The Express.
London, England, 1867-10-18 00:00:00

PRUSSIA.

At a meeting of the party of progress held at
Berlin with a view to the forthcoming elections for
the Prussian parliament, a programme was agreed
to by which a reform of the provincial and corn.
munal institutions is demanded. Moreover, they
require the suppression of the system of indirect
voting by the election of electors and the substitu-
tion therefor of direct universal suffrage, such as
has been established for the elections to the
Reichstag of ithe Northern Confederation. The
whole liberal party is agreed as to this latter point ;
it demands, besides, that the number of deputies
to the Prussian parliament, which is 432, should
be reduced, and that the return of a member to the
Reichstag should be united with that of a deputy
to the Prussian parliament. The decision which
the government may come to on these questions
will depend, it is said, upon the result of the ap-
proaching elections.

(ILEUTIR'S TELZG RA118.)

THE RISING IN THE PAPAL STATES.
FLORENCE, Ocr. 18.

Advice/ from the Roman frontier announce that
Menotti Garibaldi had taken up a position at
Monte Maggiore. Niootera was at Ceccano, and
was in full communication with the bands in the
mountains. A few bands had appeared at Val-
monte and in the neighbourhood of Tivoli. The
Pontifical troops beyond Frosinone were falling
back without striking a blow. Among the insur-
gents there was a complete band of 1,200 Roman
emigrants, under the command of Major Ghirelli.
The Italic announces that even yesterday the
Italian government had ordered the arrest of 70
young men about to embark for the Pontifical
States. The Italic also affirms that the number of
persons arrested for the same cause up to the pre-
sent exceeds 2,000.

MARSEILLES, Ocr. 18.

Letters received here from Rome, dated the 15th
inst., confirm the statement that the Roman autho-
rities have seized some papers at the residences of
two Italian officers, Signors Macragoni and Caase-
lazzi, who have been arrested on the charge of or-
ganising an insurrection in Rome. The officers
named are at present confined at St. Michael, pend-
ing their trial.
According to the same letters Baron Hubner,
the Austrian Minister at the Papal Court, had re-
turned to Rome, and had urged the Popo not to
quit the capital.
As regards the insurrection three considerable
bands appeared to threaten Viterbo. The Sabina
band reinforced by the continual arrival of trains
full of volunteers from Naples exceeded in number
2,000 men, whose chief camp was at Monte Car_
pignano. Other bodies of Garibaldians were ex-
pected to disembark from Sicily.

HUNGARY.
PESTH, Ocr. 17, EVENING.
The conferences of the Hungarian bishops have
commenced.
The successful candidate for the electoral dis-
trict of Nemeturog is the son of M. Kossuth.
General Turr has gone to Agram.

OUTWARD AMERICAN MIAL.
QUEENSTOWN, Orr. IS.
_ _

The National Steam Navigation Company's
steamship Virginia arrived' hero from Liverpool at
9 p.m. yesterday. She embarked passengers and
proceeded for New York at 10 a.m. to-day. All
well.

(BY ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.)
AMERICA.
NEW YORK, OCT. 17.

Messrs. Neill Brothers, in their circular review-
ing the cotton trade of the year ending September
last, state that the total crop was 2,076,000 bales.
The total export, 1,557,000, and the consumption
in the Northern States, 696,000 bales.
The steamers Persia and Pennsylvania arrived
out to-day.
Closing prices : Gold, 1441 ; sterling exchange
on London, 109; 5-20 United States Bonds,
111 ; Illinois, 122; Erie, 72. Cotton: Middling
Upland, 19/.

PHILADELPHIA, Ocr. 17
Standard white petroleum, 34.

Baron Ricasoli is said (by the Memorial) to be
at this moment in Paris.

The Independmu•e says that in Normandy one
manufacturer alone has lost threo millions by the fall in
cotton. .

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The Jean Bart, training ship, has left Brest for
i's yearly cruise in the Atlantic. Besides its officers and
crew, it has 90 midshipmen on board.

During the visit of the Emperor of Austria no
alterations will be made in the hunting arrangements for
Conspi4ne and Fontainebleau. The definitive visit of
the court to the former place can hardly take place sooner
than the 3rd or 9th of November. It is also possible that
the coming opening of the chamber may this year alter
the programme of these intended imperial country holi-
days.
The Court of Russia has returned to St. Peters-
burg for the winter. It is the first thus the Czar and his
family have been so long abroad, away from the seat of
government.
The transatlantic cable between France and the
United States—Brest and New York -will offer superior
advantages to that of England, as the prices will be much
reduced, from TrOfr. to GOtr. To expedite the delivery of
despatches and prevent probable confusion, it is proposed
to establish two classes of telegraphy—the express and
the ordinary. The express, which will coat more, will
arrive as promptly as possible, and be delivered at the
plans of destination by messengers on horseback ; the
ordinary will be arranged as at present.
A number of miners have left New South Wales
for the Cape of Good Hope diggings.
On Wednesday evening the Hon. F. Leveson
Gower, one of the members for Bothnia, addressed a large
meeting of his constituents on political matters at the
Town-hall in that borough. The Dis,Yoa (Mr. J. B. Collins)
oocnpied the chair.
Ties LOBS OF TII6 MAIL STILAIIER WOLF.--
RscovEsT or MAlM—Divers were sent down yesterday,
and the Scotch mails and some more packages of cargo
were recovered from the wreck.