The Express.
London, England, 1847-01-13 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

THIS DAY. Pour 'oaock.

We have letters from Alexandria to the 29th ult.,
which give some particulars connected with the
sudden decease of Lord Bernard Howard, in Egypt.
His lordship, with the lion. Mr. Wrottesley and the
lion. Mr. Clive, arrived at Alexandria on the 18th
nit., by the steamer Ariel, and, in prosecution of his
journey to Thebes, left the following day for Grand
Cairo, which he reached in perfect health. On
the 21st he had been engaged preparing for his
tour, and in the afternoon paid a visit to the
British consul-general. Returning from the resi-
dence of Mr. Murray his lordship was caught in a
shower, which induced him to quicken his pace, and
haying run for a short distance he fell dead, when en-
tering the door of the Hotel de l'Orient. The body
has been embalmed, and will remain in the Roman
Catholic convent at Cairo till the wishes of his lord-
ship's friends are communicated from this country.
Prince Oscar of Sweden was entertained on the
28th ult., at a brilliant ball, by Mr. D'Anastasy, a
leading merchant of Alexandria, and Swedish consul-
general. It wee attended by Said Pacha and his
suite, Arten Bey, Minister of Foreign Affairs, several
government functionaries, and the members of the
different European consulate establishments. Prince
Albert of Prussia had concluded his second tour in
Egypt, and left Alexandria for Trieste.
Six of the crew of the English ship Royal
William are imprisoned at the British consulate, at
Alexandria, charged with the murder of an Arab
soldier, in the Mahmoudee quarter of the city, under
very revolting circumstance& Our correspondent
writes t the Peninsular and Oriental Company's treaty
with the Pacha for the sale of their remaining pro-
perty on the Nile and Canal, has:come to a conclusion,
by which the company have agreed to renounce their
rights for the sum of 10,0001. The transfer is to
take place in February.

In our foreign intelligence will be found some par-
ticulars of the movement in Switzerland, and espe-
cially in the canton of Fribourg, communicated in
letters from Berne of the 7th inst. A letter from.
Bale, of the Bth, says : The insurrection is spread-
ing, and has reached Marten, and the distnets Of
Bolls, Gruyere'', and Stofes. On the evening of the
6th the Castle of Marten was carried by amaittt, by
the insurgents, who made the governor prisoner. The
regency of that canton has tam up arms, bukthe
government of Lausanne has refused a passage to its
troops, composed of a battalion of infantry, and a
company of carabiniers. A report is current that
200 volunteers from Marten and Stofes have entered
Fribourg, but other accounts state that they have
arrived before the city, where they await reinforce-
ments. It is, however, stated. that at the first news
of the insurrection, the executive council marched
two companies of infantry on Newneck; that the first
battalion and the company of carabiniers were to
occupy Schwartzenbmg, Lanper, and Newneck,

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whilst the second battalion would be held in readi-
ness to act as circumstances required."

The Belgian :Minister for Public Works is, it is
said,"about to propose, at an early day after the session
of the Chambers shall be re-opened, a project of law
for modifying the actual Poet-office system. Accord-
ing to this project the rural decime is to be sup-
pressed, the duty of five per cent now
payable on the transmission of specie to be
reduced to two per cent., and three zones to be con-
stituted for the conveyance of letters ; the postage for
the first zone to bo 10 centimes; for the second, 20
centimes; and for the third, which is to comprehend
all the more distant parts, 30 centimes. The charges
in sterling will run, therefore, as about id., 2d., and
3d. the maximum.

A royal decree appftra in the Brussels papers, an-
nouncing that a public exposition of the products of
national industry will be opened on the Ist of next
July, and making the requisite regulations and ar-
rangements for its management.

NEW APPOINTMENT.--Mr. J. T. Arnold, of the
northern circuit, who has been for several years revising
barrister for the City of London, has been appointed, by Sir
George Grey, a police magictrate, to 611 the TICIIIICT at
Worship-street occasioned by the removal of Mr. Bingham
to Marlborough-street Police Court, in the room of Mr.
Maltby, resigned.

FIRE.—DESTRUCTION OF WORTIT-PARK HOUSE.—
This handwrite residence, the seat of Joseph Montefiore,
Esq., the eminent merehant, wee completely destroyed at an
early hour yesterday morning. Railway travellers from
London to Brighton will remember the measles, as seen
from the Three Bridges station, where Crawley is a little on
their right band, arid Worth-park about a mile on their
left. The house consisted partly of a very ancient building,
formerly a large farm-house, but Mr. Montefiore had laid
out several thousands in modernising it, and enlarging it to
more than double its former size, till It both presented an
imposing aspect externally, and wp a fit abode for a gentle-
man of fortune and oraideration. Re had been staying.
there on Sunday, and was out on Monday with the
Crawley and Horsham hounds; he returned to lunch,
and left at about four o'clock for London. The fire in the
lining-room, which was in the older portion of the house,
where he had been sitting, was then allowed to die out.
About half-past ten o'clock on Monday night the hong,:
keeper we, going through the rooms to ace that all was safe,
and perceived a strong smell of fire ; this was traced to the
dining-room, which was found full of smoke, and soon after
the door had been opener: flames broke out, and the house
began to catch tire rapidly. The neighbours were alarmed
as quickly a, possible, and hastened to render all the aid in
their power. Mr. Savage, the station clerk at Three Bridges,
who was formerly superintendent of police on the Brighton
Railway, was able to give some valuable tirections for the
emergency, and the labourers from all parts spared no exer-
tions ; but little or nothing could be done beyond removing
hastily some of the more costly and portable articles of
Rue:there. The nearest engine is at Reigate, ten mile,
off, and a message was sent for it by the up-goods-
main, but some mistake occurred, and the engine, in-
stead of being brought to Worth-park, was taken to Lord
Monson's, on the other side of Reigate; end, in fact, no engine
arrived from first to last. The tire, therefore, had complete
mastery of the premises, and burnt on freely and rapidly.
A large white cat, a great favourite, provided for its owe
Safety by mounting a tree in the garden, and bokinst quietly
on. •In km than two hours the mansion was on fire from
end to end. The roof fell in portions ; the noble billiard-
mom, and the chambers over it, were the last to yield ; but
before five 'o'clock yesterday morning the entire place was
burned to the ground, nothing remaining but a few frag-
ments of walls and some chimneys, parts of which have
been falling by scraps since. Mr. Montefiore, for whom a
mounted express was rent, arrived in the course of the
morning, and thanked his friends and neighbours for their
' assistance, remunerating the labouring men very libe.
rally, and congratulating all that no injury had occurred
to the person of any one. He is said to be greatly beloved
by the poor, and it was impossible for people to wort more
willingly and eagerly than those who assembled on this
occasion. The fire is supposed to have originated in the
chimney of the dining-room. It is seen now that there was a
large cross-beam about three feet above the grate, and some
of the materials which usually shielded it from the heat
may probably have got detached, and crumbled away after
the hard frost. There had been a large fire burning in the
stove on Sunday and Monday. No estimate has yet been
announced of the damage done ; but, of course, the utter
destruction of a gentleman's mansion, with most of its costly
furniture, must cause a very heavy los, to some party or
other. Mr. Montetiore is said to be insured, to some extent
at least, in the Alliance Assurance Company.