The Express.
London, England, 1857-04-01 00:00:00

UNITED STATES.

ARRIVAL OF THE KANGAROO AND EMU.

LIVERPOOL, TUZIDAY.

The screw steam-ships K angaroo, Capt. J. M. Jeffrey,
belonging to the Liverpool and Philadelphia Steam
Company; and the Emu, Capt. Small, belonging to
the Cunard Company, arrived in the Mersey this
afternoon from New York with advices from that
port to the 19th inst. inclusive, being one day's
later intelligence from the United States than to
hand by the Persia.
The Emu has brought one passenger, and has
made the passage from New York in 11 days 11
hours.

.
Telegraphic despatches from Washington an-
nounce a new treaty with Mexico, embracing the
acquisition of Sonora and Smoloa, with command of
the Gulf of California, in consideration of a sum of
money.
Mr. Buchanan is reported to be nearly worn out
by the continual worry of office-seekers.
Commander fiwartworet, of the war steamer Moe.
sachussete, reports that an engagement was fought
between a party from that vessel and the Indians of
Russian America, near Port Gamble, on the 21st.
The latter were defeated, and sued for peace. The
navigation of the Hudson has been re-opened.
CommerciaL—The money market at New York is
unchanged. The market in stocks favourable to
buyers. Exchange on London is 108 to B.t.
The cotton market is reported to be weak. Flour
is quiet and steady, wheat is dull, Indian corn is
moderately active, and slightly lower. Provisions,
except beef, arc dull and declining. Freight to
Liverpool is improving.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(MOM on OWN

PARIS, TCLIDAT ETIMING.

The Neufchatel Conference sat to-day for the fifth
time. It is believed that the instructions from Berne
which the Swiss plenipotentiary, Dr. Kern, has
been waiting for, authorise him to make some con-
cessions. Nevertheless, all difficulties are not yet
removed, and, as I intimated yesterday, the nego-
tiations may be protracted for several days longer.
At the Bourse the Rcnte opened with weakness,
in consequence of the high rates of eontinuation,but
it rallied for the close, and left off with a rise of 20c.
for cash and 6c. for account, at 70fr. 50c. and
70fr. 66e. The railway market was extremely ani-
mated. Money, which has been scarce for opera-
tions in the Rente, seemed almost abendant for in-
vestment in the favourite values. Orleans rose
12fr. 30c., Lyons, 20fr., Mediterranean, 371 r. 60c.,
Eastern, 22fr., Northern, 12fr. 60e., and Southern,
7fr. 60e. Grand Central remained unvaried, and
Western was a trifle lower.

Them is a very strong feeling against the bill for
putting down spurious nobility, and many think the
measure will not get through the Corps Legislatif.
People see that the real object is not so much to
discredit titles which command no respect already,
as to create and set up a privileged imperial order.
Such a plan is equally distasteful to aristocrats and
democrats. Many of the best old families in the
Faubourg St. Germain would renounce their titles
rather than be put to the expense and trouble of
proving their right to them by legal evidence, and
more especially when all they could gain would be
to put be on a par with functionaries whose
titles (in most cases originally usurped) would be
confirmed for recent services. Republicans and
liberals of almost every shade see in the attempt to
revive a class of noblesse an infringement of the
principles of 1789, which arc vaunted to be the been
of the imperial constitution. Nevertheless, it would
seem that the government has set its heart upon the ,
measure in question. Its organs denounce the
wearers of false coronets with extraordinary
esargy. The Patric is scandalised at the
Dario having treated the subject as a laugh-
' lad matter, and while admitting that ridicule
his het its power, it argues from that fact that
diem is the more necessary. "If the false nobles
de met mind Moliere, they will perhaps have a
wholesome fear of the public prosecutor." It is im-
p:male to convey to you an adequate idea of the
extent to which this bathos excites the risible nerves
of French society as at present constituted. I will
yet back the " ridicule qui Sue en France" against
the Procurcur Imperial, and will venture to pro-
phesy that in spite of the very highest patronage,
the bill will bo barked.
The French government journals are extremely
delighted at the disgraceful assault committed npaa
Mr. Lowe by some blackguards at Kidderminster,
which they represent as a natural mempessee et
constitutional government, and an average opecimen
of English manners. With similar logic mai dwarf
fairness, M. Granier de Cassagnac bad the effrontery
to assert in yesterday's Constitationnel that under
English laws punishment for murder was the in-
ception and impunity the rule. The premises bona
which the leading journalist of the empire drew tide
conclusion were, that in Jersey (where rushes
tunately English law only prevails to a way
limited extent) one Charles Becquet (whew
name by the way indiffates his French extraction)
stood by and saw a boy killed by some other Ur
without attempting to save the victim. The meths
for catching at these miserable straws, is to pa norie
the French people that their own laws, wbie en-
tain no habeas corpus, under which any man maybe
thrown into prison for an indefinite time, at the abso-
lute pksaure of the executive, without being brought
to trial, and under which the records of " in-
structions" (that is, inquiries preliminary to trial)
are kept strictly secret when no legal case can be
made out against a prisoner, are the best in the
world, and offer greater personal guarantees (!)
than those of any other country.