The Express.
London, England, 1853-08-24 00:00:00

RUSSIA AND TURKEY.

Oa the 20th of July there was a meeting at St.
Petersburg of the council which has the control of
the Credit Institutions of the Empire, to re-
ceive the report of the Minister of Finance for
1852. The Loan Bank, the Bank of Commerce, and
the Imperial Lombard (Anglice, pawnshop), &c.,
had made advances in the course of the year ending
Ist January, 1863, to different individuals to the
amount of 893,132,960 silver roubles, and the
various pledges entrusted to them by the borrowers
I were valued at 806,083,233. The Loan Bank had
registered in its books, to cover its advances, va-
rious noble landed properties, with 634,651 peasants,
968 homes, and 79 factories, fisheries, &c. Its
profits daring the year amounted to 2,694,222 silver
roubles. The Bank of Commerce had in circulation
letters of credit to the amount of 311,375,581 silver
roubles, tomeet the falling due of which it had on
hand 139;461,660 silver roubles. Its deposits
amounted to 213,588,972 silver roubles; its profits
during the year, to 1,330,962. The Lombard (pawn
shop) had itatiawn noble landed estates inhabited by
202,114 peasants, with 372 stone houses; upon these
it had advanced 463,573,192 silver roubles. The
state debt on the Ist (13th) of January amounted to
401,552,111 silver roubles. These indications of the
extent to which the government has liens on the pro-
perties of the nobtes tor loans corroborate the opinion
expressed in a leader of the Express of yesterday res-
pecting the financial condition of that elan : they must
be still more largely indebted to private usurers.
According to accounts from Galles the Russian
government hss ordered surveys to be made with a
view to the construction of an electric telegraph be-
tween St. Petersburg and the ports of the Black Sea.
The Austrian Lloyd anticipates a connexion between
this line when completed and the Austrian, either by
way of Czernowitz or through Bessarabia and Wal-
lachia-

The Erna Zeitung of Berlin, of the 21st inst., in-
dulges in an eulogistical prose ode on the moderation
of the Emperor Nicholas. The occasion is the eva-
cuation of the Danubian provinces, which the pro-
phetic eye of the writer, "in a fine frensy rolling,"
sees in the future. First comes a demonstration that
Russia could keep these provinces in despite of
banded Europe. 1 hen comes the (rather premature)
announcement—" Russia has voluntarily, and on
higher grounds, resigned the comfortable seat
[Ottoman] which first an over-wise policy and
then an exaggerated timidity had prepared
for it." The writer goes on:—" So long as Russia
perseveres in being a feared and hated antagonist of
revolution, without pretending to mix wrongfully in
the domestic concerns of foreign states—and there is
no reasonable ground to attribute such an intention to
Russian politicians—this state has nothing to fear,
but may proceed to consolidate itself with a view to
the establishment of the balance of power in Europe.
And when the time may come that Russia, 114 obe-
dience to a call from the Great Ruler of the universe
shall extend its possessions in -its natural inheritance
the Bast, the expansion of Russia on the Black Sea
would probably Prussia from an extension of
Russia on the istula." This looks very like trying
to per wade Russia to be a good child, by praising tt
for having done what it is feared it will not do. The
writer in the Kresge Zeitung is prompt to acknowledge
the merit of kindred spirits. He is liberal in his
praise of Mr. Cobden's last speech on the Turkish
question, winding up his laudatory. criticism with—
" He [Cobden] is quite right : he is not more short-
sighted, but on the contrary more far-seeing than
others."

-7correspondent of the Colors, Gazette writes from
Constantinople cm the Bth inst.:—" Aooording to the
Prussianofficers who have just returned fives the
Danube, Bilistria and Ruatehek have been placed
in a complete state of defense by the fortifications
erected dare; Shand& reqaired scarce any repairs
Varna will be in perfect condition by the end of a
month. These officers speak is the highest tense of
the Turkish soldiers, especially of the artillerists from
the Dardanelles."
. _ .

iti.;aeserted in Tariom quarters that the Russians
with their usual oontempt of treaty stipulations are
constructing a bridge from Limed to the island in
front of that town. _ _ _ _ _

A letter from Bucharest of the 10th, in the Pro's
of Vienna, says:—"A groat agitation prevailed here I
lately amongst the Boyards, on the occasion of
the Sultan's Orman dismissing the Prince Rospodar,
for having favourably received the Russian troops.
On the 9th, this Armen having been 'read in an
assembly of the Bayard', the latter requested the
prince not to abandon the government in the present
critical circumstances, and the prince consented to
their request. M. Mans, the Secretary of State, and
M. Yoandee, the Director of the Ministry of the In-
terior, were requested to proceed to Constantinople,
but, as they have no confidenoe in the maintenance
of tranquillity and order, they. will not go. In con-
sequence of this determination of the prince, the
consul of France took down his flag and placed his
countrymen under the protection of Greece. The
consul of England declared to his countrymen that
he could not protect them any longer, since the
prince had resisted the orders of his sovereign ; be
would, he said, ask for instructions. The scarcity of
provisions is so great in the fortresses of Bulgaria
that the troops suffer exceedingly. The Ilospodar of
Moldavia intends contracting a Loan to meet extraor-
dinary expenses. It is supposed that he will apply
to the Russian banks.

The Cbloyne Gazelle has the following from Vienna,
dated the 19th :—" A courier arrived to-day with
despatches from Constantinople, dated the 13111.
They were immediately sent off to the Turkish Am-
bassador, who is now at Baden. It is rumoured that
after deliberating for three days the Porte accepted
the propositions of the conference, but will only
ratify them after the evacuation of the Principa-
lities."

The Press of Vienna states from Constantinople
that the Russian Consul at Adrianople who had left
his post, has received orders from the Russian Cot•
sal-General to return to it forthwith.

ING. AUGUST 24,

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,FRANCE.
-r,. I• PARIS, TrZeD4V
We Imre but utpagre news from
The Emperor and Empress did not go to chi' ti
on Sunday evening, to the grievous disappoh. 'meat
of a crowded audience. Yesterday at one o'ci.:ook
their Majesties assisted at the launch of a merchs‘i-
man to which the Empress will give a name of het
Auga:thoice_ea-w Uttar* day.—The-Petrie recounts
that two young Irishmen of large fortune stood near
the steps of the stand, erected for the imperial vi-
afters to view the launch, and that, as their Majesties
passed near them to regain their carriage, the young-
est of the two, overcome with emotion, exclaimed,
" God bless the Emperor and Empress."
the words were uttered in a low tone, the
Burnt board them, and extended his hand to the
yew* ttSkathalthy Hibernian, who, thereupon, says
the thieNder, burst into team In an hour after the
launch was over, their Majesties set out on an ex-
cursion to the Ailly lighthouse. The Emperor, at-
tended by Colonel Fleury and General Montebello,
was on horseback, and the Empress, with Mesdames
Montebello and Essling, and M. Teacher de la
Pagerie, went in an open carriage with postillions.
The party halted several times by the way, to receive
the homage of the cures and mayors of the villages
through which they weekend to scatter " largesse"
to the peasantry and school children who strewed
flowers in the path. Lord and Lady Cowley and
Count Builewski, Chamberlain to the Emperor of
Russia, are among the visitors at Dieppe. The
Princess Mathilde is expected.
I understand, that although the municipality of
Dieppe voted a carte blase. for the Emperor's re-
ception, they at the same time caused it to be respect-
fully intimated that the funds of the town were ill
able to bear any extra expense, and tho Emperor is
consequence considerately paid for the illuminations
lf.
Prince Jerome Bonaparte has, with the officers
of his household, left Paris for Havre, where he in-
tends to remain for some days. The Rehm Hortense,
which has been placed at his disposal by the Em-
peror, is at Havre, and will convey Prince Jerome to
visit the Emperor, his nephew, at Dieppe. It is said
that Prince Napoleon will join Prince Jerome at
Havre at the end of the week.

The Havre journals announce the the arrival of
Prince Jerome at Frascati's yesterday afternoon.
The Prince and Princess Murat left Paris this
morning for Marseilles en route for Switzerland.
Mr. P. Soule, the ambassador from the United
States to the court of Madrid, has arrived here, and
purposes to stay some days before proceeding to his
Nat. He is accompAnied by Mrs. Soule, Mr.
Nelvil Soule, his son and private secretary, and the
suite attached to his embassy.
General de Montholon, the well known memorialist
of Napoleon and his companion at St. Helena, hes
just died in Paris.
The Moniteur contains a decree approving of
various regulations submitted to the Emperor for the
operations of the " Caine de Retraites" for old
people, and also a decree permitting several persons to
wear foreign orders. Among the names in the latter
decree are those of M. Ducos, the Minister of Marine, a
grand dignitary of the Order of theßoee of the Brazils ;
General Allonveau de Montreal, a Grand Cross of the
Order of Pius of Rome ; Generals Brunet and Cotte,
Grand Crosses of the Order of St. Gregory the Great
of Rome ; M. Dronyn de Lhuys, Minister for Fo-
reign Affairs, Grand Cross of the Order of our
Lady of the Conception of Villa Vicosa of
Portugal; Marshal Valliant, Grand Marshal
of the Palace, a Grand Crone of the Order
of Saints Maurice and Lazarus of Sardinia; M. de
Persigny, Minister of the Interior, Grand Cross of
the Constantinian Order of the Two Sicilies ; and
Dr. Philippe Ricord, Surgeon-in-Chief of the HApital
du Midi, a Chevalier of the Order of Charles 111. of ,1
Spain, a Chevalier of the Second Class of the Russian
Order of St. Anne, a Chevalier of the Orders of
Saints Maurice and Lazarus of Sardinia, and a
Chevalier of the Order of Wasa of Sweden.

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