The Express.
London, England, 1867-11-08 00:00:00

The documents concerning the Cretan insurrec-
tion will contain a complete explanation of the re-
cent collective declaration of the four Powers, and
will detail the preliminary incidents connected with
that diplomatic act.
The documents relative to the affairs of Spain
will show that France endeavoured to prevent re-
cruiting amongst the refugees in the departments
near the Spanish frontier.
The documents relating to France and Prussia
will be few in number, and will not mention any
incident of a nature to modify the relations be-
tween the Powers having occurred since 186h6.

FRANCE.
PANTS, Nov. 7, EVENING.

The Epoque of this evening Considers the resig-
nation of M. de Lay alette ascertain. His probable
successor will be either M. Rouher or M. Pinard.

SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN.
KIEL, Nov. 7. EVENING.

The Schleswig Holstein elections for the Prus-
sian Chamber of Deputies have terminated. The
liberals have obtained the greatest number of
seats. The town of Haldersleben has elected Herr
Kruger, who is a partisan of Denmark. Chief Pre-
sident Scheel Plessen has been elected for East
Holstein.

RUSSIA.

ST. PETIESSURG, Nov. 7, EVENING.

The members of the commission for the reform
of the existing tariff have been appointed, and an
imperial decree has been issued, instructing them
to commence their labours on the 13th inst. The
result of their labours, and the ministerial decision
on the question, are to be ready at latest on the
13th March, 1868, when they will be laid before
the Council of the Empire.

THE BANK OF FRANCE.
PARIS, Nov. 7.

The return of the Bank If France for the week
ending to-day shows the following changes com-
pared with that of last week :—lncrcase : Cash in
hand, 17,000,000 fr. ; advances, 1,000,000 fr. ;
private accounts, 1,000,000 fr. ; treasury balance,
100,000 fr. Decrease : Bills discounted, 53,000,000 fr.
notes, 39,500,000 fr.

VIOLENT TYPHOON AT HONG KONG.
HONG KONG, OCT. 15.

Another violent typhoon has occurred here, and
has caused immense damage to property along the
shore. The Manilla steamer Afalespina is missing.

AMERICA.
(DT ATLANTIC TffLECRAPH.)
NEW YORK, Nov. 7, 6 P.M.

The debt of the United States at the end of the
put month was 2,625,000,000 dole., and the
amount of cash in the Treasury before the pay-
ment of the coupons 134,000,000 dole.
The steamship Western Metropolis arrived out
to-day.

Closing Prices :—Gold, 138 k. Sterling exchange
on London, 1097. 5-2/11 United States Bonds,
1081 ; Illinois, 125 ; Erie, 72. Cotton : Middling
Upland, 184.

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 7.
Petroleum, standard white. 37.

ANTI-FENIAN PRECAUTIONS IN LIVERPOOL.—III
order to ensure still greater security, and the prompt sup-
pression of any " rising" which the members of the Fenian
brotherhood may be foolish enough to attempt in Liver-
pool, the head constable of Liverpool has arranged that at
each of the principal lock-ups there shall be stationed a
number of policemen trained to military duty, and ready to
turn out to co-operate with the soldiers quartered in the
town or to act independently as occasion may require.
Yesterday the keeper of Talbot-chambers (a group of offices
close to the Bank of Liverpool) discovered, secreted in the
lower part of that building, what appeared to be a large
circular lance head, but which upon examination was found
to be an iron tubular bomb of a dangerous character. The
lower part of the tube was filled with detonating powder,
which could be ignited by a slow match passing through a
smaller tube, to which was affixed a " fly' of inilia-rubber,
for the purpose of securing accuracy of aim. A few days
ago a similar projectile was found in a house in Lambert-
street, and the servant girl, ignorant of its nature, began to
use it as a poker. It immediately exploded with • loud
report, blowing to atoms a large iron pot, which was boil-
ing on the fire at the time. Fortunately the girl herself
escaped injury. l'pon the main tube of the weapon found
in Fenwiek-street is a printed label, containing the words
" Improved bomb lance," It is understood to be an
American invention.

MEDICLL STUDENTS.—From the annual official
returns prepared for the Government Inspectors of Ans-
tomicat Schools, and which have only just been completed
and sent to these gentlemen, it appears that the number
of students now pursuing their professional studies at the
eleven recognised hospitals in this metropolis amounted to
1,125, against 1,043 of last year; the number of new entries
or fresh men, this year amounted to 355, against 362 of
the past year. In the nine recognised provincial hos-
pitals there are 257, being a decrease of only one from the
return of last year. It thus appears that in England alone
there are no leas than 1,352 gentlemen preparing to qualify
for taking charge of the health of her Majesty's subjects.

It seems more and more oertain that the French army
may claim the honour of a large share of the success at
Tivoli. General de Polhcs commanded the troops engaged.
A strong body of the French division, commanded by Ge-
neral Dumont, did not come up until the fight was done.
It is stated that two French companies which were not to
hare gone into line were so excited when they beard the
firing that they rushed forward in spite of the remon-
strances of their officers. While admiring their conduct,
we give them up to the indignation of the Slick.
The Opinwue of Turin confirms the news that
the French took part in the battle. According to
this authority the Ist, 59th, and 80th regiments of
the line, a battalion of Chasseurs, and a battery
of artillery, were on the ground. Garibaldi's letter
says that he was retreating when he was attacked
at Tivoli, so that the trial of the Chassepot rifles
and the slaughter which so delights the clerical
and government papers was after all unnecessary.
The Rente fell sc. for cash and 20c. for account,
leaving off at 68fr. 45c., and 68fr. 32ic. Italian
fell 25c., and Credit Fonder 15fr. There was a
heavy fall of 17fr. 50c. in Mobilier, which closed
at the unprecedentedly low figure of 150fv. It
was said that tho city of Paris had refusal to the
Soci4t6 Immobiliere the guarantee for 130 millions
asked for by M. Rouher.

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY UNION SOCIETY. —The
elect'on of officers of this society for the October term
took place on Tuesday last, and resulted as follows :
President, Mr. George Crispe Whiteley,fit. John's College;
Vice-President, Mr. A. S. Wilkins, St. John's College ;
Secretary, Mr. E. A. Owen, Trinity College ; Treasurer,
the Rev. E. E. W. Kirkby, Trinity College ; Committee,
Messrs. J. F. Moulton, St. John's ; W. K. Clifford,
Trinity ; H. D. Warr, Trinity Hall ; A. Foster St.
John's ; S. Leeke, Trinky ; and M. C. Cu linen, Christ's.
The subject debated on the same evening was, " That this
house disapproves of the French intervention in Rome."
This was proposed by Mr. A. B. Wilkins, of St. John's
College, the newly-elected vies-president, who was sup-
ported in the affirmative by Messrs. W. Wiles, Sidney •
H. A. Rigg, Trinity; and R. Purvis, Downing. Against
the proposition—Messrs. N. Moore, of St. Catherine's ;
F. Watson, St. John's ; W. A. Lindsay, Trinity ; and H.
Seeley, Sidney. On • division there voted in the affirma-
tive 30, in the negative 18. The motion was therefore
carried by a majority of 12. The subject for debate on the
11th is :—" That in the opinion of this house, the Bntiali
Museum and other similar institutions should be open on
Sunday, in order the better to bring the people of this
country in contact with national works of art." This will
he proposed by Mr. W. A. Lindsay, of Trinity College.
The leader of the opposition will be Mr. A. Foster, of St.
John's College.
Wi1.1.8 AND BaQurars. The will of James
Aspinall Turner, Esq., late M.P. for Manchester, of
Pendlebtuy House, Manchester, and of St. James's-place,
Westminster, was proved in London on 22nd ult., by his
sou Henry, Francis, and Philip Turner, power being re-
' served to his relict, the executors and trustees appointed.
The personalty was sworn under .100,000!. The will is
dated January 23, 1866, and the testator died at Almond's
Hotel, Clifford-street, New Bond-street, on Sectember
%, 1867, at the age of seventy. He has left his house
and estate at Pendlebury to his wife for her life ; the
furniture, pictures, works of art, books, collec.
tions, and cabinets, with the jewellery, plate, car-
riages, live and dead stock, farming produce, con-
sumable stores, wine, kc., be leaves to his wife
absolutely, together with a legacy of 20,0001., and
the interest of 30,000/. He bequeaths to each of his sons,
William, Henry, Francis, and Philip, a legacy of 20,0001.
and to hie son John, the interest of • like sum of
20,000!.. the principal at his decease to his children ; and
to his daughter Catherine (Mrs. Sharp) the interest of
20,000/., the principal to her children. The residue is to
be divided into four equal parts, one fourth he leaves to
each of his three mum, Henry, Francis, and Philip,
and the remaining fourth to his daughter-in-law, Ann
Elizabeth, wife of his son William. All legacies are
to be paid free of duty. The will of Joseph Pocock,
Esq., of Warminster, Wilts, was proved in the registry
at aliskury by the joint actin" executors, the Rev.
Arthur Fans, 8.A., prebendary of Salisbury and vicar of
Warminster, and the Rev. Charles M. Arnold, M.A., of
South Norwood, Surrey. The personalty was sworn under
60,000!. The will is dated Jan. 30, 1860, and the testator
died Sept. 8, 1867. He has left to each of his executors a
legacy of 5001. There are several small bequests ; he I
leaves to each man who can prove to the satisfaction of
his executors that he was in the testator's employ at Brix-
ton Deseret' the sum of H. The following are the charit-
able bequests : to the Wilts Friendly Society, 2001. ; the
Salisbury Infirmary, Bath United Hospital. and Salisbury
Church Building Society, each 100/. and to the Blanket-
lending Society, Aged Poorliociety, and the National Schools,
all in Warminster, 50!. each, all legacies to be free of duty.
The residue of his property he leaves equally between all
his nephews and nieces, and the share which his nephew
George Pocock would have been entitled to be leaves to
his children. The will of Miss Susan Colquitt, of Green-
bank, near Liverpool, was proved in the registry, at Liver-
pool, on the lst ult., by Miss Lucy Ashton, her 1110 CC, the
daughter of the Rev. Ellis Ashton, S.D., Rural Dean
Vicar of Huyton, and Ambrose Lace, Esq., of Liverpool,
the executors sod trustees. The personalty was sworn
under3o,ooo/. The will was made In April, 1867, and the
testatrix died in the June following. She has left the
following charitable bequests :—To the Society for the
Propagation of the Gaspel, tbeChurch Missionary Society,
pintail and Foreign BibleSoeiety, and the Royal Infirmary,
Brawnlow-street, Liverpool, each 300/. ; the Society for Pro-
moting Christian Knowledge, 200/.; Northern and Southern
Hospital, each 200/. ; Northern and Southern Dispensary,
each 150/. ; Strangers' Friend Society, Female l'eniten-
tiary, Itluecuat School, and Deaf and Dumb Asylum, all
in Liverpool, 100/. each; Lancashire Female Refuge, and
the schools at St. Clement's, each 100/. ; and the Seaside
Infirmary at New Brighton, 50/. • all legacies to be free
of duty and paid within six montlis. The residue of her
personal estate she bequeaths to her niece, Lucy Ashton,
and also leaves her the freeholds, including her Greenbank
estate, upon certain conditions.—Illustrated London News.
THE ROYAL BANK OP LIVERPOOL—A special
meeting of tho shareholders was held yesterday at the
Law Association-rooms, Liverpool; Mr. J. B. Brancken in
the chair; at which the following resolution was pro-
posed by the chairman, seconded by Mr. Harold Little-
dale, and carried unanimous! :—" That the Royal Bank
of Liverpool be registered under the Companies Act, 1862,
as an unlimited company,andthat the solicitors of the bank
be directed forthwith to take all necessary steps for pro-
curing the immediate registration thereof.' Mr. Lovrndes,
one of the solicitors to the bank, explained that the object
of this resolution was to
°protect the individual share-
holders from molestation, in order to obtain a voluntary
winding up under the Companies Act, 1862. Another
meeting is to be held on the 11th, when • resolution to
wind up the bank will be proposed.
The banquet to Mr. E. Miall, at Bradford, is
fixed for Friday, the 15th inst. ,

Our Southampton correspondent, writing last
night, thus refers to this terrible catastrophe :
" The inhabitants here were terror-stricken this
afternoon by the disastrous news from the West
Indies. About 130 persons belonging to the town
and neighbourhood have perished. People have
been flocking in from the suburbs to learn particu-
lars. The Rhone was one of the most magnificent
Iships ever built ; she was launched about two years
since,and cost one hundred and tif ty thousand pounds.
She was commanded by Captain Woolley, one of
the most experienced captains in the Royal Mail
Company's service. The Rhone was to leave St.
Thomas on the 31st ultimo, and was due at Ply-
mouth next Tuesday. The Wyo, Conway, Der-
went, Tyne, and Solent, which have been lost,
driven ashore, or damaged, were smaller steamer,
belonging to the Royal Mail Company. The mails
from the Pacific, the Spanish Main, and the various
West India islands were brought to St. Thomas by
these smaller intercolonial steamers, to be shipped
on board the Rhone. These steamers also brought
I nearry all the that would have come to
England by the Rhone, as the mails are
said to be saved. It is probable that the
bulk. of the passengers were not on board
ithe Rhone when she went down. if they were, the
probability is that two hundred and fifty persons
perished in that ship alone. The Douro left
'Southampton on the 17th ult., and could not have
remittal St. Thomas's before the 30th. She must
have had a narrow escape. She cannot reach Ply-
moiah before the 16th or 17th inst. with the next
' homeward mail. We can only hear at present
Ifrees the Virgin Islands. It is therefore possible
that the hurricane has done damage in other parts
of the West Indies. It is a five days' voyage from
St. Thomas to Havana, where news can be
telegraphed to Europe, and a seven days'
, voyage from St. Thomas to New York,
from which latter place also news can be
telegraphed. As the hurricane must have
happened about the 28th or 29th ult. we may
,soon learn the extent of the damage throughout
the West Indies, as the vessel that conveyed the
disastrous news from St. Thomas to Havana would
have passed by Jamaica, which is only a two days'
voyage from Havana. Most probably Jamaica
has escaped, and the hurricane did not originate
due west front St. Thomas. It is scarcely possible
for full details of this most terrible calamity to
reach us until the return of the Douro, in about
ten days' time. The Royal Mail Company have
never before lost a ship in a hurricane. Twenty
year ago, when one of great violence visited
Havana, and Spanish men-of-war were wrecked,
' the company's packet rode out the storm in safety.
It was fully expected that the Rhone would have
arrived home free from yellow fever. It requires
sometimes a hurricane in the West Indies to drive
away the malignant diseases that are generated
there.

" The Mayor of Southampton is giving a grand
ball to-night, to which a thousand persona have been
invited, but the terrible news which has reached
the town, and the sympathy felt for all persons
who may be sufferers by it, greatly limit the enjoy-
ment that was anticipated."
Our Liverpool correspondent, writing last
night, says: " The Liverpool underwriters to-
day received information of the fearful series of
disastprs at St. Thomas, well known as a depot of
the West India Royal Mail steamers, which will, it
is feared, prove a greater calamity than the de-
structive cyclone at Calcutta. The news comes by
telegraph cable from llavannah, and the despatch,
which is dated Nov. 5, states that on the 29th
October a fearful and disastrous hurricane broke
over the island of St. Thomas, laying the town in
ruins, and causing immense loss of life. Upwards
of fifty ships and steamers were driven on
shore ; but the following vessels belonging
to the Royal Mail Steampacket Company
are the only ones specially mentioned:—
The Rhone lost on Peter Island ; the Wye lost
on Buck Island ; the Conway on shore at Tortola ;
the Derwent on shore at St. Thomas ; the Tyne
and the Solent dismasted. A second telegram
states that five steamers had been driven on shore
at St. Thomas, but that the mail service would be
maintained. The steamer Douro would leave for
England on the 4th, and wouldbe followed by the
Danube. The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company
were their own insurers, and at their last meeting
their insurance fund in hand amounted to upwards
of 240,0001., which will, it is expected, fully cover
their losses by the present disaster. The majo-
rity of their steamers affected by the hurricane
were old, and chiefly engaged in the intercolonial
service, so that the loss of the company will pro-
bably be under 200,0001. Up to this evening the
West India and Pacific Company had received no
I telegrams, and only one of their vessels was likely
to be near St. Thomas at the date of the hurri-
cane."

TEE OUTRAGE ON THE POLICE IN DUBLIN.
DEATH or ONZ OFTNIVICTIII3.—DuBLIN,THUREDAT NIGHT.
—Constable Kenna died at half-past three to-day. In
Augustine Costello's case, at the commis ion, the jury dis-
agreed, and were discharged at eleven o'clock to-night.
They had been in deliberation Bee hours.

QUEENSTOWN, Nov. 7.—The National Steam-
ship Company's steamer Erin arrived here at 4 p.m. today
from Liverpool. She embarked passengers, and proceeded
for New York at 4.30 p.m. All well
RELEASE OF THE ATRANO'S PAMENO3II3.—SOUTH-
' AMPTON, Nov. 7.—The passengers who arrived by the last
West India mail steamer Atrato were released from
quarantine and landed in the docks this afternoon. The
nick are still on board her Majesty's ship Menelaus. The
Atrato will receive pratique on Saturday.
THE Biol. IN ExisrEE.—OYSTER, THURSDAY.-
The city is now restored to its usual quietude, and the
military, excepting a body of 50, have gone to Torquay.
Should a further outbreak occur, and which some consider
'very likely, the cavalry, the pensioners, and above 100
special constables are in readiness for duty. The bench
were engaged all day in hearing cases of riot. When our
parcel was deepatched the had been sent to the sessions,
the prisoners being admitted to bail. A number of cases
were dismissed. _

SALE OF TEE LATE MR. GRUNDY'S COLLECTION.
-At this sale, which is proceeding at the Free-trade Hall,
Manchester, the following prime were realised for the
principal lots of pictures, drawings, &c., sold on Tuesday
and Wednesday :-By S. Prou.- 75 original sketches in
pencil, 82/. 19s. • "Ratiabon Cathedral," 108/. 3a. ;
" Notre Dame, Honen " 481. 6.. ; "The Fountain at
Prague," 1201. 1)e. ; "An Interior of the Lady Chapel,
St. ' Pierre, Caen," with figures, 128/. 2a. • " St. Pierre,
Caen," 961. 12.. By David Co:-" A landscape with a
windmill," 671. 4s. ' • "The Old Bridge at Ambleside,"
211. ; " Snowdon, from near Capel Curig," 31/. 13s. ;
" A Coast Scene," 26/. L.. By E. Duncan-" The
Lifeboat off the Scilly Islands," 157/. 10e. ; " Beason-
thwaite Water," 1991. 10s. ; " Dysterruouth Castle,
Swansea," 52/. 10s. Ey Copley Fielding-" A sea
view," with fishermen, 641. la. ; " A view on the
eolith coast," 511. 9s. ; " Tavistock Bridge," 33/. 12s. ;
"A grand landscape," said to be one of his finest works,
1891.; 'Staff., with Fingal'. Cave," lid!. By W. Hunt-
" A oy blowing a horn," 841.; " The Young Shaver,"
169/. Is. By Birket Foster-" A little girl and child,"
54/. 12.. By C. Stanfield, lt.A.-" Mont St. Michel,"
25/. 4s. Patutnnole's " Forest scene, with Ravenswood
and Lucy Ashton,"his most important landscape, 1941. ss.
Tenkate's " Arrest of the Armourer of Nantes," 28/.7a
Louis Haghe's " The Art int's Studio," 84/. ; and "Centro
Tranaept of the Exhibition of 1851," 96/. 133. David
Roberts's " Edinburgh from the Castle," 94/. 10s. T. 8.
Cooper's "Group of four cows," 511. Be. J. M. W. Turner's
" Old Mill at Ambleside," 75.; an early work.
F. Tayler's " Drover going South." 162/. 15s. ' • and
"Hunting in the Olden Time," 79/. 16e. G. Barrett's
"Landscape, with a dock sheen," 991. 15a. The total
of Tuesday's and Wednesday's males was 5,8521. 18a. lid.
We understand that a fund, to be called the
M'Gauley Memorial Relief Fund, is being raised for the
assistance of the widow and family of the late Professor
M'O.uley, whose death was recently announced. A com-
mittee, of which Sir David Brewster is chairman, is
associated for this purpose.