The Express.
London, England, 1853-12-28 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, TUESDAY.
The Pattie publishes the following in a conspicuous
position :
" We reprinted in oar last a letter published by
the ',dependance Beige on Eastern affairs because
we saw in it an expression of the firm resolve of
France and England to adopt prompt and decibive

measures for the termination of this great question,
which has so long held Europe in suspense. In
doing so we only echo the public sentiment, which
in both countries calls more and more loudly for a
solution."

To-day the Three per Cent. Renter closed for money
at 74.80; the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. at 101.50
and Bank Shares at 2,650. Compared with the
depressed closing rates of yesterday, the Three per
Cents. show an improvement of 80c., and the Four-
and-a-Half per Cents. of 1 per cent.

THE WAR.

RUSSIA AND TURKEY.

Although the Patrie and other organs more or less
connected with the two Western cabinets announce
in the most absolute manner that France and Eng-
land are about to lend an active support to Turkey,
the intelligence which we receive from Germany makes
it all but certain that such a course would be fatal to
the concord between the Four Powers to which from
the beginning of the negotiations so much importance
has been attached. In another column, under the
head of Germany, will be found an article from the
official organ of the Austrian government which
shows with sufficient clearness that Austria enter-
tains no design of risking her friendship with Russia,
and that she only understands her engagements with
France and England as limited to moral intervention
in the pending dispute.
Private correspondence from Galatz of the 12th
inst. states that General Luders was in that town
with a numerous staff. He had made several recon-
noissances, and had attempted several operations, but
the marshy state of the country was such as not to
permit the execution of any movement of im.
pnrtance.
The latest news from the Bosphorus still tends to
justify the belief that the ambassadors, notwithstand-
ing the affair of Sinope, would not send the squadrons
into the Black Sea until the receipt of express instruc-
tions to that effect.
The Irieste Zeilung, with Constantinople corre-
spondence of the 12th, has reached us. One writer,
after confirming the accounts which we have already
published, says that of the Turkish crews, which
amounted to 5,900 men, at most 1,500 are alive.
Another, who is favourable to the Russians, refutes
the account published at St. Petersburg, and confirms
that forwarded from Constantinople. lie says that
for some time the Russians were completely sheltered
from the guns of the strand batteries by the Turkish
ships; and as the liners fired from a distance, they
suffered very little from the lighter metal of the
frigates. The Turks having at last cut their cables,
and let their ships drift on shore, the strand batteries
opened their fire. The Russians then began to shell
the town, which, with the frigates, was soon in flames.
Theses of fi re, the roaring of the arti Ilery, t he continual
explosions, and the fragments of human bodies which
were hurled about in all directions in the air, formed
one of the most fearful spectacles man ever beheld.
The Turkish quarter was completely burned, and..the
houses in the other parts of the town, where no
bombs had fallen, were perforated with balls. The
corpse of Hussein Rama Pacha, the Turkish Rear-
Admiral, was found in the water the next morning.

A British trader which lay in the port of Sinope htid
two men killed by ehota from the Russian ships, and
being subsequently run foul of by a burning Turkish
frigate, she was destroyed. Her captain and crew,
who escaped, say that the Turks " fought like
devils," blowing up their own ships rather than
that they should fall into the hands of the Russians.'
The loss Gazette, under date of Vienna, 21st, says:
" A conference took place yesterday between the
Minister of Foreign Affairs and the ambassadors of'
France, England, and Prussia. Count de Buol
Schauenstein presented a report from M. de Bruck,
the Austrian internuncio at Constantinople, the en-
semble of which appeared satisfactory. The Ottoman
Porte is, it is said, disposed to send a plenipoten-
tiary to represent it at the conferences. As to the
evacuation of the Principalities, it is certain that
before the arrival of the last note from Vienna, it
was resolved not to give up that as a sine qua non
condition. The ambassadors had been instructed to
recommend the Porte not to insist on the question,
and to declare to the Divan that the integrity of the
Turkish Empire will be maintained, and that the
political relations between the Porte and the Princi-
palities will be re-established on the footing on which
they stood before, so soon as the Turco-Ituasian dif-
ferences shall have been settled."
A letter from Bucharest of the 13th, in the Breslau
Gazette, says: "There is no doubt that the Russians
have been beaten near the village of Saetscha, about
three hours' march from Krajowa, to which place FRANCE.
they retreated in all haste. It was General Mastrow
--4.
at first, and General Aurep afterwards, who com-
PARIS, MONDAY Evzsmso.
mended the Russians, of whom the loss is consider- The Presse very positively confirms the story told
able. The wounded Russians were brought to Kra- by the Independance Beige about:the peremptory
jowa, and even the school was transformed into an message lately sent by Louis Napoleon to the Eng-
hospital." lish government. It is, says this journal, perfectly
The Press of Vienna says: "According to a letter true that France called upon Great Britain to take
from Bucharest of the 14th, troops of infantry, the course which became imperatively necessary
cavalry, and artillery had left for Lesser Wallachia after the disastrous affair of Sinope : it is perfectly
on that day and the two preceding ones. A letter true that France declared to Great Britain that if
from Braila states that the Russians were firing from the British squadron did not receive immediate
their redoubt opposite Braila, on a cafe close to the orders to enter the Black Sea conjointly with the
bank, which the Turks had converted into a sort of French squadron, the latter would enter alone to
fort. Another letter from Bucharest states that the protect Turkey efficaciously. It is, moreover, per-
Russians were making preparations for a war of fectly true that Lord Aberdeen, " faisant centre for-
some duration, and that Lesser Wallachia was to be- tune bon mar," replied, without hesitation, without
come the theatre of war. A letter from Krajowa of delay, on the very day the application was made, by
the 13th gives the same indications. Krajowa was the most complete adhesion to the categorical decla-
perfectly tranquil at that. date, and there was no ration of France. The orders given to the squadrons
THE CHRISTMAS RAILWAY TRATTIO.—The amount idea of an immediate encounter, between the two
of the Christmas traffic on all the leading metropolitan armics are said to be to cruise in the Black Sea in such a
railways, would appear from the usual returns to have con- •"
A letter
~ . . . .
from Semlin, of the 16th, states that the Way. as to constitute a sort of impassable mari-
sidersbly exceeded that of any previous year. On the London time barrier from Varna to Battoum, not permitting
and North Western during the period nominally called Administrative Council of the Principalities of the
" Christmas week" extending over seven days, there passed Danube has again published a notice that any per- either Turkish or Russian fleets to cross the line, but
leaving each of them perfect freedom of action on
" down" the line 27,000 parcels and Chrietma. presents, son who shall be detected in correspondence with
and " up" 12,250, for distribution throughout London, this their own side. The Press.• argues that war on any
the Turks shall be tried by a court-martial.
being exclusive of many thousands of parcels coming by Since the large scale is now much more improbable than it
made the '
goods trains. Last year on this line the " down" parcels
were 25,000, and the " up" 12,000. In the passenger tract Czar, the Council has ceased to be national, and is
lie there was a corresponding irerease. The Great Western degraded to a mere instrument in the hands of Gen. lis not an admissible supposition that Russia will
conveyed, exclusive of large coileignrutia s by the goods Badberm devote her Black Sea fleet to destruction by pro-
trains, 16,000 parcels and presents by their down pawnor , '• yoking the united French, English, and Turkish
trains
to all pens of the West, and 13,000 from the West The following is the translation of a letter addressed naval forces to an unequal combat. Nicholas will,
up, to the metropolis. The Great Northern disembogued by Vice-Admiral Nakhimoff to the Austrian Consul .
therefore, be placed between these two alternatives :
from their depsts at King's Cross, 10.000 parcels " up," at Sinope on the 2nd instant, before leaving that
and about the same number "down," exclusive of Roods! port : either he must indefinitely prolong a situation exces-
sively humiliating and inconvenient to him, or ho
trains consignments, and the Eastern Counties in four days k
carried 15,000 parcels up from the sgriculhiral distric•s. and I Monsieur le Consul,—Permit me to address you, as the i must speedily evacuate the Principalities. The latter
about hall that 'umber down, besides a large tonnage to I sole European representative whose flag I perceive here, 1
in the port course will hurt his pride less than to let his fleet
lead Iro of agricultural and dead stook. la each case for the purpose of enabling you to state to the authorities of remain practically blockaded of Sebas-
special arrangements had to he made on a large scale fur I
the sate and speedy transmission of these Christmas cargoes, 1 i the unfortunate town of Sinope the sole object of the visit topol.
, . _
sad a large additional staff was in requisition. of the Imperial fleet to these roads. The Bourse was a good deal excited to-day, and
CM:VI:LEA. IRON MINES. —On Thursday
last
Hoeing learned that the Turkish vessels which went con• there has been a considerable fall. All sorts of dis-
, tinually to the coasts of Abuja in order to encourage revolt q
thirty tuns of pig iron, the produce of the mines, were de- meting reports were flying about. The uneasy
livered at the Ballast•quay, for shipment to Liverpool. This amongst the tribes subject to Russia had taken refuge in feeling
is eke first delivery of icon by the company as the prepare- the roads of Sinope, I have been reduced to the deplorable , was added to by the absence of the usual
telegraphic quotations of Consols. It was stated that,l
tory labours were of a most extensive and arduous nature; necessity of combatting them, at the risk of causing damage according to a telegraphic desratoh from Vienna,
but the mines are in full working order, and us the supply
of iron ore is now unlimited, the shipments may, we learn, to this town and port. I with news from Constantinople of the 15th, the fleets
be expected shortly to reach two or three hundred WOAD I feel for the sad lot of the town and its unoffending in- were still at undor in the Bosphorus, but the.
.o.rder
week.—Stiye citrottiele,
habitants ; for it was only the obstinate detenoe of the l fur their entry must have arrived by the 201 n or