The Express.
London, England, 1857-10-05 00:00:00

TILE PENINSULAR MAIL.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-
packet Tare, Captain Edwd. Christian, arrived at South-
ampton yesterday with the Pesti=Mr mails. Her dates
were—Gibraltar, Sept. 28; Cadre, 27; Lisbon, 29; Vigo,
K. With Oporto she had no communication. She brought
twenty pemengers, amongst whom were Captain Inv.rarity,
Mr. Tretuayne, Mr. Mutsu, Kr. and Mrs. Tufnell, Kr.
Tilley Mr. Cunningham, Yr. and Mrs. Airey, Mr. Miller,
Captain Brooks, several foreigesn, and seven distmessd
semeso.
The authorities at Cadiz refused Antique to the whet,
although means were ham to place the mead in sen-men-
ruunication with Lisbon, the vessel proceeding no higher ep
the river than Belem, and only taking a puntled mail. At
Gibraltar the packet was kept in quarantine until the Beard
of Health pronounced an opinion ; in four hours afterwards
the vessel received 'teatime. On the packet's name to
Cadiz homewards the antherities refused prelims°, and have
enforced a quarantine of observation for three days on sib
vessels arriving from Gibraltar, in consequenes of the Tagus
having oommunicated with that port. The Spanish passim-
gem for Cadiz were landed at 0 ibmitar. They proosaded to
Cadiz by a Spanish steamer, in the hope of avoiding gamma-
tine, but on arrival of the vessel they were planed under
quanntins of observation for three days. The fever at
Lisbon wee spreading ; the returns of deaths on the 26th
were 20. At night they were burning tar barrels la the
Infected quarters.
Her Majesty'. ship Conqueror arrived at Lisbon from
Plymouth on the 22nd Sept, At Gibraltar, her Majesty*
*teem-frigate Vulture, and steam-sloop Curler; Sept. M,
arrived her Majesty's ship Conqueror from Lisbon. At
Cadiz, 27th, the Sardinian corvette Aquila and brig Fridays.

UNITED STATES.

LIVERPOOL, SATITIWAT.

The Europa, Captain Leitch, arrived here this
aftertroon from Boston and Halifax, with 30 paasen-
gets. She left Boston on the 23rd, and Halifax on
the 24th ult. She passed the Canada, hence to
Boston.

The screw steam-ship Glasgow, from the Clyde,
arrived at New York on the 21st ult.

There is no news of importance by this arrival,
although we have papers three days later from Now
York. The chief subject discussed there is still the
foundering of the Central American steam-ship, off
Cape Hatteras. It now appears that 182 of the pas-
sengers have been saved, leaving about 230 known
to hare been on board, and supposed to be lost; in
addition to the crew, about 100 in number.

Tie Washington correspondent of the New York
Courier and Enquirer says.:
The administration Is whir keg through the forma of
enforcing the neutrality laws, bat it le only some of the least
timpani. of the forms that will be observed. That firm and
upright respect for tntaastional right, which can alone cause
the suppression of plans against the peace of neighbouring
coan.W. la wanting. It is almost a matter of notoriety that
Witham Walker. the fugitive filibuster of Nicaragua, has
' been for two months past recruiting mew and raining money
for a meowed 111.111011 of Central AMMICIL liettningwei,
his lieutcsint, hoe been panting between New York end New
Orleans, nmeifenly engaged in aiding and abetting the pro-
jects of his principal. - It is reverted that three branches of
this expedition are in coulee of organisation at New York,
New Oriente, and Savannah. The attention of the legal
functionaries of the government has been culled to the opera-
tions of the lawless banditti engaged in those schemes of pri-
vate war against nations with which we am et poem
and against which we have no cause of complaint
whatever. No proclamation will be hated, which
Is perhaps judicious, for the class of people who take part in
such enterprinee give little heed to paper fulminations, whe-
ther official or otherwise.
The Kansas Convention has adjourned. It is also
stated that the United States troops hitherto sta-
tioned at Lawrence have left for the Plains. Vague
rumours were afloat of Governor Walker's intended
resignation, but they are unreliable, and, we pre-
sume, unfounded. Both political parties are making
active preparation for the October election.
A dmdful wholesale poisoning case occurred in
Pike County, Alabama, on Sunday, the 12th Sept.
A negro cook, at the instigation, it is said, of a Hun-
garian named Copkina, tamed arsenic with the food
of a family-37 in all—and six of them have died,
and the rest, at hat accounts, were in a critical
condition. This crime was followed by another
equally horrible, committed by the friends of the
family. The negro woman was taken immediately
and burnt at the stake, and Coakina, the instigator,
was to suffer the same fate= the Monday following.
In Eastern Tennessee there is the case of a negro
who was tortured to make him confess that he had
murdered his master and mistress, and committed
other crimes, after which he was burnt to death at
the stake by a mob of 3,000 persona. The remarks
made by the northern press upon these proceedings
have called forth a letter from the Rev. Mr. Brown-
low, of Knoxville, who justifies the use of torture in
this instance. The New York Times comments
severely upon the affair:
To that bumble cede of miniinal law, !index which our

brethren south if Mason and Dixon's line luxuriate, belong.
the shame of preserving in full vigour prettifies by which even
the medireval jurisprudence wan disgraced, and which all
other Chriettan communities have long ago rejected with
horror. It must not be supposed that the custom of sup-
plying tho place of evidence by the use of torture is made to
operate only against the negro race. Free white citizen. are
Mat as liable to it no the alarm. Only two or three weeks
ago, at Abbey-01K Miu., a white man was, on information
given by two .L. 1,4 as to hie having attempted to tamper
with them, subjected to the infliction of the number of kabala
requisite to extract front him an admimion of hl. guilt. Of
what value, we should like to know, In either common law
or Mama law under such a gluten as this': It is all very
wall to pass bills of rights, or throw off the yoke of
monarchs, but how shall our fellew-cltizens protect them-
selves from the tyranny of a slave-holdlng mob ?