The Express.
London, England, 1853-08-22 00:00:00

TUSCANY.

The Parlament° of Turin states, from Florence,
that Guerrazzi was still in prison on the 14th, and
that the day of his departure was not fixed.
The same paper publishes a private circular
addressed by the Prefect of Florence to the Gon-
tidonieri of his province, informing them that the
electoral system, as applied to municipal bodies,
so far from answering the expectations of its
advocates, has met with universal disapprobation
among the people, who have protested against it by
not voting. In consequence of which, the govern-
ment has been induced to consider the question in
order to introduce a better system, and the Gon-
falonieri are recommended to suspend the electoral
operations until further orders.
The Monitore Tuscan° of the 12th contains a cir-
cular addressed by the Minister of the Interior to
the superior authorities of the Grand Duchy, stating
that apprehensions have been ~ntertain.4 .ospeatioti
the scarcity of the harvest, but they have turned out
to be premature. Nevertheless, the authorities are
recommended, in case such apprehensions be realised,
to follow the rules laid down in certain decrees of
1815 and 1847.

We find the following in the Parlamento of Turin
of the 17th :—" A correspondent of the Bilancia
states that a demonstration took place at Leghorn at
the ceremony of laying the first stone of the works for
the enlargement of the port of that city. It is stated
that two incendiary balls were thrown against the
residence of the grand duke. There must be some
exaggeration in this statement ; but it is more than
certain that popular coolness was manifested by the
town not being illuminated, owing, it is said, to the
Gonfaloniere, who is much beloved by the citizens of
Leghorn, not having been invited to the ceremony."
NAPLES.

The King of Naples has issued a decree, dated
Ischia, the Bth, taking off all duty on foreign corn,
barley, oats, pulse, and flour, until the end of De-
cember.

The Eco dell' Esperienza of Naples of the 10th
announces that M. Bermudez de Castro has delivered
to the King of the Two Sicilies his letters of cre-
dence as Spanish ambassador to that court.

GERMANY.

AUSTRIA.
A letter from Vienna of August 15, in the New
Gazette of Prattle, says:
There have been several cabinet meetings held here in
the course of the week en the affairs of the Lombardo-
Venetian kingdom, his Majesty having expressed a desire to
see the council of ministers come to some definitive resolu-
tion on the subject. Chevalier de Burger is to set out be-
fore long for Greets, and from demos will proceed to Lom-
bardy. Count de Rechberg is net to return to Lombardy,
bat will be charged with a diploma& mission in Germany.
Count de fkressaldo is it:posted Isere next week, and will
then be sent off for Greets, of whisk place he has been named
governor. Within a short time the price of corn has risen
here in an extraordinary manner. Proclamations have
been issued against registers, yet notwithstanding that
measure, an extensive association, principally of
Jews, has been discovered here, for the patpoes be*g
up all the corn they could lay hands on, and Om kel*bi it
in store, waiting for famine prices. Not content with en-
tering into such a speculation, they busied themselves in
disseminating calumnies against the finanoss of the state.
The authorities have taken measures to put an end to such
abuses.

PRUSSIA.
The superior authorities of the circles which form
the administrative divisions of the Prussian monarchy
were up to 1848 elected by the landowners, subject
to the confirmation of the King. This privilege,
which was suppressed in 1848, has just been re-
established on the proposition of the Minister of the
Interior.

THE UNITED STATES.
ARRIVAL OF THE ASIA.

LIVERPOOL, tDAY.
At an early hour this morning the British and
North American Royal Mail steamship Asia, Capt.
Lott, arrived in the Mersey from New York, which
port she left at 12.35 p.m. on the 10th inst., with
84 passeng and 421,900 dots. in specie on freight.
She passed the Royal Mail steamship America, for
Boston, on the 14th, and the United States Mail
steamship Pacific, for New York, on the 16th, both
from hence.

The United States Mail steamship Baltic, from
here, arrived at New York on the 7th inst.
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The Washington correspondent of the New York
Herold gives some extraordinary information regard-
ing a new claim for the disputed fishing-grounds.
BAs ant
new element—most extraordinary in its character, and
of portentous upect—has been introduced into the great
controversy about the fisheries, the announcement of which
will cause greater agitation and excitement than have et
any period hitherto been manifested on the subject. A new
and formidable claimant for the fisheries is in the field.
The 4overument has been notified that an American com-
pany—lncluding, it is said, amongst its members a distin-
guiehed statesman, one of the most prominent bankers of
Washington, a former assistant•secretary of the Treasury of
the United States, and several leading capitalists in Wall-
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street—make exclusive claim to all the fisheries now in con-
troversy between the United States and (heat Britain,
under title derived from Alexander, Earl of Stirling
and Dovan, Hereditary Lieutenant-Omni and Lord

Proprietor of Canada and Nova Soria, and that the "la.
pony purpose testing the legality of their claim ray fitting
out a vessel manned by American seamen, aud despatet iug
her to the fishing grounds claisn.al exclusit fy by Great
Britain. or by granting licenses to the American iisheraten
of Mal bleheAd and Cape Cud to prosecute dolr business on
al! the coasts of Canada, Nova Scoti i, New Brunswick, and
Prince Edward's Island, being more th m 3,000 mile. in
ex-
tent, in spite of what they pronounce the diplomatic blunder
of 1818, by which the United States, lifter uhtainiug from
Great Britain the concession of the right of fishing on cer-
tain coasts of Newfoundland, on the shores of the !gagmen
Island, and the soutl!ern coasts of Labrador, renounce for
ever the liberty of fishing within t tree miles of any other
part of the Britisii coasts in America, or of curing or drying
fish on them.
The company say that if the title to the fisheries is in
Lord Stirling, and nut in the British government, he has
the undoubted right of transferring it to American citizens,
who, if disturbed in the right thus acquired, may demand
the protection of the United States, which will be boundto
see if the title is good, and, if so, to defend it. A collision
may be anticipated ; and, should the administration decide
to sustain the rights asserted by the company, the Britian
government must make largo cow:cubists, or war soma
probable.
Lord Stirling is now in Washington, whither he is said
to have come by advice of some of the killing statesmen of
Great Britain, who thought this the place most edema-
tageously to assert his rights. He is a man of venerable
appearance, some seventy years of age, of dignified and
courteous manners, and of seeli•established personal honour
and integrity. He is accompanied by his son. Lord Stir-
ling claims as heir of him ancestor, Sir William Alexander,
of Menstrie, Scotland, Viscount of Canada, Viscount and
Earl of Stirling, and Earl of Govan, to whom royal charters
under the great seal were granted, which were recognised
and confirmed by act of parliament in the presence of King
Charles I. These are all on record at Edinburgh 16th
Sept. 1621—Original charter of Nova Scotia. 12th July,
1623—Charter of Nova Damus, of the lands, lordship, and
barony of Nova Scotia. 3rd May, 1627—Charter of the
country and dominion of New Scotland. 2nd February,
1628—Original charter of Canada, including fifty leagues of
bounds on both sides of the River St. Lawrence and the
Great Lakes.
These charters gave the Earl of Stirling vast
and administrative powers. He was made his Majesty's
hereditary lieutenant-general ow r the whole countries of
Nova Scotia and Canada. He was also made justice.
general, high admiral, lord of regality, and hereditary
steward. The power was conferred upon him of making
officers of state and justice, of conferring titles of honour,
of coining money, and the privilege of making laws con-
cerning the public state, good, and government of the coun.
try. Ile had the power of appointing 00 baroneta, called
baronets of Nova Scotia, who were to take precedence of all
other baronets. Under this power the first earl actually
made over 100 baronets ; nearly fifty of the present baronets
in Great Britain hold their titles from patents granted by
the first Earl of Sterling.

The charters of Nova Scotia and Canada give to Lord
Stirling, his heirs and assigns, the complete right of fishing
witoin six leagues of the shore, on precisely the coasts
which we have relinquished; an went of coast of over
three thousand miles in length. The chine, of Nova
Scotia, after giving the boundaries of the country granted,
including New Brunswick, proceeds in these words:—" In-
cluding and comprehending within the said coasts and their
circumference, fr m sea to sea, all the continents, with
riven, brooks, bays, shores, ill sods, or s-as, lying near or
within si: leagues of any part of the same, on the west,
north, or east side of the coasts; and from the southeast,
where lies Cape Breton, and the south part of the same,
where is Cape Sable, all the seas and islands southward
witl.in forty leagues of the coast thereof," &c. And the
charter proceeds to grant to Sir Williasn'Alexander, his
heirs or assigns, among other things, all " marshes, lakes,
waters, fisheries, as well in salt water as in fresh, of royal
fisheries, as of others," ai.e. (marressius lanthasaquir pica-
ii•mibus tans in aqua safra glans resents tam regalluns
piacium quasi aliorum.-) The charter also refers to under-
takings which the grantee may make with " divers of our
subjects and others, who probably shall enter into contracts
with him and his heirs, assignees, or deputies, for lands,
fisheries," &c.
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It is illeged that,
1. Courts of competent jurisdiction have judicially' esta-
blished that the present Earl of Stirling is lineally de-
scended from the first Earl of Stirling, and the real heir to
his titles and estates

2. The titles of the present Earl of Stirling have been
officially recognised on the most solemn occasions in Eng-
land and Scotland.

It is further alleged that the Earl of Stirling's name was
inserted upon the great roll of the peers of Scotland, in
18.51, a roll inscribed in the archives of the King at Edin-
burg, drawn up by order of the House of Lord, entered
upon its register, and transcribed upon its minutes. Since
that period the Earl of Stirling has voted again at the gene-
ral elections of 1835 and 1837. His name is also entered on
the list of those peers who competed at those elections--
lists recorded in the royal archives of the upper house.
From these lists result, the proof that from 1825 to 1837
the present Earl of Stirling, always recognised in his rights,
voted during a period of twelve years as a peer of Scotland,
without effective protest.
And also that he was not only recognised by his peers
and the magistrates and courts of Edinburgh, but that the
Lord Chancellor Lyndhurst, Earl Grey, the prime minis-
' ter, the Lords of the Committee of Council, in the King's
name, corresponded officially with the Earl of Stirling, and
addressed him by his title.
John L. Hayes, Esq., counsel for Lord Stirling, states
that in an interview had with the Hon. Robert J. Walker,
late Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Walker said that prior
to his departure for Europe be had, at the request of Lord
Stirling, examined the case, and although his multiplied
engagements prevented his having been professionally
employed as counsel, as Lord Stirling desired, be (Mr.
Walker) entertained an undoubted c..nviction, which was
confirmed by conversation relative to the cue with several
distinguished persons, during his late visit to England and
Scotland, of the heirship, identity, and legal rights ul Lord
Stirling.
I, myself, have had an interview with Mr. Walker, and
he informs me that Mr. Hayes's statement is true and
correct.

As further development/ take place you shall be first in-
formed of them.

The Washington Union sustains the conduct of
Commander Ingraham in the Smyrna affair, and
maintains that he was not only authorised to resort
to amicable interposition, bat that it was his duty to
his government to exert just as much power as was
necessary to arrest the Austrian outrage and prevent
its consummation.

A serious collision occurred on the Camden and
Amboy Railroad on the 9th, by which four persons
were killed and 20 wounded.
Intelligence received from the fishing grounds
creates considerable uneasiness. Some 13 or 20
vessels have arrived there from Gloucester, Mass.,
Newcastle, N.H., and Kittery, Maine, armed with
muskets, oarding-pikes, cutlasses, and swivels, de-
termined to fight if interfered with. Heavy opera-
tors have laid up their vessels at the wharves, em-
ployed their men on shore, and invested their money
in new movements. Collisions are daily expected.
The eastern people are said to be satisfied with reci-
procity, but are all in arms against the registry of
British vessels to control the coasting trade. It
seems that the fishermen are certainly armed, re-
ports to the contrary notwithstanding.
The North American and European Railroad Com-
pany's opening celebration takes place on the 14th
September. Messrs. Jackson, Betts, and Stephenson
will be present.
St. John, N. 8., papers of the Bth inst. are received.
A letter from Prince Edward's Island says that fires
have been fearfully raging in the woods during the
put week. Some farmers have lost houses, barns,
fences, and all their crops, and very few have
escaped without losing some of their fencing and
Frain; a great number of sheep have also been lost;
in fact, the extent of all the damage done cannot yet
be ascertained. The Miramichi Gleaner says that
mackerel are very abundant there, and the fishery
generally, though not an extraordinary one, is de-
cidedly better than last sesson.
The yellow fever continues to rage fearfully at
New Orleans, and has also appeared in Mobile.
A party just arrived from Fort Mackey at In-
dependence, report large numbers of Indians await-
ing the movements of Major Fitzpatrick, who was to
distribute goods and presents among them the day
after the party left.
The report of a great battle near Fort Kearney,
is confirmed by some returned Kioways, according
to whose account the Sioux and Cheyennes arc al-
most rubbed out.

The arrival of the steam ship Star of the West,
puts us in possession of California dates to the 16th
of July, sixteen days later. Nothing of very strik-
ing importance in the way of news has occurred
since our last advices.

A correspondent of the Shasta Couri, r, writing
from Pittsburg, a mining town in the northern part
of the state, says :—" Quite an excitement was pro-
dnoed here a short time since by the discovery of
rich diggings in the hill this side of Rich Gulch,
just where the trail crosses the Gulch. As high as
six dollars were taken out in one bucketful of dirt.
The depth to the rock is about three feet. People
'run all tight' to secure claims, and a friend who
was on the ground early on the following morning
informs us that he saw some ten or a dozen notices
within a few feet of each other, having been posted
in the dark."
About a week since a company of four English.
men took out two pounds of gold near the mouth of
Rich Gulch.

A packing road is about to be opened from Pitts-
burg, across the Trinity mountains, to Scott's Valley.
The first of this season's overland immigration has
reached Sacramento. 'Mr. Isaac Evans arrived
across the Plains on Monday, July 6. He left St.

Joeph's so the 20th of April last, with twelve men,
!wing our waggons and 25 horses. They had a ;
tight with the Indians coming up the Platte River.
Agreat many traders were awaiting the immigra-
tiou on Calson River.
1 he mails trout the Great Salt Lake arrived at Sa-
erantento on the 9th, bringing news from Deseret, to;
June 19. Hon. Chief Justice Reed arrived at
Great Salt lake city, June 5, and took the oath of
otlice, admiuisteied by Brigham Young in person.
Tlw Nlormon settlement was prospering, and the
agricultural titbit% of the place looked promising.
The scourge tit tire seems to pursue the fortunes of
Californians with the fast succeeding strokes.
.t letter horn Captain Love, of tho Californian
Raagere, elates that lie has captured the brother of
the notorious robber Joaquin, who has offered, on a I
promise of being released. to conduct the Itangers to
tie' place of concealment of Joaquin sad his gang.
A large number of horse thieves are concealed in
Ca. mountains batik of San Juan, and between that
piste and Tu lures Valley.
We have tiles of Oregon papers to the 30th ultimo.
The returns of the late election though incomplete,
give Governor Lane a majority of 1,300 votes as de-
legate to Congress. As tar as heard from the vote
stands, by majorities for Lane 1,533; Skinder, 40.
Lane's majority, 1,515.
We have date from the Sandwich Islands to the
11th Jane.
Small-pox is on the increase in Honolulu. Fif-
teen new casts were reported yesterday, making
thus far sixty-eight in all, out of which there were
seventeen deaths. The difficulty in the way of
arresting the progress of the disease, seems to be a
habit oa the part of the natives of concealing those
who are attack 11 with it, that they may not be re-
mused to the hospital. It is gratify to know that not
an iudividual who has been properly vaccinated has
been attacked with the disease.
'the steam-ship Isabel, Captain Rollie, arrived at
Charleston, bringing Ilavanoah and Key West dates
to the 4th instant.
The news from 11avannah is quite unimportant.
Sugars had undergone no change; molasses was
quoted at 2; teals.
Key West ceettinued healthy, but the weather was
very warm.
'the Frenzli brig Belle France, from New Orleans,
bound to St. Louis, Senegal, ran ashore on Pickle
Beef on Ist August—threw overboard some lumber,
sail, assisted by wreckers, arrived at Key West on
the 4th, leaking. Her cargo consisted ref lumber,
tobacco, and cotton.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, Arover 10.

There is a steady demand for money, but a more liberal
euppl) at our quotations. We quote:
Loans on call, stock securities, 6 to 7; ditto, other good
neuritic', 7 to 8: prime endorsed bills, GO to 90 days, 8 to
9: ditto, 4 to 6 month", 9 to 10 ; prime single names, 9to
12; other good bill., 12; names lees known. 16.
The cahibit by the banks this morning was as favourable
as expected, but the struggle is not quite over. A few of
tie moat conservative are making further efforts to
enlighten themselves, as will mere fully, appear in seat
week's summary. When the proper basis is reached, the
Lary will be over, and the market will be kept with more
steadieree than has been experienced for many years.
The stock market is depressed, and without any spirit.
At the First Board, Calfornia i's of '7O brought 87 ;
N York City s's of '7O, 1021; Kentucky 6's, 1021; Indiana
State 5.9, om St. Louis 6's, 97 ; Louieville,6's, 96 ; Canal
Certificates, 10.5 ; N Y and N H bonds of '6O, 101 ; Erie
Income Donde, 941 to 941 • Erie Convertible of '7l, 921 ;
Metropolitan Beek, 107: *Shoe and le•ather Bank, 100 ;
Bank of the I: pion, 100; Erie Railroad, 721 to 721; Canton,
29 to 2.n Michigan Southern RR, 123; Harlem, 671 to 58 ;
Morris. lt' to 181; Edgworth, 41; Hudson River, 69 to 69 ;
Cumberland Coal, 3G to 351; Parker Coal C0.,201, 201;
McCullock's Gold Mine, 71 ; North Carolina apper Co.,
; Nicaragus, 221 to 221; Panama RR, 112 to 111; Mich
Central Railroad, 109 to 1091 • Crystal Paine, 120; NY
Central R 11, 1161 to 116 ; Hudson River, Ist Mort, 1061 ;
Haden River Convertibles, 89 to 81(1; Reading, 85.
At the Second Board, Continental Bank brought 1001;
Morris, 181; Canton, 28i ; Penn. Coal Co., 1101; Parker
Coal, out ; Cumberland, 3.5 ; Nicaragua, 221 to 223 ;
MeCallock Gold Mine, 81 to 9; Florence and Keyport,
10; Erie, 711 ; Long Island, 31 to 32i ; Reading, 83 ; and
New York sad New Haven, 1011.
Foreign Exchange is irregular; bills on London at 60
days, are selling all the way from 107 to 1091, bat chiefly at
101 to 1081 for produce bills, and 109 to 1091 for banker's
signatures.
BIZADSIUM.—The market is heavy, with a further de-
cline of 61 per bhl., and with a moderate busineu. The sales
are 9,000 bbls. Canadian flour is nominal at 5 dole. 2.5 e.
Rye flour is dull at 3 dole. 25c. to 3 dole. 371 e.
for flee, end 3 dollars and 871 e. to 4 dollars
Mc. for superfine. Corn meal is lower, with sales
of 150 bbls. at 3 dot,. 121 c. fur Jersey, and 3 dole. 73c. fur
brandy wine. Wheat is 2c. lower, but there is a fair
demand for export. From the engagemeats made far
freight we should judge either that sales have been made
to arrive, which have not transpired, or that the market is
likely to continue active. The sales are 16,800 bushels
white Ohio at 1 dol. 28e. for common, and 1 dol. 33c. for
good ; 11,000 bushels red and seised Ohio, at 1 dol. 181 e. to
I dol. 21e., averaging 1 dol. 20c.; 11,600 white Southern,
at 1 dol. 21e. to 1 dol. 29c. ; 3,000 Canadian, at 1 dol. 27c.,
and 400 new Getman., at a price we are requested not to
mention. It may be proper to say that the small iota of
new Geniuses amving4are taken by millers and for seed at
very high rates ; but ao purchases in the interior should be
wedx• tad on such prices, es the arrivalof two or three cargoes
would depress the market for this quality very considerably.
Rye is firmer, with sales of 1.000 bushels at 83 for Southern,
afterwards resold at 831. Oats are steady, at 43 to 46 ter
State, Western, and Canadian ; 41 to 43 for Jersey ; Penn.
(nominally), 41 to 44 ; Southern, 32 to 40. Corn is lower,
with sales of 26,000 bushels at 72 to 74 for unsound ; 74 to
75 fur Westent mixed; 74 to 741 for Southern mixed ; 76
for round yellow ; 74 to 73 for white ; and 76 to 77 for
Southern yellow.
agorron.—The market has been dull and heavy fee three
, owing to the pressure in the money musket. the de-
dine in exchange, and the advance in freights. The sales
for three days are 2,400 bales. The export' from this port
for the week ending to-day see 3,706 hales, of which 2,894
were to Great Britain, 298 to Havre, and 614 to Northern
Europe. We quote:
Ober Gulf
Atlantic Poet. Piedfla. Puts.
WI& 21111.
=ry low to good a N NE.
01 to Of I to H 9lfle Of
Lena, low to good 101 101 to Ilk 101 1i to iil 101 11 to 114
Mid. nit terser ll4 to 111 11 to Of
Patioars.—To Liverpool 60,000 bushels of wheat were
takes. meetly et 811., bosh in bulk and shies bey, but
arowpaneat at fifd. in the latter ; 6,00011119.0 t
qe la. 7ILa !a. N., the lover rate to awl 1100
Itileo al ogles at Id. to 6.16 d. for meopeseesi To Leaden
4tolo at of wheat la shipper'. bee at 1/11. t UM Mac
of allege at b. ; Isar at the lama; 149 helm it wham
b., mei id& also at SA. • void et Au was
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