The Express.
London, England, 1859-12-23 00:00:00

PARMA AND MODENA.

An order of the day by M. Fanti, the general-in-
chief, dated Dec. 12, from headquarters at Modena,
enjoins as follows:
The princdpal headquarters of the army will be established
at Bologna.
The territory will be partitioned into two military dirt-
ekes, one containing the provinces of Modena and Parma,
tits ether the Romagna.The command of the former will
develye nem Lieutseant.General II rump°, who is to re-
side et Modena, and that of the latter on Lieutenant-Oen/ea
Roselli, who will take up his abode at Bologna. Subject to
thew di chiefs there are to be commandants of the
fronhirs : the e, scone the part of the
Adriatic wag that between Greg sad Tavalle, will be
oememaded by MaJor-Cienersl Moat. who will kayo nadir
his alms the beige in portion at Rimini end thole sow
lib formlag the division doing duty on the imam of the

The commend el the Adriatic coast between the Po and
Carrie, Including the fortress of Como*le, will devolve on
Brigadier Cosine, havieg andw his orders the troops ste-
amed at Beresna, Comacchio, end ell along this line.
The comma of the frontier of the Po between the Com-
tato and Panaro will be bald by Major-Oeneral Idoreadi,
having wader his orders the troop itationed at Idirendola,
Corphi, end other please along this line.
The part of the Po situate between the Blademimo end the
as is to be pieced under the oownitand of the military go-
vernor of Ferrara, subject to aeon orders from Bologna.
The eleventh Italian division remains under the olden of
Major- General Stafenelli, the commandant of this division.
Brigadier-Colonel Plnelli, besides his command of the
brigade, will take the military command of Penns and its
=her, subject to the superior orders of Lieutenant-
blezzacapo, who commands the Modenew end Per-
mem division.

The Weider of War of the United Provisoes of Parma,
Nothwa, tied the Rol:woes will take up his residence et
Solops.

PORTUGAL.

(71011 0131 OWN

LISBON, Bac. 17.
It is said that the government has ceded the con-
cession of the South Eastern Railway from Venda'
Novas to Evora and Reja to an English company,
among the members of which are Mr. Charles Ed-
ward Mangles, Mr. John Chapman, Mr. R. R. Nott-
man, and Mr. G. B. Townsend. This line of railway,
it fully developed, must soon become of importance,
inasmuch as it traverses the great agricultural and
mineral province of Portugal. I believe that Mr.
Rardy Hislop, who was the concessionaire of the
lint railway in Portugal, has been the agent in the
present contract.
A very mysterious and fearful occurrence is now
before the Lisbon public. A few nights sines the
patrol on going the rounds discovered, in a lane near
the unfinished palace of the Ajada, a box, tied with
cord, acne • dead wall. One of the guards on
examining the box found that blood was oozing from
the bottom, and that it emitted a foul smell. In-
formation was given at once to the authorities, and
when they came the box was broken open. The
body of a girl, about twenty-two years of age, was
found in it. She was packed tightly in the box, her
knees being drawn up to her head ; across her throat
was a deep gash, around which was wrapped a
cloth ; her linen was of fine quality, and her hands
and teeth gave evidence that she belonged to at least
the middle-class of society. Medical evidence has
established the purity of the deceased girl, as
well that the body must have been dead some 15
days. As yet nothing has been found by the
police authorities leadieg to the identification of the
murdered person, although every inquiry and search
has been made, and it is feared that the atrocious
crime which has undoubtedly been committed may
remain among those mysteries from which the veil
has never been withdrawn.
The ring has recovered from his recent inane,
and is now able to attend to bobbies'.

The weather has lately been very oold, and in the
1 suburb' there has been a coating of ice on the tanks
and ponds, a thing of very rare occurrence.
Sir Arthur Charles Magenis, K.C.8., the new
I minister, who arrived in the last packet, has been
presented at court by Mr. Howard, who takes hie
departure by the Sultan. Mr. Howard carries with
him the good wishes of all parties here, having
in his social sphere won the affections of a very
numerous circle of friends by his unvarying polite-
ness and manifest kindness of heart.

Apartments are taken at the Braganca Hotel for
the Duke of Northumberland and his suite, who are
eriptatod soon to arrive heni, the duke intending to
perms winter in Lisbon for the benefit of his
heal

THE PRIINSULAR MOILB.—The Sultan arrived at
Seathareptaa yesterday, with the Peninsular ensile. She left
Liebou oa the Ink, end 'No ea the 19th toot. Amongst
the pareugere was Mr. Howard, our late aloha.r at the
Portuguese court. Amongst the *sego of the Sultan won
specie to the value of 3.6301. The screerathether Leda visa
at Vigo on the 19tht nu her way from Oporto to Ragland,
harieg lost a uuaber of cattle 1n a_ gale of wind. The
Bouillon mail pocket Area ionised at Lisboa es the 13th,
awl ailed for Rio oa the 14th. A Dutch 30-gan frigate wake
of Laos.

(lALLANT LIFEBOAT SERVICEL—LTTHAII, WED-
BUDA' ETZNINO.—Dosing the Melones of the storm at
daybreak this 'morning a vessel was teat from here in a meet
critical Mutation on the Hors. Bank. The lifeboat on
Paake's plane belonging to the Royal National Lifeboat In-
stitution, stational at Lytkinnwas et one leuncbed, and pro-
ceeded off to her assistance. Having arrived within a non
distance of the vessel the crew were perceived making an at-
tempt to save their lives in their own boat. Fortunately the
lifeboat mom up to them just in due to rescue them from
drown's'', so their own boat was swamped, and the next
wave would inevitably have capoirrd ker. The crew, °n-
otating of seven persons, were landed here without delay in •
very snouted oonditton; one at them, a °clamed man, was
sometime under medical treatment era he wag pronounced out
a danger. The rowel is the brigwitioe Hannah Jane, of
London, Captain Kett% master, bound from Liverpool to
Valente, Spats, laden nth gagging, having left Liverp,ol
on Friday bet. This is the second swears crew that Ibis
valuable lifeboat has eared during the Ism fortnight. We
learn, by telegraph, that late on Wednesday night the life-
, boat succeeded in bringiog the ship into a port of 'Mel.