The Express.
London, England, 1847-03-17 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 17, 1847.

" one constant career of success," The imputation of '
passing the boundary thrown out against the
executive was declared untenable, on the ground that
" Mexico never made boundary a question," but took
issue on the annexation of Texsa. No part of the
ground between the Nueces and Grande, it is main-
tained, was ever Mexican soil, and several land grants
and judicial decisions are alleged in proof of this
position. This being the case, it is inferred that the
chief magistrate only did his duty in responding to
the call of Texas for assistance. This document con-
cludes as follows:

" Confining this brief report to that single point, your
committee will not extend it to the many circumstances
posterior to hostilities which encourage the prosecution of
the war to speedy peace. The United States buffer few of
war's ordinary calamities. Never were they more prosper-
ous and flourishing. In a single campaign the freemen of
this country have proved in Mexico what a people are worth
when vindicating their rights by voluntary embodiment.
In the midst of war, the burdens of the American people
have been reduced far be cud the weight of any debt which
war may cost. The wealth of the United States hen ac-
tually been increased to an unexampled amount ; a new and
admirable system of finance is the creation of this war, alone
worth more than all its charges; and if, by vigorous strokes
of belligerent force, it be brought to a successful termina-
tion, u there is every reason to believe, all its temporary
inoonveuieuces will soon be compensated, and the two great
' republic' of this hemisphere united in perpetual peace."
A motion had been made in Congress to vote a sum
in aid of the distressed Irish, but withdrawn on
account of a technical inaccuracy. A generous
anxious desire to send relief pervadist the union.
The news from the seat of war, received at Wash-
ington on the 25th ult., was gloomy. The Mexicans
I had. resorted to 7,1:....ta of gUrilkt =
cut og in outpost of eighty Kentucky men, and had
intercepted a body of ten dragoons carrying dispatches
from (3en. Scott to Gen. Taylor. They are said to
have lassoed the lieutenant in command, and carried
off the despatches containing the whole plan of in-
tended operation. There may be mistake in this, for
the dragoons all reached their destination, though
without their commanding-officer. It is eertexn,
however, that several Americans have been cat off.
In a more formidable affair, however, the United
States soldiers were victorious. But to counterbalance

this success, there is intelligence of the shipwreck of a
transport ship neer Tampico, with 400 volunteers, all
of whom were captured by the Moak:sue. rhe
Journal of Commerce gives the following ar.ooant of
these events:

" Of the fate of the volunteers wrecked with the Ondiaka,
nothing certain was known. On the 7th inst., which is up
to the last moment of intelligence from Tampion, a
message arrived from the wreck, stating that the ship's
company and volunteers, together with Lieutenant
Miller, who had been despatched thiener with
forty-five drarms, were surrounded by the Mexican
forces stationed at Tuspan, amounting to 1,000 teen. About
200 muskets only being saved from the wreck rendered it
impossible to disperse the enemy. Gen. Patterson feeling
well satiated of the truth of this report, 800 cavalry
were at once sent off to their assistance. The schooner Ella
was also chartered, and took the whole of the small arms
from the armoury of the United States schooner Nonets, corn.
mended by Midshipman M. D. Smith. Two hundred regu-
lar were embarked in her and proceeded to the wreck.
The result of the expedition may be looked for by the next
arrival"

The capture of 80 men of the Kentucky and Arkansas
Cavalry including Major Borland and Captains Gaines
and Caesitui M. Clay, while on a scout, 30 or 40 miles
beyond Saltillo, is confirmed. They were surprised
by 500 Mexican cavalry under General Minon, and
captured without firing a gun.
No authentic information of the capture of Chihua-
hua has come to hand. The capture of Paseo de Norte
by a part of Gen. Kearney's division from Santa Fe is,
however, satisfactorily appertained, and appears to
have been a brilliant affair.
We learn that the enga went at El Paseo del Norte
took place on • y. The Mexicans had a
force of 1,000, of which 480 were regulars, com-
manded by Vidal, and the Americans 400. Before the
commencement of the engagement, the Americans de-
manded a parley, which was refused, and the fight
immediately commenced. At the commencement,
about half the Mexicans were thrown into disorder,
and took to flight. The loss on either side was not
known, or is not stated; but the Americans would
appear to have had a much easier victory than pre-
vious accounts had led us to suppose. They took a
howitzer and three other pieces. On the 27th, the
Americans took possession of El Paseo with 600 ca-
valry and 400 infantry, according to the Mexican
account. There is no mention of their having advanced
upon the city of Chihuahua, but it was considered
probable.
A decided movement is about being made by the
United States army, and the point of attack is to be ,
Vera Cruz and the Castle of San Juan de Ulm. A
force of 12,000 or 15,000 men, under command of
General Scott, will soon be concentrated in the neigh-
bourhood of Vera Cruz. The Tampico foree will pro-
bably proceed by land, and the Rio Grande force by
water. There is reason to think that Santa Anna
has sent forward large reinforcements to the support
of Vera Cruz.

The New Orleans Delta, of the 19th, publishes (in
translation) a letter from Santa Anna, dated San Luis
Potosi, Jan. 2, the essential passages of which are
the following:
" A loan of 20,000,000 dots., with the hypothecation of the
church property is the only thing veinal, at the present
moment, should 'be discussed in Congeals ; any other subject
which should be taken ap now must remain undecided, for
we have no time to lose. I have also had my preindloes on
this 'abject. For ten years have I resisted, with all my
strength, the pamage of any measure against the property of
the clergy, and I have even intimated esseral times to the
cabinet, that I would sooner consent that my hand should be
cut off than sign a decree to dispose of such property; but
at that time circumstances were entirely different from
what they are now. The nation had then more or lees re-
sources—more or leas means of raising funds; it was not as
it is now ; the fountains of our treasury were not exhausted,
and our nation never found itself in the sad situation which
is now manifested, sustaining an unequal contest with • re-
public that sacrifice* all in order to carry on the war, which
u provoked in enter to humiliate us and rob our country of
two-thirds of its valuable territory. Under these circum-
stances, and for such considerations, I do not oppose any
longer the proposition to raise a loan by the means proposed
lately, if it should agree with the will of the august Con-
gress. I will sustain and support it, as I believe it the most
practicable mode of realising the sum required, and that the
clergy's property will be better insured, and have no further
changes to fear hereafter."
The accounts given of the working of the law of
hypothecation of church property, and other prepara-
tions for war, in Mexico, is as follows :
. .

The law authorising the seizure of fifteen millions property
belonging to the church promises to bee dead letter. The
property consists almost wholly of real estate in different
cities of the republic. Even if the law of congress be en-
forced, it is said that no one will advance money upon the
property so seized, much lees purchase it. In
regard to the condition of the military through.
out Mexico we have the evidence of an eye-witnem.
He testifies that everywhere it is deplorable from the
state of destitution in which the troops now are.
They are miserably clothed and fed. The Mexicans appear
to be particularly well-informed of the movements and posi-
tions of our troops. They give, from time to time, the forces
at Tampico, Salta), and Victoria, and many other places.
Letters from Havana expressed the belief, founded upon in-
formation from high quarters in Mexico, that their govern-
ment will mon enter into negotiations for peace, from total
inability to subsist and protract the struggle.

CANADA.—We have received a file of the Mon-
treal Gaudio to the 24th of February. The news is of little
moment. The three latest publications are filled with Eng-
lish news. A tribute is paid (in which the Pilot appears
to have Joined) to the personal worth of the late Chief
Justice Vallieres de St. Real, who had been interred on tho
20th. Among the names of the parties to whom it is
rumoured the Chief Justioeship of Montreal will be offend,
are those of Mr. Justice Rolland, Mr. Lafontaine, Mr.
Attorney-General Smith, Mr. Meredith, of the Montreal,
and Mr. Henry Black, of the Quebec bar.—ln all parts of
the western province, vigorous exertions were making for
the relief of the distressed in Ireland and Scotland. Front
he Quebec Gazelle we learn that the subecnptions in two of
the wards of that city amounted to 9501., and that 601. were
collected is the parish of St. Foy. The Roman Catholic
Archbishop of Quebec had issued a pastoral letter, recom-
mending collections in his diocese.
NOVA SCOTIA.—Our file of the Hay= Morning
cAronick extends from the beOnning of February to the
3rd of Marna. An important discussion on a series of reso-
lutions, moved by Mr. Howe, in a committee of the whole
house, on the state of the colony, for the improvement of the
crown land department, began on the 12th of February, was
still in program when the mail cited. Whoever reflects on
the vital importance of the question to a colony, will not
wonder that (of course with the intervention of other boxi-
ng's) the debate had been so protracted.
NEW BRUNSWICH.—On the 16th of February
it was announced in the Assembly that the Executive
Council had been filled up. The ministerial party call the
arrangement a coalition; but this coalition has been brought
about by the encemion of only one liberal, Mr. Bailin, while
Mews. Fisher, Wilmot, Ritchie, and others, the real leaden
of the New Brunswick liberals remain excluded. The tone
mourned by these gentlemen in the Assembly indicate* any-
thing but confidence in the government.

ITALT.—TILE PRESS.—The Augsburg Gazette an-
somas that the northern powers have just addressed to the
various governments in Italy a collective note, calling on
them to exercise a more active surveillance over the rem, aa
for some time past the Italian journals have been putting
Barth doctrines calculated to undermine social order.

Mk Court.
The Queen and Prince Albert took a drive in an
open carriage on Monday afternoon, in the vicinity of Os-
borne. Yesterday morning her Majesty and her Royal
Consort took their nasal early walk. The royal children
walked, end rode on ponies yesterday, on the beach and in
the pleasere.grounds.
Her Majesty will leave Osborne this day (Wednes-
day) at two o'clock p.m., for Gosport. A special train is
ordered at three o'clock, to convey her Majesty to Bucking.
ham Palace.

Her Majesty the Queen Dowager left Cashiobary-
park, Herta, at two o'clock yesterday afternoon, in a car-
riage and four for town. Sir D. Davies. Rev. T. G. Hud-
son, and Lieut. Bedford, R.N., also left Cashiobury-park
for town. The Earl and Countess Howe left Cashiobury-
pork, yesterday, for their seat Gopoall Hall, Leicestershire.
Her Majesty, the Queen Dowager, attended by her suite,
arrived at her residence, Marlborough Hones , Pall-mall,
shortly before four o'clock. H .It H. the Duke of Cambridge
visited her Majesty after her arrival.
H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent visited the Duchess
of Gloucester yesterday, at Gloucester House.
H.R.H. the Duchess of Gloucester took an airing
in a carriage yesterday.

A deputation from the htcumohip Owners' Aro-
einion bad an interview with the Right Hon. E. Strut*, yes-
terday, at the office of the Commisaioners of Railways. A
deputation, consisting of the Marquis of L'indonderry the
Marquis of Queensberry, Viscount Newry, Viscount &Ala
reagh, Sir J. D. Hay, Bart., Sir J. M'Tanart, Bart., Major-
general H. Blair, and Sir J. Rennie, bedlam interview wilt
the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official
residence in Downing-street
Mr. Hastie, M.P., and Mr. Duncan, had an inter-
view, yesterday, with the Right Hon. E. Strutt. A deputa-
tion of Irish distillers had an interview, yesterday, with the
Chancellor of tho '?4o.Z.Lpier am the Po:indent of the Road I
of Trade. Kr. ‘..7limpbell had en interview with Lord John
Russell, yesterday.
A deputation on the South Wales Railway Bill
bad an interview with the Right Hon. E. Strutt, yesterday,
at the office of the Commissioners of Railways in Great
George-street.
A 'reputation of the factory delegates from the
short-time committee presented, yesterday, a memorial from
the factory workers of Glasgow, at the official residence of
Lind Juke Russell, in Downing-street, in favour of the Ten
Flours Bill.
• Despatches were sent off yesterday from the Colo-
Mid-dace, for the Governor of Gibraltar.

INAUGURATION OF H. R. H. PRINCE ALBERT AB
CIKAPICILLOR OF THE UNIVIRSITY OP CAMBHIDOE.—The
inauguration of H.R.H. Prince Albert, as Chancellor of the '
University of Cambridge will take place on Thursday, the 26th
inst. The deputation from the university will consist of
the Vice Chaaoellor, the Heeds of Colleges, the Caput, the
Proctors, Regianary, and the Esquire Bedela. The deputa-
tion will proceed to Buckingham Palace at the hour ap-
pointed. At the ceremony the Vice• Chancellor addresses
the Chancellor in an English speeds ; he then delivers him
the letters patent, sealed with the university seal, and also
the book of the university statutes. The Chancellor takes
the oaths of allegiance and supremacy, and then the oath of
olßce • after which the Vice-Chancellor, taking him by the
right hand, places the Chancellor in the chair. The Public
Orator then advances and makes a Latin speech, after
which the Chancellor replies in English. The Prince enter-
tains the deputation at dinner in the evening.

(From last night's (Mmie.)
I,OID CHAMBERLAIN'S-OFFICE, MARCH 18.—Notice
is hereby given that her Majesty will hold a drawing-room,
at St. James's Palace, on Saturday, the 27th instant, at two
o'clock. _ _

FOREIGN-OFFICE, MARCH 12.—The Queen has
approved of Mr. J. Burd, as consul at Hong Kong, for his
Majesty the King of Denmark; also of Mr. F. J. de Paiya,
as Consul-General at Hong Kong for her Majesty the Queen
of Portugal and the Algarve..
DOWNING-STREET, MARCH 16.—The Queen has
appointed C. Packer, Eau , to be her Majesty's solicitor-
general for the island of Barbadoes.
CROWN-OFFICE, MARCH 16.—MEMBER RETURNED
TO BERNS IN PA/LLIANNIVE—Sir A. D. Conyngham, Kut.,
commonly called Lord A. D. Cenyngham, in the room of J.
Bradshaw, Esq., deceased, for the City of Canterbury.