The Express.
London, England, 1868-01-14 00:00:00

THE FAMINE IN ALGERIA.

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The Avenir National says it has received from a
correspondent in Algeria most afflicting accounts
of the progress of the famine in that country. The
dead, it says, are so numerous, that they are
thrown into trenches as on the day after a battle.

tirUntell TfllOR.
AUSTRIA.

-VIENNA, JAN. 14.

The Official Gazette of this morning announces
that the Emperor has ordered that the persons ap-
pointed to the posts of Ministers shall be styled
" Your Excellency" during the continuance of
their official functions, and shall rank at court
with actual Privy Councillors.
The Reicharath will resume its sittings upon the
10th February.
Deputy Mnhlfeld is dangerously ill.
Rumours are current that Field-Marshal Lieute-
nant Baron von John is about to resign his post as
Minister of War for the Empire, and will be suc-
ceeded by Field-Marshal Lieutenant von Kuhn.

WEST INDIA MAIL.
PLYMOUTH, iAlf. 14.

The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's ship 1
Atrato, from the West Indies, &c., arrived here at
3.15 a.m. this day (all well), and proceeded thence
for Southampton at 4.30 a.m. She brings 21
adult passengers, specie 461,030 dots., and 2,215
packages of cargo ; also the captain and crew of the
Corsica screw steamer, purchased by the company.
The Atrato was detained outside the harbour,
first waiting for the pilot, and subsequently
through losing the boatswain overboard, who fell
from the jib-boom, when a boat was lowered
and search made for him but ineffectually.
Her dates are—Greytown, December 15 ; Demerara
and Tobago, 23rd ; Trinidad, 24th ; Grenada and
St. Vincent, 25th ; St. Lucia and Barbadoes, 26th ;
Jamaica, Martinique, Guadeloupe, and Dominique,
I 27th ; Jacmel, Antigua, and St. Kitts, 28th ; and
St. Thomas's, 31st.
At St. Thomaa's commercial affairs were still
in an unsettled state owing to the continuance of
the earthquake. Severe shocks were felt on the
29th and following days up to the time of the
Atrato leaving, keeping the inhabitants in a
state of great anxiety. The island was then
healthy but private advice. state that the water in
the harbour was more putrid than ever through
the number of sunken vowels, with provisions,
&c., on board. The slightest movement among
the shipping caused the exhalation to become in-
sufferable, and it was apprehended that before
long some serious sickness would be the result.
The second session of the new Jamaica legisla-
ture was opened on December 17. The Financial
Secretary reported a deficit in the revenue of the
past year of 56,000/., arising from the customs and
rum duties. A bill had been introduced levying
an additional 10 per cent. upon the amount of
duties paid into the Customs on all imported
articles from December 16.
The Douro arrived out atSt. Thomas's, with mails
of 17th ult., at daylight on the 31st; and the
Mersey proceeded down the Islands, and the Douro
to Jamaica, the same day.
The Atrato's ship's papers are coming to London
by special train from Plymouth at 5.15 a.m. this
alio day.

AMERICA.
(IT ♦TLANTIC TZLIONAPIL)

NEW YORK, Jas. 13, Eviamio.

Closing Prices :--Gold, 140 i. Sterling exchange.
on London, 109 g. 5-20 United States Bonds,
' 1882, 109 a ; ditto, 1885, 108}. 10-40 Bonds, 102 i ;
Illinois, 135 ; Erie, 76. Cotton : Middling Up-
land, 17. Petroleum, standard white, 25i. Flour :
extra State, 10.50. Corn : Old mixed, 1.41.

A report is in circulation at Marseilles that M.
Louis Blase will he put up at the next election. The
question arises, would Louis Blase moan to take the
oath of fidelity required from every candidate! It I. cre-
dibly stated that the democratic petty will present candi-
dates in the ten conatitueedes of the departments of the
Bombes du Rhone, Iranians, and Gerd.
A spectacle which draws a crowd daily to the
Tuileries gsrdeas Is that of a lady who, in her daily walk,
lattracts around her flights of the wild pigeons who lodge
in the old tress, and scores of sparrows and other birds,
who perch on her shoulder, and even have the audacity to
pooh at her mouth. The lady is daily escorted to her hrensl
by a perfect squadron el her feathered friends, who then
return to their quarters.
At Rome the opera is very ill attended, and the
impresario being unable to pay his artistes on quarter day,
threatened to shut the theatre mdse the municipality ad-
vanced him 20,000 lire. The subscriptions have been
[ 25,000 lire lase than usual this year.
Although the Maine Legislature contain a large
repudiate weJority it b believed to he determined on the
repealed the prohibitoy levier law, which has far sear
year, been in foes be that State, and the substitutive for
litel a ranee eil Bosom far ikon deans. The Ker.
simeetes Legislator*, nosing at the same time, will do the
lams deem In bath States this Widen= is brought
' about by the very decided cordial of the rend Mew*
1 ekeents sisdisa *salad the pooldbilory poi*.