The Express.
London, England, 1867-12-04 00:00:00

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, DEC. 3.

In committee of the Upper House of the Reich.-
rath yesterday, the debate came on upon the
amendment& to the constitution laid before the
house.

Baron Beust made a long statement respecting
the attitude observed by the government towards
the Upper House, and dwelt upon the necessity of
its advances being met in a corresponding spirit.
The amendments relating to medical legislation,
right of domicile, and education, were rejected; the
arrangements respecting registers of landed pro-
perty were referred to the Diet ; and the clause
regarding the power of decision by the Emperor in
doubtful cases of competence between the Reichs-
rath and the Diet was not carried. The other
amendments were not passed.

BAVARIA.

MUNICH, Disc. 3, EWiING.

At the sitting of the Upper House of the Bava-
rian Diet to-day, the committee brought in a re-
port recommending the adoption of the bill regu-
lating the exercise of the different trades mainly
in the form in which it had been sent up by the
Lower House.

RUSSIA AND TURKEY.
ST. PETERSBURG• Dicc 3, Evzsura.

The semi-official Journal de Si. Peterabourg per-
ceives with regret that the documents published by
the French government in the Yellow-book present
Eastern affairs in an improbable aspect, and very
imperfectly explain the negotiations that have
taken place as to the question of Crete. They not
only represent the form in which the collec-
tive declaration of the Powers was Issued,
in a modified shape, but they even weaken the
extent of its application. The Jounial adduces in
prtoof of the correctness of its views the unalterable
refusal of the Cabinet of Vienna, in its note of the
sth, to join in the collective declaration. Had
that declaration possessed the sense and bearing
the documents published in the Yellow-book would
lead public opinion to believe, Baron Benet would
have signed it without hesitation.

THE BRAZIL MAIL.
PLYMOUTH, Die. 4.
The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's ship
Shannon, from the Brazils, has arrived here, where
her mails will be landed, and she will proceed to
Southampton about noon. Among her passengers
are Mr. Edward Thornton, her Britannic Majesty's
Minister at Rio, and family ; Lord Dundonald,
the Hon. Captain Cochranco, and the Hon. P. Le
Poer Trench.

During her homeward voyage to Lisbon the
Shannon experienced fine weather, but from there
she encountered heavy westerly gales. She spoke
the Royal Mail steamer Atrato, all well.

Another revolution had broken out in the River
Plate. A Colonel Paparicio raised the standard
of revolt on the 23rd October, near the city of
Parpandu. It was rumoured that large numbers
of the disaffected were joining Aparicio, and that
the affair was likely to be serious.
The Brazilian Minister of Marine had established
a fortnightly service between Paraguay and Rio to
alternate with the mails brought by the English
and French River Plate packets.

Reinforcements continue to be forwarded by the
Brazilian government to its army at Paraguay.
The third of the small ironclad' intended for
river servioe was launched at the end of October,
and would in a few days follow the other two, who
were making their way to the seat of war.
__ _

No official or circumstantial report had yet come
to hand of either the alleged victories obtained
over the Paraguayan cavalry, in one case by the
Brazilian cavalry, and in the other by the Argen-
tines.