The Express.
London, England, 1847-04-27 00:00:00

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(From the New York Sun of April 3.)
WASHINGTON, MARCH 31.—We attach great importance
to the new revolution in Mexico, which broke out on the
26th ult. The clergy and the National Guard, the leaden
of the movement, deposed Gomez Ferias, the vice•president
and wring president. They dismilved the congress, suspended
all the functions of governmeat, and entrusted the executive
power to the chief justice of the supreme court, who is to be
aided in the administration of affmn by a council of govern.
ant composed of as many persons as there are states in the
confederation. Santa Anna is declared provisional president
and chief of the army, with the honorary title of "Benenterito
de la Patria."
(From the New York Sun of April 7.)
Prersetatos, APHIL 7.—By private letter from Con'
and Pondate, Cincinnati, arrived by the packet, we have
'mews of another battle in New Mexico. Two thousand
insurrectionists were routed by Captain Monis's command,
with a heavy loss in killed and wounded ; the accounts are
from St. Louis of the 29th ult. Latest news had just reached
by express from Santa Fe. The date of the battle is not
given, but it occurred, it would seem, on the heel of the last
dates from Santa Fe.
A note to the Louisoilk Courier gives the following: St.
Louis, Monday Evening, March 29, 1847.—Mr. W. N.
Haldeman. Dear Sir,—We have this day received an express
from Santa FE. The Mexican insurrectionists, numbering
2,000 men, marched dewn on Santa Fe, as was intimated by
our last advice,. They were met by Capt. Morris's com-
mand, in the valley of the Moro, and totally defeated. A
great number of the enemy were killed and wounded, and
the rest fled precipitately to the mountains. The action was
a most brilliant one on the part of our men, and reflects great
credit on their coolness and sourage. The news of the
assassination of Governor Bent is fully con6rmed--2.5 other
Americans fell at the same time.

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Ftoca.—The foreign advice, received this morning Dave had a ten.
decry to ftyp,..e the market, bit the stock here is so small tbat no
sake ran be made. Sales of scratched Georgetown have been made
at 6 dols. 02c.; 1,500 bbls. New Orleans, to arrive, 7 dole. 251. ,•
I,too bins. Oswego on the spot, brought 7 dots. 621 e. ; 1,.00 Rkhmond
ay at 8 dots. 25c.; 1,000 wised brands, common Southerry
Ocuvgetown is w held at dols. 121 c. Corn Meal is held
at I doh. Vic. to 5 doh.. rye flour, t dole. 73e. to t dole. 623 e., with
man mils. Corn is held higher ; sales of southern white bare ten
We, Me. to Ste. ; and of yellow at I dot Freights are rather doll :
Moor r• so be quoted to Liverpool at 6s. 6d. to 6s. 9d. ; grain to
Ireland, 4d.
roams ESCIUM4I-o.—Bills on Landon, 1041 to 113; kills on
Itch, 5.431 to ; talk on Amsterdam, 381 to 39 ; bills on Hans
bolt. MI to 33 ; hub on Bremen, 77 to —.
guit.sortruis, APRIL 0, ~s.—The rain bail somewhat checked
bwrietr today. Flour is Rimer; it cannot be bought Ices than
do'A. Sit, and most hctoes are asking 6 doh. 33c. Wheat, being
.70fre. Is somewhat better. Corn *shout change. Meal mostly sells
t doh. 30e.

By an arrival this morning we have Graham's
Town papers to the 23rd February, and accounts
from Cape Town to the 3rd March.
Sir Henry Pottinger landed at Port Elizabeth, from
H.M. ship president, on the 19th February, and pro-
ceeded next day to Graham's Town, where public
addresses, agreed to by various bodies of the com-
munity, awaited presentation to his excellency. Ac-
cording to some accounts, there was great fear that
P.M. steamer Thunderbolt had been irreparably in-
Prod, and would have to be abandoned, as the effects
of the south-caster, bad caused her to settle in the
mod, and she was full of water. Other statements
are, however, of a more encouraging kind, for they
report the ship to have been again afloat, though her
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The colony was still infested with Kaffir.. The
neighbourhood of Fort Peddie had been robbed of
needy all its cattle. At Trompettees Drift, a flock
of sheep, the property of the contractor, had been
carried off. The Fish River bush was full of the
enemy. Cattle had been driven away from Waterloo
Bay, and from within three miles of Graham's
Town. The farmers in Lower Albany were
much disheartened at their continued state of in-
security. Col. Johnson was still actively engaged
maintaining order in the upper portion of the ceded
territory ; but it was believed that the " registered
Kaffir," were in collagen with their roving country-
men, and assisted them in driving out of reach the
cattle stolen from the colony. On the whole, it is to
be concluded that the Kaffir, do not consider them-
' selves to have been conquered, and that the arrival of
Sir H. Pottinger on the frontier must be followed by
active measures against the enemy.
In their address to Sir H. Pottinger,the merchants,
traders, landleslders, and other inhabitants of l'ort
Elizabeth and its vicinity refer the present disastrous
state of the colony to the reversal of the measures of
Sir B. D'Urban, for the pacification and civilization
of Kaffirland under the administration of Sir H.
Smith ; to the relinquishment of the territory
ceded in 1819 by the Gaika tribes, and
the adoption of a more indefensible boundary in
the jungles of the Kat and Great Fish rivers ; to the
weak and vacillating policy lately pursued towards
the Kaffir chiefs; to the exaggerated statements put
forth by missionaries of the extensive influence of
Christianity on the Kaffir people, by which the
British people and the local governments have been
misled ; and, lastly and chiefly, to the utter want of
representation of frontier interest' in the legislature
and executive council.

By her Majesty's troop-ship Herefordshire, ar-
-1
rived at Portsmouth, we have papers from Halifax,
(N.S.) to the lOshof April. The ferment of a general
election had fairly began. At a meeting of the
liberal party in Halifax, keld on the 3th of April, it
was resolved that Messrs. Howe end Mott should be
nominated candidates for the country, and Messrs.
McNab and Lo' C. Doyle for the township. The
conservatives of Halifax had held two meetings—one
on the 3rd and one on the Bth of April. Their pro-
ceedings were secret ; but it got noised that
they were to put Messrs. T. W. Grassie, and W. Law-
son, jun., in nomination for the county, and Messrs.
A. M. Uniacke and I. A. Moren for the township.
The coming election will take place under the Simul-
taneous Polling Act, passed last session. The effect of
this law will doubtless be to prevent, in a great mea-
sure, the recurrence of scenes of drunkenness and
disorder, night after night, for weeks together, which
have disgraced some recent elections. But the act is
long and complicated, and both parties are apprehensive
that some undiscovered provision may enable their
opponents to gain an advantage over them. For the
papers received by the Herefordshire, we are indebted
to the polite attention of Mr. Buckett, of the Ex-
change-room, Halifax.

GERMANY.—PRULISIA.—The iillgemeine Preus-
siaelte Zeituny of the 23d April gives the commencement of
the debate. in the diet of the In the united fitting the

principal incidents were the announcement of the coun-
sellors nominated by the Ministers of Finance and the Lute•
rior to attend the committees on the project of a law for
establishing loan banks (Halts-Kassen) in the provinces;
the reading, by the marshal of the diet, of a list of the addi-
tional petitions presented since the previous sitting, with the
committees to which they had been referred ; and the bring-
ing up of a report from the fourth committee on M. Hanse-
mann's proposal to prolong tho term of 14 days allowed for
the presentation of petitions. The counsellors appointed to
assist the committees on the loan banks in their deliberations
are M. Von Berger on the part of the Minister of Finance,
and Baron Von Manteuffel on the part of the Minister of
the Interior. The petitions were nunvrons, and related to
an increase in the number of the Herren-Stand ; a reform of
the provincial electoral laws ; the conferring of the full
rights of citizenship on the Jews ; the introduction of a uni-
form land-tax ; the abolition of feudal exactions by mill
owners ; the liberty of the press ; an augmented representa-
tion of the terms and rend communes; publicity of debate
in the provincial diets, &c. &c. The report of the fourth
committee was favourable to a prolongation of the term for
receiving petitions. A debate was raised on this report, near
the beginning of which the report breaks off with the
usual "to be continued." The same number of the
official journal contains proclamations by the head of the
Berlin police and the public prosecutor, relative to the food
riot of the 21st of April. The President of Polite intimates
to the dealers in potatoes from the country that they may
repair to the Berlin markets with perfect safety, inasmuch
as the ringleaders in the disturbance have been arrested, and
are undergoing a judicial investigation ; and hints that it
will be advisable for them to fix the price they actually can
take before leaving home, instead of asking a higher in ex-
pectation of bring beaten down, and thus irritating the po-
pulace. The public prosecutor invites all whe can give in-
formation respecting the disturbances, to bring it to his
office without delay.