The Express.
London, England, 1867-12-17 00:00:00

HUNGARY.

PESTLE, Dze. 15.

In to-day's sitting of the Lower House of the
Diet the bill on the Hungarian quota of the public
debt of the empire was passed by 239 against 110
votes. The debate has lasted nine days.
The Civil Marriage and Laudwelir Billa will
shortly be laid before the house.

AMERICA.
(Per the City of Paris, via Queenstown.)
NEW YORK, Dec. 7.

A resolution has been introduced in the Senate
and referred to the finance committee, declaring
that the national debt, excepting when otherwise
provided for by the law, should be redeemed with
legal tender. The Senate has adopted a resolution
instructing the finance committee to inquire into
the expediency of reporting a bill authorising the
Secretary of the Treasury to contract for the re-
demption of the 5-20's a forty vear loan on bonds
bearing 5 per cent. interest, both principal and
interest payable in gold ; the government to have
the option to redeem them after 20 years. A bill
has been reported to the house to repeal the
authority granted to the Secretary of the Treasury
to contract the currency or cancel the United
States notes. A resolution has been offered to the
house limiting the assessment of the internal
revenue to 300,000,000 dols. annually. The delegates
from Kentucky have been admitted to their seats
in the house.
General Hancock has revoked General Sheridan's
order prohibiting the participants in the rebellion
from serving on juries.
The Louisiana convention have recommended
that the present system of laws in the State should
be revoked, and the common law of England
adopted in their stead.
The Alabama Convention has declared null and
void all contracts made during the rebellion unless
the monies paid were in the lawful currency of the
United States, and also annulling all contracts for
the sale or purchase of slaves. The new State con-
stitution for Alabama will be submitted to the
people for ratification on the 4th of February. The
conservatives are organising clubs to defeat the
new constitution.
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The Georgia Conservative Convention assembled
atMacon on Thursday, and resolutions
declaring the people of Georgia passed
loyal, and protest-
ing against the Congressional reconstruction
policy as wrong and oppressive, and calculated to
establish the permanent supremacy of negro rule in
theSoutb, and declnr the reconstruction conven-
tion to be an illegal body elected by fraudu-
lent votes, and forced upon the people by mili-
tary power.
Lord and Lady Amberley were presented to the
President yesterday.
The frigate Novara, with the body of Maxi-
milian, left Havana for Trieste ou the 4th inst.
The Herald publishes a telegram from Havana,
according to which several shocks of an earthquake
were felt at St. Thomas on the 18th November,
when 30 persons perished. The sea overflowed the
city, causing great loss of property. The United
States steamers Monongahela and De Soto were
totally wrecked at Santa Cruz.
(DT ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.)
NEW YORK, Dac. 16.
The Inman steamer City of Boston arrived here
to-day ; all well.

PROVINCIAL WORKHOUSE REFORM. —To-morrow
evening Mr. Ernest Hart will deliver, by request, at a
meeting of the National Association for the Promotion of
Social Science, 1, Adam-street, Adeiphi, at S o'clock p.m.,
au address on a national scheme for tLe better government
of workhouse infirmaries in England. Persons interested
in the question are invited to attend, and join in the
discussion.
FATAL BOILER Ex PLOSION. —On Saturday a
deplorable occurrence, causing the death of two men, took
place in the boiler-house of the Northern Spinning and
Weaving Company's factory, Palls-mad. The men were
working with others at one of the boilers, when, from
some unexplained cause, the " jack-heads" were not fas-
tened down, and, the steam rushing out with the violence
almost of an explosion, the unfortunate men were killed
instantaneously by suffocation. An inquest was held in
the evening, and the jury found that the death of the men
was caused by carelessness, but did not specially attribute
the negligence to any particular person. They exonerated
the company and manager from all blame.—Northern
Whig.
HOSPITAL FOR DISEASES OF THE HEART, 67,
MARGARET-STREET, W.—The number of patients relieved
during the week ending Dec. 14 was 104.