The Express.
London, England, 1853-12-27 00:00:00

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE STEAM SHIP EUROPA.
(7•101[ 01/1 OWN CORIMPDXDINT.)

LIVERPOOL, MONDAY.
The Royal Mail steam ship Europa, Capt. Shannon,
arrived in the Mersey this evening about 8 o'clock
with the usual mails from the United States and
British North America. The Europa sailed from
New York on the 14th last., and has brought, be-
sides the mails, 6.5 passengers and nearly a million
dollars in specie on freight.
The United States Mail steam ship Arctic, from
hence, arrived out at New York on the 11th inst.
The Brothers Harper, the well-known and exten-
sive New York publishers, have suffered a most se-
vere loss in having their publishing houses in that
city destroyed by Bre. The amount of property
destroyed is estimated at no less than one and a half
million dollars. Very unfortunately for the proprie-
tors the amount of their stock and property insured
was to bat a limited extent.

Authentic intelligence hu been received of the
movements of the filibustering expedition that sailed
recently from San Francisco. They. have succeeded
in capturing the town of La Pax, in the d'strict of
Lower California. The proclamation of a new re-
public followed the capture.
A marked improvement had taken place in the
New York money market since the sailing of the
Baltic, and business in general was decidedly more
active. Stocks, however, were fiat, and declining in
value.

The cotton market at New York is reported brisk,
with a good average amount of business doing. Prices
have slightly advanced, as will be seen by the fol-
lowing quotations:—New Orleans and Mobile mid.
fair to fair, 111 c. to 120.; Uplands, llc, to 111 c.
Decreasing receipt. at the various ports will account
for this rise. Compared with the same period of
last season, the receipts show a decrease of over
450,000 bales.

In the _market for breadstuffe prices had given I
way, owing to the advice* by the previous steamer
being looked upon as unfavourable. There was little
disposition to purchase at the foliowing prices:—
Western Canal flour, 6 dol.. 621 e. to 6 dol.. 75c. per
barrel barely supported; Gennessee prime wheat, I
1 dol. 72c. to 1 dol. 74c. per 601 he.; Southern wheat,
1 dol. 68c. to 1 dol. 70e. per 601b5.; Indian corn,
round and yellow, 70c. to 78c. per bushel, steady;
Indian meal, 4 dol.. to 4 doll. 121 c.
Provisions do not show any change from last quo-
tations, old mess pork being quoted at 131 dol.. to
13; d 01..; prime from 11 dole. to 111 dol.; new mess,
141 dots. to 141 d 01..; and new prime, 12 dots. Good
Western brands of mess beef fetch 13 dolt. to
131 dole.; more ordinary brands, 12 dole. to
12; dole.; State mess, 8 dol.. to 10 dols.; prime,
5 dole. to 51 d 01..; beef hams, State, 13 dol.. to
131 dole. ; western, 14 dole. to 131 dole.; lard, strictly
Rood, 91c. to 101 c.; keg, 11c. to Ille.; cheese, Ohio,
71c. to 81e.; State dairies 81c. to 100. per lb.
Freights remained much the same as at the depar-
ture of the last steamer; the asking rates being—
To London : tobacco, 60.. per hhd.; turpentine, ss.
per 2801b5.; flour, 4s. 9d. per brL ; grain, lEd. per
bushel ; beef, Bs. per tierce. To Liverpool: flour,
3.. to 3s. 3d. per brl.; grain, 111 d. to Is. per bushel ;
cotton, 3-16 d to d. per lb.
Exchange on Landon was quoted at 1091 to 1091,
with bat few sales. On Pert, 5.111 to 5.121;
Bremen, 801 [081.; Hamburg, 37 to 371.