The Express.
London, England, 1868-04-01 00:00:00

AMERICA.

The Inman royal mail steamer City of London,
from New York on the 21st, arrived at Queens.
town, at 4.30 a.m. to-day (April 1), with 1,0001. in
specie on board. She landed mails and pabsengers,
and proceeded for Liverpool at 5.20. AU well.

NEW YORK, MARCH O.

The Senate has passed the bill sent up from the
House of Representatives abolishing the revenue
tax on domestic manufactures, with an amendment
imposing a tax of two dollars upon every 1,000
dollars' worth of articles manufactured above 10,000.

The house has passed a bill providing that in case
of the death or disability of the Chief Justice of
the Supreme Court, the Senior Amociate Justice
shall act as his substitute until a regular appoint.
ment can be made.

The House of Representatives has resolved to
attend in a body at the Senate during the
impeachment trial. General Hancock has arrived
at Washington. _ .

It is reported that General Halleck will be
assigned to the command of the Fifth. 3lilitary
District.

The California Assembly has rejected the consti-
tutional amendment changing the national basis of
the suffrage.
The elections in several Pennsylvania town.
show Democratic gains.

OUR PARIS LETrER.

(TROY OUR OWN 001tREBIONDINT.)

PARIS. THOWIDAY EvEinNa.

The Monittur habitually reproduces the acade-
mical speeches, but it has not given those of
Father °retry and M. Vilet—the president—who,
according to tradition, replied to the neophyte.
The opposition character of both parties is said to
have given great offence. As many as three pages
of Father Gratry's oration were cut out by aca-
demicians, who thought them too strong. Among
the suppressed phrases was one which struck
me as singularly truthful—" The lie of peace."
The Patrie, which took the initiative of insinuat-
ing that a dissolution was at hand, now says that
the latest deliberations of government were of a
character to " extinguish all rumours of such an
eventuality."
The Patric also gives a positive contradiction to
the rumour that M. Duruy, the relatively liberal
Minister of Public Instruction, was about to
be dismissed. In pursuance of a silly, but
time-honoured practice, the Pattie saddles
"foreign journals" with the initiative of the report
which it is instructed to gainsay. As a matter of
fact it is right to mention that the Paris papers
}save long been talking of M. de Panel' as a pro-
bable successor of M. Durny, and have been
lamenting over the triumph of clericalism which
such a change would infer.
'Captain Georgette Dubuisson, the commandant
of Prime Napoleon's yatcht, the Jerome Napoleon,
now at anchor off Calais, yesterday received orders
to sail for Marseilles. It is pertinently inferred
that the Prince is going in his yacht to Italy, to
attend the marriage of Prince Humbert.

The settlement at the Bourse was once inure
entirely against the speculators for the fall, and
when the ,40,ise des primes was over at the very
highest prices of the last month, the rise persisted.
Rents closed at 69fr. 40c. for cash and 69fr. 42ic.
for account, with a rise of 150. mind 120. Italian
rose 70c., dosing at 49fr. 40c. ; Credit Fonder rose
Mr. 50e. ; and Mobilier, Ur. 75e.