The Express.
London, England, 1867-12-12 00:00:00

AMERICA.

The Hamburg and American Company's steam-
ship Saxon* from New York on the 30th Novem-
ber, strived at Southampton to-day (December 12)
with 100 passengers, 37 sacks of mails, and 500
tons of general cargo.
During the passage the Saxonia spoke the fol-
lowing ships :—On December 10, in lat. N. 49 deg.
40 min. long. W. 17 deg. 45 min., an English
brig, steering eastward, showing 4 distinguishing
pendant 512 ; and in lat. N. 49 deg. 40 min. long.
W. 15 deg. 46 min., a National Steam Navigation
Company's steamer, steering westward, and a
North Gelman Lloyd's steamer in the vicinity of
Bishop Rock.

NEW YORK, Nov. 30, MORNING.

A bill has been introduced into the House of Representa-
tives for the redemption of the legal tender and National
Bank notes in coin after July, and for the sale of all gold
exceeding 75,000,000 doh. remaining in the Treasury after
next inanely. No action has yet been taken in the
matter.

It is reported that the Alabama claims will have early
nisideration in Congress.

A resolution has been offered in the Senate, declaring
strict neutrality in the war pending between Britain and
Abyssinia.

General Hancock has arrived at New Orleans and as-
sumed the command of the Fifth Military District. He
bee issued an order declaring freedom of speech and the
right of trial by jury, and that the habeas corpus act must
be preserved. Military tribunals will take precedence in
the civil courts only when the latter neglect their duty or
►buse their power.

The Alabama Convention bas rejected an ordinance pro-
hibiting marriages between whites and blacks.
A Fenian funeral procession took place in New York on
Thursday in honour of the Fenian* that were hung at
Manchester. Five thousand Irishmen participated in the
procession. The superintendent of the New York police
refused a police escort to the procession on the ground
that it was in honour of murderers of a policeman.
Admiral Tegethoff has settled all the claims against the
estate of the late Emperor Maximilian in Mexico.
Santa Anna was sick at Havana.
(lIT ATLANTIC TELIGRAPH.)
NEW YORK, Dim. 11, 6 P.N.
The steamer Russia has arrived out.

Cloeing prices :—Gold, 134 i. Sterling exchange
on London, 1091. 5-20 United States Bonds, 1071 ;
Illinois, 133; trio, 72k. Cotton: Middling Up-
land, 151.
PHILADELPHIA, Disc. 11.
Petroleum, standard white, 241.

The papers announce the death at Pesci& of the
well-known musical composer Pacini, the author of Soli)
and other operas. He was 72 years old.

The Fiyaro remarks that the well-known couplet
Jamela Swats en Prance,
Jamie rAnglals ne rfltaern—
can no longer be sung, at least in the theatrical world.
At the Opera, Hamlet is about to be performed ; at the
Gable it is also played ; at the Lyrique Romeo is acting,
and The Fair Maid of Perth is the next on the programme;
at the Opera Comique, Robinson erns] e; and at the
Chltelet, Gulliver is being played ; at the Varietes, Fur-
nished Apartment; at the Oymnase, Miss Susanna ; at the
Athenee, Marlborough, or, as the name of one hero is spelt,
Mrtlbrovyh ; and at the Amblgn, Jack Seheppard. "Shade
of the Marquis de Boise !" exclaims a Paris correspondent,
"reappear, and arouse the patriotic sentiments of your
former countrymen against le perfide Albion."

A final settlement of Mr. Lincoln's estate has
just been made. After paying all the debts there re-
mained 110,294 dole., which has been equally divided be-
tween his widow and his two sons.

The great fish-pond at Sheerwater, near War-
minster, in Wilts, has been dragged by order of the Mar-
quis of Bath, and eartloads of fish, eonsistiog of perch,
roach. dace, carp, and trout taken from it, for the purpose
of forming the pond into a fishing place for lake trout only.