The Express.
London, England, 1866-07-27 00:00:00

AMERICA.

QUEENSTOWN, JULY 27.

The Royal Mail steamship Cuba, from Halifax
and Boston, arrived here at 11.30 last night with
166 cabin passengers and 250,000 dollars in specie.
She land 75 sacks of mails and 7 pauuengers, and
proceeded at 11.45 p.m. for Liverpool. All well.
The Cuba made the passage from Halifax under
seven days.

NEW YORK, JUL! 17
_Evxernia.
President Johnson has vetoed the Freedman's
Bureau Bill, upon the same grounds on which he
veto a similar bill in February last. Both houses
of Congress ponied yesterday the bill over the Pre-
sident's veto. A republican caucus has resolved
that it is expedient that Congress should adjourn
on the 23rd inst. Attorney-General Speed has re-
signed office. Nothing definite has transpired con-
cerning the anticipated resignation of Messrs.
Stanton and Harlan.
Secretary Seward has written a letter approving
the Philadelphia National Convention, which he
regards as a patriotic effort to induce Congress to
admit the Southern representatives, which admis-
sion can alone complete the restoration of the
Union. President Johnson has signed the internal
Revenue Bill, which takes effect in September
next. The tax on cotton is fixed at three
cents per lb. Head Centre Stephens had
been committed to Boston gaol for a debt of 4,000
dole. He has since been released on bail. Intelli-
gence from Matamoras, dated the 2nd July, states
that General Carvajal has demanded of Federal
General Getty the surrender of the French
financial agent. The latter had crossed the Rio
Grande at the time of the capture of Matamoraa,
with the customs archives in his possession. The
matter has been referred to Vv aahington. The
America, Nova Scotia, and Fenix* have arrived
out.

NEW YORE, Juts 19 EVIINING.
The political animosity between the Radicals
and the President's supporters is daily increasing.
The house has passed the joint motion to adjourn
on the 25th instant.
The .New York Times says :—" The bill for the
annexation of the British provinces was introduced
by General Banks on his own responsibility, and
was not acted upon or reported by the Committee
for Foreign Affairs. No importance attaches to it."
The Edinburgh has arrived at New York, and the
Africa at Halifax.
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NNW YORK, Juan 19.

Intelligence from Vera Cruz on the '9th says it
is rumoured that the Liberals have captured
Tampico.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
MEW YORK. JULY 19, Evranso.
Money abundant. Gold, 160 f. Exchange on
London, 164 ; on Paris, 3.40. Stocks firm and
active. New York Central, 1041 • Illinois, 124 ;
Erie, 66f • 5-20 United States Bonds, 107. Cotton
steady. Middling Upland, 36. Flour declining.
Wheat dull Corn steady. Provisions dull.
Coffee slightly firmer. Molasses and sugar steady.
Petroleum slightly firmer. Crude, 23. Refined, 39.
NEW ORLEANS, JULY 16.
Cotton : low to middling, 32 to 34.

WESLEYAN METHODINT CONFERENCE. —The an-
nual conference of the Wesleyan Methodists is now bolding
at Leeds, and yesterday the important point of who shall
be president of the body for the ensuing year was decided.
The Rev. W. Arthur, M.A., Wei elected. He received 243
votes. His nearest competitors were- John Bedford, 70 ;
G. Scott, 28. The Rev. John Farrar was elected secretary,
and obtained 286 votes; and the Rev. John Bedford a-
tainel 58.
COURT or COMMON CoUTtca.—Yesterday a Court
of Common Council was held at Guildhall, the Lord
Mayor in the chair. On the minutes of the last court
being read by the Town Clerk, • member drew attention to
an inaccuracy in the printed minute of the resolution
adopted at the last court with respect to the grant of the
use of Guildhall for the use of the National Reform
League, from which it seemed that the great had been
made for two meetings instead of one amerablage.—The
Town Clerk explained that this bad arisen from a mistake
made by a clerk. His (the Town Clerk's) written minute
was limited to one meeting only.—Mr. Lowman Taylo-
said that if the application for the use of Guildhall bad been
made to-day, be believed the court would not have seceded
to it, and be now put it to the court whether, after the
soanmwhichhad been enacted at the West-end, they would
jeopardies their hall by admitting the public on the occa-
sion to which the resolution had reference. If he was in
order be would move to rescind and revoke the resolution
of the previous court.—Mr. Richardson rose to address the
court, but was met with loud cries of " There is no quer
•tion before the court," and be resumed his seat, and the
matter dropped. It was sulidequently stated that the
Lord Mayor would preside at the meeting. In the course
of a reply to question* as to the steps taken by the com-
missioners of sewers to meet the approach of cholera, Mr.
Deputy De Jersey said he had recently had • conversa-
tion with one of the best authorities on the subject—be
alluded to Mr. Glaisher—who had made meteorological
surveys on a former occasion, and who was engaged in a
similar object at the present time. Mr. Glibber informed
him that now there was an absence of thous indications in
the atmosphere which characterised the former appearance
of the epidemic, and he, (Mr. Deputy De Jersey,) men-
tioned this with • view to allay any alarm, for which
there was no real muse. On the subject of the
Traffic Regulation Bill, Mr. Alderman Lawrence, M.P.
drew attention to the clauses of the bill, which he said
took away all jurisdiction as regarded the traffic in the
City from this court, and the Court of Aldermen handed It
over to the City police commissioner, acting under the
authority of the Home Secretary. The bill would prevent
the delivery of coals, wines, beer, and other commodities,
between the hours of 10 in the morning and 7 o'clock in
the evening ; and generally it required very close watch-
ing on the part of the court. The matter was referred to
the police committee and to the commissioners of sewers.
Ms. Bantams moved the following resolution—" That in
the opinion of this court the proposed appropriation for
building par rses of 20 acres out of the 120 acres of land
or the formation of Finsbury-park
.the
etropolitan Board of Works would be a serious injury
to the park, and a great privation to the inhabitant* of
the northern district of the metropolis ; and that a copy
of this resolution be forwarded to the Metropolitan Board
of Works, and that the members for the City at that board
be requested to oppose such • proposition." Mr. R. N.
Phillips seconded the resolution, which wale agreed to ;
the remaining business on the paper we' then disposed
of and the court adjourned.
CERAMIC AND CRYSTAL PALACE AU UNION.—
The drawing of prizes in connection with this Union, took
place yesterday in the lecture theatre of she Crystal
Palace. This union was established in 1859, its object
being to diffuse amongst the people a taste for works of
fine art. The principle upon which the society proceeds
is that of guinea subscriptions, each guinea subscribed
entitling the subscriber to select from • number of ob-
jects • work of the value of the guinea, and a chance in a
lottery of a prise of • higher value, the surplus of the
enbecriptions over the current expenses and the prime met
of the works distributed in the ordinary way to subscribers,
forming a fund for the purchase of those more costly works
of art which constitute the prises. The present number
of subscribers for the years of which yesterday's drawin
was the termination was 1,500, being a slight falling off
from that of the previous two years, which may be ac-
counted for poesibly by the competition in those art lot-
teries, and to some extent, perhaps, to the severs chee
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which the speculative spirit of the age has, during e
few months, received. The prizes distributed yesterday
varied in value from Ave to fifty guineas, and consisted of
Ceramic statuary, statuettes, busts, vases, he.
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