The Express.
London, England, 1866-01-03 00:00:00

MEXICO.

The Moniteur publishes the following intelligence
from Mexico :
The Minister of Wu has received intelligence, via &lg•
land, from the expeditionary corps in Mexico to 28th Nov.
from the capital of that country, and to the 20th December
from Vera Cruz The whole of the information transmitted
by the marshal commandiug-in-chief is satisfactory. Com-
plete tranquillity prevails in the greater part of the pro-
vinces as well as in the capital ; the sanitary state of the
French troops is good on all points, and no important mili-
tary event has occurred since the last mail. The decree
of 3rd October continues to produce excelket results ;
several chiefs of bands have submitted, and among
them Figueroa, who was at the head of the malcon-
tents in the State of (*jam General Mendes is actively
punning the task he has undertaken of completely pacify-
ing Michoacan • he is continually traversing the country at
the head of light movesble columns, and allows the die-
persed beads no opportunity of reuniting. After the de-
parture of General Ayinar, Corona made him appearance in
the districts of Concordia and La Nona, in the state of
Sinaloa ; to repress his attempts, General Rivas hes been
ordered to embark at San Bias for Mazatlan with 800
Mexicans, and General Lozada has started by laud
for Rosario with his Indians. The successive attacks
of Esoobedo on Matamoras, already mentioned, have
been resisted by General Mejia in • manner which
I does him much honour; the National Gouda, oom-
I posed of Mexicans and foreigners, have shown great
courage and self-devotedness. The Empress Charlotte,
during her stay at Vera Cruz, ion before her
departure for Yucatan, was received in the most enthusiastic
manner by the populations, and went to the Palace of the
Ayuntainieuto in a car of honour, which the people them-
selves insisted on drawing. Her Majesty, who was deeply
affected by those marks of sympathy, embarked on the 20th
November on board the Mexican vessel Tahasco, which was
escorted by an Austrian corvette. The Empress was ex-
pected to return to Vera Cruz between the 15th and 20th
of December, _ _ .

A letter in the Moniteur, from the city of Mexico,
&Ws :

The Minister of Public Works has written to Marshal
Barrios an important letter to declare the conditions on
which coocessioos of land would be made to soldiers of the
French army whose term of service is about to expire, and
who have expressed a desire to remain on the territory of
the empire as colonists. We shall return to that
document. Surveys were going on with respect to
the railway to be constructed between Vera Cruz
and Puebla. The official journal has published
several decrees relative to merchant shipping, and one ',rants
premiums to vessel which shall perform distant foreign
voyages under the Mexican flag. The Book of Mexico in
definitely constituted. The treaty conceding it to the
Comptoir d'Esoorapte of Paris has received the Imperial
ratification by a letter addressed on the 10th November to
M. Dromel, the representative of the new company, and is
conceived in the following terms :—" The Emperor has
deigned to approve of the 0000ession made in his name to
M. Firmed by the commission of Mexican Finance in Paris,
under the dates of the 16th and 21st September, for the
establistment of a bank in Mexico. as well as the statutes
of the said bank, drawn up in Paris on the 29th of the
same month. I inform you of this in reply to the request
addressed to his Majesty, dated the 7th instant.—P. CESAR.
—Under Secretary of Finauce."—The general revival of
business has become more marked. Large transactions
have been done, especially in cotton, the rates for which
are still firmer. An American house has just established a
m►nufactory of composition candles in this city, being the
first of the kind.

Mr. Pell, the Leamington magistrate, about
whom there was such a disturbances week or two ago, hes
requested the Lord Chancellor to take his name off the com-
mission of the peace for the °sooty of Warwick.
NATIONAL TEMPERANCE LEACrE. Yesterday,
this association held en enormous tea-party at Exeter-h►ll.
There was afterwards • public meeting in the great room,
which was completely filled. The chair was taken by Mr.
Deputy. Assistant Judge Payne, who recited his 2,177 th
Ode, by way of introducing the speakers. Addressee were
delivered by the Rev. James Fleming, 8.D., from Bath,
Mr. George Cruikshank, the Rev. Newman Hall, 8.D.,
Mr. G. M. Murphy, and Mr. Thomas Whittaker. The
proceedings were of the usual character, and presented no
special features for a report. The various speakers insisted
with their accustomed emphasis on the blessings of total
abstinence and the dangers of moderation, and their argu-
ments appeared to be received with the warmest approval by
the crowded hall.

STRIKE OF THE CARPET-WEAVERS AT KIDDER-
HINSTER.—The proposals of the carpet manufacturers of
Kidderminster sod other pierce, with regard to the intro-
duction of apprentices into the trade, issued on Monday in a
strike, which, if it continues, may be most detrimental to
the interesta and reviving prosperity of the town. The
carpet manufacturers, a few weeks ago, met a deputation of
the weavers, and announced to them certain alterations
which they proposed making in the trade arrangements with
their wotkpeopie. One pant of their proposal had reference
to an advance of wages, and this was too palpable a benefit to
need any argument for inducing its acceptance. The man.
ten, however, desired the weavers to admit of the intro-
duction of apprentices into the trade; and this question of
apprentices upset the perpendicular which in other respecte
obtained between masters and men. The present system,
as we have Rreiriou.ly explained, virtually excludes youths
of from seventeen to eighteen from the trade. They
cannot take a loom at that age, and not, indeed, till they
are twenty-one, and if they work in the mills after the
are seventeen or eighteen they must be content with
the wages of " creel" boys, whioh is only a few shillings
per week. Under these circumstances a great number
of them leave Kidderminster, and engage in other
trades. The masters consider that the requirements of
the labour market now demand an alteration in this
system, and banes their desire to introduce apprentices
into their mills. The men discussed the subject on Friday
week, and they then reseed a resolution in condemnation
of the apprenticeship scheme of the manufacturers, and
expressed it as their opinion that labour should be supplied
sa heretofore by the introduction of adult hand.. The
masters fixed the first day of the new year for the proposed
changes coming into effect, and the consequence was that
• strike broke out yesterday among the men. Some of the
manufacturers, it is stated, do not ears to press the ap-
prenticeship scheme with their workpeople, but whether
this be so or not, it is to be hoped that the present later•
ruptio• of work will only be temporary, and that with the
experience Kidderminster has had in pest time of the dire
effects of strikes, the one that has now occurred may only
be a quickly pining eked.— Birmingham Doily Poet.