The Express.
London, England, 1850-06-04 00:00:00

UNITED STATES.

In yesterday's imaression we announced theatrical
of the City of Glasgow, screw steam-chip, in the
Clyde, with New York /etas to the 18th ult.; two
other arrivals have since taken place—that of the
American ocean Ansa Washington, off Cowes,
about mid-day yestettlay, with dates to May 20, and,
of the Royal Mail steamer Niagara, at Liveepool,
briaging the New York mails of May 22, a large
cargo, and a coosiderable number of pamengers. ,
The last-mentioned steamer, throuh the medium
of the electric telegraph from New York to Halifax;
it will be seen, brings dates down to the 24th. The
°ergs of the Washington was large and valuable, with
epode to the amount of 60,000 dole. She immediately
left for Bremen.

As our readers are aware, some excitement had
been treated at Washiegtcn by the intelligence that
an expedition to revolutionise Cuba had started"
from New Orleans. It was headed by General
Lopes, who was said to have from 4,000
to 6,000 men under his command. It was said
that the whole number engaged was 10,000. Im-
mediately on the receipt of this news, the navy
department kneed orders to the Golf fleet to intercept
the adventurers at all hazards, or to said the
Spanish authorities to suppress the attempt at inva-
sion or insurrection. It wee believed there would be-
a concentration of British, Spanish, and American
naval forces somewhere on the coast of Cube, to put
down the expedition, or cut off supplies should they
land. The force under General Lopez was obviously
too small to &oomph& anything of itself, and the
islanders were understood to be totally unprepared or
unwilling to gnat it. The whole affair seems
comical enough. There are three parties who aim at
revolutionising Cuba. There are first the old Spanish
revolution—steady slow coaches, who have committed
themselves to nobody. There are the fol-
lowers of Lopez and Pechett, young fashion-
able, of a particular kind, such 8A the present
President of France is said to have associated with ia,
the nays of his Boulogne expedition. Lastly, there
are the loafer., gambler., and other " birds of night "
who have of late been haunting New (Means. None
of theme parties trusts or cares for either of the others.
has taken the plunge first ; whether the others
Lopez
take warning by his failure remains to be seen.'
Daring the last twenty-five years enterprises like his •
have succeeded each other rapidly; in the United
States; they are assuming the character of a regular
profusion there.
P.evious to their departure the trove were ad-
dr. seed by General Lopez as follows:
831,3ers of the Liberating Army of Cuba,—The noble mis-
sion on which we have started together is con which would
alone suffice to nerve to heroism the arm of every one 1111d-
leg a place in our ranks, eves if you were not already the
men of the field of Pale Alto and Clurubusco, and brethren
and worthy peers of the men of those immortal victories.
Citizens of the Great Republie,—You au going to give to
Cuba that freedom for wtich your example hasteught her to
sigh ; to strike from the beautiful limbs of the Queen of the
Antilles the chains which have too long degraded her in sub-
jection to a foreign tyrstiny, which is en °We're upon the
age ; to do for your Cuban brethren what a Llls7ette, •
Sunbelt, a Kosciusko, and a Puluki are deathless in history
for having aided to do for you ; and eventually to add ano-
ther glorious star to the banner which already wtves to the
admiration of the whole word over—