The Express.
London, England, 1853-05-20 00:00:00

GERMANY.

The reigning Duke of Saxe-Coburg opened the
session of the Chambers of Coburg and Goths on
the 12th inst.

SHOCKING DEATH OF AN OLD WOMAN AT LEEDS.
—An aged widow, named Maria Omen, in a state of in-
toxication, oa Tuesday afternoon, went into a privy, in
Barker'sabuildings, Somerset-street, Leeds, and falling over
• raised bar was buried in the soil and suffrcated. When
found, half an hour afterwards, the body was entirely co-
vexed, except the feet.

TURKEY.

The following telegraphic despatch appears in the
Iniepraulaiice Belye:
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n TRIESTE, MA• 17.
" The steamer has just entered our port with news
from Constantinople of the 9th (one day later than
by the Chaptol). Prince Menchikoff had named a
space of eight dip; to the Porte for deliberation re-
specting his ultimatum. The Divan had demanded
the advice of the English and French ministers,
each of whom had sent off a courier to his govern-
ment.

" Smyrna was tranquil on the I Ith inst., but san-
guinary conflicts had broken out in Chalcedonia and
Iconia.

"On the 13th the French fleet was ma-
nceurring in the Gulf of Athens. Voyagers by this
picket uffirm that the English fleet had left
Malta."
It will be remembered that the false news of mae•

secret at Bronson and Constantinople were telegraphed
from Trieste, and our latest correspondence cautions
us that the false report of disturbances indicative of
discontent among the population, form part of the
Russian apparatus for realising its designs on Turkey.
The Presse says All our correspondents are
unanimous in bearing witness to the incessant in-
trigues of Russia, which does not scruple to employ ,
all kinds of manoeuvres to excite the hostility of the
people against the government. At Satinios, the
Russian consul addressed a circular to his colleagues,
informing them that he had a communication to'
make to them. The other consuls met at his house,
when the Russian functionary declared that he had
just received positive information from the interior of
Roumelia, and even from the province of Salonica
itself, to the effect that a conspiracy was planned
by the Mussulmsns to massacre the whole
of the Christians. The Austrian consul sup-
ported his colleague, and the consuls were
about to address a note to the Pasha ;
but tho English consul refused to join in the repre-
sentation, and the scheme failed. It now appears
that instructions were given to send despatches by
the telegraph throughout Europe to announce that
the massacre had taken place. Russian agents tra-
versed ltoumelia, and announced to the Greeks that,
during the Easter fetes, the whole of the Christians
would be massacred by the Turks. By means of that
scheme they hoped that a conflict would take place.
They were disappointed. All passed off well ; and
the Easter festival was celebrated at Constantinople
in tranquillity, so much so, in fact, that the police
did not even make its appearance."
The Dads gives the following in its summary
of its correspondence, by the Scamandre, which,
however, left Constantinople two days earlier than
the Chaptal :
By the Seamandre packet we have received accounts from
11Constantineple to the sth. Prince Menschikoff was about
*Please, but it was not known whether it was owing to
Is cessation of diplomatic relations with the Porte, or wise.
thee the mission of the prince had been fulfilled. The
airman relative to the Holy Places had been discussed sad
signed by the Sultan, and a copy of it was to have beets
communicated to Prince Menschikoff on the sth. It would
be accompanied by a simple note, which would neither have
the form nor the value of a diplomatic° document, as the
Hessian ambassador desired. The prince had remained WI
his apartments for several days until the arrival of a steamer
Iran Odessa, on board of which was an extraordinary eon.
rim The prince then caused it to be announced that he
had just received despatches from St. Petersburg, apple"-
beg of his conduct, and requesting him to persevere. At the
same time he complained to the Porte that the demands
made by Russia, which only wanted what wu just mad
legal, had been much exaggerated. The prince added, that
the cabinet of Vienna would have great pleasure in seeing
satisfaction given to the Emperor Nicholas. All these
stratagems had produced no effect. The Divan refused to
yield to the exigencies of the autocrat, and appeared to rely
sot only on the sympathies of France and England, but also
ea the resistance which the G,eek Synod had shown against
the pretensions of Russia on the question of the Petri-
&rebate. The Narval, French steamer, was every day ea-
peeled at Constantinople. She would bring back some
members of the Ottoman embassy from Paris, and 2,000
villas for the Ottoman troops, similar to those carried by the
Obweesn de Vincennes.
The German Journal of Frankfort contains a letter
from Constantinople of the 3rd, which says:
It is known that the government discovered a fortnight
leek a conspiracy amongst the Turks, which bad for object
Is massacre the Greeks sad Franks; the conspirators were
for the most part Mollahs. A great number had come up
from the provinces for the purpose. The centre of the con-
'apiracy was in the theologian schools connected with the
mosque of Sultan Mahomet. The schools in consequence
have been closed, and the pupils sent home to their families.
Several Mollahs have been arrested sad sent back to the
provinces.
The last accounts from Broussa in Turkey, state
that there is now every prospect that the silk crop
will be larger than was at first believed, but that
there will be a considerable deficit. Locusts had
appeared in the different parts of the province, but
the Governor-General Hahl-Pacha, had taken mea-
sures to prevent their doing any great injury to the
crops.