The Express.
London, England, 1867-01-23 00:00:00

HUNGARY.

PESTH. JAN. 22.

It is believed that, whether an understanding be
effected between Austria and Hungary or not, the
Hungarian Diet will shortly be prorogued. In
the event of an understanding being arrived at,
the preliminary arrangements of the Hungarian
Ministry, which would then be appointed, would
involve the prorogation of the Diet, and a proroga-
tion would beequidly necessitated by the establish-
ment of a provisorium in case the efforts to bring
about an agreement should prove unsuccessful.
M. Teleki is in Transylvania, where ho will stay
during one month, by permission of the govern-
ment.

THE LEBANON.
CONSTANTINOPLE, JAN. n.

Daoud Pacha, Governor of the Lebanon, is ad-
vancing with 3,000 men against the district of
Kesruan, which has again risen in insurrection
under the command of Joseph Karam.

Dervish Pacha has arrived at Beyrouth with
troops from Damascus.

INDIA.
(DT mazer OVERLAND TELEGRAPH.)
BOMBAY, JAN. 16, 12.5 r.x.

71b. shirting', 6r. 14a. Cotton firm and active.
Exchange on London, Is. 111 d. Government
Securities : Four per Cents., 881; Five per Cents.,
105 ; Five-and-a-Half per Cents., 110/. Freights
to Liverpool, 255.

CALCUTTA, lor. 15,

811 b. skirtings, Br. 10a.; 40's mule twist, 81a.
Exchange on London, ls. 112 d. Government
Securities : Four per Cents., 87 ; Five per Cents.,
1041 ; Five-and-a-Half per Cents., 1101. Freights
to England, 375. Gd.

CHINA AND JAPAN.
WVi► Trieste.)
HONG KONG, Dec.ls.

A great fire has occurred at Yokohama. One-
fifth of the foreign and two-fifths of the native set-
tlements are completely destroyed. The fire origi-
nated in the native portion of the town.. The esti-
mated loss is 3,000,000 duls;' half' of which is co-
vered by insurance.
Several Japanese students are on their way to
England to study European laws and customs.

It is rumoured that the Canton authorities in-
tend-to erect a lighthouse at a point of the river
between Hong Kong and Canton.
The new dollar has been proclaimed legal tender
at Canton.
The Peiho is frozen over.

THE PARIS EXHIBMON.—A meeting of the
committee for the representation of the History of Labour,
appointed by her Majesty's Commissioners for the Patio
Exhibition of 1867, was held in the Sheepshanks Gallery
yesterday. There were present : —The Earl of Cadogan
(in the chair), the Hon. Ashley Ponsonby, the Right Rev.
Archbishop Manning, the Very Rev. Dr. Rock, Sir W. C.
Trevelyan, the Muter of the Mercers' Company, the
Muter of the Merchant Taylors' Company, Mr. R. Godwin-
Austen, Mr. F. Seymour Lladen, MacLeod of MacLeod,
Lieutenant-Colonel Palmer Mr. R. Redgrave, Mr. J. C.
Robinson, Mr. H. Vaughan, Mr. G. Wallis' Mr. T. M.
Whitehe4l. Mr. Cole, C. 8., secretary to her Majesty's
Commissioners, was also present. _

Tux LAST POLISH ficsunawrlerc—Last evening
• tea party and public meeting took place at the Cam-
bridge-hall' Newman-street, Oxford-street, in commemo-
ration of the Polish insurrection of 1t63. After tea
(during which the band of the musical instrument makers
performed a selection of instrumental music), Mr. H.
Jung took the chair' and briefly opened the proceedings.
The Polish anthem having been sung by the choir, Mr.
Zalicki moved, and Mr. Bobczynski seconded, a resolution
declaring the faithful adherence of the Poles to the mani-
festo of the Polish national government of January 22,
Ittl3, which abolished all privileges, endowed the peasantry
with land, and proclaimed all inhabitants without distinc-
tion free and equal before the law. This resolution
and three others, which were proposed and seconded
by Dr. Karl Marx and Messrs. Dreams, Beason,
Le Luber, I'. Fox, and Carter, were unanimously agreed
to. Of these threei resolutions, the first asserted the
principle " that liberty cannot be established in Europe
without the independence of Poland ;" the second em-
bodied a protest on the part of the French branch of the
International Working Men's Association against the
enslavement of the Poles, and a pledge to lend them aid
in the reconstitution of Poland on a democratic, republican,
and socialist basis; while the last declared that " the
recent abolition of the Congress Poland by the Czar is an
insult to those great Powers of Europe which promoted
those arrangements—an insult which they had merited by
their connivance or mutual jealousies"; but, at the same
time, exp-weed the satisfaction of the meeting that
" henceforth the Polish question is necessarily reduced to
this simple issue, either to acquiesce in the total disap-
pearance of the name of Poland from the map of lettrope,
or to champion its re-establishment with the boundaries
of 1772." The proceedings concluded with the perform-
, anee by the band of the Polish national hymn.

PRIOR-PARI, BATH.—Prior-park, near Bath,
building which has undergone most singular vicissitude*,
is about to pass through another change. It was built
originally by Ralph Allen, the " Squire Allworthy " of
Fielding's " Tom Jones." with the freestone which Allen
had discovered in the adjacent downs, and which has since
become famous as Bath stone. It was in thegrounds of
this noble building that P • Pepe wrote his Essay on
Man," and during the fret half of the last century
many and brilliant were the literary gatherings within
the worthy squire's splendid porticoes. In the early
part of the present century Prior-park passed into
the hands of the Roman catholic*, and was by them
dedicated to S.S. Peter and Paul as an educational
establishment. It was during their tenancy that 01:11.,
half of the magnificent pile of buildings was burnt
down. It has never been rebuilt. In course of time
Prior-park fell into bad odour among the Roman catholic*
themselves, on account of the too liberal teaching which
was adopted there ; and about twelve years ago the esta-
blishment was brokenly, and a sale of its splendid library,
paintings, and church plate took place, which attracted
purchasers from all parts of the country. The place
remained vacant for some years, and it was then let to
Mr. Thomson, who will be remembered as Dr. Camp-
bell's chief witness in the action for libel which the
last-named gentleman brought against the Satuntay
Reticle. Mr. Thomson recently died, and also his wife,
the sister of the late Earl of Gaineborough, who, like Mr.
Thomson, was a dissenter, though his son, the present earl,
is a Roman catholic. In the meanwhile a remarkable cir-
cumstance has happened. The owner of the Prior-perk
was alsoa Roman catholic—we believe a convert—and in his
will he bequeathed the estate to the Roman church. He
died about six months after the will was executed, end
consequently this bequest was, by the Act of Mortmain,
invalid. The sons of the testator being Anglicans. (lid
not feel themselves bound to carry out their father's
wishes. It is now, however, intended to purchase the
estate of them, and two noble ladies, both converts to
Romanism, the Duchess of Leeds and Lady Herbert of Lea,
have given 10,0001. each towards that object.—Western
Morn nq News.

The Royal Mail steamship Australasian arrived
at Queenstown at 9.35 a.m. yestenlay. She brings
passengers. but no specie. She lauded 13 sacks of mails
and one passenger, end proceeded immediately. All
well. The Australasian experienced strong easterly gala
throughout the voyage.