The Express.
London, England, 1867-08-03 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

lisona's TaLsoimu.)
THE CANDIAN QUESTION.

VIENNA, AUGUST 3.

It is stated that the negotiations of Baron von
Boust with Fuad Paella with reference to the
Candian question have remained without moult.
The Turkish Minister for Foreign Affairs has,
however, consented to lay the proposals for an
international inquiry before the Divan and to
recommend their adoption. The Divan will meet
in a few days at Ruatschuck, whither the Ministers
of the Porte have been summoned by the Sultan.
Definitive replies to the identical notes of France,
Russia, Prussia, and Italy, as well as to the note of
Austria, will be forwarded from Rustachuck.

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, Arcun 3.

It is announced to-day on reliable authority
that the Emperor Napoleon will not leave Paris
until the 16th of August. He will arrive at Salz-
burg on the 17th, and remain there until the 19th
inst. The Emperor Napoleon will not come to
Vienna.

HUNGARY.

PESTI!, AUGUST 3.

The delegates elected by the Hungarian Diet to
confer with the Austrian delegates on the final
settlement of the future relations between Hungary
and Austria, leave here for Vienna on the ith
instant.

Since January of the present year the Pzussian
government has purchased 27,000 horses in Hun-
gary.

EGERZEG, Alwyn 1.
General Perezel has been elected as deputy for
this town to the Hungarian Diet.

PRUSSIA.
BERLIN, Anne? 3.
Count Bismarck has arrived here and left again
immediately for Ems.

SWEDEN.
STOCKHOLM, Aucumr Y.

M. Behic, the French Minister of Commerce
has arrived here from Paris, and has been received
by the Prince Regent.

AMERICA.
Artravic ratzmura.)
NEW YORK, AUGUST 2, 6 P.Y.
The radicals have carried the Tennessee elections.
The New York aid Bremen steamer Baltic
arrived out yesterday.
Closing prices :—Gold, 1401. Sterling exchange
on London, 110. 5-20 United States Bonds, 1121.
Illinois, 1181 ; Erie, 7th. Cotton : Middling Up-
land, 28.
PHILADELPHIA, Accesr 2.
Petroleum, standard white, 321.

DESTRUCTION OF LAMB AND STERRY s
PARAFFIN WAX REFINERY.

INTIMATED DAMAGE, ElOO,OOO.
The moat extensive conflagration that has 00,
curred for some years in the neighbourhoods of Bother-
hithe and Deptford broke out last night, and was gem
ening at the Sure this report was written, vu., In 0.144
a.m. The premise* whichiad recently been erected &treat
cost, covered ready half an acre of land. They stood at
the rear of some private dwellings, and near the Old Jolly
Wall Tavern in the Itotherbithe New-road. The vseioe;
floors were fitted up with powerful machinery, and the
stores contained several hundred barrels of issivu
whi'et the warehouses were filled with the !timed
wax. About half-past 10 o'clock lain night some pen"
lashed into the Old Jolly Wall and cried out " Tle works
are on fire." A sudden panic seemed to seize everyone
present, it being well-known that the contents of the pre.
miles, besides being of such an ignitable cluic.c:,r,
would, if the fire continued, explode with fearful vin:
lenoe, and such ur fortunately was the case. Before the engion
an ived huge bodies of flame shot up 50 feet into the air.
The fire soon reached three newly-built houses, temp
Alexander-cottages, and in a few minutes they were de.
strayed. The large skin factory of Mr. Moore, situate be.
bind his dwelling-house, was next &necked, and our
quickly in a blare. The London Salvage Corps rolled On
some hundred barrels of oil and casks of wax, whilst the
paraffin, in • complete state of ignition, our
running along the other buildings. In the centre If
the front houses was • pair of gates, leading to the r..
finery. The firemen went down this gateway ; whijee
they were directing the water into the press-new
one of the vats exploded, making • fearful noise, esd
before they could got away three of them, named Rogers,
Grimsha and Palmer, became surrounded with Mune,
and were so seriously injured that they bad to la
taken to the hospital. Another and louder explosion toot
place shortly after, and blew down some of the ma.
By 10 o'clock all danger of explosion was over. As is
the origin of the disaster, nothing is known. About thirty
workmen will be thrown out of employment. The Ices is
estimated at 100,000!.

SUSPECTED MURDER OP A WOMAN IN MILS.
END NEW TCWN.

INQUEST.—(THIS DAY.)
This forenoon Mr. Humphrey., the Middlesex corms,
held an inquest at the Sugar Loaf Tavern, Church-street,
Mile-end New To, respecting the death of a women
whose name was unknown, aged about 40 years.
Police-constable Shepperd 43 H, said that on bit
Wednesday morning at half-past eight o'clock Its
found the deceased lying on the pavement in
Leman-street, and aa she appeared to be intoxicated he
removed her to the Leman-street station. He had ken
the same woman an hour before staggering up Leman.
street.

Police-sergeant Saunders, 17 H, said that when he cues
into the station he' found the deceased lying Ce tks
floor in the lobby, with a pillow under her head. She hid
been placed there to give her air. Ho sent ice the
police surgeon, who ordered her removal to the wok.
house infirioary.
Poliowoonstable Sheppard said that be thought that tbe
deceased had been out all night. He knew the woman by
sight.
Sergeant Sanders said that every effort had been ends
to discover who the deceased was, but without snow
She was not locked up in a cell. She was speseblees sad
insensible, and apparently drunk. She was carried ea
stretcher to the 'Whitechapel Workhouse.
Mary Jane Griffiths' nurse at the workhouse infirmary,,
said that the deceased was brought into the workhouse at
Wilmot 2 o'clock. She was quite unconscious and cm.
tinned so up to the time of ber death, which took place
half-past 4 o'clock. She bad le. 6d. in her pocket. Ho
clothing was clean and comfortable.
Dr. E. Richardson said that on Wednesday he was called
to see the doomed, and found her in a state of itataii.
bility. She had an epileptic convulsion. The pan
mortem examination of her body proved that there ens
severe bruises and scratches on her arms. Her back lied
both legs were also scratched. There was a scratch on the
inside part of one of her thighs.
Coroner—Could that mark have been caused by a fall!
Witneres—l do not think so.

0011111111 r—Do yes think the* was self-infcted!
Witness—l do not. There it
was a woundli behind the
right ear an inch in length, and I do not think that wood
could have been caused ley a fall. There was a most sewn
wound behind the left ear, and her nose was split
up. There was the mark of a blow on the right eye.
Upon opening the head I found a large aecumuktien
blood under the left hemisphere of the brain. The bnia
and all the °rpm; of the deceased's body were healthy.
There was no sign about the body that she was a worm'
given to drink. The cause of bee death was the effuses
on the brain. The wounds on her body could sot have
been caused by a fall.
A juror said that the deceased might have been blocked
stupid by some person before the police came up and MI
her staggering along the street.
The July, after a short consultation, returned a ver,!iff
that the deceased woman expired from the effusion os
the brain from injuries to the head, but how or nada
what circuuistances she.salee by the said violence ibue

was not evidence before the jary-to rove.

WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.)

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