The Express.
London, England, 1855-01-10 00:00:00

ARRIVAL OF THE PACIFIC.

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(TROY Till COMIZSPOIMINT or TIM DAUM NZWII4
LIVERPOOL, WIDIMIDAT.
Early this morning the United States mail steam
ship Pacific, Captain Nye, arrived in the Mersey
with the usual mails from the United States and
British North America. She sailed from New York
on the 28th ult., having been detained one day by
tog, and has brought besides the mails 97 pas-
sengers, but no specie. Lord Elgin was one of the
paemagens.
A proposition has been made to the Senate, offering
mediation to the United States upon the Eastern
question.
We have dates from California to Dec.l, and one
million and a half of dollars in gold dust has reached
New York. An attempt has been made at San Fran-
cisco to liberate the Russia* prisoners on board the
prise ship Sitka._

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Business was doll at New York.
The cotton market was dull at the opening, and
cottons had fallen a quarter cent, but recovered again,
closing firmly.
The breadstuff market was quiet, and firm ; flour
was duller and rather dearer ; in consequence of the
smell stock of wheat, prices had advanced ten cents.
Indian corn was brisk at a trifling rise.
The market for provisions was quiet and without
*Bastion.
Freights were steady and unchanged.
The royal mail steam ship Washington from
Bremen and Southampton on the Bth ult., arrived at
New York on the 24th.
The Pacific 9n entering the Mersey ran down the
Corinthian, bound for Algae Bay, all the crew were
saved.

THE WAR.

Tai very able letter of our special correepondei
in the Crimea, dated from the camp of the Light
Division, bears internal evidenos of its being a
reflection, as true as it is spirited, of the tone and
temper which prevailed among our soldiers at the
time it was written. It is a prose counterpart of
SHAKSPRARE'S sketch of the humours of the Eng-
lish camp the night before the battle of Agincourt.
Looking back through the long vista of our military
annals, it really would appear as if English war-
non were doomed to achieve their most brilliant
victories at the time they are decimated by sickness.
Bo it was at Agincourt; so it has been before Bebe..
topol. The most heroic exploits of our soldiers are
painted, in history, on a null gray ground. This
harmonises with the character which our continental
neighbours have been pleased to attribute to the
whole nation—that of being engaged in a constant
struggle with discomfort, grumb:ing ',lustily, and
taking a sort of wayward pride and pleasure both in
the grumbling and its cause. We write in no mood
of levity, though the idea upon which we dwell is
•grotesque when viewed superficially. One gallant
fellows in the Crimea have had (much to suffer—
mach that might have been averted from them but
for culpable blundering in high places ; but they
have borne it all with the grim determination of
Englishmen, speaking their minds freely, but without
breaking out into mutinous or unmanly reviling'',
and without for one moment falterinCin their resolve
to go through with the work in band. The shrill
note of effeminate complaint which has appeared to
rise from the amp on the heights above &baste*
has emanated from a few weakly or factions 'cribbing.
Not as a motive for relaxing draw 11•11114 the
strenuous efforts that are being mob to idiom the
privations of our gallant champions in the Crimea agi
to promote their comforts, but as a consoling tin* ft
may be confidently affirmed that the worst Let at
their trial has peened. Their numbers have bow la•
Greased; supplies of food, medicines, dodo. owl
habitations, have been pouring in upon than; 16/
this time, in all probability, the first sod el the 8010.
Melva Railway has been turned. In other niffiglile
too, their position in relation to the Memeovite fee.