The Express.
London, England, 1865-12-02 00:00:00

AMERICA.

(szirreMs mecums.)
The Royal Mail screw steamer Cuba, from
Halifax and Boston, arrived at Queenstown at
1.45 p.m. yesterday, with 62 passengers and
112,100 dole. in specie. She landed all the mails
but the Liverpool and Scotch, and three passengers,
and proceeded at 2.10 p.m. All well.
(Par the Cabs yid Ruches Potat.)
Some prominent citizens of New York gave
General Grant a grand reception at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel last evening. Two thousand per-
sons were present. including the naval and military
official notabilities.
The Florida Convention has adjourned, after
abolishing slavery, annulling the secession ordi-
nance, repudiating the rebel debt, and providing
for receiving the testimony of coloured persona.
The Mississippi Assembly has passed a bill per-
mitting negro testimony in certain cases.
General Howard reports that the negro.* and
loyal whites throughout the South distrust their
ability to maintain their rights without the pre-
sence of the Federal troops.
Mr. Sohnyler Colfax, the prominent candidate
for the speakership of the House of Representa-
tives, has made • speech opposing the immediate
1 ' admission of the Southern representatives to

Congress. ,
General Logan has not yet announced his accept- 1
ante of the mission to the Mexican Republic.
NEW YORK, Nov. Zi, Emma
The New York Berald says that the government
' must demand the crew of the Shenandoah from
1 England under the extradition treaty. The other
papers are silent on the subject.
The New York Times states that General Logan's
appointment as Minister to the Republic was made
in consequence of Maximilian's decree declaring the
republicans outlaws, against which the United
States will protest.
The oommander-in-chief in Canada, having had
under consideration the possibility of Fenian raids
during the winter, has called out six companies of
volunteers, and ordered all volunteers to complete
• 1 their number and hold themselves ready for active

service.
The ship Harry West, which left New Orleans
for Liverpool, with 3,000 bales of cotton, was burnt
at sea. The crew were saved.
The liberation of the crew of the Shenandoah is
stated to have caused a hostile feeling towards Eng-
land in Washington.
All the Federal cavalry regimentsexcept one have
been ordered to San Antonio, Texas.
The China and North American have arrived
CONNERGIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, Nov. ZS, EvWao.
Money easier ; gold, 147 ; Exchange on London,
160 ; ditto on Paris, 3531. Stocks advancing ;
New York Central, 971 ; Illinois, 134 ; Erie, 92/ ;
5-20 Bonds, 1011. Cotton, good inquiry. Middling
Upland, 53. Flour steady; wheat dulL Corn,
good inquiry. Provisions declining. Coffee steady.
Sugar quiet. Molasses cull. Petroleum, good
inquiry ; crude, 41 ; refined, 65.
NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 22.
Cotton depressed. Middling Upland, 62c. to
54c. Sales of the day, 1,000 bales.
MOBILE, Nov. 20.
Cotton, good inquiry. Middling Uplands, 49c.
to 50c. Sales of the day, 900 bales.

MEXICO.
Advices received at New York from Matamoros to
the Bth Nov., ria New Orleans, announce that the
republicans have raised the siege of Matamoros, in
consequence of the imperial troops marching from
Monterey to attack their rear. They dispersed in
' different directions, pursued by the imperialists for
about five miles, having been previously badly cut
up. Generals Peuza and Gallenda were killed, and
Cortina", Himajosa, and Garza wounded. A French
1 squadron had arrived at the mouth of the Rio

PARIS, Dim. I.

Grande.
Washington despatches state that Meijia had in,
formed the Emperor that half the forces besieging
Matamoros were Federal troops, and that Maximi-
lian, fearing complications with the United States
might arise therefrom, had abandoned his intended
journey to Yucatan. The Empress would visit
Yucatan, and afterwards proceed to Europe.
The New York press announced the receipt of
authentic intelligence, stating that Maximilian had
ordered all the imperial forces to be withdrawn
from the outposts and concentrated at Vera Cruz,
city of Mexico, and San Luis Potosi,
there to await
the arrival of reinforcements. It was believed that
the people would rise in favour of the republic upon
the troops being withdrawn ; the republicans, it is
added, having received encouraging advice' from
the United States.
The Matamoros papers announce that a conspiracy
had been discovered,formed atßrownsville,to capture
Matamoros and the forts, and assassinate General
Meijia. Two of the conspirators, formerly Con-
federate officers, had been captured and sentenced
to bo shot.
It is reported rid New Orleans, that the French
admiral demanded of General Weitzel the surrender
of the steamer captured by the republicans, which
was refused.
Intelligence rid San Francisco announces that
the imperialists bad shot Arteaga, Parapachea,
Gomez, and Salazar, recently captured in Michoa-
can. General Alvarez had consequently proclaimed
the life of every captured French or imperial
general to be forfeited.
Despatches from Mazatlan to the Bth, rid San
Francisco, state that the French bad entirely
abandoned Sinaloa, except the town of Mazatlan,
where 800 troops were stationed. The republi-
cans, vaguely estimated at several thousands, had
cut off their communication with the interior, and
threatened the city.
Advices from Acapulco, to the 3rd, report the
arrival of a reinforcement of 500 imperial troops
from Mazatlan.
General Carvajal and other republican Mexican
officers in the United States are purchasing arms,
ammunition, and uniforms, for shipment to Mexico,
ria Brownsville.

Official intelligence received here from Mexico I
says :—" In consequence of the town of Matamoros
being threatened by plunderers and adventurers,
the French frigates Magellan, Avisce, Tartare, and
Adonis, left Vera Cruz on the Ist November for
the Rio Grande. General Mejia had gained an
important advantage over the besiegers on the 26th
October, and the attack had not been renewed. On
the 29th October the attempt to gain poseeasion
of the Wwia was considered to be &failure."