The Express.
London, England, 1859-11-03 00:00:00

AUSTRIA.

A Vienna letter says:

The sffair of 11)8151115 of bonds to the amount of 111,000,000
florins (276,000,000 t.) above the 300,000,000 florins of the
national loan of llKie —an bane which wee not only illegal
but long kept secret—continues to cause a profousd aensation
here; and in the hope of calming it the government has
nominated a speciel commisalon, consisting of a certain num-
ber of capitalists end bankers, to institute a sesrcbing exami-
nation respecting all the debts of the State. This commission
ham already held several sittings at the Ministry of Finance,
end the result of its investigation is waited for with ninth
interest.

The Austrian Correspondence of Vtenns has the
following "communicated" note :

From astatement in the o,tdeutehe Post it is known that
some students of the University of Pesth have arrogated the
right of representing themselves as delegates of that uni-
versity. Such conduct is contrary to the regulattocs and to
the diecipline enforce! to that university, and cmeeq tly
the disciplinary 1011111011.11 prescribed by ail ordi-
nance well be adopted.

A letter from Pesth in the Press, of Vienna says

Tbs national tendencies of the Magyars are mote strongly
manifested every day. Soule time back a number of students
of this city petitioned that the Hungarian langusge should
alone be used In teaching in the University of Peeth. Several
mandaloas scenes hers just taken place in the lecture rooms
cif the nnivereity—the pmfesaors elm give their lemons in
Osman h►eing been hooted and oblige* to ratite.

A memorandum signed by 15,000 persons, hu
been addressed to the peoples and governments of
Europe by the inhabitants of the district of
Mantua.

The semi-official Correspondeocia of Madrid
We out aaear our readers that the relations be-
tween the Epanielt government and Mr. Buctuutan, the
Englisk Minister, e .ntinue to be most amicable and cordial.
If the interest of her commerce be, ea is said, the basis of
the policy of Englind, she 11111 have greater advantage In
seeing the unknown territory of Attics thrown open to
oornmercial relations thin in allowing bands of pirates to
exist on ice coset.."

The Duke de Mootpensier has requested the
Queen of Spain to allow him to take service to the pipe&
tom spinet the Moore; but her Majesty, in flatteries terms.
had declined for the present. Nevertheless, says the alr.
respohclanei•i, the doke entertained hopes that the Queen
will consent, and was accordingly making preparations for
departure. General Furcadell, who held a command under
Dos Caries is the civil war, had also offered to serve sgainst
Morocco.

The advice. received from different parts of the
Continent seem to forebode an early winter. Rather heavy
fella of meow have already occurred in the Pae-de-Calak sad
Brittany, se well as in the neigbourhood of Rouen, Hawn,
and Antwerp. A letter from Bt. Gervais-kr/Wm also
Mateo that go much snow war never remembered In the Alps
at this town. Yost Poupet and the other unrantsine
round Balm, la the Jars, are likewise covered with now.

RAILWAY CONP4IIIS6' 4ssocurioN.— (TR IS
DAY.)

Thin morning a meeting of this association was
held at the Railway Clearing-house, 101, Seymour-street,
liuston-equra • Mr. H. S. THOMPSON in the chair.
After the trinasotion of some purely formal baainee• the
CHAIRMAN said be held in his hand the act posed lam NO.
sion to enable railway companies to Wile their difficulties by
arbitration upon a more extensive scale than they had pre-
viously been able to do. He was happy to say that that act,
which was so valuable in itself, was not likely to remain •
dead letter, but that railway companies would probably avail
theweelves of its important powers. It was the first-fruits
of the co-operation of such companies—oo-operation
which, if continued, would, he was convinced, lead
to further results. Another bill was introduced
to alter the Railway Cowponies Classes Act,
sad to extend to those compacies advantages which
other commercial associations powered; but it being eeae-
sary • grist deal of evidence should be laid before a
parliamentary committee, it was found that in consequence
of the dissolution it would be impossible to have the bill
carried in the last session, and accordingly in June
it we. until the next. In order to secure
the of that bill, and make it of any real value, there
must be • common and hearty effort on the part of railway
companion; there mast be a determination on their part to
pull together and to make mutual concessions. The results
of the great contest which had gone on for two or three years
between many of the leading companies bad naturally led
to a feeling that they ought to make errangements
to prevent that which it was so painful to witness,
and which had entailed such great losses. Several of
the great companies were endeavouring to adopt agree-
menu of a very entangles character, and he believed that
if they set to work In earnest they might obtain an Act
which would facilitate that object, and lead to a fair inter-
change of traffic, in the course of the next session. It had been
intended that drafts of the bill should be circulated 14 days be-
[aesthetician to Dezember; but several amendments having
been suggested, it was now thought that the beat coarse
would be to have It considered and amended in committee and
submitted to the meeting in its amended form. lie then
moved • resolution to the effect that the expenses of the last
quarter, viz., 1291. fis.3d., should be debited in equal propor-
tions to the various railway companiesbelonging
to the association ; adding that the amount payable
by each company was only 41. 12a. 4d.
Mr. GAMILI seconded the motion; which was put and
carried.

A resolution was subsequently pared substituting seven
days' for one months' notice of any contemplated transaction
of badness.
Mr. GAMBLE =Zit MIS very important that this as-
socistien should whether any means could be devised
fur putting en and to a serious and growing evil as regarded
the interests of railway companies ; he referred to the sub-
ject of packed parcels. (Hear.) Within the last month or two
an association had been formed which was not only carrying
packed parcels at an extremely low rate, but even allowing
persons for the payment of an annual or a monthly sum to
receive as many parcels as they liked ; and within a fortnight
of that time a certain house in the county of York received a
number of parcels from London which, at the rate that they
paid per month to the parties who collected them, did not
average three farthings per parcel. He hoped that this evil
would be dealt with by the association.
The CHAIRMAN intimated that the subject would be out-
sidered by the committee, with a view of providing a remedy
for the evil in the bill which was to be brought forward in
the next session.

Mr. Iluoceox said, while he fully concurred in the im-
portance of railway companies having greater powers for
entering into mutual agreements, be thought such powers
would not end should not be granted by parliament without
corresponding concessions on the part of railway companies,
which would guarantee to the public the uninterrupted con-
veyance of themselves and of their goods from one end of the
kingdom to the other. (Hear, hear.) The obstructions
which had in many instances been raised were only detri-
mental to the public,and violation of the duty of railway
companies toward, public.
Toe CIIOORMAN stated that the neat meeting of the asso-
ciation would be held on the 16th instead of the Bth of
December.
The meeting then separated.