The Express.
London, England, 1850-05-22 00:00:00

UNITED STATES.

We announced yesterday the reamipt of one week's
later advise frees the United States and British Ame-
rica, by the eteaum-ship Cumbeis, whisk ham arrived
with • large number of pumps
Intelligence had Ws received at New Yak frees
Bea Francisco to the let of April. The political aura
are well condensed in the foilowiai extract boa the
New, Yo►k Herald:

A. thermal it epproachee a elem, tlare proceedings of the
legislature become is.,. sad mare fat resting. The chic{
lolifiset to be attained at this aerie. wee the organisation of
the State government, and AO Mamie, of seek general laws
as were absolutely emestlal to the proper administretlea of
jostler. This plan km been as nearly as possible earried
out. Me duties of the state officers have bees defined,
the isun organised, the state has be. districted and di-
eided Into coneties, the seats of Joshes established, sad •
'evil and a criminal rode have hem framed (not as yet pert
fated), suited muesli, as possible to the immediate exigen-
cies of the people. In addition to this, the desire at the
Judiciary Committees Las been to can, out the inteuthls
of the framers of the constitution. A general Man,
poration law has hem established. An set hes been
pas d preteribing a mode of assessiag sad eel-
Wring public revenue. The benefit of the writ of
hoboes teepees has been extended over the citiz s. the
civil and enamel codes, and the acts regaladog proceedings
in the various court., new futures, in accordance wire the
utliehtesed spirit of the constitution, ham been introduced.
Prestress kes been stamped on mow of the laws of a general
diameter. The injunction of the constitation to the eff.ct
that the legislature " shall prohibit by law any perms or
persons, emaciation, company, or corporation, ties exereie-
log the privileges rat b 'eking, or creating paper to circulate
as money," is evil an Rusted. It has not, however, been
neglected. A bill h. a been introduced by Mr. Cnttenden,
Chairman of the Judiciary Committee of the A-scably, in
eonfrreeity with this iejeactient. This measure has met with
most determined and mut streattous opposition, and WS-
stately its further consideration wm, under the repeated
assaults of its opponents, postponed until neat week. Mr
Crittenden, the harmer of the hill. sad Mr. Bandelph, were
its most strenuous advocates. Mr Henley led the opporition.
Toe test vote was on an amendment proposed by
Mr. Wheeler, the effect of which was to reader
the bill nugatory. The vote was as (cello-s: for
the amendment, that is, in opposition to the bill
Aram, Baldwin, Brackett, Brown, Clarke, Corey, Henley,
Morehead, Stewart, Tieeley, Walthell, Wheeler-12.
Against the amenissent :—hradlord, Cate, Come/rubles,
Creamer, Crittenden, Deal, Gray, McKinney, Ogler, Ran-
dolph, Scott, Stowe:l-12. A ti• vote, and the amendment
weal tot, of course. The attempt to force the banking mit-
tens on the state, in the teeth of the constitutional provision
agaiut it, is very strange. It is understood that the brokers
of San Francisco bays defied the legislature to frame any law
which they cannot rends attestor/. I' it nevertheless very
certain that the law, in despite of the opposition to it, well
ultimately puss at this session. Communications have been
received here from the lower country, that some evil din.
posed
etpersons are agiuting the question of separation in the
A letter from Santa Bubara announces that meet.
fags ham been held, bat the people very wisely retrained '
from compromising themselves until they could have the ad.
via of their representatives is the ',easter,. Their repre-
sentatives are strongly opposed to the eliamemberment et the
state, so that the &map' to wean the people from their a:-
teahouse to the state goverement promisee to eventuate nt
as absurd failure.

Our correspondent writes:
NEW YORK, MAT 8.
etrhile the G.wham case agitates the public mind
of Ergiend, opirrois similar to those of the Bishop of
Exeter have crept into the episcopal church of the
United States. It is pretty well established that the
Bishop of North Carolina gees even further than
your prelate, since he allows in his monastic semi-
eery, to which I have before alluded, daily prayers to
be off, red to the Virgin Mary. We have in this city
a very curious offshoot of tractarianism in what
is called tee New York Ecclebiological So-
silty, whose opinions are made known through
g real, end who have set about extendirg their
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cipher under the guise of church architecture.
ly nothing can well be more ludicrous than their
attempts so far. In the first place, they laboured very
bard to lino en appropriate seal for the society, and
they rejoice that they have found it. It is the repre-
gestation if the mystic, mica ',facie, or fish bladder.
The gothic style represents in its urea' wood and stone
the true Christian doctrine and spirit. The f,nt must
be an octagon, for that is the symbol of regeneration.
The knife and spoon used in the cimmun.on service
Chis is something entirely new here) must have han-
dles of the crow form. 'the cloths for the communion
table should be of different colours for different holy
seasons ; the linen covers must have monograms and
crosses. Crosses must be pisced over the graves of
the departed " to secure their peaceful repose. There
most be a well attached to each church, foe the water
may work "miraculous cures." There should be a
screen for the chancel, so that " unhallowed feet may
not desecrate it." Every church edifices should
have lit patron saint, but the saint must have bees
duly canonised. We are also informed of the pre-
piety of super-altars and candlesticks thereon. The
society, in order to carry out their views practically,
have gone into the manufacture of many of thee;
articles, and offer them for sale cheap for cash. It is
re her fanny, that as soon as the society began its
christen labours, and fairly set to work, that the
President, secretory, and several of the members, re-
noeuseed their protestant faith and went over to the
church if Rome. The society now exists chiefly
under the patronage of Bishop Ives.
It is probable that the whole of the fraternity will
en long follow the example of their late president,
Dr. Forbes. Their influence has hitherto been exer-
cised rather privately, but not without success. There
is quite a number of new chluthee, which have
adopted symbolism " from turret to foundation
stone." But all the difficulties that now exist in the
episcopal church in this country are likely to solve
themselves. The clergymen are entirely dependent
on their congregations for support, and these will not
tolerate to any great degree any of the se innovations.
They will be without parishes, land they moat seek
some other church or starve. There is not an instance
of a successful attempt to retain a congregation,
where tractarian views have beea undieguisedly
avowed. On the subject of baptismal regeneration,
the generality of our clergy maintain the notion of the
Rev. Mr. Gorham. One of our most learned, elo-
quent, and popular divines, the Rev. Dr. Taylor,
pastor of Grace Church in this city, recently preached
• sermon to his congregation to warn them against
the extreme use of the word regenerate, as connected
with baptism, and as sought to be defined by a certain
elus of theologians.
It is very curious :to witness the swayings of the
Matrices mind under local and ether influences.
While one small body of men would confine revela-
tion and its benefits to traditional tschnicalitieis, and
imprison the soul of the Christian in an octagonal
foot, there is another who would send it abroad on the
wings of uncertainty to find some other resting place
than the ark of the covenant. Thus, the supernatural
knocking. at Rochester have given some persons great
bops that we are about to have • new revela-
tion. True, the revelations so Whose not been of the
Sinitic character, nor even tolerably dignified. They
have consisted of chair-tumbling, table-moving, hair-
combing, and cheek-pinching exhibitions; of very
tedious replies by the promos of spelling, usual to
children when they are learning their A, B, C, and of
exceedingly bad grammar and a surprising ignorance
of the dictionary compiled for the use of schools.
Notwithstanding all this, such men as the editor of
the Tribune listen to the knockings, and ask, if they
be a fraud, for an explanation of the manner in which
theih•are produced.
Rochester spirits are now believed to have
made a short visit to a town in Connecticut, • state
somewhat famous for witches some generations since.
There they have commenced tearing clothes off the
parties poesoseed of their favour and carry off spoon',
like the magpies, which so nearly ruined the maid.
All this, however, is trifling compared with the
movement recently made in Ohio by the female buck-
eyes of that state. A convention, composed of five
hundred women, recently met at Salem to consider
the social, intellectual, and political audition of the
six. There were a president, three vice-presidents,
and three secretaries, besides a bagasse committee. An
sieves was read oresling of the legal liabilities
to which women aresubjected, the want of protection
for their labour, their inability to obtain for it a fair
remuneration, and the inequality of their position an
umpessiM parts of the state. Many good speeches
wire made by the ladies, and many spirited letters
were reed ea the occasion, all of which breathed a
spirit of resistance " to the overbearing tyranny of
the ether sos." The rights if wawa were pro-
'Mud in a tone not to be miseStierstasd, and It

stewed for two days as if the taxa would have
to don the pettaseats, sad the women were
about to seise the nether ferrate intsge-
meets of acs. The mobbing pissed were tweety-
two in number, sad me of esesidsrable length.
They declare that all laws which pn.eat women
from pursuing their own Mastential happiness are
contrary to astute, equity, and judos, and that to
make them suliese• to Jews, with the enactment of
which they have asi b do, is also unjust—that
all rights are buena te, ea of course irrespective
of sex ; -that the se Ile the sex to laws made
for them without their essiont its proof of their de-
regradation ; that the assist ths ram demands the
xtension of the siesive hasshise to women ;
that the control of their property and of
their childres, by the wino redness them to
the (= WWI* Jalaves ; that ell distinctions
between men and wawa, bastion the Moreno, of
sex are wrong sad shield be abashed, 0 That the
practice of holding women minable to a different
standard of propriety and morality than that to
which men are held amenable, is unjust and unna-
tarsi, and highly detrimental to dementia and social
virtue and happiness."
The ladies also resolved that our mild republican
government was in foot a tyranny, that they wars
oppressed, taxed without representation, degraded,
and subjected to misery and crux*. In short, they
published an address, and resolved to meet annually ,
until they could obtain their rights.
Some of them expressed their high satisfaction at
an article on Woman, which appeared in the January
number of the Instetiraster Review.

Tee condition of the sex isetiiTs7ountry, has, under
such circumstances as these, become en interesting
one, and we easy for a few momenta advert to it.
The English law has generally governed our enact-
ment*. la no state of the union are women allowed
to vote. They moo possessed the frau:hies in the
stets of Now Jersey, but it was taken from them.
The only offices of a public nature they ever hold are
post-offices, sometimes bestowed upon the widows
of late worthy incumbents. Before marriage
they bare all the legal rights of men, ex-
cept those of a purely political nature.
They have also many immutities that men have not,
and are specially protected by our law under many
circumstances where men are not. It is very doubtful
whether the ladies of Ohio would be able to perform
all the duties of citizens, particularly in time of war,
and it would be quite inconvenient, not to say inde-
corous, to have certain events occur unexpectedly to
them in the halls of legislation, even if any other
crisis was at hand. That a great deal may be
devised to advance the real happiness of the sex
is not to be doubted. We have in this state
done much to protect the property of women,
and to disenthral them from the united control
of bad husbands. In general their social condition is,
belotd all doubt, far in advance of that in any other
part of the world. From youth to old age they are
the objects of unceasing civility and kindness. In no
other country are they so much exempted from per-
sonal hardships; in no other arc husbands more omi-
nous in providing for their comforts. Indeed, it is
almost the folly of the Americans to yield everything
to their wives and daughters. A woman may have
all her property settled on herself before marriage;
she is now allowed, even during coverture, to
acquire and retain property for herself, and to
dispose of it as she pleases. Oar ekver women
who prefer the lives of authoresses, or philanthropists,
or teachers, have no difficulty whatever in obtaining
position and influence, and, what is more, they exer-
cise great power indirectly on our public councils—
more, perhaps, than if they held seats in them. Of
are continually obtained by women for their friends
at Washington and elsewhere, and some very remark-
able changes in the administration of the government
have resulted from their efforts. The explosion of
Gen. Jackson's first cabinet was most unquestionably
owing to the influence of a lady. The dismissal of
the late French minister was alleged to be connected
in some way with a combination among the Washing-
ton ladies of a certain political rank.
I imagine that it will be a long time before our
women will have the privilege of voting at our eke-
tices, and a longer time before, as a body, they will
seek to do so. A more delicately brought up race, as
a general rule, is not to be found in the world, and it
may be laid down as a fact, the young women of the
United Stater, whose pareata are only in moderate
circumstances, have greater personal happiness and
greater personal comfort, than thou even of the
gentry of England, with much greater foetuses !
Amon our local items of interest, I may mention
that gold has been found in Indiana, in the sands of
two creeks in the county of Broca, and in such
quantities as already to attract a large number of
people. The fact that one person washed out seven
dollars' worth in a single afternoon has set the neigh-
bourhood in commotion.

The young Lord Durham lately made his appear-
ance at one of the President's receptions, leaning on
the arm of the British minister. He was much
stared at, of course, and was particularly notices for
his simple and unobtrusive manners. The remarks,
however, made upon his bearing, *inning principally
from reporters for the newspapers, do not show a
very high standard on their part; for why should a
gentleman perfectly accustomed to hie position, at
ease with himself and the world, feel any neormity
for display or personal assumption. Perhaps some it
the bystanders expected a little swagger.
This week is our anniversary week, in which all
the annual meetings of the religious and philanthropic
associations take plans in this city.
The American steamer Franklin, to ply to Havre,
is now rapidly approaching completion, and will pro-
bably make her first trip in June.

AIIERICUS.

CALIFORNIAN PROSPECTS.

TAR EXPREEK ifiIDNBSDAY ITENING. Mir 22, 1810.

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soma oltarootor, ist.• amid be • Mho kr rrjr_!_lbrd• Tb.
ma Pelee are •01iiii don law a lissoaabla pm; Oul
of this sow vale %MN, we um/ kik 61 • &*7
inprovenesi la oh the logasses alias of Mom to
the bet Wan that we =lre le hrl•••16 Orr lb°
CiallOorahas that do babbio oposolodia has boas
polite/ as fa early • pork& Hod lc boos bespiat =us:
51a maths Mager, ft would lave boos far um
It 'WI be ••• saw, sad Daly Imbed whoa the
orillsha has toppled over the
wow glehi, who amti".:1111 skim with the Ward
gowinalltat

The Animism josrashpubliek ta. hiliwkOstlee
Irani* H. Bohm to Mr. Cbspold:

Weaestots, Itsh.2ll, too.
Dear Sin—l ban reesind your eammuoiciatioes up to the
3rd of January laelesivis. I was sad to hear of your ar-
esereasee whit geneemer Beehlres ••• Ulla
yell "MI thus have and Ms quarks of claims before the'
eels, ter Titre Mud amine. I kart/ that it le
amok blii=insaw geeple ea memo of justice, if yea
emerie beep bdise th* eymihe ehheato argameat of font,
amid I feel eassedhsty he year pesltlea • with each • Ifulti•-
ma as kale/ "made. "es year elbow. Bat pray
let me she the. liberty of to you that it is well
always to seaside, net °sly wise pus think should be does
for the particular interest whir* you have in hand, bat what
year goveramitat, which has so many interests to eon
eider, will beck you in dons; glue, to make a
step forwards, If subserviently it is te be made backwards,
only readers matters wons. I would not, also, let Mr.
Squier's misdoisp hurry you too sub oat of the line which
yea would otherwise pursue. Eta wader is generally di -
approved of hen; end I kaow that the. state department
has formally disapproved of it. Norther do I thick that this
government has at the pressed moment the views you seem
inclined to credit it foe. It is, however,* week government,
and brag suspected by the popular party, is ever afraid of
seeming is favour of any policy that is unpopular. Thus,
though its isteattoze may be trusted, its ours. cannot be
relied upon. Attempts are brag made to settle the Mos.
quito hoidens. I think they may succeed ; they ought
to do wt. We have every wish to aid in constructing
a esaal that Is, in periods( it. construction and
gursaterag its security when tionetructsd. Nor have
we any great interest in the Mosquito protectorate, or any
selfish object to serve by issiataltilag P. But we ought
not, sad I believe will not, abandon it dishonourably, nor
permit the Nit:regains, whom we have expelled therefrom,
to be again masters of the Sea must These are my prints
opinion, but I 'Adak you may like to know them. I hen
defended your conduct here as to Tigre island, on the
ground that it was provoked by tlgabr ; but It was too " go
shied " li.L B.
P.S.—I just find that yoa have thrown oat to Squier
something about a treaty of protretio• between as and COWS
Rica. Now, Lord P. has not only denied that he has any
idea of exercising a protectorate over Costa Rica, but
told the United States govemserst he had refused
it, My instructions certainly forbid me to encourage
may such idea, and moreover it would only be setting au
ewers which it wool,' be highly imprudent to give. I
'booth tell you, indeed, that both the United States and I
ourselves an at prernt proceeding upon the avowed policy
that neither will sells for exclusive influence in Central
America; and while the conduct of Squier contravenes sad
embarrasses this policy on one side, any conduct of similar
kind on your part must do so on the other. These are
merely pnvete hints of mine to you, in order to prevent you
finding your position weakened, by doing or promising
what the United States will not do or approve of being pro
mised. Pray excuse my !realises, end wishing you to
imitate us sad write folly to me upon ell matters.
lam again, dear sir, your respectfully, U. L. B.

THE
MANUFACTURING DISTRICTS.

MANCHESTER, MAT 21.
Though the Whitsuntide holidays commenced with
the beginning of the w.ek here as elsewhere, yet the mass of
mill operatives break off work to-night, in compliance with
an old custom, that they may have the privilege of attending
the Manchester races, which commence tomorrow. We
have had cheap railway trips, and there are announced and
yet in store railway trips is limber beyond all precedent,
yid at prices lower than have yet been attempted. The
weather on Banal aad yesterday wee inclement and limn-
, picioas, mart*, many an expected pleasure ; but to-day
we have experienced a wonderful change—bright, genial,
sunny atmosphere gad sky, w h every prospect of permanence.
By those wily actisslnted with the habits of the working
damn here, esa the happy eking, be appreciated. It is a
seises when this elan in particular enjoy themselves more
than at say other time in out-door excursions. The Sunday and
charity school children, with their conductors and teachers,
walk in processions, and make railway tripe in every d ireetioa.
Wet as it was yesterday, we had the spectacle of more than
10,000 children in the streets at on. time belonging to the
established church. To-day and during the remainder of
the week they make their excursions end have their enjoy-
ment+ in &babel bo lies; and the schools of the diesenters
are not lass beat on pleasure. Oa every irMway out of
tenni, every available carriage will be pressed into service
to seemly them to some chisels spot ten, twenty, or thirty
miles away ; and from the distant manufacturing towns
they pass, the return trains bringing back similar freights.
Business, however, has mot been neglected on the Ex
change today, and we have had a more healthy end pro-
seising market than for some time past. A sad accident
occurred at the hour of high change yesterday. Two men
were engrafted in painting the inside of one of the lefty
douses which light the interior, when the scaffolding have
way, and the pow fell iwe descended from a great height
upon the floor of the Exchange among broken planks aad
spars—one of them breaking • leg, and the other his
spine. The I fair created a very painful natation.

RAILWAY COMPMATION CA:qt.—At Birmingham
yesterday • jury was empanelled to assess the amount of
eompensatioo due to the owner of a building which had been
damaged by the workings on the London and North
Western Extension Railway. Mr. Alexia.ler, QC , offi-
ciated se assessor, with Sir Frederick Theaser and Mr. Self
lee the claimants, and the Hon. John Talbot, Q C., and Mr.
Mellor for the company. The bosses, the value of which
formed the subject of this litiestlon, are situate in the High.
street of Birmingham, and within one foot and • half of a
tunnel, which the London and North Western Company
have made for motioning their main line into the Stour
Valley Railway. By reason of the working and excavation
the houses sack considerably, became dilapidated, and aid-
stately in part fell, thereby rendering them unprofitable to
the owner, a penes named Allen, who thereupon made
application to the Court of Chancel for an ordt r to stay
the company from going on with their works until
compensation to the amount of 7,0001. was made. The
Master of the Rolls complied so far as to order the company
to deposit the sum named, leaving the amount to be paid to
be determined by a jury. The company paid in 4 6001. in
liquidation of the damage. On the part of the claimant it
was contended that as the property was situate In one of the
beet streets in Birmingham, and at its present rental fetched
2101. per annum, the fee-simple of the property was worth
a much larger sum, and that • considerable allowance should
be made for the forced sale. Misers. Edge, Robins, Drury,
and Houghtos, architects and yore, swore that the
property was worth 7,0001., without rating allowance for the
formed sale. On the part of the company it was contended
that sufficient compensation had been offered, especially as
they had settled with tenants., and had offered to rebuild
the hens' s style to meet the owner's wishes. The jury
awarded 6,7001., which is equal to about 27 yeses' per-
due..

WINDING-DP OF RAILWAY AND JOINT-STOCK
Coxructhe.—Madrid and Valencia Railway.—An applica-
tion 4 to be made to the Court of Chancery to compel Mr.
Chaderick's appearance before the Master. Insurance Com-
panies.—Petitions hare been presented for the settlement of
the affairs of the sea, Fire, and Life Assurance Company,
sad of the General COMIIIIiIIiOr, Ship Loan, and Insurance
Company. The auteranee sompenies at present in process
of being wound up are the Loedou and Westminster Life
Amunnes, the Toth and London Lessrance, and the Ton-
tine Life Awarance Companies. Parcels Past Company.—
The Muter In Chancery hu appointed Mr. Goodehap to in-
vestigate and wind a this company's affairs. Hiegel:end
Literary Institution —The slain of this institution are to be
wound up in compliance with a petition from the share-
holders. _

Nsw INcLostats Acr.—The New Inclceure Act,
which reeeived thii royal meat es Friday, ha. fat bees
orbited. The folkiwing ineloenrea are to be mended with :
Uankedr-y-mu, is Caernarvon; Caerhystis Caernarvon ;
Beiweriey Moot, and Hardened. Moor, is York ; Sharwemi
Forest, part of, in Manelirld,Nottianham ; Tilkord. in Surrey ;
Weston Outmodes, is Gloucester • Canhaltos and Wallington,
is Surrey; Keintoko, is Sesierwr ; Dainty Lem-grows,
in Derby; Dillitar Comma, in Westmorland • Catirliam,
in Surrey ; Bolhas hill,. is Dena ; Chureielastow, in
Heron; Penn, is Burke; Little Mimendes, in Beaks;
Swinasoro Commas, in Hereford; Storringtos, In Semen;
Nuthourne Commies, is Semen ; Caldieet-csa-Newton, in
Monmouth ; South Wootton, in Noriolk ; and Allied&
Moor, in Northumberluid.

FAsT NA NY' 8 I VAUD/ AND Rim:am
—lt is rumoured that sa unusual nuabar, not Is. than
1,000, invalids an expected home tram India la the mans
of the/ sawing year. As a cumassiassae, tlno reanddag far
the Bart laths Company's swabs will is serried an for the
sent tow months with iamamsd astivity, awe beim at pro-
ma mon than the usual dammed Ise reamila.

OUTILAOE AT CILEWICZEIM—OW alndir ViSISOOrr.
m Mr. and Mrs. Edger, • maw aged simplea wh•••••PY •
sonar at the extremity of the tows sewer& Tess/, wen
sitting ones, they heard a noise In*" rose oasoo4
as Mr. Edgar proceeding up Nein angotteidble Mee be
was mulled with a violent Weer cm the hen
in ths room, who, it appears, art ism sis Send Che
window, which is at the top of a mit NIL
who followed up stairs, was at ellee and
left shinned with the blow, while the Mr.
Edgar round the room, inflicting very Violent blows about
tholsad end shouldsts with a son of pick with titres ppreM
which was need to secure the door. Th. prongs of the
wars br..ken with the violence, and the villain soutinwsti the
aatanit with tits °kik briallei the blood at every blow.
""▪ '""lidi. Misr entilsiratly reeovemd to give an
~▪ ..2.:,„,•"1
sad the trafala 0004104 from the window. Is his de-
mean ha was tortenattly mon and recognised by two boys
who "rib "AIM •• tbi rood. token into eltated;.
Mr. Edgar was sowir.saly but not dastrwenelY
although for toss time laorsoltdo ban low of blood.