The Express.
London, England, 1853-07-18 00:00:00

GERMANY.

The Kreuz Zeitung, the organ of the absolutist
and anti-constitutional party, which is very strong
at the court of Berlin, has received a warning from
the government. This bold proceeding ou the part
of M. Manteuffel shows that he considers his posi-
tion as Premier to be beyond the power of the cava-
lier party which environs the King. The conductor
of the Kreuz Zeilung has resigned. This paper is,
with the exception of the Frankfurt Journal, the
only one in Germany which has attempted to justify
the recent conduct of the Emperor of Russia.

AMERICA.
ARRIVAL OF THE NIAGARA.
LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY.
. _ . .

The British and North American royal mail
steamer Niagara, Captain Leitch, commander, arrived
in the Mersey this morning, at five o'clock, with the
American mails from Boston and Halifax, 174 pas-
sengers, and a small amount of specie. She left
Boston on the 6th, and Halifax early on the morning
of the Bth instant. The British ambassador to the
United States, Mr. Crampton, came passenger to
Halifax by the Niagara, and the Hon. N. Hawthorne,
the newly-appointed consul at Liverpool, with his
lady and family, and the Hon. S. S. McDonald,
speaker of the Canadian parliament, are amongst the
passengers to Liverpool. There is very little news
by this arrival, the celebration of the 4th of July
having, as usual, absorbed all other matters, whether
political or commercial. The day was celebrated
with the usual festisities, reviews of militia, pro-
cessions, music, and a tearful amount of
filing of both cannon and small arms, from the inju-
dicioua use of which by inexperienced hands quite a
list of serious accidents arose in New York and other
places. Ai the village of Tarry Town, West Chestcr
county, the day was marked by the laying of the
first stone of a granite column, to be erected to the
memory of the captors of the unfortunate English-
man Major Andre, during the war of independence.
The column is erected on the precise spot where the
arrest took place, nearly (53 years ago.
General Almonto, the ambassador from Mexico,
lately appointed by Santa Anna, has arrived at
Washington, and was to be presented to the Presi-
dent on the 6th. We learn from thence, also, that
the Mexican and American troops had met at El
Paso on friendly terms, and resolved to leave the
question of the possession of the Mecilla Valley to
the statesmen of the two countries.
The Hon. Pierre Soule had arrived at New York,
en route to Madrid, as American ambassador to
Spain.
A terrific fire occurred at Oswego on the sth, by
which property to a very large amount was de-
stroyed. The fire extended over a space of about 45
acres, and destroyed nearly 200 dwellings. Three
hundred thousand bushels of grain were consumed
in the flames, and the entire loss has been estimated
at 1,500,000 dollars. Many persons have been in-
jured by falling timbers, but no lives were reported
as lost.
A despatch from Baltimore on the sth states that
a fearful riot had occurred the day previous at Anna-
polis, between some of the citizens and the passen-
gers on board the steamer Powhattcn, on an excur-
sion from Baltimore. The inhabitants fired into the boat
as she was leaving the wharf, badly wounding seve-
ral of the passengers, one it was feared fatally.
There were over 500 persons on board the boat at
the time.
A severe storm occurred at Cincinnati on the 4th,
doing great damage to the crops.
The President of the United States has accepted
the invitation to attend the opening of the Crystal
Palace, which is to be inaugurated on the 14th.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, JULY 5.
Our national holiday, celebrated yesterday, leaves us
hardly anything to report. Both money stocks and rates
of exchange remain as last quoted. Cotton is quiet. Flour
Icvs firm. The tobacco market is active, and the late ad-
vance maintained.

TERRIFIC THUNDERSTORM AT NEW
YORK.-THREE MEN KILLED AT ' THE
CRYSTAL PALACE.

At five o'clock yesterday afternoon (says the New
York Tribune of the 2nd inst.) a terrific storm of rain,
hail, and lightning rose suddenly from the north-west, and
passed over the upper part of the city and neighbourhood.
It was quite moderate its the lower part of the town, and
probably scarcely felt on Staten bland. The whole affair
lasted not more than a quarter of an hour, yet the results
were most disastrous, as will be seen by the tenoning ac-
counts from our reporter.
ilaprening to be in the neighbourhood of the Palace about
5 o'clock last evening, we sought shelter under its ample
roof from an impending thander-storm of very threatening
appearance, rapidly approaching from the west. About ten
minutes after the storm burst, the most terrific hailstorm we.,
ever saw began to rattle like discharges of musketry upon t'Ac
tin roof and glass ',icier,. Some of the masses of ice wets as
large as hen's eggs. There were probably a thousene. ex-
cited workmen in the building, and a good many exlr,hitors
and visitors, among whom there were some twenty ladies,
some of whom appeared a good deal alarmed at t's,e awful
din. A portion of the framework of the addition next to
42,1-at. went clown with a terrible crash, and -A
part of the
brick wall of the engine-house on the opperAte side of the
street, was blown over, crushing two or three shanties,
fortunately without any other injury the', driving the occu-
pants out into the storm. But an esti'.
scene occurred on
the north side of 43d-st., directly opposite the Letting
Tower. Here two large nutinishe a frame buildings were
blown, or rather, we should juel'/e from appearances, were
slushed down into a mesa of tu ,ns, such as may be imagined
by supposing a great weigh; had fallen, with a circular,
grinding motion, upon '.as first fine fabrics. One of

them was partly sided, and had the rafters up, but no reef
The other was sided and roofed with tin, and was bting.
plastered. We were told 1: was three stories high, .5„, by
98 feet.
We reached the ruins among the first after the burst of
the storm subsided a lick. 'the scene was such as we
pray God we may never witness again. A small partien of
the roof and upper part of the front of the building stood,
or 'ether partly hung Over, the side walk. The cherub. r
and lower floor of the front rooms lay flat together. 'I he
sides were standing. In the rear all were down. It seems
the frame of the other building came down with a deafen-
ing crash at the alms time, confusing instead of warning
these in danger. At any rate, before they could tecape,
they were huiied in a mass of timber, arid there of them
instantly killed, and four or five dangerously wounded,
and others slightly bruised and badly frights Led.
A large police force were early on the ground, and llonk
and Ladder Company Nu. 2, and Huse Company No. 27,
Caine up very soon and assisted to clear off the ruins in
search of more viCti.lll. Twu of the dead were carried into
the tower, and one to the railroad house, Forty.fourth•
street. Some of the worst of the wounded were taken into
the tower, where they had their wounds dr, esed by Dr.
Smith, mineralogist of the Crystal Palace, assisted by Dr.
McDonnell, of the chief of police's office.