The Express.
London, England, 1867-01-16 00:00:00

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

(smrtn's rrusown.)
PRUSSIA.
BERLIN, Jar. 15.

In the Upper House to-day the debate on the
bill for increasing the number of the members of
the Chamber of Deputies was resumed. Count'
Bismarck made a speech explaining the necessity
of adopting the bill. He declared that if all efforts
to pass the bill into law should prove unsuccessful,
the government would have to dissolve the Cham-
bers and convoke a fresh Diet, in order to demand
the extension of the term fixed for the introduc-
tion of the Prussian constitution into the newly
incorporated States.
The bill was subsequently passed, by 64 to 28
votes, in the form adopted by the Lower House.
Eighteen members refrained from voting.
In to-day's sitting of the Chamber of Deputies
Herr Twesten put a question to the Minister of
Justice relative to the arrest of Herr Sonntag, a
Hanoverian merchant, known to be hostile to the
Prussian annexation, who has been confined in the
fortress of Minden. The Minister of Justice re-
plied that Herr Sonntag was the soul of the agita-
tion against Prussian rule in Hanover, and that
an inquiry had been ordered into his acts. " The
government," added the minister, " will continue
to apply exceptional measures in exceptional cases.
Such questions as those put by Herr Twesten have
only the effect of maintaining agitation."

ARRIVAL OF FRENCH TROOPS FROM
MEXICO.
ST. NAZAIRE, JAN. 15.

The French mail packet Floride arrived here to-
day, from Mexico on the 18th December, with 936
French troops on board.

GREAT SNOW-FALL IN FRANCE.
LYONS, JAN. IS.

Considerable quantities of snow have fallen here,
at Lund, and in various other localities in the
South. At Lunel the snow is 50 centimetres deep.
No trains are arriving at Lyons, and the railway
communication with many other places is inter-
rupted.

HURRICANE AT NAPLES.
NAPLES, JAN. 15.

A terrible hurricane occurred here during the
night, causing considerable damage to the shipping
in the bay, and, as far as has yet been ascertained,
four deaths. Twenty merchant vessels have been
lost, and others placed in serious jeopardy. Four
vessels have also been lost off Baja, through the vio-
lence of the gale.

INDIA.
(BY DIRECT OVERLAND TELEGRAPH.)

BOMBAY, JAN. 4, 5.5 P.Y.

71b. shirting', 6r. 12a.; 811 b. ditto, Br. ; 40's
mule twist, 15./s. Cotton advancing. Dhollerah,
263 r. Shipments of the week, 12,700 bales. Ex-
change on London, Is. Hid. Government se-
curities : Four per Cents., 88 ; Five per Cents., 1061.
The latest London date is December 18.
CALCUTTA, JAN. 3.

811 b. shirting', Br. Ga.; 40's mule twist, Ba.
Exchange on London, 2s. Freights to Eng-
land, 50s.

CHINA.
(BY OVERLAND TILRGRAPH PROW GALL!.)
HONG KONG, Dgc. 15.

Grey ahirtings, 6} catty, dol. 3.60. Tea dull ;
total export, 94,500,0001 b. Exchange on London,
4s. 6id.

SHANOHAE, Dw. 7.

Tea firm. Silk lower. Export to date, 27,500
bales. Exchange on London, 6a. 41d. Freights,
tea, 2/.

THE Nsw BISHOP OP CALCITITA.—The Rev.
Robert Milman, M.A., who has been nominated to the
bishopric of Calcutta, rendered vacant by the untimely death
of the Right Rev. Dr. G. L. Cotton, is a son of the Very
Rev. Dr. H. H. Milman, dean of St. Paul's cathedral. He
was educated at Exeter College, Oxford, where he took
his B.A. degree in 508. In the following year he was
admitted into holy orders by the Bishop of Peterborough.
Having served some minor offices in the church, he was in
1840 nominated by the Dean and Chapter of Westminster
his father being at that time one of the canons) to the
vicarage of Chaddleworth. Berkshire, and this benefice he
held until 1851, when he was presented by his father, who
had then become Dean of St. Paul's, to the vicarage of
Lamborn., Berkshire. This living he held until 1842,
when he was nominated by the Bishop of Oxford to the
vicarage of Great Marlow, Buckinghamshire, of which
parish he is at present the incumbent. He is the author of
several works. Ho will probably be consecrated with the
Bishops of Grafton and Victoria (Hong Kong), in Canter.
bury Cathedral, on Saturday, the 2nd of February.
FORZION-OPTICE, JAN. 14.—The Queen has been
pleased to approve of Senbor Miguel Suarez Guanea as
Consul at Sierra Leone for his Majesty the King of Por-
i tngal and the Algarve'. The Queen has also been pleased
to approve of Mr. Augustus Charles Gumpert as Consul at
Bombay for his Majesty the King of Sweden and Norway.
—Gazelle.

WAR OFFICE, JAN. 15.—The Queen has been
graciously pleased to give orders for the appointment of
Morgan Hugh Foster, Fact., Assistant Paymaster-General,
to be an ordinary member of the siril division of the third
class, or companions of the Most Honourable Order of
the Bath. —Gazette.

BOARD OF TRADR, WHITEHALL, JAN. 14.—The
Right Bon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council
for Trade have received from the Secretary of State for
War a notification to the effect that, on and after the
12th inst., arrivals at Gibraltar from Southampton and all
other porta of the United Kingdom are admitted to free
pratigne.--Gazate.