The Express.
London, England, 1866-07-14 00:00:00

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

(truTzz's TFLICALUIL)
THE WAR IN GERMANY.

PARIS, Jtax 13.

Several of the Paris journals of this evening
state that Prance, Prussia, and Italy have come to
an understanding upon the proposals to be made to
Austria. They add that the three Powers have
agreed that Austria shall be excluded from the
, Germanic Confederation.

The Temps of this evening publishes a telegram
from Berlin, dated to-day, stating that the van-
guard of the Prussians has arrived at Zuaina.

THE PRUSSIAN SQUADRON.

KIEL, JOLT 13.

The Prussian squadron, including the admiral's
flagship, cast anchor to-dayin the Inlet of HoHenan.

THE GERMAN P.

BERLIN, JULY 13.
-,The bill to amtherins elections tee a Gamuts
Parliament will be laid before the Prussian Chan
bars as soon as possible. The elections, it is ex-
pected, will take place in August, and the Par-
liament will be opened immediately after the close
of the Prussian Chambers, and not later than Sep-
tember next.

THE BANK OF PRUSSIA.
PRUSSIA, JULY 13.

The Bank of Prussia has reduced ita rate of dis-
count to 8 and 84 per cent. for bills and advances
reepectively.

THE WAR IN THE TYROL.
FLORENCE, Jun' 13.

Advice! from Chiavenna of yesterday's date state
that the flying colunms of the National Guard,
with the aid of the customs officers, have repulsed
the Austrians beyond the second cantoniera of the
Stelvio Pass, making nearly 100 prisoners. The
Italian loss was six wounded.

RUSSIA.
ST. PETERSBURG, AMY 13.

An imperial ukase has been issued declaring that
the investigations of the commission appointed to
Inquire into the recent attempt upon the life of
the Czar prove that in several places abroad
criminal intentions are harboured against the
power and constitution of the government of
Russia. It is therefore decreed that a criminal
tribunal of investigation shall be instituted under
the presidency of M. Gagarin.

GREAT FIRE IN NORWAY.
CHRISTIANA, JULS 13.

A serious conflagration has taken place at
Drammen, on the southern coast of Norway. 300
houses were burnt down, rendering 6,000 persons

homeless.

TURKEY AND THE PRINCIPALITIES.
PARIS, Jucv 13.

Telegrams received here from Constantinople,
dated 11th inst., announce that, at a conference of
the Turkish ministers and of the ambassadors of
the Great Powers held on that day, the Porte had
decided on recognising Prince Charles of Hohen-
zollern as Hospodar of the Principalities. Turkey
also accords to the Hohenzollern family the direct
hereditary succession to the Roumanian throne.
Prince Mika had returned to Bucharest.

THE ATLANTIC CABLE.
VALENTIA, FRIDAY, 4 P.M.

Splice completed all right. Great Eastern com-
menced paying out. Signals perfect through whole
length of cable.

THE IRISH LAW APPOINTMENTS.-A telegram
from Dublin hat evening states that Mr. Blackburn, Lord
Justice of Appeal, has been appointed Lord Chancellor of
Ireland. Mr. N►pier becomes Lord Justice of Appeal.
The Chief Justiceship of the Court of Queen's Bench is not
yet appointed.
SEAMEN'S IIIkSPITAL SOCIETY.-A meeting of
the governors of this society was held yesterday afternoon,
at the offices in King William-street, Mr. Sykes Thornton
in the chair.. The report stated that patients had been
admitted into the hospital-ship Dreadnought during the
past quarter, as follows :—From her Majesty's ships, two;
from foreign and merchant ships, 482 ; on board on 31st of
March, 178—total, 662. It appeared that there are on board
sick at present 131, and that the number of convalescent
is 9, the number discharged since 31st March being 52'2.
The number of persons registered as having been in the
ship is 95,716. The out-patients from 31st of March to
30th of June number 303. The statement of accounts
showed that the receipts had been 2,3011. 3s. 6(1., and
that the expenditure exeeeded that sum by 1,036/. Os. 7d.
The usual compliment to the chairman concluded the
business.

ORANGE DEMONSTRATION AT WIOAN.-011 Thurs-
day, the 12th of July, the town of Wigan was for many
hours in a state of great excitement caused by the visit of
some 2,000 Orangemen and Orangewomen from Liver-
pool, to assist their Wigan friends in celebrating their
anniversary. About 1,300 or 1,400 members and friends
of the Loyal Orange Institution of Great Britain arrived
by rail in two special trains between nine and ten
o'clock, and then, joining the 200 members which the
institution musters in Wigan, began a march through the
principal streets of the town, cheered as they went by
the inspiriting strains of half a dozen bands of music.
Every member wore an orange scarf, the women, of
whom there were a great number, carried orange lilies or
displayed the orthodox colour prominently in their dress,
and scores of banners were carried aloft. In several
quarters of the town, the procession was warmly cheered,
and occasionally in response pistols were fired, but di-
rectly this came under the notice of the police the
offenders were taken into custody. The destination of
the procession was St. Catharine's Church, where morn-
ing prayers were read and a sermon was preached by the
Rev. Thomas Bighorn, incumbent, from Galatians, i. 8.
Throughout the day the principal streets were filled with
sTectators, and it was not till some time after the
• special" had returned that the town was quiet again.
ACCIDENT IN A LIVERPOOL GRAVING DOCK.
About a week since the barque has, Captain Hyland,
I nr'ived in the Mersey with a cargo of rum and sugar from
Demerara, and ate, discharging her cargo preparations
were at once undertaken for the purpose of placing the
vessel on the Clarence 'gridiron, in orderithat some repairs
might be effected to her bottom. Everything being in readi-
ness, the Ilan was safely placed on the gridiron. Early
yesterday morning some ship carpenters commenced
operations, but left off at eight o'clock for the purpose of
getting breakfast. The men bad scarcely gut clear of the
ship when a loud crash was heard, and on turning round
to see the cause of it to their horror they discovered that
the Iles had toppled over, in consequence of her moorings
or supports giving way, and lay almost a wreck at the
bottom of the dock. It was at first feared that some of
the carpenters employed had not got away before the vessel
lurched over, but it fortunately turns out that no lives
have been lost. The Ms is an old vessel, built, we believe,
nearly half a eentury ago either in Sweden or Norway.
CRYSTAL PALACE.—At the Opera Concert to-day
a selection from Gluck's /phigenia in Tennis will form the
first part, and a miscellaneous programme the second. The
artistes are Mr. Santley, Mdlle. Titiens, and others
from Her Majesty's Theatre, Signor Arditi being con-
ductor. The concert will conclude with the Garibaldian
Hymn by the full band and chorus of Her Majesty's
Theatre. The bands of the Coldstream and Grenadier
Guards will perform during the afternoon. The Prussian
needle-gun will be exhibited In the centre transept after
the concert.
ADMIRALTY, JULY 13.—APPOINTMENTS. Bur-
geons Dr. D. Duncan, to the Basilisk • and J. B. Dyes
(additional), to the Cambridge. Aisisiant Paymaster E.
B. Pillow, to the Asia. Chief Engineers G. Weeks, to the
Indus, for charge of engines of the Howe ; and A. Miller,to
the Indus, for c of engines of the Mateo tic.
RAILWAY DUTY.—The amount paid as duty by
the railway; in the year ending the 31st March lost Wa
463,0221. li a. ljd.