The Express.
London, England, 1866-07-12 00:00:00

LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 12, 1866.

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von Schweinitz has left Pardubitz for St. Peters_
burg. The next advance of the Prussians will be
in the digestion of Brunn. There are no Austrian
troops on the frontiers of southern Silesia.
VIENNA, JULY li.

The Archduke Albrecht has been appointed com-
mander-in-chief, and Lieutenant-Field-Marshal
Baron John chief of the general staff of the whole
Austrian armies now in the field.
BERLIN, JULY 11.
The Prussian boadquitters were transferred to-
day, at 12 o'clock, to Zwittan, in Moravia.

EISENACH, JULY 11.

The Prussians, under the command of General
Falkenstein, are marching towards Frankfort-on-
the-Mains.

AUSTRIAN LOAN.
VIENNA. JULY 11.

By an Imperial decree, dated the 7th inst., the
Minister of Finance is empowered to raise
200,000,000 florins, either by a voluntary loan or an
increase in the issue of bank notes. Until it is pos-
sible to raise the amount the Bank of Austria is to
advance the same. Provisionally, however, only
60,000,000 florins in bank notes will be required.
The loan ie to be repaid at farthest within one
year after the conclusion of peace. As security
the salt mina of Wieliczka have been handed over
to the Bank, and the resumption of cash payments
by the Bank is suspended until the whole amount
advanced to the government be repaid.

THE PROPOSED GERMAN PARLIAMENI
BERLIN, JELT 11, ETErniro.

In reply to the Prussian note, calling upon the
German States to make preparations for the elec-
tion of deputies to a German parliament on the
basis of the electoral law of 1849, most of the
governments allied to Prussia have promised to
take the necessary steps for that purpose without
delay. The replies from the governments of
Saxe-Weimar and Mecklenburg have not yet been
received.

In Hanover, Saxony, and Electoral Hesse the
preparations for the election are being carried out
by the Prussian civil commissioners.
With regard to the elections in the Prussian
monarchy, the bill to be laid before the chambers
on the subject by the Minister of the Interior is
now being drawn up.

THE ADVANCE OF GENERAL CIALDINI.
FLORENCE, JULY 11.

The new plan of operations which is being car_
tied out by General Cialdini is said to have been
advocated by Baron Ricaaoli in opposition to the
views of General La Marmora.

MINISTERIAL CRISIS IN SP.UN.
MADRID, JULY 11.

The O'Donnell Ministry resigned office last night,
and has been succeeded by a cabinet composed as
follows :—Marshal Narvaez, President of the
Council and Minister of War ; Senor Arrazola,
Minister of Justice and, ad interim, Minister of
State ; Senor Barzallanaro, Minister of Finance ;
Senor Gonzales Bravo, Minister of the Interior ;
Senor Calonge, Minister of Marine ; Senor Orovio,
Minister of Public Works ; Senor Bermudez de
Castro, D' lister of Colonies. The Duke of Seato,
Prefect of Madrid, has tendered his resignation.
Senor Mon will, it is believed, return to Paris as
ambassador at the Court of the Tuileries.

INDIA.
(Dy direct Overland Telegraph.)

BOMBAY, JULY 3, 3.20 P.M.

71b. shirtings, 7r. 4a. ; 40's mule twist, 17i.
Cotton dull. Dhollerah, 270 r. Exchange on Lon-
don, 2s. Nd. Freights to Liverpool, 7s. 6d. The
atest London date is Juno 29.
CALCUTTA, JusE 30.

Markets unchanged. Exchange on London,
2s. Four per Cent. Government securities,
87 ; Five per Cent. ditto 1041 ; Five-and-a-Half
per Cent. ditto, 1081.

THE ABYSSINIAN CAPTIVES. —The following let_
ter has been received from the Emperor of Abyssini► by
Dr. Beke. It was brought by Mr. Martin Fled, one of the
missionaries so long detained in that country, who has just
arrived in England with despatches for her Majesty's
government. Mr. Flad quitted the Emperor's camp, at
Zagye, on the south-western edge (of Lake Twins, on the
20th of April last, at which place Mrs. Flail and her three
children, Consul Cameron, and the remaining captives,
together with Mr. Ramam and his suite, are detained until
Mr. Flad's return :—" In the name of the Father, and of
the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, one God, the King of
Kings, Teoderos, may this reach the Englishman, Charles
Theodore Bake. Thou and thy wife, by the power of God,
have reached my country. Are you well I, God be
praised, am well. What time you come, come by Ma-
tamma. As regards the persons who were imprisoned, by
the power of God, out of friendship to the Queen of
England, I have liberated them, and given them to Mr.
Hormuz Rassam. May this give you pleasure.—Written
at Zagye, in the 7:158th year since the creation of the
world, and the lsr.tith year since the birth of Christ." To
this letter is affixed the Emperor's seal, bearing the device
of " the Lion of time tribe of Judah," with the title, " The
King of Kings, Tinder°. of Etheopia," in Ethiopia and in
Arabic characters.

The NEW GOVERNMENT AND SANITARY REFORM.
—A deputation emanating from the Metropolitan Sanitary
Association waited upon the Duke of Buckingham (Lord
President of the Privy Council) yesterday, at the office of
the Privy Council, for the purpose of urging the govern-
ment not to abandon a measure introduced under the late
government, to give increased powers to the authorities fur
pulling down fever dens and preventing the overcrowding
of houses. This formed the principal subject, but a bill
entitled The Artisans' Dwellings Improvement Bill, which
provides for the rebuilding of houses pulled down under
the other bill, was brought under notice. The deputation,
which was introduced by Mr. Powell, M.P. for Cambridge,
consisted of the following gentlemen :—Mr. Locke, M.P.
for Southwark ; Mr. Torrens, M.P. for Finsbury ; Mr.
Graves, M.P. for Liverpool; Mr. Godwin, F.R.S. ; Mr.
Shaw, Mr. Hall, Mr. Rendle, Mr. Evans, Mr. Pocock, Dr.
Sanderson, Dr. Hardwicke, and Dr. Bentley. Several
members of the deputation having spoken at some length,
the Duke of Buckingham said, with regard to the Public
Health Bill, every endeavour would be made to par it
through parliament. It would be taken up by the Secretary
of State for the Home Department, and he (the duke)
should be very sorry if anything happened to prevent
it passing. There were, no doubt, some provisions
which it would be well to add to it, some of which had
been alluded to, but he would not supplement it in a man-
ner which might endanger the bill. The other bill was
of very great importance, and a decidedly necessarysupple-
rnent to the Public Health Bill. The first bill merely went
to the extent of getting rid of the objectionable houses.and
provision must be made for supplying their place. They
could not keep driving their labourers further and further
away. He should he very happy to see the Artisans' Dwell-
ings Bill passed, but be could not say what course his col-
leagues would take, more than that it was their wish for
it to pass. He did not think it could be in better hands
than it was in, for there was no more difficult task than
to pass a bill through a select committee. If it were
brought on by those who had already had it in band, it
would meet with every support.
THE PROPOSED REFORM DEMONSTRATION IN
HIDE-PARE.—The members of the Holborn and Clerken-
well branches of the Reform League are taking active steps
to make the reform demonstration, proposed to be held in
Hyde-park on the `23rd inst., a great success. Meetings
have been convened by both branches, with the view of
making preliminary arrangements, and it is announced
that a public demonstration in favour of reform will be
held on Clerkenwell-green every Monday evening " until
the Reform Bill is pissed."