The Express.
London, England, 1848-10-18 00:00:00

The Wes: seri amen of Ursine bad lee the capital for
Rubies. It um expected that ii. Mamoru, would
*ma be recalled. T.aequillity contirturd uadisturbed.
• latter„ dated Cephalonia, the 24 of Oet.ba, which
every names may be plead, Mates that ea the 26th att. as
lenureestionef the country people *phut the goveentsent
Leeks nat. hmargents sad o anted in large slumbers,
.amok ad Mak Irk attack wee made on Liittri, a town
sleadel egged* Argettuli, the capital at the bleed. •
meal steMbee el lonlich troops were sent spinet the inset-
=, when Into k place, resulting in one I, lam and
kith d, and the retrain, of the latter to
the e=l The insurgents had also eatened Argos-
tell, but up to the Si inst. they had made to further week
ma the towns. The object off the ins .erestien Sem not ap
gear to ham been mourausly known. Than. tea be seesele
eist, wirers= it may hove been, the Lord ftk Ormis.
arra bee staple tures at his disposal speedily to pee k
dors. The • vices from the Turkish capital chow that the
Mara either Russian army to Bechar. at wee already kaolin
there. The choirro had deslined in Stemma and Syria.
UNITKI) STATXS. FORBION
?Aldan:de —The departure nt the steamer kritsaak. from
this port yesterday, for Liverpool, gate us Getbeminee
Mete of the blessings of retake, ion. Tb' only passim was,
to understand bow John 801 l was punished by our paying
Si mute for each half .ounce lever mat by the steamer, and
4 mate fur seek aewspaper, which were t.We rates under the
old system—the po.ta.e on the other side remaining as be-
fore. The answer we suppose is. that a part Of the postage
paid on this aide, will be chary d upon parties on the other
in the adjustment of accounts, and that by increasing the
rats of poatega, tbe mush. r of letters will be diminished, and
so the menus et the British government redact d, while
that of our owa r Tennis at will be inereaced. As to the
last 'untamed point, then is to tie easidered by the way of
offsee—vis , that the Ca, ado mails, which until reeintly
west and came by wet ore Boston and New York, are sow
foamed to and Will Halifax without eriterieg United
States territories at all. Tne United States government an
Wtm deprival of a hints amount of postage which would
otherwise have accrued to them for said awls. But
the potpie of Canada are put is mark ineon-
maim* by the deity, and being British subjects this is
doubtless to b' deemed and token a, as muck gem fin the
UMW Sense ! What a miserable state of things is that
Midi salmi mother's awed...ultimo evaivaient our con-
esnlones. Without undertaking to say that the fault is all
dassido, it is plain that the affair is badly managed. The
I Crmust now suffer until the blunders of their agents
km been sulticently atoned for, after which it may
be Wks" • compromise will be effected on terms which
WOO equally fair and equally within the reached the two
rvairameatis when they abandoned the question to its rate.
Under the retaliatory system the postitge on a half mine,
WWI. from New York to Liv• rpool is inencised from lib
c.iiita to 48 cents, and on a newmaper from o cants to 8 seats.
Thus :
Old *Mew. New System.
Litter Newepaper Letter Newspaper.
PDo. Liaid at Ne
mped w Yerk
It I 4 24 21

Tata 25 5
;:e these prices slut be added the inland voltage in the
United Water, varying from 6 to 10 cents, wording to
distances. A a ogle letter from Rochester to Liverpool, will
met 68 ann., and aal 'tissue 10 a ate. Everything must
go through the Post-office. Newspapers will le: si ally all
stopped in coca quence of this 'murk ant rate, and corre-
spondents will be chiefly confined to mercantile business.
Possitly as much moyey will be paid as behre ; but it sill
be p .id for half the service, when the oth. r half could be
just ae well performed as not, and would, in reality, cost
nothing, or next to nothing, to anybody. Sack is trig bene-
fit of retrain:ion. We observe that by the tome of the act,
the PostoresterGeneral has power, at any time, to revoke it.
If he were inane of mo e accommodating materials we
should hole that he would soon find maw Ais to do this;
but, as the ease stands. we pee not but the evil must b. en.
dured satil after the 4th March sett. It is possible that the
British government muy maks same new overture which
will lied to an endentanding, bet at present we can hardly
expire% it.—Nose York AMMO:a of Commeree.
VENEZU ELA.—DeFLAT OF hIONAOA'II SQUADRON.
A letter from Puerto Cmhello, dated Sept. 12,says :—" Oa the
23rd ult. Oen. /dossers's squadron of tea veses!s departed
tom this port drained for the island of Margaerit., sealing
an ousaioo to attack the fleet of Gen. Pus, or or the onsets
tutionaliate where the latter was satiated. Oa the 7th Wet
the authorities here received advice. of the defe tof their
I squadron by the construe loyalists, the commodore's vessel
Laving been sunk, himself arid several other °Seen talus
prisoner, and the reinaiuder diapers d. Gen. Paz ne
stained at Bt. Thomas, 4a lest, mud was determined
leave in a week Cr Curio a, or, rerhape, the squadron at'
cr near the Woad of bl irgueriui. if, Its. declared
in a recent address or proclamation to the Beet and the pow
pie of the eosins provinces his determination to contuses
odeg every effort fen the re-establishment of the constltth
Von, sad to overthrow the military despot who had usurped
the whole power of the state by wading throng h the hr. mu
blood of the people's representatirrn spilt in the Bells of
Cannes on the 27th Jan. last. General Mosses, through
his secret..ry of ante lee the hems department, bee given
orders to ell the poem= at presinsis to proceed with the
utmost severity win* do ardiaslsi towards his adminis-
tration.

UNITED STATES.

The Acadia, Capt. Stour, has arrived at Liverpool from
Boston, which port she lett on the 4th. The post
from New York had not arrived at Boston when the
steamer left. A paper of the 3rd, sent by express,
bill reached us. Then is little news. Exchangeon Lon-
, dem mied from 9to 91,91 per cent. premium. Orrin and
eettam markets were dull, but on the whole steady.
The met crop on the Upper Mississippi was expected
te be abundant; the cotton crop of Georgia would, it
wen thought, be only an average one. Commodore
Jas.Biddle died at Philadelphia on the tad, aged 83.
Them was no change in the aspect of the presiden-
tial Mamas.
The dates from Mexico are to the 22nd Sept. Trap-
rat%sniped there. Santa Anna had applied for
zotern to the country. Tho Paredes party
soap still disposed to be troublesome.
The steam propeller Goliath plying on Lake Huron,
bad been lost with all on board, includ;ng 23 pas-
esagers. About eighty kegs of powder were put on
beard the (latish at Buffalo, and 125 at Detroit,
wields way stowed carefully in the extreme bow of
the vessel, the farthest front the fire, and covered with
merchandise. There were 60.000 shingles, 30,000
feet of lumber, and about 90 tons of pressed hay
stowed away between decks and on the prommusb
deck—forming altogether a highly combustible carp. ,
The supposiuon is that the vessel took tire, and the
quantity of gunpowder on board exploded, and thus
the steamer was lost. The Detroit Pee Press says :
The eland wreck of a large propell r wee driven 'show
at Pie Point, above Goodrich, Canada WM, on the 27th
Sept. A_yawl boat also cane on shore, but it woe not
et
Abused, while many et the wotden hoops by which the
mils me tea up sad does, appeared to have been eat with
as OIL Three hundred barrels of flour, with an humus
LassYty of candles in boxes, and boats of remiss, kegs of
OssYag powder, packed oats, together wits many other ord.
Ike ell enerchandies, all ide
bearing, wore al the evrw wss of having
ten skipped oa the °oath picked up
asset the shore. Many of the packages were sanded
SO Oa Seat St. Marie, and **Medea Mining Ceara,.
l diabere of the wreck that came en shore nod the eg-
of has* been torn amour. AB pt se bums
use
been found.
The /Ivo Press also mentions a report that the
seek had come ashore in a small boat near Lexing•
ton. He maw the fire making its way towards the
powder, when be lowered the small boat and made'
esape. When a short distance from the vessel it
blew up with a tremendous explosion, and he was the
(rely sae ifit to toll the sad tale.
The deamahip America reached New York on the
15 h September, after an excellent voyage, notwith-
steak" her having encountered a revere hurricane'.
The Cemaria, which sailed from Liverpool on the
23rd of September. arrived at Halifax on the sth
and meseed to Boston.
With a view to relieve the money market in New
Tea, as arrangement had been made by the go-
peemeinellut at Washington to purchase 800,000 dole.
of Treasury notes at par; this, being practically egad
to a loan of that amount, was hailed as a considerate
boas to the mercantile community, who have been el
bile fairing severely from the action of the Bab-
trameiry Bill ; and as both the departments of New
York and New Orleans had an overplus of deposits,
the memssre is regarded with great favour, and will
tend greatly to alleviate the pressure of the action
of that measure.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW TOM Oer. S.
MOM 'Wilke. Mishear) closed qul•tly for the
last dome, et it MOO he rsdke, art there was a kir amount of
imsieme Is Sum at • tam IS erns to I traces 20 emus tor short
amt • km. IN mere lo a hew VI teats for 6 • day.' bilk.
dodge 11111 s. IMO look esbrassaats sold at al per amt.
beamblm j Cards War at M. lbw were many halls In
aembat drawn edit c....., whit►li are quite safe, hot
seat law Th le bennee the drawn are not well known
IS MINIM ON. soma demand kw Antilop lilts at II to
lid i IS lei Sidi eemmema deed IsCs sal 14 r rat re best. The
lois ars rain esdir as 111. err el b ll. Ss, sis,st
Sr:o err Sills are agree at IL us Tnerry .to. rallied
0 Arid 0 Md.
Osars.-IPdsas Yrs bon brdly Ilna Orsesk dr week, Out with-
out any eelnal &dim Twiny no of otewequente was done,
and um tur_kmatirt is aoudad le padre a dethne. Seim
an the WiehAlle
Fnemamma.--Nmft any beef lisae, asd barfly any wanted,
there is may Nide laas sr me 111111111.12 rim Pork ealit wry
daft Mg In a wandierible Mena at 13 dai► and le dolt., and
.menus rime id so aft. mi. Abed INS barrels of lard were
said este the weak at Ma. mai a taw at el. to B. Not
auk dew is SY news Sr bad no effect upon
die wide. • kit rims in pinkie midi at Ge. • Po,ooolti. very
kis
abed Ilm apse% mid it le.; NAllib. sew ditto, sod dry
mdeeler at les. IMMer anima maws freely, hat Unre le no
maikki in Om Melt is desimd Ise expert. and there
Is Ldp MOM dba., to le., and somewatra at 71 e.
limifralad sr naldndia, M I dole. lit. foe paw, sad
lids Ids ist isods.
Osass.--Ilispre at bar id to I the
Sae. to 5 dots lim. foe well.
dm Weelms hi ma Osassgss la the detention of some Mats as
Ommiew. mole Or eigArkillit On Ilkarklay end Friday, awl Le