The Express.
London, England, 1858-06-04 00:00:00

4, 1851.

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CANADA.
LIVERPOOL, TKVZSDAY.
The screw steam-ship Anglo-Saxon, Captain
Borland, belonging to the Montreal Ocean Steam-
ship Company, arrived here this afternoon, bringing
Quebec dates of the 22nd ult., and 117 cabin and
136 steerage passengers.
The news from the United States has been anti-
cipated by the Vanderbilt.
The estimates of the Inspector-General of Canada
for the year 1868 had been published. The total
expenditure is placed at 6,281,411 dots.', and the
total revenue at 6,388,400 dots.
Resolutions were pending in the Canadian parlia-
meet on the seat of government question ; the first
thanks her Majesty for choosing a seat of govern-
ment, and regrets that thechoioe is not in aooordanoe
with the views of the majority of the inhabitants of
Canada the isoond requests her Majesty to recon-
sider her choice and make Montreal the capital of
the province. The supporters of these resolutions
were in opposition to the government
The House of Assembly, by a vote of 41 to 38, had
decided to hear at the bar Mr. Gournay, who was
unjustly banished from the country in 1817, but sub-
sequently pardoned and offered a pension. He re
fuses to accept the pension, and claims that the
sentence should be declared null and void.
The Ottawa Citizen understands that the works
on a large portion if not the whole of the line of the
Brockville and Ottawa Railway have again been
stopped, owing to some financial difficulty or mis-
understanding.
The timber trade at Quebec had opened with an
active inquiry. Red and white pine were in very
good demand, and prices were firm. Oak in
request at 20d. to 2ld. measured off. Elm inquired
for in small parcels. Staves dull and tending down-
ward. Deal, in fair demand, at 121. 10s. to 121.165.
for first sorts.

Freights much depressed ; 2.55. asked for Liver-
poi without finding shippers. Deals taken for
London at 7tis. to 80s.
Vessels to load grain at Montreal wire wanted at
Ts. per qr. for wheat.

THE MEDI

(MON OM OWN coaaserenrnaet.)
MALTA, MAT 30.
Before Sir Gaspard Le Merchant came to govern
Malta prejudices unfavourable to him had been excited in the
minds of a number of the inhabitants. His sots since hie
snivel, however, have given universal satisfaction, portico-
Isrly his attention to the poor, and his endeavour to keep
down the mice of previsions, the height of which had done
great *jury to Malta, keeping many visitors from the island,
and driving Wm to Sicily and Italy ; and the poorer cleans
remark that the King of Naples is • very bad rider, yet
maccaroni and mist me much cheaper in his dominions than
in Malta, and that has great weighs with them.

The Governor's ball on the 14th, the Queen's birthday,
was on a princely scale. Some 1,600 pewees wins invited,
and nearly that number were present.
Besides the Governor's efforts to reduce the grin et prowl-
dons, he has proposed that for the future no below shall to
permitted to sell bread unless by weigh ; and there is • pro-
posal for • new market and a new theatre—all popular mea-
sures. On Monday next, the 71st, he gives a full holiday
to all government servants on the occasion of the inetaHatkm
of the new Archbishop of Melts, which is to take Oboe at
Civitte. Vecchia, which is nearly in the centre of the Wand,
seven miles from 1* Valetta ; sad seven miles is coniddred
quite a Journey hue. The whole population is in a state of
excitement on this to them very interesting ceremony. Car-
riages are at, for Malta, the -of price of if, each for
the day.

The bishop is to ride In hie ouch of state, which, it is
rumoured, cat 8601. in London, while one of their calms
only costs 101. The carriage is to be drawn by foar horse,
also a very unowection sight in Melts. He win arrive about
ewe at Civets Vecchia where a large oonoouree of the
people will await his arriial. He will be received with •
grand salute of bells, sot only_os his arrival, but in all the
village. be pawn through. He sups that evening at the
Dominicans, with a vast comma of priests, paying, by
ancient usages, one sequin for his supper. Early next morn-
ing he rides an • white mare to his cathedral, and up to the
altar. The mare is to be Ida with silver, and mat ply
oateriened. Two young noblemen are to act a.
leading the mare, while four others are to have the hot grooms,
bolding a canopy over the heed of the archbishop.
The religious ceremony is to take up the fore-
noon, sad then the bishop I. to give three dra-
ma one to all the pariah priests, one at the
anotnary, and one at which he I. to peremodly preside, at
his episcopal pekoe, at width talc be preeent his Feeeileney
the Governor and all the notables. The dinners are to ha
early, one p.m. In the evening there we to be horse-race%
fireworks, .itc. The people of Malta are vary *luny 6211101114,
never give way to drink, and the greatest crowds meet and
separate without any ezeitement or quarrelling.
On the 23rd her Majesty's ship Wanderer was ordered sad-
desly to sea. It I. supposed ale proceeded to the westward.
Her Majesty'. ship anal relieve the Vigilant at Corfu.
The latter vend Ia deny impeded at Malta.
. _

Ear Moil/117's iwellow, ca the 27th, left for era-
steatheopla, to reline her Majesty's ship Osprey. The flea
sada Lad Lymi will leave about the 9rd of Jose for a few
dap orate off the Wand.
Her Malatya ship Prinoses Royal was seen • few days
since under sail to the eaatward of Malta, so nay be hourly
expected.

The Colombo, Paninsular and Oriental Company's steamer,
me Southampton, end Panther, rut Menei with the
India mail, arrived yeeterdey, and proceeded on immediately.

THE AILAJITIC TELEGRAPH.

PLYMOUTH, TRI7RADAT EVINING.
Her Msjesty's steamer Agamemnon, in company
with the steam frigates Nieves, Valorous, and Gorgon,
returned to Plymouth Sound this evening after their expert_
mental cruise off the Bay of Bloomy with the Atlantic tele-
graph cable.
The experiments were quite satisfactory.
The Agamemnon and Gorgon wired in Wends 47.12
N., longitude 9.32 W., about 200 miles from Umlaut,
on Monday afternoon, sad left on Wednesday, having made
several aucorafal experiments. The weather was fine: depth
of the sea, 2,630 fathoms, or about 21, miles. The cable yea
spliced font those, and the Agamemnon and Niagara separ-
ated on one =mks nearly ism mass. The ships were put
at various speeds, sad by the aid of the now apparatus the
eabie withstood the strain in a estishelary manner. Ocoee the
lest trial the power of haven in has been greatly immased
and improved. TM Gmbh was payed oat hem the
Niagara on one trial at the ere of arm knots, and from the
Agamemnon at the rate of eight knits, par boar. Buoys
were ooessionally arrehed to the why which also pared
from the stirs to the bow, and sometime' rested to a vertical
positkm._

Electrical nieseepe Were seat through the wire whoa in
various pedlar. The expedition is appointed to alert from
Plymouth Ark as Wodarday, the 19th.

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