The Express.
London, England, 1865-11-08 00:00:00

AMERICA„

Women mann.)
(Per the Nova Scotian.)
NEW YORK, OCT. 27.
The Wirs Military Commission concluded its
labours on the 24th ult., and the record was placed
in the bands of Judge Advocate-General bat. The
verdict of the court would not be known until it
bad received the approval of the President. It
was rumoured in Washington that Wirt; would
be hanged on the 27th. The spiritual advisers
of the prisoner had visited him, and advised him to
be prepared for the worst.
A Washington telegram of the 26th ult. says :
It is now positively known hers that the Wel of Jam-
non Davie has been decided upon, said the arrangements
have bees nearly completed. The trial will be for the
mime of treason, sad will take plies either in Wathingtou
or Richmond, and before the United States Supreme Court.
The counsel for tke government have bean 'sleeted by the
Attorney-O•Deral, and the Meade of Yr. Davis have
selected and retained counsel for
It was stated at Washington that the Secretary
of the Navy had directed that all the available
steam vessels of war should immediately be got
ready for sea. It was supposed that it was the in-
tention of the American government to be pre-
pared for any eventuality in any quarter of the

globe.
Washington advices of the 25th ult, state that
the Ron. Caleb Cushing was about to leave for
Europe on an important mission. A New York
telegram confirms this statement and says :
The flea Oakb Cushing loam for England in next
Wednesday's steamer on a special legal minim conseeted
with the state department, the nature el which has not
transpired, bat is believed to be in Malin with the ad-
judication made of the claims for damages by this govern-
ment on Great Britain for depredations of the Alabama on
Americas commerce. It is believed that the government
has accepted the proposition of Earl &card to appoint a
commirsies te esicle sack claims.
All the New York morning papers of the 26th
comment on the Adams-Russell correspondence
concerning its claims against England for the
damage inflicted by the Anglo-Confederate pirates.
The Tribune, after stating the question, says :
Should England be ever involved in • 0111a00/ foreign war
before her difficulties with the United States are settled, it
would probably not require much time to came her to dis-
own her present principles.
The herald says the trouble arises from the ex-
isting unsettled and undetermined international
law, and urges a congress of the great powers to
settle certain principles which will perpetuate
peace between the new and old world.
The Times, after declaring that Lord Russell in
rejecting arbitration rejected something which Mr.
Adams bad never tendered him or suggested, says :
So fax as national honour is caseerned, Earl Russell may
rely upon it that the United States ham no thought of Jur,
rendering to any power on earth the decision of any quer-
tins which as affect their own in the slightest degree, nor
will they willingly consent to the surrender of the prin-
ciples of interestiosal law which are essential to the very
existence of such a thing as neutrality, and which censot be
discarded, as England, in view of her own interest, eseka to
discard them, without meshing every war the rignal of mi.

venal mellagratiou.
The World nye :
The urge making peace treaties is to surrender
conquered trite ; but whenever we have a war with
!Aglow! we should take the Canada. end keep them wi
th
that way we will ware maspeesatios for the whole of our
NNW by the sham neutrality of England.

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THE CHOLERA nt Pmets.—Tim Union Medioale
publishes the following :—" The cholera decidedly teems to
be disappearing ; not soddeoly, sod to return in the same
manner, as was seen in preceding epidemics, but gradually,
still sinking down a few victims. especially among oho im•
prudest, the negligent, and, the truth must be told, as it it
the oulogium of courage and charity, also among those per-
sons who from their prolossicie or from devotedoess apply
zealously, without relazatioc, their time tuxil their talents
to amisting the unfortunate who am attacked by the scourge.
Honour to those noble victims At the preen* momenldt
the epidemic is diminishing regularly. AU alarm shou
therefore emote, but without salutary precautions being
forgotten. Oaths lit inst. the total number of deaths
from cholera* private houses and in the hospitals was oolv
92 ; on the 2nd, 80 ; on the 3rd. 75 ; and as the 4th. 70.
Thu decrease, from the fact of its beiog small but con-
tinued, is a most favourable omen. The civil and military
hospitals are dews for only about a quarter In that total.
Throofourths of the datmases have takes plant at the
*germs' own residences, and too probably antoe4 perms'
what sotwithetimiling the reiterated mensal' of the
adonoistration and physiolana, trigs with all rs-
commoadationa and become cloning to their own
incredulity or imitations's& The camber ad admissions
to the hospitals has diminished in proportioa to that de-
means, sad the number of home came is Weenie'. The
epidemic appean, therefore, to be fairly dyhig out, sod so
doubt within • law days the mortality of the eity of Paris
will have fella. in its usual limits. If the cholas iba•
stays its ravages, it will have bees relatively mild as ear
pared with preceding **aims, and this satisfectory result
must be attributed to the improvements is the capital,
end the &apnea ranos of the numerous sad whoa*/
quartets et old Paris in which the opidemiss al UM and
1849 smogs se many vistites." The ifounteur scsinallY
claret that it sun warts the seetwas gives by its suriasel
qatioporam