The Express.
London, England, 1847-12-14 00:00:00

UNITM STATES.

By a French 'steamer, arrived at Havre, we have
New York papers to the 25th ult. inclusive. Dis-
patches from Gen. Scott had been received at Wash-
ington, but they contained nothing either new or of
importance. Everything remained as at the date of
previous advices. Santa Anna was said to be uni-
versally reprobated. Paredes had erg* ap-
peared upon the field, and in a manifelto to
the nation refers all the misfortunes of Mexico
do the unfortunate internal differences so long
prevailing, and calls upon the people to unite
with him in driving back the enemy, who
bait peseireiefi to the heart of the country,
that so the annihilation of Mexico may be
prevented. There was a rumour that Santa Anna
was about to embark in an English steamer at Tam-
pico, having bid his country an eternal farewell.
The domestic news from the United States refers
principally to the policy of the approaching congress,
and matters connected with the next presidential
election. Mr. Clay is willing to abandon the con-
quests made in Mexico, and to withdraw within the
Rio Grande, retaining only the bay of San Francisco,
but it is said Mr. Adams goes for the whole of
Mexico or none.
Accounts by the Acadia, from Liverpool, reached
New York on the 21st ult.
The following is from the Herald for Europe of
25th November :
An extraordinary meeting of the cabinet will take place
to-morrow, to decide upon the policy to be adopted by the
administration. I think it probable that the deliberation will
extend over several days, but a decision will certainly he made
on the information now is the hands of the administration.
Immediate peace is not probable, nor do the despatches of
Wilier General Scott or Mr. Triot contain anything affording
a rouonable prospect of a treaty at all satisfactory to this
country although the latter gentleman continues to hope
perseveringly These hopes, however, based as they are on
the peening events in Mexico, as shifting as the sands of
Sahara wren agitated by a storm, and as evanescent as the
combined no of a kaleidoscope, will not, and ought not to,
Whence the views which the president will submit to Con-
. These views. there is every reason to anticipate, will
L" " based on the belief that peace is not in immediate prospect.
It may be that, at the eleventh hour, we shall hear by Col.
Harntry's train, that Mexico has at length resolved on peace;
bat there is nothing whatever to warrant such an expecta-
tion. On tin contrary, to judge by the information already
received, it is almost certain that we shall have no
tidings of peace by that train. Should the event prove
so, the president will be obliged to adopt one of
three courses either to give no advice at all ; to
advise the adoption of a defensive line ; or the total subju-
gation of the states of Mexico is detail. The first he will
not do, lest he be deemed timid ; of the two others he will
probably advise the latter. Should he advise any defensive
line, which is not probable and scarcely possible, that line
will be the Serra Madre.
This will by the question en which the great battle
will be fought in Congress—the subjugation of the whole
of Mexico, er the retention of a part. Beside this, the
Wilmot proviso question will sink into absolute insig-
nifieance. The voice of the no-territory party will be
too feeble to be heard. Even the river and harbour in-
provement question, though of great interest, will be
eemparetively tame with this great national question
log, which is so all-absorbing, that even the late tti with Brazil, which wculd at any other time have
created a great excitement, has been regarded by the nation
with passive indifference. The interest of the question will
be mach heightened by being intimately mixed up, as
necessarily . be, with the approach log presidential
. It will cause Mr. Polk's term to gas out in a blase
ef excitement.
There is no dependence to be placed on the course of
Se different parties in Congress, in the approaching erne-
=it Each will be divided into several small sectionst
on most importent questions indewndently of
the great bodies to which they individually belong.
The democratic party in the House, notwithstand-
ing the recent split in New York, may act more in
unison than at the last session, in consequence of being
in a minority; but nevertheless, it is not probable, in-
deed scarcely possible, that the followers of Mr. Calhoun
and of Mr. Van Buren, respectively, will unite with the
party
uno: with each other on any of the great questions to be
d. In the Senate, it is probable the administration
will have a smell working majority. The balance of power
party, as it has been not inaptly ceded, will doubtless We at
least one of its members. It is not expected that Mr. Lewis
will return immediately to the Senate. The friends of Mr.
Calhoun are professedly in favour of General Taylor, but
they intend, I understand, to maintain a Taylor organisation
with the purpoee of felling beck upon Mr. Calhoun as an
independent candidate, should General Taylor withdraw, as
is probable, from the contest, and in cue the struggle shall
be between two regularly nominated candidates only.
Between the opposition in Congress and the administration
there will be a hard fought battle. There are powerful mess
ca both sides. The conflict will present many arrange phase'.
South Carolina and Massachusets will for once be found
aids by side. The two great mind, of the opposition an
Webster and Calhoun. The two main props of the adaal-
nistration are Buchanan end Walker. It is a curious
and one which forcibly allustrates the anomalous charaeter
the struggle that is about to take place, that while Mr.
Buchanan exerts all his ponderous strength to sustain the
edadniatration, the almost united force of the Philadel-
phia custom louse, the direct recepient of executive patro-
nage, is working politically and personally with intense
hoetility against him.
The reports of the battles of Contreras and Churuhusco, br
General Scott and his officers, lend, if possible, incr
splendour to those actions. The foolish attempt of some of
the toadies of the President to detract from General fleott's
merits, by ascribing all the glory of the planning and order.
ins of those actions to a subordinate, is at length plainly put
down by the official documents. How short-sighted is fairs-
hood !
It is remarkable that while some of the reports abound In
the UN of the first personal pronoun, in others, such se
those of Worth and Smith, it is aearcel need at all. The
greenest laurels will be withered by the heat of self-esteem ;

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Ganame, in store, were awls dII dote Ilft t elm de dilielpe2
at 4 dab. 11,; Goo do. sell at dids. UM Slim IldiblA
Owned were reported at hie Me; Id bomb eldelllg
rails vim made at 7 deb. , d I,Mblite Ms Ado IMP
delledelis ladsm at Mi. Me ; =de at 4111 at de=an.
dem were at II 1. is. lie, led Me OM 11011 et
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mamas deemed wine mud at IWler gdr paillw—One t Mind
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setae naseetina wan =pipe at Mars. To Mom
add wan Seim at 1..; as at II any et g ded. !ate Ise.
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id franc *OM We gavels bins ea Peels' stet. We. swish.
Arne:Media:, 40 to 40j. nemberg, tbl to 1111. Idiom Mt to 7e.
ALSAVY, Nov. 23.—P10t : Tlio mutat bes radar helm tad ales
of 800 burets were mode, Wading oMirsas. . Owego sad strait
brands Miehigan, at 5 dole. Ina toll dela dbl. Wiwi: Me mar-
ket was heavy, sod there was piety ~Ng. Orals dad dads was
dolL Whiskey : No change. Receipts by anal data, the preced-
ing 24 boom, were sa follows: Flour, AM hernia ; wheat, 21,500
bushels; corn, 6,000; barley, 10,000; sad. 7,5011. No change in
begin&
Prtmarao, Nor. 23.—plat 4 The deded vie bendie,sed we
mly note eaten or 100 to MA Wei eg4 ilia die& be 4 ffsla Me.
Wheat : Sales of a few howled Mai wed deb. Innedlon Ohio
and Pennsylvania mixed sad vtleast N hia. at 100 dols. its mar-
let dined rather dull. Is ems dad was ohmage. Rye wee firm,
hot so sales of moment repeehe. 111
_exhibited no eksage,
and we quote raw inactive at lea, ad Tahiti at 20c. It la raining
waln, but the river shows no Imo at ebbs yet. We report eta feet
of water in the channel.
New ORLIM., NOT. 15.—Cell. wan selling at 6c. to eic. for
middling to :pod fine. ad the miallet waive. Sabre of La Guayrs
1 coffee at se. eales yellow corn at 43 to 47. bales W biikey 10e. to
Ile. Other articles dull, sad without change.
BALTIMOIIi, Nov. 23.—A few sales of 11owarilatreet nom at
I dots. tie., and City Mills held at 0 d 01... without aim.. Wheat
selling at I do'. 31c. to 1 dol. 33e. for good to prime white, sail
I dol. Mo. M 1 doL 31e. for red.. Mixed corn, 6,c. : and WU OS.
Sales 900 barrels Whiskey. Sales hogs at 5 dole. 25e. to 505. pm
10818 e. Provisions without change.