The Express.
London, England, 1853-08-03 00:00:00

RUSSIA AND TURKEY.

pubt:e Here probably Parliament will have to
interfere between the pretensions of the Church and
the t ;aims of education.
miy and will be said, in excuse of Lord Gni.-
Toe:, that he has dune nothing worse than many of
his er. &teasers in the Mastcr.hip of St. Cross. In
his however, no such exeute ean be pleaded in
/nit:Trion ; for his predecessors, it is certain, were
all wtally Masters, having been inducted into the
Itectury of St. Faith, whilst he, it is almost as certain,
not having been so inducted, never has Leen in legal
weion of the :Mastership of the Hospital. But
setting this consideration aside for a moment,
the excuse, if allowed to be pleaded, is utterly
wrthlees. To tolerate any vicarious immunity fur
wrong doing of this sort is to weaken and even to
supeistede the oldigation and the force of indi% ideal
tooraiity and conscience, and Lord Gut:Font. might
eery readily have karat his real duties had he been
so inclined. There is no difficulty in the history
of S:. Cross, and it was the especial duty of its 1
Masters to have acquainted themselves with that
history. Even in so popular a work as Bishop
Low en's " Life of William of IVykellam," Lord
Gett.eonn could at any time have seen how that
great Bishop of Wixom:snit pursued Hoehn DE
(.o, NE, a Master, from Court to Court ; how Papal i
Rome itself could not protect that olfender from the
Viseurte righteous indignation ; and how at last be
was made, in the fourteenth century, to account for
the eery species of misconduct and mal-appropriation
which Lord Or theoeu has persisted in repeating in
the nineteenth. Then again, there on the Statute I
Book stands the Act of Et.ez ent.t it against leasing the
estates of St. Cross, and directing the proceeds of
the charity to be spent in the eustentation of the
poor ; that statute ought to have been to Lord
Ora ;,,au the Magna Charts of the Hospital,
yet yearly, habitually he iolated its provision*.
Nur van the ausesetudintreitto., his counsel laid so
Rush weight on, be appealed in apology ; for so
log ago as 1791 Sir WILLIAM WENNE, then Judge
of the Ecelesimitical Court of Doctors' Commons.
solemnly warned Dr. LOrKM %X, Lord Cultroen's
imm,diate predecessor, that it " was framed in con-
travention of the Founder's Charters, and would be
ston-idered a fraud ub initio." My mind," added
that Judge sixty years ago, "my mind is seriously
impressed with the conviction that appropriating the
endowments of this charity to the pelt ate purposes
of the Master and other members of the Society, is
a total perversion of the monies, and at no distant
date, this and other eleemosynary houses of a similar
nature, will be made the subject of a grave inquiry.
which may be attended with serious consequences to
those who, in like manner, have applied the funds
to their own uses." 'What Sir WILLIAM WENNE
thus dimly foresaw in 1792. Sir June ItOMILLY
has brightly realised in 18-53 ; and, though Dr.
Lot tiNIAN escaped, Lord Guti.eont.• will have to
suffer.
And while all this peculation and misappropria-
tion were going on in St. Cross, what were its
Visitors and I'atrons, the Bishops of WINCHESTER,
doing ? Why, simply appointing their sons, ne-
phews, kinsmen, arid friends to the Mastership when-
ever they had the opportunity. But guarding,
watching, or protecting its property, improving its
purpose, promoting its utility—these (despite W vhE-
HAM'S noble and illustrious example) are duties the
Bishops of WINCHESTER have left undone; and by
their neglect have shown how utterly worthless the
power and authority of episcopal visitations are.
What an illustration of the necessity of such a
measure as the Charitable Trusts Bill is not
this case of St. Cross! Had such a Commission
as that measure proposes now to establish been
in existence twenty years, Lord GI:ILFORD would
have been checked in the midst of his career,
and instead of a tumbling down old Hospital at St.
Cross, the probability is that by this time we should
have had a great Educational Establishment in full
play there. Four years litigation in the Court of
Chancery, and in all likelihood as many more yet,
would have been:avoided, and facts, that it has and
will cost a small fortune to bring out, would have
been inexpensively established by an inspector. Yet,
with this case reported in Tuesday morning's paper,
there were men yesterday in the House of Commons
reckless enough to oppose the Charitable Trusts

An acceleration has just been made in the night
mails to and from the north, by which the intervals
for replying to letters will be increased at Manchester
and Liverpool by about half an hour, at Carlisle by
two hours and a quarter, and at Edinburgh, Glasgow,
Peeb, and Aberdeen by about four hours.

Two OFFICERS AND FIFE SEAMEN DROWNED.—
btelligeace has just been received at the Admiralty from
the Britt/6count at Tampico of the melancholy lowa two
officers and five men of her Majesty's ship Daring, by the
upsetting of one of the boats of that ship on the bar at the
entrance of the river. The Dimes of the officers drowned
are Lieutenant Smith and Mr. Trevelian, midshipman. The
names of the saunas are James Cooke (coxswain), John
klacarty, William Bennett, George Dunn, and Henry
ffiobinion.

FULL IN HOLLAND STREET, BLACKFAIARS.—Ita-
gutsy morning, about 8 o'clock, just as the workmen bed
loft for breakfast, a Are broke out on the premium of Yams.
W. Wildey and Co., New Holland-street, Blackfrian-road.
The building is used as a manufactory of patent cocoa-nut
lhee matting, brushes, sad curled hair. The alarm was
given by one of the boys who work in the factory, and mere.
wagers were immediately despatched for the engines, but
is the interval the flames had attained a terrific ascendancy,
enveloping the adjacent premises in a cloud of dense smoke.
The brigade engine from the Waterloo-road was quickly on
the spot, followed by those from Farringdon-street and Wet-
ling•street in summit)", and there being a plentiful supply
of water from the South London works, they were soon got
into play. A number of small tenements surround the
factory, and it was only by the mo+t strenuous endeavours
of the firemen and inhabitants th.t the flames were pre-
vented from spreading. As it was, the greatest confusion
prevailed owing to its sudden outbreak, and the
poor inhabitants were to be seen running to and
fro seeking for places to deposit their goods.
By incessant labour the flames were confined to the
building in which the fire originated, although they were
not entirely subdued until a considerable amount of pro-
perty ;less destroyed, and the fittings and interior of the
primi,,es consumed. The origin of the fire has not yet been
ascertained. The stock in trade ,and buildings were in.
wed.

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COLUMN ON TrIE BOtTIt DEVON RAILWAY.—
A collision of a serious nature took Omen Monday morn•
lag between the Totnes and Brent stations ofthis railway.
The dmu goods train was ordered to wait at the Battery
junction for the ten a. m. up express train to pass it. The
express being due, the signal was shown to atop the goods
train, lout the driver disregarding this warning, went uprn
the up-line to shunt his train. At this moment the ex-
press came up, and before it could be stopped the two train.
name into violent collision; eight of the second class pas-
tenger§ and the two guards :Ltd thafor Laid: anti lama Sts-
Tartly bruised and cut, Put none were seriously injured.
The engines are much damaged. The persona injured.
—Mr. Mandopsky, of Plymouth and Taunton; William
Jackson, a military pensioner, severely; Farquhar,
good, severely ; Thompson, guard, face mach cut
and several contusions; Herdsman, policeman, lace cut
and several contusions on the fare; the two enaine dri-
vers of the express slightly; and Miss Smith, daughter of
Col. Hamilton Smith, a slight abrasion of the leg. This was
the only firsceless passenger injured. Col. Smith, who
was also in the train, was severely shaken, hut escaped any
farther injury. The persons injured, with the exception of
Jackson, whom it was not thought prudent to remove im-
mediately from the house where he was accommodated,
re-
turned to Plymouth by the •middlic mail train, which was
deta:xe4 in consequence of the accident three hours. The
other passengers by the express went on to Totnes, whence
they were forwarded by a special train.

FATAL ACCIDENT AT LEEDA.—Mr. Thomas Spong,
Of the firm of Messrs.: Wm. Spam and Sons, common
brewers. Louts, was killed on Monday night by teeing
thrown out of his gig. The deer toed was returning home
from Bradford, and on the Kirk toll-road, two or three
miles from the town, his gig came ie, violent contact with
some gu pipes left on the side of the road ; the gig shafts
were broken of, and he was thrown oat with such force as
fatally to injure the unfortunate gentleman on the head.
for though medical aid was almost instantly procured, he
died in an hour afterwards.

The latest as well as most authentic intelligence
to be obtaintd respecting the Eastern question is
that which will be found in our parliamentary intel-
ligence of this day. In the House of Lords, last
night, Lord Clarendon confirmed our statement that
Russia had forbidden the sending of tribute money
from Moldc-Wallachia to Constantino} lc, at Al added
that as sion as the Forte should receive official in-
formation of this prohibition, it would call on the
lioapodars to withdraw and cease their functions.
Our Consul at Bucharest thought that it would be
highly improper for him to remain in such ao event;
and Lord Clarendon had communicated to Lord Strat-
ford his entire concurrence in that opinion. A mcs-

scnger leR London last night for 'St. Peter.burg,
to►ing out instructions to Sir Hamilton Seymour,
desiring him to demand explanation from the Rus-
sian government as to this proceeding.
In the House of Commons, Lord John Russell
made a statement describing the efforts which the
powers arc making to restore friendly relations be-
twt en Russia and the Porte. _ _ _

The Emperor of Russia has promulgated the fol-
lowing ukase:
By the gr tee of G id, we, Nicholas 1., ordered by
our decree of the Ist (13th) August, 1531, that every
year levies et nun should take place in ccrtain parts of
the empire and now we dzeree :—lst. T.) complete tbe
army and t6e navy, and in conformity with a ukase con•
mining special enactments, addressed to the directing
senate, the Mogi partial recruiting shall take 'dace in
the eastern part of the empire, is the proportion of 7
men for 1,00, as, was the Ca,-.1 in 18.12 in the western
part. 2ndly. Independsntly of that, II men in I,ood
shall be levied in the governments of the eastern part of
the empire, to complete the 6 men per 1,000, which that
part supplied less than it ought to have done in pre-
ceding h e uitings. 3rdly. In the governnients of
Peok, Witepsk, aid Mohilew, which were exempted
by the decrees of the 31st October, 1815, and the
26th September, 1516, on account of the too harvests
of 1846 tied 1817, the levy of the complement of
1832 (3 men per 1,000) shall be proceeded to. Wish
respect to the Jews of Witepsk and Mobile., the
levy shell be made in the same manner ns on the Jews of
regulations for recruiting. 4thly. The levy shall commerce
on the Ist November, and terminate on the lst December.
the other goer Tr:intents-1D men per 1,0110. OU the basis of the
Given at St. Petersburg, the Bth (20th) July, 1553. and the
28th of our reign. NICHOLAS.
Two other ukases are also published; they fix the
details of the levies to be made. In virtue of another
ukase the odnodwures and inhabitants of the govern-
ments of Kicw, Podolia, Wolliynia, Minsk, Grodno,
Wilna, and Kown, ore also to supply recruits.
The Ilambury Correspondent, under date of St.
Petersburg, '2lst nit., says :—" The armaments in
the interior of the empire continue without interrup-
tion. The battalions of reserve of the 4th corps of
infantry are concentrated near Tula. The guard and
the corps of grenadiers still occupy the p(ssitions in
the camp, near Krasnoge Selo and near Most not
far from Gutschino. '1 he manm.ivres of the two
corps, which form an effective force of 101,000 men,
still continue."

Gen. Osten-Sacken, aide-de-camp to the Emperor
of Russia, has just been named to the command of
the 3rd corps d'armee, vice Gen. Offenburg, who is
seriously ill.
The Vienna Wanderer has a letter from Constan-
tinople of the 19th ult. stating that the Egyptian
fleet, having 12,000 men on board, had arrived here.
and was doing quarantine at Sylvi-Bourou, not far
from Constantinople. Letters from Trebisond an-
nounced that Abdi-Pacha had organised there a
corps of 20,000 men. The Pacha's fleet consists of
three line-of-Matte ships, two large frigates, two
corvettes, one brig, and one steam-tender, together
with eight transports full of troops at,d stores.

FItANCE.

PARIS. TCESDAT EVENING.

There is a remarkable absence of tlysh rumours
relative to the Eastern question to-day. People are
now resigned to wait till the 10th of August, by
which time we are told a definitive answer must
arrive from St. Petersburg without fail. The cor-
respondence of the Chaptal has not yet arrived in
Paris. The only new fact of importance in the news-
paper accounts of the news brought by the Caradoc
is that the Prince Ohika, Ilospodar of Moldavia,
acting under constraint Las thrown off his
allegiance to the Porte, and that the Prince
of Wallachia was expected from ono moment
to another to follow his example. This serious in-
telligence demonstrates the utter folly of relying
apoultussian promises and professions of moderation.
A letter from Brest, of the 29th ult. says :
Considerable animation continues to be observelle here.
Theyroserpine yesterday went out to the roadstead,and the
Duguescltn, lino-of-battle ship, which WAS taking in stores,
completed her preparations yesterday morning. Tie
Armide frigate took !ler departure to-day at eleven o'clock.
She was towed out by the Sauffieur.
The government is anxious to disclaim having had
any intention to arrest M. do Falloux. The affair
of Rennes is explained in this fashion. The Auxi-
flare Breton, a journal of the town, under the
influence of the prefect, says it is part of the
standing duty of the gendarmerie to inform
their chief of the arrive', stay, and departure of im-
portant personages, and that the two gcnda tines merely
went to inquire if M. de Falloux had arrived, in ac-
cordance with their general instructions. I do not
find that people in Paris credit this explanation. No
one that I have seen ever heard before of this alleged
regulation of the gendarmerie. As times go, it is an
unpleasant thing for anybody to hear that some tall
gentlemen, with cocked hats and clanking swords,
have been inquiring after them ; and it is
quite certain that Parisian gentlemen of emi-
nence are not aware that this is a ne-
canary condition of a trip into the country,
I am assured that the prefect of the department, ac-
tuated by that excessive zeal which has before now
brought so many prefects into trouble, really did in-
tend to arrest M. de Falloux, not knowing, probably,
be was on terms of more than ordinary intimacy
with M. de Persigny, and greatly respected by the
Emperor. M. de Falloux, my informant states, got
out of the way, and the telegraph speedily brought
ao order from Paris to hush the matter up.
I understand that M. Royer, the Procureur-Impe-
rial of the Court of Cessation, is shortly about to be
sacrffied on account of his discomfiture in the affair
of the " foreign correspondents." It is considered
that a person who has not sufficient influence with
the judges to command a decision in favour of the
government in a political case is unfit for the position
of a Procureur-Imperial. M. Royer will, it is said,
be sent to that refuge for " destittols "—the Senate.
M. Homeland, the Procureur of the Imperial in the
Court of Appeal, will succeed him, and M. Nogent
de St. Laurent, a fourth-rate barrister, will be
elevated to the latter poet. A sort of coup (feta!
against the Court of Cessation has been in contem-
plation, but 1 believe the idea is abandoned for the
present.
I Great dissatisfaction exists among prudent people
connected with the municipality at M. Haussmann's
mode of dealing with the city finances. The dissolu-
tion of the Municipal Council is spoken of as a pro-
bable measure, in which case the control of the
municipal funds would be given to the Minister of the
Interior.
The /1/otiqeur records with evident delight the
unprecedented event of a French horse having won
the cup at Goodwood. The names of the site and
dam of the winner, Sting and Currency, snfficieutly
betray, however, the Saxon lineage of Jouvence,
although she was born upon French soil.
IPP. Corti's resignation of the management of the
Italian 07rehas been accepted by the Minister of
the Interior.
Five Andalusian stallions and four small black
Spanish ponies arrived at Bayonne on 30th July on
their wily to the imperial stables at St. Cloud. The
ponies are almost wild, and endeavour to bite any
one who approaches them. They belong to the Em-
press, who, when in .Madrid, fieluently drove them
herself, although they are vicious aid unbroken.
Her Majesty having expressed a wish to have them
at St. Cloud, they have been sent by her sister. The
five horsees are a present to the Emperor from the
Duke of Alba.
Their Majesties have given orders to Marshal
Vaillant to send six thousand francs to Cherbourg, to
be distributed among the families of the workmen
who were killed by the late explosion in the dock-
yard at that port.
By order of the Prefect of Police, an ordonnance
relative to servants of both sexes was placarded yes-
terday in all parts of Paris. It declares that all ser-
vants, male or female, who are now in service at
Paris, or who intend taking service there, must,
within the delay of three months—that is from tho
present time to November 1, provide themselves
I with a lieret, or book, for their masters to mark