The Express.
London, England, 1853-09-28 00:00:00

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LONDON, it EDNESDA T, SEPTENRER 28.

TIRE subjects of chief interest are still the Eastern
Question and the Money Market. Indeed these are
marcely two topics, but one ; so completely do they
link themselves together. Every new phase of the
dispute is followed by its corresponding vibration on
Ike Bourse ; each new telegraphic despatch, whether
sound or illusory, is followed by its margin of
chroige in prices and its amount of new speculation
for a further rise rc fall. The latest intelligence now
prepares us for the appearance at Constantinople of
the tau fleets, English and French, which have al-
ready sent four ships through the Dardanelles. We
may expect to hear that the combined squadrons of
the two great maritime powers have their flags fly-
ing in company at the Golden Horn. Their pre-
Knee there, though late, will, doubtless, be most wel-
come to the Sutrax ; but the chief feeling likely to
be excited amongst the people of the west is one
of deep regret that the floating leviathans were
not permitted to take up such a position
long ago, at a time when the display of
so formidable a force before Constantinople
must have assured peace as certainly u their move-
ment now is symptomatic of war. Whilst the
rumour of this movement from Bcsika Bay reaches
London from one quarter, from another wo are told
that transport ships aro being assembled at Toulon,
that troops may, if need be, follow French line-of-
battle ships eastward. Thousands are old enough to
remember the days when these stories of the assem-
blage of vessels fur the transport of French soldiers
did more than act upon the price of Consols. They
can recollect when English hearths and homes were
startled by the enumeration of means by which
foes were making ready to bring if they could the
ho:rors of war to our very doors. Happily our
days are widely different from days put. If France
is making ready for a display of force, it is not
against a nation equally eivilieed, if not more so,
than herself, but to aid in checking the inroads of the
most savage reactionary power in Europe. Indeed,
grumble as we may, the operation, such as it has
been, of both England and Fraace in this Russo-
Turkish dispute, cannot be deprived of something
like the praise of chivalrousness. The two great
maritime powers are not risking an appeal to
arms for the gratification of some ancient grudge ;
they are not rushing to the melee from any
hope of sharing the spoils of a victory over some
wealthy and effete foe; they do not follow out
any quarrel of their own seeking, or cul-
tivation. They come, to some extent unwil-
lingly, it may be, but still they come to the ground
upon a question of national right and justice, and to
see fair play dune. At least such is the avowed
object of the ministries in both countries. The
Czaa has played bully, and committed burglary upon
a weak neighbour, whom the rest of Europe is
bound by treaty to get justice for, and if some ori-
ginal delay, begotten of lurking sympathies for the
Autocrat, has made ultimate intervention more dan-
gerous, that very intervention, if honestly carried
out, is all the more chivalric in its way. It is worth
something to see France and England acting together
in a great quarrel amongst the nations of the earth.
It is worth something to see the tricolor and the
union jack side by side claiming jur ice for the
weak against the strong. All the old notions of
war ins which these flags have been unfuried involve
the idea of the one pitted against the other. Uwe
are to have war at all, with its attendant horrors, it is
surely admirable to see the old foes standing hand in
hand and shoulder to shoulder as friends intent upon
the vindication of justice amongst the nations, in-
stead of being pitted like tigers one against the other
striving who shall spill most civilised blood. The old
barbarous notion of war has been realised by the CZAR.
He made war by crossing the frontier and seizing
the SuLTAN'S lands, coercing his subjects, seizing their
property, disturbing their industry, and upsetting
their commerce with the rest of Europe. The Em-
peror of HESSIA made the war of the brigand against
society by crossing the Pruth, and feeding his Cos-
sack hordes on the harvests of Moldavia and Wal-
lachia. Ile throws down the glove, and hitherto the
high police of Europe have not dared to pick it up, by
disturbing the felon in the possession of hie prey. He
calculated doubtless on having friendsamongst this high
police. An old friend of his was Minister in England ;
France was in possession of a new ruler scarcely set
tied on his throne; Austria was his debtor ani his
tool; Prussia, if left alone, was nobody. This calcu-
lation seems not to have been wholly idle. Months
of delay, of fruitless talk, of reaultless diplomacy,
have followed the startling news of the crossing of
the Pruth. If, then, at last we find that winter wea-
ther and Cabinet-resolves are sending the fleet from
Besika Bay to Stamboul, we may well make the best
of the fact. The two great maritime powers go
in their combined strength to see justice
done, and the hearts of thousands fully
hope they will not swerve from the good
intent—but faithfully and in all honour and truth
stand by their weak ally against his despotic and
unprincipled assailant. An honourable (even though
it may have been a tardy) settlement of this Russo-
Turkish difficulty by the combined forces of England
and France may be held as foreshadowing their
combined action henceforward for the preservation
of the legal frontiers of the various States of
Europe. What could be more full of hope? To
see England and France united is to behold the best
possible pledge of the peace of Europe, and the pro-
gress of modern civilisation. .t quarrel between
England and France stops all progress, and lights
the flames of an unholy war, in which everything is
put back and no possible good arises. A quarrel to
be put down by England and France is a guarantee
against the easy advent of any such mischievous dif-
ficulties in future.

AND THE SEWING MACIIINEA.
—ln eassequismea of the utter impossibility of obtaining
workwumen, at the present scale of wages, to complete
many heavy orders for exportation, several of the mi4'ie
people, who take the work out from warehouses, have noti-
fied that it is their intention, should the strike continue
loser, to substitute the sewing machine+, which can be ob-
tained at a wet of from 301. to 401. each, and will seam or
or sew at the rate of • yard and a quarter a minute ter
manual labour. Notwithstanding this threat, few, if any,
of the good wurkwomen have applied fur employment, there
being at present several hundreds who are determined not
to return to work until an advance in their wages is given.
TUE WAKING FlillntY is THE NoErit. The
herring fishery is now over for the seasoa, and the average
returns 'haw that the take has been good. It is calculated
that the total number of barrels cured on the whole of
the coast of Scotland, from Dunbar to John o'Groat's, is
500,000. which, at as avenge pries of It each. give • total
of 300.000/. as the product of two months fishing of the
deep. The cuter, and fishermen are both gainers by the
preaest year's catch.
PLACE CONYERENCF. !T EDI N BUM ii.—Meens.
Howe coheee, M , John Br'ght, , Edward
Mull, tad others, have signified their intention of
hcilg present at this conference. A lame number of the
friends nf peace from the south of England, and a still
larger number from the north, are making their arrange-
wets, with a view to eased.

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