The Express.
London, England, 1856-04-14 00:00:00

THE UNITED STATES.

On Thursday, Much 2, in the United States
District Court at New York, Mr. McKeon, the United
States District Attorney, addressed the court as
follows :

About a year luck, and toms time subsequently, o ,m-
-plaints wen made against persons for enlistog troops to
this district for the service of the British governmeat, sad,
it being an (Nem of gnat solicitude to preserve the neutral-
ity of the United (hates with nations with which wears at
peace, these complaints were sent before the grandly',
indictments were found, and us of the parties wee tried sad
'deviated, sad is now suffering the censequesee of hie Grime
by imprisonment. After that conviction I addressed a litter
to the Attamsey Gezira of t►e Uaited Steels, to which I
received the following reply :

_
" Attamey-Ointeral's-Alce, Oct. 20, 1866.
" hat, the honour to ackeowledg• the »caption
of your two-commanitotteas of the 16th and 17th instant, in
which you Wee. me of the conviition of Joseph Wagner,
aimed of tb• eau, of being engaged unlawfully in »-
mut -Wne Moot • within ihe United States for the service of
Gnat Britain, and requating iestrustiors u to other in.
dietawate of the same clue still ',meting in your district.
Tbsee proseentiou were instituted primarily fir the pu-
pilage arresting the tosatinued pertetratioa of acts drir,ga-
treym the sovereignty and pablie bumf, and oontraty to
the neutral policy, of the United Susie*. The punishment
of wine in thew, u ia all other ewes of intrinaerneot of
11101810 providwas, of whatever nature, was en object
ello, but in thus particular emus • secondary one ;
dee the individual ssisdesaseaor of the parties
impli-
Wed, whelk. r they be citmeas or foreigners, and whether
prewar or racial persona, is bet • minor incident of the
Itsidnuldindlinity and wreog »dieted on this government
,4 do helleasetritromeet in whom behalf end for whore
boindlifillirpneenms to violate »shwa of the United States.
hA ibmirea.fot tad what bee thee tar been dome by you,
elitjteNefawer solenerta gently, Indio» to vindicia. public
peals whin year diarist, you will mike such dirp ethos
Sh A prahiiiteretiwa seems boot of the remaiolog complaista
y pose= who do not hold an official relation to
ristmriebliewroomeat As to guilty perroos of the latter
deecrpt eon, whether yet nadir prorecutio• or not, their
refalual seta stead on a affluent ground, and additional in-
Unotietten gaoling thiw will be forwarded to you is due
eine. Sash person are not only indictable, M common
with all others who violate the law of the laud, but they
ere also 'kitten of the lateraati?oal kw, sad subject to

spatial eastadoratieo by dm Maud States, unless diosirowod
wed paaistiod by tag, own goyeromeot.--I haw the baeear
to be_your obedient meant, " C. Cyconto.
Hoe. Jelin McKee,. United &stem District
Attorsey, New York."

Mr. Mel Lean said, after reading the letter.
I bus delayed mad Dow to net ion these segge.tioes;
but it is ao longer a question between the resentment and
the Individuals who wets indived, but hoe beams a matter
between the 'Gymnasia& of the United States and that of
Cheat Britain, and upon which I trust Vie verdict of the
civilised world will ►e to homer of this noioa. I cow alb
permission of the coon to enter a *one prompt upon the
iedictmect, which I stall baud to the clerk, and is ahteh I
do met fueled. say palm holding as attend relative to the
British govenneeat
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The court gave the permission asked for.
The steamship Illinois ball arrived from Aspin-
wall, with the setni.mouthly Californian mails, and
shoat one million and a qsartev in treasure. The
Indians were eontinsing their depredations in the
northern section of the state. On Rogue river about
300 of them had made an attack upon the settlers
sad some United States soldiers, who defended them.

selves as best they could ; but after fighting nearly
whole day they were overpowered, and an indiscri-
minate slaughter of men, women, and children took
place. Rumours of a new filibustering expedition,
to be directed against the Isthmus of Tehuantepec,
were afloat in San Francisco. liuriug the fortnight
an active business has been done in staple articles,
but money continues tight, which caused some consi-
derable running about among the merchants on
steamer day.
The news from Nicaragua is of a highly interest-
ing character. Costa Rica had declared war. General
Walker, io reply, had issued a proclamation stating
that the democratic party of Nicaragua had invited
him to espouse their cause, and that he had endea-
voured to carry out the principles of the revolution of
1864; that the legitimist party had resisted all
efforts at conciliation, and there was no resource but
war. General Walker, with 600 men, had crossed
the lake to Virgin Bay. The government of Costa
Rica had issued an address calling on the people of
Central America to destroy the North American in.
eiders. The New ork Daily Times considers
Walker's position to be one of much peril, from
which, however, he will probably recover himself.