The Express. — London, England, 1853-11-26 00:00:00

irtik etirrelSO• TO I'ORRESPONDENTS. \*tenn.l .2 ..I.•The Gaper; sam&r.es tM wee retalnf • •• I ...MU.," t• pub: .L.al *my Tutolay 414 trul..7 Weld, U. tufo lot ukr ?tern.• 0.. In.to.,ted for " Tbo Lapeer," !Rodeo Events( parer. east to a: to U 111" 10. Iluoveristotroot, by Two Vile* ow tho , Lay W 04.....a:140. HUAI WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE r "" ft . leb• MT. - Myna& 1111.11........ At:afore, 111. no. LONDON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26. ir is now stated more confidently than ever, that the temporary :ull in the conflict on the Danube has been declare d by the Great Powers to be the fit occa sion for stepping in between the combatants. Shots have been ex: singed; at present the injured party has had the best of the encounter ; the aggressor has been damaged, and the seconds would Warms a few words. A Conference of Six—who will represent England, F:anee, Prussia, Austria, and the two esm hatant»—to meet it is said in London—is the shape tliat rumour assigns for the next step in the affair. It is d.dieult to believe that " talking " can solve the difficulty, and it certainly will not do so unless the Governments of this country and of France are honestly ready fur cordial co-operation, witlia view to doing nothing less than the full justice which the cue demands. If they are content really to do that —if they join, and let their mode of proceeding be hearty, open-spoken, and sincere—the difficulties of the task, though great, may soon fade away. If the Six Powers meet in Conference, and England and France ars united, they would with Turkey on their side at once be three to three, and Prussia would scarcely then do other than act with England. Against Turkey and justice there would be then only Russia and her Imperial banger-on, Austria. These two absolutist Powers go of course together. They acted together against the SULTAN iu the Montenegrin case—they have acted together in this quarrel in the Principalities, and will of course be found side by side in all future stages of the business. It is idle to sup pose that Austria can ever again be anything else than a Russian outpost—unless, indeed, the CZAR should some day, by the force of European civilise. tioo, be driven back into his Muscovite wilds. Until some such event, Austria is, in fact, Russian, and it is literally mere self-deception, or worse, to allow any settlement of the Russo-Turkish war to be delayed till Austria is satisfied, since nothing would satisfy her short of what the AUTOCRAT wants—a partitioned Turkish Empire,with an Austrian share of the spoils. The other Powers, therefore, cannot be in earnest in desiring a settlement, if they wait for FRANCIS Josgen's acquiescence in the terms. If the war is to be stopped, it mast be stopped in spite of both Ramis and her ally. The terms on which it must be ended have already been defined. England and Frame have both declared that the Russian invasion is an unjust infraction of treaties. They have both affirmed that the integrity of the SuL TAM's Empire must be maintained, and having done so they must plainly state that they mean to let their actions justify their opinions. If the two chief Western Powers earnestly unite in the opinions they have both uttered, they can stop the fray at once. They have only to declare that the Petah must be repassed by the Muscovites, and to say it with an openly avowed intention that it shall be done, and they would doubtless have another ally at once. Prussia would see that her interests are with Eng land, France, and Turkey, and a fourth Power hav ing spoken out, resistance by the other two would be more hopeless than ever. How very hopeless it needs but little reflection to show. A war of resistance would be a very costly game. How are the two despots Unmet it ? All the world knows that FRANCIS JOSEPH'S finanoial condition is very melancholy. Austria has borrowed and borrowed until she can borrow no more. How, then, could she standup against the other Powers— the more especially as the moment she quarrelled with France she would be kicked without ceremony across Italy? Indeed, her very want of cash is so notorious. that it might - in all probability form her exams for not being an active open ally of Russia, should the CZAR try to hold up against the openly de clared order of the other Powers that he should fall beck to his own moil. With England, France, Turkey, and Prussia, in hostile array on the one hand,Austria penniless, incompetent (and perhaps in her heart not disinclined to see Cear NICHOLAS in a serape), stand ing by to me the game played out—there would be Russia in a minority of one. And how could she alone hold her scandalous position ? The Russian bravado about " Battalions of thou sands ready at all points," has gained for the CZAR derision instead of victory. Where are these my riads of erased men ? We know that some are in the hospitals of Wallachia, and that others have smith Turkish gunpowder on the Danube. But all the forces really known to be on the field might be dealt with very satisfactorily by the Turks mar Ors PACHA, if the English and French fleets backed Ida at Odessa and Sebastopol Sebastopol and Odessa indeed might be taken; and if, in addition to this, the CaAi's ships of war were taken or sunk, it is clear that Russia would soon be coerced into honesty. For she is far from being in the enjoy. meat of unbounded resoaroes. We all know that she hasbeen very glad to borrow from the English or from any one else who would give their gold in exchange for her promises to pay. She is largely in debt to the rest of Earope, and an occurrence made known yesterday shows that she is already compelled to draw in all she can get to meet her already urgent needs. Knowing the superior safety of our Bank of England it has long been understood that NICHOLAS had stowed away in its safe cellars a considerable amount of his resources. There the money has been lying in the name of a diplomatic agent well known in this metropolis. This money has now been recalled, and no less a sum than about half a million in gold has this week been sent away to St. Petersburg, to be followed, says our City cor respondent, by the balance—►bout half as much more. This cash is, of course, to be spent in carrying out the Czaa's operations in the Princi palities. The gold collected by ta xa ti on f rom the wretched serfs of the AUTOCRAT will before ong be expended on powder and shot for the destruction of the patriotic soldiers and sub jects of the SULTAN—a fraction of it being used for the military executions by which Prince Goats- CHAIOI7 distinguishes the Russian rule in Bucharest. But three-quarters of a million will go but a very short way in keeping up the campaign on the Danube; and where is the next supply to come from? Will English capitalists lend it ? If I I not, where else can the borrowing Atrrocasr fly to ? Unless he can get money he can show no fight. Look at the matter which way we will, it is cer tain that if in any Conference Eng:and and France open the ball by demanding the immediate evacua tion of the Principalities —out Russia must and will go. For her to pretend to defy the two great Western Powers and Turkey combined, would be simply madness. Let the Curt try the expezimeut, and they could cripple him at once, and make him accept with humiliation terms far less beneficial than foes he may now be likely to obtain. The evacua tion it the Principalities, however, is not all that THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 26, 1853 any Conference mast Greene. The treaties that have put Turkey in a false position wit► her neigh bour are now waste paper, and in accepting th.it lac% it is possible that a stop might be , found for the wounded vanity of the defeated CZAR. He pretended that the Christians were the objects of his special care, and that if they were " protected " he would withdraw. France and England—with Prussia, if she likes to come in on the strong side— may arrange some explanation or accept some friendly guarantee on the part of their ally the SULTAN that no Christian shall be illegally treated in Turkey, and the other Powers being satisfied on the point, Russia may, if she is wise enough, safely and smilingly admit that she ►aa no longer any fears about Christian grievances; and so with a tolerably good grace get out of a position she ought never to have assumed, and which, against England, France, and Turkey, she can never maintain. The Treaties may then be settled with an eye to the prevention of future ag gressions. Any little civilities to Russia, after she has been coerced into honesty, nobody would criticise very severely—but she must be first made honest, by being sent home again. Out of the Principalities she must go. Her withdrawal is the first thing to be insisted upon, and that, agreed to and done, the treaties re-arranged, and the Dardanelles and Black Sea opened, Lord ABERDEEN may be as civil as " Ling sync " leanings make him wish to be. When NICIIOLA. visited London, Lord ABERDEEN and the Duke of WELLINGTON were the two English subjects whom the Russian AUTOCRAT called upon. The visit was a great feather in the bonnet of the Earl of ABERDEEN, but, however flattering the compliment might be, our present Pants MINISTER must not make us pay too dearly for it. He may well be polite to the Cz.►x whilst doing a distasteful duty to his country and to Europe. But the duty must be done—unless he likes to resign and leave others to do it. THE London weather of this November has a political effect, among its other influences. It makes people hope that Lord PALMERSTON will remain in office, and in his present office, till London fog is definitively abated. The mists of diplomatic council may have been beyond his power to disperse. Perhaps it would be nearer the truth to say that he enjoys raising that kind of fog, and seeing blind wayfarers stumble and knock against each other, after he has put them in the right way, and left them to blunder or stray. Bat he is the man to lessen our homebred literal London fog, if it can be done: and we may fairly hope that the thing will be done, some day or other. From the moment that we choose to pronounce the nuisance intolerable, something will be attempted to reduce, if not to abolish it; and, if even reduction be proved impossible at present, why then resignation will be easier. Lord PALMERSTON is the man to make the attempt, and we must urge it upon him. He is actually doing, with regard to London burial-grounds, what all his predecessors declared to be impossible. There they are, ao tually shut up—no small number of them ; and the parishes are setting to work, as it wu certain they must and would do, to find another "GOD'S acre " for the night season of man's existence, among the many which are appropriated to his daily uses. When the practice of burying the dead in our chief city is entirely abolished, and the graveyards are all asphalted down, the nanie of the - - - statesman who administered the necessary compul sion will not be forgotten. Nor, if the nuisance of London fog is ever got rid of, will the process fail to be recorded in the history of the City which is famous abroad for its supposed November suicides, and among provincial persona at home for lighting candles at soon. During this week, the smallest mischief that has happened from the fog has been the interruption of engagements of business and pleasure, for several days, among upwards of two millions of persons. Dinners have been cooked, and nobody has come to eat them; and lighted drawing•rooms have been left empty. This is the small end of the mischief. Plaoes of public amusement have been unattended; and the losses t 3 the proprietors must have been consider able. Children have been kept from school, or have gone and returned in no little periL Heads of households have been puzzled, once out, to get home, and children and servants have suffered panic " by the fog". Public meetings for important objects have foiled. Traffic in the streets and on the river has been almost entirely suspended during great part of three days. Worst of all, several lives have been lost, in the streets or on the water—few as were the people abroad. Such • keeping at home as there was on Wednesday night is • strange circumstance even in the City of London. Except in time of siege, or of some " plague that walketh in darkness," nothing like it can happen. It was a remarkable experience to be abroad that night, and observe the muffled City,—its noises hushed, its pavements almost empty, its lights reduced to glow-worm sparks, except where the link-boys' torches and lanterns were making red circles in the yellow air. No carts but those of the baker, or the laundress, or the carrier, " giving up the job," and peering out the way home, with a torch at the horse's head! No carriages but those of medical men, or of some rash pleasure-seekers, who were frightened at their mistake in coming out! In one place, a woman killed,—in others broken limbs or other injuries from falls and collisions. Here, a person fumbling about in the roadway, and unable to get back to the pave ment; there a horse on the pavement, taking the area railing for that of the park. Such was the state of things abroad ; and otherwise, every family in London in its own home. A thing which happens at no other time. We shall all agree that this is a domestic institution which we could well spare—this home-compelling fog. Now, what is it ? Do we know anything more about it than that sudden cold condenses the warm atmosphere of the city, when there is no wind to carry off the cloud thus formed? What are the elements concerned in making the cloud? The laundresses are the people to tell us how largely smoke is concerned in it. Let any one hang out a damp towel in such a fog, and see what is deposited upon it If we could get a bucket ful of fog analysed, we should be curious to find how much of it came from our chimneys, how much from the Essex marshes, how much from tanpits, grave yards, sewers, the clay of Regent's Park, the mud of the Thames, and other sources which might all be _ _ abolished, and which will in time be all abolished. I Our island is a misty one, it is true; but it is not foggy it the sense of London fog. Leeds is foggy in that sense ; and a few other large towns, as ill-drained, and smoky, and mismanaged as London and Leeds ; but the climate of Great Britain is not to be blamed for anything worse than the blue damp mists which curl round her mountains, and ascend from her lakes, to form the lustrous white clouds that deck our spring and an tumnal skies. For all beyond this our own igno- rance and apathy alone are answerable. When we have duly drained our marshes, and encouraged our ri s ing woods, our rural districts may be dry and clear; and whee our spirited HOME SECRETARY shall have seen that all our men of business do their duty by their neighbours as well as Messrs. Pilot, at their candle works, consuming all their smoke, and kindly showing all applicants how easily and certainly it may be done, we may expect to be relieved of the murkiest element of our own particu lar fog. By the time that is done, the drains and ditches will be widergeing the treatment bestowal Hitsdi had reached the camp of the Ottoman upon the churchyards being th emse l ves hat. j Marshal, as by the 13th or 14th he would do, with tied away out of sight and easel!. There WW the new and pacific instructions of the Porte. It is 1 a time when the banks of the Thames at this ' nredless, however, to say that so long as a state of ' war exists, and large armies are separated only by spot were dank with blue mists, and lighted by will- I an easily-crossed river, the fairest prospects of peace o'-the-wisps, dancing amidst the gloom. That was may at any moment be destroyed. before the Romans came to see what might be made The causes which have prevented the entrance of of the site, and its few dwellings. Now, then same the French and English fleets into the Black Sea are now tolerably well ascertained. It is not the hake of the Thames are too often shrouded in yellow weather, nor the wind, nor the unnavigability of flog, with dancing lights of link boys—which are that sea at this season of the year which has kept better than the others, inasmuch as they guide and the vessels in the Bosphorus, but the will of the not betray. But we want an JEdile—and Lord governments of France and England. The admirals had orders not to go out 'of the Straits before the PALMERSTON is the very man for it—who shall bring a. Russians should have crossed the Danube. This fact, our great City out rat the cloud, and set it forte. which has been stated in various letters from Con bright and wholesome, under a fair sky. The loss stantinople and Vienna published in the Daily News, Omni suspension of business during this half week but placed in doubt by telegraphic despatches from would go a good way towards paying for the neces- Vienna, is confirmed by the Constaulionnel and wry measures; and, when life is lost by every year's I the Pays. Now th not onl, but the ental delay, what excuse can be pleaded for apathy in indications at of the semi-official y.rumour German press, inci favour attempting a cure? I the belief that negotiations for peace have attained to a certain probability of success, it is worth I noticing that the French governmental press has considerably modified its tone, and would appear desirous of soothing the vanity of the Czar, which of late it so deeply wounded. Not only so, but the high ground not long since very . properly taken in dealing with Russian claims is virtually abandoned, and looseness and ambiguity succeed to plain-speak ing and logic. Letters of the 10th from Constantinople in the Patric say the news of the Russian fleet having quitted Sebastopol is confirmed. A division had been met in the Black Sea making sail for the mouth of the Bosphorus. The Russian Military Gazette of the 15th, con• tains a curious dithyrambic effusion by the muse of M. Karagin. It is inscribed to the Grand Duke Constantine, and is prompted by the Turkish decla ration of war. The writer's astonishment knows no bounds. " And how long," he asks, " have the Turks ceased to tremble at our words ? Do we not stand at the gate of Constantinople ? Have we not in our Rose crossed the Balkan ? Whence do these Ottomans derive their boldness?" In this manner the writer strings together a number of interesting queries, some of which the battle of Oltenitza may by this time have answered, not however greatly to his satisfaction. The following account of the battle of °Radios was published in the Journal de Constantinople of the 9th. The bulletin of Omer Pachadoes not appear to have been given in fall : " This morning the Minister of War received in telligence of a great victory gained by the imperial troops over the forces of Russia. On the god No vember 12,000 men crossed the Danube and took up a position at Oltenitza, a village situate opposite a little island (which had been occupied for three days) at some distance from the left bank of the Danube, at eight hours' march from Bucharest, and where there is a sanitary post. Oltenitza was occupied by 5,000 Russians, and their resistance did not last long. They were obliged to fall back on Bucharest. And now we proceed to the details of the victory : On the 4th a Russian corps (ramie, consisting of 24 battalions of infantry, three regiments of cavalry, a regiment of Cossacks, and 32 pieces of artillery, in all more than 30,000 men, advanced on Oltenitza to give battle. The imperial troops took measures for receiving them. The centre was commanded by Ahmed Pachs, the right wing by Mustafa Paoha, and the left wing by Ismail Pacha. Nadja Pachs commanded the artillery at Oltenitza, and Khaled Pacha on the isle. The action commenced at half past 12, and at 7 o'clock all the Russian army was completely routed. It left on the field of battle a mass of muskets, ammunition, and baggage, which was conveyed to the camp of Omer Paths. Upwards of 800 killed were found, without counting those who daring the combat were carried off in twenty waggons as they fell, the Turks from humanity not attempting to prevent the removal. The Turkish army had 13 killed and 72 wounded. Both officers wit men did their duty and displayed a courage and intrepidity worthy of their ancestors and of the great cause which they defended. The Imperial Ottoman army lost thirteen deed and seventy-two wounded. If we have no prisoners to report it is probable that this was because it had no cavalry to pursue the fugitives." Our Contantinople correspondent, who transmits us the Journal containing these facts, remarks upon the disparity of the loss reported to have been sustained by the two sides in this battle, that the Turks were in an entrenched position. A Vienna newspaper suppl=er us with a stronger explanation of the circumstance in the letter of a Russian officer. The Turks at first fired as badly as men could do, and purposely in duced the enemy to deride their a;tillery,but when the Russian battalions approached in compact order, and were thoroughly within range of the Turkish guns, a fire, described by General Dannenberg 88 ;the hottest he had seen since the battle of the Borodino, was opened, and the Russians were mowed down like gram. The Russians, annoyed at the excellence of the Turkish artillery, tried to account for it by say ing) that Gen. Prim, and afterwards Gen. Klapka, was commanding it, but the honour, nevertheless, belongs to the Turks themselves. A Constantinople correspondent writes on the 10th : I cannot pus over in silence the moral effect produced by this news on the entire population of Constantinople. Turks, Rayabs, and Europeans—all, in fact, except the Greeks, are in the greatest tannin of joy. The whole of yesterday copies of the bulletin were actually fought for in the streets, and it required the intervention of the armed force to prevent the crowd breaking into the print ing office of the Tyisecie Ifeeedis. the environs of which were covered with an immense multitude. It will be in vain to contest the Importance of the recent successes obtained by the Turks ; they at least prove that Turkey is not quite s• defunct as certain statesmen allege. The government has also received excellent news from the army of Asia. Salim Paths was continuing his marsh as the Rus sian territory. His intention was to take possession of the little town of St. Nicholas, to forti fy himself there, and take up hie position for the 4rinter. The new English note brought en the 7th by the Fary has been communicated verbally to Resehid Pachs , who replied that in the state in which matters were it could sot be taken into cessidsra lien The rumour has prevailed for SOW days that M. de la Ceur is recalled, and la to be etimesded in the embassy by General Baregsay d'Hillien. It is received by the French residents her, with the greatest satisfaction, twat which, adinittiag the diplomatic talents attributed to him, and reediting full jostles to his private qualities , M. de laCour does not appear to be possessed of those other qualities which are indispossable to the npressatative of a great nation. LATEST FROM ABROAD. RUSSIA AND TURKEY. VIENNA, Nov. 24. The Russian head-quarters were transferred, on the 22nd, from Budetechi. On which day General Dannenberg returned to Bucharest. It was said he would join General Fischbach at Slatina or Kra jowa. The Turkish patrols still keep the right bank of the Danube, and detachments guard the points of passage, but no large force is in sight. The Wallachian Militia is brigaded with the Rus sian army as an active force. The Austrian funds have assumed a firmer appear ance, but the exchange on London continues high. Five per Cent. Metallics, 92!. Exchange on Lon don, 11.16. Bank Shares, 1,330. TRIESTE, Nov. 24. We have intelligence from Constantinople of the 14th. A corps of Christian cavalry hu been formed, and placed under Sadyk Pacha, by birth a Pole. A foreign legion hu also been formed at Kan, near the Asiatic frontier. General Klapka is here. The cholera has broken out at Galati. CONSTAN I'INOPLE, Nov. 10. The Fury arrived here on the ith, with despatches for Lord Stratford de Redcliffe. A project of arrangement, it is believed, has been again pre-' sented. The combined fleets began to enter the Bosphorus yesterday, and the last vessel has just gone put Constantinople to Beycos, where all now lie at anchor. Letters from Paris, ri4 Vienna, announce that General Baragusy d'Hilliers is on his way to Con stantinople. The news is hailed with great satis faction. The house of Baltazzi has lent the government 33 million piastres, on the security of the Egyptian tribute. The English squadron yesterday celebrated the Prince of Wales' birthday. FRANCE. PARIS, FRID•T BVININO. It is understood that the Belgian government is about to address strong remonstrances to France against the new tariff, on the ground that it is equi valent to the establishment of differential &elms against Belgium, inasmuch as by withholding from her any participation in the benefit of the reduced scale, it substantially infringes the existing treaties by which she was favored as compared with England. During the present week the fall in the corn mar kets of France has been considerable. In some im portant towns, as, for instance, Amiens, Cherbourg, Bourges, and Sancerre, the decline has been from 31r. to 4fr. Generally, prices may be quoted as from lfr. to lfr. 50c. lower. At the opening of the Bourse to-day there was a momentary hesitation, in consequence of a report countenanced by the Patric of last night, that the Russians were about to cross the Danube. Tele graphic despatches, however, announcing a rise of per cent., both at London and Vienna, soon restored confidence, and the market became ex ceedingly firm. The Threes rose 10c. for time, and 20c. for money. Credit Mobilier, llfr. 25e. The St. Germain Railway rose 13fr. ; Rouen, 6fr. 23c.; Dijon, 10fr. ; Lyons, 3fr. 74c. ; Northern, 2fr. 30c. ; La Teste,2sfr. There was no fall in any line. Bank of France and the Comptoir d'Esoompte declined 3fr. Don Miguel Bonds were in request at 6t to 7. This evening'. Patric repeats that according to all the news from Germany, Prince Gortachakoff was preparing to pus the Danube. It also says, upon the faith of a letter from Vienna of the 22nd, that the Russians had made an attack upon Toultcha, the last Turkish fort upon the Danube, and had retired, after some very smart firing on both sides. All the other news from the East is of the usual contradictory description. The editor of the LibeN of Lille was yesterday sentenced by the Court of Paris to a fine of 100 f. and coats for a libel upon M. Bernard Oust, the editor of the Pairie, imputing to him that he had offered to speak well in his paper of a particular person for money. RUSSIA AND TURKEY. A letter from Malta of the 21st states that an Eng lish house at 'rrebizonde had made a contract with the English government for the supply of coal to Admiral Dundee's squadron in case of its entry into the Black Sea. A letter from Sicily states that the steamer Pro teethe. arrived at Messina on the evening of the Bth, having on board General Baraguay d'Hilliers, the French ambassador to Coutantinople, and the officers who form part of his embassy. It was expected that the Pronathee would reach Constantinople on the 14th or 15th at the latest. A Mimilles journal bee the following from Ceei• staalloople "TLa English Admiral Slade, maid Moamar Pacha (the - Pereign Paha) has left OD ordain the Black Bea. He has taken with Waldo ship el the line the Medjidieb, fire frigates.mid • steno& His object is to drive the Russian 411111111111 fres before iAnspa. It is the only port et the Comm for a space of eighty miles. He is mom poisd by Beffer Bey, the Circassian chi e f, w h o was se hag detained at Adrianople. If the Turks sue end is taking the fortresses which defend the pingo into the Caucasus, they will put an end to all emerannication by land between Russia and the provinces A municipal decree wu published at Lugano on the 17th, calling out the urban guard for an extra ordinary service of patrols during the night, in con. sequence of information received by the superior authorities to the effect that a plan of insurrection wu on foot, to be accompanied with pillage and massacre. Nevertheless, up to the 18th no disturbance had occurred. ITALY. acquired by the treaty oil PIEDMONT. Tke dissolution of the Piedmontese Parliament was preceded by the to the King, signed by all the manhese faini at in ate in et : - gi r e,—soemo mine WM, to the namintio memo& by the government to the mumbe d tho the course of the presort leethiathe amiss , hav kl ie lla te the belief that the ministry so laaser puma the lellidiesee of that body. When it is cesslisted that the manta ie amantially conser vative, and eampsead of man et such a fact can mle Mtrhsed by the that stay of them have food the me rnion the ministry, though sup ported by a large majo rity in the Chamber, does not in reality enjoy • 00C161•1111 d the majority of the natant. Attached to constitutimal liberties, desirous, in order to preserve these, of perfestirmosay uses, the great powers of the state, and therefore M all limes, earl more particularly in tke present difficult Worm bobsg the norm aity of being strengthened by the evident sympathy of the country and the certain support of both branches of the le gislature, we think it our strict duty as ministers, respect fully W propose to your Majesty to amertain, by new elec tions, the free opinion of the coun tr y. Sho u l d your Ma jesty concur in the same view, the usdenigned have the honour to submit the following donee for the royal signature. anßehm ' A letter from Constantinople, 10th, in a Vienna journal, says :—" The armaments are still going on, as it is intended to double the effective strength el* army. A considerable number of Russian have arrived at Constantinople. They trete E riea epim a rd in a Greek house, under the surveillance of the Turks." The various announcements which in the course of yesterday reached London from the Danube have more coherence than we have been accustomed to find in the news from that quarter. We have in telligence from Bucharest as late as Tuesday last, to which date there had been no new battle, and the disposition of the forces of both genera. was such as to lead to the belief that each was ender orders to abstain from hostilities. The evacuation by the Turks of the two islands respectively opposite Oltenitza and Giorgi-so, mentioned in the de spatches given above, would be dictated by the rising of the Danube. But it is farther said that the mass of the Ottoman forces have retired from Giurgevo, Turtukai, Billable, and the other passages of the Danube, leaving only detached posts there and have re-entered the lines at Schmid'. Ismail Pacha's corps is still in all probability at Kalafat, or if, as the Patric and the Berlin Voss Gaul& persist in asserting, Turkish troops have entered Krajowa, it is without a b a ttl e . The cessation of hostilities on the Turkish side will be fully accounted for, if we suppose that Fuad THE SPANISH CORTES. The Spanish Cortes were opened on the 19th by commission. The Senate adjourned till Monday, but the Congress proceeded to the election of its officers. Senor Martinez de la Rosa was elected president by a majority of 100. ZDe Court. WINDSOR, Noy. 25. • - - The Queen and Prince, the Royal Family, and =went into private mourning for eight weeks on iay lest, the 22nd inst., for the late Queen of Portugal, loft amein to her Majesty and his Royal Highness. The Queen held a Court and Pnvy Council at three leak& this afternoon. The Privy Council was attended by Frame Albert ; Berl Granville, Lord President; the Enl MI Aberdeen, First Lord of the Treasury ; the Earl of Cla eawalm, Secretary of St a te for Foreign A ff airs ; the Duke a Newcastle, Secretary of State fur the Colonies; Sir James Graham, First Lord of the Admiralty; Mr. Sidney Herbert, Secretary -at-War; Sir William Molesworth, Chief Oinnoiseioner of Works and Public Buildings ; Lord Ernest ViceiChamberlain jefileia•ing for the Lord Chamber- lain) ;'and the Marquis of . Abereort7, Groom of the Stole to Prince Albert. At the Council, Parliament was ordered to be further prorogued from Tuesday next, the 29th inst., until the 3rd of January, 18.54. Mr. C. Cherille was Clerk of the Council in Waiting. At the Court the Right Hon. Sir Henry Williams Wynn was presented to the Queen at an audience by the Earl of Clarendon, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, on his return from his mission to the court of Denmark. The Hon. William Temple was presented to her Ma jest by the Earl of Clarendon, on his return from Naples. The Earl of Aberdeen bad en audience of the Queen. Captain 8. B. Lakeman, Commandant Wsterkloof Rea gers (Cape of Good Hope). was presented to tto. Queen by the Duke of Newcastle, Secretary of State for the Coifl ales, and received the honour of knighthood from hue Majesty. Earl Granville had an audience of the Queen. The Right Hon. Charles Pelham Villiers, Judge Ads,. este-General, had an audience of the Queen, and sub mitted to bar Majesty the proceedings of some courts martial. Lard de Tablet' and the lion. Mortimer Sackville West were the Lord and Groom in Waiting. The Earl of Clarendon arrived at the Castle yesterday on a visit to the Queen, and left to-day after the Council. The Earl of Aberdeen remains on a visit. The Hake of Newcastle, the Earl of Aberdeen, Earl Granville, the Marquis of Abercoru, Sir J. Graham, Sir W. Molesworth, Lord Ernest Bruce, the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, Sir H. Wynn, the lion. W. Temple, the Right lion. C. P. Villiers, Mr. C. Greville, and Captain Lake man, travelled front London to attend the Council by a special train on the Great Western R a il wa y, an d arrived at the Castle shortly before three o'clock. The same w)ble men and gentlemen, with the exception of the Earl of Aberdeen, left the Castle at half-past five o'clock, together with the Earl of Clarendon, and returned to town by the special train. The Commissioners for Inquiring into the State of the Corporation for the City of London, held a meeting yester day at the Privy Council-office, in Downing -street. The CoMmissioners Present were the Right ITL. H. labo; chore, the Right Hon. Sir John Patteson, and G. Cornewall Lewis, Esq. Despatches were sent from the Colonial-office yesterday to the Governors of the North American Provinces. COURT MOURNING. Last night's Gazette contains the following notification : Lord Chamberlain's Office, Nov. 25. Orders for the Court's going into mourning on Sunday next the 27th inst., for her late Majesty the Queen of Por tugal sad the Algarve', viz. : The ladies to wear black silk, fringed or plain linen, white gloves, necklaces, and ear-rings, back or white shoes, fans and tippets. The gentlemen to wear black full-trimmed, fringed or plain listen, black swords and buckles. The Court to change the mourning on Sunday the 11th of December next, viz.: The ladies to wear black silk or velvet, coloured ribbons, fans and tippet', or plain white, or white and gold, or white and silver stuffs, with black ribbons. The gentlemen to wear black coats, and black or plain white, or white and gold, or white and silver stuff waist coats, full-trimmed, coloured swords and buckles. And on Sunday, the 18th December next, the Court to go out of mourning. TILE COMING BREVET.—The military public have been put on the thorns of expectation by the rumour of a coming brevet. Let us express a hope that we shall this time have no brevet injustice done by the Horse Guards. On a former occasion a military officer, well known for his services as a reformer, was most pointedly punished for his political votes by omission from the list of those on whom a com plimentary promotion was conferred. Though his name stood at the top of a list of 140 officers who were named for promotion, these 140 juniors were promoted over his head. This was too bad in old tory days; let us trust that nothing like it will be repeated at the present time. We will add, by way of explanation to our non-military readers, that the case we refer to is that of Colonel Perronnet Thompson, late M.P., the author of that " Cora Law Catechism" which furnished all the arguments afterwards used so successfully by the advocates of Free Trade. Because the veteran colonel is a scholar, a logician, an author, a musician, and a radical reformer, because he (with Mr. C. P. Villiers) may be called the author of the An ti-Corn-law agitation, the Horse Guards may think he don't deserve a place at the Brevet, bat we (at the risk of offending the colonel) must thus publicly express on public grounds a strong hope that when a compliment (wholly with out pecuniary profit) is being paid to his military companions in the public service, Colonel Perronnet Thompson will not again be punished by a com mander-in-chief because he has adopted the popular side in politics. A CASE FOR THE HOME SECRETARY -4-- BLACKBURN, FRIDAY. This populous borough has acquired a notoriety for violence only equalled, in the eyes of the public, by the utter incompetence in times put of its local govern ment to protect its burgesses and other inhabitants in the discharge of their chief duties. To go back only a couple of years, we find recorded a series of outbreak' not equalled in any other town in England in the period. It has a charter of incorporation, and enjoys what is termed " self government," yet it can scarcely be said to have appreciated the responsibility of the trust imposed upon a borough with such privileges. The history of the riots at the gene sal election, at the subsequent election of a new member isst spring, and again on the sth November, is fresh in the public memory. An attempt had been made before the last outbreak to provide better for the public safety,and the police fora, which at the elections consisted of eleven constables, was increased to 18 ; yet so badly were the people of the borough protected on the sth November, that several of them were outraged and crushed in a way to endanger their lieu. A noble lord who occupies a high position, and is said to have more regard for the lives of the people of Blackburn than Its own corporation has shown, is re ported to have taken notice of this last affair is a letter to the late mayor from the Secretary of State's office; but its contents have never yet been allowed to see the light. Wednesday, the 16th inst., brought another display of mob law, when the master cotton spinners and manufacturers had assembled in their Exchange (at the Bull Hotel) to meet the merchants and agents who usually at tend that market to buy their yens and piece goods. The particulars of this outrage have al ready appeared in the Daily News, but as represen tations of the affair have been snags to the Home Secretary, it will be desirable to call more especial attention to it. The manufacturers who principally attend the Blackburn market are those of Acerinittos, Blackburn, Burnley, Bob ton, Chorley, Clitheroe, Coins, and Preston ; but of all these persona those who were singled out for insult and violence were the masters only from Preston. So serious has the matter appeared to be to the spinners and manatee: turers of Preston, that they have deemed it desirable to make a representation of the circumstances to Lord Pal merston. The following is a copy of the document, which is dated November 21st "My Lord,—We beg to draw your lordship's attention to the riots and disturbances which took place at Blackburn on Wednesday last. Blackburn is the seat of a large cot ton manufacture, and the master cotton spinners, agents, manufacturers, and others from Preston and other places in the district are in the habit of meeting there onWednesdays for the purpose of transacting basins... " Moat of these gentlemen stay at the Bull Hotel in Blackburn, and at the front of that hotel they amenable to transact Huai? business. " On Wednesday last the Preston cotton spinners were informed on their arrival in Blackburn that they were to be attacked by a mob and turned out of the town. This threat appears to have been partially carried out, and from what has since transpired there is every reason to believe that it was a preconcerted step, and that it was known in the town that something of the kind would be attempted. " We will not hen trouble your lordship with the parti culars of what took place, but send for your lordship's perusal the three Preston papers containing accounts of the disturbance. But we may be permitted to call your lord ship's attention - to the fact, that after a mob of people had been assembled for a long time in one of the meet public streets in the town with the avowed object of ill- Whiting the Preston masters, the safety of the persons and property in the principal hotel in the town could only be secured by allowing six delegates from the mob to search every room in the house for those whom they wished to attack. At the present time most of the operative cotton spinners and weavers in Preston are out of employment in consequence of the dispute between themselves and their employers, and we are happy to state that hitherto no se rious breach of the peace has occurred For this we are mainly indebted to the g lly well disposed and peace able character of the inhabitants, but also to the mayor and other borough magistrates, for the firmness which they d h is ere pla a y t ed tbe an c d om fo m r etcheeemecesidte: t he s uo , thef ke urea Ou the other hand, whilnt the operatives e ngaged . ory, continue tht ir ee l. , • the cotton trade in Blackburn have bee so, end e a n , s fZut employment, that town has for some time past beep cane Nene of great excitement and disorder. Acts of i I and disturbances have frequently lain repeatel l ,:,,, e— n e more than one occasion persons and c raperty I to ously suffered at the hands of lawless mobs. `e seri. " From what occurred on Wednesday last, it is qui te parent that the Preston cotton muter, have rend r 'e l p to e 4f r w a lla t 11: lknybiacialect7ecui;:".-h: themselves obnoxious to thengedlrenrreadtthiliesmt out th d e an p g re e ;on o ; et te annoyanceoffeealrinend sary visits to that place, unless some steps we tsken forcil• purpose of preventing such acts of ungoverned I I etiCG te those , T wh That havesueha steps uded :o n; we think there can be no doubt. " We have the honour to be your lordship's most obe. dient servants." [Here followed the epicures.] The master cotton spinners and manufacturers of Pen. ton, consistent with their own expression of fear in that letter, have discontinued their visits to Blackburn market On Wednesday their absence was noticed in the mai n. and from the reports in circulation it was only a desirable measure of prudence that they should keep away, inci ehuit:, as threats of further violence had been uttered, and wool probably have been carried into execution. It had b et openly stated at a public meeting of operatives that if Ike Preston masters had got " a squeeze" on the 16th ensue.: from the mob who hunted for them, their lives would n: have been worth much, and round about the frost of the Blackburn Exc:eange on Wednesday, for many hours nt. merous bands of operatives presented themselves at the end s of the five streets there converging, and attempted to co t . centrate their firers for " a elute ze." it is but just ice t , the authorities of Blackburn, however, to say that on to, occasion they acted with prudence and vigour. Th ey to elected a new mayor on the 9th instant, in the person of Kr.Thos. Dugdale (chairman of the East Lsueashire Railway Board), who according to a declare:ion he made to the law n Council yesterday, proposes to increase the police force pe r . manently to thirty men, and that in fact, looking upon the preservation of the peace of the borough as paramount to all other considerations, he is determined, with Voir hel2 and that of his brother magistrates, to secure that (deer; without reference to cost. On Weduenday this new spie d of " self-government" had already beg en to display itself by the increase of the police force to thirty men, all tk, firemen of the borough having been incorporated with the constabulary fur that purpose, whilst trout every ward in the borough burgesses were specially summoned to attend at the Sessions House to be sworn es special constables —o Morse which, whilst it ranged the householders on the sid e of law and order, served also to spread far a n d wide the intelligence to those who were lawlessly disposed that tne authorities had an lunation t au time to vigorously resist the gratification of one of their favourite employments. But, in addition to this, a determination was manifested to take the evil in time, and policemen were placed on duty early in the day, who exerted themselves to break up all those knots of pers ons above alluded to as attempting to concentrate near the Et. change. Three Sr four operatives were not allowed for a moment to stand together in the neighbourhood ; bat the order to " move on" was given, and unceremoniously cm , vied into effect if resisted. And although Preston mune lecturers abstaiued from attendance oa this occasion, the I precaution taken can hardly have been deemed unnecese ury, inasmuch as employers at the market from other places have become unpopular. At Accrington, where to the present time only a couple of mills have been closed, the rest having given the ten per cent. advance, notice was served upon the weavers generally ten or twelve days ago that it would only be given a fortnight longer, and it is expected that 4,000 looms will there be thrown idle, addtig largely in a few days to the unemployed it the operatives should resolve to strike, as it is expected they will do. .t meeting of Blackburn masters also had been summoned for yesterday, to consider the propriety of doing the same thing, and this had become public. A curious feature, however, connected with the die. turbances of the 16 inst. remains to be noticed. It will be seen in the above letter from the Preston masters that they hold up their own turn-out operatives as comparatively well-behaved people, and lay the charge of violence upon the operatives of Blackburn. In other places it has been said that the mob who attacked the Preston maxers war composed of Blackburn people, who were roused by a belief that the Preston misters came to persuade their own to take off their 10 per cent. advance. There is an Cocoa. kno last i n gt h s a t t o r t y h ,. becauseprestothe Preston ran t e e n , : operatives r os e isf g ti3e u n l l s ac r eY l k y ba t u o t t heir this eir market every Wednesday would not fall into the mistake of misconstruing the main object of their visit. But the authorities of Blackburn say the operative: of their own town are peaceably-disposed enough—which is rather curious after the specimens of their mildness given at the elections and other times Oen' referred to—and attribute the attack upon the Preston masters, entirely to operatives who had come over from Preston (nine miles distant) especially to annoy and attack them. It is said, and there is little doubt of the fact, that the mayor of Black. burn had written au account of these disturbances to Lord Palmeston before the Preston masters bethought themselves of an appeal to his lordship, in which he gave his own Ter. Mon of the matter. I have not been able to get a copy of his worship's letter for publication, but am credibly ' informed that having evidence of large numbers of people from Preston following their employer' over to Blackburn on the day of the riotoukproccedings, he bat called the attention of his lordship to the present unsettled state of the borough of Blackburn and district, as nun principally by the dispute existing between the masters and their workpeople. Ile described the assemblage a; uttering divers threats under the impression that cotton spinners from Preston had come over for the purpose o: inducing those of the same trade in Blackburn to close their mills and turn out the operatives —an impressioa which, though unfounded, could not easily be removed. The number of the mob had been sworn before the magistrates at one time to be three to four thousand. The most im portant part of the mayor's letter, however, is understood to be one in which he states that the justices feel that the public peace is liable, under present circumstances, to be interrupted suddenly, and on the least excitement, by mod which no civil force which the borough can well undertake Ito provide will be able to suppress, and expressing their (the justices') opinion, that it is desirable to have company of soldier, stationed in the borough during the ensuing winter, or until the operatives of the neighbourini towns again obtain employment. In addition to the outcry by the Preston manutseturen. the manufacturers and merchants of the whole district — and those of Blackburn not excepted—have raised iniig• flint remonstrances against the corporate authorities of Blackburn, for allowing the unlawful proceedings of the 16th instant to remain unchecked so long u they were The above statements show that the leadiag gentlemen is the corporation are desirous of preventing a recurrence et sack scenes, and perhaps it is but fair to say that the chat magistrate having only recently taken office, withoa: having bad time to mature the necessary re• forms, is not justly blameable in the matter. la fact the law provides certain times for the re constitution of the watch and other committees tabsequeat to the 9th of November, and these committees not haying been reconstructed on the 16th there was a difficulty in the way of any immediate action on the subject, which only I sense of previously existing urgency could have justified his worship in setting aside. So far as the charge made agsino the people of Blackburn by the masters of Preston is con cerned, and the counter-charge against the people of Pro* ton by the authorities of Blackburn, the truth appears to rest partially with both sides. There is no doubt that the people of Preston came in great numbers to Blackburn to annoy and intimidate their late ens{ loyers, but on the othet hand there is as little doubt that the people of Blackburn sympathised with them, and hounded them on, when they were there. The peaee has been tolerably well maintained in ether towns up to the present moment, notwithstanding the strikes. At Burnley there is now reason to believe that good many of the operatives will take the offer of the em ployers and resume work at the old wages, foregoing LI connexion with the strikes elsewhere. At Bacup no rem. lotion has been adopted by the masters, but it is thought that next Thursday the mills will be re-opened on Mania terms to those offered at Burnley. The Blackburn meet. ing resulted in nothing, but the Harwood millowneru bee withdrawn from union with the Preston people and jollied those of Accrington, and are going to work abort time, 14 1 take off the ten per cent. THE MURDER AT DEPTFORD.—The man Brx nahan, who hail been stabbed on the night of Monde! , in 01.1 King•etreet, Deptford, died at Guy's Hospital 1 Thursday ; and an inquest was held there yesterday upon the body. After hearing a great deal of evidence the pro ceedings were adjourned. Just as the jury were departing. Mr. Dollond, the surgeon, was brought into the roost charged by t►e foreman with insulting him at the door of the room. The coroner, after hearing the complaint, sm ,l that all persons attendiag there on a public duty must b? protected. Upon this Mr. Dollond apologised, and the affair, which had drawn together a large number of student ,, then terminated.