The Express.
London, England, 1852-07-31 00:00:00

advanced prices, sad increased demand* of holden, have a
tendency to limit the business; mess 15 dole. to Is dots.;
new prams is scarce, and nominal. Prime MUM is about out
of market. Pork is steady, with oaks of 290 brls. mess, at
19 doh. 25e.; prime, 16 dols. 871 c.; prime mess, 21 doh;
clear, 20 dole. 50e.
FREIC/Hll3.—To Liverpool 5,000 bushels grain were taken
at 31d. to 4d. in bulk, and Sid. bagged by the ship; 1,600
bbls. flour, Ild. to Is. To Glasgow, in addition to that no-
ticed yesterday, 2,600 bushels wheat at 6d., end 500 bbl,
Sour at Is. 6d. To London, • Swedish ship was tak.n at
2s. for naval stores. There was • good business done in
des! freights; two vessels from St. John to Loudon were
taken at 751.; one ditto Hull, at the same rate ; out ditto
to Bristol, 705.; a vessel with 2,500 bbls. to Barbadoes, at
50s. Two guano charters were made at 16 and 16 dolt.

SOCIETY ISLANDS.

FLIGHT OF QUEEN POMAItE.

The news kiss the Society Islands, remived at
New York Ps the 16th by the llawailan schooner
Falmouth, which touched at Tahiti ou her passage
from Auckland, N.Z., to San Francisco, also at
haina, S. L, is several days later, and of un interest-
ing nature. We are under obligations to Capt.
Wilson for a report of the state of affairs at the So-
ciety Islands, when his vessel left.
A few days before the departure, Itiatca was the
sceuc of a conflict between the republicans and
the royalists. The half breed native who was
elected by the former as l'resident ppg itm•., was
overpowered and forced to flee with his
troops before the sudden assaults of the roy-
alists. The republicans, however, rallied, received
strong reinforcements, and marched against flueen
I'omare's troops, repulsing them with considerable
loss of life on both sides, and reinstating their presi-
dent.

Queen Pomare, heating of the defeat of her troops,
hastened in person to Ithaca, to turn the tide of mar.
She was assailed with great fury, and barely escaped
with her life, by taking refuge on board a French
frigate. This vessel, Capt. Wilson reports, arrived at
Lahuina, Maui, one of the group of Sandwich Islands,
on the 13th ult., the day on which his vessel sailed
from that port, having on board the Queen of the
Society Islands, who has thus been forced to abdi-
cate her throne.

Captain Wilson reports that the flight of Queen
Pumare restored quiet and tranquillity at ltiatea.
We shall await further intelligence from the Wands
with much interest.

MORE AUSTRIAN ARRESTS IN ITALY.

It appears that the Austrian government are acting
on the principle of the old Roman legend—cutting
off the poppy-heads in the field ; trying to k•ep in-
surrection down by simultaneously arresting and
carrying off to prison every patriot of any conse-
quence against whom the police could find or invent
a ground of suspicion. Arrests so numerous and suc-
cessive arc significant of no ordinary amount of
suppressed patriotic enthusiasm among the Italian
populations, and of the consciousness of the Austrians
that their tenure of power is at the merry of a vol-
cano which may burst to morrow.
In addition to the names of persons of note already
mentioned in our columns as having been arn stet],
we have since received the following :—At Mantua,
the Archpriest of Barbosa°, at Milan, Antongino,
Simonetta, Carta, Nani, Mangili, Griffini; at Verona,
Montanan and Miami; at Modena, Montanan, an
ex-captain; at Massa, Monari. At Ferran, the
Austrian stronghold in the Roman States, there
have also been arrests, including Count Most', Dr.
Passega, an officer in the Pontifical service, and two
Austrian officers. The precise meaning of all these
arrests, wherever the Austrian power extends in
Italy—the precise clue that the Austrians arc follow-
ing out—cannot yet be ascertained. A special
commission has, however, been appointed to try
those arrested in Lombardy ; at the head of which
commission is General Renedeek, of Galician memory.
The following piece of intelligence will also
show the animus of the Austrian government in
Italy, their determination to overlook nothing, and
to put the black stamp of official notice upon every
act, of whatever kind, which can be construed to
have a particle of patriotic meaning in it The
Chevalier Nava, a warm partisan of Austria, and
connected with the Jesuits, is President of tho Aca-
demy of tho Fine Arts at Milan. Assisted by a small
number of persons of his own way of thinking, he
bail caused Count Strassoldo and Marshal Radetzky
to be, nominated honorary members of the said Aca-
demy. At the same time there were nominated to
the same honour, M. Vela, a distinguished sculptor,
and M. Rossi, a painter. The two artists, on some
pretext or other, declined the honour of sitting in
company with men playing such a pin in the op-
pression of Italy. The Austrian government, how-
ever, has shown its sense of the true motive of the
refusal, and has conveyed to the sculptor Vela a pe-
remptory order to leave Milan in three hours, under
pretext that he is not a Lombard. Vela was born
in Italian Switzerland.

PROGRESS OE TURKEY.—The events of 1821, which
had thrown Turkey under Russian influence, and those of
1840 which proved the power of Mehemet Ali, contributed
to keep up the idea that Turkey was slowly liking into an
abyss. After 1828, Turkey came out of her terrible shrug-
' glee with Greece, which had armed for her liberty; revo-
lutions in different provinces had weakened her; her
finances were exhausted; her annual revenue did not ex-
ceed 100 millions; her army was not more th.en 30,000
men, and her fleet hid been destroyed at Nevarino. Under
these circumstances Turkey naturally drew towards the
power which threatened her the most, and sought a
defender in Russia, whose omnipotent influence re-
vealed itself by the treaties which intenlieted the
entrance of foreign vessels of war into the 81.,ek Sea. All
theumniiitentia exuliowever,, now changed. The array is
in a state to resist any aggression ; her steam fleet can con-
tend against the Russian navy, If it should ever attempt a
coup-de-main against Constantinople ; her finances are re-
established, and improvements of every kind have been in-
troduced. Russian influence has consequently diminished
in proportion as the dangers which first imposed it have
been removed. But in addition, during the lost 30 star'. IS
morel revolution of great importance has taken place in
Turkey. That cosustiy has now freed itself from the pre-
judices of Mussulman fanaticism to enter firmly on the
path of eivilisation. The old fanatical Turks have
seen that they could not struggle any longer against
the movement of progress, which was gaining ground
everywhere, and again it is France which is the
soul and model of the transformation which has hem
effected. Our dress, our arts, nay our customs, ate ini-
tated by the rising generation there. The Turkish troops
follimionr miles of.discipline ; the finances of Turkey bor-
row from our budgets their order and regularity ; and in
fact, the credit of that lower is now so firm that it is in a
position to realise at present a loan of 40 to 60 millions with
the European bankers. Turkey has not, as yet, political
institutions of any great extent, but she us the germ of
large municipal liberties, which are tho bases of every
liberal constitution. Such progress and tendencies hare
raised Turkey to the height of the great nations of Europe,
sad explain the unequivocal sympathies of the French go-
vernment for the Porte. There are few nations who have
done so much in so short a time, and who have so well
justified the remark that "propose isnever so well realised
as when it marches at the head of societies iostead of
struggling against it."—Pars
MELANCHOLY DEATH OF A FARMER BY DROWN-
isio.—On Wednesday an inquest was held by Mr. Brent,
the deputy-coroner for Middlesex, on view of the body of
Mr. W. whose death happened under the following
melancholy details. The deceased gentlemen, who was in
his 57th year, had long resided at Staines, and was the pro-
prietor of Lea Croft Farm, Knowle-green, in that neigh-
bourhood. The evidence proved that up to the period of
his death he was of excellent health, and always cheerful in
his spirits. Early on Monday morning he went, as was his
custom, to bathe in a piece of water called "Ship Hood."
in the immediate vicinity, and being an expert swimmer*"
fears were entertained as to his safety ; but it is supposed be
was suddenly seised with cramp, or PEN other momentary
paroxysm, which prevented him from retaining the surface
until usistance could be procured him, and be disappeared
all at once. He ISIS left a numerous family to lament their
loss. The jury returned • veris.ict of ° Accidentally
drowned.l _ _

THE GRAND MILITARY FETE AT PARK—The
mi, communicating with the continent intend running
and cheap excursion trains to the Grand Military
rte at Paris, on the 10th of next month.
SOUTHAMPTON POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.—The
directors of the Peninsular and Oriental Company hive
generously placed one of their large steam-boats at the ser-
vice of the Southampton Polytechnic institution, in order
that the members of the institution and their friends may
enjoy a marine excursion this summer. Mr. Willeoz, the
managing director of Me company, has also kindly dieted
to pay any expense to the institution, which may be at-
tendant on such an excursion out of his own pocket. The
excursion will be made r eat month, and a large party of
gentlemen interested in Southampton will, It is capcacd.
accomorpannyEtebAeßummembeHrsAoLu_
of the institution
iamesof and their
passed their examination is the science and peanuts of
medicine, and received certificate,s to practike, on. burr.
day, July 29. 11152:—John Cuthbert Witatcy, htthqrfi.
Augustus Brabius Webb Greater., Eeek.hall ;
Blooper, Buntingford, Herta; Frederick ormrut
Plymouth; Matthew Corner, Whitby,
Fox, Nottingham ; George Simpson, India: 11, k
Eves, Cheltenham. ettni'wpdsho.
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