The Express.
London, England, 1849-06-26 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 26, 1849,

named Scb,tte, repaired to Copenhagen with an l
earnest petition to the ministers that they would
conclude a peace. He represented that if the war was
prolonged the milk cows of Jutland would have to be
4-riven to the shambles. 'the Minister at War coolly
replied, " Well, then them will be an opportunity to
introduce an improved bread into Jutland."

COLONIAL

able for the navigation of the Pacific, that Law's line
will be active in about a month between this port
and Chagree, and that the owners of the Cr:ecent
City have another fine steamer nearly ready as a c..n-
sort, is but one of many, shoeing the conviction in the
public mind that California is to be one of the vgalar
objects of American regard, and one of the certain
marts where gold is to be obtained for everything we
may send there, whether it be goods or men. I was
very much sueiwised to-day while sitting in my of-
fice, attending to some business in connexion with Ca- ,
Worn* for I to am an " Arcadian," t 3 receive
the visit of a very handsome woman, of figure rather
stout, than Medicean, who came to inquire whither
she had not better take the Isthmus route to Cali-
ferias than make the voyage round the Horn. She
teas an unmerited female of ai•Crilt tbir years; and
the owner of two large millinery estabitsnmenis in
the city. A month ago, she had no idea whatever
of giving up her business here, but now she had de-
termined to do so. She informed me she had a good
constitution, raid had enjoyed uninterrupted health;
that lie had a brother already at the mines, and she
was now going out to seek her fortune, and to use her
small capital to the best advantage, by keeping what
is called here, a "furnishit g store for gentlemen.
We have at this port an arrival from St. Domingo,
with dices to the 29th of May. The President
had made a miserable failure in his attempt to subju-
gate the Spanish part of the island : but though he
lust all his cannon, and his men were very nearly
starved to death, he claimed a victory. While I am
writing this, however, a brig has arrived from St.
Domingo in 12 days, and the intelligence she brings
is rather more intelligible than we have had pren-
ou-ly. It is now reported that the president's expe-
dition was a mere cover to ad. sign on his part to be-
tray his countrymen. On his retreat he was followed
Co elmily that the city was in danger of being sur-
prised, and it was only saved by the exertions of
the former president, Santa Anna, who rallied a corps
of 40U men, and drove the enemy back to their own
territory. he president deserted his post, and his
generals had beefs similarly treacherous. After the
engagement, Santa Anna was refused admission into
the city, in consequence of which t ere was a general
rieing in his favour, and his forces, amounting to
8,900 mew, and his besieging batteries to 20 pieces,
lie commenced active operations against it. In the
meantime the ex-President began a s.ries of the most
oppressive measures against those within the town.
A large number of people took refuge with the cm-
Buts ; but the American consul, with 80 persons who
claimed hie protection, was sought to be arrested.
Ones again the British flag protected ours. Shame
on tee department at Waetriqgton which has its cus-
tody. The captain of an English man-of-war inter-
fered, and extended the [eels of the Meteor banner
ov.r our eitizaLs. I have alluded to the generosity of
y .ur naval service on similar occasions before, and I
now add another ins'ance of its prompt effieirecy.
We have to-day dates from Curacua to the 27th of
May. The news thence from Venezuela is gloomy for
those whom it may concern. Eighteen months of
op,iresslon and misrule have made the p.-ople almost
desperate. They look to l'aez alone for their rescue.)
A United States vessel, the Germantown, has made
her appearance at l'orto Cab:ll3, and her presence
has been opportune. Tilers is to be a new trial in
the case of the steamer Scourge, which is something
gained for us; and the brig. Mount Vernon, which
I.nd be en illegally seized, is to be restored to the
captain with 12,000 do's, damage. The ?llama ratio
is toe oily argument with these piratical govern-
ments.

One of the most curious pieces of information I
have to give you, is an apparently well authenticated
rumnur that the Emperor of Russia has renewed the
charter of the Imperial Trading Company on the
north-west coast of America and the countries ad-
jecent, and that one of the considerations of the
grant is the engagement of the company to establish
a line of steamer', tlwards the construction of which

the Emperor advances four millions of rubles. I
did not know until now, that your government
has occupied, since 1847, a post at Quelp *A's
island as a military and naval station, nor that the
ae.ivity cf our own whalers had been so great on the
coasts of Japan.
One of our whalers, the Back Superior, visited
&Airing's Straits about ten months ago, and her cap-
tain reports that he went north as tn. as 70 deg., and
BMW whales wherever he went. He saw no ice, the
wrathcr was pleasant, and his crew wore nothing but
light cluthing. The whales were quite tame and
resembled the Greenland, the Polar, and the Arch,
varieties. Fars were cheap and abundant on th
Arctic ecast. The c eptain saw at one time forty large
canoes crossing from the Asiatic to the American
side. In one instance he suspected that a hostile
attack was meditated on his ships, but a favourable
breeze enable him to get out of harm's way.
P.S. —Half-past 11, a.m.—Our latest intelligene.
from Washington to-day is to the effect that Mr.
Lawrence has accepted the mission to London, and
that Mr. Davis, a young gentleman from Massa-
chusetts, will be the new secretary of legation. This
movement of the administration has no !elation to our
foreign policy. That cannot be changed withaw
special legislation, and of that there is li,tle
pr -
bability while the senate bears its present political
character.