The Express.
London, England, 1856-07-07 00:00:00

THE UNITED STATES.

The British and North American royal mail steam.
ship Arabia, Captain James Stone, arrived in the
Mersey on Saturday night from New York, with
173 passengers, and 1,370,803 dole, in specie.
The Arabia sailed from New Y‘lk on the 25th ult.;
her advices are, therefore, full one week later than
previously to hand.
She reports the arrival, on the 22nd, of the United
States mail steamship Atlantic, from Liverpool, and
the North Star, from 13remen and Southampton, at
New York. The Ericsson sailed for Liverpool on
Jose 21, with two hundred and one thousand dollars.
The Arabia passed the Africa July 2.
By reports from Washington it appears that " the
preliminary steps towards the organisation of an ex.
tenure plan for cutting off the business patronage of
the South from the Northern aboli,ionists," had been
taken in that eity. It is proposed to establish an
agency in New York before the commencement of the
fall trade, who will take such ineat.tires as will effect
the objects desired. The matter is also to be laid
before the Southern Commercial Convention, to be
held in Savannah in December next.

The Secretary of the Navy has ordered the United
States propeller Arctic, Lieutenant Berryman, now
at Brooklyn Navy Yard, to be fitted out immediately
to make soundings for the New York, Newfoundland,
and London Telegraph Company, between St. John's,
Newfoundland, and Valentia Bay, on the Irish coast.
The officers appointed to the vessel are Lieutenant
Commander I). H. Berryman, Lieutenant Strain,
Acting Muter J. 0. Mitchell, Passed Midshipman
Thomas and Midshipman Barnes. Eighteen able-
bodied seamen have been advertised for, and it was
expected that the steamer would leave on her expedi-
tion in about four mouths.

In the Senate, on the 24th, a message was received
from the president, in response to a resolution asking
for a copy of the instructions to Mr. Buchanan, late
minister at England, on the subject of the invitation
to the British government to enter into a treaty
similar to that between Russia and the I; sited States,
recognising the principle in favour of neutral nom-
mem, that free 'hips make free goods, contraband of
war excepted, and that the goods of a friend captured
on board the vessels of an enemy, with the like ex-
ception, shall not be subject to confiscation ; and
furthermore, that the parties shall apply these princi-
ples to the commerce and navigation of all such powere
and states as shall consent to adopt them on their part
as permanent and immutable. Mr. Marcy, among
other things, says, that France was likewise invited
to enter into a similar treaty, and that he apprehends
no serious objection excepting from Great Britain,
and but for her resistance to the principle that the
neutral flag protects the property which it covers, if
it be not contraband of war, it would long ago have
been regarded as a well-established rale of inter-
nationel law. She has implicitly admitted its justice,
by adopting it u the guide of her conduct in the
present war with Russia. If it is lair towards nett-
' trate to act upon it now, it will be difficult for her
to devise good reasons for not obeerving it in all
future wars.

In the Senate on the 23rd Mr. Toombs gave notice
of another plan for the pacification of Kansas. He
proposes to have a census taken of the population of
the territory, • registration of voters for the proteo.
tion of the freedom of the ballet-box, and an election
of delegates to a convention to form a constitution,
preparatory to the admission of Kansas as a state, as
early as practicable. Mr. Evans made a speech in
vindication of South Ca:olina's revolutionary exploits
and in reply to the speeches against the Sumner
assault. In the house, in accordance with previous
arrangement, territorial business was taken up. The
bill providing for the survey of the southern bona-
dary of Kansas was passed. The bill authorising the
people of Oregon to form a state government was
considered. Pending an amendment requiring
Oregon to have • population equal to the ratio of
representation established by the last census, the
house adjourned.
The he►t of the weather in New York had been
intense, but was interrupted on the previous Sunday
by a sudden squall, wbich did much damage in the
bay, and was followed by a severe storm of thunder
and lightning, lowering the temperature very agree-
ably.