The Express.
London, England, 1856-11-17 00:00:00

ELECTION OF MR. BUCHANAN.

The important question, the election of President
of the United States, which hr. for some months
put absorbed the attention of the whole of the
American continent, and been looked forward to
with great anxiety by the whole of Europe, was
decided on the 6th inatent, by the election of Mr.
Buchanan.

The latest papers brought by the Arabia are from
New York of the 4tb, and from Boston of the 6th
instant. They are completely filled with details of
the voting for the presidential election ; bat. up to
the moment of the A•abia's leaving Boston, no
definite result had been arrived at. A brief despatch
by telegraph to Halifax enables us, however, to an-
pounce, on the authority of the returns obtained from
all parts of the country by the associated press of
New York, that Mr. Buchanan is elected President
of the United State*.

The votes of the state, of Pennsylvania, Virginia,
Delaware, and New Jersey, were for Buchanan.
Maryland and Kentucky went for Mr. Fillmore.
The other states had still to be heard from.

The six states of New Rogland—namely, Maine,
Vermont, Maasachseetts, New Hampshire, Celine*.
that, and Rhode Island—all gave majorities for Fre-
mont. The three first gamed gave very large, and
the three last decisive, majorities. Massachusetts
alone gave him I majority of 66,000 over his oppo-
neat,.

In New York State, the contest lay between Fre-
mont and Buchanan, and when the steamer sailed
the remit wre doubtful. Mr. Fillmore polled but a
small vote in this state, of which he is a native.

There is a good deal of simulation us to the for-
mation of Mr. Buchanan's cabinet. General Thomas
I. Rusk, of Teiss, is spoken of by those supposed
to be in the confidence of Mr. Buchanan us certain
I. be his postmaster-general. All the cabinet
officers are now in Washington. The last
official despatches received from England make no
mention of a new minister to the American govern-
ment, and an impression prevails at Washington
that none will b sent until the inauguration of the
new President.

The Hon. Charles Sumner reached Boston on the
3rd inst. He was received by an immense throng of
people, and the streets were tastefully decorated.
Mr. Sumner has declined the banquet tendered him
at Boston, on account of continued ill health, but
announces his intention to bs present to vote for
Fremont.

Among the arrivals at New York were thirty-mix
soldiery who had served in the Crimea is the British
army. They landed in uniform, end with their knit
ucks on their backs. They were reerived at the
Garden by Mr. Webb, of the British consulate, who
would conduct them to Canada, when they are to
receive their grants of bounty lanes. Dr. G. Philiple,
Victor Vimont, and Pierre A. Jourdan, French poli-
tical refugees, were also landed on the same day.
A duel was fought on Saturday morning, a few
miles below Richmond, Va., between Roger A. Pryor,
editor of the Richmond .Enquirer, and Dr. Finney,
State senator from Accomao county. Dr. Finney we-,
badly wounded in the right hip. The account of a
discussion at Accomse between the Doctor and Mr.
Curtis, published in the Enquirer, was the cause of
the duel.

LATER 3Y TILUONAPH, Vii HALIFAX.

NEW YORK, THURSDAY EVENING, THE 6TH.—
Buchanan is President. Later intelligenoe from
Europe, received par Canada, at Halifax, was pub.
Relied here this morning. Breadstuff, of all descrq
Lions are lower; flour 10 to 15, wheat 3, and corn 3
cants. Money market easy. Quotations of cotton
are unchanged, but the tone of the market is rather
firmer; middling Orleans called 12,t0.
NEW ORLEANS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, THE STH.
I—Sales to day 10,500 bales; quotations unchanged.

(11T MAI
MODE 0011

LIVERPOOL, MoNDAy.

This morning the Liverpool and Philadelphia
Steam Ship Company's screw steamer City'
of Baltimore, Captain R. Leitch, arrived
in the Mersey. She left Philadelphia on Octo-
ber 30, and has brought 180 passengers and 60,000
dollars in specie on freight. This vessel was ex.
rated on Thursday last, but owing to an accident on
the 2nd instant (having broken the blade of the pro.
pelkr) was detained.

Orf VLICTRIC TILIOLLPII4
("RON OCR OWN 001111SIONDI) T.)

SOUTHAMPTON, Morinea, ONE O'CLOCI P M.

The United States mail steamer Hermann has jut
arrived here on her way to Bremen. She brings the
mails that were sent from New York on the let
instant. Her news has been anticipated by the
Arabia.

The understood terms offered by government to
the projectors* of the Atlantic Telegraph are (.ays the Li-
timpani Albion) the nee of her Majesty's vessel. and a gua-
rantee of four per rant., on audition that governors%
messages pus fn.. When the lio.s begin to ray, govern-
sent laterfermes and privileges will cum.

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THE HOLY PLACEL—Accoonte from Jerusalem, of
the 12th, show that the old jealousies of the Latin and Greek
cthereseions flourish with unabated vigour *roiled the sites
which Christian traditions have consecrated. The leit.cs
continued to regard with suspicion the projects of encrosch-
meet of thaGreeks, and the protection given them by Rus-
sia. It was supposed that the latter power would some re
sums the designs en the holy plasm which the war bed
obliged bee to suspend. The Greeks, however, had made
certain coocetsions to the Latins with respect to the celehra-
lien of divine service at the holy places. In differeot farts
of Palestine a number of female!, who had seeatet d from
the Roman catholic church, had rejoined it. The Pees of
J lee, Ki•mil Path., was kind to strangers, and wee
mach Shod by the If ursalegans. Ks had made a present of
• Christian crudes le mother-of reerl, gad some relict of
the holy places, to the lady superior of the sitters of St. Jc-
eepP, who was attest to leave Jerusalem. By his interval-
' title, the Isar Carona of pilgrims bed been allowed a second
time to visit the two mewls.. of Omar and BI Abs., which
stand oe the site of the Temple of Solomon, end the priests
who scones, anted them had been allowed to celebrate mess
in the church crested on the spot on which the Sieber held
his last mire..
POST-0/111C1 REGULATION.—The postmaster of
Liverpool her revived the order which esisted to all letter-
e-tinier., not to deliver say le tars or newspapers to persons
In the streets seder say pretence, and not even to the vir-
ile* addressed, incept at the hones.—Lfverpool Chronicle.

ITALY.

STATES OF THE CHURCH.

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THE BRIGANDS' RANSOM.

ROME, Nov. 8.
I must commence my letter by assuring your
readers that however strong a tinge of the marvellous
they may discover in the following narrative, it is
theless in strict accordance with truth, and haa
formed for the last few days the principal toillo of
conversation in Rome, where the principal actor, or,
to speak more correctly, sufferer, in the occurrence I
am about to relate, has just arrived, and his had
ample opportunity of relating his adventures with all
possible detail.
It appears that, in spit* of the exertions of the
local authorities to extirpate the bands of robbers
who have so long exercised their flagitious trade in
the neighbourhood of Velletri, and notwithstanding
the numbers of malefactors who have been recently
arrested, there are more still at liberty, for, disgusted
with their last two or three profitless attacks upon
the public conveyances between Rome and Naples,
they have now reverted to the old plan of kidnap-
ping wealthy individuals, and making them pay
heavy ransoms in order to avoid the sum-
mary penalty of death. Signor Arrioghi a
rich mereanie di campagna, or landholder, of Vele
letri, was proceeding last week to visit one of his
farming establishments in the ill-omened direction of
Campo Morto, a locality long famous for the nefari.
one exploits of banditti, when his carriage was
stopped about three miles distant from Velletri by
eight brigands, who conducted him to a cave not far
from the road, and ordered him, if he valued his life,
to pay the strictest obedience to their commands.
Signor Arrioghi, a man between fifty and sixty years
of age, and unarmed, feeling himself totally unable
to contend with the unanswerable arguments of eight
blunderbusses, professed his willingness to follow
his captors' directions, and had a sheet of paper
placed before him whereon to write a letter
from the brigands' dictation. Ile soon stopped short,
however, when he found that he was required to
write an order upon his steward for fifteen thousand
scudi (3,16014, and, assuring the brigands that it
would be impossible for him to get together such a
sum, he offered to send for all he had in his house,
amounting to about &thousand scudi. This props&
tion was indignantly rejected by the banditti, who
asked whether he intended so mean a sum as a Mari.
table offering; but after a good deal of chaffering
they consented to abate their original demand so far
as to accept of 6,000 'midi, provided it was forth-
coming within six hours, and all in gold. The letter
was written accordingly, and addressed to Signer
Mammucheri, a rich friend of Arringhi's, and himself
a victim of the Velletri plunderers, as I have already
informed you in a previous communication, to the
tune of 12,000 midi, of which he has lately,
and most miraculously, recovered 3,000. Signor
Arringhes coachman, who had also been detained to
serve am messenger, was charged with the delivery
of the missive, and warned that the slightest elides.
your on his part to roue the police, or to bring aid
to his master in any other form than that of money,
would have the effect of causing his immediate death;
and to ensure his observance of these instructions four
of the brigands accompanied him within eight of
Velletri, whilst the other four remained in charge of
their primmer. Signor Arrioghi requested his
coachman to make all possible speed, and to return
on horseback, with the money in a pair of saddle•
bags, as being
.• more expeditious mode of conveyance
than the carriage. Whilst waiting for his return,
the poor signor began to feel very taint in his sub-
terrauean hole, and begged for a little air, which the
brigands allowed him to enjoy in a short promenade
with them, having taken the previous precaution of
adorning him with one of their own cloaks and slouched
hats, to prevent his being recognised from a distance.
To while away the six hours, these worthy indivi-
dual,, warned of other arrivals by the whistling of
their scouts, effected a second capture in the person
of a young man, the son of another mercante di cam.
pagna, whom they met riding out with his farm over.
seer, and for whose ransom they were content to ask
only a thousand scudi. Meanwhile the coachman
arrived at Velletri, and very much startled Signor
Mammueberi by the nature of the letter he brought
him, and the critical situation of his friend Arringhi.
No time was lost in getting together the required
amount of gold, but in a country town such sums are
not always available on the spur of the moment, and
five hzure had passed before the servant could get
the cash safely into his saddle-bags. A fresh
disaster very nearly put In untimely end
to his mission and his life, and that of his
master also, for his horse, urged suddenly into rapid
action, became unruly, and threw him violently to
the ground, where, however, he still retained hold of
the bridle, and after having been dragged some die.
thaw succeeded in regaining his seat and morning
his journey, narrowly watched by the brigands
videttes, who had remained in the neighbourhood of
the town gate to see if he came out unattended. It
wanted but half an hour of the time agreed on, and
the brigands who remained in custody of Arringhi
had already begun to discuss the advisability of
cutting their prisoner,' throats and decamping into
the forest, when the messenger was descried return-
ing towards the cave—a welcome sight for all par-
ties. The money was counted out end found correct,
Signor Arrioghi was restored to upper day, and the
brigands were so overjoyed at the successful result
of their enterprise, and so unwilling to risk any
farther delay, that they turned the lad adritt also,
without waiting for the thousand 'wadi which they
had sent the overseer to demand as his ransom.

Jost before his encounter with the brigands, Signor
Arringbi's attention bad been attracted by a peasant
lying on the roadside, and shaking as if in an mess
of malaria fever, and whilst telling his coachman to
inquire if the man was ill, he heard the summons to
stand from seven men in front, who were directly
joined by the pretended invalid. From the men's
accent and dialect they appeared to be from the
kingdom of Naples, and this supposition would be
corroborated by their style of dries and sandals.
With regard to their features, they were so horribly
disguised by red and black stripes, that it would be
difficult for their victim to recognise them, even were
they arrested, which they will ere now have tendered
impossible by recrossing the frontier with their booty.
They were evidently well aware of Signor Arringhi's
identity and wealth, as they told him his name and
surname when he said that he had no means of pay-
ing the ransom, and desired him to put bsck into his
pocket the money be had about him, with which he
at first hoped to appease their avidity.
I hear that Signor Arringhi, having collected here
in Rome the money he required to repay his friend
Mammacheri for the 'sum he had advanced for hie
ransom, has just set out again for Velietri, providing.
however, against the possibility of a second coup de
main, now that he has so ample a ransom about him,
by paying for a strong escort.

THE Loss OF THE STEAMER TAY—OFFICIAL
RzroKT.—T►e report of Mr. Treill, the magistrate ap-
pointed to inquire into the lots of the steamer Tay, was
presented to the Board of Trade on &turd.y mornieg. He
attributes the toes of the ship to the catraortheary currant
which retarded her pr agrees 'fief lsavirg Vera Cruz, and
not to any wroogful act or &feu% cf Captain &run. The
eandugt of the ceptain s and sub., quentiy to the time Si
the wreck, was marked by judgment, skill, and self-poem
sion. The report, however, speaks in terms of strong die
apprJval of the practice on board the Tay of not using the
Ftg. Captain R.berteon, Witt , the nautical asseuor, con
lours in the opinion ezpreamd by Mr. Trail!.

STEAM SHIP ONEIDA.—By the 8r,,z1 steamer
Avon advice her ►een received of the arrival at St. Vin-
cent's of tie Bur )peen and Australian ltoyal Mtn Cos-
pail's steam ship Oaeide at that island en route tO
Ain't...lie, in Moe days six hours from Southampton, in
exceedingly favourable passage, end one under steam alone.

THE AMERICAN MAILS.—LIVERFOOL, SATURDAY.
—The British and North American Itoyal Mail steam-shlp
Persia, Captain C. ti B Judkins, rail ,d at noon to-day
from the Mersey for New York, with the n•nsl moils for
the United States and British paseseions in North America,
196 passengers, and a lull esrao of merchandise°. herein.
WRECK OF A ',RIO. ANDS:7II,36ED Loss of LIFF..
—The Fuchsia, Captain Brown, from Cronstadt, arrived is
in the riesr Thames, reports having observed a la ten brig
on the 10th Nov. at Sam , the Sunk Light vessel bearing
S S.E. 4or 3 mile*, and shortly afterwards heard a cry of
- Brig ahoy ! beck your maiuy'd, pick us up ;" the maw-
yard was backed immediately, but in the meantime the bet
fell over to port, and sank in 10 or 11 fatliras.