The Express.
London, England, 1853-04-04 00:00:00

MEXICO.

When the 1)oe left Vera Cruz the revolution had
taken a positive direCtion. General Santa Anna bad
secured the votes of a large majority of the states as
President of the Republic, with unlimited powers,
fur one year, and was expected by the April packet.
The country is in other respects pretty quiet.
Money, it is believed, would soon be safely conveyed
to the coast, where it was much wanted. At pre-
sent there were above 4,00J,000 dols. ready that
has been detained from time to time owing to the
lawless state of the country. A new twin' had been
' published at Vera Cruz and Tampico, which was,
in every respect, more ftvourable to all
cotton manufactures, and which, it was believed,
would force itself on whatever government succeeded
to that of the present temporary ruler, General Lotn-
hardiner. The finances of Mexico were of course in
a most lamentable state, and the position of General
Santa Anna on arriving at the presidency will be on
that account very embarrassiug; but nearly the
whole of the most respectable class of Mexicans de-
rived great hope trout the abolition of the federal sys-
tem of government, which was considered as certain.
It was some satisfaction to know that in the midst
of such an outbreak, the parties who took the lead in
the revolution have most scrupulously reap( cted part
of the custom-house revenue, which is allotted to the
British creditors at Vera Cruz and Tampico.
PANAMA.

The Pacific Mail Steam-ship Company's steamer
Panama arrived here on the Ist March, with :100
passengers and 800,000 dollars in gold dust front San
Francisco.
The Pacific Mail Steam-ship Companv's steamer
California arrived from San Francisco-led inst.,with
mails for United States, 400 passengers, and
2,169,457 dols. 59c. in gold dust.
The Pacific Steam Navigation Company's steamer
Lima arrived on sth inst. from Valparaiso,
&c., with her Majesty's mails for Europe, &e.,20 pas-
sengers, and 194,72 J, dols.l)3c. is specie and bullion
for England.
Senor G. Paz. Soldau, the promised minister ft om
Lima to Bogota, has not yet come; neither has Senor
Tabara, whom the former is to supersede, arrived
from Bogota. Affairs are still in an unsoiled state
between the republics of New Granada, Ecuador, and
Peru.
A great number of foreigners, who arrived on tho
Isthmus during the last three months, have been
carried off by the yellow fever, amongst them I may
mention Mr. Floresi, an Italian traveller; Captain
J. D. Wilson, commander of Sierra Nevada (U. S.
steamer); Captain A. 0. Tellagen, of the Dutch ship
Anna, and his mate, Mr. Lewis Ellis; and Mr.
Richard Bottrell, of England. lam happy to be
able to say that this fearful scourge has disappeared,
I hope altogether, not a single ease having been
known for ten or fifteen days.
The remittances by present steamer are—from
California, 426,462 dols. 94c. ; front South 1101,725
duls.; and from resident merchants here, 33,681 dohs.
40e. ; in all GG2,070 dols. 27c.
The house of Messrs. Page, Bacon, and Co., of San
Francisco, shipped alone, per California, 1,000,00
dols. in gold dust.
SPANISH MAIN.
There is nothing of political importance on the
Main. On the 12th March General Santa Anna
and family embarked on board the Royal Mail
Packet Trent for Mexico. Ho is accompanied by a
deputation, consisting, of Don Salvador Batres and
Doctor Hegewisch, who were sent to invite the
general to take command of the Mexican army,
and to establish, if possible, tranquillity throughout
the country ; and as this offer has been accepted,
the happiest results are hoped for from the well
known energy and a»tur petrire of Santa Anna.
Should discretional power emanate from the go-
vernment, he is of opinion that the aforesaid ob-
jects are easily attainable ; there is, however, the
more than slight drawback of want ot• finance;
and creditors to the Mexican Government will in
all probability have to wait some time before much
disbursement can be made.
CUBA.

The importation of slaves was still in crieration
along this extensive line of coast (except Havanna).
The Vestal and Buzzard were actively employed for
the suppression of the trade ; but, on so wide a field,
they can do comparatively nothing. When the Dec
communicated with the Buzzard off Matanzas on the
14th March she was hove to, waiting to intercept
the Lady Suffolk, fitting out at Havanna for the
coast of Africa.

EXECUTION OF GEORGE Sr.tnKEs.—Friday being
the day fixed for the execution of the murderer Sparkes, a
vast multitude of people were attracted to Exeter to see
the awful spectacle. The scaffold was en cted on the roof
of the great prison gate, bctw"en the houses of the chap-
lain and the governor. Exactly at 13 minute& past 12
o'clock the wretched man was brought out and placed
under the fatal beam by the hangman. llis face was
ruddy, and his gait appeared to be firm. Ile had time to
take one glance at the crowd before and beneath him, when
the hangman drew the usual white cotton cap over his
eyes and face, and proceeded to bind the fatal cord around
his neck. Ills arms were pinioned, and he held his baads
, tog,ther in the attitude of prayer. After an interval of
' four minutes, a suppressed gasp from the multitude, and a
buzz of momentary astonishment, told that t he bolt had been
slrawn, and that the law had satisfied itself on the culprit.
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EMIGRATION TO VAN DIEMEN'S LAND.—.—C ship
Coromandel left Southampton on Saturday, with nearly
300 emigrants, for Van Diemen's Land ; she alio took out
a ship mail, which contained nearly 7,000 new6paperk

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FOUR CHILDREN POISoNED. --NoTTINGRAY,
TIII:itSDAT.-11cr.terday, a singular and fatal accident
occurred at a house in Barker gate, in this town. It ap-
pears that last night, two children, named Elizabeh Shaw
and Jane Shaw, of Monnt-street, were visiting with two
other children named Leinder Warner and Elisabeth
Warner, and during the absence of the senior inmates
of the dwelling, the girls contrived to poesese them-
selves of a pot containing arsenic and honey, w:deh had
been obtained by the family for the purpose of destroying
mice. As soots as it became known what the girls bid
' been eating they were taken to the General hospital, and
every means used to save their lives ; one of them how-
ever died from the effects of the poison ; tho oilers are pro-
gressing gr favourably.
THE LATE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.—OR I.
decease of the late Duke of Wellington, there rems:ned in
the possession of his family three Ribands of the order of
the Garter. The latest worn by the lamented hero has re'
cently been presented to, and graciously accepted by. her
Majesty. A second, of very old and historical interest, is
retained in the family ; and the third Ins just been sent by
the present Duke of Wellington to the Marquis of London'
derry, upon whom, it will be remembered, the Garter of
the great duke was conferred by the Queen.

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF TUE AFRICA.
Off ELECTRIC TELIGRATIO
LIVERI'OOI., SUNDAE EVENING.

The British and Atr...ticsn steam .ship Africa,
ceigaialsere this att.ruouu direct
truss Newlark. She lelt that port at noon on the 23rd
nirch, with the mails from the United States and
and twiny ah.sit tiit passengers, but no

llVL:day after the Africa sailed she passed the out-
ward stsd stearn-shi? ,t.sia, which left this port for
No lot's: ea the 12111
The British mail sham-ship Canada arrived at
Boston on the Val.
Tbe United States wail steam-ship Atlantic arrived
Ix: et New York on the ::28d.
steamship City of Glasgow had also
fttaithid Phi!adelphia, utter a' 0 days passage.
The diwusston ea the Ciayton-Itulwee treaty in the
L;entite, which was afljtierneel from Friday, the lath,
ul.,ma;:day, the 21st ult., on the mutton of Mr.
Deem WAS resumed un the latter day by that gen-
deeau. Ile expressed a atrung opinion that Eng-
land desired to keep the treaties+ entered into, and that
no ilitlieuity would ensue.
'Me call upon the Secretary of State for informa-
tion relative to the conflicting claims of Great
itwin and Honduras, which formed the second re-
sulutiou before the Senate, was laid upon the table.
It will require months to prepare an answer.
Now that the Clayton.lltilwer treaty has been dis-
Need of fur thu present, Mr. Nlason, the chairman of
the actuate Committee on Foreign Itelations, has
beta able to call up the Tehuantepec question, and
the Senate Lave commeuzed the discussion on the

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The ratification of the copyright treaty is not ex-
pected to take place this session. It requires the
tote of two-tlaircir of the Senate to make ;t law.
The oponents of the measure, or the amount of busi-
ness to the transacted by the Senate before the close
of the session, may be the cause of the postponement
of the ratification.
The ship Golden Light, outward bound, from New
York for California, was struck by lightning at sea
on the 22nd of February. The unfortunate vessel
had 35 persons on board. Fifteen of this number had
the good fortune to be nixed by the ship Shandy, but
all the other's are presumed to hare perished.