The Express.
London, England, 1867-10-10 00:00:00

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, Ocr. 9.

The Emperor has sent a letter to Baron von
Beust with reference to the recent address of the
Austrian prelates in favour of the maintenance of
the present Papal Concordat. In this letter his
Majesty lays doe a the principle that the address
will be reserved for due constitutional treatment
at the hands of the ministers, and the Emperor's
final decision on the subject is postponed until
his return, which will take place probably the day
after tomorrow.

The Presse learns that the Papal government
fears that the Italian troops will enter the Papal
States and invest Rome, so as to prevent the de-
parture of the Pope and the cardinals to Civita
Vecchia.

HAMBURG.

HAMBURG, Ocr. 10.

The order prohibiting the importation of cattle
from England, Holland, Belgium, and Russia, in
consequence of the cattle plague, has been re-
scinded.

DENMARK.
HDERSLEBEN, Ocr. 10.

M. Gessen has returned from Berlin. While in
the Prussian capital he had no interview with any
of the ministers, but merely conferred on educa
tional questions with Herr Bucher, the Councillor
of Legation.

PORTUGAL.

LISBON. Ocr. 10.

A statue of the poet Camoens was inaugurated
by the King and Queen this morning. The court
and the diplomatic corps were present at the cere-
mony. A state ball was given in the evening at
the Palace of Belem, and many streets of the city
were illuminated.

(By ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.)
AMERICA.

NEW YORK, Ocr. 9, 6 P. 11.

The democrats have carried the elections in Penn.
Sylvania and the republicans in lowa. In the latter
state the republican majority was greatly reduced.
The result of the Ohio elections is doubtful.
The Allan steamship Nova Scotia arrived out to-
day.
Closing Prices :—Gold, 143. Sterling exchange
on London, 1091. ; 5-20 United States Bonds, 112 i ;
Illinois, 122 ; Erie, 69i. Cotton—Middling Up-
land, 20.

PHILADELPHIA, Ocr. 9.
Petroleum, standard white, 36.

Tho remains of M. Fould are to be interred in
the protestant cemetery at Pere La Chaise, where the
deceased had a family vault constructed.

The Libert4 Bays that a daughter of the late
Lola Monte* is about to make her debut in • tragedy at
the Odeon Theatre in Paris. She has been the pupil of
one of the most distinguished French professors.

The Mooimento of Genoa states the following :
" On the 3rd inst. died at the hospital of Giovanni, at the
age of 24, Giovanni Patarelli de Valnuggia, having fallen
into a state of lethargy on the 3rd of last April, and re-
mained in that condition till his death."

Winter hr.s been ushered in at Paris by its usual
forerunners, the chestnut roasters, who have already taken
up their accustomed positions at the corners of many of
the principal thoroughfares throughout the city. Most of
these poor men are Swiss or from the Southern Alps, and
merely come for the winter to Paris ; sad on a bitter
winter day their bright charcoal fires impart warmth to
many a frozen hand, whilst a pennyworth of their admir-
ably roasted chestnuts is a comfortable meal for many a
hungry passer-by.
Immense works have just commenced in the
south of France for rendering the Rhone navigable from
Arles to the sea. First of all large sandbanks, which
stretch over a distance of more than three miles, and now
permanently block up the river, have to be removed.
Then the Canal St. Louis must be carried along about two
miles further, a lock erected at its mouth, while a bassi*
and port have to be constructed at other points. The cost
of this undertaking is valued at eight millions of francs.
In the same province they had also begun draining the
marshes and improving the state of the Camargue—a sort
of island formed by the two branches of the Rhilue.

It is estimated that the sum already paid this
year for foreign wheat imported into this country
has been at least between seven and eight millions
sterling in excess of the total paid up to the corresponding
date of last year. Russia bail been the principal gainer by
the movement, and next to her Prussia, the United States,
and Turkey.

lipwavaa of 1,600 Germans have left Southampton
for New York in the but two days.

No less than six steamers are advertised to take
out American mails—viz., the China, Union, City of Inn-
don, Arego, Worcester, and Austrian.
The Poet-office has given notice that extra mails
will be made on the 16th inst. for St. Vincent (Cape de
Verdes), Monte Video, and Valparaiso, to be conveyed by
the steamship Perm, which is to leave Liverpool on the
17th inst.

THE YELLOW FEVER IN AMERICA.—The yellow
fever epidemic seems to be alarmingly increasing at the
South. According to the Nem Orleans Picayune of the
20th, there were no less than 7,000 cases under treatment
in that city, and the fever was extending into the Louis-
iana parishes. It is stated that many persons are actually
dying from fright at the first symptoms before medical
treatment can reach them. In Texas the fever was ►lmost
universal along the coast end in the interior. In Corpus
Christi there had been 127 deaths up to the 7th of Sep-
tember, and at La Grange every house was filled with
sickness and death. Everywhere the people are doing
everything in their power to relieve the sick and suffering,
and the papers are publishing various remedial efforts for
the fever, and adding advice to people how to care for
themselves.