The Express.
London, England, 1851-03-18 00:00:00

TURKEY.

The mail from Constantinople hasbrought import int
news from Bagdad. It is well known that the great
Arab tribe of the Auneaeh migrate yearly, following
the course of the Euphrates, from the neighbourhood
of Aleppo to that of Bagdad, where they arrive about
Christmas, and sell camels and horses, and bur dates.
It has long been the custom of the pashas of baglad
to pay black mail to the powerful sheiks of this
tribe and the Shammar, when their vast encamp-
ments move down into the neighbourhoorl of
the old capital of the caliphs, in order to
keep the roads opcu, and protect pilgrims
and travellers from the depredations of the
Bedouins. It seems, however, that Abdi Pasha, who
has recently %weeed to the pashalik, refused the
usual purses of Vitamins demanded of him by the
Annezch sheikhs. Thereupon a cloud of mounted
Bedouins, with their spears. were seen in
the horizon on the right hank of the Ti-
Kris. The MIAs Bel, whooping, with their
}has toward+ the city-wills, while their women
raised the shrill alarm of their thrilling "Lu-1m1.."

Alan Pasha marched out with his to
meet the enemy; but, although they had can-
non with them, they inuld not .tend the eb•rwe
of the Annereh, nna they NWT,' beaten bncic blto
Bagdad, after suffering considerable loss, and
leaving one gun on the tiekl. The Annezel; 1k CA,
encamped in the immediate neighlwatrhood tr :he
city, which they besieged. aml eontinited their MT,o-
dations to the light and left over the whole coy., i y
plundering the villages and driving, off t.;::;e.
I Meanwhile three of the to
the Semi to perky with the Paola; .(Ine of
these having suddenly It- Alqpeetell (113, ue
must have been poisodd yitA_ to c or etv..-
which is nAually offered usii:eoun,Lott skin the
on all visas. The Arab, L.s‘lthtl,u ictitaad „at
pitch of fury by this presirmed, trait:Bevy.
It seems that, although veZereltii4 been Baia to

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liutaya to set General Dembinski at liberty, the
patrol had not yet arrived at Cotuitantinople.

SPAIN.

MUJRID, M A ucu_l2..

'illy Duke and Dockets of !41;utpeMiier are ox-
pe ted in Apra on *visit to the Queen.
1 committee on the settlement of the debt will
men this evening to discuss the second article of the
ministerial project

offer to the legislature to take dock in the rairway to
the amount of 100,0001., provided they be employed
upon the work.
In the Halifax Legislature, up to Feb. 25, the de-
bate on the Elective Legislative Council was still
open. Considerable bitterness of feeling had be-
trayed itself both on the floors of the Assembly and
in the press. Some sharp skirmishing had even
taken pace between the Speaker and the Hon. Mr.
Johnson. The following resolution and amendment
formed the subject of debate :
Itivolution.—Resolved,—That the present mode of ap-
pointing members to the Unit:Wive Council is unfavour-
able to the independence, usefulness, and respectability of
that body, and the just and wholesome influence of public
sentiments upon its acts; and that, in the opinion of this
house, the members of the Legislative Council of Noes
Scotia ought to be elected by the people.
Amendment.—Resolved,—That, although the Legisla-
tive Council u now constituted enjoys the confidence of
this house, the time has arrived when the elective principle
ought, in our opinion, to extend to that body, but as no in-
formation has been obtained ma to the views of the home
government on the qualification of members to be elected,
and as the people have not been consulted on the increase
of us penise which would necessarily follow, this house is
of opinion that it is wise to defer the consideration of SD
••••• i• • change in the constitution until the general
election shall bare been held during the present year.

CENTItAL AMERICA.
We have received files of the Garcia del Satruant,
and other documents to the 10th of January, from the State
of San Salvador Central Ameca. They contain some fur-
ther particulars: ri
of the movements of the two parties in
Central America—the Guatemalan, under the control of
Mr. Chatfield, and the true Central American, composed of
the States of San Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua. The
Gorda of January 3 announces the blockade of the port of
Tigre (Amapala) in the State of Honduras, by the English
vessels mitt* under Chatfield's direction. All the Pacific
parts of San Salvador and Honduras are now blockaded,
and Nicaragua is also threatened.
A war between Guatemala, or at heart the central go-
; veronscut of that state, on one Pick and the allied states of
Honduras and San Salvador on the other, seems almost in-
evitalale. We have received the first bulletin of the allied
armies, dated San Salvador, Jan. 8. At the call of the su-
preme government of the latter state for troops to protect
the Guatemala frontier, an army of 4,000 men, well armed
and organised, was raised at once. Honduras was in the field
with an army of '2,000 men. As the allied armies ap-
proached the frontier of Guatemala, the inhabitants of the
mountain provinces of that state, who are nearly all in fa-
vour of the federal union of the Central American states,
docked front all quarters to join them.
The army of ban Salvador is distributed in a line eons-
mancing at Coatepeque and terminating at Chalchuapa.The
Presidents of the two States met on the 4th of January, in
the town of Grotepeque, in Honduras, fur the purpose of
arranging a common plan of action. The reception of Vas.
conceits, president of San Salvador, was most enthusiastic.
Balls, theatrical npresentations, and public festivities of
all kinds, were instituted in his honour. On the ith he re-
turned to Safi Salvador.
A plot of Carrera to create a revolt in San Salvador has
bet u must signally defeated. It sippears that he cominie•
erotical several citizens of that State, who had enlisted them-
selves in his mortice, to stir up dissensions among the
people during the absence of the army on the Guate-
mala frontier. These men—utheers of the name of
Castro, Sloe-hues, Goulette., and others—were on
*sir way, with an escort of soldiers, to meet Carrera at the
town of Jutiapa. There they were to he stet ngthened by a
turps of two hundred men, with a supply of money, and to
proceed to the Salvadorean province of soasooste and incite
the people to revolt. Before they reached. Jutiapa,
however, lirancamonte, a captain in the army of Guatemala,
discovered their plans, deserted with forty men and took
them prisoners, with the exception of one officer and a tew
soldiers, who made their escape. Brancamonte secured tho
papers which revealed the plan of Carrera, shot the pri-
soners, and joined the allied army with his men. That next
day another party eef twenty-six men, who had also deserted
frost the Guatemalan ranks, captured the remainder of the
re volutionary party, and consigned there to the same fate.
The discovery of this plot excited the strongest feeling of
hostility throughout Sun Salvador.
A postscript to the bulletin, elated Jan. 9th, 10 A.M. says:
—" From all quarters it is announced that the desertion in
the force. of Guatemala still continues. Companies of
armed men are continually arriving at the town of Metapam
a here the troops eef General Natio are stationed. The good
eervice rendered us by Captain llraeamonte has almost
broken up the force at Chicptimula, and at JutMpa half a
company deserts at a time. it is said that Carrera has been
summoned in all haste to the City of Guatemala." It is
evident (non these statements that the Union" party of
Central America is very powerful and popular, and that the'
arbitrary Central Government of Guatemala, ware it not
hacked by Chatfield and his blockading fleet, could nut main-
tain its ground a day longer.
Senor Denote° Vanconceles, President of San Salvador,
is-uad on the 10th of January an eloquent sad foreible
address to the people of Central America, in which he
vividly describes the present position of affairs.
"Consul Chatfield, interested in sharing the spoils of
Central America with the rulers of Guatemala, has taken
their part. lle haw been approved by them in his usurps-
, Bons au Nicaragua and Honduras, and Ids blocked*: of San
Salvador; and now, thinking to perplex our affairs, he has
forwarded communications to the supreme government of
Honduras, tracing • boundary line which has never existed
between that state and his fictitious kingdom of Mosquitia,
which gives to the latter more thou half the territory of the
former. Ile has thus constituted himself judge, a int the
scandalous enormity of giving to an assumed kiiigalmn of
Mosquitia lands which have always been recognised as be-
longing to Honduras. The occasion which the consul has
taken for this movement, plainly proves that he labours at
the instigation of the rulers of Guatemala, in accordance
with his own views. This has also been especially proved
by the intimation which he recently made to Iliondunis,l
that be would blockade her ports if powder shuald be
landed in them for the- use of Soo Salvador—a menace
which has just been veribt4, ia the blockade of the port of
Tigre."

gt) r Court.

OSBORNE, blwouT, MAltell U.

... ,
The Queen and Prince were prevented this morn-
ing by the Mel. menu of the weather from taking their
usual early walk, and the younger branches of the royal
family were detained ut home by the same cause.
Sir George Couper arrived ut Osborne this afternoon, and
will have thu honour of Joining the royal dinner party this

Viscount Torrington had an interview with Earl Grey
yesterday at the Colonial-office.
Mr. Cniwttinl, Chairman of the Eastern Steam Navi-
gation Company ; Mr. Ursine, Deputy Chairman ; and
Mr. Yuan, Secretary of the Company. had an interview
with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday at his
official rio,idence in I.olynion:syrect.

A deputation, emoting of Mr. Daniell, chairman of the
London and Blackw.dl Railway_ Company, and Mr. Tyer-
man, solicitor of the company, Mr. Stewart, secretary to the
London and North Western Railway Company, and Mr.
Carter, solicitor of the company, and Mr. Charles Parkes,
parliamentary agent, had an interview with the Commis-
sioners of Railways yesterday, at their tate in the Board
of Trade.
The Marquis of Lansdowne (Lord President of the Coun-
Tit), returned to town yesterday from his seat, Bowoud Park,
Wilts.
The Rev. Dr. Bentley lad an interview yesterday, with
Earl firey, at the Culunial-utliee.

Tnoors AND Moll= rot MR CaPE.—The Penin-
sular and Oriental Casapany's steamer Singapore, CaptAin
Purchase, left Southampton yesterday with detachments

of the 73rd, 6th, and 90th Regiments for the Cape of Good
Hope. She also took ship letter boxes and bags, and
50,000!. in gold from the treasury for the Cape. The
Singapore, after she has been to the Cape of Good Hope.
will proceed on to Ceylon.
'lnc ARCEIBIsIIOF OF CANTERBURY AND THE
Reante.—lt is understood that the Archbishop of Canter-
bury proposes to bring the rubrical question to an issue in
his diocese. His grace is said to have been in corre-
spondence for some time past with several clergymen of his
diocese, on the subject of alleged ROMalli,illtj practices;
NNW of the clergy at once yielding to his grace, while others
vindicated their proceedings as being conformable to the
rubric. In one case. that of the Rey. C. S. Cann, of
Westerbam, Kent, who persisted, after the Archbishop's
private remunctrance, in intoning the prayers, his grace
has issued a monition, enjoining the discuutinuance of the
practice, with a view to further pox-ceilings in the Heeled-
astieal Court in the event of non-compliance. An applies-
I non to the Court of Queen's Bench is spoken of, to super-
' cede the monition. in the supposition of its trenching upon
the liberty of the clergy to perform the service according to
their own discretion, within the terms of the rubric.—John
Duff.
Co9l' llftk9rE. Ov PAPAL AlififtEsslON.—lt is un-
derstood that a number of clergymen and influential lay-
men of the church of England and Scotland, and of various
dissenting bodies, intend holding a conference during the
present week to consider the most advisable steps to be
taken on the atato of affairs with respect to papal aggres-
sion. Lord Ashley and the President of the .% esleyau Ccm-
terrace are to be present.
Ax 191OSPID MARINER.—On WedneedllT, the I
i sth knit., the French schooner, Jeanne d'Art, lraneoia
Wacgone, from Ulyth, of and fur Boulogne, went ashore on
the. Carton Sands. As the tide was making, the captain cast
anchor with 40 fathoms of chain cable, hoping she would
I blow off. The crew, consisting of five men, it appears,were
, not so sanguine. conceiving that she must become a total
wreck ; in consequence of which they abandoned her with
her brave captain, who, according to their own statement,
carn,.tly eutnabal them to stick by the ship. They also
, said, that though the 'Tema beat heavily, she made no water
when they left. The crew reached our harbour about 3
a.m. on Thursday. On hearing the above facts, our beach-
sues 'numbed their yawls. hut not a glimpse of the ill-fated
vessel could he obtained. About noon, however,
pace arrived that she was ashore on Walberswick beach,
I and the eaptain safe. His intrepidity in slipping his anchor,
and conducting her so far, siugle-handed, was highly ap.
Iplauded by the henchmen. The crew were forwarded to
the French Consul at Surinouth.—lsheich Journal.