The Express.
London, England, 1867-12-04 00:00:00

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

(REU/ER'S TELKGRAIIB.)
THE ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION.
(Via Trieste.)
BOMBAY, Nov. 14.

The preparations for the despatch of the main
body of the Abyssinian expeditionary force are
being actively continued. No further departure of
troops has taken place during the last fortnight.
The steam transports England and Queen arrived
here on the 10th inst., and some 13,000 additional
tons of shipping have been chartered by the Bom-
bay government. Several steam vessels of 300 or
400 tons, suitable for tugs or despatch boats, have
also been taken up.

The latest advice, from Zulla state that the route
to the highlands of Abyssinia has not been decided
upon, but that the Jaranta Pass has been avoided
(ladvocated).
The diary of Dr. Blanc, one of the captives, has
been published in Bombay, and contains the most
interesting account of the captivity that has yet
appeared.
The Governor of Bombay, Sir Robert Napier,
and the chief officers of government, are now in
Bombay. The governor leaves for Mshableshwar
in a few days.
The Bank of Bengal has opened an agency at
Bombay. In reply to a deputation from the re-
construction committee of the Bank of Bombay,
the governor intimated that ho had telegraphed to
the Secretary of State to sanction the Bombay
government becoming shareholders.
Contradictory reports have been simultaneously
received at Bombay from Zanzibar regarding the
fate of Dr. Livingstone. One account states that
he was recently seen alive ; another, that no hopes
can reasonably be entertained of his recovery.
A commercial treaty was successfully concluded
on the 25th October by Colonel Fytche, the chief
commissioner in Burmah, with the King at
Mundalay.
The Viceroy entered Lucknow in state on the
9th inst. On the 12th his Excellency held a
Durbar, at which he invested the Maharajah
Maum Singh with the insignia of a Knight of the
Star of India. Bis Excellency also received an
address from the Talookdars, and delivered a
speech in reply. The ceremony passed off well.
ALEXANDRIA, Nov. 27.

Intelligence received here from Zulla states that
Colonel Merewether accompanied an Abyssinian
chief to Jakondo, and found agood camping ground
there, with a plentiful supply of water. Forage,
however, is scarce. The Sanafa mute was con-
sidered preferable.

THE DEBATE IN THE CORPS LEGISLATIF.
PARIS, Dw. 3, Brum.

In the Legislative Chamber to-day M. Chesne-
long spoke in reply to the speech of M. Jnles
Fevre. He maintained that the object of the expe-
dition to Rome was the protection of a violated
right. Now that the crisis had come it was neces-
' nary to guarantee efficaciously the existence and
the safety of the temporal power. Italy had no
claim upon Rome : she could not enter it without
committing an act of suicide. M. Chesnelong con-
cluded that the Roman question bears a European
character ; the conference ought not to question
the existence of the temporal power, but by an
international act provide the means to guarantee
it. France ought to perform that duty even with-
out the aid of Europe. M. Simon denies that the
temporal power is necessary for liberty of con-
science. A catholic Pope protected was equivalent
to a Pope a subject. It would be advisable, in his
opinion, to separate the spiritual and the temporal
power, and to carry out the formula of Cavour, a
free church in a free State. M. Latour thanked
the government for sending the expedition to
Rome. He called upon the government always to
maintain the temporal power of the Pope. M.
Gudroult saw that whilst at Rome the influence of
Roman ideas pervaded the French. Religion was
simply in this case a political mask. The Roman
question is not a rallying point for all those who re-
gret the past. Leave the Pope to protect himself,
and before the lapse of a fortnight he would have
settled everything with Italy. Should the hope
be relinquished that the French government should
transform itself in a liberal sense, he (the speaker)
declared that ho should become one of its most
determined opponents. After a protest by M.
Benoist against some expressions made use of by
M. Gudroult, the Chamber adjourned.
The Etendard of this evening says that the adhe-
sion of the majority of the Powers to the proposed
conference has arrived, including that of Russia
and of Austria. England and Prussia alone adhere
in principle, but make reserves. Belgium and
Holland have not yet sent a reply.

PRUSSIA. •
BERLIN, Doc. 2, ETIRING.

In to-day's sitting of the Lower House of the
Diet Herr Lsaker withdrew his motion for quashing
the trial of Herren Twesten and Frenzel. Herr
Lasker's other motion, proposing to assimilate the
Prussian constitution to that of the North German
Confederation, in so far as concerns the liberty of
speech in the legislative chambers, gave rise to a
very animated debate, and waa adopted by 188
against 174 votes. _

BERLIN, Dac. 3.

Count von Lippe, the Minister of Justice, has
resigned his portfolio. Herr Leonhardt, President
of the Chief Court of Appeal, and formerly Minister
of Justice in Hanover, is stated to have been ap-
pointed his successor.

SWEDEN.

STOCKHOLM, Dec. 2.

Advice' from Norkoping state that disturbances
took place in that town on Saturday last. The
mob demolished the houses of several merchants.
The large export of grain is supposed to bo the
cause of the excitement.

RUSSIA.

ST. PETERSBURG, Dsc. 3.

Advice. just received from Moscow state that
Archbishop Philarete, Metropolitan of the See of
Moscow, died in that city at 2 o'clock on the
afternoon of the lit inst., after personally cele-
brating Divine service. The Archbishop had
reached the age of 83.

Fonnias Onres, DEc. 2. —The Queen has been
pleased to approve of Mr. A. Forrester Brown u consul
at Madras for his Majesty the King of the Belgians. The
Quota has also been pleased to approve of Don Luis
Caaaval as vice-consul at Glasgow for her Majesty the
Queen of Spain.—Gasetee.
Despatches were sent from the Colonial-office yes-
terday to the Governors of Gibraltar, Malta, Ceylon, Hong
Kong, Wilma, and the Straits Settlements.

THE WEST INDIA AND PANAMA MAILS.

THE FATALITIES OF THE GALE.
(BY TELIGRAPH.)
_

The Royal Mail Company's steamer Tamar
arrived in Plymouth Sound at 10 p.m. yesterday. She has
bad 24 came of yellow fever on board and seven deaths
during the passage. The last death took place on Nov.
0. Pratique cannot be granted. She has only four tons of
coals and seven tons of wood, and could not therefore pro.
ceed last night. She will require &supply of 60 tons of coals.
The customs authorities have resolved upon telegraphing to
the Privy Council for orders, which the Tamar will have to
await She brings 57 passengers, 111 seeks of maiLi, specie to
the value of 340,00061.,and 1,443 packages of cargo. She left
St.. Thomas on the 14th ult., and for the last five days has
encountered very heavy weatl•rr There was no yellow
fever in t►e island of St. Thomas. but numerous cases
amongst the shipping. The deaths on board the Tamar
have been—George Pitty, purser; P avid Irwin, seaman;
James Nadir, seaman ; and four passengers from the
Panama, New Zealand, and Australian line, viz. :
Mr. Benjamin, Mrs. Gale, Mrs. Tetley, from Pinion,
New Zealand (who leaves • family, and several on board),
and John Muachat, The cases on board the Tamar broke
out, two on the 13th, five on the 17th, one on the
18th, twoon the 19th, six on the 20th, oneon the 21st, two
on the 22nd, three on the 25th, and two on the 27th ult.
There are no cases on board at present, sad all the patients
that have survived are convalescent and able to appear on
deck. Captain Hammick, late commander of the Conway,
is among the passengers being invalided.
Off the Western Islands the Tamar passed • large ship,
the Joven Francisca, Captain Carloda Crnz, under sail,
but abandoned.

The St. Thomas Tidende's account of the gale describes
at length its fearful effects, bnt records the number of
fatalities far below the number named by the last advioce
as probable. It says:—" We have official authority for
stating that the number of burials occasioned by the lass
of life from accidents in the town, together with the
burials of bodies found drowned in the harbour through
the late hurricane, amount up to the present time to 114."
The same paper affords the following exact list of the
damage done to shipping: The British steamship
Columbia sunk in the eastern end of the floating dock,
with a full cargo from Liverpool ; the cargo, to a great
extent, is now being got out by divers in armour suits.
The British steamship Rhone sunk at Peter Island with a
poen& of a cargo for Europe, and from 150 to
160 lives lost. The British steamship Wy• •
total wreck on Buck Island, and forty-nine lives
lost. The British steamship Derwent ashore and
serionly injured. The British steamship Conway, on
shore at Rhode Town (Tortola), seriously injured, but was
got off, and is now in our port. The British steamship
Tyne, partly dismasted at Peter Island, but returned to
this port. The British steamship Robert Todd, ashore,
and seriously injured. The British steamship Solon,
dismasted, but bas since gone to sea on her
route. The British ship British Empire sunk and
disunited on the eastern end of the floating dock, and has
sines been condemned and sold for 65 dollars. The British
schooner Proctor sunk, and seriously injured. The British
ship Onicdphorm gunk, with a part of her cargo of coals ;
condemned, and sold for 295 dollars. The British ship
Often Gem partly sunk, with • part of her cargo, and four
lives lost.

PLYMOUTH, Die. 4.

It is not believed in the island that any earthquake
took place there during the hurricane of Oct. 29. The
Tidende also states that " the merchants and the
store and shop keepers are almost, without an ex-
ception, sufferers by large quantities of d►maged goods
occasioned by the water that poured into their places
after the roofs became stripped of their covering."
But the abovatuuned journal adds :—" Mechanics are
everywhere busy. However deplorable may be the louses
in property, no one can say that actual misery pre-
vails. None are houseless, naked, or istarving, as
sous in their mistaken overseal for us would make
it appear. Flour, although high in price, has not diniin-
imbed the supply of bread ; in fact, all the bakers, with the
vxception of one, whose ovens were really injured, pro-
duced their bread the morning after the hurricane, and so
far from any wish to profit by the emergency of the case,
instances can be shown where hundreds of loaves were
given to those who seemed for the moment to need them.
The exceptional bakery we refer to resumed its baking
after two or three days. Since then bread is just as
abundant in the town as it was before, and therefore what-
ever may have been stated elsewhere about our bakers has
no foundation. We know the losses of our inhabitants
are terrific, and it may need years of industry to restore
what has been lost within a few hours ; yet as a commu-
nity inured to adversity it will be borne with fortitude and
resignation."
Similar views are taken of the effects of the hurricane
at Tortola. Although very severe, it did not occasion
such a large low of life as has been reported, and while
the lose to the inhabitants has been large, there ia not any
immediate danger of excessive suffering. The hurricane
was felt at Porto Rico and San Domingo, but with far leas
severity. At the other West India islands great interest
and sympathy had been exhibited for the sufferers in the
hurricane at St. Thomas and Tortola.

The British schooner Norman was ashore, a total wreck.;
the British schooner Alexandri►, ashore, a total wreak ;
the British schooner Elizabeth, ashore, • total wreck, con-
demned and sold for 210 dole. ; the British schooner Water
Witch, ashore, • total wreak, condemned and sold for
855 dol.. ; the British barque Agnes Lamb, dismasted and
seriously injured, condemned and sold for 1,500 dole. ;
the British barque Howard, dismasted and seriously in-
jured ; the British brig Wild Pigeon, ashore, dismasted,
with • part of cargo; the British brig Her Majesty, ashore,
with • part of cargo ; the British brigantine R. Scale,
ashore, and seriously injured ; the British brigantine
Hope, ashore, with a full cargo of molasses, condemned
and sold for 195 dole., now afloat ; the British brigan-
tine Princess Alice, ashore, in ballast, with three
feet of water in the hold ; the British brig Ida Abbott
ashore, • total wreck ; the British tugboat Itchen, ashore,
and partly injured; the British aloop Nimble, dismasted,
with • part of cargo ; the American schooner Glinlin, cap-
sized and injured, one life lost, condemned and sold for
1.170 dole. ; the American ship Charles Sprague, ashore,
a total wreck, the capt►in and one man were saved ; the
American ship Sarah Newman, ashore, with • part of the
cargo of the barque Patass on board ; the American barque
Aberdeen, ashore, dismasted, with five feet of water in
her hold, and three lives loot ; the American brig Mecoits,
ashore, a complete wreck, with a cargo of bides taken from
the Princess Alio*, condemned and sold for 75 dole. ;
the American brig Nelly Gay, dismasted and seriously in-
jured, condemned and sold for 1,000 dole.; the French barque
Velooe, in ballast, sunk at the eastern end of the floating
dock, with four lives lost ; the French brig Emma, ashore,
a total wreck ; the French barque Brune, ashore dismasted,
with a part of cargo for La Guayra, since landed ; the
French barque Bernice, ashore, with part of cargo since
landed ; the French barque Gazelle, ashore, in
ballast, condemned and sold for 700 dela. ; the
French barque General de Lourmel, dismasted, and
I seriously injured, with • full cargo of coals ; the
French brig Jacmel, diamasted, and seriously injured ;
the French steamship Caparelle, dismasted and otherwise
injured, but since has pursued her route ; a French tug-
boat sunk, but since raised ; the French sloop Sylph sunk,
but sine. raised ; the Danish barque Ludvig Holm ashore,
• complete wreak, condemned and sold for 760 dollars ;
the Danish barque Nordskov ashore, • complete wreck,
condemned and sold ; the Danish brigantine Valkynieu,
ashore and seriously injured ; the Danish schooner Petrel,
ashore and partly injured ; the Danish schooner Dasher-
manos, dismaated, with a f ull °erg o of mahogany, captain and
one man injured ; the Danish schooner West End Packet,
sunk ; the Danish schooner Maggie, sunk ; the Danish
schooner Nannette, sunk (capsized), and two lives last ;
the Danish tugboat Vice-Governor Berg, ashore ;
a Danish dredger, ashore, and somewhat injured;
the Danish tugboats Urchin and Pigmy, ashore
and seriously injured ; the Danish tugboat Lilli-
putian, sunk and lost, with three people drowned ;
the Dutch beige Maria and Anna, diemasted and seriously
injured; the Dutch brigantine Antj•l, dismasted and
seriously injured ; the Dutch schooner :diet, ashore dis-
masted, with part of cargo ; the Dutch sloop Noit

Gedaoht, ashore and diammied ; the Dutch sloop'
Trial, ashore a total wreck, and sold for 25 dots. ;
Oldenburg brig lielvise, ashore with a part of cargo ; the
Prussian brig Edward, ashore with cargo of cork and
oasis ; the Prussian brig Bertha sunk, only two men were
saved, condemnedkbut no offer made at the sale ; the
Prussian brig Trifler, tank, two lives lost, condemned and
sold for 150 dolt.; Bremen brig Johann, sunk in ballast,
condemned and sold for 2,300 dolt. ; Norwegian ship
Vela, dismasted in ballast, condemned and sold for 300
dolt. ; the Spanish schooner Rapido, sank and captain loot;
the Spanish schooner 'Tres Hermann, sunk with full cargo,
and captain lost ; the Spanish schooner Formalidad, sunk,
with full cargo ; the Spanish schooner Alphonse, sunk,
with part of cargo ; the Spanish schooner Altagracia,
sank, with part of cargo, and one life lost ; the Spanish
schooner Manilla, sunk, in ballast ; the Spanish schooner
Otilia, sank, with sundries ; the Spanish schooner Veloz, '
dismasted, with cargo for Guantananio ; the Spanish
war steamer Vamps Nunez de Bilbra, dismasted daring
the hurricane, did a mat amount of service in rescuing
the lives of those exposed to imminent danger, has since
gone to Porto Rico ; the Spanish steamship Pelee°, ashore
and dismaated, but has since been taken off ; the Spanish :
steamship Camagnei, ashore, a total wreck, the punier,
chief engineer, and nine men were lost ; the Venezuelan
schooner Soren I'Anchila, gunk; another Venezuelan
schooner sunk, two lives lost ; the Veteseelaa schooner
Conception, sank, with full cargo, end five thotavid
pounds in gold.