday last the children sad friends of theme schools
the battery went through his body. Here life was were taken foe their anal excursion by special train to
absolutely blotted oat for a very seseible interval, without Loughton, in Edna. The party numbered upwards of a
a tram cd pain. Ina second or two veraciousness returned ; thousand in all, and was emeompanied by tbe clew cf the
the recipient of the shock saw himself in the presence of district, the Rev. G. H. If 'Gill, incumbent, the Hera. W.
of his audience and apperatne, sad, by the help of them B. Kerr and A. Gooier, curates, and the churawardsaa,
external facts, immediately concluded that he had re- Maus. Foulger and Sheriden. An ample supply of poet.
moved the battery discharge. His intellectual conscious- none for dinar and tea was furnished by private coairibu.
nee' of hi position wee restored with exceeding rapiditr, tote. As much of the old forest of Epping his been in-
let not so his optical consciousares. To prevent the closed nom last year there was not the same opportunity
mediate from being alarmed, he observed that he had for fathering wild flowers and indulging in beg rambles fa
ales boa his desire to receive accidentally such a shock the 'rosewood as before, bat they all enamiged to 'mad a
and that his wish bad at length bona fulfilled. But while very pleasant and happy day. On Friday the infants, to
making this remark, the apeman which his body pm the number of 420, were regaled with their usual =id-
eated to him was that of a number of separate pieces. The rummer treat in the seboal•roolne
arse, for example, were detached from the trunk, and Two PICSSONS STRUCK BY LIGHTNINO.—On
eimmed allefreded in the air. In feet, memory. and the Thursday morning, about 9 o'clock, a thunderstorm
power of reesoniag appeared to be complete long before the over the Pill district. sear Bristol, with heavy rain, =e gd
Web wee was reneged te health) scree. Bat whet we which the aistaria Said aim* a house at St. Gauge's,
with chiefly to dwell meth hem is, the obsolete Paialmatalt passing through the roof, marrially hijuriag and ratter
ef the shook there 'same be a doubt that, to a person tag the ceilings, end destroying, is the lower rooms, soma
stench and by lightning, the Weer from life to death furniture, ware, and other thine. Ia the house resider a
°WM' without etheelthethell being Is the least degree ire- Mir Ann 8112itb, who, with a workman, was is the house
Phoebe& It 1 se threes sleppsge d esthatlen, termer at the time, and the fluid Ara* both perste& Mies Smith
puled by a pear —Professor Tyndall, in The Baader. wee ere on fire, and her aim isseantly beagle amoral
Eirmern, AND Tits UNITID STASIS.-- preesa, who eneemeded is estiagabbies the Ire, bat sot
A further arise of arnermatkeee relating to the osentioe before her prom was severely burnt, aid she lies is a very
el Use eke w in America was issued yesterday. There precarious start nadir the treritheth M Mr. Lloyd, gm'
ore two learn from Feel Russell to Berl Cowley, Ostia gem. The workless, Porter, la his bands sad arm
the views of the 13ritish government as to Ile samaras to karuck, which paralysed Ems Ger a time, hat the seeds In
be siMpled ; a letter from Earl Oewley in amply ; elm a preingaway, se that it is Impel I. • few days theatre en
otter item Earl Ramell le B. F. item, his win not be feil—Werees Daily lam

CALCUTTA, JONI 29.

Exchange on London, 2s. Oid. Government se-
curities : Four per Ceuta., 88} ; Five-and-a-Half
per Cents., 109. Freighta, 525. 6d.

[STAMPED, IL ADDITIONAL.)

THE VIOLENT HURRICANE AT THE CAPE
OF GOOD ROPE.

Our Southampton correspondent, writing last
night, says :
" When the Cape of Good Hope mail steamer
Boman arrived home last month she reported that
as soon as she left Table Bay on the 15th May she
ex cad a hurricane which raged for three days,
and she was obliged to lay-to outside the bay
during that time. Some fearful disasters ware ex-
Yesterday a telegram was received from
racer, dated 9.5 p.m. on the 13th inst., and which
appears to have been brought thaw from the Man-
ritans by a French mail douse; stating that the
Caps of Good Hope mail steamer Athens was wreaked
in Table Bay on the 17th of May, and thirty souls
lost on board of her, and that the Cape marl steamer
Dane, lying in the Bay, was seriously damaged. It
is conjectured that the 90 lost are chiefly amongst
the officers and Grew of the steamer. They num-
bered 45. The Athens is a steamer about 800 tons
burden, and formerly carried the mail between
Plymouth and the Cape. The Diamond Company's i
steamer Mitenbage s daily expected home
with particulars of the news of the disasters from
the hurricane, and in a few days the regular
mail steamer Briton also will arrive at
Plymouth. Both the Mitenhage and the
Briton left the Cape about the 15th of Jane.
Captain Smith, an experienced officer moscunamaded
the Athens. She went down while she lay at
anchor, owing to the terrific violence of the hti
cane. The Briton, which left Plymouth on the
9th of May, took out nine passengers for Natal
and Mauritius, and it is possible that these were on
board the Athens when she went down. As she
was not to leave Table Bay for the Mauritius before
the 19th of May, it is scarcely probable that any
passengers starti4 from the Cape for the Mauritius
were on board. This is the first serious diameter
which has occurred to the Cape of Good Hope Mail
Company. The excitement here at Southampton
amongst the families of the officers ant mew of the
Athens is intense. and, unfortunately, it cannot be
allayed for some few days."