The Express.
London, England, 1853-10-06 00:00:00

THE STATE OF NEGOTIATIONS.

On Tuesday we published in a telegraphic mes-
sage the semi-official announcement of the Austrian
government respecting the result of the conference at
Olmutz. The following is the text of the article in
the Oesterreichische Correspondenz :

The camp at Olmuts has attracted to itself the attention
of the whole of Europe, partly by the di►play of great
military pomp, but Mill more fr.an the general and natural
presumption which has arisen that the visit of the august
sUy of our Emperor, accompanied by his most influential
eounsellers, ovoid lead to a settlement of the Eastern
question.
. . . .

as will as Austria and l'rus,ia have solemnly declared so
al %ant: ; bit the WI sew of willing pa* is NSA to-
urs() butAtervoar it, mid Ow best node of proving it is
to especelriatios. and not to invade the territory of as
allied power in time of profonsd peace and without reason.
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The An.,nMke Nahum%le is surprised that we have
spoken so pleitay of the impossibility of a coalition against
France. As a great deal has been said about a pretended
coalition of the three northern powers, and u we know who
are the inspirers of this authority, we cannot too straggly
repeat our convictios. No league, no coalition is possible
against France; because to-day she represents in the world
the principle of order and civilisation.

. _
As to Austria and Prussia, their sound Knee of their
own interests permits us to affirm that they will not enter
into league with Russia to aid her to violate treaties to
their prejudice, and to continue her invasions with pacific
words on her lips. _ _ _

This, it will be remarked, is the strongest language
yet employed in a government journal in reference
to the Czar.

FRANCE.

PARIS, TtERDAY ETINING.

I have to-day to communicate intelligence of great
importance. The Patrie last night did not appear
till nearly eight o'clock. Under the head of " Der-
nieres Nouvelles," it contained the following article :
The Assemble. anaouncee that the Conference of Vienna
is re-established, and that Me thread of negotiations, a
moment abandoned, has been resumed, and that a happy and
more prompt solution than could have been hoped fur on
Saturday is probable. It adds that all Me rwitolwa of an
offensive and defensive coalition between tM three Powers
of the North are false. Looking at the absolute tons and
almost character given to its affirmatione, it would appear
that the Assembke has before it information which enables
it to completely tranquillise the public mind on the
issue of the Eastern question, wilier, for more
than six months, has kept Europe in suspense. tail
this journal shall have proved the contrary, we shall
have masse to believe that it knows neither more nor less
of the state of affairs than what has been said and repeated
for some timo put by every other political journal. The
Conference of Vienna did not require to be re-established,
for the thread of the negotiations has never been abandoned.
The Conference has had to solve difficulties of different
kinds; it has attacked them one after the other. The first
consisted in the wording of the origins! cote ; the second
in the modifications made by the Divan, and the third in
the interpretation which Russia declared that she gave
to the note, and changed the spirit and the object of it.
Diplomacy now redoubles its efforts to unravel the state
of affairs pacifically. We hope that it may succeed,
but it must make haste, for the force of circum-
stances may lead to such a complication that it
would no longer be possible to overcome it. As to the idea
of the Assemble, of a coalition of the three northern
powers, it has never seriously existed in the mind of any
one. Austria and Prussia know their own interests, and
are jealous of their preponderance. No more than France
and England, can they regard with a favourable eye the
encroachments of Russia in the East. We have no fear of
this pretended coalition of the northern powers. If ever
there be a coalition, certainly it will not be against France.
This article, I have reason to know, has all the
authority of a communique. It was substituted for
another, worded in much stronger language, and be.
braying more of the intentions of the French govern-
ment than was thought convenient. Twelve hun-
dred copies of the original edition had been struck
off, when an order came to prevent the issue. The
copies were destroyed, the types broken up, and
strict injunctions were given that not a single slip of
the prohibited article should see the light.
_ _

There has ►een very great excitement throughout
the day, and all kinds of alarming reports are is cir-
culation. I believe the following account of what
has really taken place is, as far as it goes, correct.
The ,Assettablie had some reason for saying that
fresh negotiations might be opened with a chance of
success. M. de Hubner had received from his go-
vernment a despatch announcing that the Emperor
of Austria had obtained from the Emperor Nicholas
a promise to consent to some modification of the
terms of M. de Nesselrode's note relative to the in-
terpretation of the note of Vienna. M. de Hubner
(of this fact I am enabled to assure you positively)
communicated this despatch to the French
government, but the French government merely
replied that it would forward a copy to Lon-
don, observing at the same time that the proposition
came rather late. There was indeed reasop for this
latter remark. This very day official intelligence
has been received from Constantinople announcing
that on the 25th of September M. de Bruck, the
Austrian minister, had wholly failed in his efforts to
cause the Vienna note to be accepted by the Porte.
On the 26th there was to be a council of the Divan,
to consider what course to take. A telegraphic de-
spatch, dated the 27th, has now been received, stating
that the Divan had voted a declaration of war
against Russia. This revolution of the Divan, however,
required, before it could become definitive, to be rati-
fied by the Sultan, who would previously consult the
Scheick-ul-islam. While things were in this state at
Constantinople very serious events were passing
in London. The English Ministry despatched a note
to Russia proposing a sort of ultimatum. I am not
in a position to state with certainty whether France
joined in the precise terms of this ultimatum, but
this I know, that within the last few days immense
efforts have been made to prevent France from fol-
lowing in the wake of the energetic attitude at
length assumed by the English ministry, and that
those efforts have failed.

The Awn&Me Nationale has to-day received a
private warning that its polemics in favour of Rus-
sia will no longer be tolerated.
_ _

There has been much agitation on the Bourse, and
a very heavy fall. The Threes fell lfr. 30c.—to
73fr. 90c. Many of the railways dropped 15fr. and
20fr. Among the flying rumours which added to the
public anxiety was one that the English parliament
had been hastily summoned, and that General Canro-
beet was to go to the east at the head of an army of
30,000 men.
A letter from Gibraltar states, that a steam cor-
vette, detached from Admiral Corry's squadron, had
anchored in the port.
The Academy of Sciences did not hold its usual
sitting yesterday, in consequence of the death of M.
Arago, its perpetual secretary. The journals of all
shades of polities, in recording the event, say that
France has lost one of her greatest scientific men.
M. Arago was born on the 26th of February, 1786,
at Estagel, near Perpignan, and was consequently in
his 68th year when he died. Persons desirous of
attending his funeral are to assemble at the Obser-
vatory at eleven to-morrow morning. From all I
hear the assemblage is likely to be immense. Be-
yond all question, the motive of the greater part of
those attending ill be to make a republican demon-
stration ; but as there is no chance of any disorder,
the government, it is said, will not incur the odium
of interfering with the funeral of a man whose
memory, apart from his political character, has such
universal claims to respect.
The Morn tsar contains a decree enacting that up
to 31st December, 1853, corn and flour, rice, pota-
toes, and pulse may be conveyed between France
and Algeria by foreign vessels. The decree has been
issued on a report from the Minister of War, in
which it is statel that by law French vessels alone
can be employed to effect conveyances between
France and Algeria; but that, in consequence of the
want of French vessels at this moment, caused in a
great degree by their being sent to the North Sea
and other corn-producing countries, it is desirable
that foreign vessels should be employed. The re-
port adds, that the measure will be beneficial to Al-
gerian agriculture, and will increase the supply of
corn in the French market.
I am assured that the Moniker will shortly be
published in the evening instead of the morning.
The Patric announces that the Emperor and
Empress will go to Compiegne on the Bth, and
remain ten days. They will afterwards, it is said,
pass some time at Fontainebleau.
The provincial journals give deplorable accounts
of the state of the vintage in the Burgundy districts.
It has commenced in most of the communes of the
Maconnais, where although here and there the crop
of some vineyards may be pretty fair, the general
result is so unsatisfactory that many growers put
their grapes together in order to have but one press-
ing. In many of the communes round Lyons the
whole crop has been lost, but in the immediate
neighbourhood of that city the crop will produce
about a third of that of ordinary years. In the
western and southern parts of the department the
quantity will be a fair average return. In the com-
munes of the canton of Villefrinche the majority of
the owners of vineyards have abandoned the crops
to the pickers, who will even scarcely derive wine
enough to repay them for their trouble, and the wine

Without being in a position to give any detailed ac-'
count of what has passed in the conferences at
Olmuts, we nevertheless believe that we may con-
fidently state that the negotiations which have
taken place have furnished to Russia the occasion not
only of manifesting its wish to maintain the peace of Europe.
but even to offer to the Sublime Porte an expedient, by
the aid of which the difference can be removed without
any derogation from the dignity and the independence of
Turkey. We may add that every precaution calculated to
diajcl the fears of that power, relative to the prejudice
which might result to it from the present intentions of the
!Wigton cabinet, have been observed.

Of Aussie it must be said that its cabinet has testified
its deference for the opinions and wishes of the other great
powers, and in return it cannot fail to find similar disposi-
tions manifested by them. Tim Ottoman government, on
its part, will doubtless consider how dangerous it would be
to allow itself to be carried away by an excitement altoge-
ther con rary to the dictates of a prudent policy, and which
are opposed to the wishes aad sentiments of the entire
'1
Christian world.

The following is the latest French governmental
publication on the same subject. The Patric reply-
ing to the rejoinder of the .4eeemblele Nationale
says:

The Assembke Nationale responds to the article which
we published yesterday, combatting its allegations. Leav-
ing aside the qucstion of words into which it would fain
leads us we will :peak directly t the farts. Yes, we say,
it is true that diplomacy redoubles its efforts to attain to a
pacific 1.)lutilo, and we hope that 4 will succeed ; but.it
is plainly iltaionstreted that the last secret note from St.
Petersburgh, which was not framed without long and la-
borious deilberatiein, has unsett►ed all end thrown the
situation back again to its primitive starting point.
The AurnsUis Nationale tells us that all the powers de_
s'.re peso; we believe it, and we know that Russia

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVEtSING, OCTOBER 6, 1853.