The Express.
London, England, 1857-07-29 00:00:00

AMER WA.

FOUR DAYS LATER FROM THE UNITED

STATES.
(my NAG/1671C AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.)
Crawl ova OWN COIIUPONDINT.)
LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY.

By the arrival of the United States mail steam-
ship Columbia, Capt. Berry, which arrived in the
Mersey at 10.30, we have New York advices to the
16th inst. She sailed from that port with a general
cargo, and has brought 44 passengers and 100,000
dollars in specie.
On the 17th inst. the President received a despatch
from Governor Walker, at Kansas, reporting
that serious insurrections had: broken out at
Kansas, originating in the attempt to collect
the taxes imposed by the territorial laws
which the free-state settlers had resolved not to
pay. In the coroner's jury case of the steamer
Montreal, the verdict returned was " Manslaughter"
against the owner, captain, pilot, and mate.

COMMERCIAL.

The money market at New York reported un-
changed.
Stocks rather dearer. Exchange on London
merely nominal, and little doing.
Cotton has advanced a quarter cent., and has
reached the highest price attained for 17 years
(since 1839).
Flour market firm. Wheat unchanged. Provi-
sions advanced, but dull.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(room ova owx

PARIS, TUESDAY EIMNIXO.
The Duke de Rivas, the newly-appointed Spanish

Ambassador, has arrived in Paris. --
It was known at the Bourse to-day that the Indian
news had occasioned a fall of in in Consols. The
effect upon the Itente was leas than might have been
expected. It fell only 10c., closing at &gr. 80c.,
both for cash and account, but, as has been the case

for the last few days, there was very little business
doing. Mobilier fell 6fr. Railways were dull,
with scarcely any variation.
M. Werne, the sub-governor of the Bank of
France, is said to have resigned in consequence of a
difference of opinion with M. de Germiny.
'f he Pays correspondence from London states that
the East India Company has just freighted seven

grand clippers of 2,000 tone each to convey troops
to Calcutta. These ships, which are to be ready for
the company's service on the 28th instant, are the
James Baines, Champion of the Seas, Forerunner,
Warrior Queen, Genghis-Khan, Vernon, and Marl-

borough.
The French press has been busy within the last
few days in discussing the question whether the
existing laws, which restrain political comments
within exceedingly narrow limits, are as operative
as might be desired for the repression of libels upon
private character. The controversy was provoked
by a paragraph inserted by M. Mires in the Condi-
tutionnel and Pays, of which journals he is the
proprietor, complaining that a pamphleteer whom
he had prosecuted to condemnation several times for
libels upon bimselfstill continued his dirty work, and
suggesting that the law should be made more stringent.
It is alleged that the courts of law punish private
libels with only short periods of imprisonment and
nominal damages, while the profits of slander are
so large that the trade goes on flourishing in spite
repeated convictions. The liberal papers admit
and lament the fact that scandalous anecdotes
relating to individusls have become a favourite com-
modity in the literary market within the last few
years, but they consider the increased demand for
and supply of private slander as the only natural
consequence of the restrictions placed upon public
discussion. If the tribune were free, and if the
public acts and speeches of public men might be
freely canvassed, literary men would have something
better to do than to rakeuppersonal details, concern-

JOLT 23.

iog individuals whose names happen to be more or less
known, and moreover there would be far less curi-
osity about such matters than there now is. It is
also observed that the courts can in their discretion
give larger damages than they have been in the
habit of doing, and therefore no new law is neces-
sary. The government journals, however, catch
eagerly at the idea of more repression. They would
have every publication of every kind subjected to
the onerous ri'yime of caution-money and warnings.
The Patric exclaims, with naive enthusiasm, that it
would have no defamation of any kind—" neither
that which dishonours individuals, nor that which
discredits and overturns governments." But then it
professes immense reverence for the sacred right of
discussion. How is the line to be drawn ?
The jury of the Exhibition of Modern Artists yes-
terday awarded tho grand medal of honour to M.
Yvon for his admirable picture of the taking of the
Malakoff. The majority in M. Yvon's favour was
24 out of a meeting of 27 members.
The Daily News, Express, Morning Post, Sun,
and Morning Advertiser were seized to-day.
M. Emile Durand, a composer of eminence, was
married on Saturday to Madlle. Louise Boieldieu,
the niece of the famous author of La Damc Blanche.
The Paris correspondent of the Times writes:
" The Emperor and Empress will embark on Wed-
nesday, the 3th, at llavre for Osborne, where they
will spend six or seven days. It is believed that
this visit to Osborne will not be a mere exchange of
compliments, but that during the Emperor's brief so-
journ several weighty matters will be discussed be-
tween the two Sovereigns and their respective Mi-
nisters. Count Walewaki will accompany the Em-
, peter."