The Express.
London, England, 1853-12-10 00:00:00

MINES

FRIDAY EYINIIiO.
The market for home mining stocks today has
been inactive, and generally presents a dull appear-
ance. The shares of the South Devon Console Com-
pany were a shade flatter, closing to prem. Castle
Dines shares have risen to 2/. per share. The sales
reported are—United Mines at 215, 223 ; Trumpet
Console, 145, 155; Cam Brea, 82, 81 ; East Darren,
871, 921; Great Wheal Alfred, 36, 37 ; East Tolgus,
17; Grambler and St. Aubyn, 221, 23; Trehane,
9, 10 ; South Tamar, 51, 6; Gilmer, 5,1; Thomas's
United, 31s. ; Treleigh Consols, 2; Cwm Dar-
ren, 12e.

The gold mining share markot presents no feature
of novelty. Business is inactive, there being little
demand even for the preferable stocks. At 4 o'clock
Colonial Gold were quoted 3 to 3 prem.; Great Nug-
get, 3-16 to 5-16 prem.; Port Phillip, 3 to 3 dia.;
British: Australian, 3 to ; die.; Nouveau Monde, ; to
3 prem.; Agua Fria, 13-16 to 15-16 prem.
The shares of the Peninsular Mining Company
again advanced to-day, being ran up to 13 to 13 pm.,
although there is only ss. paid on them. Cobra
shares were I/. higher, and the shares of the Com-
pany of Copper Miners in England also advanced.
Metcalfe copper closed 3 to 1 prem.
Thenominal closing prices of new undertakings are
aa follows :—Misen Head, 3 to 3 dis.; Lewis Hill
Range, 3to 3 dis. ; Clarendon (of Jamaica), 3to pm.;
Britannia Gold, 5 to 3 per share; Mount Carbon
Coal, 3 to 3 dia.; Kenmare, par to 3 prem.; Lake
Superior Copper, 3 dia. to par ; Connemara, 5
die. to par ; Glenanlin, -3 to 3 dis.; Australian
Mutual, 3 to 3 dia. ; Poltimore, a to 3 Fell.;
Great Crinnis, per to 3 pm.; Garnett and Moseley, Ito
15 pm.; Sue River (of Jamaica), 3 die. to 3 prom.;
Metcalfe (of Jamaica), 3 to 1 prem. ; Adelaide Land
and Gold, 13 to 03 dia. ; Australasian Coal, 3 to 3
die.; Liguanea (of Jamaica), 3to die. ; Port Royal
(of Jamaica), 3 to 3 prem.; British and Colonial
Smelting and Reduction, 3 dis. to par ; Australian
Consols, 3to 3 Fortuna, 3 to 1 prem.; Lackamor
Copper, to dia
dis.; Obernhof, 3 to 3 pm. ; Giad-
bach Zinc, par to 3 prem.; San Fernando Silver
Lead, par to 5 prem. ; London and Virginia Gol3, 3
die. to 3 prem. ; Peninsular Mining, 1.3 to 2 prem.;
Great Hewes United Tin, 3 dis.to par; Cologne Lesd,3
to 3 die.; Monarch Gold, 3 to 3 die. ; Jamaica Copper,
to 3 prem.; New South Wales Gold, 3to 3 die.;
Chartered Australian Land and Mining, 3 to 3 die. ;
New Linares, 3 die. to 3 prem. ; South Devon Con-
sole, 3 to 1 prem.; Melbourne Gold, 3 to 5 die. ;
Rhenish Charcoal, Iron, and Steel, par to 5 prem.;
Dhurode Copper, 3 die. to 3 prem.

METALS.—Mr. Moate's circular states that
rails are very firm; most of the makers aro indifferent as to
making sales at present rates. Scotch pig iron maintains
its position, and leaves off firm at 755. 6d. for mixed
numbers. Staffordshire pig iron has an upward tendency.
Staffordshire manufactured iron is greatly in demand,
especially plates and sheet iron for ship building. Spelter
continues to attract the attention of speculators, in conse-
quence of the symptoms of an early closing of the season at
the Baltic porta, and the large requirement. of the French.
Tin: an advance of M. per ton has been announced en
English tin; an additional advance is expected. Swedish
iron is dull of sale, but the stock is small. Swedish steel:
a few lots have changed hands for the Mediterranean.
Copper: the advance announced last week does not appear
to diminish orders, especially for the home trade. Lead is
without alteration. Tin plates are sympathising with tin.
Charcoal cannot be bought so well now by 2s. per box as it
could a month previous to this time. The Americans have
been out of the market for some months, but • large de-
mand is now expected from that quarter.

THIS DAY.—TN;7-o o'CLOcK.

The gold mining share market is still devoid of
movement. Ag, ua Fria shares are quoted 13-16 to
15-16 prem.; Nouveau Monde, to I prem; Great
Nugget, 3-16 to 5.16 prem. ; and Colonial Gold, 9-16
to 11-16 prem.
Australian Agricultural shares are quoted 48
to 49; Peel Ricer f to 11 prem.; North British
Australasian, I to I prem.; and Scottish Australian
Investment, 11 to If prem. Santiago shares have
been dealt in at 51.

ACCIDENT ON BOARD THE CITY 01' BOULOGNE
STlAX•orainlL.—Yesterday morning, between seven and
eight o'clock, an accident occurred to George Crooks, engi-
neer on board of the City of Boulogne, belonging to the
--- Commercial Steam Company, which, it is feared, will ter-
An..40,V90 minate fatally. The unfortunate man was oiling the mam-
als chinery previous to the vessel starting, when by some means
leant . the beam of the piston came into action and crushed hie
':-...-.£1,3.44.80,89 arms nearly off. He was conveyed to Isaac ward, St. Thu-
... mass Hospital, where Mr. Simon, surgeon. was in immediate
4iaS77 attendance, and amputation was resorted to as the ottly
meals of saving life.
ACCIDENT.—On Thursday evening last Mr. (Aud-
i:38.0..5.624 wick, of our theatre, having a rather cutious old hinnies,-
'N. MARSHALL. and Cashier. bus, was about to offer it for acceptance to a gentleman of
This return, when compared with the previous the neighbourhood, but, in order to test its capabilities,
week's balance sheet, shows the following results : loaded it with a rather large charge of powder, well rammed
with paper on the top, atter which he discharged it, bat
Circulation issue
Circulation active 21,205,800 Decrease 138,400 left hand so much that it was afterwards deemed advisable
Public deposits 7,669,924 Increase 126,746 to amputate it at the wrist. The unfortunate patient is
Other deposits
Government securities in
banking department..., 13,622,039 Increase 133,002 A SHOCK 01, EARTHQUAICE was felt at Al
on the morning of the 25th ult., and on the same dgiersty a
Other securities in banki mere severe shock was experienced at Boghar. There were
department
Coin and bullion in both ' persons were almost thrown from their chairs. The move-
._ .. ......

,AITNINT. _
Government Debt.... A 11.016.100
Other Seruzities...... 2.984.900
G 414 Coto and Babe 14.406.590
Mira Donlon ... ..... -

123.404.90
BASING D
Progenitors' Copt al ....44.861.000
LaPubelic .
D..eproits.... .
(lock .ed.... 1175.03
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Danko d Mg. Aco4l 7.6.9,924
Other .... 11,4e0,162
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departments
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The Rest
The Reserve (viz., notes
throughout the night. The noise was that of a number of
and coin in banking heavy waggons passing.
department)
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say,the rteiligtihoetuivderoygmnaegoiltitlifte
favourable character than had been anticipated.
of dogma, it leads, with regard to morals and porteok. to
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LONDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10.

advantageous after all, inasmuch as it lin left
Turkey and Russia time to show themselses In their
true colours. But for these delays, stay the maintainer,
of this argument, we might still have beim 4old that
Turkey was effete, and incapable of being bolstered
, up, and that the CZAR was criitable and reasonable
' in his demands and expectations. Such averments,
it is added, have been for ever silenced by the
' logic of facts. Be it so: but this counter-
balancing good having been attained, no further
possible advantage can accrue from longer delays
and reiterated procrastinations. France and Eng-
land, by again allowing themselves to be entangled
into sham negotiations in concert with the detected
thimble-rigger, Austria, play the game of Russia in
so far as they allow the CZAR time to plot new subter-
fuges for the attainment of his objects,—or at least for
escape from retribution. And what is more, they
expose the sincerity and good faith of England and
France to grave and well-founded suspicions in the
eyes of the Porte. Distrust begets disunion, and
disunion weakness. It is lamentable to note the
infirmity of purpose betrayed by the two government&
which ought, in the present coujuneture, without
check or hindrance, to dictate the destinies of Europe.

At; ti the English nation gets its information
of the progress of the Eastern Question from
Patin instead of Downing-street; again Imperial
Fiance is more open-spoken then Constitutional
England; again the Gallic journals instruct the
English public, and the latest phase of the Russo-
affair is shown to us in the columns of the
*f ,fr. The substance of this latest announce-
root. t was given yesterday in a second edition of the
Xcws. This morning we publish it in
~:n in another column.
There is one sentence in the i'aris Moniteur's
top'anation of the signature of the new Pro-
tocol at Vienna, on the sth ins-., by the repro-
rent.ttires of the Four Powers, in which all who
have attentively watched the resent progress of
v:nts in the East will concur --" It would be
presumptuous to consider the Eastern Question as
ended: we may still expect to see it pass through
=any stages." It is added, indeed, with respect to
the possibility of the division of the Powers into
two romps, that that " danger has vanished." But
the only reason assigned for this opinion is that the
Protocol " bears witness to their mttnal resolutions;"
and this is not the first protocol that has at-
tcs'i " les ri-solu'ions COMOSIneII "of France,
England. Austria, and Prussic. The notorious
Vitnna Note, which the Porte ref.ised to adopt
unless with modifications, and which NICHOLAS
MSS so ready to accept because, as he frankly con-
fessed, it would have ensured to him the MENCRI-
ZOIT demands in all their mons:rous extent, also
attested "les rtsolutions commune.," of these powers.
Bat when the f4a's interpretation of the Note was

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publieLed, the French and English Governments felt
it incumbent on them to give it up, and the "resolu-
tions communes" were blown to the four winds. The
same thing may happen with the Prdtocol of the sth
of December. It would indeed be premature to say,
before the Protocol itself is published in extras°, that
the diplomatic representatives of Rigland and France
have again (with their eyes opet or shut) walked
into the .clf•same trap that was se: for them in the
V►cuna Note. We are as yet it possession only of
an obbreviatcd statement of the general purport of
the Protocol, and no sane man wi.: form a definite
opinion tip3n such an abstract. He will insist upon
being showed to examine the ipirs.°4 reeks of the
. . .

document—to winnow, scrutinise , cad weigh them—
to ascertain that no double or disputed meaning can
possibly lurk under them, before he draws his con-
ciusiogs. But it mast be confessed that there are
suspicious circumstances which ea:it!e this Protocol,
even whilst unseen, to bo regarded with distrust.
In the first place, it is currenCy reported at

Vienna —it ia the common-:own talk —that

Russia will Mart no objections to the terms of
the Protocol—that indeed Russia ha already been

consulted in the matter. This may be no more than
the gossip of quidnunes, but the previous experi-
ence of the Vienna Note ought to teach the necessity
of ascertaining that it is so. Again, the Moniteur's
account of the basis upon which it is proposed to re.
eattiblish peace is far from satisfactory.. The condi-
tions are to be alike honoorat le to both parties.
These are vague words, and may nem anything or
nothing. One condition is to be the maintenance of
the territorial integrity of the Ottcnian Empire. do
far good, but there is only one giarantee that the
Four Powers can give—or the Ottoman Government
accept —of their bona fide determination to
maintain this integrity, and that is to insist upon the
witlidmwal of the Russian troops, to the last man,
from the Ottoman territory, before the negotiations
for peat* are begun. Another condition :a said to
be, that the present war can is no =tenor lead to
modifications in the state of poseeasiot " which time
hes consecrated" in the Etat. It it *Ur. prove that
this is a correct description of one of the conditions
recommended as a basis of peace, there will be not a
shadow of a doubt left that the Protocol which
embodies it has been dictated in bad faith. This
would be to give to Russia a security for its
usurped possessions in Circassia and Georgia—
on the frontiers of Turkey and Persia—which
recent events have shown .t is not in a
condition to assert for hash. I: would be
I. place Ravels, in the far East, it a better posi-
tion than it was before the breaking out of hostili-
ties. We do not say that the Preto:9% when pub-
Felled, will be found to be tainted with the dia.
honesty which the brief abstract in the Moniteur
leaves an opening to suspect, and which the gossip of
Vienna renders still more probable ; but we do say
that, for anything that yet appears, the signature of
this Protocol by the representatives of the Four
Powers his done no more to bring the Eastern ques-
tion nearer to a termination that the notorious
Vienna Note. Let us hope that the publication of
the document itself in erten*, wiz: p: e,:e things is a
lu light.
It *ought never to be left out of v.ew that every
rrizotiation to which Austria is a party ought to be
retched with suspicion, in so far u the dispute be-
t wren Turkey and Russia is conoernee. Every day
Small facts are transpiring which elbow that Austria
I ea been, and tontinue, to be, the subservient tool
end accomplice of Ramis. We need go no further
In search of an example, than the note of Count

liziatutonr. to the Prince of SEPAL,., dated St.

-Petersburg, the 17th of July (0. S.), and published
in our columns this day. This note intimates
13 the Prince that a /tusaian I,gact has been
despatched to take his Government -.o task for the
pablicatioa of certain acts, and that h. ipld his coun-
sellors ago riposted " to repair the par., and to bring
about for theft native land a more N. ire and salu-

Lary Arturo than that which wee promiled them by
It few agents of little respectar,:.:ty revoln-
tluaary propagandists—and their aural: faction.
Count Niasatitonit speaks dictator.a.ly :n his seas.
came, under whose " protectorate " he declares
Berrie stands ; and he farther intilliatei that " the
intelligence upon which the Ranier Government is
acting has been obtained from akin: 'onrush and has
tat( ly arrived from Vienna;" and also that " the
imperial Austrian Court entirely cot ear* in these oar
views." Here we have Austria in Juno and
Jul) of the present yetis. Eh the jaitaal and spy of
4tussis inflow's; and since t.hat erne we have seen
tlse ensesqueasse of the interference .).t. :he CZAR and
die Austrian vassal in Hervian affairs, ,t the mistinder-
standings between that principality cud the Porte,'
end the mastering of an Austrlar army of ob-
cervatten on the Persian finctier. A.:Era is theater.
4-01 of Ramie. It is not, indeed, to le feared that
rhallow artifices of Austria can ultimately delude
fxglatd and France, but in tics meantime those
s-tif.ces gain time for 11':,9:11, set t.rt. therefore,
4) be deprecated. True. it her. toon said with
coneiderabin plausibility, that the French and
EDO& alaggishneen so much complained of hem been

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 10, 1853.

RUSSIA AND TURKEY.
Inslependlenee Beige pablishes the following :
• = • ' BUCHAREST, Nun 28.
This morning the official journal of thislown con-
tains a notification by General Gortechakoff to the
Administrative Council, relative to the nomination of
General Badberg as extraordinary commissioner and
plenipotentiary of the Czar in these principalities.
The following is the document:
TO TNT ADMINISTRATIVII COUNCIL OF WALLACHIA.
His Majesty the Emperor, my august master, having
given his assent to the voluntary resignation effected by
the Hceoodsrs of Wallachia and Moldavia, has deigned le
caside their functions, under my superior order, te
General Bedbug, with the powers and attributions uses-
eery te unite is his hands the superior administration of the
two Prinelyalities, and in **auction with the local
Divans, to watch over the progress of interior affairs, civil
and jddicial, the welfare of the population, and the wanted
the Imperial army.
At the same time the acting Councillor of State, Shalt-
chunky, has been nominated Vice-President of the Adati.
aistrative Council of Wallachia.
We are assured that the most active members of
dm administrative council (those of the Stirbey
petty) will be invited to give in their resignation.
- The German Journal of Frankfort has a Berlin
letter of the Stb, in which mention having been
made of the fact that England, France, Austria, and
Prussia have addressed a note to the Porte, inviting
it to make known the conditions on which the Sultan
would be disposed to negotiate for peace, the negotia-
tions to be directed bthe belligerent powers them-
selves, it is added, "The cabinet of St. Petersburg
has acceded to this project of arrangement."
The Post Amps: Gazette, of Frankfort, under date
of Vienna 4th, says A letter from Bucharest of
the 26th ult., announces that the Russians were
making preparations for going into winter quarters.
The Turks maintain themselves in the island of
Swards before Giurgevo. The differences which
have arisen between the Ottoman Porte and Beryls
still cause uneasiness. It is thought that the Turks
will insist on being permitted to cross that Princi-
pality."
The Cologne Gazette states from Munich that the
Austrian government not only requires that the
Germanic Diet should observe neutrality on the
Eastern question, but that the mode of neutrality
shall be such as to meet the views of Austria. There
have, says the Cologne Gazette, been for some time
past secret negotiations on this subject between the
Austrian, Saxon, and Bavarian cabinets.
The Constitutionnel has an article intended to
show that Austria will be led by interest to hold
with the other powers of Europe when the time
comes for choosing practically between them and
Russia:
The policy of the Austrian government is much more
free than the advocates of the Riunian cause appear to be-
lieve. The interest of Austria is manife.t. Let us admit
the hypothesis of the annexation of Moldo-Wallachia to
Rusin • the Austrian ravines of Transylvania, which is
also inhabited by Will 'would be from that moment
at the discretion of the Russians ; and the Hungarian ter-
ritory would not be out of the reach of an Mrs.
sloe. But, we are told, M case the cabinet of St. Peters-
bare should think itself able to effect these conquests, it
would not fail to interest Astarte in them, by some se-
maks of territory in Brenta or Sonia. In our eyes, this
pretended escernpues woad be a cause of sethanmemesit
for the Aestrien geyesesessa. She has elempoilits
enough sieves under ler dembadon ; and to add
and &winks to the Pelee, the Croats, and the Ethentlems,
who form almost the half other total population, waddle
to Menem et pleasure the diScalties of the etheilnielne•
time, whisk we the greater from the fact ef the ffinenien
Massa% wherever it is met with, offering a greater held te
Florian utile—to that formidable instrument of propa-
ganda, sailed Panalavism. Let us admit that Ramis does
not think fee the moment of conquering, and contents her-
self with the raging protectorship which she demands,
the danger MU maly have changed in form. It was
under this peeitut of religion, it will be remembered,
that Ruda meddled in the affairs of Poland. Austria
contains a great number of people who profess the lame
religion as the Ruslans—the Wallachia= of Transylvania
and Hangary, the Serviette of the Banat and Syrmia, and
the Ruthinians of Galicia. If the Cur were to be recv-
aised as the official protector of the peoples of the Eastern
communion in the Ottoman empire, he would, by that
single fact, acquire ever the populations of the same com-
munion in Austria the most powerful means of action. How,
then, can it be admitted that Austria could now lend the
hand to pretensions which, in a political as in a religious
point of view, eouldenly have painful results for her fu-
ture ? No ; this government better understands interne-
' tiveal equity, and has a more Just sentiment of its interests.