The Express.
London, England, 1849-01-22 00:00:00

ARRIVAL OF THE EUROPA.

LIVERPOOL, Jas. 22.—The British and North
American Hord Idea steam-ship Europa, Captain
Lott, arrived in our river this day, with the
usual mails from the United States and Canada;
and advises 14 days later than those to band
by the Niagara. Her voyage has been a most
rapid and successful one, Nly sustaining the high
character which all the vessels ot this company have
hitherto borne.
The Hermann, at., had arrived out, from South-
ampton, by Boston, on the 7th inst., after twenty-six
tar' towage. The steamer Washington had also'
ved oat on the Bth inst. Tte Europa, it may biO,
remembers 1, took out the pos'al convention agreed
to between the British government and Mr. Bancroft.
We learn that, baring been examined by _ the
cabinet at Washington, it has been fully tidied by
CANinterminable slavery question, and its must
usatis'actory state, has caused considerable disunion
in Coegress, without, as was to be expected, any
definite decision being come to as to its introduction
into the:acquired territories.
General Taylor's inaugural address afforded much
speculation amongst what may be termed in that
country also the " protectionists " and " free-traders."
It is generally supposed, however, he will endeavour
to undo many of the measures introduced by the ca-
binet of James K. Polk.
California still seems to claim a large share of at-
tention threughout the state, although the excitement
hu given place to sober " calculations" on the subject.
The scarcity of provisions, and the sufferings likely to
mar in consequence, have damped the expectations
land ardour of many who intended to become " diggers
for Role
Mexico swarms with buds of robbers who have
given loose to their propensities, and plunder and rob
most daringly, in almost every quarter.
(rises is raging severely at New Orleans, and the
number of deaths is reported as very large.
Commercial affairs in Canada were still uneatisfac-
tory. The proceedings of the provincial parliament
had cot as. yet dissipated the fears of the colonists,
who, it is beFeved, would appeal to the home
government on its free trade policy, as affecting the
commerce of that country.
The market for breadstuf6 was firm, and prices
had slightly advanced. Cooaiderable quantity of
business done.
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The following is a synopsis of the commercial in-
telligence to bind :
Fluuoens.—Codes to Liverpool, Mb 401 "Of lb. Grain to
pool, ltd. to Sp. Tim to Llrorpeoli_24. to 64. per barrel.
!awes 11541., par barrel, dol4
C Ti to 71 Muni mid Mobile, 71 to 71.
Isot4s Coas.-41110010, fur bead
WH4tr.--Souttors, IY. Ifo. tot Y. 14e. per 31. Geastiree,
1 dol. Ik. to 1 MI. ; mud prow, No. to Toe. per bembrt.
Fux 3.—Wootots MA lit. ft& to 3 Colo. Via Stead .
gleltAltOtt so Ilmistrao.-1 doh. 27e. A Irso mutat.
Notts, NO& ramplonim.

FRANCE.

PARIS, SIINDLT, 11 LAI.
M. Bosley de la Monetize was yesterday named in
the Assembly Vice-President of the French republic.
The Sack of this morning says: " We do not know
with what intention certain jouruals have thought fit
to spread a report that the friends of General Ca-
vaigoac had carried the election of M. Boulay as Vice-
President of the Republic. We are authorised to
contradict this rumour in the most formal manner.
We affirm that General Cavaignac and the greatest
number of his political friends voted for M. Vivien."
In the Assembly yesterday a debate of some length
took place, on the question of constituting a special
tribunal, alled the High National Court, under the
terms of the constitution, for the trial of the offenders
in the 15th May. This tribunal would correspond in
its character and functions to the court of peers under
the monarchy, and is provided specially by the con-
stitution, as the court of peers was formerly, for crimes
of each a clue as it was considered not conducive to
the ends of public justice to send before a jury.
The chief speakers yesterday, on the one side and the
other, were MM. Ledru Rollin and Dupin (sine).
The debate was adjourned till Monday.
The Moniteur of yesterday contains a notice that
sixty-three women, confined in St. Lame for the
insurrection of June, hid been liberated by the
Minister of the Interior, at the instance of the Presi-
dent of the Republic.
For several nights past the capital has been kept
in anxiety and alarm by the appearance of strong
patrols in various quarters. The reasons u-
signed for these precautions are numerous.
The turn-out among the working bakers
has become more formidable, and the soldiers have
been, during the last week, sniped to the muter
bakers to make the bread, in the absence of the regular
employes. The menacing attitude of the clubs
and of the secret societies is also assigned
as a ground of precaution, and it is said that a project
of law will be speedily presented to the Assembly for
closing these reunions. Meanwhile, however, the
ministry is, or affects to be, rendered powerless in its
initiative of legislation 17 the hostility of the Assembly.
It postpones all legislative measures which are not of
extreme urgency, on the plea that it will be sure to
be encountered in the Assembly by a factious oppo-
sition.
Some of the organs of the republican party, such me
the Sikk, deny the existence of this factious spirit of
opposition, and insist that the passive attitude of the
government is unnecessary and uncalled for. Be this
as it may, it is certain that the government has
molted to propose no measures which are not
absolutely indispensable in the present Assem-
bly, and all the leading men, such as Mole, Thiers,
Bagesad, &c., peremptorily decline the responsibility
of aloe so long is this Assembly exists. It remain'
rat to be ma whether this is a mere pretext for standing
-kte - apart and waiting events.

SPAIN.

Private letters from Catalonia, of the 12th inst., my : '
It is certain that there has been a sanguinary conflict
near Vidrieras, between the bands of Cabrera and
Mareal and the Queen's troops, but we have not yet
received any official account of it. Latterly the
republican bands have suffered considerably. Since
they have discontinued their r lations with the
Wry they have been beaten everywhere that they
have oome in contact with the Queen's troop,. After
the rout of San-Mateo, the republicans suffered a
complete defeat at Premix, in the night of the 10th,
when Eacoda received a check from which he cannot
resever,,Gen. La Rocha, having foreseen that that re-
publican chief would betake himself to the Plain of
Barcelona, loather. Col. Plana, with some companies
of infantry and some cavalry. Encode was surprised
in the village, where he had determined to pan the
night, when 10 men were killed, 60 taken prisoners,
and the homes and baggage captured. This band
was composed of 160 men, and it is thought it will be
difficult to get them to re-aaiemble.
On the 9th, as some republican prisoners were
entering Barcelona, they spoke to three men, who, on
being
arrested, were found to be members of the same
The whole body has been transported be-
yond the sea. Oa the Bth, the corvette Mazarredo and
the brigantine Volador left Barcelona for Gaeta, the
first having on board Jose Bustillos, commander of the
Spanish forces in the Mediteranean. It is reported
that they are about to convey the Pope to the Ba-
learic Isles, where arrangements are already made for
his reception.
'um.. Jw. 15.—Tres. 191 nth; of
D. 191 1945 ask;
191 psoragiaril= np:rketta Holszelll.or=eserz4
rims; r. meow Dm, 70 emli, 71 pere. 295595,9 55 Lea-
gls, so Frs.

FRANKFORT.—Our advice' from this free city
reach to the evening of Friday, the 19th inst., and
bring the important intelligence that on that day,
the National Ae►mbly deadtd,by a majority of 268
to 211, that the dignity of the supreme head of the
empire should be conhered upon one of the reigning
German princes. The house then adjourned till
Monday, when the order of the day will be the
hereditaryship of the imperial dignity.

Tam IsDue left Southampton as Saturday with
the Dubs mile for Alezasdria. Among the penmen wee
Dr. &wring, late M.P. for Bolton, who has beer arpoiated
her Majesty's Consul he China. Mr. Han, M.P., and •
member of dististgawhed poudel .ad !harm friends of the
doctor took leave of hies ow blow' the I.de.__

=ATM Cl/ Ds. MOUAIT, LATH OP 16 II HGl3BAke.
• WIC hen Saes, doted Jaa. 4, en bend the Bmsinek.
says : " I regret to have to inform um glebe eikka gaiter
Dr. Motion (late of H.M. 15th Hammen, sad whom evert.
inertial prodnoed so mach excitement lately *roughest the
service in India), ea the morning et the 21st of
Dilialesestia sr. He was sitting at the beadiest table, when he
was attacked with a at of oeughiag and emessessedlea el
blend, which rapidly increased to • profuse gm teem le
me& sad nostrils. lie became alarmed, and rushed em
dash. where he almost immediatelyezpired. A post-marrem
emesahmilion am nada. when it was fumed that • treadmill
the eight pdamsery artery was dimmed. and had riven way."
Taft 120111 TON BANIL—We (Western Times) un-
derstand that the report of the proceedings in the Bank-
ruptcy Court last week does not quite messy the mural
damn up of the 'mystery of the lost notes. It now appears
that the notes were a lost, though in the hurry and tre-
pidation attendant on the stoppage, the parties were unable,
for a time, to recount all the transectiots of the evenisg.
The facts, in brief, are these : We believe, of the night et
November 2, Meson. Flood and Lott discovered that
they c Add tot make good their exchange with
the National Provincial Bank, as the manager would only
take gold, or Bank of England notes, in exchange for
the bonitos notes he had held. This the bankers being
unable to supply, in consequenee of the non-return of
their clerk from Exeter with the cash, the branch bank
manager ant of the Ratites notes to the parties from
whom he had ',wired them- As the clerk afterwards re-
turned with the moony. it was dere-raised to send remit-
tances to all the parties to whom the loos had been returned
—ht order to save the credit of the bank, if possible. For this
purpose it is ca4lthe three hundred pound notes are beaker'
have been exchanged by a gentleman of the branch bank,
although le might have forgotten the circumstanee at the
time, a. there was great hurry and excitement on the occa-
sion. It is not necessary to go farther into the eetails which
we have received, after so much has been reported pro and
ems They leave no doubt that an effort was made to recover
the returned noun—that the good matey was thrown atter
the bad, in a vain effort to bolster up the credit of the cen-
sers—and that parties, krgettin the arts of this memorable
and feverish night, endeavoured to explain what they could
not recollect, and that lota time, all the explanations proving
fallacious, there arose • suspicion of foul play, which has at
learbeen dissipated.
HIGHWAYMAN SHOY.—On Friday last Mr.
/mei. spirit merchant, of Elnistill, near Ferrybridge, at-
tuned Wakefield market, and had collected a large sum of
=les weal, he left very early in the afternoon, seldom
bane later than 4 or 5 o'clock, but, on this omission,
Mein to eon on the road, he was premed upon to stay tea,
and temser wetly accepted the invitation. lie afterwards
est of lime, it being then between 6 and 7 o'clock, hut
WilielolllllllX near home he slackened his pace and let his
hems we k slowly on. Two men made their appearance on
the reed • li'tle before him, one of whom he Its..rd say
"he's coming," and the other answered, " d— his, we have
him now, this is him." Upon Interim this. Mr. Steel seamed
to take no notice, but he put his pistol at full cock, and
walked slowly on until timing very near the men, when he
immediately put spurs to his horse and passed them at full
gallop. They made an attempt to seise the hone by the
but did not succeed. After galloping to the rise of a
bilk with* is near home, be wein pulled up hie home, and
peeeseilel leisurely up the road, when another Tali= rushed
epee him, and with a heavy bludgeon struck him on the
&raider, which dismounted him, and he fell to the ground,
with the bridle reins over his arm. When laid on his back,
the villian went round the horse to him, and was just in the
act of dealing a deadly blow over his head, when Mr. Steel
pulled the Irmo. of his pistol and shot the sillies in the
elseellsr. Toe bludgeon tell he mawred, and moaned, but
Mr. Mead did not see him fell ; apes- isekieg round be ob
served the former two men gaming up within a few yards of
him, when he immediately jumped upon hishorse, sad made
the best of his way home.—Yorkshire Gazette.
DISCOVIRY Or A ROMAN POTTS-ST.—The 01 ra-
tions at Sunderland New Docks prom ed apace, and the water
it is expected, will be admitted at en early date is February
When there is 144 feet at the tide gave, there will be
twenty-two feet of water at the dock entrance from the
river. During the excavation of this part of the works,
a singular discovery was made. Under the site of some old
huuses on the pier quay was found what midges:ulna pro-
flounced to be the remains of an ancient Roman pottery.
About eight feet below the surface appeared • circle,
about twenty-five feet diameter, hewn out of the lime-
stone rock. In the interior of this was a circle of small
rubble stones, in arrangement resembling a gin or horse mill,
which bad apparently been erected for the purpose of grind-
ing clay. Near this place was found • quantity of red and
yellow ochre, and some broken earthenware, with four per-
fect specimens of Roman b Silo, with necks about a foot in
length, the under part being /lobular. They were common
red ware, and unglazed One of them has been sent to the
Antiquarian Society of Newcastle, and another, a very per-
fect cue in all respects, was presented to the Sunderland
Museum.