The Express.
London, England, 1867-11-04 00:00:00

THE FOREIGN NAILS.

BOMBAY (HEAVY) MAIL.—GIBRALTAR, Nov. I.
The Delta, from Southampton Oct. 27, arrived at 9 a.m.
to-day, and leaves at noon for Alexandria. All well. She
experienced good weather from the Needles.
DESPATCH OF A VSTRALIAN MAILS.—SOUTHAMP-
TON, Nov. 2.—The Royal Mail Company's steamship
Plata, Captain Revett, sailed hence to-day, with mails for
the British and Foreign West Indies, Mexico, the Pacific,
California, Central America, Australia, New Zealand, &c.
She took out 183 passengers, and a very large cargo, in.
eluding sovereigns, 500/. ; French jewellery, 4,6G6/.; Eng-
lish jewellery, 3,1401. ; and 100 bottles quicksilver, value
700/.

OUTWARD AMERICAN )1 tIL. QUZINRTOWN,
Nov. 3.—The Royal Mail Steamship Scotia arrived here
at 8 a.m. to-day. She embarked 80 s►oks of mails,
passengers, and telegrams, and proceeded for New York
at 3.30 p.m. All well.

The West India mail packet left Southampton on
Saturday, without any mail sorters on board, in conse-
quence of the prevalence of yellow fever in the West
Indies.

The Times of India says :—" Arrangements
have been made for the establishment of a camp post-
office to accompany the Abyssinian field force, and we be-
lieve that a special steamer is to be employed on this ser.
vice between Mossowah and Aden. Letters, papers, &c.,
for this force will require to be addressed to ' The Field
Force, Abyssinia.",

THE ABYERIINIAN EXPEDITION. Care is being
taken to render the Abyssinian expedition useful for the
purposes of science. }nom Bombay an eminent botanist
and other scientific men will accompany it ; while from
home the interests of geographical knowledge will be repre-
sented by Mr. Clements R. Markham, of the India-office,
and senior secretary to the Geographical Society ; those of
archaeology and antiquarian research by Mr. Deutech, of
the British Museum ; while zoology and other branches of
scientific knowledge will also be cared for. Sunday
Gaxite.
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The advance brigade of the Abyssinian expedi-
tion is under commend of Colonel Field, who will be
brigadier-general in Abyssinia till the arrival of the com-
mander-in-chief. The brigade will establish a depot at
Ilassowah, and then proceed about sixty mile* inland,
awaiting then the arrival of the main body of the expe-
dition.

Sir Alfred Horsfonl received orders on Saturday
to proceed to Liverpool, in anticipation of Fenian distur-
bances, and take command of the troops there, consisting
of a battery of artillery, a squadron of cavalry, and a bat'
talion of infantry.
THa LATC STORNI IN TIIS CHANNEL. —The Moun-
taineer, the wreck of which we reported early last week,
is still on the rook where she struck, at Rhosneegne, on the
Welsh coast, 543 bundles of seal skins, 12 casks of salmon,
and 63 casks of oil have been got on shore from the wreck,
and it is hoped that she will Heat when the he►vier portion
of her carffo has been got out. An attempt to float was
made on 1. rider', but failed. Nothing further has been
recovered from the wreck of the Earl of Chester, which
went ashore at Ithosneeene on Monday last. The ship
Triumph. bating from Maranham to Liverpool, has gone
ashore near Holyhead. The crew and cargo have been
saved, and will be sent on to Liverpool b 7 rail. The mas-
ter of the ship Sanspareil, which has arrived at Liverpool,
reports that on the 21st of October, when in lat. 43 N.,
lon. 48 W., he fell in with the schooner Catherine John,
of St. John's, N. 8., bound from Wilmington to Liverpool,
in a distresseil condition, there being no one on beard to
manage her, the captain having died on the 17th October,
and the mate was ill ; he therefore sent on board a mate,
two able seamen, and a boy, together with provisions,
water, medicine, and a chronometer. The ship Hugh
Block has been totally wrecked on the island of Flu: es
while on a voyage from Liverpool to Monte Video.
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MUNIFICENCE OF LIVERPOOL MEN.—Mr..lo6oph
Leather, of Liverpool, has munificently presented to the
National Lifeboat Institution the two fine lifeboats now
stationed at New Brighton. One boat is on the self-right-
ing principle, and the other is on Richardson's tubular
plan. Mr. J. C. Ewart, of Liverpool, has also defrayed
the cost of the commodious and substantial boathouse for
the reception of the self-righting lifeboat, the tubular boat
being always kept afloat. It may be added that Mr.
Leather had previously presented to the institution the
lifeboat Princess of Wales, stationed at Holyhead. Pro-
bably no lifeboat station on the whole coast is more com-
plete than the New Brighton one. Mr. Alfred Bower acts
as the chairman of that branch of the National Lifeboat
Institution, and the Rev. R. I). Powell is the honorary
secretary, and they and other gentlemen are indefatigable
in their exertions to maintain the lifeboats in a state of
efficiency. Acting completely in conjunction with the
lifeboats of the Mersey Dock Trustees, it may truly be
said that no port in the United Kingdom is now better
provided with the means of saving life from shipwreck
than the Port of Liverpool.