The Express.
London, England, 1854-01-02 00:00:00

ARRIVAL OF THE SCREW STEAMER

ANDES.
(Yawl ova owl( coma'

LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY.

At anon to-day the Cunard screw steamship Andes,
Capt. Edwin Moodie, arrived in the Mersey, from
New York, which port she left on the 17th inst.
By this arrival we have all that is important,
politically and commercially, up to the date of her
sailing. _ .

The Royal Mail steam-ship Asia, from hence,
on the 3rd, arrived at New York on the 16th alt.
Advioes had been received from Mexico, an.
mooning that Santa Anna had been declared
Dictator for ten years. The general impression had
been that he would have declared himself Emperor;
but this is looked upon as only the intermediate
stage.
At New York a great deal of excitement had
arisen of a religious nature. Street preaching seems
to have been at the root of the discord. The
aggrieved parties are the Roman eatholies, who are
indignant at the proteetants for having adopted a
system of street preachings against the doctrines of
the Rupiah church. The Mayor, conceiving such
practices had a tendency to disturb the public peace,
had issued a proclamation against street preaching.
Binds the sailing of the Europa business had not
been so good ea previously reported. The discount
stock market is reported to have been dull and,
declining.
The cotton market at New York was quiet, and
business only to a moderate extent had been trans-
acted. Prices, however, were quite steady. The
following are the quotations :—New Orleans and
Mobile, mid. fair to fair, llic. to 121 e.; Uplands,
110.

The receipt of the Asia's news had caused a de-
pression in the market for breadstuft4 which, how-
ever, had been recovered, and the market closed firm
at previous rates, owing to decreasing receipts conse-
quent on the stoppage to navigation by the inereasiag
severity of winter.
The provision market had become dill, and lower
prices had to be submitted to in transactions.
There is no change to report in freighta. The
asking rates were : to London, tobacco, 80s. per hhd. ;
flour, 4.. 9d. per barrel; grain, is. 4d. per bushel ;
turpentine, Bs. per 280 lbs. ; beef, Be. per tierce. To
Liverpool, cotton, 3-18 d. per lb.; flour, 31. Bd. per
barrel; grain, 12d. to 121 d. per bushel; beef, Bs. per
tierce.

In the market for Exchange there were but few
sale% wit► quotatioas on London at 1091 to 108 f.

THE WAR.

RUSSIA AND TURKEY.

Accounts have been received at Constantinople
from Kars, of the bth December. The two Turkish
corps d'armee, which were lately opersting respec-
tively against Gnarl and Achalzich, have been com-
pelled to retire within the Ottoman frontier. Abdi
Pasha, who held the supreme command in Asia, has
been recalled. His successor was not designated on
the 19th.

The latest letters from the Black Sea state that an
epidemic very common in the Crimea, arising from
the malaria, is now prevalent at Sebastopol.
Letters from Malta of the 27th state that a Sardi-
nian steamer coming from the Bosphorus bad an-
chored in the port to take in coal, and had brought
the following news Hassam Packs, the
present commander of the Egyptian squadron, was
about to be appointed to the command of the entire
Turco-Egyptian fleet. Eamon Pasha, who enjoys a
well-merited reputation, was, it is said, opposed from
the first to the expedition of the convoy destroyed at
Sinop, and had offered to escort them to Trebisoud
with six Egyptian sail of the line.
The Indus, which arrived at Southampton from
Alexandria on Saturday, brings word that there are
steamers daily expected from Constantinople to
take away more troops which the Fiche is collect-
ing, to the number of 12,000 or 15,n00, in addition
to there already sent. Public feeling is very great
against the Russians.
On the 20th a company of Wallachian militia seized
their newly appointed Russian officers, beat them
soundly, and then deserted with five of them to
Habitat.

The Czar possessing; full liberty of action in the
Black Bea has been reinforcing the army of the
Caucasus. Letters from Georgia state this force is
to be raised to 190,000 men with 216 guns. Mesn-
while, as we learn from Constantinople, the Sultan
is compelled by recent naval lames to forward both
reinforcements and munitions to Hers and Erzeroun
by land. The Black flea is now, to all intents, a
Russian lake. It appears that this state of things ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 8 (20).
is approved of by our ambassador at Constantinople The scheme upon which England, France, Am-
se the presence of the fleets in the Black Sea was tria, and Prussia agreed at Vienna, on the 23rd ult.
not „poly refused alter the massacre of Sinope, but (Dec. 5), has been generally known here for several
several days before that event Lord Stratford de (lays, and has created great astonishment, especially
Radcliffe advised the Porte not to attempt to open a among the English residents. It seems that, after
communication with its Asiatic possemions by sea. all, England and France are anxious that the dif-
A letter/rest Malta of !!tit gins in the Pattie, ferences existing between Russia and Turkey should
states that the Zeglish owners et the two ships sunk be settled by, direct negotiation between the belli-
at Sinop hied amanded esmossisation from the gerents. This is what ilse Czar has always insisted
Russian go.-,_ s- The desamsdasts allege that on ; he has said be will neither recognise nor tolerate
their vessels were statiened in a remote part of the the intervention of any power on earth between him-
harbour, that the legit& flag was floating at their self and his eternal enemy the ruler of the Mahn-
mainmasts, mad that the Hessian ships of war wil- sedans in Europe. He his allowed more liberty in
tally 11 red ups them. this respect to Austria than to any other power, and
Ale
suidier
ken Oseutentinople of the 16th, steeds yet to what extent did he allow the young Emperor
that Porte hie pal:ilia a eiroass ordering the to intervene P Simply to this: he allowed the Ana-
T autheeities whit may daring the delay ao- trim internunciu to lie the medium through which
eased has relatiess with Itmelia. miernat vessels he communicated his demands to the Sultan
to obeerve a emaisteei seeded. nod even reader when Menchikoff and Oseroff were withdrawn.
them Minion Mamat:rtiollhe calls. As for the others he has always said he
A parate letter Ommtanthiektle of the 18th should be happy to learn that they were using their
says Beat the Divan, la hewn, at the memory of the influence with the Porte—mind—to induce it to
Torkbeieptates whim vein* were blows op at accept his demands, and so restore peace. The Czar
=ern ordered that seek d three seresttes sow has never tolerated the intervention, or even the
in the most shall be named attar see of intercession, of France and England, and mark the
those brave Wise. result—France and England give way. Oltenitza his
The Poet Ihelpt Gazette contains a letter from been fought, Sinope suffered, and every nerve of
Mims et thong'', width esys—The Terks have not Turkey strained, and now the Porte may meet its
eissiated the hind claims, as is proved by the embittered enemy face to face, and make what
,it Ailey from Bucharest. terms it may..
. Tar Noses says in a P. 8.: "we are amend that The Russians, of course, are jubilant. They read
a despot& from Constantinople of the 19th, an- the news of Biceps and Achalsich, and exclaim,