The Express.
London, England, 1858-05-07 00:00:00

MODENA.

The Duke of Madam has issued a decree, forbid-
ding all parents or guardians to send their children
or wards to foreign schools or universities without a
previous permission obtained from the Minister of
the Interior. The youths who may have been clan-
destinely sent to each foreign establishments, are to
be precluded from entering the University of Modena
or filling any public office in that state; moreover,
their parents, guardians, or relations, who have sent
them thither, shall be fined to the amount of from
SOOfr. to 2,000 fr., be dismissed, if public officers,
from their functions, and lose the titles and dis-
tinctions which they may possess.
The ifessaggers of Modena, of the 30th ult., an-
nounces the condemnation of twelve individuals by

the court-martial of Carrara to various terms of
hard labour or imprisonment, for belonging to a
secret revolutionary society, or having arms in their
possession.

UNITED STATES.

LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY.

The steamer City of Washington, from New York
on the 24th of April, arrived last night. She brings
the United States mails and 221 passengers, bat no
specie. The steamer Canada arrived • hence at
Halifax on the 23rd.

The report of the Kansas Conference Committee
was presented in both Houses of Congress. It makes
the admission of Kansas into the Union under the
Lecompton constitution depend on the acceptance
of a land ordinance which is to be submitted to a
popular vote, and in the event of the rejection of the
proposition provision is made for the formation of a
new constitution. The republican members of the
committee dissented from the report.

The papers and correspondence between Lord
Napier and the Secretary of State, called for by the
Senate, relating to the slave trade, are now before
the Senate, and were waiting to be printed. The
whole matter is voluminous- General Cass, in
opening, says rather tartly to Lord Napier, that
while he concurs in the opinion of his lordship, that
the efforts of the British government have now
increased for the extinction of this traffic,
still he must be permitted to say, its hope
of the hearty co-operation of the naval forces of the
United States might safely have been entertained,
without appealing to the example of Great Britain.
General Cass says the United States have not been
less anxious than Great Britain for the exter-
mination of this commerce. The system of

joint blockade has been pursued for some years,
and the benefit it has produced bears no rea-
sonable proportion, he regrets to say, to the
expenditure of life and treasure it has cost.
That this failure need not discourage the
anxious hopes of Christendom. That there is
another method of proceeding, without the dangers
and difficulties, and inefficiency which beset a
blockade, and which is sure to succeed if adopted
and persevered in—and that is, to close the slave
marts of the world, or rather of the Island of Cuba,
which is now almost the only region where the slave
dealer can find a market. Speaking of the United
States, he says the introduction of a slave
into the country is a fact which he be-
lieves the present generation has not witnessed,
and attributes it to a wand state of public opinion.
He argues that the Convention arrangements which
exist between Great Britain and France and Spain,
for their mutual co-operation in the suppression of
the slave trade, do not seem to have produced the de-
sired result, and that upon the course of the Spanish
government far more depends than upon the most
rigorous blockade of tbe African coaat. He recommends
the extension of free coloured establishments
along the coast of Africa as efficient in suppressing
the slave trade. He discusses with much force,
and with the slightest piece of ridicule, the new
scheme of forced labour called apprenticeship, or of
involuntary emigrants, by the French government,
and recognised by the British. In conclusion, he
then says, "I am instructed by the President to inform
your lordship that while he is determined to execute
the treaty of 1842 with fidelity and efficiency, he is
not prepared under existing circumstances to enter-
tain any new stipulations on the subject of the
African slave trade."

A joint resolution was introduced authorising the
President to take measures to obtain from Paraguay
reparation for tiring into the steamer Waterwitch.
The proposition is tantamount to authorising a de-
claration of war against Paraguay.
The instructions given to the United States Com-
missioner in China state that he was authorised to
cooperate with the allies so far as was necessary to
secure the extension of commerce and the protection
of the United States citizens in China.

The red republicans of New York celebrated the
memory of Orsini and Pierri by a torchlight proces-
sion and public meeting in the Park. About 2,500
participated in the celebration, and some 15,000
witnessed the spectacle on the line of march. Several
violent speeches were made by the orators in the
Park.

The British reaidents in New York had celebrated
St. George's day, as usual, with a banquet, at which
Lord Napier was a guest and one of the principal
speakers.
The &enema News says : " An arrival at that
port reports, on the night of the 16th, on the eastern
edge of the Gulf of Mexico that they heard and saw
fired in rapid succession 60 shots, apparently from 32-
pounders, between two ships. Some are of opinion
that it was the Spanish fleet exercising; bat the
news said it had more likely been an encounter
with a slaver or suspected filibuster."
We have advice from Vera Cruz to the 11th inst.
They represents affairs in Mexico as much the same
as previously reported, nothing of importance having
occurred in the position of the opposing parties.

The New York money market had grown still
easier, and the demand was light. Sterling ex-
change was quiet and unaltered. The stock market
was steady, and closed firm at the following
quotations :—Rrie, 261 ; New York Central
shares, 89 ; ditto Sixes, 971 ; ditto Se-
vens, 1021 ; Illinois Central shares, 92 ; ditto
Sevens, 88; Panama shares, 1071; ditto bonds, 100.
Ashes active and firm. Coffee buoyant. Cotton had
been active at an advance of 1 to 9, but closed quiet
at 1210. for middling uplands. Flour and wheat
steady, but with downward tendency. Corn de-
clined 12c., with moderate demand. Hardware
somewhat improved. Iron : Scotch pig selling at
26 dole. to 26 dole. Spirits of turpentine very dull.
Pork had advanced 60c. to 60c., but closed quiet.
Beef firmer. Rice firm. Sugar in better demand,
at late rates. Tobacco quiet, but firm. Freights
without material change.
Latest despatch from New Orleans of the 23rd
says :-B►les of cotton to-day were 8,000 bales, at
111 d. for middling. Canada came after business
hour. Sales of the week 62,000; receipts for the
week 22,000 bales ; stock in port, 340,000 bales.
Freights, cotton to Liverpool seven-sixteenths of •
penny. Sterling exchange, 107 to I.

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LIVERPOOL, Paramr.
The steamer Indian, which started from Port-
land on the 24th of April, was off Helybood .at
10.30 this morning, but her news liviliapilel-
pated by the City of Washington.