The Press.
London, England, 1853-09-24 00:00:00

FRANCE.

The 'Turkish Ambassador in Paris went on Mon-
day morning to St. Cloud, to have an audience of
the Emperor. The visit was not connected with
having merely for its object the announce-
ment, in the name of the Sultan, of the birth of
a SOH.
The Impartial of Boulogne states that the
English in that place intend to present an address of
congratulation to the Emperor and Empress on their
visit there.
The Prefect of the Haute Vienne has suspended
the moire of St. Brabant for promulgating a decree
prohibiting the export of corn from his district.
The Echo Agrienle has received a " warning " for
having published articles calculated to excite alarm
on the subject of food.
Several arrests have been made recently among
the workmen in the Faubourg St. Antoine. The
ostensible cause is a strike by the men in some of
the copper manufactories. According to one account,
as many as thirteen factories were closed at one
time owing to strikes. The men, it is said, alleged
that their occupation was unhealthy, but the Board
of health, being called upon to examine the question,
reported that there was no foundation for this idea.
The strikes continuing after this report, the leaders
were arrested ; and it is supposed that political agi•
lation was the real rause of the movement for which
sanitary considerations were only the pretext.
In anticipation of the cholera, which there is much
reason to expect in I'nris from day to day, many
people are now buying cholera-belts, made, Hot of
flannel, but of thin copper and steel plates, arranged
so as to envelop the person.
A M. Miri s, who, by snecessful speculations on
the Bourse, had realised, in two years only, a consi-
derable fortune, and who has bought the two Minis
terial papers, the Conatitationncl and the l'uys, had
got up a new society called the Credit Fowler of
Nevers, which rivalled the Credit Foncier of France.
M. Mires attacked, therefore, the latter asseciati tttt
violently in his two papers, and, of course, recom-
mended his own scheme, whose shares were etnitted
by his house at 10 francs discount. The timer's-
meet, however, instituted a commission, upon whose
report M. Mires, has been required to withdraw his
scheme from public notice. The shareholders who
have already paid up the deposits in M. Mires so
ciety, will b© reimbursed in full. The projector
announces that a new association, of which the
Government has approved, will be launched iu the be •
ginning of “ctolwr. _ .

The 31otlitrur publishes the returns of the custom
duties and indirect taxes for the month of August,
which (moonlit to 11,:tros,letif., loeitog tut increase of
451.515 f. (Aur the corresponding periisl Is:02, and
of 1313.937 f. over that of Issl. The total receipts
for the first eight months of the present year amount
to 1tt1,613.540uf., being a decrease of 1495,195 f. as
compared with the corresponding period of 1552, and
all increase of 14,211;,2511. (over 11451.

A deplorable accident, arising, it is stated, from
unaccountable neglect in an employe, occurred on
Sunday lust upon the Bordeaux Railway. Between
Tours and Bordeaux the line is single. A tele-
graphic message was Kent on the day mentioned to
the station master at an intermediate point, near
Poitiers, announcing the approach of a special wash,
tiain, and desiring him to retain the down mail train
at the siding near his station until it had passed.
This order he neglected, and the inevitable cause

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iotence was that the two trains came into fearful col-
lision. Five peroms were killed, two engine drivers,
two stokers, am% a ;:nand. t de Sasumay, the
inspector on duty with the mail train, was tm the
engine with the driver and stoker when the collision
took place. Ity the shock he was hurled over an
embankment, but escaped situ, ist unhurt. The guard
of the mail train, whose place is in the luggage van
immediately behind the engine and tender, hearing
the signal Of an approaching trent, opened the sliding
and put out his head to Nee what was the
matter. At that moment. the shock took place; the
doors closed violently, and completely sevens' his
head roan his Issly. The one rolled down the eui.
hankutent, while the body remained in the luggape
van. Fifteen passengers mere also m„verviy hum unu
of the engines el impletel) smashed, and great damage
done among the carriages. Au °tibia investigation
has been ordered into the affair, and the negligent
station master placed under arrest.
Two engines ran together on Saturday evetiiiit
upon Re tbe cue line, through e mistakeo some' in the
switches. Both were ilashid almost to pieces„ and
two of the engineers thriutia id and seriously injured.
The papers all tttttt IWO the death of tieneral Viand,
who was tioveinor of Sint:down in 15341, when Louis
Napoleon attempted to foment an insurrection ill that
town.
Advices from Burgundy speak more favourably of
the vintage than ells to he e‘reeted. 'flue disease
has, indee.l, made its alpearatice in many vineyards,
but has not caused such it destruction as to I excite
serious tours. Ilunotudy wines would, therefiev, Iw
obtained at very reasonable priers wen. it not foe the
unfavourable news aniving daily from Bordeaux and
Langeron. Spirits of wilt lwl reached at Ihirdeautz
as much as Int francs. Since the year 14111, when
it got up to 100 francs, prices had never been as high
there.