The Express.
London, England, 1858-05-03 00:00:00

UN 11 ED STATES.

The United States mail steamer North Star (Van-
derbilt line) arrived at Southampton on Saturday,
on her way to Bremen. She left New York on the
17th ult., and has experienced bad weather. She
hu brought over about 200 passengers, and amongst
her cargo was specie to the value of 74,000 dollars
for England.
Advice. from California were to the 24th March.
There had been no particular movement in financial
or commercial &Marc. Money was easy, and the
supply of dust from the mines continued to flow in
in sufficient quantities to meet all demands. The
New York steamer brought 1.325,912 dollars, which
is an increase on the amount brought by the arrival
of the corresponding date last year of nearly 100,000
dollars.

News had been received from Salt Lake City to
the 6th of February. About four hundred Mormons
had been met on their journey from Salt Lake City
to California. Their residuary brethren were pre-
paring to attack the United State. forms and inter-
cept their supplies. The latter were in good health.
Messrs. Majors and Russell, the contractors to tran-
sport the army supplies to Salt Lake, have decided on
making Nebraaka city the starting point, and ana
organising an immense train to Utah. The caravan
will be one of the most imposing and extensive that

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243:s:ern world has ever witnessed. It will be
d of two thousand waggons, each hauling
fifteen hundred pounds of freight ; sixteen thousand
bead of cattle, two acres of ox yokes to hitch them
up with, and two thousand ox drivers.
The funeral of Col. Denton, who was buried at St.
Louis on the 16th alt., was accompanied with every
mark of popular and official respect. The proceseion
included all the military companies of the city, the
7th ategiment of United States infantry, the judges
and magistrates, the associations, and a miscella-
neous crowd of great magnitude.
The news from Mexico by the Tennessee, which
left Vera Cruz on the 7th of April, represents the
church or conservative party, headed by President
Toloaga, as for the time auocessful. General Osollo,
the leading commander of the Zoloaga movement,
had captured Guadalajara, the seat of the Juarez
government, arrested and banished the Juarez ca-
binet, and commenced his advance on the city of
Mexico. This will probably put an end to the pre-
sent revolution, by the temporary triumph of that
faction called indiscriminately the church party, the
conservative party, and the reactionists, the main
elemants of which are the clergy, the remnant of the
old Spanish aristocracy, the banking interest, and
adherents of Santa Anna.

REFORM MOVEMENT AT LIVERPOOL.—The Liver-
pool (Amineis reports that the liberal party in Lirn•-strest
ward have been making a move in the right direction, by
meeting, discussing, sad miming &string of melanoma, under
the president r of Mr. J. Ft.. .Jeffery which we will here
insert 1. That the non- of about six-
sevenths of the male adult population of the United
Kingdom, taken in conjunction with the general applica-
tion of taxation, and the great advance of education, de-
mands a wide and speedy extension of the electoral body.
2. That ouch an extension should embrace all adult members
of colleges, householders in boroughs rated to the poor at
6!, sod in connate at 101. per ennum. Other persons in
counties and boroughs paying sesessed taxes or income tax
to the amount of 40s. a year, and in counties to oopyholders
and holders under less. of seven or more years at 51. per
annum. 3. That for the further protection of the elector in
the conscientious disport of his vote, a legal provision
should be made (either absolute or permissive) for voting by
ballot. 4. That the requirement of a property qualification
for members in one part of the kingdom, snit its non-require-
menti
in another, is invidious, demoralising, altogether un-
necessary, and ought to be abolished forthwith. 6. That a
general oath of allegiance be substituted for the present test.
6. That the expenditure of the country be mutually sub-
mitted to the House of Commons by a committee, to be
styled the Fittanos Committee, the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer being Ito chairmaa and organ. 7. That represents-
don be based upon a more equal apportionment of members
to population and the value of rateable property. 8. That
the employment of music on the days of nomination and•
election, as well as the providing of sa vehicle for the use
of an elector lx,fore he has recorded his vote on the day of
election, be declared illegal, and pnnithable by indictment.
9. That our fellow-reformers in the other wards of the bo-
rough are hereby earnestly invited to meet, in like manner,
and declare their sentiments on the matters which have been
subiniued to this meeting."
THE INSURANCE ON THE JAMES BAINEB.—We
(Liverpool .Aliiou) believe it is rather premature to say that
all doubts with teepee to the petition of liability is set at
rest, although there is reason to -believe that this will be the
came. One of the Liverpool underwriters has acknowledged
his liability, the amount for which the owners insured with
him being 7,0001., and similar acknowledgments have been
received from one or two individual underwriters in London
The Huskisson Dock will be run dry in a few days, when the
extent of damage sustained by the shin will be amertsineel.
THE 13nanta Clounii..—A letter from Tripoli, in
I Barbary, states how the death of the Sheikh Ovum', W4y
mentioned, was received there. It says :--" This event Is
here as a very important victory for the Turks, and
regarded here
on minim' the intelligence, illuminated
their houses and had rejoicings. The bead of the sheikh has
been brought here in triumph. He was betrayed by some of
his followers in the environs of Oltsciamet ; be was almost
alone, but he would not Ay, in order not to abandon his wife
and children. When attacked by the Turk, he defended
himself with great energy • he was, however, wounded, cap-
tured, and almost immeduitely dempitated. His family were
taken prisoners. The Arabs are in ormeternation at his loss.
It is said that the Sheikh Memour and the relatives of Goma
Ottid el Magerul have sworn to avenge his death. He was
70 years of age, and was descended from the old Arab Princes
Machmondi."

THE PERSIAN Counr.—Letters from Teheran of
the 6th March, state that the Shah had just lost one of him
sons, to whom be was tench attached. The young '
was carried off in a few days by the smallpox. He bed been
named grand master of the artillery at the period of tbs./Per
given on the °cession of the proclamation of the Prince
Royal of Persia. The Shah, who was much afflicted at thin
loss, had gone on a hunting excursion in the Upper Eibours
in order to divert his mind. Sinister rumours ware in circu-
lation during his sheenos, which lasted ten days. It was
sald that the Shah had been dangerously wounded, end the
inhabitants of the capital became greatly agitated in conse-
quence. The cause of the rumour turned out to be that at a
tiger-hunt one of the great officers of the boueshold was
wounded by the animal, and would have perished had sot
his royal master rushed to his sasistanee, and after a desperate
struggle killed the tiger. When the Shah returned to
Teheran ell uneasiness subsided.

THE BISHOPRIC OP CALCUTTA.—Her Majesty's
government have not socalad to the request contained in the
memorial of the archbishops, bishops, and laymen comprising
the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign
Parte, for a subdivision of the diocese of Calcutta, which
became vacant some time since by the death of the
Right Rev. Dr. Daniel Wilson. The object of the
memorial to the government wee to obtain the erection of a
see at Area for the earth-west provinces, and one at Lahore
fur tii.•::4stib. The government not having acceded to
the the Rev. Dr. Cotton, late Head Master of
Mar boron Collage, will be consecrated en Thursday, the
13th instant (Ascension Day) to the see of Calcutta, exactly
as ft stood during the incumbency of the late bishop. The
canning will be perfumed in Westminster Abbey. Fell
choral tervioe will be performed. and the sermon will be
preached by the Rev. Dr. C. J. Vaughan, Head Muter
of Harrow School. The new bishop ell! be presented by
the Bishops of London and !Salisbury.
FIRE AT THE XING AND QUEEN IRONWORKS.--
Yesterday morning a fire happened in the premises of
?dews. Howard, Ravenhill, sad Co., termed the King
and Queen Ironworks, situate at Rotherbithe. The pro-
perty comprised various structures, such as engineering
bowies, planing and drilling shops, smithies,
_pattern shops,
Sc. The discovery wee made by a police ME= of the NJ
division, who saw fire and smoke issuing from the premises.
The firemen upon reaohing the place found the flames
into the air high above the surrounding buildings, 11l
wee at first apprehended that the destructive element would
have taken a clean sweep round the engineering departments,
but fortunately a row of ditches ran round the outer side of
the factories, from which the firemen set their engines to
work, and thus were enabled to cut elf the further extension
of the fire, which, however, could not be entirely extin-
guished until the smiths' shops and pattern loft* were about
four fifths destroyed. The disaster will not prevent the
business being carried on, as the other buildings have ear
Mined no damage except by water. The origin of the are Is
unknown. The firm, it is believed, wee bleared in the Union •
Fire-odlos.

_
HAMPSTEAD HAILWAT.—On Saturday in the
Sheriffs' Court, before Mr. Under-Sheriff Burchall, a case
was tried for the assessment of damage*. The plaintiff, were
the trades' of the St. Pancras Almabonees, and the de-
fendants the Hampstead and London North-Western Junc-
tion Railway Company. The plaintiff., in the first pies,
claimed 10,0001. for cempenastion for loss sustained by the
defendants' line of railway passing over a portion of the pro-
perty at present occupied by the almahousesat Kentish-town.
They lost their snit in the Vioe-Chancellor's Court, but upon
an appeal to the Loris Justices the Vios-Chmeadior's
ded-
lion was rescinded. The plaintiffs' claim was granted. The
cow was now brought into the Sheriffs' Court to finally settle
the amount of damages, the defendants urging that the
claim of 10.0001. was too exorbitant. Mr. Lloyd, with Mr.
Architiald, appeered for the plaintiff*, and Mr. Mellor. Q.C.,
with Mr. Webby, for the defendants. There were • large
number of arthitects, builders, and others in 'Madame
ready to examined as to the amount of loss sustained by
the plaintiffs; but, after the jury had been in °urines to
view the premises, at Kentish-town Mr. Lloyd, on the part
plaintiffs, thplaintiffs, said that these 'maid be no maiden to take
up the time of the jury and the court any further, ea en
amicable agreement had been come to by which the defendants
give 6,0001. compensation, and guarantee a sum of
agreed
to
eves damages. Mr. Mellor said that his clients
would, as it wee "WM, give way, geeing that mach injury
would arias by their works to the almshouses ; and, at the
same time, not wishing to have further litigation, as it was a
charitable in titration concerned. A verdict for 6,0001. was
than entered. The company had, when the matter was before
Chancery, offered 2,6001. as n spoliation.
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SERIOUS COLLISION ON TEI TYNE.— A Teem
1311N1.-81MILDS, SATO/DAT NIORT.—A vary straw al-
bide OCCOMNI at high water rate evauleg. A osneldenthle
numbs, et vowels war towing out of tba Tyne at the Site
that prepanktions were being rode to launch the Vimes, a
large iron sheanwldp, hir Mwers. View, Chappell, sad M.,
fmot Yr. T. D. Itarahaffe building yard, Boat, BMW.
When all wee ready an ensign wee hoisted upon the new
weed to warn pilots bringing vends dawn tits Mar is hemp
wit tithe way, bat at the sotesat the weemitip new
the ways a large barque, the RosendelA boissibui sle=
Shields, was bans towed down. sad did net wait. The te-
net was that the Pima NM bate 1yr,111.1 awed villhallar
! earrird away her samara! IA Oa Salo of ems se tar awns
in her quarter. Tba beam bimodality Wawa £ ugh
water, and was got as to tie saddle essaad, seta di, mat
Shs we lying in a vvg deagstaaa padAlsa wren are de-
apateh ass sent off. A Watarraiso lit
into the way of the has "sad as ale vas Wag
sad oat, asospol eras// km Wag II ;;;3
soak. Ilse Ilma dasastegyars la Imp luny=
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beim pasrously pad stositsullapc. aligerreargt-
Osall of the pa Jut Mk
of a beautiful dawn sad doe to 8441114.—Csure
Ponta.