The Express.
London, England, 1866-04-30 00:00:00

(Per the Ws. vie Reehe's Paint.)

NSW YORK, Aram 18, Amami.
General Meade and staff have left for Eastport,
it is supposed in connection with Fenian matters.
The Washington authorities have forwarded in-
structions to Eastport that the neutrality Laws
should be strictly enforced.
The Fenian continue to gather, hold meetings,
and receive arms in different towns along the New
Brunswick frontier.
The United States gunboat Winooski is cruising
off Eastport. A Federal revenue cutter has cap-
tured a suspicious brig off the coast, and taken
her foto Eastport. Nine armed Fanjets' are stated
to have landed on Indian Island, near Eastport,
and stolen the British revenue flag. There was
no one on the island to prevent the theft.
A document has been circulated among the crew
of the British gunboat off Campo Bello with the
object of inducing the men to join the Fenian..
A mutiny is reported to have broken out on board
the gunboat, in consequence of which 40 men were
put in irons.
A schooner laden with arms for Doran Killian
has been seized at Eastport and subsequently
released.
The United States squadron, for duty at the
Fisheries, will consist of seven vessels, mounting
50 guns, commanded by an acting rear-admiral.
They will rendezvous at Eastport, and remain
there until the Fenian excitement has subsided.
The United States government has chartered a
steamer to send • company of regular troops from
Portland to Eastport. The Fenian Head Centre
at Buffalo has purchased a powerful steam tug at
that place.

ST. JOHN'S, Amu, 17.

Volunteers continue to assemble at Si. Andrew's
and St. Stephen's. The governor of New
Brunswick, in addressing them, said that if the
Fenian affair was a hoax, it was one of the most
serious ever concocted. It is believed that the
incoming ministry will suspend the Habeas Corpus
Act. _ _ _

The ship Simoom has arrived at St. John's with
thellst battalion of the 22nd Regiment from Malta.
MONTREAL, Aram 17.
Government detectives are stated to have re-
ported that the Fenian have nearly ready for
armament on Lakes Erie and Michigan fifteen
vessels, besides schooners and transports, loading
field artillery.
Colonel Wheeler, late of the Confederate army, has
been arrested in Cornwall, Canada. He held a com-
mission from Sweeney to recruit a Fenian battalion,
and a copy of the Fenian oath was found upon
him. He confidently declared that Sweeney would
liberate him.

The examination of Fenian prisoners at Cornwall
is conducted with closed doors.
NEW YORK, Aram 18, Arrixatoort.
The New York Times declares that Austria has no
pretext for sending troops to Mexico, and that the
United States should resist the landing of Austrian
soldiers by force of arms.
The President has appointed Mr. Henry Smyth,
a banker, collector of customs at New York. The
appointment has no political significance.
One hundred and thirty additional deaths have
taken place on board the steamer England, at
Halifax. The disease is decreasing, and there is no
sickness among the cabin passengers. The Halifax
physicians pronounce the disease to be decidedly
cholera.

The steamer Vera Cruz, from New York for Vera
Cruz, has been wrecked. The crew and passengers
were saved. .

The war department has officially announced, with
the President's approval, that the peace proclama-
tion does not remove martial law or operate in any
way on the freedmen's bureau in exercising its
legitimate jurisdiction.
The war department states, however, that it is
not expedient to resort to military tribunals in
cases where justice can be obtained through the
civil authorities. _ _ _

The Saxonia and the City of New York have
arrived out.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORE, APRIL 18, Arnuemow.
Money abundant. Gold, 126 k. Exchange on
London, 136 i ; ditto on Paris, 4.17 i. Stocks
steady : New York Centrals, ; Illinois, 1141 ;
Erie, 74} ; 5.20 Bonds, 1041. Cotton steady :
Middling Upland, 37. Flour and wheat firm, and
advancing. Corn held firmly. Provisions good
inquiry. Coffee and sugar quiet. Molasses steady.
Petroleum dull : crude, 24 ; refined, 38',.
The shipments of cotton from Sew York
during the last fortnight amount to 41,000 bales.
Sales since April 11, 2-2,000.
The receipts since September, 710,000 ; stock
on hand and on shipboard, 205,000 bales.
NEW ORLEANS, Aran 16.
Cotton depressed : low middling, 35. Receipts
since the 14th inst., 5,000 bales.

PRINCE ALFRED'S CITY FREEDOM. -A short
time since the corporation decided upon presenting the
freedom of the City of London to Prince Alfred, and to
depart from the usual routine of the gold box and to pre-
sent it in a casket that should be characteristic of the
profession which the prince follows. The specification was
limited to a carved polished ouk box inlaid and enriched
with pure gold. Several designs for the casket having been
aubsaatted to the General Purposes Committee at Guildhall,
that of Mr. Benson was unanimously chosen. It is an ex-
quisitely carved oak cabinet, somewhat similar in general
style, though not in material, to that made by Mr. Benson
when the City's freedom was presented to the Prince of
Wales. Its delicate tracery will make it almost unique
of its kind, and its massive chased gold mouldings and in-
layings relieve the darkness of the oak, and give great rich-
ness to the whole design. The arms of Prince Alfred,with
the shield of Gotha, are enamelled in gold on the front and
back, with nautical emblems in dark blue panels support-
ing them, while the ends of the casket, which is oval
sirtare closed with a scroll-work of foliage surmounted
.:31; Arks. .

ItZPRESENTAT lON OF NOTTINGHAM. —Lord Am-
►erley has not yet issued an address, and although it was
stated positively on Friday that his lordship had accepted
the invitation to become a candidate, it is now averred that
by the advice of his friends he does not intend to come
forward until a requisition, signed by the electors, placing
his success beyond all doubt is presented to him. Upon
the conservative side Mr. F. C. Smith will, it is said, issue
his address to-day. Mr. Handel Coesham addressed the
electors and non-electors on Friday evening in diffe-
rent parts of the town. Mr. Bernal Osborne addressed a
monster meeting in the Great Market-place on the same
night, and met a good reception. The meeting took place
at half-past seven, when many thousands of people were
present. At the conclusion of the hon. gentleman's
address his candidature was accepted by a forest of hands.
REPRESENTATION OF WI NDSOR. —lt is stated
that a compromise has been effected between the chiefs of
the conservative and liberal parties with reference to the
future representation of the royal borough. It is said to
have been proposed by certain parties that at the next
election Captain Bulkeley shall be returned as the conser-
vative ; and Mr. Roper Eykyn as the liberal representative.
Capiain Bulkeley is well known as an active director of
the Great Western Railway Company, and, from his long
correction with the town would no doubt make an ad-
mirable representative. Mr. Roger Rylryn resides at The
Willows, and is notir He is a staunch sup-
porter of the liberal administration.

RETILESKI•TTATION or STAMIPORD.—Sir Stafford
Marthoote has issued an address on retiring from the re-
presentation of the borough of Stamford, and Rear-Admiral
Ilk J. Hay has sought the suffrages of the electors. In his
menifeeto he strongly opposes the RIIIOTM Bill.