The Express.
London, England, 1851-03-10 00:00:00

AMERICA.

By the arrival of the steam-ship Africa, Captain
Byrn:. which sailed from New York on the 26;t1, ult.,
mid reached Liverpool -‘..,terday at noon, we are in
possession of news from that city mane 14 days later
than our previous accounts.
The Africa brings 91 passengers, and specie to the
amount of .10,000/. sterling.
The Africa arrived at New York on the lath ult.,
and took out the salistbetory intelligence of the
safety of the American steamer Atlantic.
The Baltic, after a run of 11 days 23 hours,
arrived at New York on the 20th ; and the Cumbria,
which sailed from Queenstown on the 4th, reached on
the same day as the Baltic.
Although the news in hand extends over a fort-
night, there is very little interesting therein.
The President of the American republic had issued
a message reprehensive of the conduct of parties
who had rescued some slaves at Boston, and
ordering their immediate arrest. The mob rushed
into the court and took away the slave, who escaped,
and is probably now in Canada. 809 persons had
been arrested.

Congress were busied in discussing a Postage 11111.
No decision has, however, been come to. In the
House of Representatives, on the 25th, the Civil and
Diplomatic Appropriation Bill was passed, contain-
ing an amendment imposing additional duties on all
kinds of iron and various manufactures, and duties on
artichs which are now imported free. It is doubtful
if it will be sanctioned by the Senate.

The Washington correspondent of the Nor lurk
Courier and Inquirer says :

As Mr. Marcolita, the minister from Nicaragua, hus been
regularly presehted and received, the negotiation for a new
convention will open as 1501111 114 Cinignsis closes. In tic
meantime, the preliminaries will be settled. Indeed, I have
OCCaSiUIt to know that eimkrences have already been held
between Sir henry Bulwer and Mr. Webster, with a view
of removing any subordinate difficulties that might be pre-
sented, RS likely to interfere with the proposed arrangement,
and fur the purpose of harmonising the action of the two
governments as as to render the terms of the treaty not
only acceptable, but well understood on all sides.

A letter from Leon do Nicaragua, of January lei,
says:

Nothing of importance has transpired since I last wrote.
Business has become quite dull, in consequence of the few
arrivals from t'a'donna. The route has hitherto been beset
by so many difficulties that it may be considered used up
fur the season. It will open, by-and-by, under more favour-
able circumstances. It is reported that the National Con-
gress, now sitting in Chinendaga, has ordered the armies of
San Salvador and Honduras to fall back hum the frontiers
of Guatemala. San Salvador is still blockaded, and the
island of Tigre has also been placed under blockade, to com-
mence this work. Nicaragua, t.o English consul says, will
come next in order.

The following is the answer of Nicaragua to a
letter from Mr. Chatfield, mentioned in our last
American news:

LEON, Jan. 8.

I have communicated to the supreme government the
contents of your note of Deixunher o, in which you systema-
tically persevere in asserting the fictitious existence of the
savage tribe; of the Mosquitos as au independent nation,
independent nation, and proceed to lay down certain bound- '
arks, adding to this scandalous usurpation, iu accordance
with your custom, a threat of actual force.
The Senior Director of the State has ordered me to reply
to your Excellency—as repeatedly has been done in this
same affair—that Nicaragua never has recognised, nor ever
will recognise, the existence of the said Mosquito kingdom,
and still less the power and right arrogated by you of deter-
mining its boundaries. Against that assumption Nicaragua
protests in the face of the whole world, as extremely offen-
sive to justice, tel well as the dignity and sovereignty of the
state; and it likewise protect; against all those acts which
have hewn committed, which are still continued, in the ter-
ritory of Nicaragua, and agains its inhabitants, under the
flimsy pretext of defending a tribe of savages,
Nothing would occasion more pleasure to my government
than to re-establish the friendly and important relations
which it desires to cultivate with the respected government
of Great Britain, and which have been disturbed by thu
acts of the consulate here.-1 um your obedient servant,

.
SAusss.
The Hudson river is navigable to Albany, and two
of the largest class steamboats had arrived there
without serious difficulty. It is not probable that it
will be closed again before next winter.
The anniversary of the birth of Washington was
celebrated atjNeW York on Feb. 22, with great pomp.
All the public buildings were adorned with flags,
and a procession, composed of all the miliatia forces
and the officers of the benevolent institutions, accom-
panied by the great majority of the population,
perambulated the city. Mr. Foote delivered a eulo-
gistic oration upon Washington in the evening to an
immense crowd.

Mr. Thompson, M.P., had been ill received at
Springfield, and had left the town precipitately. Mr.
Thompson's anti-slavery agitation had brought upon
him the strictures (anything but courteous) of Mr.
Clay, who in the Senate, in reference to the slave
rescue at Boston, said:

Not only are these negroes made the catspaw of miserable
and designing men, to bring odium on the laws and siolate
ju-;ice and its officers, but there has been introduced
a man named Thompson, who was said to be a mem-
ber of parliament, to disturb and agitate the people;
and that police which could find time and the means
to attend and protect this foreign emissary in his dis-
union addresses, could not give their aid to execute a law
of the U.S. lie little supposed that any member of Con-
, greys would be tolerated a moment in England who
would go to Birmingham and Manchester, and there de-
nounce the law of primogeniture—the aristocracy and the
crown itself. Such a wan would be justly denounced by
I every loyal British subject, and he VI Lou I 1 be put out of the
country; and here this Thompson is received with open arms, •
encouraged, by men professing to be Americans, in preach-
ins sedition and disunion.
Mr. Cass and other members, on the same occa-
sion, spoke of Mr. Thompson in terms even less
polite than did Mr. Clay—terms which we should he
unwilling to reprint. On the other hand, in the House
of Representatives, Mr. Giddings, of Ohio, asked leave
! tointroduccaresolution that thePresidentberequested
I to inform this house, if compatible with the public'
interests, whether Mr. Thompson, a subject of the
• British crown, and also a member of the British par-
liament, has been recently grossly insulted in Spring-
' field, and his personal liberty fiterally endangered,
1 by citizens of that state, in violation of our treaty
stipulations with the British government.
The second trial of General Henderson, at New
Orleans, in relation to the invasion of Cuba, had ter-
minated, like the first, in the lion-agreement of the
jury. Ocn. Quitman, having. resigned the governor-
ship of Mississippi, had repaired to New Orleans to
await the decision of the court.