The Express.
London, England, 1859-04-04 00:00:00

THE UNITED STATES.

LIVIRPOOL, SUIIDLT NIGHT.
bia—from Boston on the 23rd,
Halifax 25th—arrived to-night, bringing 73 pas-
sengers and specie.
The news is of slight importance. It was de.
finitely stated that there world be no extra session
of Congress, and the Postmaster-General was pre-
paring plans to enable the department to carry on
its duties without an appropriation.

The steamer

Details of the late new. from Mexico confirm the
report of the general imixess of the liberals, indi-
cating the ultimate triumph of that party.
A serious strike prevails among the labourers on
the Erie Railroad. An outbreak was feared.
California data; to Feb. 23 had been received over-
land. Business was quiet; news unimportant. . .

It was reported that the barque Laurens had
landed 600 Africans on the coast of Florida.

A Washington telegram says prominent indivi•
duals were named for the English and French
missions, but it was believed no change warn
contemplated.
LATEST BY TZLEGIBAPH, VIA HALIFAX.

New Tom, Mem( 24, Evzzxwo. Cotton
active, business yesterday and today reaching
27,000 bales; prices slightly higher; middling Up.
lands quoted at 121 c. Breadstuffs generally steady.
Provisions quiet. Pork heavy. Neill, Brothers,
and Co.'s telegrams from the South report active
cotton markets and prices tending upwards. At New
Orleans middling selling at ltc. The bar of the
Mississippi is still impassable. The receipts con-
tinue to decline, the excess over last year's being
reduced to 817,000 bales.

The steamship Nova Scotia, from Liverpool,
arrived at Portland early on the morning of the
23rd.

Naw ORLEANS, Maws 23.—Oar cotton market
shows an advancing tendency. Bale, two days.
24,000 bales, at 11/ for middling stock. The news
by the Nova Scotia canoed a slight advance.
The steamer Quaker City has arrived with San
Francisco dates of the sth inst. The mail steamer
had sailed for Panama with a million and a half of
dollars in specie. Business was active.
The ship Joseph L. Hale, from Liverpool, had
arrived at San Francisco.

IROLITRO RAILWAY ACTILDINT IN CANADA.
YRAIN ?LEMUR IN2V A CHASM.

(From the torofito Globe, of Much 21.)

At half-past 2 o'clock on Saturday morning as
incident occurred on the line of the Great Western Railroad,
snout • mile wen of Dundee, which, we regret to say, was
attended by fatal oonsequenoes, In the immediate death of
asses pernee and the infliction cleavers wounds and injuries
as morel others, from the aorta of which It is hardly
hoped that all can possibly recover. Bach • night
has rarely been known bdore. From about 7 o'clock
on Friday evening the rain continued to pour down
in torrents, sad without intermission, till towards
two o'clock, when it common:at snowing. The oon-
spoon was, that the watareoarsee of ordinary times were
=gaol to the cionveyencs and proper discharge of the con-
tinuous flood which everywhere Bowed, ea if the flood-gang
ed Heaven had been unloosed.

At the point where this sad curtain occurred, the Inch
crosses a deep ravine, which had been filled In so that it was
thought that a solid embankment had been made, which
nothing could disturb. The bottom, however, is of that peon-
liar formation composed of the debris from the hill-aide close
by. and the soil of which the embankment is composed a
clean sand and fine gravel It would seem that the water
had collected in the hollow between the hill-aide and the
railroad embankment, from whence it had, we should sap.
pen, made its way through the bottom of the embankment.
When once the wear had thus made • passage way, the
Ines sand soon yielded before the flood, and a yawning
chasm, of about one hundred yards in length and from forty
to fifty feet deep, was soon made, the earth being carried out
bodily down the declivity below.
When the night eapoesa arrived at this point it was fear-
fully dark, and no sign was afforded of the awfully dangerous
pit-fall to which the train hurried on its way. In an instant
the engine and tender leaped into the hole, closely followed
by the baggage oar, an emigrant car, two fintbolase peseen-
ger curs, and a sleeping car. A fearful mesh was the
Inevitable result, and ti look upon the wreck, one can only
wonder how any person in either of the passenger care
escaped. Enveloped in dsrkneee, the snow falling fast, and
the wind blowieg furiously, in an instant men, women, and
children were burled be the rain of the t:an, the engine
being underneath all, roaring terribly from its steam-pipes.
Singular enough, however, the baggage man escaped, as did
also the whole of the peasant= in the that passenger ear.
It does not appear that there were any passengers in the emb.
grant ear. The second first-elan passenger car, however*
was a complete wreck, and it was to those who occupied it
that the fearful havoc of life and limb occurred.

The sleeping car, as already has been said,did not go down
into the hole, bat such was its position, poised on the brink,
the f 'marl part clippies downwards, and the hind part
ugh off the track, that the poisoners who had taken
refuge in it aan had to, leave it, fearing that it would run
down the embankment. When they left; this last shelter
they could do no better than take out the cushions
and bedbug, with which they made such • resting
place as kept the w mien and children off the wet ground,
end by using the blankets and bed•clothes the men managed
t t protect them from the worst of the storm. A messenger
war deepsiohed foe aid, but before ha could got to Hamilton
and send on help, some four hours hal been spent under
exposure to the pitiless storm. As soon as possible, how-
ever, the railroad officiate despatched a locomotive with such
eaxaunodation for the sufferers as could be ha•tiy pro-
cured. _ _

Five persona killed who are recognise', via., Alexander
Braid, late locomotive superintendent Great estern Rail-
way; Morgan, engineer; Bing, fireman; Mae, brakes-

man J. Boyer, Ohio, anti— two others unknown.
Sermeal are injured; among them:—J. H. Smith, Greets
Oak, Michigan; Hiram Cook, of the firm of H.
and D. H. Cook, Hamiltm, recovery doubtful;
Henry Poet, Buffalo; J. H. Smith, Brighton, Livingston
county, Michigan, sixth and seventh ribs broken on the left
side, several bruises on other parts of the body—recovery
doubtful. Rev. Thorsen Fawcett, Indian misaionarre
from Brantford ; three ribs, shoulder-blade, and hip-bone
broken; in a very low and dangerous condition. Jonas
Boyer—badly cut on forehead and leg ; wife alao injured.