The Express. — London, England, 1853-09-01 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 1, 1853. to allow it to 1 Sitz ir,vrriz. i paradoxical —too thriving • people exist. Owing to the generally rf.gular administra- I tion of the laws and habits of seid- governmen t d ur i ng TO CORRESPONDENTS. ' many centuries past, the cxe wive elevation of or:, ' A he , gd K.Ktion of 'TN! Mtge.," not the *able evre , ite•• • . 8 others has bun prever.ted. ' ..ti ame," i, plashed 'eery Tweelay not eralay asibt, is tune Cl " — in a cit y above the tot vow". prosperity running t.nrongh I Attu rtigstenn latennlect for "The Kneen.," Lofoten F. , •• if ft paper, • . , There has been a genet a i 7, rather than an extravagant 1 ins-t be nt the IWI e, la, Ilwantiegtreet, by Two o'clock au the tne wocue communit as ) .4 pahltratton. I success falling to '..fr., lot of individuals or classes. 11101 i WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. i Many have become rich, but few have become /ma Der -R. falai, tit. 3: la To-NUS lon —Montag, tit. 211. _ ... Oita," lA. 111 a. derity, l t .ten, has not been to build palaces fur pride, but 'amuses for comfort. But the ideas of com- LONDON, THURSDAY, SEPTENTER 1. f'.ct change, and enlarge and improve. The . !tenant, who comes into a house of moderate ---..- pretensions built by his predecessor, has his own ideas of a comfortable house, and ho has no scruples about pulling down or altering his abode to I suit his rimy or to follow the fashion. This is a" I process which can rarely be adopted with palaces, and I can never be adopted except amongst a people who ! are in good circumstances. Englishmen, however, have always been rich enough to build their own houses. Level any town in England, and no long time will elapse before it is built up again. Each successive owner of a house is gene rally enabled to alter or build it up again at will. An Italian is very frequently unable to stop up the hole through which the rain, inundates his palace. Abroad a large number of the population are obliged to be stowed away in all imaginable corners of palaces. In England most classes can afford tenements of their own, and are rich enough to repair them if damaged. An English. man ' s house is not too large to prevent his meddling with it. The consequence has been that successive generations have pulled down the houses of tho previous generations, and con structed them after a new pattern, which, while it has done little for the beauty, has done much for the comfort of our streets and the habita tions of which they are composed. We have the most comfortable dwellings in the world, but they are the least picturesque. If "everybody" lays these considerations to heart, he will return from his peregrinations delighted with what he has seen, but more than ever ready to prize the institution, of his country, which have been pro ductive of a state of society, which has done perhaps little for the picturesque, but has spread comfort and prosperity throughout the land. Tut, fashionable world is making its ar,ou s t Exodu4. Grosvenor-square is deserted. T:, - ournia no longer echoes with sharp reports procev.ding from "doors with double knockings." Belgravia shows by closed windows the absence of its princes and , millionaires. London, we aro told by miserable- looking individuals in the deserted halls of the clubs, "is empty." No one is in town. It is true that there were two millions and a half of people in Lon don a few months back, and that there are two millions and • half, minus a minute fraction ; of the whole, in London now. It is true that • stranger might walk about for days in the capital without finding out any alteration is its appearance. unless he had been beforehand made acquainted with the locus where a deficiency exists. It is true that the manufacturing activity of London is just as gnat, that its commercial thoroughfares are just as crowded, that the stream of life runs just as thickly as before. It is true also that a good mil lion or more of its inhabitants are as ignorant that the total number is diminished, as the water on the Surrey shore of the Thames is of the abstrac tion of a pailful from the Middlesex side. All these facts are indisputable. 'fhe fashion able world, by its self-expatriation, makes but so little impression on the great whole, that from a distance, et which the whole can be embraced in one view, the difference may be expressed by an iucon siderable fraction. However, let us take the formula for what it is worth, and see what can be made of it. Let us be lieve implicitly that "nobody is in town." Let us try hard to convince ourselves that the few thou sands who have gone are "everybody," and the millions left "nobody." Where is "everybody" gone to? Stretch your eyes to follow "everybody," and you see the numerous units making up that corporation, hurrying across the Channel, whirling along the continental railroads,steamingupeontinental rivers until at last they will be discovered domiciled in gaudy hotels or dirty palaces. A small detach ment may be found, indeed, in the provinces com mitting slaughter amongst the grouse, and others to day doing similar damage to the partridges. But the great portion of " everybody " will he found very shortly to have settled themselves down over the surface of France, Italy, Germany, and Switzerland, —a few stray individuals only stretching far up to the North, or towards the East and West, to Constan tinople, or it may be to Spain. What does " everybody " mean by this migration ? How are we to aceount for the fact of " everybody " regularly transporting the great portion of himself to foreign countries? How is it that the English, who have the most comfortable homes in the world, are mot easy unless they quit them as regularly as birds of passage? Ask the majority of the travellers this question, and although you will get a variety of answers, you will find an amazing preponderance in favour et one. A few went abroad to see scenery, a few to study life and manners and lan guage, a few for health; but the overwhelm ing majority went in search of " the picturesque." They went to see " those charming old towns" —those grand streets made up of lofty palatial build ings, grey with age--those grotesque tenements bristling with gables—those enigmatic erections pitched at random throughout the towns—those magnificent gates—those stately approaches—all objects of unspeakable attraction to eyes wearied with gazing upon the tame monotony of English towns. The picturesque on a large scale has de parted from us. There is scarcely a town in Eng land, with the exception of Chester, that is full of than antique irregularities so beloved by painters on search for subjects. " Everybody," then, has gone ,1 abroad to refresh his sense of beauty, and so far "everybody" is right. An Italian palace is a more pleasing object to the sight than a brick house with a flat front. The great market places of the Conti nent, surrounded by magnificent structures, are some thing different to English markets surrounded by low houses of no architecture at all. Take for example Malin*, a town at which probably many travellers will make their first halt. There are few towns in England which are built in a manner to make such an impression on the eye as Malian. The wide lofty streets, the noble houses, the spacious market place, have but few equals in England " Everybody's" admiration is not wasted when lavished on a town like this; and the Continent abounds in such. THE interest of all classes in a good harvest can scarcely be overrated. To the industrious consumer it is a question of plenty or the reverse for the next year. To the farmer it is one of success or failure, comparative wealth or poverty, the influence of which may extend over his business for several years to come. To the landowner a good or bad harvest is no less important, for the punctuality with which his rent will be paid during the ensuing year mainly de pends upon a good harvest. The husbandman's fortune at harvest time is mainly dependent on the weather; prices then rise or fall from day today with the tempe rature of the atmosphere ; dealers in grain become shy or ready buyers according as the market day is bright or ov,rcast. The present season has been re narkably untoward. Rain unceasingly fell during the autumn and winter; then succeeded frost and snow, which prevented wheat sowing until so late in the season that a large portion of the land properly coming into course for wheat could never be sown, and I much was planted so badly that bad crops were inevitable. Next followed five or six weeks of dry cold weather, during which vegetation made little or no progress ; this again was followed by extremely heavy rain until the month of August, during which the weather has been moderately good. The wheat now being carried is generally light in the sheaf, and in some places has suffered from blight. The yield cannot be large, though the quality pro mises to be better than was expected. New wheat has been sold in Mark-lace at more than GOs. per quarter, and an apparently steady demand for wheat from other European countries to supply the defi ciency of their own gross th leads to the expectation that wheat will yet rise. The potatoes, too, areshowing symptoms of increased decay. The weather is not by any means settled, and a large proportion of the grain crops still remain in the field. It is now certain there will not be anything like an average produce of wheat, and very severe loss will be the consequence to many farmers who occupy heavy land, and in many districts consisting of good wheat land. The season, too, has been a very expensive one, for in order to enable farmers to overtake the work necessarily left undone during the wet weather, more than ordinary quantities of horse and manual labour have been, and must during the coming autumn be, employed upon their farms. If the ordinary classes of farmers get through the ensuing year, as we believe they will, without succumbing to the difficultie:, they must suffer, it will be duo entirely to the energy and self-reliance which have so much increased amongst them since the bane of Protection has been removed from British agriculture. This much, however, is certain, that events of the pest year, notwithstanding the rise of prices, have cast a shade of anxiety over the farmer's counte nance. Chant then that "everybody" is not making the worst possible use of his time in his search after the picturesque, but let us see whether or not there is not • useful lesson to be drawn from a pleasing spectacle. It would be as well that "everybody" should be in structed as well as amused by a migration which makes very heavy inroads on the purse. Did " everybody" ever ask himself the question how it was that so many continental towns abound in elements of the picturesque, while so few of the Eng lish towns contain anything of the sort? The answer to this question will go far to prove that it is much better that England should pay for the privi lege of viewing picturesque towns, than encourage the growth of them herself, and that the picturesque, in many instances, is much better as a sight than a possession. What is the great impression, then, that k indeli .. But that anxiety will be only temporary ; a natural incident to his business, the consequence of bad weather, over which he has no control. His general views, notwithstanding the precarious season, are satisfactory. For some time past his determination to accept the realities of his situation, to make up by energy and increased produce for the somewhat lower prices his commodities will probably in the long run command, has been producing the best re sults. There is no giving up of cultivation ; there is no withdrawal of capital from husbandry; there is no lack of enterprising tenants where good farms are to be had on rational terms. On tho con trary, the reverse of all these things is strikingly apparent in all the rural districts. The sayings and doings at the various agricultural gatherings, so long ago as last autumn, full• con firm all we have said on this point. For instance, Lord Ilsnewoon, at a meeting of his tenantry. con gratulated them on their good crops and." Nourish log condition "—telling them at the same time that protection was dead and gone. And lie stated that ' one of his tenants recently, when admitting the goodness of his crops, had added, " Free Trade can do me no harm." So at the Perth meeting of the Highland Society, the President, the Duke of Box nuniinE, told the assembled farmers that a new and more extensive field was then before them in the discoveries and new applications of science and me ! chanics to husbandry, and that the landlords of Scot ' land would do their utmost " to foster and promote that spirit of improvement now abroad." Lord Pssmuit E, going more boidly on the debatcabl , ground of agricul tural politics, and the relations of landlord and tenant, said that "called upon to put forth their energies , the agricultural classes had shown themselves as full i of energy as any other body of men in this country;' and added " that the farming never did more credit to our country, that farmers were never more ener ! getic than they then were, and that land was never more sought after by tenants." . . bly marked upon the minds of those who have I exercised any thought upon the appearance of one of the towns alluded to? Few will deny that they I have been profoundly struck with the fact that the inhabitants were not made for the towns, nor were , the towns built for the inhabitants. Look at the denizens of that magnificent street in that Italian town that " everybody " has taken up his abode in. You will find that the proprietors cannot live in their own houses, or only in the cellars, or in the garrets. You will see a separate family at least in every flat. You will notice that, with the exception of the travellers, scarcely a single tenant was born for the magnificence amidst which he vegetates in pride and poverty. You will sec, in fact, that the town is magnificent, because it was built by a magnificent race some cen turies hack. And you will have little trouble in perceiving that now, if the town were swept away by an earthquake or an enemy, the inhabitants would not have the means or the energy to build it up again, or if any building did take place, that hovels would generally stand where palaces once stood. You recognise a certain sort of fitness in this. You are gild that once at least in the history of the people, there was a period when a sudden blaze of prosperity enabled the existing race to build habitations for their po,terity, who you see clearly I will never be able to build them for themselves. A little further reflection points out the secret of our deficiency in the "magnificent and the pictu resque." We have been always—it may appear This season we have few landlord speeches. Pikes of all kinds of agricultural produce have risen con eiderably, and but for the casualties of the season the I present year would have been one of great prospe rity for farmers who have the means of farming their land properly. Farming is now no longer a pecu 'liar or protected trade; each man engaged in it must stand or fall by the prudence of his acts, and the accuracy of his calculations. Landowners, too, must adapt their methods of management to the tiew state of things ; for unless farms are put into a state fit for profitable occupa tion, and let upon terms which justify good farming, ! their unimproved farms will soon find their proper level, which is a low one, in what may now be called an open market. Farming, to be successful, must be prosecuted with spirit, capital, and all needful pee -1 manent improvements, or it should be let alone. Is it not plain, that, when freed from the illusions of Protection, the men who employ their capital in cultivating the soil are no longer deficient in those qualities of determination and enter prise for which all other classes of this coun ts try are remarkable? The repeal of the Corn Laws has removed an incubus from our agriculture. Possibly the change may have been more sudden " than the changes which occur in other businesses from natural causes and the progress of social wants. But have not all other industrious employments under gone similar changes? In trade, in manufactures, and the like, let the eon, to whom the father gives up his business, attempt to carry it on in precisely the Name manner, and to pursue only the same routine which may have led the father to competence or for tune, and it is ten to one that failure will be the result. Each industrious generation, each man of business, must look around and adapt his system to the wants and necessities of the times, and must meet or counteract the changes of circumstances ender which he finds himself called upon to carry a• his business. The law of progress is certain sad inexorabje, and the man or the class neglecting to obey it will sustain difficulties and disasters without end. Why then should agriculturists and land owners expect to be exempted from the require. ments of that law? That they have never been so exempt is certain, but until recently their appreciation of its necessities has been imperfect and confused. They have relied on legislative protection, and have neglected fully to develop the resources of their own business; or to understand completely what may be done by the application of science, capital, and industry to the cultivation of land. Their adversity—if so the transition amidst untoward seasons may be called— has discovered to them the priceless jewel they had in a great measure overlooked; their difficulties have brought forth their strength ; and the present gene ration of agriculturists, adapting their systems of culture to actual circumstances, will make eventually greater progress and larger profits than their fathers have made before them. RUSSIA AND TURKEY. THE LAST NOTE. The following document, just received from Con stantinople, justifies the assertion of our correspon dent there (in his latter of the lath ult.), that the note prepared by M. Delacour, quite as much as the original note forwarded from Vienna, flattered the vanity of Russia, and put words in the mouth of the Sultan inconsistent with his dignity, as an indepen dent and injured sovereign. The modifications with which this document has been adopted by the Otto man Council of State, aro contained in the notes. They are not more (if so much) than was required to preserve appearances for the Turkish government in the eyes of its subjects. They justify the expression " slight modifications" in the account of the Trieste telegraphic despatch. The adoption of the note, with so little change by the Council of State shows how correctly our Constantinople correspondent of the 13th (and his correspondent at Pere) were in formed of the state of opinion among the ministers and high functionaries of the empire, and the justice of the inferences they drew from their knowledge. 1 Turkey has receded from its stipulation to have an express guarantee of the evacuation of the Danubian Provinces before it acceded to the proposals of the tour powers ; Turkey has, with little more than mere verbal alterations, adopted the lan !nage they put in its mouth. Turkey has complied with the requests lof the four powers as far as it could consistently with safety from internal insurrection—if indeed it have not overstepped that line. Turkey is, therefore, entitled to call upon the four powers to insist upon the withdrawal of the Russian troops from Walla chia and Moldavia. The English ministers, at least, stand publicly pledged to insist upon the evacuation of those Provinces; and the English ministers must have been made to speak as they have done on this head in parliament, if they had not in private similar unequivocal pledges from the other three powers. We give little heed to the thousand and one reports which aro spread by stock-jobbing electric expresses, and the fragmentary tales gleaned up by private and newspaper correspondents. The inten tions of Russia respecting the evacuation of the Pro vinces are yet a mystery. Suspicious circumstances there are in abundance ; as, for example, the feelers put forth to try whether European complaisance will go so far as to sanction a demand from Turkey by Russia for the expenses it has incurred in its lawless inroad into the Ottoman territory Oa the other hand there is the positive declaration of the English ministers. But even if Russia withdrew its troops at present, there can be no doubt that the aggression will be speedily , renewed. The mustering of troops in all parts of the Russian empire, the establishment of telegraphic communication between St. Petersburg and the Black Sea, the incendiary appeals to the fanaticism of the Russian commonalty in favour of a religious war—all these can only be meant to pre pare for a speedy and heavy blow at Turkey. Russia must be watched quite as jealously and closely , if she withdraws from the Danubian Provinces, as if she finds some pretextforprocrastinating her evacua tion of them. PROJET OK NOTE. S. M. le Sultan n'ayant rica do plus au cur quo de retablir entre elle et Sa Maj. l'Empereur de Huaie les re lations de bon voisinage et de parfait. entente qui oat mal• heureusement etc alferees par de recentes et peuibles complications, a prig soigneusement 3 tache de rechercher lee moyensd'effecer les traces de ces different" points. Us Irade supreme, en date de ,lui ayant fait con naitre la decision Imperials, la Sub. Porte se felicite a pou voir le communique' a Son Excellence M. le Comte Nes selrode. Si a toute epogue les Empereurs de 'tussle oat temoigne leer active sollicitudo (1) pour le maintien des immunites et prim:sieges de 1 eglisc ortliothre grecgu, duns !'empire Ottoman les Nutans ne se sont Annals refuse a les consume de nouveau par des actcs selennel" qui attes taient de lour aucienne et coustante bienveil.ance a regard de lours sujets Chretiens. 8. M. le Sultan Abdul Medjid: aujouriehui regnant anime des memes dispositions, et voulant dormer 8. M l'Enspereur de 'tussle un temoignage personel do son amine la plus sincere, n'a scouts que sa contiance iutinie dans les qualites emineutes de son auguste ami et aliie, et a daigne prendre en scrieuse consideration les representations (2) dont son Excellence M. le Prince Menxicoff's ctait rendu l'orgruic aupres de la Sub. Porte. Le soussigne a par consequence revs Venire de declarer par la presente que le government de S. M. le Sultan resters fidelea la !dire et a !'esprit des stipulations des trades de Kuseaik liaistarsi (3), et d'Andrinop/c, relatives a la pro tection du cuite Cliretien (4), ct que S.M. se regarde comma etsnt de son liouneur de faire observer a tout jamais de toute attetite, wit nrcsentement, soit dans I' avenir, la josissance des privileges spirituel' qui ont etc accordcs par his au gustes ayeux de .S. orthodox': d'Oricnt, et qui sont 'Raiment's et confirms par ells , ct en outre it faire participer dans on esprit de haute Naafi% Ic rite pee aux amide:yes COlie. (MX eatres ehn'tiens par conventiwa ou disposition partieuliere (5). Au reste, comae le firman imperial qui vient d'etre donne au patriarest et isu Merge grec, et qui contient la con firmation de leur privileges spirituel', Mina etre ',garde comae unc nouvelle preuve de cm nobles sentiments, et comae en mitre la proclamation 4c cc firman qui donne toute aecurite deers faire disparaitre a jamais Inmate crainto a regard du rite qui eat la religion de S. N. l'Empereur de Russie, je soil heureux d'etre charge du devoir de faire la presente notification. Quint ala garantie qu'a l'avenir it ne sera lion change au lieu de visitation de Jerusalem, elle resulte du Armen revetu du Ilatti lloumayon, le Li de la Ruse de Rebbi Ulakir, 1268 (Fierier, 1862), explique et comsbore par les Orman' des -, et !'intention foretells •a 4 B. M. le Sultan est de faire executer sans aucune altera tion se, decisions souveraines. La Sub. Porte en outre promet officiellement qu'il ne sera apporte aucune modification a l'etat des chases qui 'lent d'.l , tre regle sans use entente prialable avec `is Gou- Tenement de Ramie et de France, et sans prejudice aucun pour les differentes communsutes Chreticnnes. Pour le cas cu la Cour Imperiale de Russie en fersit la demand., it scrait assigne une localite convenable dans la villa de Jerns .lem, ou dans les environs, pour la construc tion d'une eglise consacree a la celebration du service disks par des ecclesiastiquess Ruses, et d'un hospice pour les pelerins indigene ou malady de la meme nation. La Sub. Porte s'engage deja 3 present a souscrire i cot egard sn acts solennel, qui placerait ees fuodations pieuses sous la surveillance specials du Censulat-General de 'lassie en Syria et en Palestine. Les Soussignes, &c. (1) Pour lc culte et l'eglise orthodoxe Grecque la Sultans n'ont jamais cease de wilier au maintien des immunites et privileges de cc culte et de cette eglise dans !'Empire Otto man, et de les consacrer de nouveau par do saes solennels qui attestaient, &c., &c. (2) Lea communication*. (3) De Kouschouk Ksinarje confine par celui d'An drinople, relatives la protection par la Porte du culte Chretien. (4) Et de faire cocnaltre que S. M. le Sultan, &c., &c. (5) Aux avantages accordes et qsi seraient accordes aux autres communautes Chretiennes sujets Ottomans. (TRANSLATION.) His Majesty the Sultan, having nothing more at heart than to re-establish between himself and his Majesty the Emperor the relations of good neighbourhood and perfect amity, which have unfortunately been weakened by recent and disagreeable complications, has betaken himself dili gently to the task of seeking means whereby to efface the traces of these various incidents. The Sublime Porte is happy to be able to communicate to his Excellency Count Nesselrode a supreme Iradi, which gives publicity to the result of those labours. If the Emperors of Russia hare on all occasions evinced their actice care for the maintenance of the immunities and privileges of the orthodox Greek church, within She limits of the Ottoman Empire; the Sultans, en their part, hare never refused to (I) confirm them anew by solemn acts which testify their old and enduring benevolence towards their Christian subjects. His Maj , sty the Sultan Abdul Medjid, now reigning, is animated by the same sentiments, and—desirous to give to his Majesty the Emperor of Russia a personal proof of hie sincere friendship—he has listened to nothing but his un bounded confidence in the distinguished ,qualities of his august friend and ally, and hu condescended to take into serious consideration the representalims (2) of which his Excellency Prince Menchikoff has been made the medium of communication to the Sublime Porte. The undersigned has in consequence received orders to declare by these presents that the government of his Ma- jesty the Sultan will remain faithful to the lett:r and the spirit of the stipulations in the treaties Kuscuils, Kainarji (3), and Adrianople, relating to the protection of Christian worship (4) ; and that his Majesty considers himself bound in honour to cause to be respected, now and in future, the enjoyment of spiritual privileges, which have been con ceded by the august ancestors of his Majesty to the ortho dox Church of the East, and which are now confirmed by him; and, moreover, to make the Greek ritual participate, in an equitable spirit, in the advantages conceded to other Christians by any convention or special ordinance (5). As the Imperial firman which has just been granted to the Greek patriarch and clergy, and which contains the confirmation of their spiritual privileges, will of course be regarded as a new peed of those generous sentiments—and as, moreover, the promulgation of this firman affords guarantee which will dispel for over all fear with d to the ritual which is the religion of H.M. the Emperor of Russia, I am happy to be charged with the duty of making the present intimation. As for the guarantee for the future, nothing will be altered in the visitation of Jerusalem ; it is regulated by the firman issued by the Hatti liumayon, cm the 15th of the month of Rebbi lilakir, 1258 (February, 1852), and explained and confirmed by the firmans of and the intention of lI.M. the Sultan is to cause his sove reign decision to be enforced without any alteration. The Sublime Porte, moreover, promises spontaneously that no modification will be introduced in the established state of affairs without a previous understanding with the governments of Russia and France, and without prejudice fur the various Christian communities. In the event of the Imperial Court of Russia making such a request a proper locality will be assigned in the city of Jerusalem, or its environs, for the erection of a church set apart for the celebration of divine service by Russian ecclesiastics, and of an hospital for the indigent or sick pil grims of the mune nation. The Sublime Porte engages to subscribe a formal docu ment to this effect, which will place these pious establish ments under the especial supervision of the general coa4u late of Rusia in Syria and Palestine. (The undersigned, &c.) (1.) The Sultans have never ceased to keep watch on the maintenance of the immunities and privileges of this wor ship and this church in the Ottoman empire, and to confirm them anew by solemn acts, which attested, &c. (2.) The communications. (3.) Of Kutskuk and Kainardji, confirmed by that of Adrianople, relating to the protection of Christian worship by the Porte. (4.) And to notify that H.M. the Sultan. (5.) In the advantages granted, or which shall be granted, to other Christian communities of Ottoman subjects. The Presse publishes the following private tele graphic despatch: " CONSTANTINOPLE, Avo. 22. (Via Trieste.) " Colonel Ruff is this moment setting out for Vienna, to take an autograph letter from the Sultan to the Emperor of Austria. This letter contains the warmest possible thanks for the good results of the Emperor's mediation." The Trieste Gazette says :—" M. do Fock, the Rus sian Consul-General in Egypt has received orders, it is said, to quit that country in consequence of the participation of the Viceroy in the Turco-Russian difference." FRANCE. PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING. Many people had persuaded themselves yesterday that the Moniteur of this morning would contain an announcement that the Emperor of Russia had or dered the evacuation of the Principalities, and the silence of the official journal is supposed to be one of the causes of the decline at the Bourse, where the Rente has fallen 20c. A letter from Constantinople of the 18th, received by way of Germany, and pub lished by the Constitutionnet, mentions some facts showing the extreme pressure exercised upon the Sultan by the ambassadors before they could wring from him even the qualified assent to the Vienna proposition, which was ultimately ob tained. The grand council convoked for the 16th was put off to the 20th, when on the 18th, at 7 in the evening, the news was circulated that it would be advanced some hours, and would be held that same evening, at the demand of the ambassadors, who in sisted on an immediate reply. It is known, in fact, that the couriers who left on the 19th brought the decision of the Divan. A fact which caused a gene ral astonishment was that the patriarchs were, fur the first time, called on to be present at the extra ordinary council. The news from the army con tinued to be excellent, both as to health and as to the spirit which animated it. An imperial order of the 16th decreed the immediate levy of the 80,000 men remaining of the redif. The Constitutionnel observes upon this, that now twat the note has been accepted with some trifling modi fications the levy loses its signification. This is to a certain extent true, because on the 16th the Porte had not determined to yield to the representations of the ambassadors, and was thinking only of resist ance. It does not appear, however, that the levy is countermanded, and although Turkey was placed in such a cleft stick by her allies, that she could not help listening to their urgent entreaties, she is well aware that the question is not settled, and seems, by all account* to be making up her mind to rely leas upon her allies and more upon herself. The price of bread in Paris for the first fortnight in September is fixed at 90c., being a rise of life. This I led you to anticipate some days ago. News has been received to-day, confirming the rumour cir culated in the Bourse of Monda', that a fall in corn had taken place at Marseilles. fho fall there is 3fr., and lower prices have also been quoted in some other principal markets. In Paris, however, no diminu tion has yet taken place. The notoriously untrue assertion of the Patrw, that the harvest is more than an average one, is severely commented upon. On Monday morning at about 11 o'clock the im perial steam yacht, the Wine Hortense, arrived in the Dieppe roadstead from Havre, having I'rincc Jerome and his son Napoleon on board. They were saluted by seven guns. Owing partly to the state of the tide, and partly to the bud condition of the port, the vessel was not able to land them at the jetty. The princes got into the captain's boat, wed were rowed to the quay, where an imperial carriage was in waiting to take them to Chapman's Hotel adjoining the Hotel de Vile. Two hours afterwards their Majesties, accompanied by two persons only, walked down to the boat, and almost before they were recognised by the loungers on the quay, the crew of twenty picked sailors rowed them out of the port, and pullcd away in the open sea towards the yacht. They were received by Captain Exceltuam., the commander, one of the Emperor's aides•de-camp. Atter a stay of about an hour they returned. BELGIUM. BRUSSELS, WEDNECMY. Popular discontent is still openly manifested in the important city of Liege, and further disturbances are apprehended by the authorities, who have for bidden all assemblages in the public streets of more than five persons, and have ordered all the cafes, estaininets, and other places of public resort, to be closed at 9 p.m. Inflammatory placards of a very violent description were affixed last night to numerous buildings in Ghent. In Brussels the dearness of provisions is loudly complained of by the working classes, but up to the present time they have refrained from all illegal proceedings. There was a further increase, this day, in the Brus sels markets, in the price of corn and po tatoes. The corn supply was scanty, the in telligence from Liege raising many apprehensions in the minds of the farmers in the vicinity of this capital. SWITZERLAND. A public meeting took place at Lausanne on the 26th relative to the increasing price of corn, which had begun to cause considerable uneasiness amongst the population. Everything passed over with per fect order, and a committee of twelve members was named, composed of persons belonging to every shade of opinion, for the purpose of devising means for remedying the present state of things. ITALY. ROMAN STATES. Our Roman correspondent, writing on the 24th of August, states that the prisoners accused of conspi racy were undergoing their preliminary examina tions. They were to be tried by the Sacred Cononita Tribunal. Some subsequent arrests carried their number to 43, amongst whom were a priest and a monk. Lepri was still concealed. The price of bread was still on the rise. A Jesuit saint was canonised on the 21st. The Pope had instituted a seminary for his clergy, to be called after his name. THE CHOLERA. NORWAY.—CIIRISTIANIA. AUGUST 21.—Cholera is active in Christiania and suburbs. From 25th July to the morning of 20th August 72 persons had Len attacked, of whom 50 had died from the disease. SwED6.—Cholera in Carlscrona and Ystad had at the date of the last adv:ces attacked 133 per sons, of whom 72 had died. THE WEST INDIA MAILS, The Royal West India mail packet Magdalena, Captain Chapman, from the West Indies, &c., arrived at Southampton, yesterday, and landed her mails under the charge of Lieut. Young, ILN., Admiralty agent. ller dates of sailing are :—Vera Cruz, August 4 ; Tampico, July 31; Havan 1, August 10; Chagres, Sth ; Carthargcna, 10th ; Jamaica, 11th; Demerara, 9th ; Trinidad, 9th ; Barbadoes, 1 lth ; Antigua, 13th ; Martinique, 12 ; Grenada, 3rd ; Porto Rico, 13th ; St. Thomas, 15th. The Magdalena brought several passengers. The freight on board consists of 1,351,800.67 dole. from Mexican Gulf and Spanish Main. British coin, 5001. ; scrims of cochineal, 132 ; coffee, 9 packages ; pearls, 12,758 dole.; tobacco, 086 bales; indigo, 223 gems ; cigars, 150 cases ; sarsaparilla, 96 bales ; Vanilla, 4 packages ; and 197 packages sundries. On the arrival of the Magdalena at St. Thomas's it was found that the blacks on the Island of Tortola had created a riot, burned down many houses, and wounded several of the inhabitants. On a request being made to Mr. Cameron, the company's superintendent at St. Thomas's, on the 7th Aug., the Magdalena was sent to Antigna for troops to be con veyed to Tortola to quell the insurrection. She took on board 3 sergeants and 47 rank and file of the 2nd West India Regiment, and 2 sergeants and 35 rank and file of the 67th Regiment, with the following officers—Captain Miller, in command ; Lieutenants Arnold and Pearson, 67th Regiment; Dr. Carte, 67th Regiment ; and Deputy Assistant Commissary- General Woolcombe. When the Magdalena left all was quiet at Tortola. _ _ _ Her Majesty's ships Imaum and Bermuda at Port Royal 11th August ; Resistance, troop ship, sailed for Gambia with troops. BRITISH GUIANA. The Demerara Royal Gazette says : The weather still continues excessively warm and moist, and canes and medical practice arc consequently in a flourishing condition. The toll estates' chimney now be gines to volley forth its smoke is most quarters of the.coun. try ; but complaints are still general that the yield of the cane is indifferent. We shall have buildings in full opera tion every where within a fortnight. Those conversant with estates' matters do not anticipate so short a crop as the long continued dry season led us to expect. There will be a falling off probably of 4,000 to 6,000 hogsheads, as com pared with last year. But this even with the compensat ing tact of increasing demand and enhanced price will be, in Scot4i parlance, &serious " staff out of our bicker." July and August are proverbially hot months, but this year they have out- Heroded He rod. As the rain ceases the sun is intense, and although the alternations are fertilising they are also fever-giving. There is much sickness abroad, but except in tie hospital, no yellow fever; nor do we hear of any of the coup de soled which we observe from Ameri can papers is every now and again killing itescores of victims. Business begins to improve, and will continue to do so as estates get into operation. Provisions are not abundant, and consequently dear. Other articles of merchandise ap pear to be in fair supply. Our files of papers from Jamaica have not come to hand. A VISIT TO THE CAMP OF SATORY. TO THE EDITOR OP THE EXPRESS, SIR,—A friend and I left Paris for the purpose of paying a visit to the newly-establieleed and much•spoken-of camp of Savory. On our arrival there we were amply re paid for the short half-hour's journey we had undertaken. A bivouac of some thousand troops presented itself to our view. It was a most commanding eight. We advanced to wards the camp. A sentry having questioned us as to the nature of our business, we answered that we were desirous of an interview with one of the superior officer; on duty. A non-commissioned officer was sent for, and we despatched him with our respec's to his colonel. Our messenger re turned almost immediately, and told us that the colonel in vited us to his tent. We followed, and were ushered into the presence of the officer, who received us with all that affability and courtesy that characterise the French gentle man, both civil and military. We told the colonel we came to Satory for the sole purpose of visiting the camp, and that we should feel very thankful to him if he would allow us to do so. He immediately replied that he would give us every opportunity of gratifying ourselves. He summoned a non ' commissioned officer, and ordered him to accompany us over the camp and give us all information we might feel anxious to collect. Having returned thanks to the gallant of ficer, we followed our military guide. We entered and inspected some few of the almost numberless tents, and con tinued our " round." during which we met with all pouible respect from the officers and privates, and received nume rous invitations to repeat our visit. In tine, bad we been related (as brothers) to each and every one belonging to the camp of Satory, we could not have met with a more cordial reception. Unable as we were to accept the many invita tions of our military friends, we returned thanks and de clined, explaining to them that our stay in France would he but short, We were nevertheless obliged to accompany a certain number of them to the canteen, where several toasts were drunk to the " prosperity and glory of France and England," to the "extinction of all ill-feeling between the two nations," &c. After which a soldier was sent to escort us as far as the " Bureau des Veiturea." We left Satory very deeply impressed with these demonstrations of friendship, which we can never forget. Allow me to make public the friendly spirit in which two humble Englishmen were greeted in a French camp.—Yours. A HOLIDAY•HAEER. DUBI.IX, Ayouse 30. Her Majesty drove yebterday afternoon with the Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred in an op.oi carriage and four through Woodiun&, the seat of Colonel Wlite, and returned along the banks of the Liffey. The Countess of St. Germans and the Duchess of Wellington were is attendance upon her Majesty. Prince Albert, with the Lord Lieutenant and Earl Granville, accompanied her Majesty en horseback. The following had the honour of dining with her Majcity last night : The Lord Primate, the Archbishop of Dublin and Mrs. Whitely, the Lord Chancellor and Mrs, Brady, Earl Granville, the Marquis of 13readalbane„ the Duchess of Wellington, the Duke and Duchess of 'Rimier, the Marquis and Marchioness of Waterford. the Marquis and Marchioness of Drogheda, the Marquis and Marchioness of Headfort, the Earl and Counte,s of Howth, L tad Eliot and Lady LOUiP.I Cornwallis. The Princess Royal, the Prin,es. , Alice, and the Princess Iteisna left Buckingham Pa!ace at twenty miLutes pat eight o'clock yesterday morning, attended by the Master of the Household. for tae Eustoa•equire t.rminus of the London and North-Western Itai:way, to proceed to Edin• burgh en route for Balmoral. JENNY LIND, now Madame Goldschmid, has be. :ouie a mother, having recently given birth to a son. TIIE (KEEN IN IRELAND. HER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO THE Emu. BITION. (FRoM OU R OWN RRIPORTEIA.) Du vimi, Tr EsDAY, To-day, the industrial effort which it is to be hoped will he marked in history as the great turning point in Ire. land's upward career, received the imprimatur of royal ap. probation, in the visit of her Majesty, which, although unencumbered with the more elaborate display which some times attends the royal progress. a, had yet enough in it, both as to material accessories and the sentiment which per. vaded the ceremonial, to impress it indelibly on the memo. ries of all who had the good fortune to be present at the gratifying scene. To see it from the proper point of view, one should begin with the reflection that the country, after having beck for centuries the battle ground of faction, political and social, aed the weeping figure in the European group of type statuary, had at length made a gigantic struggle to emerge from her miseries, and to subs.itute fur as un equal physical struggle with her more powerful lister a generous emulation of the energy, the perseverance, sad the industrial skill, which give to the latter a place in the fon most ranks of human pr. gress. The now estab lished success of the Dub:in Exhibition, is a refreshing proof of the certainty with which any really great idea ultimately fructifies. It is but a few short years since I'rinco Albert happily suggested an Exhibition of the world's wares in London ; and now France, Germany, America, and Ireland are organising, or have—se in the case of the last named country already sues cesafully organised Exhibitions modelled on the plan of the great original, and exhibiting the use gratifying results, the comparative wealth and im portance of the sites chosen being duly taken into comb iteration. The success of Mr. Dorgan's noble dint may be taken as one of those cases of crisis in the history of a country, when, the time being ripe for a great organic change, the man turns up who is to give to the stagnant current the necessary momentum ; and the royal visit of to-day supplied that burst of sunshine under whose genial influ , nce it is to be hoped it will continue to roll merrily onward. The material accessories of the pageant, although some what impromptu in their character, were by no means unworthy of the occasion. The people had mustered in thousands, not only from all parts of Inked, but from the most distant portions of the aietet countries. The t 3WII was in a vehicular fever from an early hour in the morning. Jaunting cars had become perfect Sobei-noors of rarity, Every one was decked out in his or bee best attire while business of every description was cast to the winds, in order that all classes, from the highest to the lowest, might take their share in the great event of the day. The streets all along the royal route were densely thronged up to the barriers, and the Exhibition Building was filled in every corner before eight o'clock with those who either by right or favour had been able to obtain ticket, of admission. Strong parties of police were posted in all the avenues leading to Merrion-square, and here and there were placed gay squadrons of cavalry, more as ornami ntal features in the picture than from any notion that their military ser vices would be necessary. Precisely at eleven o'clock a prolonged hurrah from without announced to the com pany within the Exhibition Building that her Majesty was about to enter. A geheral rustling of silks and hum of expectation were perceptible, and her Majesty. leaning on the arm of Prince Albert, and followed by her children and suite, was seen walking slowly up the great hall. At this moment the whole scene was one of the most imposing and gorgeous character. The organ, strengthened by a military band, pealed forth the National Anthem, while the whole of the brilliant company remained standing es the royal party proceeded slowly up the nave. The interior had been so arranged as to produce the most favourable pictorial effects. The peculiar light, supplied all from the top, gave shadow and roundness to the various groups of statuary, and an occasional gleam of sunshine made the objects of art glisten, and sparkle with an effect that was more pleasing to the eye than a con tinuous glare. The avenue up which her Majesty passed was covered with scarlet cloth, and roped off, and either side was filled with elegantly dressed ladies, who waved a perfect cloud of cambric as the Queen passed, bowing graciously, along. The dais had been arranged with befitting magnificence for the occasion, being covered all over with scarlet cloth ; and again, in that portion im mediately occupied by the chairs of state, with rich carpet ing. The royal chair was richly gilt and decorated, and there were three or four others of papier mache for Prince Albert and the young princes. Soldiers of the leith Lancer. were posted at intervals all round the dais and along the avenues, their long lances and martial appearance adding materially to the striking character of the scene. It was noticed that almostevery soldier had three medals on his breast which, witk his warlike mil weather-beaten appearance, made up amply for the bright cuirasses generally diplayed on occasions of regal ceremonial. Within the circle formed by these grim warriors was a fairer one, composed of those ladies whose rank entitled them to the privilege of the Taboret. Amongst these were the Duchess of Leinster, the Marchionesses of Waterford, Drogheda, lleadfort, and Kildare, the Countesses of Erne, Desart, Howth, Dunraeen, and Moulitcashell; Ladies Gough, Castlemaice, Rossmore, and Gort, and a host of the junior members:of distinguished families. The husband, of all these noble ladies clustered round the steps of the throne, the only male occu ; iers of seats being the Lord Primate and Lord Gough, whose advanced ' years fully entitled them to the indulgence. Every other available place was filled with ladies, and even the glass eases intended for the more costly fabrics were similarly occupied, the ladies patiently submiting to a pro onged imprisonment, rather than forego their share lin the ay's proceedings. Her Majesty on arriving at the dais looked round evidently with pleased surprise at the magnificent proportions of the hall, and the brilliant and fashionable company. Her appearance on this elevated position was the signal for a general burst of cheering, which she acknowledged by repeated gracious inclinations. The Queen wore a simple white dress, over which wall thrown a magnihcent shawl of Limerick lace, and a pink bonnet, the beauty and taste of which were pronounced t, be faultless by the fairer portion of the company. Ths fatigues of recent and continuous travelling by sea and land, had left some traces on her countenance, but these soon disappeared, as het Majesty became animated and inter ested in the business of the scene. Prince Albert wore the full uniform of a Feld Marshal with the Ribbon of the Garter, which also might be seen through her Majesty's lace shawl. The young princes were plainly and neatly dressed, and deported themselves with much dignity and composure. Her Majesty held in her hard a beautiful bouquet composed entirely of Irish flowers, bat arranged by a distinguished English florist, who had been brought over specially to perform this important duty. The Marquis of Breadalhane, in court costume, and wearing the ribbon of the order of the Thistle, attended as lord chamberlain, and Earl Granville, as president of the coun cil, introduced the deputations. The first body that had the honour of presentation was the executive committee of the Exhibition, headed by Mr. Alderman Roe, the chair man. and consisting of the Lord Mayor, Lord Talbot de Malahide, Sir J. K. James, Sir E. Macdonnel, tie., Bte. The gentlemen having formed a semicircle round the throne, the chairman read an appropriate address. At the conclusion of the address Alderman Roe presented it to her Majesty, who delivered it into the bands of the Earl of Granville, receiving in return from his lordship the following reply, which she read in a clear voice : " I receive with sincere pleasure your address, and I thank you for the expression of your loyal and devoted attachment. gbe court. ~: I