The Express.
London, England, 1851-11-01 00:00:00

UNITED STATES.

A summary of the following appeared in yester-
days Erpres
The Humboldt arrived yesterday off Cowes, on her
way to Havre. She left New York on the 18th inst.
Her cargo consists chiefly of cotton. She brought
specie value 273,000 dots., mostly in American
gold. She brings 70 passengers for litivre.
The Washington left New York the same day as the
Humboldt. The America arrived at New York on
the 17th.
By the steamer Illinois, Capt. Hartsein, from
Chegres, which reached her dock on the 18th, there
was two weeks later intelligence from California and
Oregon. The steamer Constitution arrived at Panama
on the 23d, from San Francisco, with 127 passengers
and 100,000 dolls. in freight. The Illinois made the
passage out in 8 days 3 hours.—The Brother Jona-
than on next day la 9 days 6 hours. On the return
passage the Illinois made the passage to Kingston
from Chagres in 47 hours; from Kingston to New
IYork in 3 days 17 hours, making the total passage
home, via }Lupton, in 7 days 16 hours, running
time, being much the quickest passage on record. She
brought 371 passengers and 1,83.,334 dolls. in dust,
on manifest, and in the hands of passengers ; also the
I Californian mails of the lath ultimo. The Brother
Jonathan left Chives with very few passengers, for
San Juan, on the evening of the 9th. Senator
IGuynn came passenger in the Illinois:

The connection of the Panama Railroad to Gatun
was to take place on Friday, Oct. 10th, or Saturday, 1
11th, as at the time of the sailing of the Illinois
there remained only 400 feet to be filled in, and they
were making that distance daily. The engineers
confidently expect to have the rock laid, and run the I
locomotive through to Gatun on Saturday, the 12th
inst. The absence of the usual amount of rain has
enabled them to puslt the road through with dispatch.
A ninthly occurred on board the schooner Sharon
on the 12t1t, when at Acapulco. She was ordered
by the United States consul to lie under the guns of
the Vundalia, and the mutineers were arrested.
The great specie train of the Pacific Mail Steam-
ship Company had been robbed, after leaving Pa-
nama, seven miles on the way. The news flew like
electricity through Panama, and merchants, officers,
and soldiers forthwith started in hot pursuit. After
riding seven miles Captain Garrison and his friends
came up with the train, and found it in the wildest
confusion. 'three of the guards had been shot by the
robbers, and were lying on the road side ; two were
found dying, shot in the breast, and the other badly
wounded. The robbers had made off with one box
of gold dust, but, delayed by the heavy box, the pur-
suers soon overhauled them, when they aban-
doned the box and fled. Two of the robbers
were captured. Thomas Summers, from New
York city, was one of them. A rope was
put about his neck, and Lynch-law was making
the last of hint, when he begged for his life, and
promised to tell all if they would not hang him, when
he did tell the whole story, and all the persons en-
gaged with him. Another party of the pursuers
overtook Charles Cromwell, an intelligent coloured
gentleman front New York City. lie, too, begged
hard for his life, and they spared him after he made
full confessions, but not until lie had been half hung
some ten minutes. Two other persons captured were
Dr. Berry, of New Orleans, and Laban Manning, of
Illinois. There were also in prison, Dr. Burt, or
Burk, one Mirerand, and one Regnant. The robbers
had been informed, and believed, that the specie
train had in it two millions of dollars. One of the
guard shot died in a short time. Thirty-six buck-
shot, it is said, were taken front his body.
A disease has made its appearance among the Chi-
nese population of San Francisco, having many of
in
stances,'
resulting symptoms of the cholera, and, in some
resuliing fatally. The physicians report a great in-
crease of the number of sick, chiefly of the dysentery,
the prevailing malady of this season of the year.
There is bad news from the whaling fleet. The
New York Express says:
The following vessels aro reported as being totally lost
this season :—Ajax, of Havre; Aramatta, of New London ;
Henry Thompson, of New Leaden; Arabella, of New lied-
ford; New Bedford, of New Bedford; America, of New
Bedford; Cosmopolite, of France; and Mary Mitchell, of
San Francisco. It appears that the whole whaling fleet had
wintered in the Gulf of Anadir, in the northern port of the
Sea of Kamschatka, in Russia in Asia, and on the coining
on of the spring had set sail for Behring's Straits ; but in
ansinpting to pass through into the Arctic Ocean, the Iteet
was environed by ice, and the stone-named vessels were
totally wrecked. The crews of the destroyed vessels are
reported to have reached the main land in safety ; but it
is said that in sonic disturbances afterwards with the
natives, eleven of the whalemen lust their lives.
The John Wells is stated to have borne evidence of the
severe navigation she had encountered. Iler spars were
nearly all gone, her hull more or less damaged, and she
had scarcely a sheet or copper upon her. [The John Wells
was the first whaler ever sent from Newark.] It was sup-
posed that some sixty more vessels had shared the fate of
those mentioned above; and it was quite impassible to tell
how many more would be likely to be lost in their attempts
to escape from the ice. The general result of this season's
whale fishing is set down as a total failure. The following
vessels have done nothing: Ship John Wells, clean this
season; ship Neptune, New London, clean this season, 1
Aug. I ; ship Magnolia, New Bedford, clean this season,
Aug. 1; ship A. H. Howland, New Bedford, clean this
season, Aug. 1; ship Vineganl, Martha's V., 50 sperm,
clean his season. The whole fleet is believed to have done
little if any better. It is thought that the whole fleet (some
600 sail, we believe) arc now wending their way, as rapidly
as possible, to the north-west coast, the the purpose of re-
fitting and endeavouring to retrieve their ill fortunes.
Our correspondent writes :
NEW YORK, Ocr. IS,
Since my last, several items of interesting news
have conic to hand, which I communicate by the
Humboldt. Several state elections have occurred
with marked results. Pennsylvania has elected a
democratic governor by a majority of 20,000 votes
over the whig candidate, who had. the advantage of
being in office and having all the patronage of office
on his side. Ile owes Ins defeat to his being an
abolitionist, and opposed to the Fugitive Slave
Bill. Ohio has also declared for the democrats,
though it must be understood that the "free
soilers" as they are called, have for the
time divided themselves pretty equally between
the two great parties of that state. In South Caro-
lina, on a local issue of whether the delegates to the
state convention should be immediate secessionists,
or secessionists only in case the other southern states
made common cause with them, the latter party has
triumphed by a majority of three-fourths of the po-
pular vote. Some time ago, I wrote you that this
Form of the controversy was adroitly adopted to
gain time on the part of the unionists. It was, how-
ever, of so reasonable a character that it could not
but prevail.
As I close this despatch, I fird there is noihing
new by this day's mails, except that a woman's con-
vention is in session at Worcester, Massachusetts, at

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which the most denunciatory speeches against the
male sex arc indulged in by the leading members.

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IRISH SOCIETY OF LONDON.—Last evening the
annual meeting of the Fitzroy Chapel Association in con-
'within with this society took place at Lawson's WWII" :
Gower.street, Bedford-square. The Rev. J. E. White, '
clericui secretary (lithe Irish Society aad minister of Fitz-
roy Chapel, in the chair. There were no resolutions pro-
posed on the oeca.sion, but the chairman and several other '
members of the protestant church addressed the meeting in
furtherance of the objects of the Irish Society. It appeared
that the society now employed 27 clerical missiersarles, 3
lay srents, lo schoolmasters for concerts' children, 176
scripture readers, and 612 teachers, whilst the number of
pupils under instruction amounted to 31,362. The receipts
for the year exceeded those of the entire of the previous
year by 961. Ids. Oil., the tot 11 amount bein.t
73531. Gs. 7d. It was further stated that the sum
of 4,14.5:i1. fn. 2d. had been collected by the Irish
Society in Dublin. and 1,8031. do. by the Ladies
Auxiliary Society, making a total of 13,8111. 16s. Oil. re-
ceived by the Irish Society during the past year. The
chairman, in the course of his °hugs ations at the commence-
ment of the proceedings, expressed the delight he felt at
seeing so large a number of persons present in support of
the principles of this association ; for there never was a
time, lie said, when it was more necessary for the protest-
ants of the empire to be up and doing, in order to oppose
the insidious efforts which were now spreading in favour of
popery, under the influence of the apostate church of
Rome. Amongst those who addressed the assembly were
the Rev. Mr. Norman and the Rev. Mr. Moriarty, and
both those gentlemen entered into statistical details to
prove that the society had been the means of conferring
very great benefits upon their poorer brethren in Ireland,
. as was testified by the fact , that there were now in that
country 20,000 converts from Itomanism.
CITY IMPROVEMENTS.—Yesterday the City Im-
provement Commissioners gave the occupiers of the houses
in St. Thomas Apostle, llow-lane, Great and Little Distaff-
lane, and the other thoroughfares lying betweeu Queen-
street, Cheapside, and the south side of St. Paul's
Churchyard, notice that their dwellings would be re-
quired to come down forthwith, in order to complete
the new street from London-bridge to St. Paul's Church-