The Express.
London, England, 1855-05-18 00:00:00

FREEDOM OF THE PRESS IN AMERICA.

Great excitement has been caused in Parkville,
Missouri, and through the 'United States g fly, by an
extraordinary outrage which was committed on the 14th
ult., in connexion with a newspaper, called the Industrial
Luminary. Thu journal, it appean, had given offence to
the pro slavery party, by the freedom with which it spoke
of election doings in Kansas, and by its expression of a de-
sire that Kansas should be a free state. On the day above-
mentioned about 200 men assembled, wen.. to the office, and
canted the presses, types, itc., into the street. Steps were
then taken to" tar and feather " the proprietor., Messrs. Pat-
tenon and Park. The latter was absent on a journey, but
Patterson was nixed, and would certainly have had to sub-
mit to that indignity, bad not his wife clung so tenaciously
to him, that, in the words of a (pro slavery) narrator, "we
could not indict the punishment without gross violence to
her feelings, and perhaps rudeness to her person." A vote
was accordingly taken, and Mr. Patterson was set at liberty
by a small majority. The following resolutions, says the
Plaits Argus, were then carried with acclamation
Resolved, 1. That the Parkville Industrial Luminary is
• nuisance which has been endured too long, and should now
be abated.

2. lhat the editor, to wit: Q. S. Park and NV. J. Patter-
son, are traitors to the stat• and county is which they live,
sod should be dealt with as such.

3. That we mast here again on this day three weeks, and
if we find G. S. Park and W. J. Patterson in this town then,
or at any subsequent time, we will throw them into the Min-
sonri River, awl, if they go to Kansas to rend., we pledge
our honour as man to follow and hang them wh we
esa take them.

4. That at the suggestion of our Parkeille friends we will
attend to some other freesoilers not tar off.

I 6. That we will suffer no person belonging to the Nor-
thaw Methodist Church to preach in Platte county, after
this date under penalty of tar and feathers for the first of-
fence, and a hemp rope for the second.
6. That we earnestly call on our sister counties throlgh-
out the state to rise in their might and clean themselves of
freesoilism.

7. That our puce, our property, and our safety requires
us at this tine to do our duty.
8. That we request every pro-slavery paper in Missouri
and Kansas to publieb the above reeolutions.
The press wu then shouldered, with a white cap draw.
over its head and labelled, " Boston Aid," the crowd follow-
log in regular order; it wu marched up tbrouah tows
nearly to the upper landing, and there, with three hearty
cheers, it was deposited in the Missouri River.

, THE WAR THE CAUSE OF THE COLD SPRING.--
M. Le Maout, • chemist at St. Brieue, has started tho
theory that the cannonade at Sebastopol has • greet effect
on the weather. In an article on the subject, published by
him as the sth inst., he says—" The w hole course of native
allsosed by %kis cannonade. The residue of the combustion
of **powder is dispersed in the air hy the *lad to a dis-
taste@ of more then 1,000 leagues, and afterwards falls in
rain or snow. It has changed the chemical composition
of the atmospheric air, by causing • greater quantity
of emote and carbon to enter into it ; it maintains the sky in
a oonstaatly cloudy state, as was the case last year daring
the bombardment of Bilistria ; it causes rain to fall in
abundance ; it produces violent storms of wind and extreme
cold, and considerably lowers the temperature of the at-
mosphere, and con neatly makes the barometer rtes. 'The
weather, which bad • mach milder for • week during
the temporary saspension of the bombardment of Sebastopol,
yesterday morning (Saturday last) underwent a complete
*mtge. T*barometer, which hadbarometer, bean falling suddenly,
checked its downward progrew, and began to ries; heavy
rain, accompanied by • violent pale of wind commenced at
daybreak. This complete change in the weather lead, to
the idea that the cannonade recommenced with violence en
that day, or that there has been some new affair."
ENGLAND AND IRELAND IMPROVED COMMUNICA-
TION Btu. Commirrim7The ountaittse appointed by
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the Home of Commons to hear evidence on.ibis bill ai-
@Gabled yesterday, at one o'clock; present, Mr. Lowry
Corry, chairman, Mr. North, Sir Stafford Northoote, Mr.
B. Sheridan. and Mr. Floyer. Mr. Rope Scott, Mr.
James, and Mr. Mewether appeared in @spoon of the bill.
The pi re
parties petitioning spinet it are the Great Western
Railway Company, the Steam Ship Amociation of London
and some steamboat owners, who appeared by tionmel ; and
the Belfast Chamber of Commerce the Belfast Harbour
Osomniesimers, the Liverpool Son:, Seam Packet Cam-
. 1114 Ulster Railway Company, the Drogheda Harbour
en, the British Steam Ship Association, the
Livened Chamber of C0mm.,.,, and some Glasgow steam-
boat SIAM, for whom no appearance was made. Mr. Hope
Scott eeenpied the sitting with his opening speech. The
examination of Sir Cosaeßosey,who will be the first witnser,
was deferred on amain of the length to which his evidence
is expected to extend. _

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY.—Yesterday
lan adjourned amide meeting of the sharsholden of this
I company wee held et the Paddington terminus, in con-
tonally with the Whanclido order, for the purpose
of approving or disappeovieg of the provisions of a bill
at present before parliament for the construction of a
line of railway proceeding from • point on the Cheat
Western line, near Southall, le Reentford ; and also for the
esestnietion of docks sear the knee place. The chair was
lam by Mr. Russell Mr. Seesaws having read the
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