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

COAL MARKET.-THIS DAY.

Holywell, 265.; Carr's Hartley, 235. 6d.; Hastiest's Hart-
ley, 235. 6d ; Walls End Onsfortb, 265. ; Walls End
Stewart's, 265. ; Walls End Tees, 26c-Bllips at market. 62.

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
LIVERFOOL, FRIDAY, 10.4.5 ♦.r.
Wind S., moderate, and fine.
Arrived.—Sultan, from St. Petersburg.
QUEENSTOWN, SEPT. 7.

Wind S., moderate. --
,
Arrived.—Home, from Marianopoli; Alma, from
Galatz ; Hadscott, from Ibraila; Tagoni, from
Alexandria.

Sailed.—Maria Henrietta, for London.
PEAL, FRIDAT, 9.30 A.M.
. .

Wind N., lisht, and hazy.
Anchored.—Dash, from St. John's, for London;
Colombo, from Ibrail, for London.
Passed.—Priam, from London, for Portland Bay;
Emily, from Sunderland, for Genoa.
Passed off Dungeness.—Grande Condo, from Alex-
andria, for Dunkirk; Geziene Van Wider, from Leg-
horn, for Antwerp; Ariel, from Bridport, for Skein;
Alexander, from Cadiz, for Baltic; Nenus, from Bor-
deaux, for Hudickswall ; Eric Baker, from Stockholm,
for Naples. •
Barque Pomona, from Rotterdam, received orders
off Dungeness yesterday, and proceeded to Amster-
dam.

THE FALL OF THE HOUSE IN TIIE STRAND.--.
(Tine DAT )—During the forenoon the labourers have
been employed searching the ruins for any property belong-
ing to the deceased persons, Mr. and Mrs. Thompson.
Nothing, however, worth mention has as yet been reco-
vered. The injured man Lowe, who is at present ha
King's College Hospital, is gradually progressing; but his
injuries are very serious, and no doubt he will long be an
inmate of the hospital.

BRITISH MUSEUM.—Yesterday, the library of the
British Museum, which has been closed fur a week past,
was re-opened to persons having the privilege of admission,
and will remain open during the present and succeeding
months, from the hours of 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The slepart-
ment of the Museum allotted to antiquities and curiosities
will be re-opened to-day, the hours of admission being from
10 to 5 o'clock.

WORKING MEN'S EMIGRATION SOCIETY.—A meet-
ing of the members ot this society was held at the Three
Cups, Bedford-street, Bedford-row; Dr. Guilt in the chair.
The report, which was reed, stated the total receipts of the
society to be 9791. 9a , of which sum 6211. 10s. 11d. had
been expended for the passage of 11l emigrants to Aus-
tralia. The expenditure was 922/. 2s. 5d., and the balance
in hand 57/. Es. 7d. Mr. Cully said their proceedings
showed what could he done in aid et emigration by working
men. Some of the families whom they bad assisted to
emigrate had received as much as 801. They enabled those
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were rendering effectual aid to the working man. The re-
port was received and adopted.
BARNET GREAT CATTLE AND HORSE FAlR.—This
important fair, the largest in England, commenced on
' Monday, and terminated on Wednesday, greatly to the
satisfaction of a large class of salesmen who succeedei in
disposing of nearly the whole of their live stock. The store
beasts alone, for grazing purposes, were eatimated by thole
competent to judge a, upwards of 40,000 head, every de-
scription ot which, from 'be tiny Scot to the large Lincoln.
were sold each day at prices unequalled for many years ;
and so great was the demand that several lots were sold two
or three times, at considerahle profit to the resellen. Mulch
and in-calf cows and heifers realised exorbitant prices.
Horses and ponies were seldom, if ever, dearer. Alto-
gether this was one of the best selling lairs ever know*
at Barnet.

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LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9.

A GREAT effort was made by the Times yesterday
to disparage and lessen the weight of the able note
of RESCGID Pies % to the representatives of the Four
Powers at Constantinople. The Times affects to be
astonished at the unwillingness of the Porte to adopt
expressions which imply that all the privileges
granted by the Sultans of their own accord, since the
time of NiAIIONET 11., have been owing to the active
solicitude of the Russian Czars. But to establish the
active and efficient intervention of Russia in such
eases, the Taxes can find no more appropriate "came
in point " than the steps taken by Lord STRATFORD
DE ILEDCLIF FE in 1813, on the occasion of the punish-
ment of an Armenian renegade, who had abjured
Islamism. We have no wish to palliate the repealed
law in Turkey, according to which all professors of
the Mussulman faith were punished with death if
they abjured it. We cannot however forget that the
law was little more than the translation of an old
Byzantine law, which denounced a similar punish-
ment against all who, after being baptised, should
abjure the Christian faith. Nor can we shut our
eves to the fact that the MADIAI had their
constitutions permanenly undermined by imprison-
ment in Tuscany for becoming Protestants; or
that to this day the Swedish law inflicts the
punishment of civil death on all Protestants who
become Catholics,—the culprits being deprived of all
their property and civil rights. The Osmanlee
might plead regarding their late persecuting law, as
Shylock did, that they only copied the Christian
exemplar; and they may boast that it has been re-
pealed before Tuscany and Sweden (to say nothing
of other European countries) have made equal ad-
vances in the path of toleration. The present
SULTAN has abolished the law referred to; and if
credit is due to any foreign diplomatist for having
been the first to move him to such a step,
it is not to the Russian Ambassador, but
to Loll STRATFORD. Nor would that states.
man have found even the amount of difficulty
he did in the cased the Armenian renegade, had the
Minister who signs the note to the representatives
of the Four Powers been then in office. The re-
preach of requiring foreign interference to teach
them tolerance is totally inapplicable either to AB-
DUL•MEWID or RESCRID PACUA. In 18.50 an at-
tack upon the Christians was attempted by a few
fanatic Mussulmans in Aleppo—just as Protestant
street preachers were put in danger of their lives, a
few week. ago, in Ireland—but the Turkish autho-
rities in that city repressed and punished the tumult,
without even waiting for instructions from their own
Government at Constantinople, much less for appli-
cations from foreign consuls or ambassadors.
Even in the dispute out of which the present diffi-
culties have arisen Russia does not stand forth to
protect Christians generally, or even its fellow-
believers of the Greek communion. Russia does not
aim at elevating the members of the Greek Church
in Turkey in moral or material well-being. Its
ostensible aim is to resuscitate an old, obsolete, in-
vidious claim of precedence by Greek over Latin
ecclesiastics; its real though unavowed aim to in•
terfere in civil and political affairs between
the SULTAN and his subjects. Russia seeks for
political power in Turkey, which no Government can
safely grant to foreigners; and the first use she
would make of this power would be to degrade • all
Christians of the. Latin communion. Russia would
fain prevent the SULTAN from realising his generous
intentions towards his Christian subjects, would
perpetuate every Christian grievance, real or ima-
ginary, in order to obtain a pretext for meddling in
the domestic affairs of the Ottoman empire.
Having by its misrepresentations on this point
attempted to prejudice its readers against the Turkish
Government, it proceeds to find fault with RLSCIIID
PACUA fur having explained imperfectly the rationale
of his fifth Umendatent, which relates to the privi-
leges granted by convention or private provision to
other Christian communions. The Times is well
aware that to have entered fully upon this point
would have rendered irritating exposures and com-
ments unavoidable. The sagacity of ItRBCGID PACEA
taught him to indicate this part of the Russian pre-
tensions was enough; had he done more the Times
would have been the first to denounce him for ren-
dering a pacific termination of the negotiations im-
possible.

Lastly, the noes is indignant at the Ottoman
Government for having adopted military measures
for the defence of the frontier, in the event of all
negotiations proving fruitless. What would the
SULTAN'tI Ministers have deserved had they neglected
to take such precautions, in the presence of a Russian
army of some hundred thousand men ? Had
the mediation of the Four Powers failed
(are we yet certain that it has been spoons-
ful-?), and had the Russians found no Turkish
army ready to oppose them, even. the Mits itself
must have denounced the Ottoman Ministers as
traitors to their Sovereign and their country.

It is with a sense of humiliation that we reflect
that the doubts entertained by the Porte of fair and
honourable terms being obtained for it, and its diffi-
culties with the Russian Government peaceably ter-
minated, have been principally ins; fired and justified
by the language of as English journal, which, while
it advocates the views of Beesia, affects to speak as
an English ministerial orpa.

PARIS has no me apt of laifoludes. The Len-
doser lives in peepetud danger of king barricaded.
He scarcely drivesalong a main thoroughfare through
which he is sure to be allowed to pen. Detachments
of sappers and miners start up unexpectedly in all
quarters, and break up our roads, without our know-
ing why or wherefore. Roving commissions seem
to be granted to numerous individuals to wander
*boot at will with armies of labourers armed with
pickaxe and shovel. and block up the streets to the
discomfiture of the wayfarer. There seems to be no
masbod or order in the establishment of these obetruc-

time. Gas-men, water-men, sewers-men, paving-
Elea do with us as they please. At the present
Moment the two greatest thoroughfares in London
are blocked up. The unwary traveller, who has
taken a cab at the Marble Arch, wishing to keep
an appointment in the City, on coming down Oxford-
street, finds himself more than once turned oat
of the main road, and obliged to form part of
• solemn preemies a drays, trucks, omnibuses, and
other vehicles, programing at the rate of two or
three miles an hour, by a round-about back street. It
is in vain that he chafes at the delay—he is the vic-
tim of a conspiracy against locomotion as effective as
a Parisian &mile. If he wishes to proceed through
Plees-etreet, the ism fate awaits him. This
great arterial thoroughfare of the City is
blocked op from the foot of Ludgate-
hill to balisbury-equare. The enormous tragic which

should pass along this way ,
streets. Heavily-laden waggons
narrow lanes, scarcely wide
vehicles abreast. Shoe-lane,
such stinted avenues, are

through which the comr,erce
slow length along." L there beret, to be any
directing authorivi in these matters? Are we to be
for ever at the mercy of a number of separate autho-
rities. any one of whom seems to assume at will a
power of 'Mocking up our thoroughfares? Why should
London present the appearance of an entrenched
camp ? Why in time of peace should we be subject
to (Pie of the great annoyances of war? Is there
any other capital in the world in which the two
great arteries of its commerce would be closed at
the same time ? Is is not a disgrace to us that such
an occurrenc• should be possible here ? The enemies
of travelling in London have many devices by which
they inflict inconveniences upon us. Paving•stones,

ga►pipes, water-pipes,sewagepipes, all afford innocent
pretexts to impede the circulation of traffic. When
one company has had its will upon the unfortunate tra-
veller, another begins. The largest and the richest city
in the world has its roadways for ever in a state or
patching, and thus its inhabitants are denied the
privilege of driving through some or other of its
streets.

It is surely time that something should be done to
introduce a little better method into our manage-
ment of these matters in a city containing two
millions and • half of inhabitants. Authority
ought to be lodged somewhere, to prevent the oc-
currence of such interruptions as we have been no-
ticing. There are, however, worse evils than these
resulting from the absence of any competent super-
vision over our streets. The papers this morning
contain an account of a frightful accident, which, if
the cause be rightly stated, should never have hap-
pened. A house in the Strand fell in with a tre-
mendous crash, burying four persons in the ruins,
three of whom perished. It appears that the home
on one side of it had been removed, and that excava-
tions were being made on the vacant spot previous
to laying the foundation of new buildings. Shores
had been put up against the house to protect it during
the excavation. It is stated, however, although not
yet confirmed, that the workmen had actually dug
underneath the supports, which consequently gave
way, and the accident ensued. This account of the
way in which the disaster was brought about seems
too serious for belief, and is not therefore a subject for
present comment. We withhold criticism till evi-
dence has been given before the coroner. The
great point to be taken into consideration
now is the absence of any responsible au-
thority to watch narrowly the commencement
and progress of works of this nature, and
to insist upon the adoption of such precautions u
would make such accidents almost impossible. Is
there no local surveyor ? If there is—should he not
be called to task ? It is said that the separation
between the house that fell and the next house was
eo complete, that there must have been a breach
between the walls of both houses for some time.
The state also of the buildings appears to have been
a subject of observation, many persons, it is alleged,
having remarked that the house in question, was in a
dangerous state, and must soon falL It cannot be
supposed that this would have been allowed'
to take place, had there been a competent
responsible authority existing in the neighbourhood,
whose duty it was to see that the public safety was
consulted, in any alterations proposed in public streets
for private utility. London must be made subject to
regulations, which will prevent arbitrary stoppages of
the streets, and reckless demolition of houses. Judging
by the disaster in the Strand, and by the blockades
of Oxford-street and Fleet-street, there is at present
no authority of the kind. London lies at the mercy
of excavators of all kinds. It is made the subject of
perpetual experiment. Let it be protected against
the consequences of these, and let us no longer hear
the reproach that the greatest City in the world is
one of the least carefully regulated.

, REY:-
of further Peters and journals
to the 25th nit. The Journal
i the 24th is quite pacific in its
, entitled " Why the Turco-Russias
,r yet settled," concludes as follows:
" We hope that the four powers, and Russia itself,
will_ appreciate the grave considerations which have
guided the Porte in its examination of the proposed
settlement. The Porte has received it as a testimony
of friendship and sympathy for the empire ; as a
proof of the justice of its course; and u a new sanc-
tion of the spirit of the Convention of 1841 ; and,
foe thb noble sentiments of the powers, it has
L'atythlwed only such modifications as were absolutely
demanded by respect for its own rights and indepen-
dence—objects alike conformable to the interests of
the East and the West. These modifications in no
wise restrict any ancient rights appertaining to
Russia: they are left intact, and the assurance of
their confirmation required by the Russian court are
entire a^ d complete. No one can desire more ; and,
doubtless, in less than a month, we will learn that,
thanks to the great wisdom of the Porte, and the
good offices of the four great Powers, the Turco-
Russian difference is finally smoothed; and that it
has not been sooner settled no blame can attach to
the Porte."

In the same journal we find a notice of incendiary
writings industriously disseminated in Bulgaria.
Their object is to persuade the Bulgarians that the
object of the Russians is to liberate the Christian po-
pulations from the Mahometan yoke, and the Turks
themselves from the present ministers. These repre-
sentations have had no effect upon either Turks or
Christians. The Journal de Constantinople asks
whence came these brochures, but does nut answer
the question. Without doubt they came from the
same source as the Greek pamphlet some time ago at
Constantinople.
The Wanderer of Vienna publishes a letter from
Odeesa, of the 26th ult., which states that the Rus-
sian army in the Principalities was daily receiving

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