The Express.
London, England, 1853-11-23 00:00:00

SYMPATHY WITH TURKEY.

The following letter has been received from the
Ottoman Ambassador by the gentleman to whom it is
addressed in reference to the recent meeting at Meander:
" Susanna...quire, Nov. 18, 1853.
" Sir,-1 beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of
the 17th inst., inelosing the reeolatione of a meeting held
by the inhabitants of the city of Manchester on Wednesday
lsst, November 16, at the Corn Exchange, and it will be
I my agreeable duty to transmit the same to my government.
On such a pleasing occasion I am happy to express, on
behalf of my government, as well as on my own our
grateful sentiments for the entire sympathy • sited by
the inhabitants of so groat and influential a city towards his
imperial majesty the Sultan and the Ottoman nation in the
cause of justice and right they are defending.
" I have the honour to be, &c.,
"C. Ifveenaue.

" A. Welkin, Esq., J.P., Manchester."
The following is Lord Aberdeen's reply to a communica-
tion informing him of the resolutions passed at Manchester :
" owning-street, Nov. 21,1863.
" Sir,-1 am desired by Lord Aberdeen to acknowledge
the receipt of your communication of the 18th inst., sub-
mitting certain resolutions unanimously agreed to at a very
numerous meeting of the inhabitants of Manchester pub-
licly convened and assembled in the Corn Exchange, on
Wednesday, the 16th iost.
"1 have the honour to be, sir,our obedient servant,
"CLINTON G. DAWKINS.
" Absalom Watkin, Esq."

DRUNKENNESS IN NORWAY AND IN ENGLAND.-
The Mormibfad, under date Christian* 7th November,
says :—" Police Intelligence.—The number of persons
arrested on the charge of intoxication amounted, iu the
month of October. to 112; in the months of July, August,
September, and October. to 499, 1 in 22 being women.
Now, matters are very different iu England's capital, where
the numbers last year taken up for drunkenness were
10,867 ; of these 4,4.55, nearly the half, were women. It
would appear, therefore, that English females are much
more given to drinking than Norwegian." Oa the data
given above the number arrested on charge of drunkenness
would be, in Christiania, for twelve menthe, 1,497, of which
68 would be women. Now,) the population of Christiania,
being 1 60th that of London, it as many were arrested
in England's capital as in Norway's, the total number would
be 89,820, of which (1 in 'V) 4,080 women; this will prove
I that the number of drunken females in London exceeds
thaw in Chnstiania, in proportion to the population, only
by 10 per cent., whilst the number of men taken up in
Christiania exceeds those taken up in London, in prorertion
to the population, by 1.400 per cent. In Christiania, in the
course of twelve month., every twenty-seventh man is
arrested for drunkenness, in London every three hundred
and sixtieth. Much roan as there may be, therefore, for
improvement here, our northern cousins enjoy an incoutes-
. tibia pre-eminence in the drinking way, which the editor of
the Monty!, 'ad seems to be quite unconscious of,

COLLISIONS AT SEA.—LIvERPOUL, TUEsDA Y.—
The William Itathbone, which arrived bore thi. afternoon.
reports having been in contact on the 6th November, in
lat. 44 N. lon. 46 W., with the British brig Chance, from
Vienna to Newfoundland. The brig was totally &masted
and cut down to the waters edge, but the crew was saved
and brought to this port In the William Itathboae. A
schooner was reportad to have been run down this morning
off the bar by an inward•bound steamer.