The Express.
London, England, 1865-11-25 00:00:00

OVERLAND MAILS.

The following telegram bee been received by
Reuter's Telegram Company (Limited) from the
Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Com-
pany, November 24 :
CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS.
YALTA, Nov. 23.

The Poonah and Nyanza left here to-day at
1 p.m. and 4 p.m. respectively. The former may
be expected at Marseilles early on the 26th inst.,
and the latter at Southampton about Dec. 2.
OUTWARD 11011BNY MAIL.
The Ripon (from bonthampton, Nov. 12)
reached Malta on the 22nd at 9 a.m., and left at
4 p.m. for Alexandria.
The Syria (from Marseilles, Nov. 20) arrived on
the 22nd at 6 p.m., and left on the 23rd at 1 p.m.
for Alexandria.

THE AUSTRIAN LOAN.

The full prospectus of the Austrian Government
Loan was issued last evening, the agents in
London being the Agra and Masterman's Bank
(Limited), while the contractors, as before
stated, are the Comptoir d'Escompte of
Paris, in combination with 'wend capitalists.
The loan has been thrown into a somewhat
different form from that which was apparently
contemplated at the outset, being now
divided into 734,694 bonds of 19/. 175. sterling,
or 500 f., or 200 florins Austrian value in silver,
representing • total of upwards of 14,600,000/.
in stock. The bonds will be issued at 131. 14s. 4d.
each, with coupons attached, payable half-yearly,
of the value of 9.5. 11d. each, being at the rate of 5
per cent. per annum, from Ist December proximo.
IL per bond is to be paid on application, and the re-
-laining 121. 14s. 441. in the following instalments :
/. 19s. 7d. on 15th December, 3/. lls. 7d. on 10th
February, 31. Ils. 7d. on 10th April, and 31. lle. 7d.
on 10th June (leas coupon for 95. 11d.) ; but
subscribers will be at liberty to pay their
scrip in full under discount at 6 per cent. per
annum. Provisional certificates to bearer will be
delivered to subscribers in exchange for their
receipts after the payment on the 15th December.
With regard y
to
:
etahrie,redivemlauptifo. redemption, the following s.tatAe-t.
went is made " These bonds will 1'9.490,Cti
each drawing an equal number, or 9,928 bonds,
will be withdrawn and paid off at 191. 17s. (or at
par), with the half-yearly dividend. The drawing
will take place publicly, at the Austrian Embassy
in Paris, on the Ist May and Ist November of each
year ; the first drawing will take place on Ist May,
1868." The prospectus further states that " the
subscription will be opened simultaneously in Lon-
don, Paris, Vienna, Prague, Amsterdam, Brussels,
'Limburg, and Frankfurt, on Monday, 27th
November, and will remain open until Wednesday,
the 29th November, at I p.m., unless it shall have
been completed immediately." Finally, the mode
of allotineutis described as under :—" It is intended
to allot to subscribers the full amount for which
they apply, while the list remains incomplete.
The day on which the number of applications shall
exceed the number of certificates remaining avail-
able, the subscription will be closed, and applica-
tions received during that day proportionally
reduced."

THE REPRY,ENTATION Or TOTNE,.—A rumour
was prevalent in Totem on Thursday evening thst Mr.
Peed's' had reaigoed. The accuracy of this statement how-
ever is open to doubt.— Mitern Morning Nene.
CONVOCATION.—Yesterday moruiog Dr. Travers
Twist, the Vicar-General of the province of Canterbury.
attended at the Jerusalem Chamber sod formally peorogued
the Convocation of the Prelates and Clergy of the Province
of Canterbury until Friday, the 29th of December. The
bishops and proctors of course will not be Tequircd to
attend for the transaction of business on that day.
GILEENWICH HOePITAI.,—As the result of the
recent exodus of the minstoners of Greenwich Hospital, in
accordance with the recent arrsogemeata, the whole of
the female nurses, with the exception of six, were yester-
day discharged, sod left the establishment on superannua-
tion allowaooee, varying from 81. to M. per annum,
amordieg to leouth of service.
FIRE AT WHITZCHAPLI•.—A fire, by which the
lives of several pampa were greatly jeopardmed.took place
vesteirday morning at the Old Red Lon Wine and Spirit
Vaults, in High-street, Whitechapel. On the previous
night a slight escape of gas was detected io one of the pipers,
sod, in order to stop the leakage, some grease was
placed in the aperture, before closing the establishment for
the night ; but after the inmates bad retired to bed it is
thought the escape must have broken out afresh, sad when
the barmao come down at five o'clock in the morning he
found fire burning throagh the entire length of the bar and
spirit saw. At that tints seven parsecs were sleeping in
the building. Conductor Samuel Wood attended in the
course of • few minutes; with the Royal Society's mope,
and having affixed his mango against the bandies, he suc-
ceeded in saving four persons from the second floor and
three from the first floor. That bad barely been accom-
plished, sad the engines commenced working, when the
spirits In the enormous vats caught firs, sod explosion sitar
explosion followed. blowing Enguseers Purdy", and Lyons
and another oat of timber. They were all injured, but not
fatally. dome considsesble time elapsed Woes the con-
fiwatioa mold Iss entirely ritiogniahed, and that nct
Wore a considerable amount of propetty woe destroyed.