The Express.
London, England, 1853-11-14 00:00:00

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE STEAM SHIP ASIA.

(PROF{ OCR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
LIVERPOOL, SCNDAT.

About 10 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. The Asia sailed from New
York on the 2nd inst., and has brought, besides the
mails, about 80 passengers, and nearly 1,000,000
dollars in specie on freight.
The United States Mail steam ship Arctic, from
hence on the 19th, arrived at New York on the 30th
ult.

The Liverpool and Philadelphia Company's screw
steam ship City of Manchester, which Baited from
this port on the 12th, arrived at Philadelphia on the
31st ult.

The Royal Mail steam ship Africa, from hence for
New York on the 22nd ult., was passed by the Asia
on the 3rd inst.

On the ith instant, the Asia saw a large steamer
standing to the westward, supposed to be the Ger-
manica, one of the new mail steamers plying between
Bremen and New York.

One of those destructive fires, not of unfrequent
occurrence, and involving the loss of a large amount
of property, had occurred at New York. Fowler's-
buildings, situated in Fulton-street, became a prey
to the tire on the 29th ult., sacrificing property to
the value of four hundred thousand dollars.

Business generally at New York was dull, and
money continued very tight. The stock market was
in a depressed state.
In cotton there had been a fair amount of busi-
ness doing in the New York market, and firmer quo-
tations had been steadily maintained. The follow.
ing were the rates on the day of the departure of
the steamer :—New Orleans and Mobile, mid. fair to
fair, 111 c. to 121 c. Uplands mid. fair to fair, 10c.
to 111 c. per lb.
The market for breadstuffs was rather quiet, and
not many transactions reported, holders waiting for
further advices from England. Prices were reported
as follows :—Western Canal flour, 6 dole. 621 c. to
6 dole. 75c., steady ; Gennessee prime wheat, 1 dol.
52e. to I dol. 51c. per 601b5.; Indian corn—round
yellow, 76c. to 78c., steady; Indian meal, 4 dole. to
4 dole. 12e. per brl.
Provisions continued to meet with a moderate de-
mand at the rates previously quoted.
Freights remained unchanged at the steamer's
departure, the asking rates being for flour to Liver-
pool, 4s. to 4s. 3d. per brl.; grain, Is. Id. to Is. 10.
per bushel; cotton, Id. to 5-16 d. per lb.
Exchange on London was firm at 1091 to 1091;
Paris, 3.121 to 5.111 ; Hamburg, 361 to 37.

THE FRENCH' GOVERYNE,VT ON THE

CZAR'S lILINIFESTO.

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The Moniteur publishes the Russian manifesto,
preceded by the following important observations :
" The Journal de Saint Petersbourg, in its number
of November 3, contains a new manifesto from the
Emperor of Rusaia. We give this document further
on, but we consider it necessary to preface it by some
observations. The question now in dispute between
the cabinet of St. Petersburg and the Sublime Porte
is at present well known, and the proportions which
it has assumed, in spite of the efforts of the diploma-
tists of Europe, do not change its origin. The affair
of the Holy Places of Jerusalem befog terminated,
Prince Menchikoff laid claim, in the name of his
government, to certain guarantees for the maintenance
of the privileges of the Eastern Church. These gua-
rantees related altogether to the future, as no particu-
lar fact, no complaint from the Patriarch of Constan-
tinople, had been brought forward in support of the
demand of the Ambassador of Russia, and the Sub-
lime Porte had just confirmed spontaneously all the
spiritual immunities of the Greek community. The
solicitude of the Emperor Nicholas for a religious
creed which is that of the majority of his people con-
sequently had no immediate object; nevertheless,
France, Austria, Great Britain and Prussia mein-
mend the Sublime Porte to respond to it by assurances
compatible with the dignity of the Sultan and the
integrity of his sovereign rights. The conference of
Vienna imagined that it had found a form of drawing
up a note which would prove satisfactory to both
parties. When that note was submitted to the
Divan, objections were made to it which the
powers regretted, but which, however they con-
sidered it their duty to pay such attention to as to
advise the cabinet of St. Petersburg to admit
them. Not only did that cabinet refuse to do so,
but the explanations into which Count de Nesselrode
entered to account for the rejection of the modifica-
tions proposed by Reschid l'achs, were of such a
nature that France, Austria, Great Britain, and Prus-
sia, by a common accord, admitted that it was no
longer possible for them to recommend the Porte to
accept purely and simply the Vienna note. It was in
these circumstances that the Sultan adopted the
course of declaring war. That sovereign acted in the
plenitude of his responsibility; but it is not exact to
say, as the Russian Manifesto does, that " the prin-
cipal powers of Europe have vainly endeavoured,
by their exhortations, to shako the blind obsti-
nacy of the Ottoman Porte." The principal',
powers of Europe, and in particular France and'
England, on the contrary, recognised that if their
copciliatory action was not exhausted, the arrange-
ment to be made ought not any longer to be con-
cluded on conditions of which the cabinet of St.
Petersburg had itself undertaken to prove the danger.
The manifesto terminates by declaring that nothing
now remains for Russia, provoked as she was to com-
bat, bat to have recourse to arms to force Turkey to
respect treaties ; but it does not mention any clauses
of such treaties, which had been violated by the
Porte. By the treaty of Kutchuk-Kainardii, the
Porte engaged to protect the Christian worship in
all its churches. The addresses which the Armenian
and Greek communities have just presented to the
Sultan prove their gratitude for the recent benefits
of his Highness. The treaty of Adrianople
confirms is favour of the Principalities of
Moldavia and Wallachia advantages and pri-
vileges, which the Porte has respected even to the
point of not recalling the Hospodars Stirbey and
Ghika, who at present quit power, not in conse-
quence of a firman of the Grand Seignior, but owing
to the orders of General Prince Gortachakoff, which
their loyalty as subjects of the Sultan did not permit
them any longer to execute. The same treaty of
Adrianople fixes the Pruth as the boundary of the
two empires; but that river was crossed in the
midst of peace by a Russian army. The Turks, in
crossing the Danube in their turn, do not assume the
offensive ; it is the Ottoman empire, such as it is
determined by treaties, which they are endeavour-
ing to defend against an aggression, the date of
which goes back several months. Our intention
cannot be to enter here into a useless discussion,
but it has appeared to us indispensable to re-esta-
blish, as we comprehend it, the truth as to the real
i situation of things."

THE Ex-MAYoit ni Gn %vEst;ND, Mr. Saddington,
on the expira:ion of his term of office on Wednesday last,
presented to the town a fire anuihilator carriage, hand-
somely decorated and appoinied, containing six fire annihi-
, later machines for use, either alone or in aid of the town
engines. The same was placed in the charge of Mr. Super-
intendent White, of the borough police force.