The Express.
London, England, 1867-05-14 00:00:00

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

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FRANCE.
PARIS, MAT 1:1, Evemso.

The Pattie of this evening states that the
Luxemburg customs question, which has been left
open by the Conference, will be discussed by a
special commissioner. It will not be settled until
after the expiration of the present treaty between
Luxemburg and the Zollverein, which will shortly
expire. La Liberth of this evening mays that Raton
de Malaret, French minister at Florence, will
shortly be appointed ambassador at Rome.

THE FRENCH ARMAMENTS.
B&RLIN, MAY 13, EVEYINC.

The French governments said to have issued
orders for the cessation of the armaments which
have recently been carried on.

THE NEW GREEK LOAN.
ALEXANDRIA, M 13.

The New Greek National Loan was issued here
on Saturday, and 60,0001. has already been sub-
scribed on the Bourse.

RUSSIA.
ST. PETERSBURG, HAT 13.

The King of Greece arrived in this capital
yesterday. The Emperor left Moscow to-day on
his return here. Advice' from Constantinople
published here announce that Lord Lyons, the
English ambassador to the Porte, will replace Earl
Cowley at Paris upon the retirement of the latter.

PORTUGAL

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDRNT.)

LISBON, MAT 7.

The discontented feeling throughout the country
respecting the ministerial measures, and especially
the new taxes, still continues, and does not appear
to diminish. The lavish expenditure entailed by
the so-called reform of the ministry of foreign
affairs, which creates many new places, one might
say sinecures, is the universal theme of complaint.
It is contended that with proper economy and pru-
dence in the administration of the public money
the ends might be made to meet, and that Portugal,
instead of losing her credit abroad and drifting
into a national bankruptcy, might maintain a very
respectable position among the nations. As it is,
one finance minister after another seems to take
care of himself, showing plainly his belief that
after him comes the deluge, and the rest of it.
This state of affairs has gone on for years, and
naturally enough the people are tired and call for
a radical reform. They want a diminution in the
army of civil servants ; they want no more useless
frigates, costing mints of money, laid down at the
arsenal—no more playing at soldiers to the tune of 1
what the Tancos Camp cost them.
The Queen has left for Madrid, Paris, and
Florence. The King, it is said, will afterwards!
join her Majesty. The persistence of the King in I
his intention of travelling was very badly received,
by the people, who consider the presence of the
monarch absolutely indispensable in the unsettled
state of Portuguese politics; besides, the ex-Regent
Dom Fernando was very unwilling to undertake
the regency.

LETTERS FOR CONSTANTINOPLE, VIA THE DANUBE'
AND THE MACS SEA--The postal communication has
been re-established between Vienna and Constantinople by
way of the Danube and the Black Sea, advantage being
taken of a line of railway which has recently been opened
between Rutechuk and Varna. Mails for conveyance by
this route are despatched from Vienna twice a week, via.,
on Mondays and Fridays, and letters from the United
Kingdom intended to be forwarded by such mails will, in
the ordinary course of post, be in time for the mail of
Monday, if despatched from London via Ostend on the
morning of the previous Saturday, and for the mail of
Friday if despatched from London on the morning of the
previous Weiesday. Letters for Constantinople, which:
the senders may desire to forward by this route, must be
specially addressed "via Ostend." The postage charge-
able
upon letters will be RI. for • letter nut exceeding ,
half an ounce in weight when prepaid, and 11d. if sent
unpaid.
FATAL ACCIDENT AT ST. VINCENT'S Rocxs.-1
On Saturday afternoon a fatal accident happened at a
point of St. Vincent's Rocks, Bristol, near the tramway
which has been recently constructed. The young gentlemen
at the school of Mr. Tomkina, which is situated at South
Parade, wore out for the afternoon holiday under the
care of one of the assistant masters. George Manion,
one of their number, whose parents reside at the
Royal Promenade, queen's-road, was playing near the
edge of the rocks, and while doing so he suddenly fell
over. The poor little fellow, whose age was about 12 or
14, must have fallen a depth of 40 feet and then rolled for
some distance. A policeman who witnessed the accident
removed the injured boy to the Clifton Station. A cab
was immediately procured, and he was taken to the General
Hospital, where he shortly died from a fracture of the
skull. The occurrence took place at the point overhanging
the Bridge Valley-road, and near to the new tramway.—
Western Dail pi Prem.

METROPOLITAN FREE HOSPITAL, DEVONSHIRE-
SQUARE, CrrY.—The aggregate number of patients relieved
during the week ending May 11 was—Medical, 813 ; sur-
gical, 666 ; total, 1,471 ; of which 716 were new eases.