The Express.
London, England, 1867-12-07 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 7, 1867.

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

THE ITALIAN PARLIAMENT.
(BY 811BRARINII TELEGRAPH COMPAST.)
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FLORENCE. Die. 6.
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Signor Lanza has been elected President of the
Chamber of Deputies by a majority of 40. His
election is regarded as a government victory.

(lIIVIZIeB TILXGRAXS.)
PRUSSIA.
BERLIN, Dsc. 6, Evwza.
In to-day's sitting of the Chamber of Deputies
the President read a communication from the
ministry announcingthat Count Lippe, the Minister
of Justice, had quitted the cabinet, and that Herr
Leonhard had been appointed his successor.

The Minister of Finance introduced the bill re-
lating to the arrangements concluded between the
Prussian wovernment and the deposed Princes.

AUSTRIA.
VIENNA, Dfc. 6.
Prcue of to-day, says that the conference
held under all circumstances, wlatizer all.
17, oc but a few of the powers attend, It.

iowever, only constitute s species of free con-

ion. The conferenoe will meet at Paris, and
the diplomatists who will take part therein will be
the present ambassadors of the different• States in
Paris, who will receive plenipotentiary powers to
represent their respective governments at the con-
ference.

The Tageblatt publishes the same news, with the
addition that previous to the conference assembling
the North German Confederation will have to be
recognised by Austria, France, England, and
Russia.

Madame Miramon, widow of the late Mexican
general, has arrived here.

AMERICA.

The Royal Mail steamship Scotia, from New York on
the 27th ultimo, arrived at Queenstown ►t 4.30 p.m. yes-
terday (Friday, Dec. 6), with 118 cabin passengers and
168,000 francs in specie. She landed 112 sacks of mails
end 10 passengers, and proceeded at 4.45 p.m. for Liver-
pooL All welL

(Per the Scotia, via Queenstown.)
NEW YORK, Nov. 27.
The House of Representatives has passed a reso-
lution calling upon General Grant to furnish the cor-
respondence with the President relative to the removal o 2
Mr. Stanton. A resolution to inquire into the expediency
of an immediate reduction of the army has passed both
houses,

Resolutions and bills have been introduced into the
house, and referred to the appropriate committers, on the
folloviine subjects :—Recommending a general reduction o:
internal taxation, the repeal of the cotton tax, the pre-
vention of any further contraction of the currency or con-
version of the currency into bonds be ring interest in
gold, providing for the suspension of the Preside -it from
office during his impeachment and trial, and declaring the
faith of the government pledged to pay the principal of
the bonds in gold.
General Butler has offered and spoken in favour of a
resolution to pay in currency all national debts not form-
ally specified as being due in gold. No action has been
taken on this resolution.

The majority—namely, five members--of the Judiciary
Committee have presented their report in favour of a e
impeachment of Mr. Johnson for high crimes anti misde-
meanours in having neglected to convene Congress when
the rebellion collapsed, in having usurped the powers of
Congress by attempting himself to region the rebellious
States to the Union, in having established illegal pro-
visional governments in the South and diverted the public
funds for their support, in having levied illegal taxation
in the South, in having by proclamations and veto*: ob-
structed reconstruction and Nought to disparage Congress
before the people, in having corruptly interfered with
eleotionst in having permitted rebels to hold nsional
offices, m having corruptly abused the appointing, re-
moving, and pardoning powers of the President, and in
having authorised the national forces to disperse mein.
blages of loyal citizens in Louisiana.
Two members of the committee have presented a
minority report, censuring the political course of President
Johnson, but declaring that his offence* do not juatif7 an
impeachment, which, moreover, the evidence obtained
could not sustain.

The two remaining members of the committee presented
another minority report defending the course of Presider:
Johnson, and declaring that he had offended Congress by
refusing to endorse its partisan and unconstitutional
course. The house has postponed the consideration of the
subject until the 4th of Dee. The testimony taken by the
Impeachment Investigation Committee has been pub-
lished. General Grant testified that he had endorsed and
recommended numerous pardons of Confederate generals
by Mr. Johnson, and that he regarded Mr. Johnson's re.
construc.ioa measures, after the collapse of the rebellion,
as subetantially a continuation of the policy of President
Lincoln. Chief Justice Chase and W. Seward testified
that Mr. Johnson had always manifested anxiety to have
Mr. Davis tried speedily.
Mr. Davis appeared at Richmond for trial on Monday
last. At the suggestion of the counsel for the prosecution,
and with the concurrence of the counsel for the defence,
Judge Underwood postponed the trial until the 22nd of
next March, in order to enable Mr. Chase o preside. The
prisoner was granted leave of absence.
The result of the late election in Mississippi is at present
doubtfuL It is reported that the convention in South
Carolina has been defeated, the requisite majority of re-
gistered voters not having voted.
Mr. Horatio Seymour has announced that he will not
accept the presidential nomination.
It is reported that regular government oommistioners,
accompanied by national troops, have gone to St. Thomas
to take formal possession of the islands purchased from
Denmark.

According to intelligenoe from Havannah, the official
return, show that 1,014 lives were lost during the hurri-
cane at St. Thome.

According to intelligence from Hayti, there was a
general insurrection against Salnave.
The New York journals publish intelligenoe from Canada,
stating that the Canadian parliament is in favour of the
renewal of the reciprocity treaty of the United States.
The New York Times, alluding editorially to the Fenian
executions at Manchester, mays : " Their blood has
already told upon thousands on both sides of the Atlantic.
We believe they have not had a fair trial—a conviction
which widely prevails amongst people here who don't sanc-
tion Fenimiism, or condemn it. A large portion of the
liberal party in Great Britain demanded a mitigation of
their punishment. The feeling expressed in the matter
will be shared by the American people. Looking at the
black records of Ireland's wrongs for centuries, we must
agree with the English Reform League in avowing sym-
pathy with and commiseration for those who have been
goaded into violence by the aosnmulated crimes of the
English government."