The Express.
London, England, 1866-10-05 00:00:00

REM ARK&

A eeneral increase of barometric pressure, *amounting to nearly
two-tenths of an inch, has occurred over the British Isles and
France. The winds are still Fght or moderate, chiefly ;rout the
not.heast. Temperatures continue rather high, and there Is
hut little evaporation. The weather is overcast r -misty. Strong
earth-currents existed last night on the eastern and north-
western lines of telegraph.

According to the Gazette de You, Count Bismarck
has refused the order of St. Hubert, which the Bavarian
government had conferred upon him.
A German correspondent of the Temps repre-
sents the court party at Berlin as sedulously attempting
to undermine the influence of M. Bismarck with the King,
seeking to arouse his Majesty's jealousy by representations
of the undue prominence accorded to M. Bismarck in the
public mind. The correspondent further hints that M.
Bismarck's illness was more or less feigned as a part of his
strategy in return.

The crowded audience at the Porte Saint-Martin
assembled to witness the " Parisiens it Londres," had a
narrow escape on Tuesday night. At half-past 11 the
curtain rose for the fifteenth taMeau, which connate of a
dicor entirely in crystal, raised slowly by means of pullies
from the stage in order to display the inner scene illumi-
nated by electric light. An immense number of actors and
actresses were on the stage, when a crack was heard, and
down fell with a tremendous crash the whole crystal cur-
tain. Women screamed, men jumped out of the boxes ;
the theatre was filled with a shower of splintered glass,
which half blinded everyone present, and in consequence
of which it was extremely difficult to ascertain the real
amount of damage done. Fortunately the gas was in-
stantly turned off from the footlights and stage lamps, and
the curtain lowered.

From Saltzburg, in Upper Austria, it is reported
that Baron de Lerchenfeld, formerly Bavarian Minister at
Vienna, has just met with a serious accident. He audtwo
other travellers, when making au excursion, fell among
the glaciers of Untersberg, and it was not until three hours
afterwards that they could be succoured. The baron was
very severely braised about the head.
It is announced from Canada that a large emigra-
tion has been going on during all this year from the British
provinces to the western states of the Union. Mechanics,
especially, thus change their homes, over 1,000 carpenters
haring left Quebec during the present year.
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Experiments are shortly to be made at fortress
Monroe, under the superintendence of a military board,
to test the resistance of iron-plated fortifications to heavy
crdnanee in comparison It ith the resistance of earthworks
and stone forts.

SHOCKING ACCIDENT TO A GENTLEMAN FARMUL
—An inquest was held yesterday at Newton-with-Scales,
in West lAnashire, on the body of a farmer named John
Richardson, who lived on his own estate. It seems that
the deceased went into his garden with a loaded double-
barrelled gun for the purpose of shooting, and afterwards
to pick up some fruit which had been blown off the trees.
He went into the garden about 11 o'clock in the forenoon,
and shortly afterwards a shot was heard ; no notice was
taken of it, but, as Mr. Richardson had sot returned at 4
o'clock, a search was made for him, and he was found in
the garden in a dreadful condition. From the position of
the body and the gun it appeared that while the deceased
was stooping to pick up some fruit the butt end of the
gun, which he had over his left shoulder, became entan-
gled in one of the trees and that one barrel bad exploded.
The contents had entered his left thigh and torn open the
flesh for sor 6 inches. He then seems to have fallen and
the burning wadding afterwards set his clothes on fire.
He was burnt is a shocking manner from the abdomen to
the throat. Some shot that he had with him in a beg was
rotated. A verdict in aorerdance with the above hots was
returned by the jury.