The Express.
London, England, 1850-10-28 00:00:00

41ERICA.

The Cambria, CapOda Leitch, arrived at Liverpool
yesterday, with dank from Boston to the 18th, and
Halifax the 18th kelp
The electric telegri_pi briar the news from New
York to the 17th. Thul we have advices four days
later by the ordinary reute,tied six days later by te-
legraph to Halifax that those received on the 24th
lasts per the steamer Atlantic.
The Cambria lett Barton on the 18th instant, and
made the usual bi-montbly call at Halifax on the
18th, to land and receive the mails and passengen to
and from the British North American possessions.
The number of pusengers brought by the Cambria
is 188.

The state elections for Ohio and Pennsylvania have
resulted in a great preponderance for the democratic
party.
We regret to say that disturbances, amounting to a
riot, occurred at Jenny Lind's last convert. The mob
obtained forcible entrance into the concert hall, and
took possession of the meats, refusing to relinquish
them. Hundreds who had taken tickets were en-
tirely excluded.
The excitement classed by the Fugitive Slave Bill
is described as being greatly on the increase.
A telegraphic despatch, dated Detroit, Oct. 12, says:
" The slave excitement continues. The jail is well
guarded by our military, who are ander regular army
diaclipline. The negroes around the city are uttering
awful threats. At Sandwich, in Canada, opposite
Detroit,:there are, at the least calculation, three hun-
dred negroes, who lately crossed the river, and it is
dangerous for a citizen from here to be seen among
them. The house of an Irishman, who informed of a
negro fugitive now in jail, was attacked last night,
and gaps and pistols were fired by both the assailants
and those inside, and some blood was abed. A large
meeting has been held by the friends of freedom, at
which the mayor presided. Speeches were made by
the Hon. S. Bingham, mayor, and Messrs. Joy and
Emmons. Some persons anticipate trouble when the
negro is out; he is now awaiting his papery. A sub-
scription has been raised, sufficient to purchase his
liberty should be be seat back."
Another dispatch, dated Oct. 14, says : " Some
further attempts have been made to capture a number
of fugitive slaves, and serious results are likely to fol-
low. The authorities are using every precaution to
suppress all attempts to rescue the alleged fugitives
now in prison, and the jail is well guarded by the
military." •
The Herald, alluding to the foregoing intelli-
gence, says:
. _ _

We would not be at all surprised to heir of a war of eater-
titillation breaking out between the rams, which will not be
confined to the west, but which will spread throughout the
whole of the free states. Alter an agitation oft Renee years,
the slavery question has reached a crisis—the only crisis that
could follow—and the scenes which the abolition fanatics
laboured to produce in the south, between the black and
white ream there, are now in danger of being enacted in the
free states. We shall look for later intelligence from Detroit
with a groat deal of intone. In almost all the Ire* stoma
the coloured population and the abolition fanatics have held
meetings, at which they ren•lved to oppose the recapture of
fugitive slaves under the bill recently parsed by Congrese, at
the risk of their lime, and to repel force by force. We may,
therefore, look for a collision between the two races, the end
of which no one an predict.

Tne coloured people of the city of Brooklyn had
held a meeting in reference to the bill, and an appeal
of the people of colour to the whites of the free states
was unanimously adopted. . .

Ate public meeting at Boston, on the 14th, on the
subject—
FiIeDISICZ. DOUGLASS stated that he was not present for
the purpose of advocating the principles of abolitionism, but
to 'mai to the cinema of Boston as humane men, as men
of some refinaneat of feeling, as men of civilisation, is behalf
Or a auttriing people. The passage of the halides elave•law,
as it is g Ily called, bad created great alarm, not only in
this city, but in all places at the north, and particularly in
places at the west, where the coloured popul Aloe of many
towns were nearly all fugitives, or connected with fugitives.
Within the past two days he had travelled some five hundred
miles, and found this feeling of alarm to owlet all along his
route, and be had met many fugitives who were on their
way to Canada. After relating instances of the manner
in which awe slaves bed effected their escape, he said
the pr.neipal object of the masters, in regaining
possession of fugitives, was to gratify a malignant feeling
of revenge, for every one was well aware that any slave who
' has ono, tasted the sweets of freedom, and realised the fact
slut he is a men, if taken back into bondage, is fir from
making a profitable slave. He next narrated the circum-
maims connected with the escape of a female slave, who is
now in New Bedford, and put the inquiry, if the slave
hunter from the south should gain possession of her, and
abeald take her through Boston, would the citisess suffer
bee to be taken back into the house of bondage ? The ghee- 1
ilea was distinctly and decidedly answered in the negative. I
His own family had been greatly alarmed recently, by the
receipt of two telegraphic despatches, to the effect that the
oaten were in pursuit of his own pence ; and here he
would remark that ha stood free ; not in core. quince of the
amesge of any law, but by the payment of 750 dole. in Bri-
dal% gold to the democratic alaveholder at Bt. Michael's, who
: claimed to own his body. But he bad a regularly drawn u
'bill of sale of his own body, yet he sometimes bad feels
that it might cousin some flaw which would render it of no
us to him. Upon learning that hunters were after him, his,
bet thought was to flee to Canada, but he finally coneuded
se remain at home, and receive them like a man, one at a
time. If the people of the United Stain are determined to
carry out the principles of this law, the coloured people can-
not p it. They were at the mercy of the people of the
Bantry. He wished not to deal in the language of defiance, ,
as they could proclaim no united resistance to the law. It
cal i remained for them to continue to suffer; and be felt
authorised to state, that the coloured population of Boston
bad resolved, one and all, that while they can have no hope
of successful resistanos to the fugitive bill, they would sutler
death rather than be returned to the bonds of slavery.
A terrible accident occurred at New York on the
12th. The ship Western World, from Liverpool,
had been unloading fur the last two or three days at
pier 8; and, on Saturday, a quantity of pig iron,
amounting to about 150 tons, had been removed from
her arid laid in one spot on the dock, and several carts
and men were engaged in putting it on board a barge,
which lay at the end of the wharf. From the great
weight of the iron, being all on one spot, the pier
gave way, precipitating carte, horses, men, and women
into the river, with a terrible crash and commotion
of the water. The ship and barge were caused to roll
for a considerable time. It appears that the three
beams called stringers, upon which the planking rests,
and which run from the land to a pier of stones sunk
in a wooden frame, or crib, broke off near the stones
on which they reseed, while the pressure of the iron
downward mused the planks to start up, and some of
them were out off as short as if they were sawed.
There were two of the labouring men drowned,
and a woman who had a stand beside the
ship. There were two coloured men seriously in-
jured, named Joseph Dom and Coleman Royal, who
were conveyed to the City Hospital. There was one
man saved with much difficulty, who held on by a
plank till he was rescued. One horse and cart were
last, the horse going down bead foremost, and the
art after him. Three others were saved, one of them
having only his head out of water, the cart and his
body being covered. The harness was out away, and
the tackling being rigged to the maioyard of the
skip, he was hoisted up. Two others lay on the top
'teach other. About seventy or eighty feet of the
'Wharf is wrecked, and the rest appears to be in a
allige state.
, followingmoonlit of the riot alluded to
alive is ken the Boston Mail
• zgeostaftaturdayaseveataffe—rthseicelnal
mwhonich J e awns y
Rests.fleet a
1 elliel bg • MOM of elm Ileapeople, nearly double the
ertithee RE wheel MY lei provided, or who could
fintillianiamt elbees Nam. We have witnessed many scenes
of metmerffinary psewase and excitement—but env.
Wag Nat would sempare with the demonstration on this
atolls. There were three classes of tickets sold—first
ohm $ dole , second 2 dals.,end promenade tickets 1 dol. ; and
the seiletioa is peke from former exorbitant premium rate.,
ailed to the announcement that it was to be Jenny's
Mt mmissit, lodated an extraordinur rush for eats among
ewe elm Aims, which alone would have filled the to-
theettel'ben. This, however, appears to have been but a
lip *Miss In the comprehensive mind of Mr. Barnum
effillils spate in Portland, Portsmouth, Laurel', Belem, and
la twee em the line of the Western Railroad, 'old tickets
Ifilim iso purchaser
.titling the puhaser to a pom to
pand fro,
k. ..at the concert, all at a pries which few who had
a/ tie Nightingale could withstand.
elliseptenoe of all this extra puffing and steam was
wisely whet indeht have been expected. Those who ar-
rived et the hall earliest were enabled, wide the aid of the
to obtaia south, and at half-past seven o'clock a large
awl easgestahle audience were la waiting for the Cal-
ms iss sownsons. At this moment word was passed to ad-
ult the "peemesade tickets." Then enamored the rush
sad the uproar. We venom to say that a similar tune
serer before presented Itself at Boston. The " promenaders,"
woe& of themselves to fill three-fourths of the hall,
pegged In a perfect avalanche, mixed op in which were
RIM ladies. hula' tickets, but who bad been compelled to
mall iiiiik bg da• crowd that blockaded the entrance. Be.
well leamhme ei the orchestra, alto, who had been kept
way by fla mese obstruction, were unable to take partite
weettare.
Rat ea awl ip the stairway swept the MSS pell-mell
111MiiMallitiadypecked ball a current of live sad
Was mad , haposible to withstand. They
OW** smog is ass Jenny, sad neither embed ribs,
dierigii lama .stem diy-goods were of say mount.

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Bui her they would. The doors leading to the superiersaa.
ant's and director's offices, on either side of the main ponds
I way, were forced in by the pressure, the locks were broken
and panels shivered to pieces. The climax of this extra.
ordiasry concert scene, however, was ensued for the
interior of tho hall. The immense propelling forte
b,
:
in the rear drove thine in front with grew violence
upon the seated audience, sod
.then began It scene of
noise, confusion, and fear, impossible to describe. 8 ~,,, I
ladies, under the impression that the hall feu Menne v„,.
fainted with fright; others shrieked, while the oppnejai
crowds surged to and fro; Wows were exehaneed, sad for
several entrintes the clamour was absolutely Cesfeniag
Windows were smashed, settees and chairs demolished, and i
widest if not bloody riot mimed at this moment to be gi
unavoidable r, suit.
No riot of a serious character, however, took place; and
Jagless, and notifying all such as returned their tickets that
word Wins passed to the officers at the door to top d fir:
the stoney would be paid back, after awhile the contusion in
moms &gm ceased.
Joon, Lind was exceedingly grieved and frightened at the
threatening aspect of affairs, and burst into teparsp.amiih:
gad, that the crowd might be informed frem her that Steil
money should be returned to inch NI were dieeppointed in
whe.arl.eg
itered..Bithler
etontr.hiamsehlfu.rdemehirseas.d,
after left for his hotel. One gentleman in toe crowd offered
600 dollars to any person who would flod Barnum and bring
kink within mob of the crowd. _

The damage to the doors, windows, and fixtures in she
Lel is estiasarrd at &b lot 500 dole.

The Weekly Herald says:. Barnum's treasurer
wu buy ail the afternoon (after the ri,it) at the
Fitchburgh depot office, refunding the money t such
as had tickets and were unable to hear Jenny sing,
It is said that if Barnum had not left tows the same
morning he would have been mobbed."
Jenny Lind, with her cousin, prmate secretary, and
accompanied by Mears. Benedict and Beiletri, l,ft on
the 14th, via New Haven ;and will proceed direct to
Philadelphia.
W. find the following in the Raton Daily Afire:,
titer :

CHIMP EXCITRION TO ENOLAND PROPOSED.—The
Transcript earnests, on the authority of a cwrispuidrot.
that a line of first class packets will 'wee, provided 100 pss
singers can be obtained, to furnish a puss.te to Liverpool
and back, with Rood acconantolatiNts and exe..lent leer, for
80 dots. each passenger—to leave Boston ab nt the middle at
It.y next, and to mil on the return About the let of Aaelaaß
It is stated that the trip can be made, it:eluding the ex-
penses of three weeks' residence in London sad three weeks
devoted to excursions in various parts of Ragland, at a coat
of 100 dole. Such a trip, we fear, would be too cheap to be
either pleasant or profitable.

The New York Weekly Herald has the following;
Inlvrmetion trz:m London has arrived in this city, whisk
Rives the Mende of the Nicaragua canal reason to believe
that there will be much difficulty in raising money among
British capitalists tor the purpme of ca•rying out the project.
The treaty between Mr. Clayton and Sir Henry Silver, of
the 19 h to April lam, it is well known, bee been read differ-
ently by different persons, and conflUts with the Spier tr•a•y
made between our !government and • 'comma. It was int.
mated that Mr. Bulwer's friends in London would take thrm-
fourths of the capital stock, in which, we mese me, he is natu-
rally interested ; but the discussions of the Mosquitia question,
and of the occupation, by the British, of flan Juan, seem to
have chilled the impulses of British capitalists. Mr. Joseph
L. White, who went out to London to raise money for the
canal, finds that the merits of the whole subject are there
well understood, and that the difficulty in the way of the
canal is net easily surmounted It is evident •hot the faith
of the Ilci!ed &time is pledged to the Nicaraguan govern•
meet, and while the Senate of the United States have paused
on Mr. Squier's treaty to consider the pre-ition of the whole
topic, in all its relations, It is not surprising that British
capitalists ehnuld pause also, before they imperil their money
in an enterpr a that may yet be involved in a series of pro-
tracted diplomatic negotiations, if not in a serious quarrel
between Enghaid and the United States. The whole matter
now rests on England's continuing to maintain her proteclo•
rata over a portion of the Nicaraguan territory, known es
Mosquitia. No canal can be built while this claim iv
maintained.

On the 14th another steamboat explision occurred
near Pittsburgh, and four persons were ir.stantly
kilted; flee o- six others were dangerously scalded.
In Montreal (from whence we have dates to the
14th), preparations have been making on a large
scale for the Grand Industral Exhibition, which is to
take place on the 17th, 18th, and 19.1 inst. The
specimets of wheat, copper, and forest wot de, which
will be presented on this occasion, it is believed cannot
be rivalled in the world.

The miring companies in the vicinity of Lake Su-
perior are prosecuting_ their operations with great
energy and success. The recent develapmente, both
in the copper and iron regions, are of a highly flatter-
ing character, and serve to dispel all doubts vi h re-
gard to the feasibility of the enterprise. 'foe con-
nection of the lakes by means of a ship canal, whic'a
will soon be effected, will afford every facility for com-
munication, and the mineral wealth of the Upper
Peninsula will find an easy transit to all parts of the
country. It is estimated that the rough copper which
will be sent down from Lake Superior the present
lyear will amount to over two and a half millions of
pounds. About 1,000 operatives are to be employed
the ensuing winter, in connection with the mining
enterprise.
The present mail brings news from llsvannah to
the Bth inst. Great excitement existed at Havanturh
ia consequence of a report that 6,000 men were con-
gregated in the United States, and reedy to embark
on another expedition under Lopez. The Captain-
general had disbanded the volunteers, through fear
that they were leagued with the invaders. The sol-
diers sleep on their arms, and the navy is in the best
possible order. The disarming of volunteers caused
considerable excitement between the Captain-general
and the citizens. The rumours relative to another
expedition are supposed to have originated with sugar
speculators, whe wish to keep prices down. ACCOUIIOI
from the interior of the island state that the cholera
was still prevailing amongst the plantations. The
disease bad also broken out on the south side. The
stock of molasses at Havannah was light, and some
sales had been made at 21 reale. The sales of auger
were very small, in consequence of the high prices
asked by holders. The lower grades are moat active.
' Coffee seems to have been in good demand.

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH TO HALIFAX.
_ _ NEW YORK, Ocr. 17.

The steamer Arctic sailed on her trial trip to-day.
The America's mils were received in New Orleans
on Tuesday evening, ten minutes ahead of time, and
gave, yesterday, inonseed firmness to the cotton
market.

The stock market continues active, and with ad-
vancing prices, especially the lancil s. The Govern-
ment Sizes (87) sold to-day at 117 f ; Indiana State
Fives, 80; Ohio Sevens, 106.
Quotations of prime of cotton, flour, wheat, and
Indian corn are precisely as when the Cambria's
mails left.

[rat Ameriola mad Canadias markets see bat pap.]

COLONIAL.