The Express.
London, England, 1857-08-17 00:00:00

UNITED STATES.

LIVERPOOT, SrxnA7.

This morning the Ilritish and North American
royal mail steam-ship Asia, Captain Lott, entered the
river from New York, with dates to the sth 111.4.,
41 passengers, and 917,000 dollars in specie. We
learn from her that the royal mail steam-ship Persia
had arrived on the sth. . .

The screw steam-ship Edinburgh passed in on the
.sth from the Clyde, and the City of Baltimore, from
this port, and the United States steam-ship Fulton,
from Southampton, were passed by the Asia on
the Bth.

The news by the Asia, although four days later
than we previously had, is of very little interest to
the European reader.
The telegraphic accounts from the South report
heavy rains and destructive hailstot ms, and that the
crops had suffered severely.
Ihe United States steam-frigate Roanoke had
arrived at New York with upwards of 200 of
Walker's filibusters on board.

Havana advice, to the 22nd ult. report sugars
without change, the stock on hand amounting to
225,000 boxes. The island was healthy. 'I he labour
market had received a supply, consisting of one cargo
of 400 ltozal negroes, landed near Cardenas, from
the brig W. D. Miller, and two cargoes of Coolies,
arrived from Chins. _ _

Advices from Texas state that Senator Itusk com-
mitted suicide at his residence on the 29th ult., by
shooting himself through the head with a rifle.
A letter from Boston, dated August 1, says:—
'• A despatch from St. Pierre, Miquelon. dated July
27, states that the bark Monaco, of Warren, Me.,
from Guttcnburg for New York, was totally lost
near Burin, Newfoundland, on the 21st inst., to-
gether with fifty Swedish steerage passengers. The
captain and his wife, and the crew and six passengers,
were saved. The crew rind the six passengers were
landed at St. Pierre, and were sent on to ?sew York
in the brig Lewis Gilles, by the American Consul.
The captain goes home vie Sidney."

Hors-gore RATS.—I have already spoken of the
Mom and fertility of the Hong-Kong rata. When Minu-
tiae; the dictator, was swearing Flantinius in as his master
of the horse we are told by I'letsrch that a rat chanced to
squeak, sod the superatitious people compelled both Akers
to resign their posts. Odle° would be hold under great un
certainty in Hong-Kong if a similar i,uperatition prevailed.
Sir John Dowring has just been swearing in Genend Ash-
burabarn as member of the Colonial Council. and if the rate
were silent they showed unusual modesty. They have forced
themselves, however, into a state paper. Two hundred rats
arc destroyed everyniebt in the gaol. Each morning the Chi-
nese primness see with tearful eyes and watering mouths a pile
of them delicacies cast out in 'mate. It teas if Christian pri-
POCICeII were to see scores of white stoking-picre toned forth
to the dugs by Malmenesien gaolers. At last they could
refrain no longer. Dvring the punishment of tail cutting,
which follows any infraction of prison discipline, they tint
attempted to abstract the delicacies,. Foiled in this, they
took the store manly course. They Melded a petition in
good Chinese, proving from Confucius that it is sinful to
emit away the food of man, and praying that the meat night
be handed over to them to cook and est. This is a fart, and
if Gemmel Thompson doubts it I recommend him to move fur
a envy of the etirrespondenoe—Lelterfrona Nong-Notog.
CANTON ENGLIsIL—The basis of this " Canton
English "—which is a tongue and a literature for there ate
dictionaries and grimmer* to elucidate it, cards P of turning
the "r" into the "I," adding total vowels to every
word, and a constant use of "carey" for " know '•
" talkoo" foe "speak," "y" for " piece," "number
one" for "tint claw," but espepiece ly and above all the continual
employment of the word " pigeon." Pigeon !RUMP
business in the most extended mare of the word.
" Heaven pigeon halt go: " means thist rhureb
service has commenced ; • Joe pigeo n " means the
lthuddist ceremonial • Any pigeon Canton F " mean.
"Have any operations taken place at Canton 'r"
" That no boy pigeon, that Coolie pigeon,' is the form of '
your servant's remonstrance if you nib him to fill your bath
or take • letter. It elm means profit, edeentage, or specula-
tion. " Him Wang ton much fooln, him no gamy, rely good
pigeon bob got," was the enemientar7 of the Chinese pilot
upon the Fatah= Creek bUltilteFA. Lntil you can not only
speak this language fluently, but also, which iv for wore
difficult, understand it when spoken rapidly in a low mono-
tonous voice, all communiesition with your versant, is levee
aible. The second morning after I had been installed in
my dwelling my new " boy " Ah Lin, *lin sleeps on a
mat outside my door, and whom I suspect to live principally
upon aucremful rat hunts, for he knocks down about three
per diem with a bamboo pole as they run about the room—
this Ah Lin, drawing up my nnisquito curtains, presenting
me with the Ma o'clock cup of tea, and Oaring at me with
his little round eyes, gravely remarked, "Meson Smith one
small *cry cow child hob got." It was a long time heirs
I comprehended that, it being *part of a "boy's" duty to
inform his master of the social events of the colony, he
wished to give me to understand that Mrs. Smith had pre-
sented her husband with a &lighten—Tines Correspondent
at Hong Kong.
MILE AT HONG Korn.--;,A cow I never saw; yet
there is milk. But that milk is need by few and ahuddend
at by many. Whence it conies is the darkest mystery of
Hong Kong economic.. The only quadruped that could be
ouppsed to produce it is the pig—for pigs do mist in the
island ; but it is whispered as a caution, end with oblique
glance at the milk jug, that the Chinese matron hermit—but
enough ; very few people take milk, except that which is lest
out Is Yes.—Taws correspoadeat.