The Express.
London, England, 1858-04-05 00:00:00

UNITED STATES.

ARRIVAL OF THE CANADA.
LIVERPOOL, SCIRIAT.
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The steam-ship Swede, which sailed from Boston
on the 24th, and briny news mil Halifax to the
morning of the 26th, arrived this afternoon, bringing
80 passengers, but no specie.

On the 28th, the Canada pared the Niagara
bound to Halifax.

The only important feature of the news brought
by the Canada is the pump of the bill for the ad-
mission of Kansas under the Lecompton Consti-
tution. Senator Douglas made a telling speech
against the measure of three hours' duration, in
which, says the New York Herald, "he went
over to the republican party, bag and baggsge."
On the 23rd, after the adoption of sundry
amendments, the final vote was taken, and resulted
in the carrying of the measure, the figura being 33
to 2.5. The Senate Chamber was crowded to exoess
by spectators, and there was both cheering
and hissing on the announcement of the result. The
measure now goes to the House of Representatives,
where a determined resistance awaits it. Nothing
else of moment had transpired in Congress.
The senate of Louisiana had indefinitely postponed
the project adopted by the house for the importation
of free negro.* from Africa. This of course is tanta-
mount to an abandonment of the scheme.
We have later news from Utah. A mail from
Fort Independence was three months in reaching the
United States camp, and then half despoiled of its
contents. A Mormon prisoner had escaped, and it
was feared that there were traitors in the camp. An
express is said to have reached Leavenworth, from
the camp of Colonel Johnston, requesting that sup-
plies of ammunition and wore men be sent him
immediately.
The schooner, Palmetto, had been lost during her
passage from Philadelphia to Boston with a valuable
cargo, but no lives were lost.

The cotton mills of Manchester, New Hampshire,
bad all recommenced working on full time, and the
work at the mills in other places wu also reviving.
The Philadelphia Ledge► says, immense amounts of
freight are coming east over the principal railroad
hoes ; the western rivers are in the best possible con-
dition for steamboat navigation.
The excitement attending the religious revival in
various parts of the States had undergone no abate-
ment.

Another court martial was to meet in April to try
General Twiggs on a charge of disrespect to the
Was Department.
Resolutions in favour of the admission of Kansas
under the Lecompton Constitution had been passed
by the Senate of Pennsylvania.
The stammer North America, which was to sail
from Portland for this port on the 27th, will bring
the regular semi-weekly mail.

The weekly statement of New York city banks
showed a decrease of over a million dollars in the
specie, and an increase of over two millions in the
loans. The reduction in the coin was attributable
to the local demand for the United States Treasury.
Sterling exchange was dull, and nominal at 107
to 1071.
In the stock market quite a panic had prevailed,
and a considerable general decline in prices took
place. On the 23rd, the market was active at the
low figures, and closed with more firmness at the
following rates : Illinois Central, 911; ditto
Bonds, 91 to # ; New York Central, 87 ; ditto Sixes,
901; Erie, 231; Panama, 101; Michigan Southern,
21.

Cotton had been depressed, but closed with an up-
ward tendency.
Flour was firm; wheat and corn were full ; beef
was steady; pork firmer; lard active, at 91e. to
10c.; rice in fair demand, and augers firm. Spirits
of turpentine, 49 to 49i ; coffee firm, tobacco firmer.
Freights were dull. Cotton to Liverpool, 3.l6ths.
Havanna dates are to the 113th. Sugars were
tending upwards. The weather in Cuba has been
intensely cold, and in several districts in the interior
frost has been formed, which has destroyed the
cane considerably—the crop will be short about two
hundred thousand boxes.

(LATEST BY TELEGRAPH VIA HALIFAX.)

NEW YORK, liming 25.
The sales of cotton in this market yesterday and
to-day amounted to 8,000 bales, at an advance of lc.,
and at the close holders are demanding an advance
of ie. per pound.
Iteeadstuffs are dull, but steady ; provisions firm,
and slightly dearer.
In the stock market a slight advance in all de-
scriptions of securities has taken place sines the
'lose of the mail, and a buoyant tone prevails at the
close.

Neill Brothers and Co. report that a large business
has set in at all the ports. On the 23rd the sales
at New Orleans amounted to 20,000 bales ; at
Mobile to 6,000, and at Charleston to 6,000, while
in this market the demand is also active, and prices
generally close all round at ic. to ie. higher. This
is attributed to the indications of a decline in the
receipts at the southern porta.

NEW ORLEANS, WAIICH 23.
Cotton active, but not quotably higher, although
stiffer. Bales, 20,000 bales; stock in port, 431,000
balm. The decrease in the receipts at all ports com-
pared with last year is now 237,000 bales. Freight'
have slightly declined. Cotton is taken to Liverpool
at 19-32 d. to 9-16 d. sterling. Exchange 1041 to 106.
REA ORLEANS, Mina, 24.
Cotton Wm to-day 13,000 bales, at an advance of
to