The Express.
London, England, 1853-12-21 00:00:00

1 0:120 'barrels.

MINCING-LANE.—THIS DAY.
SUGAR.—There has not been a public sale to-day, but the
market is ♦ery firm. The reaped market is bare of goads,
and it is difficult to buy at yesterday's prices; grocery
lumen, 445. to 4135, s s s

COFFEE —1,200 bags Madras sold steadily in public sato
at full prices, 495. Gd. to 545.
TEA.—The demand has improved to•day. Commou
comma quoted Is. 2d. buyers; sellers, 1 . 2ld.
hies.-3,000 bags Madras were offered in public sale and
sold freely at full prices at 13s. GC to 14..
SPlcss.—Pimento: 150 bags were offered and about half
sold, at 6d. to 61 d. per lb. Cassia Lignea : 100 cases offered.
n part sold, at 1321. to 1355. Mace • 10 cases sold at 2s. Gd
to 21. Bd. Nutmegs : 2s. 3d. to 3.. 3d. Cloves :50 bags
Bourbon sold 01d. to 60 , all which were previous rates
except nutmegs, which showed a slight advance.
Corrox.—The market is dull.
In other articles no material alteration.

TALLOW MARKET.-TIIIS DAY.
The market is steady, without excitement. Town ta:lnw
is quoted 565. nett cash ; Petersburg Y.(7. on the spot, 571.
Dec., 565. 9d.; Jan. to March. Vs. to 575.

BOROUGH HOP MARKET.-THIS DAY.
Messrs. Pattentlen and Smith report that the market re-
mains in a quiet state. Prices are shout the same.

COAL MAR/LE-C.-THIS DAY.

Eden Main, 31s. ; Walls End Riddell, 315.; Walls End
Lambton, 3.55. ; Walls End Stewart's, 358.-33 ships at
market.

HISTORY OT THE PERIIKE.—Abort the close of
the 17th century, the peruke was made to represent the
natural curl of the hair; but in such profusion, that ten
heads would not have furnished an equal quantity, as it
flowed down the back, and hung over the shoulders half-
way down the arms. By 1721, it had become fashion Able
to tie one-half of it on the left side into a club. Between
1730 and 1740, the bag-wig came into fashion, and the
peruke was docked considerably, and sometimes plaited
behind into a queue, though even until 1762, the long
flowing locks maintained their istluence. After 1770 those
were rarely seen, and since that time persons wearing
perukes have gto rally bad stih.atntial reasons for so
doing, from baidneas and complaints in the head. At
one time, indeed, when the stern virtues of Brutus
were much in vogue, the young men of Europe
wore perukes, of black or dark hair, dressed from his etutues.
Many particulars on this suhjeet have been preserved by
Mr. Malcolm in his " Auecdotes of the Manners aid
Customs of London," from which we learn that a young
countrywoman obtained 60i. for her head of hair in the
year 1.00, when human hair sold at 31. per ounce ; and Ia
17.:0 the grey locks of au aged female cold for 60/. after her
decease. Wigs of peculiar excellence cost as much pa 6401.
each. A petition from the master peruke-makers of London
and Westminster, presented to the king in 1;63, points out
the great decline of their use to have taken place at that
time. la this memorial they complain of the public wear-
ing their own hair ; and say, " That this mode, pernicicus
enough in itself to their trade, is rendered excessively more
sc, by swarms of French hair-dressers already established
in those cities, and daily increasing."— Thielaiul on the [Lir.
A FEROCIOUS llat:TE.—On Saturday Mr. Bernard
Fountaine, of the Bury Farm, near Windsor, had his large
yard dog 'aetened up in the stable, as it was supposed that
it was unwell, and sometime in the morning one r f his men
brought his pony and put it in the stable. It was lucid
that the doe ha.t clnemenced eating the nay Mine, end had
torn pieces of flesh from it in leveret:oWe.. It etas en the
back of the pony tearing off piece raikt we sad eating *e
flesh as be did so. They were unable to Mak, the do" got
off untilthe pony was driven out or. 4116 ate*, and du:
brats felled with a blow on the he Ilti dog was that
iternediately.—Bucks Advertiser.

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LONDON, lIPEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21.

THE complacency with which Lord Ars,anwr
allows his Ministry to be dragged through the dirt at
the heels of Austria seems inexp icable—except on one
theory, which we loyally refuse to entertain, except
on the very clearest evidence. On Saturday last
the official journal of Vienna announced that it "was
empowered " to state that the French end English
vessels despatched to the Black Sea, after the sews
of the disaster at Sinope reached Constantinople,
" is unconnected with any design of hostility ;" and
that if any more ships from the combined fleets
should follow, their only object will be to " prevent
any further collision between the Russian and Turk.
ish tliete." The retainers of the Court at Vienna
make no secret of this announcement being made oa

the authority of the English Cabinet, as communi- I
cited by telegraph ; and boastingly add, that nothing
abort of such au assurance could ensure the continu- '
ante of the professedly good understanding between
England and Austria. In any circumstances, it
would be humiliating to Englishmen to witness such
a servile haste on the part of their rulers to assure a
foreign Government that they have no intention to
act an honest and manly part. The eagerness to dis-
pel all suspicions to this effect that might arise in
the minds of the Austrian Ministers, which feared to
wait for the tardy conveyance of the post or a
Quers's alessunger, but rushed immediately to the
electric telegraph, reminds one of the anxiety of
Mr. Snake, in the " School for Scandal," to escape
the imputation of doing a good action, seeing his
livelihood depended on the badness of his character.
Bat the discredit that attaches to such truckling is
doubled by the character of the Government to which
the unworthy homage is paid. The bad faith of the
Austrian Government is proverbial and hereditary.
Not to go further back than the last generation, the
despatches and private correspondence of Sir ROBERT
Munster Emu have been preserved to show how
that honest Minister, having been prepossessed by a
long and pleasant residence at Vienna in favour of
the Austrians, and having been deeply imbued with
the prejudices entertained in his day against the
Tnrks and al' Mahometans, was compelled by the
proceedings in the Congress at Sistova to admit
that the Ambassadors of the Porte had acted with
uniform good faith, while the Jesuitical falsehood of
the Austrian Ministers and their Court had been
disgraceful and revolting. The Memoirs of Sir
It MILT CALVERT, heel/ published, present a shock-
ing picture of the callous duplicity with which the
Austrian Court not only betrayed its allies in the war
against Republican France in the Netherlands, but
actually sacrificed its own gallant army, principally
composed of Hungarians and Bohemians, to promote
its own selfish and cowardly policy. Further, it has
been left on record by dispassionate and conservative
English travellers how lit tle care the Austrian Minister,
ItirrYeeNicu, took to pay to common decorum the
tribute of a decent hypocrisy by giving himself the
trouble to conceal that, in order to blacken the cha.
ratters of the German Liberals, he systematically
invented and disseminated scandalous stories to their
discredit. We advert to there reminiscences of the
last sixty years in order to remind our readers that
the base duplicity which Austria is now displaying in
behalf of Russia is a confirmed habit of that miserable
Government ; that the recent instances of bad
faith of which Austria stands convicted are not
accidental lapses of an honourable nature,
not isolated yielding. to sore temptation and the
pressure of circumstances, but the results of a syste-
matic dishonest policy. The instances to which we
allude are these: in the first place, the last crown-
ing act, the confession that the present " good un-
derstanding" between Austria and England depends
for its continuance upon the latter power's abstaining
from affording Turkey its promised support. It is
avowed in the official journal of the Austrian Go-
vernment that, while professing to observe a strict
neutrality between the Turks and Russians, it has
engaged England io renewed negotiations for the
sole purpose of obtaining a power to prevent England
from lending efficient assistance to Turkey. The
Cr sa, while professing to desire peace, has dealt a
heavy blow to the naval force of Turkey, and Austria
insists that England shall prevent the SULTAN from
retaliating if it wishes Austria to remain neutral. In
the second place, " neutral" Austria has helped the
Cz sit to strike the blow from the repayment of which
in kind it now interferes to shield him. It was an
Austrian steamer—the property of a company sup.
ported in part by Government subventions—that
served the Russians as a spy, and told them where
their fleet would find a Turkish squadron so inferior
in force as to offer an easy prey. It was no act of
mere indiscreet babbling on the part of the captain
or crew of this steamer. Its direct habitual course
is from Constantinople to Trebizond and back; but
from this it diverged in order treacherously, and in
contempt of the duties of neutrals, to carry
race to Sebastopol. In the third place, this is not
the first time in the course of the present disturbances
that Austrians in close connexion with their Govern.
ment, or in actual service, have been found playing
the part of Russian spies. In the dictatorial note
addressed by M. NWELRODE to the Prince of Saar is
on the 29th of July last, be intimates that his infor-
mation respecting Servian affairs is obtained through
the medium of " news from official sources lately ar-
rived from Vienna," and that " the Imperial Austrian
Court entirely concurs in these our views." The
nature of the views in which the Austrian Court
concurs are no longer doubtful, now that Russia is
openly intriguing to excite an insurrection against
the reigning Prince of Seam, and restore a pre-
tender to the throne, because the former is under-
stood to be more attached to his VlZtrelin, the SeLTAN,
thar to the Cz sa. Nor is the complicity of " neu-
tral" Austria with Russia confined to Servia and the
Bleak Sea; Vienna is at this moment the scene of a
traitorous intercourse openly carried on by the
Adjutant of the Vladika of MONTENEGRO, with the
Russian Ambassador at the Austrian Court. The
veil which Austria throws over its subserviency to
Russia—its repayment of the CZAR'S services in
enabling it to trample down Hungarian liberty—if,
indeed, it can be said to throw any veil over its
mercenary baseness—is of the most transparent
character. It requires an excess of charity to
believe that the English Cabinet do not see through
it; and even that charity which acquits Lord ABER-
DEEN and his col)eagues of a wilful or pretended blind-
ness to Austrian falsehood must impute to them an
utter want of perspicacity and common sense.
We repeat what we said at the outset of
these remarks: the tame patience with which the
English Cabinet allows itself to be hoodwinked and
played upon by the Austrian is inexplicable. To be
so &mired, implies either moral blindness on the
part of Lord ABERDEEN ; or, what is more degrading
Faith a weak complicity combined with an utter sense-
lessness to the shame of the world. That Austrian and
Russian Ministers—from their cradles servile tools of
despots, trained in the miserable rivalries and in-

trigues of a bigoted and retrograde, or of a half
barbarous court—should be u insensible to shame as
to the restraints of morality, is in the nature of
things; but that English gentlemen, accustomed
from their boyhood to defer to the public opinion of
an enlightened and moral nation, should lower
themsels es to become their dupes and tools is a Ow-
-1 nomenon not to be contemplated without astonish-
meat. The favourite cant of a section of politicians
who are assiduously labouring to promote the views
of Russia, and at the same time to escape the odium
which in English society attaches to such conduct, is
the necessity of supporting the Christians of the East
in their opposition to Mahometan infidelity. We
neither prclees nor entertain any particular respect
for the tenets of the Moslem, but we must confess,
with shame and humiliation, that the Mussulman
may at this moment point with exultation to the con-
duct of the Turkish Governmect as contrasted with
that—we do not say of the most Christian Govern-
ments
of Austria and Russia, but of the equally
Christian Governments of France and England. If
loyalty and humanity in action be tests of religious'
truth, the European missionaries at present scattered
throughout the Turkish empire must be rather
puzzled to explain to those they seek to convert how
they are to be morally bettered by exchanging the I
creed of their ancestors for the new one offered them
in lieu of it.

LATEST FROM ABROAD.

RUSSIA AND TURKEY.

ST. PETERSBURG, Bic. 10.

An ordinance is published with the signature of
the Finance Minister, declaring all merchant vessels
laden with or carrying munitions of war to be lawful
prizes, although sailing under a neutral flag.
Bessarabia and the governments of Thais and
Kherson are placed under martial law. They will
form provisionally two districts, of which Prince
Menachikoff and General Osten Sacken are appointed
governors.
• • • •

No reuons arc given for thus placing the southern
maritime frontier in a state of siege, but the measure
is declared "necessary under present circumstances."

FRANCE.

PARIS, TUESDAY EVINIXO.

The Three per Cent. Relates closed for money at
74.93 ; the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. at 102. The
Threes show a rise of 33c., and the Four-and-a. Halt
per Cents. of 90c., compared with the final rates of
yesterday.

THE WAR.

RUSSIA AND TURKEY.

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An official messenger reached London yesterday
from Constantinople, bringing, amongst other intel-
ligence, the ascertained fact that the overmatched
Turks succeeded in sinking one Russian line.of-
battle ship and a frigate A few more such victories
and the Russian Black Sea fleet would disappear.
Letters from Vienna of the 16th state that it is
known there to a certainty that the position of the
Russians in Asia is even worse than is generally
supposed, and that Tiflis itself is seriously menaced
both by the Turks and the Caucasian tribes.
The frost having rendered the Baltic fleet inactive,
another ukase releases a portion of its crews until
next Manh—viz. 28 men of each of the crews of the
guard, and 48 of ;hose of the line.
Res:chid Pacha has communicated to the French
Ambassador at Constantinople a document in which
it is stated that the provinces of Silistria, Varna,
Widdin, Belgrade, Nista, Sophia, Scutari, Albania,
Bosnia, Herzegovina, Trebizond, and Adrianople,
being considered as military positions which must
supply food to the troops that are concentrated in
those localities, it has been resolved that the export
of corn from the said province shall cease on the
13th inst., and until after the next hit-vest. The
contracts which have been made previous to the
above date are to remain in full force. Corn may still
be exported from the European provinces south of
the Balkan and Arabia.

The following is as extract from a private letter
received from a person on board one of the line of
battle ships belonging to Admiral Dundas's
squadron :
We have received news of a collision between the Teekish
and &wilt* fleets. The intelligence runs thus (claims/lobate
not got, but I believe it to be only two dye ego, es the
scene of operations is not more than Xi mess boa this,
and our information is derived from as Zegliemsa by the
name of Parker, who was an eye-vellums be Vie Al;
Fear Russian line of battle ships came off She pert of
where the Turkish squadron was at anchor, to reeenzwitse.
At sight of their approach the Turks prepared to Agfa, but
the Russians, instead of advancing within gun shot, made
off, and in two days afterwards appeared again wit\ aa
addition of three first rate ships (three deckers! ; they then
manned and armed all their boats, and sent diem into the
port with an idea that they would be enabled to cut the
Turks out. bat to their surprise the Turks sunk every boat
that yoked within gun-shot. The Russian force seeing
this, nosed with their ships and opened fire on the Turks,
earl pad smut the asmanding continued, when& steamer
essepsd. OS beard whisk was this Mr. Parker, and he says
that two Tarkish frigates were on fire, bat whether they
bad been sit on fire by the Turks or by the Russians is yet
• gyratory. The Retribution and Mogador (French
steamer) are gone to the place to collect more correct intel-
and the Fury Ind Naval (French steamer) to
sees for the sane purpose ; and we should all have gone
beta the Bleak Sea this day, bet the French admiral refused
Mat without advice from his government. The steamers
are es be back again in • week ; until then we shall not move,
sad {hen it Y supposed it will only bee division of the two
theta. The Trafalgar will remain here to take care of the
prises as they send them down.

Yesterday the last of the series of diplomatic docu-
ments connected with tae latest attempt of the Poor
Powers to settle the Russian and Turkish difference
was laid before the public in these columns, and the
public is now therefore well able to form its own
udparint of the proceedings of the governments.
In the same way the opinions of foreign publicists and
the collateral facts of foreign journals have been duly
reported, and it will not have escaped remark that
those organs of public or party opinion
which are most opposed to oue another by their
sympathies with the respective belligerents agree
in their opinion of the propositions now made to
Turkey. The same thing happened, as all will re-
member, when the Vienna Note first became known.
From the Russian and Turkish points of view the
same conclusions were drawn respecting the meaning
and effect of that document, and the governmen is of
Russia and Turkey ratified the opinion of the
public, the Sultan rejecting the note, for the very
reasons which commended it to the acceptance of
the Czar. The press of Europe, of course with'
the exception of the especial organs of the two
western governments, has now, with one consent, de-
clared the protocol, the collective note, and the am
bassadorisl instructions of December 5, to be the
expressions of a policy decidedly and intentionally ad-
verse to Turkey. Everywhere it is recognised
that these documents assume that Turkey, the
r wronged and invaded state, must bid for peace while
the Powers, which invite Turkey to renounce her
position and to stay the march of her troops, are
unable to give any assurance that the Czar is
' disposed to forego his original claims, and unwilling
to promise that in the event of his continued hostility
their efficient aid shall be forthcoming.
The reports relating to the Czar's disposition as to
peace which reach Vienna, Berlin, France, and Lon-
don are all singularly unanimous. The Czar, say
these accounts, is " moat anxious for peace;" be has
been so from the first; indeed, he marvels at the sin•
gular obstinacy of Turkey in commencing and per-
sisting in war. But his terms are unchanged; they
are a pacific occupation of the pros-Tees without the
interference of any third power until the Porte shall
have conceded his original demands. Hitherto no
organ of any government has been able to affirm
that Nicholas I. has offered to abate his arrogant and
dangerous pretensions.
As to 'I urkey, all the news which arrives from
Constantinople is of one tenour. The ministers of
the Sultan are as anxious for peace as they have ever
been, and only ask that the invaders may retire from li
their master's territory. The hopes which have been