The Express.
London, England, 1850-09-17 00:00:00

lER 17, 1850.

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"UNITED STATES.

The eventeof the week, the newsof which reach as
by the Burma, are, as stated yesterday, the execution
of Past Webster at Baton and the arrival of Jenny
Lind at New York. We give pretty full details
of the closing manes of the Professor's life ; and,
utterly despairing of our ability to express adequately
the enthusiasm of Jenny's reoeption' we have had re-
course to quotation in her cue also.
Governor Bell's message to the Texan legislature
on the subject of the difficulties with the general go-
vernment, lea lengthy and rather bellicose document.
After recounting the steps already taken in the
matter, the Governor thus intimates the measures he
thinks ought now to be adopted:

After deeifly, and I trait roarrely, reflectieg Cu this sub-
ject, with a mind guided by the Err easier dare to take
no step la it which would not command the approbation of
my fellow-Marne, and the retiring particle of those of our
sister states, wrote interest in this matter is strongly
aaimi-
laud te, un, it b my deliberate and Aria convictles that there
billow lets us batons eennernsisteat with the honour, and a
just sense of what is due to euneless r a sovereign com-
munity; and that is, the immediate adoption by your
lanourahle body, with perfect unanimity, of sash measures
as are 0•••••ary for the amortise of Santa Fe, with a force
ample to quell the arrogant sad rebellious spirit now pre-
Tiling then, and to enable us to extend sad firmly rte,.Wish the jurisdiction and laws of the state aver it.
Braid the adoption and unswerving enforeement of these
trantree lead toe relief with these whe, by executive au-
thority, are uelawfully exercising the pewees of a govern-
ment adverse to cur intern's, within our dared and ac-
knowledged limits, there are noes who would regret that
conflict, sad the consequenc s which would most probably
flow from its more than myself; bat I should be consoled in
the contemplation of its fearful results by the reflection that
it mania a dlf oulty of oar caking—that every effort on oar
part, save that of craven rubmission to lawless outrage and
instil; Ind been employed to avert it; end confiding in the
Ponies of our care, I should tearlemly meet it, trusting and
feeling enured that Tens would stand exonerated before
' the world, eves should that conflict shahs to the very centre
dm most gloriosa comfedarry upon which the sun has oyez
shone.

lem not of the number of those who have attempted to
estimate the value of the union. I regard its benefits, when
they are administered in °Deformity with the spirit sad prin-
ciples of its coulitutia, es unappreciable by those who are
left is their eadiourbed enjoyment. But whea the guaran-
tees of that seared instrument are set at naught, or when
bores shall be resorted toss the legitimate mode of their in.
terpretaties. it will then cease to be a %Won entitled to our
reversuce, become it will have cooed to possess the power
of exteading ?qual and mutual benefits to all of its members.
Is view, then, of the naplessent and extraordinary pogi-
t ion in whisk we an placed, mad of the shoals!, Si Plait, of
immediate and decisive action on our part, I reonemend
that your honourable body authorise the executive to raise,
with as little delay as possible, with power to supply, at
least, two regiments et mounted volution for the mattes-
plated move to and occupancy of Basta Fd.
Is making this recommendation I am not unmindful of
the heavy sapenw which it will tavola, and the ember-
raggieg difaultise which will be presented ia raking the
necessary fends to meet them; but I rely with atilt Call&
demos ea the wisdom of the loislater• in devising some
effective MOM to meet the emergency—recollecting that
Texas, In • mach darker end more embarrassed period of
her poeuniary resources, prepared to encounter, and did
suensultfily enerisater, a more appalling cadet.
It may not be improper in connection with this object to
remind your konotuatile body that there is now lying idle
and unprofitable is the treasury the sum of 31,443 dolt..
which has bon set apart, in accordance with a provision of
the constitution, as a school fuad. It ia true that the fund
cannot be appropriated to any other object than that for
+Web it was ogiginally designed. But may not its present
shape be 'above, by converting hint* one of different and
more profitable sharseter for the ultimata attainment of the
ends contemplated, without violating any constitutional pro-
Tilion ?

la my general message to you is December last, I sug-
gested tne plan of converting it by loan or otherwise into
some preamble stock bearing interest, until it shall be stiff
eient to authorise im useful employment in the way desig-
nated' being then convinced, as lam now, " that It would
be totally lost if distributed amongst the Trains counties,
erbiht the anasuct was too irmoosiduable to effect any ben.-
86 .1 purpose." It is true that, at that time, I was, from
the imperfect redaction I bad bees able to give to the sub-
ject. of the opinion that such • conversion was not authorised
tram the terms of the coostitstion but upon further
consideration, and • more critioil examination of the
phraseology employed, I ant led to doubt somewhat the en-
tire CMOIIICII of the view then entertained. The expres-
sions that " no law shall aver be made diverting the said
fond to any othcr use then the support of free public schools,"
would probably be &weaned to mean that the value, the
essential property of the fund, shall never be applied to any
other purpose, god not that the evidences of that value shall
not .0 changed or converted into other evidences, equally
available and more beneficial to the objects intended to be
promoted by it. I submit the subject, however, for your
sonsideration, remarking that I should be amongst the lest
to weaken the guards which were manifestly iotanded to be
placed around the toad alluded to, and if it could now be
prAtably employtd, I would not make the suggestion which
I have dose, though the olnect to which it is desired to ap-
ply it is second in importance to none other. If you shall
concur with me that the change proposed is admissible, I
suggest that you asks prevision for basing stock by
the state, bearusg interest at 8 per cent, to the extent of
that feral, payable at any time hereafter when in
the judgment of the legislature it may be desirable
to call it in, and that ample security be pro-
vided for its redemption in • pledge of the public domain,
and as much of thaproceeds arising 'rom the sale of any por-
tion of it as mty be aecessery, strengthening these pledges
wi h any farther securities that you may deem proper.
- - - _

The money now lying idle and profitless in the treasury
might thus be made auxiliary to the other resources of the
state in preparing and fl ling out a mi.itary exwelition, and
at the same time the land would be increased by Its employ-
ment in this most worthy manner.
The State has at this time about six hundred stand of arms,
whieh could be used, if actually &enemy, to supply any un-
avoidable deficiency; but it should be requteet, in my
judgment, that any troops mustered for the service indicated,
should be &Ilea on to mount, arm, and equip themselves,
and it is believed that our citisene are patriotic enouch to
enrol themselves under the beerier of their State upon an
eccuion like the present, without ezpecting any advance of
pay for their Services; bat I would recommend that the
legislature make as ample provision as the resources to be
derived from our public leads will permit, to secure them a
Net and liberal compensatioa, covering their pay proper, and
likewise satisfaetory,reimbareeenent formal actual unavoidable
Imam which they incur while is the service of the State.
A statement of the present sad prospective condi'ion and
resources of the treasury, together with estimates of the pro-
bable amount which will he required for munitions of war,
provisions, and transportation, will be laid before you for
such whin as will be proper on your part, marked
While addressing you on the 'abject of our difficulties at
Santa Fe, and suggesting, as I have done, the only course
which to my mind is capable of affording a remedy, it would
be proper (Sr me to call your attention to certain measures
now pending before the Compels of the United States, and
in which, amongst other things, it is proposed to establish a
government for New Mexico, with a boundary extending
south to the 32nd parallel of north latitude, and east to the
one hundredth parallel of west longitude, striking off thereby
eueeremonieselv. nearly one-third of the territory embraced
within the heretofore acknowledged sad recognised limits of
this state. This plan is accompanied with a proposition to
Texas to give her - dollars for a relinquishment of her
claim, or, in plainer language, to give her - dollars,
provided she will quietly stand aloof and permit a party in
Congress, known to be adverse to certain institutions of the
mouth, and seeking every opportunity to email them, to
partition her territory in a manner consonant with their
views, to afford them another means of carrying out their fa.
vourite policy on that aubject.
However willing Texas may have been, and may still be,
to dispose of a portion of her north-western territory, upon
fair, meltable and honourable terms, I cannot believe that
any party respectable fur its numbers or intelligence, will
be found amongst us who would be willing to accept a pro-
position so degrading to the character and dignity of the
state, as the one contained in the bill reported by the eons-
' pansies triefalaittae of the senate. The right of the general
government to dispose of any portion of the territory of a
sovereign state without its consent cannot be admitted or
acquiesced is by a free people, so long se they retain any
just coaseption of the relative rights and obligations of the
f. dent and state governments to each other, and so true is
the larbildr, tha• notwithstanding this movement in ratan
ream se axes, it cams cot to be denied by those who are
advocating the measure; for they playthe foundation of
their proceedings In the assumption that we have no right
or title to the territory in question.
The question of our title we will not 'gain dinette, as it
can result in no practical good, and indeed it would be
humiliating to do so, after so mach has been said in reference
to It. " Tna argument is exhausted." Those who now
deny our claim would continue to do so were it placed before
them in characten written with a sunbeam. It steads in
the way of the attainment of their dean object Ia respect
to slavery, and to deny it affords the only pretext which can
be found for avoiding the stipulations of tine compact under
which Texas beams a member of the confederacy. Public
faith is to be portaged at the skein of on unhallowed
fanaticism, and In the opinions MIMEO assepyber prominent
positions in the councils of the mangy, the ametitution itself
should he made to yield to a morbid philanthropy, origina-
ting and existing only is the heated Imaginations of partisan
zealots. Texas can never be guided by such influences. She
will never it is hoped, debase honed la the eyes of her
sister Stelae of the seek by giving her assent to swore+ so
manifestly inteekd Mstrike a blow at their most vital in-
terest ; and she repels des ausept Is pereltase her acquits.
canoe in so nab* a aims as se beak awed to the
made inte-
grity, common de
and Mines of lWe altheme. If • propo-
sition had boss lsar ewe bar asknowledied rights
of helm'', to perslres from ber rat portion of it lytog
north al as bilk apes Osier*
_sad asstapaska
with a eakelent essaseass that tba sions et the joint
randatisos fir eanenatien, is aspect le slavery, should be
observed, the re respectful eassideratlon would have
been Wain to Mond I risk bet little in saying that a large
majority or ear Mew-deans would have met such a propo
lilies in the NW liberal spirit, and with a sincere desire to
wooed eveefrlgg raesseable sad just that eight have bean
asked in relbeissa

tie;senor liellth;n presents an outline of the con-
tents Orbs lemmata he submits to the legislature,
MA muftis se Wows ;

I will remark that Texas cannot, with any propriety, be
charged with being imorient or precipit.te in t matter of
disputed boundary ; on the eootrary, her too patient reliamm
on the justice of the general government has brought her
present evils upon her. Hewitt/ and Ictienee bane charac-
terised her course so far, and should oceasionelly any feeling
of indignation be betrayed In her councils or by her citizen',
let it be remembered in justice that the greet bead of the
family of states mey not claim entire exemption from the
frailties of natsro.

But there ebtuld be no eriminetion et reeriusimatitms
between the federal and state governments. A proper appro.
elation of the union and its benefim abides la our state, sag
so long as this sentiment can sli.t, eonsiceot with Suds-
peadence and honour, it will be fostered with pride.
But our rights are still our right., and when, and in
what manner they are to be maintained, the reprewnratives
of the people are now called on to determine. In year
liberations and foal action upon this grave ar.d important
subject, I feast your honorable body will / chihit firmness,
tempered with coildnees; decision, after the Ire. ex, miss of
an enlightened judgment; sel,-respect, with • decent rrgtrell
for the opinions of thole who stand adversely ...ovr.tr-le v. ;
and, obtaining a complete victory over those t igh
which the occasion and these turbulent times are s, much
ealekted to engender, you will, it i. hop Li the
world that the youngest member of a great runirdersey
eon, when she feels hereon aggrieved, ass rt w th the cunh.
deuce which justice inspires, her just claims, aid iiy np.rel
force effectuate a Debts end, which in other agi s amt c .uni
tries could cal, be consummated by political ninvoisions and
the sword.

I haws humbly and is sincerity given you my views, and
merle inch recommendations e my judgment approv.d. If
the suggestion& which I have snide shall facet your ro-cur,
ranee, I shall indeed be pirated; if, in the resource, I e,mr
collective wisdom, you cor.osive a better plan for the att.in-
went of the cud proposed, I shell be most h,ppy to
operate with you in the approval sod execution of it.

Daring August 18,662 emigrants arrived at New
York from foreign ports, against 28,:i70 in August
hat year.

JENNY LINT) AT NEW YORK.

The enthusiasm of Jenry Lind's recept,on in Ame-
rica far trateeends that of the l• avr-tskire at Liverpool.
The dawn of the Sunday on which ,he latticed hroke as
"overcast" u that celebrated in the openint of Aldo tn'e
" Cato." The reporter of the Tribune, hootver, proceeded
to the Q israntine at Staten Island. What be witnessed
then we shall alloy, hies to tell 'or himself:

—Towards one o'clock two guns were heard in the direction
of Sandy Hook, and Immediately after the sienal Beg of a
steamer was run up at the t.legraph station Aglow Clifton.
In a few minute a the Adman hove in sight, her giant bulk
looming through the light mist which rill lay on the outer
hay. There was no Swedish flag at the quarantine, but Dr.
Doane promptly ordered the Orman Republican trie doe to
be run up the staff, as Its nearest of kin, and consequently •
compliment to the distinguished rongetrese. Oa passing the
Narrows the Atlantic fired • second salute, and
stopping her paddles, came slowly on with the
tide. Through the courtesy of Dr. Doane, we took
• seat in hi boat, and were carried out over the fresh,
dancing swell, as fast as four pairs of stout arms could
urge us. The immense steamer rote above us like • mean.
thin, as we run under her quarter, and i: was something of
an undertaking to climb the rove he ncLladder to er d,ck.
The paseengen were all above, group. el about the bulwarks,
or looking after their effects amid a wilderness of brume.
On the top of a light deckhouse, erected over the forward
cempurion.way, sat the subject of the day's neje, m, nt—
the veritable Jenny Lind—as fresh and cony as if the sea
had spared her its usual eiconiforte, and erjoying the novel
interest of everything the saw, with an app are-t Inert.
seioumees of the observation she el eit- d At her side stood
Mr. Jules Benedict, the distinguished c mummer, end Signor
Giovanni Beletti, the celebrat. d hypo, it. r artLtic com-
panions. Mr. B intim who bad by this time climbed en
board, with a choice benquet carefully stuck in the Meow of
his white vest, wee taken forward and presented by Capt.
West. But Mr. Collins had for ones stolen a march nn him,
haying got en board In advance, and mounted Miss Liad a
bouquet about dine time, the &el of B arnum's.
We really cannot spare room for the sayings of Signor
&Seta, and therefore harry to the landing :
As the Atlantic got under weigh again, Captain ',eat in-
vited the pery to take • ration on the starboard wheelhouse
when they could observe the beauties of cur harbour with-
out being Incommoded by the crowd on deck Mdlle. Lind
and her companions were charmed by the fresh and changing
prospect. She pronounced New Ysrk bey the finest the had
overseen, and her time was spent entirely in lemming the shores
with • glass. Seeing the American flog flying at the Qua-
rantine, she said •• There is the beautiful standard of Free-
dom, the oppressed of all nations worship it." fig. Beletti
exclaimed in rapture: " Here is the New World at last—
the grand New World ! first seen by my fellow-euuntryman,
Columbus !" Notwithstanding the wind blew a small
gale, Mademoiselle Lind remained on the wheel-house,
observing everything with great curiosity and delight,
till the ship was mode hod at the pier. As we passed Ca,tle
Darden, • Swedish vessel—the Maria, which arrived on Son.
day from Oefle—layin the stream, with the national flag at
the gaff. The Nightingale recognised it at once, and waved
her handkerchief to the senors on board. She inquired of
Dr. Doane the name of the vessel and the condition of the
crew, with much appareat interest.
As we neared Canal.street pier, the interest wee increased
by the spectacle of tome thirty or forty thoueand persons
congregated on all the adjacent piers and shipping, as wellies
all the roofs and windows fronting the water. The spare and
rigging of vessels—the bulkheads along the wharfs, end
every other spot ceniroancting a sight, were crowded, while
every fender at the Hoboken street terry.house was topped
with • piece of living statuary. In addition to the
usual flags at the pier, a splendid Swedish banner
was floating in the air. From all quarter, crowds of pc r.ons
could be seen hurrying down towards the Atlantic', dick.
The multitude increased so rapidly that we b-gar to fear
there would be difficulty in making a way through it. The
distinguished visitors all expressed their astonishment at
seising so many well-dressed people in the crowd. Mdlle.
Lind, especially, was very much struck with the air of res-
pectability which marked the thousands assembled. Turn-
ing to Mr. Barnum, she asked, Hove you no poor people in
your country ? Every one here appears to be well dressed."
The Atlantic ran past the pier as she came up, turned, end
went down stream some distance, and then glided elowly into
her place. Some little time elapsed before she could be made
fast and the gangway adjusted. The immense crowd was
kept away from the immediate neighbourhood of the vessel
by the gate across the pier, inside of which about fifty persons
had been admitted. Mr. Barnum's carriage, with his pair of
beautiful bays, was in readiness at the toot of the gangway.
Jost inside the gate a number of triumphal arches of ever-
greens sad flowers had been erected. The first arch front-
ing the water bore the inscription, " Welcome to Jenny
Lindl," after which came another, with the American eagle
in the centre, and the wade, " Jenny Liod, welcome to
Amerin," in large letters around the span. The landing.
place from the steamer to the gates was overhung with Use
stars and stripes, with the flags of various other nations
tastefully disposed on either side, This beautiful display was
got up ander the direction of Messrs. Davidson, Stewart, and
Delmann, attaches of Barnum's Museum. A large number
of the Museum's people were on the ground, most of them
carrying bouqueta. We learned from those who boarded
the Atlantic teat the crowd on shore was most dense and
suffocating, and that five or six persons had been pushed into
the dock in the struggle, but were rescued without injury.
Many had been in waiting on the ground for several hours.
As soon as Capt. West had conducted Mdlle. Lind to the
gway, the :nth commenced. Millie. Ahmansen, with
Messrs. Benedict and Beletti, followed, and .11 four took
their seats in the carriage, Mr. Barnum mounting to the
driver's place. The crowd the gates immediately sur-
rounded the carriage, clinging to the wheels and crowding
about the windows, cheering all the while with an enthu-
siasm we never saw surpassed. The multitude outside began
to press against the gates, which were unbolted in all huts
to prevent being forced in. Scarcely had one gate been
thrown back, however, before the torrent burst in, with an
energy frightful to witness. The other hall or the gate
instantly gave way, the planks snipping like
reeds before the pressure. The foremost ranks
were forced down upon the floor, and those be-
hind, urged on from without, were piled upon them till •
serious low of life seemed almost inevitable. The spectacle
was most alarming ; some 40 or 60 persons lay crushed by
the insurable crowd, stretching out their hands and crying
for help. In the midst of this tragic affair we could scarcely
restrain a laugh at the sight of a man lying squeezed under
the man and hardly able to breathe, holding out his new
hat at arm's length, and implorog somebody to take it and
prevent it from being smashed. Finally, some of the pollee
officers, and some of the gentlemen who happened to be
near, succeeded with great difficulty in driving beck the
crowd and rescuing the sufferers. Many were severely
bruised, some came off with bloody noses, and twe bop,
about 12 years of me, appeared to be seriously injured. Had
not the rush been checked in time, many lives would have
been loot. _ _ _ _ . _ _

We learn from the New York Herald that on Sunday
afternoon the population of New York became so excited
that " after church hours we were obliged to lona an extra,
which sold beyond precedent." Her arrival at the Irving-
holies, weer. apartments had been prepared for her, is thus
chronicled by him of the 7ra$0111;
Her arrival created nearly as much excitement in the
Irving-house as in the streets. There are at present 630 guests
is the house, and each *meal one is anxious to get a glimpse
of her. All the passages leading to her apartments w.re
crowded. The great flag of Sweden and Norway was
hoisted on the deg-staff of the Irving-house immediately
upon her arrival. Throughout the evening crowds con-
tinued to collect about the hotel; and so incessant were their
calls, that she was obliged to appear twice again at the
windows. Finally, being quite exhausted by the exci•ement
of the day, she retired, and her faithful Swedish servants
kept watch to prevent disturbance.
A 'grenade was given to the fair vocalist immediately after
midnight by the Musical Fend Society of New York. The
musicians performed a number of airs, among which "Hail
Columbia" and "Yankee Doodle" wire predominant.
Jenny requested a repetition of the latter.
Os Monde y 800 American ladies paid their respects to the
Swedish nightingale. Mr. Barnum was in attendance to
gavel hr to the principal sights. After all this we ars not
surprised to learn that eke proposed to spend a few days at
Fish-hill, en the Badmen, with G. G. Howland, Esq. The
time for commesslig her concerts had not been fixed. The
dash' are to be mid by auction.
Darts( the map, Jenny and Messrs. Benedict and Be!
letti gave a concert for the benefit of the sailors and firemen,
and the receipts as
said to have amounted to 641. The
Herald publishes the peigeseaass of the snort :
Ceestert W UM sad Mom lionalist and
Hallett!,
hr the bleat et tilll seams, assams, east servants of the
Almelo& Mall stoma ship Allude, Wednesday, Aegual
X. lON, le bests a 6 o'slask.