English and Foreign.

Lyttelton Times, Volume VIII, Issue 526, 18 November 1857, Page 3

English and Foreign.

AMERICA

The latest date from the United States is the "sth of August The intelligence brought by.the "Asia, which left New York on . that day, added little to that previously received by the Vanderbilt, which vessel accomplished the passage in nine and a half days :— The telegraphic accounts from the south report heavy' rains and destructive hailstorms, and state that the crops had suffered severely. The United States frigate Roanoke had arrived at New York with upwards of 200 of Walker's filibusters on board.

Governor Cummins was to leave for Utah on the 15th of August. The vanguard of the army for Utah set out from Leavenworth, Kansas, for the Salt Lake city on the 18th July. Governor Cummins was to leave for Utah on the 15th August. The deputy clerk of the United States Court, at Salt Lake city, has. addressed to the Government at Washington a letter contradicting- certain of Judge Drummond's statements, and amongst others, that " the records, papers, &c, of the Supreme Court have been.destroyed by order of Governor B^ Young, and the federal officers grossly insulted for presuming to raise a single question about the treasonable act." These papers, says the writer, are still in existence, and have never been disturbed.

The /St. Louis Democrat/ of July 29, says,—'We learn, from Captain Lyons, of the steamer W. H. Denny, which arrived here from St. Joseph the night before last, that the most extensive preparations are making for the military expedition/ to Utah, under; Genera! Harney. No less than 500. ox teams and 400 mule teams will accompany the troops. The infantry, as they reach the fort, are sent forward in detachments—a rendezvous Having- been appointed at some point on the plains, where General Harney, at the head of the cavalry, will join them in about two months from the present time. The whole force, including teamsters, &c, will not fall short of 5000 men. It is said that General Harney is determined to make short work with the Saints in case they oppose the least obstacle to the fulfillment of his mission.

A correspondent of the '. Cincinnati Oazette,' writing from Cairo, Illinois, July 27>says,—

On Sunday morning, a party of Missourians, supposed to be near fifty in number, came over from the .'Missouri shore to search for fugitive slaves-—some ten or fifteen .chattels having recently escaped from that part: of the state. They surrounded and searched several negro cabins; but at;, length the free-negzx) residents, excited by, their threats and insulting language, determined to permit no further search without a warrant, and offered determined resistance. I could not ascertain which: party\fired first, but a number of shots were exchanged, and a Missourian, by the name of Wilson, had his jaw blown off. Three of the ■, Missourians have been arrested—among* whom is the ferryman who brought them. over. They will be tried here this afternoon. There is great excitement in town about it—a large number of. citizens taking "sides with the Missouri slave hunters. The slaves that they were after were not in Cairo at the time, but had passed through there on their way north.

On the 29th, the convention to promote the Great Southern Transatlantic Steamship scheme, projected by the Hon. Dudley Mann, met at Old Point, Virginia. Great enthusiasm was manifested in favour of the project, and some 8000 dollars were subscribed. Ex-President Tyler took the chair, and letters in favour of the scheme were read from Secretaries Cass,-Brown, Toncey, and Thompson, Senator Mason, Governor Wise, Hon. J. Letcher, and Lieutenant Maury. Resolutions in favour of the project were carried, and..a-.com-mittee- appointed, and the meeting1 adjourned, sine die. The following, is an extract from the letter written by the Hon. Jacob Thompson, the Secretary of the Interior, at Washington, upon this occasion:— :

"There is at this moment a tide i of' prosperity flowing throughout the South-' ern'States','rwhich; bas'riever'been equalled. in all their past .history. Our system! of labour,which/,has' been forced to . encounter the _most -violent ; prejudice, and the most luisci'upulpus opposition, is. daily vindicating itself before the world. The interests and necessities of the age have combined to command for it the favor-

cdX n* t Onp ri °hts are acknowledgtovpi T b^ all .departments of the ES' and at no time ™ «^ for! people felt more confidence in the tenure of ™f r .P^Perty. The products of the south aie'absolutely necessary to meet the wants ot the civilised world. Without them, the 'S oi mankind would be ?£ y tl£ nd*he advancement and prosperity oi the Christian nations would receive a shock from which they would not recover during- the next half century. England and France, under the guidance of a false and mistaken philanthropy, abolished the system of slave labour in their West Indian possessions, by which acts, as is now apparent to the world, they have inflicted and entailed numberless evils upon the slave, and sunk all their most fertile and beautiful islands of the Antille beneath the wave of barrenness and barbarism; and to-day they are considering- with favour, and proposing- with earnestness, plans for the renewal of the African labour system, in order to recover the pearl they have thrown away in a moment of misdirected i and infatuated benevolence, .and in order to avoid the penalty of piracy, and yet secure the benefits of African labour—for which no substitute of equal efficiency for the production of the staples most needed by the civilised world can be found—it is proposed to introduce the African upon their cotton plantations and sugar and coffee estates, under the milder and less unpopular name of apprentice. He is to be indentured or sold for a term of years, to be worked until he becomes incapable of labour, and therefore worthless, with no claim upon his master, beyond the time for which he is bound ; and subject to be driven off, when overwork and cruel usage shall have enfeebled his constitution and rendered .him unfit for labour, and unable to earn a, livelihood—a system more barbarous and inhuman than any ever before devised by the cupidity of man. -Since, then, our rights are secure, and since our products can only be raised in sufficient quantities in our climate and by our system of.labour, may we not hope to have our own line of steamers established and thus secure the advantage of direct trade with the European nations ? It is said that General Cass's explanations to Lord Napier, relative to the proceedings taken about the seizure of the alleged slaver, Pancheta, have been satisfactory to liis lordship. The 'New York Herald' says that the question raised by the seizure of the Pancheta is susceptible of being- viewed in a very serious aspect. The i Herald' hopes that it will not be dismissed till the rights of the respective vessels of the African squadron are clearly laid down and uniformly acquiesced in. The same paper says that the Ashburton treaty leaves the subject of search in convenient obscurity. The New York papers are publishing the trial of Miss Madeline Smith in extenso with a portrait of the prisoner, and all the. letters which she wrote to L'Angelier. The Ottowas Indians of Kansas have surrendered their tribal character, and became citizens of the United States. The troubles with the Sioux Indians are ended.

On the 16th of July, a serious insurrection broke out at Lawrence, Kansas. A committee of citizens of Lawrence had prepared a city charter differing' materially from that g-ranted by the territorial Legislature ; the desig-n of the said com 7 mittee was to supersede the old charter with the new instrument. This action, which was in effect a nullification of the law, was regarded by Governor Walker as treasonable, and he forthwith made arrangements to repress the movemennt. On the 17th he encamped outside Lawrence with eight companies of dragoons. The citizens at first prepared to resist, but afterwards succumbed.