The Press.
London, England, 1854-01-14 00:00:00

PERSIA.

The resumption of diplomatic relations between
the English Ambasador and the Court of Teheran is
confirmed by the latest intelligence. The original
ground of the difficulty was the wish of the English
Ambassador to take under his protection a man who
was claimed, on the other hand, as a subject of the
Persian Government.
The Trieste Zcituny announces that three Persian
corps were marching against Erzeroum, Bagdad,
and towards the Persian Gulf.

UNITED STATES.
The principal event recorded in the American
journals received during the week is the occurrence
of another disastrous conflagration in New York.
This catastrophe happened on the morning of the
27th ult. The fire commenced at a large bakery in
Front-street, East liver, and soon raged with fearful
violence, spreading, under the irresistible influence
of a heavy gale from the north-west, to several flour-
stores, a belifoundry, and other warehouses, all of
which were destroyed. For hours it was impossible
for the firemen to obtain any control over the de-
structive element, owing to the fury of the wind.
Presently the flames impelled by the gale seemed to
leap towards the shipping ; and a noble ship, the
Great Republic, of 4,0(X) tons burden, with nearly
full cargo, was on fire. She was scuttled, but the
water proved too shallow, so she continued to burn,
her masts going by the board. The packet-ships
Joseph Walker, De Witt Clinton, Red Rorer, and
White Squall, also fell a prey to the flames shortly

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after. The air all around was filled with sparks and
blazing flakes, thick as a snowstorm, and at one time
the pier at the foot of Dover-street was at least a foot
deep in burning coals. Several sloops and brigs
were much injured, but were generally fortunate
enough to haul out in the stream, with partial loss of
sails anti rigging. An extensive boat-building yard
and shops belonging to Messrs. Newman were burnt,
and there were many other sufferers, whose muses
and amounts of loss could not immediately be ascer-
tained. The Great Republic is believed to have been
the largest merchantman in the world. The luau-
rance-otfices will suffer seriously, as the amount of
property destroyed is estimated at from one to two
millions of dollars. Nearly all the vessels destroyed
were from 1,000 to 1,300 tons ltnlen.

During the gale of the same night an immense
hotel at Cape May, calculated to accommodate Hon
or 1400 persons in the bathing season, was blown
down, and several of the other hotels were much
injured. Cape May is a city of hotels and boarding-
houses.

The railroad excitement at Erie had not subsided,
and one or two more persons had lost their lives.
It is said that some persons of Baltimore have
discovered new guano islands ehich ere not within
the jurisdiction of any Government, and therefore
open to American enterprise.
The New York Herald states:—
" The Government has received information, which
they deem of a ►eliable character, that a formidable expe-
dition has been organised, and is about to sail from New
York and New Orleans, for the purpose of landing in Unlia,
with a view to the independence of that island. The es.
peJition is represented as being in such a state of forward.
fleas as to render it probable it will sail within a few days.
Orders have been despatched front here for the immediate
apprehension of the parties said to ►w implicated in the
movement. It is believed by well-informed per.ons, hew-
ever, that the efforts of the Government in this respect
may lw a little too late, and that a portion of the expedi-
tion will, at all events, get away."
San l•'rancisco advices to the Ist of December, and
about 2,000,000 dots. in gold dust, hail reached New
York. The Californian intelligence generally is un-
important, if a few eases of murder and Lynch law
be excepted.
The miners were doing well, public health was
good, and business solve. The public delft of the
State of California is :1,197,6Kkd015. Two shocks of
earthquake had been felt, but no lives lost,