The Express.
London, England, 1852-11-08 00:00:00

GREECE.

We read in the Obsereatertr of Athens, of Oct. 27 :
Colonel Count Baceioechi, whose arrival in the Pirteue
we announced, has left for Constantinople, after a short
sojourn at Athens.
A terrible storm, such as has not been seen at
Athens within the memory of man, or perhaps for
thousands of years, occurred last night. The violence
of it may be judged of from the single fact that one
of the columns of the Temple of Jupiter Olym-
pus, which every traveller has admired, near
near the Adrian Gate was overthrown. Private
correspondence from Marseilles states that
most of the ships in the Piraeus broke from their
moorings, and that much damage was done. The
storm lasted five hours. Several houses in Athens
were thrown to the ground.

EGYPT.

ALEXANDRIA, Ocr. 23.
A short time ago his Excellency Mnktar Bey
arrived here charged by the Sultan to obtain the
.assistance of his Highness Abbas Pacha in the linea-
-1 vial difficulty caused by the position of the Bank of
Constantinople and by the rejection of the loan.
So far as a ready promise to assist goes, ho has been
successful. The Sultan asks hie Highness Abbas
Pacha to anticipate the payment of the tribute of
1833-4. This the Pacha has agreed to, and promised
to place the amount (about 300,000/. sterling) at the
Sultan's disposal in London in the course of tho
coming month of November.
Nut being sufficiently prepared to meet such an
engagement his highness addressed himself to a
banking-house in Alexandria for the purpose of ob-
taining the requisite advance, to be refunded in a
year, and having been met with a difficulty—not
from any distrust or unwillingness to assist his high-
ness, but from utter impossibility to provide so large
a sum at such short notice—his highness decided on
despatching his Excellency Abdallah Bey to London
via France.
Abdallah Bey is expected to meet his Excellency
Nubar Bey at Paris, and they are directed to start
together for London for the purpose of addressing
on the subject the Peninsular and Oriental Company
(who, :it appears, on some previous occasion, exhi-
toited offers of aid to his highness), and requesting
their assistance.

Abdallah Bey left this port for Mars?illea on the
21st inst. in the Egyptian steamer Nile. At the
same time Makter Hey returned to Constantinople
with the result of his mission; and towards evening
of the game day there arrived another Turkish
steamer with an envoy from the Sultan, bringing
from Constantinople valuable presents for the Vice-
roy, as also the decoration of the new order created
by his Imperial Highness, of which order he himself
is the chief.
The railway works are prosecuted with the same I
alacrity as from the commencement. Upwards of
twenty thousand men were lately at work on the
embankments; and that pest which runs through
the Lake Mareotis is so nearly completed, that it is
expected to be so entirely before tho rains set in,
which may happen in a short time from now. After
the rains have consolidated the ground, the rails will
be laid down.

THE UNITED STATES.
DEATH OF THE HON. DANIEL. WEBSTER.
At half • past seven o'clock yesterday morning the
British and North American royal mail steam
ship America, Captain Shannon, arrived in the
Mersey, with the usual mails front Boston and
Halifax, the former of which ports she h.ft at
noon on the 27th, and the latter early on the 21th
ult. The America brings 40 passengers, amongst
whom are the Earl of Mountcharlcs and Mr. Jackson,
M.P., and specie to the amount of 100,090 (Mars
upon freight. The mails arrived in charge of Lieut.
Reed, R.N., Admiralty agent.
The intelligence brought by the America is four
days iater than that by the Liverpool and Pkilnkl.
phta Steam-ship Company's screw steamer City of
Manchester, which arrived in the .Mersey at seven
o'clock on Saturday morning. A telegraphic sum.
nary of the news by the City of Manchester appeared
ouriedition of Saturday.
The America, on the 29th, at 9 p.m., passed a large
steamer, bound west, supposed to be one of the Cul-
line line.
Tho most important item of news by this arrival is
the death of Mr. Webster, on Sunday morning, the
24th ult., at his residence at Nlarslith !d. The pro.
bability of this event was announced in a second
edition of the Express of Saturday.
In the principal cities public measures have been
adopted by the authorities for a suitable manifesta-
tion of regard to Mr. Webster's memory. In Boston
a public meeting of tho citizens was caLed and a
commitee appointed to superintend the arrange-
ments for the funeral. Both branches of the City
Government assembled, and requested citizens to
'suspend their avocations on the day of the funeral.
Preparations on a scale of magnitude in some digITO
proportionate to tke veneration of Massachussett; for
the memory of her greatest statesman, arc on foot in
Boston for his funeral celebration. The councils of
New York, as well as the bar, where the name and
fame of Daniel Webster are scarcely less re-
spected than in Boston, have also entered into
the preliminary movements for a fitting fu-
neral celebration after the Presidential election.
It was to hive taken place on the 24th ult. from his
late residence in 'Marshfield. The remains would ho
deposited in the family vault upon the grounds. It
was reported that the President and members of the
cabinet would request the privilege of paying their
last tribute of respect on this occasion. General
Pierce had also apprised the family of Mr. Webster
that it was his wtsh and intention to be rcsent
' during the ceremonies.
Who will succeed Mr. Webster as Secretary of
State has not yet transpired. Possib:y Mr. Crit-
tenden.

By way of New Orleans advices from Cuba to the
18th ult. have reached Now York, being five days
later than our previous accounts. The last news
states that the passengers who left thin port in the
Creseen Lefty, for Havana, and were eveutually carried
from New Orleans to their destined port by the Black
Warrior, had been arrested and examined with re-
geed to the proceedings on board the Crescent City.
They were subsequently released ; but some of the
engers who went out from New Orleans in the
barque Nlillaudon did not fares() well. They were
thrown into prison for having copies of the l'U gyms
in their pockets, as was also a prominent citizen of
Havana, in whose possession a number of the Dlltcs
newspaper was found. Lieutenant P..rter had an
interview with the Secretary of the Navy, when the
views of the government were expounded to him,
with the expectation that he would govern himself
accordingly. In other words, the President and his
cabinet simply disapprove of the position
Captain Porter assumed at Havana, and up-
hold that of the Spanish authorities. Curler
these circumstances the captain is to return to the
Georgia, from which steamer he was temporarily
absent when he got into the difficulty with the
Cuban government, as commanding °dicer of the
Crescent City.
The U. S. war filgato Mississippi sailed on the 23rd
alt. for Annapolis, Md., previous to her tival depar-
tore for Japan. The Mississippi carries Commodore
Perry's flag, and at Annapolis will take the Commo-
dore on board, and sail for Japan, in company with
the Princeton. From an early hour boats were pass-
ing to and fro from the shore, and many were the
warm leave-takings between the crew and their
friends. At 12 n.m., all strangers were ordered on
shore, the anchors were raised, the paddle-wheels
revolved, and at 1 o'clock the Mississippi moved
front her moorings in the East Hirer, to proceed on
her mission to Japan. There are 37, souls on board;
291 are sailor, 46 marines, and 39 offivern. All
hands are in excellent health and spirits, and eager
to join the expedition.
A letter from Boston states that the owners of the
vessels sent out to gather guano at Lobos have for-
warded instructions to their captains not to attempt
to forcibly load with the precious manure, but to
seek freight elsewhere. Having been led into error
by the letter of the Secretary of State to Capt. Jewel,
It is understood that they intend to seek redress
for their losses from our government. -It last ad-
sices, Coin. McAuley had not received the orders
countermanding the notification given him to defend
American vessels in securing guano, so that it instills
matter of uncertainty as to whether we shall not get
into serious trouble with Peru on this subject.
Quito an excitement sprung up at Sandusky, Ohio,
in consequence of the capture and sulnequent rescue
of a party of fugitive slaves from Kentucky. White
and black citizens participated in the rescue, and im-
mediately started the runaways for Canada. The
owners, it is probable, will sue the city fur the loss
of their property. Another slave stampede occurred
i n Washington county, Maryland. No less than six-
teen eloped.
We (New Turk Tribune) have received Texas
papers to the Bth inst., front which we take the fol-
lowing interesting items :
The Gakenton News of the Bth inst. says General
30Hotush
alt.t arrived at his home, in Huntsville, on the

General Rusk has returned from his duties in
Congress to his home, in Eastern Texas. lle is said
to be in excellent health.
An express rider from Los ()judos arrived at Core
pus Christi on Thursday evening, and reports the
appearance of 30 Indians about $0 miles from there.
They passed within a few feet of where the metier
ger was encamped about 9 o'clock in the evening,
and were apparently bound for the Itio Grande.
.!kinong the distinguished strangers who have
visited Corpus Christi lately we notice Lieut..CoL
I'orter, of the Rifles.
The Indianola Bulletin of the ith inst. publ'shesa
list of premiums offered by 13 mercantile firms that of
place to the traders and producers of Western Texas.
Among the premiums we notice one for the greatest
number of bales of cotton brought in for sale or ship-
, moot; one for tho best packed lot of cotton ; one for

the largest amount of hides and peltrimi see for the I
beet hogshead 'd Texas-grown eager, sad several
ini,or ones. The premiums are wrought silver
piThtchtemrumodubleti,
ur that gold exists an the head waters
of the Brazos has (says the Houston TelograpA of the
Mb instant) been fu'ly confirmed by the merit ex-
plor2tice of Captain Marcy. It is added that the
(cologne of the expedition has deposited at the
of at Washington several ene of pars
vitt:which were found near themlitlitits swets-
P.'
wry
;sorrel prominent gentlemen are already men-
tissed as probable candidates for governor at the
next election : among others, Asa M. Lewis, Esq.,
WT. George W. Smyth, Colonel M. T. Johnson,
and Colonel J. W. Dancy. As the number of con-
butes will doubtless be numerous, several papers
haee already suggested the propriety of holding a
Nnvention for the purpose of making a nomination.
Thu Galveston Journal of the 7th instant says:—
A travelling correspondent of ours, who has just
rimed through Harris, Montgomery, Grimes and
Washington counties, writes us from Washington as
The crops are good. The corn crop is
iuperabundant ; the cotton crop excellent."
'Ma Lone Nlar publishes the result of some days
ooren pecking in Washington county. On uplands,
worth from eight to ten dollars per acre, the smallest
pate•ity picked in one day by one of 18 hands,
was 3d. pounds, and the largest 477 pounds. On
Mr. larreinn's plantation, near Chappell Hill, with
fifteen hands, the largest quantity of cotton picked
by any was 533 pounds, and the smallest 329
pounds.
Another Indian fight has taken place in Texas
• a body of Rifles, under I.ieutenant Frost. We
take the following account from the San Antonio
pipers :
.h gentleman by the nano of Smith, who hail been to
I it Ewell with a load of water melons, was attacked
or. his return by a party of Indians near the Presidio
erasing on the an Antonio road. Several shots were
tired threngh his wagon Led. Ile r. termed to the fort. On
roe ipt of this issformatoe, Lest. Frost, albs Rifles, was
d,pitehed from Fort Ewell in pursuit as the 16th, with one
serzeant. two corporals, and seventeen privates. On re-
run= to the point indicated, he soon found the enemy's
trail, which he followed until the 18th. After a march of
shout l i utilee on the twining of the 18th the tnil began
to indica, when the lieutenant ordered his men to recap
their pieces. While they were doing so, the guide, who
was in advance, discovered the Indians in camp, who, at
the same time siring him, stampeded their horses audited
M. teelves in every dl,, ction. Seeing this movement, Lieut.
Frost ordered a charge and dashed into the enemy's camp.
Four Indians being mounted, they were pursued. When
the 'doitenant and his guide were shout two hundred yards
in ideal= of the men, the Indiums suddenly wheeled upon
the .r runners. Ili' arms having been rendered useless by
the Or getting wet in riding through the thickets which
surniuniled the enemy's camp, he ;attempted to ride down
as of the lodine, when his hone gave him a seven fall.
Regaining his met, be discharged one barrel of a revolver
into sa Indian's bock, and at the same time received •
woual un the cheek below the right eye. His troops earning
up. he ordered pursuit, which we, kept up for eight hours,
but the thickets were eo dense that the Indians escaped.
The lieutenant is of opinion that it his men bad been armed
with reoolven he could have reported some of the Indians
tilled. The rid- being an unwieldy weapon in a
thaw, more particularly in a thicket, they were usable to
tee them to any advantage. The Indians wen evidently
takes by sum,. as they left their horse meat cooking, the
kit:twain which they were eating, their blankets, saddles,
teid!es, tobacco pipes, paints, bows, quivers and shields,
their braes armlets, their chiefs cockade, together with a
Urge combos, of urtieles of Mexican apparel, &c. On es.
=mat= of the Indiana' camp, the mail from Corpus
Chrion to Laredo was found, which led to the inference
that they had killed and robbed the rider. After resting
upon the ground for twenty four hours, and thoroughly
=reline the country is every direction, without being
she to discover a trail, and his men being out of rations,
and himself bully injured, the lieutenant returned to Fort
Ewell. Captain Skew, previous to his own fight, received
■ letter from ('apt. Clay Davis, also of the Hangers, which
mud that be had been attacked by about one hundred
Comanches, somewhere in the neighbourhood of Rio Grande
City. lie lost eleven men. The number of Indians killed
WO not me rtained.
By the British steamer arrived at Havannah on
the 11th inst., we (New Orleans Picaynne) have dates
lion Vera Crux to the nth, and from the city of
Mexico the Ist inst. As our files are not full, we can
only present such items of interest as we Bad in the
kw papers received, and in the Mexican =respon-
dence of the Havannah peepers.
Ou the 23rd of September, the Committee of Con-
gress presented to the government a reason:mods-
:Am that that body should be convened to take tato
consideration the 'Feb question. the main
of war on the Indians, sad the moss of Webs
resources for the governmest. The government,
however, reduced the questions to be presented, and
issued the following decree:
The Chambers see wankel is meet ea the 20th sf Oele-
her, to take into considernelemasnemnis for the re.coselisk.
sent of public order, sow dimaresed sewesnoshis.
Oa the 30th of September the 7fieisOsr of helm
issued a decree against the libtety of the prem. The
following are ;Is most hmpetteet punkas:
While nen rusts as wadi iris te any part of the
medic which si.ws met obey the mime of the gowsument,
soil avows an overturn et the enlisting order a
cutlass the national institutions, we on. shall write=
press authm; tall shall directly or indirectly heel( the
nehinft
sof the Insurgent,. No sow shall he awed I.
ante against the an'horitin or Auctions:We in any way
that shall degrade them in mihtis 'Mal= ; neither will
ribiumions or eatsmatery asenthem, wader the frivolous
puttees it is falai* self, ea it le weU knew*, he allowed;
Sat reatosahle daesseimi et the eels of the
latch shill ant provoke the feelings nor off the penes
el the Ann, is sot prohibited.
Offences ere to be punished with imprisonment er
Inc of the writer, or printer if he will not present
the writer; and the sive= power decrees to itself
authority to act summarily in the premises, either
with civil or military forms. The press is mom-
quently as completely mauled as in Fraace.—New
(*teem l'icarenr, Oct. 17.

NSW-10aii706v. 26.
A lam amount of harlots@ was traissacted la stocks to-
day. Wrens:tent and State Stocks wars bins freely at
quotations. North American Trust ashamed I; Canton
C,:trnit. y. 1; nettling nailroad,l. Harlan Railroad, 1;
Camherland Cod Company, 4 ; Newish sml Weeterter,
LThe demand for Exchange so ,11111 Ikt,, Mbar tall.
.on, Ilu to 1101; Paris, 5.13 i 1. r j AMISI4MiN, 41
10 ; Frankfort, 401 to 401; Brown, 791 to 291; Rao-
bun:, 3 to
e eau. ns of Savannah bay* subscribed 500,00111 dollars
towards the completion of the Savannah sad Albany Rail-
road.

17he tendency of the /gooey Market Is to Author saw in
the rates ,na temp,rary and Iced loom Prime Dualisms
psi"? can be readily .satiated at sin per asst. in the
strict, and Ilve per eeot. is the tamest rate for loans en
deemed, with stock collaterally.
I,tics.—There wars 160 bbla. purchased at 4 doh. esp.
fir Ma, and .5 dole 561 e. for pouts, per 100 lbs.
4.—Floar continued is eery active &nand,
ant was sold to the latent of 14,400 MAL ; ordinary to
choice state, at t dole. 60e. to 4 dole. One. ; supardas Cana-
dian, at 4 dole 561 c. to 4 dole. 621 c. ; mixed to limy
Welders, at 4 data. 561 c. to 4 dot.. 75e.; and common to
good !leathern, at 4 doh. 6810. to 4 dole. 671 x. Rye dear
retailed at 4 dole 25.. to 4 dots. 60e.; and Jersey meal at
$ ,1,45. 621 e. per bbl. Wheat favoured owners. The salts
embraced 11,500 hushcls Westean white, at 1 dol. Se. to 1
dol. no., and 26,000 bushels Canadian ditto, at 98e. to 1 dol.
2e. About 2,500 bushels eye changed bands at 86 e. to
841 e. ; and 30,000 bushels Western coin, at 76e. to 7Ste.
State and Western oats acre in requut at ssp. to 47c. per
bushel.

CuITON.—The market continues very heavy, with sales
to-day of 400 bales.
Flollo)lTll.—hates enatir.ued firm, with an upward taa-
deney in ossotations. To Liverpool about 2,000 bbla, was
engaged at la. 91. and at the elom 2s. was asked. 660 bids.
ro.:n were engaged at Is. 9d. Fur cotton Id. was demanded
and I. Ude wheat. To London, veuels on ware about fall,
eiminz at 2.. 6d. for Row and Bd. for grain. To Ilaere,
2I)O Ades cotton were engaged at
d *eat For ashes 8 doh.
and IO dole. were Raked, and 10 ols. was asked fur ries ;
4,:i90 hid.. were engaged for Australia, at Be. W. To Cali-
fornia rates were firm at 45c. to Bic.

i'ItOVISTOMP.—Pork was inminats and depressed. The
sal.. militated of 300 lib's., prime at 15 dole. ; and mess at
11 d. la. Omen hams commanded 10e.: aides oc.; and
shoublin be. per lb. Lard was pretty active end uniform•;
b) pkge emeim.n to prima waa bought at 111 to Ilf per
lb. Beef ruled quiet, yet firm. The transactions etabrtad
170 hbh., prime at 4 dole. to 6 dole. 50, and mess at
9 doh. 49 to 15 dots. Ohio batter was selling at Ir•e to
laic. ; IVestern New York do. at 20e. to 23e. and lair to
duke cheese at be. to 9fe. per lb.

FIRE A? WAPPIN(I.—OR Saturday night, shortly,
Wore eleven o'clock, a gee of a most destructive character
&Ai. out on the extensive premises of Mann. Paton end
Charles, soap boilers, High street, Wapping, which re-
stilted in an immense sacrifice of property. The (rootage of
the manufactory was sittieted within fifty yards of tto en-
tune, to the Thames Tunnel. The flames were first dis-
covered by a policemen imiag beam the windows is the
rr:,r of the hailiag-howee. La lamectiate alarms wee prism,
but by the Mos the UM raglan were pot to work, the
whole of the twillamproon sad the warehouse adjoining
were Mama Mr. Bruidweed shoofly afterwards arriv,:d
with several powerful engines, and a good supply of water
&ing at hand, the Armies were able to protect the houeem
OR the western aide, but all hopes of saving any portion of
Messrs. Paton and Charles's premiese were vain. The cause
ef the calamity la not at presmat known. The firm is
bared.