The Express.
London, England, 1851-04-22 00:00:00

aid at • every incident in the government of the of freight on dust to per cent. from San Fran.
Prussian church which is calculated to assist that awn to Panama.
It is this feeling which has secretly stimu- From Oregon we have amounts to February 22,
=rethe bunker or squirearchy to oppose the admis- but they arc unimportant.
sion into the Germanic Confederation of the non- The Commissioner of the Mexican Boundary Com..
German catholic provinces of Austria. There is in- mission, Major Bartlett, has arrived ut Galveston.
deed sufficient cause why this feeling should be The difficulties with the Mexican commissioners have
kept awake, and be provoked if possible into been arranged, and the initial point on the Rio
greater activity. England has discovered that Pu- Grande Beata Friendly conferences have been held
septum has materially promoted the attacks of the with the Indians. A party of fugitive slaves were
Roman catholic church ; Prussia has yet to discovered on the route by Major Bartlett, who were
learn that there are growing up within the pro- in a state of starvation, and had been compelled to kill
testant church practices which arc the same as those one of their companions for food. A band of armed
commenced by Dr. Pusey in England. The metro- desperadoes, who had been guilty of atrocious out-
' polls of Berlin has witnessed for several weeks past rages at a small village called Socorro, were seized
the rise and progress of Liturgische Andachlen," by the military force attached to the commission
prayer meetings at which the ordinary church service about the last of January, and after a summary trial,
is performed with all the effect which illumined were promptly executed.
churches and massive sacred music can impart. Cho- The Hungarian colonists in Texas have met with
Asters clad in scarlet robes assist at the ceremony. a most cordial reception from the citizens of Gal-
Outing the service different robes are worn at veston.
ferent periods. These are facts which indisputably The Indians continued their work of plunder and
exhibit traces of a desire to restore at least the pomp murder in the valley of the ltio Grande. The
and form if not the spirit of the Roman planters on the banks of the river are in the greatest
catholic church service. There is a large party alarm, and many families have removed to the
who desire a closer approximation to the Mexican side.
spirit of popery. Their influence is apparent A brilliant file was recently given by the inha-
in the bigoted persecution of dissent narrated above. bittuits of the colony of I'iedvus 'Negras, in honour of
Thus, while the free exercise of religious opinion is the accession of Gen. Arista to the presidency, at
constrained, and persecuted by magisterial and cede which a number of residents on the American side of
siastical interference, the protestant form of religion the Rio Grande were present. Several Indian chiefs,
is changed in a manner undeniably Roman catholic. in full costume, also attended the celebration.
The motives which prompt the individuals at the The accounts from the survey of the route for the
bottom of this manceuvre arc not to be discerned. Tehuantepec Railroad are highly encouraging. It
They must be unpatriotic, they arc revolutionary. is supposed that the work wills: completed in about
The growth of the power of Prussia is cue solely to four months. The members of the expedition remain
the protestantism of its former rulers, and the corn- in excellent health.
partitively liberal form of government. The autho- By way of Havannah we have news from Guate.
my of Prussia to take the lead in the affairs of Ger- male and San Salvador. Our information is drawn
' many was admitted to be based on the liberal internal from the Belize correspondence of the Doris de
policy and the comparative civil and religious freedom to Marina, which that paper publishes without
possessed by the inhabitants. The extension of the giving its date. It seems, according to this cor-
civil freedom which the people obtained in 18-18 has respondence, that the arrival at the city of San
been with but slight exceptions withdrawn, and now Salvador of the defeated President Vaticoncelos was
is not only religious freedom being curbed, but the the occasion of a riot among the huckster women,
authorised religion is being tinged with Romanism. who, in rage at the rout of the army and the loss
Men capable of inventing and carrying out such of their relativek invaded his house, and threatened
plans must be Prussians or protestants, they must be his life. He had not resumed the executive
revolutionists, who hope to emerge from the turmoil functions, though he had been the requisite
of a religious war with advantage and profit. twelve days in the capital, and the office was
APRIL 19.
still tilled by its provisional occupant, Senor Duenas,
Baron Marschale has been appointed pleni
wen_ a man of the 1411110 polities us the President.
tiary to the Diet for the duchy of Baden. Meanwhile COMM invaded the state, and oecu-
Ilerr von Massive has been provisionally appointed pied Santa Anna, an important town from thirty
to the past of Minister of the Royal Household in to forty miles from the frontier, and eighty from
the place of the diseased Prince ‘Viitiosenstein. the capital. There he made propositions for peace,
The Second Commission in Dresden has held a demanding as a condition that Vaseoneelos should re-
sitting, and the second and fourth united have done sign his office, and that the Guatemalan emigrants
the same. It is now understood the Prussian govern_ should be surrendered. To the first point the provi-
meat will really make an attempt to obtain at least sional president replied that it could only be done
one result from these conferences. Count Alvensleben voluntarily : and to the second, that it was wholly
hasbeen instructed to endeavour to procure t he sanction
out of the questimi To this Senor Dueler; added
of all the German governments to the construction of that no further negotiations could take place until
an arms- of 13,),0440 men, to be placed under the the territory of San Salvador were abandoned. Here-
command of an officer appointed by the Diet, for upon Carman withdrew' his forces leyond the iron-
the purpose of protecting monarchical interests, tier, either to facilitate the formation of a treaty, or
and of immediately repressing the slightest in_ to avoid driving the people of San Salvador to &m-
-ama:aim' in Germany. As most of the states have Aeration. The government of the latter were at the
already signified tint they have no objection to same time engaged in raising new troops, and had
this sAeuve, it will very probably be the sole result already 2,000 recruits at the capital. They had
of the labours of the Dresden conferences. sought reintbreements from Honduras and also at
To-day being Good-Friday only the evening papers San Miguel.
were published. In Guatemala all was rejoicing and enthusiasm at
the result of the war. In consequence the govern-
_ _ ment is said to have gained in the afftetions and
patriotism of capitalists, KO far that the resources of
the treasury have been doubled. The fume of Car-
rera is at high tide, and even the principal chief of
the mountaineers, named Simoneito, had joined the
army to fight for the country.
It is said that the president of the National Diet
of Central America has put forth a proekunation
requiring Nicaragua, San Salvador, and Honduras
to stop the war with Guatemala.
Front Chagres we have accounts to the 20th, and
from Panama to the 26th ult. On the 25th, a des-
' tractive tire took place on the island of Tobago, at
IPannma, from which the storehouses and property of
the Pacific Mail Steam-ship Company were barely
saved. Sonic 30 houses were destroyed. On the
28th the men who murdered eight persons on the
Chagres river were to be shot.
Letters from Peru state that the result of the
1 presidential election had excited no disturbances.
Troops had been dispatched to quell a rising of slaves
in Truxillo.
Valparaiso accounts of February 25, state that
the Copiapo railroad was making satisfactory Fos
gress, and the survey of the route to Santiago had
been carried 51) miles with favounible results. Her
Majesty's ship Ikedalus had been ordered to take
on board 20 months provisions, in order to carry
succour to the Plover and other ships searching for
Sir J. Franklin. Her Majesty's ship Portland ar-
rived out on the Nth. Political affairs were tranquil,
and little doubt existed, that in March, Morritt
would be elected President. Mercantile affairs had
improved, large sales had been made, and the houses
appeared satisfied. We kern that he British brig
lirutus had been lost in the bay of St. Quentin'',
with all on board but two.
The island of Chigoe, at the last advices, was suf-
fering from a protracted drought. There had not
been twelve cloudy days for three months. An ar-
rangement had be's% made with the British steamer
Vulcan for regular communication IK•tWeCII Valpa-
raiso and the southern parts. Gold has been found
to a considerable extent in the department of Luiares.

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF TILE CANADA.
Last evening, shortly after 8 o'clock, the Canada,
Captain Harrison, arrived in the Mersey, with the
usual mails from the United States and the British
Provinces. She left Boston on the 9th instant, at
half-past 1 p.m, and Halifax at the half -past 2 on
the 11th. She brings upwards of 130 ptussengers,
some specie, and a fair general cargo of merchandise.
Her political news is of no considerable import-
mice. The chief topic at Boston was the arrest of an-
other fugitive slave named Simms, who tendered
affidavits that he never saw the person who claims
hint before: public indignation was excited to a
great degree; but on an appeal to the Supreme
Court for• a habeas corpus, the application was dis-
missed. While on his way to the lock-up, the man
drew a knife and stabbed one of the officers in at-
tendance, inflicting on him a severe wound. An
abolition lawyer, who attempted to interfere, was
seized by the pollee and sent to the watch-house.
The man claimed as a slave is from Savannah, and
has been in Boston about a month. A petition was
presented the day after his arrest to the legislature,
asking fur the use of the State-house yard for• a public
meeting, with reference to the enforcement of the
Fugitive Slave Law. This petition was not granted.
A meeting was then called on Boston-common,
which was numerously attended and addressed by
several speakers, who urged inuncdiate and violent
resistance to the operation of the law. Every means
was taken by the pollee to prevent ally outbreak.
The court-house, in which the fugitive was confined,
was surrounded by chains to keep off the crowds, and
guarded by a large body of officers. Several military
companies were in readiness for action in ease of any
disturbance.
Letters from Washington, in the Nese York
Amnia! t!I Commerce, express a probability that a
difieit bill, for 12,00 ~000 dols., will be presented on
the re-assembling of Congress. C. M. Ingersoll, de-
mocrat and unionist, had berm elected to Congress
for Connecticut.
The launch of the steam-ship Pioneer, 2,700 tons,
intended to carry passengers to Europe to the Expo-
sition, took place at New York on the sth.
Several new crevasses have recently broken out
on the Mississippi river, but it is probable that they
will be effectually stopped without excessive damage.
By the arrival of the Georgia at New York, on the
Bth inst., we have advice•:+ from San Francisco to the
sth of March, twenty days later than those pre-
viously received.
The news from California will give anything but
a favourable impression of the people of that state.
In Sacramento City there has been a painful tragedy
enacted. A desperado, engaged in a brawl, wan-
tonly took the life of an inottimsive by-stander, was
arrested, tried by a people's jury under the Lynch
code, and immediately hung. Having been repidsed
in the first attempt to force the door of the jail where
he was confined, the crowd pulled up an awning
post close by, and with this battering-ram attacked
the door, which very soon yielded. The deputy
sheriff held the crowd at bay fir some time, but was
forced out of the way and the mass poured in. The
prisoner, Frederick J. Roe, was in the inner cell,
chained to a post. After a long delay the chain was se-
vered, and he was then seized and hurried up the
stairs, and along the street to the place of execution.
It was half-past 9 o'clock at night and quite dark
when the crowd with the doomed man reached the

COMMERCIAL.
NEW YORK, Amu. 8.
The good effects of the foreign whim, received per
Baltic are mill visible maul our mask. to. tit eke have advanned
siriordbly, and clotted .toddy whit an upward tendency. This re.
mask, however, doe* not include Veiled States Lou.. New York
state Stocks or other prominent remit hive—the high r des at wloch
they have been ruling Nome time. combine I with the .teatly dernmida
prettied. all probability of an 0,1,1111.* being cursed lq the Eurt peen
aet,unto. Railroad smocks and howls h tre 1111olUt,11. TllO 111Cred110
In tiler earnings over the corrtdpotating 'vernal hut year, end the
probability of a much grroter increase, 01 the event of the proposed
reduction in the rates to fore for pemengets taking place, glees pan-
thicee to hid 1er...1 1111,1e1.t.s of prop, rty.
The demand for toreiim exchange h. been active, and large ailed
have been mole at quotations. Ihe high rates of sterling and eon-
tinetit I exchange, exec ca demand for specie, and no u, pension in
raven has take n Owe. an was looked for tart nee..
Money continues to be in active demand, but as the reeciptnof the
oinks are pretty heavy, they me di-wanting more freely. Prime
'Mat tome. are in demand at cent". rates. Our hanks and capitalinte
will noon begin to feel the bench. of the liquidation of the great
term of credits now maturing. TM-. credits., It icing performed their
vocation in ...misting the foreign and dontettie commerce of the
country, will nut be renewed again until the noturit, of this reason'e
crops. We, therefore, may expect a nowly diminution of niereentine
obligations. and a gr dot accumulotion of capital in this city, and
also cheaper rates for money.
Exccano..—On Lund .11, 110 to 1101 ; Paris, ft.n: to 5.10; Aro-
aterdou, ill to 4.i ; Hamburg. 3M: to :17; 79 to 791.
Lynn Meelionien Eire an.l Marine Insurance Company him declared
a semideinual ,ividendot 10 per cent., pay the on and lifer Monday.
April 7. Lynn Mechenice' Bank has drchired elni.:1010.1611 dividend
of 4 ter cent. several hulks in New Bedford Ita‘e the:vial the fol-
lowing serni.annuol dividend,: B dford Cotecervial, 4 per cent ;
Merehanm, 5 do; Maxine, 4 do. The Mecham.' Bonk make, no
dividend. The bulk. iii Portland, Mc., have due red the following
scmi.annual oividenda ;—Canal, •t per cent. (12,0,0 dole. of the last
ell metal.' earning. reserved to liquidate vocal Mock) ; Casco, 34
do.; Meratienh', 4 do.; Mon. and Traders', 6 do.; Bank of Cumber.
Lind, 5,10, The Haverhill back. hate &dated the Vittorio' nom-
annuol dividends:—Merrimack, 5 per cent.; Haverhill, V, do.;
Colon, 4 do. The Bunker Hill Bank hiet declared a emni,nnwol di-
vidend of 4 per cent. The Gloucester Bank a semi-annual dividend of
44 per cent.
.I.ll,l.—(Fran Taleott and Brother's Circular, per Canada.—
New York, Monday Evening, April 7,—Our het weekly Circutar wait
written fur the Artie on the let instant. On the 2nd 10,00 boles were
told at tine ratee, on the basis of 11,c. for mid ding uplands. On the
3rd a r-eling of anxiety prevailed with .word to the adrices per
Baltic, then looked for, and sail. were tweed at fe. to le.
redact.. On the morning of the 4th her see mots were published,
and, being much mote lavourable than were antiviratt were fol-
lowed oy an active demand for export, r,rultine inmates Mll,OOO balm,
at fully In improvement. On Saturday, the sth 'natant, the demand
cumin ed active, at gradually hortleoing price., the rah. reaching
6,000 halm. To.tley the transaction, mooned on 'Change amounted
to ~00 • bides, at fully le. advance on shirt ruiddlotg and rod
middling deseription., the market closing with an upwdrti tendtney
at the annexed quotattona. Soho queatly 2,000 boles were told,
making the tans of the day 6,000 balm,

Other

Atlantic NelrOr!ecr a. Gulf Ports.
Inferior Tornio 4. matron d. nominal.
Ordinary to good ordinary lo to 11 lof to ill 19i to 111
Mid. to good mid. II to 111 121 to :2; 114 to 12
Mid. fair to fair
Fully fair to goodfair
From Char leirea we have receivid the following, under date of 4th
lot.:—" 'scream in receipt. for the rm. k, 9ott bale.; fair, I lle. to
12e.; advance, lie. to lc. Little cotton offerin4." As our mall dates
are not up, we cannot furnish you a correct taiga of roe, iota. export..
&e., Be., mut: than the last talvmed per Arctic. Judging from our
telegraphic .tatemetits of receipts. we 4+,114 eetim de the muss at
about 155,000 bales; and on the subject of maw we hive nothing
new to &Bine, believing the general opinion to centre on 2.260,000
balva dtatributcal al advised per Alio of 2'.th ult., namely,—New
' Orletn., 00e,000; Mobile, 425,000; Atlantic state., 675,000 ; Florida.
170, 00 ; Texas, 35,000—total, 0,20116 r.
Exports et cocoa Irons New York Mr week ending 7th April.—To
Great Britain, 6,9;d4; Havre, 1,023 ; northern ports, 709—tata4
6,742 hales.
Baca.terr..—flour:Thee has been a fair biaPiness doing
in western and gate today, chiefly for dome to consumption. and
the market c mtinued firm, though not a, stews for the betuir grafts.
The rode. ■mounted to ~aOO barrel• superfine, No. 2 at 4 dolt, 1•e. to
I dui•. Mc.; ordinary t. straight State, 4 do:s. 50c. to 4 d4lll. 56e.;
mixed to 1 dicy Wrstern 4 doh. Stic. to 1 doh. ;:te.; New Orlions,
with good and round loop Ohio, 4 doh. lie t 1 .b.:•. 77 e. , and pure
Gefieve at 1 dot'. 91c. to 4 dolts. Can.4iaa wor held aSo•e the views
of borers. en 1 them whet was nominal, at 4 riot.. loathers.
iiilliteneed by a light mock and a brink de I.and, bas advanced, and the
day's triontactions include ,300 baeele mit d to straight Megan.
dria, dtc., al 1 dui& Le. to 4 dole. b7c. ; and tancyat S dui& to I dots.