The Express.
London, England, 1850-11-11 00:00:00

LATEST NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.

IT 11.10T3110 TILIIWILLPH, VIA HALITALX.
NZW YORK, OCT. 31.
The President of the American Republic has issued
an official notice that lie has come to the determina-
tion of calling out the military of the republic to en-
force the provisions of the Fugitive Slave Bill.
It was generally considered that this would aggra-
vate matters instead of oniciliating.
Last night there was a monster mewing of mer-
chants and tradesmen, who unanimously supported
the law. Sales to-day of Goren:meet Sizre, at 1091;
of '67, at 117 ; Ohio Sizes of '3O, at 1101; Indiana
State Fives, 791; Penneylvania, 922. Caen and flour
market dull Prices in favour of buyers. To-day's
quotations, Liverpool classification—ordinary to mtd-
tiling uplands, 131 to 14:; Cita!, 13: to 151 ; good
land fine, 161 to 16; Gulf, 16 to 161.

CANADA.
Our correspondent writes as follows :
MONTREAL, OCT. 28.
A subject of some interest is at present being dis-
gusted is this peovirese—it is the proposition to make the
Island of Anticosti a convict station of Great &tufo. The
proposed= is variossly regarded. On one hand it is con-
leaded that the measure would h. pr__ue_ve of commercial
advantages to Canada ; and on the other that ell tho good
t►at It could thus produce would be more than eouoterba-
lanced by the immoral influence of so sloes a proximity of •
settlement of convicts.

There in force in both arguments. Anticosti is a Tarp
island, 126 miles long, 30 milts broad, and contains about a
million of saes. Situated at the aorth side of the Golf of
et. Lawrence, and presenting an Inho•pdeble s►o►e, without
any harbours fur the protection of shipping, it is dangerous
to navigators. It is not likely that it will our be settled, as
' both the land and the timber opus i: are way poor. It is
contended by those in favour of making this island a convict
station, that a large breakwater might be cont!tucte4 by
convict labour for to. formation of a harbour, which would
be of immense 'legates* to navipton in the Gulf. The
work would be inamen•e, hat possible of accomplithment ;
and of such importance is it that it will, no doubt, be neel
day constructed, wbethir by convict labour or not.
But, on the other hand, I believe the dislike in
this colony is strong to having anything to do
with convicts. In the first place there is the teilprorfip;
in the next there is always a coital. amount of poems
contamination. Convicts will eL•ct their escape in greater
or lees numbers; and at the pinta instant the New
Brunswick papers are loudly complaining of the drpreda•
tione of a 'Eno escaped c,,nviats from the Island of Bermuda.
The eubjee• of a line of first else& screw propellers loom
Liverpool to Quebec, is ettraetiagatteation In relation to the
carrying of emigrants. Than an very eopat reasons in
favour of this prop•,sition. It will be enoagh to mention
ow : It is that the St. Lawrence and the Lakes offer by
far the cheapest and best route to the western mates, now
that:oar magnificent line of canals is finished, to leave
entirely out of the gumbo the fames.e region, of Western
Canada. . _ _ _

Some engmeen are at present examiaiag Lake St. Poker,
between this city and Que 11..., with a view to deepening it.
The latest adverts resolved are very favemarable, sad it this
work ia dose it will be of great importaam to mu trade, is it
will enable vessels or a larger class to so through the buts
than Mom which come at presses to Montreal.
In poliie• there is nothing new. T►e last of the trials foe
the bemires of the parliament hoes, will tame off to-day.

[Far AZlNitill and Canadian waarkata me lot page.]

TURKEY.

Our correspondent writes confirming the account of
the blowing up of a Turkish three decker.
CONSTANTINOPLE. Ocr. 24.

At ten in the morning cf the 23rd of October, the
120 gun ship, Neiri-Shefket. carrying the Admiral's
fag, blew up in the Goblets Horn. Of 700 men who
were on board, only 200 bodies had been picked up.
The Journal de Conetan;inople of the 24th thus de-
scribes this appalling accident:—" Yesterday (Wed-
nesday), about ten in the morning, a frightful ex-
plosion shook the whole port. The three-
decker, Nein-Bhefket, of 120 gun., bearing
the admiral'. figg, blew np in the part of the
port situated below the arsenal in the midst
of the whole Ottoman fleet. The powder magazine
had caught fire. In a few minutes the port was
strewn with fragments of the ship mixed with dead
bodies. The ship remained for five minutes rocking
before she went down, and then sank, leaving only her
maintopgallant mut above water. Between 6 mid 7
hundred men were on board the admirers ship when
thi, dreadful catastrophe, of which the causes are still
unknown, took place. About 200 bodies have bran
picked up."

lEty Court.

WINDSOR, Noy. 9.

To-day we. the birth-day of the Print* of Wales.
The Royal Home Guards, under the command of Colonel
Reneging., end the first battalion of the Cddstrean Gaud.,
ander the cossemod of Colossi Codriegton, paraded this
morning on the eastern terrace of the Castle in the presence
of her Majesty and Prises Albert, who were accompanied
by the Prince of Wales, Prins Alfred. the Princess Royal,
and the Princess Alin, sad were attended by the (trunks
in waiting. The troops fired a fen de join in hotter of the
day. Hi. Royal Blames Prises Albert went oat heating
this morning, attended by Ligament-Colonel the Rom. A.
Mos. The president elect of the R yel Academy, with
the merstarT. had an audience of the Queen tc-lay, when
her Majesty wee pleased to &mediae the election of C. L
Esetlake, EM., sod be had the hussar to kiss heads upon
his arpointniect. The royal dinner deals at the Castle to-
day included her Royal Highness the Duchies of Lest,
Lady Augusta Bruce, Baroness de Bpeth, Lied -Colonel
the Ike. C. B. Phipps Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey, 81,
Gnome Casper, Mt. Binh, end Mr. Glover. lb. likens,
Welsh harper le the Prime of Wales. &tinned la the ma-
ne, sod bad the honorer of performing Wore her Majtsty
sad the Court.
SUNDAY, Nov. 10..—The gam sad Prince Albert walked
this megraing_in the slopes. Th. royal family took 'Whirs.
mercies. fist Majesty and Prince Albert, the Pliaoolll
Royal, the ladies and gentlemen of the court, and the
doessetlekomehold, attended diets. service. this monalag, la
the private chapel. The Ron. and Rm. 0. Wellesley all.
dated. TM Delheill of Sent also attended the service.

The Duchess of Cambridge visited the Duchess of
Gloucester, as SAtarday, at Olosemater-boaae.
Baron Koller, Austrian chargé d'affairee, had an
interview with Sir G:atia Grey, an Friday, at tits Hoar
_ _

The Rev. Dr. Binney had an interview with Earl
Grey, on Saturday, at the Colonial once.
Despatches were received on Saturday, at the Coln-
ntal•olfice, from the pvernor of Slim Loofa.

Tut: Goi

OT MALTA.—ChIr contipon-
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dent of Malta informs us that there is no loam say ____
or to Yr. M.= O'Ferrall's retirement from the government
of Malta. He his desisted that he shall leave is April nest
se his isonstihstion will not permit of his risking soothe;
summer on As Malta island, Lrd Beaumont, we natter,
stood, is to mowed Mt. More O'Frrrall.

ROYAL COLLEGE OP Strzazon.—Thill following
gentlemen hero, undergoes the nereary eliminations,
wen admitted members of the teller on the Bth instant :
!Sykes, Mile-end road; J. C. It'Mullan, Belfast ;
IL Heath, London; P. Alley, Waltham Abbey; A. T. Pres-
ton, Manchester : T. Aspinall, Over Dowse, Lancashire ;
A. M. Button, Bury Bt. Elsanntie; T. Morris, Chepstow ;
Williams,J. Portloe, Cornwall; and 8. 8. Lamour*, Lang-
port, Somerset. At the same meeting of the court More
J. Ward and C. 8. Hugo passed their examination for naval
eargease.
ADMISSION OF ATTOIINETS.—In a lilt just pub-
fished by the Inorporated Law Sorie'y, the names of 203
articled sleeks are inserted who have given notice of their ,
intention to some up for examination in Hilary Term, 1361,
repentant to Wag admitted to practise r attorneys.
Tao WEST INDIA STULL= ESE left Southampton
Yesterday for the Brasil.lShe took out ship letter-burs for
Lire" Madeira, Teneriffe, Pernambuco, Bahia, sad Rio de
Janeiro. The Esk is gone out to make the nicerary ar-
rangements for the new Brazilian packet service. When this
is done she will be employed to run between Rio do Janeiro
and Buenas Ayres. The first steamer with the Br. ilium
mails will leave Southampton oe the 9th January next. The
new et risk* will not common.. In England and In
the Braila at the same time, and consequently the first
homeward mail steam-packet will not arrive in England
before March neat. la January and February next the
mails from the Berns will be brought r at present to
Falmouth by bee Majesty's brigs of war.