The Express.
London, England, 1853-10-29 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 29, 1853.

Cavour, by giving him the energetic and popular
liberal, M. ltattazzi, as a colleague. It was the elec-
tion of this gentleman as President of the Chamber
of Deputies, which twelvo months ago induced the
retirement of M. d'Azegiio, and brought Count Carour
into power.

continued interchange of shots. About sundown,
the Imperialists fleets hating formed a junction,
anchored within a mile of the town, and close to
the foreign shipping. The patriot squadron took up
a position in front of the foreign factories. The
27th passed over quietly; the Imperialists, appa-
rently waiting the advance of a body of troops,
sonic 6,000 of which had effected a landing at the
hack of the island during the two previous days and
had got within four or tive miles of the city. The
first land battle appears to have been opened by
the patriots, as the fighting, on the morning of the
28th, is admitted to have been iu the vicinity of the
Imperialist camp, from which, having retired to
breakfast, the Imperialists, as a matter of course,
reported that they drove them back into the town
(and which appears to have been believed by sonic
people, as another matter of course). In the after-
noon the Imperialist squadron weighed and stood
towards the upper end of the harbour, with the
object, it appeared, of destroying the western u urbd
of the town, well defended, however, by two bat-
teries helot: ng to the patriots. A great many of
the shot from the Canton junks on this occa-
sion, as well as on the 26th, appeared directed
at and over the houses, breaking a great many
tiles, and frightening people from the roofs, where,
at the conunenceun :it, the inhabitants had placed
. .

RUSSIA AND TURKEY.

(lIT ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

VIENNA, FRIDAY FV/751,10,

A commercial firm in Vienna has received a de-
spatch, stating that " there is reason to believe that
an armistice has been concluded between the To^k-
ish and Russian armies.

I)ANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES.
BUCHAREST, OCT. is.
It is said that Omer Pasha has informed Prince
Gortschakoff of his intention to occupy the Sultan's
territories (the I'rincipalities) at once. He has also,
it is said, written to Prince Stirbey, that he intends
entering Bucharest on the Ist of November.
On the 11th Prince Gurtschakoff held a council of

war. It was resolved to evacuate the southern part
of Wallachia, evidently with a view of enticing the
Turks away from their entrenchments.
It is thought that the Turks are waiting for the
full moon to cross the Danube, and that they will
cross in two columns, at Widdin and Braila.

thenisell cs to wittic„,s the fi4lat. The firing Ceased
about six p.m., the Mandarins retiring to their
anchorage. The patriot junks did not weigh.
On the 29th, early in the morning, the Imperialists
effected a coup de main, capturing, it is said, a b,idy
of 400 of the patriots, the best part of whom were
beheaded instanter. Having frightened the main
body of their opponents into a retreat on the town,
the Imperialists then betook themselves to the busi-
ness of destroying the villages where the enemy had
resided, killing every man and male child to be found,
cutting off the breasts of women who had given
nourishment to the detested brood, with other san-
guinary and brutal deeds. Part of the Imperialist
fleet also weighed at high water, and, with boats,
proceeded up the creek running half way across the
island from the west end of the town, some of the
crews landing and capturing those whom they could
catch in their retreat. All this was effected be ere
breakfast, to which the Imperialists were said
to be going. when the rebels gave pursuit, and
captured thirty-three of them, who speedily
met the same fete which had been meted to
the patriots—their heads being exposed as
trophies in the streets of the city. Although said
to have been defeated early in the day, towards
evening the patriot troops were seen entering the
city, many of them laden with what had been left
in the destroyed villages • the inhabitants of those
villages which had not been molested by the Impe-
rialists also proceeding to the city with their goods,
to take up quarters with the insurgents, in whom
they evidently entertained more confidence than
they did in their legitimate protectors. On the
3Uth the Imperialist fleet weighed early, and pro-
ceeded towards the eastern suburbs, which they also
ineffectually attempted to destroy; desisting at the'
hour of nice a.m. On the 31st of August the
armies arrayed themselves against each other
about two miles from the town ; in the evening
the Imperialists marched off to their "Citotr
ham"—the rebels to their " tower." The Impe-
rialist navy effected on this day a good deal of
damage among the northern and western suburbs.
On the Ist inst. all was quiet, the Imperialists re-
maining in camp. lI.NL's sloop Lily has been sent
up to guard the factories; and, apparently embold-
ened by a reliance on the probability of quiet exist-
ing for some time ; his Excellency Admiral Pellew
intends, it is reported, to proceed to Manila shortly,
with the Winchester and Styx.
Authentic intelligence reached Canton a day or
two ago, to the effect that a detachment from the
Nanking army had reached the borders of Kwangsi,
at the point where the Pearl River eaters from the
Kwangtung Province, and that the patriots only
waited news of the fall of Peking to advance to-
wards Canton. Hard fighting is looked for about
the Meiling Pass, to which place Viceroy Yeh has
been for some time sending troops.

The Russian merchants are doing an excellent
butintss in English cottons, of which large quantities
are stored in the Principalities. They send them
across the Truth.

The Siecle states, in rather a guarded manner,
that the governments of France and England have,
by their ambassadors declared to the Sultan that
they approved, after examination, the resistance is hich
Turkey opposed to the Note of Vienna. The fleets
go to Constantinople with the intention of lending
to Turkey material and moral co-operation, and in
certain foreseen eventualities the fleets will pass into
the Black Sea. These explanations have appeared
completely satisfactory to the Porte, which replied
that it accepted with gratitude the co-operation
generously offered by its allies. On the morning of
the 18th, the date of the last telegraphic despatch,
the fleets had not, however, arrived at Constantinople,
but it was thought that they would arrive there on
the 19th or 20th.

Letters from Constantinople of the 13th state that
the Prussian officers employed there as instructors in
the School of Engineers are about to leave for the
army of the Danube.
Private letters from the Danubian provinces, in
harmony with all official and non-official advices,
state that the Russian army is reduced to a deplorable
condition by disease. The pacific article which ap-
peared in a recent number of the official journal of
St. Petersburg is attributed to the state of the army.
The Greek Patriarch of Constantinople has been in-
vited to attend the sittings of the Privy CounciL The
Minister of Finance, Mouktar Bey, has resigned his
post, and Mousse Safetti Puha hu been appointed
in his place.
Paris letters state that everything is prepared for a
land expedition to Constantinople, but no orders
will be given for it to leave unless new circumstances
should render it necessary. This is not all that has
been done at the Ministry of War. The military
cadres have been reformed, and such admirable
arrangements have been made that in less than six
weeks the standing army of France could be raised
to 750,000 men.

The 'Paris journals publish tho report of a French
gentleman, who has arrived in Paris from what may
now be called, perhaps, the scene of war. He gives
a sad account of the Russian army. The irregular
troops, he says, are utterly without discipline, the
soldiers indulging in pillage, whilst their officers in-
dulge
in dissipation ; and his account of the regular ,1
troops is not much more satisfactory. This gentle-
man passed some days at the camp of Omer Pacha,
which he declares to be in a much higher state of
discipline than could have been expected. That of
the regular troops, he says, is almost perfect; and so
efficacious is the control of the commander-in-chief
over the half-civilised auxiliaries, of which the Turk-
ish army is in great part composed, that hitherto
they have been restrained from excesses. The only
fear manifested by the superior officers of the Turkish
army was that if Omer Pacha should resolve upon a
mere defensive policy, these auxiliary and irregular
troops could not be kept together during the winter.
A Frankfort journal reports a " reconnaissance"
an " exchange of shots," and a " collision" on the
Danube, in which " happily no one was injured."

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

BOMBAY, SEPT. 27.

Since the date of our last report there has been
less business transacted than we expected at that
time would have been the ease. During the last
fortnight orders from the districts were at first received
to a considerable extent, but In consequence of the
very scanty fall of rain lah.ly many of those orders have
been countermanded, and others are now coming in but

slowly. However, by late accounts, we have received
accounts of indications of rain, which, if realised, must im-
part a briskness to trade.
GaET SIIIRTINOS, 38 yards 40 inch.—The lower and mid-
dling qualities of these arc saleable at re. 41 to the
higher qualities ire not is so much request. 45 inch is
without any material change in value, and is in slight,
inquiry. For grey long cloth we are still without the de•l
mud we ought to have at this season, and the prices
offered are extremely low. Grey domestics remain almost
without change, and very few sales are reported; short'
widths of the coarser description are most wanted. Grey
madapollams continue in good demand. Grey jacconets, of
a description worth rs. 1 8.16 and upwards, and 40 to 45
inch, are scarce, and in request. The lower qualities of
bleached shirting' are still in demand ; for other descrip-
tions inquiry has moderated, and the value has slightly
declined. Of bleached madapollams the lower qualities are
scarce and in request, other descriptions are in moderate
inquiry. Higher descriptions of bleached jacconeta have
slightly receded in value. The higher descriptions of cam-
brio, 12 yards, maintain their value, but the lower qualities
have somewhat declined in price. Turkey red cambrics are
only saleable at a value somewhat declined. Turkey red
twills have been dull for some time past. !dulls have
slightly declined. Dyed cambric,, of 28 yards, are wanted
Mmits.—Copper : The market is looking up. For
sheathing we quote 621 to 63 rs.; brazier's, n. 621 ; bottom,
rs. 63 to 64 ; tile, n. 86 to 561; South American slab car-
per, rs. 64 to 65; sheathing nails, n. 62 to 53, and brass
sheathing, rs. 5.5 to 68 per cwt. Iron has slightly advanced ;
Swedish bar, to n. 48 to 50 ; steel in tubs, rs. 12 ; faggot or
bundle, is. 9 to 11 ; English bar, rs. 35 to S 6 ; square nail-
rod, re. 84 to 35 ; rouna rod, rs. 44 to 46 ; sheet iron, n.
71 to 71, and hoops, n. 6 to 7. Lead : Little business has
been done; our quotations are—Pig, rs. 11 ; sheet, n. 14.
Spelter, n. 121 to 13. Quicksilver, n. 54. Tin plates, re.
13 to 131. Red lead, n. 121. White lead, n. 11 to 111,
but little or none now remains in first hands. Cochineal,
is. 1 13-16 to 1 14.18.

THE OVERLAND MAIL.

INDIA AID CHINA.

We add the following to the news which wo pub-
lished yesterday under this head.

BURMAN.
Rumours are again rife of large bodies of armed
men assembling in the neighbourhood of Meaday and
Prome ; and the district of Sarawah (not Sarawak,
remember) is reported to be overrun with bands of
plunderers, and everything was in an uproar. The
town of Kangain, for the protection of which Major
Minchin and a wing of the 07th Native Infantry had
been sent from Prome, had been attacked by dacoits,
and Lieutenant Maisey and • few of his men
were wounded. A reinforcement of 30 officers and

100 men of H. M. 80th, 2 officers and 100 men G7th
N. L, and an officer and 29 of the sappers, had been
sent down to Major Minchin on board the Indus
steamer—the detachment being accompanied by
Captain Latter. The men of the 80th returned to
Promo without landing, there being no need of their
services. Captain Latter wished Major Minchin to
proceed across the river to attack the dacoits, but this
gallant officer replied that he had no orders to take
the held after them. They all consequently escaped
with the booty, some sixty boat loads, plundered
from the town. It was the belief that had our force
pushed after the robbers, as Captain Latter wished,
the marauders would have been obliged to abandon
their prey. Prome and Meaday are to be garrisoned
by Bengal troops—the Ist Fusiliers and 10th N. I.
to garrison the latter. Nothing is said of sickness
being over-prevalent--scarcely a word of news has
been received from any station but Prome.
The Rangoon Chronicle of August 31 writes:
Our policy in endeavouring to force a capitation tax on
the poor wretched starving people is enough to make them
rebel against our yoke, and unless the government find
means to alleviate their sufferings—for you cannot get blood
out of • stone—our districts will remain in a most unen-
viable state for months; neither will the popularity of Capt.
Phayre nor the despotic manner by which Capt. Smith has
endeavoured to levy the imposition of a capitation tax
assuage their suffering ! This grasping and grabbing aye-
tem in our policy must be suspended a while, else the
country will be lost to us, and Lord Ellenborough's pro-
phetic soul will have realised all that he has prophesied—
disgrace.

Corro,e.—The last &musts from China if the states of
the markets there quite
.prevent any operation in cotton,'
and from England there is no encouragement for shippers,
and as the cotton dealers bold out for former prices, few
operations are taking place, but cotton might be purchased
at about 1 r. per candy cheaper, making Broach, Surat, and
Jambooser at 104 rs. to 105 rs. ; Dhollera 103 rs. per candy.
LINSEED is held at 31 rs., at which business has been
done, but 3110.16 is now asked, at which no transactions
have transpired.
EXCHANGE on England has been pretty steady
throughout the fortnight, and no largo amount has been
transacted, the rate haring varied from 21. lad. to 2s. 11d.
per re. six months' eight for first class paper, and 2s. 11d. to
21. lid., for bills secured by documents.
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Facto HIE have also remained steady at 21. 17s. 6J. to 31.
to Liverpool, with 31. to 31. 81.6 d. to London, but not much
has been done to either port.
CALCUTTA, SEPT. 17.
Very little change has occurred in our export market
since the date of our last report, and transactions have been
upon a limited scale. The prospects of the indigo crop re-
main unchanged, and according to present appearances the
utmost increase that can bo expected on last year's figure
cannot exceed a very few thousand maunds. The ship-
ment* to date amount to 26,850 chests, of which 14,907
chests have gone to Great Britain. The market is barely
supplied with sugar, but prices are supported. A good de-
mand prevails for rice, and toe table kind has further ad-
vanced Ito arum per md. Hides show a considerable in-
crease in the quantity shipped since the date of our last
report, but without any alteration in value. The scarcity
of sticlac in the interior has induced holders of lac dye to
be very firm, and little consequently has been dente in the
article. The position of shell lac remains unchanged.
In our import market, the demand for grey shirtings,
jaconets both grey and bleached, and grey madapollams
continues good. Our advices from the Upper Provinces
are less encouraging, and, upon the whole, our market may
be considered not so animated as it was at the ate of our
last &deices. Copper is quiet and has slightly declined.
Iron maintains its place, although only a moderate business
has been done in the metal. Spelter and lead are without
report of sale. Salt has slightly improved in value during
the last few days.
The Money Market continues to be well supplied, ad-
vances being readily available on fair securities at the cur-
rent rates of interest. A government notification of yes-
terday's date hes appeared announcing that the four per
cent. loan has been closed.

CHINA.

Rates of exchange for the present mail have been steady
throughout at 2.1 for credits; and 2.1 to 2 1 k for docile
meats at 6 manilas' sight. The market to-day closes at the
same figure, but sales are difficult to effect, and as the
supply is rather greater than the demand, rates may posai-
bl• advance au eighth beforo the departure of the mail.
Bink post bills, 2.01 to 2-01, 30 days' sight. Bank bills,
2-oi. On China, 216 to 250 u. per 100 dole. On Singa-
pore, 216 to 230 ditto. On Madras anal Bombay, at 3 days'
sight, par.
. .

e have hardly any change to notice in the rates of
freight. We quote to Great Britain : 31. 15s. saltpetre ;
31.175. 6d. sugar; 41. rice; 41. ss. 6d. to 41.105. oilseeds;
arid 31. 10s. jute. Tonnage is scarce, particularly for light
freight, such u silk, Cgc.