The Express.
London, England, 1849-05-22 00:00:00

AMERICA AND CANADA.

By the arrival at Liverpool this morning of the
British and North American royal mail steam ship
Cambria, Captain Lech, we have advice' from
Canada and the United States eight days later than
any previously to hand. The Cambria left Boston on
the 9th, and Halifax on the 11th instant, and brings
over the first of the weekly mails for this sea.4on.
By this arrival we are informed that the Washing-
ton, which left S.,uthampton on the 20th nit., bad
reached New York on the 81 inst., after a passage of
18 days.
The America, which left Liverpool for New York
on the following day, had also arrived out on the 51,
after a passage of 141 days.
No farther rioting has taken place throughout
Canada, though much exc'tement prevailci.
Dates from Montreal are to the evening of May 8,
on which day the Parliament was not in session. It
was to convene on the following Monday, and hold
its sessions in the new building owned by Mr. Hayes,
called the Freemason's Hall, bat it is said that the
seat of government is to alternate four years at
Quebec and Toronto. _ _ _ _

A person named Stone was arrested on the Bth, bat
the charge against him is not known.
Some of the late prisoners are about to start on a
tour of agitation to the esstern townships.
On the 4th word was received front Toronto of

an immense meeting hell there, to protest against the 0
Ind• mnity Bill, and fir the appointment of Sir Alan 1
M'Nab as a delegate to England.
There was a fierce debate in the Assembly on the
3rd, upon a motion of adjournment. Bitter crimina-
tions and recriminations passed between both parties.
Mr. Papineau, the old leader of the rebellion,
made a furious 'attack cri the ministry, charging
them with incapacity, and befog the cause of all the
disturbances.
Mr. Solicitor• General Drummond replied by
charging him with the desire of annexation to the
United States, and of being the first governor of the
new state.
Sir Alan M'Nab relied up recollections of murder
and outrage committed during the rebellions of 1837
and 1838. The miuistry deprecated the cause of the
argamert as being got up for mere party purposes,
and said that at a proper time they were prepared to
justify the whole of that proceeding. Tho President
of the council likewise said that one of the causes of

the excitement was the desire of annexation, which
he deprecated.
There had been no new disturbances in the city
Large placards were posted all over the city,
unanimously signed by the influential inhabitants,
urging the necessity of maintaining peace and order.
The fact of the governor-general returning an
answer of half a dozen lines in length to a couple of
addresses front French Canadians was, on the Bth,'
made the subject of bitter animadversion and invi-
dious comparisons, both in and out of parliament,
and re-echoed in most of the city journals. There
had been no fault found with the addresses or
answers; it was only that his excellency replied
to them at length, and that length was on y half a
dozen line ; while to the mate numerous petitions
that were pouted Iwo him against the Indemnity
Bill he only replied that he would give the allega-
tions they contained his full consideration. The ap-
pointment of Sir Alan MNab by the sty of Toronto
was being a good deal canvassed, and is causing some
excitement. On the decision of the English ministry
rests the question if this colony is to be plunged in a
civil war.
The governor replied to an address as follows:
Gentlemen received with gratitude your loyal and
dutiful address. I lament the outrages of which this city
has been the theatre, and more especially the destruction of
the building occupied be the houses of parliament, with
the valuable library, of which the provinces had good
reason to be pen I. My confidence in the good sense,
moderation, and 10
,1 silty of the body of the people is, how-
ever, in no degree shaken by what has occurred. It is
satisfactory to me to receive the assurances that the clime
of justice and impartiality which I have followed in the dis-
charge of the functions el my high office meets your approval.
That course is prescribed to me by my duty to my sove-
reign and to the inhabits's*, of the provinces.
A free people can hardly fail to die:over in the faithful
observance of ell constitutional guarantees the best security
foe the preservation of their rights and liberties.
No etforts will be wanting in my part to secure the pre-
servation of the peace of the city, and I sincerely trust that
by the exertions of the legislature and the executive autho-
rities and the co-scieration of all friends of order this object
may be accomplished.
Loyal addresses from all parts of Upper Canada
were pouring in to the governor-general.
The advice. from the United Stites do not possess
more than common interest. There was a slight im-
provement in business, consequent, in a great mea-
sure, it was generaliy supposed, on the recent impor-
tations of specie from England.
The accounts from the cotton crops relative to the
late frosts, were not so alarming as to cause much
fear of a diminution in the quantity.
No fresh intelligence of inter* at has transpired re-
lative to California, and but little addition to the ex-
portation of metal from that country is announced.
Eighty thousand dollars however, have, it is said,
arrived in Boston.
The Mexican capital was quiet. Paredes had taken
San Luis Potosi, and was marching on Quereta-o.
The American government had determined to send
two ships in search of Sir James Franklin's expedi-
tion, ono to go round east by Labrador and Davis'
Straits, the other west by Behring'e Straits.

COMMERCIAL—New YoacMAY S.

COTTON.-Our rearket has continued in • dull, stupid,
obstinate state-no walnut sellers, no eager buyere-eo little to fix
odatioes, that, whether they are j of a cent. higher or lower we
li!oow not; and there is so little offered for shipment, that freight to
Liverpool in nominally or less. The news by the America seems
unlikely to have any more effect than tba. par Cambria.
The sales today reported on 'Change were 600 bales at full prices,
for Havre and home use. The small quantity on sale maintains the
market in the face of the unfavourable advioes from Liverpool.
Holders are acting under ceders from the south to withdraw their
cottons, In consequence of the injury sugtained by the growing crop
by frost, rendering replanting necessary, and consequently dl.
middling, by about four weeks, the usual period fer making a
crop. The southern markets, at the latest dates, had advanced
from this came, Liverpool middling being quoted at 61 at Mo-
bile, on the 29th ult., and a material advance la anticipated
abroad when the sdrices transmitted by the Hermann, of 26th ult.,
are received. The Liverpool quotations of the 20th ult. are Id. slow
the cost of shipments made at the annexed quotations, with freight,
3.164. and exchange 8 per cent. Those from Havre are more fa-
vsmawcr rad would p-otably corer coat.
New Orleans, Tens, Florida and
and Mobile. Uplands.
Ordinazy fit to -
7 to 74
toddalVddling -
Middling fair 7l to -
Fair a to -
Polly fair 64 to - -
Puret.-There has been more dimities the week past on the part
of holders to realise, and poises are more in Avow of the buyer.
The supplies from the Erie Can.l are beginahur to appear, which
a more general desire to eell. The eity.made, Troy, and Ws-
teethed, and and common western brands, ma be quoted at 4 &Os. r 21e.
te4Ldis. 6111 c. ; and the eameot at 4 dole. 44e. to 4 dots. 60e.
'For the better breads of this state, inekeding Michigan and Ohio,
doh. 73e. to 3 doh. Rye dour sells at 2 ads. WO. to 2 dots 94c. ;
and corn meal, at 2 dole. 94e. to 3 deb. for Jersey yellow.
OaAne.-Wbeat is in fair demand, at 122 e. te 124 e. per 301 b. for
Gomm white, and 100 e. to 108 e. for Ohio sized. Bye sells slowly,
at 39e. per 561 b. Oats, 34e. to Me.; and Parley, 60e. to 62e. per 481 b.
India Corn is wonted for export, with large sales, at an advance of
Sc. or le. per bushel, round yellow bringing Me. to Me. ; dot yellow,
Me. to 64e., and white and mixed southern, 00e. WM. At the close,
yesterday, 1140. for round was holy offered, and a lbw Wes at 641 e.
Arato.-Potathes sre In moderate request, at &dots 024 e. per 1001 b.
Pearls are dull, and prices nominal.
NAVAL 8/011OL-The Ist sales of rough turpentine were at
dole. 3710. per 2801 be. Spirits of turpentine are In fair request, at
33e. soh. berth country ter, selected, 1 dol. Comm rosin, 90e.
to 1 doL
Pnoostows.-Prion pork bss teen in fair &mad today, at
8 dole. 274 e.; mese rather dull, at 10 dols. 3Se. to 10 dais. bird
le In talr request ; 600 boob old at Gc. to so. beef le steady at
11 dots 374 s to 11 dole. 73e. for country mole, end 12 dots. Me. to
12 dole. Me. for city; country, prime. 7 dole. 67t BMW' is in good
ampto ly; Old% 70. to So. ; Western dairy, 10e. 14e. ; Orange Lb.,
l3e. Isle.
Wenizay.-The large
rete have had a *claw to depress the
market. The hat sale Ins at
Fewitons.-Thme Imo bat little mayfly in heights during the
Wt few days. Cottle be Lteerpeet may be quoted at 5.16 d. ; corn,
ded to 7d. Further mmb of boos and hod have been made at
275. To Havre, assent lap e. To Agawam ads Ms been engaged
at ifs., and oil at age. • slip of 140 teas Ine tem chartered for
lAverpool and bete it 81,100.
Mow Menem.-71is wig market was eider. Diammt for
foontitedgotneas wen went 7to 9 mat., oa all Sto 6 per
mat. The teaks here WINO __ sod a wAll further improve-
ment was expected. Oiled Mau ghee of 1836 were 1064 to 7.
slatted seaboge wee spin lifer-comely 107 to 1078 and lsgS,
the tter being tlhe geotasisa et Ms drawers' Mlle. Th
amennlat ribs/Mats tzuricrad hr this steamgreater was limited. Of. 261,e
Ito it. S.

(prom the Mining Journal.)
The Hungarians have, for many years, wished to
throw off the intolerable yoke of Austrian duties, which, far
more than their inland position, cut them off from Europe
and the civilised world at large. The Austrian g ,vernmeat
made, indeed, a parade of appointing oily men who had
passed scientific examinations as directors of its mines i• but
the consuming population, in Hungary at least, thought it
would he more meritorious to al'ow foreign ways to enter,
then to bolster up artificial marufectures by such enormous
protecting duties. The whole production of she empire was
ridiculously small far a population of 35,000,000. The official
returns giro it as follows: Copper, 2,457 tins ; iron, 132,469
tons; lead, 5,902 tons; and the prices' at which the official
valuation!' are laid show the cost of producing even this small
supply. Pig iron costs the govetament miners 71.; rolled,
221.; sheet, 441. per ton. •
The greater part of both the Austrian and Turkish em-
pires being agricultural countries, their consumption is al-
most wholly of finished warts; hence they are valuable cus-
tomers. The road by which access to the sea was easy for
Hungary was, consequently, separated in the tart century
from that kingdom, and placed as the military frontier un-
der martial law, under pretence of checkii ti the incursions
of the Turks. These incursions might bare he u n.nre easily
repressed than by military colonies. if the Au.triens had pro-
perly kept up the trade with the Turks. Ain't the frontier
of Hungary and Bavaria there era appointed stations called
" Rutellen," where it has long been the practice to hold
fairs, and where the custom has b en to purify cattle by
driving them through the stream which forms the boundary
between the two countries. Unhappily, hew, vet, the trade
between two agricultural countries cool l not be • large one.
The Hungarians had no useful =magnates to give, nor
were any to be got from the norther& inhabitants co Turkey.
Both possessed abundance of wool, grain, intik, hod s, hemp,
and timber. and no one wowed his neigkbour's superfluity.
Had the import trade from England been free, large quan-
tities of saddlery, cutlery, arms, farming implem. nes, tin aid
sine plates, copper wares, sheet and pipe-lead, would have
found ready sale at these Turkish fairs, and have made the
parties on both sides happy and friendly towards each
other. The Hungarian frontier was, however, double
locked by Austria. All goods imported had first to pay the
Austrian tariff dues at Trieste, or France; end then,
again, on passing into Hungary Proper, a du • y of 3 ner cent.
was levied in the name of the King of Hungary. This last
duty, ostensibly a moderate impost, became (Ore intolerable
when laid on after the Austrian demand. At .t necessary con-
sequence, these thousand cheap wares which our manufac-
turers in Warwickshire and Staffordshiie produce of such
excellent quality, were excluded from thee vas; and rich
tracts. We take upon ourselves the full re.pon'ibility of
recommending an adven•uro of an 'wired cargo of sa ldlery,
cutlery, and lead and copper wares, to be tried as soot as
the Daily News (the best informed soorce en Iluerarian
matters) shell announce that the hltnyars hove token Fiume,
for there will be an immedisto dem tad, al '..me to any ex-
tent, for such arid' s, and the prohibitive duties will not
only he immediately done away with, hut doors are regular
facilities at Fiume on the Adriatic far bonding.
A M. Cyprian Robert, who devoted of lute years consider-
able time and research to the state of these comonee, was
able to detect the coming struggle for emaociteition, and hit
upon a truly French mode of insuring the iefluence of his
country in the new field about to open. Il i-- eye caught
by the fine military petition of the inhospiteble 13.sikan, on
which he constantly sees 20,000 Frenchmen p .roding the
tricolor, and sending down the inspiring boors of the " Mar.
atillaise " to the many•coloured mass of nations on the plain.
When we •iiited the same pane, we planned a totally
diffi rent kind of intervention. We fatieied a few hundred
smart commercial needle?"' transformed into supercar-
goes, carrying a formidable array of English mann-
factur:s down the navigable Save into the hefty of Hun-
gary, at its point of junction with Turkey, 11"1-uting the
tools of industry and the means of econotnieng •inn to the
inhabitants of those rich countries. lying at oinotst free
quieten, until the time of sbeep-shearino, rape threshing,
and tobacco drying mien, and comino b irk ton Lundun
winter with their vessels filled, at rates which must at least
yield 100 per cent. on the capital of their employers. Such
an expedition would do mote to incur: moderate duties and
good treatment for our merchant., than all the diplomatic
missions which for c.nturies have Elyse fled end delayed
what the instinct of human nature sees clearly and finds easy
to are Imo lish.
The peculiar poaition of the Hungarian I indowner in
being exempted from the evils of a land-tax hes already
been pointed out in the Muting Journal. He is, conse-
quently, only limited in the extent to which be can pro-
duce by his command of tools and fis protect of a market.
Give him a market at the lowest ennn ivable pri'oo and he
will till the soil. not being exposed for so kilns (like the
Gorman, the Frenchman, the Caoadinn, and the East
Indian) to a fine for being industrious. L a him, therefore,
have his tared of English ploughs, harruws, threshing ma-
chines, saddlery, shears, sickles, and he will pay well for
them in wool, wheat, maize, hemp, flax, tallow, and, above
all, in magnificent tobacco, which, if one duties are too
hard upon it, finds a ready sale at Mown', e and G braltar.
This untaxed position of the cultivator of the soil is a mine
of wealth for the trader, as it insures production, and, conse-
quently, stocks of exchangeable good..
It will be remembered by our readers the• the three great
resources of England in time of need are the throe countries
which are exception', amongst ell others, in hoeing the
land free (like monied capital) from the t ix-gataercr's
gripe. The United Staten, Russia, am' tin ea' y alone
have no land-tax, and are the only places we find stocks of
food in when we are starving. But it mat art t ace been
remarked that the price at which we import is fix- d by the
ability of those respective countries to take our manufactured
goods. The course is, consequently, this. W• b, gin with
America when we wish to get groin; and es t nv se America
takes wares in payment, Runia and Gutman 'oust keep to
American prices. But when America is no.-t .one, and the
orders for wares cease, en that bullion must go out, up goes
the price, until it coven the high protect' or oil its of Austria
and Russia. The starvation price (110.. to lOns,) I,e4ins when
these countries are overdone, which, with ti,, it. (boles, soon
takes plate. From this hint it will ha easy to deduce the
'Mike of the 20,000,000 of consumers opeiod y t moderato
tariff in Hungary to our manufacturing, no Casa to cur
consuming population, whose interests, whetref deigning
people may say to the contrary, always go hsu i in hand.

THE MARQUTS OF NORMAN/3T left Porio yesterday
morning, and arrived is town last nimr by the South-
Eaa.ern Railway, in tins for tits debate on the navigation
laws. _ _

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LORD HOWARD DE WALDEN arrived in London on
Saturday mornine, by the General Straw Nnv,gation Com-
pany's steam-shin Triton, from Ostend.
ANOTHER PRINCE ROYAL.—The Vpleriek Re-
porter of Friday indulges its raiders with the :rip. wing inte-
reining announcernens :—" As:coven ear RPIT or HER BEA-
JESTY.—The Queen has been delirdred of 0, male infant,
which only lived long enough to be baptised. lier Majesty
is said to be doing very well. '
TOE PLATE GLASS TRADE.—P. is Vely surprising
to see the extensive use made of this reel luxury, since the
iron hand of the excise has been taken off its manufacture.
It is within compass to assert, if Matic'tester be taken as
i the standard, that there is an ncresw in the assumption
within the last three years, of fifty-fold. Toe p ice is now
so remarkably moderate, that the c msumption may be cal-
culated upon in a manner never cuntemplated by any one •
for instance, as to price, it will be sufficient to show the
s'rong inducement 1) its use. A pane of Rig., for an ordi-
nary house window may now he had for Is 81. cuperficiel
foot, or only about 25 per cent. more than was usually
charged for a pane of then common window ,lass —Leeds
Mercury.
INCREASE OF BRIGHTON.—WC (8, sv.r F:zpress)
understand that it is the intention of Baron Ooldimid to
complete Adelaide-crescent forthwith, an : to toi m a square
at the to;), similar to that at Kemp-town, the road fir which
is partly hid out. A great deal of building is moing on at
the western part of Brighton. The whole -t the west side of
Lansdowne-place has been built on, and the homes are in a
forward state. A road has also teen cut in continuation of
Lansdowne-place, running past Wick-pond towards the Wick
estate. We are also informed that trees um to be planted
opposite the Wick Inn, and detached villas buil., and that
the place is to be called Wick-grove. A area? number of
houses have also sprung up east of Dlontptlier•ermeeut, form-
ing quite a new town.
TYrHus FEVER rages to a fearful extent in the
Cardiff Union Workheuee, and a great many deaths have
occurred. Means ere taken to meet the trying emergency
and to arrest the proeress of the disease. A tem:.orary hos-
pital is to be provided for the sick, and all other necessary
measures are to be adopted forthwith —Cardiff Guardian.
INCREASE OF MENDICANCY.—Mr. Macaulay tells
us, in his " History of England," that toward., the close of
Charles the Second's reign the beggars wore as noisy and
importunate in L radon as in the worst governed cities of the
Continent. A "Lincoln's-inn plumper" was, it seems, a
proverb; " the whole fraternity knew the artna and Hyenas
of every charitably disposed grandee in the uoig.lbourhood;
and, as soon as his lor&thip's coach and six 'peened, came
hopping and crawling in crowds to persecute him." There
seems some danger, amidst tho,e vast and verfoxs improve-
ments of the nineteenth: century, lest we should relapse, as to
mendicancy, into our former wretched state. The London
Papers teem continually with deplorable details on this sub-
ject ; and we fear that, even in opulent Brighton, things are
tending rapidly to a like condition. Ourcreets are thronged
with "importunate" and shameless beggars ; and such Is the
vicious state of the law as ft now stands with reward to wit-
ty, that, unless some vigorous measures be speedily taken
to correct the evil, there is, we fear, little prove:A of escape
from the deluge that threatens to overwhelm the rate-payers
of Brighton, in common with those of every town throughout
the kingdom. Far belt from us to deal harshly with poverty,
or to withhold assistance from cues of genuine distress ; but
it is notorious that the great majority of those who live upon
the earnings of the industrious tradesman, no lets than on
the income et the wealthy resident, are hardened impostors,
who make a trade of bugling, and lead a life of vagrant idle-
ness. which to them is car more pleasant than oac of work.
IMPORTS AND FXPORTS OF MANUFACTURED
GOODS.—The declared value of sll the manuttcturei goods
of a metallic charades. imported into the United Kingdom,
and retained for home consumption, in 1840, amounted to
14,3961. ; in 1841, 13,8131. ; in 1842, 16.867/. ; 1543, 20,7811.;
1844, 23,2001. ; 1845, 31,6201.; 1846, 36,9191. ; 1,17, 33,16,1 a 1.,,,
1848, 32,0301. The declared value of British. maim-.
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hired goods •eiported was as follows :-1840, 3,014,344 L ii ri
1841, 3,178,1751. ; 1842, 2,920,1281.; 1843, 3 440,451141‘4, .
1844, 4,123,6701.; 1846, 4,41;4071.; 1847, •941,7361., .",
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1848, 8,928,8341. . ~. • r.. 1 7,;
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mamma was. let kes this morale', at
Rye *meats Wonhe of is five of the revel ouriaps
Mr the Moo B rm Madam of the South Waters Railway,
Bab abeam the aqua may pr3modal by spinal train
egogen, as some ho Onona, of Wain TM moan
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slam or the 0) nue 'ebb:Atlas boss
the receadysztif
VW NYS of Nora aisimel, awl to wadi
▪ OpeaMmes Noetteabrkws bee, is emscasesee, bees To
Sims was exhibited at the Cosmorama licoms, Regent- si
Street: It I *posed. et 13 het In Ismail, and boon a strik-
Ms refashion., la fts petecipsi lestsres, to the flashes end SO
doscriptieme hitherto Mien of the oust seam Sitelister. to
lettlob the title of " ass serpent" his bees Won. Tito
Olnumetrus has already been ..blhit.d is Nawsestle-on- so
Tyne, where It wee immested by a Gnat member of persons
sad there is little Mob' bat that tie speculation will b•
sassily attrastim sod smensfal is this metsopolis.
It
CONCIIIT AT BIIITUANIA-BIUDO3.—On Friday tut
a mama was held la sae ad the gigeatic tettos intended to M
boa the Dritanste4widas, about se be enema over the
seal. Camdlia phasedby couples he four slimming this
pm mid two), shoat 600 a member, illuminated the some.
Tbs made, mcal end ietramestal, was excellsat, sad Ira-
versed the imam Meth sf tabling with scarcely dimi- too
awed TAM& The lasi sleet, to the eye as well as the al
sex, was mesa siesimg—the lialliaatlydiehted perspective 174
Reim at hest 167 yards Imp. The Meta of the row is 114,1
mart, 16 het, sad to height Oast 30 feet. Upwards of 600 j,14
of the aide of the mealaushesd seempied the front of the to
Cadilliera, sad the other OM of the tubs was crowded with IS
math. people. An appeared delighted with the pro- 60
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