The Express.
London, England, 1866-06-02 00:00:00

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

(RIUTZR'S liasaaams.)
THE BOMBARDMENT OF CALLAO.
REPULSE OF THE SPANISH FLEET.
(Per the China.)
NEW YORE., NAT 24, Emma/.

Advices received here from Callao announce
that the Spanish feet on the 2nd instant attempted
to bombard Callao, but were repulsed after a fight
of four hours by the shore batteries. Two iron-clads
were disabled, and Admiral Nunez was wounded.
The Peruvians lost 60 men killed, including the
Secretary of War, and 120 wounded.

AUSTRIA AND THE CONFERENCE.
VIENNA, JUNE 1.
Upon receiving the invitation to the Conference,
Count Mensdorff informed the representatives of
the neutral Powers that Austria accepted the pro-
posal to give an additional proof of her desire for
peace. Austria will be represented at the Confer-
ence by Count Esterhazy in addition to Count
Mensdorff. The Vienna papers reiterate their
assertions that an understanding exists between
Austria and Russia, and that the latter Power will
support at the Conference the maintenance of the
treaties of 1816. They even go so far as to declare
that a formal alliance between the two empires is
in preparation. The fortification works upon the
left bank of the Danube, near Vienna, are rapidly
approaching completion.
Accounts from Prague report that the educational
establishments are about to be closed in that city,
on account of the danger of war. All the papers
dwell upon the political importance of the forced
loan in Venetia. Several Italian emissaries have
latterly been arrested at Padua and Vicenza for
endeavouring to persuade the inhabitants to emi-
grate. Rumours are afloat that the resumption of
cash payments by the Bank of Austria has been
postponed for a year.
VIENNA, Jugs 1, E'vxmo.
The Austrian cabinet forwarded yesterday
identical despatches in reply to the English,
French, and Russian invitations to the Conference.
Austria accepts the invitation, but only upon cer-
tain distinct conditions, which will probably ne-
cessitate fresh negotiations. The Ministers for
Foreign Affairs of all the Powers will proceed to
Paris to the opening of the Conference. They
will act as first, and the respective ambassadors
at the French court as second plenipotentiaries.
Baron Altenburg will accompany Count Mensdorff
to Paris. Public opinion is greatly divided re-
specting the prospects of the Conference. The
Vienna papers assert that Queen Victoria ham ad-
dressed a letter to the Empress of the French,
asking her Majesty to use every exertion on behalf
of the preservation of peace. Preparations for
war continue, and the patriotic expressions of
public opinion are undiminished. Students can
now enter the army or volunteer corps on certain
favourable conditions agreed to by the government.

THE PROPOSED CONFERENCE.

PARIS, Juan 1.

Earl Clarendon, Prince Gortachakoff, Count
Bismarck, and General Lamarmora have officially
announced that they will shortly arrive in Paris
for the opening of the Conference. The reply of
Prussia, accepting the invitation to the Conference,
was the first to arrive, and this fact is looked upon
as a sign of the peaceful intentions of that Power.
The Prussian government declared in this reply
that it was ready to disarm so soon as the military
measures threatening Prussia were discontinued.
Apprehensions are entertained that all the seven
Powers which have been invited will not take part
in the Conference, as Austria, in accepting the
invitation, insists on the condition that the Venetian
question shall not be discussed.

CONVOCATION.—Dr. Travers Twirls, the Vicar-
General of the Province of Canterbury, attended yester-
day morning at the Jerusalem Chamber, Westminster
Abbey and, under a commission from the Archbishop, de-
clared 'Convocation adjourned until the 26th inst., when
the report of the committee on the vestment question,
and Archdeacon Denimon's gravamen on Mr. Glatistone's
Church-rate Bill will be taken into consideration.
ORPHAN WORKING SCHOOL, HAVERSTOCK-HILL.
—On Thursday last, the former scholars met the children
at the school, together with many of the committee and
their friends, among whom were Rev. Janne Fleming, who
presided, Rev. J. Godwin, Rev. J. Nunn, Messrs. Warren
Hall, W. N. Wortley,W.S.Gard, E.D. Waugh, and James
Townley. These schools are greatly prospering. The an-
nual examination of the children will take place on Thurs-
day, the 14th of June, when, as usual, there will be • races at Yokohama. A large number of horses ran. The
large attendance.
CRYSTAL PALACE. —A novel excursion from a race course was crowded. Amongst the occupiers of the
distant part of the country to the Crystal Palace, took grand stand were a number of Japanese nobles. All kinds
place yesterday. A large portion of the staff of men ern. of vehicles were met with on the road, and in going to and
ployed by Samuel Allsopp and Sons, of Burton-on-Trent, from the race-course there were several accidentsby vehicles
numbering nearly 800 pereons, left that place shortly after I upsetting, but no very serious damage resulted. There
four o'clock yesterday morning, and travelling ad Leicester were 13 prizes run fur, amongst which were the Celestial
to the Kings-crag Station of the Great Northern Railway,
passed at Farrington-street on to the London, Chatham, •*.'
and Dover Railway, arriving at the High Level Station of Cup the Japan Cup, and the Yokohama Plate.
,aCCIDENT ON THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.
the Crystal Palace shortly after nine o'clock. An excellent —The following appears in the Times :—" Sir,— The aoci-
dinner, provided by Messrs. Bertram and Roberta, was dent that happened to the 7.10 train last evening from
presided over by Mr. Thomas Ponta*, with Ur- Samuel j Cambridge to Ilitchin affords another very striking example
Charles Allsopp in the vice-chair ;and after due lof the absolute necessity that a system of communica-
acknowledgments had been paid to the usual loyal toasts, tion should be adopted between the occupants of the
ample amusements having been provided in the interval, j different carriages and the driver of the train. We were
the party left the High Level Station in two special trains I travelling, I imagine, at the rate of 25 or 30 miles an hour;
on their return to Burton at six o'clock. I and suddenly, by the peculiar movement of the carriages,
EMIGRATION FROM LIYERPOOL.—Deepite the i felt something was "mg' We soon discovered one of the
caused by the outbreak of cholera in Liverpool, and I wheels of the carriage was off the line, and I am con-
panicthe consequent falling off in the emigration from the , vinced had we been enabled to communicate with the
Mersey during the past month, the monthly returns of the driver of the engine the consequences that ensued would,
undoubtedly, have been prevented. One of the carrurges
Emigration officers continue to show a slight increase. •• .
During May there sailed, under the act, to the United d down an embankment,falling its
was precipitate
. . on side,
two others following remained half capsized, and how the
States 37 ships, with 15,333 passengers, of whom 14,995 -
I were steerage, and 358 cabin. Of the steerage passengers • occupantsl escaped with . life_ is miraculous._ Most far-
ad was speedily
I 3,818 were English, 303 Scotch, 8,317 Irish, and 2 457 tunatedy, the engine remained on the line, .
PRINCE NAPOLEON AND ITALY.—The Gazzetta di foreigners •to Canada four ships with 124 cabin ' "WPM 'We are constantly hearing that different plans
Bergamo mentions that Prince Napoleon, on visiting Bee- I and, 1596
gain°, last winter, was so much struck with the beauty of 'ilto,liatia,b' steerage passengers, of
.whom 535 were'
two2BO sinlripash.wiatnndnen7Bml for communication are being tried and proving successful,
and to but seldom that any are adopted. It is to be hoped the
bifnortignandersso9; tteotaga directors of the different railways will soon learn by the
the city that the mayor had a picture of it painted, which pagan ofwhom 181 were English, 21 Scotch
, I experience of compensation and other costs that an outlay
he has just presented to his imperial highness. In ac- 305 Irish, and two foreigners ; making a gra •of this description would very soon repay itself.—Your
- nj obedientservant, A. F. Lt KE —June 1."
knowledgment of the gift, Pelee Napoleon sent the total of 17,572 passengers, of whom 472 were cabin, and I .r:,
following letter :—" Penis Royal, Paris, May 18, 1866. .
17,100 were . Of the latter 4,534 were English
tch,B,B9toe'e2 tll'iltesh, and 3,240 foreigers. Twenty-two rATB../iOIiDINLItY STORY.—Two BO Dm an
extraordinary story to the Gloucester magistrates yester-
Sco
Sir,7-Upon recently returning to Paris, after a second o short" ships sailed with 1,064 passengers. Ten were for day. Their names were James Smith and John Hall, end
visit to Italy, I received your letter of the 16th of April, the United States, with 823 passengers ; two to Canada, : they both belonged to the 62nd Regiment, a detachment of
and the picture you have been good enough to and me with 71 ; one to Victoria, with 29 ; four to the West which is now at Portland. On Thursday week, while
in the name of the city of Bergamo. I beg you to present on the beach, the cap of one of
Indies, with 25 ; four to South America, with 91 ; one taking a stroll together
to Africa, with .25 In the corresponding month ofd. last them was blown off into the sea. In trying to recover it
my thanks to your fellow-citizens, and to tell them year 17,021 emigrants sailed under the act, and 629 in he fell into the water, and his companion took a boat and
how much I have been moved by their courte- ' short ships, which shows a total increase in favour of the rescued him. But then another difficulty arose. They
ous souvenir. I need not express my anti. 1 month last past of 996. bad only one oar, and all their efforts to regain the beach
meats of sympathy for Italy, or for the city of Bei, RAILWAY AND OTHER BILLS IN PARLIAMENT.— I were futile ; and they trickly drifted out into the ocean.
At last they hove in sight of land, but were unable to
genie, so patriotic and so faithful ; the circumstances , Yesterea, in the lEuu_gteh......of TthoerdHexte following
um_ reach it. Not a sail was in sight, and they gave
under which Italy is placed are most grave, her future is irield y, riled
h thou
e, !mann. Id, and Lincolnsahire Railway : themselves up for lost. All that night, the next day, and
in question ; I most ardently hope that success may (additional powers); Winchcomb and Midland Railway, i the succeeding night they were drifting shout the open sea
crown her efforts, and I know that she can rely on the Manchester, Sheffield,antiLincolnshire Railway (new lines); , without a morsel of food or a drop o water.d
el:::;LSatur-
courage of all ; her cause is so just that she cannot but Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway (Liver- day morning,
_ when they
ofwerts hopeless
utrwhile mildni
issue victorious from the crisis which threatens her.—l am, pool extension). In Lord Redesdale's committee the stand. 1 David r n'hand, captain a `Trier c . ', . .
i Ina ord ere were dispensed with in the following cases:— ;
' for the port of Gloucester, descrieca their rea jaceets and
tn., NAPOLEON (JEaonE) the Senator Camozzi Ver- -- • brass buttons glittering in the sun 55 miles off Portland.
1 Presteign Chin and Bishop's Castle Railway; Ellesmere .
Sava, Mayor of the city of Bergamo." The Gazzetta di Ber- I d Glynn ' '
an Valley Railway, East Gloucestershire Railway, 'Re made towards them with as much haste as the wind
game says it gives the above letter with pleasure, believing ' Hoylake Railway, and Wrexham, Mold, and Connah's ' and his small supply of canvas enabled him to make, and
succeeded in rescuing them. They were in such a coati
it expresses sentiments that are of interest in con- ' Quay and Roylake Railways (opposed). In the House of
tion that Pershand said one of them could not have lived
nexion with the present political condition of Italy. I Commons committees, in group 3, the farther considers- Itreated them to
another night. The kind-hearted captain .
~ tion of the new Brighton aelwine promoted by the South ,
PORTRAIT OF PRINCE CHRISTIAN.—Mr. Mitchell, Eastern and London, Chatham, and Dover Com- the best of his provisions, and under his care they revived.
of Old Bond-street, has published an admirable likeness of ' • and opposed by the Brighton Company, They reached Glouceste in his cutter on Thursday. No
Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holetein, the future husband acanpi'ad the whole day's sitting. In group 14 specific charge was made against them. The facts were
of the Princess Helena. se ii from the pencil of Mr. I the Midland Railway (Ashby_ and Nuneate , ' proved, and they were ordered to be detained in custody
George Thomas, and has been lithographed by Day and i ho.) and the London and North Western and Miclial • until their commanding officer at Gosport had been oom-
Son.municated with. Their sunburnt faces and general ap-
I Counties Coal Fields Railway bills were further proceeded
LIABILITY OF SHARHOLDERS. —Several of last with, and again adjourned. The swaths and ciygaah pearance testify hilly to the truth of their story.
week's papers contain remarks upon Vice-Chancellor ' Railway bill was farther considered in group 16, without I £1,009 FEB MILE TRAFFIC IN THE WillE.—The
Wood's judgment in the case of the Angleses Colliery ' any decision being arrived at. In group 17, the tore • Metropolitan Railway is 4} miles long, and its traffic this
Company, 14 W. R. 708, showing the most total ming). 1 Valley Railway (No. I) and the Ogmore Valley Railway . week amounts to 4,856 L, which is thove 1,000/. far each
prehension of the nature of that decision. It is not the • (No. 2) were proceeded with, in con' 'on with the mile in the week ! We know this is holiday time, and that
cae, as there represented, that the Vice-Chancellor has ! Lieutenant Taff Vale Junction • way bill? and ad- the traffic is unusually high on this account, but we draw
held that the holden of fully paid-up shares are liable to jourued until Monday. The Caledonian bills, in groups attention to the fact to show what a railway can do. One
further calls, but that the holders of shares not fully paid 18, 18e, and 19, entitled respectively the Caledonian and hundredpounds per mile per week is • large traffic. The
'reliable to calls made for the sole purpose of adjusting the Scottish North Eastern Railway Companies, Caledonian Die tan has lust carried 1,000/. It is certainly a won.
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equities between them and the fully pad-up 1,
•-arahaldara, Railway (Edinburgh station), Caledonian Railway (Coe. aerial line for tra, and it proves not only the amazing
and that these latter are oar ntributories ' for that pur- stonphins Junction), and Caledonian Railway (Inmark. ability of a railway to carry traffic, but what a mass of
pose.e., for the purpose of receiving the proceeds of, not &ire, ko., branches), were further proceeded lettb, and traffic there ia in our great city. Thsnumber of passengers
of paying, the calL—Aiiicilors' Journal. again adjourned until Monday next. conveyed over the line in theweekwas4B4,9oo.—Herapath.