The Express.
London, England, 1867-04-03 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, APRIL 2.

It is stated that the decree nominating M.
Schneider to the presidency of the legislative body
has been signed by the Emperor.

THE PARIS BOURSE.
PARIS, Area 2, 3.30 P.M.
The Bourse continues very fiat. Rentes closed at
68.67, or 23c. luwer than yesterday.

AMERICA.
(BY ATLANTIC TILIZORAPI3.)
NEW YORK, APRIL 2, 6 P.Y.

The Democrats have carried Connecticut, elect_
ing the Governor and three members of Congress.
Closing prices :—Gold, 134!. Sterling exchange
on London, 1081. Five-Twenty United States
Bonds, 1091 ; Illinois, 1151 ; Erie, 68. Cotton:
Middling Upland, 30. Petroleum, refined, 27.

THE PANAMA AND WEST INDIA MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, APRIL 1.

The Royal Mail steamship La Plata, with the
above mails, has arrived here with 132 passengers,
1,292,340 dollars in specie, and 11,747 packages of cargo,
chiefly consisting of cigars, ootfee, tobacco, bark, jalap, and
indigo.
'ITIE WEST INDIES.

blawnrriuur..—The"cro ps wet; —p---- •g, and all
descriptions of goods ruled high. TLe island was
healthy.
GUADALOOPE.—HeaItby.
GRENAILL—The weather was propitious, and crop ope-
rations were general.
At BARBADOES the weather was favourable and dry.
Sugar making was progressing, and shipping was abun-
dant.

At TRINIDAD the weather was good, and sugar making
was being vigorously prosecuted all over the island.
DEMERARA.—The health of the colony had improved,
and clean bills of health were being issued. The weather
was dry for planters, and there was but little produce for
shipment.
HAITI.—Ao encounter had taken place between the
government forces and the revolutionists, in which the
latter had been defeated. Tranquillity was restored.
JAMAICA.—The government bad rendered itself very
unpopular by the proposition to issue trade licenses, and
it was expected that some important alterations would be
made in the bill. Planters were getting alarmed at the
continuance of dry weather. Shocks of an earthquake
bad been experienced. Trade was dull, and the stock of
rum was accumulating.
Exchange on London,
The disturbances in Honduras continue.

Tim Ram Exinsmow.—The Arenir National
of yesterday, in its account of the opening of the Paris
Exhibition, says :—" There is a cause which injures uni-
versal exhibitions, and which must in the long run put an
end to them, and that is their frequency No 'great revo-
lution occurs every five years in the methods of men's
labour to justify a universal exhibition of the products of
industry ; the era of progress is not counted by lustre.
What has occurred in the world of industry during the
five years which have elapsed since the Universal Exhi-
bition of London? Nothing The great ques-
tion is to know whether the English h►ve
decidedly succeeded in disputing with us the
superiority in certain industrial arts. Could this not be
settled at less cost! In vain are attempts made to excite
the imagination, good sense protests against these palaces,
these gardens, these constructions a /a Poienskin, in which
so many millions have been swallowed up, and the recol-
lection of which will have disappeared in a few months.
We leave the Champ de Mars thoroughly convinced, as far
as we are concerned, that these words may be inscribed
over each of the entrances : " The Last Exhibition of
Industry."
THE CESSION Or RUSSIAN AMERICA TO THE
UNITED STATEB.—The Russian organ, Le Nord, says :
" The transatlantic telegram which announced; the meet-
ing of the United States Senate in order to receive oum-
munizations of a treaty for the cession of Russian America,
contains nothing which ought to surprise us. This cession,
if we are not mistaken, is the consequence of negotiations
dating back several months. It is easy to see the mutual
advantages th►t Russia and the United States must derive
from such a transaction. These American countries,

hitherto all but unproductive to Russia, owing to their
distance from the centre of an empire already so vast,
will be more easily vivified by Yankee expansion ; and the
current of ooloniaation and commerce which will ulti-
mately be established between the Asiatic and American
seaboard of the Pacific will powerfully aid the prosperity
of Eastern Siberia and the basin of the Amour."