The Express.
London, England, 1866-06-15 00:00:00

BATHS OF HOMBURG, near Frankfort-on-
the-Ilabre —Simper Season 1103.—The Mineral Waters
of Hallberg, IS evidenced by the analysis of the celebrated Pro-
tensor Usbig, are stimulant, tonic, alterative, and aperient. They
are of admirable service in removing disorders of the stomach
and other intestines. They stimulate these organs when the eh
doming circulation is defective, assist the of secretion,
and give • healthful regularity to the o of nutrition and
amdmilation. They the /
remedial agents in cases
of enlargement of the liver, in affection of the spleen,
in hypochondria, jaundice, hemorrhoidal disease, and
ohetinate constipation. In cases of gout, and all other affec-
tions produced by Inefficiency of the digestive functions, the
most happy results have been obtained from them. The en=
rs of the waters re more especially recognised by those who
them as their source; fer then, the invigorating air of the
mountains, the gaiety of the surrounding scene, and perfect
abstraction from the cares of the world, concur in assisting the
action of the medicinal beveerraagg The magnificent Kitrbouse,
which, In the beauty of its . , the judicious distribu-
tion oftte apartments, and the riclinems of its decorations, set-
every other edifies of the kind on the banks of
rlthlne, contains a vaztsty of spacious and 'plea-
decorated rooms; a grand saloon for balls and concerts ;
a superb dining room where there is a table-d'hote / la Fran-
cais., twice a day, at 1 and at 6 o'clock, furnished by the eels-
Mated Chevet of Parts, who is the lessee of the refreshments of
the whole casino. The visitors will Likewise dad a large and com-
fortable reading-room, well supplied with (Jarman, English,
French, Italian, Spanith, Hamden, Polish, Swedish, Belgian, and
Dutch dally papers. Besides the above attractions, there are
also several conversation rooms, as well ucomplete • xplendid coffee-
room with three bird tables. To the arms of
Homburg, this delightfullial place, a troupe of Italian actochrs of the
highest talent, conducted by the celebrated maestro Orsini,
has been caseated to perform the choicest piton of the
Malian repertory. The services of the renowned prime-
donne AMU= Patti, timbal, the asters Marchisio, Le.,
have likewise been secured for this scum. An excel-
lent orchestre, numbering forty distinguished musicians,
performs three times a day ; in the morning at the Wells: in
the afternoon to the beautiful gezdens of the Casino, and In the
evening in the grand Ballroom. The new railwa has almost
brought Homburg Baths to the ontiddrts of ort. There
are twenty trains a day, to and fro, the last se late as 11 o'clock.
As the journey occupies only half-an-hour, the amusements of
Frankfort are within easy reach. Visitors in Homburg may
get to Sweets in twelve hours, to Berlin in fifteen, to Paris in
sixteen, and to London in twenty-four, so excellent is the inter-
eomainnlcation by rail.

Current accounts area As up to the Mtn m
Id December in each year : and If the credit balance shall sot,
s‘agettejurflo the
ver halfivelrrhave been
annum below /SOO,
allowed %ter=
Unworn monthly balances. If not below £2OO Interest at
k rate of 1 per cent. per annum is allowed on the minimum
tenthly balances , but If under £2OO, no interest is allowed.
titles keeping current accounts have the privilege of drawing
xques ; of having approved bills discounted; of obtaining loans
pun negotiable securities ; of depositing bills, coupons, tr.c., for
Jilection ; and of lodging with the bank deeds and other vela-
ileproperty in the fireproof strong-rooms for safe custody.
Deposit Accounts—Money, in amounts of RIO and upwards,
received from the public generally, subject to seven days'
Mice of withdrawal, and interest is allowed thereon at the cur-
nit rate of the day ; the Bank notifying any change In the rate
I Interest by advertisement in one or More of the leading MG-
M newspapers If the money be withdrawn within a fortnight,
interest Is allowed. Persons having current accounts can
any portion of their credit balance to deposit account.
The Agency of country and foreign banks, whether joint stock
private, is undertaken by the bank.
, letters of Credit, payable at any of the Wei commercial towns
d cities of the world, are granted. Marginal credit, are also
ted by the bank.
Circular notes are issued by the bank, addressed to all, and
pall. at any, of the places on the Continent where the bank
an agent.
Dividends, &c., en government and ether stocks, annffies,
Mons, ,he., are received for customers of the bank without
the purchase and sale of stocks, shares, and securities
deo undertaken ; and every description of banking business
transacted. The officers and clerks of the bank are pledged
at to disclose the transactions of any of its customers.
C. J. WORTH, Secretary.

--
THE ATTEMPTED MURDER OF A FENIAN
INFORMER..

DUBLIN, THURSDAY NIGHT.

,
Edward O'Connor was this day sentenced to
penal servitude for life,for having stabbed Warner,
the informer, with intent to murder him. The pri-
soner had pleaded guilty on the previous day.
When sentence was passed, he merely observed that
he did not think he should be kept in so long.

USTRALIAN JOINT STOCK BANK.
In consequence of the stoppage of the Consolidated Bank
Limited , all drafts of the Auatrallan Joint Stock Bank under
ceptance by the Consolidated Bank (Limited) will be paid
due, on presention, by the National Provincial Bank of
Bishopmate-street, who have been appointed its
on bankers. The London Branch of the Australian Joint
k Bank being now open, all unaccepted drafts coming for-
will be accepted by the undersigned, payable at the Com-
y's bankers, the National Provincial Bank of England and
Men are requested to present the same for acceptance at the
lank's own Offices,lB, King William-street.
A. H. RICHARDSON, General Manager.
Australian Joint Stock Bank, 18,..King Williametreet,

COLLIERY EXPLOSION AND GREAT LOSS OF
LIFE.

MANCHESTER, THURSDAY Evrauxu,
This morning an explosion took place, about 8
o'clock at the colliery of Mr. F. D. P. Astley, Dukinfield,
near Ashton, which it is feared will be attended with great
lou of life. About 6 o'clock 72 men and boys descended
the Victoria pit, and the noise of the explosion is said to
have been heard at the mouth of the shaft, which is 500
yank:deep, at a quarter to 8. Soon afterwards, Mr. Isaac
Wielding, manager of the pit, descended with a number of
men to render what aid might be necessary, and in the
course of about three hours they had succeeded in rescuing
about 30 men and boys, and sent them up the shaft.
Many of these were badly burnt, though none were dead.
There were four surgeons in attendance to advise what
should be done, and in most of the worst cases
the sufferers were sent home and put to bed. Several
are reported to have died since. Of those still
left in the mine there were but poor hopes. Some
of the men brought up say that those who had gone
to the rescue had not, up to 11 o'clock, been able to ap-
proach the seat of the fire and explosion. They may the
air-ways and bratticing are destroyed, and that even some
of the roads have been blown up, so that there is little
prospect of the unfortunate colliers in that part of the
mine (30 or 40) being reamed a/ive. The fear is that ff
any of them have escaped the fire, they will be cut off from
air. The probability is that many boors will have to elapse
before any approach to their whereabouts will become safe
or practicable.
MANCHE:3I'ER, THURSDAY NIGHT.
Accounts up to 6 p.m. from Dukinfield report that 4
dead bodies had been sent up and 28 more had been dis-
covered in the main level. The explosion is supposed to
have occurred at the bottom of a dip 300 yards up the main
level beyond where the 28 dead bodies were found. It is
thought that an old working filled with foul air had been
tapped there, and caused the catastrophe. 11 colliers are
still missing, and are supposed to have been killed in the
, dip. This would make 43 who have lost their lives.

Lodon, June 7, lane.

AUSTRALIAN JOINT STOCK BANK. 1
Capital paid up £lOO,OOO.
Regent fund
Its LONDON BRANCH of this Bank la NOW OPEN, at 18,
ILNG WILLIAM-STREET, for accepting the drafts on London
dram by the Colonial Establishments, and for transacting in
Leda the general agency business of the Bank. Letters of
Coedit are mated and Bills negotiated or sent for collection on
the colonies of New South Melee and Queensland, and all Mink-
Int badness transacted on the most favourable terms. The fol-
kering are the ColonN
SOUTHiaI Establishments ofWALES this Bank, namely,
I NEW .
Sydney ;Head Of- Bathurst Muswelthrook
ace) Grafton Murrurundi
West Maitland TenterSeld Hay
Armidale Mudge* Densiliquha
Brakiwood Singleton Aral)
Goolburn Yam Forbes.
WOW Wasp Newcastle
IN QUEENSLAND.
Brisbane Warwick
I ..iiVatoneugh
Ipswich Bowen
Rockhampton I Clermont Mackay
Townsville.
A. H. RICILULDSOk General Manager.
Australian Joint Stock Bank, IS, Hing Willinto-Mrent,
London. June 7.1868.

IAI SS WITHOUT BUCKLES--NURSE'S
PATENT—to be sees at their Show Boom; 100. Boma-
Weet, London, S.W.

BLOSSOM of HONEYSUCKLE, a delicate and
Math: gas perforate, extracted from the flowers, by MO.
608NILL and Co., Perfumers to HIM the Primer of okm,
Zed Bali Wharf, 93, Upper Thaeolleetreeei, London.

TONIC BITTERS.
WATERT QUININE WIWI,
The mod palatable and wholesome bitter in existence.
AN EFFICIENT TONIC,
As unequalled stomachic, and • gentle stimulant.
b 7 grocers. Italian warehousemen, wine merchants, SOB-
teatimes, and others, at sew a doses.
Manufactured by
WATERS and WIIJ.IAI 5,
5, Martin's-lane, Cannon-street, Leedom.
Wholesale Agents, E. Lewis and Co., Worcester.

THE 017TILAOZ ON A LADY AT READING.—At the
Reading Police-court yesterday the mayor (Mr. Blackwell)
and other magistrates were occupied for several hours
with the further hearing of the charge of rape preferred
by Miss Georgians Partndge spinet Mr. Neville Toomer, a
widower, 34 years of age, residing in the Abbot's-walk.
Mr. F. M. Slooombe, solicitor, appeared in support of the
charge ; and Mr. Bartlett, solicitor, attended on behalf of
the prisoner. Both the prosecutrix and the prisoner are
most respectably connected, and the prisoner has for many
years occupied a responsible position in a large business
establishment in tins town. The court was densely
crowded, and many persons were unable to gain admission.
The proaecutrix, who was engaged by the prisoner as house-
keeper, was cross-examined or about two hours, but her
previous evidence was not shaken, and she maintained
that, use of threats and much violence, prisoner
succeeded in committing the offence. Mr. Maurice, sur-
geon, Superintendent Purchase, Elisabeth Gough, the ser-
vant girl at prisoner's house, and other witnesses having
given evidence, and Mr. Bartlett having addressed the
(lOU or RHEUMATISM /I. bench, the magistrates committed the prisoner for trial,
refusing to accept bail.
quickly relieved ADYIB.ALTY, Jults 14.—Arrorrrwerrs.—Lieu
UAW' eeared
our .111•Rfa days e" "lebn"d IbUdicipe4 tenants H Martin to the Dauntless; EL Dunlop, to the
VIT tOIATI MIA Obtained thrceigh• •
Qom* on in lit and la 911. par bet Trafalgar, for service ,in tender.

DINNEFORD'S FLUID MAGNESIA.—The
medical profession for thirty years have approved of this
toe snhition of magnesia se the bog remedy for acidity of the
I'm* headache, heartburn, goat, and Indinentlen ; sad as •
slid aperient it is mmeially adapted for ladies and children.
;nand by DIN7JORD and Co., Chemists, &c., 172, New
'Hid-greet, London, and sold throughout the world by all
•IPectable chemists. Caution—See that " Dfrusefeed and Co."
a each bottle and red label over the oork.

LAITUE.—The LETTUCE contains an active
Principle , the Litwin., which yeomen ail the
/I°n. Perties Vitina without its daniers.—Yr. JOZZAII=I,
-.moan, 49, ttaymarket, prepares a grasp and a Pate et 'Altus
littUee. highly reconunceded by the Medina' pretend= for
olds asthma, bronchitis, and ail chest affections. Syrnlktit. et:
hie, la. lid. and YR id. Pate, by poet, Is. lied And