The Express.
London, England, 1860-07-16 00:00:00

THE UNITED STATES.

QUEENbTOWN, JULY 14.
The royal mail steamship Asia, Captain Lott,
from Boston on the Sad and Halifax on the 4th, arrived
here at 7.30 p.m. She brings 137 passengers, 550,006 deli. for
England and 106,000d015. for Havre. The Asia landed all
mails except those for Liverpool, for which port she pro.
ceeded at 7.45 p.m. All well.
The latest advice. reported from Mexico state that the
clerical party had been defeated by the liberals, and that
?linemen had been taken prisoner near Salamanca.
The American Secretary of the Legation to China had ar-
rived at Washington, bearing the ratification of the treaty,
and an autopsph letter from the Emperor of China.
The bark Kate, Captain Otto, had been veined off York,
on suspicion ri being a slaver.
Naw Yong, JULY 3, Evitinreo.--Mousy easy. Exchange
on London, 10/ to 109 g. Stocks irregular. New York
Centrals, lilt; Erie, 181 ; Illinois, 62t to 621-. Cotton
quiet ; Upland, lOgc. Flour, wheat, and corn
unchanged. Pork him. Coffee steady. Freights firm.
(LATEST BY TELEGRAPH VIA HALIFAX.)
. . NEW YORK, Jur 4.

The Persia arrived out to-day.
The Supreme Court of the United States had decided that
all over-issued stock on the transfer books of the Newhaven
Railroad should be valid.
Cotton dull. Prices nominal.
NEW ORLEANS, Jutv 3.
Cotton dull. Receipts of the week, 5,000 bales.
LIVERPOOL, JULY 15.
The royal mail steamer Aaia, Captain Lott,
from Boston on the 3rd and Halifax ou the '4th instant,
which touched yestenlay at Queenstown, has arrived.
The anniversary of American Independence was being
celebrated when the Asia sailed.
The Great Eastern had been opened for exhibition.
The Asia's news has boon generally anticipated rid Queens.
town.

QUEENSTOWN, SUNDAY.
The royal mail steam ship Canada arrived at
8.45 p.m., embarked mails and parengers, and proceeded at
7.15 p.m. for Halifax and Bootee. All w•id.

RANQUET TO THE OFFICERS OF THE STEAM

YACHT FOX.

SOUTHAMPTON JULY 15.

The screw steam yacht Fox will lett've here on
Tuesday to survey the coast of the Faroe Islands, Iceland,
Southern Greenland, and Labrador, for the purpose of &seer.
taining the best spots for lauding the submarine cables,
about to be laid down by the North Atlantic Telegraph
Company to connect England and America. When the Fox
returned with the news of the fate of Franklin, she wan
sold and seat on a whaling voyage. Her internal fitting*
for the discovery voyage having been iu a great measure
destroyed for her new calling, on being repurchased by
the North Atlantic Telegraph Company, her original
fittings had to be restored, and about teu days since she
was brought round toSouthampton to be refitted and pro-
visioned. On the surveying expedition to which she is
bound the dangers will not be so great nor the cold
so severe as were experienced on the Franklin voyage, for
it is not expected that the temperature during the three or
four months she will be away will be below freezing-point.
When the North Atlantic Telegraph Company was started
they applied to the English government for assistance to
make the survey. This application was acceded to, and her
Majesty's steamer Bulldog was placed at the service of the
company, and the command of her given to Captain
M'Clintock, the discoverer of the fate of Franklin, to make
the necessary deep sea soundings for the survey. The coin.
pany then bought the Fox and wive the command of her to
Captain Allen Young, Welintock'a companion in the
Franklin voyage, to make the coast survey for the com-
pany. The Fox is only 200 tons burden, and
her crew, officers, and passengers, will consist of
about 24 persons, three or four of whom belonged to the
Fox in her Franklin voyage. Those who will act as officers
under Captain Young are all scientific men. Mr. Davis,
R.N., is to be chief officer, and Dr. line, the famous Arctic
traveller, and Coterie' Schaffuer, an American officer, and
other scientific gentlemen, will accompauy the expedition.
Overland journeys will be made acrosa the Farce islands,
Iceland, and Southern Greenland, to ascertain whether it
will be better to have and wires and double stations, or
only submarine cables and single statinos. The English
government has liberally supplied the Fox with sonic very
tine scientific instruments fur the survey, and also for
making useful observations. The Fox also carries appa-
ratus for deep sea soundings, according to an American in-
vention, which consists of a hempen string attached to a
wire, at the end of which is a socket which hooks
on to a perforated cannon ball. As soon as the
ball touches the bottom of the sea it unhooks itself, and
the length of the string pulled up reveals the depth, and
the socket brings up specimens of the ocean bed. The un-
hooking of the bell by a self-acting process is the valuable
part of the invention, bemuse there is no chance of the
-string, disengaged as it is from the heavy ball, breaking in
hauling in. The objection to the secente of the North
Atlantic Telegraph Company in the first place was the sup.
pored danger from the aboutiou of the cables by icebergs
but in deep water icebergs do not touch the bottom, and
care will be taken to avoid abnisiou in shallow water by
carryirig the cables up some of thew fords whose narrow
entrances guarded by projected headlands effectually pre-
vent large itchergs from entering. Previous to the
departure of the Fox from this port, Mr. F. Perkins, the
mayor of the town, in accordance with that renown for hea-
lpitality for which Southampton is diatinimished, and which
has obtained fur it the sobriquet of the City of Banquets,
resolved to entertain the officers of the steam yacht, in order
to give an opportunity to their friends to wish them
God speed in the interesting voyage they were about
to undertake. Accordingly about 150 persons sat
down to a superb feast last evening at the Vic-
toria Ronnie The banquetting room was gorge-
ously decorated with English, American, and Leunah
flags, and in a coespicuous position was a monster tract
chart of the proposed route of the Fox. Captain Allen
Young sat on the right of the Mayor, and among those pre-
septet the banquet were Sir E. Belcher, the Artie voyager;
Dr. Rae, the Arctic traveller ; Sir Roderick Murchison,
Admiral Fitzroy ; Dr. Shaw, Secretary to the Royal Geo-
graphical Society ; Mr. Arrowsmith, the celebrated map.
pie ; Captains °Tomalley and Palliser ; Sir Charles Bright,
Dr. Fothergill Cooke, and Mr. C. V. Walker, F.R.&, the
famous electricians; Colonel Schaffuer, J. M.Wolffe, Esq.,
Major Lacy ; Lieutenant Von Mien, a Danish officer ; Mr.
Obasoin, a member of the Icelandic Diet ; J. R. Croskey,
Esq., the lion. Mr. Dutton, M.P., CApleille Mangles and
Engledue, and many of the magistrates, town councillors,
and most eminent citizens of Soutlemptou, several of the
letter wearing the rifle volunteer uniferm.
Vs. BAILEY, a distinguished citizen id New York, re•
tuned thanks for the toast of "The President of the
United States ;" and Lieutenant VON ZEILAN for " The
King of Denmark," through whose territories the submarine
cables will pass. This officer, together with Mr. °Lissom,
of the Icelandic Diet, have been sent to England to give
the Ninth Atlantic Telegraph Conaiamy every encourage-
ment and assistance. Lieutenant VIM Zoltan spoke in Eng-
lish, and clainied for the English, American, and Dan,
races one common origin, whose pre-eminent characteristics
were • fondues for peace and liberty.
Admiral Frneoe delivered a huninous speech, in which
he demonstrated the practicability of the scheme of the
North Atlantic Telegraph Company.
Sir R. McKeown eulogised Captain Young as
an officer admirably adapted for the undertaking
in which be was about to be engaged. A vociferous demand
was made by the assembled company for Sir E. Belcher to
speak to the kart of the ravy, and the old sailor rose and
in a few words derided the idea that England would ever
want ships or men in times of danger to keep a foe from
her shores. Dr. Rae, Sir Charles Bright, Major Itavenhlll,
Captains Young, Mangles, Engledue, and O'Shea, Mr.
Fothergill Cooke, Mr. Vi alker, F.R.S., Mr. Stebbins,
F.A.S., Colonel Schaffner, kn., spoke during the evening.
The banquet lasted until midnight. The mayor, although
quite a young man, presided over his distinguished guests
with dignity and ability.