The Press.
London, England, 1853-09-03 00:00:00

UNITED STATES.

Two American mails have arrived during the week.
The Niagara, which reached Liverpool on Sunday,
with New York dates t►► the 16th, reported the exist-
ence of frightful mortality in that city from the effects
of heat and sunstroke, and in New Orleans from
yellow fever. In New York business was almost
suspended ; and more than 200 persons had died of
coups de soleil in three days. More than half the
deaths wore of Irish labourers, and a majority of the
remainder German and other immigrants. Toil out
of doors under a burning sun, by men as yet unac-
climated, and many of whom were, perhaps, impru-
dent, was assigned as the primary cause of this mor-
tality. In Boston, Philadelphia, and Baltimore many
deathshave also occurred from heat.
The accounts from New Orleans with regard to
the yellow fever are still more appalling. The
number of dead varied from 213 to nearly 300 per
day, and at some of the cemeteries nearly a hundred
half-coffined bodies bad been piled up► for days,
spreading offensive effluvium and pestilence all
around. It was scarcely possible to get the sextons
and gravediggers to perform their duty. At length
the authorities resolved to burn the dead bodies, and
125 dead bodies were destroyed by tire to begin with.
The population was reduced, by death and panic
Hight, to less than 45,000, and probably 20,000 of
these were coloured people. Nearly all strangers
who remained after the commencement of the fatal
scourge were swept away. All who could leave the
scene of pestilence had travelled north, and the
steamers, as they successively arrived from the south,
were tilled with fugitives. In short, New Orleans is
described as two-thirds depopulated. The streets
were deserted, :u►d the quays and Levee silent and
lonely. The cities of New York, Philadelphia, Bos-
ton, Washington, S c., had nobly come forward with
subscriptions in aid of the suffering and the dying.
The Arctic, which arrived since with four days'
later news, brings intelligence that the heat bad mo-
derated iu New York, seine heavy showers had fallen,
and the health of the city was restored as if by
magic. New Orleans continued still suffering under
the stroke of the pestilence.
The Neu/ York Herald announces that there is
another filibuster° expedition preparing for an inva-
sion of Cuba, headed by an experienced officer of the
Mexican war, and already numbering 4,(M)0 men.
The editor calls upon the President to suppress such
illegal organisations, feeling assured that if such an
expedition be really on foot it will meet the fate of
that of Lopez.
The Costa affair continues to occupy much space
in the American journals. Negotiations on the sub-
ject are still proceeding between the officials of
Austria and the States, but no prospect of accommo-
dation is yet perceptible.
The Washington Union, a Government official
paper, contends that, " on the clearest principles of
law, our officers at Constantinople and at Smyrna
have but discharged their duty." It would seem that
the United States Government is fully prepared to
sustain Captain Ingraham and the Minister and con-
suls, not only with ►egard to the affair at Smyrna,
but also that at Beyrout. Mr. Marcy, Secretary of
State, is said to be committed to support the pr►tec-
tion of the United States to foreigners who have only
taken the oath, and "declared their intentions," with-
out becoming admitted as full citizens. Austria,
however, it is believed will not, under any extraneous
circumstances► renounce her claim to the allegiance
of Costa.

SATUItbAY,

The notorious slaver Lady Suffolk, which ma-
naged to elude the vigilance of the British cruisers
on the coast of Cuba, and make her way to the Gulf
of Mexico, has escaped from Laguna. She has ad
vanced one step farther in her career, and now sails
a professed pirate.

SEPTEMBER 3, 1853.

Her Majesty's reception on her way to and at the
Exhibition was most enthusiastic. Remaining for
more than three hours in the building, where she
made a tour of observation and expresse4l much gra-
tification. both at the Exhibition itself and the bril-
liant crowd of loyal subjects by which it was thronged
her Majesty, before her departure, honoured with a
formal reception the niembers of the committee under
whose auspices the building had been completed.
Mr. George Rae, the chairman, was admitted to the
honour of kissing hands—a favour which was also
extended to Mr. Hancock, another member of the
committee. But the most gracious reception was
accorded to Mr. Dargtm. As he advanced, the Queen
addressed to him a few words of congratulation on
the splendid success which had crowned his exertions
with respect to the Exhibition. A further honour,
however, awaited him, iu the shape of a private
visit from her Majesty—the first, it is said, with
which any untitled subject has yet been favoured—
and which took place the sante afternoon, at his
splendid residence, Mount Anville, three miles from
Dublin :

" The 'Royal party included the Prince of Wales anal
Prince Alfred, the Lord Lieutenant and the Countess St.
; the Ducheati of Wellington and lion. Miss Bub
feel, ladies in waiting on her Majesty ; Earl Granville,
Hon. Colonel Grey, Hon. Colonel Gordon, Hon. Colonel
Phipps, and lion. Captain Burke. The emillgr consisted
of two carriages and tour with outriders, and passed through
Dublin shortly utter five o'ehs•k. Her Majesty was re-
ceived by Mr. and Mrs. Hargett. The manner of the
Queen wait exceedingly gracio►►s and eoau•teous, and that
of Prince Albert most polite and cordial. Mrs. I►argaua
having been presented to her Majesty and Prince Albert,
by whom she was warmly and graciously received, the
Royal party were conducted through the imuitiou to the
lofty tower adjoining, from which they obtained a view nut
to be surpassed for grandeur, beauty, and variety, in the
United Kingdom—comneualing, as it does, views of Kings-
town hau•laour and the Wicklow mountains, Howth, and
the buy of Dublin, the city, and the luxuriant valley of the
l,itfey, forming, when viewed from the seven ti►fades of
the tower, so n►sny distinct pictures, each vieing w►th the
other in beauty and perfection. Her Majesty anal his
Royal Highness exph•essad their wannest adminition of
the scenery.
After paying a visit of more thaw half au hour's dura-
tion, her Majesty and the rest of the distinguished party
prepared to return; and, while the carriages were le•ing
brought round, the Queen and Prince Albert again entered
into familiar conversation with Mr. and Mrs. Dargan, of
whom they took leave most graciously on departing for the
Viceregal Lodge."

Prince Albert visited on Tuesday the Dublin ►nodel
lodging-houses and the public baths and wash-
houses. The Queen and Prince dined with the Lord
Lieutenant, who afterwards gave a Roir#e datutante to
a select party of the Dublin aristocracy. The city
was again illuminated at night.
On Wednesday the Queen paid a private visit to the
Exhibition, when she occasioned another " surprise."
The oommittee were waiting inside the building to
receive her Majesty by the grand entrance, round
which, on the outside, many thousand spectators had
gathered. After a delay which excited some as-
tonishment, the committee-men were suddenly ap-
prised that the Queen was already in the Exhibitio►►,
which she had entered by another door, and had
commenced her examination of the various specimens
of art and industry it contained. They hurried off to
pay their respects to r►yalty, and the Queen was al-
lowed to satisfy her curiosity with little further inter.
ruption until eleven o'clock, when the public were
admitted. Notwithstanding the onions throngings
and loyal shoutings which then began, the Queen
stayed in the building until past noon, when she de-
parted through an avenue formed for her amid the
enthusiastic crowd. The architect of the Exhibition,
Sir John Benson, was presented, by command, to the
Queen and Prince Consort before they quitted the
edifice, and warmly complimented on the talent he
had displayed in its constr►►ction. In the afternoon
a review was held in the Phu nix.park in the pre-
sence of her Majesty, but the evolutions were cut
short by a dovmfal of heavy rain. A banquet at the
Viceregal Lodge, followed by a concert, concluded the
day.
Thr►ughout Wednesday night and Thursday the
rain was incessant and occasionally heavy, which put
a sad damper upon the gaiety of the city anal people.
Her Majesty nevertheless paid a second private visit
to the Exhibition on Thursday morning before the
hour of public admission. A visit to Powerscourt, in the
atnty Wicklow, had been arranged for the afternoon
of that day, to be followed by a tour to Howth and
the adjacent district yesterday ( Friday), but it was
feared that the state of the weather would lead to the
abandonment of both journeys.
From the first moment of landing at Kingstown to
the last appearance in /intik of which we have ac-
counts, tile reception of her Majesty has been most
gratifying. The crowds were greater, gayer, and
more enthusiastic in their loyalty than even on the
former state visit of 1549.

The chairman of the executive committee having
applied to Sir Edward Makeney for leave of aketwe
Acaany oilict:r4 that mad ha *and /rum the regi-