The Express. — London, England, 1853-09-26 00:00:00

eralrtA,L AA" 0 ".".. 77 ' • :ye ty•ttin •• t• .• A: 1.• t every binds, eat Vr.disy night, at time a d • •. *.r “Tbe Lealua E•e theAthr ors e, lu, firruverhs.treet, by Titu ea :ire ol ollemattorr. 111611 WATER. AT LONDON BRID(iE. Ton Dab—bassubt, b. illm :h. "Iwoosebt—Sivaiag. bb. Eat Ater* Vb. LONDO", :VONDA Y, SEPTEMBER 26. DETttIIMENTS from the English and French fleets We passed the Dardanelles: some versions of the story say that the whole of both fleets are already following. According to one statement, the object of this movement is simply to afford protection to French and English residents at Con4antinopie; ac cording to another, the d , monAration is intended to hint to the Turks the folly of any lunger refusing to accept the Vienna Note pure et simple. This latter version of the story is unblushingly :old and complacently commented on by the very journal which not a week ago affected contemptuously to pouh-pooh the ts :att. rue t s of the Journal des Debuts. We allowed their contradiction (or evasion) to pass at the time for what it was worth—the assertion of journal against journal—and the story still remains in the same doubtful state. People are totally at a loss whether they ought to believe the one or the other, or neither of them. But already the mist seems to be breaking up, allowing the form and pressure of ob jects to appear piecemeal. English and French ships of war—so much is admitted—have passed the Dar danelles. They have done so either to protect French and English subjects, or the SULTAN him self, from some possible .'euciete, as soon as the course the Porte inter& to pursue towards Russia becomes known. These two ascertained facts app. , it to imply a third with tolerable certainty, that the French and English Govern meets--the only Governments that so much as pro fess to be friendly 'o the Porte—are resolved to insist that Turkey shall humble itself before Russia by accepting the dangerous unqualified note. Is not all this in substance what was said in the Debuts to be the policy contemplated by the French and English courts? Now, let us turn back to the illusory show ut a contradiction by which the asser tions of the Nimes were met. The statement that a piaticular Government Clerk was the bearer of the instructions of the English Cabinet to Lord STRATFORD t'E REDCLIFFE was laid hold of—declared to be a canard. But the contemplated policy attributed to the English Government Ives not expressly de nied—that part of the story was assumed to be untrue because the other was declared to be so. This shuffling lends additional probability to the inference which the passing of the Dardanelles by part at least of the French and English fleets so rrongly presses upon every intelligent and unbiassed mind. It all but proves that the very organ which so contemptuously rejected the imputation fixed up .n the English Ministers had a misgiving that it was telling a quarter of the truth in order to produce . . the effect of a falsehood. Matters standing thus, Lord ABERDEEN and his colleagues owe an explanation of their conduct to the nation. It will be said this is impossible : Parlia ment is not sitting. No doubt the customary, regu lar manner for English Ministers to explain their conduct to the people is through the medium of a Parliamentary communication. But Ministers have by their own act put it out of their power to adopt this method on the present occasion. They alternately called fur discussions on the Eastern question, and put an extinguisher on them—alter nately promised revelations respecting the negotia tions in which they were engaged, sad falsified their promises—during the course of last session. They shuffled and equivocated, and gained time, and succetded in closing the session without letting Par liament know anything. They cannot now, by directly addressing Parliament, indirectly address the people. Unless they are still bent upon keeping the nation in the dark respecting what it has such a vital interest and unquestionable right to be well informed upon—the actual state of the Eastern question—they must adopt some other means. They can publish despatches in the Gazrtte, or some one of them can get up a meeting of his constituents and tell his story to them in the presence of re porters—as some of the present Cabinet have done ere now when they wanted to enlist the public favour for themselves or their policy. At present the mind of the general public is kept anxious, and uncertainty renders business lees exact than It should be. " What are we to have next," every man asks of his neighbour, " peace or war ? National honour or national disgrace? Are the ships of war which are known to have passed the Darda nelles merely, u some assert, the vanguard of the French and English fleets, or are they all that are to advance to Constantinople? Is this demonstration meant to intimidate the Turks into the acceptance pure et simple of the Vienna Note? Is it meant, as some allege, to protect French and English resi dents at Stamboul from the popular irritation excited by the bungling and inexplicable diplomacy of the Western Powers? Is it meant e.s • counter-brands to Russia—an imitation at the month of the /kw phorus of the CZAR'S proceedings on the Lower Danube? Is the step taken in a spirit friendly to Turkey, or in a spirit truckling to Rus sia ? Are the French and English fleets taking up their station to prevent the dismember ment of Turkey, or to be at hand to share in the spoil ?" All these questions are vexing the minds of men—leading them to look forward to contingencies of complicated, dishonourable, and interminable wars—making the merchant pause ere he gives his orders, the manufacturer think of working short time—causing the funds to tumble down (sorely to the annoyance of the CHANCELLOR of the Excne coma)—and making many an Englishman dread that he may yet have cause to blush for his country. All this excitement, all this stoppage and confu si in the natural and healthy course of trade, Ministers, and they alone, may have it in their power to dispel by a frank explanation. If explanation is withheld, the interpetation put upon it is that it would be discreditable and detrimental to Ministers. Their silence will give countenance to the most gloomy forebodings. And not unnaturally. Hitherto they have mid managed matters sadly. Eager to avoid a quarrel with the Northern Autocrat, they have allowed the Eastern question to get into a condition that almost seems to render war inevitable; pro fessing a determination to maintain the integrity of the Ottoman Empire, they have allowed Russia to obtain a footing in the Danubian Provinces fromwhich it will scarcely be possible to drive her. And their last move eems characterised by the same aimless, blind, groping about upon chance, as all that have preceded it. Are only four (or six) ships to be sent to Constantinople for the protection of French and English residents? This would seem to imply that the SCLTV has not a sufficient force in his capital to control its mutinous disposition, and that he cannot rely upon his own fleet or army to aid him. What could so small a squadron effect against • spirit of disaffection and turbulence so universally diffused? Are, as others assert, both fleets to follow in order to support the SULTAN? Will not such a movement heimnindititely laid hold of by Russia as en excuse for Inottihieg in thrb Principlities? Will it not in.4et 46 a beginnin 4 of the partition of the Ottoman Empire—the I - AAR laying hold as Suvere ign of the territory he t : aeci d y occupies, Austria entering Servia, and moon attd Endlaad making 4 " State out of the re mainder—such a "protected State" ea Poland was, under the guardianship of Prussia and Austria? REPORTED IMPRISONMENT OF AN ENG LISH SUBJECT IN TUSCANY. Romish propagandists in England and English protestant propagandists in Italy have a very dif- I ferent measure meted unto them. Here we had a few weeks ago a Romish missionary arrested for a most disgusting offence. Time was given to the priest and his friends to get up a case for him; the magistrate winked at it; the complainant was assaulted afters % ards by some low Irish zealots for making the charge; but the police and magistrate threw cold water on her second application, which has no more been heard of. About the same time a Scotch lady had, it appears, given away at Lucca Bibles and some tracts to a few peasants. She has been arrested. and is to be tried for the offence—the punishment, by the present law of the country, being imprisonment for a term of years with hard labour. The Tuscan autho rities have, it is said, been deaf to all applications on her behalf. The aggressive attitude assumed of late years by the rulers of the Itomish Church becomes daily more marked. There have been charges brought against British subjects ere now in Tuscany for giving away Bibles and tracts; but in these cases the Government was satisfied to order the accused to leave their territory. The more severe course pur sued with Miss Cunningliame is palpably the result of foreign interference. A manifesto of the Pope denounced, some time ago, all agents in the distribu tion of Bibles as persons of bad fame and immoral lives. The court of Tuscany has doubtless been urged on by the agents of the Court of Rome with a view to convince English Protestants that the Papal manifesto was no brutum fulmen. Some portions of the press appear extremely anxious to discredit Miss Cunninghamc beforehand. Oue of them asserts that by her distribution of tracts she had irritated the peasantry and caused riots. This may be doubted; the relentless deportment of the Tuscan Government has more the appearance of being caused by a fear that the peasants were but too well disposed to accept of her gifts. Another journal intimates that a Florentine correspondent declares Miss Cunninghame has no excuse, for she. has reached the ripe age of 30 or 40. The corre spondent might have been able to sympathise with a young and blooming heroine, but has no sympathy to spare for a middle-aged lady. The " indiscretion" of Miss Cunninghamc is loudly talked of. She may, or she may not, have been in discreet; in the present state of the question that has nothing to do with it. Her case, like all similar cases, must be brought to the test of a general prin ciple or rule; nor does it appear to be difficult to find out what this principle or rule ought to be. There are two kinds of offences against the law of a country: those which all civilised nations concur in regarding as crimes, e. g. theft, murder, &c.; and those which though in one country they are de nounced as crimes, may in another be thought venial or even praiseworthy acts. With regard to the former there can be no doubt ; any person committing them, whatever be his country, is amenable to the tribunals of the land in which he perpetrates the offence. With regard to the latter class of offences it is different. Protestant propagandism, though a crime according to Tuscan law, is a virtue according to the views of a great majo rity of Englishmen. The English Government can scarcely stand by and see Miss Cunningham° punished for doing in Tuscany what ministers and princes of the blood join with their fellow-subjects to pay mis sionaries for doing in China and other distant lands. The compromise adopted by the Tuscan Government on former occasions seems to have been not an unfair method of solving the difficulty. By sending away the heretical propagandists it got rid of those who set a bast example to its subjects by disregarding its laws, and at the same time avoided insulting the English Government by inflicting penalties on a Brit ish subject for acting according to his, or her, conscience. We might have hoped that, notwithstanding the ogre-like grimace with which all applications on behalf of Miss Cunnioghame are stated to have been rejected by the Tuscan Government, they really meant merely to frighten and then let her go, but for one fact. She is said to have been actually pre paring to leave the country, but was prevented, in order that she might be arrested and put upon her trial. The Tuscan Government, instead of being con tented, as formerly, to get quietly rid of a trouble some stranger, put itself to trouble to prevent her departure. The act is apparently intended as a bravado to England—an experiment to try whether the British Government will venture to protect, an " incautious," but uncriminal subject. It is seemingly a part of the systematic plan now acted upon by the Romish Court, and all the Governments with whom it has influence, to establish active pro paganda in all Protestant countries, and trample upon Protestant rights and feelings in all Roman Catholic countries —as Spain and Tuscany bear witness. And, truth to say, the manner in which many Protestants have hitherto met this aggressive policy partly accounts for the growing tyranny and inso lence of the Romish Court and priesthood. " Liberal" Protestants affect on all occasions to side with the Itomanists. They were shocked et the intolerance of the Durham letter ; they declare that the Irish savages who pelted Protestant field preachers at Limerick "served them right;" they approve of hushing up the Paulsenetti story, lest it should create scandal; and now they are shocked with the " imprudence" of Miss Cunninghame, not with the barbarity of the Tuscan law. Such trim ming policy is not likely to avert the collision which ►he Romanist priesthood are ostentatiously courting; it will only render the contest more embittered when it comes. It is useful when there is danger of such mistaken policy prevailing, to hold up the Cunning hame and Paulzenetti cases to the public in combina tion. TH4 :EXPZESg,, 'Eatt ,A r N :OND TURKEY. AUSTRIA. 1 M THE A tk.. EXT. - MANCE. • PARtS, SUNDAY. The Bourse was greatly affected yesterday by a report of art extraordinary fall in Console; extending, according to some accounts, to 21 per cent. The Threes. which had already been done at a low price in the roulisse, opened at 76.05, being a fall of 45e. from Fri day. After many fluctuations they closed at 75.80, being nearly the lowest price of the day, and 75e. lower than the closing quotations of yesterday. All the railways fell considerably. Strasbourg, which during the last few days has been the favourite line, fell to-day more than any other. The last price was 9301., being 26.25 lower than Friday. The other principal lines fell from 10f. to 22f. Credit Mobilier was 27.50 lower, and even Bank of Franoe, which has for a long time been so well sustained, fell sf. Telegraphic accounts from Constantinople of the lath state that the Beiram passed off well. It is in ferred that the Ulemu cannot hive taken the step imputed to them by the despatch of the 22nd. THE DANUBE. BT. PETERSBURG, Strr. The march of fresh troops into the principalities is to go on until the addition reaches 40,003. The troops lately encamped at Bucharest are ordered to ascend the Danube as far as Calefat. VIENNA, SUNDAY. The two Eraptrors are at Olmutz. The Come witch and the Grand Duke Nicholas accompany their father. VIENNA, Szrr. 20. To-day the Hungarian deputation presented the own of St. Stephen, with the other regalia of their nation, to the Emperor. The deputation, which was headed by the Archduke Albrecht, was composed of the Cardinal Prince Primate of Hungary, Prince Paul Eiterhazy, Count Francis Zichy, Count F. Palffy, Count Louis Szechenyi, and Count John Keglevieh. It was noticed that in mentioning Hun gary the Emperor spoke of it in the old ante-Scha ar. senberg style as a kingdom. bine fraud. BALMORAL, SEPT. 23. lier Majesty and Prince Albert left Balmoral yestf riby UI iruing forth' Bhiel of Allt na Htuthsach. The Hon. Mary Mittel being in attendance upon her Maje4ty. Simi'. 24. Her Majesty and Prince Albert returned yesterday to Balatursi from the Shin 1.1 Alit we Uiu.bsach. Mr. and Lady Agnes Dakhla the honour of dining with her Majesty yesterday. lhapatehes were sent ea Saturday from the Colonial office to the Weenier.' of Hai-Yong and Ceylon. ANOTIITR FATAL PART! Corinter.—Our Armagh rirresransilant mentions the death de sums named ("trimley, from a piety kid, which took place in the nt.ghtiouthood of Loughgall, on Wednesday or Thursday evening last. It arip.sitra that s.,ine difference had occurred amongst the 1 daiaaard awl . *. ars, which the magi:Aran r, at Luti.thgall ' petty ',minus, recommended them to settle amicala.y among Ithem , Ives ; sad that having adjourned for this purpose to a public-house, instead of the quarrel bring healed, it ter iurinated in this fatal manner. An inquest was held on the bo•Iy on Saturday last. We have not heard who is charged with the murder. The deceased was a Roman catholic.— Newry Telegraph. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, Burr. 21. The free community of Magdeburg, counting 8,000 members, has been dissolved by the government. INDIA. THE OVERLAND MAIL. (air el AND EUROPEAN TELEGRAM) We have received the following despatch from our correspondent at Trieste : TRIESTE, SUNDAY, SErr. 25. The steamer Bombay arrived here this morning at 7 a.m., in 110 hours from Alexandria. Her dates are—Calcutta, August 20 ; Bombay, August 30. Faxhine still prevails in Rangoon, and cholera is raging in many localities. There is much sickness among the troops there. General Godwin has re turned to Calcutta, and the second Burmese war is considered to be in far at an end. The reports of the indigo crop are not satisfactory. EGYPT. ALEXANDRIA, SEPT. 19. Abbas Pacha had issued an order prohibiting the exportation of grain from Egypt after Sept. 28. But, upon the representation of the consuls, leave was given to delay the prohibition until Nov. 30. AMERICA. - ARRIVAL OF THE STEAM SHIP EUROPA. LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY. This afternoon, about 2 o'clock, the Royal Mail steam ship Europa, Captain Lang, arrived in the Mersey, with the usual mails from the United States and British North America, in charge of Lieutenant Boyce, R.N., Admiralty agent. The Europa left Boston on the 14th, and Halifax early on the 16thl inst., and, besides the mails, has brought 170,000 dollars in specie on freight, and about 80 passengers. The Cunard screw steam ship Taurus, from hence, via Boston, arrived at New York on the 12th inst. The yellow fever at New Orleans continued to abate in virulence, and the daily deaths from the pestilence had decreased to 50. At Mobile, how ever, the disease was on the increase, the rate of mortality having reached 50 per day. Intelligence from Mexico announces that the re action against Santa Anna had become formidable, several states having openly pronounced against him. From the fishing grounds we learn that five offend ing schooners had been captured by the British cruizer on the Banks, but that there was some proba bility of their shortly being released. The United States steamship Illinois had arrived at New York with nearly 1,000,000 dole. worth of gold ddst. Her news is not of later date than brought by the Star of the West. Business generally was brisk at New York at the latest date. A slight change for the better is reported in mone tary affairs at New York. During the week previ ous to the sailing of the packet money had become easier. The stock market had exhibited much firmness. In cotton there was but little doing. Holders, however, did not press sales, and quotations ruled u follows :—New Orleans and Mobile mid fair to fair, 12tc. to 13c. per lb.; Uplands mid fair to fair, 111 c. to 121 c. The cotton crop of the past year has been estimated at 3,300,000 bales. The market for breadstuffo was rather quiet, and not many transactions reported. Holders were wait ing for further advices from England. The following were tho prices current:—Weatern Canal flour, 6 dole. 371 e. to 6 dole. 50c. per brl., steady; Genneesce prime wheat, 1 dol. 46c. to 1 dol. 48e. per 66 lbs.; Indian corn, round yellow, 82c. to 84c., steady; ditto, Southern white, 82c. to Mc. per bushel ; Indian meal, 3 dole. 75e. to 3 dole. 87le. per barrel. A brisk business was being transacted in the pro vision market at former prices. At the steamer's departure the asking rates for freight were :—Flour to Liverpool, 3s. to 3s. 3d. per barrel; grain, 91d. to 1011. per bushel; cotton, Id. to 5-11" id. per lb. _ Exchange on London was not well sustained at 1091 to 1091; Paris, 5.131 to 5.16 ; Hamburg, 36 to 361; Bremen, 791 to 791. GREECE. From prudential motives, the King of Greece has ordered that no passports for Turkey shall be grunted to his subjects, except to merchants having pressing aura there. GERMANY. . -- Letters from Vienna of the 19th state that there was again a project of reducing the army. On the let of October the companies of infantry were to ho reduced, some from 180 to 120 men, and others from 120 to 100 men. Our correspondent remarks that the statement is most likely put forward merely to facilitate a new loan, which is again under discussion. :NING, IiBPTEMBER 26, 1853. :rf.-:• RUSSIA AND TURKEY. The startling announcement that the British and French fleets had left Besika Bay for the Dardanelles was made on Saturday, under circumstances calcu lated to excite alarm. But beyond the fact that at the Sultan's wish two ships had been sent front each fleet for Constantinople, nothing seems eer tainly known. We are not informed that any Bri tish or French subject has been injured, or so much as menaced. At the latest date of which we have certain iutelligence, the 12th inst., no danger to the I perrons or property of French or Englishmen was apprehended. A strong feeling was prevalent, and much disappointment was expressed, at the seeming alrndonment of the Porte by the two western powers, but no attack on their subjects was thought of. The despatch before mentioned concludes : "It is ex pected that, to strengthen the hands of the peace party, the Minister of War will be dismissed, and that the fleets will he invited to make a demonstra tion in the sea of Marmara." If, therefore, in asking I for the presence of English and French ships at Con- stantinople, the Porte has chosen to assign the pro tection of Europeans as a reason for his request, it is fair to remember that, while negotiations of any kind are pending, policy dictates that any appeal to material aid should be made in the form least offen sive to the opposite side. Our naval correspondent at Woolwich writes that the Lords of the Admiralty have ordered a return of the number of non-commissioned officers and men of the Woolwich division of Royal Marines fit for duty and for embarkation if required. The telegraph informs us that the Czar is with' the Emperor of Austria at Olmutz. The Grand Duke Alexander is his eldest son and is thirty-five years of age ; the Grand Duke Nicholas is younger, by thirteen years. Field Marshal Prince Paskie witch, Count Neaselrode, and Baron Meyendnrff were to meet at Olmutz, which would then contain the principal members of the imperial family with three of its chiefest servants. The Croustade Gazette repeats the tidings of a westward movememt of the Itossians in Wallachia.' The camp in the neighbourhood of Bucharest, it is said, is abandoned, and another has been formed hi;,lier up the Danube. From all that appears this movement is only the natural consequence of an event announced a fortnight ago—the entrance of troops of a third army corps into Moldo-Walla chin from the east. It has been followed by a corresponding movement of the Ottoman forces, troops having left Rustschuk and encamped over against the Russians. A letter from St. Petersburg, of the 15th, states that the disposition of Omer niche's fames had led Prince Gortschakoff to make a new distribution of his troops. The 40,000 men of the fourth army corps were to take up an echeloned position on the Danube, from Bucharest to Calafat by Krajowa. 40,000 new troops were elso to be introduced into Moldo-Wallachia. In the opinion of the writer the Russians intended to cross the Danube near Widdin. • A correspondent, dating Shursha (Guirgewo in Wallachia), Sept. 9th, says the Turks have now placed the entire line of the Danube in a state of defence, and believe themselves prepared for every eventuality. At every depression of the shore, forts and batteries and tents are to be seen. Wherever a gun can be placed to advantage, there it points towards the Russians. Reckoning the pieces of the numerous forts the Turks are superior to the Russians in the number of their guns. The Tugs appear to remember very well that in 1828 the passage of the Danube was made at Silistria ; for twelve miles along the river mounted videttes ride up and down ready to signalise the first movement on the left bank. The story of the Ulemas, and the alternative—war or abdication—which they were said to have pre sented to the Sultan, proves to be, as we indicated on its first appearance, an adventurous fiction, an attempt to find a body and acts for that spirit of un easiness which is known to reign among the Osmanli. of Constantinople. A letter from Vienna in the German Journal of Frankfort says : " We are assured that the Russian consul at Bucharest asked the administration of the steam boats to place at the disposal of the Russian army in the Principalities a great number of steamers. But the directors, after having deliberated, have de termined not to grant the demand. They have re solved, on the contrary, that from the present they will, on account of the state of the Danube, entirely suspend the voyages to Semlin." A letter from Bucharest, of the 7th, gives some fresh details of the state of affairs. The Russians, as has been before mentioned, had established a military intendance in that town; the Count de Rodetberg, who is placed at the bead of the service, had just arrived. He is charged with the whole management of the expeditionary corps. He com menced his functions by ordering the arrest of several druggists and employes of the military administration, on a charge of having given to the troops bad medicine and bad food. He is to visit the different points occupied by the Russian army, and afterwards proceed to Jassy. A letter from Sorvia, of the sth, announces the appointment of Izzet Pacha as governor of Belgrade. This nomination is said to be generally approved. Izzet Pacha was formerly governor of Tripoli. The Pays, of Saturday, publishes an article which pt.iceeda on the assumption that France and England will abandon Turkey. We give the following extract from the article of the Pays, solely on account of its reputed connexion with the French government : The conflict, instead of referring to treaties and the interests of all states, will only refer to quarrels between governments on each bank of the Black Sea. Thus there is now a certain result, and it is this—the Eastern question has become complicated, but it has become narrowed also; and as peace seems to become more difficult between Russia and Turkey, European war bounties mere impassible. Rus sia, in fact, who has accepted the note of Vienna, has her self laid down limits for her ambition. What she desires is that note, that is to say, a simple moral satisfaction. If she cannot obtain it by negotiation she will obtain it by force. After having imprudently crossed the Pruth, she will not rectum it disgracefully, carrying with her the humilia tion of the enterprise. But should she be victorious even up to the banks of the Danube, she cannot exact or take more. If she did she would be condemned by her most formal engagements, her most authentic declaratites; she would find herself stopped by the hand of coalesced Europe. The adhesion of Russia to the European conference has, therefore, set aside any chance of conflict between that power and the Western states, anti especially with France and England. Such is the great result which arises from the situation, as i , has been established by the respective acts of the interested partite. who in his eternal degrees has chosen you for this sub:ime VOCatiOD, give yea grace to accomplish it. Such, in the sincerity of war hearts, are our wishes for your Ma jesty, sa for the noble princess licit( d to you, and whe, by her virtues, her charity. and the charms she shed. upon the intherisl throne is the gentle and powerful auxiliary of this greet work. Sire, we irlat.re ?nu as a man, we venerate you as a prince, but as the instrument of the immense benefits of God, we love and bless you. Telegraphic despatches announce the successive arrival of the imperial party at Douai, Valenciennes, and Lille. The ocean squadron has received orders to sail for the northern coast, and to anchor, =rending as the weather may prove most favourable, either at Dun kirk, Boulogne, or Calais, so that the Emperor may have an opportunity of inspecting the vewly formed squadron at one or other of those ports Several German journals have this week been seized at the Post-office on account of lettere from Paris correspondents asserting that Louis Napoleon ! seriously contemplates the annexation of 'Bel -1 giutn to France. Designs of this kind have lao repeatedly been attributed to the Emperor that the public pay no more attention to the reports than they did before the coup (Tetra of December to the innumerable warnings of his intention to destroy the republic. It is scarcely to be doubted that the an nexation of Belgium is one of the many schemes that lie perdue in the breast of the French Emperor. No one aupposes that the recent pamphlet on that subject, which attracted so much attention, was the work of an amateur. At the present moment, how ever, when the overwhelming c Jr n question prohibits all wanton expenditure, and the evident indisposition to show a bold front to the eastern difficulty indicates a desire for peace, there is nothing to confirm the stories of the German newspapers, unless it Ne the anxiety shown to suppress them. The papers to which I allude are not obscure prints. Among the journals seized arc the Gazette de Breslau, the Ga zette de Leipsick, the Gazette d'Angsburg, an: the Gazette de Cologne. These journals having been seized, I have not had an opportunity of reading thei articles, but it is said they are very explicit, and give scraps of conversation on the part of eminent per sonages, whose names are mentioned. I Lind the impression which 1 mentioned yester , day as prevailing at the Ottoman Embassy, that the telegraphic despatch from 'Trieste, speaking of what may be justly termed a revolt of the llemas, was not authentic, confirmed by the following paragraph in the Patric of last evening: A telegraphic despatch from Turkey, by way of Trieste, has lately heed published, in which it was sod that the' tiletnas had made a most serious demonstration t *wards the Sultan. All the intelligence front Constantinople permits us to affirm that this news is entirely unfounded. The decree throwing open the ports, at a nominal duty,to foreign cattle, and diminishing theduty on salt meat has not yet produced any sensible effect in Paris, and I have not heard of any consequential diminution in the price of the meat in the depart ments, except at Clermont, in the Puy de Dome, where the butchers lowered their prices one setts the pound, the moment the decree was known. It is curious that the first effect of the de cree removing the impediments to the importa tion of meat should have been made apparent in the very centre of France, at a spot far removed from communication with the foreigner. The corn and flour market in Paris remains stationary. Prices do not give way, but there is no manifest tench ncy to a rise. It is reported that wheat has fallen 20 per cent. at Odessa, but this extraordinary diminution is entirely owing to the difficulty of finding vessels to export the commodity. At the market of Monti , vilifiers, near Havre, on Thursday, there was a full of 2f. 89c. per hectolitre in wheat ; and yesterday the price of bread fell at Havre 10c. the six kilos. On the other hand, at Rouen bread has risen 2 centimes and corn 32c. Bread is at this moment 13 centimes the pound dearer at Rouen than at Paris. Such are the anomalies of the artificial system now prevalent. The Gazette du Midi, a Nlarbeil'es journal, has re ceived a warning for an article discussing the merits of the port of "La Joliette." The prefect of the Bonches du Rhone says it is not to be endured that a newspaper should write articles which may have the effect of inducing captains of merchantmen to go to another port than Marseilles. This is quite con formable to the policy of the government, as illus trated by the recent warning given to the Constitu tionnel. The press is to be interdicted from express ing an opinion as to the comparative merits of any public or private enterprise. The pretext for this is an anxiety to prevent the public from being misled ; but the real motive is that speculative schemes in which parties connected with government are interested, may not be injured by rivals. There is no doubt that in the case of the Constitution/le/, M. Mires, a stock jobber, sought an opportunity to puff his own wares, and this was one of the advantages he expected when he bought out Dr. Peron, upon condition of giving an unconditional support to the government. He feels himself very ill used, and as I hear, expresses himself more vexed at the " warning " than at the loss of the half million consequent upon the suppression of his Never. and Marseilles credit jinacier scheme. Some people affect to admire the Minister of the In terior for out equal justice to friends and l enemies- But this is a poor excuse for the vicious principle which dictates the recent warnings. It is I DOW proclaimed that great public questions, open to =oh difference of opinion, and requiring much evi dence for their satisfactory solution cannot safely be discussed by the press. A Boulogne or Calais journal cannot sum up the arguments in favour of carrying the mails by one or the other stations without incur ring the danger of a warning 'bald its article not happen to please the prefect. M. Guerineau, the surgeon to the Orleans Railway Company, has written to the papers, in order to relieve the alarm felt by the friends f the persons hart by the late accident, a letter giving au account of their present condition. He states that all the wounded are out of danger. The loss of life was con fined to the servants of the company, of whom six were killed. Several of the passengers who suffered have already resumed their journey. The remainder are stated to be doing well. The only English sub ject who was hurt, Mr. Robert Graham, a Scotch gentleman, received wounds in his head, which so far heale d he was able to proceed to Paris after 48 hours' rest. The following telegraphic despatch, dated Vienna, Thursday, Sept. 22, has been received: A telegraphic despatch from Warsaw announces that the Emperor of Russia will arrive at Olmutc, on Saturday, the 24th, aecnmpanied by the Grand Duke the heir apparent, the Grand Duke Nicholas, Prince Paskiewitsth, Count Orloff, Generals Lieven, Adlerberg, and Orumwald, Chan cellor Count de Nesaelrode Baron deMeyendorff, and the Secretary to the Embassy, B aronl Mobrenheim. The Prince of Prussia is expected at the Camp of Olmutz on the 23rd. BELGIUM. BRUSSELS, FRIDAY, The labours of the Statistical Congress were brought yesterday to a close, and the chief members dined in the evening with the Kiag and royal family. This day, the 23rd anniversary of the Belgian revolution, a solemn funeral service was performed in the collegiate church of Sainte Gudule, so memoriam of the patriots who fell in 1830, whilst fighting against the Dutch. A large cola/it/pie, covered with laurel wreaths, and with the dresses of i some of the victims, was raised in the transept, ' and a guard of honour was posted near it. All the cabinet ministers were present; but the only mem bers of the diplomatic corps who attended was Mr. Siebels, the United States chargt d'affaires, and M. (Haverty, the Turkish charge d'affaires pro tem. The pr.( sauce of those two gentlemen—under all the cir cumstances attending the Eastern question—excited nut a little attention. The King of Holland has chosen Heer Bored Van Hogdanden as President of the Second Chamber of the States General. _ _ The Russian ambassador at the Hague, the Baron von Maltels, now absent on leave, will bc shortly re placed. The Baron is a convert to the Roman ca tholic religion, and as converts aro generally very zcaloos, he gave no slight encouragement to the late cabinet—the Thorbecke one—in its attempt to re-es tablish the Roman catholic hierarchy in Holland. Such conduct gave,of cuurse,offencc to the Dutch court and the new ministry ; and hence the moral necessity, on the part of the Russian government, to give the Baron von Maltels leave of übsenco as a preliminary step to his recall. Tile Brussels corn markt t this day was only scan tily supplied, and the high prices were maintained. There has been a further rise in Turves, Eccelso, Re naix, St. Nicholas, and Thoront. FRANCE. --*— PARIS, SUNDAY MORNING. When the Emperor arrived at Arras, on Thursday, he was received by the mayor, who offered the keys of the town, and made a very flattering speech. Their Majesties entered the town in an open caleche. Half way between the railway station and the en trance gate was a triumpal arch with the inscription, " A Napoleon 111. La Ville d'Arras." On entering the town their Majesties passed under a temporary erection representing the ancient gates of Arras, over which was inscribed, " Vivo l'Empereur !" "A Na poleon III! sauveur de la patrie !" "Vivo trice !" Further on another arch bore the following Latin inscription : Eminuere novo vieteres Csetiare Galli Augustuni videat Gallia pace alma. Out of compliment to the Empress the following Spanish inscriptions, remarkably easy of translation, were exhibited : La antigens evaded de Arras A Lus Majestades Imperisles. And Salve Agnate Imperador. Salve a ti , noble Espagnols, Arras te t ordice, te am; Digna eteltrotio del mundo. Y entusiumada te acciama La Francis in amor prolundo De la Francis el *abrader. Ati se da, ati so immola. At the cathedral the Monsignor Pariser, the Bishop of Arras, made the following speech : Sire,—Others may linke in the august person of your Majesty the superorainent qualities which distinguish you; that serenity of soul which nothing disturbs, that strength of will which triumphs over everything, that infallible glance which never lane seine the truth of things, and that marvellous superiority before which ell obstacles fall and all eminence is effaced. For us, sire, whose thoughts !tmid be above this world beesuso our kingdom is not of it, wo have other homage to otter you. There is in your Mak sty something above the gifts of nature—the mission you have itetiveLl from he.tven. The more we refit ct in faith up..ti all that you have done with FU much promptitude on t f o.,:tty, the more we are coo , vinced th at you have nut acted alone. God is with you, ' s.re, anti that is your principal glory. Doubtless it is giro ticus to be borne to a throne by the acclamations of a people, and to be crowned with the renown of the greatest name of modern times, but it is far more glorious to be the privileged instrument of Providence for the salvation of a great natioa and the peace of the world. May he, then, SPAIN. MADIti 11, St rt. We have already stated that the lion. Mr. Bar ringer, tho Minister of the United States of America at Madrid, who has been replaced by M. Saah:!, h a d h,d an audience of leave of the Queen of Strain. The following is the speech of Mr. Barringer oa this occasion. Mr. Barringer said : Madame,—The President of the United States hating acceded to my request to return to my own country, I have the honour to present to your Majesty the letter announcing my recall us Envoy Extraordinary rind Miiiis.er Plenipotentiary near your Majesty. In taking l eave o f your Majesty, lam y our by the President to express the earnest assurance of his *incite desir, to maintain the amicable relations of the two countries, .0 strengthen ..nd extend the friendly intercourse now happily atili.isting between the two governments. and to secure to the of both nations a continuance of the blessings r...ulting from that intercourse. Circumstances have read,red the period of my residence at the court of your Majesty one of peculiar delicacy, and greatly increased the iiifficult and arduous duties of my mission. It is n am7ce of most grateful satisfaction to know that, with the aid of good i n . tentions on the part of b.,th governments, I have contri buted in any it, gree to the happy result of pending negotia tions, and to the preservation of friendship between the two nations. In conclusion, madame, I beg to eller to your Ma jesty my isroit respectful acknowleginent tic repeated moots of personal conaideration and umialUe attention to my tarnily and myself during our residence at this court ; son i n an aspect il manner, fur hat royal and generous ch mency which has, at my instance on different occasions, Riven liberty to the captive and happ:na,s to many a home. With warmest wishes for the contiou, I health and happi. neat of your Majtsty and for the prollt rity of Spain, I now close the high mission with which I have been honoured at the court of your Majesty. ITALY. - • - The Voss t a:e'te quotes a letter from Rome of the 12th, stating that two days before the Pope, while on his way to the Villa Ludovisi, helongiug to the Prince of Piombino, in order to view the antiques la'ely found iu the garden of Sallustias, was stopped by a crowd of women and children, issuing from the Via di San Basilio, who surrounded his carriage and escort, exclaiming that if his Holiness did not diminish the price of bi tad, they would throw them. selves with their children under the vi liecol of his carriage. In order to pacify them the Pope directed his Almoner to distribute some money amongst them, and proceeded on his way without any further manifestation. The Grand Duke of Tuscany has entrusted the department of foreign affairs to the Chevalier ltaldas. seroni, Minister of Finance, during the temporary absence of the Duke of Casigliano. The following notice was issued at Genoa on the 18th:— Citizen%—loternation3l and political reasons had hitherto impeded the construction of the railway which is to eta neet us with Centr.,l Europe by the Lukottnier. Ths livesiant-General has informed us ilia the Ticinesc have resolved the ques•ioa in our favour. Sorb an e%ekit is a victory that opens a new future to us. By the Lukosanier railway nation% of many millions will hays ho other market but Genoa. The wishes and antis of the municipality sad Chamber of Commerce, powerfully and wisely advocated by the government of the King, are on the point of being t roamed with success. Let us be grateful and acknowledge so great a boon. The Syndic D. Ehh.sa. Genoa, September IS. AUSTRIAN ITALY. The 01irial Milan Gazette, of the 19th, contains the following illustration of Austrian views of crime in Itely: During the celebration of his Majesty our meat auto* sovereign's birthday, no Mona.., on the Pith of August tut, a political demonstration was made by Aware& RitalM, aged 41, of Mouse, bachelor, a dealer in colonial produce, aid municipal aonis+or, anti by Carlo Bonacina, .iged GO, Incite. lor, et landed proprietor, who has during the last two years provisionally exercised the functions of Potesta of Monza. For they omitted designedly to take the measures •hat are usual when c-owds assemble to calm brate oath days ; they displayed in the execution of the orders received from the political authorities, and deliberately omitted to take their official seats in the church as members of the municipality ; moreover, ltsholdi, in parti cular, sent two menials of the municipality to their homes, because they had their holiday clothes on, and rebuked the mut.icipal lunctiouaries for having repaired to the church without awaiting his ordow, threatening them with reprisals. This was a bud example given to others, and geeatly scandalised the whole town. On this account the two above-mentioned persona, Riboldi and Bonacins, were subjec , ed to a military trial, according to Arr. 14th of the proclamation of March 10, 1819, issued by 11 E. Field- Marshal Count Radetglii; and having been legally convicted of the offence, partly by their own confession, and partly by circumstantial evidence, th.: court martial oa the 17th inst. condemned Riboleli to six months' military arrest, and a tine of 1.000 tlorios (2,400fre), and Bonnier' to two months of the same punishment and to the same fine. This sen tence has been fully confirmed by H. E. Count S adion, provisional military governor of Lombardy, his said excel lency having directed that the fines be applied to the relief of the poor of the town of Monza. IMAGINARY CON VERSA TION. SCENE. --- Irouse ; Tiaw, Sunday Evening. Pnuauxu,—British Cibinet Minster, his Lille S;n, and " Amused Visitor." B. C. M.—Come here, my love ; what have you been doing since dinner-time ? Come on my knee. L. S.—Reading to Manta, Papa. B. C. M.—And what have you been reading ? L. B.—From the Acts of the Apostles. B. C. M.—Good boy. What about ? L. S.—II aw the wicked Jews sought to kill St. Paul, and how the Roman Captain was going to scourge him. B. C. M.—And do you think the Item.in Captain was right ? L. S.—He was as bad as the Jews. Had I been a big strung man, and there, I should have liked to help St. Paul. B. C. M.—That's a brass bay. Always think and act so. L. S.—l say, Papa; is it true that Mks Cunniagliam his been ill-treated by a mob in Tuscany fur giving away Bibles ? B. C. M.—l fear it is. L. S.--And that the Dread Duke is going to have her punished ? B. C. M.—l fear it is true. _ . L. S.—And will not the mob and the Grand Duke be doing to her just what the Jews and the Ituman captain wished to do to St. Paul ? B. C. M.—Very like it. L. S.—Tben you will prevent them. B. C. M.—Pm afraid I cannot. L. S.—Did not you tell the gentlemen who came with as address t'uther day that it was your business to protect all British subjects ? B. C. M.—Ah, my dear little fellow, circumstances fito dify different cases. L. S.—What is the meaning of " circumstances modify ?" B. C. M. (putting the boy down).—Go and te:l yom mama that Mr. and I will thank her fur a cup of tea. L. S.—But what do you mean by " circumstances modify ? " B. C. M.—You will learn when you grow older. A. V. (aside) .—No doubt, if you are his teacher. FATAL ACCIDENT AT DEPTFORD.-OU Battlraq Mr. W. I'aync held an inquest at St. Thomas's Hospital, touching the death of John Watch, aged 24 years. The deceasid war employed at Wheen's soap factory, at Dept. ford, and on the morning of Friday the 16th, was engaged in placing some lime into • tank of boiliug soap Km The task in question is about six feet across, and about tire feet deep. It is made of three-inch plank, and there is no edge to the top but the three-inch edge of the wood. The de , ceased thinking (as be said in the hospital) that he could put in the lime in a better manner were he t 3 stand nthe edge of the tank, did so, and fell into the b ilitg lets. Ili cries brought some assistance to the spot, when he was Rash out, and his body was well rubbed in palm oil. He wm then placed in a cart and brought to the hospital. Mr. Keele, the surgeon, said that deceased was brought in silt extensively scalded, and the flesh and skin were hanging th shreds. lie died on Wednesday night. The jury returned a verdict of " Accidental Death." HEAVY PORTION OF THE CHINA AND INDIA MAILS.—The Oriental Company's steam packet Easise, Captain Meehan, arrived at Southampton on Saturday, sod landed her mails under the charge of Lieut. Gardner, ftslt! Admiralty eat nt. ller dates arc—Alexandria, Sept. 10, Malta, 14 ; Gibraltar, 19. Amonst her pant rots wen' Capt. and Mrs. Brooke, Mr. M'Ew g in, 11I%jor Spottiswoodes Mr. Brewster, Mr. Buckley, Mn. Callow, Mr.Buspeslt, Mr. W. Barker, Mr. A. Dickson, Dr. T. Mrs. Brodie , Mrs. Duff, Lieut. Brown, Mr. Margissen, Dr. Smith, Mrs. Suirt and two children, Captain Ilichstrotr, Mr. Raiff' , R.Bl. Iler cargo consists of—lndian: 788 packsgl 4 do. tortoiseshell, 53 do. sundries; Alt sandriaa : 24 ball tobacco, 330 do. fl ix, 11l do. wool, 23 packnees e le p hants teeth, 35 barrels mother o' pearl, 103 banal: gum, 1 ° l° torttireshell, 43 packages sundries, 18 cams opium, 3 Cabe tUoutego.-s, 2 haeukcs, &c., I wolf, 1 lr't PM Malta :343 bales wool, 14 packaee, simdries 40151.47 tar: I bat money. At Alexandria there wa^ :t great weal of slapping ; freights high, pr duce large we- shipmleat Sept. 10, her Majesty's ship Firebran , i, at Alnate ris± from Beyrout, would leave ou the 11th to k in the fleet 11 1 Iksika Bay ; 14, at Malta, Ceylon, flag ship ; 10, Dtboh ar ' her Majesty's steam sloop Vesuvius.