The Express.
London, England, 1868-01-25 00:00:00

THE MONETAEY CONVENTION.

PARIS, JAN. 24.
The Greek government has definitively declared
its aeomeaien to the Monetary Convention con-
cluded between France, Italy, Belgium, and
Switzerland.

The Rapes:lance Belie.sisys :—" The existence
of a fresh French circular intended to resuscitate
the still-born project of the Conference has been dis-
puted in Paris. Our Berlin correspondent, who
first mentioned it to us, maintains that this cir-
cular exists, and that it bears the date of the 24th
December. In this document ,the cabinet of the
Tuileries, in acknowledging the acceptance in prin-
ciple of its proposition, intimates, it is said,
that time and circumstances will remove the
difficulties which the realisation of this idea
still meets with. It proposes, moreover to
revert to it when the negotiations between Italy
and the Holy See have led to a favourable
result. Of a truth the French government would
not risk much in subordinating these fresh efforts
to the preliminary understanding of the Pope and
the Florence government, unless it should really
think of obtaining that result by a very violent
; pressure exerted upon the Italian cabinet in con-
cart with Prussia."

Upon the same subject the Nord says :
Everybody had forgotten all about the Conformation the
affairs of Rome; the Cologne Gazette is plowed to resusci-
tate this question, which at
.the least isinsigertums ander
presoak eiresmeleaess. Its Berlin epitomisation& mations
• cirouLir of the ?remit eshinst dated Dec. *4. in-
tended, he eye, to declare to the powers that the moment
L not propitious for continuing the undartaldng, but that
e note has been taken in Paris of the observations made
i and of the commit given in principle. We fancy the cor-
respondent of the Gazette has mistaken the character and
veritable bearing of this document, if It really exists. For
ourselves, we see in it nothing but a funeral oration, the
terms of which do not even corneal the abandonment of
the conference project, while indicating that the cabinet of
Paris awaits from the future the solution it wished to
hasten with the asaistanoe of Europe.

WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.)

SASCRDAY, Jl3ll-A9.Y 95, $ LA.

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SPEECH PROW THE THRONE.
STOCKHOLM, Jee. 18.
The King opened the Swedish Diet yesterday
with the following speech from the throne :
I warmly appreciate at this moment the proscription re-
cently introduced into the fundamental-law, by which,
without delay that hoe hitherto prevailed.
I see you
again arembled around me, to participate with me in the
mercer suitable to Nouns the welfue of the country.
My rehires with all fret Powers eentinne to be
and thereeterind sincere friendship-
_The
gemtirterlaiPi'llioal situation, and together displayed in
almost all the countries es Europe in the augmentation of
their armed form, however, impair woe us equally the
duty of organising our means of defence in conformity
with the requirements of the age.
The =area* inerering melliplisity of administra-
tive affairs gives rise to the want el • mere appropriate
distribution of sub is to be referred to the council, eve-
cislly if it is intan to the a desirable simplification
of the preparers, labours in subordinate branches of
the administration. I have cothequently &itemised to
WM":to you a change in the reetitatioa, by mesas of
new ministerial department for agrioultere, nada,
and public works would be instituted, with other prescrip-
tions relating thereto.
The mixed commission for the revision of the Act of
Union between Sweden and Norway has submitted its im-
labours to ma, Lathe bill it has drawn up iv
the subject of preparatory deliberettoe.
• bathed of low average quantity, and absolutely knit-
Meet in the northern provinces of the kingdom, has pre-
dated considerable scarcity in the means of prime
neresity, threatening even the existence of the
poster classes of the population. I hare sought
to dome to their assistance by employing the funds you
had placed at my disposal, and private benevolenoe, not
only in the runny itself, land among • neighbouring
people, but also in= lands, bee generously hastened
to recour the die
Notwithstanding the difficulties which unforeseen ex-
penses and the diminution of revenue, resulting from the
descents of provisions, have not failed to predate, the
general position of the fineness neverthelem enables the
abolition, after next year, of the special tax which you
voted at the last diet for the armament of our military
fames, without any increase of the other taxes becoming
nearesty to meet the wants of the State. The decrease
in revenue which, owing to the circumstances I have
pointed out, it has been impossible to avoid In the current
yrs, can be supplied, in part, from disposable funds, end
could have been made good altogether if the surplusage of
preseding years had not been absorbed by our requiring for
thseenstmetion of railways sums exceeding the total of
the contracted for that purpose.
I have not ceased to devote active solicitude to the
;aeration of of our means of defence, and I hope to be able
in the course of this session to lay before you the plan
up= which I think they ought to be based and established.
Staglang from the principle, also expressed by yourselves,
that it is the duty of every citizen to take part in the
defence of his native land, I have in conformity with your
ceders,and with the view of alleviating the eserifices which
resell from this general duty in time of peace, ado
p~srvattpted the
on of pormaninit end well-drilled cadres tof oral the
araMos of our army. As the result of mature deliberation
I Dave found that cadres in every respect satisfactory, with
thereat sensible expense, and without hurtful injustice,
might be most suitably formed upon the basis of the old
astianal institutions, especial to our country and adopted
in ear customs. Part of my plan, therefore, consists in
retaining them In their fundamental principles, while pro-
mob. to introduce into them useful reforms.
With the object of furnishing our troops with firearms
of improved construction, I bare adopted measures which,
I although the supply of the orders sent abroad has been
subject to unexpeeted delay, have nevertheless given
satisfactory assumce of uninterrupted manufacture of
these arms in the country itself.
The bills for changes in important branches of legisla-
tion, and for the more equitable ;Retribution of taxation,
which have long been under consideration, are not yet
sufficiently matured to enable them to be laid
you • pro for
beL.r.e.iyon.
I have, however, resolved to submit to
the abolition of imprisonment in the car of n 1 fide
debtors.
I shall ask of you supplies for public works, especially
with the object of coming immediately to aid the provinces,
where the employment of labour also offers the advantage
of wiring alarge number of distressed parsons d I
shall also ask your support for the vote of th; and
feeds
necessary to an active continuance of the railway works
required to canner the capitals of the united kingdom.
Sweden hen worthily maintained her rank by the side of
the countries which march at the head of the development
of peaceful occupations at the general industrial competi-
tion opened at Paris in the course of the pest year. So
far as statistics have been able to register the progress of
our trade, it has not ceased to acquire progressive exten-
sion, notwithstanding the difficulties against which manu-
facturers have had to struggle in recent years. Taking our
stand upon this feet, and upon the multiplied indications
denoting that the Swedish people continue' to place itself
upon the most assured bests of economic independence—
that, namely, of proportioning wants to resource', and of
renouncing expenses neither indispensable nor justifiable—
we are Able to look forward to the future with the full
conviction that the vicissitudes to which we have been
exposed will have taught us salutary lessons, and that
they will thus become the source, not of discouragement or
prortration of forces, but of their new development for
solid prosperity.
Convinced of your enlightened zeal for everything that
may secure the public; welfare, I invoke the blessings of
Divine Providence upon your labour. ; sad while declar-
ing, in conformity with the constitution. the session to be
now opened, I renew to you, gentlemen, the assurance of
my entire goodwill and royal affection.

SEVERE GALE AND Loss OF LIFE IN EDINBURG'S.
—A tremendous gale wee experienced yestenlay at Edin-
burgh. A block of chimneys was blown down, sad fell
through • dwelling-house in Duke-street, killing four
persons. Many minor accidents took place. The weather
in London experienced • sudden change last evening ; •
violent wind sprang up about 7 o'clock, which wee accom-
panied some hours later by heavy rain.
WRECKS AND Loos OF LITE ox TUB WILKE
00AIIT.—A fleet of laden coasting vessels, numbering
according to one report eight, sod another fifteen, left
the harbour of Lianelly on Wednesday night. When out-
side the harbour the wind became • deed calm, and there
being • very heavy ground see on, the vessels gradually
drifted on to the ►ocks. In so doing, several of them got
into collision, and terrible confusion prevailed. At pre-
sent the number of lives lost has not been ascertained, but

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it is believed to be ocasiderable.
LIVIRPOOL, JAN. 24.—The Carribean has arrived
here. Her dates are—Colon, Deo. 24 ; Carthagens, ;
Kingston, Jan. 2 ; and Porten-Prince, 5. Her news is
unimportant.
Buser, JAN. 24. The Transatlantic Company's
steamer Napoleon 111., from New York, arrived here this
morning with 61 s and 123,500 dole in specie.
INUNDATION AT INDBOR AND ETON.—III the
course of yesterday morning and Thursday night, the
waters of the Thames, swollen by the constant rein, rose
rapidly and inundated large portions of lands in the en-
virons of Windsor and Eton. The meadows known as the
Caswell', and the north-western suburbs of Windsor, are
pertly inundated, and the flood now rolls round part of
the Windsor Gas Works, the Windsor Swimming-blahs.
to the beck gardens of the houses in Oxford-terrese. The
roadway in front of C.ambridge-terrace, an extemlrs Week
of property belooging to Colonel Itichardaa-Gardner, is
haf oovered with water, and a punt has been
I gland at the service of the inhebitants as
• lowa of transit from their houses to terra
Arose by their landlord. TIN water was also flowing over
the has end paddocks at the rear of the shop in Thome.
street. ass of the principal thoroughfares of the Io*
borough. Eastward of Windsor Castle, a considerable
m and the lend inkthe Diachet and Wrayehnry die-
tact is partly inundated. On the north or Eton them al
tlievriver, near the inundation is still more extensive. The
greater portson of the Brow, the south meadow at the
rear of the church, and the land belonging to the Rev.
Stephen Hawtrey's mathematical school, at Neste's-lane,
is flooded, the water extending nearly to the viaduct of
the Great Western Railway's branch hoe from Windsor to
Slough. There is, in foot, a large sheet of WSW
or bake on the west of the houses in Eton.
and boats and pants are being need to eras it in oar-
tan directions. The flood rolling from the lakes on the
west side of Moo, through Barnspool-bridge, end the cur.
rent of water from the river near the Windsor balks have
inundated the college grounds toe considerable extent, and
whe mart was written the water was still rising
and n'Mg upon the land. Portions of Windsor
racecoeme are flooded, and away westward, between Wind. 1
Roe wad Maidenhead, murk of the low lying and on either
bank of the river is order water. -A Ono view of the
flooded environs al Window' and Esca and tbe inundated
Thames valley is obteined from the Round Tower or
" keep,* sad the sore imam of Whidsor Oesde.
of them
oompliance with a requisition, *plod by some
issipel bankers sad most indoesdialead
laird montheats sad grades of Liveepool, the ICosi:eoPwelhs
Oman, el Commerce have celled a special isselige for
Wedesedey seat on the subject of the awl
oiler laws boarinedetz it be wont
ume. await and
with • view to for
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