The Express.
London, England, 1868-07-07 00:00:00

AMERICA.

NEW YORK, Jinx 5.
The Cunard steamship Tripoli has arrived at
Boston.
Closing prices :—Gold, 140? ; sterling, exchange
on London, 1101; 5.20 United States' Bonds, 1882,
1131; ditto, 1885, 1111; 10.40 United States
Bonds, 107 k. Illinois, 1571 ; Erie, 701. Flour,
extra State, 8.25 dole.; corn, old mixed, 1.10
dol.

The North German Lloyd's steamer Hermann,
from New York on the 26th ult.. arrived at Southampton
last night with 116 passengers, 37 sacks of mails, 346,837
dole. for London, 8,200 dolts . for Bremen, and 2,466 pack-
ages of cargo.
(Per the Hermann.)
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NEW YORK, Jurra. 25.

The delegates from Arkansas have been admitted to
seats in the House of Reprezentatives. The Democratic
members have protested against their admission, declar-
ing that they have been forced upon the state by military
rule under circumstances destructive of the principles of
constitutional government.
Mr. Johnson has sent to the House of Represe
cor ntatives a
m/lam dine between himself and Mr. Seward, in
which the latter urged him to appeal to Congress for
legislation declaring and demanding equality of rights
abroad for naturalised and native-born American citizens.
General Sheppard, commanding in Alabama, has sup-
pressed the paper TOISCAIOO6II for disloyal utterances.

A report of a committee will, it is understood,
be presented at the next meeting of the Middlesex magie-
beta, proposing to reduce the fees of the district coro-
ners' officers, ae a saving to the county expenses.
THE ELECTaIc TELEGRAPHS BILL.—The select
committee of the House of Commons for the consideration
of this bill re-assembled yesterday ; the Chancellor of the
Exchequer being in the chair. Mr. Hope Scott, Q.C. on
the part of the railway companies, made the important
announcement that agreements had been come to with the
Great Northern, London and North Western, Great
Western, Midland, and North Eastern, and that there
was every probability of similar agreements being made
with the Lanahire and Yorkshire and London and South
Western Companies. The most important assume of the
arrangement are that each company is to have its own
system of telegraphs on railways and canals independent
of the Poet-office telegraphs, and that the Post-office are
to have a perpetual way leave over railway lines, the rail-
way companies erecting and maintaining all wires and poles
on the railway, and the Post-office paying for those belong-
ing to themontermsto beagreedupon or settled by arbitra-
tion. Thefirst witness called was Mr. J. F. Turner, of Man-
chester, who was strongly in favour of the bill, which, he
believed, would introduce a greater amount of economy
and security into our system of telegraphy. Mr. Cully,
engineer-in-chief to the Electric and International Com-
panies, in answer to Mr. Sargood, maid that it would be
extremely difficult for any unauthorised person to suc-
ceed in reliably reading a message in course of trans-
mission along dieteleg.raph wires. It waecertainlyposeible
for a clever clerk to ' milk" the wires ; but discovery
would be sure to follow ; and he would be at the disad-
vantage of not knowing when the message began or when
it terminated. Altogether the question of the possible
dishonest treatment of messages was not one to be se-
riously discussed. Did not know of any better system
of telegraphy than that at present in use. A patentmight
have been taken out for a telegraphic system which
should be independent of wires, but he had no faith in tho
feasibility of such a system. Sir Charles Wheatstone said
the public good demanded the separation of the telegraphic
from the railway service. Secrets would be as safe in the
hands of the government and its servants as they were at
present In fact these would be an even greater degree of
security. At present messages in cipher were more expen-
sive than ordinary messages. Witness knew of a par-
ticular system of communication by cipher telegraphy
which he should be glad to see become universal. 1
woe already used with favour by the Queen, theEmperos of
the French, and by the police in Scotland-yard. The
superintendent would be able to give valuable practical
advice to the committee as to the success with which this
system could be carried out. This system was the
" cryptograph" system ; and Sir Charles explained in
detail, and with groat rapidity, the methodof its operation,
and its claims to be oonsidered the most secure system of
secret telegraphy extant. The cipher was of universal
application, but each person could have his own key to
the secret. Considerable improvements had been made in
telegraphy within the last 20 years ; but he had no faith in
the possibility of a system of telegraphy which should be
independent of poles and wires. The government, there-
fore, would be obliged to use some such machinery as
they. found already existing under the riguno of the com-
panics. The Post-office staff could easily be taught to
work the telegraphs. It would conduce to convenience,
security, and economy if government were to assume the
proprietary and direction of the entire telegraphic service.
The government would be able to economise and to spread
their operations wider, became they had already a staff of
persons on whom they could very readily impose a further
responsibility . In announcing the adjournment of the
committee till this morning, the chairman said that it
would meet then for the reception of evidence of the re-
presentatives of the newspaper press; whilet Thursday
next would be reserved for the consideration of the Mun-
cie] tart of the question.
CRYSTAL PALACE.—We are requested by the
directors to state that Sir Robert Napier has announoed
his intention of visiting the Crystal Palace to-morrow,
with Lady Napier and his staff. Sir Robert will arrive at
half-past one, and the great fountains being played at
two, he will witness the display from the Weeny of the
Queen's con aloe. Luncheon will be served shortly itfter-
wards, and the concert, at which Sir Robert Napier will
be present, will begin at four o'clock. Military bands
will perform in the grounds from seven, and at a quarter
to ten there will be a display of fireworks with yeas]
devices aprepriate to the occasion, and illumivaboa of
the fountains and park as on Saturday last.
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