The Express.
London, England, 1857-01-27 00:00:00

UNITED STATES.

As had been expected, Mr. Sumner has been re•
elected to tho United States Senate on the part of
one branch of the legislature of Massachusetts by a
nearly unanimous cote. The other branch will bo
sure to concur. _ _ _

The Committee of the Mouse of Representatives
on Territories report adversely to the petition of the
citizens of Carson Valley, asking for the annexation
of that portion of Utah territory to California. Ono
of the reasons for refusal is, that California is too
large already, and would be made more unwieldy by
such an extension to its boundaries. But the com-
mittee believe that some measure of wider scope is
necessary to effect a cure of the evils of u hich the citi-
zens of Carson Valley complain, namely, Mormon op-
pression ; and accordingly recommend the passage of
the bill now on the calendar for the prevention and
punishment of bigamy. This, they add, would
• remove the moral and political pcutilence which
makes Utah the scandal of the American people."

The American continent and the Antilles had been
visited by intense cold. Many of the harbours at
the North are closed by ice, which also offers serious
obstructions to navigation in some of the Southern
ports. In all parts of Virginia the people are busy
harvesting ice, with the expectation that no supply
will be needed from the North next summer. At
Lynchburg, on the 10th inst., the thermometer was
down to 11 deg. above zero. At Savannah it has
indicated 18 above, and in Florida, 21 above—being
the coldest weather ever known in that region. Ice
formed two inches in thickness. In Havana a severe
frost did considerable injury to crops--a phenome-
non almost unknown in that latitude. In all the
Western rivers, steamers were frozen up. The great
lakes were covered with firm ice, extending many
miles from shore. In the North-Western States the
severity of the weather is almost unprecedented;
and men and animals have perished in great num-
hem Accounts from lowa, written in the first
week of January, state that the roads were
impassable. Sleds, merchandise, and property
were abandoned to the storms. Many men
and cattle were frozen to death in the high-
ways. A party of government surveyors took shelter
from a snow storm in a ravine, which seemed the
prairie. They pitched their tent upon three feet of
snow—rigged a stove whew pipe ran up through tho
top of the tent—ate, and went to sleep. A difficulty
of breathing aroused the party early, and it was dis-
covered that the ravine had drifted chock full, and
that the snow was three feet above the top of the
tent and the top of the pipe. Out of the entire sur-
veying company of which they were a part, two men
froze to death, two waded the prairie snows in their
stockings, unable to draw on their stiff boota, and all
were disabled, permanently or temporarily, by the
freezing of the extremities.
The following is a sample of the letters which have
been received : .

Near l'iliprouriltirer, lowa, Dec. 7.

The chief item of interest coanectod with oar present camp
is the intense cold. A storm act in on Monday ;on Tuesday
blowing and snowing harder and thicker than I ever cap-
rimed ; on Wednesday it timed still colder; Thursday
colder ; until, on Friday, the thermometer read from 9 dec.
below zero in the morning to 30 deg. below at 9 o'clock rn
the evening. Yesterday evening (Saturday) it read 23 deg.
I below, and this evening it reads errs. The elevation is about
twelve hunched feet above the see.
The mouth of the East River, New York, was
blocked up on the morning of Jan. 12 by a field of
ice about IJ acres in extent, through which nothing
could pass, and the snow was unusually deep, and
drifted on the eastern extremity of Long Island, and
the trains of the Long Island railroad had discon-
tinued running beyond Riverhead, the extreme dif-
ficulty and expense of getting the locomotives
through, and the paucity of passengers, being the
reasons for this step on the part of the company.
The Cincinnati Enquirer states that some of the
slaves arc taking advantage of the condition of the
river, which is thoroughly frozen over, to make their
escape into free territory. Three men and one
woman crossed on the night of the Bth.
There is great excitement in Vincennes, Missouri,
occasioned by a Mrs. Crawford, of Cleveland, Ohio,
claiming her.three children placed in the Catholic
Orphan Asylum there by her husband. The woman
visited the asylum and requested leave to take away
her children; this the nuns refused, when she
clutched up one of the children and fled with it in
her arms. She was pursued by the nuns and others,
and a scuffle ensued in the streets, the mother fight-
ing desperately for her child, Some of the citizens
interfered in behalf of the mother, and she took the
child away. The matter is now in court on a writ
of habeas corpus. The excitement runs high ; the
sympathies of the populace seem to be with the
mother, and should the court give the children to
the nuns, a serious disturbance seems inevitable.

CANADA.

The following letter is taken from the eon*.
spondenee of the New York Journal of Commerce:
. -

TORONTO, JAN. 7.
The opening of the Orand Trunk Roamed to Montreal
han done more to make Canada known, both in the mother
country and throughout the North American continent, then
any event within the memory of the present generation.
That it bee been long and favourably known in the States Ls
true. But the same cannot booed m regard to our relations
with the mother country. It is only alter the lapse of gene-
ration., that the existence of this provinco is receiving that
attention that it has long since merited. We find Canada
spoken of now in England ite "the finest colony under the
sun." Its railroad., manufactures, and products are also
receiving a ahem of attentive. Howe% er, it mate with
Canada whether the shall to known cr not. Under
a bored and comprehensive government she will go
oft . But if it ever comet her turn to
be governed by a sectional policy—by a sectarian
crew—who would ignore the existence of half of
the provnice—then Canada will aseuredly sink into in*.
nfileance. Ac the political pasties of the province are at
present constituted,thre is no immediate fear that so unbe-
arable an event will take place. But it in worthy of note,
that thee is an organisation on foot among the chief mon..
hers of the opporittem, comprising hipper Canadian members,
the chief object of which is to make Lower Canada of
recoadery Importance in the future of the province. Time
wetland men would amimilate the institutions of Upper mid
Lower Canada against the known wish of Lower Canadians.
They demand representation by population, which will at
once lace Lower Cuneds in powerless position. They
moilf make every French Canadian know that he was of ea
inferior race, and that he must submit to the dictation of the
race that once conquered him. That in such a ewe the per
scented race should he driven into rebellion, is only natural.
And who could blame the persecuted Frenchmen, if they...
driven from their natural allies—allied themselves to the
United States? Such are some of the mensmes that the o¢
position hold. However happily for the country, they mint
the minority, and are ale; divided among thennelyea.
During the parliamentary 1.11,4011, to commence on the
26th of February, the HU11.011.11 Bay question will receive
attention. The enneletion of this extensive territory to
Canada will be strongly advocated, The history of the
Hudson's Bay charter, and its lamed property are already
a, familiar as household words. But with the actual state of
the territory we are not re well acquainted. Notwithstand-
ing the astoniahing stories of rich pasturage and luxuriant
volleys that me so rife at present, it would not be wise to be-
lieve all wo hear, as it is admitted on all hands that the ter-
ritory is very little known, and has !warmly ever been the-
roughly ruptured.
Since the, good sleighing yet in the limners hove brought
their prance into market. Consequently, the price of grain
hes fallen seuiewhat. It is stated that the Leiser Fort trade
ie increasing. At this time of the year there is o eigni-
ficant fall. It 151 also stated that fishing and fur business
on the roast of Labrador this year exceed the returns
hitherto made.

The Count of Paris arrived at Cagliari on the
19th, from Genoa. _ _

The Madrid journals state that a company of the
best Spanish dancers, male and female, is being formed in
that city to go to St. Peteraberg,
_

A letter from Copenhagen states that the confer`
meta on the Sound Dues had been suspendtd, owing to M.
Tengoboreki, the Russian COTlMlliooioner, hosing been obliged
to lease suddenly for Pad., *here hie wife had fallen ill.
A letter from St. Petersburg states that the higher
chases of society in that capital have their attention taken
up with another marriage, which excites no Isis attention
Cum that of the Count de Moray with Mlle. do Tronbetzkoi--
tumefy, that of the Duke d'Ossuna with Mlle. de Strand-
man, lady of honour to the Empress.

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LAW INTELLIGENCE.
THIS DAT.

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THE POLICE COURTS.
THIS DAY.

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