The Express.
London, England, 1866-06-08 00:00:00

WEST COAST OF AFRICA.

LIVERPOOL. Juxs 8.

The African Company's Royal Mail steamer
Lagos, with the above mail, arrived in the Mersey
this morning.
Her dates are: Benin, April 24; Cameroons, April
30 ; Old Calabar, May 2 ; Fernando Po, May 3 ;
Brass, Nun, and Bonny, May 6 ; Lagos, 8 ; Accra,
10th ; Cape Coast Castle, 12th ; Cape Palmas,l4th ;
Sierra Leone, 20th ; Bathurst, 24th ; Teneriffe,
29th ; Madeira, June 1.
The Lagos brings 1,663 oz. gold dust, and 4,0001.
in specie.
No news of any interest from the West Coast.
The health of Rivers was generally good.

AMERICA.
ARRIVAL OF THE JAVA.
(ViA Crookhaven.)
NEW YORK, MAY 90, Move..crso.

Money easy. Gold, 1381. Exchange on Lon-
don, 152 ; on Paris, 3.69. Stocks quiet. New
York Centrals, 97. Illinois, 119. Erie, 59k.
5-20 Bonds, 102 k. Cotton dull. Middling
Upland, 40c. Receipts, two days, 4,000 bales.
Sales in two days, 3,000; export in two days, 1,000
bales. Flour dull. Wheat heavy. Corn quiet.
Provisions quiet. Coffee heavy. Sugar steady.
Molasses quiet. Petroleum steady ; crude, 27i ;
relined, 42i.
The Java takes out 3,500,090 dole. in specie.

NEW ORLEANS, MAY 28,

Cotton quiet : low middling, 36c. to 37c. ; mid-
dling, 40c. Receipts, four days, 2,000 ; export,
•wo days, 9,000. Sales, two days, 3,000. Stock,
147,000 bales.

Last night the Marchioness of Waterford hrd her
first assembly this season at the family mansion in Charles-
street, St. James's. There were about 400 persons of rank
present.

Sir Thomas and Lady Cochrane entertained at
dinner last evening, at their residence in Belgrave- square,
his Excellency the Turkish ambassador and Madame
Musurus, his Excellency the United States Minister and
Mrs. Adams, the Earl of Lauderdale and Lady Mary Mait-
land, Lord and Lady George Quin, Lord and Lady Tredeger,
Lord Claud Hamilton, Lord and Lady Naas, Baron Rosen-
ersatz, Sir Frederick and Lady Grey, Mr. and Lady Mary
Egerton, Colonel and Mrs. Farquharson, and Mr. and Miss
Cochrane.

The Grand Duchess (Dowager) of Mecklenburg-
titrelitz sad the Grand Duchess Caroline, attended by
Halle. de Hochstetter and M. de Steuber, have arrived at
the Palace Hotel, Buckingham-gate.

Lord Brougham arrived at his house in Grafton-
street on Wednesday evening from Cannes. The noble
and learned lord is in excellent health.

A letter from Berlin, dated the sth says :—" Yes-
terday morning, as the King was reviewing a regiment in
front of his palace a young man suddenly rushed from the
crowd of gazers, embraced his knees, and, in the name of
the Holy Virgin, conjured him to preserve peace. He
was taken into custody, and the military ceremony went
on as usual."

The Times says that the painful feeling occa-
sioned by the stoppage of the Agra and Masterman's Bank
has exceeded that of any similar event within recollection,
owing especially to the number of Indian officers and their
families who during years of service abroad have been ac-
customed to invest all their savings in its shares. The in-
stances of ruin already recounted are such as in number
and severity have perhaps never been equalled in any
single calamity. The conviction is general that the whole
of the misery now witnessed is to be attributed to those
speculators who have persistently conspired to break it
down, and who deserve to be classed among the vilest
criminals.

The Dorset County Chronicle states as highly pro-
bable that before long a small fort will be constructed at
Lyme Regis, for the defence of that part of the coast.

-A
double line of railway has now been opened
between Yeovil junction and Exeter.

Nearly, 1,8001. has already been subscribed
towards the fund for the relief of the sufferers by the late
fire at Ottery St. Mary, in Devonshire.

An inspector of the Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals has been specially sent into Dorset-
shire, on account of the barbarous treatment of horses in
that county. _ _ _

THE HON. G. DENMAN, M.P.—On Wednesday
evening this gentleman met his constituents at Tiverton.
Mr. J. H. Amory was in the chair, Mr. Denman's speech
was occupied chiefly in considering the question of reform.
He would himself have preferred a R. household suffrage,
but believing that the government bill war honestly in-
tended, and likely to settle the question for a time, he had
resolved to give it all the rapport possible. The reduction
of the franchise was the pith and marrow of reform, and
the government were wise in making that the chief part of
their measure. A vote of confidence in the hon. gentle-
man was carried. _

WOI3IEIIOI7Bi INIFIRMARIZB. —WO understand
that the official inspection of the workhouse infirmaries
of London, undertaken by Mr. Farnall and Dr. Smith by
desire of the President of the Poor.law Board, with a
view to furnish official data for measures destined to
improve the condition of the sick poor in these infirmaries,
has now been brought to completion. The reports will
probably be very shortly ready, and seeing the advanced
period of the session, the importance of the subject, and
the interest which Mr. Villiers is known to attach to it,
we may hope that the results will soon be a= in the
business paper of the House of Commons.—