The Express. — 1855-09-17 (London, England)

LTWORENC E.  1 -0-,ARRIVAL OF THE PACIFIC.  AMERICA.  LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY NIoaT.  This afternoon, about half-past three o'clock, the Upi,*ed States snail steamship Pacific, Capt. Nye, arrive 11 in the Mersey from New York. with dates to the Ath hist, the usual mails, 130 passengers, and 370,551 dollars in specie on freight. The Pacific has made ,the ran aerobe the Atlantic in the short space of °ion days twenty-three hours. The steam chip Tennessee, Capt. Wallace, from Havre on the 19th inst., put into Halifax at six o'clock on the owirning of the 4th inst., short of coal, having experiences: heavy gales and sustained some damage. She was to proceed °usher voyage to New York the same afternoon. .  The New York Heroid learns. from an authentic source, that contracts haNve been made for the introduction this year into the island of Cuba of large numbers of African slaves. One party aloes has contracted for the supply of seven thousand. Portuguese agents are now ►n New York making ar reigements. We learn. from Norfolk and Portsmouth that the yellow fever has within the last day or two aasumed a milder form in those cities. A ourreient number of physicians and nurses bad arrived from Charlmes. Savannah, and New Orleans to take proper charge of the sick, and a rapid improvement in the public health may be looked for with eonfideote. The subscriptions for the relief of the yellow fever sufferers in Virginia amount to upwards of 62,000 dollars.  A large portion of the cotton made last **aeon in Louisiana is still lying on the banks of the rivers, waiting for navigation. On Red riv r alone two hundred thousand bales are detained. la the meantime, planters are deprived of flour, coffee, &c., unless they pay for these articles to cover land carriage, at the rate of one bale of cotton for two bartels of flour. This is particularly the case above Shreveport. Thomas Francis Meagher has been by special order of the Supreme Court of this State, sitting at Albany, admitted an attorney and counsellor in all the courts of New York. _  A dreadful tragedy has been enacted at North Sterling, New York. A man named Fitzgerald, together with his wile and son, were found dead in their beds, horribly mutilated. Another son is suspected of committing the awful dead. A despatch from Charleston announces that the ship Ariel, from New York for Shanghae, had been taken into that port, the captain having been murdered at sea, on the 17th ult., by two apprentices, as is alleged. hidle. Rachel has been moat enthusiastically received by crowded audiences in New York. A Havana correspondent writes or the 23rd August that the newly arrived troops from Spain had suffered from severe diarrt, cea, and a few cases of yellow lever had appeared. The bank scheme could not be carried out. 'the wharfage improremcws at the lauding place are described as very fine. Owing to severe wet weather, a bull fight and other festive scenes had to be postponed. 11 Trocatore had continued success at the Italian Opera. A despatch from New Orleans announces the arrival of the Crescent City at that port with Havana dates to the 28th ult. Santa Anna and family arrived at Havana on the 24th from Vera Crux, and left on the 26th for Caracas.