The Express.
London, England, 1851-05-21 00:00:00

AMERICA.

The arrivals from America follow each other in
quick suecssion. Ytsterdny, at $ a.m., the American
mail steamer, Pacific, Captain Nye (Collins' line, as
it is often called). passed Holyhead, after accomplish-
ing the shortest voyage yet made from New York to
this port. She entered the river soon after I o'clock.
The Pacific left New York on the 10th inst. at noon,
and has brought the large number of 230 passengers
and 375,000 dollars, or over 1.3,000/. sterling, in
specie.
There is three days later news by this arrival than
that ree.ived by the Asia on Sunday, which vessel
the Pacific has beaten by about nine hours on the
homeward voyage. The news, however, is not im-
portant._ .

The Europa arrived out at New York on the
morning of the Bth, and was followed by the Her-
mann from Southampton on the 9th instant.
It is confidently stated that the Cuban expedition
is again abandon&l, and a large number of men who
had collected at Jacksonville, in Floidda, had dis-
persed, and were returning to their homes. Gon-
zales, who it will be remembered, was one of the
leaders in the first expedition, was reported by-
telegraph to have been arrested in Florida, which
may in ixtrt account for the expedition being given
up without even embarking.
The trial of Mr. Forrest for a violent assault upon
Mr. N. P. Willis commenced in the Superior Court
of the state of New York, nu the Bth inst., before
Chief Justice Oakley, and was proceiding at the
date of this departure. The assault was not denied,
but was justified by Mr. Forrest's counsel in conse-
quence ot• Mr. Willis's conduct towards Mr. Forrest's
wife, and in the unhappy differences that existed
between Mr. Forrest and his lady. It was expected
that the jury would return a verdict with small
damages.
'1 he intelligence of the disposition of South Caro-
lina to secede from the Union is attracting attention.
The accounts of the cotton crop which at this sea-
son are always very interesting, scent to be unfa-
vourable. A severe frost had prevailed throughout
Georgia in the first week in May, and great damage
to the young plants is reported to have ensued to
consequence.

Sinix. the sailing of the Asia. there had been two
more arrivals with gold dust from California, namely,
a steamer at New Orleans, with 75,000 dols ; North
America, at New York, tgso,oo dots.; total, (;;;-,,w0
dole. The San Francisco 114.r«hl thinks that the total
exports of gold from t'alit4nia for 1851 will not full
short of 70,000,000 dells. From the Klamath, Catavern,
Tolntone, Nlohelinine, American, Feather, Scott, and
Yuba diggings, the advices arc favourable, while the
quartz. rock yields mom than the usual abundance.
The Klamath black sand is reported to yield from
three to eight ounces per pailful. Private letters
fully confirm the satisfaction that is felt at the repeal
by the Calefornian legislature of the odious tax on
foreign miners—an impost that retarded the
progress and wealth of the new state seriously.
A very important expedition is talked of—namely,
a trading excursion to Japan, the object of which ia
to throw open the commerce of that rich empire of
forty millions of people to the world; and aline of
four steamers is projected to China from San Fran-
cisco. Two or three rich beds of coal have been
found in California; one within eight miles of Be-
nicia. Printing materials were described as being
such a drug in the market that they were to be had
at lower prices than in Philadelphia.
Our correspondent writes as follows

•
NEW YORK, May 10.
The Rappers arc likely to come into some disgrace.
One of the kox family has betrayed the secret, and it will
shortly be communicated to the public. A few days since
a young woman in Rhode Island gave her step-brother
arsenic, under the dictation of a spirit with which she had
communication—if we may believe her. Sint, her arrest
it is evident her whole mind is unhinged, and she has not
the slightest idea of what right or wrong.
A fanatical association, existing in Oneida County, in this
e.tate, has published a report of its progress for the last year.
It consists of one or two hundred men, mid about sixty
women. These are the indiscriminate associates of the men.
But two or three children have heen born in the association
for the last year. It claims ft large degree of prosperity, from
its culti cation of the soil, and its religious code is hosed entirely
on the new theory of the communication with the spirits
of the other world. It is avowed us a part of their belief
that the spirits nave advanced so far towards au intimacy
with the human race, that they arc beginning to have power
to form intimacies, in consequence of which marriage, ac-
cording to human and divine law, must now of necessity be
ahrogated ! You may imagine to what a pass things arc
coming among these new lights. Aud yet what I relate in
this letter is not generally known here. I would not have
believed what I write you if I had not seen the report in
question.
We have just heard from Charleston, South Carolina.
The convention has adjourned, after almost unanimously
resolving that secession was unavoidable. A few moderate
men present attempted in vain to control the action of the
hotheads. If any overt acts take place, individual arrests
are to be made.

The abolition journals now threaten the seceders with
the strong arm of the government. The friends of peace
call on the government to destroy Charleston by tire and
sword. They who advocate this course are those who de-
nounce capital punishment, deny the right of men to take
life, refuse to eat meat, and live on bran bread and milk.
The abolition convention sitting at Syracuse is equally
active in attempting to dissolve the union. Garrison and
Thompson are the leading spirits, and their denunciations
of our country, its press, its pulpit, and its laws are more
bitter than ever.
The President of the United States, attended by several
of his cabinet, will arrive here in a few days, to join in
the celebration of the opening of the New York and Erie
Railroad, connecting the waters of the Hudson river with
those of Lake Eric. It is the most imeartant structure of
its kind in the United States, and it will be the channel of
an immense traffic. Preparations are making to receive
the President with the highest honours.
Jenny Lind's two late concerts in this city have been
attended by greater crowds than ever. At an afternoon
concert yesterday eight thousand people were present. She
has grown a little thinner, but her voice is as powerful and
sweet as ever. She has a private residence of her own in
this city, and lives very retired.
We have heard this morning, from Control America, that

the English have evaesiated San Juan, and given up the
Mosquito territory to the Nicaraguans. The news does
not come in such a shape as to be miquestionable.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW VtfUK, MAT 9.
The London advice, received yesterday per Europa
caused on incresm d demand for Government Booth% with coupons
attested, and mien advance! to 112 to 12S. All descriptions of
United States Securities an in demos! : —Sian of '0 and 'tin bring
1171 to 11;1; do of '54, 109 to IC9I ; d 3. of '62, 113 to 1131; Fives of
1833, are belt! at 103 to 11:31. Railroad Bonds emtinne In demand for
Investment, and in oonontence of tho tarn hu-incsa now being trans-
acted on the Vliio.3l. ?vault, rates are q3lte !Pro. blew Tsrit State
Stocks esteems., and wanted—Mee per (vats. bring 106 for those Ce-
de. mob in 115., and '62. Ohio S:ocks have ogiv.diced; sales of hive
per cents bare teen made at 1954 to 10 : • CS of 135:1, at 1064 to 1:17 ;
in 1860,5 t ihB; to 109; in 1875, 1154; and tho eof 1870, ars wanted at
114 to 1144. Indiana etoeksare also in Mit:request- State 8e a 844 to
83; Canal pre., 1-43, Stan 2s's at ft; Pennsylvania fires, 9: to 93.
Esclange on Lampe has been well sustained. We qu 40 London
1104 to 1101 and 11,1. Paris, 310 to 3 041. Amatertdm 111 to 414.
Hamburg. 364 to 37. Bremen, 79i to 794. Spemo continues in le-
g:test for rbipannt, but as the hulk of the export. are now its Ameri-
can Evil, it is impossible to 140trtniti the amount shipped until the
ova,l hos mile,. so far we under•taral the nifiiiC Ira; 3 .0,1001 dole.
engage). There is nn important ehmee to nothe either to the sup-
ply or value of money. We had •upposed that the heavy shipments
of specie this week would have Goa lo:lowed by a diminution in the
supply and incremed ;rats of interest. The change, however, hos
been an slight, as to he hardly perrefitib'e, which mar be aces:Wel
for by the !Ante amount of ;odd renewed from California. P.iper of a
desirable character is not very plenty, and the rates foe that on tle
market le r.nt finite as low as quoted in our last. Money on call is
abundant at Our riantations.
Corrow.---(M receipt yesterday morning of the Eumpa'o advice of
the 26:h Wt., nom Liverpool, of id. dec.ine, the mariat imp ulPettled,
and but kw transactions were effected. This niorning some anxiety
111.10...,1,in to se 1. not by the prineip3l rem-leer:, hut by h litera of
small parcels, ..ad Pate, meet' re.orted on 'Change of Ltem bales, at
very irrecullr pri cw, raffg.ng from le. to jc. decline. At tho chew. of
the day such morel. wore rarer and in demand. Anlooll the vales
reported were strict mid:Ling N. Comm.n at Inc ; small Moto of mid-
ling N. Urteans at 10e. • god a! !ding fnic ; low mut ding
Florida ord. and good old. Apal .chicohi at 91c.; std
by ship worn 100, from the wharf .it le. We unit further quon-
Roos until the ma ket is estableS.ed.

_ ..... _
The fotaiwing letters so, from protli men of the highest respect-
ability, :aid may be implkitly relied upon :
"Celurn'ain, Ur.wgi e, May 3.- 1 band you eaelosed a letter, in
which, io my opaucii, a true condition of the crop in given. Ynu may
rely en .111iit the armen thus far Ls much muie b eel: ward than it was
fitly., hot year or the year I,:feere.
" Yeitenlay WlHning we had • fret In this neighbourhood. which
killed cotton and yoiatoss. Mr I..rtner, who is 'Panting nine acres
bee, here, ha. jont esteemed from kho plantation, ro.tl report+ to.it a
held of eetton of Any +ad. ;jinn on the Cr.. k, was killed by
frost. lie tirenalit to;. some of the cotton tilapi • to chow. IClikh
I Raw wire hided. Wheth.r much cotton I.a. been killed by
the frost of yesterday or not, • front In May show, the
bsekwardnoss of the sewn. No fr it 1.31 b.en reen In
this latitude in Mty since b 2. I understand that to. usgen went
through yesterday from Memphis, repou,ng foot thereon yesterilly.
Temlay there ;as hotly demand Jro talon at for ;mood cuized ;on
Tnunslcy b In s 4 Ira. the top of the market."
"MAC .n, Nay I, 'Sat.-Th. re lone doebt that or crop of cotton
an I corn I. mucti 4t. r than tor year. pod; the c 414 tiok. yellow
and sickly, aad generally sm.l-1. I hue seen some few flial• of
eotton which have remieed Vier first working, but to majority of the
gelds sr. nit yct up, and many of them. 110terIthatAndinit It ib near
the Ist UI hare to he plough,. el up and ylintul over; the
heave rain, and cold r nest 41 the *Veil in the craned.
Semi few lI4Js, wh eh were planted very early, bias.' a
pftur lair ellOrl, but the plait he .11rtn .ling. leant. the lower road,
but underit.dad that many or the Talbot planters w• re ploughing mi.
I Jed saw Col. M'alkid, of l'aluk.; he nay. that hp lug serer been SO
lisekwu4 a iwasan. To,. appear. Ink the universal opinion. From
my Dan kretglolse of plientine, Ido not hesitate to that, if the
I crop had a 1 hear up the t 3111 Ay r.l, and :Min been cut down by • (not.
that a recond p'..ultr•c of the en•ire crop, from the 211th to the 2.5 th
Aprtl, would procul, mole than present ropenninctis indiesto. Lee k
out, gni y wit! hear uf • great it. al tat Onion Moil:lad up and re-
ideatel after th:. date, which 0n0... that • frost the 211th opril Ic
nee to bo, dre-elol than heavy rain. and cold weather from tha. time
to lb- ;at
. .

Bair trittert,..—lhe market had hero quiet. mai prima were with-
out ch mar. The Boot room. were al lohows :—Wcatern C 4111.11 ti ,nr,
per ha rri. 4 dot.. tte. ko 4 dila. !re., Meade. Germ, whew,. 'KT
&0.., 1 tiuk 12r. to I de. 14e. Indian eons, round y...to*, per t
tiee. to Wc. Caro nu al, per barrel, 3 dole. to 3 dud.,

YuormtuNs.—Deumn : I ir •114 price. 11 OIL
ERSVAIT. remitted a:umewith..ut change. The rate were —e)tton
to Lteetru.l, g 3-1,r1.; sour, tier basal, Is. 31. to :s. t.

COLONIAL.
AUSTItAI,IA.

IMPORTANT FROM VAN DIEMEN'S LAND.
Br a recent arrival from Hobart Town we learn
that an important meeting had taken plata. at Port
Philip of the various delegates appointed by the
public meetings held at the several Australian colo-
nies for the purpose of adopting measures to prevent
the further introduction of convict labour into those
settlements. At the above meeting of delegates it
was unanimously resolved that resolutions be drawn
up by which the colonists pledge themselves to em-
ploy no convict labour after the present time, nor to
hold any maim tttt ication or have dealings with any
who shall employ such labour. It WILY also resolved
that a sum of 20.000/. be raised by public subscrip-
tion to carry out the object of the meeting. Belpre
separating the delegates drew up an appeal to the
people or England, calling upon them to co-operate
with them in their anti-convict agitation.