The Express.
London, England, 1867-03-29 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 29, 1867.

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

(azurner; 72LIGRAIN.)

ABOLITION OF IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT
IN FRANCE.
PARIS, MARCH 28.
_ _ _

In to-day's sitting of the Legislative Body, the
first article of the bill for the abolition of impri-
sonment for debt was passed by 136 to 92 votes.
This article in effect abolishes such imprisonment.

FRANCE AND LUXEMBOURG.
LUXEMBURG, MARCH 2H.

Several manufacturers and members of the
Chamber of Commerce have appointed a committee
to consider what guarantees the people of Luxem.
burg would think it necessary to demand, in case
the rumoured intention to cede the duchy to
France should be realised. This committee will
take no action in the matter, unless Luxemburg's
loss of independence should become an accom-
plished fact. In the meantime, however, the
Grand Ducal Government is to receive a notifi-
cation of the objects for which the committee has
been formed.

PRUSSIA AND THE EASTEILN QUESTION.

BKRLIN: MARCH M

The semi-official North German GazeAs awl
Newt rPtessias Gazette of this evening confirm the
announcement that Prussia has counselled the
Turkish government to cede the island of Candia
to Greece ; and add that, in so doing, Prussia has
acted in unison with Russia, France, and Austria.

THE TREATY OF ALLIANCE BETWEEN
PRUSSIA AND WURTEMBERG.
STUITGARDT, filutcH 28.

The Committee of the Estates. have demanded of
the government that the treaty of alliance between
Prussia and Wurtemberg should be laid before
them, not merely for their information, but for
their sanction.

ITALY.
FLORENCE, MAROU Sq.

A royal decree has been published, dated to-day,
determining the subjects and proposals which are
to be submitted to the deliberations of the Council
of Ministers, and defining the powers of the Presi-
dent of the Council, and his relations with the
other members of the cabinet.

DENMARK.
COPENHAOEN, MARCH 23.

The King will not pay a visit to Paris; it is his
Majesty's intention to return to this capital very
shortly.

Prince John leaves the day after to-morrow for
Greece, in order to assume the regency of that
kingdom during the absence of King George. The
latter will proceed from Greece direct to St. Peters-
burg, where he will be affianced to the Grand
Duchess Olga Constantinovna, niece of the Czar.
After this ceremony King George will leave for
Copenhagen.

RAILWAY ACCIDENT IN SPAIN.
MADRID, MARCH 28.

A railway accident has occurred near this city,
through a train from Toledo having run off the
line. Two persons were killed, and 27 wounded.

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, MARCH 28.

The directors of the Boden Croditanstalt (the
Austrian Credit Fonder) held a meeting this
evening, at whiel it was decided to declare an
additional dividend of 6 florins per share, thus
raising the total dividend to 12} per cent. The
net profit of the company for the year 1866 was
1,048,379 florins.

NEW AUSTRIAN RAILWAY LOAN.
FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MAINE, MARCH 2R.

The subscription which has been opened in this
city at the banking firm of Baron Erlayer, and at
Vienna at the Anglo-Austrian Bank, for a loan of
10,000,000 florins, issued in shares of the Austrian
Crown Prince Rudolph Railway, has resulted in
applications for an amount three times in excess of
that which it is intended to raise.

THE BANK OF FRANCE.
PARIS, MARCH 28.

The return of the Bank of France for the week
ending to-day shows the following changer u com-
pared with that of last week :

PNCREASE.

Cash in hand , . . . fr. 12,1)00,000

Bills discounted . . . . .900,000
Notes 5,500,000

Treasury balance . . . . 80000
Current accounts . . . . 8,333,000
Decizass.
Advances

LIEUTENANT YORKE'S PROMOTION.

TO TIM ZDTTOR 91. TIM =PIM..

Bra,—Lieutenant VoriiealatlierT the Earl of
Hardwicke, is an admiral in the British navy, and
it is considered bad taste on his part to ostentatiously
take his son to court to present him on his promotion.
Fancy a Grecian or Roman warrior taking his son, pro.
moted nudes Ruch circumstances, into the presence of the
god Neptune ! such a warrior and his son would
have been afraid oof being commanded to leave the temple
of the god, and of having the trident thrust into their
persons as they were retreating from his presence. My
little boy said, "Mamma, why is Lieutenant Yorke pro-
moted and papa is not ; is he braver than papa?" " No,
my dear boy," said his mother indignantly, " but
Lieutenant Yorke's father is a lord, and your papa's father
was only a gentleman."---I am, Ito.,
AN OLD LIEUTENANT WITH SCARS
March X AND MEDALS.

A meeting of the several committees of the pro-
posed Leeds ?rational Committee of Works of Art was held
at the Town-ball on Monday, when the relied of the ex-
ecutive committee was read and agreed to. The com-
mittee have received the most gratifying encouragement.
The general owned now consists of the president (Lord
Fitewilliam) and 76 vice-presidents, besides the subscribers
to the guarantee fund of 110,000/., who are 18$ in number.
Mr../. B. Waring, who held very responsible positions in
the Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition of 18.57 and in
the Great Exhibition of 1862, has been appointed as gene-
ral manager and chief commissioner of the Exhibition,
and he has been constantly occupied with the works of
the Exhibition daring the last three months. Upon Mr.
Waring's recommendation, confirmed by the opinions of
others who were acquainted with them, Mr. Redford
and Mr. Chaffers have been associated with that gentle-
man as principal assistants. These three and a clerk form
at present the paid staff of the Exhibition, and their work
is carried on in the London offices of the Exhibition, at 26,
Suffolk-street, Pall-malL
A meeting of mining engineers was held in Nor-
m►nton on Wednesday for the purpose of consulting as to
steps to be taken in reopening the Oaks Pit, and recover-
ing the bodies of those killed by the successive explosions
in December last. It was decided that the safest and most
effectual plan would be to sink a new shaft. The work
will occupy about two years.
William Alexander, who was charged with
causing the death of the two females at Camberwell by
the fall of a cornice from a house, and admitted to bail
until after the inquest, appeared before Mr. Paget, at the
Lambeth Police-court, yesterday, in discharge of the same,
and it being reported to the magistrate that the jury
had returned a verdict of " Accidental Death," he was
ordered to be discharged.