The Express.
London, England, 1859-09-21 00:00:00

THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA,

LIVERPOOL, TOTSPAT.
The screw steam4hip Indian, Capt. Smith, from
Quebec on the 10th instant, arrived here tli,s
morning, bringing about 100 passengers
On the 11th inst., off Anticosti Light, the Indira
passed the steamer Anglo-Saxon, hence for Quebec.
The removal of the departments of the Cenadisn
government to Quebec steadily continued, and the
whole would be completed in about a week, when
the Governor-General would proceed to the ancient

capital.
In the absence of political events the question of
the 'hip canal through Lake St. Peter, between
Quebec and Montreal, had been a prominent topic of
discussion. The canal was made by the harbor,-
commissioners of Montreal, who want the govern-
ment to assume the debt on the ground that the
work is a public one. Mr. Brown, the leader of the
opposition in Upper Canada, asserts that the work is
a looal one, and a warm discussion is the result.
The latest New York papers contain no news of
importance.
The New York Republican State Convention bad
nominated its candidates for state officers at the
ensuing election, and the nominees were none of
them amen from the " American" party, so that
there is no chance of an amalgamation between the
two parties.
The Republicans of New Jersey, Intheir State
Convention, had nominated Mr. C. S. Olden u their
candidate for governor.
A fire in Norfolk, Virginla, had destroyed pre-
party valued at 40,000 dole.
The Jew York Daily Times says :
The seizure of the Wand of San Juan by General Hersey,
we are Informed by our special Washington ootrespoudest,
was entirely upon his own responsibility, and without any
faineance& from Washington. No dou'ot is entertained by
the adminirretion that the meter will ba immediately end
amicably adjoined, as the question of the ()neon bounds y
now with the ocentaiasioners appointed for it. deteradniuon.
The action of our troops is conaldend of no importance as
affictieg the result.
The limo York Herald lays :—" Bather Angelo
Charini walked a tight rope 160 feet high and 560
long at Jones' Wood, near New York, on the 7th,
stood on his head midwayof the rope, and performed
other antics elle Blondin."
A conditional contract had been made between the
Post-office Department and Commodore Vanderbilt
for the conveyance of California mails, in the event
that the Johnston contract should, as is expected,
fail to be carried out.

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QUBENSTOWN, TVESDAT Nioar.
The steamer City of Washington, from New York
10th, arrived here at midnight, bringing 40 cabin
and 233 strews passengers, and 613,429 do',. "t
specie. She landed 44 petsengers, and prcoeedrd
for Liverpool at 1 a.m.

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SOUTHAMPTON, WIDNEBDAY MORNING.

Intelligence has been received from the Channel
Wends to the effect that the South Western Company's
Mesmer Eimer., which le:: Southampton yesterday morning
at six o'dock, went on a rock off Jersey, where she is now
stranded. The mails and parmesan are safe. The cum•
piny hes rent the steamer South Weems with men and ma-
teriakt to render r violence. It is hori the Express will to
got off by 'he morning's tide.