The Express.
London, England, 1850-06-05 00:00:00

THE NICARAGUAN CANAL

The folk% lug is from the letter of our Kew York
corn spondent
I have within the last few day. become somewhat better
sequalated with the plan of operations of the Nicaragua
Canal Company. Their agent has returned from a second ex-
pion ios, and all the arrangements are nearly conspired to
begin the transit by the middle of next meth. The chief
obrractiets to large vessels bat the mouth of the river Sam
Jaen. There fa • bar there which SaiallOt be parsed by
vessAls drawing Ave feet of water. A channel eao, however,
be easily dredged. Linde there is water for vessels drawing
20 Act, sad all the way uo the river then is tat one place
where the water shoals slows' to three bet Ere inekee. P.r
haps • more thorough examination of the =oath of the lan
Jams would lead to the drinovery of the eharsool sad to have
be-o discovered he an E,glistnailit 111 the year 180.5, with
20 fe- t weer,. The rapids in the river may he abutted by
a canal, of very short event, as there is a bead in the
✓reun at the point when the rapids occur. L'ght draught
et
-enters, such as are used on the Mississippi and
Oho riven, may therefore navigate the neer at
the lowest stage of water. This statement con-
firms the statemests of Mr. Bailey, wha made a sat
trey of the neer in 1837 sad 8. It is proposed here in
New York to ascend the river SAG Juan is stamen with a
liey.t draught of water, and theses cress the lek to the
westward to Grenada, a distance of 80 nil... Thence to
cross by carts or outages to San Juan Seer on the Pacific
nine miles. The easel when executed wield carry the

traffic to Ballo. A mercantile friend Wee, the hens; end
estahlistmeut which Sir Henry Balser is to occupy on Sta-
ten Island, • wife and interesting fussily, to establish him-
self on the Nitaimus route, and to seize the fire admin.
taps that it may offer to American enterprise. He sails
seat wee's. and as awn as he reaches his desticrion I shall
bras from him. Too *lll Stu, t►roofb this medium, be it
advance of all your metemperarlee la relation to this project.

ALGRRIA.—A supplement of the Moniteur Alge
rien of the 25th ult. gives details of the engagement in
which 0 aerial de Barrel received the wound whims resulted
it his dsatb. On the 21st ult. the general, after being
deleyel three days by t, nears of rain, marched from Dittm-
an& el Bawl k, near Trout", against the tribe of the Beni-
Imm• I. As he expected. he found 3,000 Malty!'" prepared
for resistance; they were glacial on a line of rocas, between
which and the general were ravines, in which only one man
a• a time could penetrate. The general arranged his plan of
attack, and himself marched at tee head of the troops spinet
the roomy. As be wet prneeding he wu struck in the
breast by a bullet, He was able to remain on horse-
back until C dotal de L)unstel cense up, and ree -iced
Vtat et sunand from him. Colonel de Lourmel then pro-
ceeded wits the attack, ani eventually the French, cavalry
and i :fanny, were able to rash on the Kaby les ; and, not-
withstanding they were met by a discharge of musketry,
'hey campletely touted them, killed 200, pursued the
lat aw for six hours, and &Belly ware to their villages The
French had rely 13 men wounded and two bongo killed.
Tin next day the Beni•lanels demanded the amen, and the 1
Tiles' and the Aid Ammo, who had been in inaurreetion for
two years, also made their submission. The bullet was ex-
tracted from the wound of General de Barrel, and the gene- I
ral was conveyed to Bougie. The Monitestr Algeriaw pine
details of other military movements in different plates, but
they are not of g I interest ; they are, however, on the
whole, favourable to the French. This journal announces
the sudden death at Fez of Bou Hamodi, exMCira of Abd-
o! Kstler: it was said that he had bees poisoned. His de-
mac had aaased great terror among the Algeria families
established is Morocco. A great number of them, eompria,
ing ab,st 1,500 individuals, residing at Fez or in the yieini.y,
bad applied ea the French consul at Tangiers to he allowed
to return. Fifty families of the Beni Amen, who had emi
grated to Dschde, is Korean, with the Caid el Otteasamd,
hod in consequence of this, returned to the French territory,
where they were divided amongst as dig fractions of
the Beni Amer Oarshas.

TIM NATIONAL EXHIBMOI4 or 1831.—A full
meeting of the Liverpool committee of the above under-
taking, was held on Saturday, the Mayor in the chair, for
the purpose of meeting Dr. Lyon Playfair, one of the Lon-
don commissionen. At t' a commencement of the proceed
lags the secretary made a statement of the wafture*
hitherto taken in Liverpool with a view to the exhibition.
" The committee wee formed in November lest, and shortly
after sent out einalan inviting the co-cperition of all
.news. Owing to the want of any local manufacture meny
usesoets bad thought that the inhabitants had not that
Inteurt in the matter which pledged the people of Man-
chester sad other large towns to the Pastas Huy forcible
replies toil numerous premium had been received, bat the
penal remelt was not satisfactory. It bad been proposed
to send to the exhibition a model of the docks and public
buildings, of Liverpool, u well as specimens of the
leading imports of the place. Several architec'a
bad promised models of different buildings, and
it wee hoped that something might be given to suns-
plisb the object by the London commisionere." Dr.
Play fair said that the intentions of the Liverpool committee
were praiseworthy. They had raised flOOl for the model;
het B the coeuraesaionen in London paid 1,0001. fur the
muse, they woad be lift with 2001. less than no-
thing for general purpose+. He wished to know
how muck Liverpool would seed, not for lo-
I sal bet for general purposes. He urged that
it would be necessary to appoint a sifting committee to
select ell articles before they were sent, for no article
would be reerived without such previous sanetion. The
preliminary expenses were expected to be 100,0001. and the
Interior fittings and other 'swages would vet about
60,0001. more. They bad nutsulted parties, and upecially
la Prance, on the probable amount to be received for ad.
minion, sad tee sum would not meet the deficit
that would arise.—Mr. Rushton said it would be wrong
to allow Dr. Playlair to go away under the impres-
sion that Liverpool would supply a lane amount to-
wards the weans' porpoise, such as the building, the preli-
minary eapeerse, Is.- In Nov. a general meeting wee
hold. sad It was expected that 6,000/. would he raised,
but they Wed bees du ppninted.—Mr. T. LitUedale, cha4-
men of the dock committee, said that the subject had
been hn,eglit before that body, but there were no hopes
of eaceeee.—The Mayor said the council had been spaded
to for a great, bet they had not agreed to it.—Mr. Hors•
fall esiti he thought the do• k committee bad made a great
'Ueda's is not hatbox fend, r the model in the first
instance ; should they penis% in their afeetianswe there
was so alternative but to devote the subsesiAions to the
general pores** of the commission.—lt was finally re
solved that &put/lions from the committee should visit
the several wards of Liverpool to weertaia the degree of
support t• be et:petal for the exhibition, the deputations
to make • report on the 19th Piet. The nestling then
wronged.