The Express.
London, England, 1861-02-25 00:00:00

CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS.

The Vectiv, with the above mails, arrived at
Marseilles at 11 p.m. yesterday.
The mails left for London at midnight by special
train.

The Indue, with the heavy portion of the mails,
ma y be.expected at Southampton about the sth of
March.

The Simla brought the mails to Suez, arriving on
the 14th instant (three days early).

AMERICA.
THE DISUNION MOVEMENT.

The British and North American Royal Nail etaaniship
Arabia, Stone, commander, arrived in the Mersey yester-
day afternoon, with the mails from New York to the 13th
inst. She brought 1,455 dole. in specie on freight, and
nineteen passengers.

In the Senate, on the llth,Mr. Green (Dem., Mo.):moved
a request of the President for the correepoodeace with
Great Britain in relation to the extradition of the fugitive
slays Anderson. On the 12th Mr. Sumner spoke against
the Crittooden resolutions, sad after some discussion be-
tween him and Mr. Crittenden, the subject was postponed,
and the navy bill came up on the amendment for an ap-
propriation of 1,200.000 dole. to build seven new steam
sloops. The amendment wee concurred in—yeas, 27 ;
nays, 17. The bill then passed.
Oh the 11th, in the House of Representatives, Mr. Craig
(Dam., N. C.) offered the following, which was referred to
the Committee on Foreign Affairs

Whereas, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Miseissippi,
Louisiana, and Florida have seceded from the Confe-
deracy of the United States, and established a Southern
Confederacy, and whereas it is desirable that the
most amicable relations should exist between them,
end war avoided as the greatest calamity that can
result, therefore resolved by the Semi* and House
of Representatives, that the President be requested to se-
kuowledge the independence of the said Southern Con-
federacy as soon as otacial information of Its establishment
shall be received ; and that he receive such commissioners
Barney be appointed by that government fur an amicable ad-
justment of all matters in dispute.

Mr. M'Clernand (Dem., Ill.) introduced a resolution which
was adopted, reciting that by the seizure of the Mint,
money, and Custom-home by the revolutionary authori-
ties of Louisiana, the United States are put at defiance, and
calling upon the President, if not incompatible with the
public interests, for all the facts in the case, and what steps,
if any, have been taken, or contemplated, to recover pos-
session of the said property.
Palmer (Rep., N.Y.) offered &resolution :—" That neither
Congress nor the people or governments of the non-skive-
holding states have a constitutional right to legislate upon
or interfere with slavery in say alovelsolding st►te of the
Union." The vote stood—yeas, 116; says, 4. Oo motion of
Mr. Howard (Dem., Ohio), the house reconsidered the
vote. Mr. Burnett (Dem., Hy.) demanded a division on
the question, as to the purpose mid the right. The Speaker
said the proposition was not divisible. Mr. Sherman (Rep.,
Ohio), who was in favour of putting the question in a shape
that all could vote upon it, moved a substitute, leaving out
the word " purpose," and it was passed.—Yeas 161, and
BO says.

From Tennessee we learn that the Union candidate had
• large majority. Large quantities of corn were being im-
ported into Charleston. The Texas Convention had elected
seven delegates to the Montgomery Convention. The
Governor of Georgia had given assurances to the Governor
of Virginia that the former state would abstain fora stipu-
lated period from all acts calculated to produce • collision
of arms between the state and the general government.
At Savannah Captain Vaughan, of the British barque
Halos, bad been tarred and feathered by the members of
the Rattlesnake Club, for asking • negro stevedore to dine
with him. The British Consul at Savannah has offered •
reward of 1,000 dole., and the mayor of the city one of 500
dole. for the discovery of the perpetrators of the outrage.
Mr. Dix, Secretary of the Treasury, bad urgently ad-
dressed Mr. Sherman, Chairman of the Committee of Ways
and Means, relative to the pressing demand on the Treasury.
There was little more than half-a-million dollars in the
Treasury, and there were requisitions amounting to ten
millions of dollars unanswered. He asks for • loan of two
millions.

Captain Morrison, of the revenue-cutter Lewis Cass, had
been cashiered for surrendering his vessel to the state of
Alabama.

The Preeident hes issued a proclamation, declaring that
an extrsordinszy OCCAI6OII requires tho senate to convene
for the truism:non of business on the 4th of March, at noon
that day, namely, "To receive and act upon such commit.
nications as may b• sent to it on the part of the Executive."
This proclamation is in accordance with usage, and to enable
tho incoming president to nominate for confirmation the
members of hia cabinet. _ _

The steamer Velasco has arrived at Havana from Vera
Crux. She brought exiled foreign ministers and Gen.
Xiamen. The Papal Nuncio had been insulted in Vera
Crux and took refuge at the French consulate. Miramon
escaped disguised, after great dangers. The archbishop
and bishops were all exiled. The populace stoned them at
Vera ("inn and they ware afterwards detained by the autho.
ritiee for trial. The American minister, Mr. Weller, was
received on the 30th.