The Express.
London, England, 1847-10-29 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

TIIIS DAY, Four o'
It is generally understood that Thursday, the 18th
of November, has been fixed upon as the day for
which poi liament is to be summoned, and on which
it will as•emble for the despatch of business. As soon
as the ne.. iry preliminaries have been disposed of,
ministers ,ill at once call special attention to the
state of the country, and ask for a legislative sanction
of the m.l-ures they have taken in relaxing the pro-
vision of the Bank Charter Act of 1811.

In another column will be found accounts from the
United Slates, with later intelligence from the seat of
war in 11. xico ; but this latter being derived through
a variety of channels, is necessarily of a confused and
most unsati-f.zetory kind. No authentic despatches,
had reedit: I Washington from General Scott ; and it
is evident, from the tone of the New York papers,
that a feeling of considerable anxiety prevailed. There
was much reason to believe that the American army,
having occupied Mexico, at all events in part, had
been ultimately forced to withdraw from the city,
in consequence of the unceasing attacks of bands of
lisperm. This had given fresh courage to the Mexi-
cans, who were reported to be again taking arms
throughout the country. It was also generally un-
derstood that Santa Anna had re-entered the capital
with 10,000 regular troops and 23 guns; and, accord-
ing to some journals, when the last accounts left,
the American army and Mexicans were actually en-
gaged. In such a state of affairs, the fear was,
that General Scott might be compelled to fall
tack, especially as it would seem that he had been
cut off from his supplies. A retreat under
such circumstances could not but be disastrous, and
attended with a considerable sacrifice of life, before
the coming up of reinforcements from Vera Cruz.
These reinforcements, however, were making but
slow progress. At l'eubla the American forces were
themselves engaged, and it was very doubtful if they
had been able to maintain their position.
From either Perote or Jalapa no advance could
be made till the arrival of the division under
Gen. Lane. and it was a question whether this officer
weld himself advance beyond National Bridge pre-
vious to having been joined by the brigade from
Brazos, under General Cushing, which, up to the
23th of September, had not reached Vera Cruz,
for under all circumstances he moat be pre-
pared for guerilla opposition, and for some-
thing more at Cerro Gordo, where considerable
fortifications had been erected. These matters have
all been fully discussed, and some of the New York
papers do not hesitate to say that the last news from
Mexico was "certainly alarming."
The execution by General Scott of the Irishmen in
the Mexican service, taken at Cherubusco, had called
forth an official address, published in the Diario del
Goherno, from which the following is an extract:
Well, then, will you believe it, my countrymen, this
day, in cold blood, these Carib', from an impulse of super-
stition, and after tie manner of savages, and as practised in
the days of Homer, have hung up these men as a holocaust—
they have themselves said it—to the manes of the general or
generals who there fell! And in what manner did they hang
them Noosing them by the neck as they stood upon the
Round, and so suspending them that they died by " inches,"
streneled by their own weight, the mode adopted being such
that their horrible agony lasted more than one hour—a epee-
tacle worthy of such men, or rather of demons escaped from
hell. This they did with 18 of these unhappy men, and
among them the brave Captain Reilli, whose head they stuck
upon a p.ke, and planted at Cherubusco. To the six others,
who proved that they had not volunteered, but been im-
pressed, they gave 200 lashes each, and compelled them to
tdie the graves of their companions.
Mexicans' These are the men who call us barbarians,
and say they come to civilise us. These are the men who
have plundered the houses of the surrounding villages—who
have stolen childim from their families—who have slept in
the niches devoted to the sacred dead—who have, with blas-
phemous revelry, clothed themselves with the ornamenu of
the altars—who have thrown upon the ground the body of
Jesus Christ, and have made themselves drunk in drinking
out of the sacred vessels' Accursed may they be of all
Chi istians as thew are of God'
Mexicans' The supreme government conjures us in
the name of the honour of our race—in the name of our
dignity as men, and of Gad himself, that we should all unite,
by one unanimous and continued effort, to revenge these
great outrages, to yield never to dismay, and to wage this
war without truce and without relenting.
For the commercial news from the United States
we must refer to the usual columns. It will be seen
that the rate of exchange on this country was rather
lower, and that there was an abundance of good bills at
108 to 109. Some exaggerated accounts of another
potato failure would seem to have reached New York,
so that extensive shipments of breadatuffe were again
looked for.

CHELTENHAM AND GLOUCESTER
RAILWAY.

Sir,—l trust you will permit me to refate some
misreprewntations, or misappri hensions, on the part of a
writer in the .Horning Herald of the 16th inst., with respect
to Mr. It. St&phenion opinions on the double-gauge line
between Gloucester and Cheltenbana.

iii;:ate.till7,TaZngCarelVlly Walked over the line in
question with Stepbenson's Report on the Double Gauge in
bit hand, he was quite unable to discover any of the dangers
and difficulties described and exhibited In the document in
question and its accompanying diagrams. In this observa-
tion the writer is perfectly correct. On the double-gauge line
between Gloucester and Cheltenham Rai re are no difficulties
or dangers, because the stations of the broad gauge com-
pany as d f the narrow gauge company, at either terminus,
are entirely separate, and there ore no intermediate stationa
or through crossings joining the up line and down line.
Mr. Stephenson has stated in evidence " that the addition
ofa third rail into a common railway, where there are no
Rations nr intermixture from side to side, is, vulgsrly speak-
he as plain ma a pike-staff." I quote his own words; and
added. "I do not think the Cheltenham and Gloucester
will be a fair trial."

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Bat the observations to which the Morning llernlel alludes
were prepared by Mr. Stephenson in consequence of the
commissioners of railways having forwarded to the directors
of the London and North Western " the report and plan
furnished by the Great Western Railway Company of the