The Express.
London, England, 1853-09-13 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 13, 1853.

labour wu required." True, moat true ; but when
did this light break in upon the landlord mind? Is
it not the consequence of a free and advancing com-
merce ? Can the legislation be called " unfortunate"
which, amongst many other benefits, has wrought
such a happy change? These are the hopeful indi-
cations which agricultural meetings now present, in
the place of the whinings and fallacies formerly heard
on similar occasions.

A MIDLAND COUNTIES FARMER.

RUSSIA AND TURKEY.

Now that speculation as to the character of the
message expected from St. Petersburg is exhausted,
the interest of the Eastern question turns mainly
upon the course likely to be adopted by France,
bugland, and Austria,supposing that the Czar should
reject the note in its new form as modified at Con-
stantinople. It is the unanimous opinion of dispas-
sionate observers that the question would not in that
case be abandoned by the three powers to the princi-
pals in the quarrel ; and there is little reason to
doubt that the influence of the governments would be
exerted to induce the Porte to forego its objections to
the note as it was approved in the Vienna Conference,
and conditionally admitted by the Czar. It is re-
ported from Vienna that the Austrian Emperer,with
a vie" to overcoming the Sultan's reluctance, has
offered to guarantee the evacuation of the principali-
ties upon the acceptance of the note, and toudge by
the language of the Constitutionnel and the Pays,
the French government with the same object is
ready to give a moral guarantee that Russia shall
not be permitted to take an improper advantage of
the concessions made by the Porte, and a declaration
calculated to do away with the impression that the
toleration shown to the Christians is due to the inter-
ference of Runk, and not to the magnanimity of the
Porte. Should these persuasions fail, then says the
Pays
lc such a ease Europe is bound to watch events and
wait, not to abandon Turkey to the fatal destiny to which
she seems to urge herself, but to intervene only when the
eau* of European law shall again be exposed to danger.
Let it be well understood the western nations will rot allow
Russia to wise Constantinople, or to conquer any portion
of the Ottoman territory, or impose on the Sultan condi-
tions incompatibla with his sovereignty. But if Europe has
perfectly resolved to maintain throughout the integrity of
the Ottoman empire, Europe will nut for all that rashly
throw herself into quarrels of words and phrases, nor cn.
gage itself without a motive in pretensions which have no
grounds and no object ; Europe will not betray any of the
interests it ought to protect, and it is that it may the better
serve them that it will know how to cause its will and its
supreme decision to be respected in the interest of the
peace of the world.
Such is the language of a French governmental
paper.
Letters from Constantinople of the 29th ult. state
that troops were still departing for Varna, and
that the Porte was continuing its preparations for
defence with unabated energy.
The Wanderer, of Vienna, states from Jassy, 30th
ult.:—" We have just been informed that the French
and English consuls have left. A kind of panic has
taken possession of people's minds. It is said that
General Leder is approaching Moldavia with a corps
d'arm6e. The cholera is making ravages in Bes-
sarabia."