The Express.
London, England, 1867-02-16 00:00:00

TELEGRAPH IC INTELLIGENCE.

(111C1TICS TILLGIUMS.)
DENMARK.
COPENHAGEN, Fn. 11

The constitutional party has prepared an address
requesting the government to apply to the powers in
order that the population of North Schleswig should
be consulted upon the question whether they de-
sire to remain under Prussian rule. The Dagblad
approves this step.

ITALY.

FLORENCE, Fit. 15.

Nothing is yet decided relative to the definitive
reconstruction of the ministry, but everything
leads to the belief that it will take place very
speedily.

THE PARIS BOTTRSE.
PARIS, Fee. 15, 3.30 F.M.
The Botuse continues heavy. Rentes closed at
69.35, or 20c. lower than yesterday.

AMERICA.
(Per the Cube, vii Queenstown.)
NEW YORK, FEB. 6.

The House of Representatives has passed a bill
making the removal of cabinet officers subject to
the approval of the Senate.
It is reported that the President, the members
of the cabinet, and the governors of several
Southern States, have held protracted consultations,
and have agreed to propose a new plan of recon-
struction on the following basis :—The right to
secede to be renounced. Congress to have no right
to expel a State from the Union. The national
debt ever to be held sacred. The rebel debt to be
repudiated. All males of legal ago, native or
naturalized, except untaxed Indians, to be allowed
to vote for the State elections, if able to read or
write, or if holding taxable property valued at
2AO dole.

General Grant has called a council of general
officers at Washington, to confer upon the Southern
military situation.
The Senate have rejected the Citizens Bank-
rupt Bill.
The report of the execution of the American
Cowed at Mivatlan is denied.

MIXICO.

NEW YORK, Yu. 6.

According to intelligence published here from
Mexico, it was rumoured there that an open rupture
had occurred between the Emperor Maximilian
and Marshal Baxaine.

The Republicans claimed that the cause of Juarez
was rapidly gaining strength.

METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS.—The weekly
meeting of the board was held yesterday at their offices in
Spring.gardens ; Sir John Thwaites in the chair. The
works and general purposes committee recommended "that
• petition be presented by the board to parliament to
repeal any authority given to private individuals to erect
gates or barriers scrum streets or thoroughfares, so as to
obstruct the traffic therein, in cases where the lighting,
cleansing, and paving of such streets or thoroughfares is
paid for out of the public rates." This was approved. The
New Improvement Bill of the City of London.—The com-
mittee recommended that a petition be presented to parlia-
ment against the preamble of the London City Improve-
ment Rates Bill, promoted by the corporation of the City
of London. The report was adopted after some discus-
sion. A report was brought up from the works and im-
provements committee, submitting estimates for lodges,
entrance gates, fencing, roadways, and drainage of Fins-
bury and ,Southwark-parks, and recommending that the
officers be directed to prepare the necessary plans and
specifications, with a view to advertisements being issued
for tenders for the execution of the works, such tenders
to be received on the 18th of March nest. .The subject
was referred back to the committee for further considera-
tion. Mr. White moved that it be referred to the works
and general purposes committee to consider the propriety
of obtaining the surface of the strip of Lind lately forming
a portion of St. Margaret's.churchyard, and purchased
by the Metropolitan District Railway Company, for con-
structing their line, with a view to the improvement of
the line of thoroughfare from Victoria-street to Palace-
yard and Westminster-bridge. The motion was agreed to.
The rest of the business was of no public interest.THE TRADES' UNION COMILISSION.—WHITEHALL,
FEB. 14.—The Queen has been pleased to appoint the
Right Hon. Sir William Erie, Knt. ; the Right Hon.
Thomas George, Earl of Lichfield ; Francis Chsrteris, Esq.
(commonly celled Lord Elam) ; the Right Hon. Sir Ed-
mund Walker Head, Bait, R.C.B. ; Sir Daniel Gooch,
Bart. ; Herman Merivale, Esq., C.B. ; James Booth, Esq.,
C.B. ; John Arthur Roebuck. Fag., one of her Majesty's
Counsel ; Thomas Hughes, Esq., barrister-at-law ; Fre-
deric Harrison, Esq., barrister-at-law ; and William
Mathews, Esq., to be her Majesty's commissioners to in-
quire into and report on the organization and rules of
trades unions and other associations, whether of workmen
or employers. and to inquire into and report on the effect
produced by such trades' unions and associations on the
workmen and employers respectively, and on the relations
between workmen and employers, and on the trade and
industry of the country, with power to investigate any
recent acts of intimidation, outrage, or wrong alleged to
have been promoted, encouraged, or connived at by such
trades' unions or other associations, and also to suggest
any improvements to be made in the law with respect to
the matters aforesaid, or with respect to the relations be-
tween workmen and their employers for the mutual benefit
of both parties.—Uwerte.
RAILWAY AND OTHER BILLS IN PARLIAMENT.—
Mr. Frere, one of the examiners, resumed his duties yes-
terday, at Westminster, and considered the cases of five
postponed petitions, all of which were unopposed. The
standing orders were declared to have been complied with
in the crises of the Great Western end Bristol and North
Somerset Railways (sale or lease), and the Bristol and
North Somerset Railway (arrangements) Bills. The Great
Western and Bristol and North Somerset Railways (New
Lines), and the Neath and Brecon Railway and other COlll-
- (amalgamation and arrangements) Bills were fur-
ther postponed. There was no appearance made by the
parties to the Liverpool Licensing Bill.
CRYSTAL PALACE. ORE SWILLING DAY.—
FRIDAY, FIX 15. Admissions on payment, 1,219 ;
ditto, by Mien tickets, 1,539. Total visitors, 2,718.