The Express.
London, England, 1853-09-15 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS WIDNISDAY ETININCI.
.. .

The Eastern question is to-day considered more
serious than it has been for many weeks past. The
Constilutionnel, which, like all the government
journals, has lately struggled to represent the affair
in the most favourable light, has a gloomy article
from which I extract as follows :
The situation is again more complicated both on the banks
of the Bosphorus and the Danube. We still hope that the
effusion of blood may be avoided. flowerer, the Eastern ques-
tion, which we innermost with the press and with diplomacy
bad thought definitively resolved in a peaceable sense by
the acceptance of the Vienna note by Runts, now deci-
dedly assumes • less manuring aspect. We do not
believe that positive information has been received
in any quarter, se to the views entertained at St.
Petersburg, or what are the intentions of the go-
vernment at Constantinople, but we must confess that
all the indications that reach us give • much less pacific
character to the news frem the East than they lately had.
. . . Letters not sent to us directly, but communicated
tots to-day, announce that the Sultan was about to publish
a manifesto to the Ottoman people, explaining his position
with regard to them, and with regard to his allies.
The Constituti,mnel further announces that des-
patches from Constantinople are expected to reach
Paris to-morrow.
Meanwhile a telegraphic despatch—a private one,
it is true,—dated Vienna, Sept. 13, has been received
to-day, stating that the Russian cabinet has defini-
tively refused to accept the modifications proposed
by the Porte. This news is so probable that
its truth is almost universally believed. The
Bourse has been worse than ever. The Threes at one
time touched 76, being a fall of 1 lir. from
yesterday, but a considerable reaction took place be-
fore the close, and the last price was 76fr. 60c. This
recovery was attributed to a report that the Eastern
question was settled, and the fleets about to be re-
called, but in all probability this story is nothing
but a mere canard. All the railways without ex-
ception fell considerably.
A council of ministers was held at St. Cloud this
morning.
A telegraphic despatch received to-day, dated
Smyrna, Sept. 7, states that Admiral Remain Des-
fosses and his staff had left that day for France.
A telegraphic despatch from Marseilles says
" In consequence of the uneasiness felt in the trade
relative to the Eastern question, the price of wheat
has risen 2fr. 50c. per hectolitre."
I understand it to be decided that the system of
issuing tickets for bread at a reduced price to the
poor will be re-established after the 13th, the general
price being fixed as heretofore by the regulating
scale. An eminent ex-minister of finance estimates
the amount that will be required to make up the
deficiency of the harvest in France at 500 millions
, of francs.

Three men were sentenced yesterday by the Tri-
bune' of Correctional Pclice to different periods of
imprisonment for "insults" to the Emperor, and for
circulating printed papers without pormiseion.
The Moniieur says :
13y imperial decree of the 12th of this month, signed on
the proposition of his Excellency the Minister of War, a
certain number of localities in Algeria, heretofore clawed
in the military territory, have been placed under the civil
MONO. This decree gives satisfaction to important interests
and legitimate wants.
The measure in question consists in increasing the
departments of Oran and Constantine, and in enlarg-
ing the limits of certain arrondissements in them.
The Minister of Agriculture, Commerce, and Pub-
lic Works, has, in execution of Art. 5 of the decree
of the 18th October, 1852, nominated a commission,
consisting of eight eminent functionaries presided
over by M. Heurtier, Councillor of State, Director-
General of Agriculture and Commerce, to give their
opinion on all questions relative to the management
and surveillance of societies of Credit Foncier.