The Express.
London, England, 1853-07-09 00:00:00

lon our Eastern Empire. The more Turkey is weakened
the more shall we lose our influence in the
countries on the eastern shores of the Nei
diterrenean. "It can scarcely be doubted," up the
writer of an able article on the subject in the last number
of the if Renew," that in such a disruption of
the politics of the East, the principles involved in the treaty
of the Dardanelles, relating to the channel of Constan-
tinople, which have in a great measure kept the naval
forces of the Euline in the back ground, would be aban-
doned by the states of Europe; and that the naval station
of ltussia (or its outport at least) would be advanced from
Sebastopol to the Golden Horn. Nor would such • pusiifon
of affairs fail to render the commercial interests in the black
Sea more or less precarious."
These are a few of the results which will appear in some
future b-lance sheet, if the progress of Russia is not
checked. If such a crisis should ever arise, and all the
constitutional governments of Europe be trembling at the
imminent destruction threatening them from the approach
of the northern der ot, there will be numbers who will be
forced to the conclusion, in spite of the Times, that even in
• pecuniary sense it is not always cheap to purchase peace
at the lose of national faith and dignity. . _ _

You-rs,

A SAXON.

RUSSIA AND TURKEY.

WARSAW, JULY 1.

The Russian officers arc flocking to Czenstochow to
make their bows before a miraculous image of the
Blessed Virgin, as they did before the Hungarian
war.

'MOLDAVIA.

JASSY, .71:LY 3.

Prince Gortschakoff's proclamation is posted near
the Palace of the Hospodar. It is printed both in
Russian and Itumoon.

SINOUTZ, JOSE 24.

The Sultan's firman of June 6th, giving new
guarantees to his Christian subjects, has been here
this fortnight, but has not been published in the
principalities. The Russian consuls forbad the lios-
podars to promulgate it, and reminded them that the
armies of the sovereign were at hand. The Ger/min
Gazette, of Bucharest, has been suppressed for pub-
lishing an article on Eastern affairs.

SERETII, JVNE 30.
M. Ozeroff is at the head-quarters of General
Gortschakoff. The peasants in Moldavia are selling
their draught oxen at any price, fearing their im-
pressment, and the introduction of the murrain from
Bessarabia.

We have telegraphic despatches from Trieste of
the 10th with intelligence from Constantinople of
the 27th ult. Baron Bruck, M. Lacour, and Lord
Stratford de Redcliffe had hud frequent conferences.
It was resolved that, the dispute turning solely upon
the form in which the pnrileges of the Greeks
should be guaranteed, such a form should be devised
as it was hoped would be acceptable to the Czar and
not incompatible with the sovereignty of the Sultan.
The three ambassadors were unanimous upon this
point.
Reinforcements have been sent to Battoum.
The correspondent of the Oest. Deutsche Post,
writing on the 23rd ult., undertakes to state that the
commander of the American squadron in the Mediter-
ranean has, in a private audience of the Sultan, eftered
the active support of the United Statcs in the event of
a warwith Ruceia. This offer is attiibuted to the sue-
oess obtained by the American missionaries in
several provinces of Turkey. It has produced a
great sensation.

FRANCE.

PARIS, FRIDAY Elo: LNG.
The following telegraphic despatch, via Trieste,
dated Constantinople, June 27, was handed about on
the Bourse to-day :
The representatives of the powers continue to pursue the
path of mediation. The demands of ltuvsia will probably
be accepted as to their groundwork, but net in the form
they have been made. All the propositions made for the
formation of foreign auxiliary legions hove been rejected
by the Porte. The French and Logliah fleets are still at 1
130eike. The Circaroiana are concentrating their forces
under the command of Schamyl.
This is a private despatch received by an office of
correspondence here, and is evidently of no autho-
, rity. The orders given to Prince Gortschakoff and
the actual crossing of the Pruth by the Russians
could not have been known at Constantinople when
this despatch left. The Bourse was much agitated
at the opening in consequence of intelligence from
London. Bankers' letters announced a considerable
611 in Consols after business hours yesterday, and
Ilhe adjournment of Mr. Layard's motion was consi-
dered a symptom of a ministerial crisis. The Threes
went as low as 76fr. 10c., but under the influence of a
telegraphic despatch announcing that Console had
somewhat recovered, the Threes rose to 76fr. 63c. for
the close, being about the price of yesterday.
An audacious impostor, whose trial before the
Tribunal of Correctional Police has lasted several
days, was yesterday found guilty of swindling, by
taking money for conferring suppositions foreign
orders and titles. This person has lived for some
time in Paris, at No. 24, Rue Monthabor, where he
lIRIS known according to his own representation as
Alexander Andrew Prince of Gonzagne and Cacti-
glione, sovereign and legitimate Duke of Mantua,
Cluastalla, Pozzoli, and Solferino, Marquis of Luzzara,
Count of Alessanao de Murzynowski, Baron of Nem-
tadt, Grand Master of the Order of the Redemption,
et the Order of the Immaculate Conception, of the
Order of Devotedness, of the Feminine Order of
Maria Elise of Mantua, of the Order of the
Four Emperors, of the Order of the Lion of Hol-
stein,
and of the Feminine Order of Saint Elizabeth
et the Visitation. He also, at times, represented
I himself as a General of cavalry, an officer of the Legion I
of Honour, a Knight of the Order of Stanislas and
St. Anne of Russia, of the military Order of Poland,
and of the Order of Stanislas of Salm-Kirburg. He
took advantage of the silly vanity of a number ci
respectable tradesmen, and obtained from them cos-
siderable sums of money for "chancery fees" in rest
pect of decorations, which he assumed the right to
confer. He had a regular tariff, 300 fr. being the
price of a simple order, 1,200 fr. of a commander's de-
coration, and 2,000 for a grand cross. Incredible as it
may appear, he made upwards of a thousand dupes in
Paris, who gave money in return for his worthless
ribbons. lle did not, however, exact his full fees
from those who could not afford to pay, for in one
instance proved at the trial he created a Chevalier of
the Lion of Holstein for a dinner at the Mallon Doren
and a box of gloves. Several relish officers of rank
proved that he was not known in any of the regi-
ments in which he pretended to have served. His
advocate attempted to prove that the prisoner was
really a descendant of the princely house of Con-
sague-Castiglione. The court sentenced him to three
years imprisonment and a fine of 3,000 f.
M. Flandio, one of the parties found guilty in the
affair of the foreign correspondents has been struck
off the list of members of the Council of Salubrity of
I'aris, by M. Pietri, the prefect of the police, on the
ground that at the trial, M. Flundin, "instead of en-
deavouring to divest the facts imputed to him of any
political complexion, did, by his counsel, USIIIII2 an
attitude hostile to the government.
Some returns lately made in connexion with the
demolitions that have been so long going on account
in great measure for the extraordinary rise in house
rent. At the present moment there are only 3,000
vacant sets of apartments in Paris, the average num-
ber during the summer months being 30,000. It is
hoped that the price of lodgings has now reached its
extremest point, and that a fall may soon be ex-
pected. Several newly built houses will be ready for
habitation this month, and it is calculated that before
April 1, 1834, thirty-two thousand new sets of apart-
ments will be constructed, bt sides those to be built
for working men under the Emperor's decree.
A report having been received from the Prefect of
the Loire-InUirieure, and from a special commission,
stating that the efforts made to drain the marshes of
Donges have hitherto failed from the want of suffi-
cient pecuniary means, the Emperor has ordered that
a sum of 131,000 fr. shall bo taken from his privy
purse, and placed at the disposal of the Prefect of the
department.
A decree of tho Prefect of the Gard fixes July 22 for
the opening of the fair of Beaucaire, and July 28th
for the dining.
At the Bourse to-day the market for government
securities opened heavily, although a gradual im-