The Express.
London, England, 1857-09-21 00:00:00

THE BRAZILS AND RIVER PLATE.

SOUTHAMPTON, SATURD.I.I.
The Royal Mall Company's steam ship Prince,
Captain Hammack, arrived this day from the Brazils and
River Plate, with seven passengers.
The latest dates are—Boenoa Ayres, Aug. 2; Monte
Video, 6 ; Rio de Jam" ro, 13 ; Bah n, 18 ; Pernambuco,
23; St. Vincent (Cve de Vied*, Sept. 5 ; Medeira, 12.
The 'deices are antidpated.
She reports that on the 4th of August the Brazil mail
steam ship Guanabara Ina lost on We rucks ut Maldonado,
mar Monte Video. All heads saved.
Oa the 30th of August, in lat. 12.24 N., long. 26.11 W.,
pasted the British ship Genghis Khan, standing to the
southward of westward. On the sth inst., her Majesty's
troop ship 'actuary snivel at St. Vincent's, on her plumage
home. On the 13th inst. peened the Hamburg 'hip Jupiter.
The Prince has been oat on the River Plate station twelve
months, and returns foe repairs.

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE AMERICA.
(Thor ooh owns 0011/01POODISI.)

LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY.
The America, W. J. C. Lang, of the British and
North American line, arrived in the Mersey this
evening with 49 passengers, 9,000 dollars specie, and
the usual mails.
The America left Boston on the 9th instant, and
Halifax,
The General Williams arrived at Halifax on the
7th. The postmaster-general has, with the anent of
the President, and in deference to the strong expres-
sion of the public sentiment in Philadelphia,
concluded to suspend the improvements on the Pen-
nsylvania Bank long enough to enable Congress to
declare whether it will exchange the use of the
building now occupied as the Custom-house fur that
of the Post-office.
The commercial accounts from New York report
failuret, railroad accidents, and shipwrecks.
The discount market was in an unsettled state,
and there NU a wide range of terms outside the
banks.
The cotton market was steady, and, under Euro-
pean advice', manifests more spirit, closing at former
rates.
Breadstuff's : Flour was again dull and lower,
closing at a decline. Wheat was unsettled, and
Indian corn closed with limited transaction,.
Sugars were in good demand, and coffee firmer.
Freights were steady, with more offering. Grain
L was staked for Liverpool, and flour was taken at Is.
and afterwards at la. ad. per barrel.

CHINA.

Wiwi ova owl( coaamaromirr.)
DEPARTURE OF LORD ELGIN FOR INDIA.

HONG KONG, JOLT 16.
In my last you were informed that the Earl of
Elgin was about to proceed to the northward—it was
said to Japan, but it was more generally believed
that his lordship's destination was Pekin, to endea-
vour by diplomatic means to avert the horrors of
war. A council of war had assembled, at which
it was resolved that until a much larger military
force arrived it would not be possible to keep Can-
ton, although its capture might be easily effected by
the joint operations of the naval and military forces
at present here. Soon after the deliberations were
over the steamer Lancefield came in on the 14th
inst. with much graver news from Bengal, and this
determined the noble earl's resolution to proceed at
once to Calcutta, and to send to the assistance of the
Governor-General of India all the military forces
destined for China.

JULY 26.

I am now in a position to inform you what there is
reason to believe is the object of Lord Eight's self-
imposed mission to Calcutta, in which, if his Excel-
lency succeeds, it will secure him a step in the
peerage. Many of the Bengal regiments have been
disarmed, not because they had shown decided
symptoms of mutiny, but as a precautionary measure
they were deprived of their arms, and if removed
from the tempting influence of evil example they
would be found, as heretofore, staunch and loyal.
Lord Elgin has, on his Own, responsibility, after con-
with General Ashburnham, gone to confer
with Lmd Canning, and to offer some of the Euro-
pean regiments in exchange for Bengal native troops,
the disarmed sepoys, who will be best kept out of
mischief by giving them military service.
During the last war the Bengal and Madras
native regiments did signal service ; indeed the
Chinese troops were so much annoyed with black
soldiers being employed against them, that they
directed much of their fire against the " black
devils," as the Sepoye were styled. Already Lord
Elgin has ordered all European soldiers for China to
proceed on to India, and himself has taken on 300
mariner, calling at Singapore fur any troops that
may have strived at that place from England. The
Governor-General may well and safely spare a dozen
Sepoy regiments, who would be, I believe, as firm in
their allegiance and as gallant in performing their
military duties in China as during the late war.
Should Lord Elgin succeed in his mission, and the
result turn out equal to expectation, his Excellency
will have the blessing of hie Sovereign and the
thanks of the British nation. The Earl's stay at Cal-
cutta will not exceed ten days or a fortnight, when
his Excellency will return to Chins to carry out the
original plan of operations.
Already there is raised a cry here against Lord
Elgin's apparent indifference to the important mis-
sion on which he has been specially sent, but when
our citizens learn the cause of the earl's departure,
and the noble and patriotic aim ho seeks to accom-
plish, they will see that his lordship has done his
best to secure the safety of our Indian empire, and
the effectual conduct of the expedition to China.

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