The Express.
London, England, 1851-10-08 00:00:00

AMERICA.

At seven o'clock last evening, the United States
mail steam-ship Pacific, Capt. Nye, arrived in the
Mersey, from New York, which port she left on the
27th ult., at noon, thus bringing three days' later
news than we had previously received by the Niagara.
Tho Pacific brings eighty passengers, 120,004/. ster-
ling in specie, and the usual mails front the United
States and the British provinces. Oa Friday lust,
one of the passengers, Mr. A. Mitchell (of the firm of
Dennistonn, Mitchell, and Co., of Liverpool), was
lost overboard and drowned, notwithstanding
mediate efforts were made to rescue the unfortunate
gentleman.
The papers brought by the Pacific are alms:
wholly destitute of news, either political, foreign, or
general, with the exception of some reports of dis.
asters by fire and flood, among the former of which
will be found an account of a great fire at Buffalo on
the 26th ult., and among the commercial news the
stoppage of several banks and a money crisis
amaunting almost to a panic. Considerable excite.
ment existed in Wall-street, in consequence of many
recent bank failures. There are rumours afloat
touching the standing of several other hanks,•but the
excitement is so great that it is impossible to get at
the truth of any of them. The papers state that the
surest and safest way is to refuse, fur a time, all
bills not secured by deposits of government and
State stocks. _ _ _ _ _

Great excitement had also been caused by the
flogging of an abolitionist, in the state of Virginia,
and his compub.ory removal from the state.
The affair is thus described in the New York
Papers

The Vigilance Committee of Grayson county, Virginia,
on the 13th inst., arrested John Cornutt, a friend of
Bacon's, the Ohio abolitionist. They nt first requested
him to renounce his abolition sentiments, which he refused
to do. They then stripped him, tied him ton tree, nnd,
after receiving a dozen lashes, he agreed to renounce aboli-
tionism, Fell his land and negroes, and leave the state.
Great excitement prevailed, and the committee were in
pursuit of others.
A fearful accident occurred on the Vermont Central
Railroad on the evening of the 24th ult., by which a down
passenger train of three cars came in collision with an up
freight train. The former was going at the time down a
grade, nt the rate of fifty miles an hour, near West Hart-
ford, Vermont, and six miles beyond the White River
Junction. The entire passenger train wan demolished, and
and 17 passengers injured, four of them fatally. Nino
limbs are reported broken. Among the inured aro
C. I'. Kimball, conductor, head badly wounded; his re-
covery is doubtful. Frederick Palmer, a brakeman, legs
broken and bark injured; he cannot recover. 'the freight
train was running out of time. Tho engineer and fireman
escaped by jumping. The passengers were mostly up
country people, who had been to attend a cattle show.
Another accident took place on the Stonybrook railroad,
by which John Smith, a conductor, was ittomictd off tho
train, and bad his head taken off by the wheels.
Accounts received from Cherryfield, Maine, to the 21th
ult., give additional particulars of the fires in that vicin ty,
and on the borders of Maine and New Brunswick. A letter
says the whole country is burning up; seareely in.green acs
of land remains along the whole seaboard of the county.
Fifteen large tires were counted around Cherryfield, aid
all the inhabitants were engaged in protecting their hones
or assisting their neighbours. The fire has swept crer
Mount Desout, and destroyed several houses. The forests
in Franklin are in flames, and the whole of Hancock is
suffering severely. To the east of Ilanivek the dentructen
is still greater. The roads have been rendered almost in-
passable on account of the smoke and flames. The finiter
of the Cutler Company is damaged to the amount of
150,000 dohs. The rain on Sunday only partially ituenand
the flames.

Mr. Owen, the American consul at I[acannah,Lld
addressed a letter to the editor of the Washiqun
11,prthlie, on the subject of the late expedition to
Cuba:
Consulate of the United State:
liarannah, Sept. Iri, 18.11.

Sir,—ln your weekly issue of the :sth ult., you demo
the justice to object to my condemnation without a hearag,
and to I.ly that I am probably able to explain to the ads-
faction of my countrymen my omission to art relative babe
execution of the prisoners who were shut here on the
16th ult.

I do not doubt that I shall satisfy every impartial nod
that 1 ant undeserving censure, and that I had no over-
tunity of doing anything in behalf of the unfortunate tea
who met so sad a fate. _ _

I reside about four miles from this pl tee, and, not bing
well on the monting of the 16th, did not re elt my ottiettill
sonic time after ten o'clock, where, fur the first tin:,
heard of the capture of about fiftyof the men who had onto
with Lopes to this island in the steamer Pamper). I trthe
same time heard that the prisoners hail been tried, find
guilty, condemned, ordered to be executed, the orde for
their execution sent forward, and that they were auut
being remuved from the harbour, where they were, tethe
place of execution.
Shortly afterwards, the American re-iding here, wit, it
is said, called on me, came and mentioned the subjec to
me, when 1 said to him that it was too late, and that I
could do nothing—that I should not have time to get a:e-
mission to see the prisoners. Of this I felt perfectly Lae-
lied at the time, and I have since beer. confirmed Whig
opinion by the highest authority iu the idand, whc in-
formed me that tee execution, which had already wen
ordered before I reached the city, would not have wen
postponed for me to have an interview with the prisoters,
inasmuch as all I could have asked to be permitted to di had
already been done by a gentleman known to some of thtpri-
sorters, and fur whom they had sent.
Soon after the American referred to lee my office, re-
ceived the information that a gentleman known to sone of
the prisoners had been sent fur by thew, and to hint they
had delivered the articles and messages they desired ti be
conveyed to their friends. It was hut a short time ater-
wards that I sent to the palace of the govemm and caphin-
general, and heard that the prisoners had then been
cuted.
Yuu will thus see that I hail no time to act, and that it
was not in my power to do anything for the unferttuato
men who had been induced to invade Cube with the ex-
pectation that they would find the whole island in a tee of
revolution, and that they would be received with open miss
by the whole native population at least.
The charge of indifference to the dreadful conilitiut of
such a number of men, the bitterest enemy 1 have on meth
will not believe, and all must believe it a base falsehood and
an unfounded calumny.
If it were allowable on such an occasion, I would nod
solemnly declare before God that, in my judgment, at the
time and under the circumstances, it was not in my power
either to have an interview with the prisoners, or to lave
dune anything on their behalf.
am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
A. F. °WM

The following are the particulars of the fin at
Buffalo:
Bett•.er.o, Sept. S.
A very destructive fire broke out in this city abott 4
o'clock this morning. The whole of the section of thecity
known us the Hooks, together with several squares netts.
between the Niagara Falls Railroad and the Lake, =lilt
ashes.
A strong south-east wind was blowing at the time, tad
the buildings all being of wood, and very dry, the he
spread with fearful rapidity, and in less than tifttec
minutes the entire block of buildings on Rock and Peacock
streets, from the ship canal and Eric-street to Evaus-strect,
was in flames. _ . . .

The fire then crossed Erie-street, and seized upon 'ls
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large planing mill of the Messrs. Eaton.
It that crossed the canal and Erie-street Bridge, swip-
ing everything on the opposite of the canal to the Terre°,
thence down the Terrace to Mechanic-street, on both sides

of the canal.
At this point, through the greatest exertion, the Hanle
were checked.
The number of buildings destroyed is over five hundrei.
Among them is the large brick school-house on Eric-carte,
in District No. 2.
A large amount of lumber in the Messrs. Eaton, mu.
and pant was destroyed. Also an immense quantity o)
lumber in the yards of George Oencll and the Mesas.
Farmer and De Dloquiere.
It Is feared that a number of persons have been harem
to death. One dead body has been taken from the ruins.
The loss is roughly estimated at hall a million of dollar.
The insurance on tho property is very slight.
The buildings burned were nearly all of wood.
One of the firemen was seriously burned while cntea-
vouring to check the flames.
The number of families turned out of house and hone
by this disaster is great, almost beyond conception, the
most of the house* destroyed being occupied by Foot

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