The Express. — London, England, 1853-10-01 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 1, 1853. _4l CA-4)ril3. TO COURESPONDENTX. A ',emu v::. o al • emeemalai Uoll .M... •able. ' u prais. *sal ..tury lona, ad Yr.,l ty a•Ca. W taw ps.t. . _ ,11,44,rt5....1.t..5t5.m51m: 'me The Elyeese.* * EvecMs mar. must M.. 4 Ur slim. 1.1. ..-.:rest. by tmv 'AMA se Ms Sogr Imam. •1:*IR WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. T..• DAT-M.ataa, b. 51161 Anomie. lb. 1 1.. To.vmsum--Noralre, lb. 77n.. Afton" lb. SW. :.(J.VDOS, SATURI4II; OCTOBER 1. Tut rld English notion was that everything English was tight—everything foreign was wrong. There was a fine breadth of prtjudice about this, but at least there was hearty nationality also. Roast beef. old port. and teacoal tires might he called Anelican idols, in whose merits every true JOHN HU LL was septic's& d to have implicit faith. He was understoll to like them, to honour them, to matutain their virtues against all comers. No picture of llotivitros was more tharough:y English thin the one, where a smiiing cook, before the gates of Calais, groans under the weight of some giant ribs of beef; no song has ever been more hearti;y chorused, in all parts of our island, than the " Roast beef of old England." A companion " prejudice," if we are to call it so, ran in lour of the inn-fireside, the " hearty welcome" that weary travellers get from civil Bonifaces ; the cheer ful meetings that took place under the roof-tree of 'White Ilarts and Red Lions. But we are now told that all tLette " prejudices" must be rooted out. " May I not take mine case in mine inn ?" asks our old Shake perian friend. " Certainly not," replies the limes, " yau can take nothing there but discomfort." SitEN,TtPNE, long ago, sighed out what he thought a truth : _ Whoe'er ha% trarelled life's dull round, Wh..,.•er Het elned path hAs been, 31 ,st siteb to thank bow oft be's found Has .ur, wele..me at an inn. No thing, s.tys Printing House-square, for " welcome" read plunder." To be English is to be wrong—to be foreign is to be right. The Times tells us that there is nothing in our nation equal to "the Foreign Hotel." The grumbling formerly indulged in by Englishmen abroad is now all to be kept for home exercise. We are henceforth to how down to the Foreign Hotel system, to worship Table d'llOtes, and to condemn by wide and general consent every particle of English Hotel arrangement. Instead of everything Eng lish being good, we are called on to endorse the assertion that English Hotels are vile, extortionate, dirty. All our caps are to be thrown up for the ho' our of Monsieur E.tusvcaE, of L'Hotel Cour Imperiale; and we aro at once to send howling to perdition the entire generation of the English Bouifaces. Dawn with the Red Lion, the White Hart, and the George. The King's Head is to be abominated, and the Queen's Arms despised. " Mine Host," who, since the days of Cnsunflt and SHAN'TEARE has tern a sort of centre, round whom jollities and enjoyments of various degrees have been held to circulate, is now be ticketed off lecondemned scoundrel, fit company only for the Jew Fagins and the Bill ketes of the " Nev.gate Calendar." We aro told that " landlord" in all parts of the country means tither insolent extortioner or crafty cheat. 'lnc decent inn, ready at all times to instal the travel-tired Euest beside its cheerful fire, and to send up the pleasant contents of its larder for the satisfac tion of the hungry, and of its cellar for the solace of those who may be athir4. is to be " put down" by the Times as Sir PETER LATILIE "put down" suicides. Landlords—if the Tikes and its correspondents be believed are brigands ; their wives aro the drawers of fraudulent bills; the waiters impostors, and the chambermaids cheats. From the very sign board to the uttermost corner of the kitchen every thing is wrong—false—rotten. " English Hotel" and " den of thieves" are synonymous terms—and nothing is fit for a human being but a German table ell4te or a French restaurant. Down with roast beef, port, and sea coal fires, and virtu without end for fricassi, soups maigre, and charcoal. Down with the old solid mahoganies, the warm car pets, and snug private parlours, and in their stead set up dingy marbles, fly-spotted looking-glasses, drafty miles-a-manger, and porcelain stores. In short, if we agree with the Times, we may vote every English Tavern and Hotel fraudulent or " slow," and every foreign one cheap and admirable. Such is the new faith on Hotel-keeping and Hotel keepers preached in Printing-house-square. Of course from this universal condemnation here and there just one pe• inn is to escape; and then the favoured hostelrie is puffed as vigorously as all its compeers are condemned. The class in general are to be libelled that the favoured hotel may be all the more prominently commended. This has been done by the T1104e3 in several instances, bat in some cases with especial offensiveness. Thus, for instance, a particular inn has been selected in the Isle of Wight as • model of cheapness, and ei the rest of the hotels in the island condemned. Does the writer of this mean to say he has tried every other inn in the entire Isle of Wight? If not, how can he venture to libel—and that his charge is a libel there can be no doubt— not only the especial rivals of the inn which he puffs but a whole class throughout an extensive district ? We do not for a moment suppose that the Times is venal in allowing itself to be made the vehicle for puffs which a fifth-rate journal would reject, and of LAT EST FROM THE CONTI N ENT. VIRNNA. SRPT. 27. It is expezted that the Cz tr will least• on the 29th inst.ttit for Odessa. 'l•he Czar rtetiv,tl tl.e Eirl of Westmmeland nn Sunday. The inter% iew was unusually protracted. It is understood that his Majesty displayed the most friendly feeling towards the British Ambassador. The Earl of Westmoreland has also had a conference with Count Nesselrode, in the presence, of Baron Me,.tr.elortf and Baron de Budbeig. ln these interviews the Czar and his servants have protested their anxious desire to preserve peace, but maintained in all points their interpretation of the Vienna vote. Count Nesse!rode proclaims that it is love of peace that makes the Czar anxious to ob- tain a treaty of a simplicity nut to be misiu•crpreted• RUSSIA AND TURKEY. indiscriminate libels which, under other circum stances, the Times itself would avoid. It doubtless runs its muck without any pecuniary dishonesty, and has allowed, without special reward, license to the guerillas to whom the maintenance of the anti- English Hotel battle has been confided. The lean ings of the Times are all " Continental " as distin guished from " English," and its preference for Foreign Hotels, its likings for fricassee and soupe maigre, is quite of a piece with its patronage of Hos ea, Austria, and "strong Governments." Its gross and one-sided attacks on the Hotels are doubtless believed by itself to be honest. It seems never to have occurred to the enemy of English inns that sweeping and indiscriminate cen sure is almost always unjust, and that on a subject of this sort, the case of each writer of a grumbling let ter might be attended by peculiar circumstances carefully kept out of sight. ----• --- Letters from Constantinople of the Pith ult. state that the Sultan had steadfastly refused to iign a war.ike manifesto that had been submitted to him ' for that purpose; but, on the other hand, the four ambassadors had not prevailed on hint to accept the muddled Vienna note. The news that the Emperor of Russia had rejected the Turkish modification was known in Constantinople on the 14th in the diplo matic circles. The couriers with the instructions It, the ambassadors were expected on the 18th. On the conclusion of the fetes of the Bairam, at Constantinople, a grand council was held at the Porte. In addition to the members of the cabinet, Isome great peronages, such as the Cheik-ul Islam (chief of the Ulemas), ex-ministers, &c., were sum named. The results of the deliberations was not known when the mail left. Fifty pieces of artillery and • 2.i,000 muskets had been sent to Varna. A letter from Besika, received by the Courrierelc Mar seille, after announcing the departure of the steam frigates for Constantinople, states that the other I vessels of the combined fleets were making prepara tions to be ready at the first signal. The Joarnal de Constantinople publishes a letter i from M. Chlteau.ltenaud, which positively denies that there is any truth in the report recently spread of the principal surgeon of the hospital of Shninla having attempted to poison Omer Paella, and having accepted a bribe from Russia for the purpose. 'the gentleman referred to is M. Pelletau, and he is still in exercise of his duties. The Allgemeine Zeitung brings a confirmation of en earlier statement of the Express respecting the refusal of the Vienna Conference to despatch a collective note to the Sultan, and mentions, in addi then, the various means proposed for moving hint to accede to the concession desired. On one side it was suggested that the Sultan should, together with the note, send the Emperor an autograph letter.declaring that he signed the Vienna note without alteration, because ho perceived nothing in it obnoxious to his own digni.v and sovereignty, while, on the other hand, the Emperor of Russia would be prepared to despatch a satisfactory reply to these remarks. The French ambassador, according to this authority, was instructed to declare to the Porte that France would be security that the Vienna note alretuiy con tained everything that the Turkish modifications re quired; and that France would neither now nor in future assent to an interpretation prejudicial to the independence and sovereignty of the Porte. Lord Redefine was represented to be instructed in the same sense, excepting (tor want of instructions) the undertaking of thq security, with reference to which the declaration of the English government is re served. A letter from Moscow of the 18th ult. states that on his way to Olmutz the Czar reviewed the 6th Corps d'Arrni.e, commanded by General Tcheodaeff, and the reserve division of the 4th Corps. At Toole, a triumphal arch was erected by the Greek clergy, with the following inscription :—" To the venerated chief of the orthodox religion ! To the pillar of the faith ! Ile will triumph over all his enemies." Letters of the 2lth have been received from Malta. Not a single ship of war remained in the port. On the evening betore a Prussian frigate had quitted her anchorage for the Dardanelles, having on board the first secretary to the Prussian embassy at Constantinople, with instructions for his ambassador. A correspondence :rem Erzeronm of the 27th, so• murices the arrival in that town of an extraordinary courier coming from Teheran with despatches for Constantinople. It was given out as certain that Persia had placed 1000 of her best troops at the disposition of the Sultan. This news is important if true, because the cabinet of St. Petersburg has neg lected no means to exercise en influence upon Persia and to isolate her from Turkey. A correspondent of the Sallow: Zeitung writes from Vienna, on the 25th alt, in harmony with our earlier telegraphic adviees : Wet Duol declared to the representatives of England and France, previously to hi. departure for Olmutz, that, af'er the latest communication of the British cabinet, to the effect that it could not urgently press the simple accepta tion of the Vienna note on the Porte, the only collective step isscricable was the despatching t•s Constantinople, in the shape of an identical note, the declaration already fre quently mentioned, that the Vienna draft of a note con tain( 3 nothing dangerous to the s.,vereignty of the I'orte. It was said that France had not expressed her intentions definitely with regard to the manner in which the accept. ance of the notes should be pressed at Constantinople." It was rumoured at the Bourse on Thursday that the French government had received intelligence from Olmutz of the Emperor of Russia having re tracted the interpretation which he had put upon the note of the Conference of Vienna, and that the King of Prussia had expressed strong disapprobation of the note of Count Neeselrode on the modifications proposed by the Porte. This statement, (however, is not confirmed. FRANCE. PARIS, FRIDAY Motwtso. A report of an approaching ministerial modifica tion was very widely circulated yesterday. Accord ing to the rumour, which may after all be nothing more, M. Binesu, the present finance minister, will be made Governor of the Bank of France, the port folio of finance being resumed by M. Foul& This arrangement, it is conceived, would give the govern ment a more entire command of the resources of the State, and a greater influence over the money market than it has at present. M. de Persigny would suc ceed M. Fould as Minister of State, and AL Fremy be the new Minister of the Interior. M. Benoit Fould, the present head of the banking firm, met with a serious accident in a carriage, two or three days ago, from the consequences of which his brain is somewhat affected. This is, I believe, the foundation of a c,sisarel that has been flying about that M. Achille Fould, the minister, had gone out of his mind. The Bourse was at one time very buoyant yester day. The 'fhrees rose to 75.35, but again within the last few minutes a panic set in, owing to reports that Consols were lower. The news on this subject circulated on the previous day was entirely false, and may be so again. Bitter complaints arc made of the want of authentic information. Within the last two or three days the aubm trine telegraph has been mo inopolised during the greater part of the twenty-four hours by the government, and bankers and mer chants have not received their ordinary despatches. '1 he last price of the renter was 7-I.w), being still a rise of 70e. The sudden reaction was not so violent in the railways, most of which closed at a consider able advance. Orleans, Strasbourg, and Rouen rose 20f. Credit Mobtiter rose 22.5• i. Bank of France i remained stationary. Oaring, as it is prasutned. to rough weather in the channel, the Lond 111 evening papers and Ictteris were not delivered till atter three o'clock this after- THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY'S EDUCATION SCHEME. —A n..mber of the teach.n employed by the General Assembly of the Church of 81,:otland, and others, enter:ailed Mr. John Keith, clerk to the General Assembly's Kluza trio Committee, at supper on the 23 3 inst., and presented Lim with • purse euntaini•g 31 guineas (being contribu tions from 139 teachers), as a token of their appreciat.ou of his labours in connemon with the education scheme for the last fourteen years, and as a mark of their pad. ! noon. tude for his uniform kindness sad his unwearied miens 'the Assemble] , alludes to the rep' its current on 'ion to tt:,•:r interests ea all =salons. —EdiaborgA Courant, Sept. 27. Wednesday, that M. Kiswlef, the Russian Ambassa- A MAN CIICSIIED TO Deant.—On Thursday, u ° dor, had demanded his passport, and adds that the we 01 toe men ens,,loye.: a! the Great Northern Itai,way , sem , ' thing was said with respect to M. Hubner, the station at D•oscaster, named Alfred Moore, was assietius to Austrian ambassador, but gives a positive contradie shunt art eneme into ore of the locomotive shed., the cutter ti of the co:Atoms red of :he waeels nearest to ',int ciugiit on tu both rumours. his trevert, when, to save liimstlf from bring drawn under ! the Ibmileur repor.ll that at Calais, on Tuesday the mishit's., be seir h of a pile of timhi.r, whier. im. morning, at 9 o'clock the Emperor eased oat mediate.y gave way, aria p .nr fellow was crushed wiltout an escort, accotupanied by the Ministers of sit beget is • pi. cc of the n o and the bsr of the War and :Marine, the Prefect of the Pas de Calais, Wheu t..10m up by some of his comrades be was the Mayor, and two aides-de-camp, to visit that pent hut he c.mll not b:Ef to re:nosed, and died sleort.y tile town called the Quartier, which is inhabited after ear is on the spot. of fittiti.wsuraT AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY. by fishermen and their , families, to the number of Tease e septs for week ended srpt. IS, b. - 4,9121.0 lid, 3,000 souls. His Majesty afterwards inspected the Corresponding period last yes:, 5414 17$. d. port, eu.d examined ou the spot a plau for its im- provement, projected by Vaisban, and afterwards altered and submitted to Napoleon I. in 1808. The amelioration would render the harbo ur accessible at all times of the tide, even for ships of war. At I Boulogne the rain fell so heavilv when the imperial carriage arrived at the Sub-Prefecture, that the Emperor accepted an umbrella from the Mayor to hold over the Empress as she ascended I the steps. The Emperor, then, notwith standing the heavy rain, went, accompanied by Marshal Valliant, the ministers, sad the Pre fect, and took up his station under a military tent placed in the Grande Rue, to see the deputations of the communes pass before him. Each deputation was preceded by its banner and band, and the cere mony lasted upwards of an hour. The Emperor then returned to the Sub Prefecture, where a recep tion took place, commencing with the bishop and his clergy. A considerable number of English officers in uniform were ohserved to be present, as well as Mr. Hamilton, the English Consul, and the Mayors of Dover, Ramsgate, Margate, Folkestone, Hastings, and several other English towns, invited over by the town of Boulogne. The English Consul presented to the Emperor the address from the English residents and visitors is the town, which was in preparation long since, nod has already appeared in your columns. Four hundred signatures were obtained to this address. It does not appear that the Empe ror made any answer to it. After the official recep tions, the emperor was pleased to admit a deputa tion of the fishwomen of Boulogne to pay their respects to him and the Empress. To the latter they offered a silver fish in a net of the same metal, with a compliment in verse, composed and recited by one of them, who already, as she took care to mention, had had the honour of complimenting Napoleon the First. About half-past 4, the weather having some what cleared up, their Majesties went out in en open carriage to visit several of the public establishments. On passing by the Chateau, the Emperor pointed out to the Empress the room which had served hint as a prison, and said loud enough to be heard by all the persons who accompanied him :—" It was there that Persigny, seeing me leave, said, 'Allez, mon Prince, —the shade of Napoleon protects you.' " Within a few paces of the famous column dedicated by the grand army to the glory of the Emperor, Louis Napo icon stopped hie carriage, and showed the Empty" the spot on which his uncle's tent was erected, when he for the first time distributed crosses of the Legion of Honour to his companions in arms. Their Majesties descended to the port, where the Emperor alighted and conversed for a short time with the Minister of Marine and the Prefect on the improve ments which it was advisable to have effected by the prolongation of the jetty GOO feet and the ter mination of the dock commenced by Napa Icon I. It is supposed that five or six mil lions would suffice for these ameliorations, and that the whole could be finished in about four years. It is believed that his Majesty will before long give some orders relative to these works. Y es-1 teriay morning their Majesties visited the fleet, and quitted Boulogne at half-past one, arriving at Abbe ville a little after three o'clock. They entered the town in an open carriage, and after proceeding to the church, alighted at the Hotel de Ville, where a great number of deputations were received. They then proceeded on their journey, and arrived at Amiens at five o'clock, and alighted at the Hotel of the Pre fecture in excellent health. Their Majesties arrived in Paris at the station of the Northern Railway in the Place Lafayette at half-past 5 last evening. I have just seen their car riage, escorted by a strong body of , aides, passing along the Boulevards towards St. Cloud. They leant back in the carriage, being doubtless tired, and within but the tip of the Empress's bonnet was visible. The Minister of Marine went on board the ad miral's vessel of the Ocean squadron off Boulogne on Wednesday. Within the last three weeks no less than eleven prosecutions, all ending in convictions, have been brought before the courts of Vesoul. Pontoise, Metz, Nantua, Chaumont, Chatillon, and Die, against indi viduals charged with using insulting language towards the Emperor. . . . . The Moniteu;states that in addition to the differ ent countries which have before signified their inten tion to send their productions to the Universal Exhi bition of Paris in 1835 may now be added Austria, the Brazils, Peru, New Grenada, and Haiti. The despatches announcing this deter mination, rays the Moniteur, show their eager ness to co-operate in giving eclat to this great tournament of labour. In the Brazils, in partieulu, a credit of 300,000 fr. hu been demanded from the Chamber of Deputies in order to facilitate the send ing of articres of Brazilian production. PARIS, ENIDAT EVENING.. The Emperor has lost no time after his return in attending to business. He presided to-day at a cabinet council at St. Cloud. The rumours of a ministerial modification continue to be spoken of with an increasing belief in their truth. I hear it said in many quarters to-day that M. Fould will not assume the responsibility of the finance department at the present moment, but will leave the ministry altogether. In that case, M. Bineau will remain at his post, and some other person will be found to replace M. D'Argout as governor of the Bank of France. It is not thought, whether war should be declared or not, that the government can possibly avoid having recourse to a loan. I am enabled to assure you positively that an official communication has been addressed to Russia by France and England, to the effect that the fleets have been ordered to Constantinople, as a demonstra tion of their intention to support Turkey, this demon stration having become necessary in consequence of the interpretation put by M. de Neonlrode upon the Vienna note. The AnitaMe undertakes to assure the world that the Emperor of Russia will still be magnani mous. "By the fact of the entry of the fleets," it mays, "the treaties of 1841 cease to exist, and the Emperor of Russia is very possibly not sorry for this. But, however, that may be, what conduct will be pursued by the cabinet of St. Petersburg? Will it make the entry of the fleets a reason for taking some new advantage of Turkey? We think not. We believe that for the present the Emperor of Russia will content himself with the position he has taken, that he will strengthen himself in that position, and keep his troops in the Principalities, but that he will not make any fresh movement as a reply to the entry of our fleets. Such at least is our hope." There were considerable fluctuations at the Bourse to-day, consequent principally upon the state of the account. It was the day for declaring options pre vious to the settlement, and, contrary to the general expectation, it was found that, instead of the " bears" having oversold themselves, the balance of transactions was against the " bulls." The Thews opened at 75fr. 95c, rose to 75fr. 50c., fell to 75c., and closed at 75fr. 10c., with a rise of 25e. from yes terday. The railways were somewhat better. Rouen closed 12fr. 50c., and Lyons, 10c. higher than yes terday. The quotations of the French lines are higher in London than in Paris, and several English speculators have been compelled to purchase here. General Canrobert, in a farewell order of the day addressed to the army of the camp of Helfaut, said to them," When a man has the honour to command soldiers such as you, the most ardent desire he can form, is to be called upon to lead them against the enemy !" Several political arrests were made last evening among the bystanders at the Northern Railway station waiting for the arrival of the Emperor and Empress. The Uuiou speaks of one man in a blouse, who was arrested for speaking disrespectfully of the Emperor. But a friend of mine, who w s present, saw six persons pounced upon by the eergens-de-ville and marched off in custody. BELGI UM. The Indeptaulance of Brussels states that several towns in Belgium have requested the government to suspend temporarily the duty on the import of cattle. "It;' it adds, " the government should adopt this measure, it will appeal to the towns to abolish tem porarily the octroi duties on flour, meat, cattle, and other artielts of the first necessity for the working Classes." S‘IITILItLAND. Ihe New Zwick Gaze lid states that the Austrian authorities at Rorschach have refused to receive the Austrian workmen who had returned from Switzer land, as they had exceeded the delay allowed for their return to the Austrian territory. GERMANY. _ *__ The German journals slate that the Costa business at Sin) ma was to be discussed, together with the Eastern question, at Olmutz, while the Emperor of Russia should bo there, though what he has to do with it does not at once appear. A case analogous to Costa's is now before the American lega tion at Berlin. A M. Henry Von Oebsche was condemned in 1849 to four years' im prisonment for an offence of the press: but he fled to the United States in 1840, and obtained naturalisa tion as an American citizen. About a year ago he returned to Hamburg on private business. He was arrested, given up to the Prussian authorities, and removed to the gaol of I.iegnitz, where he has since remained. He has applied to the American Lega tion for protection as a citizen of the United States. The send-official journal of Dresden contradicts the news given by the Buersenhalle to the effect that a new tariff of entry duties had been es tablished between Austria and the Zullverein, and that the articles of the tariff bad been reduced to eighty. SPAIN. - ... ..-- A royal decree removes Lieutenant- General Canedo from the post of Governor and Captain- General of Cuba, and appoints Lieutenant-General de la Pezucla to the post. Other royal decrees nominate General Lersundi to the Captaincy-General of Seville, General Jose de la Concha to the Director ship of Cavalry, General Cordova to the Directorship of Infantry, and appoint several new captains-general of provinces. The Clamor Public° says that it was reported that the government intended to convoke the Cortes towards the middle or latter end of the next month, and to re-establish the decree of M. Pidal on the press. But from letters it would ap pear that the cabinet has not yet come to any reso- I lution on these subjects. THE NARTAEZ MISNION TO VIENNA. The affair which commenced at the beginning of the year with a whimsical royal order directing Marshal Narvaes to repair to Vienna, there to study some imaginary archives, has just been wound up with the lollowing farcical letter, which was published in the Madrid Gazette of the 24th ult. : Her Majesty having been informed of the bad state of healt4 of your Excehency—considering that your lied lency wrote from Bayonne, on the 31st January last, that the complaint under which you were suffering did not per mit you to fulfil the mission with which you were ch4rged— considering that a later date, on the 9th February, you were authorised to choose in Franco or another tortign country, the place in which you could more easily obtain a relief for your sufferings—considering that you hare nut been able to obtain completely this result, not having been able in your journey to Vienna to go further than the capital of France—considering, lastly, that next year a milder climate than that of countries nearer Spain may be inuispensable to your Excellency—her Majesty has deigned to relieve your Excellency from the mission which she con fided to you on the 9th December last, in order Diet you may take up your residence in the place most suitable to your health and interests. By royal order which I commu nicate to your Excellency. God keep your Excellency for many years.—Madrid, Sept. 23. ANSELXO BLASEK. TO bit Excellence the Captain-General of the Army, Duke de Valencia. IJOINUS AT OL3IUTZ. A letter from Olmutz dated Sunday last commu nicates some particulars of the meeting of the Czar and Emperor on the evening of this day week, and the great military mass of the following morning. The Emperor of Austria went out to meet the Czar as far as Promo, and at six o'clock the whole of the two courts, with all the higher cancers of the Austrian army, were assembled, and followed the imperial cortege into Olinutz, the two Empe rors riding on horseback. The town was illuminated and decorated with garlands and devices. The Czar placed himself at the head of the guard of honour, and as he marched past saluted the Emperor of Austria in the capacity of a comrade of the veterans and a holder of a regimental command under the sovereign of Austria. Loud applause greeted this theatrical feat, and was renewed by the specta tors as the Emperors publicly kissed each other. The two Emperors spent the evening together in undisturbed privacy. On Sunday all the camp was early afoot. 45,700 men with 128 guns, being encamped on the gr e at pl a i n o f 01- , mutt, a couple of miles from the town, were disposed fur divine service. The whole mass of troops formed a long parallelogram. The staffs of the Emperors were brilliant beyond descrip• tion, comprising a great many imperial and royal personages and upwards of 60 generals. The Emperor of Austria wore a white uniform, with the light blue riband of the order of St. Andrew of Russia. The Emperor Nicholas wore the cuirassier uniform of his Austrian regiment, and made an esiceedingl) imposing appearance with his huge breastplate, martial air, and gigantic stature. lie was ac companied by his sons, one of whom wore an Austrian colonel's uniform, and ho was immediately attended by Generals Adlerberg, Grunwald, Schuraluff, Mirshilevitch, and Creole. Thu imperial corte:ye then rode along the camp and down the columns to the field chapel, which was an altar covered with a tent, where al shaven priests stood to perform the functions of mass Opposite to this was a tribune with red velvet cushions, and here the Emperor of Austria heard may, the Emperor of Russia being on his right hand kneeling, making the sign of the cross, and appearing to join in the divine service. Ths Prince of Prussia stood behind as a spectator, but did not kneel. The elevation of the host, marked by the ringing of a bell, was telegraphed to the most distant battalions, so that the whole army might simultaneously join in this rite; and the anthem was played with astonishing precision and unity by the thirty bands united, exhibiting one of the most pompous religious solem- nities that can be conceived. After service the whole army defiled before the two sovereigns. The Earl of Westmoreland was rem►rked in the imperial cortege on Sunday, conspicuous in a bright scarlet uniform. RUSSIA AND TURKEY. The following has been received from the Foreign office, in reply to the memorial from the public meeting at Sheffield, praying the government to take "prompt and decisive measures to cause the immediate evacuation of the Danubian Principalities; to make Russia bear all the ex penses consequent upon her invites proceedings; and to prevent her again outraging justice and international law:" " Foreign-office, Sept. 26, lAA. "Sir,—l am directed by the Earl of Clarendon to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 20th inst., enclosing a memorial agreed upon at a meeting of the inhabitants of Sheffield, praying that tke British govern ment will take prompt and decisive measures to cause the immediate evacuation of the Danubian Principalities, to make Ramie bear the espensee of the occupation of those provinces, and to prevent her from again having recourse to similar proceedings. lam to state to you in reply that her Majesty's government are fully sensible of the shock given to the independence of Turkey by the late proceed ings of This'll , ' in forcibly taking pessession of a portion of the Ottoman territories; and as her Majesty's government continue to be of opinion that the maintenance of the inde pendence of Turkey is essential, not only for British inte rests, but for the general interests of Europe, the memo rialists may feel assured that her Majesty's government will nigh et no measures which they may think best calcu lated to secure so important an object..—l am, Sir, your mnst obedient, humble servant, "11. A. ADDINOTUN. " John Carr, Esq., Sheffield." TOTAL LOSS OP TIIE VICTORY STEAM-PACKET OPP 1112 COAST 02 W221111111.-131118TOL, FRIDAY, SEPT. M.—lntelligence has reached this city of the total loss of the steam-ship Victory, one of the tine packets of the Dublin and Witte:ford Steam Navigation Company, and which traded between the last-named port and Bristol. From the accounts which reach us it would appear that the Victory, which was commanded by an experienced captain (Stacey), upon her arrival at Waterford, was engaged by the government to carry a detachment of troops from that city to Liverpool. This she did, and was on her return voyage from Liverpool to Waterford, when, while off Wexford cou•, she struck upon a rock, and went down almost immediately. A letter, which the head engineer addressed hastily in pencil to his wife, has been received, and it states the gratifying intelligence that all hand were sleet!, hut gives no particulars of the mode in which their escape WVI accompr shed. STAMI'II Tuxes oir ItEcsarTs.—ln answer to in qua., 6 Ily a mercantile house, desirous of having a form of recoipt stamped and made up into boil's, Mr. Keoga, of the inland revenue, hus Mooed that the forms in ueh cases ar, to be driivered to the distributor or sub-distributor of stomps for the district, together with the duty. They will then be forwarded to the proper quarter for stamping, and re:urnei as soon as practicable. Tho forms must nut be sent bound up into books, but u loose sheets. Irpe Court. BALMORAL, Sem 29. Yesterday aftert.ooa, at 3 o'clock, the first stone of the new castle at Balmoral was bid by her Majesty. After a short prayer Lad been ttftr 1 by at !Lev. Archi bald Anderson, of Cratlite, for the welfare ut its future in mates, a glare cylinder was placed by htr Majesty in a cavity of the foundation, containing specimens of the cur rent coin of the realm, and a parchment document, de• scribing the nature and date of cuomencement of the build ing, signed by all the members of the royal family present, and the I dies and gentlemen in attendance. A sileir trowel was then presented to her Majesty ly Mr. Smith, of Aberd,on, the architect. Her Majesty having spread the mortar, the stone was lowered under the superintendence of Mr. Stuart, the contractor for the works. Her Majesty then applied the square, level, plam met, and mallet, and having ascertained that the stone was correctly placed, poured over it some corn, wine, and oil. Immediately after the ceremony the whole of the work men employed on the new works, with their wives and families, sat down w a linnor prepared for them by her Majesty's commands in the temporary iron ballroom, where they deuced afterwards in the evening. The dinner p irty yesterday included the Duchess of Kent, ly Augusta llrec the Hon. Mrs. G.,rdon, Sir George and Lady Cooper. uol Dr. Robertson. The Viscountess Canning has arrived at Balmoral to suc ceed the Duche,s of Wi:llington as Lady in Waiting to her Majesty. Mr. Jebb had an interview with Viscount Palmerston yesterday at the Hume-office. M. Le D mteur Metier, the Commissioner sent by the French government to watch the progress and mink of treatment of cholera in this country, hell an interview yes terday with the General B fard of Health, at th-ir offices, Whitehall, on his return from Newcastle upon-Tyne, where he had examined the mode of treating cholera, and the ac- Hen of the syst. tit of house-to-house visitation now pur sued there under tho directi.m of the Board's medical superintending inspectors. Earl Granville arrived in town on Thursday night from Aldenha o Park, near Bridgenottli. Despatches wets sent from the Colonial-office yesterday to the Governors of all the North American provinces. The Duke of Cambridge and suite, after visiting some of the public establishments at Plymouth, left yesterday morn ing for Exeter, where he will suspect the troops, and thence proceed to London. TIIE LEANDER is detained at Plymouth for repairs. "THE SIXTH OF OCTOBER." Under this title a black-bordered note has been published as follows: " In memory of the defenders of constitutional liberty in Hungary, who, after the surrender of the Hungarian army to the Russians, were put to death by Austrian exe cutioners. Their honoured names are dear to the lovers of liberty founded on law.—Count Louis Batthyanyi, Prime Minister; Count Ladislaus Celan, i, Minister of Commerce ; Baron Sigismond l'erenyi, President of the }louse of Peers ; Baron Jeszeurk, Lord-Lieutenant of the County of Nyitra ; Baron Szatsvay, Member and Secretary of the Diet ; P:inee Woronyieczky ; Prince Czernus, Councillor of State ; Major ?if urman, Major Abancourt. " Prisoners of war given up by Russia to the Austrian executioners, and hanged or shot Lt. Arad on the 6th October, 1849.—General Aulich, Minister of War ; Lieut.- General Ernest Kiss, General Damianich, General Nagy Sandor, General Dessevrify, General Count Leiningen, cousin of her Majesty Queen Victoria ; General Count Vecsey, General General Lohner, General Baron Polrenberg, General Knesich, General Schireidl, General Count Lazar, Colmel Kazinczy." The Tsmes sounds alarm as to Turkish fanaticism. There can be no fear of her equalling in atrocity the 'tea of Russia and Austria of the 6th of October, 1849. RE-OPENING OF THE FREE LIBRARY AND MUSEUM, SALFORD. The Free Library and Museum, situate in Peel Park, Salford, are to be re-opened to-day. The gift of the fine park, named after Sir Robert Peel, to the public of Salford, is so fresh in the memory of the public., that we need but mention it to recall the (acts connected with it. Then, a few years later, in 1E49, came the opening of a fine public library and museum, to which the people of Man chester and Salford (or anywhere else) have free admission' from 10 a.m. to 'J p.m. every working day. And next came the inauguration of a noble statue of the lamented statesman, whose name the institu tions bear. The generous liberality of the founders has not stopped here, however. The library, from a small collection of 5,000 volumes, has swelled already into one of 12,000, and the museum increasing in an equal ratio ren dered the original boilding in which they were placed quite inadequate, end an enlargement has had t i be made. Messrs. Travis and slagnall, architect•, of Manchester, fur nished designs fir carrying this enlargement into effect, which required a fund of 5,0001.--a large aunt to be raised, after the large subscriptions previously made. However 1 1 Mr.E. R. Langworthy led the way with a noble donation of 2,0001., the improvement committee of the corporation gave 1,5001. from the gas prvfits of the burough, and the execu tive committee of the museum added 1,0001., making 4,5001. towards the amount, and the path to this great enlargement has been rendered tolerably easy, The enlargements have much more than doubled the avail able apace to the library, whilst the mesuem has benefited even to a larger extent. The following brief outline of the interior arrangements of the building will give an idea of the great change which has been effected. Entering the building from the front door, to the vestibule, is a wide, lofty, and spacious corridor, having some fine casts of sta tues from the antique arranged en either side, with a grand staircase at the further end leading to the museum on the second story. From the corridor doors open to the right into the library and reading room. Taking the first door to the right, you enter the library, which is in three rooms, 68 feet in length by 24 wide, with a view of the new reading room beyond, seen through • glass door. The entire suite of apartments bursts upon the view at once, giving • measurement of 152 feet. The reading room alone is 75 feet long by 30 feet wide, and 16 feet in height. It is lighted by twelve lofty and wide circular headed Italian windows, ten on the north side and two at the further end, looking to the west. It is furnished with fifteen tables, having a dozen seats at each table, besides newspaper stands. The walls are hung with Wylers map, presented by the publisher, and the tables have paper and writing materials to be supplied gratuitously to the visitors. The windows give a splendid view across the park to the north, and acrossWallnessonf Kersal,and the hills lying beyond Bury, including Holcombe Hill, and the monument on its summit to Sir Robert Peel, which is about sia•een miles distant. Returning to the corridor and ascending the staircase, which is in two flights of fifteen steps each, you reach the natural history museum. The first landing of the staircase has a fine Bacchic vase and some groups of statuary, whilst the walls are relieved by slabs of gthe Elgin marbles and other enrichments. At the top of the second flight of stairs is a corridor corresponding with that below, having statuary and other fittina in nice taste, lighted from the ceiling, and partly from the breat west window at the stair case end. On the north side of this corridor is a door opening into a room over the reading room, and of corre sponding proportions, only that it has a lofty vaulted roof, with lights in it, the walls at the sides being reserved for a picture gallery. There is already a collection of some fine enoavings, and a few good paintings. Beyond this, over the library, is a room containing one of the most com plete parts of the Museum, having in it upwards of of a thousand specimens of British birds. A room at the further end of the upper corridor, occupying the whole enst front of the building, is devoted to foreign specimens of ornithology, ntamalia, concbology, and other objects of co.:- siderable interest. The museum has been on the whole considerably increased, and visitors will find in it many rare and interesting object.. To the library Sir Benj imin Heywood, Burt., has added 122 folio volumes of journals of the houses of parliament, and Sir John Potter has added some valuable contributions to the natural history museum, picked up on his recent tour in the East. Great credit is due to Mr. Plant, the curator, for the tasteful fitting up of the building. A GRAND CEREMONIAL, in celebration of the con accrati,n and opening of a 9reund .fewiat Syn►g ig4e, ouk place in Birmingham on Thursday. The religious pat of the praceediug was followed by u dinner at the Royal Hotel, at which Mr. Alderman Salomms pesided. Mr. Mentz and Mr. Scholifidd, the borough mewbers, were pre-ens. . I'OPUL %R CoNcEttTa.—A new aeries of Wednesday Evening concerts is about to be given at Exeter Hall on a popular scale, while at the came time the arrangements are to have special reference to the improvement which has taken plaee of late years in the musical taste of the public. They are to be under the titivation of M. Beneilict. SHERIFFS' INArGrnAvny DINSEa. • The Sheriffs having been inaugurated this mint ing with the usual forms, last evening Mr. Aid, r in „ Wire, the new Shirai' toe Lmellit and Middl,p s. earn his inauguratie.n bataluet at the I. snd ti Tavern. _Vona 170 gentlemen eir•re present, including L or d Dudley Coot ts Stuart, M.l'. ; the H on . and Hoe. Henry Legge; ti.e igin lion. the Conker Baron; th e Lord Mayor Elect ; Mr. Meiterman, M.P.; Mr. Chap lin, M.P. ; Mr. Swift, M.P. ; Sir William Henry Po old; Sir Jahn Hensler ; Sir George Hotlgkinsun; Mr. Ald er . man Yerebrother ; Alderman Sir Chapman Marshall; Alderman Ilumpbery; Mr. Ahkrtnau Hooper; A:.h rninii Sir J.aiae Duke, Bart., M.P.; Alderman Sir Jeiin Miss. grove, Bart.; Mr. Alderman Hunter; the lt:ght Hon. T. Stuart Wortley, M P., Recorder of London; Mr. Alder man Moon ; Mr. Alderman F:onis; Mr. Alderman Law rence; Alderman Sir H. W. Carden; Mr. Alderman Carter; Mr. Aalerman Cubit; M.P. ; Mr. Alderman Muggeridge; Sir John Key. But., Chamberlain of London; Mr. Ser. j eans merewether ; Mr. Clarkson; Mr. Bodkin; Mr. J. E. Parry, Mr. W.)!'. Helene, Bev. Dr. Mortimer, It ir . J. Briant, Ley. T. Moon. Rev. J Davis, Mr. henry NII HAU, Dr. Bowriag, Mr Hammock, Mr. Win. Event, Jeremiah Pitcher, Mr. John Lsurie, Mr. It. W. Kennard, Mr. Charles Hill, Mr. J. Hill, Mr. Donald Nichol', Me, Thomas Cotterell, Mr. Currnistinner Harvey, Mr. J . b d. Inn, Captain Drake, Mr. Samuel Morley, Mr. J. D. gro wn. Mr. Kennersley, Mr. C. Year-on, Mr. U. Lambert June; the. Master War.lees rind Court of ASl.R . ltats of the Gird lers' Company, the Master Wardens and Court of Assist nuts of the lonholders' •Company, Mr. Deputy Watkins, Mr. D ,puty Msud, Mr. liennoch. Mr. Bunning, Mr . I..ird Hale, Mr. J.ihn Woad, Mr. I.7nilersheriff Andert..a Mr. Citannan, Mr. Henry Child, Mr. James, Mr. l'hi p! i.e., Mr. Traver' Wire, Mr. Oeo. O , Idsmith, 31r. Charles Deuce, Mr. Bulkeley, Mr. F. Adam Catty, &e., &c. Mr. Alderman; and Sheriff Winn presidod, and the usual loyal toasts having been disposed of, Th. CHAIRMAN prui , o.ed "The Health of the Lord Mayor," who, he said, intended to have been Prokot, b ut the auto of his alth prevented him, lie not having gaffe recovered treed his late accident. Since he had been in I office his lordship had done nothing to forfeit the t steetu of 11121 fellow-citizens, and when he retired into private lite he would have the reflection that he had done his duty and su,:sined the dignity cf sea high office. Mr. Deputy Bestencn acknowlee..ged the toast. The CHAIRMAN then proposed " The Health of the Cur situr Darn," who, after acknowledging it, he propos e d the hta.th of the attends, and more especially that of Mr. Wire. The CIIATItNIAN, in responding to tho toast, said h e trusted he should he able to discharge the duties of his office with the approbation of his tellow-eitisens, and that he should transmit it to those who succeeded him unimpaind and unimps ached. Permit him to ask them to drink to the health of the Lord Mayor elect, who had come into office with an anxious desire to fulfil all its duties, not to omit its lin.spitalities, n it to forget is rights, not to shrink (rem its tt sponsibilities, net to leave neglected anything which belonged to the office of Lord Mayor of this great city. Tho LOUD MAYOU ELECT (Mr. Alderman Sidney) said his friend, Mr. Aldermen %Vire, had depicted a that -nut whichhe (Mr. Alderman Sidney) did not possess. Ile could not promise perfection, hut Ito would do his best to fulfil the duties of the office which wool 1 shortly devolve spa him; and he should aim at his acts being charat.ti rind by coeuntoa :ease. He admired the wisdom of our aneeskts, and th ise privileges which had been transmitted Irma generatioa to generation for six centuries he trusted would be safe in his keeping. lie trusted that whatever change might come over [be spirit of their dream, no change it, tie hespitatity of the Ohm would be allowed. _ "'The Aldermen of ti.e City," " The lilembers for the City," "The Mt tropolitan Members," and "The City of London," were severally proposed and responded to. The CHAIRMAN then gi.ve" The health of Dr. Bossily.," to whose services in the cruse of comm e rcial r e f orm , an d consul in Chins, he paid a passing compliment. Dr. Ilowitts.o in returning thanks, said a year in Europe was worth a cycle in Cathay. He then spoke of the sere3t respect paid to e.!ucstion in China, an s said be NPR 9,010 persons of all ages come to Canton to be examined in lite rary acquirements, and they were accompanied by 50,000 of their friends. Only 72 could gain pr'z, e, and these were sent t., Pekin, and would be the future governors of the oountry. In China there were no less than F.erca news papers published in the English language. "The Ishmistrates of the County of Middlesex" was thin given, and responded to by Mr. YOWNALL. Set'-ral otac toasts toll - owed, and the company then de. parted. ROI - AL I'.4I'OPTICON OF SCIENCE AND ART. Yesterdoy the third annual general meeting of this curpoiation tuck place at the Lecture Item of the In stitution, Leicester-square; Mr. NOEL lioalth in the chair. A report was read, which gated that the sanguine hors expressed in the last report as to the opening of the building had been disappointed again through want of funds. At the date of the last r. port 4,517 shares had been subscribed for, and 14,5001. ta.l :towed by the cour.cil by way of loan, sod from the state of the money market at that time there seemed every probability of tharemaining shares being speedily taken up. Since then the loans had Item for the most part paid off, and a com.idereble number more shares subscribed for. They were now being taken up by the public, at a very sta.cly rate, without being advertised ; so that there could be little doubt as to the completion of the share ins before long. 13u even this advance was quite insuflieiett fur the purpose of rapidly carrying ou the works, and the council had ugain come forward, with three exceptions, and had furnished the means of obtaining the requisite funds for the completieu of the building and its appurte nances. They believed, therefore, that no obstacle now existed to the speedy and complete opening of the institu tion to the :pualicl !Although quite a novelty in point of style, the opinions of the press, and ofthe architects and other scientific men who hal visited it, had been uaanimous in pronouncing the building to be quite unique—a tact which, in itself, would be found to be a great attraction to the public. Tee directors had secured the co-operation of many in fluential men in the 6CCI i 0316 of engiueering, the tine arts, music, &c. They bad received a large collection of works of art from various eminent persons,amounting in value to some thousands of pounds, which had already been deposited lathe institution. With respite! to the preparation for opening the institution, the council might state that the building in all its essential points was complete, and in a perfectly satisfactory state, as far as stability seas coecerned. The report concluded by stating, that, from the pra.oara tines now in progress, there was every reason to believe that the public would he pleaied with the result of their endeavours. The balance sheet showed that the receipts amoanted to 60,3 3 41. 51. 2d., and the expenditure to 60,1121. 161. 10d., leaving a balance of 721/. Bs. 4d. The report was adopted, and a resolution was passed authorising the directors to raise a sum of money net ex ceeding 2.5,0001. on mortgage of the lands, tenements, and hereditamen. s of the corporation. Various other resolutioos of a routine character were passed, and the businewi terminated. TILE HOUSELESS POOR AT MARYLEBONE IVORICHO USE. Yesterday, at the meeting of the guardians of the poor of St. Marylebone, Mr. Rex, the secretary, read a letter from the Poor-law Board, enclosing the copy of a letter extracted from a daily paper of Thursday, complaining that on the night of the 22nd the writer found four females lying outside the Mary lebone Workhouse door on the pavement, and that on his applying at the gate the porters told him they could not ' admit them, and that it frequently happened that there were 20 of a night lying on the pavement. The Poor-law Board requested an explanation. Mr. RIMELL moved that the subject be referred to a committee. These statements in the public press were calculated to bring greut discredit upon the guardians, but the fault lay in the system. The guardians of Marylebone were quite ready to enter into any uniform system which might be adopted ; but, if Marylebone alone were to admit the houseless poor at night, they would soon find thir workhouse swarming with the lazy and idle of all other parishes and unions in and near the metropolis. Mr. hlyasolt, the overae, r, in answer to • question, said he had known as many as 300 out on the pavement in a night. Sime years since they had a nightly asylum to ac commodate 140 homeless and casual poor, and the result wee that hundreds came from all parts ; and he and other officers were kept frequently from ten at night till two in the morning investigating their cases, and that knocked it on the head. Mr. POLAND, who seconded the resolution, said it was notorious that in all the parishes and unions of the metro polis they would find people lying outside on the pa, went in front of the workhouse. at night. It was no new sub ject, and no remedy could be applied for the evil until the legislature, as was Unit. ditty, j.sscd some act on the sub ject. After some discusidon, the resolution was carried and a committee appointed, and the board separated after oth,r business. IMPROPER REFUSAL OF WAGES. —At the Man cheater City Police Court, yesterday, a manufacturer , named Roger Crewe. was summoned by Ann Molony, one of his hands, for refusing to pay her three days' wages. as weaver. The amount claimed was 61. Bd., and complainant stated that it hail been withheld because she was one of a deputation appointed by the hands to wait upon Mr. Crewe and ask for an advance of wages ; and she had been dis missed in consequence. Mr. Cie 4C said he had only so' pei:deil her for a day or two ; but his hands all turned out, and refused to return to wt.rk unleqs be gave them an Vance of ten per cent. Tne magistrates were of opinion that Mr. Crewe had placed himse't out of court by suspend ing h,r, because it was equivalent to a dismissal with' , " notice, and under the circumstances she had a right to please herself whether she returned to work or not. Re must, therefore, pay the wages, and the costs of the summons.