The Express.
London, England, 1857-03-24 00:00:00

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withdrawal of Northern capital, " Southern society"
lives in a condition in which the PRESIDENT says
" all is calm," but in which the citizens find an in-
tolerable curse, and threaten secession accordingly.
In the North, Massachusetts and Ohio are virtually
outside the pale of the Union, by their State laws
antagonistic to federal requirements ; and now Wis-
consin has passed a Personal Liberty Law, like that
of Massachusetts, which places her in the same
position. In the West, news has arrived that
slavery is actually introduced into Oregon ; and, by
the latest despatches from Kansas, it appears that
scarcely a hope remains of the exclusion of slavery
from that new soil. From side to side, from end to
end of the Union, the citizens are of one mind about
one thing, if disagreed about all others—viz., the
alternatives which remain before them on this vital
question. If slavery is not abolished spontaneously,
deliberately, and under solemn sanction of law, the
alternatives are (and are admitted to be) a military
despotism, under which the foundations of the re-
public must give way altogether ; a dissolution of
the Union; or a servile war fatal to the Southern
States. With this certainty in his own mind, and
knowing that it is in every other man's mind, the
new PRESIDENT assumes that the North has suc-
cumbed, and acquiesced in the policy and supremacy
of tho South ; that the whole matter is over ; that
future Territories and States are to exercise an im-
partial choice as to the admission or exclusion of
slavery ; and that it is only necessary for politicians to
agree or be silent, in order to make the Union immortal,
and prolong the boast that " all is calm." He solders
down the safety valve, and says there is an end of
the noise and heat of the steam. If any man in the
Union knows better, it is himself; and he is aware
that all know better. If any man knows better than
another that there is no such possibility as an inde-
pendent choice in any new territory between the
admission or exclusion of slavery, it is President
SucsAnsiv. lie knows that it is an affair of
general concern—of federal regulation; and that
there is no alternative between the exclusion
of slavery on all new soil and its complete
prevalence, compelling the reduction of the
whole country under a military despotism.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

THE POISONINGS AT HONG KONG.

The Afoniteur de la Florte gives some details of
the arrest and first interrogatory of the Chinese
baker Allum, whose execution for poisoning his
bread has been already mentioned :
Alum, whoa a man of large fortune, and who has ex-
tensive mil La and granaries at Canton, where his family
usually reside, took to flight inumediatly after the perpetra-
tion of his crime, and embarked in the night on board a
junk for Macao. An English steamer was sent in pursuit of
him, and ho was brought heck on the 19th to Bong Kong,
where he wee immediately subjected to an interrogatory by
Captain Adams, charged to investigate the affair. The
questions and his answers, which were as follows, were made
through an interpreter
"Q. On the 15th December ell the foreigners who deal
with you received bread which bad been poisoned with
arsenic. Then who partook of it soon felt the effects of the
poison, end several are still in a dangerous state. Soon after
the eumusittal of this action you took to flight. Your I
domestics, on being wrested and interrogated, declared that
the breed had been prepared under your direction, and that
you personally mixed the poison, and threw the arsenic into
the dough. What have you to say to We ?
" A. 1 acted agreeably to the order of the Viceroy,
which was brought to me by a satellite of the mandarin.
That order told use that the English having declared war on
my country, it wee my duty to assist in their destruction ;
that the soldiers used flre and sword to fight them, and that
I was to use pekoe; that it was natural to do everything
to injure an enemy; and that, moreover, if I disobeyed his
orders, my family at Canton would be thrown into piton,
and all my property confiscated.
"Q. The conduct of the Viceroy in horrible, but it is no
excuse for yours. The set which you have committed is
«minty to the lima of war, as it is to those of humanity,
' and he who commits such a crime is equally guilty with him
who dying it. It is widen for you to attempt to excuse
yourself by saying that you acted against an enemy, for you
, have sloe poisoned Germans, Runless, Italians, Americana,
and Vrenvh, with whom you ere not at war.
"A. It was involuntarily that the poisoned breed was die-
' tributed to these foreigners. . .

"Q. What you now any is not the truth. Your domestic
have deviated that, on that day, you made two kinds of
broad one, poisonod, which wee distributed by your orders
to all foreigner, indiscriminately; and another, which was
, good, and given only to the Chinese.
" A. Mj domestics are mistak®.
"Q. That we shall eve hereafter. Your crime la so hor-
rible that it ia very natural that you should reek to dimmable,
but when the day of your trial arrives we will furnish proof
of all wo charge you with."
This first iuterrogatory took place at tho mowed when the
bakeries. brought back and lodged to the prison of Hong
Kung. It is a curious document, and shows the feelings
which now animate the Chinese.