The Express.
London, England, 1855-08-06 00:00:00

RUSSIA.

ST. PETERSBURG, JULT 25.
Within the last three days we have had no less
than four large fires, and rumours are current that
they are the work of incendiaries. Although the
government has not failed to institute strict re-
searches, nothing has transpired tending to criminate
any one. Theforeigners residing in this city are,
however, looked upon with suspicion, and orders have
been given to the secret police to keep a doubly
rigoroas watch on their movements.
All the accounts from the south are fall of details
of the marching of troops. A letter from Cherson
says that every day the inhabitants are attracted to
their windows by the gay music of the military
bands marching through the otherwise quiet and
almost deserted streets, at the head of their
regiments. On the other hand the noise of
paddle-wheels in the waters of the Dnieper
was seldom heard, though the quietude was
lately disturbed by the arrival of the Russian war
steamer Andia, with officers on board, sent to inspect
the progress made in the defensive works being
thrown up at the mouth of the river.
The reports as to the harvest in the south are very
unsatisfactory, and the unusual heat of the month of
May appears to have dried and burned up the young
ornps.

AMERICA.

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LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY.
The United States mail steam-ship Pacific, Captain
E. Nye, arrived in the Mersey this morning at an
early boor from New York, with advices to the 25:h
ult., being four days later thea those brought by the
North Star. She bad on board 176 passengers and
900,000 dollars in specie.
The Governor of Louisiana has issued a proolama.'
tion declaring all vessels arriving from ports in the
West Indies, the Gulf of Mexico, and certain ports
in Brazil, subject to detention at quarantine for a
period of ten days.
The Cabinet of Washington has determined that
no appointments shall be made until after the reedit
of the coming elections at the South shall have been
ascertained. This, of course, is designed for the
especial benefit of the southern Know-Nothings. Mr.
Marcy goes to Old Point for a few days to recuperate
his health, which has become somewhat impaired.
The Court of Claims will probably adjourn to-day
(July 25) until the 17th of October. About 150 cases
have been docketed. The court were engaged yes-
terday in perfecting the rules. The sufferers by the
bombardment and destruction of Greytown have
arrived at the capital to urge their claims for indem-
nity: these claims amount to about fire miilions of
dollars.

The Washington Union of the 21st ult. states that
the Secretary of State and Hon. Wm. L. Lee, his
Hawaiian Majesty's minister to the American go-
vernment, has signed a treaty of commercial recipro-
city between the United States and the Sandwich
Islands.

On Wednesday evening last, after the adjournment
of a Know-Nothing meeting at Louisville, at which
the speakers had been interrupted several times by
some persons in the crowd, said to have been Irish-
men, a number of disorderly individuals made an
mu* upon some houses which were occupied by
Irish families. Stones were thrown and shots fired,
and a man and woman wounded. No arrests were
made. Such occurrences take place almost nightly in
Louisville, where party spirit runs very high.
The Treasury Department gives notice that all
wines and distilled spirits transported in bond from
one port to another in the United Stat,s are required
to be branded and sealed ; and it is directed that all
cigars so transported must be encased and waled
before delivered from store, in the came manner as