The Express.
London, England, 1868-06-01 00:00:00

AMER ICA.

(lIT ATLANTIC TILEGRAPII, THROOOI4 NUL ILVITKIeB AGENCY,
WASHINGTON, MAT 30.
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General Grant and Mr. Schuyler Colfax have
accepted their nomination by the Chicago Repub-
lican Convention, the former as candiate for the
Presidency of the United States, and the latter as
candidate for the Vice-Presidency.

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The appointment of General Schofield as Secre-
tary of War, made by the President during the
fmpeachment trial, has been confirmed by the
Senate.

NEW YORK, Xwv

According to Messrs. Neill's report, the week's receipts
of cotton have been 6,000 bales, since the Ist September,
2,183,000 bales. Week's exports to Great Britain, 15,18)0
bales; since the Ist September, 1,204,000 bales. Wetk's
exports from the Continent, :1,000 Imles ; since Ist Sep-
tember, 438,000 bales. Total exports for the week,
18,000 bales; since Ist September, 1,642,000 bales. Stock
at .11 ports, 144,000 bales.
The steamers leaving today for Europe take oat
2,500,000 dole. in Specie.
Closing Prices :—Gold, 139. Sterling exchange on
London, 110 k. United States 5.20 Bends, 1822, 112 ;
Ditto,lBB.s. 110; 10-40 ditto lON ; Illinois, 149 ; Erie,
704. Cotters' : Middling lTplawl, 31. Petroleum,
standard white, 29. Flour, extra State, 9 dole. Corn.
old mixed, Idol. lie,

VISIT OF TAE EMPEROR NAPOLEON TO

ROUEN.

Our Paris coireapondent, writing on Saturday
evening, says :

Preparations on a very large scale are making at Rosen
for tho flying visit of the Emperor and Empress to-mor•
row. A detachment of the Cent Gerdes, several piqueurs,
and four court carriages were sent there yesterday. The
fire brigades from all the surrounding villages are
summoned to Rouen for the occasion, and as
they wear polished braes helmets of a Greek
form they will look bike an imposing military force.
Their Majesties le►ve Paris at half-past 9, and will be
back at the Tuileries within twelve hours. Among the
suite th►t will accompany them are General Fleury, grand
ecuyer ; General Pajol, aide-de-camp; the Marquis de
Trovise, chamberlain ; and the Countess de Lourmel and
the Countess do Rayneval, ladies of honour.

The Mayor of Rouen has issued the following
address :

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THE LONDON LIBRARY.

An Saturday afternoon the twenty-seventh an-
nual general meeting of the members of this library was
held at the offices in St. James's. square, the Earl of CIA-
111111DON, K. 0., in the chair. The attendance was only
small, but amongst those present were Lord Lyttelton,
Lord Houghton. Dr. Webster, the Rev. L. Davies, Mr.
W. B. Hodge, Mr. C. M. Kennedy, Mr. Bouchier, Mr. El-
dridge, Mr. l'aget, Mr. Botch, and Mr. Montgoinerie. Mr.
flirrison the secretary, read the report, from which it
appears :hat the increase in the number of members, and
in the annual income of the society, is steadily progres-
sive. The number of members added to the library during
the year just closed has been 126, and the number lost 70,
as compared with 113 additions and $d losses reported
last year. There are at present on the library register
362 annual subscribers of 21., 361 annual sub-
scribers of 3/., and 264 life members, making
a total of 987 members. The financial gain of the year
has been 527/. 10a. The amount of difference between
710/.los. of new subscriptions, and 183/. of subscriptions lost.
Tha balance brought forward from last year was
534/.los. 7d., and the total income of the society from all
sources has been 2,950/. 18s. 9d. and the expenditure has
been 2,566/. 19e. 7d., leaving a balance at the bankers on
the 30th of April last of 383/. 19s. 2d. The committee
have this year expended in the purchase of books se
large a sum as was spent for the same object in the
previous year, notwithstanding their considerable '
bursements on account of the alterations and refitting..
The society being now free from any extraordinary claim
upon its funds, the committee trust in the current year
to extend their acquisitions in various departments of
literature. The number of volumes added to the library
during the year, by purchase and gifts, atiwnnts to 1,790
volumes and 130 pamphlets, and tLe number sent out
from the library for circulation during th t year has been
34,480.

Mr. Hoix:t moved "That the Dean of Westminster,
Sir John Simeon, Bart., and William 'Pollard-Urquhart,
Eon, M.P., be added to the committ, A of management,
in place of Sir John Boileau, Sir Robert Phillimore, and
Sir Travers Twigs, who retire, and teat the Dean of St.
Paul's, Thomas Carlyle, Esq., and John Wickens, Esq., be
re-elected."

Lord LITTELTON seconded the 'Action, which was car-
ried.

Mr. WOODHOURR moved the re election of the auditors,
which was esoonded by Mr. Ge MS and carried, as was
• vote of thanks to those gen slemen for their services.
Mr. KRNNEDV, one of the cud hors, returned thanks, and
said that in going over the ac.- Aunts they had found them
most carefully prepared and I- .ighly satisfactory.
Lord Li-mu:rots, in eulogistic terms, moved a vote of
thanks to the noble chains en for presiding, and said that
his suggestion that the lib, ary be kept open until 9 o'clock
in the evening ought to r
,00ive attention.
Mr. KENNEDY second ad the vote of thanks, which was
unanimously agreed to ,
The Earle Cu, Rem or, in replying, said that he perfectly
agreed with Pr. We' miter as to the manner in which the
°Seen of the fibre 47 performed their ditties, and their
best thanks were especially due to Mr. Harrison, the
secretary. I'.ad known this gentleman many years,
and a more zea'.ous, obliging, attentive, and enl4htened
public servant no institution could boast of.
The prover dings then terminated.

My dear fellow-citizens,—This city is going to receive
the Emperor and Empress ! Their Majesties, are coming
to judge of the progress of agriculture in this fertile
region, and to recompense and honour the populations who
are occupied in the hard and useful labours of the earth.
They have already visited our workshops, and they wisk
again to manifest the constant interest which animates them
onbehalf of those who produce the works of industry. Inha-
bitants of Rouen, you know how much France owes to the
Emperor Napoleon 111. of prosperous security at home and
respected grandeur abroad. Our streets transformed, our
port rendered practicable to the large vessels of the
modern mercantile navy, and access opened to our com-
merce by the Northern Railway, proclaim what the city
owes to its sovereign. Let his Majesty recognise by your
hearty reception, and that of the people oollected on hie
passage, what profound gratitude Rouen experiences for its
benefits, and with what devotedness we, as well as the whole
country, are animated for his person and the Im-
perial dynasty ! Our earnest and respectful homage will
tell the Empress that our hearts, captivated by her graces,
are still more deeply touched by the courageous pity
which leads her into the midst of the afflicted populations,
and that we love her, above all, for the generous and ad-
mirable solicitude which she shows to misfortune. My
dear fellow-citizens, all our prayers call down the blessings
of Providence on their Majesties and on the young Prince
on whom their happiness reposes, as he bears the hope and
future of the country, and our walls are going to resound
to this cry, which responds to our sentiments and those of
France, " Vire l'Emperettr ! Vive l'lmperattioe ! Vive
le Prince Imperial !"

PARIS, MAT 31, Evirnivo.
The Emperor and Empress have gone to Rouen to
attend the annual agricultural meeting. The Em-
peror made two extempore speeches. The first was
addressed to the Mayor of Rouen, in which he
alluded to the past sufferings of the industrial and
agricultural classes, whish he hoped were now at
an end. The Emperor's second address was to the
Archbishop of Rouen, Cardinal de Bonnechose.
The Emperor said, " Let us never separate our
love of God from our love of our country."

LIBERAL DEMONSTRATION AT BIRMINGHAM.—
(In Saturday evening the Liberal Election Committee cele-
brated their late victory by dining together at the Plough
and Harrow Hotel, Edgbaston, when about seventy gentle-
men sat down. The chair was taken by Mr. J. Chamber-
lain, and a letter was read from Mr. Jolla Bright, M.P.,
who had been invited to attend. Mr. G. Dixon, M P.,
was present, and on responding to the toast of the borough
members, regretted the absence of Mr. Bright. In re-
ference to the question of the Irish church, he (Mr. Dixon)
said that as a churchmen he advocated the disestablish-
, meat of the Irish church as an act of justice to Ireland,
and if the oonsequence should be injurious to the English
church, then the English church must be injured ; but he
did not think that any injury to the English church would
arise.
OXFORD, MAY 30.—1 n a oonvocation holden
this morning the following degrees were conferred :—lldas-
ters of Arts—Rev. Charles Kogan Paul, Richard Goodall
Gordon, Exeter College ; Walter Bishop Kingsford, Oriel
College ; Harman Chalons" Ogle and Edward Worsley
(fellows), Henry Daman, Edward Blair Michell, William
Skinner B'yle, and Arthur Gilbert Girdlestone, Magdalen
College ; Thomas Hay Sweet Esoott and William Bel's,
Queen's College ; Rev. Arthur Blythman, Balliol College
Francis Hill Baines, New College ; Rev. Thom Lloyd
Phillips, Jesus College ; Percival Clarke, Worcester Col-
lege. Bachelor of Arts—Mervyn de Montmorency, Wad-
ham College.
An inquest was held on Saturday by Mr. Carter
on John Waland, one of his own officer', who committed
suicide by hanging himself to the berg of the window in
the dead-house of the parish. He had previously at-
tempted to cut his throat with a razor. A verdict of
" Temporary insanity " was returned.
THE EXPLOSION NEAR 131awisonAw.—Two more

of the enfferer• by this solidest lave died sines ltiday.
An Inquest has been opened and adjourned.
Lis Walker's Half-Guinea Hats equal in appearance
itoW, MAY 30.—The United States frigate I and durability these generally 'old at la. ed. each al the urnal
Frankl4A, with Admiral Farragnt on board. accompanied "gag bowleg Walker, hatter, 49, tlautnidetrest, Merylebono
hr het Wan the FrOilo, sailed yesterday for Antwerp. tAdvertiatinentl

In oat cci owi coi

PARK &VICE DAI EN ENING.
Prince Napoleon yesterday called upon M. de
Sainte Bence at h. 5 house, and congratulated him
upon his speech in the Senate against the cardinals'
petition.

Hts Imperial Highness is to start for Constanti-
nople in about tea. days. It is said that en ru),te
he will have an interview with the Queen of
Prussia at Baden-Baden.

The Public Meetings Bill passed the Senate yes-
terd.v by a very large majority.
Yesterday evening there was another thunder-
stonu, which raged for several hours rather • around
Paris than o%er it. The lines of the elect tic tele-
graph were very seriously deranged by it,
and despatches from many places were
mining this morning. The electric flu 4 set
fire to a farmer's house, near Montmorency and
twelve fire engines were at work for some time
before the flames were got under. The pease tigers
on the American omnibus between Paris and
ekvres were so severely visited by clouds of dust
that they lost their eyesight for some time. 17ra-
yellers on the St. Germain and Versailles Rails •1
r sugared a •III"w ,4lhe AgOaiatis atm M
the ground at a point- awe nfre—Paffthion at Id
the Luxembourg garden., and, the pigeons whit h
had gone to roost on the plane trees that surroum
the Fontaine de Medicia flew alit in a ci,vey. as if
shot had been tired amongst them. Today the
heat is very much lies. Ducrw Chevalier's ther-
mometer, which yesterday at 2' o'cltok marked 33
degrees, did not rise higher thrill 23 se-day. The
weather is cloudy, and) threatens rain.
M. Horn, whose pamphlet, " Le Bilan do
!'Empire," has been severely handled by this go-
vernment press, and particularly by M. Vitt. in
" Les Finances (so unfortunately misprinted " Lea
Finaces-) de Uhmpire.:' is about to reply in an
oposscle to be entitled, " Saha all. Troia i ;me Mil-
liard.- He demonstrabse that the public charges
of different kinds whirls, weigh upon the popul.i-
tion amount now to threetlbousand mail ions of tranes.
The annual income of the whole country being
estimated at tifteen milliseds, it follows that taxa-
tion absorbs one-fifth of the fruits of labour. But
the poorer classes, upon whom taxation falls
heaviest, ref in many eases as much•as iiivarter
or even a third of what they earn.
At the Bourse, the Rents, after being quoted
at 69.90 for cash and 69.86, underwent some fluc-
tuations consequent upon transactions for the
monthly settlement, and closed with a fall of
15 and 7i, at 69.75 and 69.70. These, how-
ever, are the highest prices of the month, and the
settlement is altogether against the bears. Italian
fell 10e. ; Mobilier, 7.50 ; and Credit Foncier.
2.50. Suez Canal shares, in which an active busi-
ness has been doing within the last few days, and
which rose 40f. yesterday, were done at 447,/. to-day,
but afterwards rapidly fell to 440 f.

JAPAN.

THE ATTACK ON SIR HARRY PAILKES.

The Japan Times of April 9 contains the follow-
ing account of the attack on Sir Harry Parkes :
Our readers have already received some news of the
attack on Sir Harry Parkes at Kioto on his way to visit
the Mikado. It appears that on 22nd March, the British
Minister left Osaka for Kioto, and having been magnifi-
cently entertained in the temple prepared for his reception.
one used only by princes of the blood-royal, set out on
the following morning to his audience with his Imperial
Majesty lUntatihito. He had with him his own mounted
escort of thirteen men and a guard of her Majesty s
9th Regiment of about sixty. In addition, he
was accompanied by some two hundred Japanese
who formed Ms advance end rear guard. At a rertsio
point, where the obstacle of a bridge compelled the men
to move in double file, and where, moreover, a tuna in the
street gave a favourable opportunity, a couple of Japanese
swordsmen rushed out of a shop and attacked the escort.
So totally unprepared were the men for any such assault,
and so skilled the assailanm in the use of their weapons,
that eight of the thirteen mounted guard, and one man of
the 9th were disabled before the mischief could be
stopped, and in leas time than is required to describe the
incident, one of the desperate Samurai had reached Sir
Harry Parkes. Here,however, he was fortunately stopped,
and, wounded by bayonet and sword thrusts, and
with a pistol bullet in his head, he was taken alive.
His companion had been killed meanwhile, by
Goto Shiojiro. a Japanese noble, whose name will be
found in our list of Under-Secretaries of State for Foreign
Affairs, and who was riding by the side of Sir Harry
Parkes when the attack was made. Its jumped off his
horse instantly, and rushing forward with drawn sword.
eonfreredothraisuluraahqouiheakdlyjr wtc"huellliiamnostetrrinnagt
ive
hit
head from his body. Almost all the damage to the escort
was therefore dose by the other man, and spree( is here
afforded to us of what one determined and skilled
Japanese swordsman can do. and at the same
time of the utter helplessness of lancers as an
escort. The man who was taken was named
Ichikawa Samuro; his companion was Iyiudida. Ichi-
kawa, on earaminatron, assigned no particular reason for
the attack, beyond a general desire to extirpate foreigners,
appealing, as did the assassins of Major Ealiwiu and
Lieutenant Bird, to the ancient laws of Japan oe the sub-
ject. He gave the names of two other men, who had
stationed themselves at another favourable point of
attack further along the route to the Mikhail; palace.
His wounds were curiously slight, the bullet from Lieute-
nant Bradshaw's pistol having lodged in the thick part of
the skull behind the ear, and his clothing having
in some way protected him from *weed and
bayonet. He had been a priest, in a temple
near Osaka, but had left it to join a new
guard in course of formation for the protec-
tion of the Mikado, in which service, however, he could
not agree with his comrades. He was twenty-sine years
of age, his accomplice, lyashidla, a mere
the
between 17
17 and It. He was executed on the nth. Mean-
while, at the time when the attack was mark, the French
and Dutch ministers were waiting at the Mikedo's palace
for their colleague, it having been arranged that the three
ministers should pay their visit to the Etaperor together.
For some time, Sir Harry's non-arrival created no sur-
prise, as be is notoriously unpunctual, but after a
long delay the representatives of France sad Holland
gave him up and had their audience. When they
came out, they were told what led occurred ;
and it is now known that the zees bad arrived
some time previously, but had been coneealed from them,
lest they should have insisted on leaving the palace with-
out seeing the Mikado. On the following slay Sir Barry
paid his visit, and this time without widest, the most
minute precautions having been tabu', barriers erected
and guards posted at every point of vantage. The inter-
view was moat satisfactory. The Mikado expressed his
pleasure at seeing the representative of her Majesty, con_
minting whose health he solicitously inquired; referred
to the recent unfortunate *CALM/Kell with regret, and
stated his desire that they should net be allowed to
interrupt the friendly Mathew existing between
Japan and Great Britain. Sir Marry replied in suitable
' terms in the name of the Queen, following the
Emperor's speech paragraph by paragraph, and
the abort interview was over. The cereosesial
is described to us as singularly simple. The Mlltado,
a youth of about sixteen, sat under a canopn, with
his Kuges, the highest officers of his court, and tie Mies
his unees, round him. He was seated on • chair, and
close behind him knelt Arisugawa Setae no Mia, the Saud,
or prime minister, ready to prompt the boy Emperor in
what he had to say to the representative of WA ally.
Lower down the room, which was quite bare
of other furniture, sat the Dsimioa who were
present, in two lines, so placed that they
could not see him. He is well grown, but of a heavy,
though not unintelligent, east of face. His expression,
naturally enough, seemed to be one of reseraiited, but in-
tense, curiosity, and the look of wonder wee certainly not
diminished by a very singular artifieial deformity. His
eyebrows were shaved clean and a pair painted about as
inch higher up his forehead. What little he had to ay he
said well in a self-possessed sad dignified manner. The
English Minister had his audience on the Mk, and on the
27th left for Osaka.
The Japan Times concludes by saying that one
pod result has arisen from this visit to the
hitherto sacred and inacoesaible Mikado of Japan."
The Emperor has issued a proclamation making it
disgraceful to kill, or attempt to kill, a foreigner.
Offenders will suffer a degrading execution.

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