The Express.
London, England, 1861-08-06 00:00:00

THE GREAT EASTERN AT QUEBEC.

The Quebec correspondent of the Toronto Globe
writes on July lb:—"Preparations are being made on
board the Great Pastern for the reception of the public.
Her paddle•boxes and smokeatacks have been fresh
painted, and • thorough cleaning up is being made. But
few persons are now admitted. On Saturday some pas-
sengers from Toronto, by the Bowmanville, were admitted
as a great favour. Today members of the board, number-
ing about fifty, went aboard, and the president, Alexander
Gillespie, presented an address, congratulating Captain
Kennedy on his successful passage, and expressing •hope
that the great ship would be placed on the St. Lawrence
route. The captain replied in a neat speech. He expressed
a high opinion of Quebec as a commercial position, and
said he would do what he could to influence the directors
of the Great Eastern to plaice her on this route. The ad-
dress was presented in the gorgeous ladies' saloon, after
which the captain invited the visitors into the grand
saloon, where lunch had been prepared. Captain Kennedy
then proposed the health of Mr. Gillespie, which was duly
responded to. The latter then proposed the health of the
captain and officers, to which Captain Kennedy replied.
The health of the directors and the memory of Brunel were
then drank, and due justice having been done to the viands,
the company then proceeded to an inspection of the steamer.
Captain Kennedy is to be entertained at a public dinner at
Russell's Hotel, on Tuesday the Wad intant. The Greet
Pastern lies very safely in the harbour here. During a
very severe gale on Thursday last she did not drag any,
although nearly all the other vessels in port did. She has
90 fathoms of chains to her two anchors—one at her stern
and another at her bow. She is anchored in 18 fathoms of
water, and shifts about her own length with the ebb and
flow of the tide.

• Visitors are already beginning to arrive here. The hotel-
keepers say Quebec can accommodate 20,000 strangers every
night. The leading hotels, Russell'. for instance, will make
oo increased charge during the rush. Every facility to enable
pawiengers to get to the Great Eastern by mixes of ferry
boats, will be provided. On her return voyage the steamer
promises to have a large number of passengers. The agent
has informed me he had advertised her rates of passage from
New York to New Orleans. The price is remarkably low,
only 65 dole., u she will make the prigs fully two or
three dap law than other ordinary steamers."

THE KING OF PRUSSIA'S VISIT TO FRAM:Z.-
1U lowilpessdaisce Beige says that the Jamey of the King
of Prussia to France is indefinitely postponed, if not alto-
gether shandom& A despatch of M. de la Tour d'Auvergns
lame no doubt es the subject.

RUMOURED CONSPIRACY IN RUSAIA. —The In-
dependence Beige, which yesterday mentioned as a rumour
that a serious political conspiracy was discovered at St.
Petersburg, says that the object of the conspirators was
to put aside the present Emperor and his family, arid to
give a constitution to Russia. A senator, who was at the
bead of the affair, was arrested, and two noble ladies who
were compromised were banished.
SINGULAR Krrocro or AN ACCIDENT ON MONT
Btasc.—The Medical Times end (smirk contains the fol-
lowing :—" A party weed* Mont Blanc, consisting of
Messrs.. H., 8., and others, all first-rate mountaineers, with
their guides, had slept out all night, and after breakfast Mr.
B. left the
.others for a few minutes, being on a slight slope
near • prempos. In returning to the party Mr. B. slipped,
fell on his back, and then over. He slid down 1,500 feet
at an eagle of 45 deg. by measurement, at a velocity of not
lees than 60 miles an hour, over frozen snow covered by little
missal finlike hail, and being brought op at a crevasse by the
Reflected snow in his cloth's; this owing to the arrangement
of his dress at the time of the accident, his trousers down,
which no doubt saved him, by tying his legs together. Dr.
Metcalfe was sent for to St.Gervais late that inght and arrived
there at 6 a.m. the following morning. He found Mr. 8.,
• young gentleman of 19, in a state of collapse, wrapped in
cold wet sheets, which were at once removed and restora-
tives given until reaction set in. Sensible ;so alteration
of the pupil ; face looking like that of a man four or five
days in the water, covered with blood, much swollen ; skin
of the right side of the nose and face ; forehead abraided ;
heads burnt black on the backs, swollen, the fingers as
if the ends were ground down on a Wane grindstone ;
nails all right ; arms sod elbows clear from wounds, but
bruised from under the left arm to the aside ' • the side
scratched in every direction, as if with a sharp curry-
comb, the right side not marked so high ; the calf of each
leg on the outside is fairly burnt black and dead, back
of- the calf unhurt ; nate; burst off by the friction, and
sides of the thighs the same, these parts being
red or white. Pulse from 0 got to 120, weak, their:de,
intermittent ; stupor considerable ; memory
bead not affected beyond what any severe shock
would canes. Diarrhea came on with much irritation, fre-
quent micturition ; thirst great; tongue, white, pale. There
was no blame attributable to any one. He fell at 7 a.m.,
and was got to St. Gervais atdi p.m., after a moat perilous
centavos • portable sledge. No bone broken. Dr. Met-
calfe has been unremitting in his attention, and informs me
that be is doing well, and in a few weeks will probably be
all right, and not marked or injured in any visible way.
He is sensible, and has been up already. Thki is • very
interesting example of a severe ' brush-burn,' and the con-
sotient shock to the system."
Ties GENEVA CON F ERENCIL —Tile following are
the official arrangements for the approaching great Evan-
gelical Conference at Geneva, to be held under the presi-
dency of Lord Roden:—Sunday, Sept. L—A meeting for
prayer. Monday, Sept. 2, Morning.—Opening addrees, by
the president of the French breach of the Evangelical
Alliance. Addresses by the president or delegates of the
several sections. Cooclaliog address, by Pastor liarde, of
Geneva. Afternoon.—The and the hest Means of
Promoting its Sanctification; paper by Professor Godet,
Neufchatel. First speaker, Pastor F. Coulin, Cremes.
Tuesday, Sept. 3, Morning.—The Religious letitution
and Immorality of the Masses in all Countries, toge-
ther with the Means which Wisdom and Experience may
point out for the Application of the only efficient Remedy
for these great Evils ; paper by Professor Rosseau, tit.
Hilaire, Paris. Dr. Macleod, of Glasgow, sad Dr. Guthrie,
of Edinburgh, will speak on this empties. Menaced.—
Minion Work among the Heathen since the Conference at
Berlin ; paper by M. Christ, president of the Society of Mis-
sions at Basle. First speaker, Pastor L. Bride', of Vaud.
Wednesday, Sept. 4, Mona*. Critical Examination
of the Seepticiem of the Present Day in France ; paper
by M. Ernest Navin°, of Gegen. First speaker,
Pastor Basta, of France. Afteraoos.—The People of
Israel and the Gospel of Jesus Christ; taper by Dr.
Copadoes, of Holland. First speaker, M. William Pete,
veL of Neufchatel. Thursday Sept. 5 (no meeting in
the morning). Afternoon.—ltalian meeting. Italy and
the Gospel; paper by Pastor Meille, of Turin. First
speaker, Professor Maszarella, of Bologna. Friday, Sept.
6, Morning.—The Characteristics of the Reformation sad of
the Reformers of Geneva ; paper by Dr. Merle D'akobigoe,
of Geneve. First speaker. Professor Herzog, of Relangea.
Afternoon.—Sunday Schools ; paper by the Rev. J. C.
Fletcher, of New York. First speaker, Master Paul Cook,
of Calais. Saturday, Sept. 7, Morning —Religiame Liberty
considered as the Cluarantee of the Order and Peace of
States ; paper by Pastor E. de Pressease of Paris. First
speaker, Pastor Viguet, of Geneva. Afternoon.—American'
meet* (in English). Influence of Civil and Religious
Liberty on Roman catholicism in the United States—the
Rev. Dr. Baird of New York. Monday, Sept. 9, Morning.
—English meeting. The Colonies of the Anglo-Seem
Race, with a View to the Dissemination of Evangelical
Christianity throughout the World, and the Means by
which this may be successfully accomplished. After-
noon.—The Religious Condition of the People of
Eastern Europe and Western Asia ; speakers, M. Frederick
Rougemont, of Neufchatel ; Pastor hlonsell, of Ireland.
Tuesday, Sept. 20, Morning. The Importance of Uniting
Doctrine with Christian Life, in order to the Prosperity of
the Church ; paper by Paster Bauty, of Vaud. First speaker,
Pastor Granmerre, of Paris. Afternoon.—The Religious
Movement in Germany since the Conference of Berlin ;
paper by Pastor L Bonnet, of Frankfort. Chief speaker,
Professor 'Tholuch, of Halle. Wednesday, Sept. 11, morn-
ing.—Meeting reserved for German arraiseriancL What are
the principal points on which the ratiooaliam of the present
day, particularly that of German Switzerland, is opposed to
Evangelical Christianity? paper by Professor Reggenback
of Beale. Afternoon.—Meetiog reserved for Germany.
Tuesday," Sept. 12, morning.—On Christian Brotherhood
and the Characteristics which should distinguish . Centro-

Teeny among Christians ; paper by IL Agenor de Gs/patio,
of France. First speaker, Pastor Tournier, of Geneva. At-
temoon. —Revivals ; paper by Pastor Anet, of Belgium.
Chief *pinker, Pastor Frederick Nosed, of Paris.
POPULATION or rum MUM) K/NODOIL —The
completed returns show that the population found in the
United Kingdom at the recent census, not reckoning army,
navy, or merchant seamen who were abroad, amounted to
29,001,298, an increase of 61 percent. in 50 yeas, notwith-
standing that we have been planting nations by a vast °mi.
patios. The census found here 14,077,189 males, and
14,954,109 females—an excuse of females over males of
876,920. The overplus of women and girls in England
would fill all Liverpool and Leeds ; io Scotland, all Edin-
burgh ; in Ireland, all Belfast, Waterford, and Wexford.
There are 16 towns in the united kingdom with a popula-
tion exceeding 100,000, and 6 parishes in the outakirts of
London with such a pvulation—one of them (St. Pancras)
with very nearly 200,000 (198,882). The number of inha-
bited houses in the united kingdom is 5,154,985, which
allows a bowie to every 5'6 persons.