The Express.
London, England, 1852-08-03 00:00:00

ACti, 2.—The Edinburgh, :A, screw
Imam iv ship, Captain Hewlett, returned to flpithesd this
afttms. n, fr”en a six weeks' grubs in the Channel, during
which she has exercised her crew In the gunnery practice.
Queenstown is the only port shit has called in at since she
lilt this on her cruise. On t assing Osborne in coming
up to Spithead, she saluted the royal standard with 21 guns.
Vietoti.i and Alls rt, royal yacht, and Fairy, tender.
st oat of harbour to day, and anchored of Cowes, to be
as attendance on her Majesty.

TIIE boll-t-Noot—The cutting of this diamond
at Messrs. Garnied's establishmeot proceeds satisfactorily,
and the workmen have hitherto met with no serious oh-
gule in thtir delicate end difficult task. The grinding
den of the facets is a very slow and tedious operation, the
stone being found unusually hard, sad many weeks, we on-
di wand, will elapse before any eensibie alteration will be
math in the dupe or character of the 'too,. We ought to
stee, that three cireular iron wheels or " stills" have now
bus erect( d, all driven by the same steam-engine, and at
tars of them wheels the large diamond and its two smaller
pendant, see being ground simultaneously.
KONSUTII'M FINANCIAL AFFAIR-S.—The following
speeses in the New Yerk Doily Tinoes:—.. New York,
Thursday, July 15, 1852.—Governor Kossuth hawing soiled
for Know, after giving &month'. notice of his intention so
to do at an early day, and inviting all persons holding
clam. mg limit him to present them for liquidation, it be-
calm+ my duty to state to the American people, that every
'telt d ram has been settled, and that all the Governor's
petunia y engagements were adjusted to his entire setisfac-
.ti" sad, , it is to he hoped, to the satisfaction of all who
aid vets transactions with hina.-I'sta. !lassie, Tree-
waver of Governor Kossuth."

No rsterr at
N, THE SrULPTML—A very
riot?.• sad perfectly simple monument has been esecuted in
Rime by John Gibson. the sculptor, to the memory of his
bcither, Benjamin Gibson, the well-known and mach-
este, cud sculptor and antiquary, who died last year at the
baths of LUCC3. It consists of a plain tablet of white mar-
hie, with en inscription nuenoseted bye Greek scroll, and
is fry ern' in the burial ground at the Lucca baths. A du-
pb,ate monument will he placed neat winter in the English
boost around at Hoene.
A, I Ilitxr TO TIIE AMERICA YACHT.—The
I t, bird de Dlaquierr. in coming into Portsmouth
kiirbiur upon an ebb tide on Wednesday, shut one p.m.,
50. h r met with en accident. She ran into a flithin.r-
swat k. and carried away the smack's port-quarter hel-
ical... 41e, then stewed round, and, in endeavouring to
etoirl r mishaps, took the ground on the l'ortamouth
short, within a few yards of the Floating.bridge, and re-
a fixture for several hours She would have gone
ever on her 'tiles or starboard broadside, but tackles were
run cut fr in her mast-heads to the bollards of the Floating-
beidire to keep her upright. It is thought her copper will
he damaged, and the hull and masts strained by the sal-
dint -Ilampaltsre Telepaph.
GREAT FIRE ti Jtortin.mr.—On Thursday even- •
LON hot, at ten minutes be fore ten o'clock, a lire was dis-
eosi red in the woollen factory belonging to Messrs. Ifolroyd
and Simpson, si,uate in Oldham-road. Three fire engines
set. spn•dily on the spot, but the fire raged with such
violence that the entire mill, three storeys high, and seven
windows in length, was burnt to the ground. By the
ly ex,rtinss of the firvmen, assisted by the police and
*^,itft'ople, ti,, vslushle adjoining property was preserved
re.m injury. The amount of damage sustained at Messrs.
lbolroyd and Rimirenee premises is about &OW The pra-
t. rty is sufficiently insured to oover the damage. About
Pie/, worth of wool awl a large quantity of pieties in a
state were reseited from the fire. It is not known
how the tire originated.—Monetrarer Examiner.
FitltNulf REGULATION or DECNKY.NNEMS.— The
Pl. fist of the Mats low followed the eitsmple of the Pre-
:eet of the Put de Calais, and decided that any retell sellers
or wines or spirit, prising liquor to parsons already affected
1i
7 what they bad taken, shall be held responsible for the
acts of tack penes&