The Express.
London, England, 1859-01-28 00:00:00

THE UNITED STATES.

(xi so.oxwnc xxx.sexxxx.)
(room orx owx C011111111PO2DWIT.)

LIVERPOOL, FIUDLT.

The steamer City of Manchester, from New York,
the 15th, has arrived. She brings 139 passengers,
124,000 dollars specie, and the United States mails.
The steamer Niagara arrived at Boston on the 15th.
Mr. Seward has introduced into the Senate a bill
amending the existing act for the suppression of the
African slave trade. It provides for the employ.
meat of steamers for the capture of slaves, autho.
rises the several states to pass laws to suppress the
traffic in foreign slaves, and appropriates a million
dollars to carry into effect the provisions of the bill.
A bill was introduced in the same body to esta-
blish a line of steamers between American and
British ports. A resolution was pending, directing
the Secretary of the Treasury to prepare a plan
foe raising revenue adequate to the wants of the
government, by the imposition of specific instead of
ad valorem duties. The Pacific Railroad Bill was
being fully debated by the Senate. The President
had officially notified to the Senate that the yacht
Wanderer had landed a cargo of slaves is the
southern coast, and that measurer were being taken
to punish the guilty.

General Jerez had been recognisod.at Washing-
ton as mini►ter from Nicaragua.
New York money markets continued quiet and
unchanged. Sterling exchange inactive. 109 k was
p price foe best bankers' bills. Stock market fluc-
tuating. Latest sales were Illinois Central shares,
70; ditto bonds, 891. Erie, 16. Panama shares,
117. Cotton unchanged. Middling Uplands,
Coffee firm and good demand. Floor steady.
Wheat buoyant. Corn•holders demand the advance.
Iron firm and stocks light. Spirits of turpentine
advanced to 1 cent. Pork active, and 10 to 20
cents. dearer. Beef quiet. Sugar buoyant and
dearer. Tobacco firm. Freights rather easier.
Tonnage more abundant.
NEW ORLEANS, Lax. 14.—Cotton unchanged.
Sales to-day 14,000 bales.

ROME.

A letter from Rome of the 14th instant gives the
following personal and royal gossip :

The Kies and Queen of Prom's am ladies advantage of
the floe end bracing weather to see all the carieskiee of the
Eternal City. They have been to the top of the Crelitas to
visit there the convent of the Peerionlets, and have visited
for the second time the Basilica of St. Peter in the Vatican.
Those who were in attendance on their Majesties could not
fall to remark that the King preserved distinctly all hie re-
membrances from the period of his foram visit to Rome in
1828. Hie health is evidently improved. The Queen paid a
visit the day before yesterday to the Granddachess Mary Ot
&ISMS at the Hotel di Londra.

Tee same letter says:
The hurricane Ise Saturday did great damage, and whilst
It was ragtag a the broke out le the vamp Censer/eta, situated
is the diocese of Subiaco. Every hoses was °assumed,
leaviug 760 persons without shelter. Many lost their liras In
the lases. The ltbrary of the princely family of Altiori I.
Win sold by public suction.

At a ball at the Tuileries on Tuesday night, the
Emperor conversed for some time with Id. Hubner ; Coast
Podgy alio chatted with the ambassador, to whom, on
the lit inst., the phrase was addressed which created ao much
mks:amt.

The Turin correspondent of the Timer, describing
the visit of the Sardinian royal family to the theatre last
Sunday evening, saw—. I cannot endorse the detrimental(
the Opinions that the prince's was brilliant with beauty.
She le not beautiful, but she has what is perhaps better than
beauty, a very sweet and amiable expression, which I am
sewed le but the fail blot mirror of her charming character.
She is near petite and girlish-looking, with brown hair,
sad a beautifully white skin. Hoe bearing wee graceful, and
free from any sort of embarrassment, although her posi-
tron Met night, me IM focus of the public gaze, meet have
been a little trying to a young lady not yet Aztecs. I saw
many eyes turned upon her with an expression of almost
mournful interest."

A Naples letter gives the following u tho caw*
of the lilumen with which the King has been Intely attacked :
" Between Plaplee and Foggia there an the Appoints to
ores', and the climate is not by any means as mild as that of
Portid end Cattellamara. The roads were covered with
snow and Ice, so es to render them not my practicable for
the homes al the royal party, which at times &lipped in a
menet to endanger the safety of the carriages. The King
and royal family ware at lest compelled to alight, and pro-',
Deed on foot for about two leaguers. The reampoine of Fer-
dinand 11. rendered this • difficult task for him, and he got
into a violent perspiration, which being afterwards checked
by the cold awed the gulden illness announced by tele-
graph." . _ .

In the discussion recently retard on the fitting
attitude of the Taman Btate, the Grand Duke—if we (Mow
on, Peet) ere COMOily informed—wee anxious that complete
neutrality sherald be preserved. The hereditary prison the
Archduke Ferdinand, would place the whole Tuscan army at
the ►beolute dirporal of Count Ginlay end Gen.
the ascend son, the Archduke Charles, insists on the restora-
tion of the Constitution of 18—a meseure which, we need
scarcely ray, Implied an unreserved submission to the
popular wants sad wishes. And, ea the solarium by which
this memo soy be rendered acceptable and effective, the
youthful prises ftlooo3¢lelllB hie father's immediate abdica-
tion, and hopes that the Tureen people may accept, in the
premmed energy of the eons, an atonement for the wavering
and vacillation of the sue.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
(THIS DAY.)

EQUITY COURT.
(Before Vice-Chancellor Sir W. P. Wood.)
at THE ATHENATX COMPANY, El P•IITE SHEFFIELD.
The Vice-Chancellor gave judgment in this cue. It will
be recollected that Mr. Sheffiell became a shareholder in the
Atheneum Life laminate at the time when 'n provision affect.
ing to limit the liability of the compsny had been fraudulently
inserted in the deed of settlement. Mr. Sheffield was nom
yeare since appointed an agent of the company_ in qua-
tion, and was soon after asked to take shins. He went to
the office of the company, and there saw Mr. Whitehead, one
of the clerks. He entered into coovereation with Whitehead
on the subject of the prospects of the company,
and espsdally asked whether ha would be liable
beyond the amount of the shares. Whitehead assured
him that he would not be liable beyond that
amount, and he went into the board-room and fotcluel out
the deed of settlement. He told Mr. Sheffield that the deed
was very voluminous, and that he would not be able to
mad it through, but he stated that then was a clause
for limiting the liability of shareholders. In point of
fact, each a provision was than a portion of the deed, but it
had been fraudulently inserted by the director,' after the
registration of the company. Sheffield signed the deed
as It then stood, and duly received dividends on his shares
until the stoppage of the company. The question now wee
whether that gentleman ought note to be placed on the
list of contributories.

Thi;Honotor,aiier briefly referring to the circumstances of
the case, said that Mr. Sheffield contended that he ought not
to be charged as a contributory on the ground that the deed
he signed waged in fact the deed of the Atheneum Compels
It was that deed, with =addition ; and, thendote, it wee sal
he never was a alterehoider of the Atheneum Company,
oeuid therefore not be a contributory. But it was to be
noticed that Mr. Sheffield hod for some years gone on
receiving dividends upon his shares, and in so
doing he had himself acted as a shareholder. With
regard to the frond which had been perpetrated in
surreptitiously inserting a clause in the deed his Honour did
not think that Mr. Sheffield could escape liability on that
ground. It had been decidod by the House of Lords
that parties dealing with directors meet be taken to
be aware of their powers. To enable persons to ob-
tain dee information, the deed of settlement wee sub-
ject to reparation. Here Mr. Sheffield had agog the
deed, and had followed this up by receiving dividends to.
several yearn without Inquiring into the powers or authorities
of the directors. Under such circumstances, although no
doubt the case was a bard one, Mr. Sheffield's name must be
placed on the list of contributories.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.
eittinp la Bozoo.—(13oforo Lord Compbse mid Juliann
Wtglantra, Crompton, and OL)

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