The Express.
London, England, 1860-01-10 00:00:00

TP E EXPRESS, T

has obtained from Ruin in the reset treaty,
asks the representatives of the people for entharity to
levy war upon it. The arguments is fair of each
a come are very strong. The republic of the
United States already suffers the dimutvantages of
war in the persons of its citizens, w1,.0 are robbed,
imprisoned, murdered, by • rub of generals, go-
vernors, and mayors, for whom nobody can answer,
and who set all international lfaw at defiance. "We
" have been nominally at risme, but we might as
" well have been at war." Mr. BUCHANAN
thinks that it would be as well to get something
out of this chaos sae, disorder, and oaks liberty to
employ military kers for the purpose of obtaining
" indemnity for 'the pest and security for the future"
—a phrase of terrible elasticity. The Government
of the United States is so clearly muter of the
position that it may with owe extend its frontier in
a month-westerly direction, or make reprisals on the
wart or in the interior of Mexico; while the rest of
the world would have little to do but wonder at the
ir,fataation of the Mexicans, who have done all in
their power to invite a hostile visitation.

The old Spanish dispute figures as a stock piece in
the Message. The relations of the Republic with
Spain have not improved. We in England know
that the Court of Madrid does not fritter away
its ready money in paying old debts. At Wathing-
ton they make the same complaint. The Ame-
rican, like the English bill, is made out, and the
debt is admitted; but it is not paid. Spain, there's
reason to believe, is not viciously dishonest. She has no
ebjec,ion to settle, except the common one of &Men
—that she wants to vend the mousy in another way.
We knew that fightieg is a very expensive amuse-
ment, sad Spain Wiest in the midst of the Morocco&
war. But with respect to the American debt three
may be also a special reason for reluctance to pay
up. They know at Madrid what is the limit el
England's demands, but they have no mearenes that
when the Washington bill is discharged the worry
will mare. On the contrary, they know very
well that as long as they hold Oath the
account with the United States will never be
balanced. Every year the American PRIBIDENT
sakes the Spanish occupation of Cuba a grievannt—
a constant source of injury and annoyance to the
American people. Again and again the Spanish
Government has been premed to sell the island.
More, the threat has been held out that the United
States Government may be compelled to take pos-
session of Cuba under the imperative and overruling
law of self-preservation. " Oar relations with
" Spain, which ought to be of the most friendly du-
o meter, must always bo plaoed in jeopardy whilst the
.. exasting colonial government over the island shall
0 remain in its present constitution." Without dwell-
ing on the bearings of the American proposition, we
must say that a defaulting state never had less
encouragement than Spain to sores to a settlement
with its creditor. This Cuban question is, however,
a very old one, and ss it has figured in the meseiges
of many Presidents, so its likely to afford a theme
Or Mr. MUCEIANAN'S =COMM&

CD Cain.

WINDSOR CASTLE, lAN. 9.

The Crum, aseepealed by Prtattese Alit*,
shed i■ the Home Park this monied, mid Shed the
Deem 61 Kent et Frogman.
Tits Prises Consort, with the Prism el Weis sat es
Asset, sterded by the Beet d Ceithems NSW F. H.
&maw. Limitesent•Colosel Pseeeby, tad Cassie Gory.
The Dwane of Kant widest her Majesty et ths Potts is
the etterseas.

blretiage of the Cambridge Valverde, Coo mbslmre
wore held at 6, Adelphi-terrses, en Tesedigr, the id, Wed-
nesday, the 4th, Thursday, the sth, Fritasy, the 6th, and
Saturday, the 7th instant. The Casausheketers present were
the Right Rev. the L,rd Bishop of Chester, the Right Hon.
Lord Stanley, M.P., the Right Lion. the Lord Justice Tether,
Vies-Chescelim Sir William Page Wood, the Rev. Dr.
Vanglies, and Horatio Weddisgtea, Req.

His Excellency the Ambassador of Prestos and
the Neale= Is Yerelguy left Albert Gate ROOM yeetardal,
mart* S. the Dabs sad Dedham of Beenfort, at Badmin-
ton Beam. Moutewastb.

Viscount and Viscountess Lismore hare returned
to gh•ubelly Coml., from vigil:bag the Margals and Mar-
chkwss of Londonderry. The noble risoonat will wire in
town for tir resting of parilammt.
Sir Robert Peel has arrived at the Pavilion
Rend, Polkestosse, from a for re Uas Costiesai, eat Mr.
Orsams, )I.le. for Wiwi/kit, eel Wm. Dreier., who bars
boss envie( there • short thee, took their departure ter
Lemke a few days ego. Mgor•Oseeral Sir William Do-
herty bra alw let, alter a stay of three secsethe.

The essuoiUse of mana`ti•wt connected with the
soeihreith Moist to be premise to Liesteneat-General ele
F. Smit►, the =mbar ter Cliatime, sad Hamra. Martin
and Copia*, the members for Rochester, from the civil
eervaate of the mow. and shut friends in this neighbour-
heed, have made GeTUIVIDINIU fur the preeseleXioe of the
leatimatiale on Monday next, when the anunmsy will
Mho Owe publicly at the Lwow. Hall, Chatham. The
testimonials will be publicly exhibited duriug. the remainder
of this week.

The second annual ball of the St. /1101(114 Ama-
teur Cricket Club will take piece at WIWe Rooms, King-
strut, an Tuesday amt.

There me but two gentlemen to be called to the
Irish bar is the enacting Wm which commoners to-
morrow. One of them is ema of fir. Fierjeant Fitzgibbon.
The number of aspirants fee Ispl fame hes been rapidly de-
clining in Indeed sines the eperenee of the competitive exa-
mination origin heit come Is boom Irishmen et eves OF
dinag osposity sow tern their ere le India god dm missies
se the proper Geld for the development of their abilities.

We(Pet) u derattood that Lard Macaulay has
left helitsd him the materiels kw mother volume, the
pablicatkm of which may, he privet" sad fatally realm; be
mom time delayed. But wham, delay may attavoidebly
moat M the publication el the merative of William
111. esd Mum hanies d we slam* train Sag
at se very distant mini oer country may be
Manacled and enriched by • hithfal account of the
part which the historian played, of the friendships which he
Nand, ef the jaditmats which he pared oa the nee and
miewssien el the times ia which he lived himaell. It we
Watt judge from Shoes specimen of him correspond's.*
which it hes hem our Comae to pares% • cullectice of Lord
Macaulay's letters weeding over the last thirty yews
weadd be a himory of 11.114104 d in the age of Ceasing sod
Orey. of Peel and Palmation, quite as larciattlag, claim at
brilliant, bat Minitel, more insernedw, than Horses Wal.
poles &caudal* of the see of Chatham cad Lord North.
_ _ _

The Peraereranteef Mika contains • tribute to
the ionoary et ths great blatsiiisa, whose sudden sad
Irreparable loss Mares one of the grandest mouutairats of
oar literate» so uncompleted fats& The proms works of
Macaulay are very ppuisr r Day. 01 his history
there is • masterly translation, as yet nallalehrid, by P.
SiniltaabOladkti (Florae% iw llonalsr), awl another by
Card Row*, published at Turin.

The Coast and Cowan de Chambord, who have
bees peasiag some days at View, are sew Napping with
the Doebese de Berry st Browses. Their Royal Hialweees
Weed shortly to proceed to Vastest.

The Bret state ball of the Immo at the Tuileries
will take place t.-marrow main.

'the Preach Legisl►tive Session, it is said, will
erase Pigmy IL

M. Boma, s Dutch astronomer, him published a
pomphhos hs sosesses thell the &moue Gomm of Charles V.,
trbleb tstr ma la 14 $, hill nipper he the wrath of
Aiwa mat

the Sardinia* 'overeaten has, i! is said, defini-
tive, destdsd that ths hints Eurydice shell be seat to
China, to conanassms of the mats which an lopludtag
awe. It* said that • Web fametionry of the Sardinian
inarnweat is to go oat la bar as Malaise Piantratsatese7,
abernd to aegstisse audio wish Mrs, Jaws, sod Sfax

lINII'ED

INTELLIGENCE.
IiTATES AND cAmpe.

NEGRO INSURRECTION IN M19,130UR1.
GREAT FIRE IN NEW Tom.

LIVBIrt'OOI6, TIMIDAY.
The America arrived this awning and brings the
following :

(LATER NEWS viu HALurAi.)

NSW YOWL. Dir... W.

A rust fire had 'orolten out 1a Brockman and
Fulton streets, and destroyed property to the amount
of nearly one vai'aion dollars. The lam was covered
by insurances,

A negro insurrection has taken place at Bolivar
(Missouri). The burning of the town was threat-
ened. The insurrection has, however, been sup-
pressed, and the excitement abated.

The steamer Argo has arrived out. Cotton firm.
Bales in two days reach 2,000 bales. Breadstuffi
firm. Provisions quiet.

ANOTHER DESPATCH.

LIVERPOOL, TrzanAT.

The Montreal Oman Mail Company's steamer
North American has arrived with dates from Mon-
treal to the 3lst alt., and from New York by tele-
graph to the 30th.
The river St. Linen,* was frozen over opposite
the city.
Montreal floor market very firm. Grain tttr
*hanged. Business dull.

NEW TOBX, Dic. 30.

No speaker hoe yet been elected.

An ;itemise fir; broke ant in Brockman-street last
night. The Ices is estimated at half a million of

ltr. Seward has meta very flattering reception.
At Havannah, on the 25th alt., the t•ngar market
was unchanged. Exchange on London, 161 to 16.
DROMVILLE, Dec. 20.

Cordial his Lass cliifeatad, and is retrei4iog.

At New Ysek. on the 30th, the cotton Market
was steady t salsa, 1,000 bales. Ashes unchanged.
Flour firm. Wheat quiet and unchanged. Pork
dull and lard heavy. All other articles unchanged.
Freights at Liverpool dull ; cotton, Id. Money
market active. Stacks dull. Sterling exchange
dull and nominaL

The barque Bingstoe,from St. John's to Liverpool,
web loot in the Petite wisp on the 24th. Three
of the crew perished.

MOBILE, Dzc. 28.

Cotton firm. Salsa, 6,400 bales.

(THE LATEST BY TELEGRAPH VIA HALIFAX.)
A terrible conflagration has taken place in the
block bounded by Breckman, Ann, Oold, and
Fulton-streets. The loss of property in esti-
mated at from flys hundred thousand to a
million dollars. Amen the sufferers are the fol-
lowing firms:—Cyrus W. Field ; Buckley Brothers;
Bach and Coma; IL IL Haydock : the insurance,
however, is expected to cover the loss sustained.
An insurreetion of negroes ham taken place at
Bolivar, Missouri, and the rioters threatened to
burn the tows; but it has been suppressed, and the
excitement hoe considesubly abated.

NEW ORLEANS, Dic. 28, EVININO.

The sales of cotton in this market foe the last two
days foot up 14,000 bales, at easier, bat not quotably
lower rates. Freights: Cott= to Liverpool, 19-32 d.

AUSTRIA.

A Vienna letter of the 6th says Despatches
received from Paris within the last few days have
produced a very disagreeable effect, insomuch as
they announce that a complete understanding be-
tween France and England has been established. It
is added that the government is now convinced that,
contrary to what was believed, neither Ramie nor
Prussia will in any way defend in the Congress the
integrity of the Pontifical States. It is no doubt
true that those two powers are not disposed to make
themselves the champions of the programme set
forth in the pamphlet ' Ls Pape et le Comte,' they
do not consider the re-establishment of the power of
the Pope as a matter of absolute necessity, especially
as experience has shown that his Holiness cannot
hold possession of the revolted provinces without the
assistance of foreign troops. It is believed here that
the court of the Tuileries will content itself with the
independence of Romagna, and will be disposed to
leave the rest of the Papal territory to the Pope."