The Express.
London, England, 1867-08-05 00:00:00

HUNGARY.

It is stated from Vienna that Kossuth has refused
to accept his mandate as deputy to the Hungarian
Parliament. General Perczel, who has also been
returned to the parliament at Pestis, addressed his
constituents as follows :—" I have not returned to
ask pardon, but to pardon those who have been the
cause of all the sufferings which the country has
endured for the last 19 years." This sentiment
was received with vehement applause.

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FRANCE.

PARIS, ircusr 5.

The Emperor's speech to the foreign commis.
sioners at the Exhibition appears this morning
in the Munitenr. It is textually the same as tele-
graphed yesterday.

PRUSSIA AND THE ZOLLVEREIN.
BERLIN, Accusr 5.

The negotiations with the delegates from the free
towns of Hamburg, Lubeck, and Bremen, with
respect to their entry into the new Zollverein,
were opened here on Saturday. It is asserted that
Lubeck is not disinclined to join the Zollverein,
but that Hamburg is unwilling. The Prussian
government has declared its intention in and• case
at once to include Altona in the Zollverein.

THE PRINCIPALITIES.

BUCHAREST, AI:GCBT 4.

The Sultan is expected to arrive at Rtutchuck
to-morrow. Prince Charles has gone to meet his
Majesty with the Ministers for Foreign Affairs and
War.

The Roumanian government has replied to the
note of the European consuls at Galatz. It pro-
tests against the erroneous imputations of which
it has been the object with regard to the drowning
of certain Jews at that place, and proves by refe-
rence to the report of the commission of inquiry
that all responsibility rests with the Turks.

DENMARK.
COPENHAGEN, Aucter 3.

The committee for the reception of the French
deputies and journalists who are expected upon the
12th inst., consists of high political personages.
Herren Bille, Orla Lehmann, and others have placed
their private houses at the disposal of the com-
mittee.

AMERICA.
SOUTHAMPTON, Aucusr 5.

The North German Lloyd's steamship Hermann,
Captain Wenko, has arrived with 125 passengers
for this port, Havre, and Bremen, 52 sacks nails,
and 526,194 dollars for London, and 4,155 dol-
lars for Bremen.
The Hermann left New York on the 25th of
July. On the 27th she spoke the steamer Bremen;
30th, Hamburg ship, No. 147 ; August 2, English
barque Irene ; all steering west, and on the 3rd, a
Bremen ship, supposed to be the Shakespear.

NEW YORK, JULY 2.5, MORNING.
The Republican convention of South Carolina assembled
at Columbia yesterday.
The New York Constitutional Convention has resolved
upon the disfranchisement of all voluntary participants in
the late rebellion.

The official returns of the registration in Alsb-uuz give
30,000 white and 50,000 coloured voters.
Advices have been received from Mexico city to the
13th. Castello and Otero were among the generals shot
at Queretaro. It is reported that General O'Horan has
been lynched by a mob.
Marquez still eluded capture. The French Minister
was detained at the capital to await the arrival of Juarez.
It is reported that Poe feeio Diaz has denounced the execu-
tion of Maximilian. Osman has proclaimed himself go-
vernor of Tamaulipse. A force of 3,000 Juarists had been
sent to occupy Matamoros. Juarez had sent a large
force to subdue Lozada.

Advices from Hayti announce that President S.Onsve
had proclaimed • general amnesty for all Haytiens except
Geiftard. Soulongue had been invited to return to the
island.

According to a letter from Bordeaux, that town
intends to offer hospitality to the King and Queen of
Portugal, who are expected there on Tuesday, to be pre-
sent at a grand dinner at the residence of the prefect, Count
de Bonville. On this occasion there will be a gala repre-
sentation at the Grand Theatre.

The use of volocipeles 111 becoming more and
more frequent in Paris. Many of the amateurs who are
fond of this sort of violent exercise have selected the
vicinity of the cascade in the Bois de Boulogne, where
they may be seen any morning from 9 till 11 diaplayiug
their skill and the rapidity of their speed.

A monument to the memory of the officers and
men of the Royal Bengal Fusiliers who fell et the Urn-
bayla Pass, in 1863, has just been erected in Winchester
Cathedral. The monument contains the words, " Pliancy
and Pegu,"where the regiment gained honour. The names
of the honoured dead mentioned on the monument are
Lieutenant Chapman, Ensign Sanderson, Surgeon Pile,
Corporal Dix, Drummer Newby, and 3of private soldiers
who fell at the Umbayla Pass.

A supplement to the London na:ette was pub-
lished on Saturday giving an official account of the investi-
ture of his Majesty tho Emperor of Austria, King of
Hungary and of Bohemia, with the ensigns and habit of
the Most Noble Order of the Garter, at Vienna, on the
25th ult.

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TEE EMPRESS CHARLOTTE. The Mt/florin/
Dirbwiati,mc says :—" Notwithstanding the rapidity with
which the journey from Miramar to Brussels was male by
the Empress Charlotte—it occupied only two days—the
health of her Majesty has in no wise anifered from it.
Indeed, we receive from the Belgian capital the consolatory
information that a slight improvement has taken place in
her mental condition in consequence of quitting her state
of isolation." The Indirendatur of Brussels says:—" We
learn that the Empress Charlotte has passed a good night,
and is as well as is possible. Her Majesty appears plmused
to find herself once more at home and in the midst of her
family. She drove out yesterday afternoon with the
Queen round the park of Tervueren in a pony chaise."
PRESIDENT JUAREZ AND LOTTERIES IN MEXICO.
—ln answer to a petition presented by two ladies of San
Luis Potosi. asking President Juarez to allow the conti-
nuance of a lottery which had been established to supply
funds for the two " houses of mercy " under their charge,
the chief magistrate replied, ordering 1,000 dole, to ho de-
livered to them by the Minister of the Treasury on behalf of
those houses, but refusing to allow the continuance of the
lottery. The consequence of this request has been the ism-
ingot the following : " Decree against lotteries and mitten.
Benito Juarez, Constitutional President of the United
Mexican Staten, to the inhabitantsthereof : —Know ye, that
in the use of the ample powers with which I am invested,
and considering that lotteries should be regarded as among
prohibited games and prejudicial to society, for the reason
that they consume the fruit of labour of the working and
needy classes, and because through the incentive of great
gain, although an improbable one, they weaken the
stimulus to labour, which is the fires basis of the
social welfare, I have deemed well to decree the following:
Article 1. Lotteries or public raffles, whatever may be their
object, are forbidden throughout the republic, and must
he considered as among immoral and prohibited games.
In consequence, lotteries and TANIS that may have been
permitted or authorised by any decree or provision of any
authority whatsoever, shall team at once. To this effect
I order the printing, publication, and circulation of this
decree and its due observance.—Bgerm Jragrz.—To
citizen Sebastian Lerdo de Tejsda, Minister of State.—
Given at Ban Luis Potosi, June 28,1867."