The Express.
London, England, 1861-01-22 00:00:00

THE UNITED STATES.

LIVERPOOL, MomAz Swum.

The Royal Mail steamship Canada, Captain
Anderson, which left Boston on the 9th inst., and
touched at Halifax ok the 10th instant, arrived in
the Mersey at 4.16 tLis afternoon.

We take the following telegrams from the Boston
journals of the Bth instant, as showing the latest
phase of the secession movement when the Canada
left Boston :

A Washington telegram of the Mit inst. says :—" Mr.
Thompson. Secretary of the Interior, resigned to-day on
tits ground that troops had been sent to Charleston by the
steamer Star of the West, when, se he alleges, there wail a
distinct understanding on the 3lst December that none
were to be ordered South without the decision of the
Cabinet.

" Rumours of an attack upon the steamer Star of the
West are rife, creating an intense excitement. Nobody
can give any authority for them."
[The late telegram, rid Halifax, already published, states
that the Star of the West war fired upon by the Caroli-
nians, and that consequently she did not land her rein-
forcementa.]
The report that orders have been issued by the British
government to consuls at the ports of seceding states to
refuse certifiates of clearances to English vessels, is denied.
It is said that Mr. Bunch, the British Consul at Charleston,
recognises the de facto government by granting such cer-
tificates.

Agents of so Ahern states continue to arrive for the pur-
pose of purchasing arms. The government for the present
refuses to sell any to state or private parties. An agent
from Mississippi dada for the north to-morrow to procure
arms, although it is said the supply there is not abundant.
A number of the leading secessionists here are urging
upon Governors Hicks, of Maryland, and Letcher, of Vir-
ginia, the necessity of demanding of the President an im-
mediate removal of United States troops from Fort Wash-
The armament of Fort Washington is in excellent con-
dition, and preparations have been made for firing red-hot
balls that will burn any vessel which may attempt to pass
the forts for hostile purposes.
The oaval department has received information this
morning that the revenue cutter Dobbin, lying in Mobile
harbour, has the United States flag flying, with the Union
down, and the Palmetto flag flying at the mainmast. This
act, on the part of those having the vessel in charge, is
considered open revolution before the secession of the state
of Alabama.

A gentleman from Charleston says that the merchants.
alarmed for their property, have removed their valuable
goods to the interior. Business is at an sad, and some of
the stores are closed. Traders are the first sad greatest
lowers by the secession movement. The hotels at Charles.
ton have few patrons, and their business for the winter is
ruined.

JACKSON, MISVSKIPPI, Jay. B.—The state convention
met this forenoon. A resolution was adopted to amend the
constitution of the state, so as to authorise the borrowing
of money for the purpose of military defence. The stand-
ing committees were appointed, including one to prepare a
secession ordinance. A despatch was received stating that
Georgia was determined upon immediate secession. At a
military parade to-day a flag with fifteen stars was
carried. Then was a mimic battle, skinnishiog, &c. An
ordinance for immediate secession has been unanimously
agreed upon by the committee of fifteen. It will pass the
convention to-morrow in secret session.

Nzw OurAzz, JAIL B.—ms majority for immediate se-
cession in this city was 380.
NOR-TOLE, VISGUIIIA, JAN. R.--Schooner S W. Ltittrel,
of Staten Island, has been seised for a violation of the Vir-
iginia inspection laws. It is reported that active measures
are being taken for the defence of Fort Miuwoe.

A special despatch from Richmond, Virginia, to
the New York Herald says that the committee of
the House of Delegates will report a bill for a con-
vention. The election of delegates is to take place
on the 7th of February, and the convention is to
meet on the 18th. The question relative to increas-
ing the military force of the state was referred to a
committee. A resolution proposing to appropriate
ten millions of dollars for that purpose was also re-
ferred.

It is the general opinion that Virginia will secede
about the 20th of February.

The Alabama Convention was in session at
Montgomery. A committee had been appointed to
report a secession ordinance.
A resolution in the House of Representatives at
Washington, approving the course of Major Ander-
son at Charleston, and sustaining the President in
not recalling him, met with violent opposition. A
very lively running debate sprung up. Some were
greatly excited, and when the resolution passed,
imprecations and curses were heard distinctly.
Florence, of Pennsylvania, and Vallandigham, of
Ohio, were the only northern men who voted
against it ; not a southern man for it.
The senators of those southern states which had
called a convention adopted the following resolu-
tions :—First—We recommend to our states im-
mediate secession. Second—We recommend hold-
ing • convention at Montgomery, Alabama, on
• day not later than the 15th of February, and
establishing • southern confederacy. Another
resolution was passed, considered confidential, but
understood to pledge the senators to remain at
Washington and defeat army and navy, appropria-
tion, and other bills, if proposed.
The Washington correspondent of the New York I
Herald says :
The vote aeon the resolution approving the 0011,90 of
Major Anderson and sustaining the President in not recall-
ing him, is regarded by the southern men as indicating a
majority favourable to the passage of a force bill. They
are intensely incited this evening, and threaten vengeance
if a force bill is attempted to be passed. The Republicans
also regard it as showing a majority in favour of such a
measure.

It is stated that much dissatisfaction exists
among the German and Irish volunteer troops at
Charleston, who are taken away from their business
and homes to perform military duty, while the
secession leaders are enjoying the luxury of treason
comfortably and without any personal exposure.
The Bth of January, being the anniversary of the
battle of New Orleans, was devoted to a great
consumption of gunpowder all over the Union in
honour of General Jackson's victory ; and in most
of the northern states, in honour also of Major An-
derson's course at Charleston. The occasion was
also seized in the New York State Senate to pass a
resolution to present a sword to Major Anderson.
General Jackson's proclamation against nullifica-
tion was also read, on the motion of Mr. Spindlay.
A Washington despatch states, upon reliable
information, that Senator Cameron has declined a
seat in Mr. Lincoln's cabinet.
Two hundred men with 130 horses left Fort'
Leavenworth for Baltimore on the 7th.

The correspondence between the South Carolina

commissioners and the President of the United
States is published in eztenso. On the second com-
munication there is the following endorsement :
—" This paper, just presented to the President, is
of such a character that be declines to receive it"

Alabama military companies were in possesAion
of the forts at Mobile under instructions from the
governor of Alabama.
The message of Governor Letcher, delivered to
the Virginia legislature on the 7th, discusses the
affairs of the nation at considerable length. He
renews his proposition for a state convention, to
decide upon the course of the state in the event of
disruption, which he considers inevitable. He
condemns in decided terms the course of South
Carolina in taking steps to dissolve her connexion
with her sister states without consultation,
and declares that he would uut even
have iuuie usiun to Ler Lal it wit

been for uncalled for reforeuccs to Virginia in the
last message of Governor Gist. After rehearsing
the terms upon which he believes that the Union
might still be preserved, Governor Letcher closes
this portion of his message with the declaration
that he will regard any attempt of the general go-
vernment to transport troops across the territory of
Virginia, for the purpose of coercing another state,
as an act of invasion which must be repelled.
The House of Assembly, in accordance with the
governor's recommendation, unanimously adopted
a resolution providing for a state convention.
In the United States Senate, on the 7th, Mr.
Ten Eyck, of New Jersey, presented a petition of
citizens of that state, which was referred to the
judiciary committee, requesting Congress to autho-
rise a national convention, to meet at Philadelphia
on the 4th of March. Thirty-three memorials,
asking for the submission of the Crittenden resolu-
tions to • vote of the people, were presented by
Mr. Bigler, of Pennsylvania. Mr. Crittenden
then spoke at some length in favour of
his propositions, and was followed by Mr.
Toombs, of Georgia, who made a characteristic
speech, full of " fire and fury," general dissolution,
and the tramp of armed men, concluding with a
declaration that if the south was denied her
rights, "she would invoke the God of battles, and
trust to Him for security and peace."
Congress was not in session on the Bth, owing to
the anniversary of the battle of New Orleaps.
A congressional committee, appointed by the
caucus of the border, slave, and free states, agreed
to a proposition substantially the same as Critten-
den's compromise, except in two points. First, it
guarantees a jury trial to a fugitive slave in the
state from which he may have escaped. Secondly,
in the territorial claws.; it provides that Kansas be
admitted at once ; the remaining territory to be
divided by the Missouri compromise line ; all
north to be for ever free, and all south to be orga-
nised into territory in which neither congress nor the
territorial legislature shall interfere with slavery; but
when any sixty thousand square miles has a hun-
dred thousand population, it is to be admitted as a
state, free or slave, as its people choose. The pro-
position was pending before Congress.
A New Orleans telegram says :—"Private de-
spatches from Vera Cruz state that the liberals
took the city of Mexico, Dec. 25. Miramon,
finding no support, immediately resolved to capitu-
late."

The brig Tolova, and barque Mary Kimball, both
slavers, were captured off Cuba, taken to Key
West, and delivered to the United States Marshal.
The commercial intelligence has been in a mea-
sure superseded by the later news, via Halifax,
already published.
The Boston Advertiser says sterling exchange had
slightly advanced there, and the best bankers' bills
were held at 1051.
The weekly statements of the New York city
banks present the following changes as compared
with the week preceding :

Decrease in loans
Increase in specie
Increase in circulation 410,701 „
Decrease in untirawn deposits 711,164 „
The New York Evening Post of the Bth says :

The closing Wainer is exchange for the Boston mail is
at rather higher rates ; 1041 to 106 was readily paid for
best bills on London, and 5.374 to 5.40 cm Paris.
The past week has been one of the liveliest in cotton far
some time pest. The sales have been large, and prices have
advanced from le. to lie. The demand has been partly
speculative, bet chiefly from the home trade, who have
better facilities for buying here than at the south during
the financial derangement.