The Express.
London, England, 1867-04-06 00:00:00

SPAIN.

MADRID, APRIL 6.

A motion has been laid on the table of the Senate
declaring that that body view with regret the
measures which were taken by the government
against Marshal Serrano, its late President.

On the 22nd ult. Mr. Peabody gave a magni-
ficent banquet to General and Mrs. Grant and the trustees
of the Southern FAucationul Fund, at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel, New York. After Mr. Peabody had replied to the
toast in which hie own health had been drunk, he ex-
pressed the hope that her Majesty Queen Victoria would
long live to rule over the country in which, under Provi-
dence, be and others had prospered. He gave as a con-
cluding toast, "The country in which I have long lived
and prospered, and its honoured and beloved Queen."
Our Malta correspondent, writing on the 29th
March, says :—" It is rtated on good authority that his Excel-
lency the Right Hon. Sir Henry Storks will take his depar-
turn from Malta for England in the middle of next month,
having resigned the governorship of these islands.
Lieutenant-General Sir Patrick Grant, is men-
tioned as the probable successor of Sir Henry Storks."
General Sherman, in his report on New Mexico,
says that the United States have held that territory for 20
years at a cost of 100,000,000 dollars. The population is
100,000. It requires • military force of 2,500 men to go-
vern it, and the cost of every soldier is 1,000 dollars a year.
The Indians, consisting of nearly 9,000 souls, are collected
together on a reservation 40 miles square, and they are
maintained by the government at • oast of above 60,000
dollars a month. It has been found cheaper to feed than
to light them. _ _

iChicago paper says :—" Massacres and scalp-
ing by the Indians have become so common now that an
army officer in the Indian country writes as follows to a
friend:—' I would send you a lock of my hair, but I fear
it would a fraud upon the savages of this vicinity. There
is a fair prospect that one of the noble red men will be my
barber before spring."
Tits LATE MR. CORDON.—Mrs. Gordon writes
to the Tinto: :—" Sir,—Your report of the recent pro-
ceedings at Market Drayton given special prominence to
certain statement. touching the character of my late hue-
band, G. W. Gordon. I did not wish to become his vin-
dicator, feeling assured that time would do him justice,
but lam urged by many friends, whose entreaties I can
no longer resist, to protest against those assertions as
utterly false and calumnious. As the widow of a man
who was wrongfully put to death, I ask at your hands the
insertion of this protest from me, and I would request
the additional favour of your publishing the subjoined tes-
timonial to his character, signed by persons whose repu-
tation for integrity has never been questioned. Iu a
despatch front Mr. Eyre to Mr. Cardwell, dated King's-
house, January, 1666, to be found in the Blue Book on
the Jamaica disturbances, entitled Papers laid before
the Royal Commission of Inquiry by Governor Eyre,' the
following paragraph appear* at page 196, paragraph 4
It is also well known out here that Mr. Gordon was
universally regarded a. a bad man in every sense of the
word. Reported to be grossly immoral and an adulterer,
a liar, a swindler, dishonest, cruel, vindictive, and a hypo-
crite—such are the terms applied to the late G. W. Gor-
don, and I believe abundant proof might be adduced of all
these traits.' The undersigned, having resided in the
island many years, and having had very considerable op-
portunities of knowing and forming an estimate of the
late Mr. Gordon's character in his various relations, do
hereby protest against the foregoing allegations as made by
Mr. Eyre, and declare them to be utterly without foun-
dation. Signed—James Phillipps, lien., Baptist missionary,
Jamaica ; William Andrews, attorney-at-law, Kingston,
Jamaica; Robert Osborn; James Bell; Alexander Fuldes.
F.R.C.S., Edinburgh ; Andrew Lyon, Common Council-
man of the city and parish of Kingston ; Thomas Geddes,
missionary, Savana-la-Mar ; James Scott, M.R.C.S., Eng-
land; Abraham Pinto, merchant ; 31. Ramos, merchant ;
Robert Gordon, priest of the church of England, head
master of Wolmer's Grammar School, Kingston.' One of
my greatest consolations in my present state of bereave-
ment is my conviction of my husband's innocence, and of
the thorough uprightness of his character, and that one
day these will be fully established. —I am, sir, yours obe-
diently, M. Goapon.—Watford, Herta, April 5."