The Express.
London, England, 1867-10-25 00:00:00

THE BOMBAY MAIL.

IN, Ocr. 24.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
with heavy portion of the above mails,hu arrived
here with 78 passengers, 400 packages of cargo, and
3,700 f. in specie. She experienced fine weather throughout
her passage, and spot. the steamer Sumatra on the 18th
and the steamer Venetia on the 22nd inst. Her Majesty's
ships Terrible and Crocodile, the French ship Andro-
marine, and the Egyptian fleet, were at Alexandria.

GIBRALTAR, OCT. 20.
Her Majesty's ships Royal OA and Prince Consort
railed yesterday for the aest.
Intelligence from Tangiers states that the Morocco
Board of Health has imposed 21 days quarantine on
arrivals from Algeria.
The British steamers Hellespont, Kedar, Milan, William
Hunter, Thomas Snowden, Sumatra, and the London
schooners Pleiades and Eagle Eye have arrived here from

IFtchelge on London, 504 • ditto on Paris, 29 to 30 ; on
Madrid,l disoount ; on Malaga, Alicante, and Valencia,
Par.

LORD MAYOR'S DAY.—At a meeting of the
Commot Council yesterday an animated discussion took
place as to the character which the civic pageant from
Guildhall to Westminster, on the 9th of November, is to
118R1111e. The town clerk read a resolution of the court
passed in 1777, in the time of Lord Mayor Halifax, to the
effect that the court, taking into consideration that some
of the chief magistrates of the City had not then of late
used the state coach in going to attend the Courts of
Aldermen and Common Council and Common Hall, de-
sired that in future Lord Mayors should sae it on the
accustomed days. Mr. Cower moved "That in accordance
with the resolution of 1777, the Lord Mayor elect be
requested to use the state coach on the occasion
of his going to Westminster on the 9th November to be
presented to the Barons of the Exchequer." Mr. Staple.
ton moved as an amendment, " That considering the in-
crease of population, trade, and commerce, the augmented
inconveniences and risk attending the stoppage and diver-
sion of the public streets, and the collection of vast
crowds in the thoroughfares of the metropolis, consequent
upon the procession on Lord Mayor's day ; looking also to
the hindrance to traffic arising from the public works
which are in progress at the Holborn Valley, Smithfield,
the Mansion House-street, Blackfrian Bridge, and else-
where within the City, this court is of opinion that it is
desirable to modify the proceedings attendant upon the
progress of the Lord Mayor to be sworn before she Barons
of the Exchequer at Westminster, and that it be left to
the Lord Mayor elect and the Sheriffs to use their own
unfettered judgment as to the most desirable means of
effecting their journey to Westminster on that occasion."
On being put to the •ote the amendment was lost by 2u,
In a court of 57 members, and the original motion was
adopted.
A PANIC AT LIMERICK.—The Cork Examiner
states that the most amusing result of the Fenian panic
that has yet come to its knowledge occurred a few days
ago at Limerick. At an early hour of the morning the
sub-constable on guard at one of the principal police-
barracks in the city was startled by an unusually impera-
tive summons at the gate. On opening the door he saw
around, in the dim morning light, a large party of men
armed with hatchets, spades, shovels, crowbars—the
rude weapons an insurrectionary militia would be likely
to assume. A hasty glance at the situation was sufficient
to convince the alarmed policeman of the character and
mission of his visitants. Without waiting for the cus-
tomary summons to surrender in the name of the Irish
Republic, he rushed inside the door, locked and double-
barred it in all instant, and screamed to his comrades,
half-awakened by the previous clamour, that the whole
Fenian army was ont-irle. The Royals bounded to arms ;
a hasty disposition of the garrison was made. The force
°Maide seeing several rifles presented at them through the
windows, scattered and fled, when a number of the police,
with a bull-terrier at their heels, went in rursuit. On
some of the retreating party being caught the laughable
discovery was made that they were workmen, with the
government contractor at their head, who had gone to
execute some repairs in the barracks.
OrTWARD AMERICAN STEAMER. QUFINSTOWN,
24.—The National Steam Ship Company's steam-
!hip Helvetia, from Liverpool, arrived here at 2.30 pim.
Se-day. She embarked passengers and proceeded for New
York. All well.