The Express.
London, England, 1853-09-16 00:00:00

of the arniatesion of the Observatory at xi.. The German Anrnal of Frankfort has the follow-
Thxt paltry sum is all that the funds of the ins from Smyrna, 31st ult. :
Alt all the t0...0ps co ining from As ia, from
British Association can allow to be appropriated
60 000 two
80,000 innumber, have passed through
for scientifio inquiries. Whilst thousands and !
this city; they are filled with the most warlike ea-
hundreds of thousands lift• lavished by the thusiasm. As to the inhabitents, they are at this
English Government upon worthhzes objects, many moment animated with such a spirit that the Sultan
questions of vast importance remelt: unsolved for would lose his life and his throne if he were to ars-
want of means to carry out the needful experiments. cept humiliating conditions. The meets in Besika
the
are constantly. receiving reinforcements, and at
It seems always to have been the practice with our
litiiiessasmtaetetimet a jiceoltnts. from a the Denzil:tan Pnsci-
Governments not only to disregard, but to died:wage re king
preparations
science and the applicatioas of science, as if it were for wintering there. Ismael Paths, our governor, is
a public duty to cheek all improvements in mead- using every possible effort to re-establish public
nary and manufacturing processes. Take, for ex- tranquillity, which has unfortunately been lately
ample, two of the most important inventions much disturbed. It is reported that more than
1,600 muskets have been found concealed in the
of the present age—steam navigation and the
Greek hospital.
electric telegraph. At the commencement of It was rumoured on the Paris Bourse on Wednes-
thia century the inventor of a steam-bat day, that the French government had received ac-
that had worked successfully on rivers was counts from Constantinople of the 6th, and that they
told by the Government officials to whom he applied were very unfavourable. The Emperor of Russia,
that the propulsion of vessels by steam was altoge- it was
immediate he sent a new note to the Porte, de-
thee impracticable; and in 1817, when an electriclaownyeereaoo with
ie the
nna,ancodottlhitionts.
telegraph, perfect of its kind, was submitted to the ening to advance against Constantinople if, within a
Admiralty, the inventor, who had expended large fortnight, the Sultan should not send an Ambassador
sums in perfecting the invention, was rebuffed with to the Emperor to present that note. The rumour
the assertion that telegraphs were of no use in time is not traceable to any authentic source, but is most
of and that in time of war the semaphore likely one of the thousand inventions of stock jobbers.
answered all required purposes. Had those plans
been then encouraged, communication by steam
vessels and by electric telegraph might have been
established many years earlier than they did actually
come into practical operation, and instead of being
now in stat se of transition and of infancy, they might
have attains d that condition of maturity and general
utility which. can only be acquired by extended expo.

One of the ,duties imposed on the Council of
the British Amo•iation is to communicate with the
Government, and po direct their attention to objects
connected with the promotion of science, which the
influence and power of the Government alone can
attain, Some of thest' suggestions, when backed by
the recommendations ar the Royal Society, have
been attended to, among which is the projected
establishment of an °been-story in the southern he-
misphere. The vis inertia is, however, great and hard
to be overcome. The parliamentary committee of the
British Association, consisting of members of both
Mouses of Parliament, do not appear to act with
energy adequate to the resistance to be encountered;
and the Council seem to be too diffident in urging
them to action. The applications to the Government
for aid to science during the ensuing year are micro-
scopically small. They are comprised in a re-
quest that provision be made for the arrange-
ment of meteorological observations taken at sea,
and that imported foreign instruments and specimens
may not be destroyed by repacking at the Custom-
house ! If the Council of the British As ociation
possessed an adequate appreciation of their own im-
portance as representatives of the sciences in this
country, they would scarcely limit their appli-
cations to objects of such insignificance. Were
they to exhibit more personal energy, and be
backed, as they ought to be, by the voice of the
people, they might compel Ministers to feel that the
encouragement of science and its applications consti.
tutee an important part of the duties of the Govern-
ment.

CONSTANTINOPLE, SEPT 1.
We are anxiously expecting the result in about
ten days of amended Note IL, of which I forwarded
a copy on the 23th ult.
You and your colleagues in London seem to cal-
culate on an amicable settlement—whereas we are
all here very apprehensive of an opposite result—
owing to the inexplicable movements of our friends
the Peace Congress. " Were we in the wrong," the
Turks say, "we should scarcely have merited all this
from those whose counsels have been followed
throughout in these transactions."
Another project of arrangement, it is understood
from the French government, has been proposed,
though not officially, to the Porte; and the Chaptal,
I perceive, has just this instant arrived front Toulon
with despatches for M. de Latour.
The Russians, it is said, are doing all in their
power to negotiate directly with the Porte, and offer
far better terms than those proposed by the allies.
Meantime, warlike preparations continue with the
utmost vigour and activity. Advice. from Salonica
state that a further levy of 80,000 (redif) is in pro-
gress in the pachaliks of Tenidje, Meander, Truala,
Matins' &c., &c. The Sultan on the 30th alt. in-
spected the Egyptians at Hunkiar Iskele, and was
highly pleased with their martial appearance.
Genera
l O'Donnel, who had been, it s said, at the
request of the ambassador to visit the camp at
Schumla, has returned to Constantinople.
Colonel Rose, it is rumoured, is coming back here,
and Lord Redeliffe going home. I cannot vouch for
the accuracy of these reports.
Genets.' Prim and staff started for the camp on
the 28th ult.

Omer Pacha, in a despatch to the Porte, speaks
highly of the disposition of his troops. He uses
these words—" My army, like the Romans of old, do
not ask what is the strength of the enemy, but where
ho is to be found."

FRANCE.

PARIS, THUUDATT EVENING.
The Moniteur contain' a decree, lowering to a
very great extent the import duties cn cattle and
fresh and salt meat. Although this, like the other
free-trade measures that have lately bean taken, is
upon the face of it merely temporary, there is every
reason to hope that in the result it will bo permanent.
The advantages accruing to the public from the
removal of commercial restrictions are likely to
become so obvious within a very short period, that
a restoration of the prohibitory duties is in
the highest degree =probable. There is a
variation in the wording of the decree which may
fairly be taken to indicate that the revocation of it is
not contemplated. The recent decrees :elating to
corn are limited in their operation to the 31st of
December nod, but the present regulation is ex-
pressed to be in fordo "until, further order." The
following is the tariff on cattle and meat as this day
fixed. Oxen will be admitted at (per head), 3fr.
instead of 50er.; bailout 3fr. nstead of Mfr.; cows
at If. instead of 25fr. ; heifers at Ifr. instead of
12fr. 50c. ; caves at 25c. instead of 3fr. ; sheep at
25c.. instead of 3fr. ; hogs at 2c. instead
of I2fr. ; pats sit 23c. =stead of Or. 50c.;
lambs at 10e. instead of 30e. - kids at lee. instead of
25e-.; and stinking pigs at Ile. instead cf 40c. The
reduction on meat is equally important. Fresh meat,
which has kitherta paid (per 100 kilogrammes) 18f.
in French bottoms, and 12f. 80c. in foreign, will now
pay but 50e4 and salt meat, instead of 30f. in French
bottoms, and 33f. in foreign, is charged but 10f. The
decree does not allude to the distinction between
French and foreign ships, and therefore it is pre-
tamable the reduced duty is applicable to both.
Contrary to what I was led to anticipate it has
been decided to maintain the present price of bread
daring the ensuing fortnight for the rich as well as
the poor. According to the average price of flour
'the loaf of two kilogrammes ought to have been fixed
this day at 92c. instead of 80c., so that the bakers,
who since September Ist have been compelled to sell
at a loss of 10c., must now go on at a loss of 12c.
The municipality had a long sitting yesterday
to consider in what way compensation was
to be given to the bakers, and were an-
' able to come to any definite conclusion. As I
I stated yesterday, it was very generally supposed
that the system of giving bread tickets to the poor at
a reduced price, the municipality paying the differ-
ence to the baker, would be resorted to • and the Con-
stautionnel of this morning announces that a credit for
the necessary funds for this purpose was actually
voted. It appears, however, from the Moniteur that
the municipal council ultimately adopted the follow-
, keg !Violation, which, it will be seen, merely autho-
rises the Prefect of the Seine to advance money to
sash bakers as may require it to carry on their
trade, and leaves the principle on which compensa-
tion for their losses is to be definitively awarded en-
tirely open :
Considering the application lent in by the Prefect of the
Seine on the 12th of the present month, of callingon the coun-
cil to deliberate oaths measures to be adopted in the interest
of the population of Paris, on account of the ripe in the price
of Gormand flour ; considering that it belongs to the municipal
administration to provide for the exigencies arising from
the advanced price of bread in Paris ; considering that the
Prefect of Police has already, for the purpose of aiding the
rlion, maintained the price of bread at a rata interior
tublaat resulting from the price of flour during the first
fortnight of September ; considering that a compensation
appears to be the best means of meeting the difficulty; con-
sidering that whatever may be the mode definitively
adopted, it is sufficient, for the present, to make advances to
the bakers of Paris in the proportion existing between the
natural price according to the value of filer, and that of
40c. the kilogramme, which is fixed as the maximum price ;
considering that the measure would be incomplete, and
would not attain the object proposed if it did not extend
to the communes of the department of the Seine, and that
it is advisable to make such advances 118 are required to
provide for their necessities, with the proviso of afterwards
regularising the position of these communes ; the council,
taking all these matters into consideration, decides that the
l'retect of the Seine is authorised to make to the bakers of

Paris and of the communes of the department of the Seine,
the advances necessary to make up the difference which
will exist between the natural price of bread and that of
40c. the kilogramme, which hss existed since the lot of
September.
(Signed) DELANOLA, President.
E. MOREAU, S .CrCtely.
(Countersigned) MEBRUAtf, Seeretary•General.
The arrangements which I stated to have been
made with respect to the Emperor's excursion to the
north are confirmed in every respect by an announce-
ment in the .Moniteur, from which, however, it
appears, contrary to what was expected, that the
Empress will accompany his Majesty throughout his
tour. It appears that the approaching journey of
the Emperor and Empress will not he a private one
like that to Dieppe, but a triumphal progress. In
all the to ens which their Majesties will visit, the
most extensive preparations are making to do honour
to the illustrious visitors. The Prefect of the Pas de
Calais has sent a circular to all the mayors of the
arrondissement of Arras, inviting them to march
into the town on the 22nd, at the head of deputa-
tions from their communes, bearing flags, and
accompanied, if possible, by the cure: of thoir pa-
rishes.
The utmost activity now prevails at the Ministry
of Marine. The French fleet now consists of nearly
100 vessels, and should all the orders given in the
cliffarcnt porta be punctually executed, France will