The Express.
London, England, 1859-05-24 00:00:00

THE UNITED STATES.

LIVERPOOL, MONDAY.
The ltoyal Mail ebamship Africa, Captain Ander-
son, which sailed from New York on the 11th
arrived here shortly after noon to-day, bringing 174
passenger* and 1,648,975 dots. in specie.
The steamer Anglo-Saxon, hence, arrived at Que-
bec, and the Adelaide, from G4lway, at St. John*
Newfoundland, un the 9th inst., and the Kangaroo
and Persia. hence, reached New York on the morn-

leg of the 11th.
Except es a ref/ex of the warlike news from this
side tilers is little intelligence of importance by this
arrival.

The Neer York lleralei of the llth says :
The Eurota as sews created a great excitement in Wall-
greet and other Laciness Wrests yesterday. The stint ea
the baskere and foreign bill dealer*, ea well as as the peo-
nes in estimate, was eeeidedly masked. Frame advanced to
ant were dttldsit to Le bat freely at that. Beakers
,bowed as enerilliagacre to draw on Loodun without a mate-
riel ism ass in rats., and especially foe sight Lilts. It was
supposed that the Africa would take out a heavy amount of
spece, which would have been taaterially augmented bad
be.. bees &rowed for its et port/lent.
L'aderwritere have sot as yet, we believe, proposed to issue
war policies, being impala d ,r,Lably to wait toe later and
went decided admeea from abroad. Merchants, however,
MI NMI hedtation in amain/ ehiymenta direct to Trieste,
for Isar ef their evilest Ly an embargo, CYIII if free from
articles aoatrabasd of war. .

The cotton market yesterday continued in a dull state, or
-t of .uepeoded animation, ad mail h little hope of any arri-
val or atoeuneet moil the dets.Ls of the f• reign new., pith
the priv.te advicos dim t..)-d.y by the retitle, can be received.
Only one or two hundred beim of cJit n were sold to spin-
ner,. . .

Through• ut the wee', ea we letm by triedvaph, the war
cr.ated treat activity In the produce mtrleu, with

•cAmotorsbly adv.sce Is plic;N.

A Washingtoo telegram says :
Oar gi atrawosl has mut drepatclow to oar rninis.er fa
CIA a ith retereses t lb^ difticaltise vt9iib tecestly occurred
these. They are understood to be very deci.fe I. Tbi,
ft,eraturrA does ant claim that a consul's bones in • place of
',i11.., ft to Ltir.at othmkrii, ' without. aptrsving
4,ther the viaduct of Conant Trevlit, they at the star
tios tileirr that his customer may be restored.
Another despatch from the NTO authority says :
Lord Lt• b. had a protracted intorviirre he Si ric•ary
r f State on the 9th, la brard tr Ni orago re affair,. The
smeadaiele mole to the Noumea% tresiy by the government

tf that cocotte, to wit, that the Uoited 'Btites I. execute
Ito r niintrality lowa, Is the mum attic% whictt rtit
Ouwley hes admitted Into his woody ; sod the British
object ea On, goverment di re, to soy such pro.
coueich nag it • very wolirtiU d stipulation to bo in-
toted is • ncsty—thst • goventadtt eh told bin I. iarif
es. • 400 lie Las.

The State and War Departments at Wa+hiegtou
had made up their instructions for the officials in
f fah in regard to the mew difficulty which has arisen
there. General Johnston is instructed to hereafter
await the orders of the Governor before calling out
the troop* to act as a posse consitalus to savist the
civil ►uthorities la enforcing the law..
A fire at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, had destroyed
ao less than ten steamers. The loss is estimated at
IZ:shin dollars.
The !tack River Woollen Mills, at Watertown,
New York, had also been destroyed by fire, involving
a lON of 40.000 dollars.
By the arrival of the overland mail at St. Louis,
tad the steam-ship Coatzeocelcos, of the Tehuantepec
Ilne, at New (hires., we have news from Sea Fret
cum to the 20At ultimo, and later advice* from
Orem and the Frame River gold region+. The
steamer which left San ?receive° on the 211th had on
board 1,700000 dole. in treasure. Tres accounts
from the mime were favourable, ani horsiness wan
improving. The Californian Legislature:had passed
the bill forming the six lower enuntie• of th, State
into a new territory, to be called Ca.orada, and sent
it to the Governor for approval. 10(1,000 dole. in
gold had reached San Francisca from Victoria.
The

news from the Upper Fravr was slid to be
encouraging, bat the lower mutt) was nearly
deserted.