The Express. — 1866-01-24 (London, England)

NEW YORK. Jae. 13. The diplomatic correspondence laid before Congress includes an intercepted letter from Captain Maury to Mr. Benjamin Wood, which 'says "The South is connected with the Gwynn enterprise. Napoleon will give him ail the aid he desires. He will go out as director-general in charge of a very peculiar kind of colonisation." In July Mr. Seward enclosed the intercepted correspondence to Mr. Bigelow, and requested him to present it to M. Drouyn de Lhuys, and to inform him that any favour shown by Maximilian or the French government to the Gwynn, or any other Confederate colonization agents, would tend to increase in America the popular impatience at French intervention, because it would be regarded as imparting dangers to, or. at least, as a menace, ' against the Unite & States. If these statements are to be believed, Mr. Seward assumes, with the President's sanction, that the Emperor Napoleon has deserted his position of neutrality. On the 14th December last Mr. Seward writes to Mr. Bigelow :—" Your despatch of Nov. 24 seems to discourage on our part expectations of an early withdrawal of the French from Mexico. It must be remembered, however, that the opinions on. that subject which you received from M. Drouyn de Lhuys were expressed not only without the Emperor's positive sanction, but also in the absence of any knowledge on the part of the French government of the definite conclusions of the President on the subject discussed. It is desirable to leave no part of those opinions open to misapprehension. It is signally desirable that we shall be authorised to infer that such expositions of imperial views as are given to us in the name of the French government are made with the Emperor's approval." The New York Herald states that President Johnson has positively determined to reconstruct his cabinet, retaining two of its present members. It is rumoured that Mr. Stanton will supersede Mr. Adams in London. Mr. Sumner has stated in the Senate that Mr. Seward will be absent for three weeks. Twenty-two regiments have been mustered out in Texas. Preesident Johnson has sent to the Senate the reports of Mr. Stanton and the Attorney-General upon Mr. Davis's trial. Mr. Stanton states that Mr. Davis was captured, and is still held by the military power. He now awaits the demand of the proper government authorities for his trial, upon the charges of treason, inciting to the assassination of President Lincoln, and murdering Federal soldiers, The government decided to try Mr. Davis first fs treason, but this is delayed in consequence of Mr. Chase, the Chief Justice, refusing to hold a court under present circumstances in the judicial district of Virginia. The Attorney-General supports the postponement of the trial of Mr. Davis and other rebels until civil authority is completely restored in the districts where the offences were committed. The government has informed the house that the executive bad no official data on the subject of the alleged kidnapping of Madame Iturbide's child by Maximilian. In the Senate the military committee has reported a bill, fixing the future strength of the Federal army at seven regiments of artillery, ten of cavalry, and sixty of infantry. One new regiment of artillery and two of cavalry will consist of  coloured troops. The aggregate strength of the army will be sixty thousand. Advioes from 'Valparaiso are to the,9th inst. The blockade of certain ports still continued. The flagship Ville de Madrid was at Coquimbo, and the ironclad Nominal& at Caldera, en route to Valparaiso, on the look out for the Esmeralda, of which nothing since has been heard at Coquimbo. On the 2nd the Chiliana suooeeded in capturing the crew of the store ship Salvador Vidat, while blockading a frigate at sea, and overhauling pasting vessels.