The Express.
London, England, 1848-08-31 00:00:00

GERMANY.

AUSTRIA.—Two proclamations by ministers
were published in Vienna on the 24th inst. The
first intimates that, in consequence of the tu-
mults• stirred up by the workmen engaged on
public buildings, and the necessity of restoring
public confidence, ministers have unanimous 4 re-
solved:-1. To take upon themselves the imme-
diate and exclusive direction of all measures for en-
suring the public peace. 2. To place the national
guard under the immediate and exclusive command
of the cabinet. 3. To stop all those works which
have been the scenes of riots, and to permit Ito work-
man to return to his employment who cannot give a
satisfactory account of his previous conduct. The
second proclamation purports to have in view tho
extension of the protection of the laws to the national
guard when employed in preserving order. 'I 'o this
end notice is given that in conformity wi'h the
penal code, sentence of imprisonment varying from six
months to five years will be pronounced on every
person convicted of resisting the national guard,
whether with or without weapons; and every person
wearing the uniform of the national guard who does
not belong to it will be subjected to arrest for a period
varying from three days to one month. On the same
day the Minister of the Interior had a number of
questions put to him in the Diet respecting the riots,
and the measures adopted for their suppression. lie
stated that order had been completely restored, and
that as soon as ministers were in possession of full
information respecting the events of the few preced-
ing days, it would be laid before the assembly.
In reply to a charge that ministers had super-
seded the Committee of the Community in the
management of the local government, because it was
" a thorn in their eye," he explained that the com-
mittee was called into existence merely to prepare a
civic constitution ; that ministers entertained all re-
spect for it ; but that, until a local government upon
a really popular bsais was organised, they thought it
was their duty to undertake themselves the task and
ot preserving order.

UNITED STATES.

A summary of the following appeared in the whole
of our impression yesterday :
The America, Capt. Judkins, arrived at Liverpool
yesterday morning. Her dates are: New York, 16th
inst. ; Halifax, 18th. The long passage is attributed
to strong easterly gales.
Congress was adjourned on the 14th instant,
and President Polk was to leave town on the
18th to spend a week at Bedford Springs. The State
elections were in progress, and there appeared to be
in many of the states a close run between the whigs
and democrats. In North Carolina a whig governor
had been elected, there was a "tie" in the House of
Commons, and in the senate a majority of two for the
whigs. In Indiana the returns from 20 counties had
been received, and so far the result was 37 whigs and
37 democrats for the legislature.
The political summary of the New York Courier
and Enquirer will be found to contain all the intelli-
gence of any general interest. It is as follows :
The Congress of thl United States adjourned on Monday,
after a session of eight and a half months. There has been
no legislation affecting the tariff nor the curreccy of the
country, nor any touching specially on our trade with foreign
nations. A proposition, understood to he submitted by the
President of the United States to the senate for their advice,
relative to the purchase, for a gross sum, of all the property
and o rightsrego., of the
pwli Hudson's
overn'
s fla y
want C Company ng :oin
time.
. .
Thewithin the
president,
however, has still the power in the recess of negotiating a
treay upon this subject through the British government,
1 and subject to the ratification of the senate. It is
certainly desirable, as likely to do away with two
pregnant causes of dispute between English and Ame-
rican settlers in Oregon, that all the property and
rights of the Englisn company should be conveyed
to the American government, even although the price to
be paid should be larger than the sequel money value
of the property acquired. Among the last acts of li gelation,
and one wuich has received the president's signature, was •
bill providing for the government of Oregon. Tree peculiar
circumstance which gives interest to this .rill is, that it em-
bodies, in respect of that territory, the provision of the
famous ordinance of 1787, which forbids slavery for ever iu the
territories nerth-west of the Ohio ; and the wise foresight of
which prohibition has been proved by the growing up already
in that territory of six great and prosperous states, within
which slavery can find no foothold. There was a strenuous
contest in the senate especially to exclude this provision, but
it was found, after two or three successive trials, that
on each occasion the Rouse of Represent atives breams
more and more determined to !et Oregon remain without a
government, rather than consent to any compromise adverseto
freedom,and finally the senate yielded and the bill woo passed,
and is now a law, with the clause prohibiting slavery within
the hort:ere of Oregon. '1 he other new territories acquired
by the treaty of peace with Mexico remain unprovided with
any government, and are in a sufficiently anomalous position,
for they are American by treaty, and of course no longer sub-
ject to laws which attached to them when belonging to
another country—and yet not provided with any new form
of government by their new country. Slavery is here again
the stumbliug block—for portions of both these territories
lying within parallels of latitude where slave labour may be
with most advantage employed—the senators and n presenta-
tive, from the slave holding states will not consent to any bill
that locked to the exclusion of slavery from these countries.
On the other hand, the representatives from the non slave-
holding states would not sanction any bill that
might lead to the intreducticn of slaves end sla-
very into regions now free. The differences are
irreconcilable, end the territories are left without
any fettled form of government. The prvident must admi-
nister their concerns as best he may. Our accounts from
Mexico present no new feature. Paredes, although over-
thrown by Bastamente, had escaped from capture, and was
still at large. His authority, however, is much impaired,
and his chief coadjutor, the Padre Jarauta, having certainly
been executed, there will no harm come of Paredes. The
American forces have all abandoned Mexico, and the flag of
that country now flies again from St. Juan d'Ullaa to the
capital. From Europe our advices by the Acadia to the 30th
ult. have produced little effect, commercially. P.,litically,
we look with anxious forebodings to the struggle that seemed
impending in Ireland, of which the issue can only be, as it
would seem, one of terrible bloodshed and more etrinvent rule
for the Irish. The sympathy with their cause and their
sufferings on this aide of the Atlantic is genuine and Renne],
but it will not lead to any such insane projects, as seemed to
be apprehended in the last dates in England—of ',ending
armed forces from here to Ireland. Its utmost tangible
manifestation may be, in sending seine thousands of p ,uuds
—and not many of them either—to swell the funds of the
revolters. The weather with us continues very fine. The
wheat harvest has been got in in fair eider, and the Indian
corn promises most abundantly, and is now ~^youd reach of
injury. Of the potato disease we have occasional complaints ;
but the early crops were of excellent quality. Thus far
tiers is not much reason to apprehend serious loss to the
whole crop.

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COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
lime Tonle, Auo. 15.—Our money market is trenquil,
with some more easiness. Loans or calls can now be reedit, obtained
at 7 per oent.; consequently the prilX4 of stocks are tending upwards,
and range above the prices quoted by the last eteioni•r. t.. states
six per cent. stock of !GI and 613 now sell promptly at from litif to
1041 ; the aces of '53 command 931 to 938 ; and for treesui y notes
bearing 6 per cent. intereet, and convertible Into a twenty years'
stock, 101 to 1041 are readily paid. New York State neaten have
improved aleo—the fives being 97 4; the sixes, 1031. For foreign
exchange, the rates, notwithstanding considerable purebaaa OD
Meat= account, tend downwards. Bill' on London are limn 91 to
• ten day bills on Paris, sf. 211 • end bills on Amsterdam. 40 to 4.
'Corror.—The new crop comes'in slowly. In our !a t we named
the fleet hale at Montgomery. The first bale at New Orleans arrived
on the sth, at hfobile,twobeles on the Gth or 7th. savannah, a bale on
the7th. Oa the 4th and sth 4 or Shales were re.3eived at Albany and Ma-
con, Georgia, aml at Montgomery. In making up um Meal total of
this crop, in conformity with the practice of former yearn, %bete well
have to be added to the receip cottonthe ports about 10,000 bales for
Virginia and North Ceirotte• commetea m t•et nes at
Petersburgb, &a, and the nett Augusta end Hamburg clock on
the Sint,
which may be about or 15,000 bales. The final
crop will, therefore, probably appear at abort 2,528 00 halm, Glue:
Itsceipis at ports thus far 2, •210,000 bales ; probable future receipts,
30,000 or 35,000, say 30;000 bales ; addition for Virginia and North
Caroliin, 10.000 balm; probable nett Augusta and liamtang stock on
Slot
inet., 10,000 bales; probable final crop, about 2,320,0e0 bales. As
regards the final total export to Great Britain, the 26 easel.. left toed-
ing at southern poets maybe expected to carry 40,060 or 43,0u0 bales;
and vessels which maycommence loading after the sth inst. may take,
including proGsble clearances fermi
northern ports, 15;410 or 20000
more. Thus: Export to Great Britain thus
m0nth274.000 bales;
probable export fcr the remainder of this , 00,0, 0 bales ;
probable total of this Masao to Great Britain, 1,334,000 balm.
Now
n, let us some to the
kc probable stack on 314 inetant, textual,
Bosto Philadelphia, . That stock on It September last was
215,000 bales ; crop as already stated, 2,328,00 e haler; total avail-
able qatunity, 2,543,000 hales. Export to Great Brittle as stove.
1,334,000 bales probable to Prance and other places, 533,000 tales ;
probable actual borne coneumption, 450,(00 balm ; probable eteek
remaining 31. t August, including Augusta, 80-tan, Philadelphia.
he., 220,00) bales; total, 2,541,000 bales. Thug, even if we
allow the actual home consumption to be 453 100, the
total stocks at the close of this Beason will be en large aa at
the close of last season, when they were larger than ever at that time
of year. The stock of 158,000 does not include those at Xetrasta, and
Hamburg, nor at any northern ports except New York ; beeldes
which it is tolerably clear that at this moment the menu: atueers and
their agents bold 50,000 bales more than last year. In G rieting the
clamour at this time last year as t 3 the probable deficietay ot the crop,
and stating that it might still reach 2,300,030 hales, wren lei many
cetimates below 2,000,000 were put forth, and in estimating tart
January that the probable export of the season to Great Britain would
be 1,280,000 balm—in there two positions, and they were the two
which were of
objected to we shall e pr.,,,A1 to be under the
mark, instead of being (as a ginat majorityb of the trade expected, or
seemed to expect) greatly beyond
Flora, 5.c.-I.pon the receipts of the telegraphic deal stelae from
the Acadia at Barton, Madero of flour ads awed their Tat*. 12te. to
15Ie. per barrel, at which several ',ales were mode; so-day. bowe‘'er.
the letters having come to hand, chippers withdrew from the market,
and quite a limited hwenees was done. Bayern for ex. tat offered
.1 dots. for Western Canal, whilst receiveni caked 5 dint 121 c. to
5 dole. lele. for cemmon hennas, 5 dols. 2 ie. to 5 dole, tile. ea good,
and 5 dole. 50e. for pure Genesee. Common Southern onu Is held at
5 dots. 50e. Corn meal may be quoted at 3 dole. to 3 dole. '2sv. Hye
flour, 4 dole. The advance which was obtalned eterusy in corn may
be ccaddered loot ; shippers will not glee the peace. asked. 2,0e0
bushel of heated sold at 56c.; 4,000 bushels low mixed. Gle. A tew
samples of high mixed were in market, for which ale_ is a cAtere4.
Oats are dull, and small lota of Northern :re stung at 40a.