The Express.
London, England, 1867-05-11 00:00:00

PORTUGAL

LISBON. MAT 11.

In yesterday's sitting of the Chamber of Depu-
ties the preliminaries of a bill authorising the con-
struction of a railway from Oporto to Begoa, and
from Oporto to the frontier were agreed to.
The American squadron, under Admiral Golds-
borough, is expected here from the Mediterranean.

AMERICA.
ARRIVAL OF THE SCOTIA.

The Royal Mail steamship Scotia, from New
York on the let May, arrived at Queenstown at
midnight (May 10), with 254 first-class cabin pas-
sengers, and 100,000 dole. in specie. She landed
all the mails except those for Liverpool, and a
portion of the Scotch, and 68 passengers. She pro-
ceeded for Liverpool immediately. All well.

NEW YORK, MAY 1, 2 A.M.
The Virginian legislature has made an appropri►tion for
the education of children, irrespective of colour.
Frequent disturbances occur in Richmond, in conse-
quence of negroes insisting to ride in the street can, con-
trary to the regulations of the proprietors.
General Sickles stopped the Firemea's parade at Charles.
ton, on Monday, because no national flag was carried, and
required them to carry one at the bead of the pruce.eion
with a guard of honour. The firemen acquiesced, and the
parade continued. A man was subsequently arrested for
mutilating the flag, and sent to gaol.
There is great destitution in the interior of Georgia, and
thousands are in danger of starvation.
A mass meeting of whites and blacks took place on
Monday in Columbia. A negro orator declared that the
Southern people and the negroes are the best of friends.
Lawlessness continuesto prevail in East Tennessee. It
is reported that Union men have been ordered to leave
several towns.

A mob of loyal leaguers in Blount county recently dis-
persed the congregation of a Methodist church, supposed
to sympathise with the rebels.
Petitions have been circulated in Texas, praying the
government to divide the State into two parts in conse-
quence of the predominance of loyalty in the western, and
disloyalty in the eastern portion.
The friends of Mr. Davis are renewing their efforts to
procure his speedy release on bail. Mr. Davis is in good
health.

Senator Wilson has addressed the people of Newbern,
Goldsboro', Raleigh, and North Carolina, exhorting the
freedmen particularly to sustain the republican party.
Mr. Thaddeus Stevens has written a letter advocating the
confiscation of rebel property, and denying the right of
Senator Wilson to promise the South representation upon
their conforming to the Reconstruction Act.

Informatioo has been received at the Treasury depart.
meet that the Canadian customs officers are aiding and
abetting smuggling from Canada into the United States.

MEXICO.

NEW YORK, HAT 1, 2 A.M.

News published in the New York papers from repub-
lican sources from Tampico to the 17th ult. state the
Emperor Maximilian was still besieged in Queretaro, that
Miramon was mortally wounded, and that the garrison of
Vera Cruz was on short rations.

(BT Amemc
NEW YORK, MAT 10, 6 r.r.•
The government has ordered the writ of habeas
corpus in reference to Mr. Davis to be obeyed.
The Hamburg and American Company's steamer
Teutonic arrived out yesterday evening, and the
Guion screw steamer Chicago on Wednesday last.
Closing prices :—Gold, 1371. Sterling exchange
on London, 109/. Five-Twenty United States
Bonds, 1081; Illinois, 114 ; Erie, 63k. Cotton—
Middling Upland, 27. Petroleum, refined, 241.

• Arrived in London at 12.45 a.m., May 11.

WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.)

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