The Express.
London, England, 1868-09-24 00:00:00

TINE U.N.ITED STATES MINISTER AT LEEDS.

Yesterday, tho Hon. Revonly Johns-el visitTl
tLe inctam.ohe of the We- t lii.hag. Re had boon etayiag
with Lad alosightuil. at Eiyston-hall aud Lo.dieol ly
1. oci,laun, 80. A. hlonek, and other dieting iishod pinion 4
141Xl/la! Willed his excellency from Frystoa-Mati to L 00,141.
y lova. d that tuwu about ono o cloak, au I ware in it
at the station by B.r Alarms, and La ly A.
I ant an a (lie wayor and mayoree). Twenty-two gai-
t.. loch of u.e co .mid of tho Leeds Chamber of Comm-area
al. u weie toe -Lid to welcome hon. Tao mayor eouvaye I
coinage to the Town-halt, whom the town
ociimcil woe isis.emblixl. Having been introdraci to the
tint ca Lb; body and cordially weleentoil by theta, the mayor
pito bind au aka'. me.

Mr. JOHNSON rep:tett as follows:—Mr. Mayor and
ge Luella:is,— the LI:HIaIIiSSiOU oonferred upon me try
thy thou:a:nut wilt be productive to myseh, I have no
die.bl, of that Lai pines which so far has attended it.
kr, in the moment I landed upon Tour shores up to the
peseta lane, the greatest possible kuidnean has been ex-
t. L(11:1i to me, very much to my delight and gratfisstion.
toui.try will consider it an mimed of the friendly
II cling you have for them, that all her Majesty's subjects,
I am glad not only to believe but to know, entertain
tow alts me so gracious a feeling. (Applause.) We are,
in fact, but uue people. (Hear, hear.) Our dispositions
are tl.e same; our political insttutions are substantially
the same ; our reilgion is the same; and, above
all, as the means by which the others are bound
together, our language is the same. (Hear, hear.)
Tthit language wherever
.spoken, whether spoken by au
I ugh, Linen to an American, or by an American to an
Euglishman, creates at once feelings of brotherhood; and
speaking lam personal experience, from the moment I
et my toot un your shores, not now for the first time, I
felt that, although in one sense I was in a foreign land,
I was riot a stranger. The shake of the hand reminds
use of home ; the kindness with which I am met remind.,
n.c of tome ; the personal similarity I see around me re-
minds me of home ; said above all, your feelings and
'tonne:Ms of puLtieel liberty, which lie so deeply
hod so firmly, as the foundation upon which yolr govern-
n tumid me of Lome. (Applause.) And Ishii! ever
rejuke tint the government of my own country
Las mail red upon me the opportunity of becoming more
acquainted w.th the people of England than I could have
hip dtobe if cireunistances had been otherwise. There
sic brit few diftmences existing now between us—few, in
my ji.dgiteut, and nuimportant—unimportant, beimlise
they can be amicably adjusted—unimportant, be.muse
tl et um cable adjustment may be accomplished withoat
tin uishuig in the slightest degree the honour of either :la-
th 11. It viuuld be to MO and to my government a matter
t f the . estast tem et if, in the settlement which we are
sloLt, 1 Lope, soon to make, either government should
'till an its own opinion or in that of the woad at large.
Ily govt nano rat aul do nothing to detract from its own
mations 1 know ; but I know also, and with as much
ccitanity, that your Resentment will do uthlung which
tau in the slightest degree tarnish its reputation.
n, all I tan do, in conclusion, is to thank you cone:,
tiyely and ind.vidually for this mark of your respect,
aid to assure you that in my negotiations with
your Rove] nnient it will he my earnest dosire, and I have
esti y reason to believe that desire will be fulfilled, not only
to n.a:ntain, but to stiengthen the friendly relations which
have so 1. ng happily existed between the two nation,.
'll ith my best thanks to you, Mr. Mayor, and to all pre-
tent, 1 Icr a time bid you adieu.
'Lice cheetsfor the United Stites were called for by the
Mayor' and given heartily, alter which his excellency suers
conducted over the Town-hall, and to the Fine Art Exhi-
bition, whete the executive committee presented him with
an address.

Mr. JCSNEON, in reply, said that ever since he landed on
the Ames of England he had been satisfied that pear
between I ugland and America would endure for ever.
War between his government and the English natima
would be but • repetition of the civil war which had
de• (rand Lis own land, for both nations were in fact
use eople, descended from a common ancestry
of which all were equallyroud. They were
destined to promote the good and happiness of
near by extending freedom throughout the world; and
if, in the chances of time, England should be involved in
Seril—if pistil she could be involved in—and if the United
tates should be involved in peril —if peril the could be
involve d in—it would be the duty of both, as it would be
their ph &sure, to stand shoulder to shoulder, and resist
the shuck. Neither of them required war with each
crle r, or with any other nation, to establish their martial
(+gauger upon the ocean and upon the land. Each had
at times illustrated her capacity for war, as well ea they
Lad illustrated the love they entertained forpeasce, and in
the last camraign in which England bad been engaged
they were under the obligation to protect their citizens
and rescue than from captivity.

FETZE AT GITILDFORD.—At the meeting of the
local Board of Health held ou Tuesday evening, the
medical gent'emen practising in the town, to the number
of tire, wart&d on the board to make a combined represen-
tation of the increasing spread of scarlet fever. and the
urgent necessity that existed for the provision of a fever
howe for the recent: of new cans, and also a house
where clothes, bedd , &c., might be dismfected. Mr. R.
Ea surgeon, who introduced the deputation, stated
that ger
there had been nearly 600 cases of fever and 37
deaths. The malady was still spreading, and the above
measures were absolute) y necessary fortes preservation of
the public bralth. On the retirement of the deputation
the hoard resolved to take immediate steps to provide a
fever and di:infecting house. La saspiclou has bean
thrown on the water supplied to the town, the board
recently submitted samples of it to Dr. Lecheby and Dr.
Hamill. Dr. Letbeby, in his analysis. strongly recom-
mends that the water should not be used for domestic pur-
poses. Dr. Hamel says, " The water is one of compara-
tive purity."

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A YOUTH STABBED BY 1118 Morns.--At an
early hour yesterday morning au offence showing •
shocking amount of immorality was committed in Wolver-
hampton. At Monmore-gaessi, in that town, there lives •
mother and eon, named Prudence and Samuel Fisher.
The woman is the wife of • puddler, who has one to
weak in the north of England, and the son, who is about
20 years of age, is of the same occupation, and works at
Wolverhampton. The woman on Tuesday night left her
hone, and was drinking up to about suilnight with a
number of young men at • neighbouring public-house.
lit r on went to fetch bar home, but had gnat difficrlty
in getting her from her companions. At home she
displayed great irritation at having been fetched away
Loin the public-house, and, taking down a carving-kuife
which was kept suspended in a strap behind the door, she
thrust it into her eon's left Bide. Thu young man is now
in the South Staffordshire Hospital, and his mother is in
custody awaiting his ability to give evidence against bur
before the magistrates.
Lownom OENY.IIAL 08111111118 COMPANY
(Lnaran).—Traflle receipt* for week ending Sept. 24,
10,44:4. he. 74.

For SO years Horniman and Co. have co-operatod
throuph akrenta to niftily is on two advantageous torina than
by the ordinary channel ; their tea ratehom the oommunior In the
woe pure rote am It ISSVOS W Wet/ It. as it le were' In nadyrsa
1

Drily Hr. EDMIINDB.—A series of working
mews district meetings in support a the liberal candidates,
Mr. J. A. Ilaideaatle and Mr. It. fi. Parry, is be.lig held
in this boiough. Due of these meetings bee been al treated
by Mr. Conolly, a member of the council of the Reform
League.
CILELSZA.—Mr. Wentworth Dilke addressed the
electors at the Vestry Hall, Kensington, last night. —Mr.
Benjamin Blend in the chair. At the conclusion of Mr.
Dilke's address, a ommervative agent, not a voter in the
borough, put a itring of frivolous questions to Mr. Dilke,
which the candid ate turuedagainat the (Naga:Hier hy quoting
him replies fermi conservative electioneering papers. Mr.
Dilke justified and even strengthened his stateurvaita with
regard to the conservative expenditure which be inane at
Chelsea last week. A resolution pledging the meeting to
supped Mr. Mike was carried by acclamation.

lIACKNEY.—Last evening Mr. Reed sidressNl a
crowded meeting at the school-roe-n. Pow tall-road,
Ralston. Mr. Jenesmah Death occupied the cuair. Mr.
Reed, who on timing was greeted w.th loud che:rt, said
be would take that opportunity of again expresdng ha
deep rep et alit Col. Thompson was not perm: tte I to spaak
at the meeting at the Town-hall, and denied any participa-
tion in the degtaceful riot ou the part of lum elf or his
con mittee. Mr. Reed then gave his views on tae mod im.
portent top.cs now occupying the public m.n 1. tie was
in favour of justice to 1. elan[, disestablishenent of the
Irish church, retritrliment in all the goverumint depart-
mints, woke of the reckless extiaca4anee a: tie Adrat-
laity. aid ernourieid the 1/delaying CIatUISCS of the It :term
hilt, It hid; we: e proved to be a gnat hardship. He had
lain c• n. al d to advomite the ballot by the tyranny of
the Inudloulr, and was strongly in favour of t.se e
relicu of the 1 •tor rate a• a matter of right ti tae hard
war Ling istiriyers at the la-t-end or London. Mr.
Reed would 1 Petiole education among the working
claws. hi reply to a question Mr. Reed said that when
news first :united in Luglanit respecting the disturbance
in Jamaii a, he with others suLueritad to send a deliit ition
to that cot:idly to ai celtain the truth or falseh s'el of the
(huge apadset Governor Ere with respect to the allege.]
CM( I neatment of the co.oured population. A vote of
confidence in Mr. Reed was supported by ![ears. Sykes,
V. bite, and Bows, and cariied-by aoclaniation.

NOITIXOHAN.-111r. Soely, in reply to questions
addressed to him by an elector on the subject of house-
hold suffiai,e in the counties, writes : " I can aisure him
that he (the ekctor) is quite correct in taking it for
wanted that I will support at the proper time every
seduction which has a tendeucy in that direction. The
tole question 'Rimy mind is • the proper time,' sod on this
point befoi e long 1 hope to have the opportunity of ex-
plaining myself moue fully." Mr. Seely will address the
electors to-moriow evening.

POOLE.-Bir Ivor B. Guest, Bart., of Canforcl-
park. has addressed a letter to the committee forme I for
the I.urrole of promoting hie election, stating that he
shall dechne to contest the representation of the borough,
on account of a very large number of the leading members
of the liberal party having promised their support to Mr.
C. Waring. the present liberal candidate.
TarNm7e.—The liberal split in this borough is
at an aid, Mr. Cole, Q.C., having retired. Mr. Cole says :
" I feel that my continuing before the electors may en-
danger the return a a second liberal candidate, and
theiciore, having only the 'memos of the hbc.al arise at
hi art, I beg at once to be allowed to retire in favour of
Mr. Janes, and to entreat my friends to do all they can
to flame the return of that gentleman."
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TONER HAMLETS.—Mr. Ayrton, M.P., avlarmsed
e crowded meeting of the electors of tho borough, in the
Town-hall of Limehoine. la=t night, Mr. Churchwarden
W. they being in the chair. A vote of centideuce was
pets( d. Mr. firma de. another candidate for tho repro-
icntation of the borough, addressed a meeting on ru.:sday
eve mug. in the circus of the Riding &hoof, Bow. Here
alto a vote of confidence warn pa•sed.
WENLocx.—Mr. Brown, a near relative of Sir
W. Brown, of Liverpool. has i-wed hi...address as a lheral
candidate to the electors of Wenlock.

WEST KaNr.—The contest between Sir John
Lubbock and Mr. Angendeiu (liberal) and Messrs. Talbot
and Mills (con-ervative) candidates for West Kent is now
in full ~potation. and in con•eq..elwe of the evenly
balanced state of political parties tunougst the c >usu.
tuency 11101116 CS to be very seveie. The liberal numbilates
have held meetings during the pieseut week at Bexley-
heath and Edenlnidge to addles. the electors, ant were
well received ; and the conservative candidates are hold-
ing meetings in the several polling districts of the county.
The tenth of the registration courts already held hai been
to strengthen the liberal ranks.

WINCIIESTER.—Mr. Norton, unwilling to divide
the liberal l arty, has retired from the canteat at Win•
cheater, lcaving Mr. J. Bouham-Carter, M.P., and Mr.
Scott as the liberal candidates.

AN ArmosomEß Rosin.—A correspondent
writing from Bangkok. on the 2nd of August, 1838, says
"The Supreme King of Siam is a very obeervant astro-
nomer. His collection of scientific instruments would do
honour to any European philosopher. Ho himself edits
the Almanac which is published at Bangkok, and he now,
with a number of the most intelligent persons of his
mint, has left his capital for Wai-wau, in the Gulf of

Siam, where he will direct the observations of the total
eclipse of the run. It will be curious to compare the
report of an intelligent Oriental sovereign with those of
the various missions who have been carrying ou their in-
ve►tigations in different tropical regions.

THE COURT AT BALAIORAL.—TIIO morning
being very wet. neittu r her Majesty the Queen nor any of
the royal family attended DlVilie service in the ehuroh of
Credits on Sunday last. The royal. pew was occu pwl by
the Hight Hon. Benjamin Diaraeh, Lady Churchill,
the Hon. Mary Lamelles. There were also preexist from
Balmoral, Sir Thomas lliddulph, the Rev. R. Duckworth,
Mr. Said, do. The Rev. Malcolm C. Taylor preached an
excellent discourse from Galatians iv., 7, the last clause of
the verse, "And if a son, then an heir of tied." The
church was very much crowded.—Bouf Jean*.

THE PRINCE AND I'HINCESS or WALES AT Dux-
notitit.—The Banff:Aire Juidrual says : —r• Sarosdy had
the royal party arrived at Dunrobin Castle on Saturday
night. when the night became very stormy, the wind from
the south-tit increasing to a ga e, accompanied with
heavy rain, which continued throughout all Saturday
Wed and a good part et Sunday. Shortly before wtoldti
on Sunday, however, the ruin ceased, and it was e4ii
that their royal highnesses would come to church (t3ol-
vie). In this, however, many were doomed to disappoint-
ment, for. though the church was crowded—a gust many
having come to get a sight of the royal party—yet neither
their royal highnesses nor their ducal host or hostess ven-
tured out. Intheaftemoon her Royal Higlimarthe Prisms
of Wales, accompanied by the Duckees of Sutherland, drove
out through the grounds in her royal highness's pony oar-
nage, which bad been brought, along with three Highland
ponies, from Aix tgeldie, for her royal highness's use.
This week will be a busy one at Dunnibin. The annual
competition of the volunteers begrits to-day, and will
be continued till Wedneealay. Same evening there will be
a gland hall at the (Nutt... On Thunala), the annual re-
vitt/ of the Sutherland Volunteers will be held by his
Wye DiAnesa the Prince of Wales, who is honorary
colonel of the Sutherland battalion. Additional intermit
is to to given to the competition this year, as them will be
a competition for the Artillery as wall as for the Rides.
After the review on Thursday, the prim* gained at the
compitition will be presented by their Royal Ilueumises
the Pinter and Piincess of Wales."

THE DEAN ot PAves.—ll is statka that the
health of the Very Rev. De. Ml!man is gradually, though
slowly, improving.

AN ABVWSINIAN OWL.—A fine specimen of the
Abyssinian owl may be ,ern at the reeideuce of Mr. R.
(iced, &mth•strret, Yeovil. The binl, although quite
young, is of immense are and ha+ a beak and Woos
more like as eagle than au ca I.

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