The Express. — London, England, 1853-11-23 00:00:00

tlu , ororros. met with deserved reprobation from the Belgian journals., and excited much discussion abroad. These i are only a few of the many facts which show the , i n t e nse ini“.est now taken throughout Europe in, the productton of corn, and in the laws by which Govern- I merits have sought to regulate the supply. Under st,n circumstances we canrot pass by the remarkable article which appeared in the Moniteur of Thursday, and referred to in our paper of Saturday, without a more extended notice than it then received. It may only reiterate, as the Presse says, doctrines which that journal has preached continually ; it may only, as the Constitutionnel remarks, state that with autho rity whic h all free trade journals have long ago ! taught ; still, because it does lend the sanction of authority to much hitherto unaccredited teaching. and because the opinions it enforces have already been made somewhat popular, it is so much the more important, and so much the more deserving the public attention. It is a right word, spoken at a right time, by a high authority; it fixes attention almost uni versally on a subject of the highest interest, and will, from its effects, turn out to be an event of very great and lasting influence. We are well known not to be admirers of Lolls NAPOLEON, and we abhor both the means by which he acquired the government of France and the poli tical principles on which he conducts it; but since he is acceptable to the French, and as with them his Government is of great authority, we say nothing aAainst him. By satisfying them, too, and keeping them quiet, he has relieved a part of Europe hom the apprehensions it entertained of being disturbed or overrun, and on the continent of Europe he is held in much higher respect than we could have supposed possible for a BONAPARTE who had re-established the once dreaded Empire. There he is now sufficiently respected to make his words very influential ; nor are they less to be valued here because they are in the main completely at variance with the political prin ciples of his Government. We admire much of what is said in the Moil/ear because it expresses important truths, and we admire it the more because it cannot be presented by authority to a logical people like the French without leading them to extend its deduc tions from corn to politics, from free trade to free speech, and helping them more speedily to get rid , of despotism. The article is not in the official part of the Muniteur, bat as no article appears in that journal without the sanction of the Government, it may be assumed to express the opinions of the EM PEROR, if it be not drawn up by himself or by one of his Ministers, and is intended to defend his policy as to corn, and promote freedom of trade. In such a quarter, and at such a time as the present, it must astonish and delight all Free Traders to find it written as a reason for the Government not undertaking the task of interfering to supply the deficiency of the harvest : that it " would cost at since 300,000,000 francs; that to raise such a sum recourse must be had to direct taxation, which would fall heavily on the distressed agriculturists; or to a loan, which would derange commercial affairs and injure the financial condition of the Government: . That is going beyond our own Government, which unquestionably both deranged trade and injured our financial system by its loan and its interference to supply the people of Ireland in 1846. The .Vondeur goes further than this, and shows that the Government could not have secured ship ping enough to import the supplies now required by France, without laying its hands on all the vessels of the country, and annihilating its bade. Could it succeed in importing a sufficient quantity of corn, it must then, according to the official journal, provide for its storage and its distribution, and must have employed an immense number of persons, without knowing what to do with them after the crisis was over. If the corn were sold at a loss, the expense to 'the state would be enormous ; if it were sold at a profit cJvering all charges, the Government would only, as the result of its exertions, cause national discontent. Moreover, the effects on produc tion and distribution at home would be disas trous. Some parts of France always produce, even in years like the present, more corn than they con sume; other parts, however abundant the harvest, always draw supplies from other quarters. Such differences are found in neighbouring arrondisse ments, or even cantons, and trade effectually equalises them Gain is its object; and if it had to encounter the ruinous competition of the Government it would be stopped and stifled. As soon as the Government began to trade in grain it would have the market to itself, and both the foreign and home trade in corn would be stopped. As the sole purveyor of food for the people, 300,000,000 francs would not suffice, it must have nalliards, and for the Government to interfere with the corn trade would lead to the de struction of the public credit and the whole organi sation of the State. The conclusion to which the arguments we have given an outline of lead we translate textually. " From the alternative the state cannot escape ; it most do all or nothing. If it touches a single source of the supply of food, its course is fatal—it must go on till it absorbs all, even all other business as well as the trade in food. The substitution of the state for the action of (private) industry is at once physi cally impossible, financially ruinous, and politically absurd. The Government could take no such course, and it has trusted to trade to supply the deficiencies of the harvest. The result has corresponded to these prudent resolves. The storehouses, the means of trans port, the multitude of persons employed between the producer and the consumer,—all these means of distri bution which the state wants, are possessed by individuals, and that which would be impossible and absurd is government, is simple and easy for the Government." The Government organ, which thus emphatically denounces all Government interference with trade, goes on to show that trade needs security, liberty, and facilities, and it praises the decrees of August 13 and Is, and of October 1, which suspended all import ditties, and removed all obstacles to the import of corn ; it praises, too, but with very doubtful propriety, purchases of food abroad for the army and navy, and with great justice, the reduction of the duties on the importation of cattle. The results boasted of are the impirtation alteady of 3,.)00,000 hectolitres of wheat, Ind of arri vals from America tad the Levant increasing day by day. " Whatever may be the deficiency of the hat , vest," is the final conclusion in the .1/uniteur, to which we shall advert, " there is every :lawn to hope,:hanks to the efforts of Free Trade (e'nnmerct lip„e) that it will be speedily supplied." In the remainder of the article we are informed that the harvest is not ritually deficient in all parts of France, and that in some parts oats, barley, and potato's, which form a large part of the food of the people, are more abundant than usual. J! states, to.), that Oa (i.)%erethelit TO CORRESPONDENTS. A Sewed 1...0ck u ' rat LiPlitoe:' eeeku.slas :Le VS* ...Male. M . , puLtALett every Teep:ay sad rralay sigh, A tia.e ke pat. iikeertieeou.ats iiiterAted for "The Eaweas," Tablas Eves... ore', Mil be 4 the (Moe, tu, Beneerte•etreet, by Two (Await ea :Le Eby el y Anemic& HUGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. 78 0 MT —Vie limit, 61. 212. .. ...Afternoon, at.. 4 91,4 TeAscsaine—Morstag, 71. 2le Mumma. ANI. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER _3• Tux lteal-life Drama of Politics on the Continent becomes day by day more and more interesting. In Portugal we see an unstable Regency, in Spain an unpopular Government, both indicating troubles for the Peninsula. Near Vienna the telegraph declares that two branches of the exiled Bounnoss—despair. ing each (as they well may) of their separate chances of a crown—have come to terms and joined forces for a new and combined attempt to get power in France. The partisans of the Count de CHAMBORD and the friends of the Count de PARIS, have it is said, agreed that their best chance resides in making common cause against Louis NAPOLEON, and hence a charming Royal Fusion that is to combine the prin ciples which upset CHARLES THE TENTH with those that expelled Louis PHILIPPE! Whilst this is going on at Frohsdorf, we see Loris NAPOLEON taking counsel with Count WALEwsEt, from London, on matters, it is understood, concerning the alliance between England and France in the Turkish diffi culty—that difficulty, meanwhile, needing no more talk about whether the two countries should do this or that, but requiring only that both should cordially and at once be doing their duty as by treaties bound to do it. In Belgium we see the clever and success• ful King LEOPOLD making up his book by closer alliances with Austria—a sign that he thinks it wise for a constitutional monarch to have au absolutist ally or two, and that the future may render strong friends needful for small kingdoms. And whilst these by-plays arc in progress elsewhere, we see that on the Danube the plot thickens. Dame PACHA, withdrawing his men from the swamps about °Benito*, is at the same time pouring new forces into Wallachia higher up the stream, and entrench ing them strongly at Kalafat. Rations for 40,000 men are stated to be sent across daily from Widdin to the forces of the Paths, who has also received the moral support that must flow from the presence in ►is camp of FuAD EFFENDI, the minister most hated by the Russians for his opposition to NIENCIII. and to Muscovite intrigues. His co-operation with Omits PACUA will, in all probability, tend to make the party of the SULTAN more confident that peace can only be accepted on terms favourable to Turkish independence. The two Paches may think it their policy to maintain their position at Kalafat, whilst their enemy brings more and more troops into the Wallachian morasses, there to be decimated by the diseases that always afflict strangers on that bank of the Danube in the rainy winter season. Ten thousand of the CZAR'S troops arc stated to be already in the hospitals of Moldavia and Wallachia, and bow many more may follow them so one—until spring returns—man at all esti- mute. 011 zit Picti.t, having given his enemy a taste of the quality of the troops under his command, can well afford to bide his time fur the taking of the next wisest step. He is entrenched in the Principa lities—he has command of the passage of the Danube near idd in —he has forces opposite Often it za, and ea' at any time, if it suits him, worry his enemy by feints across the river at many points along its course. Thus favourably circumstanced, his prospects are cheerful enough, and none the less so that 12,000 Bosnian* are on their way to his camp—that 10,000 more muskets are coming from Egypt—that a single citizen of Aleppo has patriotically offered to raise and equip .5,000 men for the service of his master the Suur ‘m—and last, not host, that mere successes have attended the Turkish arms in Asia. We find the Austrian Government Oirrespondelit announcing that the Russians, under General BARIA TINSAY, have been attacked, and beaten back with considerable loss, by the Turks, at Gumri ; whilst even the Journal of S€. Peteraisrg admits a story of the terrible reverses of the Russians in Circassia. This Muscovite confession will be found at length in an other column. So far, then, we find successive 'penes of the political drama tending to • dimwit:meta in favour of justice. Thus far the Russian aggressor has been punished, and is in a fair way of being com pelled to withdraw from a position which he has ille- gally assumed. But to aware this success, it is not enough that the Turkish General should do his duty actively and well. We have yet witnessed only the opening scenes ; and there are other mem bers of the great dramatis persona equally bound to be active, honest, clever, and deter mined, ere the curtain can fall—with applause. All Om= PACUA' plans on the Danube—all ADM PACRA*B successes in Asia, will be marred if the plots of cliques and Cabinets are permitted to prevail over justice and sound policy. Austrian suggestions and BOURBON desires may indicate a course of action for Eigland and France, which would undo all that the Turks can effect for their own freedom and for the future quietude and pro gress of Europe. For the play to end well it is as needful to have straightforward honesty in the action of England and France on the Butern ques tion, as to have courage, patriotism, and good general ship in the armies of the SULTAN. The soldiers of Mimi-Maim', will bleed in vain for the integrity of their native soil if the intrigues of the diploma tists are allowed at last to betray a cause they have already done much to injure. Until this whole drama has been played out to the closing scene,it can neverbetoooften repeated that the honest, hearty co-operation of England and France in favour of freedom in Turkey can alone secure a happy solution of the thief coutinental difficulty—con alone put back the invading force of the CZAK, and secure an honourable and certain peace. That pacifi cation secured, the minor plots of Kings and would-be Kings may amuse the world, but mu scarcely long disturb it. Every year of peace help', on the develop ment of the civilised peoples of Europe; and by that development renders the safety and comfort of the human family at large more and more indepen dent of royal at•empts at mischief. As nations grow wiser and more inteliigent, Bot: itnON cabals, Fmhticlort compact's, a Comeau; Or BRAOANZA al liances or deaths, become less and less matters of serious import to those masses over whom the per sonal interests of dominant families have heretofore exercised so potent a control. is occupied with providing employment for the , people, I% consequence of the extensive failure of the the utility of which may be doubted when the Govern hat vest in Europe. attention it very generally di- went cannot ensure them all either aikquate rewards reefed to the supply of food. Our own jourrals. and or adequate subsistence; but, allowing the ioc lisis the journals of France, Belgium, and Germany. teent tencics to pass which show that the 'triter, or the with articles on the subject. Almost every govern- Government, is not fully aware of the consequences saint of k uropc which has hitherto maintained pro- of the principles laid down, the article, on the whole, tecti't la A., ha. either suspended or abrogated them, is calculated to make a profound impression in favour or adopted sonic measures to increase the supply of ,of Free Trade throughout Europe. The chief prin. food. No ~sorer did the Belgian Parliament meet ciples of that theory it puts ins strong and practical for work, thee a leading member, M. Dunineriut, I mint of view; and, enforcing doctrines already much made an earnest appeal to the Government to pro. I taught, and recommended by much mimeo, it cannot hibit the exportation of all kinds of cereals, which fail to influence the future policy of Europe. THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 23, 1853 . It will, in fact, be more acceptable there than the tOnehing of English writers, from the errors suitable to Continental prejudices with which it is mingled. We deem it therefore of more than ordinary import ance. It will everywhere hasten and assure the pro gress of Free Trade, and wherever that prevails no other freedom can long be withheld from any people. That the article gives a terrible blow to despotism, and to the whole system of interference by Govern ment with private business--that it acknowledges, as _ . the Presa; nye, the imbecility of the Imperial power in the most important affairs of society—only ' makes it, remembering where it is published, the more remarkable. As if to gain for its doctrines the approbation of all Frenchmen, and claim for them the honour of being at an early period good theoretical Free Traders, it is accompanied by • republication of the celebrated letter of TURGOT to the authorities of Limoges, in which, during • famine crisis, he en joined them to secure a Free Trade for grain as the best means of lessening the evil. Loris NAPOLEON, supporting his policy by the authority of that great and good philosopher and statesman, may inspire us with unbounded confidence in the complete success of doctrines which extort the homage of his despotic governmeat, and by it are, recommended to the ad miration of all Europe. THE "MORAL LESSON" AT THE OLD BAILEY TO THE EDITOR Or THE DAILY NEWS. SlN—The great practical sermon put forth by the Old Bailey Moralist—the hangman—and re ported in the Daily News of yesterday, attracted a large congregation; although, let it be noted with satisfaction, not so numerous an assemblage as usual. Yet, so ardent was the desire of some among the crowd to attend his solemn public warn ing, that, as long ago as the night of Sunday week, groups of eager ex pectants ranged themselves round the site of his awful pulpit, in order to secure the best places within seeing and hearing distance on the morrow; and, so bitter was their disappointment when the poetponemelit of the rite became known, that some of them vented it in the hisses and groans with which they would have greeted a manager who had cheated them of an ex pected performance. Last Monday, however, faith was kept. Barriers were erected to keep iu cheek the irrepressible enthusiasm of those pupils of the great moral teacher who never min • single lesson that it may be his duty from time to time to give. The Old Bailey harvest was again reaped by the letters of windows "commanding a good view;" by vendors of eatables and drinkables, whose minion it is to recruit exhausted yearners after the good that is dropped—like crumbs from the rich man's table—at the foot of the gallows ; by pickpockets, on whom the example of a fellow-creature strangled out of life is so extremely powerful that it incites them to more plunder; and by numerous other dependents on the finisher of the law, who spring up around the gallows-tree in a single night like a rank and hideous fungus. The salutary dread struck—according to the few lingering advocates fur the hangman that still exist —into the souls of the dangerous classes by public executions is well illustrated in the accounts of that which took place in the Old Bailey on Monday, and in the police reports printed in the journals of yesterday. The wretched criminal who passed from the world for having murdered his wife would, if there be anything in the logic of the hang man's friends, occasion the crime for which he was executed to be greatly decreased. It is their argu ment that the terror of his fate would arrest the action of brutal passions, and make men dread a similar fate if led away far enough to deserve it. But on the very page in which the terrible doom is recorded we find at least one . instance in which, instead of a deterrent, the fate of the cri minal appears as an exciting cause. A tailor, amidst a paroxysm of fiendish rage, declared to his wife that he would be hung for murdering her, as the man that was sentenced to be hung on that morning would be hung; arid proceeded to cut open the woman's skull with his sleeve-board, adding that he had already murdered one wife, and that his present victim should be murdered next. So far from the sufferings of his predecessor in a similar crime having a salutary effect upon him, it manifestly formed a part of his in citement. The bravado and eclat spurred him on, as hundreds of others have been prompted, to crime. It is a psychological fact, however difficult to reason upon or to account for, that the retribution for a particular crime upon any celebrated criminal, operates on bad and passionate natures as incentivn to the same crime. We have proof of this in the results of the recent measure for the protection of women : the more punishments which are ad ministered for assaults upon them, the more candi dates for punishment are brought forward. In nearly every case it comes out in evidence that the culprit prefaces his brutality by some such exclamation as " Here goes for six months." The glory of braving that duration of imprisonment and hard labour exalts the imagination of a coarse-minded ruffian, and offers a sort of pre-justification for any excesses he may commit. The number of these eases which has been brought forward since the passing of the act referred to, the refinements of cruelty, the varieties of brute force, the stolid indifference both to the sufferings inflicted and to the legal consequences of inflicting them, are simply appalling. It is a kind of tradition in France that Englishmen drag their wives, with halters round their necks, to Smithfield, and sell them there ; but this is a harmless pleasan try compared with the revolting reality as displayed in the treatment of wives which has been recently brought to light. It is vain to assert that the new law has ferretted out such cases, and that men who formerly ill-used their wives in secret are now more generally exposed and prosecuted ; women, in giving their husbands in charge, do not estimate the amount of punishment they are handing them over to- Indeed, in most cases, they do not give the offenders in charge to the authorities; but, the brutality has been so gran, that the police have been attracted by it, and, catching the offenders in the fact, have dragged them off without any charge being made. Punishment, as an example to others, appears to fail utterly. On the very day after the execution of Mown for murdering his wife, we find details of two of the most brutal eves of wile-beating that have yet appeared io the police court reports. A third case is highly illustrative of the moral influence exer cised by the public scaffold. One art the spectators was standing in fruut of it, whet', to quote the' evidence : 1 felt something at my pocket, and then missed my watch. The condemned moan feu jag rominy on the scaffold; and, before he was hung, I the prisoner moviug from my side. 1 followed him ; hut, perceiving um behind vim, he ran up Clement's lun-yard in the Old Bailey, and thtew himself on some ma tin,e. The watch produced by the officer is mine. It is tngraved with my own name. OUR SHIPS OF WAR. TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY NETTS. SlR,—The Agamemnon, it appears, is to join our fket at the Dardannelles : and other large screws are to be fitted out—the Nile, for example. So much the better! But " Itame was not built in a day." We must have patience with a body of ad ministrators, now closely watched in their expendi ture, and dependent upon another body, subject to " hot and cold fits;" building ships convulsively one year, and the next year laugh:lig over the gro ' moque productions of their panic or demented state. ' Apropos of the Nile. It appears that just as she is wanted her copper is to be stripped, and she has to be caulked afresh. Does not this fact bear out my recent suggestions on the subject? But there is far higher authority than mine on that point. The evidence of the Naval Inquiry of 1848 calls attention to the effects of copperuig ships dismantled, without guns, and floating lightly in harbour, to the load water line, so that a considerable space of copper lying exposed to the air spoils the caulking, and injares the plank itself. One eminent witness (I think Lord J. Hay) seemed to bear me out in my idea of keeping our new ships nncoppered till they are wanted, by suggesting (as I have also done in the House of Commons) that they might be kept laid up on their slips. Though we have some 45 slips, there might be practical difficulties in the way ; still nothing more than a strong will and a little forethought might overcome. Why not get some cheap land icclining to a lake or arm of the sea, away from all danger, and commence the experiment by building some ships one above, or rather behind, the other, so as to launch several from the same inclined plane ? The Admiralty is evidently acting with vigour : the members of the board have sufficient good sense to listen to suggestions given in good faith, from whatsoever quarter they come ; and they have fixity of tenure enough not to dread opposition for opposi tion's sake. One courageous act of last week will be highly conducive to discipline, and shows that no fear of party combination sways them in their course of rigid justice--so necessary to the interests of the service. The process of weeding the navy of old and useless ships has, it seems, commenced appropriately enough on one of our clumsy and nearly useless paddle wheel steamers. Was she not one of our " failures," ordered in a panic in 1845? A whole batch were then ordered, terrible only in their nomenclature. Examine the evidence of the committee of 1848, and you will have the facts at length. Some had engines too large, which were transferred to other ships. Some made bad, very bad, troop ships; a sort of management which has, I think, kept some of our soldiers, wanted on a pressing emergency, some three months on their passage to the Cape—the whole nation trembling at the grim experiment. Well, sir, some such craft is now at last condemned. But what lam coming to is this. Why honour her with so decent a funeral as a breaking up in a royal yard? To pay for building her was bad enough. Need we break her up too ? ' Believe me, iu ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it is better to be quit of an old ship at whatsoever price she will fetch, than spend money on her. Every day you feel you are but throwiug good money after bad. I perceive the Blake and the Victorious are likely to be condemned. Sell them too. The fewer established artisans you have to keep the better. We had about 10,000 in 1848 ; and that is a large body to be watched. Besides, finis custodiat ipso* custmles? "A Naval Officer," writing in the Times, com mends Sir J. Graham for his zeal and administrative ability, shown in the spectacle now presented at Constantinople. lie sums up the fleet as about to consist of 29 vessels (15 steamers) containing some twelve thousand men. No doubt the praise is de served; but why add, ungraciously, that this effort has been made in spite of the "ranting of the Man chester school ?" That school may have its faults: and especially that of not seeing that it is a wise economy to keep an efficient naval force, the want of which America is regretting. Yet, let me tell " Naval Officer" that it is to Manchester's impatience of taxation that we owe half the naval reforms we now rejoice in. I)id the Manchester school project the Vulcan, or send seamen to sea with Goldner 's pre served meats ? I perceive the Emperor of Russia has ordered a ship of 100 guns in America. He has no Manchester school : but then a system of peculation has left him with a fleet repotted to be unfit to carry gams to sea. He seeks to cure the evil at its source. Bir James Graham might do well to order a large ship of a building firm, and build another exactly like it in the dockyards, and then compare notes of the cost. I am, sir, your obedient servant, JOHN TRELAWNY. Reform Ciub, Nov. 22, 1853. P.S. Could you inform me whether the practice of stepping masts in advance ships (which masts some times become rotten before going to ses) alluded to in the committee of 1848 has been discontinued of late ? NATIONAL EDUCATION. TO THE ZDITOH OF TEI DAILY NEWEL Eta,—Allow me, after reading an article on na tional education in your widely circulated journal this morning, to say just a word on the subject. It is clear that the only way in which the difficulty arising from the varia tion of religious opinion can be got rid of is by government providing a purely secular education, and by allowing reli gious instruction to be imparted to the children oa Sundays, or on an evening in the chapels or Bunda7•sehools of the particular sect to which the parents may happen to belong. —I am, &c., W. C. Clerkeawell, Nov. 22. A GROWL FROM GIBRALTAR. TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY JUNE. SlR,—Seeing you have generously inserted in this day's issue of your liberal paper a letter from Gibraltar, ea posing the unjust policy adopted by Sir Robert Gardiner as governor of that city, I take the liberty to intrude upon your valuably columns with a few words translated from a near relative's letter which I received this morning. He writes : • " Since you ask Ilse haw are thiugs lien, I must tell you that I w eatables so very high ea at present ; we ue paying .50 to 70 per cent. above the usual rate, which will shortly increase ti twice or three times this amount, iu consequence of our communication with Spain being put to an end. Both rich and poor are already feeling the scarcity of provisions, and I hope that the appointed deputies and bearers of a memorial to the Duke of Newcastle, who leave for England by this steamer, will be successful in their minion." In the civilised age we live in, I am quite at a loss to think hsw could an English governor, in whose care is entrusted the management of eighteen thousand souls, prohibit the importation of food to the colony, at a period too:whan it is greatly needed by its residents. No doubt Sir Robert would not have acted in this manner if the army stationed there were unprovided, but u everything is almost contracted for them, he cares nought how the public are to procure the necessaries of life ; he thinks tit to pro vent the Spaniards from supplying the garrison with pro• visions, no matter if the inhabitants, especially the poorer classes, suffor for it , won a public meeting is talked of be orders it to he stopped, when a petition is cut through him to the government. we hear no 'nether on the subject. I redly do not perceive any dile:, Lee between his policy and that of Calvdo, with the exception that one is under a liberal gov-rnmeat while the latter is under a bigoted mo narchy ; and while Gibraltar is a free city with attached and loyal siasjects, Cuba is a large colony tilled with "'Ribs's , terns" end wretched cloves; Gibraltar is, thank heaven, a tree city, hut where is the freedoms enjoyed by her people E. A governor is every five years sent to us without our approving or disapproving of the party; we are governed by an °niece, and not. es in Malta, by a civil governor. The latter is deciii illy an important colony and depot to the Enalist, navy, so is Gibraltar to the Mediterranean ; there they col sy the blessings of a free press and speech, while in Gibr.&ar, under the same laws and flue, we ate ptohihited these privileges. Will this be overlooked by Engli.liimen in the present crisis for reform ?—I am, tie L. F. Liverp's•l. Nov. 17. STAIMING BY SPAN lARDs AT DEPTVORD.—Yester- Primner-1 did not throw myself down, 1 tell down. I day weruing, between 12 and I o'clock, the inhabitants o High - street , Deptford, were greatly al a r m ed by an attem p t High-street,Alderman lluruoliery —One thing is ver y c l ear. Thu ' ,to murder :w . ..m. nettled JobeSullivou, aged 32 years, awful sight of a man b e i ng b ung h as no f ear for r.u. ' Princes-street, Dentiurd, and Thomas Breslow aged 24 None whatever ; nor for the pers,n who lost the I year,•, Co.o. street, Dije.iorti. It appears horn "Sullivan's watch, and who, with several others. were engaged , staterueu that three ur tour Sordoni, were ill•usiag a re in the exciting sport of hunting a ph.kpocket, at the a w i t:n ts . b li e e f st e . m rel l as t. e n cr i v r iottj a , t an e :l i tti t r tw D o e fin tr a d tu i n ). alo kY r:ie f i d l' very moment that a fellow-being , A as L 1111130( out a I Sullivan and Breslaw, went to her aeeistancv, when a despe. this world; nor for the " lat. lit or g"th"" who ;rate s l u aM 't atd . l ' a s ly ou Vi o ir u : m 'eM7 a'ribilmfelllYwthe the S i ei r nier n dj, and are described as having condueted I lteinselvco with ' claiming, " 0., lam stobned." SolliA an was g .,l ' . u . stabbed the utmost indecency in one of the windows, ~ w i t h immediately after* erils. T.,. Spaniards, on the cries of a good view ;" nor for any one of the spectators whom I . re c eivedt b e a v in e g o n te e P l ' ve rn . 4 ii n sir o d n t. t i he t la t ei p j ar o t i" : , l S t u h i e li e T t a e: appetite f u r h had curiosity and a morbid h orrors ; mach, near the groin besbie other injuries. Th omas attracted to the revolting sh ow . ! Breslow is severely atableed under the region of the heat. 1 and the nature of his wound pr ec l u d es th e h o p e o f b ANTIeGALLOWS. • recovery. LATEST FROM ABROAD. THE WAR IN ASIA. VIENNA, TVZSDAT. The semi-official Oes(erreichische Currespundenz announces that the Turks have beaten General Baria- 1 tinsky's division on Russian ground. The conflict took place on the highlands of Armenia, between Alexandropolis and Altazich. The Russians were oompelled to abandoa their ground. A Russian official report says that the Turks attacked the fortress of Gumri, near Alexandropolis, and between Tiflis and Kan, on the 29th and 30th of October, but were repulsed by General Prince Bariatinski, with a loss of one thousand killed and wounded, and several hundred prisoners. DISSOLUTION OF THE SARDINDLN CHAMBER. PARIS, TUEEDAT EVENING. A telegraphic despatch from Turin, dated yester day, states that the Sardinian Chamber of Deputies had been dissolved by royal ordonnance. The elections are to take place on the Sth of December, and the new chamber is to meet on the 19th of the same month. The ministry declared that the time had come for the nation to pronounce upon the policy of the cabinet, with which the Senate had repeatedly placed itself in opposition. RUSSIA AND TURKEY. - - • --- The Turks are winning new laurels. An Ottoman force has defeated a Russian division in Armenia, and driven it from the frontier to the interior of 1 1 Georgia. It is true we have contradictory accounts of this conflict; a Russian bulletin pretending that the victory was with the Czar's troops. But there is no place for a moment's hesitation in choosing between the two accounts. A Turkish victory must be of very unequivocal character to obtain the recognition of the Austrian government in its daily organ, while on the other hand, not to mention the Gortschakofl' bulletin, which we published yes terday, the Czar never yet sustained a reverse without thereupon decorating officers as for a victory, and issuing (nominally at least) silver roubles to the men. The fortress of Oumri is about 100 miles from Kars, and stands close to the newly erected town of Alexandropolis. At the latest dates from the Danube the forces of the Sultan were entrenching themselves strongly at Kalafat. Their advanced poets were about ten miles on the road to the capital of Lesser Wallachia. It was expected that the Russians would make an attack upon Kalafat as soon as Osten Sacken's corps and the remainder of that of Luders could be brought up to guard the approaches of Bn chareat. From the Pruth to the 11 allachian capital, however, is a long march, especially for an army corps which cannot travel without an immense train of wag gone. It u as, however,a question whether the weather which was rapidly becoming wintry, would not for bid operations among the mountains and forests of Lesser Wallachia as effectually as it had done on the alluvial left bank of the Danube, opposite Turtukai. The snow was falling in Bulgaria, and covered the ground. The Russian army has never fought at this time of the year on the Danube, and it is not impro bable that hostile operations may be suspended till the spring. Letters from Vienna, however, state that the Russians there profess to expect that Prince Gortschakoff will, in his turn, cross the Danube. No sooner does a lull occur in the storm of musketry and cannon shot on the Danube than rumours of a peaceful settlement of the difficulty arrive from all quarters. From Berlin it is announced that the King of Prussia is seeking to bring about an armis tice between the two parties. Whether the King does not think the guarantee of the season strong enough, or whether he has any ulterior proposition, does not appear. Again, Paris letters speak of a ru mour current in diplomatic circles that a despatch has been received by M. de Kisiseleff from Count Nesselrode, and communicated by M. de Kisseleff to the Emperor of the French at Fon tainbleau, in which the Russian minister declares that the pacific intentions of his master have under gone no change, and that he will hear with pleasure of the success of diplomacy in obtaining from the Porte a compliance with the reasonable demands of Russia on the condition that the integrity of the Porte and the sovereign rights of the Sultan shall be fully guaranteed. But this is the old tale. The Czar has set his mind upon that which does not be long to him, and he would much rather have it with out fighting. That is the substance of his pacific professions. A sacrifice in the cause of peace seems never to have entered his head. As Turkey cannot yield to his demands, and as besides his troops have their tarnished fame to restore it cannot be said that the prospects of peace are very bright. CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 9. M. de Bruck, since my last, has had an interview with Reschid Pacha, and given the most formal assurances that the Austrian government is animated with friendly sentiment.. to the Porte, and will maintain the strictest neutrality during the present struggle. M. do Wildenbruch also has given the same assurances on the part of his government, and communicated a despatch from M. de 111anteuffel, in which that minister declare* that the interview of his sovereign with the Emperor Nicholas, at Olmutz, will in no wise affect the policy of Prussia. Various rumours are afloat, favourable to the cause of Turkey, but which, however, require confir mation. It is now quite certain that a considerable advantage has been obtained, as noticed in my last, by the possession of the fortress of Nicolaief ; that several prisoners, and among the rest Prince Gourial, are on their way to Constantinople ; and that others, about 70 in number, are at the hospital at Trebizonde, and treated with the utmost humanity and attention. I have seen a letter from Semi Pacha, dated Ist of November, 29th Mouparrun, in which he states that another division of the Turkish army was at that time in the act of crossing the Danube in the direction of Toulcha, and that at Kalafat, besides some prisoners, a considerable quantity of grain, three cannons, and some warlike stores had fallen into the hands of the Turkish army. I met, yesterday, the sons of the scherif of Mecca at the hotel of the Grand Vizier—two fine young men, about to proceed at the head of their contingent to the camps of Schumla and Batoum. They men tioned that Alxl-el-Kader was most anxious to join the party, but feared, owing to his ignorance of the language, and being deprived of his native tribes, that he would be unable to render much assistance to the national cause. The passage of the Danube, at Kalatat, has been effected, it appears, without the authority of the government. Omer Pacha had endeavoured it is true, all along, in his despatches, to demonstrate the necessity of this step, and the advantages which would result to his army from the occupation of Little Wallachia. In point of fact, the country being surrounded by mountains, renders difficult the operations of the Russian cavalry and artillery, and the presence of his army would prevent the execu tion of any design to enter Bulgaria from the Servian provinces. Omer Pacha, moreuvet, had announced that he should be able to effect this operation without any considerable loss; and the event having jus tified his views, they have necessarily received the approval of his government. The Turco-Egyptian fleet is about to proceed to the Black Sea, and a conferem.* has been held on board the Mahinoudie, flag-ship, to decide on the plan of operations. The Captain l'acha, the Turkish and Egyptian commanders, and, it is said, several English and French naval officers, assisted at this meeting. Namik Pacha started by French steamer on the sth inst. for Paris and London, for the purpose, as you are aware, of negotiating a loan ; and he is en trusted moreover, it is said, with some important communications to the French and English govern ments. Lt.rd Carlitilv has arrived at Constantinople. Before Prince Gortschakoff formally asked for the incorporation of the Wallachia° militia with his corps trarnife, he obtained the services of one local regiment to do outpost duty on the Danube. It ap pears that the Wallechiau soldiers entered s ith no good will into the Cries service; for we no,‘ learn that General Ileresko, the cornrunnder of th.• Wal lachia?' militia, and hisetticers, have received J reve re reproof for not having reported the hingin g of the Turks in proper time. (Le of the captains Las been arrested, and is under examination. The Serbs. Daern, publish( d at Belgrade.ammunces that Dervish Pitch's is proceeding with 5,00.1 'lurks towards Grahovo, before which he purposes ;„ rm i nk batteries of heavy ordnance. As soon as the Monte negrins heard of this they hurried, to the number of some 2,000 or 3,000 men, to Grahovo, and began to throw up entrenchments. The Montenegrins well understand the meaning of the 'I urkish precautions; land, although they may feel sore as they remember the terrible punishment which their ally the Graho ' 'kin chief received in the late war, they wilt doubt. less preserve a salutary respect for the artillery of Dervish Pacha, being themselves without gulls. The text of Prince Gortschakutt 'a despatch of the 13th, which some of the foreign journals publish in full, completely establishes the fact that after 'he 4th no battle preceded the withdrawal of Omer Packa's troops from Oltenitza. The Culoysse Ga:ttle remarks on the bulletin of the 6th inst. :—" It is not easy to see why General Dannenberg 'retired' alter the victory which is claimed for him. We can under stand Omer Pasha's resolution not to attack 35,000 Russians with his 25,000 Turks, and we moreover learn that the waters of the Danube, which had been very low, rose to a considerable height, so as to make his communications insecure." The Patric has the following :—" Advises from the Bosnian frontier of the (stli iost. state that the contingent of that province, a corps of about 12,000 men, was preparing to join the Turkish army. Tbe Prince of Scrvia had been asked to allow the corps to march through the Servian territories, the shortest route to the position assigned to the llosniatis in the Turkish lines on the Danube. As no answer had been given to this demand, the commander of the Bosnian contingent was preparing to cro ss t h e S er . vian territory without leave.' Private letters from Constantinople of the :th, state that the Generals Sadullah Pasha and Sirri Pasha have been appointed to the army of Asia. They are to serve ender the acting commanders, and to take their places is case of need. The Russians are fortifying Odessa on the land side. . . A citizen of Aleppo has offered to equip and pay a corps of 5,000 men. 10,000 muskets aro expected I from Egypt. The 11 - multrer has certain intelligence that the number of sick in the Russian army in Wallachia is increasing rather than diminishing. It has per fectly credible medical reports that at the close of October there were 10,000 men in the Moldavian and Wallachian hospitals. Three of the largest buildings in Bucharest, the l'alace Bibesco, and the Convents of St. Sara and Stobar, which arc used as temporary hospitals, arc so full that not another patient can be taken in. From Jassy we learn, under date of the 11th, that the French Consul there, M. Eugene Tastu, had by command of his government left Moldavia, and that the Prussian Consul had taken all French sub jects under hie protection. The consuls and agents of Austria and Prussia in Moldavia have been ordered by their governments to remain at their posts. FRANCE. l'AltIS, TIEeDAV EVENING. The Moniecur publishes a very long report from the Prefect of the Stine on the financial situation of the department. In this report, which enters into very minute details of the varioas items of expendi ture and receipts, the Prefect presents the budget of 1554, which shows a deficit of 739,561 k. 95c. for that year, but the city has a long series of arrears to contend with, and the general deficit amounts to the " eriorm3us sum" (the expression used in the report) of 7,fi69,483fr. This is decidedly the most melancholy public document that has been published under the present couleur de rose regime. The Bourse was weaker to-day in consequence of the reports from London and Vienna of the entry of detachments of the French and English fleets into the Black Sea. The Bente fell 20c., and would, it is thought, have gone much lower but for the rise of in Consuls announced by telefraph. In Bank of France there was no change. he St. Germain Rail way rose 121 r. 50e. In the other lines the rive and fall was nearly equally distributed within the range of Mr. either way. The Patrie says: All the correspondence from Vienna arrived in Paris to day c nfirms the announcement of the taking of Krajowa by the Turks. This town was not taken, as some journals say, without a blow struck, hut after a smart engagement hetween Ismael Pacha's troop:: and the Russian General Kischhach. It is announced that Omer Pacha was about to deploy 40,000 men on the left bank of the Danube, and to fortify himself in the strongest manner in the triangle comprised between Kalafzt, Krajowa, and Naracal. In this way, it is said, he will• scare his communication between the two banks of the river, :and established a strong basis of operations to act in Little Wallachia. Humours are afloat to-day of an insurrection at Lyons, and it was said at the Bourse that the state of seige had been declared there. I believe the only foundation for these reports to be a certain degree of agitation in consequence of the trial and sentence to transportation of 13 " Carbonari," who were arrested a short time since at a tavern in the Avenue de l'Egalite, which was one of the rendezvous of a secret society, divided into bodies of twenty members, who held their meetings at different places. ALGERIA. A despatch from General de Mac-Mahon to the Governor General of Algeria, dated Milah the 11th, states that the proceedings against the Beni- Hers had been completely successful, and he had left the whole of the population in that part of Algeria in the moot perfect state of submission. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE STEAM-SHIP ARCTIC. (By ELECTRIC TELECIRAPH.) (FROM OUR LAVE CORKEEPtiNDINT.) LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAT. About half-past eleven o'clock this forenoon the United States mail steam-ship Arctic, Captain Luce, arrived in the Mersev with the usual mails from the United States and Bi.tisliNorth America. Tae Arctio sailed from New York on the 12th inst., and has brought, besides the mails, 82 passengers and 400,000 dole. in specie on freight. At the departure of the Arctic business had as sumed a more healthy aspect, and the tightness in the money market was less severe than reported in previous advices. Stocks were higher and firm, their former unsteadiness having disappeared. The cotton market was quiet, but firm. The re ceipts at the various ports were very moderate, and far below the average of last season. The advices from this country and the Continent, taken out by the America, had a marked cih.ct on the market for breadstuff's, and caused a decided rise to take place in the value of the different articlesem brac.d under this head. The provision market continued to exhibit the same quiet character it has maintained of late, with pi lees unchanged front list quotations. Freights were inactive at the following quota tioiis :—To London : Tsbacco per hbd., Gus. ; Hour, per hrl., 41._ 6d. to 55.: groin, per bushel, 16d. to 16 tI.; beef, per tierce, Ts. To Liverpool: Cotton, 7.32(1. to id. per lb.; flour, per brl., 3s. 94.; grain, per bushel, 120. to 13 !4 Exchange on Londuil was quoted at 11th to 1091; Paris, 5.12 i to 3.13. NEw STREET.—It intended by the Board of Wuri,, and buildings to übmn powers for the formation of the long contemplated nee, strut from Chancery.lace to Fetter.lane, and to wade,. t ~reratrt et from tie comer of Belt-yard to Chaocer:.•: nn , iu the line of the proposed street. ^ ALLISIi Ell 1)EATII FltoM DEFECTIVE DRAISAtit.— Vestvrday Mr Carter held '. inqatat on the body of Susan Chimp, o' 4, Swareemr, B , ackman-strett, Borough, who had .4.d very suddenly, us was supposed , of cholera. An shot intolerable smell from the drain, was coruplsined of by -eeeral whinnies, but toe inquiry was adjourned tor medical testimony. tASELRODB PeDDING.—Take as much gammon a. w,:t lie in the comp 4— , •t a diplomatic drib., and mince along with butter. sugar. and pigeons' milk in squat VIM' tilit a. Al; 101 Ves 1 , 11. e , i, in sufficient proportun to flavour ; sad when tholot.gliiy Inc npuratad, mix the whole with puff paste and tiumirary made into a mess. Mauld in a (*lined shape, and {lionize into hot water, where allow it to bubble, the long, r the better. Turn it out whew thoroughly done, and serve cool with Some ti In Tarlrfe. l'unc3/4