The Express.
London, England, 1851-11-21 00:00:00

GREECE.
The last noto of Lord Palmerston to the Greek
government, which contains severe reproaches, has
produced great sensation at Athens. The cabinet
having differed as to the answer which ought to be
returned, a ministerial crisis has ensued, which was
likely to end in the triumph of the Russian party.
M. Metaxa was expected to be charged with tho
'formation of the new cabinet.

CIRCASSIA.
Thecorreepondenceof the Paris Cuastitutiwanelfrom
Constantinople, states that private letters from Ta-
garoc bring the news of a fresh and terrible defeat
sustained by the Russians in Circassia. No details
are given; but all agree in stating that a Russian
corps-d'arm€e has been completely beaten in the
neighbourhood of Derbent, and lost all its guns, in
number 28.

UNITED STATES.

Our correspondent writes :
EW YORK, Nov. 8.

The result of the election in this State is not yet
fully ascertained. It is supposed the general ticket
is nearly equally divided. In this city the democrats
have carried almost evervthint: The opinion at
present very generally pre.vails, -Oita the next elec-
tion for president will result in the entire defeat of
the whigs.
Since my last, the Prometheus has arrived from
San Juan, Nicaragua, with 500 passengers. The
following letter from San Juan, dated Oct. 22, has
made its appearance in the morning papers:
The advance guard of the army of the " government, for
the restoration of order," commanded by General Chamorro,
consisting of 1,000 men, has reached the village of Motearas
on their route towards Leon. Montenegro, successor of
Jose Jesus de .tlfaro, is represented to be a man of sterling
abilities, sound sense, and of a liberal disposition. Munoz
has hitherto been supposed to be about the only public man
in the country who was not bound down by that Jealousy of
foreigners, characteristic of the Spanish race ; but he and his
party now sturdily oppose the granting of any more mono-
polies to the Canal Company, tool if he should be successful
in this revolution, the exclusive right of transit, recently
granted to the Canal Company, will probably be revoked,
and the business will be thrown open to general competition.
Messrs. Howland and Aspinwall had made an application
to the Pine& government, previous to the revolution fur
a right of transit.
John J. Doyle, Esq., the reesnt.) appointed general
agent liar the Canal Company, to supersede Albert Corn,
Esq., has gone up the river, and will assume his duties at
once.
About two hundred and fifty of the passengers of the
steamer Carolina, of Howland and Aspinwall's line front
San Francisco to Panama, have arrived in this town, hav-
ing left the ship at Ikalelo, she having been obliged to put
into that port. The Carolina was discovered to be in a leaky
condition, her machinery much damaged and broken, a few
days out of San Francisco, and the passengers were obliged
to labour both at the pumps and by baling in order to keep
the ship afloat, and to enable them to reach sonic, port ;
and now, after sixteen days travelling through Nicaragua,
in the rainy season, having been obliged to cross the lake
and descent' the river in bungoes, is part of them have
reached this place, many sick with the fever of the
country, superinduced by the fatigue they have under-
gone.
Yesterday afternoon, a meeting of these passengers was
held in the public square of this town, and a statement of
the facts put forth, and a firm 4isposition manifested to
obtain from the owners of the steamer some recompense fur
the extraordinary expenses they have been obliged to incur
and the jt epardy to which their lives had been exposed.
They state that the ship was unseaworthy. This meeting
represented fifteen states of North America.
I have read the following curious letter, dated
Havana, Oct. 30, in relation to the feelings enter-
tained there towards the United States. At this
moment there is a little excitement in consequence of

the arrest and confinement of Mr. Thrasher, aft Ame-
rican, who has long resided on the island, and has,
until recently, conducted a liberal paper at Havana.
It is said certain papers have been found in his pos-
session which implicate hint in the affair of Lopez,
and that he is in great danger of his life. Our own
newspapers, as they assail or defend the national ad-
ministration, remark on his incarceration as a matter
either to be remedied or not, according to the views
entertained by the President. The letter, which I
quote at length, says:
The statements of the liberated individuals of the Cuban
expedition, published in the United States, arc deemed here
by the European Spaniards and their friends, the officials.
(who are unquestionably ruled, in a great degree, by their
opinions), as destitute of truth. The former are violent in
the expression of their sentiments on the subject of the leni-
ency extended to all; namely, the liberation of some indi-
viduals, and the sentence of imprisonment to the remainder
in Spain—arguing that their ease did not admit of de-
meney, and, moreover, that even the sovereign had no right
to interrupt the extreme penalty of the laws iu a crime
tending to upset their Fortunes and exposing their lives.
Another tqpie of indignation to the European Spaniard, is
the removal of our Consul, Mr. Owen, for not preventing the
execution of the fifty Americans. An American consul, in
the first place, is deemed by them as a chief spy and abettor
of the expeditions got Up in the United States. Then,
again, they say he has no influence whatever at head
quarters, that here no communication from him would be
entertained, on the ground that he has no diplomatic juris
diction or action. They also say that any interference by
the American consul would have been viewed as a meddling
with the laws, and a dictation, which they would have
spurned with contempt. I now fini that means will be
applied at the court of Madrid, by many influential but
vindictive Spaniards here, to prevent anything like a par-
don or commutation of punishment of the prisoners sent to
Spain. The spirit of the press in old Spain, violent in ex-
treme, and calling for war against the United States, is
responded to here heartily by the old Spaniards. Any
harsh measures would be acceptable. No intercourse what-
ever with us would be agreeable to their revengeful cha-
racter, should they " not Ins favoured with a war."
I suppose that Mr. Thrasher has become, by his
long residence in Culta, actually a citizen thereof,
and responsible to its laws; so that our government
can scarcely interfere in his behalf.
A movement has lately been set on foot (says the
if ashington Intelligencer) by the settlers in Oregon
Territory, which has for its object the organisation of
a separate territorial government for that portion
which lies to the north of the Columbia river. It is
to be called the Columbia territory, and throughout'
its vast extent is well adapted to agriculture, com-
merce, and manufacturing. The total absence of all
municipal law and civil officers, the great distance
from the seat of the present government, and the
isolated situation of this part of the territory there-
from, and many other reasons, are urged as to the
propriety of the organisation of a separate territorial
government. For the promotion of this object, a
convention of twenty-five delegates assembled at
Carolitz, Lewis county, on the 29th of August, and,
after discussing the matter, unanimously adopted the
following resolution:
That a committee of three be appointed by the President
of the Convention to prepare a suitable memorial on that
subject to Congress, mid that the same be forwarded to the
delegate in Congress from Oregon Territory, requesting
him to use blot influence to procure the organisation of a

separate territorial government.
Previous to the session of the Convention, a com-
mittee on districts and counties having been ap-
pointed, the territory north of the Columbia river
was divided into twelve counties,withwell prescribed
boundaries. The Convention is to meet again at
Olympia some time about the midflo of next May,
there terform a State Convention, preparatory to ask-
ing admission into the Union as one of the states
thereof, provided that Congress has not at that time
organised a territorial government.

HONDURAS.

A letter from Belize, of October 14, says :

I have to inform you that Mr. Wodehouse, her Majesty's
new superintendent, bas lately visited the island of Ituatan,
and, after various consultations with its inhabitants, has
formed a system of government by which they, the people,
are to give to his excellency the power to appoint a sti-
pendiary magistrate, having nearly unlimited powers
entirely and altogether beyond their reach or control, and
in no way amenable or responsible to them. He has also
visited Amberris Kay, where he had heard the Yucatacoes
were flying a Mexican flag, and had collected a
force of from two to four hundred armed men. On his
arrival he may have found an old Mexican flag, but the
armed men did not turn up. So, after taking (in H. B.'s
name) possession of that island, and all others around and
in its neighbourhood, he returned again to Belize.
I have also to inform you that his Imperial Highness the
King of all theMosquitoee hu lately paid estate visit in 11.111.
brig of war Bermuda, to Limu (a place where an extensive
mahogany cutting establishment, belonging to a house in
Belize, is situated), and has appointed a police and revenue
officer there. His Royal Highness also visited the Roman
River, and made another police station there. Appointed
• policeman there also.

Corres.—The Lake Superior Journal of the 29th
of October says that the propeller Peninsula left Sant
Sainte Marie that morning with one of the largest freights
of copper ever shipped from the country, having from the
Cliff!dine 80 tons, in masses and barrels; from the Min-
nesota 60 tons, mostly in manes; from the Peninsula one
ton, one mass, sad two barrels. Included in the large lot
of masses from the Cliff Mine were six enormous pieces,
one weighing 6,070 lbs. and five weighing over 5,000 lbs.
each. The largest piece weighed 990 lbs. more than any
I mass ever before sent out of the country.