The Express.
London, England, 1848-08-03 00:00:00

UNITED STATES —MEXICa

We yesterday announced the arrival of the cee.
donia, Captain Leitch, at Live rpool. She bring;
23,0001. in specie on freight. Her dates am, Nee
York, 19th ; Halifax, 21st July.
The session of congress of the United States is fn
without any prospect of wijourument. The rem
difficulty which row arrests ail progress is the prom
disposition to be made of the newly acquired ten',
tories of New Mexico and California, nor is the:mi.
tory of Oregon ex4mpt irom the same difficulty. The
question of slavery is the stumbiicg block. The skirt
holding states insist that territory acquired by the
common treasure and effort must be for the commit
use and enjoyment, and that to exclude from
such portion of that territory as may be fug
favourable to slave-grown prorincis the employinest
of slaves is, virtually, to adud( re from tf e citi.
sots of the slave-holding states. On the other beak
is contended that it would be a great crime in a fro
republic to plant slavery where it Lad no Fee.
vious existence, and, therefore, that inasmuch as the
new territories acquired from Mexico an: tree from
slavery, it can never ba burn!: that titisnepubiic,inbe.
coming masters of these territories, ai.auld iutrodsee
slavery. The toleration of slavery at all is considered
as an exceptional provision in the constitutioo of
the United States, and it is strenuomiy insisted that
the exception shall not become the rule. A cres.
has been attempted in the arit

promise attempteo , senate,
what success remains to be seen. Two props
sitions are before that body. Tue one to
adopt the line of the Missouri compromie,
which would gnaraatee all the territory north of
36.20 to free lom, and surrender all south of it to
slavery. But, inasmuch as a portion of the newly.
acquired territory is south (1 this fine, that popes.
tion would absolutely plant slavery whore it now hag
no existence, and therefore be objectionable. Another
proposition is to make all north of the Missouri con.
promise free, and to leave all south of it open to the
i decision of its future inhacizants whether or not
slavery shall exist there. This at least would exempt
the federal government of the republic from act*
establishing slavery on free soil, even if the WI&
bitants thereof shall themselves hereafter introduce it
Until this knotty and difficult question is disposed d
none of the bills for the government of the new tern.
tory will be passed ; and as it is now late in the set
lion. and congress have been together seven months
and a half, it seems quite probable the whole mans
will go over to another congress, leaving the tend►
ries to be governed meanwhile under the meal
power of the executive and such laws as actually
exist therein.
After the executive cession at Washington, on the
18th, and before the adjournment, Mr. Clayton, of
Delaware, from the select committee, reported a hill
Ito establish a territorial gOVf rnmeat in Oregon, New
Mexico, and California, which was read twice. The
' bill leaves out the slavery question altogether. Mr.
Clayton said that the committee adopted the bill with
great unanimity, only two mombers disienting.
In commercial matters there is little change to
note. Business of all sorts continued dull. The
weather was fine. The harvests were mostly secured
in good order and abundance. The growing Indian
corn looked well ; and although some rumours of re
appearance of the potato rot were just circuiatitig,the

general appearance of that plant eves good, sod
its early produe's have been uncommonly mend
and tine.
From Mexico the latest inteili3ence is to the 27th
of June. It was stated by last acecuas that Panda
had thrown himself with a strong force into the tows
of Guanajuato. This movement seems to be regarded
on all hands as a serious one. The following details
are given in the New Orleans papers :
On the 15th of June Paredes entered the city of Gans
juato, at the head of about 400 m.,n, and made himself mse
ter of the military stores in the city. The garrisoa, atut
show of restatence, joined him. Bustamenta and Mhos,
who se, re sent ogainu P evict, nt c to le sctiq is
concert with him. The State Congress of Guanajuato as
immediately diskolved, the lawful governor displaced, ad
the country is alarmed at the prospect of the success of
the
revolutionists, though the press at the capital puts the beli
face pouible upon the subject, and affects to treat the revolu-
tion as little formidable. fhe designs of Paredes are belierel
to be shadowed forth in the foil ming pla ~ although kir
name is not attached to it. Jarauts promulgated it apnea.
tering Lagos, and he is cmaidered the "right-hand ma" ti
the ex-President.
" Mexicans !—The work whicS Iniquity en.d treason com-
menced in 1845, ha just been consummated. More the
half of the territory of t republic has been sold to the
enemy for a sum beneath emitempt. The remainder of out
territory is occupied by the same North American Kato;
converted into a body-guard for the traitor Pena, to seeeot
a crime more atrocious than ages have revealed. Meziesa:
will you endure peaceably and unmoved this eliqrsor
We—though few in numbers, yet molved to pettish te
maintaining interests so dear—we invite you in pummel
of our example to take up arms against this traitorous!"
vernment, and fling forth the banner of insurrection. Stem
Mexico, and other nations, appealed to it to sustain theiru•
dependence, and they succeece.i. We now do the won
proclaiming the following artiales :-1. The present men
wilt is diso ned, hatin4 cominitted treason to the natio.
2. The stall in consequence will resume their sovereigatf•
3. They will take meesuria to replace the government cwt•
thrown. 4. The governors of the states will designaw the
person or persons to command the forces within each stiltt
5. The forces of the permanent army which adhere to the
plan, shall obey, conformably to rule, the senior chief or
' who seconds it.—Signed by JAMAS:Ik, 08114

the crowned heads who hai

Amongst we been in- ... ..oientir in tne ei.e...—_ geniral
cited to attend the grand festival which will take Evenc
place in this city on the 12th of August next, in order the president of the chamber, Josi Cabral, found NE.OHare, and others.—Ligos, June 1., 1148."
to celebrate the anniversary a the laying of ttiimeelf involved in the fray, and only returned to It will be recollected that Minon attempted to silritattee.
froh m chamberi
h back." ithThiheis
the foundation-stone of the cathedral, are the fol- of this disgrace ismaltouttn`na almostfeebe descry lion !iaernatatak"co a'
obnudtenletii, an"a!lntelliges nunt'nfobere7gabeeriagwrites as
disgraceful affair, but one of the many scenes that from the city of pMexico, on the 20th, that 400 of Minohl
lowing : The Emperor of Russia, Queen Victoria, have degraded the deliberations of this miserable assembly, troops went over to the insurgents with their arras and big'
the Kings of }lawyer, Holl'tnd, and of the Belgians, In the end the mediation of friends prevailed, mutual gage, and that the rest fled with the purpose of incorporstig
and the Grand Duke of Baden. The Vicar of the apologies were given and accepted, and the worthy deputies themselves with the insurgent Indians of Sierra (lord''
Em has expressed his intention to be present. ruaotnu,rnaneg
toto wt haetecil,somveb:trhtoc
stability i
'inohr3.,nbnus.terioef.t:hieronna... advancetwelmeris
d tooldlyatuw4ionf fa:mvecnntil:iglatreawotus Qd`caserate Icicles
AUSTRIA.—We have dates from Vienna to the As may well be supposed, the spectators in the gallery, if not the Indians and the whites, in orier to give difficult,' to tit
27th. The nobblhoff ministry are rapidly removing edified, were at all events amused. government, and documentary proof is adduced to sustain
serf
all obnoxious employes, including Salm, of Trieste, In the Chamber of Peers the ministry have sustained a the accusation. The government is pursuing 4.,
defeat upon the question of the transfer of judges. The energetic course against the opposition press m ...„'`
and Welfershein of Laibach. If the cabinet continue measure was made a cabinet question. Upon a division the city of Mexico. Oa the 20th, four editors kid ~,_.,ne''
in the course on which it has now entered it will give numbers were equal, being 76 for, and the same arrested, and warrants were out against several OW.'
the death-blow to the burrancratis of the Austrian
number against. The discussion was then reopened, this who had secreted themselves. It was retorted is Mexico is
empire. The Count Von Brand* the governor of
being the form of proceeding prescribed by the charter under the 29th, that the insurgents had mitered the city of Qae
Tyrol and Vorarlberg, has also received notice to quit similar circumstances. The second division presented the taro and pillaged the faubourea of that town. weio,,
same result. Ministers, it was naturally expected would at A letter from Mexico, of June 22, says : The rev
The
on a retiring pension. his imperial Majesty has sub- once resign, but no ouch thing, and there they remain. fomented by the Puro party makes rapid pregeem• . it.
witted with tolerably good grace to the deposition of The government have at last declared open war against departments of the north have taken the initiative Is
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the count, one of his especial favourites. Archduke the entire of the opposition press ;in fact they seem deter. The present governmet .is in terrible ansicte. The two 't
Stephen has arrived from Hungary, and the Ban 0f;,),,,
ccies,
mined to suspend the guarantees of the press altogether. three thousand men whom it can commw,d are 1'
Croatia has arrived in Vienna. The departure of huTstaenl Queen and court r;as.en.robaurt Cintreta.w
itllliler Majilty's toepultadown thtuoalotizued.ailThe raytoltuhticoloibieseiny colt',
po:
Archduke John to Frankfurt has been postponed there a few days since, being thrown from his horse ; falllnntg Amen w :folio*: morel: rapidlyy ever,aChtiasi although we U• not
until the Hungaro-Croatian question is settled. The on his face, he was slightly disfigured, but no injury of conse- yet aura what may be the purpose of Paredes. tin" hal!st
I return of the Emperor is again delayed—this time on quence resulted. not developed any plan of his own, but onl tollo!ed
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account of the illness of the Empress. It is surmised By a vessel recently arrived from the Azores we have ac- proclaimed by Jarauta. All the fictions wi!l ullftn2EZ
that this illness is the same complaint which has counts of disturbances at the little island of St. George. The him to attain these ends: namely, to drive Herrera usrf
republic,
people had proclaimed a but tranquillity had been presidency ; to refuse to execute the treaty of
hitherto prevented her imperial, royal, and apostolicpesos
re-established. Some reluctamehaving of late been exhibited mew the war upon the fronti..r. ...ii 1,1
'Tour* from returning to his Austrian capital. by eltireascompellaltoservs in the Lisben volunteer batalliena The following is front the palatal* im."