The Express.
London, England, 1867-01-07 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Gold, 1341. Sterling exchange on London, 109 i.
Illinois, 122; Erie, 67i ; 5-20 United States Bonds,
107 i. Cotton, middling upland, 35i.

(Ritrriz's TELealum.)

The Royal Mail steamship Cuba arrived at
Queenstown at 8.45 a.m. yesterday, with 49 pas-
sengers and 389,656 doh,. in specie. She landed
throe passengers, and all the mails, consisting of
114 sacks, and proceeded for Liverpool at 9 a.m.
All well. The Cuba experienced heavy easterly

(Per the Cuba, via Queenstown.)
NEW YORK, DEC. 26.

Tranquillity being restored in Missouri, General
Grant has countermanded the order for stationing
national troops at Lexington and other points.
Increasing demoralisation is reported among the
negroes of Virginia and Carolina.
The Freedmen's lnrean is working satisfactorily
in Alabama.

The Nev' York Herald says the President has
decided firmly to adhere to his reconstruction
policy.
The President has revoked the Exequatur of the
consuls from the countries recently annexed by
Prussia.
It is understood that General Sherman and Mr.
Campbell returned on account of the inaccessibility
and unpopularity of the Juarez government. A
change is expected in the Mexican policy of the
Federal government.
It is reported that General Sheridan's manage-
ment of affairs in the department of the Gulf
is to be made the subject Of Congressional investi-
gation.

M. Berthemy, the new French minister, was
presented to the President yesterday. Hopes were
expressed for the continuance of friendly relations
between the two countries.

Another Sweetsburg Fenian has been sentenced
to death ; several others have been released.

The Portuguese Minister at Washington is dead.

MEXICO.
NEW YORK, Dec. M.
Ortega is reported to be advancing against
Juarez.

Intelligence received from Vera Cruz, rid New
Orleans, dated the 20th inst., stato that the French
have seized the custom-house at Vera Cruz, with a
quarter of a million of dollars of imperial treasure.
It is reported that 1,000 French troops have left
for France. Tho French steamer Anama arrived
at Vera Cruz on the 14th, bringing 200 French
troops and a large quantity of ammunition.

*Ube an ititlitarp.

POAtTSMOUTII, JAN. 5.

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SHIPS ORDERED 11011 E.—Fifteen ships are under
orders to return to the home porta, armed with 194 guns,
and of 3,340 horse-power ; and these, on their arrival,
will dismantle and pep off, having completed the terms of
their commission. They are as follows :—The liaroma, 21
guns, 400 horse-power, Captain H. Boys, from China ;
Coquette. 4, 200 hone-power, Commander A. G. R. lice,
from China ; Cossack, 20, 250 horse-power, from the
Mediterranean • Curaeos, 23, 350 horse-power, Commodore
Sir W. S. Wiseman, Bart, from the Australian station ;
Eclipse, 4, 200 horse-power, Commander E. It. Free-
mantle, front the Australian station; Osprey, 4, 200
hone-power. Commander W. Menzies, from China ;
Pantaloon, 11, no horse-power, Commander G. L.
Sullivan, from the East Indies ; Pandora, 5, 80 horse-
power, Commander E. Stubbs, from the West Coast of
Africa ; Rapid, 11, 150 horse-power, Commander W.
B. Stubbs, from the Cape of Good Hope ; Royalist,
11, 150 horse-power, Commander H. K G. Earle,
from North America and the West Indies; Scylla, 21,
400 horse-power, Captain It. W. Coortenay, from China ;
Shearwater, 4, 150 horse-power, Commander T. K Smith,
from the Pacific ; Snipe, 5, so horse-power, Commander
H. A. Trollope, from the West Coast of Africa • Speed-
well, 5 80 horse-power, Commander J. E. Erskine, from
the West Coast of Africa; Sutlej, 35, 500 horse-power,
Captain T. P. Coale, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral the
Hon. J. Denman, from the Pacific. The Gibraltar, 81 guns,
800 horse-power, Las arrived at Devonport and is dis-
mantling preparatory to paying off. During the past year
31 ships have been paid out of commission, and they were
armed with 548 guns, and hail steam power equivalent to
8,062 hones. In the same period 30 ships have been commis-
sioned, propelled by steam power equivalent to 11950
hones, that, of course, being the nominal power. The
difference is explained by the fitting out of several of the
Iron-clad ships of larger tonnage and small but heavy arma-
ments in lien of the wooden vessels carrying • larger num-
ber of lighter guns.

ADMIRALTY APPOINTMENTS. —The following ap-
pointments were made on Saturday: Lieutenant—George
J. Anstruther to the Achilles. Master—Walter H.
Worsforld to the Charybdis. Paymasters—John B.
Swann to the Indus (additional), for the Euphrates ;
Henry Sewell to the Asia (additional), for the Juana ;
Edward R. Chamberlain to the Fisgard (additional), for
the Serapis ; Robert F. E. Morrison to the Charybdis.
Aeaistant-Paymaster—Richard Harbord to the Charybdis.
Clerk—Edward A. Smith to the Charybdis. Assistant-
Clerk—Macleod G. C. Mallard to the Charybdis. Chief-
Engineer—John G. Oekshott to the Cumberland, for ser-
vice in the Severn. Navel cadet (nominated)—Claude
Hunter. Engineers—George Hoe, John Watson, Alfred
Mason, Thomas Summers, Richard Hackett, and Thomas
Spence to the Bristol. First-class Assistant-Engineers—
Owen Douglas, Edwin I. Carte, John Wendover, and
Thomas Barnes to the Bristol ; John R. Harvey to the
Fisganl, for service in the Vivid. Second-class Assistant-
Engineers—Thomas A. Weeks and Thomas Siniley to the

Tit CAMP AT COLCHESTER.—Captain Gregory,
Ili3th Regiment, is performing the duties of Brigade-Major
at Colchester during the temporary absence of Captain
Leggett. An order has been received from the Horse
Guards at Colchester directing that a draft of the depot. of
the 84th Regiment, consisting of Capt.iin Wilson, Ensign
Crockett, 1 sergeant, and :19 rank and file should be held
in readiness to join the service cornpanie4 of the regiment
at Malta on receipt of • route from the Quartermaster-
General. His Royal Highness the Field Marshal Com-
manding-in-Chief has appointed Captain Black, of the 2nd
battalion 6th Regiment, to be Major of Brigade in Nova
Scotia. His Royal Highness has also approved of the fol-
lowing arrangements:—Lieutenant Gore and Ensign Sir
E A. Waller, Bart., to join the dep6t of the Roth Regiment,
and Lieutenant Buller to join the 114th depot.

On Saturday evening the St. George's Battalion
of Rifle Volunteers had its prize distribution in West-
minster-hall. The regiment mustered at Burlington-house,
and marched, under the command of Colonel the Hon.
C. H. Lindsay, M.P., to the hall.
ViscouNe MoNor. —A communication has been
forwarded by the Mayor of Portsmouth to his Excellency
Viscount Monck, who formerly represented that borough
in parliament, inviting him to a banquet to be given by
the mayor in recognition of his excellency's services as
Governor-General of Canada in suppressing the Fenian raid,
and to congratulate him on his elevation to the peerage.
His lordship, in reply, says that it will be • great gratifi-
cation to find himself once more amongst his old friends
and constituents at Portsmouth, but is unable at present to
name • convenient day. The invitations will probably ex-
tend to about :100 persons, chiefly composed of the naval,
military, and municipal authorities of the port and gar-
rison.

CRYSTAL PALACR.--IL is gratifying to know that
the Palace has not suffered either from the snow of Wed-
nesday, the frost of Friday, or the tremendous gale of
Saturday night. The screen shutting out the burnt por-
tion has been effectively strengthened under Mr. Edwin
Clark's directions, and has resisted the wind in the most
satisfactory manner. Inside the Palace all is going on as
usual, and there is nothing to show that any extraordinary
event has happened.
The harp has been introduced in association with
the organ ln,the service at St. Andrew's Church,
street.

CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN MR. J.
BRIGHT, M.P., AND MR. R. GARTH, M.P.

The following correspondence has taken place
between Mr. Bright, M.P., and Mr. Richard
Garth, the newly-elected member for Guildford :

Rochdale. Dec. 24,1866. I
Sir,—Through the courtesy of an elector of Guildford
I have received a handbill printed by Mr. Stent, printer,
stationer, Be., Guildford, purporting to contain a report
of a speech delivered by you to an " enthusiastic meeting
of Mr. Garth's supporters, held at the White Hart Hotel,
Friday evening, Dec. 14, 1866." I wish to call your atten-
tion to some passages in this speech. I pass by much which
is open to criticism, and confine myself to certain exact
statements to which you appear to have committed your-
self. 1. You ask, "`What has Mr. Bright done for his own
people ? Has he ever stood for his own place? Dare he
ever stand for it? Not be ! He has been booted away
from his own '
iaeshis own people distrust him."
2. You ask, " t did be do in the cotton famine?
When thousands of men were out of employments when
people down here, who had no direct interest in the
matter, subscribed so liberaily. Why, he did not subscribe
a halfpenny." 3. You my, I will tell you what he did.
He wanted to give them a loan which was to be repaid in
so many years, so that during those years he would have
these people as his serfs at his beck and call, to do
what he pleased with, and to prevent their rising
when he chose to pat wages at whatever rate he liked."
You state that I have not answered charges of a similar
kind made against me, and you therefore assume that they
are true. I cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander
of every poor tory partisan who assails me, and I should not
have noticed you but for the fact that you are a member
of the HOW* of Gammons. I see loins slaw yen will not
venture to sag on the floor of parliament, where I could
meet you,what you have had the courage to say at the
White Hart in Guildford, and therefore I address this let-
ter to you, rather than wait till the opening of parliament.
With regard to the paragraph which I have marked No. 1,
I beg to tell you that the only part of it which la not
false is that which AMMO NS or asserts that I have not
stood as • candidate for the borough of Rochdale. I have
not been a candidate for this borough, though on several
occasions I have been asked to stand by the most
eminent men of the liberal party, which has a large
majority in the borough. I believe there is not a respect-
able man in Rochdale, of your own party, who will not
admit that, U I had wished it, and had consented to
leave the great constituency which has for nine years past
honoured me with its confidence, I might, at this moment,
have been the parliamentary representative of this
borough. The testa the paragraph marked No.l is simply a
falsehood in every part of it. Of the assertion in para-
graph No. 2 I may say the same. It is a falsehood in every
part of it. I ant not in the habit of boasting of what I
give, and I shaft not now enter into particulars that I may
confute you. I may say that,af ter we hadsubscribedaslargely
as anyotherfirmixi the town, myonlycomplaint against the
relief committee in this district was that it did not make
farther calls un the millowners here before it applied
for assistance from the general fund at the disposal of the
committee in Manchester. I may say further that, aoconl-
ing to my means, I believe I did not fall short of what was
done by any other contributor to the fund, whether in or
out of this county. Possibly you are not aware of the
fact that the largest sum given by any contributor to the
fund is but a trifle when compared with the losses suffered
by nearly all the firms in the cotton trade during the disas-
trous years of the American war. In paragraph No. 3
you make a strange assertion both as to fact and motive.
I am obliged to tell you that the whole paragraph is false
from beginning to end. You must be singularly ignorant
of the condition and temper of the working men of this
district to imagine that any employer can have them
"as his serfs at his beck and call, to do what
he pleases Cgs, and to prevent their rising when
he chooses to put wages at whatever rate he likes."
I have now called your attention to some statements of
your speech. I Nag that these statements are false—wholly
and absolutely false. If you knew them to be false when
you made them, need not write the word which would
properly describe( you. If you made them, not know-
ing whether they' were true or false, I can only pity
your disregard of all honourable feeling and cau-
tion when dealing with the character of your opponents.
I do not expect ypu will deny the accuracy of the report
of your speech, for I find that you repeated the substance
of the slanders In your speech at the nomination for
Guildford. I do' not expect that you will attempt to
prove the charges you have made, for that I know to be
impossible. Whether you will retract what you have
said, and express Borrow for having said it, will depend
on whether, being • Queen's counsel and a member of
parliament, you possess the qualities which are never
found wanting in the character of • gentleman.—l am,
respectfully, JOHN Demur.
R. Garth, Esq., M.P., 3, Paper.buildings, Temple.

Temple, Jan. 3,1867.
Sir,—l have already explained to you my reasons for not
replying earlier to your letter of the 24th of last month.
I was anxious, in justice to you, as well as to myself, to put
you in possession, as far as I could, of the soul ces of infor-
mation 'won which the statements I made at Guildford,
and of which you complain, were founded. I have no
personal knowledge either of yourself or of Rochdale, and
my impression, have been derived partly from your own
speeches and partly from correspondence and other state-
ments which have appeared from time to time in the
public prints. I have not yet been able to lay my hand
upon souse of these, but I would call your attention to two
speeches, which I had recently read, and which, no doubt,
were fresh in my memory at the time when I addressed
my friends at Guildford. The first of these is a speech of
Mr. Pope Hennessy, addressed to the electors of the
county of Warlord, and reported in the rolla of the 6th
of November last, from which the following is an extract:—
" He is a great manufacturer, and he employs what he calls
• good many hands ; . . he employs a large number
lof human beings—men, women, and children. Now, no
man stands up so stoutly for his own strong clam as
against the weak instruments they employ as Mr. Bright ;
he was a leader in the defence of the cruel old system of
slavery, of disease, of ignorance, of shortened, unhappy
lives which the Factory Acta have successfully attacked.
' Hardly two years have passed since, at • meeting
of the magnates of Manchester, he boasted of his
former opposition to the noisily Acts, and said be should
be prepared to do the same again. He kept his word; for
when the Lace Factories Bill was before the house, and the
Bleach Works fill, and a bill to give some protection to
the poor girls who work in the Bradford warehouses, he
was not only present, but violent in his opposition to those
salutary and benevolent acts. He fought, and the other
radical manufacturers with him, for what he
deemed to be a sort of property of his—the right
of doing what be liked with his own workpeople.
He carried his class feelings even below the surface of the
earth, and when the Idiom Regulation Bill was before
parliament he and his class would not give the smallest I
help to the miner to get better ventilation or greater safety
from accidents, simply became better ventilation and
greater safety means additional expense to the mine owner.
. . . In 1861 a deputation from the miners came to ,
London, and presented me with an address of thanks for
some little services I tiled to render them, and from those
men I heard a unanimous condemnation of Mr. Bright."
The other speech to which I allude (and of which printed
copies have, I believe, been widely circulated) was deli- ;
vered by Mr. Ferrand to the Working Men's Conservative
Association at Bradford, on the 20th of November last. la
this speech Mr. Ferran,' says :—" I have watched Mr.
Bright for years, and although, as I have told you, '
he is possessed of flier-yellow powers of eloquence,
a greater political coward never entered the House
of Commons. . . . . I never heard him make a

speech which inculcated peace and goodwill amongst men;
but, on the contrary, he has always tried to set the dif-
ferent classes of the community against each other, and
thereby to encourage bloodshed. For twenty-five year, I
have worked with you working men of Bradford in obtain-
ing many great and conciliating measures from parliament,
while he ha. opposed them aIL During that time, I never
heard him speak a word in favour of working men in the
House of Commons. You have been reminded of what
his conduct was in Lancashire during the cotton famine.
He took no part, either in puree or person, to relieve the
distress in his native county ,• but when I met, at Man-
chester, a great assembly of delegates from the cotton dis-
tricts of Cheshire, Lancashire, Staffordshire, and York-
shire, they unanimously declared that England had no
more bitter enemy than Mr. Bright, and that he
was detested by all the working men in Lancashire."
I can hardly suppose that your attention as a public man
has not been directed to these passages ; and I am not
aware that they have ever been contradicted. I bad seen
other public statements, and I had heard reports, evincing
your unpopularity amongst the working classes at Roch-
dale, and in Lancashire generally ; and I certainly did
believe that you were unpopular there. You admit that
you never stood for Rochdale, although you have been
invited to do so by your friends ; and it was therefore
surely not unreasonable that I should form an opinion,
which I believe I share in COIIIIIIOII with many others,
that if you had stood for Itozhilale you would not have
been successfuL My views in this respect may have
been erroneous ; but I consider that I bed a perfect
right to entertain those views, and to express them.
I also most firmly believed, from statements and reports
which I had seen and heard, that you had been hooted
from your own premises, and were distrusted by your
workpeople , but as you tell me that what I said in
this respect was wholly without foundation, I, of
course take it for granted that I was misin-
formed, and I beg, not only to retract my statement,
but to express my sincere regret for having made it.
With regard to the other psrsgrapba of which you com-
plain, I must observe that the report of my speech is in
some respects inaccurate. I disclaim having aver said, or
intended to say, that " you had nut subscribed a half-
penny" in aid of the distress which prevailed during the