The Express.
London, England, 1862-08-16 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

NEW YORK, Auouer 7, Eviarerc.

Money easy. Gold., 141 per cent. premium. Ex-
change, fiat. Bankers' bills, 126. Stocks
slightly firmer. New York Central, 92j ; Illi-
nois, 69k ; Erie, 341. Cotton dull. Middling
Upland, 47i to 48k. Flour quiet and un-
changed. Wheat and corn slightly firmer.
Provisions quiet. Coffee very firm. Sugar steady.
Molasses quiet and unchanged.

QUEENSTOWN, Amon 16.

The Royal Mail steamship Asia, from Boston on
the 6th and Halifax on the Bth, arrived here at
9.15 &m. She brings 139 passengers and
49,583 dole. in specie. She landed six passengers
and all the mails, consisting of 111 sacks, and pro-
ceeded at 9.30 ; all well.

The Bootie panted Cape Race on the 9th inst.

DESTRUCT lON OF THE STEAMER GOLDEN
GATE BY FIRE, WITH THE LOSS OF 180
LIVES AND 1,000,000 DOLLARS IN SPECIE.
NEW YORK, Amon 7.

The steamer Golden Gate, which left San
Francisco on the 21st ult. for Panama, was
burnt to the water's edge on the 27th
off Mansanalla. Of the 230 passengers she had on
board, 180 are reported lost, together with all the
specie, amounting to upwards of 1,000,000 dela.
A private despatch says that the steamer was
beached, and that there was a chance of saving the
specie.

ITALY.
ROME, Auaturr 15, Zvi:Nora.

General illuminations have taken place in this
capital, both last night and this evening, to cele-
brate the feast of the Assumption. _ ._

The space before the French Club is now bril-
liantly lighted up, in honour of the Emperor's fête.
Two bands are p!aying. The crowd is immense, but no
disturbance him taken place. In the morning aTe
Deem was performed at Santo Luigi, at which the
Marquis de Lavalette, the generals, and the
officers of the staff were present. At noon the
Pope, according to custom, gave his benediction
to the people at Santa Maria Maggiore, and was
enthusiastically applauded.

TURIN, Amon 16.

Telegrams received here from Milan give further
details of the popular demonstration which took
place in that city yesterday.
The people shouted, "We want Rome !" and
" Garibaldi for ever !" Flags were carried about
with placards attached, bearing the words, "Rome
or Death." .

The crowd dispersed upon the troops being
called out.

THE BRAZILS.
MONTE VIDEO, JOLT 17.
(Per Navarre will Lisbon.)

Business very dnIL Exchange, 41. Wet salted
hides, 62; dry American, 58 ; dry German, 62.
Wool, no sales. Tallow, 19} to 20.

BUENOS AYRE% JILT 15.

Exchange, 665. ; ounces, 406 ; wet salted ox
hides, 43 rls. ; wool, 70 to 80 dole. ; tallow, 17 rls.

ITALY.

A democratic journal of Florenoe, La Nueva
Europa, gives the following account of a recent
meeting of the Emancipation Society of that city :
At an extraordinary meeting of the Democratic Italian
Association, after • loug sod animated discession of the
royal proclamation of August 3, the following resolutions
were voted unanimously, and ordered to be immediately
published:
" The royal proclamation, dated from Turin, August 3,
and signed by the council of ministers, baring been read ;
" Considering that according to the fundamental law of
the state the ministers are responsible for the act* of the
sown;
"Considering that the course they are pursuing must lead
inevitably to the loss of the unity of the country ;
"The Democratic Auociation of Florence declare the
wielder Itatassi the mortal enemy of Italy, end sooner
hie bikes the tribenal of the nation."