The Express.
London, England, 1856-09-15 00:00:00

From Peru there is no important intelligence.

ATTEMPT TO DESTROY A THEATIE.-LIVERPOOL,
SATURDAY —At the Royal drop At!metre last night, daring'
the performasee of the lest setof " Like sad Unlike," a
very strong smell of gas was perceived oa the muse, and is
a few missies all the foot lights wens out. A gas min on
the premises immediately pretheded to martian the cause
of this unexpected occurnnce, sad underneath the rugs he
discovered Jobs Bell, a carpenter occasionally employed
about the theatre, is the act of removing a portioq of the
ogle-inch gas pipe which supplies the slugs lights. A raw
was 10110 e at his fest, evidently the ibetrument used is
tholes the pipe through. Tie gal was instantly turned off
at the meter, or the melt would herd been dreadful, ices
much as the pipe in (pestles was only 18 inches below the
star, and threw out a body of gai which would cause •
flame di feet high. Had it sot been the timely dis-
covered, the dry sup would have been leased, in fltheop,
or the allays below would have became 'barged with gas,
rendering an explosion inevitable. What the courquences of
meth a disaster at the Limo (as the house was crowded, the
performasee befog for the bemet of Madame Celeste)
would have been, it is piling to imagine. Ball was brought
up before Mr. Mansfield at the prime-south to-day, sad
committed to the assizes for trial. H. bad applied the NM
evening for employment at the theatre, bat as he appeased
into:Mated he was refused.

THE UNITED STATES.
LIVERPOOL, Brunar.
THE APPROPRIATION BILL PASSED.
The British and North American royal mail steam.
ship Africa, Capt. Shannon, arrived in the Mersey at 8
a.m. from New York, with 80 passengers and 680,949
dollars in specie. She left New York at 9.56 am. on
the 3rd inst. On the sth she paused the ship Horne,
bound west; on the 7th the ship Phoenician, bound
eut ; and on the 11th the ship Voltigenr, bound
west.

Neither the Ericsson nor the Persia had arrived
ant.

The news by the Africa is three days later than
that brought by the Baltic, but id not of much im-
portance.
The Army Appropriation Bill, stripped of the re-
strictive clause, passed both houses of Congress on the
30th, was signed by the President, and the eztraor•
dimity session ended. The manner in which this
result was accomplished is detailed u follows in the
New York Herald:

Immediately after the session opened, on the 30th, Mr.
Campbell, of Ohio, asked the unanimous consent of the
house to report from the committee of ways and means •
bill for the support of the army, which being given, Mr.
Campbell reported the old bill with only the first clause of
the proviso, prohibiting the use of the army in enforcing
the terra :riot laws of K . This bill was maid by the
hones, the democrats declining to v.te, and went to the
Senate, where the proviso was stricken out by a vote of 25
to 7. As amended it wee returned to the house, and the
question was upon agreeing to the Senate's amendment.
The greatest excitement prevailed during the call, and
when the result wan aanounced a general congratulation
prevailed over the whole house, the republican', if possible.
showing the greatest joy, and many rushing frem the capi-
tol to prepare for leaving by the evening train. While the
vote was being taken in the haute on the final
pastime of the bill, the nuaters left their seats
and came over in a body to the house. The repab•
Scans could, if they bad °home, have tinted the bill.
Messrs. Welsh, of Connecticut; Millward, of Pennsylvania;
Miller, of New York, with Speaker Banks, would have de-
feated it; but they evideutly were anxious it should pan•
After the passage of the Army Bill the bases refused to con-
sider any other helices', and at once fixed the hour for their
final adjournment—half-past three o'clock.

The Senate resolutions 'Bowleg Proteetor Bache, Lieut.
Maury, and Dr. Kane sod his men to accept of certain pre-
sents front foreign governments were passed durtog the day,
and at the appointed hour the extrs and extraordinary ses-
sion of Congress ceased to eclat. But few members lift this
evening. Most of them will hold on until Monday. Ali
the democrats in the house voted against the Army Bin
with the proviso in it, togett er with the South Americans
and Mr. Dunn. Mr. Davis, of Maryland, was the only
Southerner who voted ter it. During the hearing of 'reuses
for absentees in the house to-day, the following membern
were not represented as having paired off s—bleurs. Her-
bert, Burlingame, Childs, Paine, Betide, Foster, and Mill-
ward. Although Mr. Benton wss suffering with illness, ha
was conducted to his mat by his friends, when his name was
called.

The New York Journal of Commerce devotes an
editorial article to the situation of Walker in Nimes.
gas, of which, with the beet intentions, it is unable to
say much that is favourable to that adventurer. It
represents that the Nicaraguans have found the
exactions requisite to maintain a standing army and
to conduct the service of the government too irkeome
for endurance. The larger proprietors have deserted
their estates, and taken refuge in the neighbouring
republics. Though the property left behind them has
been declared confiscated, it remains unproductive to
the state for want of purchasers. Walker resolved
to rid himself of the native government, which was
no linger content to blindly register his decrees; and
though only about half the fourteen months had
expired to which the presidency of Rivas was limited
by the terms of the treaty with Corral, he determined
to take advantage of a proviso in that instrument,
which allowed the president, in full council of
ministers, to call an election within that period, and
caused a decree to be issued accordingly, under the
operation of which be claims himself to be the elect
of the people. So far as any voluntary action of the
natives is concerned, the election was entirely con-
structive. Walker we, chosen by his own army,
and must rest his title upon his sword.
Despatches from Linstill represent that the Mis-
souri Border Ruffians and the Free State forces, under
the leadership of Atchison and Lane respectively, are
mustering in large numbers.
The imports of foreign goods at New York for the
month of August were 7,413.266 dollars greater than
for August, 1855, and 835,532 dollars in excess of the
very large total for August, 1854. During the month,
u in the corresponding period of 1854, upwards of
lour millions were thrown into warehouse, while in
August last year nearly all the receipts were thrown
directly upon the market. The imports of free goods
show no material change.
The exports also show a large comparative gain.
The total shipments from New York to foreign ports
for the month of August, exclusive of specie, are
1,257,864 dollars in excuser the corresponding total
for last year, and 656,257 dollars greater than for
August, 1854.
Mexican news, by way of New Orleans, reports
the suppression of another revolt in the capital. The
leaders of the movement were arrested at their red-
dens, and hurried by diligence to Vera Cruz, where
they were banished from the country, taking passage
in the steamer Texas for New Orleans. The parties
implicated were Generals Vega, Blanco, Gamboa, and
Navarro, and two priest.. Their names appear in
the list of passengers by the Texas, as published in
the New Orleans papers. Affairs in Sonora are in •
bad way, and a new revolt had taken place there.

THE ROYAL BRITISH BANK.—A general meeting
of the share h riders in tha beak is to take place on Saturday
next, on which occasion it is the intention of the di-
rectors to submit a full statement e f their affairs. Vice-
Chancellor Kindetsisy will bear the petition. for winding up,
at the Angel Inn, Bury St. Edmund's, OA Wednesday, the
24th inst.—On Saturday a meeting of the shareholders in
this bank who sold out before the stoppage, but who still
remain oa the register, was held at the Wilms of Messrs.
Ashurat, Son, sod Morris, Oid Jewry, for the purpose of
conaiderinOthat stops should he taken, in order to get their
measure legally completed before the bank is formally dis-
solved. The proceedings were private.
MIRACULOUS ESCAPE PROM DISASTER AT
The following interesting account of an 'vowel occurrence
at sea, which haptieeed to the Pacific smansthip Santiago.
Commander W. It. Bartlett, has been received in Devon-
shire, where the family of the captain resides Teo
Sentinel was a vessel of 1,500 tins, with 150 persona of
board, and curving a valuable cargo and ceche to the
amount of 200,000 dollars. Two days after leaving Val-
paraiso, on the 28 h of June, she struck upon a reef of
rocks, known as the Infernal Reeks,' during a dark and
hew night. The ship was immediately stopped, and backed
off the rocks, hat, the water having gained upon 1 er forward,
it waa anticipated every inetint that she would go down.
The minus, energy, andj tad Bonin of the captain, however.
(thus writes one of the passengers), appear to have saved
the ship, and, after alerwat incred i hie ezerVons, shared in by
as cn ooard fur two days and nights, she arrived in safety
at Callao. During this fearful period the anxiety of all on
board may be imagined, the water gainiog on them in spite
of the utmost exertions at the pumps. Toe water-tight
compartment alone steed them from destruction, for had
the bulkhead forward given way the fires would have been
extinguished, and the engines and pumps stopped, end the
vestal must have sank in ball an hour. Throughout the
whole of this trying scene the captain never quitted the
deck, and the officers and crew, to a man, are stated to have
behaved with the most exemplary fortitude sod out:ring
seal. Owing to then cunning, in circumstances of
such distrceifirg difficulty, no life was sacrificed, mad
the Imitable cargo was preserved. After handbag his charges
the captain's next elf vt was to save hie noble snip. In
consequence of their being no dry dock. at Callao, or any
place to receive her,he woe advised to run her on shore, which
if he had lone ate would at once hose hero a total less.
He remained steaming along the bay of Callao for two due.
expecting her to sink every m meat. However, at leegth
finding a suitable spot, he ran her on shore oa a sandy
beach. He dived under the ship, and found roe had tea
large holes in her bottom. He tot hid crew to work, and
stopped them on the ineide, and the over morning, to the
surprise of every one, succeeded in Heating her oil, went to
Callao, and took in 24G toot of coals. White here General
Castilla, the President of Peru, went on bard the weed to
tee the captain, and told him he lost a ship of war and
every soul on tinted on the same rocks on whim the Santiago
struck, and f. r Mr. Bartlett to save his passengers,eargo,
wed skip was quite miraculous, and was a proof of his per-
severance and skill. The next morning the Santiago
started for Tabegs, a distorts of 1,500 miles, where the
repairing their ships. Tte people at Callao thought the
captain bad bhis efforts were blessed with
Pacific Steam Navigation Company have a factory for
success—he arrived in safety at Taboga. During toot
days sad nights he
Taboga men were put to work immediatel y , and in twenty-
two days she wee ready for sea again, havieg travelled
2,000 miles on the ocean in such a state u ship a was
Rums to be."