The Express.
London, England, 1855-01-17 00:00:00

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LONDON. WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 17.

LATEST
NEWS FROM ABROAD

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COPENHAGEN. JAN. 16.

All the new Ministers who had aocopted office
provisionally retain their portfolios, the Minister for
Foreign Affairs excepted.—Daily News.

PARIS BOURSE.
PARIS, TtrasbaT.

Closing prioes:—Three per Cent. Rental, for money,
67.60; for account, 67.76; ditto Four-and-a-Half per
Cents., for money, 94. Bank Shares, 2,940. The
Three per Cents. show a further rise of per cent.
since Monday. In the Four-and-a-Half per Cents.
the advance is j per cent.—Daily News..

THE UNITED STATES.

ARRIVAL OF THE AMERICA.
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LIVERPOOL, WIDNISDAY.

This forenoon, at 9 o'clock, the Royal Mail steam-
ship America arrived in the Mersey, with the usual
mails from the United States and British North
America. She sailed from Boston on the 3rd inst.,
and has brought, besides the mails, 176 pariengen,
but no specie.

The Royal Mail steam-ship Asia, from hence on
the 23rd ult., was passed on the 4th between Halifax
and Boston ; and the Pacific, from hence on the
27th, passed (bound for New York) on the 15th. The
United States Mail steam-ship, from hence on the
16th alt., arrived at New York on the 31st.
At the departure of the steamer business was im-
proving, stock firm and rising, and commercial as-
pects more encouraging.
By the last California advice, to December 8 we
have the arrival of 700,000 dole. in gold. News un-
important

A Russian privateer had arrived at Ban Francisco,
having escaped the Allied Fleets.
The demand in the breadstuff market wu moderate,
flour about t dollar dearer. Indian corn firm at 1
dollar per bushel.
There wu a fair trade in the provision market,
which was firm at the close.

The cotton market was slack, sales email, and
prices drooping. Freights are more active, and
higher.

Exchange on London, 108 to 108; ditto on Puis,
6.17 to 5.22. -

The America has not been able to make the pas-
sage in the usual time, having been detained by
head winds.

THE WAR AND THE MLYISTRY.

THE provincial public is speaking out on the sub-
ject of the war, and the manner in which it has been
and continues to be managed. The voices that reach
us are those of earnest, reflecting, cautious leaders of
opinion in their respective districts. The speakers
at the late public meeting in Manchester, while
treating Mr. BRIGHT with all that respect which his
position as a corn-law repealer, and his fearless
energy of character, deserve, protested emphatically
and energetically against the course it has pleased
that gentleman to adopt with reference to the war.
At the meeting to be held in Leeds to-day Mr. ED
WARD Buys, no mere flub speaker, no rash or un-
reflecting politician, is to take the lead in opposing
Mr. COBDEN. It is evident, from these and other
symptoms, that the bulk of our substantial middle-
class men are deeply impressed with the conviction that
the war in which we are engaged is just and inevitable.
But the most staid of our provincial politician■ go
farther than this; they express in the most unequi-
vocal mouser their dissatisfaction with the way in
which the war has been conducted on the part of
Government. And some of them go so far as to indi-
cate their opinions respecting the cause of this mis.
management. At the meeting of the Manchester
Commercial Association, the President, Mr.Asenum,
Tomes, remarked :—" It was impossible to read of
the sufferings and hardships of our soldiers in the
field without feeling the utmost admiration and
gratitude to them, and which he could sot but think,
alter making great allowance for the difficulties of
men in office, was highly culpable, and which he did
not think was so much attributable to neglect on the
part of Government itself, as the result of the system
pursued in making appointments, to subordinate posts,
of men who had to carry into effect the orders of the
Government. If, in manufacturing, steamboat,
railway, and other large commercial concerns, it was
the habit to fill up all the posts of subordinate officers
by appointing sons, nephews, and relations of directors
and shareholders, without reference to merit and
competency, how could those great enterprises ever
succeed P The usual way was to exercise the utmost
oars in selecting men of talent, and if that was not
the case, all those great mourns would soon be as
disastrous and unfortunate for all concerned as
affairs had been found in the Crimes. He
wished the expression of this Chamber to go forth
most unreservedly against this system." At New-
castle, Mr. LINDUAT, after expressing disappoint-
ment at the way in which the war has been managed,
went on to attribute the failure to the real-organisa-
tion of public departments :—" There were too many
heads—irresponsible heads--sad •far too great a
machinery of useless forms. With such men
as Captain MUMS (of whose unwearied exertions
and practical knowledge he could not speak in
terms toe high), and a simple system—s system
similar to that which is adopted in greet mercantile

establishments—wo would not hav; heard of the
fearful sufferings to which our troops had been sub-