The Express.
London, England, 1853-05-16 00:00:00

AMERICA.

LIVERPOOL, SATCD.DAY.
Early this afternoon the British and North
American royal mail steamship Arabia, Captain H.
Judkins, arrived in the river front New York,
with advice. from that port to the 4th inst., with
144 passengers (amongst whom were his Royal
Highness the Prince de ied and suite, of Germany,
and Count de Pedrosa and lady, of Havanna), and
201,717 dollars in specie on freight. Her mails
arrived in chugs of Lieut. J. Grant Raymond,
RS., Admiralty agent. The Arabia has made a
capital run across the Atlantic, having left New
York at 12.32 p.m. on the 4th, and arriving in this
river at 3.43 p.m ; her mean steaming time being
9 days, 22 hours, and 26 minutes, including one
hoar detained by the falling overboard of a pas-
senger.
The Baltic arrived at New York on the Ist inst.,
and the Asia was passed off Sandy Hook 70 miles,
on the evening of the 4th inst.
On the morning of the 13th a melancholy occur-
rence took place on board the Arabia. One of the
chief cabin passengers, Mr. Henry Seldon, who had
been noticed in low spirits for some days previous,
leaped overboard at 8.40 a.m., and was drowned.
Immediately on the rash act being discovered, a life-
, buoy was thrown over, the ship stopped, and a boat
lowered, which returned alongside at 9, with the
body of the unfortunate man, life being extinct. He
was an Englishman, and, for several years past, a re-
sident in the United States; and had lately become
a partner in a respectable firm at New York. He
was possessed of letters of credit upon England for
40,000 dole. It is stated that he was a married man
with a family.
It appears that Governor Lane's proceedings at
Mexico has been received with disapprobation by
General Pierce and his cabinet. Upon this subject
the New York 11-ibune remarks :
Governor Lane has made an aggressive demonstration
under circumstances which aggravate its every aspect. He
is the agent of a superseded Administration, on the point of
being himself superseded in his turn. In common decency,
he should have solicited aad waited instructions from the
new President before undertaking to settle by force a
boundary dispute—and settle it too, in opposition to the
award of our own Boundary Commissioner. The Governor,
we doubt not, has resolved to make a flying leap from the
most conservative whiggery to the most progressive and
plundering democracy, and this is his first saltatory
experiment. We wish hint joy of its success. It
must not be forgotten that whatever mischief may
grow out of this Boundary difficulty, the Senate of
the Uunited States early volunteered to be a leading party.
Mr. Bartlett was going steadily forward in the determina-
tion and demarcation of the boundary prescribed by the
treaty of 1848, until the Senate, on motion of Mr. Mason of
Vs., sad by nearly a party vote, peremptorily stopped him
and broke up the s y, on the assertion of one of his sub-
ordinates that be had conceded too much to Mexico in the
matter of this Manila Valley. Had he been asked or per-
mitted to explain and defend his conduct, the affair would
have worn a different aspect ; but he was condemned with-
3nt inquiry and executed without trial, in violation of our
national compact with Mexico to prosecute the survey to a
close without delay or interruption. Should a hostile colli-
sion result from this breach of faith, let the blame rest on
the shoulders that ought to beer it. _ _ _

The caloric ship Ericsson is now lying at her dock
in Williamsburfh. Important alterations are going
on in her machinery, which the owners are confident
will considerably increase her speed. She is to be
ready to sail for London, on her first passenger trip,
soon after the Ist of July, at which time the improve-
ments now going on will be completed, and she will
be in order throughout. Captain Ericsson and some
of the principal owners will go out in her to
Europe. She can accommodate about two hundred
passengers.
A slight shock of earthquake was experienced in
different parts of Washington on the 3rd inst., last-
ing but a few moments—causing perceptible vibra-
tions of buildings.
The Proridence Journal states upon high authority
that the King of the Sandwich Islands has made
another strong appeal to the government of the
United States for protection against the designs of
France, which clearly threaten the subjugation of
his dominions. _ _

From Mexico we learn that Santa Anna arrived in
that city on the 17th of April, and was received with
great rejoicings, firing of cannon, illuminations, &c.
His reception all along the road from Vera Cruz to
the capital was most enthusiastic, triumphal arches
being erected in the different towns ,• the inhabitants
firing cannons, ringing bells, and indulging in other
demonstrations of joy.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
Now YORK Mix 4.
The money market was rather tighter. The isles at the
Stock Board were heavier te-dey than usual, but no im-
provement visible in prices. Sales at the First Board : Ro-
, chaster and Syracuse Railroad, 160 ; Michigan Central
Railroad, 1143; Indiana State Five per Cents., 98; Ohio
Six per Cents., of 1860, 108 to 1086. Few Bank Shares or
State Stocks are brought into the market. Bill' on London
closed at 96 to 91 for backers' signatures, and 1081 to 1093
for good commercial biW ; Pans 5.131 to 5.15 ; Amsterdam,
41 to 416 ; Frankfort. 406 to 406 ; Bremen, 796 to 791;
Hamburg, 366 to 361; Antwerp, 5.15 to 6.171 ; Prussian
Thaler., '716.
Cortorr.—The market closed on the 29th tilt., as re-
ported per Arctic, with an active demand at steady prices.
On the 30th, 800 iles were sold, without change. Yester-
day morning (2nd inst.) the Baltic's letters of 20th nit.
came to hand, end their general tenor caused great die-'
appointment. The decline advised, it is true, was
trifling, and scarcely quotable, but it excited surprise
here, that Liverpool merchants should have accepted the
opinions as to the extent of crop of a few disappointed par-
ties, and suffered them to influence their action, when
facts, namely figures, chewing a rapid decrease both in re-
ceipts at the ports and exports to Great Britain, which
each succediug steamer hence has substantiated, were re-
sented to them to sustain and confirm the opinions advised
of a moderate crop, from their own agents and correspon-
dents in almost every section of the cotton growing districts
of the United States.

FLova.-Flour nominal, 4 dole. to 4 dole. 121 c. ; unin-
spected, No. 2, 4 dole. 25c. to 4 dole. 371 c.; ordinary to
favourite state, 4 dole. 6210. to 4 dole. 75e. ; mixed to fancy
Michigan and Indiana, 4 dole. 75c. to 5 dole. ; common to
good Ohio, 4 dole. 75c. to 6 dols.; fancy to extra Obio and
Genessee, 6 dole. to 6 doll. ; Canadian in bond, 4 dole. 75e.
to 4 dole. sue ; Alexandria, Baltimore, and Georgetown,
6 dot.. 121 e. to 5 dots. 3710. ; fancy and extra do., 5 dole.
60e. to 6 doll. ; Richmond city, Haxall, and Gallego,
6 dots. ; rye flour, 3 doll. 75c. to 3 dots. 871 e. ; corn meal,
3 dolls. to 3 dole. 3710.
0111114.-Winat, Ohio red, for 601 be., 112 e. to 116 c. ; do.
do. white do, 122 e. to 1210. ; do. do. Michigan do., 122 c. to
124 c.; do. do. Genesee do., 126 c. to 130 e. ; do. Canadian in
bond, 112 c. to 115 c. ; rye per 561b5., 90e. to 91e. ; barley
per 481b1., 610. to 70e. ; oats (state and western), 43c. to
46c. ; corn, 'south, white, per 56th.., 63e. to 65e. ; do. do.
yellow do., 67c. to 68e. ; do. Jersey do. do., 66c. to 670. ; do.
do. and northern white, 63c. to 64c.
FREIGHT/1.-Engagements were light, and rates favoured
shippers; 100 bales compressed cotton were engaged at
9 32d., and 200 boxes bacon at 2.51. Flour was at 2s. 3d.,
and grain in ship's bags was last taken at 6d. To London,
10,000 lbs. ginger were engaged at id., and 600 barrels tur-
pentine at 3e. 6d. To Glasgow, some flour was engaged on
private terms, and 60 tons bark at 371.64.

EARLY WiNveas.—l heard it mentioned, when in
St. Petersburg very lately, that they have never had so
early a commencement of winter u this lut year since the
French ware at Moscow. I find in accounts of the war that
the winter commenced then (1812) on November 7, N.B ,
with deep snow. Last year (1852) it commenced at St.
Petersburg en October 16, N.S., as noted in my diary, with
snow, which has remained on the ground ever since, accom-
panied at times with very severe frost. Query ; Can Nov. 7,
N. 8., be the correct date ? If it is, this last winter's com-
mencement must be unprecedented ; as I have always heard
it remarked that thu winter began unusually early the
year the French were at Moscow. I may mention as a note,
that by the last accounts from Ramie, they say the ice in
the Gulf of Finland was four and a half feet thick.-3. S. A.
—Netts and Queries.