The Express.
London, England, 1853-06-16 00:00:00

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luncid,dui:l rntl.a'ocit: at .1;t1
winter yards. From Stdohpaaatrii
distance seems too great.
hire
And now as to the stock of cattle is sho,*
sr
the
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"farmers'i-b Efltrrasillei ttcnotholy d
friends," nttt:'111111e prophets of total ruin—of
farms uncultivated—rents unpaid—wheat at '_Os. a
quarter—labourers at (11. a day—and invasion of
tens of thousands of foreign beef and mutton at 3d.
a lb.—must bear the blame of the present shut
supply of lean stock which prevents our farmers
from reaping a full harvest of profit from the carni-
vorous capacities of our manufacturing p pulation.
The whole and sole truth is that the Protectionist
orators frightened the farmers into selling off cattle
to an immoderate extent— cattle which, if kept, would
have made little fortunes for their timid owners.
When we now traverse the farms of England we aro
struck by the rapid progress of every branch of agri-
culture ;--yet 41hen we listen to the farmers themselves,
at their chi* and market dinners, we are amazed at
their polideal gullibility. We still hear the cana-
-1
facturiug classes described as " farmers' enemies;
and N e still find the title " farmer,' friends" ap.
plied to those political impostors who counselled des-
pair and who condemned the enterprise and improve-
ments they now patronise. Let our agricultural
friends calmly ask themselves whether they would
not have been better off during the lest six
years if they had taken the advice of " the
abominable Free Traders," and obtained from
their landlords fixity of tenure, more drains and
fewer hedges, better homesteads and 11, SS game. And if
t fey themselves had ploughed deeper, =mired care-
fully, increased their live stock, replaced the flail by
the threshing machine, and the broadcast sheet by the
drill, the horse team by the steam engine—es they
are now doing. In doing all these things they would
have followed our advice, but they preferred cheer.
ing and subscribing for the CHItIsTOP/lEnS and
FOSKV:TS, who in return prophesied that it was alike
useless to breed and useless to feed, useless to build
homestalls, or eat down elm trees in hedge-rows;
declaring also that to use guano was a delusion,
and to employ machinery was a snare. The
result of the landlord predictions and advice as
to stock was a panic which filled the pastures
and stalls of the more wise at panic prices,
while it gave a check to breeding which it will take
some years to remedy. If, them, in Lincolnshire or
Norfolk, Warwickshire or Leicestershire, the feeders
for the fat markets find a difficulty in getting a full
supply of stock, let them remember that they owe it
not to us and our friends—not to Free Trade; but
to dolorous, ignorant, interested vaticinations of
the "farmers' political friends."

FRANCE.

81:1131A1W.01 TELEGRAPH )

PARIS, TIICIUDAY MORNINC.

Lettere from Athens of the 10th announce that the
French squadron was to sail on the tdlowing, morn-
ing.

PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING.
There is a very important article in the Par,
clearly showing that in the opinion of the French
government, the occupation of the Danubian pro.
vinces by Russia, will be equivalent to a declaration
of war upon Turkey, although "not so flagrant a
eases belli," as if the attack were made upon another
part of the Ottoman empire. The article, however,
in the most positive manner affirms that the Russian
' theory as put forward first by the Assentblje, and
afterwards by the Debats, is inadmissible.
The Constitutionnet, evidently obeying a hint from
government, says:
The possible, or we may even say probable, entrance of
Russian troops into the principalities is tt.e object of many
comments, but we have not yet sem that any one has, in
order to judge of the proper bearing of such a measure,
brought forward the treaty which regulates the matter.
This treaty is that of Balla Liman. concluded in May, IW.
This" Sened "—since that is the Turkish name given to the
document—is the latest obligatory convention entered into
between Russia and the Porte on the subject of the princi-
palities, it was concluded fur seven years, and provide!, in
Article 4, that a new occupation of these provinces is to
depend on any serious events which may anise in the
principalities. It is to be simultaneous, and the force on
either side must not exceed 30,000 men. No other cause of
occuration is stipulated for.
The Bourse was agitated today, and after various
fluctuations, the threes closed with a fall of nearly 1
per cent. There was a report that Lord Aberdeen
had resigned, and was succeded by Lord Palmerston,
and a rumour that Kossuth and Mazzini had secretly
left England, and that an insurrection had broken
out at Milan.

M. de Kisselef the Russian minister here, has
taken a splendid house at Vichy for the season. The
landlord, alarmed at the rumours of war, insisted upon
a considerable sum of money down before ho would
sign the agreement, and this M. de Kisselef cheer-
fully paid. The lease of the house in Paris occupied
by the Russian embassy is out this year, and the pro-
prietor, the Duke d'Albutera, required as a condition
of the renewal, that M. de Kisselef should covenant
in case of his departure to pay a forfeit of two year's
rent instead of one, which has been usually stipulated
for in such an event. These two anecdotes are
thought to indicate the improbability of war.
It is confidently said at the Ministry of Marine
that Admiral Baudin will be immediately appointed
to replace Admiral de la Sum in the command of
the fleet at the Dardanelles. Immense activity pre-
veils in every branch of the marine, and I am
assured that a supplementary credit of 24 millions
has been granted to the minister of that department
M. Marco de St. Hilaire, the author of the
" Souvenirs Intimes " of the Emperor Napoleon which
appeared in the feuilleton of the Siecle soon after the
foundation of that paper in 1837, and made a good
deal of noise at the time, has just been rewarded with
a pension of 1,200 f. a year.
M. Enene Sue may shortly be expected in Paris.
I mentioned some time ago that, although his name
was not upon any list of proscription, the French
consul in Savoy, acting, of course, under instructions,
had refused to grant htm a passport for France. It
was indirectly intimated to M. E. Sue that any sp.
plication for a passport addressed by him personally
to the French government would be cheerfully ac-
Feded to, but he preferred the inconvenience of neglect-
ing his private affairs to suing for permis-
sion to enter his native country in any exceptional
manner. lam now informed that the difficulties
which stood in the way have been removed without
any solicitation on his part.
I hear that M. Victor Hugo is about to leaveJer-
' sey for Portugal.
I have reason to know that within the last felt
days a much better understanding than for-
merly has been established between General Ca-
vaignae and M. Ledru Rollin. To say that an entente
cordiale prevails between them would be too
much. I am told that the right phrase to
use as descriptive of the new relations of thee/
two eminent party leaders is "a certain accord.
The basis of the approximation I understand to be
this, that Ledru Rollin, while retaining his person 4
convictions, desires to declare his opinion as a 'rim-
cal man, that there is not room for two republican
parties in France, and that he is not now the person
to be the leader of the one.
A new work, treating of the last revolution in
the Two Sicilies in a manner extremely favor
able to the supposed claims of the Mutat family
to the crown, was seized the other day by
the police on the steps of the Naples embassy
here. This act of severity against doctrines which it
might have been supposed would have been regarded
with indulgence, if not encouraged by the pre'ellt
government, is meant to be a proof that all ambitious
Ideas of remodelling the map of Europe aecordingta
the views of the ultra-Bonapartists arc abandoned.
The author's name given in the title page of the book
is M. Fite Rayons. But this is a tiont-deltserr,..
The Monitcur contains three columns of laudat!on
of the senate and Corps Legislatif, and the regulation
which govern their proceedings. It is little more
than an echo of M. Billault's report to the Emperor.
In ore passage it instances the tact that the no!e•
ments of the French and English fleets were tits