The Express.
London, England, 1851-04-19 00:00:00

AMERICA.

By the arrival of the Franklin at Southampton w•e
are in the receipt of news three days later from New
York. The slave agitation, consequent on the rescue
of the negro Shadtuek at Boston, had led to the
arrest of several other fugitives. The State Legis-
latures of Vermont, Massachusetts, and Ohio, are
those most loud in their attacks against the fugitive
slave bill. There is nothing stirring of interest at
New York. Subjoined are the latest commercial
items :

New Tuna, Arum 4.
The activity of the stock market it well sustained, and
the prices still show an upward tendency, although the ad-
vance is not PO regular as it was at the commencement of
the movement. lu exchange there is no activity. but rates
are firm for sterling ut 10 to 10; ; Francs arc heavy at .1.10
to 3.071 ; Hamburg, 37 to 371 ; Bremen, 79 to 721 ; Am•
sterdam, 411 to 42.
Freights remained unchanzed. About 1,001 hales cotton
were engaged at 3-10 d. to 7.22,1. ; 1,000 bbls. flour, 12th. ;
1,000 bbls. turpentine, l.al. ; 700 bbls. resin, Shl. ; and
, dead weight at 12s. 0.1. to 1f,.. To Cuba two vessels were
engaged at 21..5. and 21. is. 64. fur Europe. To California
there bt a moderate amount of business doing at 41k. to 611 c.
Asu I:..—The market is steady for pots at 5 dots. to
dots. 06e., with a fair demand. Pearls arc hardly PO firm;
I sales at dols. 714:. to .1 dots. SI ; about 10 brls. sold.
(*. riTON lets advanced be. from the lowest prices of yes-
terday, with sales of 4,000 bales, principally to shippers.
Our market now stands where it did on Tie ',thy last in
quouttiuns, superadding rot active demand. We give quo-
Wilms :

Ober I
Atlantic Ports. Florida. Gulf Corn,.
Mk-Mo. nom. 111,M. 1.131.
toroiniry, low to gnol In to toi 10 to Ind ... 10 t 101
Middling, low to god pep to 111 ... 101 to 111 ... 111 to 14
lair maw 11. to 14 ... 12/ to la,
Far fair to gad 1.11 121 nem. ... 1 t
G.ot snd fine .
ILIA' It AND M EAL.—There in more buoyancy in our
market fur the low grades of State and Western }lour, and
prices of the former are a shade better, with more doing fur
the east and city trade. There is some inquiry for export,
but at prices olightly, below the views of holder.. New Or-
leans is in better demand, and the common grades are bet-
ter. Sales at 4 dols. 681 c. to 4 dol.. 871 c. for common to
choice brands Scioto Valley. Canadian is without move
meat, and the market is nominal at 4 dots. 621 e. in bond.
The sales of domestics reach 6,000 bbl. at 4 dols. 183,e. to
4 dols. 25e. for No. 2 superfine ; 4 d015..50r. to 4 doll. 561 e.
for common to good strait State ; 4 dots. 46.1 e. to 4 dots. 74e.
for Michigan and Indiana; 4 dols. 96... to .1 duds. for Pure
Genesee; 4 duds. to 5 dol.. 25c. fur fancy Ohio and Gene-
see; 5 duds. 2.1 e. to .1 dodo. 37,e. fur extra Ohio ; and 5 did..
30e. to 6 dots. 40e. for extra Genesee. Southern is better
with a good demand for the West ladies and the trade in
part to arrive. Sales of .1,700 bids. at 1 dots. 681 c. too dots.
811 c. for mixed to strait brands, and 5 cols. ton dal. 30c.
for fancy. ltye Hour is steady : sales of 100 Mils. at 3 dols.
371 e. to 3 dols. 41c. Corn meal is very quiet : sales of small
lots of Jersey at 3 dole., and 100 bble. Brandywine, in lots,
at 3 dots. 381 e.
ORM N.—fhere is abetter feeling id nor market for wheat,
with more inquiry for the cast and fur export. Low grades
of wheat an' firmly held for an advance. have only to
note sales of 2,500 bushels of Ohio and 2,500 bushels of
Genesee on term. not made public, for milling ea.twaril.
Canadian is held more firmly and is quiet. Rye is steady;
nudes of 2.300 bushels Jersey at 75c. Oats are steady and
saleable at 45 to 47c. for Jersey, and 18 to 50e. for
Northern. Barley is in fair demand, lint is scarce at 1 121
to 120. Corn opened firm, with a fair demand for the home
trade and the east, lint closed dull and heavy, with more
offering to arrive. ShippG• bold off for lower priers; sales
of 14,000 bushels at 68 to 6141 c. for Jersey and southern
yellow, closing at the inside price. No white ofliging ; it
is much wanted.

l'uovistoNs.—Our market for old pork is again better,
but is less active. New is held firmly at former prices, but
is inactive. Sales of 04)0 bids. at 10 dells. 50e. for 011 prime,
and 13 dots. 50e. for du. mews • 11 slob. 75c. for new prime,
and 11 dd.. for do. mess. Beef is steady. Sales of NO
bids. at 4 dots. to 6 dots. fur prime, and 9 dull. to 11 duds.
:stk. for mess. Beef 11:111V, arc steady. Sales of 290 bbls.
and tes at 7e., part weighed out. Pickled meats ar, seam.,
particularly good hams. Sales of 173 bbls. and tco. fair
hams, at B'c., and itimd shoulders at Mc. Lard is less
buoyant. Sales of 200 blds. and tr.. at B.‘, to Me. Butter is
firm, and prime daries salable. Cheese is undimmed.
mirs.--The market is dull, and buyers are holding oir
in the anticipation of lower prices, as considerable supplies
are daily expected. There are no dry Buenos Ayres in first
bands, but a large supply of Rio Grande freely offering at
111 c. without sales. file sales are 1,000 Porta Cabello.,
VII,. at 121, usual selections ; 700 Laguayras on private
terms; 1,000 English slaughter at 6 c. to i e. fur good, and
c. to 0 c. for inferior.
LEATHER. —The market shows an increasing demand
above the receipts. The stock is very deficient in prime
qualities of light weights. Prices are very firm.
NEw ORLEANA, April 2, 9 p.m.—Cotton is dull, operators
waiting the Baltic's news. Flour is selling at 4 ilds. to
4 duds. 6e.; taros pork has advanced to 13 dols. Vie. The
holders are asking 11 dots.—sales have been made of
700,0001 b. of bulk hog round, at 31e. to 41e. ; bacon has
advanced to Me. to Me. Mr prime ribbed sides ; the ittr,ta-
tions for choice Moltiv•es am 30e. to 31e.; for Rio conic,

101 e. to 101 e.; fair sugar, 4lc. to s:e. Sterling exchange i.
at 101. Freights are dull. April 3, 6 11.111. —The cotton
market is very dull, all parties keeping back fur the Baltic's
news. The transactions were about 2,000 bales, at pre-
vious quotations. Com is inactive, with sales of 5,000
bushels yellow, at ae. to 67c. There is a good demand
fur Ohio oats at 12e. to 46e. Me' pork is sees firm, and
in active request, at 13 doll. Vie. to 11 dots. 'the stock on
hand on the 14 inst. was 21,000 barrels of all kinds. Bacon
odes sold to a fair extent during the day at 81c. In cut
meat. there a good business doing at Ge. fur prime
shoulders. Panne molasses have advanced to 32c. per
gallon, living very scarce. The transactions in lard 6ir two
days reach 1,000 barrels prime, at 14,,c. to 81c. Freights
are drooping. lizeh.tgc remains firm. Tultaceo has been
rather dull, at 6 e, to 71e. for ordinary Kentucky, and 10c.
to Ir4e. fur prime.

FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE.

ROME, Aram 10.

His Holiness is this morning occupied at the
I Vatican in putting the finishing touches to the
lcurdinalitian dignity of the two recently arrived mem-
bers of the sacred college, viz., Cardinal Fonatri, late
Apostolic Nuncio at Paris, and Cardinal Gousset,
Archbishop of Rheims. The public receptions, fur
the purpose of congratulatory visits, took place on
Monday evening, Cardinal rornari receiving in
modest style at the Borghese Palace, and Cardinal
Gousset at the Colonna Palace, the residence of the
French ambassador, with all the " pride, pomp, and
circumstance " suiting to the yrande natimi. I hear,
however, that Cardinal Gousset is a worthy and ex-
emplary prelate, who would never have thought of
coming to Rome to go through the ovations custo-
mary for ecelesiustics appointed to the purple, unless
M. de Rayneval had expressly invited him so to do,
and offered to Isar all the expenses of his journey
and stay in the eternal city, which he can certainly
do without much inconveniencing himself, now that he
is promoted to the high diplomatic rank of ambassador
with a salary of 11;0,000 francs per annum. The stipend
allowed to a French cardinal by the republican go-
vernment is 40,000 francs per annum, equal to that
of a marshal in the army ; a sum near double that
which the government of his holiness allots to Italian
cardinals. In addition to this, Cardinal Gousset has
30,000 francs per annum as Archbishop of Rheims;
making his total annual income 2,5001. The cere-
monies attendant on his eminence's installation will
not be very grateful to the recollection of the Ro-
mans, as many individuals have been arrested for
displaying party feeling on the occasion. Although
Cardinal I- ornari had no music whatever betbre the
Horghese l'ulacc, on the evening of his reception, it
was thought necessary for Cardinal Gousset to have
two orchestras in front of the Camila l'ulaee, one of
which consisted of Roman performers, and the
other of French military musicians, playing pieces
alternately for the benefit of the crowd assembled on
the Piazza dci Santi Apostoli. The crowd, however,
would not satisfy itself with listening in silence,
but must needs applaud vigorously after the Roman
performance. the harmonious efforts of the French-
men being treated with frigid indifference and occa-
sional hisses or shrill whistles. This spirit having
manifested itself on Monday. General Gcmeau, ever
on the watch to prevent disturbances, sent out pat-
rols on the following eve • g, and had the Piazza
well lined with sbirri and French gendarmes, who
seized any person attempting to disapprove of the
French band, which certainly was so inferior to the
Roman one as fully to justify the marked difference
with which the two were received by the public. I
observed one gentleman myself, who had been
whistling to his dog to keep him away from the
crowd, walked off to prison by five lrench gen-
darmes; his dog, a fine black setter, the uncon-
scious cause of his mishap, following him to
gaol with true canine fidelity. It may be
asked whether the French authorities take their
own law, or that of the Roman States, for the guide
of their actions in similar circumstances, as the city
not being in a state of siege, General Gemeau has
no right to act otherwise than according to law,
unless, indeed, he considers law sufficiently esta-
blished by the behest of his ecclesiastical masters,
and deems himself sufficiently honoured by being
chosen to "do their spiriting gently."
Since the immense majority by which the second
reading of the Ecclesiastical -Tithes Bill passed, the

Roman government has been flattering itself that,
after all, its interests will be very little affected by
the bill, and consoles itself for the loss of the shadow
by the reality of the substance which remains. The
ire of the ultras, however, breaks thrth in the lid-
lowing abusive article on the subject, quoted by the
08serratore from the Ilifancier.

In parliament the most distinguished men of the United
Kingdom are quarrelling as to whether the spectacle
of religious intolerance and persecution, at present
prohibited (!), is to be renewed in our days. Tho
greatest, the most cunning, the moat powerful
nation in the world, is afraid of the ecclesiastical
titles which the head of the catholic religion confers
on the catholic priests of the United Kingdom! This na-
tion, which affects to despise the pontifical authority, fears
it, because she knows very well that she is in the wrong,
and would fain withdraw from the remorse of her miserable
apostacy. She knows that at every step which the ancient
religion of her hither* makes in the kingdom of Henry
VIII., the power of that church which sprung front the
lasciviousness of a king and a courtesan, trembles and falls
away. If catholicism is re-ordained and concentrated by
divipline, although poor and weak, it will in time be able
to beat down the ephemeral Anglican schism, in spite of
its usurped treasures, and the arms with which it is girt.
In this struggle the most •acenslitedi states m, it appear to
us so poor in great and generous ideas, so niggardly (Titres-
sire, that we should deny them any nobility of mind or
heart if we did not know that the highest qualities of the
intellect are lost when they turn away from justice and
truth. These men rule in the name of faulty ; they Mau-
-1 gurate the most insane and fatal revolutions to reticent na-
tions in the name of liberty; and yet, in the name of
liberty, they line and persecute catholic pritsas, if, instead
of calling themselves archpriests or vicars, they call them-
selves bishops of a city in the United Kingdom ! Was it
worth while to lose so many months in distilling the project
of a law which the mere attitude of the parliament has
emitted to ix! so strangely mutilated ? a project which has
paralysed the action of England in an extraordinary man-
nee, and 1111101 11' • • heel its credit and influence ; a pro-
ject which tends to destroy a solemn act of justice, the act
of cm:mein:awn! Anglican fanaticism is nut yet 111{1111a,
and we regret to behold the silent rabble of London asso-
ciated in the work of its revival.
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Perhaps the glorious restoration of the "flourish-
ing kingdom of England," to the bosom of the
Homan church, may be miraculously essisted by
same of those supernatural prodigies which have
astounded sceptics and tilled the hearts of true
believers with tender gratitude in this part of the
world. Some zealous converts in England lately
made application to the English college hem for
exact copies of the miraculous copy of the Madonna
at Rimini, whose winking propensities have aftbrdcd
subject for such scandalous jukes in Puma,. and Dr.
Grant consequently commissioned Signor Cumismile,
a skilful Hotnan copyist, to execute two toes' •des to
begin witti. The difficulty was how to copy the pic-
ture without going to Rimini, since, however popu-
lar it unity become amongst devout catholies in
England, it is not sufficiently so in Home to be met
with every day. Signor Campanile, however, dis-
covered that his lloliness was in p /t4SCSSit
of an exact copy. which had been painted
for bins immediately after the miracle, and
had hung in his bedroom at the Vatican ever
since; at the painter's entreaty. Monsignor Talbot
waited on the Pope, and explained to him the
importance of the object for which the pictures
were wanted, and the happy results that might be
expected from them in catholic England ; on which
his Holiness, with his customary benignity, allowed
the Madonna to be transported from the Vatican
Palace to Monsignor 'Pallets private apartments,
where Signor Campanile set actively to work. and
has already nearly completed the two copies, which
will be sent per steamer to England the moment
they are dry. As scone of your readers may be
curious to know exactly what the picture is like, I
beg to inform them that it represents the Virgin
Mary, with her eyes thrown upwards, in the net of
seraphic contemplation, and her hands meekly
crossed upon her bosom. She wears a brown veil, a
pink dress, and a dark blue mantle. 'lle picture is
of no value as a work of art. It does not appear
that the copies have hitherto given any proofs of in-
heriting the miraculous mobility of eye attributed to
the original.
General Weser is now mentioned as likely to suc-
ceed the recently defunct Colonel de !Icemen in the
office of organising the Papal, tinny, and carrying out
Baron Kalhermatten's plan of obtaining recruits for
his Holiness front different istrts of catholic Europe.
Colonel Kalbermatten, brother of the late Minister
of Wur, is at Forli, where ire is engaged in licking
into shape about seven hundredllll.ll of various
nations, chiefly Bavarians, Belgians, and Swiss. The
government, duly solicitous tier the spiritual ns well
us military instruction of these neophj tes, has just
desisttehed two monks front Rome as temporary
chaplains, to preach to them and prepare them for
their Easter devotions. The second battalion of
Roman infantry has marched to gambol' the city of
Spoleto, and will be replaced in the capital by the
arrival of the third battalion remit the provinces. So
much for military mutters. With mspon to the navy
of his I dullness, f have to inform you that on Monday
last a small iron steamer, destined flir the navigation
of the Tiber, was launched outside the Porta ['tartest.,
a somewhat rare occurrence here, being only the
second boat constructed in the Milian arsenal. An
English engineer had the chief part in her build.
In my last communication I mentioned to yen that
torture had been resorted to in the prisons of An-
cona, in eider to extract C11111CV•10111% in accordance with
the Austin-papal will. lam now glad to say that
the mere movement made by the British consul in
the criminal tribunal, although he could not see the
President, was sufficient to check the further preme-
ditated punishment. I hear that the Austrian gene-
ral is furious at such prison mysteries having been
divulged, and declares that he was totally ignorant
that such proceedings had been resorted to. It is well
for these poor victims of reactionary vengeance that
they call occasionally make an appeal to the huma-
nity of a foreign consul; but in the interior, where
such functionaries do not exist as a salutary cheek
on despotism, it is dreadful to contemplate the im-
punity with which the brutal acts of brutal
men may be perpetrated. The papa authorities
have referred the collision ease to Home, and as
Monsignor Amici returned to Ancona on the 7th,
some proposition may possibly have been made on
the subject by him to Mr. Moore. It must be re-
marked that, in all cases admitting of doubt wherein
mercantile vessels tire concerned, it is a general and
liberal rule that the datnage be divided between the
parties; how much more, theretlire, should such at
principle influence the commander of a ship-of-war ?
A British captain of a man-of-war, in such a ease,
would never have stooped to ask for payment ;
whereas this Austrian, front the very outset, and
without the slightest investigation, has never ceased
pertinaciously dunning tlw British consul for the
whole 'moment of his assumed claim. With re-
spect to the probability of the papal authorities re-
funding on account of the pilot's negligence, there
can be no doubt that an extraordinarily thick and
sudden fog prevailed at the moment that he
took charge of the Albert, and, if this fog had
not intervened, there cannot exist the shadow of a
doubt hut that he would have moored the vessel
safely in the harbour. The main question there-
fore seems to rest in the fact of the pilot attempting
to bring in the vessel at all, under the circumstances.
Ile should have declined to take charge, and havo
ordered the vessel out to sea again, or have caused
her to cast anchor immediately in the roadstead
where he found her. At all 'events the summary
mode adopted by the Austrian captain, and his re-
fusal to refer the dispute to a tribunal, or to compe-
tent arbiters, are not proper steps by which to &salve
at a conclusion.
The Grand Duke of Tuscany left this city for
Naples on the morning of the nth; nor is it et:titan
that he will return for the Easter ceremonies.
During his stay he resided at the house of his ant-
bassadur, Chevalier Bargaglia, where he received
the visits of General Gemeau and ether function-
aries.

NAPLES, Arum 9.
General Florestano Pepe is no morc. Naples has
lost one of her best and bravest generals, and Italy
one of her most illustrious patriots. Like his
brother, the hero of Venice, Florystano will hold a
noble and important position in the page of modern
history, whether for the dangerous vicissitudes he
experienced, or the elevated qualities he displayed.
His early life is identified with the most stirriv
events of the amp, the solitary and death-like bar-
nes% of the prison, the intrigues of court life, the
flightsof kings frandseir thrones, the triumph of the
French in Italy, the restoration, and filially the
modern struggle for constitutional hberty.• In
1814 an extensive conspiracy of the Carbonari
having been farmed is the Calubrias, he was sent by

• Is Ur 3odas ossiedin Popo awed sad was wounded.