The Express.
London, England, 1852-02-09 00:00:00

UNITED STATES.

ARRIVAL OF THE ANA.

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By the arrival in the Mersey at ten o'clock on
Saturday night, of the Royal Mail Steam-s!,ip Asia,
Judkina commander, we have received our \.•w York
letters and papers to the 28th alt. in( •ive. Oa
that day at noon the Asia left New Vin k, witty 95
passengers, and about 100,0001. sterling in specie
on freight. Her advisee are four days later than
those previously received here per the Atlantic.
The royal mail steam-ship America, regarding
which some anxiety had begun to be lilt on tho
other side, arrived out at Boston on the t:vening of
the 26th, having been delayed by adverse gales.
There is no later news from California, the Wed
Indies, Mexico, or South America.

In Congress, several animated debates Lad tukea
place, but thu subjects were only locally ilittvcsting
to the respective states involved.
The litines Club of New York dined ligetiter at
the Astor Ilouse on the 2Gth to co:mm.1,10110e tit°
birth of the poet.
The New York Herald has the following in refer.
ence to matters connected with lionau h :

The western people are quite beside them•.:. s with the
Kossuth mania. A tremendous sensation been pro•
duccd at Pittsburg, the Magyar's first rentio-r p'..iee an the
other side of the Alleghenies. The peopi. turned out
en moose to greet him, and speeches of the patriotiq
character were made by the distinguished gie •:.soil others,
As be progremis, the enthusiasm will incr.-tee , until the
whole of the upper valley of the Mississippi will be resell,
to explode, and scatter its principles of liberty throughout
the earth.

Having read one version of the correspondence hawses
Konsufh and the officers of the Mississippi, p.,ple are now
exceedingly anxious to get a look at the other iiiteh, said
to he locked up in the departments ut Washington. We
are pleased to learn that their curiosity is about to be gra-
tified. The noose of Representatives on Moonlay called
for the letters which posed between Kossuth, toinineslons
Morgan, Captain Long, the American consul at Marseilles,
&e. The difficulty is not over yet. In speakiii2 of the
letters recently published, the IVashinyton It. public, the
official organ of the Prilident, says: " A Wane, makes it
apparent that the narrative, including the colt. spondence,
is an ex parte statement of facts, and therefere unreliable.
It omits notice of incidents which are essential to a right
understanding of the matter, and displays a reekless thine
to exculpate Knseuth at the cost of truth and iie character
of our navy. The affair cannot remain in is pre.ent shape;
the garbled story, although sufficient of itself to rebut runty
of the inferences at which the Koesuth journals have up..
rived, will necessitate the production of the whole truth."
The working dames in Pittsburg appear to be extremely
enthusiastic in the cause of Hungarian indep. oilence. By
small contributions they arc said to have I.in...if a Inge
' amount of money, a portion of which they presented to
Koasuth on the occasion of his visiting them at their work-
shops.
We learn, says the Tribune, that another outrage
upon the American flog, similar to that perpomted
by the British bark Express, has taken pliare in the
southern waters. The American schooner Nlidus wax
recently overhauled by a Brazilian cruiser, which,
after ransacking the schooner's papers, fired a shot
across her stern on parting. This is the second grow
insult to our merchantmen by war vessels of other
nations, in that direction, within a few weeks.

The steamer De Witt Clinton, from New Orleans,
bound to Pittsburgh, struck a snag eight miles
below Memphis, on the 25th January, at about 4
o'clock p.m., and sunk within two minutes, in two
and a half fathoms of water. From 25 to :39 lives
were lost, including all the firemen except one. Tho
officers, crew, and books and papers, were all saved.
Tho following
_is from our New York corre-
spondent:

NEW YORK, JAN.

The great topic of the week has been the finding
of the jury in the divorce case of Mrs. Forrest. On
Monday morning the scaled verdict of the jury, made
lup by consent on Saturday evening preceding, was
opened in court, and proved to be in favour of Mrs.
Forrest. A divorce has been granted her. Mr.
Forrest is judged guilty of adultery, and adjudged to
pay 3,000 dollars per annum alimony. Two circum-
stances destroyed Mr. Forrest's position with the
jury and the public. He was proved to have main-
tamed an intimacy with a deceased actress, which
was very marked and suspicious. It was proved that
he was to every late period in the habit of constmitly
visiting a celebrated assignation house and paying
for private rooms there. He was not deemed, there-
fore, by the jury to have had clean hands. On the
contrary, the charges against Mrs. Forrest were sup-
ported only by the testimony of the lowest people.
who contradicted themselves, and were proved to have
committed all kinds of crimes themselves. Mrs.
Forrest and her female friends were in court at the
rendering of the verdict, and when she appeared
in front of the city-hall, descending from the
court-room, arm-in-arm with her counsel, she
was loudly cheered by thousands of persons
who had assembled there, and she was fol-
lowed to her lodgings, at the Irving-house, by a largo
Croup of admiring friends. Mr. O'Connor, her
counsel, was also loudly cheered. He was followed
home to his office by quite a respectable mob, cheer-
ing him as he went. When Mr. Forrest came out
ho was attended by a few friends, who attempted to
raise a cheer for him, but it was accompanied by II
succession of groans.

From Washington the rumours were on Monday
that Mr. Webster was about to withdraw from tho
cabinet, in consequence of the recent determination
of Mr. Fillmore to become a candidate Mr the next
presidency. Mr. Fillmore, after backing and filling
for many months, has at last been persuaded to be-
come a candidate for the Presidency, precisely the re-
sult which those who knew him predicted. his was,
in all respects, a safe nomination: all accord him
honesty and a fair share of talent. But his indeci-
sion has been so destructive to his prospects that ho
has lost a large body of friends, who, believing that
Mr.Webeter was his nominee, have gone over to him,
and are for the present neutralised.
The affair with the Austrian Charge remains still
somewhat of a mystery. I have given you already
the most reliable information, yet there are persons
who assert that M. Ilulsemann has written no letter
to the President at all.

One of the most remarkable things in this country
of late, and even now, is the great severity of tho
weather all over the United States. Navigation has
been interrupted by ice at New Orleans, as well as
in New Turk. Persons have been frozen to death as
far south as Baltimore. Numbers have perished in
the streets in this city. The quantity of ice housed
by the various companies for our summer consump-
twn, and for export, will be immense.
A subject has recently come under public notice
which I think it my duty to allude to. It is the
shameful treatment received by the Irish emigrants
on their arrival in this city. The Commissioners of
Emigration arc under the influence of three or four
large shipping merchants, in whose vessels most of
these emigrants come. The tax which is paid by
these emigrants goes into the hands of these very
men, and they have tho disbursement of it. They
have now begun to sell bills on London for as small
sums as one pound, in order to monopolise the wholo
business, and by their very position, and tho
" blarney " of theiragcnts, succeed in tilling their ships.
As soon as these emigrants arrive, those who have
no money are " herded " in miserable dwellings by
hundreds, where they receive the most brutal treat-
ment. Exertions are being made to proceed against
some of these parties criminally, and it is hoped suc-
cessfully. The Irish, however we may feel for them
under the various wrongs they stiffer, seem neverthe-
less almost worthy of their hard fate. 'fhousands
hang around the city to beg, to drink and die, rather
than go to work in the country, where labour con-
tinues to be so dear. They are obstinate and un-
reasonable, and it is in vain to attempt to move them.
The wages of Irish servant girls keep up to f, 7,
and S dollars per month in this city, although thero
I are thousands out of place. I have in vain sought
for the solution of this singular fact.
Kossuth is well received in the west. He ismaking
his eloquent speeches to delighted audiences; he is
everywhere welcomed, and certainly has made many
converts to his opinions. Yet nevertheless he will
utterly fail in his mission. We cannot interfere with
any European matters, except in positive self-defence.
There is a rumour from Washington that a squadron
of three steamers and other vessels is going to the
West Indian seas, under command of Omintander
Perry. The object has not transpired. The story of
an increase in the number of our Mediterranean
squadron is now contradicted. I was informed the
other day, by a high functionary representing a high
power abrodid, that he had ascertained there was no
truth in it, at least at present. As the foreign
ministers know pretty well from sources peculiar to
themselves what is going on in the Secretary of
State's offices, I am disposed to give full credence to
my informant. . _

Mr Commadal Intelligence, see pep 4.]