The Express.
London, England, 1849-05-16 00:00:00

UNITED STATES.

NEW YORK, Mar 2.
The administration at Washington has not as yet
made any demonstration cf its policy. We presume
that non-interference in foreign masters will be pre-
claimed on all proper occasions, and that as re garde
Canada, if matters there should grow wsrlace, bodies
of regular troops will be stationed along the frontiers
to keep down physical sympathy. The larp appoint-
ments of the government have not yet been made,
bat are daily expected to be, and the applicants are
nearly all at Washington in person or by *eh repre-
sentatives to urge their claims. A gentleman re-
evilly at the capital informs me that he thinks Gen.
Taylor's health has been isomewh..t impaired by a
cheese in his mode of life. He looks thin, and stoops
a little. Indeed, he could hardly recognise in his
attenuated form the hero of 113 many fights, accus-
tomed to so many hardships, and with a constitution
reputed to be of iron.
We have a telegraphic despatch front Louisville,
Kentucky, as late as the 30th of April.
The convention called in the state of Kautucky, for
the purpose of considering what course it becomes
those to pursue who are opposed to the increase and i
perpetuation of slavery, assembled on the 25th ult. at
Frankfort. After the organie.tion of the body,l
sundry propositions were adopted, among which were
the following :
I. Believing that hereditary slavery, as it exists by the
laws of Kentucky, is injuri Ate to the commonwealth, incon-
sistent with the fundamental principles of a free govern-
ment, and opposed to the rights of mankind, It therefore
ought not to be perpetuated.
11. Any scheme of emancipation ought to be prospective,
or operative upon such negroie so are born after the adop-
tion of said Debase ; and for this purpose the annexed points
I are recommended to be inserted in the new constitution
Ist. An absolute prohibition of the importation of slaves
into the state of Kentucky.
2nd. That complete power shall be confined upon the
people of Kentucky to perfect, under the new constitution, a
system for the gradual prospective emancipation of their
By an arrival at New Orleans from Vera Cruz, we
have dates from California to the 3rd of March, and
from the city of Mexico to the 12th of April. Fifty
vessels had arrived at San Francisco within a week
previous to the 3rd front various ports in the Pacific,
freighted with assorted goods and filled with pas-
sengers. The markets were thoroughly glutted.
Gold continued as plentiful as ever, and new placers
were almost daily discovered. The elections of dole-
gates, to form a temporary government, had taken
place, and there was an universal unopposed determi-
nation manifested to prevent the admission of slaves.
Howland and Aspinwall's e'camer had not returned
to Panama. Indeed it is asserted that the whole
crew had deserted and made off for the mines. The
second steamer, the Oregon, had got up as for as
Mazatlan, arriviog there on the 14th of March from
Panama, and proceeded north the some day. On the
10th of the same month a Spanish schooner arrived
at Mazatlan from San Francisco with 15,000 oz. of
gold, purchased at from 11 dole. to 15 dole. per or.
A placer had been discovered in Lower California as
rich as any on the Sacramento. There were con-
tinued streams of American emigrants crossing froml
Vera Cruz to Mazatlan.
There continues to be diffi,ulty at Tampico. It
appears that when the country was siren up by ours
troops, the American goods which were already in
the country were exempt from duty, but the Mexican
government required an exhibition of the invoices.
These invoices, it is alleg ,d, contained not only the
goads on hand, but of immense quantities to arrive.
A tariff, however, was laid, with such eror-
mons rates of duty as to " block the game,"
and trade Is absolutely at a stand. The mer-
chants are therefore discontented. The government
knows it, and watches them with a jealous
eye. It also takes good care to collect as mach duty I
on imparts and exports as possible. A package of
ep. cie of the value of 14,000 dollars, was attempted to
be placed on board the Thames steamer in the shape
I of boles of cochineal, but the attempt was discovered
and the specie was *Cud and forfeited.
We have an arrival at Poilatielphia with dates
from Puerto Cabello to the 4th of April. The ac-
counts are gloomy. The Venezuelans are suffering
under the despotism of Menages, and propose to elect
as his successor the res. nt vice-president, Guzman.
Monagas had thrown onto prison a number of French
citizens, among them the vice-consul. Another revo-
lution in Venezuela was looked upon as certain.

COLONIAL.

AUSTRALIA.—POItT PHILIP.
We have received a file of the Melbourne Argus to
the 13th of Janusry. There had been an alarm of
cholera at Melbourne, and the Argus of the 12th
admits that one authenticat, d case had came to their
knowledge.
These journals contain no other news of general
interest.