The Express. — London, England, 1853-09-27 00:00:00

gut erpreogs. TO CURRENPONDENTS. .e• E:,t ,n • r Espre-e " atntaamaa toe rase ',eland's upublubed • lue.ds, sad !rider angbt, in unto k,h,itca/nente in•rotled !er " The I.:serer," Lor!oo Leanne p qxr, moat tw at the t Mk% 10. Bettrerio.etreet, by Two o'ciikk es the day 01 publisation. MOGI WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS itsT—lt Ming. N. Ea Anemias. tit. Oa To-soasow —Okras& a.... Afternoon, lob. sio• LONDON, TrESDAT, SEPTEMBER 27. WREN contemplating these Eastern troubles which now engross the thoughts of all Europe, the moat pro voking consideration is that one man should have the power to do so much mischief. Here is a man— Num; ft.os of Russia—born and dandled into an un natural overweening estimate of his own importance —fancying, hke Jfrs. Jelluly, that he has got a mis sion—fancying, like Mi. Tiirreydror, thit he is " the glass of fashion and the mould of form," -- and not, like those worthies, with his powers of annoyance confined to vexing and impoverishing his own im mediate kith and kin, but able to spread beggary, death, and desolation over a whole hemisphere. The resolute determination of Nictiotos to plunder his neighbour is the source of all the mischief that has already been done, and the infinitely greater mischief that may yet be done by this Turco-Russian quarrel. lie first kindled the fire of national contest by his ambitions desire to appropriate a slice of the Turkish territory, and assume the airs of a suzerain in his dealings with the StattN. He now prevents the restoration of tranquillity by refusing to accept of peace on any terms that he does not think coosisteet with his , vanity. His greed of other people's goods began the fray, and his personal vanity keeps it up. The evil already done is enormous. The miserable subjects to his iron sway have borne, and will have to bear, the expenses of his military movements. The drachmas which pay his soldiery and the transport of ammunition and provisions will be squeezed like drops of blood from the overtazked serfs. Though there has yet been no fighting, his troops, moved to the Danube, have been decimated by disease. Before a blow has been struck, he has impoverished and caused to die in lingering torments thousands of his subjects. The same evil influences of his ambition have been felt in a leaser degree throughout the dominions of Turkey. Great costs have been entailed upon France and England, to watch and be prepared to check his aggressive movements. The public funds of these countries—and of every country in Europe—along with their mercantile enterprise, have been partially paralysed by the uncertainty which he has diffused over the future. All this is but the chill which he has already cast over half a hemisphere, by hanging above it like a huge black cloud. If the storm burst, the misery and agony will be multiplied a hundredfold. And if peace is maintained, it will probably be but at the expense of such concessions to the author of all this evil as will render him only more powerful to plague mankind when the mood shall again seize him. Let the idolaters of legitimacy, or centralised government, or by whatever dulcet epithet it may please them to designate despotism, look upon this picture. All these evils are the natural and neces sary consequence of enabling one mortal—es pas sionate and wayward as any of his brethren—to wield the whole resources and energies of a nation at his obsolete will, and inflating him at the same time with unintermitting, fulsome eulogies of his wisdom and goodness. All these evils are the legiti mate fruits of absolute monarchy, and the on!y fruits which that baleful tree has ever borne or ever will bear. It is only over an ignorant and demoralised people that a despotism can be established and permanently maintained. It is by the vices of the people that the despot attains power, and it is by more deeply de grading them that he keeps hold of it. Para' TnE 011 EAT found the Russians a rude, geese horde ; the despotism he established has made them something worse. The poor—the un-ennobled, are more rude, more servile, more fiercely superstitious than ever. The nobles have enormous nominal estates eaten up by debt; the only trades they are trained to are predatory war, or that low cunning diplomacy and political intrigue which are prized in all semi-barbarous courts. The cam- monalty are eager for a religious war, in which they dream of pleasing Heaven while indulging the most brutal desires. The nobles are eager for war, in order that its plunder may replenish their lank purses, and enable them to wallow in those sensual luxuries which a superficial civilisation, thinly spread over engrained barbarism, has taught them to relish. By touching these monster springs, the despot moves his nation. The favourites of the moment inspire and guide his designs, but the favourites of the moment are so only u his fickle liking for them lasts. The whole capabilities of a despot-ridden nation are put in motion by his whims and crotchets, but his power is limited by the nature of these capabilities—that is to working evil. The whole history of Russian interference in the affairs of Europe gam 1815, proves the truth of what we have here said. Russia is the sleepless enemy of the liberties and prosperity of the nations of Europe. When constitutional government in Spain was to be crushed in 1822, Russia offered to march an army of 100,000 men through Germany, Northern Italy, and France, to enoomplish the task. After 1830 Russia availed itself of the troubles of Europe to plunder Turkey and finally crush Poland. After 1848 Russia strengthened the feeble hands of Austria to trample down Hungary. And now, Wm a spider at the centre of its web, Ruda is prepared to pounce on the Ant fat fly that may incautiously approach its circumference. Turkey would be preferred at the moment; but should some tusforessen providential intervention save Turkey at present, the dart may be suds upon Persia. The sombre woods and ungerial morasses of Russia are the nursing places of a pes tilential moral Weems. that threatens, in turn, u the wind churns to blow, all who have the misfor tune to be near it. Need ewe be said to show the importance of striving to keep the Russian despot and his hordes confined within their present limits? Wherever Russian cougnent entends it chills every generous emotion and paralyses every better aviration. It makes the good bad and the bad worse. for is it difficult to keep the plague within its own territories or drive it back to them. Its power is more in show than substance, or rather it is believed to be great because unknown. Russia could hold no long contest with England and France. Once at war with them, she would be shut op in her own regions and be unable to send a single ship to sea. The mouths of all her rivers would be blockaded, and her commerce, such as it is, would be wholly stopped, whilst the trade of the rest of the world would go forward almost as freely as though no such country as Russia existed, and no such creature as an Autocrat encumbered the peaceful rela tions of the peoples of the earth. Russia has never been able to accomplish anything of moment with out borrowing from abroad ; it has so often bor rowed under false pretences (borrowing money for the construction of a railroad and spending it upon Circassian or Hungarian inroads), that lenders are becoming chary of its advances. Jealously, too, though the secrets of the prLon-housz. arc kept, I$ THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING}.. SEPTEMBER 27, 1853. e, awkward secrets will ooze out : such es the fact that* it has bee■ proposed to tamper with the precious metals stored up as a guarantee for its *minions of. paper money. Russia has no wealth fift • lowg, external war. How should it? The Romig* —the majority of the poirtilatloa are serfs, courtiers, or soldiers. The nomads tribes pos sess no inherent strength. Poland is dis affected ; Finland is disaffected ; the growing colonies in Siberia are mainly composed of Poles, Germans, and other political victims, ready to rise against Russian supremacy as soon as they feel them selves strong enough. Unassailable to invaders from the nature of its terrain and populations, Russia has not made one of its conquests by fair fighting; it has frightened neighbours into submission by looking big and swaggering. Thus it frightened the European Powers into giving up Poland to its tender mercies, and allowing it to retain Finland; thus it swaggered the Ottoman out of the Crimea and Bessarabia; thus it filched so many provinces from Persia. Russia has its emissaries everywhere to stir up popular discontent; that discontent once excited it offers its protection (as the case may be) to sovereign or people ; and lastly, it insists upon being well paid for its inter ference. If its demands are yielded to, that is so , much gained; if they are calmly resisted, it retires and waits for a more favourable opportunity of spoliation. Not a bad teat of the real power of Russia is its progress in Circassia. What advance has it made among these scanty tribes of resolute mountaineers, by a war of more than a quarter of a century? The example of the Circassian ought to have taught France and Ragland how to meet the present out rageous pretensions of Russia with regard to Turkey? As the member for Greenock told his constituents a few days ago, " if France and England had extended their sheathed swords over the Danubian Provinces at the first, Russia would have quietly shrunk back." I We should in that case have had no war : who can say so much now ? amiss of the Powers, Austria refusiug to join in any flesh demands. It ip 'des difficult lame to wilat frith de de rettleed. ' lushest' sada of ri• dea n it theism* to btaboate the Pate in their write. met whi Alan would searsutee he the Sultan eke meaning which be has himself given to the note by the entendusenu whlsh be has made in it ; that eves should thid ifiluranteempllft the Sulses jt I. now. scarcely possible w admit that inn:told be accepted by the Emperor of Russia, who has protested even against the subatanee gf the amend ments. It most be therefore admitted that the question appears no more advanced at the present time than it was I on the first day. A correspondent, dating Vienna, Sept. 21, says:— One of the most considerable joint-stock associations in the Austrian monarchy, the Danubian Steam Navigation Company, is now suffering through the Russian occupation of the Principalities. The shut tieg up of the Sulina mouth of the Danube first cut off the steam communication bet wcea Oalatz and Constantinople, and now the company has been com pelled to suspend its traffic below Belgrade. The shallowne6s of the water, assigned as the ground of this measure, is a transparent pretext, as everyone knows that, as far as Galata, the depth of the stream l is sufficient for all the purposes of navigation. The real reason is the fear of the company that the Rus sian commander may impress a number of the boats for the service of conveying his forces across the river. The society is warned by an application for boats made to it directly by a Russian official, a few days ago. Christina breakfasted We-a-tete with old Jerome lionapsfelesit 'Meudon a day or two sines. 'the 'marriage of her daughter with Napoleon Bonaparte is still upon the taps. M. Salamanca, the Madrid banker, who is now in Paris, has, it is said, succeeded in forming a company patronized by the Queen Mother and her agent in this country, M. Grimaldi, for taking and completing the Northern Railway of Spain. M. Andre Cesarini, Duke de C•sigliano, President of the Council and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Tuscany, has just arrived in Paris. I see it stated in several papers that meat has already fallen 10c. the kilo in Paris, in consequence of the decree lowering the duties on foreign cattle. My own butcher, however, stoutly denies the fact, and will not admit that there has been a fall in any of the markets. At all events, if there be • fall, I cannot learn that private individuals have yet found the benefit of it. Prince Napoleon returned to Paris this morning, at eight o'clock, from the Camp of lielfaut. BELGIUM. BRUSSELS, St NDAY. The impression is our political circles is that the strained interpretation given by the Emperor Nicholas to the proposals of the Vienna conference, and the efforts of the Austrian cabinet to induce England and France to regard those proposals as an ulitniatum, have spoiled the Russo-Austrian ((sine, and have given gain de cause to the war party in the French cabinet. Up to a very recent period that cabinet has been very passive, submitting on all points to the views of the Aberdeen ministry. So far it has acted as • loyal ally of England, and such conduct, however ismay be censured by the devoted friends of Turkey, can scarcely fail to inspire a cer tain amount of coaftdenoe in Louis Napoleon. At present the views of the French cabinet are put forth more prominently, and are more zealously sup ported, and the manifestations of public opinion in England are carefully noted and minutely com mented on in French official circles. The Eastern question, as you will readily imagine, causes no little anxiety in this capital, and the frequent reference of German journals to the probability of a French invasion of this kingdom—references which have not, of course, escaped the attention of the Belgian prints—do not tend to diminish that uneasiness. The Belgians calculate that if the Eastern question be solved in a manner unsatisfactory to France, Louis Napoleon will soon raise another subject of European interest, complain of the liberal Institutions of this kingdom and Sardinia, make a grievance of the com ments of some Belgian-and Piedmontese journals on his conduct, and then resolve on some " demonstra tion" against those two constitutional countries. We all here believe that both the Czar and the Sul tan will remain firm, the one in his demands, the other in kis refusal to comply with them ; and that unless the latter seek refuge on board a British or French fleet he cannot escape the obligation of wag ing war with Russia. I may state that the calculation in well-informed quarters in this city is, that should hostilities shortly commence, the combined fleets will abstain for a time from all active interference, and await the first turn of events before siding with either of the belligerent parties. tantaaf Great. Britain. They triumph in making CONITOriII la our country, but if a reciprocity is attempted for protestantism in their dominions, both converters. and converted are at once clapped into gaol. By a decree of the Sacred Congregation of the Index, dated Sept. 10th, Cardinal de Andrea damns and prohibits the anonymous libel on the Armenian masks of St. Lazarus at Venice, and the reply by the Venetian priest Cappelletti; the "Origin of the Roman Church," by Archinard, Pastor of the Gene vme Church; "History and Dmeription of all Na tions," by Le Bas; " Palestine," by S. Munk ' • "On the Evidence of Christianity," Florence, 1850 . M. de Rayneval, the French ambassador, left Rome, for San Germano, in the kingdom of Naples, on the 16th inst. Excilinge on London, 470. Roman Five per Cents., 961. Bank shares, 233. SPAIN. - .0.- - - Notwithstanding the liberal professions of some members of the new Spanish cabinet, the govern ment has commenced its career by an attack on the liberty of the press. The Diario, .Espanol, and Tribuno had been seized by order of the Minis ter of the Interior on the 20th. A private telegraphic despatch of the 22nd speaks of some new administrative measures of retrench meat, which had just been adopted. INDIA. THE OVERLAND MAIL. MARSEILLES, MONDAY, Eiser. 26. The India Mail arrived here this morning at seven o'clock. Ebe Court. BALMORAL, SEPT. 25. Her Majesty drove yesterday to the Balloch Bhuie, accompanied by the Princess Royal and Princess Alice. Prince Albert went out deer stalking. The dinner party yesterday included the Duchess of Kent, Count Alexander Mensdorff, Lady Frances Bruce, and Sir George Couper. The Duke of Newcastle arrived in town yesterday from Clumber. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial °Mee from the Governors of the North American Provinces, and from the Governors of Hong-Kong, Ceylon, Malta, Gibraltar, and the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands. THE LATE FIRE AT BALMORAL.—WO gave • few days since en account of a fire which had occurred at the works of the new Palace at Bal moral, and mentioned the lose which many of the workmen had sustained lsy their spare clothes and money being burnt. Immediately after the fire was got under, the Queen and Prince Albert gave orders for the erection of new cottages at their own expense, and issued schedules to the workmen with instructions that each might give • statement of what he had lost. The returns showed that the total amount of loss, including money, clothes, watches, &c., destroyed, was 3181. 11s. nd.,which sum was generously paid to the workmen on Thursday evening from her Majesty's privy purse. LATEST FROM THE CONTINENT. TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, Barr. U. Upon the representations of the Sheik-ul-Islam, the Ulemas and Batas have made the amende kmo rabic. The procession of the Bairam paned off with tranquillity. The city is quiet. THE VIENNA A Vienna letter of the 21st states that Lord West moreland had received instructions from his govern ment to insist that the proposed declaration, "the Vienna note contains nothing dangerous to the sovereignty of the Sultan," should be drawn up in tho form of a protocol. After the interpretation . _ given to the " note " by Russia, England might in vite, but could not oompel, the Sultan to adopt that engagement. THE LOWER DANUBE. BUCHAREST, Barr. 13. The Russians are leaving the camp in this neighs' bourhood for the west. The camp at Foechany will also be struck, preparatory to an advance upon Giurgewo. Reinforcements continually arrive from the south of Russia. RUSSIA AND TURKEY. We have letters from Constantinople of the 12th instant. The ambassadors, says a correspondent, have spared no pains to prepare the Porte to accept fa vourably those observations of the allied cabinets re specting the rejected modification, which they are expecting from one moment to another, but hitherto without result. [At the date of this letter the Cur's rejection of Reschid Pacha's amendments was not certainly known.] Notwithstanding the excessive' moderation which they have exhibited, and their de sire to have the approval of the friendly powers on their side, the ministers cannot possibly concede more than they have done. They are pressed forward by public opinion, which is making a crime of their long hesitation. To the placards have suc ceeded addresses presented directly to the government. That of the Ulemas and Softss, or students of the law, has produced a great sensation. On the afternoon of the 10th, a hundred individuals of this order, so much venerated by the people, re paired to the Porte in procession, and presented to the Grand Vizier an address to which a great num ber of signatures were attached, and in which the government was strongly called on to put an end to the state of uncertainty in which the nation had remained for months by immediately declaring war against Russia. This demonstration caused a violent agitation among the Turks. The ministers met the same evening to deliberate on this extraordinary proceeding. It is said that on the following day, the first day of Courbam Bairam, a more serious manifestation was to be made—that the people were to accompany the imperial cortege when the Sultan went to masque, and to clamour for war. Whatever truths there may have been in these rumours, the troops formieg the garrisons of the capital were reinforced, the police guard was Nearly doubled, all the crews of the Turkish vessels were ordered to be in readi ness on board, and it is even said that the ambassa dors of France and England have sent to Besika Bay for a certain number of ships. I hope that all may pass off tranquilly ; but great uneasiness is felt, especially by parties best qualified to judge of the sentiment of the people. The government is every day taking out large numbers of muskets from the arsenal of Saint Irene, and sending them by steamers to' Varna. The num ber of muskets sent is said to be from fifteen to twenty thousand. I have seen as many as a hun dred chests of them. The usually cautious Paris correspondent of the Augsburg Guayas writes to that journal: The accord existing biomes. France and England pro• vides for all eventualities I. the Bast. The Sultan will and must concede the Remiss 111111111.08 are formalised is the Vienna nom. At this sonment a sorrespon dance is taking plass with Bemis a onatemplated occupation of ComMinatiaople by and Pram* troops which tke fanathiona of the old 'MY party may render necessary for the rotation of the lhottom The cabinet of St. Petersburg would not wash on intervention, but neither would it 11111111111114 0111 tithdsaw to forces from the principalities while Constantinople was held by foreign powers. The Vienna Press* of the 22nd states that M. de Bourqueocy, the French ambassador at the Austrian court, had had a long interview with Count Buol, at which the Russian ambassador was present. Upon this occasion he is said to have given " the moat ample and satisfactory explanations concerning the policy of his cabinet on the Eastern question." A letter from Malta of the 20th states that two corvette., laden with provisions, had left for the fleet at Besika, and that merchant hips were hired to convey from Tunis to Constantinople the contingent, amounting to 12,000 men, which th e Be, had placed at the dispneal of the Sultan. The convoy was to be accompanied by the steam frigates Shaski-Thadi and the :Sfedjidie—the former belonging to the Egyptian, the latter to the Ottoman fleet. The Itm;eror of Itussia;ru at Moscow on the 14th. There was a grand service at the church of the Archangel Michael, at which he was present, with the Grand Duke Nicholas. The Grand Greek Cross was displayed, and great enthusiasm was mani fested by the populace. An evening paper yesterday ventured the state ment that "the rumour which represented the Rus sian and Turkish forces as having respectively shifted their positions along the banks of the Danube is unfounded. The armies still remain in the same positions." This is a mistake. We made the asser tion yesterday upon the faith of three letters from the Lower Danube and one from St. Petersburg ; and the news is confirmed, not contradicted, by later intelligence from the scene of operations. The Journal des Debate says: The despatches from Vienna confirm t h e fact of the rap tut.; of We cJidcreaccs, ;aid :he is:Wpm:ea of the common FRANCE. PARIS, MONDAY MOZNINO. The great news of the entry of the fleets into the Dardanelles; was not publicly known in Paris till the arrival of the London evening papers yesterday. Of course the government must have been well aware of the fact on Saturday, but the secret was so welt kept that not so much ae a whisper about It was current at the Bourse. The financial bulletins of most of the morning papers confirm what I stated to you yesterday, that the telegraphic accounts of the heavy fall in Consols were not generally believed to be true. Such of the ministers as speculate in the fends, and their immediate friends, had, therefore, a splendid opportunity of making a good book. on will probably be astonished to learn that news of such importance could appear in print in London at an early hour in the afternoon without some of the Paris journals receiving it in time for the next morning's impression by the submarine telegraph. Certain it is that none of them publish a word on the subject. It does not, however, follow that no intel ligence was sent to them. You possibly may not know that every private telegraphic despatch con taining political news that arrives in Parts is sent to the minister before being delivered, and if it con tain news which he does not wish to be circulated, the consignee may never know that any such mes: sage has been addressed to him. At the little Bourse yesterday the Threes were dose at 75.25, being a fall of only about j per cent. from the lowest point of Saturday ; but so few people are able to read the English journals in the original, that the news was by no means generally known. The Constitution:set has an article written in quite a different spirit from that et the Pays of Saturday. The latter journal was absurd enough to say that a war between Russia and Turkey would be of no consequence, for the only result would be, that when Russia had " chastised " Turkey set fisiently, she would yield. Now, however, M. Assedee de Cana, writing in the Constautionnel, appears to have received instructions more in accord- _........_ sum with the true complexion of the situation. He, ROME, Sarr. 20. `Lvery neatly, shows how the state of the case is sub- The official paper of the 15th lest. took th e trouble stantially altered by the last Russian manifesto, to contradict a paragraph in my letter of the 31st Which has, he says, " brought to light the real views August, mentioning disturbances in Viterbo, which mad intentions of Russia; and while, to the surprise city the Roman Journal affirms to have been on the e[ everybody, it has placed in a new point of view contrary peculiarly pacific. Without staying to ex 'Me discussion relative to the wording of the Vienna amine whether this statement is literally correct, ' sate, has at the same time created an entirely new since the scarcity of corn and the tax on industry situation, which, in its turn, may impose new duties have produced partial ebullitions of discontent upon the Western Powers." throughout the whole country, I hasten to acquiesce The Courrier de Marseille announces, that on ac- in the official correction of the Roman Journal, by count of the new complications of the eastern qua- begging you to read, instead of Viterbo, Terni, a town tion, the Montebello is to be sent to rejoin the Dar- not many miles off. danelles squadron. The principal event of last week :in Rome was the The ocean squadron, summoned in consequence of carrousel mailaire, executed in the noble arena of the the Emperor's visit to the north, has anchored at Villa Borghese by two squadrons of the 11th Deus, about twelve leagues from Dunkirk. This Dragoons, in honour of the Inspector-General Andre. spline, commanded by Rear-Admiral Darner, The evolutions which were executed with consum esesists of six shif the Duguesclin, Jean Bart, mate spirit and precisi o n, were o f th e kind occa lbecule, the steam agates Pomona and Caffarelli, sionally exhibited at Saumur, and elicited gre at tip wed the steam corvette llttooland. plause from twelve or fifteen thousand spectators, The bouquet _preempted to the Empress by the who attended with the order and decency peculiar to young ladies at Lille, contained the following double a Roman crowd. emetic : In the provinces, arrests continue, as the gra- A L'Empsrsar Napoleon 111. AL' Imaratries Eugfnie. dual unfolding of evidence includes victims, deservedly liable Empereur, Ira vous,augustalmperamics, or undeserve dl y, in the net of the authorities. Lat ent fond de ((curs noir, GMis au nom des Cum:, ten from Ferrara complain of the cruel treatment of .mire des warners, Orem console ulee ' the political prisoners bent from that town to the pri ergueil du people, Mk sous, tinge si gracieux ; )'anion de Toe nom, %muvellement beam, sons of Ancona, among the galley slaves. The Net Is signs Meat* ...wire= note amour, secrecy which prevails with regard to the contents of Qs 1208 Marl Brent kW, sea tetant et beau jour ; these dungeon. prevents the exact number of pri- NAPOLEON, Travail; Bienfaisance, EUGENIE! sonars being known, but it has been ascertained that 1 clandestine manufacture of gunpowder is said seven gentlemen are kept in solitary confinement in le be going on to a very serious extent in the east- narrow cells opening . into a small yard. They have ara frontiers of France. The police are very vigilant a variety of newly invented chains on their leger and have lately made several seizures. One around one ankle, one fixed in a peculiarities- The Moniker du Luiret has received a second nee around the knee cap, and very heavy, and learning for having published "false news" stating a third fastened to the other two, and Mat statues of the Emperor and Empress in Pans, running up the leg as far as the thigh. and in the Camp of Satory, had been defaced. This At night a fourth chain attaches the journal says that it took the news from the Echo de manacled wretches to the wall of their cell. The Brimelke, and published it in good faith. little air and light which might penetrate through A commission was appointed some time since by the limited space called a window is nearly excluded the Minister of Marine to inquire into the merits of by thick iron barns within and without, and by • new anchor, called the " Safety Anchor," invented wooden shades preventing a view of the yard or its by M. Ferdinand Martin, a native of Marseilles. walls. Four of these prisoners are Signors Cenni, Vice-XI - mini Nadia is he president of the com- Cecchini, Capanna, and Antonini. Of the remaining mission, and several captains in the navy and M. three, one is a Neapolitan. They are mostly con- Oaonier, director of works at the Ministry of Marine, demned for life, or even more. For instance, the are members. No official report has yet been made, first one, Cenni, who is an advocate, is sentenced on but it is understocd to be the opinion of the commis- three political counts, for two of which the condom sion that the new anchor "combines many advan- nation is imprisonment for life, and for the third for tags. and remedies several inconveniences." The 26 years. If he works even the latter out he may main principal of the invention is that the grappling deem himself fortunate (or unfortunate, rather), as points of the anchor are moveable and so contrived he is already 65 years of age. The other day that when one catches the ground the other will he begged u a favour to be allowed to let his necessarily do so too. beard grow, as he suffers from • cutaneous dis- PARIS, MONDAY Eysxnro. ease, but his request was refused by the lam enabled to assure you that on Friday last a director of the prisons, Mancini, who bears the unen circular despatch relative to the Eastern question viable reputation of being the most severe functionary was sent by . M. Drouyn de Lhu7s to all the French of that description in the Papal States. Almost the foreign ministers and diplomatic agents in Europe. only person of humanity connected with this lege- This despatch says plainly . that France and England brines establishment belongs to the medical depart cannot accept the pretensions of Russia, or the in- meat, and his exertions have at last succeeded in ob teraetation placed ity her on the Vienna note. taming the removal of chains from the bodies of the At the Turkish embany_the tone of conversation is sick and dying, two prisoners having previously ac exceedingly warlike. The idea that the fleets tually expired in their fetters ! One of these is said have entered the Dardanelles to support the Sultan to have been a man named Bizarri, upwards of 60 against his own subjects is scouted there, and the veers old, and the other, Scheda of Forli, a youth of assertions of the Debate and Assembles u to the h. pressure exercised upon the Sultan by the old Should you not have heard the particulars of the Turkish party, are affirmed to be entirely erroneous. recent renewal of religious rage in Tuscany, and The opinion at the embassy is that the fleets have the imprisonment of Miss Cunninghame upon a been ordered to proceed to Constantinople for the charge of protestant propagandism, the fol straightforward purpose of making a decisive demon- lowing details may prove interesting. Mrs. 'Amnon against Russian aggression. Cunninghame, who was in Rome last winter, A considerable fall at the Bourse was expected with her two daughters, passed this sum to-day, but two leading articles, one in the Journal mer at the Baths of Lucca, and when on des Debate, the other in the Assemblie Nationale, the point of leaving for England, applied as usual to contained suggestions tending to diminish the ha- the police authorities for her passport. The police portance of the entry of the fleets, which were officer, after having made some demur, requested to greedily accepted by . the public. The Th rees , f or see Miss Cunninghame, without giving any , hint of account, opened at 45fr. 15c., rose to 79f r . 90 c ., an d hi s i ntent i ons i n so doing; but when the young closed at ,91r. 75c., with the inconsiderable fall of lady made her appearance, he at once took her in 3c. from Saturday's prices. For cash tho fall was charge, and sent her to Lucca, where she was interro 20c. This difference confirms the observation o f th e gate d by the Minister of Justice, accused of distri /tabitul•s of the Bourse, that there is a large outstand- outing two or three religious tracts, and then sent to ing " bear" account, and that the market is likely prison, where she still remains. Sir William Miller to be kept up in the face of everything but very bad immediately repaired to Florence and stated the case news, by purchases to close accounts. Another to Mr. Scarlett, who is now occupied in endeavouring circumstance contributed to prevent a panic. It to obtain the young_lady's liberty. The Jesuit party became known that very large purchases had been now dominant in Tuscany excuse their own intole made on Saturday evening. One of the leading ranee, add the enormity of such conduct towards a ages. de change bought 80,000 fr. of the rente, and it highly respectable young lady, by the exi-tence of a was affirmed that several large capitalists were law, punishing those who commit the heinous crime making immense efforts to sustain the market, of proselytism (now attributed to her) with imprison- Several railway lines rose, especially Orleans and ment to the extent of five yearn, according to the cir- Strasbourg. The latter company has concluded an cumstances of the case. important treaty with the credit mobilier for facili- That it may have been an act of imprudence on biting the payment of calls in respect of the new the part of the young lady will be admitted b Mulhouse shares. those who arc acquainted with the principles whi c h M. Soule, the American minister to the court of actuate the governments of central and southern Madrid, is still at Paris, and a very extra or di nary I ta l y , b u t % h a t w ill be the feeling produced by such reason is assigned for his prolonged stay. I am narrow-minded policy and persecution in the minds assured on credible authority that he is negotiating, of the British public, already irritated by similar or at least attempting to negotiate, with Queen attacks, and just now especially by the illiberal con- Christina for the purchase of Cuba by the American duct of the Spanish government in the protestant government. He has had several interviews with burial question? The most insufferable part of such 111. Drouyn de Lhuys, and is endeavouring to obtain conduct is the pomp with which these Roman his support to tho project. My informant does not catholic persecutors put forth in their publications think X Souk has any chance of success. Queen every acquisition to their creed amongst the inhabi- ITALY. THE CHOLERA. --•-- (Prom the Bead of wealth.) NEWCASTLE. DEATHS. _ Sept. 24.—Cholera... 7717... Diarrhoea.... 6 Sept. 26.—Ch01era.... 46 .... Diarrhoea.... 1 GATESI.IEAD. Sept. 24.—Cholera .... 14 .... Diarrlima 1 The total number of deaths from cholera and diarrhoea at Newcastle during the present outbreak has been 1,187. In the same period (viz., the first 23 days), daring the prevalence of epidemic cholera there in 1831-2 the number of deaths was 191. The total number of deaths from cholera and diarrhcea in Gateshead up to last return has been 292. During the like period (viz., the first 18 days, in 1831-2) the deaths amounted to 130. The system of house to house visitation, which was at first imperfect, is becoming more complete. It has hitherto been found impossible to induce • •ple in the worst districts to leave their filthy a ...es for the tents which have been pitched. HEX HAD!. The secretary of the sanitary committee in this place has been attacked with the epidemic. During the last two days 4 deaths from cholera have taken place. Choleraic diarrhma is almost universal ; and it is only by . prompt and cnergetic treatment that the disease is arrested in this stage. Mr. Farbridge has fallen a victim to the disease, and his wife and two daughters were afterwards attacked, and the latest accounts state that they also have since died. MANCHESTER. Two more cases had been reported up to yesterday after noon, in which persons had died at Manchester of Asiatic cholera, but there appears to be some doubt of one, if not both. The first case was on Saturday evening. A man who had arrived from Newcastle, and taken up his real dance in Oldham-road, one of the most thickly-populated parts of the city, was seized with the fatal disease, and died about half-put eleven that night. A surgeon was called in only half an hour before death, and he, of course, had but little chance of affording assistance. The second case was one which had also wearied in Oldham.road, and the surgeon in attendance was Mr. Briggs, of Oldham road. Information of this case first reached the authorities yeeterdaymorning,when the friends of the deceased applied to the Board of Guardians for a coffin and the fees for in terment. Mr. Briggs, however, is et opinion that death in this case was caused by delirium tremens, brought on by exposure and intemperate habits. The man's name was Charles Smayle, and he had been suffering from diarr heas last week, when he was at Newcastle, and had taken whisky and cayenne pepper, as a remedy. On Wednesday he came to Manchester, having obtained employment as a glam-blower, and was drinking for three days, and lay out of dun two nights. In the other case, Mr. Hughes, a druggist in St. George's road, was called to attend the patient, and found him in a state of collapse. Afterwards Mr. Henson, medical officer of the anion, visited the patient, and was of opinion that it was a genuine case of cholera. The street in which this man lived is not paved or drained ; and there was lately a fatal case of fever in it. On examination of the house. 3 feet depth of water was found beneath the floor. On ref.• rence to the Registrar of Death., we find the case reported to him as " Diarrhoea and cholera." MAILS FOR AUSTRALIA.-GENERAL POST -OFFICE, Burr., 1863.—The next mails for Australia will he for warded by the Nelsus, sailing vessel, the owners of which have entered into a contract for that purpose with the Post muter General. This vessel is appointed to be despatched from Liverpool on the 4th October next, after the arrival of the day mail from London; and all letters and newspapers for South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales, and Van Diemen's Land, reaching Liverpool previous to her depar ture, and net addressed to be cent by any other vessel, will be forwarded by the Neleus. The packet rates of postage will be chargeable on letters transmitted by the Nolen*, but no charge will be made upon newspapers. The mails to be conveyed by this packet will be made up in London on the morning of the 4th October, and at Liverpool on the after noon of that day. Those postmasters whose instructions direct them to send their letters to Liverpool by cross post, will, of course, forward the correspondence intended for these mails in the same manner. MELANCHOLY DEATH BY late Christopher Commons, a comfortable farmer (65 years of ege) living near Ardhracken, Haven, was bitten by his own terrier dog about the 12th of July last. The dog was found to have gone mad immediately after. Commons re mained rather heedless about the small wound inflicted on his face and arm; but after a weak he applied to a quack in the county of Cavan for his ordinary cure. Trusting in this " nostrum," he went to the salt water for some weeks, and remained pretty confident that he was in no danger until last Thursday, when he became very nervous, and found an abhorrence of water when offered him to drink. Sensible of his danger, he obtained spiritual attendance for his coming death, which he strongly apprchended.But still hoping for a cure by a quack, he set out for one on Satur day last. The quack, on seeing him, pronounced him be yond cure; and although he administered some of his " specific," Commons died in his house in five hours after in spasmodic fits. The body was removed home, and interred d.rdbracken, on Wedncsd.l.—din9lo-Celt. .—The THE STORM OF SUNDAY LAST. The equinoctial gales which are generally az. perienced at this season of the year have set is with more than usual violence. They commenced from the south-west early on Sunday for. noon, and the telegraph messages which have been received at Lluyd's glow that the storm has visited almost all parts of the c dist. 'Towards evening the wind veered round to the north-west, and at midnight raged with the fury nearly of a hurricane. A l may be imagined, great uneasiness was felt amongst the underwriters and owners, and as the messages were re ceived and entered during the day, the books were sur rounded by eager crowds. Although many disasters were announced, there were none which involved loss of life. In the vicinity of the Downs, between the North Foreland and Dungeness, moat severe weather was encountered. Outward-bound ships, which had sailed from off Deal OR Saturday, were caught by the gale while making their way down channel. They made short work of it in running back. Some, when brought up, were driven from their anchors and lost, cable and all, besides being exposed to great peril while drifting. Several distressed vessels were, after much difficulty, gat into Ramsgate harbour. l'ilost of the sea-going steamer: which arrived in the river yester day were late. They speak of experiencing very boiste rous passages. The gale had a curious effict upon the mid day tide of the Thames. It should have ebbed at London Bridge, according to the tables, until nearly two o'clock. Instead of going over to that time, the water suddenly began to flow shortly before twelve o'clock, nearly two hours before its time. This remarkable occurrence is attri. buted to the circumstance of the gale driving an immense body of water up channel and so up the numerous rivers. In the metropolis the storm was most severe between eleven on Sunday night and two o'clock yesterday morn ing. The " wind-guage " on the top of the Royal Exchange Indicated the pressure to be 180 A. on the square foot. MANCHESTER. On Sunday afternoon Manchester was visited by a storm of wind and rain, which continued with much violence during the night. The wind blew chiefly from the west, but occasionally chopped round I points towards the north. We heard of no loss of life, bet the roofs of buildings in the city and its neighbourhood were greatly damaged, and a good many trees were blown down. Ott the Cheshire side of the city, the country down to Dunham Park, the seat of the Earl of Stamford and Warrington, is ' well wooded, and in this direction many fine trees were blown down. Sunday was the first day of Dunham wakes, which is always resorted to by great numbers of visitors, who come from a distance by private vehicles, as well as by railway. Bad as the weather was from the earliest hour in the morning, it had not deterred many people from venturing forth, but the storm placed very serious obstacles in the way of their returning home. In pl►tw along the turnpike roads the drivers of vehicles found theit progress frequently impeded, and sometimes entirely stopped, by fine timber trees which had been prostrated by the storm ; and many of these people, trying to find their way out of the difficulty by threading bye•lanes, after en countering drenching rains and suffering great exhaustion from the violence of the wind, had to retrace their course and wait in the more frequented roads until a passage could be cleared. In the intense darkness of the night it is sur prising that tome serious accidents did not occur; but we did not hear of any, though a good deal of individual suf. fering was witnessed from long exposure to tle weather. LIVERPOOL (NIoNDAT). This town and port were visited yesterday evening and this morning with one of the most violent hurricanes expe rienced for many years. In the town, 'chimneys, tiles, scaffolding, and windows were blown down in every street, and the time ball on the summit of the electric telegraph office, was much strained, and would eventually have been torn away, had it not been secured by ropes as soon as the danger was perceived. Communication by the electric telegraph was for some time suspended, and weluve learned that the driver of one of the engines of the London and North Western Company was considerably injured by one of the poles falling upon him while the engine was going up one of the inclines on that line. The river throughout the day was very rough, but in tho evening it lashed itself into • perfect fury. Some parties had the temerity to attempt to cross to Cheshire in the Woodside ferry-boats from the landing stage at half-past five, but after buffeting about for two hours found it impossible to proceed, and the boat had to return and land her passengers at the Prince's Pier, and whilst making Lest snapped no less than five hawsers. At six o'clock all the ferry-boats ceased to ply. The accidents on the river have been numerous, and it is feared that very bad accounts will be received from the various pore round the coast. The American packet ship Neva, which sailed on Thursday, put back through stress of weather and arrived in the river yesterday evening. During the gale she dragged her anchors, and went ashore near the Sandon Dock-basin, She had on board IR passengers, and when she went ashore, several attempted to jump from the ship to the pier head, but fell into the river and were drowned. The Joseph Walker, from New Yark, also went ashore near the same place, and sustained considerable damage. The brig Caroline, from Prince Edward's Island, got ashore off the Nelson Deck, and lost masts and bowsprit. The captain fearing that the vessel was in imminent danger, jumped ashore, and the crew and a woman, with five children par sengere, were shortly afterwards rescued. At high tide the ship came off and drifted up the river, and got ashore on Pluckington Bank. Two small vessels were seen to I founder off the nsrth-west lightship during the gale, and all on board perished. The Intrinsic, from Prince Edward's Island, is ashore off the Bramley Mare Dock, with loss of foremast, bowsprit, rudder, &e. A flat sunk in the Huskisson Dock, and with great dif ficulty the crew were saved. Tee American from this port for Saa Francisco, got ashore near Southport, and at one time it was feared she would go to pieces. The life-boat went out to her and remained with her all night. The William Ward, from Quebec, was put on shore above the New Ferry, having parted her anchor. The clipper ship, Shooting Star, discharging in the Ilisski-son Dock, lost all her topmasts during the gale. The Stephen Glover, from St. John's, N. 8., at anchor off the roc►, with loss of main and fore mast, bowsprit, &c. A small phasure boat cap sized yesterday morning off the rock, at New Brighton, but three persons who were in her were saved with di& cult,. At the Princes Pier head some of the persons who had Imprudently ventured too near the edge of the river, were blown in, but rescued by the timely interference of the police, &c. The Hinda, tram Quebec, was in contact with the Eliza- beth, for Smyrna, in the river, yesterday, and both mods lost their bulwarks, &c. The sloop Penhryn sank off the North Docks. The Rhydland Trader (flat) was driven oa shore at Rhos Bay yesterday; the crew were saved. It is feared that the shipping off the coast and in the Channel will have suffered severely. The gale, after having lasted about sixteen hours, died away about 7 o'clock this morning, and though the day ass been squally, with occasional showers, we have had no re turn of the storm up to 6 p.m. DESTRUCTION OF FARM PRODUCE BY FIRE. On Saturday afternoon last a large number of ricks of corn and other agricultural produce were destroyed by fire on Sherfield Court Farm, the result of childish play- fulness and thoughtlessness. The farm, which is in the occupation of Mr. John Butler, is situate near Sherfield Church, about five miles distant from the town of Buingstoke. It appears that in the early part of the afternoon a little boy thought to amuse himself by making a small fire in the roadway. For this purpose he collected a few pieces of wood and some straw that was lying about, and then set light to them, a short distance from the farm premises of Mr. Butler. In • few minutes some of the burning straw war carried by the wind to Mr. Butler's yard, where stood a cluster of ricks, numbering in the whole fourteen, consist ing of wheat, barley, and other kinds of corn, and pre sently flames were perceived to issue from one of them. An alarm was quickly raised, the engines from Basingstoke sent for, and every assistance promply ren dered by • hos: of people who collected together. All their efforts were ineffectual to arrest the fury of the devouring element in that part of the premises, fur the darnel spread with amazing rapidity from rick to rick, and the body of fire was immense, threatening destruction to the whole of the farm buildings and residence. By means of great exertions by the firemen and others, the farmhouse and chief of the nut-buildings were saved; but it is with regret we learn that not less than 14 ricks, comprising a large quantity of oli and new wheat, besides hsrlev and oats, has been wholly destroyed. Although Mr. Butler was insured, it is believed that he will be • great loser by this unfortunate cone igration. At the time of the fire break;ng out Mr. Butler was at market, 11 miles distant, cud a messenger was despatched fur him, but he returned only in time to sea the total destruction of this harvest's produce. SOUTH-EASTERN HAlLwAY.—Traffie for the week ending Sept. 24, 18.53:-20,1371. 13s. 6d. Corresponding week, 1352, 19,23Ci1. 18s. 3d. Increase in 1b53, Mil. 15s. 3.1.