The Express.
London, England, 1859-09-12 00:00:00

THE UNITED STATES.

LIVERPOOL, BIINDAY,
The Roysl Mail steamship Asia, Captain Lott,
which sailed from New York on the 3let ultimo, hu
arrived, bringing 62 passengers, and 102,460 dole.
in specie.
The following steamers had reached New York :
The Etna, via Boston, on the 28th; the City of
Washington, 29th, from Liverpool; the Ariel from
Southampton, on 30th. The steamer Indian arrived
at Quebec on the 29th, henoe.

7H ALLEOZD ROPIPDANCIYG dr ZiL404.11.4.
BLOADIN A MITE.

The Warn York Tunes of the 30th ult, contains
the following ommounication relative to cartels extraordin-
ary =MUM which have been widely circulated in the Bag-
Itsh yams. and have formed the substance of MOWS " leader."
In the Batereley Review and other joursols
"Niagara, Friday, Mtg. 28,1859.
11 I have no objection eves to a yta^tint joke while it le
kept within the bounds of demcy, nor do I feel ft my duty
to make myself a knight-errant for the purpose of pricking
41 the babbles which crafty speculators may think it worth
their while to blow, or exploding all the hoaxes by which
some sooty character may try to tarn his poor litho penny.
It is of very little use to save a fool from Ms folly, and what
people like to believe I suppose they will believe
In spite of reason and evidence alike. Meteover,
as a citizen of Niagara, I ptraume that I shall,
la one way or another, be • gather one of these days
by the sudden hides of money Into our tows, which his
followed the spleadid success of the great Blondla humbug.
Nevertheless, the dangle really getting to be ro excemlvely and
extraveguttly absurd, that I can't any longer refrain from
aw.king the truth about it. When it moms to asserting
that Meal% cooks his dinner on a tight rope and feeds the
era on the Maid of the Mist with omelettes, droptul
rkseTans from the thy, I metre 'spark out in meeting;
end it, what none of the ten thommd imported Ilia of
our wonderful story can be expected M deference to bummer
frailty to be the fret to make known—that for aught I
know there is no such pereon in the world, or at letrt in
Niagara, se Mr. Bloudin et all ; that be beg never crossed
the Fells on a tight-rope, or a slack-rope, or on any
rope at all but the sedgy of • very loargthow ; sad
that se the people of Niagara, Roolaster, end the warfare'
railways of New Yorkhave alreadymade perhaps quite
money enough out of their jest's prosperity,' it to time that
the thing should be ant a stop to before foolish people else-
where stay be led Into endow danger by attempting to rival
bitll that have never bent performed. Since the immortal
1 Moon hoax' then has begs nothing so successful I suppose
in the way of a mat quiz as the rope-walking invention of
a bright Niagara bar-keeper, with its echoes from
Rochester sad other places along our line of country.
As I ham not bees away from home during the whole
summer I think I am a tolerably credible witness;
end I tenet,
_therefore, assure you that the whole of
this wookefed series of stories bee grown up out of •
bee mails by • pereon well known in this town that he
could bring more people to Niagara in two weeks than the
Fans had ova brought here in ss matey menthe. How the
rope-danclog dodge eegurred to biro I don't profess to know,
bat he selected Blondin as the name of hie hero, became
there was • /Houdin once in this coustry with the Revels, a
' very good rope-dancer, now retired sad living somewhere in
the country d Savoy, who could not of comae hear of the
, story in time to contradict it. Anything funnier or mote
foolish than the feces of the crowd/ which have eucceeded
' each other down about the Falls on each successive day
announced for the feats' you never saw, and the heeds
have rasped • golden harvest. But you will observe that
sot • atingle individual has ventured in any of the lettere
from Niagara to eay that he saw Blondin do any. of these
Oar local e dilute sod (AMA, c.oarse, eajoylog the
• jtkietive joined in It, and a very good joke at has been ow-
, &duly; but it seems to me it ougla to be regarded tow se
, played oat. TIN good people at our town have had their
, fun out of you, you mast admit, end has mode • snug
thing of it too in a pecuniery way. But a joke, RA I raid
before, is a j Ike, and tree its bounds. " B. E. P."

NAVAL AND MILI7ARY.

CHATHAM, BErr..lo.

Orders were ti.is morning received foi the follow-
ing troops to proceed from this garrison to Gravesend, to em-
bark on heard the chartered ship Alignie, for Calcutts—vis„
3 camas and 71 men of the 20th Ileniment, 2 °Seers and 78
twee of the 43rd Ltght Infantry, 1 tilloer and 116 men of the
77th Regiment, together with •2 Meer. and 89 man of the
let Whalen sth Fe •tliera ; total, 8 officers and 954 men.

WOOLWICH, Szpr.ll,

LAUNCH ON THE GALATEA.—Every sr rangement
has bean made (or the launch of the Galatea, screw e.meite,
of 26 glow. at this yard on Wednesday next. The launch
will take place at two o'clock, and the public will be admitted
to the yard without restriction. A large ally-gun frigate, to
bd named the Bristol, is Gestated to be lard down on the clip
after the launch of the Galatea.

DEVONPORT, SEPT. 11.
TuE CILIIf if EL FLEET.—The Channel squtdrott,
wader the command of Sir C. H. Fremantle, contiatieg el
the Royal Albeit, 121 pros ; Hero, 91; Nile, 90; Cagier, 90;
Aboukir, 90; James Watt, 91; Algiers, 91; Agamemnon,
91; Mersey, 40; Emerald, 61; 11.1pteeme, 60; Tornio
di; and the despatch newel Flying Fish, 6—passed Coma
the Channel Lot evening from Torbay. Whoa off Plymouth
Sound they blew off sham end made sail.
VISIT or THE LORDS OF THE AEMIRALTT.—Sir Esider,a
Walker, the Sonveyor of the Navy; Mr. C. Richards, the
Comptroller of Victualling; and Colonel Green, the Sur-
viler of Worke--arrived here yerrterdsy from Louden by
railway. The Lords of the Admiralty rm expected to arrive
to-day by swam :om Portenouth. Tte ball, under the
patronage of the Lords of the Admiralty, ea behtlf of the
Royal British Orphan Asylum, is tilaa fur Wedneaday next.
Tan DEFENDER or IHE COUNTE.Y.—The members 01
the Commission for .tqr'nng lute tie dafivicre of lb,• coun-
try, attended by the Secretary, the Hoe. Cspta'n Jerroiee,
strived in Plymouth on Friday, to 'civet the dt fine :5
and proposed wake in this naighbourboof.
Stops in Harbour—lmpregnable, Roy al Adelaide, Wel-
Pngton, Cambridge, Diadem, Piet err. Hydra, Violet, Red-
w"tg, Lark, Ave., Sylph, Vivid. awe Sheila (Tart).
la the flottad-13011*, Virago, sad Median

The 3rd battalion of Grenadier Guards are under
orders to proceed from the metropolis to Dublin on B.torday,
the lat of October, to relieve tho 2nd battalion of the Bmds
Fusilier Guards. who return to London.
ACCIDENT TO THE PEASIL.—LIVEHEOOL, SUNDAY.
—by a letter received yesterday per ship Ban Nevis. ft app
tea, a that tho Persia's port engine broke down on 'Monday
' night, the 6th hut., about ten o'clock, the crank
it,
break-
lag short off a
. After vainly attempting to repair , they bore
up, intending to make for Queetutoeu, where the Ban Heti.
left her (9 cm. on the 7th). The weather was moderating,
end they were again trying to irpair the damage so mat they
might ill) able to proceed on their voyage. Mesas. D. and
C. Mao leer, the owner., este that the Perrie had teo spare
crank pins on board, and they sums. that aka hen pro-
ceeded.
Mt:I161( ON BOARD SHIP.— A telegram an-
nounces the rival, at Fahuoutb, os &totality, ham Lemdoe
of the ship Thomas Bird), Captalo Barrett. fur the DI mritius,
and that the crew went in a state of mutiny.
THE ADMINALTY.—Their lordships Sr. expected
at Pembroke and next Monday or Tru'ay, on 'heir mud
annual visa of inspection. The enlargemautof that e.tablish.
rot will occupy a prominent poaki a in their lurelehips'
TH.rtgANP AT COLCUESTER.—The entire strength
of the reinfarcernente which left the camp at Colchester on
Wednesday, Tburelny, Faday, and Manotae—sot on Tues•
day, es Ant expected—way 11 ofilorrs, 3 eervents, 6 drum-
mers, and 606 rank sod gle.