The Express. — London, England, 1853-09-15 00:00:00

Zile entefilL THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 15, 1853. jest quoted it will be seen bow the City Offleer of Health has been disheartened by the manner in which all his represeotations up to September, 1832, were received. How was his renewal of these re presentations received at the Board of the City Sewers Commissioners on Monday? Mr. H. L. TAYLOR took in high dudgeon the warning about the approach of Cholera, and the augmented nuisances of Newgate-market. It " tended to alarm the public;" and this was unnecessary blame Mr. TAYLOR, and other members of court, "intended visaing, in a few minutes, the sits of the new market; where, &c." Will the progress of Cholera be arrested by a " visit to the site of the new market,' by the men who prevented it from being begun and finished years ago? To do justice to the rest of the Commissioners it must be kept in mind that they compensated for this ebullition of a galled conscience by passing a vote of thanks to their medical cfilcer ; bat a still better testimony of their appreciation of his services remains to be given by them—the prompt adoption of his advice. Luckily the outbreak of Cholera among us occurs at so advanced a period of the year, that we may hope its progress will be arrested at a comparatively early period by the increasing cold. But unless the breathing time thus afforded is wisely and strenuouly turned to account, the increasing warmth of summer will be sure to resuscitate the plague—as it did before. RUSSIA AND TURKEY. The German telegraph confirms the indications of our correspondents, and announces that the Czar has rejected the Vienna note as altered by the Porte. Such may be said to be all that we certainly know of the Russian resolve. The telegraph has not hitherto been remarkably successful in its details, and in the present instance a despatch, which states that the modified note was simply rejected, is con tradicted by another, which states that the Czar still " abides by the Vienna note, and promises to eva mute the Principalities if the Porte accept' it pure and simple." It is clear that inference from such data must be purely speculative. We must soon know whether the manner of rejection is such as to encourage or to preclude any further attempt at negotiation. As has uniformly happened in similar conjunctures when public curiosity is strained, adventurous re ports are in course of circulation. Thus the Paris Bourse has been excited by a rumour that a tele graphic despatch had been received from Trieste, with accounts from Constantinople that hostilities had commenced between the Russian and Turkish outposts. This statement was, however, soon con tradicted by the agents of the government. The Wanderer of Vienna. under date of Constan tinople 29th, says :—" A Greek society has recently been formed in London, at the head of which is Prince Mavrocodato. It is principally composed of merchants. Its object is to raise the necessary funds for forming a confederation of Albanians and Bulga rians. It is ea', to conceive what the destination of this Confederation is—it certainly is not in favour of Turkey. This society was discovered by a Turkish agent of police. We do not yet know what measures the Ottoman government will adopt against this asso ciation, but it may occasion great embarrassment to it, as the majority of the members are foreigners placed under the protection of their consuls." The following is a letter from Constantinople of the let inst. : "In the full conviction shared in by every one here that the Czar will not accept the modification' made in the Vienna draft, the Porte continues to do its utmost to prepare for possible extremities. The levy of 80,000 men forming the second category of the reserve, is proceeded with actively, and with out the shadow of obstruction from the population. Already numerous detachments ha 4 arrived from the most remote provinces, and havekeen sent off at once to the army of the Danzig. Vise greater number of the government steamers and those of the Armenian company are daily employed in convoying these troops, or supplies of provisions and ammuni tion to the army. The expenditure of the govern ment in this direction is incalculable, and every body wonders where all the money can come from, for all is paid in hard cash, the paper money not circulating except in the capital. Turkey must needs have great resources; it is impossible to live here now and not be of this opinion. "It appears that the formation of an army of re serve at Adrianople, of which mention was made some time since, is finally resolved on. It will be commenced by Mehemet Reschid Pacha, formerly "crankier, and now general in chief of the Imperial Guard. "The day before yesterday the Sultan reviewed the whole of the Egyptian true encamped at Uukiar Skeletal. All the members of the Turkish embassy, and most of the Ottoman ministers, were present. The Sultan was delighted with the soldierly bearing of the men, and testified his satisfaction in a speech which excited the liveliest enthusiasm among them. They are to be sent very shortly . to Shumla, and it is said here that Abbas Packs, is preparing a new auxiliary contingent of 15,000 men for the service of the Porte. " While in Europe, as we learn, the evacuation of the principalities is regarded asimminent, our letters from Bucharest announce that the Russians con tinue to send every day new reinforcements thither, and that they are making every preparation to pus the winter there. Theylave already built a num ber of wooden barracks, and are accumulating im mense stores of provisions. They are also fortifying their positions on the Danube, and work incessantly at ma ki ng pontoon train., although they brought many with them. In fact, nothing loo ks like ap proaching departure. "The publication of the new manifesto of the Porte, which was to have taken place several days ago, has been delayed, it is said in deference to the wishes of the ambassa dors, who desired to receive the instructions of their governments respecting the conduct to be observed by them before the docu ment, which was expected to produce an immense excitement, was published. It is said that in its , diameter this document differs entirely from the first manifesto : it is, in fact ; an appeal to the nation, con ' salved in the plainest and most bellicose terms. The afar Gazette, which had already printed it in its official columns, received orders to suspend its publi cation until further orders, although its office wu Word by thousands of Turks anxious to procure a " For two or three days the police have had to exert themselves to remove the placards which are posted on the walls of Constantinople during the night, calling the people to arms against the Rus sians, and reproaching the present ministers with pusillanimity for attempting to amend the Vienna draft, instead of rejecting it altogether. This is a mode of procedure quite unexampled in Turkey. sod greatly contributes to the popular excitement. " The Earl of Carlisle has just left Constantinople for Bagdad. "The discussion which took place in the House of Commons on the 16th of August has produced a most painful impression here. In the judgment of the Turks, nothing could be more hesitating, obscure, and foist than the language of Lord John Russell. And notwithstanding his timid assurances, repeated with more firmnfss by Lord Palmerston, that Eng land would never permit any violation of the integ rity or independence of the Ottoman Empire, but little attention is now paid to such declarations. How should it be otherwise? for is not the occupa tion of the principalities a fligrant violation of the .n territory ? and is not the mat as sheep are dragged to the slaughter-house, Meanwhile, what have our officials entrusted with Vienna note, of which the English cabinet approves, gn whilst the Turks are willing to Enlist, and are ' the care of the public health been doing? The an attack on the aoverei ty of the Sultan? Besid e such facts, words are of little value. ready to fight with hearty good will for their faith. : Metropolitan Board of Sewers has become a bye s• quadr i o r n e , q a u r T e e i r a w fe h w en da the s Any hostilities that may take place rust for' word to express the maximum of idleness and in- at ' A ‘ T le h x e a v n e d s Z: s t o o l co th m e F igP t t e a P l9 " t .;whieh remained weeks, or perhaps even months , be confined competency. In Southwark and Lambeth the Local admiral sailed with ht within a range not very far distant from one Board of Guardians, the e.intral Board of Health, ago, and cast anchor before the arsenal. Among or other aide of the Danube—and the mastery of and the Privy Council, have been squabbling, each them are the fine 90-gun ship the lialep, the frigate Genay Bahri, and the steam-sloops Ascent and Nile. that stream may be very valuable tJ the Turks. If attempting to fix on the other the blame of retard . The Egyptian admiral's flag is fl3ing from the Me ths fleets enter the Black Sea, that mastery of in sanitary improvements. And here, as in ever ir - hemet Alt, of 100 guns. On the 29th ult the squ owes may be had. The friends of the despot ` thing obstructive of good and detrimental to the dron weighed anchor and . executed a aerie ' s of ev - la will of course say the Sur rof has b u t 20.t,00 (Ike- !public weal. the magnates of our city corporation tions in the Sea of Marmori. Its manoeuvres we u re tive men, whilst the Russian has perhaps a million.: maintain their bad eminence. From the passage characterised by remarkable precision." are drawn to the field to fill the ;links of the Auto- integrity of the Ttirkish FRANCE. PARIS WIDNISDAY ETININCI. .. . The Eastern question is to-day considered more serious than it has been for many weeks past. The Constilutionnel, which, like all the government journals, has lately struggled to represent the affair in the most favourable light, has a gloomy article from which I extract as follows : The situation is again more complicated both on the banks of the Bosphorus and the Danube. We still hope that the effusion of blood may be avoided. flowerer, the Eastern ques tion, which we innermost with the press and with diplomacy bad thought definitively resolved in a peaceable sense by the acceptance of the Vienna note by Runts, now deci dedly assumes • less manuring aspect. We do not believe that positive information has been received in any quarter, se to the views entertained at St. Petersburg, or what are the intentions of the go vernment at Constantinople, but we must confess that all the indications that reach us give • much less pacific character to the news frem the East than they lately had. . . . Letters not sent to us directly, but communicated tots to-day, announce that the Sultan was about to publish a manifesto to the Ottoman people, explaining his position with regard to them, and with regard to his allies. The Constituti , mnel further announces that des patches from Constantinople are expected to reach Paris to-morrow. Meanwhile a telegraphic despatch—a private one, it is true,—dated Vienna, Sept. 13, has been received to-day, stating that the Russian cabinet has defini tively refused to accept the modifications proposed by the Porte. This news is so probable that its truth is almost universally believed. The Bourse has been worse than ever. The Threes at one time touched 76, being a fall of 1 lir. from yesterday, but a considerable reaction took place be fore the close, and the last price was 76fr. 60c. This recovery was attributed to a report that the Eastern question was settled, and the fleets about to be re called, but in all probability this story is nothing but a mere canard. All the railways without ex ception fell considerably. A council of ministers was held at St. Cloud this morning. A telegraphic despatch received to-day, dated Smyrna, Sept. 7, states that Admiral Remain Des- fosses and his staff had left that day for France. A telegraphic despatch from Marseilles says " In consequence of the uneasiness felt in the trade relative to the Eastern question, the price of wheat has risen 2fr. 50c. per hectolitre." I understand it to be decided that the system of issuing tickets for bread at a reduced price to the poor will be re-established after the 13th, the general price being fixed as heretofore by the regulating scale. An eminent ex-minister of finance estimates the amount that will be required to make up the deficiency of the harvest in France at 500 millions , of francs. Three men were sentenced yesterday by the Tri bune' of Correctional Pclice to different periods of imprisonment for "insults" to the Emperor, and for circulating printed papers without pormiseion. The Moniieur says : 13y imperial decree of the 12th of this month, signed on the proposition of his Excellency the Minister of War, a certain number of localities in Algeria, heretofore clawed in the military territory, have been placed under the civil MONO. This decree gives satisfaction to important interests and legitimate wants. The measure in question consists in increasing the departments of Oran and Constantine, and in enlarg ing the limits of certain arrondissements in them. The Minister of Agriculture, Commerce, and Pub lic Works, has, in execution of Art. 5 of the decree of the 18th October, 1852, nominated a commission, consisting of eight eminent functionaries presided over by M. Heurtier, Councillor of State, Director- General of Agriculture and Commerce, to give their opinion on all questions relative to the management and surveillance of societies of Credit Foncier. GERMANY. VIENNA, Sam 11. The government publishes to-day the following notification in the Gazette : " A telegraphic despatch has reached the govern ment from Lieutenant Field Marshal Coronini, Governor of the Servian Woiwodechaft, stating that the Hungarian regalia have been discovered near Groove, where they lay buried. The crown of St. Stephen, with the orb, cross, sword, and sceptre, are uninjured. The Governor has taken measures for conveying hither these insignia, under fitting escort, by the steamer Albrecht." The precious relics are " uninjured ;" thus the Austrian government itself vindicates the Hungarian patriots from the aspersions which mean and cowardly writers have thrown upon them. ITALY. The Piedmontese government has begun to put in practice one of the boldest of its most recent reforms. The Savoy Gazette states that the circular of the Minister of War, which compels the Brothers of the Christian Doctrine and of the Holy Family (lay monks) to serve in the army, was carried into opera tion for the first time at Chambery. The Council of Revision of that city declared Brother Monachon do Bt. Ivoire fit for military service, and assigned to him the regiment in which he is to be incorpo rated. We shall probably hear more of Brother Monachon. The Piedniontese Gazette of the 10th inst. announces that the 16th regiment of infantry marched in the night for the Plain of Marengo, and that all the mi litary posts throughout the city were occupied by the National °nerd. - _ _ - . - The Venice official Gazette of the 7th inst. pub lishes a notice of the Sequestration Committee, call ing.on tho persons who have any pecuniary claims against the emigrants whose property was seized to make them known within the delay axed by the imperial decree. This notice contains the names of 30 emigrants whose estates are sequestered. The Prefecture of Finance at Venice has issued an order for the collection of an additional tax, like that lately imposed upon the provinces of Lombardy, in order to cover the deficit of 18.52. _ —.--. We read in the Ticino Gazette, under date Faenza, 2nd inst.: . . Last night a number of arrests took place, and several houses were searched by the police at Forli. They are sup posed to be connected with the conspiracy discovered at Rome, end the attempt directed against the life of the Legate of Raven... The tax on trades, the payment of which is rigorously enforced, appears the more onerous, as the year is a bad one, and that the people are unable to pay it. The R road is infested by banditti. The Aus trians declare that the measures to be adopted in conse quence of the high price of bread do not regard them, and that they merely concern the municipal authorities. SPAIN. The Mroldo of the Bth states that M. Mendizabal is seriously ill. The Espano says that the Council of Ministers has resolved to abandon the prosecution commenced against M. Olozaga for his address to the electors. We read in a letter: "The Minister of Marine has been to Madrid to consult M. Cortina on the affair relative to the contract for coal for steamers entered into in London. M. Cortina gave him a written opinion that he had acted with perfect regu larity. This he presented to his colleagues ; but they, thinking that M. Covina did not know all the details of the affair, decided that the President of the Council and the Minister of Public Works should have an interview with that gentleman on the sub ject, and communicate to him all the papers respect mg it." THE PENINSULAR MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY EVENING. The Oriental Company's steam-packet Iberia, Capt. R. Roberts, arrived here at 10.30 p.m.. and landed her mails under the charge of Lieut. De Lisle, R.N., Admiralty agent, which were forwarded to London by an early train. Her dates are :—Oibraltar, Sept. 4th ; Cadiz, sth ; Lisbon, 9th; Oporto, 10th ; Vigo, 10th. The Iberia brings nearly fifty passengers. Her cargo consists ot—ltaisins, 4,636 boxes; 1,090 halt ditto; 226 quarter ditto; almonds, 475 boxes; wine, 4 carks, and 1 quarter ditto; onions, 10 chests, and 11 baskets ; grapes, 433 half boxes ; peaches, 5 half boxes; tomatoes, 13 half taxes; lemons, 20 half cheats; eggs, 1 box; llama, 1 ditto; sundries, 25 packages; 3 boxes of specie, value 1,281. The Iberia saw off Vigo, on Sept. 11th, the Penin sular and Oriental Company's steam-vessel Madrid. 12th : Passed a large steamer, standing to the south ward. H.M.S. Simoom and Cruiser were at Gibraltar on the 12th; H.M.S. Odin was at Lisbon on the 9th. The Spanish steamer-of-war Isabel la Coolies, was at Cadiz on Sept. 5, to proceed with mails for Ha vannah on the 7th inst. ; also Vulcan°, steamer, 6 guns, and a corvette, 18 guns. The French war steamer Petrel, 3 guns, was at Lisbon on Sept. 9. AUSTRALIA. LIVERPOOL, WIDNISDAY. The Marco Polo, arrived from Melbourne yester day, brings a few .days' later news from the gold regions. She sailed on the 10th June. At the time of her departure the arrivals of gold in Melbourne were rather small, which had caused an advance of 3d. per ounce, the price then being 31. 17s. per ounce, with an upward tendency. Capt. Forbes has been able to make his voyage out and home a second time under six months, which is exceedingly creditable to him; but there are other ships which stand on pretty even terms as compared with the late voyage. the Marco Polo brings a copy of an act to regulate the conveyance of pas sengers to the colony of Victoria. which is to come into force in regard to English vessels on October Ist, 1853. The act specifies the number of passen gers ships'may carry. It further specifies cargo not to be carried by emigrant vessels. It contains provisions as to the food supplied to pass•:ngers, and as to their maintenance, inspection, &c., utter arrival; together with orders as to the property of deceased persons, &c. 'this act is one which enforces penalties, and applying, as it does, to ships carrying passengers from this country, it be comes important to shipbrokers and others to make themselves acquaintedwith its det ails. The Marco Polo also brings a supplement to the government Gazette, containing a proclamation as to harbour rules, &c., and the following code of signals to be used in the ports of Melbourne and Geelong: Harbour Pilot.—The ensign at the foretopgallant mast head. - - Bay Pilot.—The Union Jack at the foretopgallant mast head. Water Police.—Day signal: The ensign at the maintop gallatt mast-head. Night signal: Two lights vertical at the mast-head or peak, having tire feet between the two. Customs Boat. —Union Jack at the peak. Lloyds' Surveyor.—No. 7 at the peak. Steam Boata.—Rendeavous Sag at the peak or mizenmut. Uunpowder on Board —Union Jack at the main. Medical Assistance.—No. 6 at the peak. A meeting had been held in Sydney for the pur pose of presenting Captain Parfltt, of the steamship Shanghai, with a silver salver and 340 sovereigns for landing the London mails in 63 days. From Ballarat the advices state that the weather was very bad. Government were looking very sharply after the gold-diggers' licenses. The " dig gings" were reported to be going on much as usual. The Bathurst Free Press states that two nuggets had reached that place from Abercromby county; one of them had a very peculiar appearance, pre senting a surface not unlixe that of a sponge, and weighing seven ounces. The other, smooth and free from impurities, was dug out of • chain in the bed of the river. From Van Diemen's Land we learn that influenza had been very rife, but not fatal in that quarter. The Hobart Town Courier states that transportation had been officially declared abolished in Van Diemen's Land. The government Gazette, of 31st May, contained 200 conditional pardons. It was reported that Sir William Denison was to go to Victoria, and would be replaced in Van Diemen's Land by Sir Charles Grey. The banks at Adelaide had fixed the rate of ex change same as those current at Melbourne, and raised their purchasing price of gold to 31.145. 3d. per standard ounce, with an advance for any extra fine carats at 3s. 4d. per carat. Amongst the latest sales held at Melbourne were fat wether sheep, at 205.; ewes, 165.; lambs, 7e. 3d.; large bullock; 191. 10s.; working bullocks, 301. to 381. per pair; Wellingt3n boots, 31e. per pair; flour, 301. to 361. per ton ; hysun tea, 38s. per chest; butter, 2s. 6d. per lb.; oats, 16s. per barrel. A VOICE PROM Ai TO THI EDITOR OF TUI EXPRESS. 8111,-4 should like you to inform some of the manufacturers of Britain, through your journal, of the way the Americans are supplanting them in the Australian market, owing to the superiority of their goods ' they being so much better adapted to work than those si ntfrom home. Their mining *hovels are sold by all the hardware dealers in Melbourne; so are their picks, and the miners will give twice the price of an English tool for an American one, owing to their excellence. The shovels are cast steel, very much curved in the handle. . . . . The men at home should by this time have learned the difference of a miner taking from a half to one ounce of gold per day and a man working furls. per day. The excellei.ce of a working tool to the miner it a great object, and he don't mind paying for it. The American wood shopping axes, their hand hatchets, claw hammers, and many other tools, are prepared and bought in preference to English ones of the same make. There is an extraordinary opening for wood stoves, such as are need in the States or Canada. There has been a few American in the market, which have sold readily for 181. to 251. each. Such Moves I have seen sold in America for 21. 10s. They are admira bly adapted for this country. Wood is worth 101 per cord, and any kind of cooking apparatus that will economise fuel is • desideratum. They might be put together, then peeked in a case, and the case and stove filled with oats, welch arc now worth 13s. per bushel. They are sending large lots of boots and shoes, but they bete net yet brought down the price much. I have taken the trouble to pen this letter solely with a view to inform the manufacturers, as I do not like to see a better article furnished to Australia by America than can be made in Britain, providing the makers set about doing their best. I see by the papers that American hardware has paid 100 per cent. ou the invoice, and that will be in centive enough to them to send larger and further supplies I 111011111, youn meat respectfully, Melbourne, Jane 2, 1853. THOS. J. LABY. P. 8.—1 have been resident in the United States and Ca lifornia for the last six years, se can term, I think, a pretty good judgment. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE STEAM-SHIP BALTIC. LIVERPOOL, WZDNISDAT. This evening, about six o'clock, the United States mail steamship Baltic, Captain Comstock, arrived at this port with the usual mails from the United States and the British North American Provinces. The Baltic sailed from New York on the 3rd instant, and besides the mails has brought about 135 passengers, and 1,600 dollars in specie on freight. The United States mail steam-ship Hermann, from Bremen and Southampton, arrived at New York on the Ist instant. The United States mail steam-ship Atlantic, from hence on the 24th ult., was passed by the Baltic off New York on the 3rd instant. By this arrival we are enabled to announce the continued abatement in the virulence of the yellow , fever at New Orleans, and the decrease in the daily mortality to one hundred, or one third of what it was when the pestilence was at the height of its strength. This decrease of fatal cases cannot, how ever, be taken as a criterion of the decrease in the pestilence to that extent, for the population of the city is by many thousands less than it was a few weeks ago. Still, it shows an improvement on the ac counts by the previous steamer. Advice. have been received from Havannah to the 25th ult. The political intelligence is not of much importance. Sugars remained unchanged in price, but they were firmer. There was a scarcity in the supply of shipping. Intelligence has been received from Mexico to the 21st ult. The leaders of the outbreak at Guanajuato had been exe:uted. A marked improvement had taken place in the New York money market, and business was decidedly more active. 1 he demand for stocks had improved, and prices were firmer. The cotton market at New York was quiet, and business to a moderate extent only had been done. Prices, however, were quite steady, the Liverpool adviees having had the effect of counteracting the adverse influence of the bad accounts of the growing crop. The following are the (rotations of the rates current at the departure of the steamer :—New Or-, leans and Mobile mid. fair to fair, 12c. to 13c. per lb.; Uplands mid. fair to fair, 111 c. to 12c. The market for breadstuffs was brisk ; prices had advanced slightly, and considerable transactions had taken place at the following quotations :—Western Canal flour, .5 dole. 62! ; c. to 5 dots. 75e. per barrel, and steady; Gennessee prime wheat, 1 dol. 38e. to 1 dol. 40c. per 601b*. ; Indian corn, round y rinbaade for . Lne France.purchases of broad! 7 3 4g 0 . i t0 76c., . 7 and steady ; Indian mea l, ' 3 dols.2 c sc " t . ' stuffsLhadifieepne In the provision market transactions had been rather limited, but the business generally was firm. Shipowners were asking increased rates of freight, the following being the quotations :—Flour, to Liver pool, 2s. 6d. to 2s. 9d. per barrel ; grain, 8 fd. to 9d. per bushel; cotton, Id. to 5-16 d. per lb. Exchange on London, 109 to 1091 with mode ra t e sales ; Paris, 3.131 to 3.15 ; Hamburg, 36 to 361; Bremen, 79 to 79. SOUTH AMERICAN MAILS. The Reyal Brazilian mail packet Great Western, Captain Onslow ' arrived at Southampton last even ing, and landed her mails under the charge of Lieut. J. Brown, R.N., Admiralty agent. Her dates are:— Buenos Ayres, August 2 ; Monte Video, August 8; Rio de Janiero, August 15; Bahia, August 20; Pernambuco, August 23; St. Vincent, Sept. 1; Teneriffe, Sept. 6 ; Madeira, Sept. 7; Lisbon, Sept. 10. Tho Great Western brings among her passengers General Lopez and suite (7 in number), on diplomatic mission to England and Europe ; H. A. Cowper, Esq., her Majesty's consul, Pernambuco; Mr. Marsh, American consul, Madeira ; and M. Piunneli, French consul, from Pernambuco. Her Majesty's ship Centaur was at Monte Video, Locust and Vixen at Bucous Ayres, Express and Sharpshooter at Rio de Janeiro, Star at Bahia. Bonnetta on her passage from Bahia to Rio. Tyne left Rio for England on 13th August. All well. Brisk at Madeira, Odin at Lisbon. ___ On the 29th August the Great Western passed a vessel, dismaated and abandoned, lat. 12.36 S., long. 27.01 W. BRAZILS. RIO DE JANEIRO, Aonrsr 13. In Rio the attention of the commercial body hos been confined almost exclusively to the formation of a national bank, with which the two now existing— the Brazil and Commercial Bank—are to be incorpo rated. The laws of this establishment are already in process of formation, and will probably be published in a few days. Passing over such weighty matters as subventions to theatres and the like, which occupy much of the time of the legislation, the question of railways is now a prominent topic in vogue, and, if it were dis cussed in a calm business like way, one might hope that attention was now beginning to be turned to the material interests of the — country, instead of being occupied by frivolous wrangling about petty matters. But it is otherwise. Even railways are doomed to the common bane of party, and perhaps there was never a more bitter and personal attack made on a minister than that of Don Mamie! on Conceives Martius, the Minister of the Empire, in the still pending discussion. The minister is certainly not popular, and the don has the " gift of the gab," which he uses without scruple or mercy, and this, too, in the Upper House or Senate, where a modicum of decorum might be expected. The issue which really effects the existence of the ministry is considered doubtful from the recent defection on some provincial question of the Pernanibucans, who have hitherto supported government, and the debate has arisen on a railway proposed in Pernambuco, which has set all the province on the qui vice. 'fho minister himself, a Bahian, is of course suspected of partiality to his own province, which would be no great affair, but he is openly charged with making a California for himself out of these railways. It is a pity that so important a matter for the good of Brazil should be thus mixed with politics, and still a greater pity for the sake of the public men of the country that such respectable names as Abrantes, Olinda, and many others, should by the power of cir cumstances, even appear as sanctioning the scurri lities of Manoel. There is nothing in common between them, except opposition to the government u at present constituted. Imports have continued on a scale of far too great abundance, and the market generally offers no single feature of improvement. Of flour in particular the entries have been very large, and we have a stock of from 80,000 to 65,000 barrels on hand. _ _ In coffee a very limited business has been done, the total sales since last steamer not reaching 70,000 bags. Large purchases were made on the 15th, 16th, and 19th of the past month at advanced rates, since which dealers have demanded still higher prices; and this, in combination with the unsettled state of politics in Europe, has entirely paralysed our market. The stock in dealers' hands has increased to 150,000 bags, and supplies are becoming more free • but we notice little disposition on the part of the dealers to submit to any reduction, and the market will pro bably open at or near our present nominal rates soon after the departure of the steamer. With regard to the present crop we are still of the same opinion mentioned in our last. In exchange 28d. was the opening rate upon Lon don; it afterwards became flatter, and business to a large extent has been done at 274 d. and 271 d., the treasury taking 20,0001. at 271 d. to 284 d. We esti mate the business done so far at 230,0001. on London and about 800,000 f. upon France. The money mar -1 ket is much easier, and the banks are discounting at 9 per cent. We have in port the American corvette James town, English brig Express, Tyne transport (sails to-day for England), and the Peruvian war-steamer Ucayali. No yellow fever cases reported. P.S. Exchange has closed firm this evening at 28d. TO CORRESPONDENTS. A Awed [ALVA of TA* Kapre..." omaiallos the wet ry t r ”Ofigette," Y pdiabel every tooolay sod Vn4y z'abt, kr pat Afingtoowsto braided Itsprook" lades Tomi" 4 sari le at Ye US% 1 I BouvorloMinet, by Too o'doca es the do, el prbilaithee. RIM WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tuts Des—llorelag. Lb. IS ..... Aftetuosa. lA. Ka TO•leatalbeir—lbresilse, lb. Its ..... Alteraque. 1L 371.1. LONDON, TIWRSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 " The C 1 11t rejects the Turkish modifications— bat abidts by the Vienna note, and prom;ses to eva cuate the Principalities if the Porte accepts it pure and simple." So says • telegraphic note from Vienna, in which city, we are told, special news has arrived from Russia. This statement may or may not betruc, but it bag one strong support—ii is just what WSA expected. A rapid glance at thepast will show this. The Cz %WS original demand was fora power of inter ference in the affairs or his neighbour, which would practically have upset the independence of the SULTAN altogether. The refusal of this impudent request was made the pretext for seizing upon Wallachia and Moldavia; an aggression which so roused the voice of public opinion that the Governments of England and France were compelled to insist upon the keeping of treaties. The Muscovite had not calculated upon any such resistance. He knew his admirer and friend Lord ABERDEEN was Premier in England, and he calculated that the occupant of tbo Tuileries was too unpopular and too isolated from the Court of St. James's to dare say much about any Autocratic interferences with outlying portions of Europe. In all such calculations the Russian was wrong. Surrounded by flatterers and parasites and toadied and supported by more than one power ful journal in France and England, he was either too ill-informed or too lame in judgment for the occasion. He believed in the weakness of Turkey, and calculated on the indifference of the rest of Europe. " They could be either bribed or bullied" was doubtless his calculation ; but this notion was clearly based upon an insufficient appreciation of the force of public opinion in Western Europe. If the majority of an English Ministry wish to side with foreign absolutism they are hap pily now-a-days too weak for carrying out the evil intent, and when Lord ABERDEEN'S old leanings disposed him to look quietly on whilst the Otto man Empire was despoiled he evidently soon saw how next to impossible was any such course. The journal, too, which enjoys the most abundant share of t he profi ts of the press, used all its talent, its circulation, and its recklessness, to support the Russian in his burglarious attack on a neighbour. But neither the strength of the journalist, or the leanings of the Minister, were enough to carry English feeling in the wrest direction. Beginning with an utterance of smothered discontent, the voice of public opinion grew Wader and loader in its honest denunciations of the coadeet isf the CZAR, Until one general shout of indignant reproach was sent ringing across Europe towards St. Petersburg. As this potent sound grew more and more inconvenient to the despotic ear it was meant for, the Turks were mustering more and more strongly under arms, and the fever of the Danube was taking deadly revenge upon the invaders who bad approached its bank. Difficulties were thus bristling across his path more thickly than he reckoned on. when his dependant, the Emperor of AUSTRIA, proposed to negotiate the settlement of a quarrel which the CZAR felt himself not strong enough at once to light his way through. Making a virtue of necessity, the expected proposal was accepted. The bsrglar who broke the frontier on the Pruth would never have stopped short of Adrianople, had he felt himself equal to compete with the unexpected obstacles arising out of European indignation at his conduct. When he stopped at the Danube, it was simply be cause he dared not then creel it. The Turks had no thing, and have nothing, to hope from his justice, nothing from his generosity, nothing from his for bearance. For NICHOLAS to intimate his willingness to listen to the suggestions of Austria, backed by the Cabinets of London and Paris, was simply for NICHOLAS to get time to look about him how next he might best help his own ends. By negotiations he would have opportunities of judging how far the troublesome English and French cries of Halt! were really intended to stop his armies. By the in terchange of messages, and couriers, and despatches days and weeks would be got, in which the Russian agents mulct work on public opinion, act upon the Bourse, or even, if need be, get up an Atraetile under the nose of the CALIPH himself. Since Constantinople was not this time to be carried by an unopposed coup de main, to gain time was evidently thought to be a gain of strength. Into the note, therefore, to be sent from Vienna was carefully put a few crafty passages which the SULTAN COUld not adopt in an unmodified form. The modifications would of course have to travel for days northward before they could reach the CZAR. Here again was more delay—more time gained, more opportunity for fishing out which was the best way to steer for conquest in the East. Thus we come to the very point which the news now brought by telegraph refers to. The requisite elucidations of the Vienna note ham g reached St. Petersburg, "The Cain rejects the Turkish modifications—but abides by the Vienna note, and promises to evacu►te the Principalities if the Porte accepts it pure and simple." He wants still more time. He cannot yet decide. He dare not defy England and France —at least, not yet—by refusing altogether to draw back from the invaded soil. He will not bring m►tters to an issue by upsetting altogether this Vienna note. So he simply rejects the modifica tion, and gets time. What next? It may be that his calculations involve a speculatioa upon the ,chances of England and France not continuing to stand firmly to their declared policy of support ing the SULTAN ; it may be that he de sires to get opportunity for strengthening his armies of invasion, hitherto decimated by fever is the Principalities; it may be that be waits only for winter to push forward towards Adrianople. Should it, after all, come to real blows, it will be a charming illustration of Biter Bit. These artfully contrived delays, these craftily-considered schemes, prove more awful to the invaded than to the invader. It is quite likely to be so. In June the CZAR had everything prepared for war—the SULTAN was taken completely aback. Now the latter may not unfairly be considered the etrorger of the two on the Danube, when we take into account the relative disadvantage under which an army labours when having to overcome well•manned fortresses. Then again, the Russians But the Turks are defending their own soil, whilst the forces of the CzAa must contribute an army for Circassia, another for Poland, and a third to watch on the side of Hungary—to say nothing about the disaffected in the interior, who at times have shown themselves ready for mis chief. The supposition 'hat winter would necessarily stop active campaigning is a mistake. Some of the fiercest battles between Gauls and Muscovites have been fought—as history bears witness—on fields covered with snow. Amidst all the doubts about the Russo-Turkish difficulty, at least one thing is certain. It is, that the Cz is sure to push forward if he feels strong enough, and he will feel so unless England and France are true to the SULTAN, and to the interests of peace, commerce, progress. The CZAR, who began by war, is still for war ; but happily the duty and the interest of the other powers are alike bound up in peace—and peace wo may yet have if St. James's and the Tuileries do their duty. ON Tuesday we expressed our conviction that the Cholera, having reached Newcastle, would pay a visit to London also. We wore behindhand with our prophecy : Cholera was already among us. The Registrar's lit port on the health of London for the week ending 12th inst. records two deaths by Asiatic Cholera in Bermondsey; and it appears from the proceedings before the Southwark coroner, reported in our paper of yesterday, that on Sunday afternoon • man died of the mime disease in the parish of St. George the Martyr, Southwark. It is instructive to dwell upon the state of the localities in which these deaths have occurred. The two deaths in Bermond sey took place in the same house: one on the 3rd, the other on the ith of September. The Registrar of the district observes : " The above is the second fatal case of cholera I have had in the same house, which is in a very filthy condition : there is a very offensive smell from the cellar, which I examined, and found to contain ordure and vegetable matter in a state of decomposition. I may add that Turner's Retreat [in which the house is situated] is a narrow, close, confined court, containing 13 houses, and only 16 feet in width." The nest of apartments in which the man who died on the 11th inst. re sided, is described by the surgeon of St. George's parish as " totally unfit for human habitation." He adds :—" They are fever, if not attended by Cholera. A great number of families have been destroyed in that very place, There is no ventilation, for they can get no free current of air, as there are no windows at the back." Of the houses he says :—" Putrid fluids and maggots are constantly coming through the ceiling." Other witnesses (whose evidence was fully borne out by the surgeon's report) described the building as under a bone-button manufactory, and close beside a foul and offensive drain from a water-closet. There are knackers yards and bone boilers in the immediate neighbourhood. The ceilings were damp—" from the taking the bones out of the water in the copper above, and placing them on the floor, so that the water leaked through." There are from 200 to 300 tons of bones in the immediate neighbourhood. This wretched locality is, it appears, the same in which the Cholera made its most fearful ravages in 1849. But Bermondsey and St. George the Martyr appear to be not one whit worse than many other of the low-lying districts south of the Thames. On the 4th instant a child of four months died of diarrhea in the sub-district of Waterloo, Lambeth. The neighbourhood is thus described in the Registrar's report:—" Since the period of the Choler", when atten tion was strongly drawn to thi s locality, Windmill-row, the privies in front of the houses have had pans put to them, but as there is no supply of water above, the effluvia from the open doors is highly offensive; and ever since this has been done, I have seen the night soil oozing out between the stones. The house where this death took place has four rooms, and the informant told me they contained as follows :—ln one room a man, wife, and two children ; in the next three females; in the third a man, wife, and child; and in the fourth room himself, his wife, and the dead infant." We have not yet done with the revelations of the metropolis on the south bank of the Thames. In the same number of the E.rpreal which contains the Registrar's report, and the report of the inquest on the third case of Asiatic Cholera, will be found yet another report—that of an application made by a surgeon in Trinity-street, nearly opposite the Police-office in Southwark (in his parish of St. Mary's, Newington), for the removal of an India rubber waterproofing establishment, which contami nates the whole district. Mr. Eusworrit, the sur geon to whom we refer, stated that the stench of the manufactory was so noxious that sickness bedspread widely among the surrounding population. The war rant officer of thecourt stated that a butcher next door to the factory had incurred great loss from the taint ing of his meat. The magistrate recollected that a similar application had been made some time ago, and that the proprietor of the establishment had attended and promised to put a stop to the nuisance. This has not been done ; and when, on the present occasion, the warrant officer was sent to inspect the premises, the door was shut in his face. , When we cross to the north of the Thames, we find matters quite as bad. At the first meeting of the City Court of Sewers since the holidays (reported like the foregoing in our yesterday's paper), their medical officer repotted that the practice of slaugh tering in and around Newgate Market has of late ' greatly increased. Mr. SIMoN says : "It appears that in 22 slaughtering places of this locality there are slaughtered annually about 141,800 animals, and, to measure the evil accurately, it must be remembered that this slaughtering comes unequally in different houses and on different days. Thus, for instance, in one particular slaughter-house, which is much com plained of by its neighbours, there had been killed 250 animals in • day, and 'he ventilation of this place can only be effected through a sort of shaft, which is bounded on the south side by the backs of the houses in Paternoster row. These houses, therefore, cannot but receive the entire effluvia of the shambles." Mr. SIMON suggests remedies or palliatives, which may be imme diately adopted, and concludes with the remark:— " I deeply regret to apprise your honourable court, as an ample justification of whatever strictness you may I I think it requisite to apply in sanitary regulations, that at the precut time then is great reason to ap prehend a renewed •isitation of Asiatic Cholera through the country; and I hove already received official information of the di-ease prevailing in an epidemic form at Neweastle-upon.Tyne." It will be seen, from our prtcciltog remarks, that while Mr. SIMON was penning this emphatic warn ing, Asiatic Cholera was already rearing its head among us. That it will spread further no man can doubt. THE PLATE. By the withdrawal of General Urquiza to the province Entre Rice, of which he is governor, the siege of Buenos Ayres has come to an end, since the departure of last packet. By this event peace was restored to the province, and commercial trans ' actions we again resumed. M. Pastor Obligado had been appointed Provisional-Goversor and Cap tain-General of Buenos Ayres. The published reports of the proceedings in the House of Representatives show that the present rulers of Buenos Ayres do not feel full confidence in the permanence of their bought tranquillity. Senor Auchorena, who was twice elected governor of the province, twice resigned, and the present governor resigned once on account of the difficulty of torining a ministry. On the 13th, before leaving, General Urquiza transmitted th 3 following note to the government of Buenos Ayres : Viva la Confederacion Argentina! The Provisional Director of the Argentine Confederation. San Jose de Flores, July 13, 1653. To the Ministers of Government of Buenos Ayres, charged with the Executive Power. I have the honour - of addressiagthCiiinisters, who at present conduct the government of Buenos Ayres, to ac quaint them, that the question which divided this province from the rest of the Confederation having been decided by the last sanctions of the Constituent Congress, I have resolved to retire from its territory with the National Con tingents. Upon - this basis it would be convenient for all, and highly honourable to the Argentine name, that the government of Buenos Ayres should coniant and acknowledge to be at peace with the rest of the Confederation, and it would afford me much pleasure to receive a communication to that effect. Clod preserve your Excellencies many years. JUSTU .101311 DI URCIVIZA. _ _ Sir Charles Hotham left Buenos Ayres on the 26th instant, in her Majesty's steamer Trident, supposed for England, via Monte Video. Ilia departure and embarkation were strictly private, and without offi cial etiquette. [For Commercial late Myna) wo page 4.] LOSS OF THE MAIL STEAMER QUITO. The Panama Herald of Aug. 18, says : "Yesterday eveniag, about 4 o'clock, the steamer Uncle Sam anchored in our bay, having left New York on the 20th June, conse quently making the passage ia 58 days, or deducting nine days' detention at Rio and Valparaiso, in 49 running days, being one day less time than the celebrated trip of the Cortes. " She brings news of the total loss of the P. S. N. Cds splendid steamer Quito, Captain Wood, to the north of Valparaiso, owing to her having mistaken the entrance to the port of lluasco. " We have received a letter from a friend, who was on board at the time of the accident, from which we make the following extracts :—'l was detained twelve days on my voyage, owing to the loss of the beautiful steamer Quito, which was wreck,d on the night of the 10th, on Point Loboa, owing to the captain having mis taken a small bay for Reese., lying twelve miles north of that port, and not discovering his mistake until too late to prevent his ship from running on the rocks. captain was on the paddle•box for half an hour before we