The Express.
London, England, 1868-10-31 00:00:00

AMERICA.
ARRIVAL OF THE SCOTIA.

The royal mail steamship Scotia, from New
York, arrived at Queenstown at 12.30 p.m. to-day
(Saturday) with 116 cabin passengers. She landed
76 sacks of mails and 18 passengers, and proceeded
for Liverpool at 12.40 p.m., all well.

NEW YORK. Oct. 20. Nowt._

The sheriff and the parish judge of St. Mary's,
Louisiana, were assassinated by some disguised
horsemen on Saturday night.
The °Moe of the Attakapne Register, a republican
journal published at Franklin, was sacked by a
mob during the night of the 18th inst. A collision
between the whites and negroes was apprehended
in that vicinity.
Outrages by the Hu-Klux-Clans are ou the in-
crease in Arkansas.

It is reported that no attempt will be made to
renew the Canadian Reciprocity Treaty until the
next session of congress.
The bishops of the episcopal convention have
resolved to admit members of the Canadian clergy
to all privileges enjoyed by clergymen of the
'United States.

News from Mexico states that President Juarez
is taking precautionary measures against a threat-
ened invasion by adherents of Santa Anna, who
left Cuba for St. Thomas on the 18th instant,
under an edict of banishment of Captain-Goneral
Lersimdi.

NEW YORK, Oar. 21, Morino.

According to !{'right's Circular, the very favour-
able weather which prevailed in the South last
week largely increased the estimates of the cotton
crops.

Advices from Cuba state that small bands of in-
surgents are still prowling about in the mountain-
ous parts of the island. Captain-General Lersundi
had ordered the trial of all insurgents by court-
martial.

THE BRAZILS.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Ocr. 9.

The subscriptions to the National Loan of
30,000 contos exceed the required sum three times
and a half.

Mr. Washburn, the American Minister in Para-
guay, had arrived at Buenos Ayres.
i Lopez still retains the members of the foreign
legations in Paraguay.

FEARFUL ACCIDENT IN Lir ERPO()L.

FOUR MEN KILLED.

About half-past 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon
one of the moat disastrous oecurrences which has taken

place in Liverpool for many years, took place in Rigby-street.
On the left-hand side of the street stands a large block of
warehouses. one portion of which is occupied as an oil-
cruithing mill, the other portion, further to the left, being
occupied as a warehouse for the storage of seeds—linseed
in bulk and cake. The warehouse in question was seven
storeys high, and on each floor there was a large quantity
of loose seed and cake stored. About two o'clock some
men who had been up on the fifth storey of the building
observed that the centre of a heap of linseed in bulk
was subsiding, but they believed that it was caused in con-
sequence of the sliding away of the outer ridge of the bulk.
The machinery was working in the press-room, and
everything was going on as usual, when about a
quarter to three o'clock, a fearful crash was heard.
The fifth storey of the building bad given way, the joists
having apparently broken in the centre, and 50 or 60 tons
of linseed in bulk falling on the fourth floor—ou which
there was a similiar quantity of produce stored—broke
that down, and, again descending on to the third and second
storeys, fell into the machine room, where a number of
pressmen, grinders, and others were employed. The fall-
ing of the floors was so sudden that not one of those en-
gaged in the machine-room escaped, while several of the
workmen employed in proximity to the scene of the dis-
aster sustained severe injuries about the head and arms.
All the centre timbers of the different floors appear to
have parted, leaving the flooring joints projecting from the
opposite sides of the warehouse. It is believed that in
consequence of the linseed being conically shovelled up
on the fifth floor the beams were unable to bear a weight
of from 50 to 60 tons, and consequently gave way. After
the dreadful occurrence Mesers. Wallace and Co., seed
crushers and oil merchants, who occupy the range of
warehouses, used every exertion to rescue those whom
they believed to be buried in the di6r•ie. After removing
an immense quantity of linseed and oilcake, they found
the bodies of four men amongst some broken rafters and
ceiling planks. None of the bodies were disfigured, and
it appeared that the unfortunate men had been suffocated
by the immense quantity of grain falling on them.