The Express. — London, England, 1856-09-16 00:00:00

trte Oxpreoo. ilmormate leteidti lei' Tie iietr; 7 1;;;;• Weft parr. sae se et the new, Iq Zotiverteeareei by Tee Vas& el Qs ,ar M pebbeatke. 111011 WATZR AT LONDON BRUM/ rem 1...‘ —*arose. tae.... Atorsaaa, A. Ns. 11414maaw —Mo. aim U. Sis.— Aftersoas. 41. Om. LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16. THE prospects of the Money Market are again giving rise to earnest discussion. During the last fortnight, more especially, an uneasy feeling has arisen in mercantile circles; each weekly sitting of the Bank Directors has been watched with anxiety ; and the disturbance in the Stock Exchange Markets has assumed such proportions u to challenge general attention. In the Daily New of the 21st of July notice wee directed to the resumption of extensive bullion purchases in this market for account of the Bank of France; and it was mentioned that the con tracts then open for the supply of gold to that insti- tution were believed to amount to the serious total of some tour million. sterling. As wo anticipated would be the case, doubts were thrown upon the accuse, of these statements; and the discussion of the subject was discouraged by the reiterated assertion that no operations to anything like the extent referred to were contemplated. During the eight or nine weeks that have since elapsed, the imports of the precious metals represent an aggregate of up ward. of 4,300,0001., no portion of which has been retained bens. Indeed the Bank's stock of bullion is now 151,9881. less than on the 19th of July. The Bank of France is still buying eagerly the bulk of each fresh arrival of gold; and in the fact that the last return of that institution exhibits • decrease of 469,0001. in the metallic stock, we have sufficient evidence that this exceptional policy must still be rigorously persevered in. After making allowance for the portion of the gold contracts which had been already fulfilled when we drew attention to the sub ject, we find in these facts ample corroboration of the views expressed two months ago. It is true that the Bank of France is not the only buyer of gold here. The Credit Mobilier Society has required large supplies of the precious metal for the prosecution of its various speculations, especially of those in foreign states; and, above all, the extraordinary demand for silver for the East has caused a heavy efflux of gold to many parts of the Continent, in payment for the supplies of the less precious metal drawn from thence. This Eastern drain of silver, acting in conjunction with Use anomalous state of financial adze in France, has introduced complications into the European money markets sufficient to bale the penetration of !TM our best informed and most practical men of business., The continental exchanges an maintained at a point, which, under ordinary circumstances, ought alto-1 gether to preclude an efflux of gold thither ; yet , our supplies of gold leave us as quickly se they come in. It in evident that at the present period our old monetary traditions mast not be too closely studied. France draws gold from us simply because she mast have it. The whole Freud financial fabric hes been daring a long period , artificially propped op, and • forcible diversion of the arrest of gold is one of the chief means through which, at considerable cost, the Government and the, Beak of France are endeavouring to support the ex isting system until each time as monetary affairs shall have gradually settled down into a more nature! state. We will not here re-enter into the question of the cause which have placed the French money market in so unsatisfactory a position ea to require this constant support; neither will we pause to in quire what hope there was of a national bankruptcy in Frame being avoided had the Russian war been prolonged. It is sufficient to keep oar attention fixed upon the feet that the French mousy market, surcharged se it Is with newly created securities, and with heavy future engagements both at home and abroad, imperatively requires to be fed by extraordi nary metallic supplies. It matters little,whether the Bank of Franco or the Credit Mobilise Society is the actin spat in denuding no of oar fresh supplies of gold—the effect is the suss; i.e., the gold which would otherwise accumulate here, hastening the return of the rates of discount to the level natural to the monad condition of British trade, is draughted sway to support the Paris money market, and to made Frusta sapitaltaats to meet the inordinately heavy ongegeseete into which the unsound policy of take Government has encouraged them to embark. la reverting to the Silver question we need not hue reeapitaleto tie figure which we have pub. lishod on brew secassions, showing how enormous have boss of late yew the exports of silver from Francis, drawn partly from the French Bask, but giddy from the general circulation of the conptry. Other sikial returns, exhibiting an enormous impor- Who of gold late France (against the exportation of silver), and an immense increase in the coinage of gold at the French Mint, have also been previously referred to. Supposing the Eutern demand for silver to sooting', se appear, most probable, this exchange of gold spinet silver seems inevitable. The simple feet is that a thousand franca in bar gold despatched to France, wiU now purchase considerably more than • thousand francs is French silver coin. Gold thus Bows truly into that country, whilst five franc silver pieces are withdrawn at the rate of millions of francs every month. A precisely similar peones is in program in Holland, Belgium, and other eentinentel states. In Belgium the diminution in the silver coinage is so considerable that the Braisels Mist has been compelled within the last fortnight, owing to the actual scarcity of the circulating medium, to resume the coinage of gold pieces, although the Government had some time ago de:l monstised gold. The inconvenience threatened in many quarters has even led to the broaching of a proposal for holding 'continental Monetary Compete, I charged specially to inquire into the means for ob viating the evil consequences of the constant efibl of silver. Whilst incidentally glancing at the returns of the I Bank of France, it may be useful to correct a mistake' into which our contemporary the Times habitually ' falls. The item which ia designated in the official balancetbest "Premium on purchases of gold and silver" Y watched with considerable interest, as denoting the sum thrown away by the adminis intim in the prosecution of its artificial bill. lion operations, or, in other words, u indicating the comparative severity of the efforts im posed upon the institution by the necessities of its position. In the TIM! of Saturday last the expenditure under this head is set down at 60,000 i during the last month ; and the writer, after statidg that the amount in the preceding month was 48,0004, describes the present expenditure as extraordinary, and infers that the "efforts to supply the drain have been greater than ever." Now the fact is, that, since the system of paying a premium for gold was adopted by the Bank, the item In question has included each mouth the entire amount paid since the commencement of the half-year. For example, in the return for the month ending the 10.6 January last there was no entry for "premiums;" on the 14th Pete-nary the amonat was 42,6771.; on the 13th' March, 62 , 4061.; on the 10th April, 76,3391.; in May, 93,8181.; and on the 12th June, 112,7171. s►owing a constant increase as the expenditure of etch successive month was added to the total. This six months' accumulation of 112,7171. was then liqui dated out of the half-year's profits of the Bank, ands fresh half-yearly account was opened under the manse brad of premiums on bullion. On the 10th July the sum was 13,3071.; oo the 14th August, 46,8391.; and on the 11th inst., 69,8621. The sum spent during the last month having been 14,0131. only, against 32,6321. in the preceding mouth, it foUows that the Bank's purchases of bullion in England and elsewhere have considerably slackened of late, probably owing to the comparatively diminished amount of the fresh arrivals from Australia and elsewhere. These facts assist in explaining the decrease of 469,3001. in the bullion, shown in the last return. We have entered into dotal.. oecause the decrease in question is of fiord a sufficiently adverse feature, and because un necessary anxiety may be excited should the public be left under an erroneous impression that the decline in the Bank's metallic resources is in spite of un precedented efforts for their repkniehment. In the preceding remarks we have endeavoured to point out impartially a number of causes which tend to enhance the rates of discount. Other inflosoose are also in operation with asimilar tendency. Trade is active ; the requirements of the Stock Exchange are considerable; one million will be absorbed by Govern ment on Thursday next in the shape of a final instal ment on the loan of five millions ; and last, but not least, the discredit cast upon banking institutions by the failure of the Royal British Bank has induced many bankers to provide themselves temporarily with extraordinary resources, with a view to be Pre pared against every eventuality. Moreover, at a period of the quarter when the cir culation is usually subjected to contraction through means of the payments on account of the national revenue, the public have become posseered with an idea that a speedy advance in the Bank rates of discount is probable, and as a measure of precau tion are eagerly bidding against each other for ac commodation, a circumstance which has of itself sufficed on former occasions to at least academie the advance apprehended. We see the immediate result in the rapid increase of the "other securities" held by the Bank. Should this movement cootinue decided, there is reason to apprehend that the value of money will ere long rise to 5 per cent. But even supposing this to be so, we really see no valid reason for alarm. Very recently much more onerous rates of discount were found practically insufficdent to check the steady progress of our commons, despite the restraining influence exercised by an exhausting war. The fear of financial con vulsions assisted then to impose caution upon lenders, but now no such apprehension is entertained in any quarter, the general trade of the country being re markably sound, and speculative tendencies being uniformly subjected to salutary restraint. Under these circumstances, we are at a loss to conceive how the prospect of an increase of one-half per cent, in the value of money can inflict any real dinners's meat upon legitimate bosinem. The alteration in the aspect of the money market has been in gradual progress for some time past, and nearly all well informed persons concur in the opinion that any fur ther movement that may take place will be of 'steady character. Commerce suffers chiefly from sudden and violent transitions in the value of money, but of these there is no present prospect whatever. sbt CoUtl. BALMORAL, Birr.l4. The Queen drove oat yesterday, atteeded by the Mazehionaas of Ely, sad sabasquestly walked is the woods of Balmoral. La Royal ham weal out deer•atnikiag upon Loeb• wawa. Th. Primes Royal rode oat, attended by the Ho■. Mary Seymour. Th. Dachess of Kent, Ike Primes Amalie of Holmlobe Sohilliesfant, Lady A q Brew, Cokeel Lord Jams Murray, Mr. ud Lady Apes Doff, Mr. and Mn. Brooke. sad 84 Janes Clerk, had the !wooer of dining with her Majesty yesterday. Vieeosat Psiessntoa arrived la tows yesterday from St. Leotard's. Lord Palmate lefc tows oa Saaday 'tight for floollaaL Dospatshee were received yesterday at the C.,losial-ollee from the Gamier of the Cape of Good Hope, the Go yeraon of the West Isdia Islands, sad the Osmium of as North AMrima Provision. General Tottlebeo (so the Russian journal. spell bee saw) Ito jam been ester tabled by the iahabitanta of Rip. Catlin's MOsYlvil..—On Monday next, the 22nd instant (Sunday being St. Matthew's day), the Lied Mayor, alderman, and sheriffs, with the goveruon of the several riyalhoepitals,will attend divine saviors, Christ's Church, Nswgste-street, where a Berson will be preached by the Rev. Charles Elwarf Saris, fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge, %fur which they will repaint. the great bail la Christ's Hospital, where four orations on the Meats of the royal hospitals will be &slimed by the four senior 'sheiks, wording to mind eustm—in Latin by Wm. Shrubsale Poster, in English by Ernest Montage, in Greek by Mark Shattuck, and is Fronds by Thomas Cuter Pallett. Five poem will also be recited by others of the easier seholan— vis., ► translation into La•im Aleics from the " Bride of Abydos," by Wm. Wake Smart; a translation into Greek lambics from" Henry VIII.," by Wes. Hoary St. Amend Warn; a translation from the " Moravian Naas' Hyena," by &mitt Wild Churchill ; an original RaglYh poem ea hely," by Inset Montage; and Latin lieurasters on "Chinamen@ Titlarks," bolas the Rickards' prise scampi salmi not yet adjudged. &WHlN:rail IN THE CArcAscs.—The Ilt.Poters burg journals are ellei with sc:ounts of the destructing of Sebessakha, a mall town in the gorges of the Casement, by earthquake, oa the llth of July. The morning bad bees very bet, and gusts of wiling wind fro. time to time agi tate!, without refreshing, the atmosphere. The sun, 'hors of his rays, koked like a ball of red•bot iron is the midst of as incaademest sky. ♦ general oppression weighed on RIM and beast ; nevertheless, no on. seemed to expect the imionding blow, when about dm in the afternoon a sadden low dull mond was heard, scot &stork was felt lasting half a minute. The shock, brief as was Its duration, was sof. Adeptly violent to throw to the ground 300 berme and more time 100 alive. Happily rely one perm was killed, sad only Bee were wounded. PATRONAGE OP THE NEW BIIIIIOP OP The pair magi of this see, although not so Wirt ao that ' which holler to theme of Longo*, login my oansiderabs, co will be seen from the following statement :—Tbe Bishop of Durban pressen to the three archdeseoarirs, to one of that of Dube., is attached, by act of posliasust, one of the enmities in the cathedral. The bishop presents also to certain other csnoaries, and to no fewer thus slaty ale e livings, ell of thus situ to in the tonntles of North ! mob slated aad Dubs.. Of then, eight an worth WM esosedinn I,ooole year, sad, la feet, oae of these (Ikaalsope D 441 14a), is one of t he non we/gable rostories In existence, being set down at 4,6481 a yesr. The to/gory of Bishopwsarasoath is worth 1,8301. ; Et 41•11011 reetory, 1,311/. ; Erstwhile rectory, 1,0491 ; lisaghtoa le Mime rectory, wits. !Whites curacy, 1,279/. ; flowthcogoe.gp r i ng try, 1,600 i. ; godat4eld rsetery, .1,134)21. ; Wmtbora 1.1131. 8o much for the livilsgs Talmd at non than 1,000!. The right rev. prelate will also have the gift of no fewer this 13 livings *coeditor 6004 a pap 111 Vila*, —• 1., Auckland, St. Andrew, 6871. ; 13t. Thema., P. C., B sliopwraraostk. 6001.; West Bolden rower', 6531 ; Elwiek rec'bry, 6421.; (Maimed rectory, 636/ ; twistle vicarage, 6931, Long•Newtos ration, 8041 ; Bytom rectory, 9561; Washington rectory. 7211.; Whickhun rec t or y, 6631.; Winston rectory, 6 , 67/.; Wolalsgban rec tory, 79i1.; Windham vicarage, 6121. Titre are 23 other livings, worth between 2001. end 6001. ; and the ri =Wader are worth 1001. and upwards, with the ezeeptios of the , perpetual musty of Th - ckeringtee, wide! is set down a: ' 481 Tho total valuer( the patronage albs sew Bishop of Darden will be nearly 40,0001 a you. TSB EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER IS, 1858: TIIE CORONATION OF THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA. THE CROWNING. (FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.) MOSCOW, Sapr. 8. To enable the English reader to understand the outline which it shall be my endeavour to give of the august ceremonial of yesterday, it will be neon eery, ia the first instance, to sketch slightly the dif ferent, although contiguous, localities in which the various portions of the imperial programme were carried out. Far within the battlementeo walla of the Kremlin, and surrounded by large public build ings, such us the Senate and the Arsenal, is a rather contracted court, three aides of which are mainly occupied by the Uspenski Bator, or Church of the Assumption, the churches of the Archangel Michael and of the Annunciation, and the old and new Kremlin Palaces. The fourth opens upon an extensive esplanade, which in its turn commands the Moskwa river, and beyond it one of the finest urban panoramas that can pos sibly be imagined. Were it not that it would be a mistake is art todirect the attention from thereat central point of my picture—the coronation itself— whole columns might be written about the innumer able: gilded spires, grotesque cupolas, and palatial mansions, that may be taken in from this spot at a glance, scattered as they are in rich profusion on the further bank of the modest river that gives its name to the ancient capital of Russia. But our business is with the important events of the coronation day, and all raptures con cerning magnificent prospects must be reserved for some future occasion. The coronation, as all the world knows, takes plain in the Church of the As gumption, and about this the reader must learn some thing before he can follow the elaborate ceremonial of which it was the scene. According to cur notion of churches, the interior of the Uspenaki Babor is small indeed, scarcely accommodating 600 persons ; but still its great height and deep intersecting arches give it a most imposing appearance, while the by zantine pictures and gilding with which its walls are entirely covered, and the costly shrines and monuments which it contains, subdue the mind by the sheer force of their material splendour, and leave one puzzled as to whether he ought to smile at their barbaric taste, or tly bow to their mystic symbolism. Two or three thousand pictures of saints and heroes stud the walls so closely, that no interstice can be detected between their heavily gilded frames, and, from the centre of the dim lantern which forms the sole means of ilia. minatioo, a colossal half-length of the Saviour, looks down benignantly on his, at all events, sincerely reverent wonhippers below. The roof is supported by four immense pillars, wholly out of proportion to the dimensions of the church, covered from top to bottom with the frescoed traditions of the Greek Church, lapped, as it were, in a gilded scroll continuously round the circumference. Within these four pillars stood the costly estrade upon which the ceremonial took plies, and upon the decoration of which all the art, taste, and resources of the empire had been lavished. Crimson velvet, gold brocade, gems of immense Take, gold and silver furniture, including the ancient throne of the Czar, contributed to swell the Inagual. ones of this small inch:sure ; and over head hang a gorgeous canopy, suspended by numerous gold and .;her cords from the lofty ceiling. A heavily gilt and made' belastrade surrounded this ratted, within which no one was to enter but the Emperor and Empress, the Empress-Mother, the Metropolitan of Moscow, and,Eat one moment, the ladies of honour who were to arrange the small crown on the head of the Empress. On on. side wee a gallery covered with scarlet cloth for the diplo. made body; on the other, a similar one for the ladies of the great ecclesiastical dignitaries of the empire; and at the back of the throne • third, for the haute noblesse, and such official notabilities as had the pri vilege of the entree. With the church the Kremlin Palace communicates, exteriorly, by a grand fiightf steps; and if you add a broad platform, extending from the base of the point of junction, and making a long sweep to include the exterior esplanade, and thus give the people an opportunity of " assisting " at the coronation of their sovereign, you will be able to form a tolerably correct idea of the site covered by the ceremonial of which I am about to attempt some imperfect details. I should add that, for the purposes of the coronation, the fourth side of the court bad been filled by a temporaryl wooden screen,iduidsomely draped, and pierced with two lofty gateways, through one of which the im perial procession emerged at the termination of the coronation, and by the other of which it returned en reale to the Kremlin Palace. In this court were the gal leries for the etae of the spectators, the admission to which was by tickets,the price of which varied a• cording to proximity from twenty-five to fifty, and for one gallery even one hundred rubles. Six o'clock in the morning was an early hour to be afoot, for people exhausted by previous spectacles, but at any later hour the chance of admission was ex• modally problematical; and even then each entrance-gate of the Kremlin was a scene of the most extraordinary confusion, in consequence of a rule of which nobody bad before heard, refusing admission to all except those who came in carriages and pairs. !who had, with immense trouble, pro- cured a most unpretending drotschky, had a regular pugilistic encounter with the Badishnik before I got through, and to this moment do not know whether I may not be the defendant in au action for assault, battery, and forcible entrance. Once within, the scene ware most exciting. There were crowds of well-dressed people, groups of mujiks. and pelotous of cavalry, mixed up in the most admired confusion. On every side drums were beat ing, colours flying, and trumpets braying the Tarim notes of command peculiar to the Russian service. The whole of the esplanade seemed paved with parasols, above which here and there fluttered the banner of some guild whose privilege it was to get thus near the grand ceremonial, and whose organi. eatioc and costume reminded me strongly of an Odd Fellows' procession in England. Here and there also the wiry little Cossack, mounted on his equally wiry little horse, wound in and out through the crowd, keeping order as best he could, and constantly exchanging sentences, obviously not taken from Chesterfield, with the spectators whom he disturbed. For this outer space 60,000 tickets had been issued, and if you add 20,000 more, who either evaded or forced or bribed their way in, you will come pretty near the lacteal number of civilians who were spectators of the coronation procession. As foe the military of all brioche' of the service, and gendarmes, I make no attempt to count them, but they stood everywhere in claps masses, and must have formed a ;complete army do parade. In the inner court the crowd was much less, the price of tickets seeming to have had rather a coaling effect on public curiosity, but still there was • large number of fashionably dressed people in the galleries, and the flagged centre was filled with a heterogeneous misters of ladies, gentleman, glides a hsealpied. Cossack., Tcherkesses, Boo t i e , n.groec piss and raillery bands. On the plat- and a form which I have before mentioned, none were per mitted to walk but persons in uniform, and here I recognised Mr. William Gladstone, Mr. Banker (en officer of the St. Jean D'Aere), and two or three other Englishmen, who is virtue of their yeomanry, or militia eabiliments, had been permitted thus to min gle with the Russian militairee, and to emulate them in fierceness of strutt, and brusqueness of soldierly demeanour. At seven o'clock a 'elute of twenty-one goes from the walls of the Kremlin announced that the great business of the day was about to begin, and the officials threw open that gate of the church by which public functionaries and ambassadors were to enter. The sweepers and dusters had just given the interior the last finishing touch, and a reverend father might be seen hurrying to the corner in which is placed the silver coffin of St. Philip, of which he was for that day to be the guardian. His reverence took bis seat on the steps, but every moment had to rise and lift the ponderous silver lid, as a smartly dressed official, or fierce looking general, came to bend low before the shrine, or devoutly kiss the effigy of the departed saint. The holy father, was most polite and communicative to strangers, bat as he spoke in Ross, while they spoke English, you may imagine the additions made by the interlocutors to their respective stores of information. One little incident in this sacred corner wee strongly illustra tive of the spirit of tolerance that honourably die. tiognishes the Greek church. While the Russians only approached the shrine in the most humble and obsequious manner, barely venturing to touch the velvet-covered steps with their foreheads, a stranger wee politely requested to sit thereon, and nobody seemed to take notOs of the incongruity. But I most not linger, f& there is still much to be told. The privileged visitors began now to drop in, and one of the first wee the Princes. of Miogrelia, who ham recently arrived in Moscow by imperial invite.. tion, and who is one of the reigning boners of the place. Her highness, who is a remarkably fine woman, of about thirty years of age, was gorgeously dressed in gold brocade, with a broad blue sash, on the shoulder-knot of which she wore the Order of Bt. Katherine in diamonds, conferred on her for her distinguished feats of arms when Omer Pacha ravaged her mountain kingdom, and on her head a splendid coronet of emeralds and rubies. She was accom panied by her son, the reigning prince, a fine little boy eight 'years old, dressed as an aids-de-oamp of the Emperor, an honour which had been conferred on his little highness only the previous day. Hearing that some "special correspondent" bad ventured within the sacred precincts, her highness sent her interpreter to the representative of • well known continental journal, requesting a few minutes conversation. It is needless to add that the gentleman in question was only too ready to obey the summons, and was excessively surprised to find that her highness was fully acquainted with and duly appreciated the value of the Fourth Estate. She told him in excellent French that she hoped herself and her dress would be noticed in the journal he re presented, and detailed her heroic struggles against Omer Pacha, who, she said, had plundered and ravaged her little kingdom. Her highness then re turning to the great 'question for which the news paper plenipotentiary had been summoned to an audience, said, with much naivete," Comment me trouvea eons ?" The gentleman was of course ebloui, and the interview terminated with a press ing invitation for self and Mends to the chateau in the Caucus if they ever should happen to pass in that direction. The church now began to fill. Lord and Lady Granville, &comps nied by the Marchioness of Stafford and Lady Emily Peel, were amongst the first arrivals; Lord Wodo house, accompanied by Mr.Jalian Fans, cams shortly after, and the doorway was soon completely filled by the French Embassy in brilliant uniforms, and mingled with them were Sir Robert Peel, and one or two other English faces. The Count de Morny took the right, nest to him Lord Granville, then Prince Esterhazy, and lastly the Prince De Ligue, the other Arab...adore getting seats as beat they could with out any order of precedency. Immediately behind Lord Granville sat Lord Wodebouse and Mr. Pane, and on the same and hinder benches the ladies of the several Embassies. By this time forty Bishops of the Empire had assembled be tween the great altar and the estrade, and assisted by their attendant priests were invoking heaven in f f the Emperor. Nothing could be more magnificent than the robes, nothing more venerable than the appearance of these prelates. At their head was Philaret, Metropolitan of Moscow, the most distinguished name in the Russian church, distinguished for piety, for learning, and for the physical vigour that at ninety years of age enables him to continue in the active discharge of his episcopal duties. The golden shrine of the Virgin lay open. containing her portrait, said to be painted by Bt. Luke, and studded with jewels of immense size and value. Wax taper. were burning, incense was rising in clouds, unseen choristers were chatint ing most heavenly music, when the hum of the people without, and the roar of artillery, announced au im perial arrival. It was the Empress Mother, who, although broken down with ill-health and sor row, had tome thousands of miles to assist at the , coronation of her son. Nothing can be more touch ing or creditable to the Russian people than the affec tion and respect which they always exhibit towards this illustrious lady, and as It more conspi coons than on the day of the coronation, when, both within and without the church, she was almost overwhelmed with demonstration, of attaohmect. Her Majesty, who was accompanied by a bril liant cortege, immediately took her seat on the throne allotted to her on the eared.. There was now a slight stir at the side door. It was the Turkish envoys asking admittance. They were obliged, however, to go to a gallery specially pre pared for them outside, as the rules of the Greek oburch do not permit the entrance of any one who cannot kneel before the true cross. Another salvo of artillery, another chorus of almost divine harmony from the invisible choristers, and the Emperor and Empress arrived at the grand grille of the church. Hie Imperial Mejes'y wore • general's uniform, and marched under a magnificent canopy supported by sixteen of the grand dignitaries of the empire. The Archbishops of Moscow and Novogorod proceeded to the gate to welcome his Majesty, bestow a blessing, and sprinkle the imperial pair , with holy water. They were followed by a gorgeously attired cortege, amid which might be recognised the Patties, Dolgourokis, Gortchakoffs, and other names familiar to the stu dents of Russian history. The gallant defender of Sebastopol looked as well and as young as when, four years since, he stood over the open grave of the Duke of Wellington in St. Paul's Cathedral. Then there ware the Asiatic tributary princes, in their magnificent costume; and, finally, the gene. rale who had the right to occupy so distinguished • position. At the entrance, the Emperor kissed the hand of the prelate with the palm upwards, the mode in which this salutation is performed in the Greek church. The Empress was followed by a fair bevy of maids of honour in Parisian versions of the Russian national costume. They looked moat captivating in their kekoebatke, but the fairest of the fair was the young Princes ; Insereinatieft the granddaughter of a serf. The Emperor and Empress having duly made reverence at the sanctuary and before the sacred images, now slowly ascended the estnide, and the ceremonial of the coronation commenced. For the circumstantial details, I mat refer you to the programme which has already been published, confining myself to the more remarkable incidents of the day. The imperial pair being seated on the ancient thrones of the Czars, the regalia was properly arranged, and another burst of devout harmony came from the invisible choir. The metropolitan then presented a profession of faith, which his Imperial Majesty most read, and which he did read en this occasion with due emphasis and discretion. The document, which was exceed ingly lengthy, took upwards of ten minutes in the reading, during which the most profound silence reigned in the church. Immediately after, the Em peror was invested with the state mantle, and here followed the most interesting feature in the day's proceedings. Taking the crown, an immense one, blazing all over with diamonds, up with his two hands, he plaeed it on hie head ; thereby intimating that from no earthly power, priestly or lay, did he receive his sovereignty. Then making a sign to the I Empress, who knelt submissively before him on a golden cushion, he just touched her forehead with it, and immediately replaced it on his own bead. This was a moment of intense interest. The Empress-Mother, who had borne up with immense fortitude, burst into tears, and the whole of the con gregation. as they fell on their knees in honour of the rite, sobbed and cried like children. What a history did not that tear of the Empress Mother recall More than a quarter of a century before she had re ceived a similar honour from the greatest sovereign of his time; had for years after shared his thoughts, his joys, and his sorrows ; had been the gentle spirit that softened the iron-firmness of his character; and sow she stood alone—the great man had passed away, and to other hands was about to be confided the power ful sceptre which it had been so long her happiness to share in wielding. This was the culminating point of the ceremonial. Then came the anointing; the . _ administration of the Sacrament, to the Emperor in both forms, the Empress in one ; the Mass, and other ceremonials purely religious : and, finally, the congratulations, which the Emperor received with great dignity and self-poe• session. At the same time his countenance wore a careworn and saddened look, and he seemed like one who felt oppressed with the sense of an awful res ponsibility. Now came the moment for which 70,000 people outside had been waiting with exemplary patience. A gorgeous procession issued from the church door. I. front wu a splendid canopy, under which walked the Emperor, with the Imperial crown upon his head, and wearing the Imperial mantle. There were the standard, the seal, and the sword of the empire, the great functionaries at a respectful distance behind, end the dismounted gardee I cheval, in their golden cuirasses, lining the way. From a hundred bands pealed out at once the national anthem—" God save the Czar,' sad the shouts of the people formed a tremendous accompaniment to the music. The countenance of his majesty we. most solemn; he bowed repeatedly but never smiled, and the cheers seemed to die away for want of the imperial sympathy. It was a strikingly oriental sport/Ale—the pagoda-like canopy, the great Czar with his immense crown of diamonds blazing in the sun, the many oriental costumes, and the bearded mnjiks, all formed a picture which I shall not sun forget, but which I feel I have but weakly attempted to primary* for the English reader. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (rsom OITA OWN PAM% MONDAY ETINING. The Pays criticises, with some asperity, the deci sion of the Ottoman Porte to revoke the exclusive privilege of the navigation of the Froth and the Ssreth, which was some time since granted by the Moldavian Hospodar Ghika to a French Company, of which Captain Magi= is the principal director It considers the measure as a consequence of the " permanent accord" which was established between the Porte and Austria upon the Roumain question im mediately after theVienn a Con fere noes, an accord which was strengthened by what passed at the Congress of Paris. Admitting that the privilege may possibly be inconsistent with certain treaties,thePays professes ignorance of those treaties, and therefore declines to deal with the argument. But it observes that the con sequences sought to be drawn from the treaties in question are very singular, since, while they are set up as interdicting the Porte from conceding exclusive privileges in the tributaries of the Danube, they allow Austria to concede them in that river itself. The Pays, moreover, objects that it is difficult to reconcile the Ottoman decree and the reasons given for it with the autonomy of tke Principalities, resulting not only from ancient capitulations, but also from the Treaty of Paris. The Vizirial letter alleges that the privilege granted by the ex•hospodar is a violation of the pro- visions of the treaty of Petrie, which regulated the navigation of the Danube and its tributaries. This reason the Pays finds it difficult to understand, became the word tributary (affluent) is not to be found in the treaty which treats absolutely and exclusively only of the Danube and its mouths. The mistake, it observes, in conclusion, is the more singular because if the navigation of the tributaries of the Danube had been regulated in principle by the treaty of Paris, the question would, of right, have been submitted to the international commission in stituted by the treaty, which would have adjudicated upon the privilege claimed by Captain Magnan, as it is 'haat to do with regard to that conceded to the Austrian Lloyds. The Bourse has been inanimate. The Rente fell 2je. for cub, end 10c. for account, closing at 70fr. LW. and 70fr. 70c. Credit Mobilier was in fair demand, and roe. 7fr. 500. The Mediterranean Railway fell 12fr. 30c. In other lines there was scarcely a variation of 2fr. or 3fr. Prince Adalbert, of Bavaria, and his bride, are ex pected in Park this evening from Biarritz. . _ The Persian ambassador to Paris has arrived at Constantinople on his way. The appointment of R. de Icrelt ff, as Russian ambassador to Paris, has been rescinded, just as it was expected that be wee about to start from St. Petersburg to his post. The new ambassador , 0 ill be Count Cheremetitti, a nobleman of very large fortune. The Cowries du Havre states that as soon as the Emperor recurs to Paris, King Otho will pay him a visit of some days duration, and that the question of the "abdication " of the throne of Greece and of the military occupation of the errantry will be resolved diplomatically on th►t occasion. A letter from Vti.nna of the 9th says :—" The French Legation has received a second report from Captain Magoon relative to the Lyonnais. It com. plains that the towing vessel placed at his disposal by the Austrian Steamboat Company is not of suffi cient power to tow off his steamer, and he demands that a larger one shall be sent. It was not thought likely that the Lyonnais can be got afloat in lees than a month from the time of its striking." A letter from Gaiety of the 3rd nye :—" The French steam gunboat the Alerts arrived here this morning; she is the first French war vessel that has metered the Danube." " It is sta , ed,"say6 the Union, " that Baron James de Rothschild is at pre/eat much in the same predi• cement as Frederick the Great of Prussia was, when he could not get a miller, whose tenement stood in the way of an improvement the King was making at Bans•Souci, to give up his property for love or money. The baron, it seems, has set his heart upon a piece of land belonging to an old lady, a neighbour of his at Boulogne-sur•Seine, and which is most inconveniently wedged in between his own domains. The land is hardly worth 60,000 k., and yet the baron has successively offered from 100,000 k to 1,000,000 fr. for it without success. The old lady, not content with this, has brought an action against him to prevent his breaking up a road which he has bought from the commune, and which cuts his private park in two. She insists opoa its being preserved, as a necessary communication with her own property." Tree following further particulars of the flight of the late cashier of the Northern Railway is given in the Independance of Brussels : About three weeks ago the cashier asked f. r and obtained a fortnight's leave of absence, on the pretence that he was abort to be married, but begged that his intention might be kept secret. At the end of a few days, the sub cashier pretended that the weight of business thus ttrown on bim was too heavy, mad having insinu:ted that the cashier bad not really liberated ►imself for his marriage, he managed so well that he excited doubt. in the minds of the directors, and was lest to bring him bark. Grelet jolael Carpentier at Havre, where the latter awaited his arrival with the com mon spoil. Carpentier was accompanied by a girl named Georgette, his mistress, and by a man who kept carriages for hire, and who had taken part is getting rid of the stolen shares. From Havre the party went to Liverpool, where they embarked on board the Falcon for New York, and where they have now probably arrived. The company will spare no sacrifice to make the fugitives yield up their booty. A lawyer at New Yurk has been written to to find some expedient for arresting and throwing them into prison, and when once in custody they may be claimed by the French minister at Wosbineton. Some difficulty may, however, be found in arresting them in a country where the laws differ so materially from those existing in France, and with which us treaty of extradition exists, applying to the cave. It is said that if the loss is to fall on the share holders, it will be about We a share, and that the intui tion is to extend the payment of the Ices over ten years, making it lfr. 60c. per annual. An eatraordiesiy meet ing of the shareholders will, it is said, be called on the subject. SPAIN. (I , ltoll A SPECIAL IDV4T.) The Infant Dan Enrique has always been regarded as very much attached to Progreasist princi pies. Whether he is really a friend of liberty, or is only playing a part, is a question which I will not take upon myself to decide. I ought to say, however, that, on account of his opinions, he has been for a long time exiled from Spain, and 'that he has passed many years in France. The revolution recalled him, and restored to him all the privileges belonging to him in his character of Infant of Spain. Don Enrique is entirely opposed to his father Don Francisco and to his brother the present King of Spain. One of the most active intriguers in all Spain—a man who ex• miles great influence, and who is well known as having unsuccessfully endeavoured to effect a change of dynasty, which would have substituted for Isabella a foreign prince, and placed two crowns on one head —this man, I say, has put in movement some Liberals of hts own shade of politics to prepare for the substi tution of Don Enrique for the Queen. Fearing that the Queen will be too fond of governing without the Cortes, and thus have money and power without control, and seeing the ascendancy which the Abso- lutists are acquiring, the chief of the plot and his adherents, the former enemies of Don Enrique, knew well that if they dared to made any overtures to him they would be repelled with indignation They therefore decided to prepare for everything without interning him who was chiefly to profit by the movement. This was their language, "Don Enrique is beloved by the Progressistas ; he will rally all of them. At the commencement, he will undoubtedly govern by and for the Progressistasl but, as it is the nature of royalty to be usurping, Don Enrique will wish soon to absorb the liberties of the the people for his own prcfi'. He will make an appeal to us who govern in his name for our own advantage." Preparations were then made in the hope of a successful issue. Some regiments were sounded. They even went so far as to make overtures to • progreasist General, lately returned to Madrid, and he it was who first revealed the plot to the cabinet. On first hearing of the scheme, the impetuous temper of O'Donnell com pletely carried him away. He was on the joint of giving orders to arrest the chief of the conspiracy but prudent counsels changed his resolution. There was no possibility of proving anything material against the chief organiser. A more indirect coarse was therefore adopted. The family quarrel in refer ence to the marriage dotation of Amelia, wife of Prince Adalbert, of Bavaria, had been bruited about; and it was decided to remove Dan Enrique, and, in order to give colour to the pretext put torward,`.his sisters were also it eluded in the banishment. Since that O'Donnell and Roses have abated somewhat their reecionary policy, and made advances to wards the Progressistas. The Espano says that the government bee refused passports to Marshal Nervier, "so long as internal affairs yet pending remain undecided." The offer of a diplomatic poet abroad has been politely declined by the Marshal. The enmity between the court and O'Donnell is undisguised, but he intends to hold his own or die hard; and supported as he is by the French Emperor, he may give Queen Isabella more trouble than she imagines. ITALY. The municipality of Venice has received official notice that the Emperor and Empress of Austria will visit that city at the beginning of November. The Par ma Gazette of the 9th publishes a decree already mentioned, raising the state of siege, and referring the prosecutions still pending before the courts-martial to the ordinary tribunals. The Giornate di Roma of the let says :—" His Excellency Mr. Cue, minister of the United States to the Holy See, has made distributions of large qutntities of provisions to the poor, and to those visited by fever from the excessive heat of the IMOD. A letter from Rome in the Ticinese Gas , It, states that the Tribunal of the Sacred Conanha has con demned Lieut. Eiger, of the Papal artillery, a native of Switzerland, to five years hard labour in irone r for belonging to owlet society. AUSTRIA. A letter from Trieste, in the New Prussian Gazette, nye : The port of Pole is abut to be raised to the rank of a military p)rt of the first order, and the government has charged an Amoricsa mayineer with the works which will be required there. lie is to remit* as annual salary of 21,000 florins, and at the terrains I