The Express.
London, England, 1867-10-21 00:00:00

HUNGARY.

PESTH, Ocr. 19.

Into-day's sitting of the Lower House of the
Hungarian Diet the Attorney-General requested
permission of the House to prosecute the Deputy
Boerszoermenyi for the publication of M. Kossuth.'
letter, which he described as treasonable.

ILLDES.
CARLSRUHE. Ocr. 19.
Yesterday the Chamber of Deputies adopted,

after six hours debate, the treaty of alliance con-
cluded with Prussia on the 17th of July, 1866.

RUSSIA.
ST. PSTEFSBURO, Ocr. 20.

The treaty for the sale of Russian America to
the United States for 7,200,000 doll'. has been
ratified.

The King of the Greeks has arrived here.
A bill for the reform of the legal code in the
Polish kingdom bas been laid before the Council of
the Empire.

THE PARIS BOURSE.
PARIS, OCT. 20, 3 P.M.
•

On the Boulevards to-day Bente' were quoted at
67.40 and 67.25. They are now being done at
67.30. Great uncertainty prevailed, rumours on
the one hand being current that the French fleet
had left, while other reports spoke of an arrange-
ment with Italy.

INDIA.
(Via Trieste.)

CALCUTTA, SErr. 24.

Much dissatisfaction is expressed at the an-
nouncement that the Bengal and Madras troops
are not to take part in the Abyssinian expedition.
Intelligence from Birmah announces that Colonel
Tylche will proceed on the 20th of October on a
mission from the Viceroy to the King.
The famine in Orissa is virtually at an end.
There are 1,500 orphans to be provided for.
Cholera has not yet disappeared in the north-
west. The weather continued unfavourable.

The indigo crop is not expected to reach 03,000
manna'. Much rain has fallen in Bengal, and
injury to the crops is apprehended.

CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS.
ALEXANDRIA, Ocr. 18.

The Tanjore left at noon yesterday, and the
Nyanza at 4 p.m. to-day. The former may be
expected at Marseilles on the 23rd, and the latter
at Southampton about the 31st inst.

(BY ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.)
AMERICA.
NEW YORK, Ocr. 19, 6 P.M.

The Inman steamship Etna arrived out to-day.
Closing prices : Gold, 1441. Sterling exchange
on London, 1081. 5-20 United States Bonds,
112 ; Illinois, 122 ; Erie, 69/. Cotton: Middling
Upland, 19%.
PHILADELPHIA, Ocr. 19.
Standard white petroleum, 34i.

ITALY.

(PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
FLORENCE, OCT. 15.

All that was said in my last correspondence has
been amply confirmed by facts. We are in a state
of revolution, which becomes every day more open.
Many circumstances have helped to bring the im-
pending crisis to an apex. The noisy clamours and
irrepressible vivacity of the party of action
have, since the arrest of Garibaldi, tolerated no
bounds. The anger of that party against the go-
vernment for impeding the great commander's
progress as leader of the insurrectionary move-
ment, has shown itself chiefly in the determination
not to be frustrated in their plans. With him or
without him, impulse leads them towards Rome.
The hour which fortune has pointed out for its
fall from priestly dominion has sounded ; the
march is irrepressible ; they are followed by the
wishes, the hopes, the acclamations, the very heart-
beat of the Italian multitudes. If ever there was a
national movement—an impulse of unanimity—this
is the time when it has shown itself. The sort of
prophetic certainty (fruit of the universal de-
termination) with which the event is forestalled is
another peculiar feature of the ripeness of the
times. The intensity with which the topic occu-
pies the popular feelings is hardly to be described.
People meeting in the street, or taking a walk, or
entering a shop, are questioned concerning the
news of Rome. Doubts have given way to the
amplest faith in the future. But how will the
final solution be obtained 1 All have a various
answer, more or less uncertain and chaotic ; but
one point emerges clear from the discussion, that we
are going to Rome, which assertion winds up the
finds of every discourse. The liberal catholica are
solicitous for the fall of the temporal power. The
Neapolitans, Milanese and Piedmontese, Tuscans,
and others, have all and each a good, bad, or indiffe-
rent reason for wishing the capital to be at Rome ; at
whose august name all other cities of Italy, how-
sever great their claims may be to notice, bend
with a common accord. Florence as a capital has
been tested and found, according to the Italians,
to be a failure in every way—Florence, in modern
times, not long since the seat of a narrow paternal
government, with a people accustomed to be dealt
with like the favoured children of a good-natured
parent—the Toscana, narrow in views and educa-
tion, wanting in wealth, which gives power and
confidence in enterprise. Florence in fact finds
herself hampered in competition with her rich com-
petitors, Piedmont and Lombardy ; prices have
increased even to exorbitance within the little city,
and increase of gain has in no way made up for the
surplus of expenditure, as the greater proportion
of the commercial and industrial enterprise
has been absorbed by foreign (read non-Tuscan)
hands. The Florentines return the aversion of
these foreigners in a twofold manner. Their
matter-of-fact, domineering ways, their provincial
accent (for Florence is assuredly the capital of Italy,
with regard to language and pronunciation) highly
disgust the plausible, fastidious Tuscans. They
nurse their municipal sympathies with the warmest
devotion, and will be heartily glad when these
foreigners leave them alone once more ; none wish
more potently for the removal of the capital from
Florence than the Tuscans and Florentines. This
event, indeed, will be a matter of general rejoicing.
The Milanese and Neapolitans say in turn, " How
can tiny Florence pretend to the palm amongst
the Italian cities (after Rome), whilst we,
with our great and magnificent emporiums of
wealth and population, are at hand to put forth
our claims throughout Italy / " And the Piedmon-
tese with Turin snarl atill more bitterly than the
rest, for, say they, " but for us Italy would exist
but as a name ; we have given it the impulse
which has brought it to port. We have given it its
King, its chief minister, its army, its constitutional
development. Through firmness of purpose we
held on to these institutions ; we paid the imposts
demanded by the necessities of the times ; we made
every sacrifice, wherein the rest of Italy was not
called upon, for a long time at least, to join." The
Venetians again, with their views of religious tole-
ration, nourish a confirmed antipathy for the reli-

gious bigotry of the Tuscans, which, although only
skin-deep, obviates the possibility in their presence
for the expression of free thought. Thus all rejoice
with common accord at the notion of the impending
change, which takes them away from the shadow of
Giotto's tower ! Besides this general outline of na-
tional antipathies amongst the Italians, there are, it
must be remembered, endless scissures amongst par- !
ties more or less liberal, religious, rationalistic, and
free thinking, with their endless political shades
and various aspirations. The miracle, therefore, of
the present moment is fusion in one purpose and
thought.

FRANCE.

(nox ins owl ooßuspoinnvr.)
PARIS, SATURDAY EVENING.

The liberal papers are under the impression that
the opening of the Chambers will find Franoe in-
volved in grave complications, not only with Italy
but Prussia, and that measures of a very serious
character will have been taken when it is too late
to consult the parliament upon them, and when in
fact the opinion of the deputies can have no in-
fluenooktpon what may be deplorable consequences.

A letter from Cherbourg of the 17th states that
a ministerial despatch has been received at the
Prefecture of Marine ordering the inunediate
armament of the monitor the Rochambeau, com-
manded by Captain Krantz. She carries 14 heavy
guns, ten of which weigh 15,000 kilos. each, and
four 20,600, every charge from the smallest of
these, with its ball of steel, costing from 270 to
300 francs.

General Dumont, commander of one of the divi-
sions of the army of Lyons, was sent for yesterday
to Paris by the Minister of War. " Count
Palikao," says the Etandard, " has been named as
being about to be invested with a superior com-
mand in case of certain eventualities."

The Sonaine Financiire, in its review of the
Paris Bourse during the past week, says :—" The
fall which has occurred in the course of the last
six days has this remarkable feature in it : In the
first place that it has been general, for it affected
even French railway shares ; and, secondly, that it
has not gone beyond the limit which seemed to be
assigned to this depreciation by the course of
events. Sales have not been made through caprice,
nor fictitious excitement, nor even with untimely
precipitation. People had forebodings that peace
was endangered by the determinations which may
have been taken, and which have been announced,
and every one prepared himself against such a con-
tingency. But it is evident the hope is encou-
raged that some combination may arise by which
that danger may be averted."
The Bourse was again much agitated to-day.
The Rents opened at 67.40, and soon fell to 67 ;
but the approving language of Lord Stanley and
M. de Bismarck as to the French interpretation of
the convention somewhat tranquillised the market.
On the news arriving of the departure of troops
from Toulon, sales were pressed, and Threes closed
at a decline of 35c. ; Italians went down 25c.
There would have been a greater depreciation but
for the hope which seemed to be entertained, that
it the Beet sailed the French would act in concert
with the Italian government.

THE MEDITERRANEAN.

(nOl OWN' CORRESPONDEVT.)
MALTA, Ocr. 16.

It is gratifying to state thatthecholera is greatly
on the wane in Malta, and it is hoped that it will soon
entirely disappear. No attacks were reported yesterday,
and although to-day's report shows five attacks, there is
only one death. According to intelligence received yes-
terday from Sicily the cholera has also decreased at
Messina, where the cases are limited to about six per
diem.

The squadron, under the command of Vioe•Admiral
Lord C. Paget, is still lying at Spezzis, but, as a few canes
of cholera are reported to have occurred there, it is likely
that the vessels will quit that port and return to Malta.
Her Majesty's steam frigates Arethusa, 31, and Endy-
mion, 21, are daily expected here from Spezia—the fonner
on her way to the Piraeus, and the latter en route to the
coast of Syria. The iron-clad frigates Royal Oak and
Prince Consort arrived at Marseilles on the 9th from Spezia
to coal, and left again on the 12th for Gibraltar to join
the Channel squadron, and afterwards proceed to England
to be paid off. The Lord Clyde and the Warrior are
expected to relieve the former two vessels in the Medi-
terranean.

Colonel Woods, oommanding the Ist battalion Bth Foot,
and Lientenant•Colonel Robertson, in command of the
2nd battalion of the same corps, arrived in Malta on the
14th from England in the Nyanza. The Chief Secretary
to the government of Malta, Sir Victor Moulton, returned
on the same day in the Nyanza from his usual summer
leave of absence.

Amongst the passengers by the Nyanza for India are
the Earl of Gosport, Viscount Downe, and Sir Samuel
Hayes. General Weleverty, the newly-appointed com-
mander-in-chief at Madras, was also • passenger by the
Nyanza.
The lot battalion, Bth Foot, have received orders to hold
themselves in readiness to quit Malta for Canada early
next spring. It is believed that they will be relieved by a
Highland regiment from Ireland.
The Manila, with the heavy portion of the homeward
Bombay mails, arrived this morning in sixty-eight hours
from Alexandria, and leaves at 3 p.m.
The Ripon, with the light portion of the mails, arrived
also this morning, and leaves for Marseilles at 2 p m.

THE CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRAL-

'IAN mess.

IN, Ocr. 19.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-
ship Pere, Captain Coleman, with the heavy portion of
the above mails, arrived this morning. She brings 84
passengers ; specie from the Mediterranean porta, 4,5801. ;
Australian gold, 13,820/. ; precious stones, 1,500 rupees ;
diamonds, 7,500 rupees ; and watches, 3,000 rupee' ;
also 9,857 packages of cargo, of which 1,219 are bales of
raw silk, value 100,0001. sterling.

THE BOUNDARY COMMISSION.—SeveraI of the
reports of the Boundary Assistant-Commissioners have
been received, and will he hid before the commissioners at
• meeting to be held on Tuesday next. The majority of
the local inquiries will have been concluded by the end of
the week, and early in November the work of the assist-
ant-commisaioners will be completed. We believe that
the changes likely to be made in the borough boundaries
are unimportant. In many instances the residents in
thickly-peopled localities outside the present limits have
expressed unwillingness to be included in the constituen-
cies, no doubt from the apprehension thattheparliamentary
privilege would probably lead to municipal liabilities.—
Sunday Gazette.
THE LAW AND CHANCERY REFORMS FOR
MICHAELMAS TERM.—Three acts were passed in the late
session which will effect a number of reforms in law and
equity in the next term. Under the first act the masters
of the common law courts can transact business at
chambers. By the Chancery Acts each Lord Justice of
Appeals can hold a separate court, and thereby diminish
the number now pleading, but each can sit separately in
lunacy matters, and thereby facilitate the hearing of peti-
tions ; additional force may be given to chamber business
of the Court of Chanoety. The amended County Courts
Act will take effect at the beginning of January,
and will receive a great deal of the snits in the common
law courts, so that in a few months after its operation •
different phase will be presented.

LETTER FROM ONE OF THE PlthuHrEßS AT
HAGDALLAH.

(From the Bombay Gazette of Sept. 2t.)
The following letter, received by a gentleman in
Bombay, from Dr. Blanc, one of the prisoners at Mag.
dallab, has been courteously placed at our disposal by the
recipient, and will be read with interest, we doubt not,
by the public :
" Magdallab, July 23, 1867.
" My dear —,—l really do not know whether I am
writing to the living or the dead, to a confirmed bachelor,
to a happy Benedict, or to al/emcee at the Paris Exhibi-
tion. All your fault, dear friend,—since I left Aden not a
lne ! Well, I will not bully you too much, as you might
retort the same argument on me, the only difference
being that you whore I am, and I only guess
! where you are. Never mind—at the eve of a serious
crisis we must not forget our friends, so that even
should the worst happen, they might keep our me-
I mory as a pleasing thought. I suppose that from
I the papers you most from time to time have seen
'something about our adventurous Dli/sion, its rise and fall,
, and lastly all its elements being consigned to Cnrccre darn!
The summary of our career in this country is sully made.
First period of sunshine, basking in the smiles of royalty,
from January 1866, to 15th May of the same year.
On that day greatjia.leo ! From honoured guests we were
turned into prisoners, intuited, seised by the execu-
tioners' myrmidons, our sworibi, belts, and cape violently
wrenched from us, our uniforms torn ; we were dragged
along the audience-hall in that humiliating position before
all the officers of Theodorus' army. From that day the
second period begins, all of darkness and of anxiety, al-
. ways worse and worse. After • few days of respite and
quiet, semi-prisoners at Gaze from the day of our eskers is
the end of May, for a couple of weeks were pretty free
at Gast. On the 2.lth of that mouth second confisca-
tion of our aims and property (the fatter afterwards
restored) ; trial and confinement in • bleak tent near the
King's house at Debra Tabor. I was, however, allowed to
return to Gaffat on account of typhus and cholera prevail-
ing there. 3rd of July. Mr. Rosenthal and myself seized
at Gaffat by the King, brought to Debra Tabor, tried, sent
into • dark house where we were obliged to have candles
lighted all day. sth July, sent to blagdallab, arrived at
the fortress on the 12th of the same month, travelling
without bedding or change of clothes through the rainy
season. Four days afterwards chained by the leg like
rabid camels all in one small room. Afterwards RiIIISAM
got a house, Pridieux and myself • small shed unfit for
even an Irish pig, still better than the previous omnibus
system. Since then more than a year ago, we have
remained in stain quo, the irons gradually wearing
away every muscle of our inferior extremities, and
, long confinement ruining our health and weakening
our brain. However, left alone we managed to make our-
selves more comfortable. In November last Pridienx and
myself built • better hut, Cameron also a small arid modest
one, it is true, Nassau, as good a house as can be found in
Abyssinia. Stern and Rosenthal live in the first house
assigned to me, Peron' and Pietro (an Italian) have email
huts for the day time, at night n' the kitchen.' All we
wish into be able to remain as we are until ' Thomas
Atkin' comes. Our chains are no fon, however—heavy,
disagreeable things. Husain being, as the natives say,
the ' master of the dollars,' managed to get some lighter
ones put on, • kind of patent ring invented by our fanner
head jailor ; but what can poor fellows like Pridienx and
myself empeot Master of salts,' a house in common, used
also as a dispensary, heavy fetters, contempt and imperti-
nence are all the natives bestow upon the poor white men.
Dull times, no books, seldom papers, nothing but our own
, selves to snarl at, but Theodore to curse. Bad food
horrid beds, tyranny and bullying from eve'," one. Dear
' friend, pity the European captives of Theodorus. But
enough about ourselves—a few words about our kind
dear host,' we have not brought him good luck—he hiving
down so fast that he must collapse shortly into a nem
ibrigand—why he is one already ! No country, no people,
no friends, he lives by plunder and passes the time
torturing or killing, not his enemies, he seldom can get
• bold of them now, but his friendsand his soldiers. He seems
to have adopted a new system of religion and medicine ;
he sacrifices daily sonic hundred victims, to what divinity I
cannot say, unless it is something like the furies he wet-
! ships ; and to cure the excitement of his nervous system,
the cries of those be burns alive are the only solace ho can
find. When we arrived he imposed upon us by his sweet
• tongue ; we saw only the wild beast at rest, in its drowsy
, state, we thought Lim good, the rebels bad, and that vir-
, tue and goodness would at last prevail over rebellion and
' mutiny. But the mask soon fell, even at Gaze we saw
the six feet long hippopotamus whip tearing to pieces the
delicate skin of an Abyssinian lady, and her corpse
removed on a small mat trickling with her blood, but
• this was nothing. Gondar disappeared in flames, kin-
dled by the 'father of his people;' so that the rebels
on the surrounding height might see far and dis-
tant the glare of the doomed city; priests, woolen,
and a few wretches supposed to be rebels were
added as fuel ; so that the fire should not go out by want
of materials. Chiefs after chiefs were chained, tortured,
and crowded together in small huts ; day after day new
murders, new tortures, until one morning be enjoyed the
eight of 670 of bin soldiers butchered on • mere suspicion
of their intention of desiring to run away. This was, how-
ever, too much ; even the greatest scoundrels around him
got frightened, desertion of all the men from the few pro-
vinces until then still faithful to him took place
the next morning, so that the diner that day out
670 corpses coot him the remainder of his king-
dom—rather • heavy bill of fare. In this country
there is no rule, no more sovereign, anarchy alone rules
sumeme, peasants murder soldiers, soldiers peasants ; and
Theodorus both. The Galls are in the field, Wakshum
Gobaze is knocking about, anxious to have • shy at Theo-
dorus, but afraid of his own soldiers. This cannot last
very long ; the peasants kill their cows and leave the soil
to take care of itself ; they staml in arms and defend, in
their way, their property. For us it is bad enotigh ; little
chance we have if our people do not come soon. Theo-
dorm on his last legs does not stand ou trifles. What
cares he now about the Queen of England, of her friend-
ship'
He wants blood, nothing else ; of black be ought to
be satiated, next he will try what the white man's is like,
indeed he has nearly begun as a few days ago he killed the
six remaining servant* of the five Europeans, who last
January tried to escape ; one of these servants was a
native of Msssowah, so you see he is getting on. Our
only hope is that, reduced as he is, be will not venture
here, having to cross eighty miles of country, all in
arms against him. Specially if Gobaze, his blood
enemy, is in the neighbourhood ; these two must
come to • clash WWII day; for our sake the
I sooner the better; though a. far as liberty is con-
cerned it matters little. We would not be allowed to
leave the country, only an army can do that. No one in
this country believe,' in the white man any more, and
I unless they get a practical lesson, diplomacy will be of no
' avail ; still in Gobare'• hands our lives are safe. If Thee-
: dents oomes here after the mina, I can only say, in that
case ore pro noble.' Good bye. Send me all the news
and extracts of the Indian papers about oar affairs. I
I should like to see their opuuone.—Believe me, yours
affectionately, (Sd.) "H. BLANC."

TEE FENTANS AT CREATEIL—AbOtIE 10 o'clock
on Friday night an explosion was beard on the roof of the
magistrates' mart, which adjoins the police-office, at
I Chester, and a strong smell of phosphorus became appa-
rent. It was goon discovered that the wooden ventilator
was on fire. The fire brigade attended promptly, and
found the roof covered for a large extent with a slow white
phosphoric flame, which resisted the action of water, and
was with great difficulty extinguished. The neck of a
pint bottle and fragments of the glass were found. They
were coated with a phosphoric substance. Notice was
given of the circumstance, and the soldiers at the
Castle and the police and volunteers were placed in readi-
ness for any Fenian attempt, but the night passed quietly.
The Watch Committee of the Chester Corporation held a
committee-meeting on Saturday afternoon. The mayor and
a number of the city justices, including Merl Grosvenor,
M.P., were present. The requisite permission to swear in
special constables was granted and a resolution passed to
offer a reward of 100/. for the apprehension of the person
who committed the cowardly act. Special constable cap-
tains were also sworn in. The authorities at Wrexham
(12 miles from here) were also alarmed on Friday night
by receiving three consecutive telegrams, the effect of
which was that the volunteers of that town and neighbour.
hood were called out. No breach of the peace occur,ed,
however.
THE RAGE FOR Brrnwo.—Another such a week
as the Second October will go far to destroy the whole
race of backers, convert Tattersall's moms into a literary
and mechanics' institute, and cause the last plunger to
be presented, after being embalmed, to the South Ken-
sington Museum, for bookmakers to point out to their
sons as the representative of an extinct class. Seriously
speaking, this sketch is hardly overdrawn, and It is
to be hoped that operations will be conducted
on a milder scale, and that gentlemen will not run
the risk of being styled " Welshers" without being able
to resent the imputation, for no one can deny that over-
trading is the secret of the rotten state of Denmark. It
is rumoured that some stringent regulations for the settle-
ment of accounts will be brought In and carried in the
spring, so that parties who lay out more than a year's in-
come on a Selling Stake must do so at their nwn risk. At
the same time I am free to confess the whole blame of such
a state of things should not attach to the hacker, for the
tempter is as bad as the tempted. And if &little more dis-
cretion were observed by the principal bookmakers, and
facilities not offered to heirs apparent or presumptive to
bet in a manner that must encumber their future prospects
the Turf would be in a far healthier enedit•on, while th-
number of its enemies would bs considerably reduced.—
' " Argue of the Pose.
HoserrnE won DOEIARZE or THEORIST, Vic-roue,
PABE.—The number of patients relieved at this institution
during last week was 1,268, of which 316 were new eases.