The Express.
London, England, 1868-07-07 00:00:00

JAPAN.

PARIS, JMI 7.

Official advice. received hero from Japan state
that the delegates of the Mikado appointed to take
possession of Yokohama, and to negotiate the
questions still pending with the foreign ministers,
had presented themselves at the French Legation,
where they renewed before the diplomatic represen-
tatives the assurance of the desire of the Japanese
government to entertain the best relations
with the foreign powers.
The Ex-Tycoon had arrived at the castle of
Mytho, where he intended to live in retirement.
The troops of the Mikado have occupied
Yeddo.

ARRIVAL OF THE VILLE DE PARIS.
BREST, Jt-LT 7.
The Transatlantic Company's steamer Ville de
Paris arrived here at 7.15 a.m. to-day.

AMERICA.
ARRIVAL OF THE CITY OF PARIS.
(vii Queenstown•)

The Inman royal mail steamer City of Paris
arrived at Queenstown, from New York, at 2.40
a.m. to-day, with 160,000 dollars in specie. Having
landed mails and passengers, the proceeded im-
mediately for Liverpool. All well.

NEW YORK, Awn 27, Nom.

President Jaiteen, in his veto of Mr. Stevens's
bill for the admission of North and South Carolina,
Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, and Florida, to re
presentation in Congress, repeats the objections
advanced by him when he vetoed the Arkansas bill.
The President declares that Congress has assumed
an authority over six states of the Union which
had never been delegated to it, and in the case of
Alabama Congress has violated its plighted faith
by forcing upon the state a constitution which the
people had rejected under laws enacted by Con-
gress. The whole bill is declared to be subversive
of the principles of government.
General Grant has officially notified to General
McDowell the admission of Arkansas. it is
reported that military rule in that state will be
immediately withdrawn.
The House of Representatives has passed the
new internal tax bill.
The Democrats claim to have won the Missis-
sippi election by 23,000 majority.
President Johnson has nominated Mr. Henry A.
Smythe, at present collector of customs at the
port of New York, to be minister to Austria.

The Prince de Joinville, Duke and Duchess
d'Aumale, and the Duke de Chartres, left Brussels on
Saturday for Germany.
Some of the Italian journals state that Father
Bocci, the constructor of the great astronomical clock so
much remarked at the Universal Eshibition of 1867,
has discovered a motive power lighter, stronger, and
more economical than steam. They add that the learned
Italian is said to have laid hie invention before the
court of Portugal, which is disposed to purchase it.
The Lombardia of Milan, of the let inst., relates
the following :—" A deplorable fact occurred yesterday on
the Pia= Santa Sofia. A number of young men threw
stones at the archbishop who had been to the Convent
Santa Sofia to visit the nuns. Some missiles also were cast
into the church. The police hastened to the spot and put
an end to the disturbance."

The death is announced of the French African
traveller, Lieutenant Le Saint, in exploring the country
about the White Nile. lie had already overcome many
diSculties and reached Abon-Kouka, within some sixty
leagues north of Gendokoro, when he fell a victim, at the
age of 36, to the insalubrity of the climate.