The Express.
London, England, 1865-05-09 00:00:00

The Mexican minister bad a lengthened and very
important, interview with President Johnson on
the 45th ult. General Ortega had been sent for
from St. Louis, and was hourly expected.
In a despatch, dated the 24th, Secretary Stanton
says :—" The department lira information that the
President's murder wag organised in Canada, end
approved in Richmond. One of the amassing, now
in prison, who attempted to kill Mr. Seward, is
believed to be one of the St. Albans raiders."
A despatch, received by the New York,Titnes,
says that Payne, the aseasain, hag, since his con-
finement, attempted suicide by hitting hie head
against the iron walla of his prison, reducing it
almost to a jelly. The same journal states that
Johnston at first proposed to surrender on the
terms granted to Lee, but Hampton objected ;
whereupon Sherman granted a delay for an opper-
tunity to consult with JefL Davis. The next day
another meeting took, place, when the remarkable
propositions sent to Washington by Sherman were
presented.
A despatch from the Secretary of War, received.'
in New York on the 27th inst., announces Nadia*
of J. Wilkes Booth, the murderer of President
Lincoln. Booth, together with In aosomplies
slanged Hanold, wire advise trent • swamp in St'
Mary's county, Maryland, and took refuge in a
barn. The pursuing party set the barn on fire,
when Booth on attempting to escape was shot.
Harrold was raptured. Booth's body wag conveyed
Washington. ••
•! New York has paid its last tribute of respecter
the late Provident. The funned procession, which
was three hours pawing any given point, was the
greatest ever seen in America, and, upwards of
120,000 people are supposed to have visited the
City Hell, where the remains ware lying in state
The surgeon-general reports of the Sowards, April
25, " I have the honour to report that the fiermetery
of State is convalescing rapidly. Frederick Seward
speaks more distinctly this morning and is better."
A despatch from Louisville' April 25, mentions
an extraordinary speech by General Banbridge.
I It says :—" General Burbridge wan lyeeteeday pre-
sented at Camp Nelson with 5 liooo.-:,o'Hus sword,
belt, and spurs by ilia 00101011 d cavalry in the sth
brigade and the 6th United Wastes coloured cavalry.
General Briabin made the presentation speech, in
which he spoke of General Burbridge as the
pioneer of freedom to the slaves of Kentucky, and
said Secretary Stanton was a greater war minister
than Carnet or any war minister that ever lived.
General Burbridge said that the war with the
rebels was now over, and that he expected and
hoped soon to gee our coloured troops matching
into Mexico."
The New York Tribune has a few words on the
expression of feeling in Canada :
It is, we believe, the eenaee belief of all the Lerepess
residents is the United States, that no country of Europe
has ever witnessed saything appieschieg the exhibition
mourning throughout the 17aited Stake on the death of
-President Lincoln. The funeral services in British Ame-
lia are no lees remarkable. There is probably no precedent
in the world's history of a whole osuntry paying such
tribute of honour to the insmaray ol the head of a foreign
ream In almost every tows of Canada the
Owes of burliness ware closed as Wednesday from
12 to 2 ; the churches ware thronged for the
celebration of the funeral rites, public bnlidinp and
private houses were largely draped in mourning, and all
voices united in the manifestatioe of grief at the lose sus.
aimed by the United States sad of honor at the work of
the sommin. Previously, the town councils with a very
creditable unanimity had pained resolutions of sympathy
with the family of the murdered Praident sad with the
people of the Called States. We have bad, in the course
of this war, to register many sob of unfriendlieses towards
the Dotted Stamm the part of a ameliorable portion of
the per:2l64 'kb ke;,72.1 PC British America. It is grail•
tying to aekaewledge this eginesioe of sympathy es the
pert of oar neighbours is our great national affliction.