The Express.
London, England, 1852-10-12 00:00:00

ARRIVAL OF THE NIAGARA.

A summary of the following appeared in yester-
day's Erpreu:
At 7 o'clock yesterday morning the British and
North American Royal Mail steam-ship Niagara,
Captain Leitch, with advice. from New York to the
28th and Boston to the 29th ult., arrived in the
Mersey, after a very boisterous
.passage, having
encountered severe head-winds during the entire of
the voyage. In addition to the usual mails the
Niagara has brought 31 paseengers, and 118,000 dole.
in specie on freight.
The Niagara passed the Canada within three hours'
sail of Boston, and yesterday afternoon saw the
Europa, both of the same line.
A great portion of the American journals are
occupied discussing the claims of the respective can-
didates for tho presidential chair. A Mr. Semmes
had written a letter to Arch)ishnp Hughes, asking
for his advice as to the duty of Roman catholic. in
the coming elections. The Archbishop sent the
following reply :
New York, Sept. 17, 1852.
Dear Sir,—l have read throogh, and carefully, the letter
-.inch you addressed to me, under date 11th inst., in regard
to the pending election of PreNident of the United States,
and the part which yea think the Catholic citizens of the
Itepublic ought to take in it. The twocandidstes presented
are Oenersl Scott and General Pierce. The entire Am..
rican people appear to be nearly 'quell, divided in opinion
as to which of these two will make the better chief magis-
trate. This fact seems to intimate a general opinion that

the metre will be safe under the four years Presidency of
either. As to the Catholics, they have never been con-
sailed as to the limited Ades between these two. The
probability is, that, like their fellow citizens of other den.-
minetioas, they will be divided—some voting lor one CLIP
Mast% and some for the other. Like °thin, they are
liable to err is their choice. But under all the
olreementnew, I should prefer that, voting honestly,
each asereding to his own judgment, they should
err with the minority, or (what re equally possible)
with the majority of their fellow citizens of all
denominations, rather than ace them guarded against such
desire of erring in their choice of President by any 'We-
akened iniluener. lam sure that with your enlightened
mind and large catholic education, yen will appreciate the
reasons on which this, my humble opinion, is founded,
whether or not you will agree with me in regard to its jw.
tire and expediency. In any event, however, I beg leave
to subscribe myself, your sincere and devoted fnend in
Christ. - 1* Jelin, Archbishop of New York.

Thomas J. Semmes,'Esq.

General Scott has been received most enthusias-
tically.in the State of Ohio, where ho addressed
several large meetings held to receive him.
Madame Sontag gave her first concert in New
York on the 27th, and was received with the greatest
enthusiasm by a very large audience, not equalled
since Jenny Lind's performances.
Oct the same evening Madame Alboni made her
debut in Philadelphia, and attracted a brilliant and
overflowing audience. Every seat in Musical Hall
was occupied, and hundreds were turned away. She
was greeted with long-continued applause, and called
oat after every song, repeating two in obedience to
the applause of the audience.
It is now determined that the Japanese expedition
' shall consist of three superior war steamers, viz. :
The U. S. steamer Mississippi, Capt. Long, which
will leave New York from Ist to 10th of November;
Ithe U. S. steamer Princeton, Commodore Perry,
which will accompany the Mississippi as flag ship,
and is now at Baltimore receiving her boilers. The
third steamer is tho Allegheny, which is now under-
going repairs at the Gosport navy yard.
The Hon. Thomas Baring had arrived in Wash-
ington, and had paid a visit to President Fillmore,
on the 27th, being introduced by W. W. Corcoran,
Esq., one of the leading bankers in Washington.
Anti-Maine law outrages continue to appear in the
American
.journals. The house of the Mayor of
Lynn, a friend of the Maine liquor law, was entered
on the 25th ult., by several rowdies, who defaced the
exterior, and soiled the carpets with blacking, &c.
They effected their entrance by breaking a window.
A barn has been burned in Exeter, and another in
Richmond, Providence, both belonging to magistrates
who recently decided against men arrested for re-
sisting an officer in enforcing the liquor law. The
saw mill of Samuel Fry, in West Greenwich, was
destroyed by fire on the night of the 25th ult. The
important liquor caso of William 11. Greene has been
decided against him. The liquor was taken in cus-
tody by the U. S. marshal to await the decision of
the court.

Property valued at upwards of 30,000 dollars was
destroyed at Brooklyn, on the 28th ult.
We learn from the National Intelligeneer that
Commander Cadwalder Ringgold, U. S. navy, has
been appointed to the command of the expedition
"to explore and survey the China and Japan Seas,
Behring Straits, and the route to and from California
and China," which is in actual course of organisation
and equipment, under the auspices of the secretary
of the navy, Mr. Kennedy. Orders have been issued
for the immediate equipment and adaptation for the
service of the U. S. ship Vincennes. at this station.
Anthony Menkins, a eweller of St. Louis, to-
gether with his whole family, six in number, was
poisoned on the 19th ult., in consequence of partaking
of food into which a quantity of arsenic had been
put. Two mulatto girls in his employ are suspected
of having committed the crime. One of the
daughters u dead i the others are slowly re-
covering.
Judge WFariane wee killed by the falling of a
heavy casting at hie foundry at Hollidaysbourg, on
the 27th ult. He was the editor of the Harrisburg
Keystone, and Associate Judge of Huntington
county.
The papers throughout Louisiana, Albnma, Georgia,
and Mississippi, all state that the cotton crop has
been greatly injured by the rot, and that the crop
will be much shorter than was anticipated.
The lake fisheries are beginning to assume consi-
derable importance. From a single district in the
south end of Lake Michigan, embracing the islands,
bays, and main land, extending north and south
about 70 miles, and east and west about 120 miles, it
is said there will be shipped this year not less than
50,000 barrels of fish, which will command in the
market about 250,000 dols.
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A telegraphic despatch received at Newburyport
says that the brig Corinth, Chase, of Newburyport,
bound from llichibuctoo for England, has been
totally lost.
Henry Clay is to have a monument erected to his
memory at St. Louis, at a coat of 73,000 dohs. It is
to be the work of an association.

The Moro (Miss.) Democrat, of the Bth says:
"On the afternoon of the Ist instant, two of
oar citizens, W. S. Watliugton and William T.
White, became involved in a personal rencoutre, the
result of which was that the former, by a stab re-
eeived during the fray, was immediately killed. Mr.
White surrendered himself, was tried the following
day, and bound over in 6,000 dollars."
The Toronto Colonist hes a special despatch from
Montreal, which states that on the 23rd ult. the Hon.
Jean Chabot was sworn Chief Commissioner of Pub-1

lie Works, in the place of Hon. John Young, re-
signed. Mr. Chabot previously held the same office.
The Gloucester Telegraph reports the arrival of
the fishing schooners John James, Mary S. Houston,
and Leonard M'Kenzie, from the fishing ground.
They report several interruptions by the British
cruisers, bat no seizures, except of the Newburyport
schooner Caroline Knight, on the 11th, about ten
miles west of North Cape, P. E. Island. It is esti-
mated that the returns of mackerel this year will
fall short one-half of the quantity taken to this date
last year. This is attributed mainly to the trouble
at the Bay of St. Lawrence, the vessels being obliged
to keep further from the shore than heretofore, for
fear of being charged with being within the limits,
and consequently seized. Another cause is their
being prohibited from fishing in the Bay of Chaleur,
where full fares could have been obtained, it being
full of mackerel. The fish caught this year in the
Bay are very large and handsome, and command
high prices.
The steamship Yacht, Captain Thompson, arrived
at New Orleans on Sept. 19, from Brazos Santiago.
She brought 33,897 dole. in specie.
The only paper we have received is a copy of the
Brownsville Americas Flag, of the 4th instant, from
which we learn that the excitement in Matamoros,
in consequence of the recent usurpation of Cardenas,
still continued. The constituents of Senors Rodri-
gues and Valdez, elected to represent Matamoros in
the State Legislature, do not recognise the right of
Carden to expel them, nor will they acknowledge
the latter as the legal governor. The National
Guard of Matamoros, composed of 400 men, have
declared their determination to sustain their repre-
sentatives and Senor Prieto for governor.

The Flag says that this guard recently left Mata-
moros for Victoria, but, for some cause not stated,
returned and took up a temporary residence on the
American side of the river, and were maintaining a
correspondence with the military commandant and
ayuntamiento of Matamoros. The Flag adds that
the principal cities of the state have pronounced
against Cardenas, and within a week some interest-
ing scenes might be expected in Tamaulipas. The
Flag warns the Mexicans, however, that it is a vio-
lation of the laws of neutrality to use our territory
as a recruiting place.
General Avalon has issued a proclamation to the
people of Matamoros, from the tenor of which we
should judge that he intends to support Cardenas in
his usurpation. lle warns the inhabitants against
taking a hostile attitude to • ards the governor of
the state, and says that, if dissatisfied with the result
of the elections, they have a legal resource before the
national representation. lie learns with regret that
some misguided persons are assembled at the Itaneho
Falcete, with hostile intentions towards the state
government, and entreats them to return to their
duties, secure of amnesty for the past. lie appeals
to them by the dangers they so heroically passed
through in October lust, and assures them that he is
a sincere friend, only solicitous for their welfare and
that of the frontier.
Tttl Lotion 181.‘NDS.—PORTLAND Memel-wars.
—The Portland Adrerliser has the following :
When our former article, showing the import ince at this
question to the shipping interests of Maine, appeared, we
were not aware that several Of our own merchants in this
district were directly interested in the position taken by our
government, they having, aa we now learn, chartered their

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vessels to load at the Lobos Islands. The business to au, it
seems, presents an entirely different aspect between our own
government and our own merchants, and between our go.
vernmest and Peru. We learn that the owners of the veo.
eels or their masters and agents, saw and read Mr. Web-
ster's latter of the 6th of June, secretary of the navy ref tith
before they chartered their vessels, and they distinctly say
that upon the strength of the plain declarations in these
letters, they chartered their ships.
Bya telegraphic despatch (received via Boston),from
St. John's, N. 8., we are informed that Mr. W. Lek-
son, M.P., had arrived overland from Halifax and
had had several interviews with the directors of the
above railway and with the Executive Couneil,which
was expected to result in the carrying of the railway
through the province of New Brunswick, with a
prospect of its extension to Halifax and the eastern
extremity of Nova Scotia. 'rho government had ex-
pressed themselves determined to act with firmness
on this question, which was well received by the
inhabitants, who seem very anxious upon the sub-
ject We subjoin the announcement referred to:—
St. John, N. 8., Sept. 28.
The contract for the European and North American
Railroad, from ficherltac and the Nova Scotia hoe, ria St.
John, to the Maine boundary, was closed by the executive
and the company with William Jackson, Eeq., M.P., on
behalf of himrelf and his usociates. The price per mile is
6,4001. sterling. The province takes of the stuck 1,2061.,
and loans to the company 1,800 f., per mile. The loan,
bearing interest at 6 per cent., is secured by a first mort-
gage on the whole road, stock, stations, &c. The road and
all equipments are to be of the very best description, such
u the best English roads, and capable of being travelled
over at the greatest speed. The survey is going on with
vigour. Toe contract will be sign, d tO-13forritW et cram,
when a salute will be fired, and other public demonstrations
will take place.