The Express.
London, England, 1867-12-27 00:00:00

GREECE.

ATHENS, Dic. 19.

The Chamber of Deputies, by a large majority,
have approved the opening of an extraordinary
credit on the part of the government for 10,000,000
drachmas, to provide for military preparations. It
is asserted that the ministry does not enjoy the
confidence of the King.
The Greek steamer Crete is proceeding to Candia
with munitions of war and provisions. Russian
vessels are transporting the Cretan refugees. Skir-
mishes have occurred between the Cretans and
Turks. Three churches have been demolished by
the latter at Castelli Candi.

THE BANK OF FRANCE.
PARIS DEC. X.
,

The return of the Bank of France for the week
ending to-day shows the following changes com-
pared with the previous account

INoteAss.

Cash
Notes
Treasury balance . .
Advances 333,000
Dicatisz.

Bills discounted fr 7,333.000
Private accounts. . . . 600,000

CHINA.
HONG KONG, Dec. 1.

An extensive fire has occurred here ; 7,000 bales
of Indian cotton were burnt. The loss is estimated
at 400,000 dollars.

Railway COLLISION.—As a goods train fr.=
Bement= to Preston was nearing Burnley station on
Wednesday Inman the engine of a passenger train was
proceeding along the same line in order to reverse itself
at the points, the luggage train came op at a rapid speed
and dead into the engine, which was greatly daThe engine of the luggage train was also rendered useless.
The traffic cm the line was stopped for several hours. The
driven and enema wiped by jumping from the engine
law as calks warred.

AMERICA.

(BY ATLANTIC ITLIGRAPEL)
NEW 'YORK, WIDNINDAT. Dile. 25.
The Leman steamer City of Antwerp arrived
here to-day. All well.

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(Per the Etna.)
NEW YORK, Dzc. 14. I
A Washington telegram says :—"The President
sent to the Senate to-day a melange giving his reasons for
the SOSFOnIiOn of the Hon. Edwin M. Stanton as Secretary
of War on the 12th of Angustlast. A copy of this menage can-
not now be procured for publication, nor wu the document
read in open Senate ; but the following, it is believed, are
the essential points of the document :—' It will be reool-
looted that the President, for considerations of a high
character, requested Secretary Stanton to resign his office
and that Mr. Stanton, in reply, quoting the phrase of the
President, said that considerations of a higher character'
alone had induced him to continue at the head of the de- ;
pertinent, and constrained him not to resign the office of
Secretary of War before the nextmesting of Congress. This,
the President says, was not merely a declination of coin-
pliant* with the request for his resignation, but was a
defiance. Whatever propriety there might be in the az- '
;wombs of his opinions to others, one thing was certain—
% mil offisial seiseendset, to say the least of it, to parade
them before his superior officer, and showed a want of pro-
per respect and dignity for the President.'
" Ia addition to the above-recited ground of the secretary
why he did not resign, he denied the President's right to
remove him. But the President says that under Mr.
Stanton's sense of duty he could not refer to the law
creating the war department, for that confers on the
Dxsident the right to remove the head of the department.
The way Other law under which Mr. Stanton could plead
extenuation of hia &induct wu that in relation to the
tenure of office. Nothing In that law compelled him to
re in office. He was free at in time to resign
The Tenure of Office Bill did not pass siltak:ut n°4°.•
/Ever/member of the cabinet was consulted upon Lhe Sibs
jut, and particularly the Attorney-Oeneral and Mr. Stanton,
the litter formerly having held the office of Attorney-
GeneraL Mr. Stanton's condemnation of the law, the Presi-
dent says, was most elaborate and emphatic. Some reference
is made to the circumstances under which the President
retained his predecessor's cabinet, including Mr. Stanton,
and he remarks as to the proposed mode of re-construct-
. _ .

ing, the Southern States, all the members were in perfect
accord with himself. The President, after setting forth
his view of the cue, assigns a special ground for the sus-
pension of Mr. Stanton. It will be recollected that during
the summer of 1866, General Baird telegraphed from New
Orleans to the fieenstary of We, that a oenvention was
about to assemble, and that the Governor and City authori-
ties, thinking it was an unlawful assembly, would break it
up. The general asked the Secretary for instructions to be
telegraphed to him at once. Mr. Stanton did not, how-
ever, give General Band the desired order, nor did he
communicate the fact of the reception of the despatch to
the President, who knew nothing of its existence until
ten days after it came into Mr. Stanton's hands, and not
until after the riot had occurred. The President there-
fore takes the ground that Mr. Stanton was responsible
for delinquency, and that if he (the President) had known
that General Baird bad sought advice the riot might have
been prevented. The President holds that, so far as the
public interests are concerned, there is no cause to regret
the removal of Mr. Stanton, for the present secretary ad
interim has, by his manures of economy, Bartel millions of
dollars to the government.
" In the United States Senate, on the 13th,'the bill re-
gulating the selections of jurors in Utah was reported
favourably by the committee, and its passage recom-
mended. It provides for marriages in that territory, and
forbids polygamy or sealing of wives, mac:wi-
ll:72r the teachings of the Mormon church. The
bill for the exemption from tax of cotton grown after
1867 was called up and postponed, after alight discussion,
until Monday, the 16th.
" A telegram, dated Ottawa, December 13, says:—' The
following are the excise and tariff rates which go into
operation to-day for the entire dominion of Canada :—On
spirits, including brandy, gin, rum, whisky, &c., a duty
of 8 cents per gallon ; on tobacco, 15 mints specific duty,
with an addition of 5 per cent. ad valorem ; on domestic
wines, 10 per cent., or 25 per cent, per gallon according to
their strength; on tincturess 30 cents. The duty on green
tea is unchanged ; on black teu, 15 per cent, and 3} cents
per pound.,"

ATTEMPTED FENIAN OUTRAGE IN DUBLIN.

DUBLIN, THURSDAY NIGHT.

Shortly after four o'clock this evening a light was
observed proceeding from the letter-box of a post-office in
Church-lane. On the box being opened it was found that
the light came from a number of small packages about the
size of pen boxes, which were addressed severally to gentle.
men connected with the Vioeregal Court, to Colonel Lake,
commissioner of police ; to Superintendent Ryan, of the
detectives, ke. Two policemen were called in, and when
constable Hi!las was handling the packages one of them
exploded, burning him severely. No clue to the author of
the outrage nas yet been discovered.

THE FENT-ANS AND THE THEATRES.—Lest night,
about nine o'clock, we understand, a message was sent to
Mr. F. B. Chatterton, from the authorties at Scotland.
yard, advising him to look after his money-boxes.
What the police feared, or what "information they
had received," was not exactly stated, but the lessee of
Drury-lane immediately acted upon the hint.
THE MURDER OF A GIRL IN SHROPSH IRE.
SHREWSBURY, THURSDAY. The inquest on Catherine
Lewis was held today. A verdict of " Wilful murder"
against Mapp was returned. The popular feeling is very
strong against the prisoner, who was greeted with loud
yells and hisses on leaving the court.
ARMING THE METROPOLITAN POLICE. —The ne-
cessity of arming at least some portion of the metropolitan
police at the present crisis seems determined upon, as yes-
terday, in compliance with an order from Sootland-yard, •
certain number of men from each division were ordered to
' assemble at given stations for instruction in the use of six-
chamber revolvers. Throughout the previous night and
Christmas-day some anxiety wag experienced in conse-
quence of more than one communication having been re-
ceived by the police that there was a preooncerted arrange-
ment to blow up the South Metropolitan Company's Gas-
works, situate on the banks of tho Surrey Canal, near the
Old Kent road. Every precaution was taken by the police
authorities to guard against such suweeedintention,which,
if it ever existed, was not attempted to be carried out.
ACCIDENT ON CANNON-STREET BRIDGE. —The
lines of rail, and the crossings upon them, on Cannon-
street bridge are more numerous and complicated, and the
traffic upon them greater, probably, than upon any rail- I
way bridge in the world. The passengers who use the
Charing-cross line have abundant occasions to admire the
regularity and speed with which this difficult traffic is
generally worked. Since the opening of the Cannon-street
station the enormous traffic has been conducted with
marvellous rapidity, regularity, and safety; but yester-
day's fog applied a severe test under which she system,
as need not be wondered at, failed. The fog was dense
throughout the whole day, and a liberal amount was ex-
pended upon detonating signals, the ordinary semaphores
being perfectly useless except at a few yards' distance.
A Greenwich train, due about half-past nine, had the
signals against its entering Cannon-street, when a train
from Willesden junction and Kensington, via Waterloo,
ran up to it to enter upon the same line. A rather
violent concussion resulted, and some of the pas-
sengers in the front part of the Greenwich train
sustained contusions and flesh wounds, none of them, as
we were informed, being very seriously injured. A pas-
senger by a following train informs our reporter, however,
that in coming up about half an hour after the accident
happened lie saw four persons removed upon stretchers,
and these were probably a small portion of the injured.
The utmost activity was manifested by the company's
officers and servants, and in little more than an hour the
injured carriage and broken materials were removed, and
the line was cleared for traffic. In the evening the fog
became much more dense, and the company's servants
wisely sacrificed revenue rather than risk life, the Charing-
cross traffic being almost discontinued after dark. The
Greenwich trains, which usually perform the journey in
about twenty minutes, were an hour on the way, and pas-
senger had to wait for an hour at Cannon-street for a
train for Charing-cross. The signal statics semaphore
arms during the day, and the coloured lights at melt.
were invisible at fifty yards from the signal bons.

THE LATE FENIAN OUTRAGE IN
CLERKENWELL.
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