The Express.
London, England, 1866-10-15 00:00:00

FRANCE.

The import duty upon olive oil has been fixed at
3 francs per 100 kilogrammes for French, and
4 frames for foreign vessels.

ITALY.

FLORENCE, Ocr. 12, Evan No.

The Opinions of to-day announces that yesterday
General Menabrea handed over to the Austrian
government the sum of 87i million lire, being the
amount of the Italian indemnity. At the same
time he received from Count Mensdorff the iron
crown of Lombardy.

FLORENCE, Ocr. 13.

. ,
Subscriptions to the national loan have been Intelligence from the Black Sea announces that
opened in nearly all the provinces by the indepen- the Abasian insurrection has been completely sup-
dent action of the inhabitants, and without any pressed. The insurgents captured in arms have
intervention on the part of the municipal authori- been shot, and others have been sent to Tiflis for
ties. The loan is quoted at 90, and in some in- trial. Upwards of 200 girls who had been abducted
stances even at 95. In the first four days after the from Abasia have been restored to their homes.
opening of the subscription lists 40 communes, . The insurgents in Daghestan, on the shores of
which had to contribute 21 million of lire, had paid ' the Caspian Sea, have also been subdued by the
in already 20 millions. The general results of the minim,.
subscriptions in all the towns and communes are
not yet known.

DENMARK.
VENICE, OCT. 12. COPENHAGEN, Ocr. 13.
General di Revel left here to-day for Verona. to Baron Scheel Plessen, the Prussian Governor of
make arrangements with the Austrian authorities Schleswig, has prohibited the raising of subecrip-
for the Venetians at present in Austria not to be tions by the Danish inhabitants for the purchase of
sent to Venetia while the cholera continues to pre- a wedding gift for the Princess Dagmar.
vail. These Venetian troops will, on their admis-
sion into the Italian service, be furloughed for an
indefinite period.
Generals Lebceuf and Moring left to-day for
Palmanuova, which will be occupied to-morrow by
the Italian troops.

SCHLESWIG.

FLENSBURG, Ocr. 14.

At a meeting of persons representing all parts
of Northern Schleswig, which was held at Rothen-
krug to-day, a resolution was adopted for the im-
mediate establishment of an association with the
object of opposing any division of Schleswig.

ITALIAN FINANCE.
FLORENCE, Ocr. 14.

The Nazione of to-day publishes an article in
which it says :—" The bankers who had been in
negotiation with the government for farming the
State monopoly of tobacco, and who had offered to
advance to the public treasury 250 million lire of
the amount they engaged to pay, have been in-'
formed by the Minister of Finance that the govern-
ment cannot accept their conditions, and that all
negotiations on the subject must be considered at
an end, as the exceptional powers with which the
King was invested daring the war have now ceased.
In consequence of the exchange of the ratifications
of the treaty of peace there is no probability of
these negotiations being resumed. The Minister
of Finance is able to provide for the whole expen-
diture of the current year, and there will still be
at his disposal 200 millions from the proceeds of
the national loan to be carried over for meeting the
expenditure of the next year. The Minister also

INDIA.
(By direct Overland Telegraph.)
BOMBAY, Ocr. 5, 4 v.v.
71bs. shirtings, 7r. 6a. Cotton advancing :
Dhollerah, 320 r. Shipments of the week, 4,200
bales. Exchange on London, 2s. Four per Cent.
Government Securities, 89A ; ditto Five per Cent.,
1054 ; ditto Five-and-a-Half per Cent., 1101.
Freights to Liverpool, 17s. 6d. The latest London
date is the 2nd inst.
CALCUTTA, Ocr. 4.
811ba. ahirtings, Br. 12a. Exchange on London,
2s. 00. Freights to England, 425. tki.

AMERICA.
(sr ATLANTIC =Assam)
NEW YORK. Oct. 1L
Gold, 151. Exchange on London, 101. 5-20
United States Bonds, 1131; Illinois, 128. ; Erie,
84}. Cotton, middling Upland, 39c.
The Transatlantic Company's steamer Europe has
arrived unt.