The Express.
London, England, 1850-11-25 00:00:00

THE SLAVE TRADE.

The following is the answer received from Lord
Palmerton toe memorial of the Glasgow committ,e. It is
much more spirited than tke usual curt official mowers given
in seek ores :
"Foreign Office, November 18, 1850.
Sir,—l am directed by Visoount Pekoe re!on to acknow-
ledge the receipt of the memorial of the comosittre appointed
by the public meeting held at Glasgow, on the 28:h of Sep-
timber feat, of which you were chairman, and which was
accompanied by a copy of the resolutions adopted by that
meeting, urging upon her Majesty's government the neon-
city of causing the treaties for the suppression of the slave
trade, which have been concluded between Great Britain
and foreign countries, and especially with Spain and Sena,
to be strictly enforced.
"I am to state toyou,inreply,thatLord Palm erston has
received with great pie aunt, from so distinguished a commu-
city as the eitisees of Glasgow, a memorial 'opening such
jest and honourable sentiments upon a subject which well
deserves to engage the serious attention of the people of this
country; and his lor lehip is pled to be able to saints you
that these matters continue to be the 06j-et of the earnest
endeavours of her Majesty's government, and that the mea-
sures which her Majesty's government are taking in regard
to them arpear likely to be attended with satisiactory results.
—I am, Sir, your most obedient, humble servant,
(Signed) " STLXLIIIi OF ALDERLIT.
" To Sir James Asderems,
Lord Provost of Glasgow, &e. &e."

TOE SALE OT MATERIALS AT BEITANNIA.BEIDOE I
was cAcluded on Saturday. The weather remained favour-
able and Van was a good attendance of witting engineers
and others, and high prices were maintained throughout.
The only article. amid wore two of the large iron pontoons
used at the Owings, and some large capstans. The proceeds ,
of the sale of materials have been estimated at about 12,0001.
The hydraulic presses have been purchased by the makers,
the Bank Quay Foundry, Warrington, for the purpoee of
exhibition at the fathoming industrial display of 1851.
CAUTION TO CORONERS' JURIES.—On Saturday
Mr. H. M. Wakley, after waiting three quarters of an hour
for juries summoned to attend an inquest, sent the summon-
ing officer to the boasts of the absent jurors, to ascertain the
Pass of their absence. After some time the summoning
Maser returned with Mr. Gibbon and Mr. Watts, the jurors
who did not attend, and as they gave no proper erase for
their non-attendanee, the coroner fined each of them 101.,
assuring them that he would enforce the fines. He then
adjourned the court without going into the inquiry.
HIGHWAY ROBBERY AND ATTEMPTED MURDER
MLR. CalLllLl.—The court at the Town-hall, Cal
was crowded to sneasation on Saturday morning, it balsa
bees mated that four desperate °bemoan, who had reined
sad made a ratite, midnight attack upon Mr. Palmer,
farmer, of Hall flat, near Carlisle, would be brought up for
sanitation. The names of the primers are W. Mooney.
J. Th.:impala, W. Graham, and R. Pinuick • The pro-
secutor, John Palmer, who evidently suffered much,
stated in seldom that he was a farmer, living at Ball-
ast!, and that, while on his way home with his art from
Carlisle, on Saturday night week, about eleven o'clock,
Mounsey and Pinot& came behind the cat, and asked for a
ride. Tney got upon it behind, and soon after Graham came
op and seista, his horse by the head, The prisoners in the
cart then seised him by the throat, and mak him some
severe blows, whisk neared Ma insensible. The last words
be heard were " Stiek lam." Oa somas to his senses, he
found that he had bees robbed of Ws., a silver watch, and
shoat 861 b. of beef. The pelsonen repeatedly interrupted
• the witness, In coarse avid breast language they accused him
of Oaring falsehoods, tad the magistrates were more than
once obliged to interletre. A man named CAleld swore tl•as
be was ip oomprAy. with the prisoners after the robbery Wk
plonk and bought some beef of them. Ho afterwards get
oohed an acermat of the robbery from Graham. This wit:
mess was also caner mailed_ by the priamien, who were
ulaMately aftesitiod SO take Weil trial at the ant anima,

The Canada, Citptain Hudson, arrived at Liver-
Inni=nYe with dates item Boston to the 13th,
OW 161 auk ••- . •
"Al the latter port telegraphic news of later dates
yes pat co board. The steam-ship Africa (Cunard
whiolt left_this port on the 26th nit-. and the
Atlantic (Collins line), which sailed hence on the 30th
oft., had both arrived at their destination after pas-
of 13 days each.
hs political nem by the Canada chiefly relate to
the state elections, many of which had been con-
cluded. In the states of Illinois and Michigan, and
territory of Wisconsin, the democratic candidates for
Congress were elected by large majorities.
By the arrival at New 'York of the steamers Em-
pire City, Cherokee, and Georgia, we have advice'
from San Freesias) to the 6th of October. These
steamers collectively brought specie to the amount of
3,193,000 dollars in gold-dust. Upward, of 4,200,000
dollars in gold-duet was waiting at Panama for ship-
ment when the three steamers tell.
The President bag issued a proclamation promul-
gating a commercial treaty with the Sandwich
Islands.
The steamer Telegraph, while on her passage from
Philadelphia to Baltimore, burst her boiler, on the 7th
November, and nearly twenty persons were killed.
The losses sustained by the late fire at San Fran.
ciece were underrated in our last report. Property
to the amount of 1,000,000 dole. has heel consumed.
The merchants, comparatively, suffer lightly. The
gold harvest was coming io, and extensive shipments
, may be expected for several months. New placers are
still diecovered as the old 'ones are exhausted. This
will continue to be the eerie till the whole surface of

the gold region I. thoroughly sifted.
The most disestrous intelligence (says the New }'ork
Weekly Herald) comes from the overlscid emigrations. The
only wocder is that the low of life has not been greater.
From the Missouri front:ers, up the great Platte river to i•e
sourest year the fibuth Peas, it is a holiday journey, over the
most beautiful prairies, abounding is game, erase and
w►ter. A bard service of several hundred miles then
follows, through the defiles and canones of the Rocky
Mountains, to the Great Salt Like. This is the belt-
way how, the happy valley of the Mormons, whose is.
dustrious cultivation of their narrow dominions bee saved

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thcusands of emigrants from abaolute starvation. Bat it is
after tsarist the Mormon Valley that the real troubles of
the emigrants begin. A desert has to be crossed to reach
Humboldt's river ; and the valley of the river itself, for over
three ►undred miles, is but a scanty riband of grass through
• omatianons desert. During the past season this valley
appears to have been flooded from the allows of the moue
tuns, adding immensely to this sufferines of the emigrants.
The river sinks in the sands some eighty miles this side of
the Sierra Nevada, and this interval is a blank volcanic de-
sert, without grass or water, save a few boiling volcanic
springs. Over this interval the exhausted animals and wagons
of the emigrants ere strewn by thousands. And to add to their
calamities, the choli re, which seems to hays hung upon
their rear from Missouri, had here commenced its work
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col destruction upon the famishing multitude. The most
lib•nl and praiseworthy efforts, however, were being male
by the people of Celli...rota, to send over the mountains pro.
•isions and animals for the relief of the perishing adventurers.
It is to he hoped that the great range of the snow. covered
Sierra Nevada will act es a barrier against the passage 01 the
cholera into the mining country on the Pacific side, or oth. r-
wise a fearful havoc may be apprehend-d among the miners,
should the pestilence be introduced among them in thel
exposed condition.

Burnam continues to be brisk in San Francisco;
the money market sound. During the first mouth or
two of the rainy season, with the miners coming down
with the proceeds of their labour, trade and txports
of gold dust will doubtlt es continue prosperous. It
is the spring of the year, when the produce of tne
miners is exhausted, and they leave again for the dig-
gings, that tries the stability of the San Francisco
trade. In the meantime, it would, perhaps, be well
to take advantage of the tide.
A despatch from Kenseville, Mo., states that a tre-
mendous conflagration has occurred in that region,
caused by the Omaha Indiaar, who set on fire the dry
grass on the prairie. The wind was very high at the
time, and the flames spread with such rapidity that a
gnat many of the fences, outstanding crops, and some
buildings, for miles around, were enveloped in one
sheet of fire. The Indians, just previous to the con-
flagration, were discovered in the act of setting fire to
the prarie in a number of different places. The
Omahas inhabit a portion of the Missouri territory,
some sixty miles above Fort Leavenworth. They
are described as one of the most dangerous and treach-
erous of the Indian tribes, and will be likely to cause
the pioneer farmers of the backwoods a good deal of
trouble. _ _

We have advice. from Jamaica to the 31st ult. The
cholera was raging with great virulence. The Kingston
returns for the 28th report 53 new cases, 18 recoveries,
and 30 deaths—remaining 85; at Port Royal 21 new
cases, 3 recoveries, and 11 deaths—remaining 34.
Sanitary measures were being actively carried into
effect.
We learn from Havannah that the offer of protec-
tion of the French steam-ship Mogador had been
accepted by the authorities.
At New Orleans 100,00 W. had been subscribed to
promote the Tehuantepec railway. The company for
the survey of this route has been organised under
Major J. G. Barnard, of the United States Engineer
Corps, and will concentrate at New Orleans, on the
Ist of Deoember, from whence they will proceed,
without delay, to the Isthmus. It will consist of
about forty persons, from whose labours great results
moy be expected in regard to that important enter-
prise. Major Barnard, accompanied by a part of his
assistants, left New York on Nov. 11 in the steamer
Georgia, for New Orleans.
"From Venezuela we have advices to the 13th ult.
The country was tranquil, and the r lections proceed-
iog without disturbance. The voting was said to be
in favour of Menages. The Kingston papers announce
the arrival at that port of the mail steamer Clyde,
Mem Vera Cruz, with 100,000 dole. on freight, but
se news.
Oar correspondent writes as follows :
BOSTON, Nov. 13.
The excitement consequent on the Fugitive Slave
Bill, during the peat week, has been in some degree
swallowed up by the stir and bustle of the elections,
which have been the all-absorbing topic throughout
the country. The bill has received many bard
kaoeks, however, at ward and district e'ection meet-
isgs ; and one or two incidents have occurred worthy
et note—the first of which consists in the fact of
William and Ellen Crofts having left Boston, and
taken passage at Portland for Halifax, with the inten-
tiee, it is said, of going to England to reside.
Frederick Douglas has been delivering lectures
spinet the fugitive law in various parts of the
country, and he is said to have been well attended,
sad to have produced a favourable impression.
The other day a couple of "slave-catchers" arrived
at Chicago, in pursoit of two female fugitives, who
had, however, left a few hours in advance. The men
pursued their journey to Detroit, where they expected
to meet their victims, bat the telegraph was imme-
diately at work, and, long before the snivel of the
" gentlemen from the south," a steamer had been
chartered, and had started off to meet the steamer
having the females on board, and they were taken off
'sad conveyed to the Canada shore in safety.
In this state, heretofore the stronghold of the " pro-
tection to native industry" whip, the tables have been
completely turned by the elections for state officers
and representatives, which came off the day before
yesterday. The democrats and free-seilers combined
on one ticket, and they have elected a majority in
the state senate, securing the election of an " opposi.
sition" or anti-whig governor and lieutenant-go-
vernor ; and, so far as returns have been received, the
whigs have elected for the House of Representatives
of the state 133 members, while the free-Boilers and
democrats have elected 135. A number of places are
yet to be heard from ' • but a leading whig paper says :
" The House (of Representatives) will be probably
dearly equally.divided ; bat the opposition will have
a majority on joint ballot, securing a U.S. senator, if
they can unite on a candidate."
Mr. Horace Mann, who has been most bitterly op-
posed by the whip in the eighth district of this state,
on account of his opposition to Mr. Webster and the
pro-slavery measures of the government, has carried
his election by a small majority.
Now that the elections are over some here are hint-
ing at a " Union meeting," without distinction of
party, and if held moo, it is expected Mr. Webster
will be brought on the stand on the occasion. The
object hinted at is, that an opportunity may be afforded
" for aroertaining the tree state of feeling on the sub-
ject of allegiance to the constitution and the laws of
the land."
Mr. George Thompsoe, M.P., is to have his" remp-
;tion" on the evening of the 15th Mee at Fanenil Hall.
,it is to be " A Gathering of the Friends of Reform,
International Amity, and Universal Emancipation.
The all i. gigue; " On Behalf of the Massachusetts

Anti-Slavery Society," by a committee
!ending members. Its
Mr. Thompson has issued a notice for a tonne of five
lectures on British India."

A coutlyp tileeen ofb extraordinaryhe ,a
chdu
are
eann corioeities hats
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r
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They consist of a boy and girl of an almost exit
raw of Central America. They
ecturug
have been well de.
scribed as the most ovire looking objects ever brought
to this country. The boy is 32 inches in height, had
weigher 161 be., and in the opinion of eminent medical
authority is about 10 years old. The girl is 28 inches
in height, weighs 141 be., and is believed to be 'hit
8 years of age. Their beads are not large
than a new barn infant's, -and they may be
almost said to be destitute of foreheads while their
note. are finely developed, straight and long, and
project at a well-defined angle. There eyes are full,
dark, and lustrous. Their heads are covered with
strong, dark hair, which descends forward neatly to
the eyebrows ; the face very sharp, the upper lip pea,
jecting, and the chin receding in a correspesting
degree. They are said to belong to the surviving
remnant of an ancient order of priesthood, called
" Beams," which, by constant intermarriage within
their own caste, has dwindled down to a ttw
individuals, diminutive in stature and imbeeila
in intellect. Their heads and facts resemble
exactly the figures on the bas-reliefs on the
temple "ruins described in Stephens's " Cent,'
Americi." These children arc lively, playful, gad
affectionate, but all attempts to teach them a wkrd of
English have hitherto proved unsuccessful. They ean
' only utter a few gibberish sounds. Last evening, is
' the course of a visit to their rooms, a medic,' inetd
who accompanied me held out his watch to the hey,
I, when he instantly placed his ear in contact with it, ei
to listen to its ticking; and at one time, as he turned
affectionately towards a little girl wrong the visitors,
I told the girl to "kiss him," when be imoteoirely
placed himself in an attitude and protruded his face;
I the child, however, withdrew frightened, and I held
my cheek to him, when he instantly approached and
I greeted me with a kiss. They both—but particularly
the boy—have a regard to their " keeper," atd at aul
times readily recagniee him as he calls them byname.
It is not improbable that these chile:bee will be car-
I tied to England shortly for exhibition.
(For markets Nesbitt psis.)

LATER BY TELEGRAPH VIA HALIFAX.
NEW YORK, Nov.l
_ _

There bee been nn rlitical item of impor
since our last advices to Boston foe the Canada,
the confirmation of Washinron Hunt's (whig) elec.
tion as governor for the State of New York.
In cotton there is no change whatever to reply',
and all the leading markets show no alteration either
in the extent of business transacted or in the prices
obtained.

A GREAT FIRE broke out in Fredericton, New
Brunswick, on Nov. 11. A c3rreepondent of the Courier
(8:. John'.), writes an follows, at the above date :—" Oer
city has been desolated by the most Vrritic fire, which, taking
our population into eecount, has ever taken place In this pro.
vine.. Upwards of one half of the city is burnt, including
a large portion of our best buildings and places of bairns..
and the spacious Wesleyan church and parsonage. The fire
broke out about two .'clack, in a bun near this chord, and
before any assistance could be rendered it wee on fire, and
with great difficulty the organ was taken to pieces and sot
out, with cushions, book., dte.; hut within half an hour the
flames wreathed round the lofty spire, which, with tEe pon-
derous hell, fell into the midst of the burring heap. The
fire then erossed Carleton street, and drove rapidly on in
every direction, particularly amongst the thick roster of
stores in Queen-street; thence down to Regentatreet, burn •
leg every building in its course. By five o'clock. at least 300
houses were burnt, or on fire, and then, by great exertion, its
progress was stopped. About 9,000 people are this evening
houseless. The Catholic chapel wee on fire, but hu been
saved. The insurances were considerable. The Wesleyan
church wee 'allured in the Central-offiee for 6001., and the
organ for 1001. Other insurances on private property ors
considerable. The time, however, was unfavourable, as our
merchants had just gone into their fall stock , and ea a great
deal is burnt. their insurances will be hut a small com-
pensation. The Central•office has Ist heavily of course,
and so also have the foreign offices. The whole 61 seems
to be in ruins. I look down and see nothing but long ranges
of chimneys, surrounded by burning heaps. where a tew
boors ago hundreds of comfortable dwellings and stores ex-
isted. The fire was more unmanageable in consequence of
the wind, which blew agile, scsttering burning flakes far
and wide. While I write (10 o'clock, r...) the fire is stiil
urning—immense quantities of Immature, goods, Ac., are
lying expos d, and hundreds of our citizen, are in the s reefs
striving to look after the remnant of their property. What
the houseless people see to do I knew not. It is now almost
winter, and the meiniof scoommodati to cannot be furnished.
All classes of people were at work during the fire. I noticed
the governor and the bishop, and all sorts and conditions of
men.