The Express. — London, England, 1853-11-21 00:00:00

Witt ervregis. TO CORRESPONDENTS. anota 14.10001 04 • TIW allafo4o.“ e.tuLoning U. SAW te•eitK'e ..G.Lactte," u pubtAllied evety babiesy eW rrtday 1404 414 "M" fait PAL hire molest ou , intended far " TM Czpreaa," Uvulas Eves.ng parer. mut Wat tee OS^ la. Batteerie.treet, by Thu e'cleelt es SW tla) el pabliattkat. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Taos Dbv—llaesteks, Hr. Afteraon, sb. 1710. Tl`"asew—Monlag. bb. 88. Aft•T•0011, nu. LONDON, MONDAY, NOVE.VBER 21. FOR nearly six months it was stated day after day, and week after week, that the apprehensions of a War in the East kept our Funds down. Consols, in the beginning of October, under the influence, as was supposed, of this apprehension, were depressed to 91. Now the apprehensions are realised—the war has been begun—and to the public astonishment Consols have gone up to 95. The fact does not square with the theory. Why the apprehension of war should beat Consols down to 91, and why the war, when actually begun, should be accompanied by a rise of Consols to 9.1, are facts which require explanation. The present rise has not been caused by the success of the Turks, for Consols rose to above 9.5 on Thursday, Nov. 3, before the news had reached London of the Turks having passed the Danube, but after war had been commenced. We have to look, therefore, for some other cause than this apprehended and actual war for the variations in the prices of Consols. The City correspondent of the Times, who has sedulously inculcated the theory that the apprehensions of war had a sinister influence on the funds, explained the fact of the actual war being accompanied by a rise in the funds in one sentence on Friday, though he probably did not comprehend the refutation it supplied of statements continually repeated by him. The Money Market, he said, is easy. That fast is concurrently stated by all contemporary City authorities. We know that the Money Market was not easy in September and October, and it affords au adequate and full explanation of Consols being now at 95, when they were 91 in the week after the Bank of England raised its minimum rate of discount at the end of September to five per cent. The condition of the Money Market, or the ease or difficulty in pro curing money for mercantile and other industrial parposes,—u contradistinguished from the prices of the public securities, which rise as money is easy, and fall as it is wanted, this condition it is, and not the apprehensionsfor reality of war in the East, that is the clue to Consols having been 91 in the early part of October and 9.5 in November. The great fact of present ease in the Money Mar ket in its turn requires some explanation. How has it been brought about ? Far several weeks a studied attempt was made by the Times •to decry the trade with Australia ; sad great losses, with masters failures, were predicted. A kind of panic was= rated. and people were told to look foe cosv and bankruptcy similar to those of 1847. Whether that were dune to serve the purposes of the Bank of England or not, the Bank acted on the supposition that trade was unsound ; it raised its rate of discount to 3 per cent., mercantile paper was discredited, and for a few weeks it was very difficult to borrow on any terms. Facts have since shows that the supposition was not well founded. Trade wu not and is not to any noticeable degree aasouad. Any failures which have taken place have been ea the Stock Exchange, not amongst merchants. A short harvest, a rising and high price of food, a necessity to import unusually large quantities of corn, gave a natural check to speculation in other directions and in other commodities. The Strikes, or Turnouts, stopped business and impeded consump tion. la conjunction with the high price of food and the high rate of discount they have added much to the difficulties of the retail traders, of the wholesale merchants, and of the master yet no bankruptcy has ensued amongst them. By that fact the soundness of trade is demonstrated, and it is made clear that the condition of the Bank of England, which might alarm its directors, is no aloe to the condition of the mercan tile community. All their solicitude was naturally directed to the condition of the Bank, and the solici tude of many public writers very unreasonably took the same direction. There wu quite a screech of alarm at the Bank losing its gold, though it went into the pockets of the people. Trade was unreason ably discredited, enterprise was checked, the demand for loanable capital was lessened, and as that is con tinually accumulating, money became easy as enterprise diminished. Such is the explanation of the present condition of the Money Market. It is easy, because trade is comparatively slack. A reverse apprehension from that which led the Beak in September to act against trade begins to prevail. Unexceptionable paper is now discounted at 41 per cent. Bills are no longer sent up from the provinces in large quantities to be discounted; the market rate of discount is falling below the Bank rate; the Bank is getting no bills, and the Directors begin already to fear that they will not be able to maintain the rate of 5 per cent. The Government is helping to beat down the rate. The offer of the Bank to make now the payments that must be made to the dissentients from the conversion of the Scath Sea Annuities in January, at a deduction of ealy $ per cent., though put before the public as congas from the Bank, proceeds from the Government, which is using somewhat unwarrantably the pro ceeds of the taxes, as a merchant urns hie balances, to make, if it can, something !het mom like a profit by its transaction. The merchant will only employ his balances at the market rate; the Government, as it cannot openly be a trader, has only the alternative of allowing the balances in the Exchequer to lie idle, or employing them at any rate it can get. Hence it is now offering to discount the bills on itself, due in Janu ary, at 2 per cent. below the market rate. By now proposing to issue the public money usually shut up in its cheat —or only lent by the Bank at this period in common with its other deposits, —at a rate of interest below the market rate, it is trying to in fluence the value of money. 'this is unfair to all the dealers in money, whether they want to borrow or lend, and, in conjunction with the action of the Bank, helps to make unnecessary fluctuations in the Money Marker. l; is quite possible that the present ease in the Money Market is only temporary. If the Strikes should come speedily to an end, which may be ex pected; if core should fall somewhat in price, which seems probable; if enterprise should be extended to its forward movement at the beginning of the year —and already the trade to Australia is reviving— if fresh discoveries of gold, and the fell necessity of increasing protluction and facilitating distribution, by providing more railways and shipping, should even stimulate enterprise, as is neither impossible nor undesirable—if all these results should operate to a greater extent in the beginning of 18.54 than in 1 , 45:1, thin will money increase again in value, and we may have higher rates than we have yet experienced. In Amine', the moat prosperous of countries, the prosperity of which we share and should like to equal, the rate of discount is twice as high as in England. At one time, how ever, without much reference to the real state nix EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 21, 1853 ... 'FRANCE.' • PARIS, SUSDAT Evainso. The Motaiteur confirms the retreat of the Turks across the Danube, and the evacuation of Kalarach and Guirgevo, but states that the Ottoman troops continued to occupy Kalafat and the neighbourhood with 25,000 men, and are receiving reinforcements from Sophia and Widdin. It was announced in the Paris papers of yesterday that Namik Pasha, who is charged with the negutia tion of the Turkish loan, had arrived on Friday in Paris. Such is not the fact. The Pasha arrived this morning at six o'clock. He was expected last even ing, and Vely Pasha and his secretary waited for him at the Lyons Railroad till ten o'clock last night. The ambassador went again this morning to meet him, and the two Pashas exchanged their first salute On the Place de la Bastille; the new comer then en tered the ambassador's carriage and proceeded to the Embassy, where apartments have been prepared for him. M. de Kisseleff is at Fontainebleau since Friday evening. He had been ill, but made an effort to present himself at the Imperial festivities. The following commissioners have been appointed by the Minister of Agriculture, Commerce, and Public Works, to prepare a report on the best mode of establishing regularity and security in railway travelling -.—Rotther, Vice-President of the Council of State; Thayer, Postmaster-General; Vuitry, Coun cillor of State; Dubois, Councillor of State; Pio bert, General of Artillery • Frissard, Inspector of Roads and Bridges; Combes, Inspector-General et Mines; Vougy, Director-General of Telegraphs ; De Bourenille, Director of Mines; Bueche, Inspector of Roads and Bridges; and Tourneux, Chief of the Service of Railway's. The commission is to be go. sided over by the Minister of Commerce in petals. A letter from Marseilles, of the 18th inst., states that a private in the 10th regiment of Light Infantry has been arrested in that town in the act of pos ting revolutionary proclamations on the walls. The indi viduals convicted of having conspired to assassinate the Emperor have appealed against their sentence. PARIS, SATURDAY EVENTRO. The Moniteur takes no notice whatever of the im portant fact of the re-crossing of the Danube by the Turks, and does not even re-produce the telegraphic despatches published by the English papers. It seems to be beyond a doubt, however, that the Turk ish force that was marching upon Bucharest from Oltenitza has voluntarily retir4 and . gone over to the right hank of the river. The reports industriously circulated at the bourse, that they had lost a battle, are totally unfounded. The Amon/doe pretends this morning that the Turks have no longer a single sol dier in the Principalities, but this is a gratuitous, assertion. The telegraphic intelligence refers only to that part of Omer Pacha's army which was' ' operating in the neighbourhood of Oltenitza, but we r know that the Turks also occupied a strong position in Little Wallachia. The latest Coastantinople I journals state that 25,000 crossed the Danube in one day, near Widdin. This corps has received several reinforcements, and was concentrated around Kalalat. Nothing decisive is known from Giurgevo. We must, therefore, wait patiently for detailed intelli gence, before forming a judgment as to the extent or object of Omer Pacha's retrograde movement. The Patrie says, in a leading article, that Oaten- Sacken had effected a junction with oortschakoff, and that their united forces amounted to 75,000 men, but the source of this news is not given. The number must, in all probability, be a gross exaggeration, for subsequently to the despatch, stating that the first named general had crossed the Prath with 50,000 men, I have seen' another, speaking of the advanced guard of hie arm, consisting of 9,000 men only, as having actual ly ' ' crossed. Lord Cowley went to Fontainebleau yesterday, arriving there at noon. M. Waleweki, whose sudden departure from London was kept very secret here, is now, lam told, on his way back. He came to Paris from Fontainebleau this morning. Namick Pacha, Minister of Commerce of the Otto man Porte, who came from Constantinople by the Mentor, h as arrived in Paris with instructions, as it is understood, to raise a loan for the Ottoman govern ment. He will in all probability proceed to ...ondon shortly. All the Russian residents in Paris have received orders from St. Petersburg to settle their affairs, and to hold themselves in readiness to leave France at any moment should it become necessary for them to doss The Siecle says that M. Fiquelmont—who, as I stated two days since,was likely to supersede M. Buol Schauenstein as Minister for Foreign Affairs in the cabicet of Vienna—has been actually appointed, and adds that the nomination was made by the desire of the Emperor of Russia, who had said, " We must get rid of men of protocols and conferences." I learn, however, from a private source, that M. Fiquelmossea l appointment, although considered certain, has set yet been gazetted. Tlie confirmation of the retreat of the Turks across the Danube produced a favourable effect at the Bourse. The speculators consider the winter cam paign over, and resume their confident* in diplomacy, whose renewed efforts during a four or five months' forced armistice must, they flatter themselves, be sotessaful in patching up a peace. The Threes rose de& far account, and 30e. for money. All the prin cipal railways were higher, and considerable busi ness was done in them. Rouen was in great favour, the report of a projected fusion to unite this line with that of the Ardennes being revived. Veille Montagne shares were in great request, and rose 20f. Bank of France fell sf. A correspoedmit of the Independance of Brussels says that, astrary to expectation, the Superior Council of Grasmere° and Manufactures have, "as it is said," voted ley a majority of one voice against the government pee‘ect for a reduction of the kw duties. It is aloe rumoured that two of the ministers, of whom IL Bissau, the Finance Minister, is one, have c= ed against a free trade policy. I think, , it may be safely assumed that the Emperor, who is empowered by the constitution to modify thi tariff at his mere will and pleasure, will not give way to a measuring cost majority of a body whom opinions, however valuable as those of experienced Iwo, are in no way binding upon the government. It is nevertheless somewhat ominous that the Condi tistionnel has another long anti-free trade article to day, in which it seeks to tranquillise the monopolists on the very ground that the Emperor has thought fit to consult the Superior Council of Commerce, and usures its readers that no serious innovation will be made. of the market, we have money made: , R. tificially dear by the Bank, and at anothor artificially cheap by the Goveriunest. To the limp I injury of all the interim's of industry, the fears , ;of the Bank Directors, aid the-unwarrantableideal ing with the public balances by the Government. have at one time discredited trade and made money nunecessarily dear, and at another have made it im properly cheap, deranging the transactions that deoend for their success on a tolerably uniform and steady rate of interest determined only by the wants and operations of trade. After their utmost exertions, however, neither of these bodies can permanently influence the rate of discount, or of interest, which depends on laws quite as certain as those which regulate the harvests. They can derange the market for a time, but the actual amount of enterprise and of capital to be lent —the demand and the supply—will, in spite of them, settle the terms at which money can be bor rowed. Accordingly, the anticipations of the oo vernment that the interest of money will be lower, which is a point of great importance to trade, are not shared by the owners of money, and few or none of the South Sea dissentients have hitherto accepted its offer to be paid at once. They are aware that at the present moment they could not employ their money advantageously, and they may, about the beginning of the year, employ the whole sum they will then have to receive at an advanced rate of interest. They share the opinion that the present ease in the Money Market is merely temporary, the effect of the discredit untimely and somewhat wantonly thrown on trade, and that the instant the supply of food is tolerably well assured, trade will expand into new channels, enterprise will take a new start, and the demand for loanable capital increase. One over-ruling general fact is very ap parent. Be there peace or be there war, the defi ciency of the harvest in Europe, and the great con sumption caused by recent general prosperity, have everywhere made men alive to the necessity of in creasing exertions to produce food, and the prevalent high price is everywhere stimulating production. There must consequently be a great increase of busi ness and more activity and enterprise. It is unrea sonable, therefore, to anticipate a redundancy of loanable capital or a permanent decline in the interest of money. Tim Barsrr.—How long are the authorities at the Horse Guards to be allowed to revenge Parliamentary votes by injustice to military officers who hold their consciences in their own keeping, instead of placing them humbly at the foot of a Commander-in-chief When Parliament meets, the subject of Horse Guards Reform ;should be taken up in earnest by some ener getic M.P. Our military establishments are com plete Augean stables, no doubt ; but in these sanitary days a little determination and perseverance might do wonders for their purification. Among other things a little publicity and reform might abate the large amount of injustice now often inflicted for the gratification of partisan spleen. LATEST FROM ABROAD. (17 111r171A1INI ♦ND ICNOPIAN DEATH OF THE QUEEN OF PORTUGAL PARIS, SUNDAY EVINING. Dona Maria 11. da Gloria, Queea of Portugal, diedon the 15th, at noon, in child bed." The Duke de Braganca, eldest sou and successor of the late Queen, is in his seventeenth year. According to the laws of the kingdom, the King will be Regent until the majority of the Prince, her son. Lisbon is tranquil. RUSSIA AND TURKEY. VIENNA, Nov. 19. Despatches from Hermanostadt state that the Turks were attacked at ()Realize on the 11th, by a formidable force. The Russians were repulsed with loss. Oa the 12th the reserves from lbraila arrived, and gave Prince Gortschakoff a local numerical supe riority. On the day before the rainy NeBoll sat in; and on the 13th, without any fighting, the Turks re crossed the Danube to the island, between Turtukai and Oltenitza. Several violent attacks had been made on the Turkish position between Ruschtchuk and Giurgewo, but to the 13th these had sot been successful. General Osten Sacken's corps is 48,000 strong. The Turks are still in force in Wallachia and at Kalafat. It is believed Ismail Pacha has 24,000 men there. The Russian Minister at Vienna has received the following telegraphic message from Prince Gortacha koff, dated Bucharest, the 13th inst. : " At the moment when measures were about to be executed against the establishment of the Turks on the left bank of the river, opposite Tartukai, they evacuated their position and retired to the right bank, keeping possession only of an island which lies be tween the two banks." VIENNA, SUNDAY EVENING. Advioes from Hermannstadt, of the 19th instant, state that Prince Gortschakoff returned to Bucharest on the 14th. On the 16th the Turks attempted a surprise at Turnal, but were repulsed. The affair was unimportant. From Kalafat the Turks have ad ivanced inland one German mile, and fortified them selves. I haw now seen a minute of the proceedings of the council of the Bank of France on Thursday. The only resolution come to was that for the future the advances on railway shares, instead of being 60 per cent. on the current price at the Bourse, should he reduced to 80 per cent., and that the loans on railway bonds, which had been fixed at 80 per cent., should be reduced to 70 per seat. A . project for modifying the statutes of the credit toaster societies, with a view to facilitate their opera tions, is now before the council of state. Government has granted a sum of 130,000 fr. to each of the socie ties of Never' and Marseilles. Several of the prisoners convicted of conspiracy to assassinate the Emperor at the Opera Comique lodged appeals against their sentences in the Colin, of Casea tion this afternoon. M. M. Bratiano, Thirez, Bandy, Rene, Laflize, and Martin, the six persons who were acquitted on the charge of conspiracy to assassinate the Emperor, have not been set at liberty, but are detained to take their trial for belonging to a secret society. Several copies of a new pamphlet, by M. Ledru Rollin, have been seized by the police. RUSSIA AND TURKEY. The Patrie has an article showing that the with drawal of the Turkish force from Oltenitza was a measure of prudence, caused by the sudden change of the weather, which rendered a further march upon Bucharest impossible. Having failed in the immediate object of the expedition, the Turkish commander-in-chief must have been mad if he had allowed a portion of his army . to remain longer in the position which they occupied, without a town for their winter quarters, and without fortresses for defense against the enormous force that the Russians would be receiving daily from every point. To have done this would have been to expose to destruction a large body of troops who will be required for the defence of the frontiers if in the spring the Russians should cross the Danube, and attack the Tarks on what may be more positively called their own ground. Why Omer Yacht crossed the Danube at a season of the year in which a single day might break up the roads and prevent further proceedings remains to be known. He may have had excellent motives with which we are not ac quainted, and one of them may have been the neces sity of giving occupation to his troops and prevent ing the disbandment of his auxiliary corps, who came to fight and desired an opportunity of proving that they were worthy of takingthe field. Omer Yacht has accomplished one great point. He has enabled his army to feel that the Russians are not invincible,and has raised its courage for new and more important exploits. It is to be hoped that as the winter has set in, diplomacy will take advantage of the suspen sion of arms to negotiate again for peace. It is pro bable that the Emperor of Russia will gladly avail himself of this opportunity to display moderation, for he must have found already that the Turks would give him more trouble than he had expected : and if he has convinced himself that with the opposition of England and France, the utmost that he could hope for after sacrificing forty or fifty thousand men, and exhausting a treasury which even now is not in a very brilliant state, would be a modified Vienna note, he will be glad to retire from a contest which, for his honour and interest, he ought never to have provoked. A letter from Alexandria of the sth announces that a reserve of 3,500 sailors raised on the coasted' Syria, had just started for Constantinople. These sailors are intended for the Turkish and Egyptian ships of war, whose crews will be thus brought up to their full complement. We read in a letter from Constantinople of the sth :—" The Sultan went yesterday for the prayers of Friday to the mosque of the Sultan Mehemet, and there the Iman proclaimed the title of yhazi, which has been given to the Sultan in virtue of a fetra (decision) of the Cheik-ul-Islam. The word yhazi must not be taken in the sense of ' victorious,' as cer tain persons believe—it means' warrior.'" The following, according to the official report of the agent of the Austrian .Lloyd's, at Oalatz, is an exact account of the affair of Isaatchs. It differs materially from all the preceding versions : " Pursuant to positive orders issued by Prince Ciortschakoff, a flotilla, composed of seven gun-boats and two steamers, went to bombard the town of Isaatcha, but the Turkish fire was so well kept up, that they were obliged to retreat, after having lost three of the boats. The fortress was not injured, and the Turks had but three men killed, while the loss on the Russian side was very considerable." Halls Effendi, a Turkish poet, has just composed a national song in the style of the " Marseillaime," ; and it is already very popular at Constantinople. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE NIAGARA AND CITY OF (FROML OUR OWN CORRUPONDENT.) LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY. This forenoon the royal Mail Steam ship Niagara, Captain Leitch, arrived in the Mersey with the usual mails from the United States and British North America. The Niagara sailed from Boston on the 11th inst., and has brought, besides the mails, about sixty passengers and 100,000 dollars in specie on freight. The Liverpool and Philadelphia Company's screw steam ship City of Manchester, Captain Robert Leitch, also arrived at our port at a very early hour this morning from Philadelphia, which port she left on the sth inst. She has brought about thirty pas sengers and 130,000 dollars in specie on freight. The Bremen and New York mail steam ship Germania, arrived at New York from Bremen on the Bth inst. The political intelligence from the United States by this arrival is unimportant. Mr. Crampton is said to have had a long interview with President Pierce, in the course of which the former gentleman positively denied that there was any truth in the rumours that the British govern ment was engaged in any scheme to substitute the apprenticeship system for slavery in Cuba. We have telegraphic advice., however, from New Orleans of Californian news. The mail steamer, Daniel Webster, had arrived from St. Juan at New Orleans, en route to New York, with San Francisco dates to the 16th ult., and gold dust to the value of 2,500,000 dole. Several political arrests—some say as many as 18 John Mitchell, the Irish exile, who had effected —have been lately made at Dijon. The affair at his escape from Van Diemen's Land, had arrived via Tours seems likely to rival the importance of the the Sandwich Islands. Opera Comique plot. The confession recently made There is news that Sonora had been burned on the by one of the persons arrested there has led to the 3rd ult. discovery at the residence of one of the accused of The Californian markets were depressed; but the 1,200 musket balls concealed in stone beer-bottles. intelligence from the mining districts continues of the The cannon lately discovered in the cellar at Veretz same encouraging character as heretofore reported. are more formidable than was at first supposed. According to advice. from Havaenah to the 29th They are composed of a tube of cast-iron, covered ult. the Cuban planters had been thrown into a great with wood, and then encircled with iron hoops, and state of excitement in consequence of the rumours, appear to be so solid that they might be used with relative to England's project to Atricanize the island considerable effect. Several domiciliary visits have by abolishing slavery, through the apprenticeship lately been made at Douai, and amongst them one system. Six more American seamen had been ar ta the house of M Anthony Theurer, the ex-repre- rested and lodged in prison, on a charge of having aentative. The reason for this proceeding has not been engaged on board the barque Jasper, which transpired. According to accounts received to-day, the authorities allege was concerned in the slave there is a rood deal of excitement in many of the trade. provinces, but I apprehend, as far as outward demon- The Interooeanic Railroad surveying party have strations of discontent go, the dearness of provisions discovered a new route, through Honduras, which is the sole cause of them. At Perigueux inflammatory will enable persons going from New York to reach placards have been posted. I hear that at Limoges the California seven days earlier than by the way of troops were ordered to be in readiness to act at a Panama. The route is represented as straight, dry moment's notice, and a Bourse report, not of course and nearly level, and passes through rich silver and deserving of much credit, goes so far ae to sav that other mines. barricades have been made at Lyons. At * Gasny News from Vein Cruz to the 21st ult. announces (Eure) last week, four seditious placards were torn that the recent battle between the Yucatan revolu down by the police. One of them was in verse, and tionista and the Mexican troops lasted eight days, proclaimed the sovereignty of the Uapets. Great and that large numbers of the former had tied to the complaints are made at Lyons that the Emperor's mountains. Accounts of horrible Indian barbarities image i habitually defaced upon the copper coinage, on the homier continue to be received. and according to a communicated note in the Cour- Business generally was dull at New York, and ear de Lywi it is probable that a decree will be money continued very tight. Although stocks had issued, declaring detated money not a legal tender. advanced in value, they were subject to a good deal The united chamber of the Court of Caseation met of unsteadiness. to-day to decide in the last resort the important In the New York cotton market there had been a !question raised in the case of the '• foreign corm. fair amount of bu4ness transacted, and former quo pondents," as to the right of the prefect of police to tations were steadily maintained. The following hreak open letters at the post-attire. (*towel& of fifty were the rates on the day of the departure of the judges took their seats in scarlet robes. The ego - musk:---New Orleans and Mobile, Mid. lair to fair, ments were not concluded when the cour t rose. M. Guizot has just arrived in Pat is. 111 e. to per ;Uplands, Mid fair to fair, 11c. TUE Seaman GOVERNNIF:ST has decided on a to vast system of railways, the erscuti..n of which will be It is announced that Prince Napol eo n B ona pa r te In the market fur Breadstuffs the advance caused contided to an English company. The government has formally interdicted the Mormons from publicly performing will shortly go to Turin to return the visit of the by the English advice., per the Africa, had heel their worship la Norway. Duke of Genoa. checked by the tightness in the money market. The A portion of the French fleet has entered the Black Sea. CONSTANTINOPLE, Nos 12. A portion of the English fleet has mailed into the Black Sea. Accounts from Erzrnm of the 29th ult., state that a column of Russian troops on the march to rein force the garrison of Poli, had been surprised by the snow and was blocked up in one of the defiles near Kars. It was, therefore, thought probable that this place must soon surrender. quotations of the different articles in this market, on I the departure of the steamer, were as follow : Western Canal flour, 6.871 dole. to 7 dole per brl., steady; Gennessee prime wheat 1.78 dots. to 1.80 dole. per 601ba.; Indian corn, round yellow, 80c. to 82c. per bushel, barely supported; Indian corn, southern white, 80c. to 82c. per bushel. Bet little business had been doing in the provision market, bat late rates were steadily maintained. Freights continue to rule much the same as they have done for some time past. At the departure of the steamer the asking rates were: Flour, to Liver pool, 3s. 9d. to 4s. per brl.; grain, Is. 01d. to Is. id. per bushel; cotton, 3-16 d. to Id. per lb.; cotton, to Havre, Ic. to lc. per lb. Exchange on London was quoted at 1091 is 1091, but at these figures was not well sustained ; Paris, 6.121 to 5.15 ; Hamburg, 361 to 37; Bremen, 801 to 801. The United States steamer Hermann arrived at Southampton, on her way to Bremen, on Saturday. She left New York on the bth inst. Amongst her was specie to the value of nearly 350,000 41 d= for England and 210,000 dollars for France. GERMANY. FREIBURG, Nov. 15. During the celebration of morning mass to-day, the excommunication of the Superior Ecclesiastical Catholic C•iuncil and of Governor Burger was pro claimer!. The Vicar Koest!e, who proclaimed the ex communication, was immediately afterwards arrested and conveyed to prison. The co-operate Eischen, of the parish of St. Martin, who had accepted the curacy of Crlofa from the archbishop, has been con demned to a tine. CHRISTIANITY AND THE SULTAN. --•- 111 TUB EDITOV. or 'lllll LXPRISS. SlK,—There seen n to bo a great stress laid upon the argument, that the Saitan not being a Cherilian—and *AI •he r-st—why should we support him, £e. ? 1 bcg to remind AAR! people (without forgetting his independent hospitality, equal to our own) how very like a Christian h . • behaved when the famine raged in Ireland. I am, sr, with pmt respect, )our obedimt servant, W.tlecrhsrapton, Nov. 18. JACK ROBINSON. AUSTRALIAN MAILS. - (IT ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. FALMOUTII, MONDAY. Mails were landed from Sydney last evening by the Surge, Captain Morris. The Agamemnon, 91, Captain Mends, passed for the Mediterranean at soon. INDEPENDENCE OF TURKEL On Saturday a deputation, consisting of Lord Dudley Stuart, M.P., Professor Newman, Messrs. Prout, Nicholay, Hickson, sod John Wilson, waited upon Lord Palmerston at his residence, by appointment, with the following address for presentation to her Majesty, weed to at the great' public meeting held at the London Tavern in support of the independence of Turkey. The deputation was very kindly received by his lordship, who promised to present the address to her Majesty, and listened attentively to various observations from the dif ferent members of the deputation on the affairs of Turkey. The deputation then withdrew : TO TUE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. May it please your Majesty,—We, your Majesty's faith ful and affectionate subjects, being inhabitants of the metro polis of Great Britain, in public meeting in the City of London assembled, beg leave respectfully to represent to your Majesty that the series of aggressions on the part of the Russian government convinces us that there exists in its councils a fixed purpose not only to subdue Turkey but to domineer over all Europe, and to extirpate all freedom. We look upon this as the true reason why no diplomatic settlement of the quarrel between Russia and Turkey was or is possible, and we lament that your Majesty's government should have wasted much valuable time, damaged the just cause of the Turks, inflicted upon commerce months of needless depression, and (which we regard as the worst effect of all) inspired universal suspicion of the good faith of England, in a vain effort to negotiate with an unscrupulous and violent power, which acted while we talked, and which, if now momentarily appeased, would only become more dangerous on some early occasion. We applaud the glorious and patriotic spirit shown by the Turkish people at the present crisis, and should deplore any attempt on the part of your Majesty's government to sup press that spirit, considering the many solemn ways in which England has bound herself to maintain the Turkish independence, as an act of unparalleled infamy. On the contrary, not only does the interest, but also the duty and honour, of England call upon your Majesty's government to render to Turkey unconditionally prompt, decisive, and effective aid. In doing this we further beg leave to express our conviction that it is equally the duty of your Majesty's go vernment towards the people of this country to discard all secret and dynastic diplomacy ; and we must add that in our opinion Austria, by reason of bet previous course of policy, and of her recent perfidious behaviour towards Turkey, ought to be regarded by us as an enemy, and not cherished as an ally. And we further beg leave to represent to your Majesty that from the manner in which this question has hitherto been conducted on the part of England we can come to no more lenient conclusion than that the servants who have advised par Majesty are not equal to the emer geney.—Dated Oct. 7,1853." THE LATE MANCHESTER MEETING ON EASTERN AFFAIRS. The following letters from the Earl of Derby and Joseph Hume, RIR., M.P., were received by the Secretary of the late meeting at Manchester to sympathise with Turkey against the aggressions of Russia,—but not read at the meeting: Knowsley, Nov. 14, 1853. " Sir,—l have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 12th instant ; but regret that the state of my health —slowly recovering as I am from a severe attack of illness, which for the last month has almost entirely confined me to my bed—renders it impossible for me to entertain the idea of attending the proposed meeting on Wednesday next. So far as I am informed as to the merits of the eastern ques tion, Right appears to me to be altogether on the side of Turkey; and I believe that my opinions, as to the utter futility of the pretexts put forward by Russia in justifica tion of her acts of unprovoked aggression, are shared by the great mass of my countrymen.—l am, sir, yourobedient servant, " DERBY. " T. S. Clayton, Esq." " Burnley.hall, Nov. 16, 1853. " Sir,—l have this morning received your letter of the 12th, inviting me to attend a public meeting to be held this day in Manchester. I request you will express to the com mittee my thanks for their invitation, and for their belief that any opinions of mine could have aided the cause for which the meeting will express its sympathy. The invasion of terri tory, and the late proclamation of the Russian government against Turkey, must secure front all independent people, the strongest feelings on behalf of the Turks; and I hope it will be proved that our government have been consistent in the support of the Turks. If victory is to be with those who are right, the Turks must be, as I wish them to be, successful ; and it is quite possible that something advantageous to the liberty of Europe may yet spring frem the hostilities now going on.—l remain, your obedient servant, " JOSEPH Hinds. "T. S. Clayton, Esq., Hon. See., &c." GOODS TO LISBON. The following letters have been published in con sequence of the Lisbon Board of Health having declared Liverpool au infected port: " To the Secretary of the Manchester Chamber of Com- " Sir,-1 beg leave to enclose a copy of a letter which I have this day addressed to the secretary of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce, on the subject of the Portuguese and Brasiliara lines of steamers taking in their cargoes at Southampton during the presumed interdiction of trade from Liverpool to those parts, in consequence of the an nouncement which appeared in the London Gazette of the Bth instant, to the effect that the Board of Health at Lisbon had declared Liverpool to be an infected port. Believing that the shippers of goods residing at Manchester mast be greatly interested on this occasion, I hope that I shall not be deemed intrusive in bringing this matter through you to the notice of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce.—l remain, sir, your obedient servant, ROBERT G. Bissrrr, "Secretary to the Southampton Chamber of Commerce. "Southampton, Oct. 14, 1853." " To the Secretary of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce. " Sir,—The attention of the directors having been called to the announcement is the London Gazette of the Bth inst. that the Board of Health at Lisbon had declared Liverpool an infected port from the sth October, they have in. strutted me to communicate with you as a medium for suggesting to tile merchants and shipowners of Liverpool, that as a temporary measure it might be advantageous to them to have the Portuguese and Brazilian lines of steamers. and other vessels, loaded and despatched from Southampton. In regard to the outwards freight, consist. ing of bale sod case goods from the manufacturing districts sent to this port for the Brazils, it is already more than the ships of the Royal West India Mail Company can take on board, and almost every voyage large quantities are short shipped, while such part of the outward cargo as is made up and collected is London could be sent by railway at easy rates of carriage to Southampton. Many hundred tons of French, German, and Swiss goods are habitually brought here for transhipment by the steamboats which run from Havre and from Rotterdam. The charges on ships clearing outward from Southampton for foreign ports are 2d. per ton register port dues, 6d. per ton use of docks ; lights 30. per ton, and pilotage 7s. per foot from docks to sea clear of the Needles. As regards cargo, same charges as in the Thames, and on merchandise of all kinds, whether inwards or outwards, there are no town dues. " I remain, Sir, your obedient servant, (Signed) " It. G. Bisastrr, " Secretary Southampton Chamber of Commerce. " Southampton, Nov. 14, 1852." SANITARY REFORM. TO THE EDITOR OF THE EXPRE4B. SlR,—May I take the liberty of employing your columns as a means of calling public attention, and espe cially the attention of all municipal and corporate authori ties, to the example that is set to them, at the present time, by the corporation of Manchester? lam just re turned from • short visit to that town, where I heard and saw the many improvements that have been instituted by that public-spirited body. Vast thoroughfares are opened in many parts ; the streets, courts, and alleys are regularly cleansed; pavements arc almost everywhere laid down; the smoke nuisance is in rapid course of abatement ; public drains and sewers are constructed; the cesspools that re main, will, I hope, he speedily removed, and an aoundant supply of good and soft water is so admirably distrilsulcd, that, in a short timr, the smallest tenement will enjoy au unlimited quantity at an almost 'imams( price. The benefits to the mass of the people are quite incalculable.—l am, sir, your obedient servant, SHAFTESBURY. N•veiaber 18th, 1863. Vbe Court. - WINDSOR. Nor. Iv. The dinner party yesterday ineiaded the Niche% of Brabant, the Duke of Brabant, the Ducheas Kent, the Duchess of Cambridge, the Princess Mary 0.. unbrid ge, the Belgian Minister, the Marquis of Aberco.o . the L a d y in Waiting to the Duchess of Brabant, the L,. 5 in \r e i t ., lug to the Duchess of Kent, the Baroness 4! 'peth Sb George Ceuper, Count Gustave de Lanny,o bad Fitton Ktosebork. The band of the Ist Life Ouards attended in the Cattle during dinner and played the following compe..m. ms , morel overture, " Figaro" Walser, " lavitatkm I la Dom^ Potpourri, "La Clarsa Leers* ..... &»•d. Glee, " laynhorr Vanduock" Sir It R. 81 44. " Sandell* " Her Majesty'. private band afterwards attend. and formed the following selection : Owerture, "Midsummer :eight's Drone_ Muck Coro, " "IIAt" 'I"Oario" Selectson "Sonnambula" Las Dame aux Camelia' Valise tuo. The Queen, with the Dathem of Brabant, d r . out this forenoon in an open pony phaeton. Lord Cloales Fitzroy was in attendance on horseback. Prince Albert, with the Duke of Brabant, We out shooting, attended by Lord Waterpark. Col. the Hon. C. B. Phipps, Lieut.-Col. the Hon. A. Gordon, t , unt Guts tave de Lannoy, Lieut.. Col. Parker and Col ILzon (emu. mandiseg offiaers of the Ist Life Guards and Mil Battalion Scots Fusilier Guards), had the honour of joining his Royal Highness. The Duchess and Princess Mary of Casalwilde, and t h e Marquis of Abercorn, lett the Castle to-day I,lr London; also the Belgian Minister, for New Lodge, W:hkfield. The Duke of Cambridge arrived this aterboon, on visit to her Majesty. The dinner party today included the Duchess of Bra. bant, the Duke of Brabant, the Michela of Kett the Duke of Cambridge, the Lady in Waiting to tbs. !Nehru of Brabant, the Lily in Waiting to the Duck, pi of ti,sit, Lady Charles Fitzroy, Lady Frances Bruce t - e Hon. Mrs. A. Gordon, Colonel the lion. C. B. Ph.pps, Count Gustave de Lannoy, Major the lion. James Nlacdonald, and Mr. Gibbs. The band of the Scats Fusilier Guards Mk,. ,ed in the Castle, and played during dinner; and her pasty's Pri vate Band performed the following selett...ol in the evening: Overture, Rey Mae^ lutroduedon, "1l Cyanide ,ertseer. March, `. Les Detu Journees" Ave de Ballet, " L'EnLint Prodigee" Nov. 20. The Queen and Prince, the Prince of Wales, si.e Princess Royal, and Princess Alice; the ladies and gensi..men of ;h e court, and the domestic household am nded Le ine Service this morning, in the private chapel of the I otle. The Duke of Cambridge was also at the service. lion. and Rev. G. Wellesley officiated. • The Mayor of Plymouth had an interview wi , ?. the Gene. ral Board of Health on Saturday, at their of&e•, Whitehall. Despatches were sent (rein the Collnial-ofhe. on Satur day, to the Governors of Malta and Gibraltar, ar..l the Lord High Commissioner of tLe lonian Islaads. :)espatches were received on Saturday, from the Govee,.ors of the West India Islands. A cabinet council was held at the Poi eign-office, Downing-street, on Saturday. The mioNters pre. sent were the Earl of Aberdeen, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, tl.. Marquis of Lansdowne, Viscount Palmerston, tli, Earl of Clarendon, the Duke of Newcastle, the liancellor of the Exchequer, Sir James Gra ham, > .1 Chiles Wood, the Right lion. Sidney Herber . and Sir William Molesworth. The Council sat ti e hours. PRIVY COUNCIL FOR TILE PRORO(ATI( X OF P. %R• LIAMENT.—Her Majesty is expected to bold a I my Corned in the middle of. this weck at Windsor Castle. •,r the pur pose of settling the period of the further p rfltation of I parliament, which at present stands ao.journe, u Tuesday, the nth of November. HER MAJESTY and the royal family, N% , th a circle of distinguished visitors, are • spected to remov, portly from Winds:r to Osborne, Isle of Wight, to sojourn t• !Christmu. Me. MILNER GIBSON sailed, on the 11 h inst., in hisiacht from Malta for Corfu. DEATH OF THE PRINCESS NICHOLAS ESTER. 11.112 Y.—We have to reeord the deceue of this 11,1 y, daugh ter of the Earl and Countess of Jersey, in the Ouse of her life, after an illness of several months. The prince's et. pired on Thursday morning, shortly after i o'clock, at Torquay, of consumption. After trying the I , Mu of kohl and Ems, the princess bad been recommendeu to repair to her native air, and on arriving in this country .• few weeks back proceeded to Hastings. There no impn..ement woe made in her health, and her medical advisers or ered her to try the milder climate of Torquay. Her high,toss,who was eldest daughter of the Earl and Countess 01 Jersey, was born the 12th of August, 18t2, and married the Sth of February, 1842, to his Highness Prince Nisi ales Ester. boxy, only son of his Excellency Prince Pau, Esterbazy, many years Austrian Ambassador at the Court of St. James's, by whom she leaves a youthful taindy, her two eldest children, Paul and Itldolphe, being wit., the mem• hers of the family at Torquay. TILE LATE QUEEN OF PORTUGAL. Maria da Gloria, daughter of the late Emperor of Brazil, Dom Pedro 1., by his first o - ansort, the Archduchess Leopoldine of Austria, was born at Rio de Janeiro, April 4,, 1819. On the death of her grandfather, John VI., she was designated successor to the crown of Portugal, by virtue of the act of renunciation executed by Pedro, one of the provisions of which was that, upon coming of age, she should marry her father's brother, Dim Miguel, whom it was desired, as a dangerous competitor for the throne, to satisfy by such arrangement. Another condition was, that she and her future husband should acknowledge the new constitution. When Dom Miguel had accepted of this arrangement, had sworn to the constitution, been betrothed to the child Donna Maria, and received the regency, the young queen left Brazil, in 1828, to sail for Europe. Miguel had, meanwhile (June 30, 182 S), declared himself absolute Kiog of Portugal, and forbade the Queen to lend. She was now compelled to come to England, where she was received by the court as lawful Queen of Portugal, but found no actual support, the ministry of the day secretly favouring the usurper. In 1629 she returned to Rio Janeiro, with Amelia of Leuchtenberg, her subsequent stepmother, and lived there until 1831, when her father found himself compelled to resign the crown of Brazil to his son, Pedro 11. She then resided in Paris, while her father waged war for her rights in Portugal. After the taking of Lisbon, in September, 1833, she made her entry into that city. On the 29th of May. 1831, Miguel renounced his claims, and retired to Italy, where he recalled hie renunciation, and was acknowledged by the Pipe King of Portugal. Pedro now administered the government as regent and guardian of his daughter. His power, however, was soon exhausted ; sod when, on the lbth of September, 1831, he announced to the Cortes that he was no longer able to conduct the government, that assembly declared the Queen of full age, by which means the intrigues of the competitors for the Regency were defeated. Maria now occupied herself with thoughts of marriage. Her choice fell upon Duke Charles.Augustus-Eugine-Napoleon, of Leuehtenberg, who already had won her affections. On the Bth of November she was married by proxy, at Munch, to this prince ; and on January 27 of the following year in I person. Dom Augustus. Prince of Portugal as he was named, was made commander of the army, and was likely to become popular, when he died suddenly, March 28, 183.). On the 9th of April, 1836, she was married a second tiwe to Duke Ferdinand, sun of Ferdinand of Sale. Cobourg Cutlery, who. upon the birth of a cruwo prince, was named king. In the cants, of the next ten years the corruptions of the government, which had fallen into the hands of the Cabral, the suppression of the liberty of the press, and the increase of taxes, irritated a large portion of the nation. In May. 1816, civil war broke out in the Upper Miaho, and in a few weeks several districts were in arms against the Cabrai ministry. The Cabrals resigned, and retired from the kingdom. The Chamber of Deputise was dissolved, the Grand Cortes extraordinarily convoked, and a number of concessions were made. The Duke de Polmella was called to power, suit held office with &hawks for four months, when his cabinet was succeeded by a Lew ministry under Saltiachuts premiership. Civil war, mat while, continued. P 26 Antes, the commander nominated by the Juntas, and sulaported by Bandiera, Louli, and Fa urnos, gained several successes; and it was feared that th , . Queen and King would have to leave Portugal and seek safety in England. In November, however, the popular party were in tarn defeated, and lost two whets regiments by desertion. In the ensuing year the mediation of the British government was offered, and accepted by the Queen, hut declined by the Junta. DU Antes sole prepared to evacuate Oaarto. The British fleet, unite Sir Thomas eluitlairl. was off that city. Steamers belong ing to the Junta went pormitted to enter and embark 1)01 Antss's troops. On the 31st of May, 1847, a corvette and three armed steamere. oafs barque, one brig, two actioners, transports, containing in all about 3,000 Ire°• s, lett the port. On crossing the bar, they were summoned to sus rende r ti the British; and as resistance would have t-een useless, they did so, without firing a shot. As soon as he was on board the British ships the Conde dos Antes seined to tire commander a protest in the manse of the Portuguese nation against this act of hostility, without declaretioe of wur. in any pretext for the same. By these meons resistance to the royal authority was suppressed. The Queen, in return fur services rendered by land Britain, signed an agree no. fit excluding the Cabrals noes pewee ; and this wa• all the opponents of the clan gained by the insurrection. A. soon, however, as quiet had 'seen rerun:J. the Conde de Thomar, the eldet of the Cahrals, &Awn ~came premier in :he face ef Great Britaiu s sad continued a career of oppression and corruption until, is 18d1. the Duke de Salda..ha carried out a military revo lution aid reconstituted the government. Donna Mane yielded with a very bad grace to the necessities of her 'wee tion. Her husband had been appointed commander -use chief at the commencement of the outsmeak, and actually