The Express.
London, England, 1847-07-31 00:00:00

UNITED STATES.

The journals received by the Britannia afford few
gleanings of any interest to add to what we published yes-
terday. The Episcopal Recorder contains a detailed account,
dated "Lexington Ky., June 25," of "the baptiam of
Henry Clay." Mr. Clay, it appear., after regularly attend-
ing the service of the episcopal church for two or three
years, has at length been baptised into it. The solemn rite
was administered to him, one of his daughters-Usher (the
other, and also his wife, were previously members of the
church), and her four children, "in the litt:e parlour at
Ashland," on the 22nd of June. The rite of confirmation
is to be administered at the visitation of the bishop, on the
third Sunday of July. The Episcopal Recorder notices some
features of the apartment in which the ceremony took place :
"On one side of the room hung the large picture
of the family of Washington, himself at episcopa-
liars by birth and by education, and a devout com-
municant of the church; and, immediately opposite, on a
ride-table, stool a bust of the lamented Hannon, with a
chaplet of withered flowers, who was to have been confirmed
in the church the Sabbath after he died—fit witnesses of
such a scene. Around the room were suspended a number
of family picture., and among them the portrait of a beloved
daughter who died some years ego in the triumphs of that
faith which her noble father was now about to embrace, and
the picture of the late lost son, wit) fill at the battle of
Buena Vista."—A paragraph in one of these papers reminds
us of the heterogeneous materials of which the population of
the uni in is composed. It notices the establishment of a
paper in the Norwegian (Danish) language, in the town of
Norway, Racine county, Wn. There are now 20 settlement.
of Norwegians in Illinois, lowa, and Wisconsin, of which 16
are in the territory. They embrace a popula' ion of from 15 to
20,000—frugal, industrious, honest, and obedient to the laws.
—The junk • Keying" has excited much curiosity. It appears
to be &speculation of a Captain Kellett. It is navigated by 20
Europeans (or Americans), and 40 Chine,. Increasing the
ocean it was rigged after the European fashion, but it has
got up its Chinese masts, yards, and sails, in the Hudson.
The New York papers describe it as much resembling in
shape a Turkish morocco slipper.
THE CHICAGO CONVENTION.—As this meeting has every
appearance of being the commencement of an important and
beneficial public meeting, we think it advisable to lay be-
fore our readers, in addition to the brief notice of its pro-
ceedings which we published yesterday, the resolutions
adopted by the meeting:-
1. That the constitution of the United States wee framed
by practical men for practical purposes, declared in the pre-
amble "to provide for the common defence, to promote
the general welfare, and to secure the blessings of liberty ;"
and was mainly designed to create a government, whose
functions should be adequate to the protection of the com-
mon interests of all the states, or of two or more of them,
which could not be maintained by the action of the separated
Kates. That, in strict accordance with this object, the re-
venues derived from commerce were surrendered to the
general government, with the express understanding that
they should be applied to the promotion of those common
interests.

2. That among these common interests and objects were,
lit, foreign commerce, to the regulation of which the powers
of the states severally were confessedly inaelequate; and,
2nd, internal trade and navigation, wherever the concur-
rence of two or more states was necessary to its prosecution,
or where the expense of its maintenance should be equitably
borne by two or more states; and where, of course, those
states must necessarily have a voice is its regulation ; and
hence resulted the constitutional grant of power to congress,
" to regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the
states."
3. That being thus possessed both of the means and of the
power which were denied to the states respectively, congress
became obligated by every consideration of good faith and
common justice to cherish and increase both the kinds of
commerce thus committed to its care, by expanding and ex-
tending the means of conducting them, and of affording them
all those facilities and all that protection which the states
individually would have afforded, had the revenue and
authority been left to them.
4. That this obligation has ever been recognised from the
foundation of the govemment,and has been fulfilled partially,
by erecting light-houses, building piers for harbours, break-
waters,
and seawalls, removing obstructions in r:vers, and
providing other facilities for the commerce carried on from
the ports on the Atlantic coast; and the same obligations
have been fulfilled to a much less extent in providing similar
facilities for " commerce among the states ; " and that the
principle hu been most emphatically acknowledged to em-
brace the western lakes and rivers, by appropriations for
numerous light.houaes upon them, which appropriations
have never been questioned in congress as wanting in con-
stitutional suthori
6. That thus by a aeries of acts which have received the
sanction of the people of the United States and of every de-
partment of the federal government, unde ral I administrations,
the common understanding of the intent and o'.jects of the
framers of the constitution in granting to corgreas the power
to regulate commerce has been manife,ted and has been con-
firmed by the people, and this understanding has become as
much a part of that instrument &any one of its most explicit
provisions.
6. That the power " to regulate commerce with foreign
nations, and among the states end with the Indian tribes,
is on its face so palpably applicable in its whole extent to each