The Express.
London, England, 1865-07-19 00:00:00

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(Translation.)
The former Bridge over the River Thom
having false into decay,
The Court of Common Council
of the City of Loedon
ordered the conetrnotioa of a new Bridge
oo the same site ;
of which the Right 800. Warren Stoma Bele
Lord Mayor,
laid the First Store, ma the 20th day of Jell,
is the year of our Lord 1865.
We trust under better 'aspics' :
for the former Bridge was built
daring a period of general War
The ooestructioa of the prenent has en undertakes
ie • time of profound Prbacee,
is the 29th year of the reign
of Queen Victoria,
at a moment when the former Restrictions of Comma
have been removed,
and, by the adoption of Free Trade,
those sspareto interests which divided saber
have been happily bridged over.
May the ALILIUKTY,
of Hie infinite goodness,
grant to the oases a happy mnpletioa.
Joseph Cuba,

The following letter from President Johnson wan
read at the Gettysburg celebration on the Cis :
" Washingtoe, July 3,1865.
" Deer Sir,—l bad promised myself the pleasure of par-
ticipatieg in person in the proceedings of tomorrow. That
pleasure I am, by indisposition, Modestly compelled to
forego. I should have been pleated, standing ea that
twice imenecrated spot, to share with you your
joy at the rehire of peace ; to greet with you the stir-
siring heroes of the war, who corns beck with light
hevts, though heavy laden with honours, and with you
to drop grateful tears to the memory of those that will
never return. Unable to do so in pence, I can only send
you my greetings, and assure you of my full sympathy with
the purpose sod spirit of your exercises to-morrow. Of
all the anniversaries of the Declaration of Indorse-
deuce, none bee been more important and sigaifidat
than that upon which you peaceable. Four years of
struggle for our nation's life bee been ceased with I Tun WfuItLEDON Ravi aw.—hoeording to lOW.
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commerce is free ; our soldiers and nailore resume the the Duke of Cambridge oa Saturday next, the lied
peaceful parasite of civil ire; our flag floats fa every The Plan ot wtlersilaws sot yet goal eneWsi. 142.
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