The Express.
London, England, 1851-06-16 00:00:00

GERMANY.

FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MAINE, JrNr. 14.
The military commission of the Diet meets daily,
and is said to be very industrious. Its labours are, how-
ever, kept very secret, and I am told that it has been ar-
ranged between the several plenipotentiaries to keep the fo-
reign ambassadors, especially those of England and France, as
much in the dark ,u possible. It may be good policy on the
part of the Diet, but its success must be considered very
questionable. It is quite impossible for that very august
body so thoroughly to conceal from all eyes their plans, and
still more so the mode in which they are being carried out,
that they do nut become public. With al, their secrecy it
has already become known that the military committee
has prepared a resolution calling upon all the federal
states to hold their contingents in readiness to march
at eight days' notice, and it is believed that in the
sitting of the Engere Rath, which took place yesterday,
that resolution was sanctioned sod ordered to be carried

out. It is further publicly known that orders have already
been issued, in consequence of a recommendation to that
efl'ect from the military committee, to place all the federal
fortresses, Itastatt, Luxemburg, Landau, blayence, and
Vim, on a war footing. The necessary repairs are to be
made immediately, and provisions for several months to be
provided. Gangs of workmen are already at work on the
fortress of Landau, in Bavaria, which of all most needed
repair.
BERLIN, Just 13.
Though not much is distinctly known of the Warsaw and
Olmutz conferences, thus much is pretty generally in the
best informed circles here positively affirmed, viz., that
Russia has decidedly objected to the annexation
of the Danish monarchy to the German confederation, with
respect to the incorporation of the Austrian monarchy
therein, the Czar affects neutrality—knowing that the oppo-

talon ol*Franee and England to 'that measure will be arurtii-
eient to prevent its taking place.

HAMBURG.
A letter, dated Hamburg, Juno 11, says Since
the late tragic occurrence at St. Pauli the telegraph
between that city and Vienna has been kept in con-
stant occupation by General Legeditsch, the Aus-
trian commander. This officer has as yet taken no
heed of the remonstrance against the increase of the

Austrian troops in Hamburg, made to him by the
senate. 1,344 men with 111111 horses were sent by
that commandant to St. Pauli, and more are ex-
pected every hour. Strange as it may appear,
it was actually the intention of the Aus-
trians to proclaim the state of siege in St.
Pauli atter the late events, but prudent coun-
sels prevailed. The military, however, take every-
thing into their own hands as completely as if mar-
tial law had been declared. The day before yester-
day a citizen of Hamburg was expressing in the
street his indignation against the conduct of the
Austrian soldiers at St. Pauli, when two officers who
were passing by, hearing his language, took upon
themselves to arrest him, calling a neighbouring
guard to do their bidding. The next day he was
claimed by the civic authorities and set at liberty.
Yesterday a waiter residing in the suburb of St.
Pauli was so foolish as to attack an Austrian soldier,
and was very naturally secured. The offence having
been committed in the Hamburg territory ho
should have been delivered up to the civic authori-
ties. Instead of this, however, he was dragged off
to Altona, the Austrian head-quarters, where he is
likely to remain. Even our thorough-paced reac-
tionaries now sigh for the departure of the Austrians.
The lamentations of the many persons who have been
bereaved or otherwise injured by the late collision
make a sad impression on society, and even affect the
Bourse."

SHREWSBURY AND HEREFORD RAILWAY.—On
Saturday a special general meeting of this company was
held at the Lion Hotel, at Shrewsbury. In the absence of
Mr. Ormsby Gore, the chairman of the company, Mr!
Williams, the banker, of Chester, presided. The object of
the meeting was to obtain the consent of the shareholders to
a bill now before parliament for enabling the Shrewsbury
and Chester Company to make a new station at Birken-
head, and empowering this company to unite with the ,
former in the construction or use of that station, if it should
he deemed expedient ; also to authorise the Shrewsbury
and Chester Company to abandoa their projected branches to
Criekheath and Wem ; and further to empower them and
also this company to enter into working arrangements with
other compames as well as each other. This clause was
understood to refer to the Shrewsbury and Birmingham line.]
The chairman briefly explained the objects of the bill,
which, he said, did not bind the company to anythiw, and
thereafter he moved a resolution to the effect that itbe ap-
proved, and authorising to take the necessary ateppsa to ob-
tain the sanction of parliament to the bill.—Mr. Alletrn, of
Chester, seconded the resolution, which was carried after a
very brief discussion.—The Chairman announced that the
works on the line were progreesing rapidly, no difficulties
to retard them having been met with.
THE WATERFORD, WEXFORD, AND WICKLOW
RAILWAY.-A boisterous meeting of the shareholders of
this company was held in Dublin on Saturday to base the
bill now before parliament submitted for approbation. The
dissentient shareholders mustered strongly, but, after a
protracted and warm discussion, the directors succeeded in
carrying their resolution for the approval of the bill.
APOTHECARIES' HALL.—Names of gentlemen who
rilltheir examination in the sc ce ien and practice of me-
, and received certificates to practise, on Thursday,
June 12:—Richard Clark Perkin ; James Stacey Hichens,
Bedrolls, Cornwall.

AMERICA.
ARRIVAL OF THE AFRICA.

Yesterday at noon the British and North American
royal mail steam-ship Africa, Captain ltyrie, arrived
in the Mersey from New York direct, which port she
left on the 4th inst. at noon, thus making a very fair
average passage of eleven days. She brings 680,000
dollars specie on freight, 140 passengers, and aver
valuable cargo of general merchandise, together with
the usual mails from Canada and the United Status.

The American steam-ship Washington had arrived
on the 2nd inst., and the British royal mail steam-
ship Asia from Liverpool arrived out at New York at
eight o'clock on the morning of the Africa's de-
parture.
The news brought by this arrival is four days later
than that previously received by the Franklin, in-
cluding intelligence from the gold regions many
days subsequent to our previous dates.
During the month of May, 477 vessels arrived in
New York from foreign ports, with an aggregate of
38,346 immigrants. Of these vessels, 79 were under
the British flag.
The engagement between Jenny Lind and Mr.
Barnum terminates after nine more concerts, making
one hundred concerts since her arrival in this
country, beside those given for charity. According
to the original agreement with Mr. Barnum, which
contemplated one hundred and fifty concerts, Jenny
Lind was at liberty to close the series at the cud of
sixty or one hundred concerts at her pleasure. lino
great exhaustion of travelling, and the increasing
heat of the weather, connected with the fact that
the completion of the concerts would delay her
return to Europe till an unfavourable season of the
year, have led to this decision on the part of Jenny
Lind.

The great enterprise of theallinois Central Rail-
road has been at last fairly commenced. The direc-
tors voted, on May 3, to put one hundred and fifty
miles of the Chicago end at once under contract.
Other divisions will soon be arranged, and in the
course of four or five years we shall see this great
work completed from Chicago and Galena to Cairo.
The receipts of the Eric Railroad for the month of
May, 1851, were as follows :—From passengers and
marl, 92,397 dols. 77c. ; freights, 81,947 dots.
total, 174,345 dots. 12c. Same month, lt,w,
148,226 dais. 55c.; increase, 26,118 dots. 57e.

The news from the United States is almost con-
fined to that from California, whence dates are to
May 1. The steamer of that date took gold-dust to
the amount of 2,000,000 dols. to Panama. After
a session of four months, the Legislature ad-
journed on the 30th of April, having passed
an act to protect the homestead from legal
process under certain conditions, and a usury
law, fixing the rate of interest at 10 per cent. and
allowing 18 per cent. by special agreement. The in-
telligence from the mining district is of a flattering
character. Some progress has been made by the com-
missioners in forming treaties with the Indians,
although they still continue their ravages in the vici-
nity of Los Angelos. Nev. diggingshave been dis-
covered in Shasta Valley, which promise the most
abundant returns. Their depth is from one to
four feet, and they have yielded an average of
80 dols. a day a piece to five men, who have been
engaged there ever since the discovery. In
San Francisco, lives a gentleman named Ilastibgs,
who is largely interested in the quartz mines. In one
of his claims on Carson's Creek, ten miles above
Stockton, his partners (for there are seven of them)
had been working for the last two or three months
with indifferent success. They leased out the claim
to some dozen Mexicans, agreeing to divide the
profits. Early in April they commenced drilling on
the opposite side of the mountain, where there was
not the least outward sign of gold. After boring to
the depth of seven feet they blew out at one blast
350,000 dols. worth of gold. This occurred on the
12th. On the llth one of the partners arrived by
express with the news. On the 22c1 two of the
partners arrived with two boxes of the quartz.
his dwelling was crowded for two or three hours
with the wealthy merchants and bankers of
the city, who flocked to see the show. The boxes
were afterwards taken to Moffatt's Government Assay
office. On the 25th the result was given, which the
writer copied from Moffatt's account, viz. 103 lbs. of
quartz rock produced 36 one-pound bars of pure gold,
valued at 17 dols. 75c. per ounce. Each ounce of
rock yielded 8 dols. 50e. of gold. Total value
8,182 dole. 15e. Cost of coining, 225 dols. Several
merchants have tried to purchase shares, but
they have been told that 100,000 dols. would not
buy one. The lead is represented to be 7 or 8 feet
from the surface and about 6or 7 inches wide. The
depth and length not yet ascertained. Over two
tons of this valuable rock is said to be in sight, and
the estimated value, according to present appearances,
is 5,000,000 dohs. 2,000,000 dots., it issuid, can begot
out in a month. There is an Italian Opera Company
performing at the Union Theatre in Sacramento City.
fhree months ago labour might be had in Placer-
ville at from 2 dols. to 3 dots. per day. A decided
improvement in price has lately taken place, and la-
bour now commands from 5 dots. to 7 dots. per day.
Accounts from the mining interest represent the
late rains as having been most beneficial to their in-
terests. The dry diggings have been more alive
with the music of the various cradles, toms, &c.

The Placer Tunes of the lot ofMay contains the
following:

A company of four persons engaged, in a gulch at Placer-
vale, are taking out daily 1,000 dols., or 250 dols. a-piece.
The gulch had been previously worked, but by digging into
the banks and washing an extra quantity of earth with the
Long Tom, the company are enabled to make these wages.
A lump of gold found in the Mariposa Diggings on the 18th
ult., weighed 14} lbs. On the '93rd., two lumps were taken
out at the same place, ono weighing four pounds and a half
and another worth 570 dollars. On Saturday last a vein of
quarts was discovered on Deer Creek, about two miles north
of Rough and Ready, of great richness. It is supposed to
be extensive and is undoubtedly an outcrop of the veins
now being worked about Grass Valley. Business of every
kind has revived at Nevada since the late falls of rain.
The miners are doing much better at present than they have
for some months past. Those who had large quantities of
earth thrown up are enabled now to wash it, and receive
the fruits of mouths of previous labour. A miner in the
vicinity of Nevada took out a piece of quartz ruck weighing
17 pounds, strongly impregnated with gold. It is valued ut
2,500 dollars, and was found close to the surface. We have
heard of several rich discoveries of silver ore in the country
adjacent to Stockton. There are thousands of tons of this ore
in the region of the Four Creeks. Dr. Brown, some time
ago, found a vein three feet in thickness, near to Carson's
Creek, and numerous other similar veins have been found.
Col. Powell favoured us with a specimen from a mine he
has in his possession, and, from his statement, we conclude
that Mexicans, in former times, worked the veins in the
region of the Four Creeks. We saw yesterday a splendid
specimen of pure gold, weighing 680 dole. The hole in
which it was found is situated in Kentucky valley, between
Deer Creek and South Yuba. The gold is all coarse, and,
singularly enough, is imbedded in a stratum of clay. One
has to dig down about eight feet before reaching this, and
there it was so coarse that the miners who worked the
claim picked out the pieces from the clay. They found
three pieces, weighing together, 1,000 dollars, one of which
was perfectly round. The fortunate gentlemen are K S.
Bennett, C. W. and J. A. Winship, and S. It. Ellsworth,
of Boston and vicinity.
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The arrivals at New York from California, had
been as follows: The steamship North America,
Capt. Blethen, arrived on the 2nd from Chagres,
whence she sailed on the 24th ult., making the run
in eight days and six hours. She brought 400 pas-
sengers and 800,000 dole. in specie and gold dust.
The steamer Empire City, Capt. Wilson, arrived on
the 3d from Chagres. She brings the United States mails
from California, 350 passengers, and nearly '2,00,000
doll. on freight. She made the run from New
York to Chagres in eight days and seven hours.
The Empire City left Chagres on the 25th ult.
The passengers by the Empire City, on her outward
voyage, went up the Chagres River iu two steam-
boats which now make regular trips, up one day and
back the next, running up in 10 to 12 hours and
down in four to seven hours. The steamships Union,
Oregon and Republic had arrived at Panama. The
Union brought 200 passengers and 150,000 dollars in
dust, the Oregon 45 passengers and 800,000 dole.
in duet, and the Republic 200 passengers and
1,000,000 doll.—in all 2,050,000 doll., besides what
is in the hands of passengers, probably 1,000,000 dole.
more.
Our dates from Santa Fe are to May 1. Fifteen
companies of U. S. troops were to leave New Mexico
on the 10th of May, upon a campaign against tho
Navajo Indians. This military movement was con-
sidered important, if for nothing else, an account of
the impulse it would give to the soldiers, whose
health has been seriously injured by the recent inac-
tivity of their life. The census of the territory of
New Mexico has been taken by direction of Oov.
Calhoun,
A showinglic meetinga was h
population of d 4 4s,anbeta F
sideen
theo
Indians.
the 25th of April, to nominate candidates for the le.

'Sistine. Governor Calhoun issued his proelama-
sion on the 23d April, for the election of members of
the Legislative Assembly on the 19th of May. The
session of the legislature is to commence at Santa Fe
cc lune 2. Business of all kinds was very brisk,
end large quantities of goods ordered from the Atlan-
tis States.
The canvass for the next election is going on with
rest vigour in Texas. Oov. Bell is thought to have
ase best prospect of success.

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MEXICO.
The dates from Mexico are to May 23. Signor
Yams, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, has been
appointed Minister of Finance,the chief clerk taking
this place meantime in the foreign department. The
plan which he has presented for creating a revenue is
received with decided aversion by the friends of the
present administration. He asks for power to reduce
the expenses of the public offices—to make arrange-
ments for the introduction of raw cotton, and im-
posing a tax on the manufacturers of the country
—to lay a duty of two per cent. on the coasting
trade—to assess taxes on the States sufficient
to supply the deficiency in carrying into
effect the law for the regulation of the pub-
lic debt—with several other measures of a
similar character. The Mexican government has
been charged with the duty of presenting to the
United States government claims to the amount of
20,000,000 dole. for damages committed by the Indians
in the state of Chihuahua, sontrary to the stipulations
of the treaty.
The advices from Yucatan state that the Indian
warfare is fast drawing to a close'. The Indians had
sustained a bloody defeat at Bacalos.