The Express.
London, England, 1868-05-09 00:00:00

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INTELLIGENCE FROM ABROAD.

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ITALY.

GENOA, KAT 8.
This afternoon the Crown Prince of Prussia
arrived here by sea from Spezzia. He was received
by the civil, military, and municipal authorities.
His royal highness was loudly cheered by the
people. The whole garrison and a battalion of the
National Guard were paraded and reviewed by the
Prince.

PRUSSIA.

BERLIN, MAY 8, Ermarta.
The travelling expenses of the members of the
Hanoverian Lies who are to setwen to thole
home have only been provisionally paid by the
Premien Legation at Paris. Bat the government
intends that al the expense connected with the
return of the members of the Legion shall be
reimbursed out of the private property of King
George, now under sequestration.

GREW/C.
ATHENS, Max 7.
The Chamber was opened to-day by the King in
person, who delivered a speech from the throne.
His Majesty aanounced that in ordor to consoli-
date the throne he had married a princess of the
orthodox religion. His Majesty's object in dis-
solving the last Chamber had been to ascertain the
opini'm of the nation relative to the constitutional
distribution of power. The King in his speech
declared further that it was a national duty to aid
in alleviating the sufferings of a kindred people,
and also drew attention to the inequality between
the revenue and expenditure.

SPAIN.
MADRID, May 8.
The Senate passed the budget to-day by 110
against 8 votes.
Cardinal Boggslli, the former Papal Nuncio in this
city, has had an audience of the Queen previous to
his departure.

RUSSIA.
ST. PETERSBURG, MAT 8.
A provincial company at BorisoglOsk has ob-
tained the commission to construct a railway from
Grazia to Boriaoglebsk. The capital required for
the undertaking amounts to 13,440,000 roubles in
cash.

THE PARIS BOURSE.
PAR MAT 8, 3.30 r.a.
The Bourse has been firm.lS, Renter closed at
69.40, or 18c. higher than yesterday.
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INDIA.
BOMBAY, APRIL 29.
jibs. shirting', 6r. ; B}lbs. ditto, 7r. ; 40's mule
twist, 12r.:—market firm. Cotton steady : Dhol-
lerah, 255 r. /Cubango on London, 2s. Old. Four
per Cent. Government securities, 91} ; Five per
Cent. ditto, 1084 ; Five-and-a-Half per Cent. ditto,
112 i. Freights to Liverpool, 575. 6d. The latest
London date is the 21st inst.

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CALCUTTA, Aran. n.
7lba. ebirtinge, 6r.; Nibs. ditto, 7r. 4a. ;
40's mule twist, 6i—market dull. Cotton, 191.
Exchange on London, is. 111 d. Freight. to Eng-
land, 775.6 d.

(Vitt Trieste.)

BOMBAY, APRIL 19.
The Bombay Gazette publishes the following
authentic intelligenoe :—" A great battle has been
fought at Girisk, Affghanistan, between Mahomet
Jakoob Khan, the Governor of Herat, and the
reigning Ameer Azim Khan, in which the former
was completely victorious, capturing Kandahar,
and taking prisoner the Ameer 's brother. Jakoob
Khan ro:laiinei his father, Shere Ali Khan, ruler
of Affghanistan, thus making the second Ameer of
Affghanistan acknowledged by the government."
The Gazette also states that the English troops
were severely defeated in a recent engagement
with the Bezotees, leaving their dead in the hands
of the enemy.
It is stated that the government of India has
authorised the new furlough regulations without
further reference to England.

CALCUTTA, APRIL 13.
Intelligence from Burmah states that a contract
has been entered into for the construction of a
telegraph line between Mandalay and the Britiah
frontier at Thyet-Nyo.
Captain Stade's exploring party left Bhamo on
February 26, having been detained a month wait-
ing the arrival of the governor.

The Moniteur of yesterday devotes five columns
of its space to an socount of the religions ceremony which
took place on Thursday in the chapel of the Tuileries on
the mission of the Prince Imperial receiving his first com-
munion.

The Right Rev. Dr. Thomas Parry, Bishop of
Barbadoes, who is now in England, has resigned his see,
making five colonial bishopric. vacant at the present time,
with the almost immediate proepsot of another in New
Zealand. The bishopric of Bar6adoss is worth 2,5001. a
year, Paid out of the consolidated fund and the eptsoopall
jurisdiction consists of Barbadoes, St. Vincent, Si. Luna,'
Trinidad, Grenada, and Tobago.
The Now Sr. THOK/S8 Hoserral.. —The Queen,
who has graciously consented to lay the foundation-stone,
is expected to arrive at Stange.* by half -peat eleven an ,
Wednesday morning. Her Majesty accompanied by thei
principal members of the royal family, will be met at the
entrance to the building by the president, Sir John Mus-
grove, Bart., and the treasurer, It,. Francis Hicks, who,
with • deputation of governors, tether of the
medical staff, and the architect, will conduct the royal
party along a covered approach to the spadoes pavilion
now in course of erection upon the site of the proposed
hospital chapel, where the foundation-stone is to be laid.
On the east side of the pavilion a dais is being erected
in the centre of the building is the spot whereon the stone
will be laid. Seats are arranged in a horse-shoe shape
around to accommodate nearly 3,000 people.—Medical
This sad Gazette.

THE ARTISANS AND LABOURERS' DWELLINGS
vsry large deputation ,ssiatative of many of
the metropolitan vestries and district boards, waited upon
Mr. Gotham* Hardy yesterday at the Home-oese, White-
hall, for the purpose of wee( upon her Majesty's go-
vernment the necessity of
Art sane =Toeing or at the least of
p.
ThlmeurtAat?o: introdneed by' Mr. D
Ha 'euhT•wis,
M.P., and Mr. Henry Labotudiere,__lLP.
ROYAL COMMISSION ON 'WATER SUPPLY. —A
meeting of the COMMilleion wee held at Henn ef Lords
yesterday ; present, Sir John Thwaites (in the chair), Col.
Harness, RA, C. 8.; Sir Benjamin Phillips, Mr. Thomas
B. Harrison, CZ., Mr. Joseph Prestwich, F.H.8., end the
rscriftrY, Dr. W. Pole, P. 8.8.
Trrisrinna.—Mr, G. Clive, 24._ P., wesimted
yesterday a Utica from Mr. J. B. andBeK of the
Strand, for many years acting in the
promotio of the abk:Kront turnpike trusts, complaining
chat the s~nycteemm astablisitede/ AsmietielOarrlimmeeswitzit
the rep=erldtreds .
Cls semesdhlee of 1864, sad praying
that tke annual Turnpike Gestinuanas Act may be
brought in at an earlier period end referred to a select
eommittee, in order that theressnenismilaticm et the select
committee of 1864 may have prastleal asst.
Mu. HOWARD PAU.—This lady, attar devoting
revival years to " tataatWatal;" has retained to the
siege, and sppsered with .ed memo in Birming-
ham and Liverpool, fa ()floatage's opera of Mk Brood
Dreher. Her vivasity as an .stave, end
capabilities es. a sugar, paella* At her less that elses
of maw open which is now so popuMr in Amps.
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