The Express.
London, England, 1867-02-18 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 18, 1867.

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

(seurza•s Tramasms.)
THE ITALIAN MINISTRY.
FLORENCE, FEB. 16, Ennam.

The ministry has been reconstructed as follows :
—Baron Ricasoli, President of the Ministry, and
Minister of the Interior ; Signor Visconti Venosta,
Minister of Foreign Affairs ; Signor Depretis,
Minister of Finance ; Signor Devincenzi, Minister
of Public Works ; Signor Biancheri, Minister of
Marine ; Signor Correnti, Minister of Public
Instruction ; Signor Cordova, Minister of Agricul-
ture ; Signor Cugia, Minister of War. It is pro-
bable that Signor Mari will assume the portfolio of
Minister of Justice.

FLORENCE, FEB. 17.

M. Conduriotis, the Creek minister, was received
this morning by the King. A court dinner will be
given this evening on the occasion of the arrival
of Baron Kitbeck, the new Austrian minister in
Florence. Signor servo, formerly member of the
Chamber of Deputies, will, it is said, be appointed
Secretary-General of the Ministry of Finance.
The official Gazette of this evening announces the
reconstructioh of the ministry in the form already
telegraphed.

AMERICA.

INT ATLANTIC TELIONAPIL)
NEW YORK, Fla 15, MVEIINC.

Gold, 1361. Sterling exchange on London,
108 g. 5-20 United States Bonds, 110 ; Illinois,
1161; Erie, 561. Cotton Middling Upland,
34
The Cunard steamship China has arrived out at
Halifax.

NEW YORK, F. 16, Emma.

Closing prices : Gold, 137. Sterling exchange
on London, 1081. 5-20 United States Bonds,
110 ; Illinois, 1151 ; Erie, 551.
The North German Lloyd's steamship Hermann
and the Compagnie Tranaatlantique steamship St.
Laurent arrived out yesterday.
The Inman steamer Virginia arrived out at
New York to-day.

vrEsT INDIA AND PACIFIC MAILS.

The Royal Mail Company's steamship Atrato,
Captain West, with the above mails, arrived off
Netley Hospital yesterday afternoon. She brings
61 passengers ; specie, 1,016,702 dollars ; also 3,139
barons iWigo, 204 serons bark, 725 bales tobacoo,
460 bags cocoa, and 529 packages sundries.

The Atrato left St. Thomas on the 14 inst., up to which
date the mail from Southampton on the 17th ult. had not
arrived out.

llow fever, cholera, and small-pox sail prevailed at
St. Thomas, but the sickness had much decreased during
the fortnight. The statistics of the mortality of St.
Thomas for the last 26 years show that the deaths this
season have exceeded by 346 that of any previous season.
The weather at St. Thomas was still very hot.
The Atrato during her stay at St. Thomas steamed out
of the harbour every afternoon, anchoring at the open an-
chorage, and, owing to the great precautions taken in the
Tallow departments of the ship, not a case of yellow fever
has occurred on board during the pamage. Dr. WNW,
the medical superintendent of quarantine at Southamp-
ton, allowed the passengers to land imroedistelyon arrival,
and the ship herself was to go into dock yester&y evening.
On her outward passage the Atrato encountered a furious
ha:violas five days out from England. The gale com-
menced on the 6th, and gradually increased till the Bth,
On the morning of the 7th (the ship labouring fearfully)
a tremendous sea was shipped, which washed the second
officer overboard and earned away the port fore life-boat,
the staimard cutter, and smashed the saloon skylight& On
the houteward passage the Atrato has experienced mode-
rate weather. On the 16th, off the Land's-end, she spoke
the Hamburg steamer Bavaria, 22days from Southampton,
with rudder broken, endeavouring to return.
Cholera had broken out at Grey Town, and was making
frightful ravages amonaggsstt the population.
Her Majesty's gunboat Nettle left Port Royal,
Jamaica, on the 24th, for the outporta. The Royalist was
to leave on an early day for Porto Rico. The Simoom
was a petted at Jamaica from the West Coast of Africa.
The Aob ir, Onyx, and Steady were in Port Royal
harbour.

The Pacific mail steamer Payta, from Valparaiso on the
3rd January ; Coqinibo, 4th ; Caldera, sth ; Arica, Bth ;
Callao, 14th ; and Paiti, 17th, arrived at Panama on the
20th.

The following is the latest intelligence from Chili and
Peru by that mail, published in the Panama Star and
Herold of the 23rd :

CHILI.

We And no news of importance from Chili. The project
of levying extraordinary contributions for the purpose of
meeting the deficit in the Treasury had given rise to very
warm discussion in the senate, tome of the members accus-
ing the cabinet of great extravagance in the administration
of the government.
The allied fleet was in Valparaiso. Admiral Tucker
and Captain Williams were in Santiago, consultrng with
the ministry.
It was rumoured in Valparaiso that the Spanish admiral
will proceed with all the ships under his command to the
Falkland Islands. It is also reported that the Spaniards
intend establishing a naval station at Monte Video, from
which point they would be able to look after all ships,
tranagarts, and munitions of war that the republics
may be—necessitated to order from Europe or the United
States.

The Valparaiso market had improved, and a fair quan-
tity of copper produce disposed of. Freights ruled
2/. 17s. 6d. to 3/. for Liverpool or Swansea. Exchange on
London, 451 to 461, 60 to 90 days ; Paris, 4.73 90 days,
4.70 60 days. Nitrite sold at 1.40 dol., with free freight.

ADMIRALTY. FEB. 16. APPOINTMENTB.—COM•
mender W. H. Coming, to the Narcissus. Master J. D.
Roger., to the Terror. First-class Assistant-Engineer J.
W. Compton, to the Victory, for the Sprightly. 'Midship-
men N. Dudding, to the Perseus ; H. J. Wickham, to the
Niobe ; and W. C. Alexander, to the Zebra.
THE STEAMSHIP BAVARIA.—FALMOUTH, FEB. 17.
The Hamburg and American Company's steamship Bavaria
from Southampton, with 300 passengers for New York,
that was spoken at sea on February 2nd, crippled through
having lost her rudder, arrived at Falmouth this morn-
ing, —all well. She reached here without assistance.
Great activity at present prevails in the ship-
building department of Deptford dockyard, orders having
been received to construct four composite gunboats and
• lighter. In No. 1 slip the keel of the Spartan gunboat
has been kid down. In the adjoining slip the Curlew
will be kid down immediately after the launch of the
Plover. In No. 3 slip the keel of the Thistle gunboat
has been laid down, as also the timbers for the rebuilding
of the Sinbad lighter, which has been condemned and
knocked to pieces, the best part of her timbers being
utilised in the new lighter.
BOILER EXPLOSION AT GIBRALTAIL—We regret
to have to record a sad accident in the Bay between 11 and
12 o'clock this morning. The small British screw steamer
Arab, belonging to the port, was trying her engines, when
the boiler burst and she immediately foundered. Boats
from several of the ships in the Bay hastened at once to
the scene of the disaster and picked up all who had been
on board except two men who went down with the
vessel. We are sorry to hear that several of the survivors
are more or less injured by the explosion.—Gitraitar
C'hronstle, Feb. 4.
THE DWELLINGS OF THE WORKING CLASSES.
The ordinary Saturday night lecture, given at the Work-
ing Men's College, to the members of the institution, was
suspended, it having been announced that a public meet-
ing, under the presidency of Mr. Theism' Hughes, M.P.,
would be held, to hear explanations as to the principles
and working of the London and General Permanent Land,
Building, and Investment Society, of which the hon. gen-
tleman IS chairman, and to consider the connexion be-
tween the society and others of a similar character with
the great social question of the dwellings of the working
claws in London. There was a large attendance of mem-
bers of the college, artisans, and others. The proceedings
having been considerably delayed by the absence of Mr.
Hughes, who, it was subsequently found, could not pee-
aibly attend, owing to the fulfilment of another engage-
ment, Mr. Stanning was voted to the chair, and edled
upon Mr. Frederick Harrison, barrister-at-law, one of the
commissioners appointed bygovernment to inquire into the
operations of trades unions, who is professionally connected
with the society, to address the meeting. Mr. Harrison, in
the course of an interesting speech, dwelt upon the pruden-
tial reasons which should induce working men to become
the owners of the houses which they occupied, and said
the dwellings of artisans and working men generally most
vitally affected their social and political condition. He
said that working men had, or at least ought to have, an
interest in the affairs of their country, and they found at
the present day that the old, and by some termed bigoted
and superstitious, idea which connected the possession of a
house with that of the franchise was adhered to. Mr.
Bright was • warm advocate of household suffrage, and
even the Reform League did not forget the importance of a
house politically considered, inasmuch as they looked for
" registered residential manhood suffrage." In contrasting
the dwellings of the working classes in London with those
of the operatives of Yorkshire and Lancashire, he made
allowance for the obstacles which were in the way of im-
proved houses in the metropolis, but be said the difficul-
ties were by no means insurmountable. In the north of Eng-
land building and co-operative societies were the rale and
nut the exception, and if the working-classes of London
would also co-operate and invest their earnings with
the view of ultimately becoming the owners of the houses
in which they lived, a marked change would take place in
their social and political condition. Mr. Shorter next
addressed the meeting, and in speaking of the excellence
of building, investment, and co-operative societies, said the
possession of a house effected a complete revolution in the
character of a working-man, for when he felt that the
house in which he lived was his own, and that there
was one spot on earth at least in which he was a free
man, he realized the fact that he had a stake in the
country, that he had risen to a position of importance
which he should maintain, and that his children should be
something more than what they had been when in a
crowded and squalid court. Other addresses having been
delivered, the proceedings, which were throughout of an
interesting character, terminated.
Despatches were sent on Saturday from the Colo-
nial-offioe to the Governors of the West India Islands,
British Honduras, Bermuda, British Columbia, and the
North American Provinces.