The Express. — London, England, 1853-11-08 00:00:00

Eite 01:43vel;O• TO CORRESPONDENTS. ifterma Edition of Lamm," the time 'whine. for publabed every Toeediy and frothy sight, la time for post. • trimmest. intended !, Ertrrig." undon Earning paper. Wit he at the nice, lu, Bouverinatrint. by Twu o'cletki en the day el pablintioa. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tsui Oat —blorsdbi, 7b. Aftensooe. 7k. To4boaauw—ilcaning, Sb. Afterboon, 9h. 7 LONDON. TrESDAT, NOVEMBER 8. Ora Cabinet Ministers meet to-day in Council. The notion has gone abroad that the chief business to be considered is the *election of those measures whose urgency or importance entitles them to pre cedence in the Parliamentary deliberations of next sea- Won, and to allot to each Minister his portion of the le gislative task. Assuredly Ministers will find no diffi culty in caning out work enough forParlismcnt. They are more likely, indeed, to labour under an onlarras des rico/Jesus and find more business before them than they have hands to grapple with. So much the more necessary will it be to exercise their judgment in the choice of those measures which promise the most immediate, extensive, and lasting benefit to the community, and in the apportionment to each of their number of the task for which nature and his previous pursuits have more especially qualified him. The PREMIER sad the FOREIGN SECRETtIa may, with considerable p:ausibility, claim exemption to • considerable extent from such duties. They will have enough to do in explaining and vindicating their foreign policy, answering questions and parry ing attacks. To Lord ARLIEDEEN, in particular, the public is entitled to look for some account of the views he has entertained and the coarse he has pur sued with regard to the great question which at present agitates Europe. The impression that some. how Or another has come to prevail RA to differences between him and the Liberal members of his Cabinet on this score, calls imperatively for some explana tion. Lord CLARENDON will be looked to for an intelligible account of the part which he and his col leagues hive taken, and intend to take, in the great struggle for the maintenance of equity and order in the international relations of Europe. Lord Vahan:m . l . ov, it is understood, intends to grapple in earnest with the great work of Sanitary Reform, and more particularly with what must lie at the bottom of any good and efficient system—the improvement of our sewers and their management. His Lordship has already given evidence of his willingness and aptitude to undertake such a task, by the prompt and satisfactory manner in which he has set about the closing of intramural graveyards. This vital measure had been trifled and dallied with by all his predecessors ; the Noble Lord has done what others only talked of doing. The same peremptory energy carried in'o the wider fi. Id upon which he is said to bo about to enter will add to the debt of applause which the public owes him for the good service he has already done. It is scarcely fair to wk the Hoists SECRETARY to attend in one session to more than this one Herculean task of cleansing those Augean stables, our great towns, but if any supera bundant energy impel him to more, he can employ it u►efully in prosecuting the inquiries he has already set on foot into the abuses that have crept into our prison discipline, and the maturing of some plan for the suppression of those that exist, and their preven tion in future. The SECRETARY for the COLONIES has a lighter task on hand. Indeed, little more need be asked of him than to abstain from interference; to leave the Colonise as much u possible to their own manage ment. But he may be of essential service in pro moting an economical and efficient system of ocean postage, which will greatly accelerate the develop ment of colonial resources, and in keeping a sharp look-out upon emigrant ships. On this latter sub ject we may invite his attention to a report in another column of the loss of 339 lives on board emigrant ships. The PRESIDENT of t h e BOARD of CONTROL—Ike I Secretary of State for the most extensive and ano malous of our foreign dependencies—might easily carve out plenty of useful work. India is an ample and almost uncultivated field for useful reforms. Sir CHARLES, however, is probably exhausted with his labours of last session. Little things are great to little men. He ota;ht not, however, to lose a aioment in patting a stop to the Burmese war and making arrangements that promise to be conducive to the prevention of another war in Affghanistan. The licensing system calls loudly for reform. Exercised, as it has been, by the justices of peace, the licensing of public-houses has become a perms nest outrage on the public good. Any unfortunate publican who incurs magisterial is sure to be crushed; and the most worthless houses, if the property of a magistrate, are secure of immunity. The abuses of the licensing system are moreover inti mately associated with the monopoly which certain mammoth brewers have contrived to establish by their proprietary rights in public-houses. This question—as part and parcel of the iniquities of "the great unpaid"—would most naturally fall, like Huebner, in prison discipline, under the jurisdiction of Lord PALMLISTON. But as his hands are already full, perhaps Mr. OtansTo,tu might be induced to take charge of it. He could materially improve his revenue by dealing with the subject judiciously and vigorously. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCIIEQUE2 might also do good service by emancipating us from the paper duties; which would be to follow up in a worthy spirit the boon cooferred last session upon literature and the public by the abolition of the ad vertisement duty. _ _ Relief from paper duties naturally leads the mind to the kindred subject of General Education. A powerful argument foe an immediate measure of this kind will be found in the late riots at Wigan. The factory operatives, by mutual intercourse and read ing, give themselves au education which the legisla ture does nothing to improve. Such as it is, how ever, its oonsequessoes base been a marked mad is abstinence from unreessaing sinless. in resent Btrikos. Mac education might, probably, Mop Wiese altogether. But eyes the Preston kind of education, partial and incomplete though it be, has not reached the dusky and grimy, labourers underground, and hence their late senseless and alarming destruction of property. What has now occurred at Wigan occurred but • few years ago in some of the iron districts. A general strike among the more civilised operatives reached se by contagion to those secluded districts where generation after generation has been left to grow up with no more intelligence or refinement than the brats. that perish ; and the very workmen who had est them the example shrank appalled at the appearance of the rude crowd who flocked to their aid from these recesses. Society cannot ho secured against frequent servile wan recurring among these unhappy and neglected outcasts, unless some general pervading system of education is introduced. While time is wasted in cavils and disputes about secular or religions, voluntary or compulsory, the moral gangrene is spreading and becoming more inveterate. The active part taken by Lord Gass .... . 4 , in -- ”noting the Great National Exhibition, sad 7.."7.7tr, r"!!! to Wm as the Minister by whom this task might appropriately be promoted. The subject of Striker, however, has an important* beyond what it owes to such accidental, episodical outrages by the rudest portion of the working classes. Scarcely a year goes past without its strike in some district, or in some trade. Strikes are becoming • chronic disease of our social system. A deeper and more searching remedy than the settlement of each special dispute that arises is required. All the accounts which reach us from the manu facturing districts speak of a growing alienation and embitterment between masters and men, ee hick, is it become permanent, must render all arbitra tion hopeless. Nothing is so likely to check the growth of so pernicious a feeling as Education and extensive ameliorations in our partnership laws. For example, if the social en comstatatlite, as it ex ists in France, were introduced here, the intelligent, industrious, and provident workman would flied a sale and ready means of investing their savings be tame very enterprises which afford them employment, while some mill-owners would find in the aggregate of such investments better sources for the supply of ad ditioaal capital than many they arc at present obliged to have recourse to. The distinction between the operative and capitalist assets would thus be ren dered less abrupt and sharp, a greater community of feeling and interest would come to exist among I them. Peace and good-fellowship would be con firmed in our great industrial provinces, the ao cumulation and useful appPcation of capital pro moted, and the general wealth and comfort of society be increased. Measures tending to such results cannot be too soon or too earnestly taken in band. There arc other measures which seem to cleave immediate attention. To Sir JAMES GRAHAM might be recommended the task of "weeding the navy," as indicated in Mr. TRELAWNY'S letter, which we pub lish to-day. But the great measure of the Session — that which is the only sure guarantee of rational and honest legislation—is the measure of Parliamentary Reform which the public has been led to expect. The story now goes that Lord lons RE4SELL has devoted his hours of rural quiet to this subject, and is ready to submit at least an outline of his plan to his colleagues. He and they will find the people reasonable, provided the measure they propose be real. But real it must be. Here we close our review of the work which presses upon Ministers to-day, in prospect of the next Par liamentary campaign. We have risen from the mere simple and elementary reforms to that which must be the completion, the encompassing framework, the guarantee of all the rest. If the coming session be not one of the most fruitful and beneficial that has been witnessed in Great Britain, it will be entirely the fault of Ministers. There is plenty of work for them to do; there is a public ripe to support and . _ encourage their efforts; and there is a Parliament, with no lack of aptitude for work in its individual members, if Ministers know how to draw it out. OUR SHIPS OF WAR. TO TIM IDITOS 07 Taal 1171145. 8114—Your naval reporter has apparently acted upon my suggestion to the public to take stock oc eseionally of its floating capital ; and he has given us a catalogue of vessels lying at Devonport which have never yet been at sea, and which have been built within the last 30 years. In his budget of empty boxes are to bo found 6 ships of 120 guns; 3 of 104; 2 of 64; 1 of 78; 15 of 72; and 1 of 70. Am I wrong in estimating the cost of these too high at 1,0001. agu i ? If not, the arithmetical con clusion is that the short paragraph, which pro bably attracted little attention yesterday from the general reader, contained a hit of ships worth two million four hundred and twenty-eight thousand pounds, about which the British taxpayer knows no more and cares no more than he knows or cares of Lunar Politics. But this schedule is but a small portion of the national stock of war shipping. The Navy list comprises 545 effective ships of all sizes, and 118 ships described as ships on harbour service ; and among these latter I will venture to predict there will be found a crazy set of useless tubs, such as will find no parallel, except, perhaps, in the waters of Canton. The practical question is, can we make nothing of these hulks ? Must they continue a standing source of expense? How many of them is it deemed necessary to copper once in five or six years ? How often must their moorings be examined ? How many men reside on board to watch in wonder the silent gyration of each lumbering incumbrance of navigation, and occasionally vary the monotony of their existence by fishing for eels over the stern ? How many are rotten ? How many superseded by modern discoveries, too weak for machinery, too bluff bowed for modern notions of speed ? The practical mode of dealing with this evil must occur to any one who uses the smallest effort of common sense in paying attention to it. The Navy must be carefully weeded. Seep all the sound ships and those of which the form and structure are still available in war, let or sell the rest; but, perhaps, of the two, sale out and out, after due notice, and without precipitation (otherwise the vessels will go for a song), would be best policy. THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER s, 1858. LATEST • FROM ABROAD. RUSSIA AND TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLS, Om 25. A 'Fetid steamer, with despatehts from Selim Paths for the Seraskier, arrived on the evening of the 23rd from Bate um. The contents of these despatches are known by vague rumors only. It is said that on the 20th of October, Musa Bey sent a reconnoitring party in the direction of Cirock dere. The Russians surprised and attacked this detachment on its march. Selim Puha, attracted by the noise of the skirmish, advanced with rein forcements, and encountered a corps of 15,000 Rus sians from Redoubt Kale and other points. An engagement took place ; the Russian forces were rooted, and Selim Pasha established his head-quarters at Orelly, at the distance of Mx leagues from Cirock , dere. AUSTRIA. A Vienna letter of the lst inst. in the Nurnberg Corresponden:, states that Baron Meyendorff has formally declared that the Czar will not accept any arrangement, no matter by whom it may be pro posed, and that the proposals which his Majesty lately submitted to the European Powers are the only words of peace which will ever issue from his lips. This peremptory declaration is, of course, fatal to Lord Redcliffe's proposals. Your obedient servant, Reform Club, Nov. 7. JOHN THELAWNY. A correspondent u :—Sine my last communi cation, four offi apt. Wodehouse, R.A., Lieut. Hon. E. Ellis, R.A., Lunt. Sykes, 56th, and Lieut. Cireatorex, R.E.—have been added to the list of deaths. I send you a file of papers, in which you will see how hard the natives are trying to prove the disease to be imported. On the 28th, the town of St. Georges was evacu ated by the troops; 40 sick sent to Port Island, and 33 to us. Of the latter, seven have died ; they pre sented characteristics of the worst form of the disease --hemorrhages and hemorrhagic ulcers, (co. The company at Fort George which sent guards into St. Georges has also been withdrawn, as seven cases had occarusd among men thus exposed. I saw Dr. Deeble, who told me that of the whole military hue at St. George's upwards of one-third had ded, and more than • half of those attacked ; 1 and that the avenge duration of the fatal cases was about 70 to 80 hours. I heard yesterday from a friend in the neighbourhood that cases are still (m -eaning in the town of St. George's, particularly among children; so that we cannot consider it a safe locality will we get some cold weather. A few cases have marred in Hamilton, in spite of their sanitary precautions; but the type of those, like the cases on this island, have generally been mild, though deaths have occurred in both instances. The coaviets here are now suffering, and the dis ease appears to be epidemic on board the Tenedos hospital ship, where it is attackin g th ose w h o were mftiog with other complaints, and a number of invalids, debilitated men, who were waiting an op portunity of being sent home. QTY or LONDON Flint Mpen Om , HAN SatoOL.— , Aetius arrangements are being nude by the committeelof th e clperation for the opening of this institution. The echoolhoost in Shepherd's-lane Brixton, from a design by Mr. Bunnieg, erected and ender his superintendence, is just ready to,' occupation, the fittings and furniture in the dormitories and school-rooms beir.g in a forward state. A matron hem been appointed to superintend the domestic ar rangements, and the committee will on the 15th inst. elect a mistress of the girls' school. We understand dot numerous applications have, in allows? 10 public advertise ment, been sent in from men of high attainments, for the appointment of head muter. The education will be liberal, including Latto, French, drawing from models, geometry, algebra, &c. &c. The election of children, from candidates whou applications shall have been made before the 14th inst., will be declared on the 13th December neat. RUSSIA AND TURKEY. The news from Constantinople deserves attention. The correspondent of the Juurnal des IXbats trans mits by the Thabor a copy of the joint note which the ambassadors of the }our Powers,or,more strictly speaking, Austria in their name, handed to the Porte IS the 20th ult. It appears from this document that ao lately as at the date mentioned, the " friends " of Turkey were actually pressing on the Porte the Vienna note so long since condemned and rejected by Europe. The attempt did not succeed. An eye and ear witness reports, " Reschid Pacha declared openly to the ambassadors, and repeated it in my presence, that the Tarks were decided rather to perish than ever accept the Vienna note." It is satisfactory to add that while the Aus trian was waiting for his answer, despatches arrived from France and England approving the rejection of the re-offered note. A detailed account of these pro ceedings, and a translation of the document, will be found below. It is right to state that other letters supply good reason for believing that Lord Stratford de Itedcliffe was no party to the attempt to force the Vienna note on the Porte. Indeed ho had prepared an independent project for conciliating the claims of linens with the independence of Turkey—a project based upon the declarations made by the Czar at 01- mot; and Reschid Pacha had pledged the assent of bis government to it in advance, should it be deemed seridactory to the Russian emperor. It is ewer tained, and probably by Lord Stratford well divined, that this project has no chance whatever. The clearer and more satisfactory light in which the despatches last received at Constantinople placed the attitude of France and England towards the Porte bad removed the political difficulty which for a time retained the squadrons at Gallipoli, and only a sea-' man's reasons withheld the fleets from appearing be-' fore Constantinople. At the last dates a heavy gale had blown for several days from the north, which would have rendered the towing of large line-of battle ships into the crowded and dangerous straits of the Bosphorus, against a strong current, an opet a tion of no small risk, which, unless under urgent cir cumstances, the admiral would not encounter. Ac cording to despatches from the Levant the following are exact details relative to the position of the com bined fleets :—On the 27th ult. there were lying at amber at Lampsaki, at the entrance of the illsa of Harmers, the Ville de Paris, Jena, ea Friedland, line-of-battle ships • the Na poison, steam ditto; and the La brador, steam frigate, recently arrived from Toulon, with 740 sailors on board, to replace those entitled to their discharge. At Nsgara-Bouran, a small port on the coast of Asia, the Charlemagne, mixed line-of-battle ship, and the Caravans corvette. At the south-east of Kilid-Bahr, or Castle of Europe, were the Jupiter line-of-battle ship, the Gomer steam frigate, and the Solon steam despatch boat. At Ak-Bachi-Liman ' or the White Head, the Henri IV. and Bayard, the Magellan and Sane steam frigates, the Chaptal steam corvette, and two steam line-of-battle ships and a frigate belonging to England. On the European side, just outside the Dardanelles, lay the Britannia line-of-battle ship, and an English frigate, se well as the Valmy French line-of-battle ship and the Mo gador steam frigate. The other English vessels which had not yet entered were at anchor between Rabbit Island and the coast of Asia, some miles dis tant from the Straits. They were expected to enter on the 28th or 29th of October. The military intelligence from the Danube received cep to a late hour last night, is only an ampler read ing of former accounts. It is now found, as was to have been expected, that the startling telegraphic despatches announcing repulses and retreats of the Turks rested on no better authority than statements made by the least informed organs of the Vienna press. The Breslau Journal contains intelligence from Constantinople, according to which a body of twenty thousand Russians, on their march from Dagbestau to the Turkish frontier, were suddenly attacked in the gorge. of Zakortoly by thirty thousand moun taineers, and completely routed. A private letter from Constantinople of the 23th ult. states that a Turkish war steamer arrived at the capital on the 24th direct from Batum, bringing news of the commencement of hostilities, and of an engagement in which the Turks had been victorious. It appears that Salim Pacha, the Turkish com mander-in-chief at Batum, hearing that the Rus sians were erecting fortifications at the other side of the Tchurnksuju, sent a detachmeat of troops to reconnoitre. The Russians on this attacked the Turks, and a skirmish ensued. On this news reach ing Salim Peels, he advanced with a portion of the army of Datum, forcing his passage across the Tchuraksuja (a border river), attacking the Russians, and driving them back successfully. Salim Pacha is stated to have pushed on in the direction of Sukjedi on one side, and Oreli on the other. This move leads to the belief that ke purposes joining the great army, which stands under the orders of Abdi Puha, and is stationed near Kars. The following is the text of the note presented by M. de Brack to the Porte on the 20th October last : PROJECT. The Courts of Austria, France, England, and Prussia, in unanimously advising the Sublime Pale to adopt the draught of a note concerted at Visona, are penetrated with the conviction that that document infringes in no respect on the sovereign rights or the dignity of his Majesty the Sultan. This conviction is founded on the posi tive assurances which the Cabinet of St. Petersburg has given as to the intentions which animate his Majesty the Emperor of Russia in demanding a ge neral guarantee for the religious immunities granted by the Sultans to the Greek church in their empire. i It follows fretn these assurances that the Emperor in demanding, by virtue of the principle established in the treaty of Kainardji, that the Greek religious ' worahip and the clergy shall continue to enjoy 1 their spiritual privileges under the protec- I don of their sovereign, the Emperor demands nothing contrary to the independence and to the rights of the Sultan, nothing which implies an in tention to interfere is the internal affairs of the Ottoman Empire. That which the Emperor of Russia wishes is the strict maintenance of the reli gions state quo of his worship; that is, a perfect equality of right and immunities between the Greek church and the other Christian communities subjects of the Porte, consequently the enjoyment in favour of the Greek church of the advantages granted to those communities. He does not mean to revive the privileges of the Greek church fallen into disuse by the effect of time or administrative changes, but he dentauda that the Sultan shall permit it to parti cipate in all the advantages which he may grant in future to other Christian rites. The Imperial Cabinet of Austria tl9es not consequently ellubt that the Sublime Porte, once more considering' with all the serious attention which the gravity of aiding circumstances require, the explanations gives by Russia foe the purpose of specifying the nature and the extension of her demands, will decide on.the pure and simple adoption of the Vienna note. This adoption, whilst securing for the Ottoman go vernment a new title to the sympathy and support of the Powers which advised it, offers to it at the same time a mode as prompt as honourable of completing its frank reconciliation with the empire of Russia—a reconciliation which so many great interests so im peratively reclaim." The Constantinople correspondent of the Delbats states that, after M. Bruck had presented this note, Colonel Wildenbruck, of Prussia, attended with a project which was only the copy of the Austrian pro ject. "M. de Bruck did not insist much, but the other returned to the charFe several times, but did not succeed better. the Porte is decidedly for war ; Redsehid Pacha declares it openly, and repeated this morning, in my presence, that the Turks were decided to perish rather than ever accept the Vienna note. In their eyes the new project of note presented to them as a guarantee from Europe is not of more value than the note of the con ference, and they have rejected without even discuss ing it. In reality, three of them, who are a little familiar with European politics, seem to be persuaded that Europe cannot allow them to perish ; that morally they will gain something in trying the chance of arms, even if they be beaten, and, in a word, that Europe is too interested in preventing war not to make the Emperor of Russia relax in his pretensions, since they themselves have reached the limit of concessions; and that their determination is taken to die with arms in their hands rather than yield any more. They have, then, absolutely re jected this new project. To the reasons which made them do so at is necessary . to add that, while it was submitted to them in the name of the Four Powers, there arrived from France and England the answer, the centre-coup of the note in which Count Neaselrode explained his manner of understanding the Vienna note. That reply or contre.coup was the counsel given to the Porte by the two Western Powers not to accept the Vienna note, accompanied by precise and frank promises of succour and support. The Turks then were right in regarding those new propositions as null, and the answer made to them was the entry of the fleets which several days ago passed the Dardanelles, but have not yet appeared before Constantinople." The letter goes on to say that it was on the advice of France and England that the orders were sent to the Danube and to Asia to wait before commencing hostilities. The same letter announces that the reply of the Emperor of Russia to the declaration of war by Turkey had been received at Constantinople, and that it concludes with an appeal to arms. FRANCE. PARIS, MONDAY EVINING The two government organs, the Constitutionnel and Pays, concur in admitting with more distinct ness than they have hitherto done, the total failure of the efforts of diplomacy to arrange the Eastern question amicably, and are evidently instructed to prepare the public mind for a very serious war. It has, lam aware, been frequently said of late that there are now no semi-official journals, but the asser tion is far from correct. I have reason to know that the short article in the Patric of Saturday came direct from tho office of a Cabinet minister. It is indeed, true, that every article in a government paper cannot be so implicitly ' relied upon as an exposition of the views of the go vernment as it might have been a year or eighteen months ago, because since that time the press has gra dually been allowed mote freedom. It, therefore, fre quently happens that the government writers who never ventured to launch anything beyond a common place sentence without special authority, write from their own heads, and, of course, sometimes go wrong. But it is impossible now to doubt that the policy advocated by the Pays and Constitationnel is in the main dictated by authority. These two journals have, since the first of the month, been under the political direction of M. de la Geer roniere, who, it is well known, enjoys in a high de gree the confidence of the Emperor. Since this ar rangement we have observed none of those conflicts between the twin journals which were so amusing when M. Mires, the proprietor of both, used one as the organ of the "bulls" and the other of the " boars." To-day especially they both speak pre cisely in the same spirit; and I may observe by the way, that if the French and English governments are fully resolved to act up to the professions made by these journals, there is now no fear that the Eastern difficulty will be patchei up by a hollow and disgraceful peace. Their language really leaves nothing to desire, and plainly indicates that France and England having at length resolved to interfere energetically, will not part with the question until they have not only seen the Sultan reinstated in the full possession of his dominions, but taken good care that Russia shall have no pretext for repeating her atro cious attempts to disturb the peace of the world. The Constitutionnel thus throws over- board the various stories about a new note on the point of being accepted, with which a portion of the English press has amused its readers during the past week : We were justified in treating with the utmost reserve those hopes of a prompt and pacific solution of the affairs of the East, which were even very recently entertained by the foreign press. Everything tends to show that the new hopes were but new delusions. While German letters and newspapers tell us continually that the efforts of diplomacy will succeed in tins the effusion of blood, events in the East march with fatal rapidity in the direction of war. • • We can, therefore, no longer hope that diplomacy will succeed in preventing the sword from leaping from the scabbard. Of the last note, upon which such confident anti cipations have been formed, the Pays says : A note has been spoken of conceived in a totally different spirit from that of Vienna. This note, emanating from the English cabinet, corresponds better, we believe, with the policy of the Western Powers, and gives a complete guar ' antes for the rights of the Ottoman empire. But however acceptable this prijeet may be, events forbid us to believe that it can now be admissible. It will remain as evidence of the determination of the Western Powers to consent to no concession contrary to the legitimate interests of Europe and Turkey, and may perhaps hereafter as the basis of negotiations when they can be usefully resumed. This evening's Patric says: The Assembles Nationals concludes an article on M. de Bruck's last note, by saying, " The action of the Your Powers will be confined to the maintenance of the inde pendence and integrity of the Ottoman Empire, but the quarrel between Turkey and Russia will be settled between themselves." Thu Asseiable'e is mistaken. There is no quarrel between the two nations in question. • A quarrel is • difficulty between two people, in which other nations have no concern. But in the present matter Russia, by in vading the Ottoman territory, has railed du Etropeats question, and that is why all Europe is moved by it. . _ _ _ _ . Letters from Bucharest of the 25th state that Prince Gortschrkoff has but from 70,000 to 80,000 men in the Principalities. He has sent to General Osten Sacken, commander of the third army corps, to join him with his forces in all haste. General Lnders, with the fifth army corps, is ordered to move into Moldavia. General Dannenberg com mands the Russians at Krajowa, and Sarni Pacha the Turks at Kalefat. Some bankers received despatches stating that Consols were expected to touch 96 before the end of the day. "Discounts," to a considerable amount, were again effected, and, of coarse, tended to keep up prices. The last quotation was 73fr. 85c., being a slight improvement on Saturday. Bank of France shares rose 15tr. The St. Germain railway rose 43fr. In the other lines there was ultimately but little change. Letters from the Pincus of the 29th ult. say that, according to general report, the difference between King Otho and the Ottoman Porte was completely settled. Yesterday evening, an up train from Versailles came into collision with an empty carriage which had just been brought out from one of the stations. The engineer and three passengers received slight contusions. The trial of the Opera Comiqne conspirators com menced this day at the Cour d'Assizee. Thu first part of the day was occupied by the reading of the act of accusation. At one o'clock, after a short ad journment, the court sat again, and the interroga tories began. First came Fullict, wit-, confessed, and named his accomplices. IL.) says tlitre was a plot contrived to murder his Majesty, and afterwards to make barricades. He says that one of the ac cused, Alin, a professor of French, proposed a plan to make barricades. Another accused had a plan for making cannon with sheets of tin or some other metal, tightly bound with rope and tarred. The defence of several (in answer to the question s of the president) was that they merely came together for the purpose of resolving on what was to be done in case of an insurrection of Legitimatista or Orleauists. _ _ _ During the reading of the Act of Accusation, one of the accused cried out, " Five la Republique!" and on the president reproving him for the impropriety (inconvenance) of the act, another man answered, 1" Ce n'est pas ahe inconvenance." BRAZILS AND THE PLATE. RIO DE JANEIRO, Ocr. 9. The sailing of the Brasileira affords me an oppor tunist of sending you a few particulars of the state of our markets. From the sailing of the Tay to the end of the month, the total sales of coffee were 116,000 bags, 85,000 fur Europe, the remainder (less 2,000 for California) for tho States. Prices, until the 21st, remained stationary, when an advance of 100 rein upon all qualities was noted. The market this month, Instil the arrival of the Severn, showed little animation, 23,000 bags only having found purchasers. The packet's news being favourable for the article, 25,000 bats were taken yesterday, at a farther advance of 100 reis in price, and large transactions will probably be effected to-day (Sunday), should such sales be realised, dealers will push their demands for the small stock still remaining, to such as unreasonable length, as will effectually put a stop to all business for some time to come. Our stock this morning is about 90,000 bags, and our quota tions:—Superior, 4,700 to 4,300; good first, 4,500 to 4,600 ; first ordinary, 4,400 to 4,509; good second, 4,200 to 4,3)0 ; American assortments, 4,600 to 4,700. Exchange opened at 28d. and 28:4. ; yesterday it fell to 27jd. and 28d., at which rate 150,0101. were passed, mak ing the total transactions shim! the Tay 310,000!. Er change on France regulates 340 to 343. A violent, but happily bloodless, change of government has taken place in Urugay. The President, Giro, unable to withstand, and unwilling to yield to, the pressure of the Flores party, had felt it necessary to invoke the shelter of the French charge-d'uffaires. Upon this a popular proaun ciamcnto took place, and a provisional government was named. Its members are—Generals Fructose, Rivera; and Juan Antonio Lsvelleja, and Colonel Venancio Flores, late Minister of War. General Rivera is little more than a nominal member of the government, as he is both absent and sick. The ministers named by the provisional govern ment were—Don Juan C. Gomez, Foreign Affairs; Colonel D. Loren a Battle, War and Marine; and Don Santiago Sapp, Finance. General Flores is named generalissimo of the Urugayan forces, and left the capital on the morning of the 27th with a battalion of infantry and several equadrona of cavalry. Caucloncs, S. Joii, Duraazo, Mal donado, and Minas had adhered to the new government when the Braziliera left, and nowhere was the peace dis turbed. The ex-President Giro had taken refuge on board the French frigate Andromede, and thence addressed a note to the foreign ministers, informing them that he preferred abandoning the field to the revolutionists to remaining end being a cause of ►loodshed. On the other side, Flores and his associates published two documents, charging tke ex president with unexampled obstinacy and self-will, indiffe rence to public interests, and a score of other high crimes in which the vocabulary of faction is so copious. Arniust all this commotion, it is satisfactory to reflect that peace maintained gives prospect of a return of trade. The following is a letter written by Count Silvius Olivieri, Colonel and Commander of the Forces of the Argentine Republic in the last war against General Urquiza, and recently returned to Europe: " After two 'Tan' absence I have just returned hither, my dou friend, from the Argentine Republic. The beauties of nature in that country are truly amazing. Before I left Europe I expected to find it uncultured and desert. Instead of this I found cultivation, commerce, and a nation animated by true principles of progress and civilisation. For my own part, I can never forget the cordiality with which they received me, and the courtesy they displayed. This courtesy is not confined to the natives of Buenos Ayres, but prevails over the entire territory of the Re public, and the same hearty hospitality is met with every where. As for the enthusiasm displayed during the war, it is impossible to describe it. Indeed, the people merit a better fate, and deserve protection in the path of civilisation on which they advance with rapid strides. Their moral ten dencies are excellent. The fine arts are cultivated with great SUM'S. Music fl •urishea especially. Painting also is at a high point of advancement. In a word, all the arts are loved—a clear sign of the healthy civilisation of the people. Yet the prolissors of those arts are comparatively few ; and I would always advise meritorious artists who do not succeed in Europe to immigrate into this country. Work of all kinds is amply paid ; and poverty, that canker of our states, is invisible. For these reasons no course can be sounder than that which tends to promote and facilitate immigration, ler the country could maintain half Europe, and return inexhaustible treasures to the old continent; and I think the present time peculiarly suitable for coloni sation, now that the government of Buenos Ayres is well constituted, with no lack of energy or of enlarged views favouring the progress and prosperity of the state. If the European powers would reflect seriously on what would redound to their own advantage, they could not hesitate for a moment to sapport this country with their influence ; and the Argentine soil would glee subsistence, protection, and favour to hundreds of unfortunate men, compelled to emi grate through lack of means in their own country, or through political opinions which banish them thence. Ido hope they will at last be persuaded, and countenance a state so worthy of sympathy and protection. " The land is most fertile; a fine breed of horses; soil capable of growing every kind of fruit—scratch it, and it yields ; the atmosphere is salubrious, with a sky pure and vivifying like that of Italy. Animals of all species are here. Immense rivers irrigate the soil, adapted for navigation through their breadth. Each of these rivers, after watering a great tract of ground, pours direct into the sea—an im mense advantage for the carrying and exchange trades. The country needs nothing in order to be the first in the world, except the labour of agriculturists, who are scarce in the vast territory of the Republic. The immense area is not at all in proportion to the number of the inhabitants. When these matters shall receive due consideration, the state will be more thought of and protected ; and I am certain that one day it will exercise an immense influence on Europe, whether by means of commerce, or by tem pering and balancing the power of the United States. But, if it is sincerely intended to promote the prosperity and progress of the country, the European powers should adopt a frank and straightforward policy towards the Argentine Republic. They really ought to consider that the interests of multitudes of Europeans are concerned in it ; and I cannot understand how our governments should act so ungenerously towards the country by always giving their support to the stronger, ignoring right, and forgetting that justice is the supreme law of state action. This is a fact, and asad one ; and I myself witnessed proofs of it during the last legitimate and righteous war. While the people— and it is a civilised and progressive people—repelled the barbarities and destructiveness of its enemies, our European powers, instead of looking kindly on their noble and gene rous attitude, recognised a right in the aggressors—a right which in Europe would have been branded as anarchy and political subversion. And it is under this idea that the repre sentatives of the two greatest nations in Europe aided with the enemy of the province of Buenos Ayres—l mast con clude, in the hope of profiting by the, as I may call it, civil dissension in order to obtain something. Indeed, the day on which the barbarian element of the country was dis persed and destroyed, on which the enemy of Buenos Ayres pleaded for life in the extreme danger which menaced him, our two great powers bad the indelicacy to grant him his life, making him sign a treaty which, if not nugatory, will at any rate be an occasion for eternal ill-will between the natives and strangers. Let us hope, then, that the pretcc torate of our nation will be in the right direction. Let them uphold the legitimate rights of the states, which w il! tra duce to their glory and to the proarerity of the Europe ens settled in the territory of the Argentine Republic. I repeat it—what we want there is the guarantee of a fair field and no favour, and, above ..11, immigration." HORRIBLE SCENE.—At an execution of four crimi nalo in Mexico, on the 24th of September, a shocking ad• dition was made to the sufferings of one of the criminals. Three were garotted with the accustomed readiness; but on the executioners endeavouring to perform the last func tions on the fourth, the machinery could not be made to work. For some minutes end. &Toon to force it to do SJ were made, but in vain ; and finally the unfurtutrate vic;itia was obliged to be released from the chair, to gaze on the corpses of his fellow sufferers, while one of them was lifted out to make room for hint, and finally to take his seat in the chair thus vacated, there to undergo hie sentence. This was the second time, of late, that a similar /Mocking acute has been witnessed in Mexico.— sac Fork. Herald. Zto Court. --••- WINDSOR, Nor. 7, The Queen walked in the Home I'urk d all Sloes We morning. Prince Albert went out shooting. The Prince of W.ilee, the Princess It iyal, end Royal Children took their nein) exercise. The lord and equerry in waiiing returned trout Doter, yesterday afternoon. The Earl of Aberdeen left the Castle this morning, for London. Ms EsteHaley Skafee Khan, late Persian minket at this court, took his departure for Teheran un Friday night, em Paris and Vienna. All matters reLitise to the legation have been entrusted by his ezeelkucy, until the arrival of his successor, to Charles it. Thompson, of Winchester House, Old Broad•street. The Earl of Ab,rdeen arrived in town, yesterday, f r y a visit to her :41svaty at Winthur Cam Despatches were received at the Colonial-ofhee, pester• day, from the governors of the Americsu provinces. PORTSMOCTIT, Nov. 7.—Their Royal Ilighneeme the Duke and Duchess de Brabant arrived at Spithesd lut night from Ostend, in the Queen of the Belgians mail packet, having left the lust-named place ut eight o'clock the some morning. This morning the Belgian Hag was saluted by the garrison, &c, and at ten o'clock their Royal High nesses landed and paid a visit to the Cominander-in-Chief, Vice-Admiral Sir J. T. Cocl rune, K.C.B. They subse quently went out to Spithead in the Fairy stestu-v,:siel, and went on board the Duke of Wellington, 131, which they inspected. They then returned into harbour, and proceeded over the dockyard. This evening they will dine with the Commander•in•Chief, also stopping at his official residence. This morning M. Van de Meyer, the Belgian Miaister in London, came down per South Western Railway, to be in attendance on their Royal Highnesses. THE LORD ALA 101(8 ORDER OF PROCESSION, NOVEMBER 9, 1553. Police Constables is clear the way. The Boys belonging to the Royal Marine Society, with Banners. City Marshal's Man. Pensioners of the Royal Hospital, Greenwich. Yeoman of the Geard. Private Pensioners. Mates. Boat's Crew. Cockswains. boats Inspecting Boa , swains. Two Police Constables. The Beadie of the Worshipful Company of Innholders. Watcrmen bearing tlic following Banners 5 ia" The Royal Standard. The Arms of the I •;$ . es a a, lanholders' company. a S The Arms of The Arms of ta Sir Chapman Marshall. Mr. Aid. and Sheriff Wire.; es 2. The Clerk of the CGinpany, in his Chariot. 5 . The Court of Assistaida, in their Carriages. 1 he Master, in his Chariot. The Under Beadle of the Worshipful Company of A Military Band. p y The Barge Master. 0 Watermcn be m.aria.; the following Banners: .9 . . C.) .7--. The lays! Standard: A The Union Jack. The City Arms. - ss 2 d The Arms of Mr. Alderman The Arms Of the Lord •'.. 'Zs and Sheriff Wire. Mayor. c 2 CD.- The Comp ,ny's Arms. 0 The The of the Company, in his Chariot. sis 0 SI The Wardens, in their Carriages. rii s-. The Upper Beanie of the Company. . The Master of the Company, in his Chariot. The Under City Marshal, on Horseback. The Lord Mayne; Beadle. The Lord Mayor's Barge Master, iv. his State Drew The Bargemen, bearing the various velours. The Banner of the Lot d Mayor. The Captain of the Thames Navigation Barge. The Principal Assistaist Water Bailiff. The Watermen, with Coloure. A Grand Military The Common Council of the Lord Mayor's Ward, in their Carriages. The Two Umler Sheriff, The City Solicitor. 0 .o The Rentembrancer. lc f, The Comptroller. The Secondary. c) G. : ) . The Three Common Pleaders. i ..: The Judge of the Sheriflb' Courts. i; The Town Clerk. cr The Common St rjeant. The ChanaberlUin. Farrier on Horseback. Farrier on Horseback. Guard on Horseback. _ Guard on Horseback. Kettle Drums. Trumpeter on lioreebaek: Guard on Horseback._ Trumpeter on Horseback. Guard on Horseback. Mr. Sheriff Wallis, in his State Cli.inot. Mr. Sheriff Wire, in his State Chariot. The Aldermen who have not passed the Chair. The Recorder. The Aldermen who have passed the Chair. The Late Lord Mayor. Trumpeters on Horseback. Banner of Justice. i.; o > a 0 A Car drawn by Six Hones Three Abreast, P g 1;..... contaninte sew o'r. I'. a " Justice. 5: ; e° 'C Banner of the Nations. Borne by Herald. Standard Bearer. of the following Nations, on horseback, In the Costumes of their several Countries: France Spain Italy Germany Turkey Persia Russia Greece China India North America South America. A Cart of Australia drawn by Two Chen, Containing an Australian Digger. Banner of Peace and Prosperity. Countrymen with Imple- Country 'Girl . with IMOa ments of Industry. ments of Industry. Country Girl with Imple- Countryman with Imple. meats of Industry. merits of Industry. o 7 a 8 A Car drawn by Nine Horses Three Abreast, °I, 7;=. containing .tr, :•-: . .4 0 " Peace and Prosperity." F. ; • C The Lady Mayoress. in her State Carriage, Will join the procession on its return from Westminster. The Lord Mayor's Servants in State Liveries. The Band of the Life Guards Mounted. The Upper City Marshal on Horseback. Gentlemen of the Lord Mayor's llousehold. The Right Hon. the LORD MAYOR, In his State Carriage, drawn by sin h Attended by the Chaplain, Sword Bearer, Common Crier, and the Water Bailiff. Guard a The procession will move from Guildhall at 11 o'clock, and peas from King•street, through Gresham-street, street, Lombard-street, Fenchurch-street, Mincing•laurs Tower-street, Eutcheap, Fish-street-hill, Lower Thames- street, to Billingsgate; from thence, by water, to West minster; and will return from Westminster to Blackfrisu Bridge, and pus threogh New Bridge-street, Ludgate-hill, Ludgate-street, St. Pant's-churchyard, Cheapside, and King-street, to Guildhall. At the Obelisk, Bridge-street, the procession, on its re turn, will be joined by the Ambassadors, her Majesty's Ministers of State, the Nobility, Judge•, Members of Par liament, and other persons of distinction, invited to the Banquet at Guildhall. THIS DAY. Full arrangements have been entered into for the engage- ment of the Grenadier, Scots Fusileer, Coldstream, and 'Royal Horse Guards' bands, for the dinners of the several companies to-morrow. Besides the Royal Artillery and other bands in her Majesty's service, that of the lion. Artillery Company, of which corps his Royal Ilighneu Prince Albert is Colonel, wilt be engaged for the occasion. DEATH OF BICKHAM ESCOTT, Eso., LATE M.P. —This gentleman died on the 'lth instant, at his seat, Bart row-manor, Somersetshire. lie was formerly member for Wiachester, and was a steady and useful member of the Liberal party. PORTSMOUTH, Nov. :.—The Bremen ship Anso Captain Raschtr, arrived here yesterdiiy evening on bet voyage from Bremen for Baltimore. She left Bremerhaven on Thursday last. Sion after leaving a child four years old was taken ill with diarrhcea and vomiting, and died is four hours afterwards. On the same day two adults and one child were attacked with the same symptoms and died on Friday, thus leaving no doubt of the disease being cbo lera. On Satan] ly night tk eof the crew were taken ills and one died yesterday morning at 6 a m. ; the other four are so far recovered as to be able to do light duty. Two children of the passengers were also taken ill, and arc the only ones at present labouring under diarrhoea out of 213 passengers and 15 crew. Id. Vandenbergh, the Bremen `ice-Consul, with his usual promptitude, has convened such measures to arrest the progress of the malady w hich has thus made its r.ppeltance on heard this ship. WORKMEN'S STRIKE. IN AlthßlC.l.—The engineer, engaged la running steembuats on or out of the Ohio River have formed an association, adopted a conatitutioa, slid agreed on a scale of wags, as l'4lloWl:—First engineers on side-wheel boats, VA dote. ; ditto stern wheel boat, 125 1104 4 second engineers on all boats, 100 dlls. They sal th ey have work only for aim to eight months of each year, and that the above rates are as low as they can live oa—alrot that some of the best engineers now receive 17.3 dots. 225 dole. per month. The above scale of prices is resisted, 1 and a strike is the conhquicuce.—Ncte lurk Tr