The Express.
London, England, 1866-02-03 00:00:00

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, FE. 2.

The government has resolved to abolish the
Imperial police authorities in several of the chief
towns of the empire, and to place the pollee admi-
nistration in the hands of the municipalities.
These measures are to be adopted on economical
grounds, and with the view of promoting municipal
self-government,

HUNGARY AND CROATIA.
AGRAM, Fn. 2.

The Croatian Diet has declared itself ready to
send a deputation to Pestb, in order to consult
with commissioners from the Hungarian Diet to
settle the terms of the union of Croatia with
Hungary.

SYRIA.

MARSEILLES, Fee. 2.

Advices received here from Beyrout, to the 23rd
ult., announce that 3,000 Turkish troops had dis-
embarked at that port.
Daoud Pasha had sent a detachment of troops
against the residence of Joseph Karam. The vil-
lage of Zaghora, in the district inhabited by the
family of Joseph Karam, had been burnt.
The villages which supported the Turkish troops
in the recent disturbances, had been relieved by
Daoud Pacha from the payment of taxes for four
years.

RUSSIA AND THE POPE.
ST. PETERSBURG, FEB. 2.

The announcement made by some German papers
that the Paris and Vienna cabinets bad proffered
their good offices to remove the differences that have
arisen between the Pope and the Russian govern-
ment is unfounded. Neither is there any truth in
the rumour that the Russian government had
solicited the mediation of Prussia in this matter.

THE CAPE•'OB GOOD HOPE.
PLYMOUTH, Fu. 2.

The Royal Mail screw-steamer Stirling, from
Singapore, Nov. 17, and Table Bay, Dec. 23,
passed up Channel to-day. Sbe brings a Cape mail,
with nine days' later news than the last steamer.
The distress ill the colony continued to press
heavily on all chases, more especially on the un-
employed artisans and labourers.
The Governor's Guarantee Fund had not reached
half what his Excellency had asked for.

A meeting had been held at Graham's Town,
where it was unanimously resolved to sign a
bond, indemnifying the governor for proceeding
with the railway works between Port Elizabeth
and that city at once. The amounts subsctibed
had, however, been far short of the sum required
for that undertaking ; also the relief committee,
instituted at Cape Town, to assist the unemployed,
had been closely pressed for want of funds, and it
was expected that they would be obliged to dis-
charge 110 mea employed on the roads.
The weather had been excessively hot, and the
drought continued in several districts. At Graaf
Reinet and Aberdeen sheep were dying by thou-
' sands.

The customs' revenue had already fallen short of
the total amount estimated for the year by more
than 40,0001.
The Basuto war was being continued. The
free state burghers were making renewed exer-
tions ; but it was feared that any victory
they could achieve would prove a very inadequate
set-off against the losses they had already sustained
in trade, agriculture, and general material in-
terests.

INDIA.
(By Direat Overlaid Telegispb.)
BOMBAY, Jig. 2', 4 r. N.

Cotton very firm. Oomrawuttee, 445 r. Ship-
ments of the week, 36,000 bales. Exchange on
London, 2a. 2d. Freighter 40s. Government secu-
rities; Four per Cents., 87 ; Five per Cents., 102;
Five-and-a-Half per Cents., 1061. The latest
London date is the 22nd instant.
CALCUTTA, Jas. 26.
Me. shirting', C, Br. Exchange on Loudon,
2s. 2d. Freights, 40s.

COWVOCATION.—Yesterday morning the convoca-
tion of the province of Cuaterbury was formally opened by
a service at St. Paul's Cethedral, but there were but few
persons present. The Archbishop of Centerbary was in
his seat, ant there were also present the Bishops of London,
Salisbury, Lincoln, and other prelates, the Rev. Dr. Leigh-
ton, Warden of All Souls' College, Oxford, the Very Rev.
Dr. Pellew, Dean of Norwich, the Venerable Archdeacon
Grant, the Rev. Dr. Charles Williams, Principal of
Jesus College, Oxford, the Rev. Canon Harvey,
the Dean of Canterbury, and some of the re-
cently-eleCted proctors for the various dioceses.
When the Litany service was concluded, the Psalm,
" Pray for the peace of Jerusalem," was wog by the choir,
and a Latin sermon was preached by the Rev. J. W. Joyce,
M.A., of Christ Chinch, Oxford, rector of Burford, near
Teobury. Takieg for his text that portion of the Acts of
the Apostles which relates the meeting of the apostles sod
disciples in the early age of Christisnity, he drew from it an
argument in favour of the syeedal meetings of which coo-
vocation was the representative in modern times. He
dwelt at some length os the history, the authority,
and the results of such synodal gatherings, both in
rotenone to their deliberstive and judicial deliberations.
At the dose of the memos, the " Gloria in Excelsis" was
snug by the choir, sad the clergy repaired to the north-west
chapel, where they proceeded to the eleetioa of a proton-
toe of the lower homes. Their choice fell twos the Vene-
rable Edward Bickerstetb, D.D., Archdeacon of Backisg-
ham and Visor of Aylesbury, sad be was accordingly pee-
seated to the Archbishop of Canterbury at the Chapter
ROOM. His grace congratulated the archdeacon on his
electioe, and thee stated his intention to adjourn ecievit,
patios until Tuesday next, the 6th of Peievary, when it
will meet at Westminster for the despeteliel essiesisatiosl
business.
OPIN Comm MovnhiiT.—Mr. Samuel Ralph
T. Mayer, el Gloomier, hoe. are. for the MOON* at
Gloucester sad Brinell, bee been appointed resides* seem
tary I. London to the National Ameintion for Pear:Wing
?Wed= of Public Worship* the Church of England by
the Militias of the paw system, and the mini of the
weekly otfortory. •