The Express. — London, England, 1853-10-07 00:00:00

`C; erl'arA. TO COI RESPONDENTS. A Fr em..l E.spre-4,"1014•)1111111 Ow rase reek.• PUblJall'd every Tuesday sad fry by ugh:. t tw for 1 ..•t. Adv‘ltt.rearitaluturled for " flu Eames.. Lodes twinklep paper. imu.t be .4 rt. tALA, If; deurerwrirrAL. by Two o'cia.k ce 11.• de) of pekkelloe. lIIUU WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tru• DAY— 4b. Ma Atternpon, 4h Ns. Mu 42M Ahern4u2s, !b. 4ia. LONDON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7. Tint azgregate rcd•tapism and aristocratic conser ♦atism of Europe Live clubbed their forces to per guide the world that the Emperor of Itt'sstA ought to le: allowed to hare his will u regards Turkey. for the sake of peace. If you attempt to stop him, they vow and protest we are sure to have war. They bellow uu , with tedious iteration, that the sole object of the athocates of Turkish independence is to pro voke a war. This is a most unblushing misrepresen tation and itiv still...atom The ohjt et of the opponents of Russian aggression, throughout the controversy, has been to obtain some ch.ence of preserving peace. Th.•y have admitted, with pain, that the bully ing attempt at usurpation by Russia has rendered it extremely problematical whether peace can be preserved by any means or on any contingency. The possibility of war they have looked sadly but firmly in the face. But their great argu ment has been that if there were any way of pre serving peace, it wu by arresting Ituseiau aggres sion promptly and decidedly at the outset. The opponents of Russia on the great Eastern question are the real friends of peace. They know the of with which that Power has sought to steal a march upon Turkey and Europe, under the pretext of delct.ding some petty nun:Ruing privileges of the Greek rite io Turkey— which privileges have not in fact been assailed. In a series of treaties—concluded at the close of as many wars—Russia has contrived to get inserted stipulations, vague at first, but gradually becoming more definite, which might afford it a pre text at any time fur interfering in the domestic affairs of the Ottoman Empire. The object of this insidious,- stealthy, unintcrmittcd process was silently to weave around Turkey bonds which, like the magic thread of Mainsuna, should appear weak, until the victim was irretrievably enmeshed in them, ' The squabble about the affairs of the Holy Se pul,hre, and the occupation of the Danubian Proviucts, is but a part of this systematic aggression upon Turkey. Russia's aim is in the first place to aggrandise itself by appropriat ing the Ottoman dominions; in the second place, to avail itself of the iucressed strength it hopes to gain by that usurpation, more certainly to domineer over Europe and trample out every spark of constitutional liberty. 'l'o yield to this last move of Russia would only be to facilitate the further progress elite usurpations. A stand must be made against them some time, unless Europe is prepared to submit to Cossack domination. There are traitors within her gates ready to hail with joy the advent of the Russian hordes, and make common cause with them. The sooner a stand is made the more easy it will be to repel Huard'. A more resolute policy, on the part of England and France at the outset of the late nego tiations, would either have terrified Russia at once into retracing its steps, and then there would have been no war, or it would have brought on the contest before Russia was thoroughly prepared, and the war would have been more brief. It seemed fit to the wise heads which regulato the affairs of France and England to think and act other wise ; it seemed fit to the equally wise heads which regulate the affairs of Austria and Prussia, to emu• late, or go be 3 ond the Western Powers in their tem porising policy. They are now likely to reap the fruit of it. War appears to be all but inevitable. The insolence of Russia—growing more intolerable in proportion as the other Powers gave way to it—bas had its natural effect of galling the Turks beyond endurance. The Emperor of RUSSIA —aware of the emptiness of his own and the Aus trian Treasuries—beginning to suspect that the English; and French Governments are really in ear nest in their opposition to his imperious will—is understood to have shown symptoms of a desire to retrace his steps, but not till it is too late. The Porte is now ire disposed to let him off so easily as the Western Powers might be. It is& dreadful thing to look upon war as immedi ate and inevitable. What a world of misery must be suffered because ace bloated despot has been at once unjust and insolent! And yet, fully and deeply is we &roll this conviction, the lodger we fel l leT tle itOn the matter the more we feel inclined to come to the conclusion that for the joint interests of Turkey and Europe, immediate war is the most de airabie termination of the controversy. Had Russia accepted the Vienna Noto as modified by the Turkish Ministers, immediate war would have been avoided ; but the status gust which existed when the Ilanculaorr mission first reached Constantinople would have remained unaltered. At some future period Russia would have been certain to avail itself of the insidious and surreptitious treaty stipulations to which we have adverted above. The so-called peace would have been but a hollow truce. But the first cannon fired on the Danube will blow all these treaties, with all their stipulations, to the four winds of Heaven. Nay, it may be argued that a mere declaration of war is sufficient in the eye of international law to abrogate all treaties pre-existing between the Powers thereby placed in the relation of belligerents. The bonds, therefore, which Russia has been silently, at different opportunities, throwing around Turkey will have been broken. The destined prey will have burst from the toils of the spoiler. It must be the care of Turkey and her allies, when pa cific relations are re-established between the Ottoman and Russian Empires, to make a stand against the resuscitation of every compact that attributes to 'Russia such right of inter ference in the internal affairs of Turkey, or any part of the Turkish territory, as is irreconcileable with the sovereignty of the Porte within its own dominions—with the independence of the nation. The brushing away of those diplomatic springes which Russia has been so assiduously setting for Turkey would be cheaply purchased by a war. On the other hand, the want of wisdom evinced by the Emperor of Rt:sste in provoking a war with Turkey at this moment—and of the Austrian Govern ment in abetting him—looks like infatuation. A war between any of the despotic Powers and any neigh bour at this time can be compared to nothing but one of those buccaneering duels in which the combat►nts exchanged shots over • barrel of gun powder with the top stove in. Europe is every where thickly strewed with combustible matter, and they who have most to lose thereby insist upon incur ring the rick of setting fire to it. The friends of rational progress—from the most moderate of Whigs to the Demwratie Pacifique—tnay shudder at the prospect; but there is not • Red Republican in Europe, not an ,'tneutier by profession, but will hail the commencement of a war with delight. The fiercest of tempests, however, must have an end. War must some time or another be succeeded by peace, which will find the despotic ruleta weak sad exhausted by their exertions, and the people strong in their immortal youth. The friends of rational freedom may therefore eye the coming storm with, comparative tranquillity; but the absolute rulers who have provoked it—or connived at its provocation —may rest assured that if once it begins to rage in earnest, many of their already tottering thrones will be laid prostrate by it before it blow over. LATEST FROM THE CONTINENT. (ST SOMARINS •su SCROPSAN TILIORAPH.) VIENNA, WZDMESDAY EVENIXO. The semi-official Currtsposukuce publishes the intelligence from Constantinople of the 27th nit. received cut Trieste. The probabilities pointed to an immediate decla ration of war, but the ambassadors had not aban doned the hope that reciprocal concessions might yet be made. The Lloyd's advice' say that the Divan's resolve was an" eventual" declaration of war. There were six British and four French war steamers at Constantinople, including those stationed there for the special service of the ambassadors. SMYRNA, SEPT. 23. To-day the Hungarian, Martin Kossta, left for the United States, with the consent of the Austrian go vernment. TIIE UNITED STATES. --. SOUTHAMPTON, Tau RSDAY. The Franklin arrived at Cowes this evening on her way to Havre. She left New York on the 24th ult. A great meeting took place in New York to present Captain Ingraham with a public testimonial for rescuing Kosta from the Austrians. Commodore Vanderbilt has arrived at New York in his yacht, the North Star. Gold in great abundance, it is re ported, has been found in the Rio Mescals. At Havannah there were no operations in sugar, owing to the high prices of freight. The Mayor of Mon treal has resigned, in consequence of the popular hatred against him for his connexion with the G .vazzi riots. Yellow fever is still on the decline in New Orleans and Mobile, but is ravaging the small towns along the coast and the plantations in the interior. Yellow fever has broken out in Philadel phia. Dreadful tires have happened in Manchester, N.H., and Brooklyn. The Africa's news had no effect on the cotton market, but caused a rise in bresidstuffs. Cotton unchanged; breadstuff's dearer ; freights moderate. Exchange, 1091 to 110. The Franklin has on board 300 ,000 dollars in speck for France. THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 7, 1853. has frequently furnished the Erpresa with valu able Information: CONSTANTINOPLE. SIFT. 22. Events are changing every hour: hitherto, I have always written "pc e," becauK up to yesterday every one believed in it; today we are decidedly " war." M. Nleyendorff was either deceived as regards the feelings of the Emperor Nicholas, or else be endea voured to blind his fellow diplomatists. M. de la Cour is altogether disconcerted • he is evidently surprised at the turn affairs have t aken. Yesterday, a telegraph from Vienna informed us that Russia re jected all the modifications of the note. Some say she only objects to two of them. Still we are wait ing to see whether this is to be really war, or merely a suspension of the solution, leaving a door open for future negotiations. The anxiety is general, but fear is unknown. It is just possible that the face of things stay again change; but remember the question has been sifted to the uttermost—it is no longer suspettible of a new ' view, nor can it remain any longer unsettled, either as regards Turkey or the rest of Europe. I have always told you that the reason which had the greatest weight with me as regards peace, was that I considered that unless the European govern ments were really blind, they would never permit a 1 war whose first spark must enkindle the whole con , tinent ; but now it is of little avail to reason upon probabilities, and I shah henceforth furnish you only with facts, whence you must draw jour own conclu sions. By the bye, you must bear in mind that all news coming from Russian frontiers, via the Augs burg Gazette ' is doubly tinctured with imperial vi ews , and must be received cautiously. Although the position of the two regents of Mol davia and Wallachia permits them scarcely a shadow of independent action, hedged in as they are by Russian generals, it is interesting to mark their con duct towards Turkey under circumstances unusually trying. M. do la tour has received a report from the I. tench consul at Jassy, dated the oth Septem ber, which contains the Mowing : " His highness Princo Ghika has received a despatch from the Turkish minister, in virtue of which the right of re maining in his principality is accorded to him, in the event of his being disposed to maintain his external relations with the Porte. His highness hereupon sent a courier to Constantinople, in order to declare that be (the prince) had never given up those rela tions to the Porte, nor refused to pay the tribute. His highness would, consequently, continue in bis administration of the principality as long as no greater hindrances were laid in his way on the part of Russia than had hitherto been the case; nor had he been till now interfered with in the performance of his duty." The answer received from Prince Stirhey was not so clear and simple. With respect to his future con duct he observed the greatest reserve, nor did he allude to the payment of the tribute. In order, however, to resume his relations with the consuls of France and England, he requested the Prussian consul to assure them that he would pay the tribute. Oa the Bth September the English consul paid his first visit again to the Prince, after the resumption of diplomatic relations; and on the 9th M. Pougadi did the same. The German Journal of Frankfurt makes a start ling statement, which nevertheless we cannot regard as intelligence. Its Warsaw correspondent writes on the 29th ult. :—" The Emperor of Russia, accom panied by the Hereditary Grand Duke, arrived here yesterday afternoon at two o'clock from Olmutz. At half-put tour o'clock his Majesty continued his jour ney to St. Petersburg." This haste to reach his capital would look ominous were it well ascertained. But, besides that on the 29th ult. nothing was known either at Olmutz or at Warsaw of the pro ceedings of the three previous days at Constantinople ; we know that three days later, on the 2nd of Octo ber, the sovereigns of Austria and Prussia left for Warsaw to meet the Czar by previous appointment, although the telegraph would not have faded to ad vise them had the Czar changed his original resolu tion. The probability is then that the Warsaw writer misapprehended the destination of the Czar. It has been stated that the French government re called the permission at first given to General Guyon to go to Warsaw. A telegraphic despatch from Ber lin, however, states that he had actually left for the Russian camp. A letter from Cronstadt, in Transylvania, states that new Russian troops are constantly arriving on the line of the Danube, and that the forwarding of ammunition is going on actively. The Constantinople correspondent of the Parla ment° of Turin, announces that the Spanish General Prim, Count de Reuss, has entered the service of the I'orte, and been appointed to the command of a divi sion Of 20,000 men. Letters from St. Petersburg of the 24th ult., an nounce that the Russian Baltic fleet had received orders to return to Cronetadt, and hold itself at the disposal of the government. Omer Pacha had established a cordon sunitaire along the right bank of the Danube, to keep off the cholera and the Russian spies. Several English officers of rank had been observed in the neighbourhood of the Turkish camps, recon noitering the force of the Turkish troop!, and the state of the army in Roumelia and Bulgaria. Letters from Tabrecz of August 25, speak vaguely of a report that the Shah had quitted Tehran, for Sultanich, at the head of a large body of men, on the 20th of that month ; 2,500 loads of gunpowder and other military stores had been sent forward, part to remain at SultanieB for reviews and evolutions, and part to be deposited along the frontier. Orders had also been received', to send 6 cannons, 350 artillery men, and 600 loads of ammunition, with four regi ments of infantry, to the Khoi frontier. Owing to the difficulty of ascertaining the precise relations of the Persian and Ottoman governments, these move ments were regarded with suspicion by the friends of Turkey. The Augsburg Allyemeirse Zeitung states that Russian troops are being shipped from Sebastopol and landed on the east shore of the Black Sea, oppo. site to the fort Achalrich, on the frontier of the two territories. The reason given was the concentration of Turkish troops is that quarter. It has already been stated that more than 800 Poles have inscribed their names at the Turkish Embassy and offered their services to the Porte in the event of a war with Russia. The Press. now publishes a letter addressed to Reschid Pacha by M. Christian Ostrowski, and written in the name of his fellow-countrymen, repeating this offer to the Turk ish Minister of Foreign Affairs. continued slowly the lamentable work of &coati:molten and destruction, and which was terminated by dropsy in the chest, with suffusion aim 611irIC4110111, swilling of the etc. Everything announced an early death •, but it was huped that the efforts of science—that the de voted and tender care of an afflicted family would prolong his precious existence some days Imager. The illustrious patent ruse on Sunday afternoon and dressed himself. He went to bed again at ab ut five o'clock, and took a slight repast. Sume minutes after be asked to be raised • little, and to be placed in the middle of his bed ; then all at once be cried, in pressing his breast, tt I am suf focating ! lam suffocating !" His attendant.. hastened to him, and proceeded to light a lamp, the better to appreciate his state ; but before this could be done the death rattle was beard, and in less than five minutes after Festive Aram" was dead. During all his malady, his lofty intelligence was not obscured for an instant. Scarcely three weeks ago, he was labouring at a new edition of his celebrated work on thunder ; he recalled what he had read, dictated precious additions, caused difficult researches to be made, &c.; cad he eked M. Babinet to prepare for him a table of the best determined numbers of the length of undulation., in order that he might complete an important paper on light; he c,rrected the proofs of his biographical notice of Menge ; he terminated Lis notices on planets, etc. Whenevcr we went to see him, he asked us what was new in the scientific wurid; be took a lively interest in the progress we related; he digs cuesed ith perfect lucidity; he made profound remarks, There was not one of our visits which did not supply us with original observations. We cannot describe how much he suffered at not being able to attend the sittings of the Academy to fulfil his duties as perpetual secretary. The pain of his malady affected him a good deal less ; every week there was a violent conflict between his conscience, delicate to excess., and his physical weakness, the energetic refusals of physicians and the pressing solicitations of his family; more than once it was impossible to restrain him, and he was seen almost dying endeavouring to examine a voluminous correspondence,: as if Le wished to yield the last sigh at the post of duty. Francais Amen was born on the 26th February, 1786, at Estegel, near Perpignan ; he was consequently • little more than 67 years of age ; and he die! two days before hie fitte ' which was celebrated on the 4th October. He was educate d at the College of Perpignan. One day he met an engineer of mines, whose brilliant co-curve struck him. " What must be done to be entitled to wear the noble insignia of science ?" asked he. " Enter the Ecole Point chnique." " And how is that to be doe. ?" "By undergoing certain examicatious." "Where and when can one undergo these examinations ?" "At Mont pelier, and after seriously studying mathematics." " I will study mathematics, and will enter the Ecole Polytech• pique." One or two years after, in 1804, Francois Arago entered the school, and was at the head of the pupils ad mitted that year. In 180, when only twenty years of age, be fulfilled the functiuna of secretory of the Bureau des Longitudes. Shortly after he was charged with a scientific mission in Spun; he there incurred great dangers, (mu which he only escaped to fall int) the hands of an Algerian corsair,. Tu recompene the glorious labours of this rude campaign, the Academy of Sciences violated its regulations, ! and admitted the young and intrepid savant wheu only 23 years of age. Numerous researches, experiments, and in ventions have immortalised his name; but his principal claims to renown are-Ist, magnetic and rotatory polarisa tion ; 2nd, magnetism by the action of currents ; 3rd, wags netistu by rotation. Franc Lis Argo was an encyclopedic genius. Sciences, letters, social economy—his vast intellis genee embraced all with an ever equal superiority. At the Ecole Polytechnique, the Atedemie, the Observatoire, and the Municipal Council, the cab cat and varlet: of his know ledge, Ind especially the astonishing faculty of assimilation, vulgarisation, and application with which he was gifted, ! placid him everywhcts in the first rank. As an orator he was distinguished by marvellous lucidity of exposition, by the abundance, facility, and picturesque e nerg y his delivery. As a writer, he was nictinguishel by clear ness elegance, and a sustained firmness of style— qualities which place him on a par with the most distinguished of our prose writers. He possessed," says Timon , " the secrets of the language, as well as the secrets of the heart." " Never," says one of his bio graphies, " did human head undertake, without breaking, pitch an enormous mass of labour." Arago considered every man idle who did not work fourteen hours a-day. Heys id that kind were, however, for rim days of repose. He was engaged at the same time in chemistry, physics, mechanics, astronomy, natural history, philosophy, and literature. He was a member of ell the scientific or incluatriel elation in the world ; his study was literally encum bered with plans to examine and memoirs to analyse. The government, the municipality, the establish- ! mews of public utility and even private industry found in him an active and disinterested counsellor and guide. His time was given to all things and to everybody. At the same time that he had an eye to what passes above he Lad one to what takes place here, and amidst all his absorbing and varied occupations lie fuund time to show himself one of the worthiest end most charm. ing talkers in the saloons of Paris. Poor M. de Humboldt !, On the anniversary of your birth, when you had accom plished y.ur 83rd year, you wrote to IL &wain from your humble solitude of Tegel : " I live, alas ! in the greatest anxiety. The sufferings of my master and my friend, the dearest that I have in the world, plunge me luta despair. Hew tad it is to survive thee, who, for more than forty years, have been the object of my love and my ad m i ra ti on . Arago is no more—permit us to take part in your sorrow, and to weep with you. The Academy of Sciences has just lost another of its members, M. Auguste St. Ililaire, of the section of botany, aged 74. The rumour of General Canrobert having been appointed to command an army in the east is re newed. I learn, from a good source, that General Canrobert has certainly left I'aris, but on what account I cannot say. Mention was made some time since that an Anglo- French company had applied to the government for a concession of the transatlantic packets, and that the port from which they would start would be Dieppe. The Journal du Havre now states in a positive manner that the application has been favour ably received, and it even appears certain, it says, that the company in question has been authorised to introduce free of all duties a certain number of foreign built steamers calculated for trans-oceanic navigation, and which will be stationed at Dieppe. The Emperor, accompanied by Prince Napoleon and several officers of his household, went out shoot ing the day before yesterday in the park of Ver sailles : 2.10 head of game were killed, out of which his Majesty killed 117. The Emperor, during his late visit to Boulogne, presented the gendarme who had arrested him in 1840 with a military medal, remarking at the same time, "I like men who obey their commanders." His Majesty also sent 500 f. to one of the coast guard who had presented hie piece at him when h e hi.nded. During the visit, some presentations took place which have not been mentioned in the journals. Among them was that of the old sailors of Boulogne, who had received medals for saving lives from ship wreck and drowning. They were presented to his Majesty by M. Guerin de Tencin and Major Sir Warwick Hele Tonkin. The Empress, on hearing the recital of the fate of some unfortunate fishermen whose boat had foundered that very day in sight of Boulogne, was affected to tears, and gave a sum of 11,000 f. to be divided among their families. The fete of St. Denis, the first Bishop of Paris, will be celebrated with great pomp on Sunday neat in all the churches of Paris. His relics, as well as those of his two companions in martyrdom, St. Hos tique and St. Eleuthere, will be exhibited to the public during the whole day at Notre Dame. In the cathedral of St. Denis a grand musical mass will be performed. It is stated that Mgr. Sacconi, Apostolic Nuncio of the Holy See in Bavaria, is to succeed to the post left vacant at Paris by the death of Mgr. Garibaldi. The Pope, on the application of the Archbishop of Albi, has issued a brief, declaring the ancient cathe dral of that town a " basilique insigne." PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING. M. Granter de Cassagnac, whose pen has long been inactive, has a very warlike article in the Con stitutionnel to-day. The article is remarkable for the complimentary tone ►n which it speaks of the vitality of Turkey, from which some infer that the Powers, seeing her better able to take care of herself than was thought, mean to leave her very much to her own resources. Up to post hour the expected telegraphic des patch announcing the arrival of the Constan tinople boat at Marseilles has not come. It is thought probable that the packet which should have sailed on the 23th must have been ietaincd a day or two by the French ambassador to wait for decisive news. A telegraphic despatch received to-day announces the arrival in the Cherbourg roads of Admiral Charner's squadron coming from the Duves. I am told that the population of the Faubourg St. Antoine was much pleased with the demeanour of the military at M. Arago's funeral. Many of the soldiers wore " immortelles." I have not heard that any arrests were made. It is curious that among the many eminent members of the republican party who attended (and the Siecle gives a long list be sides those that I observed yesterday), there was not one of Arago's colleagues in the provisional govern ment. Lamartine, Dupont de l'Eure, Cremieux, and Garnier Paes, are absent from Paris ; Ledru Lais, and - Flown, are in exile ; Albert is a prisoner at Belle-Isle, and Armand Marrast is dead. To-day the Bank raised thu ;;;;;idiscount from Three to Four per cent. At the close of a fiat day at the bourse prices exhibited a trifling rally in the Threes, and a further fall of per cent. in the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. Closing prices :—Three per Cent. Rentes, 72.90; ditto Four-and-a-Half per Cults., 99.50; Bank Shares, 2,795. BELGIUM. A meeting of founders and engineers took place on Sunday last, at Charleroi, for the purpose of address ing a collective petition tc the Minister of the In tetior of Belgium, praying for the introduction of foreign pig iron free of duty. Several large manu facturers were present, as well as the directors of the principal establishments in the country where the article is used. A petition to the above effect was drawn up, and immediately received numerous signatures. The petition is caused by the Belgian ironmasters, in consequence of their numerous con trects, not being able to supply the quantities re quired by the founders, who have consequently great difficulty in keeping their numerous hands at work. HOLLAND. -- ROTTERDAM, Ocr. 5. The cholera is still carrying off many victims in this city and in Amsterdam. The number of cases in the cholera hospital of the latter, from Sept. 31) to Oct. 3, was 31, of which 57 terminated fatally. Yes terday four more persons died in that establishment, and 29 others were under medical treatment. It is now known that the crew of the English schooner Dart, Captain Ward, have been saved. The above vessel, bound front Liverpool to Rotterdam, sprung a leak on the 27th ult. off Egmond. The English schooner HarmLs has been brought to Flushing by some Belgian pilots. The captain and some of the crew were carried off by a heavy sea, and the two sailors who, together with the captain's wife, remained on board, were found in a disabled state. The schooner, bound from London to Sunder. land, was drifting about when discovered by the above pilots. The following is the text of the reply made by the King of Holland to the addtem of the Second Chamber : " (sentlenieu—l beg you to assure the chamber that its address Lea given me much satisfaction. 1 remark with pleasure the high importance which the chamber attaches to the reciprocal confidence between the sovereign and the people, and to the consolidation of the bonds which, for ages put, have attached the Netherlands to the house of Orange. Let the chamber he convinced that its sentiments dl tied an echo is me, and that 1 highly appreciate them." SPAIN. • - The Madrid journals of the 30th ult. state that the Queen had entirely recovered f out her indisposition. The commission nominated by the government to in quire into the question of differential duties has, says the Xucion, not been able to come to a definite resolution on the subject, one portion of it being in favour of protection to Spanish vessels, the other against it. The government will consequently have to decide the matter. A Madrid letter says that the question of the cohrocation of the Cortes is not to be submitted to the council as soon as was expected. M. Salamanca had returned to Madrid. He un nouneed, as already stated, that the organisation of the Northern Railway Company is complete. The concession of the line from Soucellunos to Ciudad Real has, in addition, been awarded to him. ITALY. • 4. PIEDMONT. A M. Moretti, a printer, of Genoa, was tried ou the let, before the Court of Appeal of that city, for having illegally printed M. Mazzini's pamphlet on the insurrection of the Gth of February at Milan. The court deferred its sentence. RUSSIA AND TURKEY. Yesterday further despatches from Constantinople via Trieate were received in London. Their date is not later than that of advice, previously received, viz., the 27th ult., which were expedited by special Tatar to Belgrade and thence transmitted by the Scullin telegraph. They confirm our earlier intelli gence. No declaration of war had been made by the Porte ; but after the vote of the Grand Council such an event was regarded ae highly probable. The ambassadors were still seeking to retain the Porto within the sphere of diplomacy, not altogether without hopes of success. The Constitutionnel thus states, probably by the aid of the French govern ment, the occurrences of the 25th and 26th ult. at Constantinople "At the reiterated request of M. de Bruck, the internuncio of Austria, the Divan 'vitt ou the Voth ult., to deliberate anew on the note o f Vienna. The Divan was unanimous in deciding that the Porte could then lain than ever, in presence of the interpretation given to that document by the cabinet of St. Petersburg, accept it, without its having first received the modifications indicated by ' Reschid Pacha. That determination was to be commu.l nicated to the ambassadors of the Four Powers. The Dime else decided that a grand council should he convoked for the next day to examine the situation. That meeting took place the next day, and this is what is said to have been decided :—First of all, it was resolved that the system of negotiations was ex hausted; next, all the measures necessary for the last preparative' of defence were regulated; lastly, it was declared that the moment had arrived for making what was called at Constantinople the de claratiou of war." From one of our German correspondents we have the following: BERLIN, Ocr. 4. It is said, in the semi-official Austrian Correspon dence, that " His Majesty the Emperor of Russia is solicitous for the maintenance of peace." This soli citude has been proclaimed a hundred times since the outbreak of the difference with Turkey, and always to delude Europe. It must be said that Europe has exhibited a remarkable aptitude for its own delusion. For whenever have these prolusions of peace been aecompauicd by any renunciation of those pre tensions which have called two mighty armies to the banks of the Danube, and outraged the feeling of the whole civilised world ? And thus it is again. Look at the language of the official organ of the Austrian government, and you will find a glorification of the Czar, his ardent desire for peace, and his readiness to offer "an expedient" by which the Porte may put an end to the present difficulties. What is this expedient? In form—so we are assured here, for the Correspondence does not en lighten us upon this point—it is a declaration to be given to Turkey, not by the Czar, as would have been natural and proper, but by the Four Powers, a declaration whose only object is to induce the Porte to sign away the sovereign rights of the Sultan and the states. It is difficult to procure very ample in formation on the subject; but I may state, without fear of contradiction, that the effect of the " expe dient," as intended by the Cur, and you may be pretty sure that he will say to the Conference "Take back your note" should its members not carry out his ideas,—the expedient I say which the Czar intends is not a declamtion which would limit the extent or force of the original Vienna note. It would, in fact, be little more than a compliment, a gilding of the pin, and as I learn from the best sources, would simply amount to an assurance that in signing the original unamended Vienna note, the Sultan surrendered none of his Sovereign rights. Now a declaration is either true or false. If such a declaration were made by the Power!, it might be understood either as annulling so much of the " note" as was inconsistent with the Sultan's independence, and as restraining the powers arising out of the document within reasonable limits, which I will suppose is the view meant to be taken of it by France and England—or the declaration might mean that such were the notions of sovereignty and independence held by the parties making it, that they will not cease to treat the Sultan out wardly as a Sovereign power upon his signing away the best half of his rights. This latter is what Austria and Russia understand by the declaration proposed. Thus the vaunted " expedient" of the Czar is only a trick to restore the equivoque and paltering of the exploded Vienna note. Me promoters say that it offers to restore the common ground, which the amendments of the Porte, and the explanations of the Czar, destroyed. To my way of thinking, it would restore a common hypocrisy, and perpetuate a com mon uncertainty. I know that in the eyes of many persons, especially of the diplomatic class, it was con sidered a fine feature of the Vienna note, that it had two meanings, sod I have read ingenious newspaper articles in praise of its equivocal phraseology. The act of drawing up a document, speaking with forked tongue, is very well io its place, which I take to be where mere personal feelings are in question. But we all know right well, that the Czar wants the Sultan's note for business purposes. Whatever right it can be made to coney he will use, and use to the subversion of the Sultans throne. . . . I c.innot think that after its six months' experi ence, the British cabinet is to be duped into accept ing such an arrangement. Thc following letter is from a correspondent who FRANCE. PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING. Alfred Arago and his brother Jaques were the chief mourners at the funeral of M. Arago. A vast number of academicians and members of the learned bodies followed. There were six .. . pall bearers—Admiral Sandhi as president of the Board of longitude ; M. Goudchaux ; an opera tive engineer named Boissel ; M. Polignac, a son of Charles X.'s minister, a pupil of the Polytechnic School, and a staunch republican; M. Flourens, of the Academy of Sciences; and a sixth individual whose name I could not learn. Among the political friends of the deceased were the great poet Beranger, bowed down with the weight of his fourscore years, and General Cavaignac; MM. Bastide, Guinard, Ferdinand do Lastcyrie, Jules Simon Lefranc, Bertholon, Cabon, Peauge, Charles Les- imps, Vanlabelle, Nlaichais, and Pierre Dupont. Among the foreigners of distinction were M. Mania, the ex-President of the Republic of Venice, M. Mon tanelli of Florence, and M. Cernaschi, a member of the Roman Constituent Assembly, and one of the leaders of the barricades in Rome. The procession took more than an hour to reach the church. No one was allowed to enter without a ticket, and these were only ibsued to the Arago family, official per sonages, and a comparatively few number of friends. When the hearse r cached the Pantheon there was a very large following, but in the Rue St. Victor a neatly executed movement of the military cut off at least three-fourths. This operation was repeated two or three times, and by the time the procession reached the Bastille the number of followers was greatly diminished by these means and by the dreadful weather. The Abbe Moigno publisbes in the Pegs the fol lowing notice of the lamented deceased : The long series of sufferings which brought him to the grave, at a not very advanced age, commenced by a diabe tes not very intense, I•nt which rapidly exhausted his strength. The diabetes gave way to another malady, which GERMANY. —.— Our own correspondent says: BERLIN, OCTMIER 1. The King of Prussia set off last night to R arsaw to wait upon the Emperor of Russia. This open demonstration has excited much surprise, and some concern ; but the step is in keeping with the King's character. A letter from Berlin, of the 2nd, in the Culogne Gazette, says :—"lt may be considered as certain that negociations have been commenced between France and Prussia to arrive at the conclusion of a commer cial treaty between France and the Zoltverein. France asks the Zollverein to reduce the duty on jewellery and articles of luxury, and on her side she proposes to favour navigation, by diminishing the duties levied at the entry of ports." Another correspondent writing on the same date states that Lieutenant-Colonel Count Munster, Prus sian Military Envoy at the Imperial Russian court, who attended the Czar to Warsaw, arrived from that Owe on Sunday morning, the Ind inst., at Sans Souci, with an autograph letter from the Czar, con taining a pressing invitation to attend the closing manmuvres of the Russian troops, and to meet the Emperor of Austria, who, it is affirmed, has pro ceeded to Warsaw. By accident or coincidence, the Minister President and for Foreign Affairs (Baron von Manteuffel) had proceeded on Saturday, for two or three days, to his estate in Lausatia. Whether the resolution on the part of his Prussian Majesty is to be considered as a political demonstration, or whe ther it was a mere act of friendly cordiality, was questioned in Berlin. GREECE. -.-- The Augsburg Gazette states, on the authority of a letter from Athens, dated the 23rd ult., that the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Isles, and the lion. Mr. Wyse, English ambassador at Athens, had paid a visit to Zante, after which the latter returned to Athens, and the former went by a steamer to Candia. "It is probable," adds the Gazette, "that the Republic of the Seven Islands will become one of eight islands." POLAND. - A letter from Warsaw of the 29th ult. states that the Bank had given notice that it would raise the rate of discount from five to six per cent. from the let. MR. AND MRS. HOPE. (From Gatirkuti's Messemer.) Mr. Adrian John Hope and Mrs. Hope (daughter of General Rapp) are pleading in England for a separation. Whilst waiting for • decision of the English courts, it be came necessary to settle what should be done with respect to their children, and the Civil Tribunal of Paris was appealed to. By decision of the 9th June last, Mrs. Hope was authorised to keep two of her children with her, and to r, tire with them to the Convent of the Dames-Augustines ; Mr. Slope, on his part, having two children with him, and he being at liberty to pawl see the other two as often as he p.euid. Some days after Mrs. Hope, by anotherjudgment, 1111.1 authorised to go to the Pyrenees with the children to take the waters, and Mr. Hope was condemned to pay her 30,000fr..f0r the expenses of the journey and the mein tenance of herself and children. Against these decisions Mr. Hope appealed to the Imperial Court, but the court by judgment of the 29th June confirmed them; decreeing, however, that the children should only remain with Mrs. Hope to the 15th of September, unless the English Courts in the meantime should decide otherwise. On the approach of the 15th of September, Mrs. Hope caused it to be represented to the court that, notwithstand ing all her efforts, she had been unable to ob tain a decision in England, and she requested that the children might continue with her. As • proof that the delay in England arose from no fault of hers, she stated that she had been authorised by the Eccle siastical Court in London to serve a summons on her hus band on the 23rd August last; but personal service was ne cessary by the English law, and it was not until the 14th September that her agents had been able to effect that ser vice, and then Mr. Hope had thrown the summons out of his carriage.window, leaving it in the mud. She fur ther requested that she might be permitted to leave the convent of the Dames-Augustinco, and go to occupy an apartment in the hotel of Count Mole, in the Faubourg St. Hanore. The matter was yesterday brought before the Im perial Court, and the demands of Mrs. Hope were supported at some length by M. Hebert, her advocate. M. Duvergier, on the part of Mr. Hope, opposed them, and contended that tho court could not modify its preview decision; he also denied that the account given of the service of the sum mons was correct. The Tribunal decided that, under the ci cumstances, Mrs. Hope should be authorised to keep her children fir four months longer, subject to Mr. Hope b in- allowed to see them for two hours at a time three times a. week; also that Mrs. Haw should be permitted to live in the Hotel MoW, Faubourg St. Honore, instead of in the convent. Ely Court. BALMORAL. OCT 6. a i ;t‘ ' toward. It t lL ter. ed lialtuusal y. b t etk l ay Lite Her Majesty and Prince Ali)ert 'ode yest tr d ay aftg i r r n j e lo 2l , : . ll ci h ni th ti e . i ' ra r c in attendacce upon her Majesty. A deputation from the principal brewer , of the trete polls, including representatives from the arms of Barclay and Co., Mena and Cu., Reid and Co., Calvert and Co., Cumbe,'afield, and Co., NV hitbn Ad and Co., and Elliot and Cu., had an interview with Vi,cuunt Palmerston yes. t..rdsy at the linize•offiee on the aubject a the °titration of the Smoke Prevention Act. MARRIAGE IN Mull LlFE.—Yestcrilay the m ar . riage of Richard I'. Long, Esq., eldest eon of Walter Lou, E.q , of Rood Ashton, M.P. tor North Wilts. and Char. lotto Anne, only child of W. W. Fitzwilliaan ilium, Es q .. of Homewood, M.P. for the ccuuty of Wicklow, and grand niece of Quintin Dick, Esq., was solemnized at St. George's Church, Hanover square. The ceremony was performed by the lion. and Rev. W. J. Br , drick, Rector of Bath, and Chaplain in Ordinary to the Queen, in the presence of a largo circle of both families. After the religious rite ►ad been completed, the company proceeded to the residence of Quintin Dick, Esq., in Curzon-street, where they partook of a splendid drjeuner. The hc,i:h of the bride and bride. groom having been drunk w,th much etithusiasui, th e y took their departure for Comptunliark, Wiltshire. THE REGISTRATIONS. - MIDDLESEX. The revision of the hat of vozcra for the county of Middlesex was resumed yssterday, at the Castle Inn, Brentford, by Mr. Lancelot S odwell, when the lists foe the parishes of Acton, Brcutford, Lidos, Greenford, Use. wall,lleston, I•lewor,h, North.)lt, Perris&lc, and Twicken ham, were proceeded with. The liberal interests were advocated by Mr. W. IL James, of the registration office, and Mr. T. Alley Joseu assisted by Mr. B. Maclure, defended the conservatives. In the parish of Ealing, Anthony Nathan de Roth child, described as of 2, Grosvenor-glace ; and Mayer Am geld de Rothschild, of 107, Piccadilly, wl.o it will be remembered were struck off the register at tbe last revision, lent in a fresh claim to be placed upon the register in respect of a rent charge on freehold land, situate in the Orchard. rokd, Brentford, granted to them by the Baron Lionel de Rothschild. Mr. Sidney Smith, of the City of London .toosixit tion, appeared in support of the claim, and produced the deed of rent charge. _ _ Mr. T. Alley Jones, the em'ervative erect, stated that he appeared to oppose Ohre claims. Upon reference it would he found that the rent charge, upon which the claim was mad', was grant"' by the Baron Lionel de Rothschild, the member for the City of Landon, to the claimants, who were his brothers. At the lust revision, he (Mr. Joao) had succeeded in expunging from the register the names of alt three. He hoped to be able to show the court that the present claims were not of a nature which could be legally substantiated. Ilia objections to the present claims were two-fold. First be centeuded that the nut-charge was ma of sufficient value, being a rent-charge for life to threejoiat tenants, and its amount bean; only 201., whereas the Re form Act provided that in the case of rent-charges for life, in order to entitle a person to vote, they "shall be of no clear yearly value of not less than ten pounds above all rents and charges payable out of or iu respect of the same." The present rent-charge of 201. divided by three would only give 6/. 1:31. 4d. each. His second objection was that the claimants had not been sufficiently long in possession °Ulm rent-charge to entitle them to the franchise. Mr. Sidney Smith based the claim entirely upon the deed, to which he called the barrister's attention. The Revising Barrister examined the di ed, and said that he did not think it would be sufficient, because in the CU. of a rent•cbarge, it was necessary that the parties should have been in receipt and possession of the money arising from it six months prior to the 31st July, and the deed was only dated in December last. Mr. Sidney Smith said that it was so; but it provided that the first rent should become due, and did become doe, and was paid on the 25th December, which gale a clear six months before the 31st July. Mr. Jones should be enabled to prove that no rent had been paid upon the 25th December last. Ile would not dispute that Mr. Smith held a receipt for the money, dated in December lust, but it would he found that the ri:cipt was not stamped until August last. The Revising Barrister—l do not think it will be nem lacy to go into that part of the c.ise, as the value will be found to be insufficient, and fatal to the claim•. What is the necessary amount in the case of a rent charge for life ? Mr. Jones—Ten pounds in a rent charge fur life, and forty shillings in a rent charge in fee. The Revising Barrister The precise words of the act, the 2 Will. IV., c. 45, sec. 18, the Reform Act, are as follows :—" That no person shall be entitled to vote in the election of a knight or knights of the shire to serve in any future parliament, or in the Election of a member or mem bers to serve in any fixture parliament, for any city or town being a county of itself, in respect of any freehold lands Of tenements whereof such person may be seised for his own life, or for the life of another, or for any fins whatever, ex cept such person shall be in the actual and bona fide occu. pation of such lands er tenements, or except the same shall have come to such person by marriage, marriage set tlement, devise, or promotion to any bent fire, or to any office, er except the same shall be of the clear yearly value of not less than 101. above all rents and charges payable out of or in respect of the same, any statute or usage to the con trary notwithstanding." Now, this is a rent ch,rge for life, and it should be of the clear annual I .ilue of 101. to each of the joint tenants. Mr. Smith said it was a tent dune for 201., which would be sufficient for the two claimants. The Barrister remarked that there were three per.ona named in the deed—it was a joint tiLancy by three persons. Mr. Smith had been under the impression that the deed granted a rent charge of 20/. to each of the persons named; but after what he had heard he felt that the reverse was the case. The Barrister, again referring to the deed, said he re gretted that he could not allow these claims upon the ground of the insufficient •alue of the qualifications. The claims were, therefore, disallowed. Mr. Smith thanked the court for the attention which it had bestowed upon the matter, and expremed himwlf satis fied that the claims could not have been legally sustained. WEST SURREY. Arthur Ryland, Esq., the barrister appointed to Mile the lists of voters for the western tlivipiun of the county of Surrey, held his first court ou Wednetuby last, at the Spread Eagle, Epsom, and revised the lists in the parish', of Ashetead, Daustead, Chessingtou, Cuddiugtan, Effing ham, Epsom, Ewell, Fetcham, Great Bookham, Headley, Leatherhcad, Little Buokham, Stoke D'Abernon, Thames Ditton, and Walton•on•the-Hill. Mr. G. Edgar Dennes, solicitor, of London; Mr. J. Wells, solicitor, of London; Mr. G. White, solicitor, of Epsom ; and Mr. T. Jackson, of r Windlesham, attended far the reformers. The tarries were not represented. The following is the result of the daft revision: Reform objections sugained —.lshstead 1, Banstead 10, Great 11°okt:tam 1, Effingham 1, Epsum 7, Leatherhead 7, Stuke D'Abernon 1, Thames Ditton 3, Ewell 3. Oveneer's objections sustained:— Bonstead 3, Great Bookbsm 3, Little Bookharn 2, Epsom •5, Leatherhead 3, Stoke D'Abernon 2, Thames Ditton 5, Ew.dl 10.—Liberal majority on the day's revision 34. MANCHESTER. The parliamentary revision of the eitiviss of Manchester took place yesterday, by the lion. Richard Denman. Nei ther of the political parties had taken objectians to voters, and there were but about 50 new claims, so that the work was by no means a heavy one. The last year's register in eluded 17.826 names, whilst the present one has increased to about 19,000. INCOMES OF ONE HUNDRED POUNDS PER ANNUM, EXEMPT FROM INCOME TAX. TO TEI EDITOR or THI ZZTILEsi. Sza,—l think you will confer a benefit on many persons by calling attention to the fact that none whose in• come does not exceed 1001. per annurn,need pay the income tax at all, as they have only to insure their lives for a wall sum and deduct the premium from their income, thus bringing it below the taxable amount, and getting the bow tit of the insurance into the bargain. Your., respectfully, S. S. T. AMERICAN LAws.—Who would have thought, six Years ago, that the law* of America would have to be ytls• fished in English and Chinese for general caret/lab/it i let so it is. The ninth section of an act pave.' by the Cale; fora% Legislature for the collection of the foreign miner tea has been printed in the Chinese language, for the In formation of more than thirty thousand Chinese in the new state. Tong'k Achich, a Chinaman, certifies that the mane- Istion is "faithful sad good." .111 or. I. pre•• after .43111 —un eiem sho per: pre req ten So I the wit the the