The Express.
London, England, 1851-04-21 00:00:00

AMERICA

NEW YORK, Aram 5.
The Franklin leaves to-day. for Havre, rii South-
ampton, with a very good freight and passenger list,
and a large amount of specie. Exchange on France
is so much against us that specie must go forward.
Francs payable ut sight on Paris, or tett days' sight.
cost here 20 cents per franc. On the contrary, sight
drafts on New York at Paris will not, at our last at-

counts, produce more than 4 francs 90 mtitime,,.
Each way, therefore, exclumgF is against us; and it
is likely to be so, till we can import into France one
own products at lower rates than we do at present.
We long to see some tendency in that country ta
reciprocity, if not free trade. We notice V.,
efforts recently made in the French Asseml
to introduce some modifications into the tali.:
but, while French statesmen theorise admit ••

ably upon general topics, they are practica
the most impracticable of legislators. The ann.
ances of the French ports. such an the useless tech.. •
ratifies, the constant presence of the police, the ;•.
ful exactions on every side, are so great as to disgna
all Ametican merchants engaged in 'business with
France. But the growing taste Mr luxury in this
country induces the shippers to overlook all such
difficulties. NVe must have French patent leather
boots (even the waiters at the hotels import them),
we must have French packet latudarrehiefs, with our

initials in the comer, embroidered in Paris ; we must
have silks, velvets, jewellery, bronzes, hats and bon-
nets, opera ties, music boxes, m.gor cases, snuff-boxes,
and bijouterie. We cannot live without them, and
so we must continue to trade with France on its own

terms, and there is no use of saying a word about it.
You may find in this city immense establishments
devoted to the sale of French articles, and all pros-
perous. The French isiotmaker, hatter, barber, mil-
liner, or mantua-maker, having the least taste, may
be sure of finding profitable employment in this city.
Another slave has Ikea arrested in Boston. Ile
was found in a dance-house, enjoying the largest
liberty. His capture was effecteel without much
noise, though not without much difficulty. 1k suc-
ceeded in stubbing one of the officers who arrested
h" , but was overpowered and ltx•ked up. The next
day Boston was in a ferment. The abolitionists were
aroused, inflammatory hand-bills were issued, and
the blacks assembled in large numbers, as if to
rescue him. Ile was, however, securely lodged and
efficiently guarded. The news from Boston this
morning is, that a public meeting was held on the
common yesterday, at which the most inflammatory
app.•als were made by unitarian clergymen to the
',tropic. They were cilled on to resist to the death.
`lath• suppose there will be a fight before the affair
is over. All the uniform companies are ordered to be
under arms. I have all along told you that the
union was in no danger from this question of slavery.
Mr. Webster, our secretary, has recently made three
speeches at Annapolis and Staiiimburgh, til which he
asserts the same thing. I now confess I begin to

change my views. South Carolina, that is to say
her leading politicians and editors, are determined
on secession. There is no longer any doubt of this.
Clubs are forming inp•very part of that state for the
purpose of resistance ; the timid portion of the
wealthy arc removing into neighbouring states.
I think I never saw such a disturbance in the Ame-
rican mind as at the present moment. I have not for
sonic time alluded to the Itappists and the Media, by
which we now have constant communication with

the spirits of the other world. The privilege of
holding converse with the departed is no longer con-
fined to the Fox fmnily. They have made so much
money that others are entering into the business, and
now there are actually thousands engaged in com-
municating with the dead. As the circle of commu-
nication widens, the menus are multiplied ; WC have
now besides rappings, the ringing of bells under a
table, involuntary movements ut• the arms, mute
alphabets, and writings on paper thrown under
tables on the floors. Such journals as the
Tribune actually uphold these follies, and
lend all their influence to their propagation. There
is a newspaper published at Auburn, in this
state, which is boldly represented by its proprietors
to be edited by the apostles themselves; and nothing,
say they, is inserted contrary to their wishes. While
the imposture has, as yet, not been satishictorily ex-
posed, certain it is that the revelations of the opinions
of Fenelon, Luther, Dr. Franklin. and Washington
have not been of any value, or very characteristic.
Nor have the new epistles or, the apostles in the
Auburn piper been marked by their former pith, or
logic, or leaning. All these things would have
been laughed out of existence here long ago, but
political views and ea;culations have prevailed over
• honesty.
We have late intelligence from Tehuantepec by-
the way of Ntr,v Orleans, assuring us, on the autho-
rity of the American engineers now surveying the
route, that they have positively discovered a gorge
in the mountains between the two rivers, through
which a railway may be made without difficulty.
Our government has made an arrangement with
that of Canada, by which letters may now pass the
frontiers either way without prepayment. I will