The Express.
London, England, 1862-03-19 00:00:00

COLLISION AT SEA.

PLYMOUTH, M►ecm 19.

The ship Negotiator, of Sunderland, with coals
for Goias, ram dews the Ruffian brie Altti on the morning
of the 15th retook shout 70 miles off Scilly. The brig
ooh immediately. One man wee drowned.
The Negotiator was abandoned shortly alter in a sinking
state. The crews d both vessels were picked up, and have
Just bon hailed her.

The Austrian general Count Sall& died on the
17th et Vises&

•
THE MARQUIS OP NORMANSY AND THE ITALIANS.
—lf the new Italian government or any of its subordinates
have from time to time acted harshly, foolishly, violently,
or unjustly. they are fortunate in having Lord Normanby as
a armor. When a partisan who has not the art to conceal his
hitt/rase returns woo and again to the task of defamation,
when an enemy ts always on the watch to spy out offences,
when a busYbody makes himself the receiver of every
form of calumny, !Me the plausible miastatemente of
fallen politicians down to stffrise which a mild (le place
might relate to a cockney tourist, the mrmpathies of the
weld are given to the government so maidnetude and
yet so impotently attacked. On Mooday night Lord Nor-
smaby renewed his invectives against the present Inlets of
Italy. It is impossible to read the lo and rambling
speech in which the anger of the royalist op
merquis showed
Itself without feeling that the forty which is attached to
tbe old state of things has now beams merely • spiteful
and reviling faction. If the Tuscan and Neapolitan pre-
tenders retained any hope of 111001:41, their advocates would
adopt a more manly tone. We should hear something
more than twee about the popularity of Ilassini, and
lamentations over the stealing_ of the grand duke's
shire. Lord Normaaby would be able to promise
monething in behalf of hie clients, the dethroned
, instead of carping at the acts of Victor Emma-
, nuers ties. Were there any real regret in Italy for what
' has happened—were there any chance that a single city
would pronounce in behalf of the old families—we should
not have to listen to such irritable language as made up
Lord Normanby's address. It is plainly the conviction of
the party that the resell:dim has been successful, and that
Southern Italy, though some provinces are still disquieted
I by brigands, will moo become as peaceable as Tuscany and
Lombardy. Every month sees an advance towards Italian
liberty and malty, and, consequently, each time that the
voyalist advocate raises his voice in the House of Lords, be
is more sassy sad acrimonious than before.—Tinses.

AMERICA.

NEGOTIATIONS IN MEXICO.
PRESIDENT LINCOLN AND THE SLAVERY
QUESTION.
NEW YORK, IKAami 6. EVZNING.
(Per Mews by MlogroA from Now York
to Rants.)
Advice' have been received here from Mexico,
vii Havana, to the 2let ult. General Prim had
had an interview with General Doblado at Salodad.
The result of the meeting was generally oonsidered
to be favourable to a peaceful settlement. The
Diario Marina asserts that it has good authority

for stating that the following terms were agreed to :
Negotiatkas will be commenced at Orizaba between two
Mexican minister, and the allies.
The allied forces will occupy Orizabs, Cordova, and
Tehstacius as a unitary measure.
If the negotiations are at any time broken off by disagree- I
meet, the allied farces will retire to their former positions.
As wee as the forces move towards Orisake, Cordova,
and Tabun's, the Mexican flag shall be displayed at Vern
Crux and on Ban Juan de Ulloa, by the side of the English,
French, and Spanish flap.
If the negotiations terminate unfavourably, the Maxims
promise to aspect and protect the hospitals of the allies.
The march inland will oommenee immediately.

The New York Evening Post says the tax on
cotton will be agreed to in the House of Repre-
sentatives when the Tax Bill is discussed.
The Federals have occupied Columbus.
President Lincoln has nut a message to the
House of Representatives, suggesting the passage
of • joint resolution providing for co-operation
with any state for the abolition of slavery, with
pecuniary compensation. The President proposes
' this as an initiative step, predicting important
practical results therefrom.
The New York Chamber of Commerce has passed
the following complimentary resolutions to Mr.
John Bright :
In view of a the great Welds of humanity and civi-
lisation, and of the principles of fres government involved
in the contest for maintaining the integrity of the Anise.
can Union, and resorting the authority of the national
government, and from a sense of what is due to an
eminent Weed of freedom, order, and justice,
who has earnestly and disinterestedly given expres-
aion to his sympathy in the success of the national
cause, be it therefore raeolved that this chamber desires
to place on its records an expression of the grateful sense
entertained by its members of the intelligent, eloquent,
jest, and fearless manner in which Mr. John
Bright has defended before the people of Eng-
land and in the British parliament the principles
of constitutional liberty and international justice, for the
immintenance of which the American people are contending.
Resolved, that the proceedings be communicated to Mr.
Bright and published.
Authentic reports from Charleston Virginia,
state that the Confederates are in full force at
Winchester, Virginia, where they have completed
formidable earthworks mounted with 60 guns,
including field batteries.
The Havanna correspondent of the New York
Tribune says the captain of the British steamer
Labuau has passed through Havanna on his way to
Washington, to protest through Lord Lyons against
the seizure of the Labuan by the Federal
' steamer Portsmouth. The captain states that

the Labuan was off the mouth of the Rio
Grande loading cotton, as she drew too much
water to go up to Matamoros, and that the cotton
was owned by British residents of Matamoros. The
Federal acoount is that the Labuan was chartered
by secessionists in Cuba to run between Browns-
ville and Matanzas with cotton, that schooners
brought down cotton to the Labuan, and that the
Portsmouth notified to the Labuan that if she
loaded cotton she would be liable to capture.

The Neu/ York Evening Post sap the Finance

Committee of the donate have struck out the ap-
propriation of 5,000,000 dole. made by the House
of Representatives for the construction of gun-
boats. The Naval Committee, however, urge its
restoration.

The steamer Northern Light has arrived from
Aspinwall with nearly one million of dollars in
specie.
General Guardiola, President of Honduras, had
been assassinated in his residence in broad daylight
by an officer of his body guard.
In Peru matters are quieter, but political dissen-
sion still agitates the country. Certain parties in
Lima were trying to prepare public opinion for a
proposition to re-annez Peru to Spain, and are
said to be seconded in their endeavours by the
bishops and other leading members of the clergy.
It is reported from Boston that the Feder:,

,reamer South Carolina captured the Confederate
steamer Magnolia, while attempting to run out of
Mobile. The Magnolia had 400 bales of cotton on
board. The engineer attempted to blow her up,
but only killed himself by the steam.
The New York Times thinks President Lincoln's
speech to the Peruvian minister not only wise but
timely. At a time when Spain proposes to furnish
a Bourbon prince as monarch for Mexico, the
bonds between the republics of the New World
cannot be too closely drawn. The time may not
be far distant when a holy alliance between all the
people of this hemisphere may be required to estab-
lish the balance of power by expelling from it all
European intruders.
The same journal says :
The Mexican people will never make • spontaneous
movement for • monarchy ; should the allied powers succeed
in establishiog • Mexican monarchy, they will not even
rest, but be enoounged to repeat the operation in the
other Spanish American republics. These republics, like
Mexico, are European debtors, turbulent and anarchical,
heuce the ground for intervention will be u valid as in
the cue of Mexico. Constitutional government is good
where people and sovereign ere content to respect
the constitution, but when coustitutional monarchy
is forced upon people who abhor it, and who most
be kept in subjection to it by foreign arms, it
becomes despotism of the worst description. The
result of the European efforts at • moureby will be •
vast coalition of states of the American continent against
the aggressors ; a grand struggle between navies of re-
publicanism and votaries of monarchy, and the overthrow of
European supremacy in every part of America.
The Richmond journals publish an order of Jef-
ferson Davis, proclaiming martial law over Rich-
mond and the adjoining country for ten miles. All
distillation and the sale of spirituous liquors is
forbidden on account of the demoralisation of the
army and the prevalent disorder. All persons
having arms must deliver them at the Ordnance
Department, or they will be seized.
The Richmond Dispatch calls attention to the
writings on the walls of the city, indicating that the
union conspirators are at work—each words as
" Attention, union men—watch and wait," and
urges summary measures for checking treason, and
advocates the arrest and execution of conspirators.
The sales of government cotton took place yester-
day. 160 bales were sold at from 25c. to 53c. per
' lb. Thirty-four bales were offered, but not sold,
45c. only being offered.
In future all government cotton will be sent for
sale to a foreign market.
The Ars.biaPorussia, Etna, Norwegian, Bremen,
and City of New York have arrived out.

Among the goods to be sent to the Great Exhi-
bition from the island of Dominica, in the West 1 ere
170 distinct varieties of woods of native growth, chiefly
woods, and many of them bearing an exquisite polish.