The Express.
London, England, 1859-03-18 00:00:00

THE UNITED. STATES.

ARRIVAL OF THE FULTON.
(PT RIACTRIC TRLSORAI'IIL)
(num ova owl 001/IISPORDIIIIT.)
SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY.
The Fulton has arrived with the American mail.,
she left New York, March 6, she brings half-a-million
of dollars in specie, chiefly for Francs. Bhe pained
the Europa, and a steamer supposed to be the
Arabia, also the Egyptian frigate yacht Faid
Gehaad going into Falmouth with her engines
broken down.
Congress has closed. The Post-ofilce bills were
thrown out, and it wee feared that an extra session
would have to be called to prevent the Post-ogles
service from coming to a dead lock for want of
fonds.
Robert Machine is to be sent minister to Mexico.
A large fire had occurred at Memphis. Business
at San Francisco had recovered.
The New York cotton market -was firm. Bread
staffs were inquired for. Provisions in fair demand •
Freights moderate.

LIVIIRPOOL, TRIIIBDAL
The screw steamship City of Manchester, Captain
Kennedy, arrived here this afternoon. She mailed
from New York on the 3rd inst., but anchored off
Sandy Hook until the morning of the 4th. She
brought 90 pamengers, and 200,000 dots. in specie.
Congress was in • state of confusion, as usual
when within a day or two of the expiration of the
session.; _

Asa last resort for securing adequate provision
for the wants of the government, the United States
senate had made an amendment to the General
Appropriation Bill, authorising an issue of treasury
notes to the extant of twenty millions of dollars.
The house would have to concur in this movement.

A proposition providing for home valuations upon
imports was voted down in the Senate.
The House of Representatives had passed the
Senate's resolution authorising the President to
wafer the rank of senior flag officer upon Commodore
Stewart. The vo•e which defeated the Ocean
Mail Service Bill was reconsidered, and the bill
was again rejected.
The house refused to concur in the Senate's
amendment to the Poet-office Appropriation Bill,
which raises the rate of inland postage from 3 to 6
cents.

Mr. Smith O'Brien had visited both hoases of
Congress, and met with a cordial reception from
many members.
A Bre had occurred at Memphis, Tenessee, de-
stroying property on Main-street to the value of
160,000 dollars. Five newspaper establishments
were burned down.

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The following scene bad taken plaoe in a Ken-
tucky law court :—An old political tend has existed
for some time between Thomas S. Low, of Hawes-
ville, and Cicero Maxwell, of Hartford, Kentucky,
the prosecuting attorney for that district. Mr. Low
had threatened to cowhide Mr. Maxwell on meths(
him. On the 2nd of March, while Mr. Maxwell
was addressing the court at Hawesville, he was in-
terrupted by Mr. Low denouncing him in grossly
insu►ting language. Mr. Maxwell and others then
fired several shots at Mr. Low, wounding him in
the thigh and arm, cutting off his thumb, and rid-
dling his shirt. A general fire with pistols ensued,
and John Aldridge, a friend of Mr. Low's, wee
killed, and a Mr. Miller shot through the thigh.
Mr. Low his been committed to gaol for protection
from the mob. - _ s . _

From Canada we have the following :—On the
28th alt. the Home of Assembly at Toronto resolved,
by a vote of 43 to 18, that the per diem of members
should be increased from 4 dole. to 8 dole. This
action is denounced by the Globe, opposition organ,
as being "to the shame of the government." There
ie little hope left, that paper says, of even ordinary
retrenchment at the present session.
The seat of government question eantionse to agi-
tate the Canadians. Ottawa is to be the eventual
capital—that point is settled ; but while Ottawa is
getting ready, the government will leave Toronto,
and make a temporary settlement in Quebec. There
have been four removals since 1841, costing in the
aggregate 427,9184 A report is current that the
expenditures of Ottawa will be postponed for an in-
definite period, and this encourages the people of the
Lower Province to hope that Quebec may yet be the
permanent capital

The New York Times states that Mr. Sickles
enneinned t, mean numerous 0011 bow friends, end innu-
merable letters of sympathy from every err er. He w
minswhet more oalm, bat looked hotly." Mrs. Sickles,
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too Mad awl ovor-legulgeat. Had he be.. Ws se, est
gouda boot mw usefully by Om mambo of a beelmes
authority, els doolored that bar most imosolsMo yedies
would ben bees avoided. ILL Sickles had adored es,
biters to Ide tlrtb gkL Mr. Bottartrottk we eadeeised
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