The Express.
London, England, 1867-12-14 00:00:00

THE ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION.

The correspondent of the Times from Armesley
Bay sends the following despatch, transmitted from
Suez on the 11th inst :

" According to letters from Magdala to the 28th
of October the captives were well.
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" Abba Balms, ibuna, and Enghty, three Tillages
in Tigre, with a population of 12,000, had proffered
friendship.

"Four thousand Egyptian troops have mustered
at Maaaowah."

PRINCE LOUIS BONAPARTE'S OPINION
ON ROME THE CAPITAL OF ITALY.

The following is an extract from the Memo-
randum, signed in 1831 by Prince Louis Bona-
parte, now the Emperor of the French :
According to my ideas Italy should be united into one
nation, and should form but one family. It should have
Rome for its capital. There should be one unit of weight,
measure, and money. There should be no other custom-
houses than those on Its national frontiers. The chambers
should assemble in Rome and the Pope should reside in
the Vatican. But this chief of the church should only
have a spiritual power.

(REUTIR'S TELEGRAMS.)
FRANCE.

PARIS, Dec. 14.
The Muniteur of this morning reprints the note
inserted in the Moniteur of the 2nd February, 1866,
recalling the legal regulations relating to the pub-
lication of reports of the debates in the Senate and
the Corps Legislatif.

AMERICA.
(ay ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.)
NEW YORK, DEC. 13, 6 P.M.
The steamers Atlantic and Fulton have arrived
out.

Closing Prices :—Gold, 1331. Sterling exchange
on London, 110. 5-20 United States Bonds,
107} ; Illinois, 133 ; Erie, 73. Cotton Middling
Upland, 14.

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PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 13.
Petroleum : Standard white, 25k.

THE BOMBAY MAIL.—SCEZ, DEC. 11.—The
Carnatic, from Bombay on Nov. 29, arrived at 7 p.m. to-
day.

SURVIVING AN ExneuriON.—The Italian journals
relate a most singular story. A soldier who had deserted
and taken to brigandage was captured and condemned to
death. Being brought out to the place of exe-
cution a firing party of five performed their
painful duty, and the sergeant commanding
them perceiving that the man was not quite
dead, gave him point blank the coup-de-grace. In the be-
lief that this was really a finishing stroke, the body was
handed over to the gravedigger ; but as night was ap-
proaching the latterpostponed his office until the morning,
leaving above ground what he naturally supposed
to be a corpse. The unfortunate man, however,
was still alive, and the cold night air, by irri-
tating his wounds. revived him. Painfully he dragged
himself to the wall of the enclosure, against which he
managed to place a ladder which happened to be there,
got over, although all bleeding and with his arm broken by
the bullets, and delivered himself up as prisoner at the
nearest guardhouse. The Ministers of War and of Justice
each claim this resuscitated victim of martial law, but the
belief is that he will be pardoned. His wounds are not
mortal and his arm has been reset. _

CONSECRATION OF ST. JAMES'S CHURCH, FULHAM.
—Yesterday the church of St. James, at Moor-park,
Fulham, wee consecrated by the Bishop of London. The
district in the midst of which the new church is placed has
grown up within a very few years and has now a populatif a
of 6,000, chiefly a humble and bard-working class, the site
being barely 1,000 yards from the Imperial Gas Company's
worts, and immediately opposite the Britannia carriage
manufactory of Mr. T. B. Aribford. The bishop preached
from the text in Philippians, "Be careful for nothing ;"
end after the service there was a collection which amounted
ta76&61.

THZ ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR DISEASIS OP TEI
CHTST, Cm-ROAD.—The number of patients under treat-
ment at this hospital during the past week amounted to
857, of which 70 were new oases. The wards for in-patienta
are now quite fall, ami the secretary is appealing for
assistance to meet the heavy current expenses.