The Express.
London, England, 1868-11-30 00:00:00

LATFST FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

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SPAIN.
MADRID, Nov. 30.
The Omette of to-day contains the appointment
of several provincial governors.
A decree of Senor Sagosta reduces the tariff
upon telegrams for the interior telegraphic ser-
vice, and also authorises the director of the tele-
graphs to oorne to such an understanding with the
directors of the railways as may enable the tele-
graphic wires to be utilised by the public.

ROUMANIA.
BUCHAREST, Nov. 30.
The new Cabinet has been definitively formed,
and is composed of the following members : —M.
Demetrius (late, President of the Council and
Minister for Foreign Affairs ; M. Cogalintseheano,
Minister of the Interior; M. Brooresoo, Minister
of Justice; M. Alexander Goias*, Minister of
]Finance; N. Papadopulo Calimach, Minister of
Public Worship ; and Colonel Duke Nemeri,
Minister of War.

EGYPT.
ALEXANDRIA, Nov. 30.
The government has published a notice that it
dirco►mt all Treasury villat railway bonds
expiring before the lst of April at 8 per cont.

THE GENERAL ELECTION.

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Advice* from Sligo represent that it is impossible to
ascertain the state of the poll, there being no returns yet
from the country.
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TEE EAST CUMBERLAND ELECTION.-DIS-

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The declaration of the poll was fixed for
o'clock, but for some unexplained reason the High Sheriff,
Sir B. Briscoe, did not make his gipearanoe till an hour
later. For a full hour the sueoes candidates were kept
standing= the hustings to be made targets of by the ex-
asperated mob below. The hired gangeof the toffee began
to display their mischievous propensities. First divers
coloured powders were thrown. Ultimately the crowds
began to fight among themselves, and the shops in
the town, many of the windows of which were smashed,
End to be closed. The barricades which had been erected
in the Market-place were scaled, and the rioting com-
menced in earnest. Stones, axe-head; heavy tainereroof
wood, bricks. powders, filth, eggs, or other
mashes, struck those on the hustings. The roughs retired,
and armed themselves with staves, and every description
of dangerous weapons. With thaw they attacked the
opposite party, who, too, broke up stalls for weapons, and
a war =mud which exceeds deemiptioa. One man.
named Turner, who was at first conspicuous in en-
couraging rioting, was struck down with his face laid
completely open. Seven or eight others were carried off
with broken heads. At 2 o'clock the High Sheriff ap-
peared, but so exasperated were the crowd, and every-
one on the hustings, at his conduct that he would not be
listened to, said before he got two words uttered he was
covered with soot and assailed on every side with mis-
siles.

TEE TRUST AND LOAN COMPANY OF UPPER
CANAD.I.-/THIS DAY)

An extruortlinary general meeting of the share-
holders of the above company, incorporated by royal
charter, was held this day at 1 o'clock, at the office of
the company, 6:4 Moorgate-street. The Hight Hon. E.
F. Houvirart, M.P., who was in the chair, congratu-
lated the meeting upon the satisfactory state of their
affairs. The debentures of the company. were again in
request, and the renewals of bonds maturing the present
year, including • large proportion of those issued at 6
per cent., and which have been continued at o per cent.,
have been very satisfactorv. The report for the six
months ending the 30th September last, stated that the
balance at the credit of revenue, including 3,3391. di.
brought forwatd from March last, was 17,156/. 12a. Id.,
and the directors recommended that out of this balance a
dividend at the rate of 8 per cent. per annum, lees
income-tax, be declared on the paid up capital stock of
the company, 3,9201. 18s. will be carried to the reservo
fund in accordance with the provisions of the royal
charter of incorporation, and the balance then remaining
to the credit of the next half-year's accounts will be
3,236/. 14s. Id. The reserve fund has been charged with
the sum of 1,2771. 15e. 4d. for looses on realisation of
securities in default. The balance at credit of this fund,
after adding the aforesaid 3920/., will be 68,3911. 13e. 6d.
On the motion of the chairman, the report was adopted,
and a dividend on the capital stock of the company, in
accordance with the above recommendation, was

mating that the-office of the oomplay would in future be
at 7, Great Winchester-street-buildings.

WiITERFOID AND CENTRAL IRELAND
ILAILWAY.-/THIS

At the half-yearly general meeting held to-day
at the London Tavern, Mr. E'roronn Fovea in the chair,
the directors' report (which has been published, and re-
commends a dividend at the rate of 2 per cent. par annum
on the preference stock) was adopted.
It was stated by the Owens's that the increase of
traffic was moat satisfactory, especially in agricultural
produce, and that when the line was further extended to
Mullingar there wax reason to believe that the 2 per cent.
would rise to a o per cent. dividend for the preference
holders, and something on the original shares.
Disappointment was expressed by Mr. ADA= that the
pawner trek had not increased, and a doubt whether
the arrangement under which the subsidiary line was
worked was (taking interest and depreciation on rolling
stock into account) remunerative.
The usual acknowledgment of the services of the chair-
man and his colleagues concluded the proceedings.

THE CONINO MAN IN PARLIAWILVI.—The re-
turn of Mr. Johnson for Belfast was celebrated last week
at Nevrtownlimavady. The largest gun in the place was
produced. Miss Stirling of Protestant-terrace, fixed the
fir shot, observing that she did so "To the honour of
Ood and the Orange Volunteers of Ireland." Mr. Stir-
ling, D.L., called on his hearers to "consider the great
responsibility of that great man whose straightforward in-
dependence has broken the chains of tyranny and arbi-
trary power, and translated him from the strong walls of
Down Gaol to occupy a prominent position in the
imperial parliament.' •' And now," he proceeded,
" let us ask what will that great man do in St.
Stephen's: He will support the Bible, and nothing but
the Bible. He will support the Queen and constitution of
old England, as long as she and it remain protestant, and
no longer. He will support and defend the principles of
civil and religious liberty ; and, like his good namesake,
William 111., he will represent our glorious cause, which
has been so long ignored, and make freedom's Bag wave
on freedom's wile on the twelfth of July." The now
Tesler must be on the look out for Mr. Johnson when he
men to " catch his eye."
ADROIT ROBBERY IN A RAILWAY TRAIN.—At
the County Police-court, Manchester, on Saturday, before
Mr. Trafford, a man named John Heywood was
with being concerned in the theft of a bag concl=
2001., the property of Messrs. Hartley and Bona New-
market-lane, Manchester. Between 3 and 4 o'clock
on Friday afternoon, a lad named Alfred Lee was pro-
ceeding from Manchester to Heywood, where the Messrs.
Hartley have their works, In charge of the money,
which was intended to pay the wages of their ens lords
next day. He got into • third-class carriage of the 2.66
p.m. train at Victoria station, and placed the bag and
the money between himself and the 1118 of the carriage.
There were three or four men in the same compartment,
and the prisoner sat on Lee's left hand. When the train
was within 200 yards of the Miles Platting station, a
man in the next compartment asked the lad to tie
a thread round one of his lingers, which he had wrapped
up with a piece of rag. When Lee's attention was thus
diverted, a bag filled with peas was substituted for tho one
containing the money. He observed that the bag had
beenchanged just after the train had stopped, and made
an attempt to follow the parties who had left the carriage,
but the prisoner got hold of him and detained him until
they got away. When he got_ out of the carriage he told
the railway ollicials what had happened, and • telegram
was sent to Heywood to detain the prisoner, who pro-
ceeded thither with the train. AS yet no trace of his
accomplices have been found. The prisoner was re-
manded till Tuesday.

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