The Express.
London, England, 1853-06-20 00:00:00

fat. from Syria and Anatolia to the coast of the
Black Saa. The contingent of the Bey of Tripolii,
4,000 strtmg, had arrived.

FRANCE.

PARIS, SUNDAY BIWING.

Private reliable *driers reppoort that therWest been
a bloody battle between the and Bensiane,
in which the latter had been defeated with severe
loss—a general, with 12,000 men amd 30 pieces of
women, being captured by the mciatilneera.
The Freactsjournals are filled with correspondence
from Constantinople brought by the Egyptus. They
all speak of the extraordinary efforts making by the
Turkish government to pat the army and navy upon
an efficient footing.
The Debate says :
Unfortunately money is wanting. The immense error
committed in rejecting the loan of fifty millions of francs,
which had been contracted in Paris and London in Septem-
ber last, is sow regretted at Constantinople. This loan
would not only have been of incalculable bene-
fit to Turkey by providing her with resources,
but also because it would have made the Otto.
man empire a member of the financial society of
European nations. The object of those councils which led
her to refuse the loan, is now, when too late, perceived.
Turkey was as the eve of a formidable MU* and she is now
struggling with it, without say instruments of credit
between a beak in course of liquidation and another
bank not; yet formed. The most intelligent among the
Turks see the power and utility of thews precious institu-
tions, and now hope that the government may, without
losing an instant, reform; its administrative and financial
organisation, by imitating Europe, and seeking
the help of her capital and enterprise. Meanwhile
necessity is pressing, and urges the Divan, doubtless
in spite of itself, to take steps which it regrets. Thus it
has within these few days demanded a loan of 45 millions
of piastres from the new bank of Constantinople, which is
not yet in operation' and to which the firman creating
it guaranteed an wtvanee of 30 millians of piastres
from the public treasury, so far from imposing
upon it the necessity of lending to government. The
directors of the Sauk have not furnished the whole sum
asked from them, but as a testimony of their patriotic feel-
ing they have advanced • sum of 700,600,000 piastres.
This affair has made a disagreeable impression at Cowan.
tinople.
The Constitutions.' says :
It appears that Lord Stratford de Radcliffe had made an
unoffigiel communication to the Porte to the effect that he
expected in a very few days to be able to give an official as-
surance that his government would consider an attack from
Russia ua violation of the treaties of 1841, and that in such
a cue it would interfere effeetually in f f Turkey.
This communication had produced a great effect among the
Turks. It is probable that the French ambassador will
be charged to take an analogous step—at least, the Porte
expects so.
The Gazette du ifidi contains the important intel-
ligence, which I have not seen elsewhere, that the
expected liberal firman to the whole Christian popu-
lation of the Ottoman Empire is actually issued.
It says :
We have before us &letter dated June 6, at half-past five
in the evening, and consequently at the very moment of the
departure of the Egyptus. To-day, says this letter, a fir-
man communicated to the embassies by a memorandum of
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the Porte, grants to the Christine subjects of the
Ottoman Empire new immunities, enabling them
to regulate their spiritual affairs, the election of their
patriarchs, &c., without having recourse to the Porte.
The moat entire liberty of worship is accorded to them.
The Siert* says:
The most important news contained in our correspondence
is the announcement that the Prussian ambassador at Con-
stantinople is acting in the most entire concert with France
sad England. This news is given in the most positive man-
ner by a person in a condition to be well informed. We wish to
impress upon our readers the importance of this fact, because
Prussia, not being directly interested: in the eastern ques-
tion, is necessarily in a better position to judge of the pre-
Motions of Russia than Austria, which, since the Hungarian
expedition, has been in • manner tributary to the Czar.
• • • We cannot too often repeat that a dilatory
policy is of all things to be avoided. It will never
do for Europe and the Porte, fsr the take of
epwring the feelings of the Emperor of Russia, to remain
kg =indefinite time ander arms, and exposed to financial
sad commercial crises, and the panics that grow out of
them. Austria must feel herself too vulnerable in Italy,
and too much exposed to see her influence effaced by that
of Prussia in Germany. to take part openly against France
and England. But " Austrian mediation,' " European
congress," and all such suggestions, tend to nothing
else but to spin out the question, to the end that means
may be found of dividing the two great liberal nations now
united in the determination to put a check upon Muscovite
ambition.

A decline in the prices of Government securities
occurred at the Bourse yesterday, and, as usually
happens at the close of the week, there was not much
activity in business. The Three per Cents. for cash
fell 50c., and the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. 45c.
For the end of the month there was a decline of 30c.
in the Four-and-a-Half per Cents., and of sc. in the
Three per Cents. Bank of France shares remained
unchanged. The final quotations were:—For cash :
Three per Cents., 77 ; Four-and-a-Half per Cents.,
101,30. For the account, Three per Cents., 76.95;
Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 101.30. Bank Stock,
2,675 L Northerns, 878.75 ; Paris and Strasbourg,
892.50 ; Paris and Lyon!, 900; Paris and Rouen,
1,012.50 ; Lyons to the Mediterranean, 730 ;Western
of France, 700; Rouen and Havre, 470; Bordeaux
and Cette, 610; Caen and Cherb., 607.50; Dijon and
Besancon, 525; Dieppe and Fecamp, 335.

PARIS, SATURDAY ETRNINO.

The Siecle to-day speaks of the arrests. It calls
upon the government, which is sometimes so prodi-
gal of communiques, not indeed to make any dis-
closures calculated to impede the course of justice,
but simply to say in a few lines whether there be
any truth in the common report that an immense
number of citizens have been deprived of their
liberty within the last few days, and, if so, for what
presumptive reason. Referring, in an ironical strain,
to the recent bout of the Monsieur, that the public
obtains more political information under the present
regime than it did from parliamentary governments,
it inquires whether, if the tribune existed, extensive
arrests could take place without some explanation of
the cause being given. The author of the famous
pamphlet on "The Principle of Authority" distinctly
affirms that although political liberty may be re-
stricted, civil liberty exists, and is guaranteed by
'the constitution. It is not, therefore, to be supposed
that arrests have been made without regular war-
rants, or in the absence of any specific charge that
will bear investigation in a court of law. With
what object, then, have the Moniteur and the semi-
afficial journals maintained unbroken silence upon
a subject which is openly talked of at the Bourse
and spoken of in whispers in every cafe in Paris?
Such Is the question to which the Steele awaits an
answer. According to my private information the
orrests are going on down to the hour at which I
write. Since I last alluded to them some
three hundred more captures have been made.
I have heard but few names mentioned, but I under-
stand that besides vast numbers of operatives, there
are among the prisoners many persons of great re-
spectability belonging to the bourgeois class. I
happen to know personally that M. Meyer, the
keeper of a well known table (note, at Batignollem,
and an officer of the Tribunal of Commerce of twenty
years' standing, was dragged off to prison on Thurs-
day last, to the astonishment of his family and neigh-
bours, who never suspected him of meddlicg in
politics. M. Francois, formerly. the manager of a
review, started by Pierre Leroux in opposition to the
Rerue des Deus Mendes, is in cnstoty. lam told,
that besides the " Hippodrome plot, these arrests
have been occasioned by the clandestine publication
of a pamphlet called " The Second Bulletin of the'
Directing Republican Committee."
The Presse of this evening says that one of the
most prominent members of the Wallacbian emigra-
tion, M. U. Bratiano, was arrested at his house on
Wednesday evening. In the Press of yesterday
appeared a letter, dated June 14, from this M. Bra-
tiano, expressing strong feelings of nationality, dis-
trust
of Russia, and sympathy with France. The
Press* hopes this arrest must have been made from
some mistake,and regrets that want of room prevented
the publication of the letter sooner.
But little weight is attached here to the reported
acceptance of the mediation of Austria in the easter..
question. The government journals publish the tele-
graphic despatches from London and Vienna "under
all reserve." A despatch from Vienna of the
16th, received here, says that the report of
this mediation had attained " quelque consistence,"
and it is thought doubtful whether the despatch
published in London on the 17*h left N ienna at a
later date. That Austria may have offered her
" good offices" to assist Russia to gain her point is
very " but the supposition of an accepted
" mediation is not reconcilable with known facts.
All the rumours on the subject speak of the media-
tion having been accepted by Russia, but it does not
anywhere appear that the Porte is any party to the
offer. In the present state of affairs, any arrange-
ment made by Austria and Russia between them-