The Express.
London, England, 1853-10-17 00:00:00

TALLOW MARKET.-THIS DAY.

The tallow market is 6rm at 3d per cwt. advaece. Town
tallow is quoted 60r. to 60s 6d. nett cash ; Petersburg I.e.
on ail. spot, 58s. 61. ; Oct. to Dec., 58r. 3d. ; Jan. to March
5Pa. 3d.
PARTICULARS OF TALLOW.
1831. , 1832.

Amami hand Camas.
:*livery laapirlk

Do.frum lot Juce
‘rrival last meek

18SS.

Dn. from let Jules
Prix V. C. per *wt. .....

IM. To,n

Arrival for the week
casks ; and delivery, 2,4;
comprised 7,151 casks from
lion; total, 7,418 casks.

33,387 29,321 20,943
2,317 I 2,361 3,0x1
3.:,18331,310 30,913
2,113 533 7,114
23,647 20,431 SG, .30
338. Od. 13..31. 56.
418. Od. 454. 0 I. 62. 61,
ending Oct. 25 last year, 369
i 4 casks. The arrival last week
I St. Petersburg, and 267 Austra-

SMITHFIELD MARKET.-THIS DAY.

The supply of beasts is very large and a considerable pro-
portion are of middling quality. Trade is dull for all kinds ;
still the choicest are not much lower. The number of
sheep is larger than for some time past, and
the trade is exceedingly dull; prices are not much
lower for the best qualities; but it is difficult to
dispose of inferior kinds. Trade is considerably worse
for calves, owing to the unfavourable weather. From
Germany and Holland there are 2,697 beasts, 7,060 sheep,
186 calves, and 3t3 pigs; Spain, 430 sheep ; and 3,000 beasts
from the Northern and Midland Counties.

Per stone of zdhe. d. , Per ,tone of it. . .1.
Beet Beote, Ilereforde. 4 u 4 2 Belt Da, & 11l .1,14 h
BOK Sbertdlort. 3 8 4 but Luag-eoo:,
Peast• '' 3 0 •!:.
........ 3 0 4 4 !wee lie.leecoe.l%lo,ldj 3 4 4U

... a
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Hat Pita Unit.' ft; 11.46stit. ,_. •
”egut. 14‘ st.e awl Lamh., sCalv,, :4::
Pigs: 406.

BOROUGH HOP MARKET.-THIS DAY.

Messrs. l'attenden and Smith report that the market is
dearer for hops of all sorts, with a very bare supply. Duty,
140,0001.

COAL MARKE f.—THIS DAY.
No prices fixed at two o'clock—business at a complete
stand-still. Only 9 ships at market.

THE FisIIERIEe IN CORNWALL—Some good
catches of mackerel have been secured during the past
week at Newlyn West. At Mevagissey, last Friday, •
large quantity of pilchards were discovered to the wegward,
and the seines were put to sea. The fish, however, passed
upwards without coming near the shore, and nothing was
caught. At Looe, on Tuesday, • quantity of pilchards
were taken. A few days ago there was a large catch of
pilchards at St. lees, which have now been landed.
Hundreds of loads of dead fish have been washed ashore,
and carried away for manure. The mackerel have again
appeared, bat not in large quantities.
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° Ate than three quarters of • million, and rairm4p„
fuldo, the vice of all tbe corn gro-,41 ju the
roubtiy. Now if the CHANCELLOR car spare any of
tie money rx:.cicti from the ropia, or cap so easily I
suppl) his wants by an
an
of Exchequer Bills, he °
° would du well to take Mt himself the responsibility
of subpending at once the one shilling duty on corn,
i and become the most popular of Chancellors.
When Sir It. consented to that shilling duty,
it was his opinion that the average price of corn would
range about als., or below that. Ile always objected
to a fixed duty, however small, that it never could be
levied when prices Kee to the famine level. To that
level they seem now tending, and it might be wise to
suspend voluntarily that which it may not be possible
much longer to exact. When he consented, he had
formed no conception of England becoming the
corn factor of Europe. He never dreamt of France,
Holland, and Belgium coming to our markets for •
supply of food—of our merchants forming and foster.
ing a corn trade with all parts of the world, which
brings hither merchants from other countries to buy
cargoes on their way, which they divert from our
shores because the Is. duty and consequent charges
make it disadvantageous to land the corn here, and
he therefore imposed a law on us to our greet injury,
of the consequences of which he knew nothing.
Such a law ought as speedily as possible to be re-
pealed.

TO COOKEsPONOENTS.
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•• s.an Ur: 1.4 pub: abed every lwrlaT aN Vtutay ar At.
Out po.t.

intruded for Mynas" tabas• r,,,suy paper.
nen r Os Ibis. 10. Nougerie-Mreet, by Two 'Aqua a. the
ay 0f Pillglgai,"••

DlOlt WATER AT LONDON URIDGE.
Tw LMT—M lb. 9. ..... A1ter4.341, .b. 27m.
Tu-16.6ab.0w -Xusimeg, at. lIrA Aft,r.,„" baa.

LONDON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 17.

Tut: flourishing state of the Revenue, in comic-
!pence of our great pr Jsperity, may possibly lighten
for the City:44.l3mi of the EXCHEQUER his impend-
ing financial tliffien..ties. It may have been noticed,
however, that '.ate Might Gentleman spoke,
at Manchester, about the Revenue with reserve,
as if it w ere not exactly as it appears. The
Economia of Saturday explicitly says '• it would be
indulgit ,g in too sanguine a hope to expect that the
same remarkable receipts will be continued,"—an
imp owlet testimony to the fact that the present
great receipts are remarkable, therefore unexpected
f's sort of God-send for the CHANCELLOR, and
stkat inch remarkable productiveness is not to be
expected in the next few months. We may, however,
beg the CHANCELLOR ROL to despair ;—to look at the
increasing extent of our trade with America, the
great returns expected from Australia, to eschew
evil advisers and then the success of the industrious
people will redeem or cover his faults. To replace
the loss, indeed, occasioned by a bad harvest is im-
possible. 'the failure of the crops is a deduction
from the national wealth, the evils of which the im-
port of breadstuff. can only mitigate, and which
must be met by diminished enjoyment somewhere.
For there will be diminished income. That failure,
combined with trade lashed into extravagance, or
chilled into la►situde, by the preachings of the Times,
may cause a very considerable reduction In the next
half-year's revenue. Still there is no reason for alarm,
if the Right Hon. Gentleman will refrain from specu-
lating with the revenue, and allow fair play to the
speculations of the merchants.

Another important consideration begins to make
itself felt. Oppressed by too large a revenue,—the
produce of customs laws,—the United States are about
to revise their tariff, which, it it open their country
more freely to English iron and Canadian corn, will
facilitate the competition of the manufacturing
Americans with us is all the markets of the world.
They are paying great attention to the cultivation
of wool, and already produce enough to supply their
own wants. Already, too,—as every person may
learn from the reports of the New York Exhibition,
—they can successfully compete with us in flannels
and blankets. They are not far behind us in
cloths, and in their markets English cloths
are making way for French and German.
Their great and growing community may, and we
believe will, supply a market for their own manu-
facturing products and the similar products of these
other nations. There is no reason, therefore, for
jealousy or apprehension, but an enlightened states-
man will see in these circumstances irresistible ar-

We must warn him, however, against the counsels
of those who havu already led hint astray. The Times
of Tuesday propounded for him the ingenious plan of
exchanging in January next the " requisite amount of
South Sea and other annuities for Exchequer Bills."
Endorsing a recommendation of his own City writer,
the Editor boasted for the CUANCELLOK that he would
then be able to pay off " public obligations bearing 3
per ecnt.:in perpetuity, partly by cash in hand and
partly by securities carrying interest at the rate of
____ . . •

guments for removing every possible burden from
our own manufactures. The States may at the
next census have a population equal to that of
our country, and whether we shall continue to deal
advantageously with that growing population or
lose their market will depend very much on our
own fiscal regulations. The little corn law that yet
afflicts us, prohibits corn from being landed and stored
unless the shilling duty be paid, and prevents
the transit trade which every one has seen within
the last three months struggling into life, from becom-
ing a fruitful source of supply of food and of wealth.
This is one of the most reprehensible of our fiscal
regulations. If the CHANCELLOR can spare a few'
hundred thousand pounds, instead of devoting them
to join together his broken financial projects, let him
at once give up the duty on corn, and borrow, if
needful,to repay the dissentients,—or repeal his own

31. Os. lOd. per annum, which will admit of being
reduced whenever the Money Market may be favour-
able for such an operation." The CHANCELLOR, if he
be wise, ought to be already tired of speculating with
his " cash in hand"— it being renerally considered
ono of the safeguards of the City that Chancellors
shall only speculate according to Act of Parlia-
ment, so that their operations may be pretty well
known and discounted beforehand, for the City does
not approve of the CHANCELLOR pouring at one time
three or four millions into the Money Market and
then withdrawing it. If he has not yet reached this
point of prudence—let us warn him by the ex-
perience of the last six months that he had better,
like his predecessors, leave his balances in the Bank,
and not enter the market as a speculator even fi to
keep up the national credit." Whatever may be the
redundancy of the revenue, which he only calculated
at about 490,000'. in April next,—and already the
100,000/. he took credit for on account of the conver-
sion of debt and another 100,0001. on account of the
increased interest on Exchequer Bills have disap.
peared,—it can, as he has already appropriated a
large part of his balances, go but a very small way to-
wards liquidating the settling his account with the
South Sea Annuitants.
If he be disposed to raise the necessary sum as
recommended by the Times by the issue of Exchequer
Bills, let us remind him that it was the recommen-
dation of his scheme in June, " that it was desirable
to reduce the entire amount of Exchequer Bills in
circulation," "to reduce the amount of the unfunded
debt as much as possible, as a means of strengthen-
ing the credit of the Government in the event of an
emergency arising." An emergency now threatens
as, and, in the teeth of these words, the Times
advisee him, in • season of " unusual prosperity,"
again to increahe the unfunded debt, in order

plan, sod allow the debt to revert to its old position.

He will advance neither his own reputation nor the
honour of the country by again speculating with
tho public balances, as advised by the Times.

WAR BETWEEN RUSSIA AND TURKEY.

_ 4. _

Subjoined is the manifesto of the Ottoman Govern-
ment, intimating the course it intends to pursue
towards Russia, and assigning the reasons for
adopting it. It is reported that the term within
which hostilities must commence, unless the princi-
palities are previously evacuated by Russia, has been
intimated by the Turkish to the Russian Commander-
in-Chief in a brief and soldier-like letter—as cour-
teous and as stern as the bow of a duellist to his
antagonist on taking up his ground.

MANIFESTO OF THE SUBLIME PORTE.
In the present state of circumstances, it would be
superfluous to take op from its very commencement
the explanation of the difference which has arisen
between the Sublime Porte and Russia, to euter
anew into the detail of the diverse phases which
this difference has gone through, or to reproduce the
opinions and judgments of the government of his
Majesty the Sultan, which have been made public
by the official documents promulgated from time to
time.

to get rid of a certain amount of funded
debt. Already be has undone in October what be
did in June, and, to obtain the character of the most
oscillating of financiers, he has only to follow the
advice of the Times, and add six or eight millions to
the Exchequer Bills in circulation, which it was his
pride to have reduced. He may be ready to grasp at
temporary expedients, he may be fickle and wavering,
but he can never be so lost to all sense of consistency
as to boast in June of reducing the floating debt.
and to boast in January of surmounting a financial
difficulty by increasing it. We suppose political
events to be no worse than at pretent; but if they be
worse, and his revenue be worse, and the in-
terest of money be higher, the project of the
Times would be as impossible to the CHANCELLOR
OS its conception is dishonourable.
As to the floating debt admitting of reduction
s' whenever the Money Market is favourable for such
an operation," that is so at all times ; and never
before was it thought advantageous to pay off per-
manent debt by issuing floating obligations at a
higher rate of interest, because they " might be re-
duced whenever the Money Market wu favourable
for such an operation." Such an invitation to a
CHANCELLOR to become a speculator with the public
credit was never before issued, and the CHANCELLOR
who accepts it and issues Exchequer Bills to take
advantage of the market will soon find his name ma
opprobrious byeword everywhere east of Printing.
house-square. He must not issue Exchequer Bills
at a rate of interest fixed by himself. He must
raise the loan he will require by open and public
contract.

In spite of the desire not to restate the urgent
reasons which determined the modifications intro-
duced by the Sublime Porte into the draft of the note
prepared at Vienna (motives exposed previously in •
note explanatory of the modifications), yet new soli.
citations having been made for the adoption, pure
and simple, of the said note, in consequence of the
non-adhesion of Russia to these same modifications,
the Ottoman government, finding itself at present
compelled and forced to undertake war, thinks it a
duty to give an exposition of the imperious reasons
for that important determination, as well u for those
which have obliged it not to regulate this time its
conduct according to the counsels of the Great
Powers its allies, although it has never ceased to ap-
preciate the benevolent nature of their suggestions.
The principal points to which the government of
his Majesty the Sultan desires to give prominence
are these :—That from the very beginning his con-
duct has furnished no motive of quarrel, and that,
animated with the desire of preserving peace, he has
acted with a remarkable spirit of moderation and
conciliation, from the commencement of the differ-
ence unto the present time. It is easy to prove these
facts to all who do not wander from the path of
justice and equity.
Even supposing that Russia had a subject of com-
plaint in relation to the Holy Places, she ought to
have circumscribed her actions and solicitations
within the limits of this question alone, and ought
not to have raised pretensions which the ob-
ject of her complaints could not sustain. She
ought not, moreover, to have taken measures of inti-
midation, such as sending her troops to the frontiers,
and making naval preparations at Sebastopol, on the
subject of a question which might have been settled
amicably between the two powers. But it is evident
that what has taken place is totally contrary to an
intention of amicable settlement.

If in January he hare any " cash in hand," which
we fear will not be the case, we can show him a
much better way to employ it, and though he might
want an act of indemnity for following our suggea.'
tion, the public will give him one with acclamation.
The weekly average price of wheat for October 8
was 645., and that embraces a great quantity of very
inferior wheat. Prime white wheat fetches rw►.
and more in the market. The food of the multitude
is becoming dear and scarce, and the State still levies a
duty on it. In the first nine months of the present
year there have been upwards of 5,600,000 qrs. of
grain and flour as grain imported, and a part of the
flourishing • revenue is thus made up of 280,0001.
levied on the bread of the people. But this is only
for a part of the year, and in the remaining three
months the importation will probably be in excess of
the average through the other part of the year.
Assuming, however, that the importations will be at
the *erne rate only, by the end of tho year,
,250,000 qrs. will be imported, and the tax
levied ou cora will amount to the sum of
360,0001. A much larger sum, at least dou-
ble, will bo taken from the bread eaters,
to pay the increamd cost occasioned by the duty.
When the people are threatened with hunger, the
State eohamme the price of all the cora imported

The reasons which have determined the Ottoman
government to make its modifications having been
appreciated by the representatives of the Four
Powers, it is proved that the Sublime Porte was
right in not purely and simply adopting the Vienna
note. It is not with the view of criticising a project
which obtained the assent of the great powers that
we enter upon a discussion of the inconveniences
which the Vienna note presents. Their efforts have
always tended to the preservation of peace, while
defending the rights and independence of the Imperial
government. The endeavours made to attain these ob-
jects having been as laudable as can be conceived, the
Sublime Porte cannot sufficiently acknowledge them.
But, as evidently each government must poesess, in
consequence of its peculiar knowledge and its local
experience, more facilities than any other govern-
ment for judging of the points which concern its
own rights, the exami nat ion which the Ottoman govern-
ment makes is prompted entirely by its desire to jus-
tify the obligatory situation in which, to its great
regret, it finds itself placed, desiring, as it has done,
to continue following the benevolent councils offered
to it by its allies ever since the commencement of the
differences, and which until now it has followed.
If it is alleged that the haste with which the
Vienna note was drawn up results from the back-
wardness of the Sublime Porte to propose an arrange-
ment, the government of his Majesty the Sultan must
justify itself by stating the following facts :
Before the entrance of the Russian troops into the
two Principalities, some of the representatives of the
Powers, actuated by the sincere intention of prevent-
ing the occupation of those provinces, urged upon
the Sublime Porte the necessity of framing a draft
note occupying a middle place between the draft note
of the Sublime Porte and that of Prince Menchikoff.
More lately the representatives of the Powers
confidently communicated different schemes of
arrangement to the Sublime Porte. None of
these latter responded to the views of the Imperial
government ; and the Ottoman Cabinet was on
the point of entering into negotiations with the
representatives of the Powers on the basis of a
project drawn up by itself in conformity with these
suggestions. It was at this moment that news of
the passage of the Pruth by the Russians arrived, a
fact which changed the face of the whole question.
The draught note proposed by the Sublime Porte
was then set aside, and the cabinets were requested
to express their views of this violation of treaties
atter the protest of the Sublime Porte. On the one
hand, the Ottoman cabinet had to wait for their
replies, and on the other it drew up, at the sugges-
tion of the representatives of the Powers, a project
of arrangements, which was sent to Vienna.
As the sole answer to all these active steps, the
draft of our note prepared (elubore) at Vienna made
its appearance.
However that may be (Quoiqu'il en wit) the Ot-
toman government fearing rightly (d juste titre) every
thing which might imply a right of interference in
favour of Russia in religious matters, could do no
more than give assurances calculated to dissipate the
doubts which had became the subject of discussion ;
and it will not, after so many preparations
and sacrifices, accept propositions which could not
be received at the time of the stay of
Prince Menchikoff at Constantinople. Since the
cabinet of St. Petersburg has not been content with
the assurances and pledges that have been offered, since
the be nevolen t effor t sof the high powers have remained
fruitless, since, in fine, the Sublime Porte cannot
tolerate or suffer any longer the actual state of
things, or the prolongation of the occupation of the
Moldo-Wallachian Principalities, they being in-
tegral portions of its empire—the Ottoman cabinet,
with the firm and praiseworthy intention of defend-
ing the sacred rights of sovereignty and the inde-
pendence of its government, will employ just repri-
sals against a violation of the treaties which it con-
siders asa cases b lli. It notifies,t hen,officially that the
government of his Majesty the Sultan finds itself
obliged to declare war, that it has given most pre-
cise instructions (lea instructions lei plus catjgo-
riques) to his Excellency Omer Pacha to demand
from Priam Gortschakoff the evacuation of the
Principalities, and to commence hostilities if after
a delay of fifteen days from the arrival of his despatch
at the Russian head quarters an answer in the
negative should be returned.
It is distinctly understood that should the reply
of Prince Gortschakoff be negative, the Russian
agents are to quit the Ottoman States, and that
the commercial relations of the respective subjects
of the two governments shall be broken off.
At the same time the Sublime Porte will not con-
sider it just to lay an embargo upon Russian mer-
chant weasels, as has been the vraetice. Cense-
, quently they will be warned to resort caber to the
Black Sea or to the Mediterranean Sea, as they shall
think fit, within a term that shall hereafter be fixed. ,
Moreover the Ottoman government being unwilling
to place hindrances iii the way of commercial inter- ,
course between the subjects of friendly powers, will
during the wrr leave the straits open to their mer-
cantile marine.

The question of the Holy Places had been settled
to the satisfaction of all parties; and the government
of his Majesty the Sultan had testified favourable
disposit mason the subject of the guarantees demanded.
In short Russia had no longer any ground for raising
any protest.
Is it not seeking a pretext for quarrel then, to
insist as Russia has done upon the question of the
privileges of the Greek church granted by the
Ottoman government, privileges which the govern-
mem believes its honour, its dignity, and its sovereign
, power arc concerned in maintaining, and on the
subject of which it can neither admit the interlercace
nor the surveillance of any government? Is it not
Russia which has occupied with considerable forces
! the principalitiesof Moldavia and %Vallachia,declaring
at the same time that these provinces should serve as
a guarantee, until she had obtained what she desired?
Has not this act been considered justly by the Sublime
Porte as a violation of treaties, and consequently as
a eirol3 he'll f Have the other powers the mselves been
able to come to any other decision ? Who, then, will
doubt that }lnsets has been the aggressor? Could
the Sublime Porte, which has always observed all her
treaties with a fidelity known to all, by infringing
them in any way do more than determine Russia
to a proceeding so violent as that of herself infring-
Mg till there treaties? Again, has there arisen, con-
I Crary to the promise explicitly given in the treaty of _ .
KainartV, such facts in the Ottoman empire as the
demolition of Christian churches,or obstucles opposed 1.19: SP titer DI:VEIL—It is shown by a recently,
to the exercise of the Christian religion?
printed parliamentary paper th it in the year ended the 6th
January last the duty on spirits was as follows:—On
Ottoman
The
Cabinet, without desiring to-enter into foreign. 1,177,9981. ; and on British, 6,246,7361. Oirum,
too long details on theme points, doubts not that the 1,103,6841.

RUSSIA AND TURKEY.

high powers, its allies, will judge with perfect truth
and justice on the statement just exhibited.
As to the non-adoption of the Vienna note in its
Lett.
pure and simple form by the Sublime Porte, it is to v ..es from the Polish frontier announce that the
be remarked that this project, although not in every t'ln. otter of Russia has ordered the 6th army corps
point conformed to the note of Prince Menchikoff. ' hold itself in readiness to march.
and while containing, A is true, in its oompocit.'„ln* I The Cologne Gazette, under date of Berlin, 12th,
some of the paragraphs of the draught n•Ae of the says: "Diplomatists are now engaged in drawing
Sublime Porte, is not as a whole, wtsetter in letter
or spirit, essentially different from tbAt of Prince out projects of arrangement of the Eastern question,
which are to serve as the bases of a new Conference
Meachikoff. at Vienna."
a de urf has to Vienna f
The assurances recently given tiy the re nta-
Beßrlin.ro n OnM evendre his turn he return
con
ference
I along
I tives of the Great Power; respecting the apprehended
danger from hurtful interpretations of the draught
with Lord Westmoreland
•
note in question, are a new proof of the kind inters- .
The Malta Mail, of the ith, states that the sani-
firma of their respective governments towards the tory condition of Admiral Doodads fleet had greatly
Sublime I' ,rte. 'they have consequently produced a
inr
letter from Constantinople, of the Ist inst., con-
lively sr.tisfaction on the part of the government of .
tains the following details not yet published :
his Stajesty the Sultan. It must be remarked, how-
ever, that while we have still before our eyes a strife
, theS‘
heed-quarters are
coma:alp:lz: a eorpsh a'arint'f, odf which
of religious privily/gee raised by Russia, which seeks foreemen, of 20,007 men, and his Posinnreweue"exceallie.nint.-
to bane its claims% a paragraph so clear and so re- The Servian government had' offered the Porte an auxiliary
else in the treaty of Ktunardji ; which wishes to insert torte of 20,000 men, and the Schell of Persia hail officially
in a diplomatic document the paragraph concerning the declared his neutrality.
active smicitude of the Emperor of Russia for the I A letter from Warsaw, of the Bth, states that the
maintenance in the states of the Sublime Porte of authorities were taking all the necessary measures
religious immunities and privileges which were I for preventing pamphlets and proclamations of the
granted (oetroy(4)to the Gieek rite hy the Ottoman Em- Revolutionary Committee from being smuggled into
perors before Russia eo much as existed as an empire, i the country. They were specially anxious to pro-
to leave in a dark and doubtful state the absence of vent the entrance of a pamphlet addressed to the
all relation between these privileges and the treaty , nobility, in which they are told, amongst other
of Kutschuk Kainardji, to employ in favour of a things, that if they wish to serve their country they
great community of subjects of the Sublime Porte must emancipate their serfs.
professing the Greek religion expressions which
might make allusion to treaties concluded with
France and Austria relative to the French and Latin
religions—this would be to incur the risk of placing
in the hands of Russia vague and obscure paragraphs,
some of which are contrary to the reality of facts,
and would offer to Russia a solid pretext for her
pretensions to a religious surveillance and protectorate
—pretensions which that power would attempt to pro-
duce, affirming that they are not derogatory to the
sovereignty and indepenaence of the Sublime Porte
The very language of the emp/oye,e and agents of
Russia, who have declared that the intention of the
government was no other than to fulfil the office of
an advocate with the Suhlime Porte whenever acts
contrary to existing privileges might be done, is a
patent proof of the justice of the opinion of the
Ottoman government.
If the government of his Majesty the Sultan has
judged it necessary to require that assurances should
be given, even if the modifications which it intro-
duced by it into the Vienna note were adopted, how
in conscience could it be tranquil if the note were to
be retained in its integrity and without modification?
The Sublime Porte, in accepting that which it has
&dared to all the world it could not admit without
bedew compelled thereto, would compromise its dig-
Sky in view of the other powers, would sacrifice its
honour in the eyes of its own subjects, and would
commit a mental and moral suicide.
Although the refusal of Russia to accord the
modifications required by the Sublime Porte has
been based on a question of honour, it cannot be
denied that the ground of that refusal was simply and
solely its desire not to allow explicit terms to replace
vague expressions, which might at some future time
furnish it with a pretext for intermeddling. Such
conduct, therefore compels the Sublime Porte to per-
sist on its part in withholding its adhesion.

FRANCE.

PARIS. SATURDAY EVENING.

Thn following private telegraphic despatch was
received this afternoon, at the office of Messrs.
Englander and Co.:
"MARSEILLES, OCT. hi.
" The packet which left Constantinople on the sth,
at midnight, found the squadrons on the 6th, at
Besika, making their preparations fur entering the
Dardanelles.

" Orders had been sent to Omer Pacha to summon
Prince Oortschakoff to evacuate the Principalities,
giving him a delay of fifteen days only.
" The Porte had addresse t a manifesto to the
Powers.

"M. de Creveccear, Prefect of the Boucher-du-
Rhone, suddenly left yesterday for Constantinople.
" Pressing orders have been given for immediately
arming the frigates Vauban, Descartes, Asmodeus,
Cacique, Montezuma, and Panama."
Iskender Bey, one of Omer Pacha's aides-de-camp
has arrived in France, charged, it is said, with a pri-
vate mission to Paris and London.

A letter from Vienta of the 11th says that the
Austrian government was still resolved to contract
a loan.

The ocean squadron, commanded by Admiral
Chortler, paid by the Cork Constitution to have
appeared off Cork on Monday last, has not quitted
its anchorage at Cherbourg since its return from the
Channel.

The Presse has the following remarks upon the
speeches of MM. Gladstone and Cobden :

What M. Gladstone said about war amidst loud applause,
is what we think ourselves. We cannot, then, but s ',prove
that part of his speech. But we cannot say so much of the
passage where at the same time that he stigmatises and re-
pudiates what he calls the " anomaly of the Turkish domi-
nation," he proclaims the necessity of maintaining that'
anomaly in order not to disturb the balance of power its 11
Europe. Such language is not that of a real statesman. If
it be true that twelve millions of Christians live borne down
and oppressed by Turkish despotism, why do England and
France oppose the demands of the Emperor Nicholas, in-
stead of joining with him in energetic support of them, ap
as to obtain common guarantees which would deprive
Russia of all pretext for direct interference and exclusive
protection 1 Either Mr. Gladstone's speech is at variance
with the truth, or the conduct of the British cabinet, of
which he is a member, is stamped with the most serious
and unpardonable inconsistency.
These observations apply with equal force to M. Cob-
ben's speech at Edinburgh. M. Cobden speaks of Turkey
precisely in the same manner as the Chancellor of the Ex-
checluer. He even goes further, since he said that the duty
of England, instead of fighting Russia, was to join her in
the interest of the Christians. All our respect for M. Cob-
' den and the lively remembrance we have of his eminent
services will not prevent us from blaming this language.
Instead of inconsiderately attacking a people which sets an
example of patriotism, constancy, toleration, and every punlic
virtue, it would have been wiser, and at the same time more
conformable to the principles of the Peace Society, to have
called for an European congress. We are astonished that
religious prejudices should so far darken such a luminous
mind.

The bourse opened brilliantly. The Threes began
at 73.50, being a rise of 30c., and this price was
maintained with little variation for the first hour. At
25 minutes peat 1 the price of Consols at 12 to-day
was posted. The quotation, 921 to t, gave increased
firmness to the market. But during the last half-
hour a regular panic set in, for which no cause was
assigned. The Threes dropped to 72.75, and
recovered only to 72.80 for the close, being a fall of
40e. from yesterday, and of 70c. from the highest
price of the day. The railways, which had been
very firm, fell proportionably in most, though not in
all instances. It is probable that the contents of the
telegraphic despatch from Marseilles must have
transpired, although they were not publicly talked
of.

The revenue returns published in the Moniieur to-
day are extremely favourable.
Cardinal Wiseman has arrived in Paris.

Lord Cowley left Paris yeaterdiy for Compiegne,
to join the imperial party. Lady Cowley has been
prevented from proceeding there at present by a
slight indisposition. The ministers go to Compiegne
alternately three at a time, with the exception of
the minister at war, who accompanied the Emperor,
and will remain daring the whole visit.
The Countess de Persigny has been safely de-
livered of a daughter.
The Emperor and Empress have just acted by
proxy as godfather and godmother to the infant son
of the Count and Countess de Lapeyrouae, who was
baptised three days ago at Besancon by Cardinal
Mathieu by the name of Napoleon-Eugene Amblard
Bonfigli de Bonilla de Rochon de Lapeyrouse. Their
Majesties were represented by General Vicomte de
Bois-Lecomte, commanding the ith military division,
and by the Marquise de Montholon. The Count de
Lapeyronse is Prefect of the Daubs, and the Countess,
who is daughter of the late Gen. Montholon, was
born at St. Helena, and had Napoleon L for god-
father.

The first caravan of French pilgrims to Jerusalem
arrived safely at their destination on the 12th ult.
As soon as they perceived the city they alighted
from their horses, prostrated themselves, and prayed
fervently. They were all clothed in white, and as
they entered the city by the gate of Jaffa, musket
shots were fired in their honour. It is said that a
French frigate is expected at Jaffa to protect the
pilgrims.
I The Echo des Pyrenees tptys:—" Such is the abun-
dance of corn at present in Spain, that it is in con-
templation to adopt measures calculated to facilitate
the exportation of the surplus into France. A de-
cline in prices has taken place in all the Spanish
markets.

PARIS, SCNDAY ETENINO.
The Sick says that France and England have
sent notes to Itussia, demanding the evacuation of
the Principalities as a preliminary measure before
they will enter upon the mediation which they are
willing subsequently to undertake. If this be true,
and the fact would be quite consistent with the re-
cent statement of one of your contemporaries, sup-
posed to represent the opinions of at least a fraction
of the English cabinet—that the dignity of France
and England would not permit them, in the present
state of tl•ings, to take the initiative of any farther
proposition for an arrangement—thcchances of peace
are small indeed.

The Emperor of Russia may temporize, promise,
suggest, threaten, cajole, argue, and even admit his
own agents to have been in the wrong, but none but
simpletons believe he will give up the territory he has
wrongfully seized till he is .urned out by force. The
Russian organ here, the Assembler, while con-
tinuing to assert that the Czar's intentions are most
pacific, says "of course" the Sultan's summons to
evacuate will be met with a refusal. It is reported
upon good authority that Prince Gortschakoff has
sufficient instructions to refuse at once without ac-
cepting the proffered delay to enable hint to refer to
St. Petersburg. If, as there is every reason to sup-
pose, hostilities are at this moment commencing, the
war will begin in the neighbourhood of Hattoun and
Erzeroum. The Turks, imitatiug the Czar's example,
will take as "material pledges" Armenia and (icor-
gia, and will thus encourage the great insurrection
of the Caucasus.

The Pays says, confirming the report that the war

is to begin not on the Danube but is the Caucasus,
that one of the principal functionaries of Constanti-
nople has been bent to Abdi Paella, who comma•As
the Ottoman army encamped at Erzerouin, to :.nfurm
".et
him of the resolutions of the Porte to in that
country and to give the necessary olders. Three !
frigates and several steamers of the Turkish navy I
have been sent to the Black Sea to second, if neces-
sary, the movements of the army of Roumelia, and a
small squadron has also 'wen sent to Trebizonde in
support of Abdi Pacha.
The Union says quit the Porte proposes to send
into the Caucasus, the English, Polish, and Hunga-
rian refugee* to attack the Russians. If there are
any English refugees in Turkey, I should think they
would form a very select corps indeed, but I suspect
this part of the statement must be a misprint.
The Constitution ad says :—" We are assured that
orders have been sent to Toulon to prepare the'
necessary ships for transporting a corps of troops,
which Kill be sent to the Dardanelles."

Letters from Bucharest to the 2rd inst. have been
received. The warlike resolve of the Porte was
known, and Prince Gortschakoff had called to him
the superior officers of his army and announced that
they must now be in readiness to advance southward
at any moment.

GERMANY.

_O.-

AUSTRIA.

The &vadat; Mercury contains a letter from
Vienna of the 12th, which announces that the pro-
mulgation of the decree prohibiting the Jews from
purchasing landed property in Austria will be fol-
lowed by police regulations, one of which will be
that they will be only allowed to reside temporarily
in large cities unless they shall be regularly domi-
ciled there. Another letter of the same date, in the
Cologne Gazette, says :—" The inhabitants of this
city express themselves very warmly against the re-
cent ordinance relative to the Jews. It is regarded
as forming a singular contrast with the decree of the
Sultan, which grants equal protection and the same
rights to all his subjects, without regard to their
religion. And yet that is in a Nlahomedan coun-
try, whilst the decree against the Jews is in a Chris-
tian one."

A letter from Vienna of the Bth, in the Opinione
of Turin, states that public attention in the former
capital is engrossed by the flight of Baron Sinu, the
banker, and his subsequent arrest, which is said to
have been effected on the 7th. It appears that the
late Prince Ghika had deposited four millions of
florins (10,000,000 f.) in his hands just before his
death, which occurred during his journey home-
wards; and it seems either that no certificate of the
deposit was delivered at all, or that it was lost or
stolen during the journey. The heirs of the prince,
who knew of the deposit, summoned Baron Sins ju-
dicially to give an account of it, when he declared
upon his oath that he had no knowledge at all of the
alleged transaction, which declaration put an end to
the proceedings. But after the death of Count
Stadion, his widow, who has a right to a portion of
the prince's inheritance as his sister-in-law, disco-
vered some documents among her husband's papers,
proving sufficiently the fact of the deposit, and con-
sequently tho perjury committed by Baron Sins.
This was the cause of his attempt at flight, in which,
as stated above, he did not succeed.

PRUSSIA.

BERLIN, o(7oßric I.S.

The semi-official Zeit has an article alleging that
Prussia, although neutral, does not remain passive;
that on the contrary, her position is that of a
" mediating neutrality." 'I he more Prussia main-
tains her disinterestedness in the Russian and
Turkish strife the more will she exert herself, and
the more likely is she to to heard.
The Paris Patric says the Prussian government
has prohibited the exportation of horses fit for the
cavalry service.
The Lithographic Currepontlence, of Berlin, denies
that there is any truth in a rumous current in that
capital of a part of the Prussian army being about to
be called out.