The Express.
London, England, 1847-04-24 00:00:00

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llossournet Mon co OXWealellt,Tu.?, To. U 1114,:r.
rin now teireeltaily le mart tbal Ile amla MMus farce le lel
et Atm Item. On time MY the polder width they have ee
ea mai* ent we le melee. ibe mew. be
MOMS chaseattarli,66em bobs= with Oen
Santa Alm far as
wear by which we shall
revile all, Or warty all, et ben be difiereat dame,
beeldwitballew tale. In the sedan Me Ike. Our ereestletor writ
as them of the Wye... while ban ban bile egg Wok have been
ram& le We Ow, end em oesheet emettelehle. Oar lee le the
rime hatleme. es terse stiertelvell. emereate ee Xi Wed, 4*
imeepak tad is_ pies* oft esi•st Kaiteciy escalry la
lief itoet. fies bac. yet
74.01.41* Dice •Is et the anobiesol eere k=iti
weeehel, Mew alms of Or Wird owl& —I ace, cir,
17.111=7CircW/elviallelLtja"Arl
D. C.

altal.er UM" AimTer Occersrent Aor• Neves, March I,
11147.--tier.--1 ham tho hone he Meet that the troop. of my emu-
red emmpied bolt aeloboll we at Olia Am as the tith ot Feb..
the kat ei the Idnitetel row Wig oho man*. at the& day, In the
dleollin of It Lb. It la nonnolnoll bet the army I. . to tall m-
andolin In • vary dincoptiont eaullate. the iniet deenrUno, and
dying et stareadon. Is grog neetieei. I
it • oinonood this
es Ihr es lAmseveMea. he Metes lale mar. end Ewa whatever
amplias Erg 1 • Ina Owe. Promo the obesount d.l eels
Me particularly at tett medical MA loft to swoon the
=amnia no doubt that their lase In theareeat motion Is
y estimated at 1,100, and may mall I.ool‘ men.
killed sad wounded: Wades to• or three tlecommi dmerters.
limy MIMI of mak were kit. I enclose • Not ill the
moo tarn killed me weseikd, made sa eamplett se '-
,able otitis bow Ono neibinot(tbeeloseky canary) is not tams ltd,
Its ram Nothelne tnerbsteL Tho =may bad fully reckoned upon
one total rad. nal 101 nob Ottionsmota to inentept oar retrest,
onl eat og ea Inv, elabwing be diet inirpo.._ ...la of eo”dr7,
not only innont to NZ Mt. tut ran brii7W Monterey. I :egret
to remelt ent they sneareded nem I. =Maeda la donvoriert
• Inds of wappllok mil nuniter al the snort
end lionubsy. Cot. Meebsinsail Ohio newt, on lb meek from
Onnileeill Ideeeare ,or leant. Vy the Molar sundry, with
widelehe hid mimenete. Met Loa- I b dleproa d them with small
lomat lelt=rt. Copt. Gamboa, A. Q. IL, volunteer ter. he, was
In owe edible main. I hem no doubt that the
roll= Oa min army it Bum Inst. will secure our lee of cam-
nienlentin leore timber L. hot I sun ;novae to a few cap
lo mango or boaditnehion **Mooney, wilh a view to make one li
=o:nts all NW laaTrdairt thst
the ry rate.el
.Lhe att.;
hoar at
intlifewdy
I.
of dedindleig a pin= in bled hokUllo, where • &feat has tbrswia
the may be book lob . No result so devotee could
hem bon illiftal tit leery. and our COMMUniCatiOns
imiibssollemesestady la .-1 ra, sir, very respectfully,
yam slikedhelt Weak Z. TAM" MsjorsGea. It. li. Army, tom-
- - The AdjutiozwOem. albs an. 7 Weriklairtoo, D.C.

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Oemeral Taylor's resolution to Al hick upon Mon-
trey climes a acnee of his insecure position. The
New York Herald shoves that this was not without
cause, by the following narrative of the adventures of
the bearer of these despatches:—
Mr. Crittenden left General Taylor, with his army, at Ague Num
on the Tod of March, and Bought the ilespatchce along the usual route
from Monterey to Camara°, under the moo of about 25t1 tench" edna.
Wangled by Major Cedillas., having along with them • train of mote
1,0 empty waggons. As they approached (*male% a small
party was wont In to provide forage, te., when the
Cooly, under Urn's, were discovered, about 1,500 stomp.
Our troops were loarnedlately placed on the tlefrmive, and remind
the awault of the superior numbers with the resolution of men
etrentned to cut their way through. They were repulsed with a
Wm of &hoot thirty men, while we lost about half the numbrr. A
part M our baggage train was destroyed (4) or 50 of the rages;,
when th• gallant Urren made his retreat to the direetines of the Tula
pass. The tea/Mien Were Uneraling to proceed without • stronger
marl, and Mr. Crittenden was detaMed five or O. days at Cereal.,
when Coker' Curtis art teed from Quasar, with a large OAF of troops.
U. was too late to overtake Ceres, who had probably commenord ids
retreat es mom as he beard of Banta Anna'. discomfiture. lblonel
Curtis proceeded to Monterey, an/ the escort std train mote on to
benrgo, tbe enemy lamas ged as rapidly as partible, and this may
e last Mat we shall her of tbsos on this side of full and Sall
Lula for tome time.

OPENING OF THE MEXICAN PORTS Its THE UNITED
STATES GOVERNIIENT.—It is now publicly announced
that the Secretary of the 'Treasury has been engaged
since the adjournment of Congrese preparing, with
the aid cf Pennsylvanian and New York financiers, •
tariff of duties to be collected in the ports of Mexico.
These duties are to be collected by the officers of the
army and navy in those ports, and disbursed by them
under the direction of the president. Mr. Polk thus
explains the object of this measure, in a letter to the
Secretary of the Treasury, dated March 23 :
It lsthe right of the conqueror to levy contributions upon the
elearrif, in their tampons, their towns, or provinces which tiny be in
his military posserion by conque,t, and to apply province.,
came to defray
the expeneca of the war. The conqueror pcmeesve the right rim to
establish a temporary matte. y government over such wet-torts towns,
pronnece, and to pircribe the corentione and restrictions 1.111011
which commerce with ouch places may be pertained. to the exercise
of thew wiqueationmlrlirbtauf war I have, on full conakkratioo, deter-
mined to order that all the port or place; in Mexico which now are,
or hereafter may be, in the actual pirate...don of oar land and travel
forces by emptiest, shall be opened, while our military oeup.
non may continue, to the commerce of all neutral nations as
well no our corn, is snide. not contrathad of war, upon the payment
of prescribed rates of duties, which will be made thriven and enforced
by our military
.snd naval commander,. You are, therefore, in-
structed to examine the whiting Mexican tariff of duties, and report
to me a rcbcdflk of articles of trade, to be admitted at such ports or
Meeew as may at any time be in nor military poeeession, with
midi rams of duties on them, and oho on tonnage, as will be
likely to prodoce the greaten *mount of revenue. You
will also oommunkate the consideratkos which may recommend the
sale deistic& which you may prepare, and will submit such regula-
tions as you may deem advisable, In order to enforce thee cliection.
' As the hey of the ecatribotion proposed is s military right, derived
from the lawsof nations, the collecuon and disbursement of the duet%
will be made under the orders of the Secretary of War and the
tary of the Navy, by the military and naval commanders at the poets
or places in Mexico which may be in poss,ssioa of our ones. The
report required 10, therefore. necessiuy in order to enable use to give
the proper threctime to the War and Navy departments.

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The essential parts of the secretary's reply are
subjoined :
It tharesible to adopt M a bin a the tariff • f Mexico, becalm the
dries see extravagantly fork, di noting importation, commerce. end
ringer, and producing innumerable recur and ennuntling. There
are alma sixty articles, the imp- station ot which into Mexico is pitiedy
prohibited by their tariff, Norse rag mad of the nt creme., of life,
' and far the greater portion of our products and fabrics. Among the
sixty prohibited are purr, rim, roma, hoots, and hetboats, coder,
cur of all kinds, Lather of moat kinds, flour, cottou yarn and the
romp of all kinds, common earthenware, lard, 0141Limep, tim-
ber of all kind,, rides of all kinds, erne ww:len cloth,
clothe for crooks, ready-made clothing of ell kinds, wilt,
tobacco of aU lends, eottoa goo Is or textures, chiefly
such as are mrde by ourselves pork, fetch or oohed, notol.tol cr
owned, woollen or cotton blankets or runterpanes, shoes ono I slipper.,
wheat and grain Wall kinds. Such is a list of but a port of the articles
whose tm ortation is prohibited by the Mexican tariff. These prohi-
bition. should not be permitted to continue, lammine they etches
meet of our products and fabrics, and prevent the collection of re.
venue. We turn nom the prohibitions to the actual dune. Imp ond
by Mexico. The duties or. speeille throughout, and simian mane-
silly by weight, irrespective of value, are generally protective or
exorbitant, and without any doeriminaion for revenue. The
duties propoied to be substituted are moderate when compar,
with thane lammed by Mexico, being generally reduced to
a standard more than one-half below the Mexican duties.
The dries are also boned ups a dieriuditation throughout,
for revenue, and, keeping in view the custom. and hooka of
the people of Melee, m different from our own. are fixed m each
ease at that rate, which, it to believed, will produce la the Mexican
ports the largest amount of revenue. In order to realm from this
tinter the lareet amount of revenue, It would be neentery that
our army and-navy should setae every important port and place
npon the Gulf of Mexko, or California, or the Pacific, and open the
way through the interior for the free transit of imp Tta and expos ta,
and cepeciany that the interior passage through the Mexican isthmus
Would be reared from ocean to mar for the ben, tit of our com-
merce, end that of al! the world. This measure, whilst it would
greatly increase our revenue from these duties, and facilitate corn-
111110iC.11i011 been en our fumes upon the eastern and western coast c.
Mexico, would probably Icad, at the condivion of a peace, to teethe
of reticular. impot ante to our own commerce and to that of all
the world. In the meantime, the MAW= goverowet 010003107
In wreak from which a consitkrable revenue le [mired by Mexico,
together with the culture there which yields that revenue, should be
abolished, so so to diminish the resource. of that government and
augment our own, by collecting the duty upon all Mc imported to.
harm The Mexican interim teen-it duties should air be -.l:olmlied,
and tboir inwrnal government dote on coin soil bullion. Ihe prohi-
bition Wexporta and duties upon exports should be route, and
especial!, the by export duty on coin and bullion, so as to cheapen
and thentide the purchase of Imports, and permit the perilous
meter unman to Bow out freely from Mexico into general
desolation. Quicksilver and reachthery tic working the mines •
of preeloin metals, in Mexico, for the dame names should
also W admitted duty free: wYea, with the nieworm shove Ineli-
err, would Imply Wraps the prearilse end alrenlation of the
prosier metal% beim* Wee lm eintherre sledimeesny, and that
of ali weerni powers. A biome defy ad al mem% whether our
one, sr et amine powers, of se Weer per hp, while Is rattly les
them Ihrimbr Mexico, is meommenaW Is Ike' of all port
duties mad spsseast to thew reselirthme me table. of the
rates it len wany lemi by kW, se ales a table of cur-
mew by mennee, in whist a mane& el mane la required to be at-
tached Waft Invoice. There Is elm mused stable of foreign weights
maiwarwe 'Wooed to the etnedied of the United Mates, together
arms, to. facilitate the Memesellea of brine. Uhl recom-
mends& rig the duties herein eneweree shall be collected atcloeively
In ..Aver coin. Thew dude. roady be collected as a mili-
tary twellention, through the avow of our brave officers of
the anew and wry, who will, no Week cheerfully and faithfully
media ad beep MOM monks, end weemat for them, not to the
tearery, bet Is the emeserehe of mar sr d the nary invectively. It
resammemeed that this aloe he perimmell by the ammendant
of the pod, whether rod as Zni by rd, pye.arer ad,
purser, or eilbedes. thentleWithlelf being meineeeslincd by
the other madame wen weennee mein Ile ma
ss a• la
now the use with the wileetor or emir anialt Beer weird p
cipal pert% which hae lenehteed co mush weer and occomicy into
OH' 051011. It IA p
eat that, ae la lame ewes the attention of
the thenahaent of the peat Weld be weemery for the performance
of other Mena be be permitted to outdebate
of other officer,
making known the fact le the erceetazies of met or of the miry, and
subject to their direction.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
New Tons, Aram 3. —F.ramaxon—There has been nothing dose
in fOrrin Pure our last ; the ramble mica of sterling were at 41 per
oent. premium, with 3 prenenilly asked. Bills on London, 40 Eby.'
s girt, pound sterling, 41 to 5 per cent. premium ; on Paris, S 18: to
5,45 ; on Amsterdam, 381 c. to 38/:. ; on Antwerp, 361 e. to 334 c.; on
Hamburg, wart bunco, 34 s. to tc. ;on Bremen, ris dollar, 771 r.
• to 771 e.
Our ros.--Shippers have not yet entered the market, It consequently
remain. quirt, but as bottlers aro offering very wittily, prices are
fully supported. The sales see 2,730 bales, Orals :
Upland and Floe. Mobile sad N. 0.
2.100 bales. 650 braes.
Ordinary to good ordinary lO2l to ... 101 to II
14 Wdling to good middling lO to 111 ... II to If
Middling fair to fair .
Fully GM to imod fair . 1 to 13 ... 11 to 14
Making a total for the week of 5,3.50 bales.
The arrivals this week ban been : From Pars, 14 Mks ; Florida,
592; South Carotins, H 3; North Carolina, 78. Total, 1,127 boles.
Export, from March I to Merck tr, 11.00 laden
Export from the United Stars: —Slue tut September I, 663,461
babe: WOO tine UM year, 820,733; ems time the yew. before,
1,131.907.
Donasnc Geom. —Esport, from Marsh 1 to March 30—cotton
gods, 1,001 packages
Flora AND Mr...4—Tbe sank of Western flour in chi market hoe-
ing become nearly estranged, prices Mee pendently re'vaneed, with
rule. of 1,000 to 3,000 Obi► daily, at 7 dole. Me. to 7 rails. 50e. for
Genoese, and 7 dub. 13Ie. to 7 dots. 374 c. for Michigan, clraing
yesterday at the higher rates, lobo waists none ran now
probably be obtained ; and about 1,000 'ebb. lodiana and
Ohio, rie Now Orleans, brought 6 dollars 871 mots. to
7 dollars; and 500 Brooldpi, 7 dollars '25 eenta. To arrive
there is u goal doomed, and, as the quantity offering 41KIVIIMA. prices'
tend upwards ; the (Wooing winpriise the bulk of the ora;.•., say
12,50 borrels in June, .; dots. tog dole. 12 ; 13,000 N Slav, :; dub.
2.1 e. to 6 dots. 30c.; 300 (Troy), May I, 7 dub. to 8 ilol.. ; 40,00 u on
the opening of the river, 7 dol 11te. to dole. 3140. ; 1,0 0 on opening I
o • canal, r; dole. 37 lc.; and 5,000 through from Micht run and Ohio,
6 oleic to G dole. 374 e. southern is leas plentiful, and priers hare In.. '
peened 12 • the trineactions include about 10,000 barrels of Wild-
more, Vr;%leiteksbuirg, Philadelphia, Georgetown, and Itratulyaire, at
6 rails. 50., to ti dot*. 62 c. Corn weal I. in fair request, aid we
notice further rates of 5,0 d !sorrels of Jersey at 4 dob. 73c. to 4 dub.
PI lc. : and 1,500, to arrive in May, at 4 dole. 25e. to 4 dole. 50c. e
!tee flour is liticrive at 4 dolt. 621 c. cash. Esparto from let
March Wheat dour, 77,619 barrels.

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