The Express. — London, England, 1853-07-11 00:00:00

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After encouraging the SULIAN during the last three months to stand tenaciously on his rights, and advising him to brace the wrath of Rus sia, inasmuch as he might rely with confidence on French and English support--and, after proclaiming to the world that France and England were thoroughly united in the policy of maintaining treaties or precent;ng their infraction, Lord ABER DEEN and a majority of his colleagues have, it appears, resolved upon doing nothing ; and the moment when action is most imperatively required, and the insolence of the aggressor most oudly calls for rebuke, the British Government notifies to that of France that it does not consider the invasion of the Danubian Provinces an act of war, and that in point of fact it would much rather not interfere. At the same time, through the daily organ of the Treasury, the British people are lectured upon the cost of keeping their word, and the im prudence of resenting a blow, and the disagreeable ness of rssisting to save an ally from being robbed and mutilated before their eyes in open day- And this is called policy and statesmanship, and the courtly and aristocratic view of the question. All this it may be, but sure we are that it is not manly, and that the English people will not willingly assent to it. The people of this country detest and despise Austrian principles and Austrian practices. They feel that they are dishonouring to the country and ruinous to its interests. They feel that it was not by cringing and truckling to Abso lutism that the national name has in former days been made renowned. They feel that it is not by suffering the lesser States of the Continent, with whom four-fifths of our European commerce lief, to be devoured by the great mili tary monarchies, English trade can hope for permanence of extension. The independence and integrity of Turkey is not alone a question of the faith of treaties and the protection of a Liberal State against a despotic one, but it is also a home ques tion with the English manufacturer, the English merchant, and the English artisan. Thousands of English families are now directly dependent for work and wages upon the growing commerce of the Danube. Russia has long been labouring undis guisediy to cripple our trade with those populous and prolific regions. And as we have repeatedly shown, she bas done so with but too much moms. Those to the north of the river are already occupied by her armies, and Lord ABERDEEN and his supporters avow themselves afraid to interfere. What is to prevent Russia from crossing the Danube and occupying Bulgaria also ? This is the policy of Austria, and, in the temporary absence of Lord J. Russzt.t. from the Cabinet, this, it is said, has been decided to be the policy of Lord ABERDEEN. Bat England is not alone concerned in this. Surely FROM has nothing to gain by succumbing to the CZAR, or to his imperial vassal at Vienna. The people of France feel as the people of England do,—dislike for the Russian Barbarian, and de testation of his tyrannical sway. Happily for them in this instance the French Government sym pathises with the French people, and the moat popular Paris journals approve all that the Minis ters of LOUD, NAPOLEON have said and done in the matter, as far as it has been made public. If Lord BTRATPORD DE REDCLITYR is forbidden by his new instructions to give the SVLT.tN the only advice that is consonant with his ultimate safety and honour as an independent sovereign, M. DE LA Cora may probably be placed under no such disability; and that the Ministers of ABDUL MEDJID will per ceive and comprehend the advantages as well as the dangers of their position seems clear. If, upon the ad vice of either of the Ambassadors, or if acting upon their own responsibility as counsellors of an injured and insulted Prince, they declare the empire to be in danger, denounce the invasion of its Danubian pro vinces as an act of open war, and call upon the representatives of the Great Powers to protect the capital by the presence of their fleets, the territory of the SULTAN may yet be saved. The Ambassadors have and can have no discretion under such cir- cumstances; and if they had, the announcement of such a demand, and the effect which such an appeal would have on the public mind of Western Europe would speedily tell them what their duty was, and that they must perform it. But there is another power of whom little has hitherto been said or thought in refer ence to this momentous question. The United States has recently evinced a disposition to sympathise with the nations whose interests and aspirations are alike opposed to aristocratic and dynastic oppression. Between Russia and America there have heretofore been few occasions for the open manifestation of that antagonism which is instinctive and ineradicable in their opposing systems of reli gious and political life. America is the land of religious equality ; Russia of sectarian intole rance and persecution. America is the home of democratic freedom ; Russia of military aristocracy captained by military despotism. Ame. rice is rapidly adopting in her commercial inter. course the principles of Free Trade ; Russia labour s incessantly to destroy, wherever her withering in fluenee extends, every germ of competition. Turkey has already given proofs of her earnest desire to liberalise her commercial and religious policy ; and the Cabinet of Washington will undoubtedly be sus tained by the cheering approval of the whole Anglo- Saxon race on both sides of the Atlantic, if at this critical juncture they prove themselves worthy of our common origin. ()sr. of the most valuable of the Government mea sures now helmet Parliament is certainly the Chari table Treats Bill ; and, being a measure full of cx. cellent *visions for the improvement and good management of Trusts, those who actually are, and those who suppose themselves to be, concerned in the present administration of certain Charities have, it is understood, united to see if they cannot coerce Ministers into its postponement until next session, by threats of vigorous and factious opposition. Happily, however, for the frustration of their design, the Bill in question (which is infinitely suprior to any of its predeces sors, and their name has been Legion) is so far advanced in legislative progress, and has received so authoritative a recommendation from the Upper House of Parliament, that, for any delay in its enact ment this session, its authors and friends will, under the circumstances, be far more responsible than its opponents, for, whilst its supporters are strong, its enemies are weak. Government will, therefore, it is to be hoped, push the measure through We year. In principle this Bill goes much further and is inch better than !any preceding project relative to haritics. Former Bills only aimed at the better administration of the Trusts already in existence,and wore little more than measures for the proper audit of accounts ; whilst it, in addition, provides ma chinery " for the more beneficial application of chari• table funds;" and thus goes to the very root of what is so defective in the present state of the law. No doubt there are still some huge instances of scanda lous and flagrant abuse of Trusts in our greater cha ritable foundations to correct, and much petty mal-administration in our smaller Charities to ex plore and root out. And very certain it is, that under enlarged powers of the law, and a better system of management, the produce of Charity estates may be very greatly improved, as has been the ease with Church property under the charge of the Ecclesiastical Commission. But, except in the instances of the Earl of GUILFORD and such impenitent offenders against all law and morals, the improved tone of so ciety, and the care and attention given by the va rious Attorney-Generals of late years to the superin• tendence of Charities, have to a considerable extent abated the scandals which the reports of the First Charity Commission exposed twenty years ago. What is now wanted is, not so much a crusade against charitable foundations as chronic abuses, as a system of continuous check and publicity to their administration, en larged powers of leasing, mining, and other wise increasing the value of their properties. and the formation of new schemes for the better application of their funds, where either the old trusts have become obsolete and unfit for modern times, or where, after providing for their due fulfilment, there is a surplus revenue to be disposed of. Such a system can perhaps best be carried out by a public Board specially devoted to the task, with subordinate func tionaries charged to inspect and report on the Cha rities to be dealt with after the fashion of Poor Law Inspectors, and having authority to prepare such schemes. Such a Board the Bill proposes to establish. The measure in no way interferes with the rights and duties of existing Trustees ; it contains no proposition to change the mode of their elec tion, and it does not diminish their powers. On the contrary, it will in many respects very largely increase those powers. At present Trutdees are bound within the four corners of their deeds of foundation or of trust. They are limited, confined, and restricted by the language of those instruments, fre. quently centuries old; often to the serious prejudice and injury of the Charity. But by this Bill they can make application to the Board for their advice on all questions ultra rim', and when they act upon it, they are to be indemnified. At present any person can call them to account for the administration of the trust in the Court of Chancery, and so dissipate and waste the funds in a liti gation that may be malicious or perverse; bat under the measure, the Courts of Law cannot enter tain any proceedings as to Charities, except upon certificate of the Board. At present Trustees in many cases cannot improve the properties of their trusts by granting building leases; under this Bill the Board can enable them to do all acts calculated to increase permanently its value. At present the bet ter application of charitable funds can only be arrived at after years of litigation and dispute in the Courts of Equity; under this Bill there is ample power to frame schemes without putting the Charities to a penny of cost. Other Bills touching Charitable Trusts proposed to defray the expense of carrying out their objects by levying a small tax on the Charities that came within their provisions ; this Bill is founded on the sounder principle, that their improvement, being a matter of general interest, is a fair and proper charge on the country generally, and its execution will not, therefore, prove any burthen on the Charities. The measure is one of good faith and kind inten tions to our Charitable Foundations. It is meant for their better administration, for the improvement of their property, and for the extension of their useful ness; it will remove difficulties, secure integrity, increase the sphere, and render popular the ma p angement, of Charities, about which there are now so many doubts and suspicions, that the wonder is any gentleman will assume the responsibility of Trusts which it is next to impossible he can conduct agreeably and satisfactorily. Its chief value is, however, the power of expanding and augmenting the action of Trusts which is con fided to the Board, by the preparation of schemes for that purpose. Most of our richer Charitable Founda tions exhausted the income of their endowments when originally made, and are defective in internal authority to extend their usefulness as their funds increase. Their founders seem, indeed, never to have had any notion of growth in the value of property, and making no provisions for it, the persons they charged with the fulfilment of their designs,—the very guardians of their will,—have themselves monopolised, in modern times, the wealth of the foundations they were selected to protect. This is the case in the now liti gated question of St. Cross ;—four years and more has that been in the Court of Chancery, and even now no decision has been come to. Years will pro bably pass away under the present system before a satisfactory conclusion can be reached. But enact this Bill, and six months will do for such cases what six years now fail to accomplish. And then there is another class of cases, the reform of which cannot now be attempted, because to attempt it through the Court of Chancery would be ruinous. Pus this bill, and an inspector will in a week or two, at no cost to the Charity, put the abused on a sound founda tion. The great opposition to this measure will probably come from the London Charitable Foundations, such as Christ's Hospital, and from the Foundling Hospi tal, and establishments of that sort. But the bill is not framed in any spirit of hostility to these founda tions. In respect to them, what it will principally secure is publicity to their management, and with it security that the public have the full benefit of the rapidly-increasing value of the Trust proper ties. Schemes for their extension must necessarily —for so the Bill provides—come under the conside ration of the Legislature ; and by legislative improve ment such Charities will rise from local and com paratively little known institutions into establish ments of almost national importance. On every ground, then, this Bill deserves support, and ought to receive attention this session. Having passed the Upper House, it needs but two or three days' consideration of the Commons to become the law of the land in the session 1453. PORTSMOL7II, JULY 10.—A court martial wee held on board the Victory, flair ship, yesterday, to try George Weston, a stoker belonging to the Leopard, steam (float.. on a charge of desertion. On the 27th of February last, he asked for and procured 21 hours' leave of absence, but he did not return. In his defence prisoner admitted his crime, but pleaded for mercy on the ground that he bad a wit. and six children, together with an aged mother, de pendent on him for support ; he also pleaded his previous good conduct and long services of 18 years. He was sen tenced to six months' impri•oornent in Winchester gaol. THE CITY HE LoNros STEAMER has been char tered by the Peninsular and Oriental Company for four months longer. This steamer has been running on the Southampton and Constantinople line. The outward gar gles of this ship have been considerably reduced lately, owing to the prospect of war. The homeward cargoes have not been diminished. Exri.osns or EtEcrioNs.—The bill to diminish the expenses of elections as emended was printed on Saturday. Since it was noticed in the Er real several clauses have been struck out, and it is confi ne d to prohibit ing bends of mask and all such natters from elections. THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 11, 1853. LATEST FROM THE CONTINENT. MOLDAVIA. JAPIIT, Jury 4. Prince Gortachakoff, Russian army of occupation, has sent General Niprokontschinski with despatches to the commander of the camp at Schumla. The object of his message is to assure the Turkish general of the peaceful cha racter of the Russian occupation. The Russians insist on payment of the expenses attending the enforced occupation of 1848-1851, and the first instalment has just been paid. The battalions of the 4th and sth army-corp which have not been marched acroes the Pruth have been concentrated at Ismail, where they await the order to cross the Danube. of the tions have now become, which were supposed to have been for ever ebolished in 1848 : It is by mistake that the qualification of " nudism" is not placed in the imperial almanack for 18.53 against the names of N. Troplon,e, president of the Senate, X. Billault, president of the Corps Legialstif, and N. Barnette, presi dent of the Council of State, with the rank of minister. Count Teacher de la ramie, grand muter of the Em press's household, and a grand officer of the legion of honour is also entitled to this desi;nation. The Prams, in its weekly commercial review, says that the Eastern question continues to be extremely prejudicial to business. Severs' orders have been given subject to a condition that if by July 13, the present state of uncertainty as to foreign politics should continue, they may be rescinded. Most of the manufacturers have, however, gone on working rather than shut up their factories, but, with the fearof having ' their goods left Tilton their hands, they are no longer so indifferent as they were about news from St. Petersburg. The American agents have, how ever, bought more freely this week than might have been expected Accounts of the preparations for the fair of Beau-1 ' caire are very discouraging, but at several fairs of I less importance it has been found that a fair business has been done, and front this it is augured that Beau caire may perhaps turn out better than has been supposed. The accounts of the harvest are now very encouraging. It is calculated that not more than a tenth of the wheat crop at the utmost is laid or affected with smut. The harvest in the north of France will be late, but in Algiers an abundant crop is already certain, and it is said that more than 800,000 hectolitres of wheat besides other grain may be spared for exportation to France. A moderate amount of business was transacted at the Bourse yesterday, and the closing prices of the government securities indicate a general advance on the preceding day's report. For money the Three per Cents. improved 30c., and the Four-and-a-Half Per Cents. 10c.; whilst for the end of the month the Three per Cents. rose 30c., and the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. remained unchanged. In Bank of France shares there was an advance of 13f. The closing prices were—For cash : Three per Cents., 77f. ; Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 102.10 f. For the ne• count: Three per Cents., 76.93 f. ; Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 102 f. Bank Stock, 2,660 f. Northern', 837.50f.• ' Orleans, 1,071.25 f.; Paris and Strasbourg, 900 f.; Paris and Lyons, 893 f.; Paris and Rouen, 1,037.50 t. ; Lyons to the Mediterra nean, 722.50 E ; Western of France, 723 f.; Rouen and Havre, 487.50 f.; Bordeaux and Cett?, 615 f. ; Caen and Cherbourg, 605 f. PARIS, SATURDAY EVENING. The three government journals, the Pays, the Constitutionnet, and the Petrie, all announce to-day that M. de Black, who was supposed to have been sent to Constantinople with conciliatory instructions, opened his ini- Zion by making fresh demands on the Porte. Thi' pretended mediator now demands im mediate payment of five millions of piastres to Austria, au& possession of the ports of fleck and Souterina, in the Adriatic. This startling intelli genco is thus given by the Pays : THE BALTIC. SrErrnc, JOLT 8. Voluntary illuminations took place at St. Peters burg, when the order to cross the Pruth was pub lished. Public excitement was at is height. The streets were thronged. The emperor was received with acclamations, and saluted on bended knee. Several men danced before the emperor's carriage. TURKEY. VIENNA, JULY 8. Letters from Constantinople state that the Porte is about to summon a council, composed of the most eminent men from every distrizt of the monarchy. SPAIN. BAYONNE, JULY 9. Queen Christina arrived here yesterday, and in the evening continued her journey to Paris. MONTENEGRO. CATTAIIO, JULY L Prince Daniel, who is attempting the organisation of Montenegro for another war with Turkey, has introduced the military conscription. The peasant robbers who have no conception of the civil life, having never acknowledged any authority but that of the Vladika or Bishop, do not relish the innovation. RUSSIA AND TURKEY. Letters from Paris state that the conduct of M. de Bruck at Constantinople is eyed there with suspi cion, recent letters from Turkey giving reason to be lieve that the Austrian ambassador is " paltering with us in a double sense," and urging the Porte to concede the demands of Russia. It is feared that M. de Bruck will attempt to make use of the recent troubles at Smyrna to exert a pressure upon the Sultan. expense of these works will be defrayed conjointly by the state and the city ; the contribution off' the latter, however, being limited not to excee d 300,51j0e On Friday next the com mission will prow& to the examination of the budget. This, according to a statement prepared by the municipal & d u gou t : ration, is in a much more healthy state than might Lave been expected, after the immense eitra expenditure of the last two years. The receipts of the budget of 1852 were estimated at 46,186,179 E 24c. The amoont actually received exceeds this estimate by nearly eight millions, while the expenses which were calculated to balance have fallen short by 3,795,674 f. 39c. of the estimates. The receipts for 1853 were fixed at 47,114,346 f. 79c. This sum has already been exceeded by 2,825,000 f. The expenditure has not hitherto exceeded the esti mate, and therefore a considerable surplus for the current year is expected. The receipts for 1854 are estimated at 48,758,904 f., and the expenses at 53,308,934 f.,but of this sum 10,636,017 is classed under the head of extraordinary expenses, thus divided :' re served fund for unforeseen expenses,973,499E; repairs and improvement of communal buildings, 383,911 E ; grand public works, 9,278,577 f. The deficit for the year 1854, amounting to 6,750,000 f., is met by the surplus of 1852, so that the budget is iu fact balanced. It must be observed, however, that this prima jam prosperous situation is not very sound. , When in 1851 the city of Paris was authorised by 1 the Assembly to raise a loan of 50 millions for making the hallos and the new Rue Rivoli, it was part of the arrangement that the city should pay 10 millions an nually towards the reduction of its municipal debt, until 1859, after which the annual payment was to be reduced to 7 millions. The municipal council, at that time an independent elective body, were very I anxious about the amount of the debt, and expressed a determination not to incur any further extraordieary liabilities until 1859, when the reduction of three millions in the annual expenditure would take place. The city of Paris has, besides the above ten millions, to find nearly 40 millions a year for ordinary ex penses. This constitutes a fixed charge for the next six years, from which no reduction can be made under any circumstances. The revenue, arising principally from the octroi duties, amounts in a good year to about that sum, but the equilibrium is liable to be deranged by a bad harvest or a commercial or political crisis, any or all of which may be reason ably expected before 1859. There is no doubt that since the.2nd of December tho new municipality no minated by the Emperor have not adhered to the re solution of their predecessors not to increase their liabilities. They have saddled the city with fresh annuities for making the Boulevard do Strasbourg, and have entered into contracts with third parties for extensive improvements to be prospectively made, which it is apprehended will lead to great embar rassment whenever any falling off in the revenue may occur. SWITZERLAND. We receive from Constantisople, under date of June 23, news, the grav:ty of which imposes upon us a cer tain mistrust as ti its truth, or at least a reserve in communicating it, which our readers will appreciate, This sews relates to the attitude assumed by Austria in the question which for the last three months has threatened the very existence of the Ottoman empire, and kept all Europe in suspense. We are informed that instead of con fining himself t , a pacific intervention between the Sultan and the Czar, instead of proposing the mediation so con fidently reckoned upon, which appeared to be the only object of M. de Bruck's mission to Constantinople, and Count Giulay's 111116011 to St. Petersburg, the Austrian in ternuncio in Turkey renewed the demands addressed some time since to the Turkish government in the name of the Court of Vienna by Count Leiningen. The Austrian ambassador, it is said, demands of the Porte the immediate payment of five millions of piastres as an indem nity, probably on account of the affair of Montenegro. FRANCE. Certainly, the moment is strangely chosen to exact this pe cuniary satisfaction, when the unjust aggression of Ru-sia imposes upon flukey considerable expense, and when she PARIS, SUNDAY ETZNING. has just paid to Russia the first annuity fur the coil of the We are without any intelligence to-day, either to occupation of the Danubian provinces in 1819 and 1850. confirm or invalidate the news given by the govern- But the requirements of Austria do not stop there. It the question Folife the again s bru i g i l l i e t ch up s n s n d t u t r .p a is ment journals yesterday, of the novel attitude assumed by Austria in the Turkish question. The following which were the por t s ebieeer Count Letningen's mis sio n. l ' teraphic despatch, published by the Debate, tends to It will be remembered that Austria hail long coveted these warm the statement made two days ago, that Austria ports which would place in its power the mouths of the Cat was marching upon See-via and Bosnia: ~ A p n ya , e tare in the Adriatic, and that in setting the text of treaties telegraphic despatch from Vienna, dated July 9, awtitttialemagbetA rl e e na l a u n D d g ed th e e :: :D tit t t f i° !I u o r f k t e h es e Visk, this states that metallic. had fallen i per cent. at the important intelligence reaches us from Constantinople, err- BIXITSO from (94k to 93,11 ; 4n consequence of a report tain German journals pretend that the Austrian govern• that two regiments had ri sent to Peterwardein merit is marching troops upon the frontiers of Bosnia and ( a fortified Hungarian town on the Danube a few Serve' with an object not yet stated, but which may cover Wiv es from Sava, on the frontiers of Bosnia and ulteriordesigns upon those provinces. We repeat we re „&relit). cord fuses to this ne w sbeli wi th all prudent reserve. Our reason re eve that Austria, whose attitude hitherto has The Journal de Frankfort of the 6th inst. has an been that of a mediating power can all at once ab article, said to be a semi-official communication from dicate this honourable and conciliatory part, to the Austrian government, suggesting a mode in imitate Russia, to second Russia in her projects li : s e w n t , d i l a n a c d st t b y s s which the difference between Russia and Turkey c e a f te vee e r r e ii u ntimely u question s r demands to strainedeo . might perhaps be settled. According to tkis plan to such a degree of tension. q ßut if ulterior informs- Turkey would concede to Russia the required binding tion should confirm this first intelligence, that would eel note to guarantee the maintenance of the privileges dent:y be a fact which would complicate in a most untoward and immunities of the Greek Church, and in return manner the present state of things. The result would be that it t e wo t po wers i are t unitin g t to geth er to force the Ottoman Russia would remit to the Porte a note, also in a to ti li e r y rive at u s il i s m d t t i s t r i am teinding form, promising that these privileges should M g mentby e l l et e n rs an e d s s e as s° u u ngr n e s eern as are not degenerate into abuses calculated to trench upon But in that case it is probable that the policy of the other the integrity of the Ottoman empire. If this be Courts of Europe would declare itself in a far more charac seriously the suggestion of the Austrian govern• tetistic manner. France and England, up to the present is give h n as striking been Ji l r e or f t s s f a moderation ment there is nothing in it inconsistent time v ai " no v t e h with the supposition that she is abetting a loyalty of wh g ich nothing has caused to deviate from Russia in this matter. The whole question, as- the straight line pointed out by respect for tree miming Russia to be sincere, is but one of form, ties—that safeguard of European right, and the But that question of form involves the humiliation of maintenance of general peace ; they have accorded to con eaireliastionnalletnhoaut e h ei t i s ld h be s e a x ti p s e n c t te ss d c from rea t t w e o ss n u a Turkey in the eyes of her own subjects, and the ex- tin t : which e altation of Russian prestige in an equal proportion. pens without am one be able to Luse them of weak- Russia knows that the persistence of Turkey in refute nen. But should new enemies rise up against an ally, the ing the Menchikoff ultimatum wotildclieck her aggres- defence of whom is imposed on them by treaties, and the sive designs, and that the concession of the ultimatum existence of whom is important for the repose and most would advance them, no matter what counter-en- sacredwou allowiern a t: to of to Eit ) r e op i e , , no m per s on luiai wl e sr i pp l o i s n e d t e h r at i t i l i s a e t y . gagement she might enter into to get over the pre- ever form diplomacy should g succeed in lessening their sent difficulty. After the passage of the Prath it import, would constitute a new oppression and a manifest has become impossible for diplomacy to invent any coalition against the Sultan's empire! It is precisely be 'solution ending in Russia gaining her point, which cause the news which reach us would, if true, be of extreme ' will not weaken Turkey, and discredit her allies. gravity that we refuse to believe in them until we receive better information, and that we consider them as rumours The Echo de Valeneumnes announces as positive which public opinion ought to distrust. tint the Emperor will shortly visit the camp at The news given as above by the Pays, and more Reliant. shortly by the other two journals, produced consider- The famous cause of " Agnado v. Veron " was again able consternation at the opening of the Bourse, but salted on at the Petals de Justice yesterday, but was the optimists soon turned it to good account by a postponed for a month, the Court of Appeal not yet process of reasoning peculiar to themselves. they baying given judgment upon Dr. Veron's objection did not question the truth of the intelligence, but to the jurisdiction of a court of law. they said since Austria and Russia are united, Tur- An amusing controversy, which may be expected key must needs give way, for it is out of the ques- AMERICA. to go further, has arisen between the Sieele and an tion to suppose that France and England will sup ultra-Bonapartist member of the Corp. Legislatif on port her against those two powers. This argument, ARRIVAL OF THE ASIA. the subject of the pretended Prince Gonzague and aided, it must be owned, by telegraphic information LIVEItPOOL, SiNDAY, his decorations. In giving an account of the trial of a rise in Consols, soon made the Bourse quite coin- The Royal Mail steamer Asia, Captain Lott, from and conviction of this impostor, the Sieele said yes- fortable. The Threes ran up from 76.40 to 77, and New York, arrived here this morning, at 31 o'clock terday," Among the persons who solicited the honour closed at 76.95. Railway shares and the credit She left on the '29th ult., at 1.15 p.m., and has of being decorated by his august hand, we observe mobilier did not, however, follow the move- brought 138 passengers, 591,082 dollars specie on with a lively satisfaction the name of a member of meet : and it was remarked with some surprise that freight, besides the usual mails, which are in charge the Corps Legislatif, M. Achille Jubinal," This state- the same speculators who bought the rento sold the of Lieut. J. G. Raymond, Admiralty agent. The ment has called forth the following letter from that latter securities. Baltic arrived at New York on the 26th ult., at 6.30 gentleman : Marshal St. Arnaud has returned to Paris from his p.m. The City of Glasgow was at Philadelphia on Paris, July 9. tour of military inspection. the 25th, After leaving New York, the Asia met To the principal editor of the Sieele, permit me in two Ler D le watch received to•dt i v states that the Royal Mail steamship Africa; on the 30th, at A tel a h d words to rectify the incorrect statement concerning me . e s - • . - 2.40 which I find in your number of to-day. My name is the Minister of M arino has arrived at rest w i t hout p. ~ m passed the steamship Glasgow, bound Jubinal" toutcourt," and I ked fora title from any- having been able to atop at St. Melo. westward ; and on Bth July the screw steamer body. Acuinna JUBINAL, Deputy. The Courrier du Barre announces the arrival in Taurus, bound for Boston. H.M.'s ship Leander 10, Rue de Louvois. that port of five vessels under the Russian, Norwe- sailed from New York on the 25th for Halifax, N.S. The Sieele now observes that this letter does not gian, Bremen, and English flags, laden with cora She was towed down the bay to the outside of the touch the point at issue. The statement alluded to, from Odessa. These cargoes arc expected to he fol- Hook by the steam tug Ach i l l e s. On leaving „ her an ,a " decoration .," not to a" title," and the Sieele never ' lowed by several others, all recently bought in Eng- chorage, her band struck up" Yankee Doodle. At 1 suggested that the hononmble deputy called himself land by the Minister at War, for the account of the o'clock the U.S. mail steamer Arctic overtook and anything else than plain M. Jubinal (.lubinal tout French government. An agent from the War-office passed her, saluting with three dips of her ensign, court). It is curious that a contradiction in two has arrived at Havre, and will remain there a mouth which was duly returned by the Leander. At half words should have gone so wide of the mark. That to superintend the landing of the cargoes. past three o'clock the hawser was cast off from the M. Jubinal either obtained or solicited the Order of ,c At the last Lille market there was a fall of 90c. steam tug, and the Leander went to sea with a five Devotedness, the Immaculate Conception, or the , per hectolitre in wheat, owing to the fine weather or six-knot breeze. She will proceed to Halifax for Redemption, from the Prince de Gonlagues, Duke of . and the improved prospects of the harvest. naval stores, and wait at that station for Lord Elles- Mantua, &c. ilt:c., is not an invention of the Sleek, 1 The King of Naples has conferred upon M. de mere, who will join her there on the 3d of August, but a statement made in open court by that distin- l'ersigny the grand cordon of the royal Constanti- and return in her to England. On Saturday morn • guished person's advocate. The C7sarieuri says that man order of Saint Georges. ing, just before sailing, one of the Leander's boats Prince Clonzagues' chevaliers are now " knights of I The municipal commission of Paris yesterday was sent ashore, with eight men, in charge of a the woeful countenance " when they think of . opened its annual session for the examination of the ; midshipman, to bring off stores. While at the the money their ribands have cost them and' city budget. M. Haussmann, the new prefect of the ! wharf four of the men deserted ; the other four pre the ridicule they have incurred. Whatever may ' Scene, presided. In this sitting a plan for the im- ' ferred remaining. The midshipman attemtsted to turn out to 13C the truth about M. Jubinal, provement of the Place do la Concorde was approved I prevent their desertion, but a crowd of bystanders it is certain that very many persons in a good of. On the sites of the inconvenient, dangerous, and I threatened to throw him into the Back if he left the position in society have accepted the Prince's unwholesome pits which have lately been filled up, , boat. decorations. According to the Steele several writers ! there are to be elegant turf slopes harmonising with' By the arrival of the steam-ship Northern Light, in ministerial prints not only adorned their own' ; the verdure of the Tuileries and contnuitingagreeably. . on the 25th, we have received eight days later news persons with them, but obtained the like honour for ' with the architectural lines of the vast square. The 1 from California—down to the Ist of Jtine. This in their tradesmen upon the understanding that "little' foot and carriage ways will be widened. Several I telli.eence is very satisfactory, althor,n nothing start accounts" should be held over. It was part of the ; communications will lie opened between the terrace ling had occurred. Reports from the mining districts Prince's system to ask every chevalier to recommend 1 of the Tuileries and the square, so that on the oeca- continued encouraging. The proroects of the farmers his friends, upon the old principle, probably, tha c I elm of fetes, when immense masses of people are vecre flattering. Fears were entertained of another one fool makes many. The recent severe deci,ee I congregated in the Place de la Concorde, there may , overflow of some of the rivers. A aerious difficulty against wearing unrecognised foreign orders is at- Ibe facilities for escaping from the crowd, and reit it g ' hod occurred between the Unit .d States marshal and tributed in great measure to the mancetivral of on the terrace. A series of marble statues, cand.zla- the squatters ou Feather ltivtr. Prince Gonzagnes. bras, and bronze vases, are to be placed on the It again becomes our disagreeable duty to record Armes of titles of honour the following note in eastern balustrade, to form a visible boundary, this the brief particulars of another shocking railroad the Moniker glows how important nertallt designs- want of which ha s been pointed out all s defect. The accident, Owing to tb.e misplacing of a switch on Nothing transpires to indicate that the Czar is in clined to moderate his pretensions. Vague and alarming accounts reach Constantinople from Sebastopol. It was rumoured on the 27th at the Turkish capital that the Russian fleet was ap proaching the Bosphorus, and the Turkish govern ment, in its uncertainty as to the intentions of Russia, considered it necessary to keep a sharp look out in the Black Sea and keep up frequent commu nications with the fleets in Besika Bay. It has never been doubtful that, in case of en advance upon Constantinople, the naval forces of France and Eng land would be at the service of the Sultan. The Ticinese Gazette of the Ist announces that the Federal Commissioner, Colonel Bourgeois, not having been able to come to an understanding with the authorities of Lombardy in favour of the silk spinners of Ticino, has sought the means of procuring them work in Piedmont. A company is forming in consequence for the purpose of employing about 120 women in the manufacture of silk. M. Itasca, Councillor of State, has been very active in the matter, and both he and Colonel Bourgeois have applied to the Federal Government for a loan of 100,0001 r. to the company, guaranteed by the canton of Ticino, and to be reimbursed in two years. ITALY . TUSCANY. The following full particulars of the sentences upon Guerozzi and his fellow prisoners appear in a sup plement to the Gazetta dei Tribunali : Ergastolo (solitary imprisonment in irons) for life : Mon tinelli, Mazzoni, Mordini, Niccolini, Modena, Ciofi, 'V an clued Adiroari,Sibirardi Dragemanni, Guarducci (ail by de fault)—Ergastolo for 15 years, corresponding to 20 years' hard labour : Gueirazzi and Petracchi (both present) ; Pigli, ?Jarmocchi, Santi Mori, and Filippo Mon, Sgaral lino, Piva, Marchetti (all by default.)—Ergutolo for 90 months, corresponding to ten years' hard la hour : Voltaneoli da Montazio ;(present) ; Cimino, Bartolucci, and Rainier (by default.)—Ergutolo for sixty-three months (corresponding to seven years hard labour) : Cspeeehio (present) ; Franehi (by default.)—Forty months' imprisonment in the Cast di Forza (house of cor rection, with hard labour of Volterra, corresponding to three years' hard labour in the bulks : Dami, Cimballi, and Piccini (present) ; Roberti (by default).Perpetual exile from the Grand Duchy : Cimino and I'iva, Tuscans ; lteyaier and Marchetti, foreigners.—Subjected to surveil lance of the police for five years after the expiration of their punishments Guerozzi, Petracci, Monfazio, Capecchi, Dami, Cimballi, Piccini.—Struck out from the list of advo cates : Montanelli, Guerrazzi, Mazzoni, Modini, and Dami. —Struck out of the list of attorneys : Vanucci.—Acquitted : Romanelli and Lottini (both present).—Acquitted, but with the mention of their names to the government authorities : Pantanelli (present), Ciuechi (default).—lncluded in the capitulation of Calignola : Gerovich, and Lucchesi.—ln eluded in the amnesty, though under prosecution at the time : Agostini (present). GERMANY. BERLIN, JULY 6. The Zollverein Conference was opened to-day. The ministerial Zeit. contains an article on the Russian ukase. According to M. Manteuffel's paper, this manifesto is a " world-historical document." The appeal to a sort of divine vocation to defend the Greek church fixes irrevocably the course to be fol lowed by the Czar. Henceforth every other consi deration is secondary. No endeavours of the powers, friendly or hostile, can turn him aside —no, not a hair's breadth. He must and will insist on the literal fulfilment of that which he asks. So far the Zeit. Pity that men cannot imitate the Godlike resolution which they praise. Pity that firmness and constancy should be monopolised by the Czar. It was not thus that Old Fritz reckoned. If forty years ago these craven sentiments had been in fashion, Helena had never received her Great Exile. It seems as if the fatalisms with which the Turks arc reproached had seized upon the cabinets of Europe. • East Bloomfield, Mass., the express o iss trai t Thursday morning left this city for B oston, rialccilvi haven, ran off on the side track, and came in colli sion with a freight train—thus causing the death of Mr. Johnson, and the severe injury of many others, It seems almost miraculous that more lives were not lost, especially when we take into consideration the fact that four of the passengers, and five of t h e freight and baggage cars were badly shattered. Ths catastrophe is solely attributed to the gross negh genco of the switch tender. Captain Winthorp Richardson was completely an nihilated by the express train, en the Maine railroad on the 28th. He attempted to cross the track, wino the train literally dashed him to pieces, not a piece of his body being found larger than his hand. It comes as a rumour from Washington that a treaty has been signed and ratified between Spain and Mexico through Santa Anna, to re-annex the latter to the former, that though this is yet a secret, preparations are making to carry it into effect, a n d that the movement will be supported by the transk. renec of 6,000 fine Spanish troops from Cuba. It is further said that should this be done, the me n d . " of the "Order of the Lone Star" and the "Cuban Junta" will think it a favourable time to maks another attempt to seize upon the fair Island which so many Americans covet, and which they have d e . termined either by force or stratagem to gain p os . session of. Our latest advices from Manila are highly inte resting, both as regards the staple produce, export s , and inter-communication of the Philippi ne b land; A large forest of hemp trees had been discovered upo n the north coast of Luzon. The material is reported as being of the finest quality, and the crop is esti mated to extend for nearly forty-five miles along th e irregular coast, running back into the interior for a distance of about eight miles. This fibre would be one of the cheapest in the world if the people had some improved mechanical means of cleaning it, by which the clumsy system of hand labour, now neces sarily employed, could be superseded. The American steamers which were built and shipped for Manila in the year 1850 were in very successful operation. One of them was plying upon the river Passig, run. ning up to and continuing upon the lake in which it takes its rise. Its run, internally to the country, is about forty-eight miles. Another is coasting between the islands and provinces, and affording a daily opportunity to the inhabitants of each of communt eating with the other, and observing their different favourable peculiarities for mutual trade, cultivation, and general commerce with the world. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW Yenta, Jt:xx 28. The tendency of the stock market to-day was downward, the reacting movement of the last few days beinA appa rently exhausted. The transactions were to a considerable extent in tho leading fancies. Erie was hi avy and fell off to 801 iu the street ; it afterwards recovered to sot at the Second Board. The opinion of the street appears to be that Erie will not go permanen . ly below 80 again. A divi dend in October is looked upon as certain. Readitia was buoyant and sold at 93. Harlem awl Hudson River were weak. Canton declined per cent. ; Cary it. In the coal shares there was not much done and the market was heavy. Morris fell off per cent. M'Culloch was in demand, and sold at 61. Other mining stocks were dull. California 7s. sold to considerable extent at the Board and privately at 95, which is an improvement. Railroad bon.' are quiet and steady. Premium railroads arc without important change. . . . . . The exchange market is heavy and not active•for the steamer tomorrow. Sterling can be had, first-ciass signa tures, at 91 to 92 per cent. The supply of outside bills is considerable. Francs, 5.15 to 5.132. In freights there is not much doing to-day. To Liver pool, 500 bales cotton 5.32 d. to 3-16 d. for square : 7-3•2e1. to Id. for round ; 6,000 or 8,000 barrels flour, le. 9d. ; 15.000 or 20,000 bushels wheat, sd. to 51d.; 200 barrels oil, 205., &c. To London and Havre there is nothing of importance. There is a good demand for Decd vessels at previous rata. California freights are quiet. The receipts of the sub-treasury are 137,501 dols. Pay ments, 44,800 dols.; balance 8,540,697 dol.. The sales at the Mining Board to-day are :-5 shares Mincrote, 200 dols ; 100 shares N. Carolina, lq, b. !0 July; 150 shares Phmaix Gold, 14 ; 50 shares hleCulloch, Gs., 30. About A 700,000 dole. in ingots, gold, are reported engaged for the Mia. The money market is more active as prearations are being made for the heavy disburse wants of the Ist proximo, but the supply is abundant at 5 to 7 par cent., on call and first-class paper. An immense amount of money will be seeking employment during the first week of July. COTTON is without change, and still favours the buyer; holders are ready sellers. Sales, 3,100 bales, at 3 doh. lie. to 3 dots. 25e. FLOM AND MBAL.-Our market opened rather easier for the low grades of state and wevern flour, with wily a moderate shipping and eastern demand, hut at the close with a alight abatement. In freight a better inquiry pre vailed for export, closing rather firmer. The better grades are firm, and in good request. Canadian is steady and in fair request : sales of 2,000 bbls. at 4 dole. 621 c. to 4 dole. 68/c. The sales of Western Canal, 12,600 bbls. at 1 dols, 50c. to 4 dole. 75c. for mixed to fancy Michigan, Wis consin, and Indiana ; 4 dole. 56c. to 4 dole. 75c. fur common to good Ohio; 4 dole. 621 e. to 4 dole. 68/c. for common to straight state ; 4 dole. 7oc. to 4 doll. 87 2 c. k r fancy Ohio ; 4 dols. 81c. to 5 dols. 50c. for extra Ohio ; 4 dole. 81c. to 5 dole. for fancy Genesee ' • and 5 dole. 25c. to 5 dole. 37c. for xtra Geneses. Southern is quite firm and in lair re quest : the supply of fresh is moderate: sales of 1,600 bhls. at 4 dull 811 c. to 4 dole. 83c. for inferior brands ; 4 dole. 91e. to 5 dole. 121 c. for mixed to straight brands of Baltimore, Alexandria and Georgetown, and 5 dale. 50e. to 7 dole. for fancy brande. Rye flour is quiet at 3 dole. 75c. for fine, and 4 dole. 121 e. to 4 dols. 371 c. for superfine. Corn meal is quiet: sales of LOO bbls. of Jersey at 2 doll. 91c. to 3 dole., and 100 Mils. Itrandywine at 3 dole. 25c. GRAIN.-Wheat is iu fair demand for export, and with increased receipts. The market is hardly so firm for white Western. Sales of 22,500 bushels fair to prime white Ohio, at 1 dol. 211 e. to 1 dol. 23c.; 7,500 bushels red and slightly ' mixed Ohio, at 1 dol. 12c. to 1 at!. 13c.; 2,700 bushels fair Upper Lake, at 1 dol. 021 c. ; 2,760 bushels Genesee on pri vate terms; and 4,100 bushels prime Canadian, at 1 dol. 191 c. Rye is 9uiet at 871 c. to 90c. Oats are lower. Sales of State and Vs eetern, at 40e. to 411 c., and Jersey, at 371 c. to 40c. Corn is better. The supply of prime is limited. Sales of 24,000 bushels, at 56c. to 60e. for unsound , 60c. to 611 c. for Southern mixed ; 64c. to 651 c. for Western mixed; GGc. to 661 c. fur Southern yellow; and G2c. to 63e. for Southern white. _ _ PROVISIONS.—With large amount of pork the market is easier for prime, and heavy for mesa. Sales of 400 bbls., st 15 dole. 50c. for mew, 17 dole. for clear, 15 dells. 50c. for prime mess, and 12 dole. 621 c. to 12 dole. 75c. for prime ; beef is heavy and only in retail request. Sales of 300 bbls. in lots, at 3 del!. to 10 dole. for country mess ; 12 dole. to 12 dole. 75c. fur city mess; 11 dole. 75c. to 12 doh. 56c. for ' re-packed Chicago ; and 13 dole. 75c. to 14 dole. for extra Chicago. Prime is very heavy, at 5 dole. to 6 dole. 25c. for country and city prime. Mess inactive, at 18 dols. to 20 dols. Beef hams steady. Sales of 69 bbls., at 13 dole. 50c. for good State, and 11 dole. for Rood Ohio. Cut meats aro heavy and quite plenty. Sales of 130 hhde. and tierces, at 8 to 81 for dry hams, 81 to 81 for pickled ditto, si to 51 for dry shoulders, and 51 to 6 for pickled ditto. Lard is in re tail demand, and the market is heavy. Sales of 150 bbls. and tierces, at 01 to 10, and kegs, at 11 to 111. Butter is in good demand, at 10 to 15 for Ohio, 10 to 14 for Canadian, 14 to 18 for new State, and 20 to 221 for Orange Co. Cheese saleable, at 6c. to Bc. . . NAVAL STollllB.—The market for spirits turpentine is active, and holders firm, at 46c. to 47c. Crude is selling at 3 dots. 87c. Tar is held at 2 dole. 62c. to 2 dole. Vic., a:l pitch 1 dol. 87c. to 2 dole. THE SIIIP EARL OF HARDWICKE, Captain Kemp, arrived off the Idle of Wight ins Saturday. She left Sydney, New South Wales, on the `23d of March last. _ - , FATAL EXPLOSION OF FIRE-DAMP ABOARD SHIP. —CARDIFF, JULY B.—An explosion of fire-damp aboard ship in these docks, which ended in loss of life, serious injury to several others ' and much damage to the vessel, formed the Fubject of a lengthened investigation yesterday before Mr. L. Reece, the coroner. The proceedings were more than usually important, from the circumstance of .a many ships, laden with Welch coal, exploding of late. It appeared that the barque Independent was lying in the Bute Docks, and had taken in 2.10 tons of Aberdare coal for the West Indies, when a quantity of gas, which had generated in her hold, suddenly exploded with fearful violence. The deck-beams were snapped asunder, the entire deck was blown up between the fore and main mast, and the long boat, which was stowed near the hatch*, was thrown up a considerable distance. Deceased, out of The seamen, was standing on the deck at the time, and the poor fellow received the full force of the concussion. • lle was dreadfully burnt, as were others of the mew. They were forthwith removed to the infirmary, where the deceased died on the following day. The other sufferers continue in, a sad way. The cause of the accident could not be learned, but it was stated that the explosion could not have happened without a light being introduced in the hold. The jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death," with a hopo that every care would be exercised in shipping cargoes of I coal from the port. ANOTHER DARING GAROTTE EOBBERT.—NOT TINGUANI, SATU RD kV —Another audacious garotte robbery was perpetrated early this morning, in a street in the centre of the town, and near to all the principal thorough fares. It appears that about one o'clock this 1110111iT.g, Mr. Croppe, a watch and clock and bobbin and carriage. maker, was returning home, sad had got within abovs a dozen yards of his own house, when f,,ur men rus'aed out of a passage leading to the Ship Tavern, in Chand:tr's-lane, and helmn he had time to give any alarm, thnottled turn and rendered him insensible. When Mr. Croppc recovered from the shock he discovered that he 'find 'hem robbed of a gold watch, and other articles. Ile had alt.') in his pos session another gold watch and several r J ecreigns,which the desperadoes it would appear had not Vane to secure. This 14 the second garotte robbery which ) 4115 taken place in the I town daring the week. ID: Al The foil " Du( "Ilis 1. night, and ably. ,s The LH. attended t Saturday II an d horst ba llcr Ilou. Lion A nil Lii ut. Royal 'tali ing•—Tho Dawson 41 with her pt The full. , issued yLst, di Ms RA favourably — The Que N e ws 01 an d the D< terd*7 ma palace. 1 The DU DiIW6UO, II Morning• in the afte: A mis!ion Co at the Pi Granville Spearman, Captain The Duke of A Cabi a D V t sf sl io Council ite prese n t udratukae injaniDeecuolu}: The co Spitlicad Yestertby devrous *5P t s qu a d r on , ttAr ns o h oo e , d w fie cat Pen it gbn i t S e i l u ( C 3 ‘ l : ' ‘ l: c l C , 3' it: The C Coehrime white to The Rev. 1 ham a Durha about to the