The Express.
London, England, 1852-02-05 00:00:00

UNITED STATES.

ARRIVAL OF TIIE ATLANTIC.
Yesterday morning, as stated in hart evening's Re.
press, the United States mail steamship Atlantic,
Capt. West, arrived at Liverpool from New York
direct, having left that port at noon on the 21th
nit., with the usual mails and despatches, 28
passengers, and 260,000 dollars in specie on
freight. Jenny Lind was expected to arrive by
this steamer; and although the rain was laces-
' sant, the landing-stage was crowded by hundreds of
eager people of both sexes, all anxious to welcome
her; but it was soon ascertained that she had post-
poned her return to Europe till the month of April.
The royal mail steamship Ameiiea, which l
for Halifax and Boston on the 10th ult., had net
arrived at the former port on the evening of the
23rd ; but some fictitious telegraphic news Irma Hali-
fax had been published in the Sew York Moir:. and
other papers, announcing the arrival of the Cambria;
which was evidently untrue, that steamer having
arrived in Liverpool on Sunday last.
There is no news of special importance by this ar-
rival. The weather was most severe on the whole
Atlantic seaboard of the States.
The Wirdlingtim R.puldienii denies that Mr. Fill.
more had been requested by his friends to withdraw
from the presidential canvass. On the contrary, he
had been advised to suffer his name to he used; and
in consequence Mr. Webster would not remain longer
in the cabinet.

The Austrian eharorCi, Milseinann,hail addressed g
second letter to the President, relative to Mr. Web.
ster's published sentiments respecting Kossuth. The
chevalier stated that if those sentiments, eneouragisi
a part of the Austrian empire to rebellion, were en-
dorsed by the President, the only course open to the
Austrian minister was to quit the t:iiited States.
The President invited Chevalier Itulseniann to a con-
fidential conversation, which was accepted, and the
Austrian Minister expressed himself satisfied with
the result of the interview, but has since studiously
given Mr. Webster the " cut direct."
Kossuth and his suite arrived at Pittsburg on the
evening of the 22nd ult. in sleighs; the uncertainty
as to the time of his arrival prevented any &laity,
though arrangements had been made on a great
scale for that purpose, and considerable enthusiasm
wasmtunfested.

The electioneering parties had already made the
Hungarian question subservient to their respective
views. The southern party were of course against
the feeling of sympathy with Hungary ; the mirthem
were as actively advocating the duty of the United
States to intercede against " the lawless vionnce
by which every struggle for liberty iii Europe is
crushed."

- - The delegations from various states, in behalf of
Smith O'Brien, and the other Irish exiles, arrived at
Washington about noon on the 22nd, and the Presi-
dent immediately called a cabinet meeting, which
was held at 4 p.m. on that day. A procession of
about 300 waited upon the President at thrt
hour. Mr. nehasey, of the Baltimore delegation,
presented their memorial,which purported to he signed
by 15,000 persons.
The President, in responding, said that while his
feelings and the feelings of his couutrs turn nerally
were warmly enlisted in behalf of the Irish exit's,
he was gratified at the disposition Mall iksted by the
memorialists to do nothing that would eon promise
the government. The President objected in strong
terms against intervention in European utfairs gene-
rally.
Several failures are announced in New Orleans,
principally in the cotton trade. Among the names
mentioned are Maunsell, White, and Co.; Albirus,
Fish, and Mills, and IPllowtll and Co. The last
firm has a branch in New York, and another in
Texas.

Tho Forrest divorce case at last approached a ter-
mination. The evidence closed on the 19th; the
1 counsel for the defendant had occupied until the
21st, and Mr. O'Connor was proceeding in his argu•
meats for the plaintiff when the court rose, on the
evening of the 23rd.
The despatches from Mexico announce that Cara-
vajal was again in the field; Avalos was ready to
meet him, with 2,600 men.
There were in the port of New York, on the 21st
ult., 28 steamers, 106 ships, 88 barques, 96 brigs
and 188 schooners, making a total of 504.
The widow of Fenimore Cooper expired suddenly
on the 20th ult.

The Grand Jury have thrown out the bills pre-
ferred against the Christiana rioters, and all the pri-
soners have been discharged.
Our New York correspondent writes as follows :
NEW YORK, JAN. 2s.
Since my last, the general topic of conversation
has been the cold weather. In twenty years we
have not had so severe a winter. Twice has the
East River, or river east of the city, been so com-
pletely closed with ice that it has been crossed safely
on foot by large numbers of people. A friend of
mine. just returned from the valley of the Connecti-
cut River, assures me that in the neighbourhood of
Hartford the ice is many feet in thickneas. On the
Susquehanna, a southern river, crossed by the great
southern railway, the freight and baggage cars are
actually drawn for a distance of nearly a mile on
rails secured to the ice. Everywhere almost we hear
of good sleighing. The ice crop will be immense,
and large cargoes will be shipped next season to
every hot portion of our continental coast. lee is
consumed in this city in immense quantities; all use
it, rich and poor; and it may surprise you to know
that a very large number of New York *families use
it in the severest weather, nod all winter long.
After being accustomed to the taste of extremely
cold water, it seems impossible to drink that fluid at
its ordinary temperature.
From Washington we have nothing. very impor-
tant. A large delegation of Irishmen went from
Baltimore to Washington to call on the President to
ask his intervention with the British government
on behalf of their countrymen who bad been ba-
nished to your convict settlements for high treason.
The President received the delegation with polite-
nese, but informed them very distinctly that it was
, not the practice of our government, or his inten-
tion, to interfere with the laws of any foreign
country put in force against its own subjects. The
object of this movement evidently was not an ho-
nest one. The movers knew perfeciy well that
our government had no busit.ess or right to inter-
fere between English law and English criminals,
but they thought it would afford a very good eke-
tioneering pretext to oppose Mr. I.;llinore as a whip
candidate for the presidency.
The Austrian charge has had a private interview
with the President, at which the latter said dis-
tinctly ho did not indorse the opinions of 14. Webster
delivered at the Kossuth banquet. Mr. Webster
there spoke as a private person, but it is said te will
leave his place in consequence of this remark of Mr.
Fillmore. Mr. Webeter's chance for the presidency
is growing smaller every day. Mr. Fillmore his
consented to become a candidate, and 'Mr. Webster's
enemies are "down upon him " with redoubled forte.
He is now openly accused on the floor of Cotigre.e of
Ihaving corruptly_ been a participator in the pay-
, ment of the last Mexican instalment at a into far
beyond a just oommission. The truth is, Mr. Webster
has been so long and so deeply involved, and his
personal friends have in various ways made so much
money out of the government, that the public is
ready. to believe any story which impeaches his
• pecuniary integrity. All this will bear hard upon
him whenever he comes directly before the people.
The House of Representatives has been much ex-
' cited by a report of certain United States judicial
officers, who were sent to exercise their authority in
the remote ten itory of Utah, the country of the
, Mormons. This curious community. driven out of
Illinois by the people of that state for their numerous
, crimes, emigrated to a distant point on our western
&sone, on the route to California. Tlwro they built
a large town, which is now densely popu-
lated. They have, however. refused to submit to
the control of the United States, and have
actually driven away all the officers sent them
to enforce the United btateu laws. It turns out that
their morals are of the lowest grade, and that poly-
gamy in its worst forms is the sole touteheion for the
existence and growth of their community. What
course Congress will Wept is not dettrt ll i ll ed, but the
impression is, that a sufficient body of troops will be
sent there to enforce the execution of the laws, and
that in the struggle the Mormons will le scattered
mice more to the winds.
Komuth and suite left Hanisburg on Saturday at
half-past one o'clock, and arriced at Holidaysburg at
half-past ten. At Tuscarora be was tact 11

Gomm. Bigler on hie way to HarrMburg,
who entered the ear in which Kossuth was seated.
At Lewistown.* large number of citizens were es-
wowed, awaiting the arrival of the train. Kessath
spreseel on the platform of the our, and wee
Erveted with enthusiastic cheers. Mr. Parker, on
half of the citizens, addressed Mu and tad
ope material aid. At lisMispenbsql, wIL was the
(Nadu( people, that for nee timm ti as Isued.
impossible fur Kossuth to eater thellshi. Me was
weaselled to return into the oar, sedans Mar was
wojactvii by a private way in's the hwesS. About
12 dcluvk, after the pertcEbidtaideidd. bas
d was let into the sod rows
voi
allresiel them at some As do ismbobn
be was presented with a parse of No dela, whisk
bt. accepted with suitable actin °wholesaled". say-
ing that he had not expected thattha Cgs of Heti-
dapburg had isu fully anticipated bie

COIIIIERCIAL 131TELLIORNCR.
Nllll VOILII, lax. 24.
/haw waft an improvement last 'rafting ia quotations
yor several of the leading faacy stocks. There was not
mwh esebange business, however, owing to the delay of
rile ...them mails ; the reasittaneea, however, were ea-
mod to he moderate by the Atlantic, hest the saiiiag
peActs would Isle some gold during the week. The sales
it the bankers were at 110 k to 1101, but first rate Southern
Binh hills win. done at 110.
Asaits.-100 barrel pots and pearls changed kande 231 e.
tu-day, so 5 dohs to 6 dub. respectively.
Itacaosturras—Flour continued buoyant, the business
'cartoon 6.600 bbls. Ordinary to choice state, at 4 dots.
Zoo. to 4 dais. ; coNialiNS to good southern, at 4 dots.
6.4 c. to 4 dub. 8I1e.; sad mind to fancy western, at 4
lows d$ e. to 4 Jul.. 971 e. per barrel. Nothing of moment
was door in rye, Sour, coon meal, wheat, or barley. Rye
ruled lower ; 20.1 hush Is river realised list 79c. Domestic
oat. were actively dealt in, at 42e. to 47c. per bushel. Corn
traded upwards—the sales (misprision 9,700 bushels mined
western, at 67e. to 69c.; and yellow southern at 68c.
hVe.
CutTioN. —The market was dole in this hem, ceased by
tehgraphic AtiSll3 aof failures in New Orleans, from the
y &cis last )ear' Lusuiess, which still occasionally ap-
pears win re there is any stringency in the mousey market.
1 be sales revorted were 1,900 hales on the basis of 8 to
for middling Uplands; and Sl to SI fur New Orleans and
Factors.—Tbe frozen state of the harbour, with the
ut delivering freights on board already engaged,
had a tendency to check engagements, though rates con-
tinued firm. For Lir. rpoul about :iOO to 600 bales of cotton
were shipload at 3.16 d., and fOOO blots. of rosin at l Id. Flour
ratio ranged from Is. to Is. 3d. There was no alteration in
rates fur Loudon. Foe Han. rates were steady for cotton
at le. For Bremen c..ttoo was taken at ic., measurement
goods at 20.., rosin at 2... sad ashes at Fur Antwerp
cotton was taken at fc. For California rates were steady,
at 43c. to 30c.
l'aurosioas presented no new features of interest. The
business amouuted to 250 fable. prune and mess pork, at
11 dots. CV.r. to 14 dole., and 15 dots. to 15 dots. 25c. per
tin short micdle bacon, at 71e. ; 150 bbls.
prime lard. at tile. to 90. per lb.; IMP bbls. prime and mess
beet, at 4 dots. 5Ue. to odol.. 75r , and 8 duls. 30c. to
II Jul..; and several packages Ohio and State Butter, at
12c. to lA. per lb. respectively. Dead hogs were in brisk
request. at tfic. to ojc. Cheese ruled quiet at 64e to 71e.
pit lb.
New OILLIANS, JAN. 23.
Thi sales of cotton yesterday were 11,300 bales at ie. ad-
vonvr. Himmel* generally is dull, and some heavy failures
dung the past week have made money tight.

TILE COLONIES AND THE COLONIAL

OFFICE.

(From die D&p New.)

_ .
•• Only thirteen month.," said Fart ORLY COM-
plrecntly, wh, n the Kai of DERBY, in his speech on
the althea'. 'aligned a longer duration to the Ka/Br
war. " (hay thirteen months r Why, how long
would the noble Secretary• of State for the Colonies
have it la.t

The Kaffir tribes with whom we are at war are
not very numerous. The country they occupy is a
strong, but not sip unkoown, one; it has ere now been
the scene of warfare, and has been explored by mis-
sionaries and traders, by civil and military a:als.
Sir HENRY SMITU ought to have some experience of
Kaffir warfare, for he went through the whole of
UINTA'S war. Major-General Someone? has lived
the greater part of his life on the Kaffir frontier.
There is no lack of money. provisions, or troops.
And yet for thirteen months undisciplined herba-
ria°. have set the might of England at defiance, and
may, for aught that appears, continue to do so ras
many more. Only thirteen months."
An allusion to the Kaffir war, and an allusion to
the suspended constitution of New Zealand, is
the sum total of the reference made in the royal
speech to colonial affairs. It might be inferred feet
this that these were the only colosial problem's&
present calling urgently for solutions. imtemitorsiki
be a great mistake.
The Kaffir war is only a part et the tresbimsf
South Africa. The stairs et the Om. Near
Sovereignty, and the relation, with the
boas on the frontier, are air empliveledill=
natelactory. And the evasions ail liveherrilers
by which the elkiale is Gleps The. heed lees
allowed to stave ef the histehm of the seeedheles,
kee_p alive examperadon, sea preseehe Ilholheths.
The shuffling and disszo simmer in whisk
the New Zealand colonists r Mort, been &WM
of their promised cenutitatkie is ainweditable
to the imperial government. And even yet
prospect of getting a anestitation of say kind h
rather remote. Parliament Is invited la stake a new
constitution for them at its he m& And the went
of a constitutioo, though the graeiset, b sat the
sok grievance of New Zealand. The eifir rattle-
went• can get no clear titles to their indel WNW
'lent will do nothing to set amide the vesedees
claims of native chiefs to obstruct even molt isis-
Forewent& as the making of roads.
But we have other colonies besides New Zadeed
and the Cope of Good Hope. How do inattention'
in these others?

The North American provinces having of late
been left to govern themselves. and the relS•
was mission to this country haring peeved MS.
ceidul. men's minds are there in a triumeil sad Me-
tented condition.

In tbs Australian colonies the pnisesstiastiso et
government with referees, to the assist
tion question is creating wide sal dio-
contest. Am:media( Is the latest in hom
Van Mimeo's Lod, Bari 0/ET had jut boss
• burned in effigy theft.
Nu abatement is discernible in the azaquestisa
which exists between Bir CHARLES Gary sad the
inhabitants of Joiosicia, and between (;.,east
Kish iv and the inhabitants of British 0/la/11.
St. Helena is shakos throoghont its little bolls by
Civil broils, stirred op triAttatis.spotis isrmodorts of
the local authorities. whisk, after seven
years of existessor, womb *Bo atm than 300 in-
habitants, sad oasts this sonolig teary twice as
many thousand pounds pa sew, somplains of
bring tantalised with a seminal governor, who
though in receipt of a large .slay basset bees, in all,
Piny days in the colony since it was hooded, and
thus engaged during great part of his stay in a
rixationa, and inquisitorial renitiny into all this
doing,, public and private, of his late lioutonoot
governor, with a view to justify or extensions the
arbitrary suspension and subseqornt diadem, sal
that gentleman--a kind of " Jeddart justice." as the
Scotch bt.rderers call it—punishing a man first, sod
trying him tifterwards.
In our M, diterranean dependencies, which, though
net colonies, are systematically abandoned to the
tender nu mien of the Colonial-office, matters are
little bout r. 'the wounds indicted by the atrocious
cruelties in Cephalonia are skinned over, not healed.
And Sir H. G. WARD is coquetting with all factiomil
of the 14May, Islands in turn, each being perfecay
aware of the hollowness and insincerity of his pro-
fissions. Malta is at present hopeful; thanks to the
personal character of the Governor lately sent out ;
but at Gibraltar much discontent exists among the
mercantile community on account of the weight of
taxation, and the squandering of the revenue in jobs
and simcures.
In het, the whole of oar colonial dominions, with
the turptiou of the North American, are at this
moment iii a state of greater or less misgovernment and
diveontent. Itt except Lord Decor iio one touched
upon this quietion, or on the omissions of the ro3 al
apteeh 'skit-ding it, on TuesdaT night ; and even his
lordship restricted his observations to the Kaffir war
and the New Zealand deferred constitution. What
b. said on thew topics was substantially just, but
Earl GREY thought he answered Lord DERBY SUS-
titotly I.) a 1,. INOtper.
Ike (1011.1611 is not by whom colonial misrule
mum( need, but by whom is it continued and embit-
tend and why is it allowed to exist? Earl GREY
is the pea sent revputiaible minister for the colonies,
and to him the public look for their govern_
bent. Ile may silence Lord Dritee good
reminding
that noble lord, that any attack made by him oa the