The Express.
London, England, 1867-02-06 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Gold, 137 i. Sterling exchange on London, 108 i;
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Erie, 611. Cotton: Middling Upland, 33c.

THE MINMEZIAL Canals me AI:STRIA. —We
read, in the Debate of yesterday :—" A Vienna despatch,
received last night, announces that the ministerial crisis
foreseen since the arrival in office of Baron Beust, has just
taken place. Count Belcredi has sent in his resignation.
4. to the causes which have occasioned the resignation of
Count Belcredi, they are only imperfectly explained by
the despatch. The Hungarian question was the subject,
in dispute between the two ministers, Baron Beast wish-1
big the convocation of a limited Reichsrath, according to
the February charter, and being in favour of accord-
ing in advance the concessions claimed by Hun-
gary, while Count Belcredi insisted that the pro.
tines on this side the Leitha should be called
upon to vote upon the Hungarian question before settling
It. It is true, there has never been, as is well known,
any unity of views in the Austrian cabinet upon the
stairs of Hungary ; but it may alas be supposed that by a
sort of tacit understanding it was upon this point the
struggle for influence centred, which was of necessity to
occur between Count Belcredi and Baron Beast on the
very day the latter entered the ministry. It is scarcely
doubtful now that Baron Beust will finally prevaiL"
GIFT OF SEWING MACHINES.—M. Charles!
Goodwin, a Paris manufacturer, some time ago placed at
the disposal of the Empress Eugenie 178 sewing machines,
of the value of 330 f. (14!.) each, to be given by her to
young girls and women whose circumstances rendered
them the most fitting recipients of the present. The
Moniteur of yesterday contains a report to the Empressl
from M. La Valette, the Minister of the Interior, stating
that in accordance with her Majesty's orders, the writer
hail requested each of the prefects to draw up a list of
six candidates for the sewing machines, specially selecting I
young girls prematurely become the support of their
parents, pour mothers, widows, and deserted wives. "The'
claims of each of these candidates," adds the re-
port, " have been placed under the eyes of your Majesty,
and you have thus been able to appreciate how frequent
are the examples of self-denial and filial devotion among
the working classes. Among the persons named by the I
prefects there was not one who did not recommend her-1
self to the benevolence of the administration by irreproach-
able conduct, the family duties nobly performed, misfor- I
tune courageously supported." As only two candidates,
however, out of every six could be chosen, i.e. two for
each of the departments of France, the Empress herself I
made the selection ; and a list of her awards, with the
ppeand circumstances of each recipient, is appended to the
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THE LIBERAL CLERGY or NAPLES. —A Naples
letter, in the Paris Dttatt, says :—" The liberal clergy,
since the return of the bishops, have been the object of •
veritable persecution from the ecclesiastical authorities,
lo that they have been forced to rehires' • memorial to
parliament and to the Minister of Publis Worship to ex-
lain their deplorable position. The churches they served
ring six yeses have been taken from than by the Oar-
(final Archbishop, who, not content with that, proceeds
to re-consecrate the buildings as if they had been pro-
faned. The ceremony has been accomplished with special
pomp for the old Church of the Jesuits, when all the
cream of the legitimist party aseembled for the occasion."
THE PORTUGUESE IN WESTERN AFRICA..—In the
List sitting of the Portuguese Chamber of Deputies, IL
Seizes questioned the government relative to en affair at
Zaire, on the western coast of Africa, in which a Portu-
guese ship was mixed up. The Minister of Marine re-
plied that a merchant established on that point of the
coast had applied to the commander of the Portuguese
schooner Napier to protect him against the attacks of the
negroes. The captain disembarked with eighteen men and
• piece of cannon, and endeavoured to obtain satisfaction
from the natives. But before the end of the negotiations
the negroes, arriving in great numbers, attacked the mer-
chant's home and the position occupied by the Portuguese
detachment. In presence of such an invasion, and after •
vigorous resistance, the forces were obliged to retire to
their ship, having one dead and several wounded. During
the passage to the ship one boat capsized and five men
were drowned. The governor of Angola, M. Cardona, im-
mediately sent the corvette Duo de Paltuella to the spot,
and the negroes received a severe lesson. "These events
(says the Portuguese Gazette) seem to indicate the necessity
of militarily occupying the Portuguese coast of Africa, so
as to protect the merchants of all nations."
THE CATTLE PLAGUE IN BELGIUM. —The Meuse,
speaking of the cattle disease which has broken out in
Hsaaelt (Belgian Limburg), says :—" This is a public
calamity for the town. Forty distilleries of the find-class
are at • standstill and the men out of employment. The
churches are constantly filled with people imploring
Divine help ; strangers are afraid to enter the town ; all
trade is at an end. On Monday lest 30 animals were
slaughtered, on Tuesday 120, and on Wednesday 700.
It is hardly necessary to say that they were not all
attacked by the disease, but, having been expose to
contagion, it was considered necessary to kill them." A
despatch from Hasselt, in the Gazette de Lii9e, states that
the contagion was continuing ; two fresh farms had been
attacked, and in three others the destruction of the cattle
has been ordered. The town contains 5000 beasts, valued
at 700 fr. each. The contagious krinciple of this epidemic,
is so subtle that provender kept in the neighbourhood of
infected sheds has transmitted the malady. Excepting at
Hasselt, no other case of the disease has occurred in the
province. A regiment of Belgian soldiers has been
ordered to the adjoining frontier to keep a strict super-
vision, and prevent all introduction of cattle alive or dead.
THE WORKHOUSE INFIRMARY QUESTlON.—Yefl-
tenlay • meeting of the executive committee of the Ado-
ciatiun for the Improvement of London Workhouse
Infirmaries was held at the house of Mr. Ernest Hart, the
bon. secretary, in Wimpole-street, Mr. Lawrence Oliphant,
M.P., presiding. After a discussion as to the steps the
association should take during the present meeting of par-
liament, it was resolved to summon the general committee,
among which there are many members of the present and
late governments and about fifty members of the House
of Commona, to discuss the following motion, of which
notice was given by Mr. Ernest Hart :—" That this com-
mittee is of opinion that no scheme for the improvement
of workhouse infirmaries will be satisfactory which does
not provide Ist, for an equalised rate over the metropolis
to the support of the sick poor in the infirmaries ; 2nd,
for such an improved form of government of these infir-
maries as will give to the Poor-law Board the power of
ordering instead of recommending such arrangements as
it may deem best for the medical attendance nursing, and
accommodation of the sick. It was resolved that the
question should be discussed next Monday.
FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT WESTERN
RAI LWAI.—As the 10.30 goods train from Swansea to Pon-
typool, on the Great Western line, was travelling at its
average rate of 12 miles en hour, on Saturday last, it met
with an unexpected and disastrous accident. About
seven miles from Merthyr, and adjoining Quaker's-
yard, there is a blind siding, to which a new man,
we are informed, has been lately appointed. His
duty was to lock the points to this blind siding, but
this, it is stated, was not done, and in consequence an
aperture of half an inch was left. Into this aperture
the great wheel of the locomotive dashed, but in
passing through it broke the pivot of the point, and
the result was the points were at once firmly closed, and
the carriages sent along the main line. Then followed one
of the most singular accidents on record. The carriages,
prevented from following the locomotive, and thrown into
the right track, exercised • resisting power on the engine,
and running, as it were, at right angles, pulled the locomo-
tive on its side, just as • restive steed brought masterly to
a pause is not unfrequently thrown on its back. The poor
engine driver Phythian, and Evans, the stoker, were
killed instantly, and for ten or eleven yards the locomotive
ploughed into the earth.—Casibrien Daily Leader.

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