The Express.
London, England, 1850-05-27 00:00:00

AMERICA.

The Cauada, Capt. Harrison, arrirtd at Liverpool
yesterday, with dates from Boston to the 13th, sad
Halifax to the 17th inst. By the telegraph to Halifax,
bowever, the new, is brou4ht up to the night of the
16th from New York, and is siren below.
The chit f feature of the political news is the report
of a tuinisterisl crisis at Washington, which had reached
Boston before the steamer sailed, and which obtaiced
general.smcle.nce.

The United States Senate :were occupied in the
discussion of the report of the committee in favour of
a compromise. Tea speech of Henry Clay was a most
powerful one; and as if confident of success, speaking
thereon. he pointed out the absolute impractecabili:y
of admitting slavery into the territory of
where it hid been most strongly repudiated, and after
attacking Seward's position, and taking up the Wil-
mot proviso, he urged upon the Senate the adoption of
th- report.
The following telegraphic summary of the speech
is from the New York Weekly Herald:
Mr. Clay proceeded with a statement of the sentiments
revailinet in the committee, at their several coterie's. Herb
member of the committee, if !eft to himself, probably week)
have presented a different report from thdf now under
He wee at ow time himself in the minority. He
had not been, however, and was not now, discouraged, but
indulged the hope that every member of the committee et, uld
ere hie deal vete in &roar of the recommendations of the
report. He felt assured that the en!y adjustment which'
mold be made upon the disturbir.g question by congress,
must be made upon some such bass as that reported. The
crisis bad arrived, aid he could not but indulge the hope
that after full consideration and deliberation, the report now
presented for settling the difficulties, and avi.i hing the im-
pending dangers, would receive the full approval sad con-
currence of the Senate. The committee wre unanimous,
and at one., with reference to the first point, reported anon,
the admission of new states to be formed out of Texas. Each
member expres.ed himself ready to fulfil the compact mad:
with Texas in the resolutions of asinexmion. l'p in the next
point—the adenirion of California as a stets, there was great
difference of opinion. Toe firm objection to her admission
under her present constitution was, that she came with two
representatives, without any evidence being promoted shoe-
leg that the had a population entitling her to two represent-
atives. This objection was removed by reference to the
course pursued in the case of Georgia and of Texas, and
by a proper tuidentending of the amount of population
seeessary to entitle a state to such repreeentaties. It was
not asedulary that a state should have double the population
secessary to entitle her to a single representative, before
she could elect two representative.. She wee entitled to the
second representative whenever she had an excess over the
seventy thousaud, if a moiety. By Israelite to red obis
statistics, Mr. Clay showed that the population of California,
on the let of March, wee not less th.n one hundred and
thirty-six thousand, and expressed hie belief that the new
state was sadly entitled to the representation she claimed.
Upon the subject of the limits of Ca.iforois, there bad been
&different* of opinion in the committee. At firs% a portion
of the committee were desirous of runnieg a line through
California at 36 30. This was objected to, and finally a ma-
j xity of the committee were in (+your of a line at 3530.
bat when the question Came to • fine VOA. a majority of
the committee voted against this divbion of the state. In
this COnnler'lOn Mr. Clay submitted some remarks for the
purpose of showing the impracticability of establishing
slavery in any part of Califoroia. He also answered the
objection that California came here Laving, erected a Mate
government without prior leglslation by coogress, and ex-
premed his conviction that note of the objections which
bad beat urged ought to be sufficient to cause Collier.
sia to be resumed beak to the territorial condition.
Us seat proceeded to contrast the various plans
suggested fir the settlement of the disturbing qua-
lities which agitate the country. He first alluded to the
President's policy of admitting Celilornis,and doing nothing
for Utah and New Mexico. The committee concurred with
the President in his first recommendation—they proposed to
admit Customs; bat there the committee ceased to regard
the Presideat's reconassendatice. Then they took the sub-

Jed, and mooed to carry alto government; for the territo-
ries. A !sitars to legislate for the territories would be unjust
to their ilhabitants, to whom we were bound by deity sti-
pulations to give the protection of law and order. Was it
discharging our duty to say: "Let these people ; they
will Oka care of themselves, no doubt, sad when they are
ripe for a settled government, we will admit them into the
Union ? " He was gratified to be aide to say that a great
dung' in public sentiment had taken place since the cone
mencemebt of the 'maims. The glorious north, and the no
less gloricee south, bad come to the rescue; pubic sentiment
had chenied; the passions of men were mollified; and had
the present trete of the public heart and mint existed at the
commencement of the motion, he did not believe dist the
President would have contented himself with a recent-
mandatioa for the admission of Caliornia. He believed
there was no diversity of opinion in the committee, upon the
question of erablishing them governments. AU agreed
that it was right and proper to establish them, or, at
least, to make the attempt. The committee had not
inserted in the bill in relation to the Texas boundary, the
NUS proposed to be paid to Texas for the relinquishment
of a portion of the territory claimed by her. They had pre-
Mend to poet pone the teleran' of the amount proposed till
the question should come to be taken upon the passage of the
bill with a view to prevent as much as possible speculations
in the stork market rounded thereon. Mr. Clay proceeded,
is reply to Mr. Benton, to defend the embinstion of the
California territorial and Texas boundary measures in one
bill, camomile"' that it was parliamentary, republican, de-
mocratic, and ezpedient. He showed the provisions in the
constitution of Lonisiena and other dates, forbidding the
uniting of two or move IntellUPl in one bill, to be produc-
tire Mgroat inconvenience and embarrassment in legislation,
sad argued that the currying out of such a principle was not
expedient nor profitable. There was nothing objections hie
In the an of any of them measures; nothing repel-
mint to the dignity of California lie uniting her admission with
laws for the preservation of the lives, property, peace, and
happiness or her neighbours. He also cited amerces
presedests, fur the piquee of showing that the process
of " taskiag," as it is called in Regime', is a
very erminson one in oongreoional legislation, and that it
was, therefore, made parliamentary here by universal
saasest sad adoption. In the course of his explanation
of a clews is the Territorial Bill, prohibiting the terri-
torial logialetere from legislating in respect to African
eta , Mr. Clsy intimated his full conviction that slavery is
akaWbeel throughout New Mexico by the edict of a dictator,
the constitution of the people, and the act of their legi•la-
tutu The pruvisiens alluded to in the Teritorial Bill would
leave the Mtllollll law in full force, while at the same time
it gave the legislature the power ro set es might be deemed
proper with respect to the peon" lyres of slavery. He
seat provided to &demists the bill reported by the com-
mittee In relation ti the reHeepter• of fugitive slaves. He
believed that no state suffered as much from the escape of
slaves alb this the state of liattecliy and )tt he anticipated