The Express.
London, England, 1855-09-17 00:00:00

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ARRIVAL OF THE PACIFIC.

AMERICA.

LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY NIoaT.

This afternoon, about half-past three o'clock, the
Upi,*ed States snail steamship Pacific, Capt. Nye,
arrive 11 in the Mersey from New York. with dates to
the Ath hist, the usual mails, 130 passengers, and
370,551 dollars in specie on freight. The Pacific
has made ,the ran aerobe the Atlantic in the short
space of °ion days twenty-three hours.
The steam chip Tennessee, Capt. Wallace, from
Havre on the 19th inst., put into Halifax at six
o'clock on the owirning of the 4th inst., short of coal,
having experiences: heavy gales and sustained some
damage. She was to proceed °usher voyage to New
York the same afternoon. .

The New York Heroid learns. from an authentic
source, that contracts haNve been made for the intro-
duction this year into the island of Cuba of large
numbers of African slaves. One party aloes has
contracted for the supply of seven thousand. Por-
tuguese agents are now ►n New York making ar-

reigements.
We learn. from Norfolk and Portsmouth that the
yellow fever has within the last day or two aasumed
a milder form in those cities. A ourreient number of
physicians and nurses bad arrived from Charlmes.
Savannah, and New Orleans to take proper charge of
the sick, and a rapid improvement in the public
health may be looked for with eonfideote.
The subscriptions for the relief of the yellow fever
sufferers in Virginia amount to upwards of 62,000
dollars.

A large portion of the cotton made last **aeon in
Louisiana is still lying on the banks of the rivers,
waiting for navigation. On Red riv r alone two
hundred thousand bales are detained. la the mean-
time, planters are deprived of flour, coffee, &c., unless
they pay for these articles to cover land carriage, at
the rate of one bale of cotton for two bartels of flour.
This is particularly the case above Shreveport.
Thomas Francis Meagher has been by special
order of the Supreme Court of this State, sitting at
Albany, admitted an attorney and counsellor in all
the courts of New York. _

A dreadful tragedy has been enacted at North
Sterling, New York. A man named Fitzgerald,
together with his wile and son, were found dead in
their beds, horribly mutilated. Another son is sus-
pected of committing the awful dead.
A despatch from Charleston announces that the
ship Ariel, from New York for Shanghae, had been
taken into that port, the captain having been mur-
dered at sea, on the 17th ult., by two apprentices, as
is alleged.
hidle. Rachel has been moat enthusiastically re-
ceived by crowded audiences in New York.
A Havana correspondent writes or the 23rd August
that the newly arrived troops from Spain had suffered
from severe diarrt, cea, and a few cases of yellow
lever had appeared. The bank scheme could not be
carried out. 'the wharfage improremcws at the
lauding place are described as very fine. Owing to
severe wet weather, a bull fight and other festive
scenes had to be postponed. 11 Trocatore had conti-
nued success at the Italian Opera.
A despatch from New Orleans announces the ar-
rival of the Crescent City at that port with Havana
dates to the 28th ult. Santa Anna and family arrived
at Havana on the 24th from Vera Crux, and left on
the 26th for Caracas.