The Express.
London, England, 1847-04-06 00:00:00

haltpast twelve at night, comprising the necessary delays.
From Abbeville they may proceed by mail to Boulogne,
where they can arrive at six a.m. The despatches may then
be immediately embarked and landed at Folkestone at half-
past eight, whence they can be conveyed by the South-
Eastern Railway to London, when they may arrive at eleven
o'clock in the forenoon. Being distributed before the Ex-
change hours, they can answered by the evening mail,
which leaves London at nine o'clock the same evening. The
despatches may be shipped at Folkestone at half•past eleven,
landed at Boulogne at two in tha morning, at Abbeville at
half-past seven, at Amiens at nine, and at Paris atone o'clock,
which would allow time for the letters to be distributed
during the Bourse, and to be replied to by the mail of that
evening. Thus a letter might be written in London
and an answer received in thirty-six hours, whilst the time
required at present is seventy-two hours. This, however,
would require that the mails be transmitted by Boulogne
and Folkestone instead of Calais and Dover, so at present.
The distance between Boulogne and Calais takes two hours
and • half ; but the sea passage by Capin being an hour km,
the difference would be only en hour and a half.
PRINCE DE POLIONAC.—The funeral of the Prince
de Polignac took place on Saturday at St. elermain-en-Laye.
It was strictly private, the members of the family being alone
present. It was the wish of the prince to be carried quietly
and without pomp to his last abode. His mortal remains
have been conveyed to Piopas, and placed by the side et
those of his elder brother, who died about a month since.
HOLLAND.---11AOUE, MARCH 24.—EDUCATION OF
CHILDREN BY THZ STATE.—We announced, a few days
since, that a project of law, presented by the Dutch govern-
ment, for abolishing the :silvan law, regarding the education
of children by the state, of the XIII. year of the Repablle,
bad been rejected by the States General. A new project,
definitively abolishing this law, has since been adopted by
the legislative chambers.
GERMANY.—BERLIN, MARCH 30. UNIFORM
Posrann.—Letters from this capital inform us that all the
states of the German confederation are at present concerting
measures for a uniform rate of postage for letters throughout
the whole of Germany, and that a congress will shortly be
held at Dresden to this end. Meanwhile, the Postmaster-
General of Prussia, M. de Schaper, has proposed another
reduction of the postage is the Prussian states, and his pro-
position has been favourably received by the council of
nisten. M. de Grunwald, lieutenant-general in the Russian
service, has, according to the Journal de Francjort, arrived
at Berlin, reed with a mission to the King.
INTERNATIONAL COUYRIGLIT. M. Alexandre
Dunker, an eminent bookseller of Berlin, has received the
decoration of the Legion of Honour from the King of the
French, for a circumstance which more than the civil dis-
tinction honours the trade of which he is a member. His
house in Berlin is one of those which deal most largely in
French publications; and, anticipating the tardy action of
international arrangement, be has for some years voluntarily
i resigned a very large amount of profit by excluding from Ws
transactions all piratical editions, and refusing to sell those
issued by the !suitable proprietors.—Athennion.
VIENNA, MARCH 25.—The condition of the manu-
facturers in this city is deplorable. Most of the cotton
spinners work at a loss, and have been obliged to diminish
the number of their hinds. The unemployed spinners in
Vienna are now about 1,500 in number. They have neither
bread nor work ! AUgemsine Zeilung.
REDUCTION OF TUE ARMY.—A reduction will take
place in the Austrian army, to the amount of 8,000 men ; the
troops which in the ordinary course would have been dis-
beaded next year, will be disbanded this. The saving made
by this reduction will be one million of florins. It Is stated
that Archduke Albert will be named civil and military
governor of Galieis, and his brother Archduke Charles-
Ferdinand is to succeed him in the command of the forces in
Lower Austria.
BADEN.--CARLSRVIIE, MARC!! 27.—The Manheim
Journal of the above date says This evening three hun-
dred men of one of oar regiments patrolled the whole town,
and visited all the taverns and public-houses, in order to see
to the safety of the city, which, according to a gipsy prophecy,
was to have been set on fire on the night of the 27th. Several
families in Stephanie and Academy streets had, a few days
previous, commenced to pack up their linen and clothes, in
readiness for any emergency.

THE TWEED ROYAL MAIL PACKET.—The locality
where the wreck is said to have occurred agrees too exactly
with the estimated ship's place on the day assigned to it, the
strength and capricious set of the currents in that part of the
Gulph are so well known, and the statements in the American
journals are too definite, to leave thorn for hope that the re
port is altogether unfounded. We yesterday stated that at
all times, and especially at present, there ware generally few
passengers on thsa part of the voyage. We are enabled to
corroborate this statement by an announcement furnished
yesterday by Capt. Chappell, the indefatigable secretary of
the Royal Mail Steam-ship Company. When the Tweed
left Granada, her starting point on the present voyage, she
bad but seven passengers on board for Vera Cruz. These
were—Mr. Price, of tho firm of Manning, Mackintosh, and
Co., of Vera Crux ; Mr. Ellice, nephew of Russell Ellice, '
Esq., the East India director ; Mr. Ynchausti, Mr. Ferias,
Mr. Fontecha, Mr. G. Le Charlier, Mr. Bausel. It is poe
aible that passengen may have booked from Jamaica and the
Havannalt for Vera Cruz, in which event they would of
course be on board when the alleged wreck took place ; but it
is not considered probable that any had so booked. The
officers and crew of the ship alone number ninety souls.