The Express.
London, England, 1865-12-14 00:00:00

SPAIN.

The Covrespondencia of to-day denies the report'
current here that the Spanish government bad
contracted a loan through Namara. Pereire, and
adds that no loan is required. Marshal Serrano
has been appointed president of the Senate.

TURKEY.
(Via Marseilles.)
CONSTANTINOPLII, Dia. 6.

The arrangements for the new house tax are now
complete. The maximum is to be 7 per cent, on
the rental, and the minimum 2 per cent. The
measure will be applied throughout the empire.
The proceeds in the capital alone are estimated at
10 millions piastres yearly.
The Circassian Emigration Commission has been
dissolved.
It is, therefore, expected that the slave trade
will now revive.
The passage of the Bosphorus andDantanelles by
night is about to be opened to steamers of all flags
and classes.

ARRIVAL op THI KINO AND QEEEN OP PORTU-
GAL.— Yesterday evening their Majesties the King and
Queen of Portugal left Folkestone, on their arrival from
lioulogne, by special train, at See minutes to seven, en route
for London. Their Majesties Don Lois I. and Donna Maria
Pia, attended by their suite, and accompanied by Chevalier
Dos Santos, the Portuguese charge d'affaires, travelled in a
state saloon, the train being in charge of Mr. J. P. Knight
and Mr. Walker of the South Eastern Railway. At
Charing-cross unusual preparations had been made to
receive the royal travellers. and among those who
bad assembled on the platform to greet the King
and Queen on their arrival were the Marquis
d'Axeglio (the Italian Minister), Captain Rodrigues, Lieut.
Carvalho, and Mr. Remus, of the Portuguese 13-gun cor-
vette Duo de Palosella, now io the Victoria Docks, and
other. Mr. Dora], the general manager, and Mr. Cock'
burn, of the South Eastern line, were in attendanoe
of
oo
the part of the company. Mr. Norton, superintendent
the Royal Mews, Buckingham Palace. and Mr. Superintao.
dent Walker, of the A division, had charge of the arrange-
manta. A large number of spectators assembled at the
station to witness the arrival of their Majesties, who reached
the Chariog-crose terminus at 9.5. Their Majesties, on
leaving the train, entered one of the Queen's carriages,
and drove to Claridge's Hotel, where they were to peas the
night, and proceed to Windsor to-day, to visit Queen Vie.
feria. The Prince of Wales arrives in town to-day, and
will accompany the King of Portugal to Brussels, in order
to attend the funeral of the King of the Belgians on
Saturday.
FREEDMENS AID SOCIETY IN MANCHISTER.
A meeting of the National Freedmen
'ss Aid Society took
place in Manchester yesterday. Thia ee the third quar-
terly meeting, the first having been held at Birmingham,
and the second at Bristol. There was a
held l
breakfast followed
by a public meeting in the morning, whit* were we
l
attended, and another public meeting was to be as
evening. Reference was made by nearly all the speakers,
morningeia by Mr. James Bright, the chairman at the
morn niceties, to recent proceedings in Jamaica. It was
stated by one of the speakers that Mr. Gladstone, as a
member for South Lancashire, had been asked to attenee
d,
and the interview with the right hon. gentlem in a
an w
described as highly satisfactory. Mr. Hughes.
letter to a friend, said—" Mr. Gladsteee expressed a deep
interest in the cause of the freedmen, and in the endeavours
that were making to aid them." 62,0004 it was announced
had been sent over to Arteriell eltegether, and the society
hod only 1001. in hand. The aim of the directors is to send
5001. by the next mail if possible.
TAR WRIT OP HABEAS CORPUS IN AMERICA.--.
The following is the proclamation by President Johnson,
storing the privilege' of the habeas corpus writ in the
re
loyal States :—" Whereas by the pmclamation of the Pre.
Mont of the (lotted States of the 15th day of December,
1863, the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus in certain
cases therein set tooth was suspended throughout the Mailed
States ; and whereas the reasons for that suspension may
be regarded as having ceased in some of the States and ter-
ritories; now, therefore, be it known that I, Andrew
Johnson, President of the United States, do hereby proclaim
and declare that the suspension aforesaid and all other
proclamations and orders suspending the privileges
of the writ of habeas corpus in the States and territories of
the United States, are revoked and annulled, exoeptiog as
to the States of Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee. North
Carolina, South (Carolina. Georgia, Florida, Alabama,
Mississippi, Leninism% Arkansan, and Texas, the district of
Columbia, the territories of New Mexico, and Arithea.—
Ia withers whereof I have hereunto set my hand and
caused the seal of the United States to be afslet—Done at
the city of Washington this Ist day of December, in the year
of our Lord, 1865, and of the independence of the United
Stake of America the 90tb.—AeDaew JORNBOII.—By the
President, WILLIAM H. fiswean, Seereisay of State."
An Industrial Exbibition was opened at Glasgow
on Tuesday, by the Duke of Argyll, who at the inaugural
meriting delivered an interesting address oa the rise, pro-
grew, oonditicn, dente, and prospects of the working classes.