The Express.
London, England, 1849-07-16 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 16, 1849.

" Article 11. Two per cent. will be colluded at the eta-
porta on all coin arriving from the interior.
" Let the same be published distributed, and complied with.
Palace of the National Gnvernasent, Mexico, Msy t 2, 1949.
" JOIE JOAQUIN DE HISZUZILL.
" To Don Francisco Arangoiz."

The moat satisfactory news is the arrival in
New York of the apostle of temperance, Father
Mathew. Notwithstanding the gloom which per-
mits all classes, vent was given to the feeling of ad-
miration for the worthy missionary, his reception
having been most entbuivastic and tr:umphant.
Some captious editors in New York had been
indulging upon the extravagance of the Com
mon Council in providing at the expense of the
city for the R -v. Mr. Mathew during his fifty
in the neighbourhood, and others suggested that
in the then unhealthy condition of the city all occa-
sion of unnecessary excitement should be avoid.d, and
demonstrations postponed. The people, however,
thought otherwise, and, for a time at least, cur Iriag
fellow-eountryman will find a hearty response from
the citizens of the United States, a large number of
invitations from several parts of the Unioa having been
already fora a-ded him.
The press have no: yet done holding up the late
ex-president's deeds to public notice. Several of his
nominees is the public offices have been disinisaed by
the present cabinet.
The whole stock of Cm !injected Panama railway
had been taken up at New York IS soon as offered ;
so that there is now nn doubt as to the completion of
the project. The New lork Journal says than in a
year or two at fattheet the chief communicaSon
between the Atlantic and the Pacific for passengers
and valuable freights will be by way of tte Panama
railway.
One hundred thousand prunds cf Arkansas lead
was recently shipped at Little Rock, the prodace of
mines in that neighbourhood. The silver mingled
with it is estimated as of 7,000 dole, value.

A begging-box had ben sent round the chapels in
NewYorkon the let inst., by order of Bishop Hughes,
to assist the I'ope in hu, present destitute con-
dition. This had created great disgust amongst
the enlightened citizens ; and as the lower orders of
the Irish were the most prominent in their anxiety
for the pecuniary "status" of his Holiness, the feelings
of estrangement already manifested between them
and the native population were becoming more
marked. It was supposed that advantage would be
taken of the forthcoming celebration to have a fling in
return atthe supreme pontiff and he "republican ally."
The New York journals publish the offiial docu-
ments issued by the postmaster-general a' Washing-
ton, containing, in full, the details of the postal treaty
recently entered into between the United States and
Great Britain.

The particulars are arranged in chapter., under ap-
propriate heads, and comprise the regulations be-
tween the different offices of exchange, regulations
respecting the exchange of correspondence, progres-
sive rates of postage, Bc., letter bills, acknowledg-
ment of receipts, accounts, ice., dead, missent, and
returned letters, and a table of instruct:one.
The following is the official programme respecting
the celebration of the anniversary of American inde-
pendence on the 4th July :
A national taut* will be fired on the battery by the Vete-
ran corps at sun-rise.
In consequence of the prevailing disease with which our
city Is unfortunately vi.ited, the committee recommend that
the usual military pimple be. disresnerd with.
The various church bells thrcughout the city will be tolled
from six to seven o'clock a m., from twelve to °Le, and from
six to seven p.m.
A grand display of fireworks will be exhibited at the Park,
Unien-square, Tompkins-square, and at Haarlem, to com-
mence at half-past eight o'clock.
There will be a bend of music provided for each of the
above-named places, and during the evening they will play
national airs in honour of the day, Re.
The origin of tha St. Louis fire, after a judicial
examination before Mr. Justice Butler, is given as
follows :
The result of my examination is, that no evidence exists
of any incendiary attempt to produce this fire; that every
probability indicates, so far as sty testimony was submitted
to me, that the fire must have originced from sparks pro-
ceeding from passing boats lodging on a newly-painted
boat, and favoured by a high wind blowing on them.
The cotton crop in some of the southern states is
causing some apprehension.
Tee culture of tobacco in Florida is favcurably re-
ferred to, and it is supposed, with a little more prac-
tice, it will equil the production of Cuba.
The proceeds of the sale of public lands through-
out the possessions of the Republic are tote in future
appropriated to the purchase of the government loan
of 1867.
Days of humiliation were being appointed by the
eevcral Christian churches, in relation to the present
visit of the cholera. The members of the Presbyte-
rian church in New York held them on the 28 h nit.
The accounts from Canada are not so favourable.
The British " League" was succeeding in keeping up,
and, indeed, increasing the spread of disaffection in
the provinces. Our accounts say that " Canada is
quiet, but the agitation he increasing." The ft cling
in favour of the annexation was, however, subsiding.
The Montreal correspondent of the New York
Weekly Tribune, after commenting severely on the
expences of the Canadian government, says:
One of the cabinet has sone south to promote the Reci.
proeity Bill. He says it the American government resist
the measure, he and his colleagues will petition the British
government to impose six cents. a bushel on United States
corn entering England. If that be denied, they intend ask-
ing a return to the old protective system. What they pur-
pose if this last modest request be refused, they say not.
If the Reciprocity Bill be passed. Canada will become
Autericar.i.ed in five ye►rs. It it do not pan, the Upper
Canada farmers will sutler so severely that separation from
England may be counted by months. They are sow living
upon the profits of the past protective system ; after the pre-
sent harvest they may begin to open their eyes. The
weather has been very hot—thermometer 96 deg. in the
shade. The late nihilism cooled the air. Crops look well.

Plovenosa—Toe market was rather doh today. and 10 ML. 57 le.
was the highest offer made for mess pork; illicemal be gu'Acd" ds 67,e. to 9 dole., but dull at the highest fis are. neef in elendY.
at 11 dole. 50e. to 13 dais. foe men, Cut mea' 4 are not active;
M may be quoted at 45e.; end common hams !n pickle. Me. to
Me. Ohio lard is arm ; barrels, tlfe. to 7c. ; and kejs, 71e. to 71e.
Butter and cheese are in limited demand, at previous rates. Bales of
great* butter have been made for export at ge. to fife.
Morn Makier.—The stack nmrket was somewhat active
today. Government stocks and state recurities were In
demand for investment. Slid a sale of the new loan (New York Stone
Fixes of 11015) sr, s made to-day at 111. Money is abundant ; loans
"on e Xll " are mace at 4 to 5 per cent , and paper is now discounted at
sto 7 per cent. per annum. Large amount. are still seeking invent-
mint; and when we take into consideration that upwards of two
niLliana of dollars have this thy beta /add in dividends, there is but
little proepeet of a stringent money market for some 'time to onme,
putieularly an the ease in the money market hue not elven any active
impetus to stock speculations ; on the contrary, the usual dishier* of
the month of July has already shown 'Melt accelerated, probab:y by
the increase of the cholera reports' and panics who wish to leave the
city In ire cloud their ontraets, %Lich accounts for the rlecline and
floctuatians during the past week. The city loan of 2qt,000 dole.,
0 per cent , advertued fur to-day, has all ben token at about 14 pre-
mium, the offers waging from I f to 21 per ant. The imports during
the mouth of June, as shown by the entriee at our Custom Home, ere
a little over tire millions of dollars; these will probably be ince:need
daring the current month, hat not to sufficient extent to affect ex-
chums. The sup,dy of Mir of foreign exchange has been large, and
the demini fur the steamer than far has been quite moderate at
quot di( no.
nal SUN EXCHANOM.—Ezebsuirece London. It gJ to If 9; on Puts,
5.271 3.22. ;on Amsterdam, 34 to 40J ;on Hamburg, 331 to 351;
oa lattuizrt, al, to :81.
The eeCiPlallt is the assistant trerearer's Mace to-day stands as
follows :
........ 1 0567 80 07 01
802 1
Paul
licesdved
1,034,855 57
11 —. 79,000 00
Wriest paid outorer 400,100 00
DIVIaLNDS.—Tae New York Lieuranee Company has declared a
semi-amount aividend of 5 per cent, payable on the 9th ~f July.
The ricer County Bank a sino-a•nual dividend of four-andsa-half
per mit..

The liirraton Bank four per cent., payable on demand.
The Bail of Ihmulout three,.and..a-qa,f per cent.
The bank a the Menopo'la et Wa#hington, three-anda•half per
cent. _ _

The Rnehrger City Rink four prr cent., payab:e on the 254 July.
fl directors of the Contouwok Munufacturng Company at Fisher-
vilie. NM., eight per eent on their capital stork. PJ.unuir June 2.
like Kam of Chariegoe ea extra dividend of trio per mot., besides
the regular half-yearly dividend of three per oent.

GERMANY.

ARMISTICE BETWEEN DENMARK AND

PRUSSIA.

In Saturday's Expreirit was Mated that an armis-
tice was about to be concluded between l'russia and
Denmark. We have since received the fallowing
from a source of undoubted authenticity :

BERLIN, JCLY 12.
From one of our leading merchants who had applied
in person to min.sters fur information respecting the
armistice between Denmark and Prussia, concluded
on the 10th inst., I learn that the ratifications are to
be exchanged within eight days, and that a period of
21 days is to be allowed to the armies to take up the
positions assigned them in the treaty. My informer
states further that the blockade is to be raised as
soon as the German troops take up a position to the
south of Fltnsherg ; order., for the evacuation of
Jutland by the German troops have already been
transmitted ; and intimation has been given to the
Danish noverement that in 14 days, at the latest, the
troops will be all to the South of Flensburg. In 14
days therefore the blockade will ceae.
The armistice has been concluded for six
months. At the end of the six months,
notice may ba given of a renewal of boa-
tilitiee, but hostilities cannot evil' then be ac-
tually resumed until after the lapse of six weeks
more. I have at last heard that the merchant vessels
captured by the Danes, and 3-et unsold, have been
restored, with their cargoes ; for the cargoes which
have already been add, compensation is to be made.
It would seem to me no m are than equitable, that the
neutrals which Lave been matured (l 5 of them are
English) should also be given up.
Notwithstanding the truth of the foregoing, our
correspondent since writes as follows :

BERLIN, Irv/ 13.
On the night of the 11th a courier arrived from
Cow:Orogen and fetched off the Danish plenipoten-
tiary, M. Reedtz, just at the moment when he was
about to sign an armistice end protocol, in which the
prelimintries of the peace were tbstinetly laid down.
The meaning of this fresh slip 'twixt cup end lip is
not clearly known. Some impute the capricious in-
terruption to a Russian note received at Copenhagen,
others to increased arrogance of the Dane in conse-
quence of his successful sally and complete defeat of
tue besiegers of Fridricia. This disappointment is
felt the more keenly, as the Deutsche lerforrn had
just told the public that everything was settled and
signed, and would be ratified within eight days.
The calling off of M. Reedtz to Copenhagen to re-
ceive fresh instvetiens has, in;all probability, arisen
from the suggestion of Russia, who, u the close ally
and protector of Austria, cannot acquiesce in the
pretensions of Prussia to usurp the functions of the
Ittichaverweser in this business, and to assume
the head management of the peace negociations, upon
the ground that she is the German poser most In-
terested.

The loudest accosstions are uttered by the who'c
press of Germany against Prussia for the way in
which the war against Denmark has been conducted.
The dreadful lose inflicted on the Schleswig-Holstein
troops under Bonin, on the 6th, which is reported at
3,000 men killed and wounded, has exasperated the
German people—who really are deeply interested in
this war—to the uttermost against the Prussian
government.
Out of the thirty deputies from Posen, the Poles
will probably return about eighteen. These, it seems,
will have the left of the new chamber all to them-
selves.

Arnold Ruge, Stein, and Julius, are cited to present
themselves before the Jury Court of Berlin, on the
Bth of October. In case of non-appearance, they will
be proceeded against for contumacy.
The state of siege is expected to be suspended on
the 3rd of August, the birthday of the late king.

Tee following is from the Borsen-Halle of the 12th
of July : _ _

"This afternoon the Prussian Major Von Man-
teuffel and the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the
Duchies of Schleswig-Holstein, Von Harban, return-
ing with despatches from Berlin, have passed through
Altona en route for Schleswig. The National Asssm-
bly is reported to have received a communication to the
effect that a new governmsnt,consisting in the persons
of a Danish, a Prussian, and an English commissary,:s
to be erected for the duchy of Schleswig during the
period of an armistice, the present government for
both duchies, however, resting valid only for the
duchy of Holstein.
" TIIC accounts from Berlin respecting the armistice
with Denmark are still uncertain as to the terms, but
mticularly so with regard to ifs ratification at Copin-
hsgen. From the latter place the news is down to
yesterday, without mentioning the state of the negotia-
tions with Prussia. There is nothing new from Jut-
land, except that the fortress of Fridricia was again
closely blocked up from the land side by the Schles-
wig-Holsteiners, in combination with Hanoverian and
Bavarian troops. The news of the armistice had not
yet reached them."

BADEN AND THE PALATINATE,—The latest
intelligence from Carlsrahe reaches to the 12th inst.
The only account from Restadt is, that discharges of
musketry in the interior of the town had given rise
to the impression that the two contending parties—
the one in favour of surrendering the fortress to the
Prussiar.s, and the other resolved to hold out to the
last—had come into collision. On the other hand,
the accounts from the Prussian camp before Rastadt
are of a melancholy nature. The typus fever is carry-
ing off many victims, and numerous wounded Prus-
sians continue to arrive in Carlsruhe. Up to the 12th
inst. there were 400 wounded and sick in the mili-
tary hospital of that city alone. The above state-
meats ate semi-official, and may be relied upon.
General von Flotow had arrived, on the night of
the 7th inst., at Tettnaog, from Linden, at the bead
of 2,500 Bavarians.

AUSTRIA.—From our correspondent:
VIENNA, Jun- 12.
News has arrived hero that the Austrian Marshal
Schlick has occupied Perth, which town oad been
evacuated by the Magyar army some days previously.
Perth itself is of no importance in a Ptratt glad point
of view.