The Express.
London, England, 1868-12-28 00:00:00

SPAIN.

MADRID, Dec. 26.
It is asserted that the government intends to
resort to fresh measures of economy by alterations
in the territorial jurisdiction of the different ad-
ministrative bodies, thereby effecting the abolition
of the greater part at the provincial governorships.
The electoral monarchical committee have laid
before the government the necessity of snaking the
government influence more felt in the coining
elections in the provinces. The leaders of the
republican party are considering the advisability
of renouncing for the present the republican form
of government, and of putting Espurtero forward
instead as candidate for the throne. The letter of
the Duke de Montpensicr has determined this
attitude. _ _

The semi-official newspapers of to-day state that
the Provisional Cioverntuent will not entertain
any proposal for selling Cuba to the United States.
NMEICTOUS roinforeementa have been sent to
avannah.

MADRID, Dec. 27.
Rear-Admiral Mendez Nunez has resigned the
rank of Vice-Admiral, and this resignation has
been accepted by the government. Marshal
Pezuela, who is in Paris, has received orders to go
to the Canary Islands, but has refused to obey on
the ground of ill-health.

THE BRAZIER.
LISBON, Dm 26.
Letters received here from a Peraguayan source
state that the American minister, Mr. llillahon,
is charged with the task of offering American
mediation between the belligerents, with the as-
sent of M. Barmiest°, the President of the Argen-
tine Republic. It was said that the Emperor of
Brazil would withdraw his representative from
Buenos Ayres.

INDIA.
CALCUTTA, Dw. 2.
Piece goods dulland unchanged. Cotton, 22 r.
Exchange on London, 2.0 i. Four per Cent.
Government Securities, ; Five ditto, 106 ;
Five-and-a-Half ditt", 1101. Freights to Eng-
land unchanged.

AMERICA.
(I'er the Rhein, ail Southampton.)
NEW YORK, Doc. 17.
The House bas passed a bill allowing women in
government employ the same pay for the same
work as men. _ _

A sweets delivered in the Senate by Mr. Morton
in - favour of the resumption of specie payment
and the redemption of the national currency before
the liquidation of the bonds was favourably
received.

_
To-day hao been set apart by Congreon for the
delivery of eullighe upon the late Mr. Thaddeus
Stew no.

The report that Mr. Caleb Cushing *has been
sent to Spain to negotiate the purchase of Cuba
is offlcially denied.
It is reported that Whelan will have a new
trial, with venue changed to Toronto.
Intelligence from Hayti announces that Haney°
is Organising a renewal of the attack on Jamas),
and it is reported, from a doubtful aouroe, that
ho has captured, pillaged, and burned Miragoane.

BEESSELS, 2i.—According to s bulletin
issued to-day concerning the hualthot the Dube de Brabant,
his royal highness soul better jesterday, and has h d a
good night's rest.
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bone Into condition 'Awn at Miser 3,41.1111.1 hays failed; It will
brines raw to her milk when all °Ono. mean* Woo fallol. Home
fed .at the Nukritkaits Vaasa arc sayer. Isadore Us Om ttold
wham no at Um stoop's abaft. ,• Mot et the out and n vari.doly take
prises at tam Aarfruhanal Meows. " Taara Life," Ltd, 14,
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Mines. litssisL loess. W.0.-41141wwiterwest.

The Royal Mail stJamship. Tasmanian, with the
above mails, arrived at Plymouth yesterday
morning.
A heavy gale was blowing from W.N.W., and
the Tasmanian took shelter in Cawsand Bay. A
mail steam tender boarded her through very high
seas, and landed seven passengers and mails. The
mails for the north loft by the 2.25 ki.m.
train, with a special train for Birming-
ham, and the London mails by the
7.20 p.m. train. The Tasmanian, which
proceeded for Southampton, bad on board 61 pas
' -
sengers 94 sacks of mails, treasure valued at
777,343 dole., and 3,988 packages of cargo.
Among her passengers are the Hon. E. H. Celia,
from Queensland; Major Atkinson and family,
from Napier, New Zealand; Captain Townshuld,
Lieutenant Kendall, of the 2nd Life Guards, from
Panama; and Captain Lowther, R.N., late of the
Dart, from Jamaica.

The news dates by this mail are—Sydney,
lov. 2 ; Wellington, Nov. 8 ; Panama, Dec. 6 ;
erasion, Dee. 10 ; and St. Thomas, Dee. 14.

The Tasmanian experienced continuous north-
west gales, with heavy seas. The Apes., °Mull*
fax, has been lost off Colorado.
In Chili, at Santiago; the excitement with refe-
rence to the impeachment of the Supreme Court
was increasing in intensity. The principal point
of the charge was directed against the president of
the court, Don Manuel Moritt. Public opinion
ran strongly in hie favour. as it wag believed that
the Senate had a political end to gain by his con-
demnation. Indignation meetings continued in
condemnation of the impeachment, and affairs
were assuming a critical aspect. At. Valparaiso
there was great activity in charters for
nitrate of soda; copper produce was quiet;
and breadstuffs dull. Exchange on Lon-
don, 434 to 452, at GO days; Cif to 44i, at `.AI
days ; on Paris, 478, at 60 days, and 480 at 90
days.
Another Peruvian revolution was impending at
Lima. The Vice-President was at the head of the
movement, and the govonnient were aware of the
plot. President Belts had declared that he would
shoot the first conspirator caught. The railiray
mania was increasing, but funds were said to be
wonted. Unfavourr.ble reports were re:xiivod of
the public health of Liana, Callao, and the southern
districts. Over 130 ships were loading with guano
at the Chiecha Islands. Business was very depressed
at Lima. Exchange at Callao, 361 to
a dollar, 43; to a sol. The revocation
of the exequatur of the Bolivian Consul at Tacna
for violating the mails had caused an a,:tive
diplomatic discussion between the two si-t r re-
publics, which it was rumoured in ght rut
trouble on the frontier.

The Central American States were perfectly
quiet, beyond sonic election excitement in Salvador
and Costa Rica. The President of Panama bad
granted an amnesty to the persona who caused
the late IN volution ; but they were to contribute
to the expellees incurred in putting it down.
Heavy rain had fallen at Colon during
November, and the Panama Railway traf-
fic had been stopped for several days.
The health of Jamaica► continued good, and
business was improving. Sugar, rum, and corn
were scarce, and wanted. Logwood was very
scarce, and in great demand for the United States
and Europe. New coffee met with a ready sale,
but at lower prices than for many years past.
The pimento crop was small. Sugar reaping was
being pushed on.
The blockade of the Hayti= rebel ports had
been declared, and acknowledged to be effective.
The previous captures of the English brigantine
Aerolite, a French barque, and an American brig,
bad been declared illegal, and Salnavc had been
obliged to give them up and pay for their de-
tention.

Ealnave was besieging Miragoane, and had
taken a lower part of the town. The revolutionists
were believed to be bolding out in the upper
part. Haytian commerce was almost destroyed,
but it was generally thought that the revolution,
although prosecuted with energy, would shortly
have to yield to the superior force of Salnave. In
Cuba the insurgents had taken the largo town of
Olgin, and were besiegirg all the other towns of
the eastern end of the island. They had estab-
lished their Provisional Government at Barg,amo.
Water supplies and railway communication were
cut off from ISt. Jago de Cuba, and the insurgents
were about to attack it.

At Barbadoes the weather continued getting
cooler, and planters were busy preparing for
phinting. The canes were growing vigorously.
A state ball was about being given by the Governor
to Admiral Mundy.
At Demerara the drought bad entirely ceased.
The weather continued fine at Trinidad. Heat *as
very oppressive at St. Vincent.

THE CLARENDON PAPERII.—A catalogue of the
Clarendon Papers in the Bodleian will shortly be published
by the delegates of the Oxford Press. The index is now
being compiled. We hear that • portion of these papers
is to be edited for the Roxbnrgbe Club next year. Ou
some of thep ~ submitted to the King are avers' very
familiar and tharactme6c remarks by his mend Majesty,
whioli will amuse readers. We also hear that the old Rox-
burghe has got rid of the lordly element in its printing
committee, and appointed two thoroughly competent work-
ing Oxford men- to suggest new books and superintend
their publication.—slareewes.
THE WIN OM ELECTION PETITION.—The Mayor
of Windsor (Mr. Thomas Chamberlain) has received an
official notification flOOl the Court of Common Mesa, that
Mr. Justice Willem has appointed January the 12th, and
the following days, for the trial of the petition against the
election of Mr. Roger Bykyn as member for Windsor.
This petition, it will be remembered, has bees lodged on
behalf of Colonel Richardson Gardner, who polled within
a few votes of Mr. Rykyn. Oa behalf of Mr. Eykyn, a
petition of electors to the House of Commons, under the
bgth section of the Parliamentary Elections Act of 1868,
is in course of signature. Already. it is said, upwards of
4010 names have been appended. This petition sets forth
that the petitioners have reason to believe that corrupt
practices extensively prevailed at the last election; and
Hat they therefore humbly pray the house to cause the
neceseag proceedings to be taken to ascertain the extent
to which such corrupt practices prevailed at the election,
and to grant to the petitioners such relief as to the bowie
may seem meet.
THE NORTH LEICEBTEIIBIIIRE ELscrioN PETI-
TION.— The La inciter Animal rays that the petition against
the return of Lord John Manners and Mr. Clown for
North Leicestershire him; fallen through, and adds that
neithir. Mr. Frewen nor his agent had anything to do
with it.
TEM BOSTON ELECTION PETITIONS.—IIe local
conservatives have 'eked a fund of M. with which to
defend the seats of Mr. J. W. Malcolm and Mr. T. Col-
lins, the conservative sitting members, against whose
return a petition is now impending.
PLYMOUTH DEC. 27. The Hamburg and
Americansteamship Borussia, with the homeward Loutish,
French, and German mails, put in at Portland on Satur-
day. dieabkd. On December 19th, in some heavy
weather, she broke her propeller shaft, and bad to pro-
ceed under saiL—Bretta's Teityram.
THE DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIEB.—BUCHAREST,
Dxo. 26.—M. John abut, • former minister, and up to
the present editor of the Avast, has been appointed diplo-
matic agent in Paris ; and Prince Demetrius Stirbey has
been named seurttag of livaton at Constantinople.
GENERAL GRANT'S " Two WORDS.' The
Hart Aral lbw ant recounts a visit made by General Grant
to Providence, Rhode Island, where ho war the giusit of
General Burnside. A band of music accompanied by a
large crowd appeared before the dwelling, and, in
rag ono to their anxious demosstrations, General Grant
appeared in an open window and bowed hie acknowledg-
ments. lint the crowd wanted more, and, Annnean
like, shouted for a epeoch. The Genoa! bowed again,
and mss about retiring, when • vole.) high in the upper
key Jiirt two words (teneral." General
theist-- "No, sir (Great applause and taughbo.)
• liana KY.% ST. —1.:1.1.0'8 Coco'.--UnitefUi and
umissehmi.—" singular ounp,on whirl' Mr. lippotatt.l.lo.l
naintein of coroa hie. now We •04iOr
Ti as) exirtiraintaki " Silvi o. Oxen..

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