The Express.
London, England, 1867-12-30 00:00:00

THE PANAMA AND WEST INDIA MAILS.

The Royal Mail Company's steamship Tasmanian,
from South America and the West Indies, arrived
at Southampton yesterday, having touched at
Plymouth at 10.45 p.m. on Saturday, and landed
her mails. Her dates are—Tampico, November 29 ;
Santa Martha, Dec. 1 ; Carthagena, 2 ; Vera
Cruz, 3 ; Chagres, 6 ; Havannah, 8 ; Trinidad and
Jamaica, 10; Jacmel, Barbadoes Grenada, and
St. Vincent, 11; St. Lucia, Dlartinique and
Dominique, 12 ; Porto Rico, Guadeloupe, Antigua,
Montserrat, Nevis, and St. Kitts, l 3 ; Tortola, 14 ;
and St. Thomas, 15. She brings 62 passengers ;
gold, in bullion, to the amount of 45,4751. ; gold
coin, 44,5371. ; silver bullion, 39,5291. ; silver
coin, 302,7361. ; pearls to the value of 791. ; and
jewellery, 1,2401.
There is no news of importance from the West
India islands, with the exception that shocks of
earthquakes continued to be felt at St. Thomas up
to the departure of the steamer, one on the 12th
inst. almost equalling in severity that of the 18th
November.

In Peru the revolution was still going on, and a
victory of some magnitude had been gained by the
President of the Republic at Arequipa.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh
arrived at Adelaide on the 30th October. Par-
ticulars of his reception will be found in another
column.

From New Zealand the only news of importance
is a telegram from Nelson to the effect that a ter-
rible conflagration was raging in that city. A large
amount of property had been destroyed, including
two fine banking buildings.

THE ALABAMA CLAIMS.

The Boston Advertiser publishes the two closing
despatches on the Alabama claims :

Leg►tion of the United State',
London, Deo. 4, 1867.

Sir,—l have the honour to transmit a document pub-
lished for the use of parliament, containing the latest
portion of the correspondence relative to the questions in
dispute between the two countries. From the tone of the
reply of Lord Stanley in connexion with your despatch
just received, No. 2,093, of the 16th November, it seems
plain that nothing more can be expected from this nego-
tiation. I shall therefore, in accordance with your desire,
I give out hereafter that it is so understood.—l have the

honour, Am, Cues. F. ADAMS.
Hon. W. H. Seward.
Department of State,
Washington, Noy. 29, Ma.

Sir,—Mr. Ford has given me a copy of a letter which
Lord Stanley wrote to him on the 16th of November
instant, concerning the question of arbitration upon the
so-called Alabama claims. I have submitted Lord
Stanley's remarks to the President, and have re-
ceived his directions thereupon. The government
of the United States refers to the views concerning the
proposed arbitration which I have heretofore had occasion
to make known through your legation to Lord Stanley.
We are now distinctly informed by Lord Stanley's letter
that the limited reference of the so-called Alabama claims
which Lord Stanley proposes is tendered upon the cor-
sideration that the United States shall waive before the
arbitration the position they have constantly maintained
from the beginning—namely, that the Queen's proclama-

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tion of 1861, which accorded belligerent rights to insur-
gents against the authority of the United States, was not
justified on any grounds either of necessity or of moral
rights, and therefore was an act of wrongful intervention,a
departure from the obligations of existing treaties, and
without the sanction of the law of nations. The condi.
tions being inadmissible, the proposed limited reference is
therefore declined.—l am, sir, your obedient servant,
To Chas. Francis Adams, Esq., ko. W. H. SEWARD.

Mn. Hoßammt, M.P., AND THE FENIAN MOVE-
mENT.—/elr. Borman, M.P., was present at the annual
dinner given by the captain to the members of the Stroud
Rifle Company, in the subscription-rooms at Stroud, on
Saturday evening, and spoke at some length on various
topics. Turning to Fenisnism, he said :—" There is one
black spot in the present state of home affairs ; it is that
of the government of Ireland, which has been a reproach
to us in the past, is an embarrassment to us in the pre-
sent, and as to an escape out of which no one can be
certain. I must say myself that I don't feel it is entirely
an Irish movement. The origin and the nucleus may be
Irish ; bet I can't help believing that it has extensive
ramifications, and that it is the centre of a great deal of
English instigation, which finds ready tools of mischief in
the Irish people. But now, when we find that it is a
question of the blowing up of arsenals and prisons,
and the use of other inventions of mischief, we feel that
the war is no longer against government, but against
society, and that, at whatever cost, it must be sup-
pressed."