The Express.
London, England, 1868-04-09 00:00:00

REMARKS..

Atmospherical pressures have continued to rise at all our
stations since yesterday, and since teat evening the increase hail
been largein the south of Ragland. In the south-western portion
of these island/reedit p tre now hisberby nearly half an filch. The
greatest pressure reported is at Valentia, and exceeds the tidal.
mum, at Brussels, by more than six-tenths of an inch. There
has been a considerable diminution In temperature In the west
sod south. The north-east gale reported yesterday from
head haamoderated somewhat, hut that reported from scarbo-
rough extended during the night to all the southeastern stations,
and was most severe at Yarmouth, where It is still blowing.
Winds are generally north-easterly and strong lu places.
Snow and hall have fallen at places on the north and east coasts.
At Valentla frost is reported. The sky Is generally cloudy.

The men in the employment of M. Hoy-aux,
founder, at Mons, were astonished on going to their work
three days back to find that a bronze equestrian statue of
the Emperor Baud** of Constantinople, placed for safety
under a shed, hai disappeared. Notbwithatanding its
great weight, a robbery was possible from the fact of the
casting being in four pieces. The watchman of • neigh-
bouring factory states that he had heard during the night •
one or more heavily ladon vehicles pass. Telegrams
were instantly despatched in every direction to put the
police on the alert.
A letter from Rome say. that Cardinal Bona-
parte's observance of the strictest rules of Lenten fasting
have already had an injurious effect upon his health, for
he fainted in the Sistine chapel on the 3rd, during the
sermon delivered by the Capuchin friar Eusebio da Monte
Santo, in the presence of the Pope and the Sacred Col-
lege. Cardinal Bonaparte had to be carried out of the
chapel . .

Mr. Mechi says :—" Our autumn and winter
have in this county (Essex) been everything one can desire
agriculturally, so dry and so free from floods, as compared
with the same period of 1866-67. Consequently the wheat
crop looks quite healthy and promising, while the dryness
of the soil permits a free use of the hand and horse hoe,
and the facile extirpation of weeds. All this is a contrast
to the like period last year. A greatly increased breadth
of wheat has bean sown, so that, if the summer prove
favourable, our poor prospects will be much brighter."
INVALIDS FROM ABYSSINIA. —A correspondent
from Suez writes, under date March 27, 1868 :—" The
Golden Fleece has just arrived here from Anneals y Bay,
having on board 208 invalids of different come, who are
ea route to England. The greater number of them are
unfits, who are rejected on climatic grounds, or those in
whom old Indian diseases were redeveloped ; sixty-one of
them, sent down from Senate, having been there s
as unfit to endure the long march to Angelo. tgePylecild
the former station we have not any invalids on our
list. There are about six ophthalmia cars, contracted
up country ; and several dysenteric and diarrhs oases,
with the same history ; but the greater number ea
date their
diseases from India. —March 28. The invalids started at
4.30 p.m. for Alexandria, where they embark on beard the
Simoom troop-ship. They are in command of Lieutrmeat
Downing, 8.A., and in medical charge of Mr. Lavaca
Reek staff-surgeon of this ship, assistedby Mahal Per
sayer Mr. Young, and a sergeant and three orderlies. The
WORIMet them have been selected to be put in American
despinteare attached to the Suez line, each man being
she to lie down, which relieve, the fatigue of the long
Jewry. Thy are to be supplied with hot tea on the
route, and ordinary medical comforts with them.—British
/radical Journal.
Muais. CLAY AND NOaWOOD ON THE IRIBH
ORURCIL—Mr. (Allman, of the Hull Branch Reform
League, has received the following letters from Messrs.
Clay and Norwood, in acknowledgment of the resolution
adopted by the league and transmitted to them :—" April
1 1865.—My deer sir,-1 am in receipt of the resolution
a the Bull Reform League, pissed on the evening of
Mira 30. It is in full sympathy with the opinion I have
held and ['equally expreesed, for nearl years, and it
is • matter of great congratulation to a y dvanced liberals
that Mr. Gladstone's views on this subject have come
into aosordenoe with our own. The Irish church,
as a State establitheient, is doomed, and at no
distant date
Great faithfully, /AXIS Czar.—Mr.
Chilinan."—" Malvern, bidmarril, 1868.—Dear
sir,—Your letter of the 36th to
me a copy of the resolution arrived at by • resting doff the
Hull RaCtill=. has reached me bee to-day, where
I have been under marl we sines I obtained
leave of stores hem the Hour of Ominous a fortnight
ago, on aeon el my illness. lam unable to write much,
and, in fact, am ordered to avoid all business so far u
practicable, and so I confine myself to the expression of
my opinion that the church establishment in Ireland is
=jest, impolitic, and • source of weakness sad danger
eg las opisialishaist is England, of which I • member.
lisil....hnese Mr. Gan M.P. (our ' whip') found me an an-
'yesterday, should have preeeded
;re threO efi.considerabis risk to
el—l MI, Aar sir, yours itiraily, C. M. NORWOOD.
.11NAMOR Obflmea, Hull Reform League."
I Wm. or SIR THOMAS BROTHERTON.. —The will
with two codicils, el General Sir Thomas William BrOw111)
Brotherea, G. 0.11., who wee formerly of Upper Brook-
street, Grosvenorequare, and late of Ember, was proved on
the Rad inst. in her Major?, Court of Probate, at the
Peinelpal Itoglatry, by John William Brotherton, Esq.,
the see, and the Irv. James Pal es Clerk and Georg,
=the szenners ; the peenalmpreperty sworn
30,0001. The testator directs all his
ospybold and barhold estates (erupt his
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