The Express. — 1847-01-13 (London, England)

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.  THIS DAY. Pour 'oaock.  We have letters from Alexandria to the 29th ult., which give some particulars connected with the sudden decease of Lord Bernard Howard, in Egypt. His lordship, with the lion. Mr. Wrottesley and the lion. Mr. Clive, arrived at Alexandria on the 18th nit., by the steamer Ariel, and, in prosecution of his journey to Thebes, left the following day for Grand Cairo, which he reached in perfect health. On the 21st he had been engaged preparing for his tour, and in the afternoon paid a visit to the British consul-general. Returning from the residence of Mr. Murray his lordship was caught in a shower, which induced him to quicken his pace, and haying run for a short distance he fell dead, when entering the door of the Hotel de l'Orient. The body has been embalmed, and will remain in the Roman Catholic convent at Cairo till the wishes of his lordship's friends are communicated from this country. Prince Oscar of Sweden was entertained on the 28th ult., at a brilliant ball, by Mr. D'Anastasy, a leading merchant of Alexandria, and Swedish consulgeneral. It wee attended by Said Pacha and his suite, Arten Bey, Minister of Foreign Affairs, several government functionaries, and the members of the different European consulate establishments. Prince Albert of Prussia had concluded his second tour in Egypt, and left Alexandria for Trieste. Six of the crew of the English ship Royal William are imprisoned at the British consulate, at Alexandria, charged with the murder of an Arab soldier, in the Mahmoudee quarter of the city, under very revolting circumstance& Our correspondent writes t the Peninsular and Oriental Company's treaty with the Pacha for the sale of their remaining property on the Nile and Canal, has:come to a conclusion, by which the company have agreed to renounce their rights for the sum of 10,0001. The transfer is to take place in February.  In our foreign intelligence will be found some particulars of the movement in Switzerland, and especially in the canton of Fribourg, communicated in letters from Berne of the 7th inst. A letter from. Bale, of the Bth, says : The insurrection is spreading, and has reached Marten, and the distnets Of Bolls, Gruyere'', and Stofes. On the evening of the 6th the Castle of Marten was carried by amaittt, by the insurgents, who made the governor prisoner. The regency of that canton has tam up arms, bukthe government of Lausanne has refused a passage to its troops, composed of a battalion of infantry, and a company of carabiniers. A report is current that 200 volunteers from Marten and Stofes have entered Fribourg, but other accounts state that they have arrived before the city, where they await reinforcements. It is, however, stated. that at the first news of the insurrection, the executive council marched two companies of infantry on Newneck; that the first battalion and the company of carabiniers were to occupy Schwartzenbmg, Lanper, and Newneck,  etz‘4  whilst the second battalion would be held in readiness to act as circumstances required."  The Belgian :Minister for Public Works is, it is said,"about to propose, at an early day after the session of the Chambers shall be re-opened, a project of law for modifying the actual Poet-office system. According to this project the rural decime is to be suppressed, the duty of five per cent now payable on the transmission of specie to be reduced to two per cent., and three zones to be constituted for the conveyance of letters ; the postage for the first zone to bo 10 centimes; for the second, 20 centimes; and for the third, which is to comprehend all the more distant parts, 30 centimes. The charges in sterling will run, therefore, as about id., 2d., and 3d. the maximum.  A royal decree appftra in the Brussels papers, announcing that a public exposition of the products of national industry will be opened on the Ist of next July, and making the requisite regulations and arrangements for its management.