The Express.
London, England, 1853-10-03 00:00:00

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE STEAM-SHIP ASIA.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRISPONDINT.)
LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY.

At ten o'clock this forenoon the royal mail steam-
ship Asia, Capt. Lott, arrived in the Mersey, with
the usual mails from the United States and British
North America, in charge of Lieutenant Oaks, RN.,
Admiralty ageot. The Asia sailed from New York
on the 21st alt., and has brought, besides the mails,
about .13 passengers, and 233,000 dole. in specie on
freight.
The United States mail steam-ship Arctic, from
hence, on the 7th, arrived at New York on the
18th ult.

The royal mail steam-ship Arabia, from hence, for
New York, on the 24th, was passed by the Asia on
the 28th ult. Early this morning the Asia also
passed the royal mail steamer Canada, which sailed
from this port for Halifax and Boston yesterday.
From Washington we learn that a protest had
been presented there from Russia, Austria, and
Prussia against the course pursued by Capt. Ingra-
ham in the Costa affair at Smyrna. The gallant
captain's conduct in the circumstances complained of

has, however, been sustained by the government of
the United States.

A very prevalent rumour existed at New York
prior to the sailing of the steamer that Governor
Mason had been appointed Minister to France.
At the steamer's departure the general business
of New York was very active, and money was more
plentiful.
In the money market a marked improvement had
taken place, and transactions were more freely en-
tered into. Stocks were firmer.

In cotton at New York there was but little doing.
Holders, however, did not press sales. The business
concluded was at the following quotations: New
Orleans and Mobile, mid. fair to fair, 12,1 e. to 121 a
per lb.; Uplands, mid. fair to fair, Mc. 121 c. The
effects of the English &deices on this market were
counteracted by bad accounts from the cotton grow-
ing districts as to the state of the crop.
In the market for breadstuff' the news from Eng-
land was regarded as unfavourable to holders.
Prices aestained a decline, and a general anxiety to
sell was apparent. The following are the last quo-
tations: Western Canal flour, 6 dole. to 6 dole. 1210.
per barrel, barely supported; Gennessee prime wheat
1 dol. 48c. to 1 dol. 500. per 601 be.; Indian corn,
round yellow, 80c. to 82c. per bushel, steady; Indian
corn, southern white, 82c. to 84c. per bushel; Indian
meal, 3 dols. 750. to 3 dole. 871 e. per barrel.
The amount of business transacted in the provision
market was only to a moderate extent. The sales
made "sere at the following price. :—Mess pork firm
at 151 dols. to 16 dole.; prime from 121 dole. to
13 dole ; prime mess, 141 dole to 15 dole.; hams,
pickled, 81 dole. to 91 dole.; shoulders ditto,
6; dole. to 7 dole.; sides in bulk, 7 doss. to 71 dole.;
smoked hams scarce, at lie, to 121 c.; lard, 11c. to
Mc.; in barrels and kegs, 12c. to I2lc. Mess beef,
8 dole. to 9 dols.; prime, 41 dole. to 5 dols.; city
mess, 11 dole. to 121 dols. ; prime mess firm, at
17 dole. to 20 dole.; beef hams, 11c. to 14c.; smoked
beef, 9c. to 10c.; cheese, 81e. to 91c.
At the steamer's departure the asking rates for
freight were:—Flour to Liverpool, 2.. 9d. to 3s. per
barrel; grain, 9d. to 91d. per bushel; cotton, Id. to
5-16 d. per lb.
Exchange on London was very steady st 1091 to
1091; Paris, 5.16 to 3.16 i; Hamburg, 361 to 361 ;
Bremen, 791 to 79i.

RUSSIA AND TURKEY.

When it became known in London and Paris that
English and French ships had passed the Darda-
nelles—an event u hich is either a token of existing
war or a violation of the last European treaty re
spectiug Turkey—it was the obvious course of,
the Russian and Austrian ambassadors to demand
explanations of the French and English cabinets.
Letters from Paris state that these explanations
have been given. It is affirmed that MM. de Lis-
seleff and Hubner have been given to understand
that the British and French governments conceive
the lately expressed sentiments of the Czar upon the
, significance of the Vienna note, and the claims he
still asserts on Turkey, viewed in connexion with his
continued unwarranted occupation of the principali-
ties, to call for a more decided measure on the part of
the Sultan's allies than they have hitherto been
willing to take. Such is the tenor of advice. from
Paris.

In the Debate, M. John Lemoinne endeavours to
define the new situation created by the passage of
the Dardanelles by foreign ships of war. This
writer does not believe that the presence of the fleets
before Constantinople can materially change the pre-
sent situation of affairs, nor ought to lead to the mad-
den depreciation of public credit witnessed for some
days back. At the same time, he finds it impossible
to reduce it to the extreme degree of insignificance
which certain circles seem disposed to attribute to
it.

We announced a few days ago that the cholera
had broken out at Odessa, where it was rapidly car-
rying off victims. Private letters reach us simulta-
, neonsly from Jassy and Warsaw, stating that cho-
lera has now broken out there also, and is especially
destructive to the Russian soldiery. The writers of
the letters from Jassy unanimously refer the latter
fact to the low physical condition of the soldier as
its predisposing cats°. The commiasatiat is described
as contemptible in administration.
The Journal de Framfort, which passes for being
an organ of the Russian government, says it knows
that so long as a British or French ship of war
remains is the Bosphorus the Emperor of Russia will
not evacuate the Principalities, but that the moment
the note of the conference shall have been accepted,
and the foreign ships of war withdrawn, orders will;
be given to the Russian troops to reams the Pruth. I
'the Postmaster-General of Primal' has issued a
notification, that the stormy weather in the Baltic
frequently impedes the mail packet service between
St. Petersburg and Stettin.
The Cologne Gazette publishes the following letter
from Berlin, 26th ult. :
We learn from a good source that the Russians are
sending troops in great haste from Sebastopol to reinforce
the garrisons of the ports of Anaklia, Poti, and Nicolaief.
It is known that the Turks have caused troops to advance
from Trebisond and Erzeroum towards the Turco Russian
frontier. This is why the Russians have thought it
necessary to adopt measures in order that, in the event of
war, the plan of operations of Prince Paskiewiteh in
1829 might be followed up. Eneroum Is as important
on the Turkish territory as Tiflis is on the Runlets.
Thew two towns form the bases of all military operations
in then countries, as they open the only three practicable
roads. The northern line of operations crosses the valley
of the Kur. It is defended by the fortresses of Achar,
Ardagham and Acbaljik, which have only been in the
hands of leussi s since the peace of Adrianople. The second
leads by the frontier Russian village of Quinn, or by
Tschalka and Achatkalaki, to the Turkish fortress of Kan.
The third line starts from /Irina, and passes by the Turkish
castle of Toprak Kale.
The Vienna Presse has the following, dated Jassy,
Sept. 16 :
Yesterday or the day before positive orders reached here
from Petersburg to accelerate the preparations for the pas.
sage of the Danube, and to quadruple the stores of pro-
visions in the magazines. The commander of the battalion
in garrison here has also received orders to hold his troops
in readiness, and as soon as the battalion appointed to this
garrison arrives here from Uneatable, to commence his
march to the Danube.

Lines of electric telegraph are now being esta-
blished between St. Petersburg and Warsaw, and
from St. Petersburg to Cronstadt. St. Petersburg
will be made the central point of all the telegraphic
lines of Russia. AU the quarters of the capital are
also to be united by Simi of wire in the same manner
as has been done at Berlin.

The Wanderer of Vienna states, on the authority
of a letter from St. Petersburg, that the Czar, before
his departure from the capital, ordered that the levy
of sailors should, for the future, be made on a lar3er
scale. A new corps of reserve is, it is said, to be
formed at Odessa.

A Berlin journal states that the Russian fleet in the
Baltic consists of nineteen ships of the line, fourteen
frigates (eight of which are steamers), and thirteen
smaller vessels.

The Cologne Gazette relates that previous to
the Emperor of Russia's leaving Petersburg for
Moscow and Warsaw his eldest son, the Czaro-
witch, visited Moscow, and went thence to Tula.
The heir of the throne, Czarowitch Alexander Nico-
lajewitsch, had proceeded to the Uspenski Sober, or
Cathedral at Moscow, while the bells were ham-
mered (not rung in the Greek church), and the
shouts of the populace that filled the Kremlin rent
the air ; then he kissed the holy pictures and the holy
cross, and sprinkled them with holy water; then
entered into the temple to put up a prayer for a long
life for the monarch and his family, and at the con-
clusion of his prayer again kissed the holy pictures.
Finally the metropolitan, on the Czarowitch
leaving the Sobor, offered thanksgiving for
the happy arrival of the Grand Duke, with
the assembled clergy meekly kneeling on their knees.
On the 14th ult., at ten o'clock in the morning,
his Imperial Majesty the Right Pious Lord and Em-
peror Nicholas Paulouwitsch, with his son, theOrtho-
lox Lord Grand Duke Nicholas Nicolajewitech, under
peals of bell-hammering, performed his pilgrimage
over the Kremlin to the Uspenski Sobor, through the
midst of dense masses of people. The Emperor was
received by the Metropolitan of Moscow, Fi4ret, and
welcomed in the following words :—" Right Pious
Emperor,—Everything under Heaven has its time,
says the wise man. Tile Orthodox Church has ever
recognised in thee its defender; but most especially
does the present time look on thee as such. For her
sanctuary in the east, for the safety and peace of our
brethren in religion, hat thou risen up with the
sword that is mighty by means of the imperial word.
The timid fears that hereupon spread through the
states inhabited by other peoples, reveal to us that
thy word will carry off the victory over the opposing
power as thy weapon does. Oar souls, penetrated
with sympathies for thy thoughts, pray for thee to
the Saviour, 'Lord, by thy power, give the Emperor
joy.'.

This was followed by the kissing of the cross, the
sprinkling it with holy water, and private prayer,
after which the holy pictures and relics were kissed
again. The Emperor and his mi., then left the
Sobor, with the cross carried before him, Sub..-
quently he reviewed the 6th corps d'armes, com-
manded by Gene al Tcheodaelf, as well as the reserve
of the 4th corps. At Toula a triumphal arch was
raised by the Greek clergy, on which was the fol-
lowing inscription : "'l'o the venerated chief of the
orthodox religion ! To the supporter of the faith !
He will triumph over all his enemies." The troops
were placed cn echelon all along the road,
The German Journal of Frankfort, under date
of Berlin, 27th, says:—" Certain indications lead
to the belief that our government, in the delibera-
tions of the conference of Vienna, will share in the
views of the Cabinet of St. James's, as fares regards
the modifications of the Ottoman Porte, and will
not adhere in an absolute manner to the views of the
Cabinet of St. Petersburg."

Miss CUNNINGHAM. —We (Galignani) have re-
ceived two letters from Genoa, complaining of the misre-
presentations of the conduct of Kim Margaret Cunningham,
erntained in the letter of " An Englishman," copied into
this journal from the Post, which is calculated to create au
unjust prejudice against that unfortunate young lady. The
Englishman states that she distributed the prohibited tracts
et Lugliano, the day previous to her doing so at Banabbio,
and that she was assaulted by the enraged peasantry with
stones in consequence This, our Genoa correspondents
assure us, is unmitigated falsehood. Miss Cunningham
did nothing of the kind, nor would she have distributed
any tracts at all, but that she was in entire ignorance that
her so doing was an offence against the law. Under such
circumstances, every generous mind must extend its sym-
pathy to the un!ortunate captive, and join in the hope
almost universally expressed in; speedy deliverance from
the consequences.
I PARIS AND STRASBOURG RADmAT.—At a general
meoting of the Oar... Weirs of t. t. St. D:siir to Gray Rail-
way Company just held, the annexation of that lino to the
Strasbourg Railway ass voted unanimously, in:uus
one voice. A similar &tiska was come to at a general
riveting of the share:olden of the Moutereau to Troyes
Company.
VACANCY ON THE SCOTCH BENCH.—The North
Bretith Marla Friday says:—" We regret to learn that
Lnd Anderson died of fever its London on Monday. This
melancholy event creates a vacancy on the bush."

FRANCE.

PARIS, SUNDA'S MOZNINO.

The Moniteur does not publish the usual half
monthly table of the price of flour, by which, in or-
dinary times, the tariff of bread is regulated. The
prefect of police has, however, issued his decree,
maintaining the price of the best bread at 40c. The
municipality has appointed a committee chosen from
the tux collectors, to apportion the compentation to
be paid to the bakers.
It is found practically that the intention announced
at first of confining the interference of authority in
keeping the price of bread below the natural level,
to Paris, cannot be adhered to. The municipal coun-
cil of Lille, at an extraordinary sitting on the 27th
ult., issued an order for the delivery on the follow-
ing day of bread tickets to the poor, which would
enable them to receive their bread from the bakers
o centimes below the fixed price, until that price
becomes reduced below 35e. the kilogramme. The
council afterwards voted a sum of 35,000 f. to indem-
nify the bakers for the loss they have had to support
for three weeks in the price of bread. At the same

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 3, 1853.