The Express.
London, England, 1868-12-15 00:00:00

AMERICA.

(TlllOl7OB REUTZIeII AGIEWOT.)
NEW YORK, Dpc. 14.
The North German Lloyd steamer Main arrived
here at 6 a.m. yesterday.

ARRIVAL OF THE UNION.
(iii Southampton.)
NEW YORK, Dao. i, Noox.
The Alabama House of Representatives has
passed a bill repealing all laws forbidding inter-
marriages between blacks and whites.

The report of General Carstairs' victory over
the Cheyenne Indians is cenfirmed. He captured
90 horses and a large quantity of arms and
provisions.

General Harvey reports that the Sioux Indians
were anxious to go upon the reservations and
receive government protection.
General Grant is visiting Boston. Ho continues
to decline all public receptions.
Advices from Hayti report that the insurgents
had destroyed the aqueduct which supplies San-
tiago with water, and that they were besieging
Manzanillo. Great dissensions exist between the
leading insurgents.

OTTAWA, via. 4.

An Anti-Confederation meeting took place at
Halifax last evening, but there was only a small
attendance and little enthusiasm.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.-(THIS DAY.)

Their lordships met at 2 o'clock.
The Royal Commissioners—who were the Lord Chan-
cellor. the Earl of Beseborough, Earl De Grey and Ripon,
Earl of Kimberley, and Lord Sydney—having taken their
seats at the fcot of tho throne, the Usher of tho Black
Rod was ordered to summon the immediate attendance
of the other House.

Shortly afterwards the Speaker appeared at the bar,
followed by a large number of members of the House of
Common,:

AN ADDRESS FROM HER MAJESTY.

The LORI) CHANCELLOR slid—Mr. Speaker and
gentlemen, we have it further in command from her
Majesty to acquaint y3u that since the time her
Majesty thought it right to call you together
for the consideration of many great and important
matters, several vacancies have occurred in the House of
Commons, owing to the acceptation of offices under the
crown. It is, therefore, her Majesty's pleasure that an
opportunity may now be given to the House of Commons
to issue the writs to supply those vacancies, and afterwards
to proceed to the consideration of such matters as shall

then be laid before you.

The Commons then withdrew.
Their lordship. adjourned until the 11th of February.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.--(TIIIS DAY.)

The Srzsi:Ea took the chair at 2 o'clock, soon after
which the Yeoman Usher of the Black Rod entered the
house and summoned the members to attend the Howe
of Lords for the purpose of hearing an address from her
Majesty.
The Speaker therefore, in obedience to the summons,
repaired to their lordships' house, followed by a large
body of members.

On their return,
The SPEAKER announced the contenti of the royal

The house then proceeded with the businees of swearing
in those members that presented themselves for the pur-
pose of taking the oath.

RE-ELECTION OF MINISTERS.—NEW WRITS.
Writs were issued for the following places in conse-
quence of the ministerial appointments:
GRISENWICIL—Mr. Gladstone, appointed First Lord of
the Treasury. (Cheers.)
LONDON UsrrrnisrrY.—Mr. Lowe, appointed Chancellor
of the Exchequer.
Powriniscr.-31r. Childers, appointed First Lord of
the Admiralty.
Crry or OIFORD.-Mr. Cardwell, appointed Secretary
of War.

BIRKINONAM.—Mr. Bright, appointed President of the
Baud of Trade. (Chews.)
The house was left discussing the issue of the writ for
the City of London, on the ground that a petition had
been presented against the return of Mr. Goachen.

DUBLIN CITY BLICCTION:

DUBLIN, so.t7.

A petition ag,aiiiiit the return of Sir Arthur
Guinness on the ground of corruption and bribery was
lodged this day.

MR. GLADSTONE'S 1.1-ELECTION

A numerously-attended meeting of the general
committee for the promotion of the election of the Bight
Hon. W. E. Gladstone., now Prime Minister, as one of
the members for the borough of Greenwich, was held in
the Lecture Hall, Greenwich, lent evening, Mr. Axon-
eTZl2l is the chair. The meeting was attended by infi u-
satin' representatives from Deptford, Greenwich, Wool-
wich, and Plumbed. Certain financial ina
were made, in pursuance of the resolution rats
n to
re-elect the Premier, as he wee recently elected, tree of
; but the principal business which occupied the
=on of the meeting was the discussion for arranging,
if possible, to have the approaching nomination in a
locality capable of accommodating a much larger number
of Mr. Oladatone's friends and the public than the space
at the end of Looden-street, Greenwich, where the hust-
ings are usually erected. It was stated by members of
the committee from Woolwich, and Plumstoad, and other
localities, that a large number of the new electors
and others, who were ardent admirers of Mr.
Gladstone, and his staunch supporters, although they
had never seen him, which they were very anxious to
do, would be bitterly disappointed if au opportunity were
not afforded to them of seeing and hearing their illus-
trious representative which would not be given to them if
the hustings were erected in the usual place. A resolu-
tion wee adopted unanimously and with great enthusiasm
in favour of erecting the hustings, if the arrangement
shoed be found practicable, on a portion of Blackheath
within the parliamentary borough of Greenwich. It is
believed that not fewer than 20,000 venom will attend in
the event of the weather being favourable. It is believed
that Mr. Gladstone's return will be unopposed; and the
expemes, which will to, coniparatively light, will be mot,
as the heavier costs of the recent contest have been. by
the ecmulittee acting to secure the right hon. gentleui in's
return.

A violent pereontd attack in the strode of Berlin,
committed by •moinbor of the staff of the Irreenzeitwsi
upon Uw editor of the Yolkiceitruy, hav elicited a petition
signed by the representatives of newly all the lie' liu
papers, sildretemd to the President.; of both thaiubers,
(awl the offender frem the boa sot aside for the reproteu-
tatives of the pried, or rather to withdraw the permisOun
grunted to him through the paper on which he is ougAgod.
"They protest most energetically against the introduction
of a brutal eustum from a foreign country where it is stig-
matised us cowardly by all right-minded men, and aimed
begins to disappear, and call upon the presidents of both
homier to give expnossion to the indignation which this act
has forth anion all clesses, the tutPullio° Pr°.