The Express.
London, England, 1868-08-18 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL. GUARDS.

The fifonitetsr Publishes the-following note, :ol-
drcssed by the Emperor to General Mellinet :

My di ar General,-1 beg of you to express to the Na-
tional Guards the pleasure I have had in seeing them
march past at yesterday's review. I am satisfied with
their bearing and their good spirit. I shall always count
upon their patriotism.
On this the Avenir National remarks :

Since the National Guards are animated with good
spirit is the time arrived for restoring to them the right
of electing their own officers 'r Acts area better proof of
confidence than words, and after the above letter we
cannot underitand why there should be any further
delay in restoring a right without which there eau 1),! no
National Guard.

The Temps also recommends that the Rngx•ror
should show his confidence by restoring the
National Guard to the position it held before
December, 1651.

(THROUGH RX1772.11.8 AGENCY.)
FRANCE.
PARLS, Auovsr

The Moniteur of this morning publishes another
list of persons decorated with the Order of the
Legion of Honour on the occasion of the fete of
Napoleon. Amongst those who have received this
distinction are M. Livio, the French consul at
Dublin, who is named an officer, and M. Boor-
dillon, the Vice-Consul of France at NVW Yolk,
who is appointed Knight of the Order.
The result of the election for the department
of the Jura is that M. Grevy. the oppo-
sition candidate, has received 22,.124 votes
against 10,290 votes polled by his rival, Mons.
Huot. The votes of two very small communes
have not yet been collected, but the return of M.
Gravy is certain.

BELGIUM.
BRUSSELS, Auousr

The lifonifeur fitly' of to-day publishes a bul-
letin signed by the physicians of the Prince Royal,
announcing that no change has occurred in his state
of health, and that he passed a better day and
night.
The trial of the miners accused of having created
the late disturbances at Chatelinean near Char-
leroi, came on yesterday before the Assize Court
of the province of Hainault. All the accused were
acquitted.

AMERICA.

FRIGHTFUL ANTI-UNION OUTRAGES IN

LOUISIANA.

The Inman royal mail steamer City of London
arrived at Queenstown at 7.30 a.m. to-day, with
1,164,685 dollars in specie. Having landed mails
and passengers, she proceeded for Liverpool. All
well.

(Per City of London r%a Queenstown.)
KEW YORK, Ammar 8, Noos.

Governor Warmouth, in his appeal for the aid
of the national troops to suppress lawlessness in
Louisiana, states that armed bands of desperadoel
are murdering, plundering, and persecuting the
unionists in several parishes, having committed
150 murders within two months, and are further-
more organising to drive the union men from the
state.

A democratic member of the Louisiana legisla-
ture has introduced a resolution declaring Gover-
nor Warmouth's statements false, and calling
upon him to furnish proofs of their accuracy.

Two democrats have been ousted from the
Louisiana Legislature on the score of ineligibility,
and republicans have been admitted to their seat,.
The House of Representatives of the Alabama
Legislature has passed the Bill previously
carried through the Senate, for removing all the
political disabilities of citizens in that State with-
out enforcing the test oath.
The democratic majority in Kentucky at the
late election is reported to have been over 83,000.
Cattle plague has appeared in the Western
States, and is spreading rapidly.
Intelligence from Nova Scotia states that the
House of Assembly is holding an anti-union
MUCUS.

The New York papers publish news from Mex-
ico, that an insurrection, headed by Dominguez,
has broken out in the province of Vera Cruz,
Yellow fever was raging in Vera Cruz city.