The Express.
London, England, 1867-04-25 00:00:00

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)
THE LUXEMBURG QUESTION.

lURIS, Aram 24.

The Ekiulard of this evening announces that in
consequence of the absence of Count Bismarck
from Berlin, the identical notes of England,
Russia, and Austria on the Luxemburg question
have not yet been delivered to the Prussian govern-
ment.

BERLIN. APRIL 24, EVENING.

All the rumours which have been current of the
mobilization of Prussian troops, as well as a report
that the artillery has been ordered on a war
footing, are authentically and emphatically denied.
The semi-official Provincial Correspondence of
this evening says :—" The announcements in some
newspapers of military measures alleged to have
been adopted in Prussia, in connection with the
Luxemburg question, are totally unfounded.
Notwithstanding the intelligence of military pre-
parations which are being made in France, appa-
rently in connection with the Luxemburg ques-
tion, the Prussian government has not up to the
present found itself under the necessity of taking
steps which might stand in contradiction with
the hopes of preserving friendly relations with
France."
Thu semi-official North German Gazette of this
evening says : " The mediatory proposals with re-
gard to the Luxemburg question are not yet known,
and cannot therefore be discussed ; but so much is
certain, that Prussia has given up neither her right
of garrisoning the fortress of Luxemburg in favour
of Luxemburg's union with Belgium, nor the
i treaties with Holland which regulate the actual
position of that Grand Duchy."

PRUSSLt.

BERLIN, APRIL 24.

The King of the Belgians and the Count of
Flanders arrived here yesterday evening, and were
received at the railway station by the King, the
royal'princes, and the princes of the Hohenzollern
family.
Count Bismarck returns to-day from the stay
which he has been making in Pomerania for the
benefit of his health. The Prussian Chambers will
be opened by him.

PRUSSIA AND HESSE DARMSTADT.
DAEMBTADT, APRIL 24.

A military convention with Prussia was signed
by the Grand Duke of Hesse Darmstadt on the
17th inst. The ratifications have since been ex-
changed.

HUNGARY AND CROATIA.
PEETH, APRIL 24.
The Emperor Francis Joseph is expected at
Buda-Perth at the beginning of May.
FIUME, APRIL 24.

M. Bach, the royal commissioner appointed to
investigate the causes of the recent disturbances
in Croatia, enters upon his functions to-morrow.

THE CANDIAN INSURRECTION.

PARIS, Aram 24.

The Paris papers publish latices from Constan-
tinople to the 17th inst., stating that the first point
against which Omer Pacha, the new Turkish com-
mander-in-chief in the island of Candle, intends
to direct his attack, is the town of Sphalia.

THE KING OF THE GREEKS.
ATHENS, APRIL 22.

The King of the Greeks sailed to-day for Mar-
seilles, where he will arrive on Friday next. On
Saturday he will reach Paris, from whence he will
proceed to England, and afterwards to Denmark,
where his Majesty is expected to arrive about the
24th of May.

AUSTRIA.
VIENNA, Aram 24, Evvoia.

At a meeting of the directors of the Credit-
Anstalt, held here this evening, it was resolved to
take 710,487 florins from the reserve fund, in order
to complete the dividend of 10 florins per share.

AMERICA.
(lIT ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.)
NEW YORE, Aran, V, 6 r.m.

The Inman steamer Edinburgh has arrived out.

Closing prices :—Gold, 138. Sterling exchange
on London, 1091. Five-Twenty United States
Bonds, 1101. Illinois, 1131 ; Erie, 571. Cotton—
Middling upland, 25. Petroleum, refined, 20.

THE SUBPICIOUR DEATH IN THE RIVER COLNZ.
On Tuesday afternoon the inquest on the human remains
found in the old bed of the River Coins was resumed. It
may be remembered that the clothes, together with certain
documents, found with the fragments of the body, showed
that the remains were those of Mr. R. Worswick, railway
contractor, who disappeared some twelve months ago.
Several heavy plows of iron, and pieces of wire, which
appear to have been attached to the body, were produced,
as well as the following papers found in the bottom of a
ragged carpet-bag, raked out from the water with the re-
mains :—A cheque for 491. la. ltd., drawn upon the bank
of Messrs. Bacon, Cobbold, and C., of Ipswich, signed
" R. Wonwick," and dated Jan. 25, 1861 ; an invoice
made out by Messrs. Ransoms and Sims against
Mr. Worswick for 411. Is. 111. ; several bills and receipts,
and other papers. Evidence was given to show
that on the last time deceased was seen alive he
appeared to be is his ordinary health and spirits. Mr.
John Worswiok was then called and said—l am now
living at 8, Shrewsbury-road, Westbourne-park, Bays-
water. Deceased was my father, and was 59 or 60 years of
age. I was in partnership with him as a railroad contrac-
tor, and we contracted for the making of the line from St.
Botolph's-street to East Gate and the Hytbe. That work
was in progress in November, 1865, and my father was fre-
quently backwards and forwards on the line. On the
evening of the 21st or 22nd of November, 1865, I last saw
him at his residence in Magdalen-street. He then told me
he was going to Leicester to see a brother. He had a bro-
ther at Leicester. He told me this at night, just as be
was going to bed. The witness then, in reply to the
coroner, entered into a statement of the business affairs
, ' of his father, so far as he was acquainted with them, and
said he knew of nothing which would have been likely to
; induce the deceased to commit suicide. In reply to the
foreman, the witness said his father might have had sonic
money about him which he (witness) did not know of. He
also said lie ascertained afterwards that his father spent
two days at the Crown Hotel, St. Martin's-court, Lewes-
' ter.equare, in London, after he left Colchester, after
which he never heard of him. He (witness) went to the
Crown Hotel and made inquirin, but did not ask whether
his father cashed any cheque. He paid his bill and sent it
to witness on the Monday, which led to his going to the
Crown Hotel (where his father was well known) and
making inquiries. The jury returned an open verdict of
" Found drowned."

FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE MIDLAND RAILWAY.
Yesterday serious and fatal accident occurred on the
Midland Railway, near Normanton, a well-known junction
in the West Riding of Yorkshire. It appeared that the
Liverpool, Manchester, and London express was passing
Metbley at the usual speed, when the engine suddenly
left the rails, and pitching into some waggons by the main
line side, turned over on its aide, killing the driver,
and, it is feared, mortally wounding the fireman. The
train consisted of engine and tender, two ilnit-class car-
riages, two second ditto, and two vans, the whole contain-
ing a large number of passengers. The latter were very
much bruised and shaken by the violence of the accident,
but so far as the medical men had examined the passengers
up to the time of the despatch of our parcel, no bones had
been broken. The driver was an old experienced hand,
and being on the Midland Railway had no connection with
the strike.