The Express.
London, England, 1851-05-19 00:00:00

AMERICA.

The British Royal Mail steamer Asia, Capt. C. ILE.
Judkins, arrived at Liverpool on Saturday night at
11 o'clock, with the usual mails and 14-i passengers.
The Asia left New York on the ith inst., and has
therefore accomplished another of those extraordina-
rily quick voyages for which these vessels are cele-
brated. The Asia spoke the steamer Europa at S
p.m. on the evening she left New York. and on the
12th passed the steamer Humboldt for Havre.
M. Bois Le Comte, the French minister at Wash-
ington, who has been recalled by his government,
took leave of the President on Friday, the 2nd inst.
Orders have been despatched by the war depart-
ment of the United States to the officers on the
frontier, urging them to increased vigilance and
energy in the suppression of Indian outrages, in com-
pliance with the conditions of the treaty with
Mexico.
The steamer Cleopatra, which, it will be remem-
bered, was seized at New York on suspiciou of being
fitted out for the Cuban expedition, still remains in
possession of the guard of marines placed on board
immediately after she was taken possession of by the
marshal. Mr. Tallmadge is now in correspondence
with the authorities at Washington with respect to
the final disposition of the vessel. The evidence ob-
tained against the persons arrested will be presented
to the grand jury. No new discoveries have been
made, and it is presumed that the expedition from
this quarter is, for the present, broken up.
A violent indignation meeting had been held at
New York, to deprecate in strong terms the language
used by Sir H. Bulwor in his late speech. A letter
had been received from Sir Henry, explaining that
the word " Celt " was not intended by him offensively
towards Irishmen ; but the explanation war not
deemed satisfactory, and a memorial to the President
of the United States was agreed upon, as follows:
To MIS EICILLINCT IMILL•RO FILLMORE, PRESIDENT OF

?MI UNITID .........
The memorial of the undersigned, citizens and inhabi-
tants of the city of Now York and its neighbourhood, most
respectfully showeth :
That memorialists arc fully sensible no ordinary circum-
stance would justify them in appealing to the chief execu-
tive in reference to a subject coming within the immediate
sphere of his administrative functions, and they beg to
assure your Excellency, that if they thought the facts to
which they respectfully and earnestly invite your attention,
would otherwise come officially under your cognisance, they
would not pmume to make them the subject of complaint,
being convinced that your Excellency would protect every
class and section of the people of these states, without dis-
tinction, from insult and outrage.
That, presuming the circumstances which they respect-
fully lay before you would otherwise escape your Excel-
lency's notice, and feeling them to be of an unprecedented
character in this or any other civilised country, and ,of the
greatest importance, in whatever light they are considered,
your memorialists moat earnestly request your Excellency's
consideration of and decision upon them. They are as
(follows_ . . _ . . -

On the 24th day of the present month, Sir Henry Lytton
Belem, Ambassador to your Excellency's government
from the Court of her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain
and Ireland, attended at the celebration of the St. George's
fustiest, at the Astor House, in the city of New York, and
there delivered the following sentiments, which, after two
days of sober redeetion, appeared under his name In the
Ezpress newspaper, which assumes to represent him. Your
memorialists copy them from that paper, believing they
were published with his sanction and correction ; and, be-
sides, they appeared in the same words in other papers, and
without any denial or explanation on his part
Do any of you gentlemen happen to have any good-
natured friends. (Laughter.) If so, you can understand
how my good natured friends at Washington all crowded
around mo immediately on my return from Richmond, to
relate how a most infamous publication had appeared in
some journal, I believe called the Boston Cell, purporting to
be an intercepted despatch from me to the English Secretary
of Sta.. for Foreign Affairs. Now, people usually adver-
tise when they have last any property ; but I wink to ad-
vertise that I have lost no property at all—(laughter)—and,
although it is natural to conjecture from the semi-barbarous,
semi-clad, and Celtic origin of my Boston friend —(laughter)
—that he had been guilty of the crime of which he boasted
—namely, theft—he has, is reality, been guilty of an offence
which more appropriasely belong* to • further advanced
stage of pantaloons sad retiseasent—(laughter)-1 mean
forgery ; another clam*, by the way, of the general
maxim that all savages, whether Celtic or otherwise, when
they take so inhabitant cities, circa such moral cities as
Boston, adopt the Mee without acquiring the virtues
or the grains of civilised life. (Cheers and laughter.)
And here I should leave the matter, but 1 am rather in-
clined to suspect (everything that is at all Yankee has
such odd notions)— leer)--that the unkind bar-
barian of Ilsesaehruiette, of intending a more se-
rious offence, has merely been psepstrating abed joke, in
the slaps of a political squib, whoa\ is mesa* M isveur the
presidential claims of an excellent friend of mine, by having
it appear that he is a particular canny of England. Now, I
should be sorry to do this Bind say dimanice; but 1 do