The Express.
London, England, 1867-12-23 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 23. 1867.

AMERICA.

(BT LTLAIPPIC TELEGRAPH.)
NEW YORK, Dec. 21., 6 P.N.
The steamers leaving to-day for Europe take out
1,000,000 dots. in specie.
The steamer Caledonia has arrived out.

Closing Prices :—Gold, 134. Sterling exchange
on London, 110. 5-20 United States Bonds,
108} ; Illinois, 1311; Erie, 74k. Cotton : Middling
Upland, 15k.

PHILADELPHIA, Dac. 21.
Petroleum, standard white, 25e.

(RIOTER'S 71:LIGILAX.)

The Royal Mail etelunahip Persia arrived at
Queenstown at 9 pan. yesterday with 43 cabin passengers
and 608,030 dole. in specie. She landed 123 sacks of mails
and three paseeagers, and proceeded for Liverpool at 9.10
p.m., all well. The Persia expetienoed very severe easterly
gales upon her passage home.
(Per the Persia, via Queenstown.)
NEW YORK, Die. 11.
The resolution to impeach Mr. Johnson was defeated in
Congress on Saturday, the Bth inst., 57 yeas voting against
108 nays. Of the latter 66 were republicans and 40 demo-
, orate. _ _

In the senate ktr. Chandler made a long speech in favour
of the rwiolution go:x*4 belligerent right. to Abysiinia
during the war with England, and' strongly denounced the
course pursued by the British gverement during the late
rebellion. He declared hie belief that tf the resolution was
passed 10 to 15 Abyssinian privatesis would be afloat
within 100 days.
Mr. Reverdy Johnson strongly opposed the resolution
as calculated to provoke a needless quarrel with Great
Britain. . . . .

A resolution was introduced, but laid over, proposing
thatin the new treaty with Canada, the fisheries should be
free to British and American subjects alike. also that
Canada should cede British Columbia to the United
States, who would pay 6,000,000 dollars for the Hudson's
Say territory.
Mr. Bunigellyeronged a reeolatim_s; *Melt the Renate
adopted requesting the President to furnish Congress
with ooples of all documents and correspondence relative
to the Alabama claims.

The House of Representatives has pared the bin sns•
pending the authority of the Secretary of the Treasury to
withdraw the United States notes.

Both houses have pasaad the bills enabling Degrees to
hold officio and sit on juries in the District of Columbia.
General Hancock has reinstated the auditor and trea-
surer of Louisiana, lately removed from their posts by
General Mower. _ _ _ _ _

General Ord has appointed January 7th for the assem-
bly of the Arkansas and Mississippi conventions.
General Grant has issued an order, giving the military
district commanders a suspensory order over the freed-
men's bureaux.

General MaoLaarmand hes been nominated by President
Johns= as minister of Mexico.
Advioss from St. Thomas to the 18th November state
that Admiral Palmer and the Danish commissioner, were
completing their arrangements far the transfer of the
island to the United States.

The i;ctaidsiyStbittliSialand of St. Bartholomew has
been ahnoet destroyed by a volcano, and that earthquakes
are daily occurring at Porto Rico.

EXPA

IS FROM PARIS.

THE SECRET SOCIETY.—EXTRAORDINARY
PROCLAMATIONS.
(nox OUR owx comusponoxn.)
PARIS, S►TURDAT Enarno.

The affair of the Secret Society came before
President Delesvaux, at the Correctional Tribunal,
yesterday. Twelve prisoners appeared at the bar.
The following are their names and descriptions
Acoolas, a professor of law ; Naquet, aged 33, a
professor of chemistry at the Ecole de Medecine ;
Hayot, aged 24, a commercial traveller ; Las,
aged 48, a passeetentisr ; Verliere, aged 2G, a
literary man ; Choutean, aged 33, painter ; Gode-
cher, aged 28, professor of Latin ; Adel, aged 3b,
alias Manuel, a copper-founder ; Merli, aged 25,
a cabinet maker ; and three others, Gorand,
and Hermann. The indictment charged

these young men with the misdemeanour of belong-
ing to a secret society, with having been guilty of
" manoeuvres," with a view to trouble the
public peace, and with having excited to
lobed and contempt of the government.
At the commencement of the proceedings

Hayot, one of the prisoners, said he intended to
"make default"—that is, not to be tried then.
The court said it was his right so to do, but wanted
to know the reason. The public prosecutor in-
sinuated that Hayot had been accepted as evidence
for the crown, and wanted to postpone the trial.
The prisoners' counsel, among whom were M.M.
Cremieux, Jules Favre, Yersignn 11:1"uati and da
Fieublers Urged that the case should go on, and
the court ultimately ruled that it should.
Accolas, who was first interrogated, ad-
mitted that the police seized at his house
three proclamations, beginning respectively with
these words :—" France no longer belongs to her-
self, " " The republic sixteen years ago," and
" The reign of Bonaparte was founded in crime."
He said, however, that these papers were brought
to his house without his knowing what they were
or where they came from, and that Hayot alone
(the suspected spy) had taken some of them away
and distributed them.

PARIS, SUNDAY EVEITING.

The Imperial Advocate Lepelletier commenced
his speech for the prosecution in the Secret Society
case by reading the following three proclamations
which had been seized at the house of the prisoner
Acoolsa, and some of which he admitted had been
taken away by Hayot :