The Express.
London, England, 1867-09-10 00:00:00

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

(urna'a rmanaita.)
PRUSSIA.
BERLIN, Barr. 9, BWITISO.
The King gave a farewell audience to the Bava-
rian Minister to-day.
Solidi Bey leaver for Paris to-morrow, to remit
the Sultan's presents, proceeding thence to Lon-
don on a similar mission.

SCHLBSWIG-HOLSTEIN.
ALTONA, Sm. 9.

Herr Theodore Reinike, formerly vice-president
of the Holstein estates, and a most zealous advo-
cate of the claims of the Prince of Augustenburg,
has been summoned to Berlin by the Prussian
government as one of the Schleswig-Holstein nota-
bles with whom it wishes to confer on questions
relating to the Duchies.

RUSSIA.
ST. PETERSBURG, Serr. 0.

It is said that the Shah of Persia will shortly
arrive at Livadia, in the Crimea. on a visit to the
Czar.

DENMARK.
COPENHAGEN, SEPT. 9.

The official Berlingske Tidenfle of to-day says that
Herr Ahlmann's election as a member of the North
German Parliament was certain had it not been for
the bribery which took place at the Flensburg and
Apenrade elections, and also for the manner in
which the Prussian government grouped the elec-
toral districts.

The same journal shows that the frontier line is
now further south than at the time of the elections
which took place in February last, and adds that
Alison and Sundewitt are once more proved to be
a portion of Danish Schleswig.
The Copenhagen journals state that the Prussian
Legation in this city has instituted fresh legal pro-
ceedings against the Danish newspaper Heimdal,
recently acquitted on a charge of using insulting
language towards Prussia.

AUSTRIA.
VIENNA, SEPT. 9, Evionrc.

The New Free Press of this evening says :
" The reply of the Hungarian delegates to the
proposals of the Austrian members of the Confe-
rence leaves untouched the question of the public
debt.

" The Austrian delegates insist that the amounts
to be contributed to the public expenditure by
both portions of the empire must be definitively
fixed, and they will come to no arrangement with-
out a settlement of the proportion of the public
debt to be assumed by Hungary. They refuse to
discuss the budget of 1868, as having no authority
to enter upon that point."
The Official Evening Post declares that the
draft of an Austro-Prussian treaty published by
the Situation was a pure invention. Such a treaty,
it says, is a political impossibility.
The Presse states that yesterday the negotiations
for an Anglo-Austrian treaty of commerce were
formally concluded, and the documents on the sub-
ject signed. England, it adds, will enjoy the
same advantages as aro to be accorded to the Zoll-
verein.

INNSPRICK, Sam 9.

The Roman catholic congress assembled hero to-
day. The number present was 500. The German
catholic dignitaries expected did not attend.

THE PEACE CONGRESS AT GENEVA.
GENEVA, Sat. 9.
The Peace Congress met to-day at two o'clock.
General Garibaldi was appointed honorary presi-
dent ; M. Jolisaint, councillor of state, acting
president ; and M. Barth, vice-president of the

General Garibaldi delivered a speech in which he
prophesied the fall of the Papacy.

AMERICA.
(BY ATLANTIC TILZGRAPH.)
NEW YORK, Stet. 9, Mmurrsc.

President Joluison has proclaimed a general
amnesty, excluding only high rebel officials and
persons implicated in the assassination of President
Lincoln, or who maltreated Federal prisoners
during the war.
Gold, 143.

The Admiralty officials at Liverpool are puahing
on with the preparation of the ten steam transports for the
service between Bombay and Massowah, and the greater
number of these vessels have gone across to the Birken-
head docks, to take in coal from the tips there. A good
deal of practical inconvenience, however, has been sus-
tained in consequence of the coalheavers having taken ad.
vantage of the demand for their labour to strike for an
advance of 25 per cent. on their wages, and in order that
the work may not be retarded the government agents have
been compelled to pay the advanced rate. The sailors also are
endeavouring to make hay while the sun shines, and yes.
terday a bill was issued, requesting all men who were
about to engage for the expedition not to accept less than
41, per month wages, the present rate being 21. 10s. It
is feared that, for the reason given above, this demand will
also have to be complied with. The England, one of the
steamers belonginz to the National Steam Company, is in
the moat forward state, and will, it is understood, be the
Brat despatched.

MISCHIEVOUS FOLLY. —Three young Englishmen,
said to be fresh from Oxford, have been amazing the
people of Dinan, in Brittany, by crowning the head of the
statue of the great Bertrand do Guesclin with a viatelia.
Two of them got safely away after this silly exploit ; the
third, whose name is Sweeting, was brought back from St.
Halo, and justly sentenced to a fortnight's imprisonment.
The judge who resided made some very sensible remarks.
'' It is painful," be said, "to see young men belonging to
one of the great English Universities come to this country,
where we welcome them so cordially, to outrage our
Breton glories, and try to revive the hatred of evil days
now gone by." And he reminded the prisoner that the
English of those days paid the highest honours to the
coffin of their illustrious enemy. Mr. Sweeting seemed to
know nothing about that ; and the President suggested
that Oxford might as well teach a little French history.
Du Guesclin, however, is a man who belongs to inter-
national history. If you know anything of the dauntless
Black Prince and of his wise General Sir John Chandos,
you must also knew the great constable. Probably the
foolish trio of Dinan are of that class of thoughtless young
men who learn nothing until they are taught stern lessons
by that harsh schoolmaster the world. Such puerile folly
as theirs requires to be summarily checked. We regret
that two of the three escaped from the punishment of
their insolent conduct. However, they wilt doubtless
meet with due humiliation when their parents and
friends become acquainted with their conduct. They
should be handed over to the head master of
Uppingharn. The English residents at Dinan addressed
to the Mayor an expression of their regret and indignation.
And the Dinanaia newspaper calls upon its townspeople
to forget the incident, and to remember only the prompti-
tude with which the English residents had repudiated the
offence and manifested their sympathy with the people of
Dinan. This is all very satisfactory, and is quite what
was to be expected on both hands; the townspeople need
not be annoyed by the foolish freak of three foreign
boys. At the same time it may be observed that pro-
ceedings not dissimilar are a good deal too frequent among
young EnAliah tourists.
Ma. DICKENS AND AMERICA.—The New York
Tribune' of the 25th ult. gays :—" Charles Dickens is
coming to the United States, to give a series of readings
in the principal cities of the Republic. The announce-
ment will be received with pleasure throughout the
country. It is not necessary to deprecate, as some of our
contemporaries incline to do, • possible hostility toward
Mr. Dickens on the part of the American public. No
such feeling exist,. Our people do, indeed, remem-
ber the' American Notes,' and the satirical chapters in
' Martin Chuzzle wit,' and are, no doubt, of opinion that, as
• matter of taste, Mr. Dickens might well have been more
gracious. But, on the other hand, our people like free
speech, and appreciate frankness—not forgetting that truth
should be the North Star of authorship, and that there is
a good deal of truth in what Mr. Dickens said about us
on returning from his first visit to this country."
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colo-
nlal-ofdoe from the governors of Gibraltar and Malta.