The Express. — London, England, 1853-09-22 00:00:00

Eite ervrtoo. TO CONILEPONDENTS. A Sectad c,! '• Int t.tyre.g," masa:nit the sane eteethr.e'e "Oasette," is publ:shed every taller aid Ert,ll, ntibt, i t: ac 107 Advertteetnesta latendcal for "The Express," 1.0•4011 Evening paper, anal be et the lace, le, teurert•-etrat, by Iv., o'cluOc ca the day of pubUeition. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tilts DAT—illottling, 4h. 14rn Avenwmi, To-sioliteW—lGnung, Sh.l7er. Aft•rno..l, 511. Ma. LONDON, TIII,I:SDAT, SEPTEMBER 22. Tate fraternisation of the Russian CZtR and the Austrian EsirEr.ot: has had precisely the result we shadowed forth. NICIIOLAi has twisted FnaNcis Justaat rutted his finger, and Austria leaves Eng land and France to do as they please about Turkey. Russia and Austria are one, the C/tr. will not quit the Principalities, and all the negotiations come at once to the ground! This r.i.w attituiL now assumed by Russia and Austria need not take any reader of the .Ezpress by surprise. It is simply what we foretold from the beginning of the make-believe negotiations by which the Western powers have allowed themselves to be amused till it suited the C/. . ►x to throw off the mask. The Cabinet of Vienna has mediated and the Cesinet of St. Petersburg has listened to its mediation. This farce has been carried on until the inch money of the season is understood to have forced the Turkish soldiers from their tents into the villages and towns, and to be forcing even the Russians from their tents or huts iron barracks that have been pre- pared fur them. Enough of time has now been gained, and the OAR thinks concealment no longer necessary. Count NESSELRODE, in his despatch to baron NILTENDOEFF, at Vienna, which we publish to-d.:y, states that the proposals of the Porte, with respect to the evacuation of the Principalities. are in_ admissible. And in the same paper he refers to " another despatch" respecting which it is confidently 'Armed that Count NESSELRODE, speaking for his imperial master, places upon the noto prepared for the ac• ceptance of Russia and Turkey by the Fuur Powers, en interpretation so materially opposed to that con templated by its framers, that, so read, it practically becomes a mere paraphrase of the terms which Prince NIENCIDEOFF in his well-known ultimatum placed before the SULTAN for acceptance. Russia having thus shown the claven foot, Austria does not loiter Ix hind it. A despatch from Vienna has been received in Paris, to the effect that " the mediating Power" does not fully concur in the proposal of the Two Western Powers to give guarantees to the Porte against the future interference of Russia between the Porte and its subjects ;—that " the mediating Power' does not think M. DROUSN DE presses upon the Porte the acceptancepure ct sistark of the Vienna proposals with sufficient energy ;—and that as cir cumstances no longer admit of collective action, each Powermust act for itself. In plain English, winter having arrived, his mili tary arrangements being completed, and Austria fully agreeing about what shall be done, Rani* turns round upon the IVestern Powers, bluntly re fuses to evacuate the Principalities, and declares that the whole lung tissue of negotiations since Prince lENCUIKOII , left Constantinople must pass for nothing; whilst at the same time' Austria declares that it can no longer co-operate with the Western Powers; and that Turkey must adopt the Vienna note pure ,t simpk, as Russia demands. Such being the conduct of Russia—the Peaty which interfered to reduce Hungary again under the Austrian yoke—and of Austria, which volunteered its mediation between Russia and the Western Powers in their character of asserters of the independence and integrity of the Turkish Empire, —is it possible to resist the suspicion that the whole of the negotiations at Vienna have been the conse quence of a preconcerted trick between the Russian and Austrian Governments? This then is the result of all the attempts of France and England to flatter and wheedle Russia into abstinence from acts of aggression and spolia tion. This is the result of their delighted acceptance of the proffer of Austria to act as master of the cere monies, and teach them how to perform the Ku-too before the throne of the CZAR after the most approved fashion. Turkish common sense—either because it was not dulled or perverted by diplomatic training, or because it was sharpened by a vital interest in the question—saw through the trap set for it by the Austrian Ministers (ia the mystic note of which Russia has now declared the esoteric meaning), though ions NAPOLEON, with all his Ministers, and the four Foreign Secretaries in the British Cabinet, were deceived by it to a man. AU questions m to what the French and British Cabinets have been doing or proposing since the 19th of August —when the Porte adopted M. DELA €OI:II.4 version of the Vienna proposals with modifi cations—now sink into utter insignificance. The only question of real importance or interest is— What will the French and English Cabinets do now that Russia has proclaimed it abides by the MEN CIIIKOFF ultimatum, and will not evacuate the Danubian Provinces? What will be done now that Austria has avowed its accession to the aggressive and usurping policy of Russia? Those who have patted the French and Eng lish Cabinets on the back for allowing them selves to bo mystified by Austrian and Russian nego tiation, and who attempted to bully the Porte into the adoption of the insidious note at last interpreted by Russia, may now see what they have gained by their truckling to the strong and insulting of the weak. Their professed object has been to avoid war. They were told that by inflating Russian vanity and spinning out the favourable season for military and naval operations, they were rendering war inevitable. Has not time proved the justice of this opinion? Russia would not have made the frank avowal of intentions it has now done, had it not made its plans, and determined to carry them into effect at all hazards. Austria wculd not have avowed its complicity with Russia had not the time gone past when further disguise was alike unneces sary and impossible. Read by the light of these last haughty and unblushing acts of Russia and Austria, Lord Jotot RUSSELL', speech at Greenock assumes a definite meaning. Does he not expect war ? All the evils now overhanging Europe might have been prevented had the pacific ABElWEEN—wnomigut be aptly typified by the same animal us 1 4 SACITAil wee in the dying speech of the Patriarch Jac:on—had the firmness to address Russia in the tines tggcmted lan guage of truth and justice at the outset. Perhaps his lordship may flatter himself that peace may still be preserved by making common cause against Turkey with Russia and .tustria. Even this scan dalous hope, however, seems forbidden by the attitude the Sutras has assumed. And if it did succeed, what must i!, future be thought of the English Ministers who, after their bold words about main taining the independence and iut'grity of Turkey, should adopt such a policy? Either that they have been the willing dupes—the accomplices of Russia and .lubtria in the late fraudulent negotiations; ye that, solely intent upon preserving the balance of parties at home and keeping their planes, the Eastern question has with them been merely a theme to make speeches upon, while NictioLts, having a definite ac quisition to mike, has acted while they were talking : . 1 --and has of course carried his point. Tee public cannot fail to notice with regret that the rise in the price of wheat and flour in Mark-lane was from 3s. to 4s. per quarter between Monday week and last Monday, and the price of floating cargoes, of which very few are on their way hither, I I was un Monday 2s. per quarter higher than on Friday. With ono slight check the price of wheat has risen incessantly since the first week in June. The average of that week was 13s. 3d.; the average of the second week in September was 545. 9d.---ft rise of nearly 21' per cent. in 14 weeks, and the rise since will make it to this time upwards of 30 per cent. With this great rise.in our own markets, the price of corn, notwithstanding large arrivals, continues to rise in France, and the great purchases making for that country in the ports of the Baltic and Black Sea is one cause why so little is on its way hither from those quarters. The last arrivals from the United States, too, inform us that the meal and flour markets these were quite in a ferment in consequence of the news from Europe. Wheat, that in June was 118 c. the bushel, was selling on the sth instant at 143 c. to 148 c., or a rise of nearly 24 per cent., with every probability of the price being higher. The same advice. inform us that the present freight of a bushel of wheat,—which was considered high at the begiuning of the year at 9;d. to 10d., and it has been below 6d.,—is now from 10d. to 12d., making an additional rise of from 10 to 15 per cent. in the price of American wheat in our markets. Day after day, and week after week, the reports of our own harvest and of the general harvest on the neigh bouring continent tell the same story. I'rices are rising here and abroad day after day, and week after week, and it is high time that the public should be fully aware of the probable consequences. The only facts calculated to give new influences are the quantity of old wheat yet remaining in the hands of our farmers, and the great increase of wheat cultivation in America, with the excellent harvest in the New World. There is no accurate in hemation to be got as to the stock of wheat in our taireers' hands ; but report says that it is large is some districts. Accordingly we perceive that the quantity of wheat sold by the Gazette returns in the weeks ending the 10th and the 3rd instant was severally 89,619 qrs. and 101,937 qrs. against 74,139 qrs. and 76,491 qrs. in the corresponding weeks of 1852. We recently laid before our readers some account of the rapid extension of wheat cultivation in Canada. We do not know how rapidly it is in creasing in the United States, but it is making great progress in Michigan, Ohio, and other Western States. There have latterly been sold, we know also, nearly 5,000,000 acres of land annually in the United States exclusive of land reserved for railways, am.; and that the great facility which a set of railways now gives for bringing the produce of the far west to the eastern seaboard assures us that of the im• mense quantity of food grown on all the newly cul tivated land of the States, Europe can now obtain a large share. In fact to the middle of August there has been exported from the United States 2,753,361 more bushels of wheat than in the corresponding period of 1552, and 139,157 more barrels of floor. In the month ending August 30, the latest account yet come to hand, there was ex ported from New York 109,963 barrels of Hour against 124,857 barrels in August, 1832, and 520,000 bushels of wheat in August, 1633, against 206,986 bushels in August, 1832. We notice also that the arrivals by land at New York, which have been slack all the year, have begun within the last wish or two to exceed the arrivals in 1852. From meek facts we have good reason to believe that Enr lead will obtain a good supply of corn. At the ease time whoa the demands of all Europe and the Wowed consumption of our country, of France, end of Germany are taken into consideration, it becomes plain that there will be no food too much, sad that to obtain sufficient to entice the farmers of Canada and of the far west to limit their own con sumption, and send to market all the wheat and flour they can spare, and to pay high and rising freights the price here will most probably rise yet higher than at present. Wo do not pretend to fix a limit to the rise; circumstances aro now altogether &home from what they were in 1817, and there will be so necessity, we believe, for prices to rise now as high as then, to bring hither all the corn we shall require, It is, however, time that we were on our guard, and time for us to discourage all unnecessary consump tion, extravagance, and waste. The rise in the rate of discount, to which we have ditto so frequently been obliged to direct the atten dee of our readers, and which is operating to check exports, and check trade, is in great part the conse quence of this continual rise in the price of wheat. They have gone on together. Tho rise in the rate of discount is, however, rather the sign than the cause of our prosperity being retarded. Money is only required for what it will buy, not for its own sake ; it is always parted with when used, and the comparative scarcity and high price of other things, particularly of food, makes money dear. Our own harvests being deficient, we require a great deal more food from abroad, and we must give more for it; prices are rising in Dantzic as well as at New York ; gold goes out to buy corn ; a little alarm is generated by the disappearance of a few hundred thousand pounds from the Bank vaults, and the rate of discount becomes higher. It is perfectly clear if food were abundant, and consequently cheap, all other things would be cheap ; labour wouldbe comparatively cheaply sustained and cheaply paid for. As much of it as was required could soon be commanded, and there never need be any stop, or even any check, to any species of production so long as food is abundant. Analyse any or all the oper a tions of society, and we shall find them all depend in the end on the supply of food to be obtained by those engaged in them. It has been sneeringly or jocosely said that the belly governs the world. This is a great truth. Subsistence is another name for life, and it is a deficient supply of the means of enbsistence threatening life somewhere which spreads languor, the parent of disease, over trade, and makes itself equally felt in Lombard-street and Liverpool. For any deficiency that is now experiencid in the hod of society abroad, those crowned heads, who by their laws have made themselves responsible for the supply, will now be deeply to blame. Experience tells them year after year that in abundant seasons the people are always contented, and that a scarcity of subsistence is the main cause of all revolutions. Nevertheless, they go on in their blind and stupid career, and everywhere persist in restricting and impeding the industry by which society is fed. It is now shown by the competition of Franco with ' us in short t roarkets for food, and by all Europe ob taining supplies from free America, that every nation is deeply interested in all the legislation concerning coru. Would that we could secure Free Trade abroad, as we have in a great measure secured it at home. We have found its advantages to be so great that we can with propriety impress the principle an others. Did we must at the same time insist on its being fully extended for ourselves. Now that the price of corn touches on tiOs., the duty of Is. per quarter will increase the difficulties of procuring supplies end the price of the loaf unwarrantably. Other I nations have been obliged to admit corn duty free, and to recommend the principle of Free Trade to i them as a permanent polity, we must cousetrate it by abolishing our Is. duty. The time has mow arrived when that duty will be felt to be a serious injury, and it ought therefore to be abolished. THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 22, 1853. RUSSIA AND TURKEY. A must serious change has taken plate in the posiiion of all the parties to the negotiations carried on at Vienna. In his Memorandum which is now before the cabinets of England, France, Austria, and Prussia, the Czar sweeps away the cobwebs woven by the Vienna diplomatists over the real Eastern ques tion, and the Powers of Europe are again brought, nolens rokns, face to face with the original difficulty. The news that " the Czar had rejected the Turkish modifications," which was received in London on the 13th inst., was founded on two communications signed by M. de Nesselrode, dated St. Petersburg, Sept. 7 (N.S.), and addressed to Baron Meyendorff, Russian minister at the court of Vienna. One of these—which reached us yesterday from Berlin and Brussels, and is given below—was to be read to the Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs, who was also to have a copy. The same despatch was also for_ warded to the envoys of Russia at London, Paris, and Berlin, with instructions to read it to the mi nister of the court to which they were accredited, but not officially to deliver a copy, Russia thus marking the fact that she recognised the interven tion of Austria only in her difference with Turkey. The second communication received by M. Meyen dorff was a note instructing him personally in the views of his court on the new turn of affairs, and discussing the modifications of Iteschid Packs point by point. Being of a private character, its contents have not transpired. In the first-mentioned despatch, u will be seen on examination, M. de Ncsselrode confines himself to a statement o f motives which must have compelled the Czar Li priori to reject any modifications whatever in the Vienna note. He says, " that to accept the modifications at the hands of the Divan, after he had acceded to a note considered satisfactory by the me diating Powers, would be incompatible with his dig nity." But the Czar is not content to leave the ques tion upon this ground, where it might appear to de generate into an affair of wounded selflove. M. de Meyendorff was informed by the despatches before-mentioned that a memorandum, treating of the difference between Russia and the Porte, would shortly be transmitted to the governments repre sented at the Vienna conference. This important document is now in the hands of the ministers of France, England, Austria, and Prussia. It goes to the root of the matter. The Czar declares that although he had his own objections to the Vienna note, considering it as less than he might demand of the Sultan as a satisfac tion of the wrong he had sustained, yet that he re garded it as virtually conveying to him the same rights as the Menchikoff note would havo done. He assumes that England, France, and Austria meant the same. The Czar in fact read the note as the Turks read it, as Englishmen and Frenchmen read it. in fact as everybody read it, except the little world of diplomatists and their disciples. He considered it as transferring from the Sultan to him self the right of intermeddling in Turkey, which he demanded with threats, upon the failure of the Men chikoff mission. This interpretation is fixed on the Vienna note with so much torce, and contrasted so clearly with those modifications of Reschid Paeba which reserve the independence of Turkey, that it seems impossible that the Vienna note, with its nicely balanced phrases, can any longer serve as the basis of mediation. Austria for her part would not feel any difficulty in admitting whatever interpretation of the " note, " might be most agreeable to the C z a r . She entered into the negotiations in the first instance merely to avert a war which must be carried on near her frontiers, and which might end in bringing her into yet closer proximity with her powerful neigh bour. But France and England, while equally anxious to preserve peace, have declared outright against the spoliation of Turkey, whether her terri tory or independence were in questiou. This con stitutes the present inconvenience of the Russian memorandum. Yesterday we published an article from a recog nised organ of the Austrian government, in which it was declared that the Turks must accept the Vienna note. The Nesselrode despatch which we publish today attests that the Austrian government is pledged to that of Russia, and insists upon the acceptance of this note by the Porte, or withdraw her intervention, and the accounts which reach Lon don from Vienna show that she is acting ' up to the i spirit of the obligation. "On the 12th nst. " says the Vienna correspondent of the Dante, " a courier was sent to M. do Bruck, at Constantinople, with 'the final instruction, of his court respecting the pre sent difficulty. M. do Bruck is instructed to declare to the Porte that in demanding its adhesion, pure et simple, to the Vienna note, he acts in strict conformity with the inten tion of his government, as well as with the pre sumed intentions of the other powers, allies of Turgey, represented in the Vienna Conference. He is also to declare that this is the last time that Austria will aid the Porte with its counsel in its debate with Russia. Letters from Vienna of the 17th state that on that day the representatives of the Four Powers met again in conference, when a proposition to draw up a note to the Porte, giving to the Sultan such assur ances respecting the force and meaning of the Vienna note as would remove his objections to acceptance, was discussed and rejected. The IndTesdance Bettie says that after this incident the ministers of France and England declared that before all things it was necessary to work with energy to induce the Porte to accept the first note. Instructions they said had been sent to Lord do Mich& and M. de is Cour to that effect. We have advice* from Constantinople to the Bth. The Porte had published its second manifesto in the Stale Gazette. Tho document is for the most part a recital of the transactions which have passed relative to the Vienna note, and the motives which had in duced the government to make alterations in it. Without being of so warlike a character as had been supposed, its language is much more energetic than that of the first manifesto ; it also contains the anti ranee that the Porte will persist to the last in the honourable attitude which it has taken. On the 15th ult., 9,000 Egyptians left for the army of the Danube. The remaining 6,000, who were on the Bth at Unkiar Skelessi, were to embark on the next day to rejoin their com rades. The Bey of Tunis having informed the Porte that his contingent was ready, but that want of trans ports prevented their voyage to Constantinople, orders were given at the arsenal to appoint a num ber of steamers to fetch the troops of the regency. "We are expecting," says a correspondent, " the early arrival of courier, from the allied courts, urging the ambassadors to press the Turkish govern ment to make some further concession. These ,at tempts will all be vain. The Turks are resolved to concede no more, and every day seems to confirm their resolution. The Sultan himself, who at first hesitated, and inclined to conciliative means, will now hear nothing of an arrangement which should satisfy the pretensions of Russia. "Bedes the placards which are every night posted on the walls of the principal mosques, the in habitants of Constantinople publicly sign addresses to the Sultan and his ministers praying them to march against the enemy, and to wait no longer for the support of France and England, which have just proved in the clearest manner that Turkey must not count on them. Thew addresses and placards have an astonishing influence, and it is impossible to see at what point the popular effervesence will cease." COUNT NESSELRODR'S CIRCULAR NOTE. ST. l'Erstisninto, Atm. 26 (SseT. 7). "To Ilia Excellency Baron Meyendorff, Envoy Ex traordinary c.nd Minister Plenipotentiary of his Imperial Majesty at the Court of Vienna. " With the despatches of your excellency of the 18th (2tith) of August we have just received the mo difications which the Ottoman Porte has made in the draft of note drawn up at Vienna. " M. de Buol will only have to recal the expres sions employed in our communication of July 25, to comprehend the impression which these changes have produced on his Majesty the Emperor. " When, in the name of his Majesty, I accepted the draft of note which the Austrian government announced to us as a document approved by the courts of France and England, and which she pro posed to submit to the Porte us an ultimatum, making the continuance of her good offices dependent upon its acceptance, I added, in a despatch which you, M. le Baron, were charged to communicate to the Austrian cabinet, the following observations and re serves: " I consider it superfluous to observe to your ex cellency that in accepting the conciliatory expedient agreed to at Vienna, and the mission of a Turkish Ambassador, we wish it to be understood that we are not to be asked to examine and discuss new pro positions and new modifications, which may possibly be prepared at Vienna under the prompting of the warlike inspirations which at this moment appear to animate the Sultan and the majority of his ministers, and that in case the Ottoman government should reject this last scheme of arrangement, we shall not consider ourselves in any wise bound by the acqui escence which we give to-day. " After expressions so positive, the Austrian Cabi net cannot have felt a moment's uncertainty respect ing our resolutions in the case which presented itself. " I will not here examine in detail the changes which have been made in the note at Constantinople. In another despatch I have discussed them in detail. I confine myself now to asking whether the Em peror, after having renounced the right to change a single word in the draft of a note drawn np with out his participation, can consent that the Ottoman Porte should reserve such a right to itself —if he can permit Russia thus to occupy a position of inferiority with reference to the Porte ? 'We consider that this would be contrary to the dignity of the Emperor. Let me recapitulate what has taken place. In stead of the note of the adoption of which, without modification, we had made a condition of the re-establishment of our friendship with the Porte, a different note was pro posed to us. We might, for that reason alone, have refused to look at it : or, taking it into considera tion, we might find occasion to raise more than ono objection, to propose more than one change in the expressions employed. You know, M. le Baron, that from the moment when we cemented to renounce our ultimatum, the form of a note ceased to bo satis factory to us; we should have preferred greatly another mode of action, another form of convention. "We did not, however, insist upon this wish : we renounced it altogether. And why ? Because as soon as we began to make counter-propositions, we should have been accused of protracting the settle ment of the difference, and of deliberately pro'onging the crisis which was holding Europe in suspense. Instead of doing so, and because we were anxious to terminate the crisis as speedily as possible, we sacri ficed our objections whether they concerned sub stance or form. "On the reception of the first draft of note, before even we knew that it had been approved at London and Paris, we announced our acceptance of it by electric telegraph. Subsequently, the draft, as finally arranged, was transmitted to us, and although it had been modified, in a sense which could not be misunderstood, we neither withdrew our assent, nor raised the least difficulty. Was it possible to show ourselves more conciliating? It was well understood that in thus acting we made it a condition that the draft which the Emperor had accepted without discussion should also be accepted by the Porte in a similar manner. We did so under the conviction that Austria looked on it as an ulti matum, in which nothing was to be changed, as the last effort of her friendly mediation, which, should it fail in consequence of the pertinacity of the Porte, would thereby of itself come to an end. We regret that it was not so. But the Vienna Cabinet will ad mit, that if we had not to do with an ultimatum, but with a new draft of a note, in which either of the parties concerned was at liberty to make changes, we should thereby recover the right of which we had of our own accord deprived ourselves, of proposing variations on our past. of taking the proposal of ar rangement into oessrlderation, and not only changing the expressions, but also the form. " Could such a result be intended by Austria? Could it be agreeable to the Powers, who, by alter ing and accepting her drafts, have made it their com mon work? It is their affair to consider the delays which will result from this, or to inquire if it is for the interest of Europe to cut them short. We set only one single means of putting an end to them. It is for Austria and the Powers to declare to the Porte, frankly and firmly, that they, after having in vain opened up to it the only road that could lead to an immediate restoration of its relations with us , henceforth leave the task to itself alone. We be lieve, that as soon as the Powers unanimously hold this language to the Porte, the Turks will yield to the advice of Europe, and, instead of reckoning on her assistance in a struggle with Russia, will accept the note in its present form, and coup to compromise their position so seriously for the childish satisfaction of having altered a few ex pressions in a document which we had accepted without discussion. For of these two positions only one is possible ; either the alterations which the Porte requires are important, in which case it is very simple that we refuse to accede to them ; or they are unimportant, and then the question arises, why should the Porte unnecessarily make its acceptance dependent on them ? "To stun up snocinctly what we have said ; the ultimatum drawn up at Vienna is not ours. It is the work of Austria and the Powers, who, after having first of all agreed to it, then discussed it, and altered its original text, have recognised it as such as the Porte could accept, without its in tercets or its honour being oompromised. We on our part have done everything that depended upon us to shorten unnecessary delays, inumuch as when the arrangements were laid before us we renounced all counter propositions. No one will refuse to bear this testimony to the loyaute of the Emperor. After our having long exhausted the measure of concessions, without the Porte's having as yet made a single one, his Majesty can go no further without compromising his own standing, and without exposing himself to a resumption of his relations with Turkey under unfa vourable auspices, which would deprive them for the future of all stability, and must inevitably pro duce a fresh and signal breach. Even now, fur ther concessions with regard to the expressions of the note would be of no use, for we see by your despatch that the Ottoman government is only waiting for our consent to the alterations made in the Vienna note to make its signature, as well as its sending off an ambassador to convey the latter hither, dependent on fresh conditions, and that it has already made inadmissible proposals with respect to the evacuation of the Principalities. As regards the latter point we can only refer to the assurances and declarations contained in oar despatch of the 10th of August, and repeat that the arrival of the Turkish am bas sador bearing the Austrian note with out alterations will suffice at Sr. Petersburg for the orders to be issued to . our troops to retire over the frontier." FRANCE. PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVININO. Considerable sensation was occasioned to-day by the publication in most of the morning papers of the following private telegraphic despatch, dated Vienna, Tuesday, Sept. 20 : "The mediating power [Austria] has not adhered in its full extent to the proposition of the two Western Powers, tending to give to the Porte in a Collective Note guarantees against the future interference of Russia between the Porte and its subjects. Count Buol has declared that the project of note proposed by M. Drouyn de Lbuys was not sufficiently pressing in the sense of acceptation. Energetic instruc tions have been sent to M. do Bruck. The cir cumstances no longer permit collective action ; each power is free to give assurances. Above all, it is i necessary to insist on the acceptance of the primitive note by the Porte. It is thought that if the Porte accepts, the Emperor of Russia may, at Olmutz or Vienna give the order of evacuation. The Conference consider the state of things as very serious at Con sten tinople." Although there appears to be some foundation for at least part of the above intelligence, there is little doubt that the despatch itself has been concocted in Paris. The date of the 20th seems to have been appended to give an appearance of very recent news, but it is I believe pretty certain that a despatch dated, Vienna the 19th, which appears in the rust Amp! Gazette of Frankfort, is the only real autho rity upon which the Paris implication is based. The despatch of the 19th is to the following effect: " The representatives of the mediating powers have re-a , s:mbled in conference to consider tho Turko- Russian question. The proposition that a collective note should be addressed to the l'orte to calm its apprehensions is said to have been rejected. Count Bud declared that M. de Bruck had most positive orders to do everything possible in order to obtain the signature of the note by the Porte in its primitive form. Prussia is reported to have joined with Austria. The representatives of France and England then declared that in point of tact it was of the highest importance to work energetically at Constantinople to get the note accepted without modifications, and ' that Instructions to that effect had already been seut to M. de Lacour and Lord de Redcliffe." The Bourse was but little affected by the news. The Threes opened at a fall of about 30c., but speedily recovered. Telegraphic accounts from Vienna reported a rise of upon the Metalliques. Subse quently the Bourse became somewhat weaker, and the Threes closed with a fall of 30e. for cash and 15e. for time. Bank of France shares rose 15fr. There was a rumour that the Bank was going to lend 100 millions to the Bank of England. The Asseniblee Nationale says of the despatch from Vienna :—" Our readers will doubtless have some trouble in finding out the meaning of this so strangely worded despatch. All we can say is that it is not more intelligible to us, but at all events it does not inspire us with the least alarm." The Anon like is consistent. It has never ceased to declare from the first, that there was nothing alarm ing in the Eastern question, and it would doubtless continue to say so, if Russia were in possession of Constantinople. In an article written before this telegraphic despatch appeared, this journal bays:— " Nothing can hinder a speedy solution, neither the letting loose tho fanatics at Constantinople, nor the aggressions of the barbarous tribes sent f r om A s i a aflfries. In either case, means of repression are prepared by the common consent of the Powers." An article in the Times of the 19th was thought here to show that the English government was still resolved to stand by Turkey. The Sleek says of it: —"The Times, which for several days past has taken great pains to prove Turkey altogether in the wrong, because she has the hardihood to say a word in her own cause, expresses to-day sounder views, more just sentiments, and we hasten to notice this evident sign that in the City of London, in the very centre of commercial occupations, people understand that a peace obtained by using violence towards the right of the weaker party, would not be a true or durable peace." After quoting parts of the article, the Si'ce/c continues :—" This lan guage on the part of a journal said to have relations with the government, is, we repent, very significant. It proves that public opinion, although it may have hesitated for a moment, owing to the confident assertion that the Eastern question had been brought to an honourable termination by the labours of the Conference, never dreamt of allowing itself to be checkmated by the Aberdeen cabal." The Assemblee Nationale, however, which, perhaps knows better, gives the following explanation of the apparent change of tone :—" As to the article in the 2'intes, it in no respect deserves the importance that has been attached to it. The article is nothing but an amplification intended to give a favourable colour to the metamorphoses now being effected in the atti tude of English diplomacy at Constantinople." The Emperor yesterday arrived at the Camp of Satory at half-past two o'clock, and commanded the troops throughout a variety of mannairres. The artillery and cavalry formed the centre, and the infantry the wings. The right wing was under the command of Marshal Magnan, the left of General Levasseur, and the cavalry of General Kerte. The Empress, who arrived in an open carriage, with the Duchess d'Albe by her side, and followed by their carriages containing the ladies of the court, took up her station near the hippodrome lately erected by the troops. The manoeuvres commenced by an attack on the centre, which gave way under the protection of a fire of artillery. When the movement of retreat had ceased , the cavalry made a charge on the attacking party, forcing it to retreat in turn. At the same time the infantry formed into oblique squares, and kept up a sustained .fire, whilst the cavalry regained the position which it had occupied before the charge. The enemy then made a movement on the right wing, and the troops there were forced to change their front to oppose them. After several manceurres on this side, the cavalry made another charge, and the enemy were in the end altogether beaten off. The whole of the manoeuvres were executed with great accuracy and spirit, and when all had ceased, the troops were formed into three sides of a square, the carriages of the Empress and of the court, and a considerable crowd of spectators, occupying the fourth side. The Emperor then proceeded into the centre of the square, accompanied by a numerous staff and a considerable number of foreign officers, Austrian, English, Pied montese, and Dutch. The Emperor, having on his ' right Prince Napoleon, and on his left General Prince Jablonowski, of the Austrian service, then delivered the following address to the troops: Oaken, non-commissioned off nn, and soldiers !—At the moment when the Camp of Setory is about to be raised, I desire to testify to you my entire satisfaction. The three divisions which have in succession occupied it have mani fested that discipline and confraternity, and that love for the profession of arms which keep up the military spirit so necessary for a great nation. In fact, who is it that in dif ficult times has supported empires, if not these assemblages of armed men taken from the people, broken into discipline, animated with the sentiment of duty, and who preserve, in the midst of peace, when generallT egoti,m and interest in the end enervate ever) thing, that asvotednem to the country founded en self-denial, and that love of glory which is founded ea a cuatemlit for riches. That it is which bee always made armies the sanctuary of bosom; and consequently, as long as peace con- tints's, there exists a community of sentiments, I may even say a sort of *sprig de car s, between us and foreign armies. We love and esteem those person., who in their own countries feel and act as we do; and as long as political events do not turn them into enemies, we are happy to greet them as comrades and as brothers. Receive, my friende,;witk my encomiums for your good conduct, my thanks for the marks of attachment which you have given to me and to the Empress. Reckon on my affection ; and be certain of this—that next to the honour of having been three times elected by a whole nation, nothing can afford me greater pride than to command such men as you. These words excited the greatest enthusiasm, and were followed by long-repeated cries of " Vive l'Em pereur ! Vive l'lm peratriee !" The Emperor then distributed tho cross or the military medal to several of the troops whose conduct appeared to merit the distinction. The troops filed off before their Majes ties with loud acclamations, and the proceedings ter minated. The Empress then withdrew, and the Emperor gave a collation to all the officers near Marshal Magnan's tent. In front of the tent was to he seen a colossal bust of the Emperor, made in twelve hours by M. Rouband, a pupil of Pradier. At six o'clock, the Empercr returned to Saint Cloud amidst loud acclamations. The Moniteur contains an imperial decree ap proving of certain modifications in the statutes of the St. Germain Railway Company. The truthful and highly valuable articles of the Echo Agricole on the con question bare drawn down upon it a " warning . ", which appears in the Moniecur to-day. The warning states that this journal, in spite of repeated non-official intimations, has pub lished, particularly on the 15th and 18th of the pre sent month, articles on the subject of food calculated to excite alarm and to produce a factitious rise in corn. This warning is an indication of a deplorable policy. It appears that the blind efforts of the government to stifle the truth and produce a factitious fall meet with but little success, for I observe to-day in the Co),stitutionnet, no willing witness to the true state of things, the following paragraph : —" Monday.—lteturna from nine-tenths of the corn markets in the departments come higher by about 2fr. The markets are supplied but slowly. The arrivals are less than usual at this season of the year. In Paris this morning flour was in great request. The beet qualities reached :tar." The Emperor and Empress leave St. Cloud at noon to-morrow for their Northern tour. The following programme has been published showing the precise hour at which they will arrive at, and leave each of the principal towns on their route : Thursday, Sept. 22.—Departure from St. Cloud, at coon. Artival at Ames at 3.45. Morning of the 23rd, spent at Arras. Departure for Waal at 10 o'clock. Second and third days, Friday 23, and Saturday 24. Arrival at Dnuai et 10 25. Stay one hour and a half. Departure at 11.5-5. Arrival at Valenciennes at 12.30. Stay one hour and-a half ; departure at 2; arrival at Lille at 3 30. Sept. 21.—Stay a' Lille. Visit to Roubaix and Turcoing. Return to Lille at 4.45. Sunday, Sept. 24.—Departure`at 10.30 a.m. ; arrival at Harebroilek at II '+o; arrival at St. Omer at noon ; arrival at the esmp of Helfaut at 1.30; return to St. Omer at 6. Monday, Sept. N.—Departure for Dunkirk at 10; departure (or Calais at 2.30; arrival at Calais at 5. Tuesday, Sept. 27.—Departure in carriages fur Boulogne at ll ; a rr ival a t B 01110rele at 2. We Inesi.ly, 28.—Departure from 13 , m1. , gne far Amiens at 10; arrival at Abbeville at 11.25; departure at 1 ; arri val at Amiens at 2. 1 hursday 29.—Departure from Anairns for Paris at noon. The Mayor of Lille has issued a prcthination urging the iohabitants to make a " spot tarsa l s manifestation of their loyal sentiments towards the "providential man ".who has saved the couLtry, a n d reminding them that he and the worthy tornpanion of his destinies take particular delight in that ho. wage which comes from the heart. There win therefore be but one thought and one cry in Lille " Viva PEmpereur Vice l'lmpf-ratrice!" , The visit of M. Maple, the Minister of Public Works, to Perigueux, whither he has proceeded first, will not, it appears, be of any great length. He is to visit the works on the Lyons to Avignon railway, and to examine the state of the ports of La Joliette and of Arenc, at Marseilles. The question of corn, in what concerns the arrival of vessels laden with wheat, and the measures to be taken for hastening its conveyance by land and b 7 the Rhone, are also to be the objects of the minister s attention. The government is about to exhibit, at No. 6, Rae de Bourgogne, a collection of articles from Algeri a , consisting of cotton, silk, cochineal, corn, oilseeds, wool, timber, wine, sugarcane, stuffs of various kinds, some ornamented with gold, saddles, burnou s , and other objects of interest. The marriage of Count thivier de Laroeliefoucault with Miss Montgomery, daughter of a New York merchant, was celebrated yesterday at the church of Ste. Valero, in the Faubourg St. Germain, in presence of a brilliant assemblage of fashionables. The immense and magnificent establishtnent of M. Jourdain-ltibouleau, at Louviers, the largest cloth manufactory in France, in which aliout 1,200 workmen were employed, was completely destroyed by fire on Sunday night last. The alarm was first given at about half-past eleven, the drums were beaten, and the tocsin was sounded, and th e people assembled by thousands to render assistance. In fess than a quarter of an hour the whole of the tour buildings, each five stories high, of which the manufactory was composed, were one mass of flame, and the attention of the firemen was then directed to saving the dwelling-house and the adjoining mann factories of M. Lbuilier and M. Poussiu, in which they were fortunately successful, as well as in saving the bridge which stands at the corner of one of the buildings destroyed. The loss is estimated at 1,500,000 fr. Fortunately the buildings were in sured. The municipal council has voted a sum of 100,000 fr. to meet the most urgent wants of the workmen and their families, who amount in number to nearly 3,000. RIJS:.IA AND 71.72 KEY. PUBLIC MEETING AT SHEFFIELD. A public meeting was held on Tuesiiiieveniug, in the 'lowa Rail, for the purpose of considering " the present unsettled and unsatisfactory state of the Eastern question, and the propriety of memorialising the govern ment, urging them to take prompt and deci,..ve measures to cause the immediate evacuation of the Danubian princi palities, and to prevent Russia from again outraging justice and international law by a forcible and warlike occupation of Turkish territory." The meeting was called by the Mayer (Mr. Matthews), in pursuance of a requisition, signed by about 140 persons, at the Lead of . whom was Mr. Overend, J.P., a deputy lieutenant of the West Riding. The meeting was so largely attended that the large room of the Town Hall was filled. The most entire unanimity appeared to exist in favour of the sentiment embodied in the ?qui sition to tho mayor as quoted above. The mayor being out of town, Mr. Alderman Cann, the ex-mayor, was called to the chair. In his opening observations he r‘inarked that it was competent in that meeting to pass resolutions that would strengthen the hands of government in its policy as behalf of Turkey during the present European crisis. Mr. Isaac 'Rossini' moved the first resolution :—" That the unjustifiable aggressions of Russia upon Turkey, the meanness and the base duplicity which Russia has mani fested in sapport of those aggressions, and its long•con tinutd forcible occupation of Turkish territory, without any colourable pretext whatever, imperatively call for every nation having any rew:rd for tke principles of justice, honour, and international law, to take such prompt and decisive measures as sha.l cause the rights of Turkey to be respected, give her ample reparation for the outrages to which she has been subjected, and effectualiy to prevent a recurrence of similar proceedings in future." Mr. Ironside held a strong opinion that if the tour powers had not interfered at al', but lett Russia and Turkey to themselv.a, the question would have been settled now, and that the Russians would hove been driven out of the pried. palities. The motion was seconded by Mr. Starittx Bloom, supported by Mr. CIIA:ILES ALCOCL, and carried by accts. mation. Mr. G. L. SAUNDERS moved the adoption of a memorial to the Earl of Clarendon, the Foreign Secretary, canning the absence of any colourable pretence on the part of Russia to oetupy the Danubian laincipalities, and concluding with this passage :—" Your memorialibte therefore pray that the British government will take prompt and decisive measures to cause the immediate evacuation of the Danubian princi palities—to make Russia bear all the expenses consequent on her lawless proceedings, and to prevent her again outraging justice and international law." The motion was teeonded by Mr. MELLING ; and Mr. IBBITI having spoken in support of it, the memorial was adopted, and signed by the chairman on bchalt of the meeting. Some proceedings then took place with reference to raising a sum of money for presentation to Kossuth, a fter which the meeting broke up. Vbe (Court. BALMORAL, . Her Majesty rode yesterday afternoon with Prince Alfred towards Birk Hall, the Ron. Mary Bulteel being in attendance upon her Majesty. Prince Albert went cut deer-stalking. The Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred went to the top of Ben-y-Bound on Saturday with some of Mr. Farquh rson of Invereauld's younger sons. Earl Granville has left Balmoral, having been inc ceeded by Viscount Palmerston, who remains in attind anee upon her Majesty. The Marquis of Abercorn and Sir Edwin Landseer had the honour of dining with Ler Majesty at Balmoral yester day. The Earl of Shaftesbury, who has been travelling on the continent for the recovery of his 'health, is on his way to London, to take his seat at the General Board of Health, in consequence of the threatened prevalence of cholera. Mr. Grainger, the medic.d superintending inspector, has returned to town front Newcastle to confer with the Beard. FUNERAL OF ADMIRAL SIR C. ADAM AT GREEN. wien.—The funeral of Admiral Sir Charles Adam, K.C.8., governor of Greenwich Hospital, took place yesterday at noon in the burial ground belonging to the Royal Hospital. The ceremony was divested of all pomp, and with the ex ception of the several officers of the institution, the only persons forming the procession were the immediate rela tives of the deceased. Admiral Sir William Parker—who is stated to have received the appointment to the vacant post—however was in attendance. The hat and sword of the deceased were placed on the coffin, and although it was expected the band of the Hospital school would play a suitable march, nothing of the kind was attempted. The funeral service was read in an impressive manner by the senior chaplain, the her. J. K. Ooldney. Numbers of the old pensioners appeared much affected as the procession passed along. The deceased was very highly esteemed by the officers and men. LABOUR IN WORKllol2SES.—Yeiderday a parlia• montary return was printed, showing the extent of land in Ireland under cultivation, the number of persons employed. the rent per statute acre, the expenses incurred, the money salue of the produce, an 1 the profit and loss for tho year 1852. Similar return'. are oteen of trades and manufactures carried ou in workhouses for the same year. It apron that the extent of land attached to workhouses under culti• vation last year was 1,2,12 a. Ir.lB p. The number of per son. employed on farms was 5,722,0 f which 2,5b1 were above 1.5 years of age, and 3,141 under 15. The number employed in manufactures and trade was 21,655-15,320 above 15, and 0,315 under 15. The value of the stock on hand on the 30th September, 1851, was 2,165/. 19s. 9d., and at the close of the year it was 3,162/. 4s. lid. The profit on the year was 3,0091. 191. 41d., and the loss on the year 1051. Si. The value of stock consumed in the workhouses was 2.3971. 12x. Old. Ou the account of the expenses incurred in manu factures and trades carried un iu workhouses in IrelanJ, appears that the value of stock in hand on the 34th Sept emher, 1851, was 6,0781.85. 61d., and at the close of the year, 7,5251. lls. 6lcl The profit in the year was •5,^%'! 17s. 211, and the 1.0186/. 6a. 90. The expenditure during the year coded the 36th Sept., lts,s2,wu 9,; Si:. vs. tqd ,ft" the value of the products 14,7757. 12s. 60.