The Express.
London, England, 1853-07-08 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, THVISDAT
The letters from Constantinople, brought by the
Nile, have not yet arrived in Paris. The following
telegraphic despatch from Marseilles is published by
the Debate:
The Asiatic military contingents bad arrived in Con-
stantinople. Confidence in the maintenance of peace was,
however, general. There have bees some disturbances at
Smyrna, in consequence of the carrying off of an Hunga-
rian officer, hi. de Costa, formerly aide-de-camp to
Kossuth. It appears that the Austrian Consul
was the author of this measure ; at least, the
crowd attributed it to him, and by way of re-
prisals, it assaulted several officers of the Austrian navy.
The agitation at Smyrna was such that it was found neces-
sary to guard the Consul's 'residence by Austrian soldiers.
Apprehensions were entertained of the agitation increasing.
Greece ii also exceedingly agitated. The government has
found it necessary to request the population to be mo-
derate.
I am informed that a communication from the
Turkish embassy was made yesterday to the Debate
remonstrating against the mis-statement alluded to
by the Siecle. There can be no doubt that the tone
assumed from various motives by the majority of the
Paris press tends to mislead the public mind
upon this momentous question. The many peace-
able solutions that have been suggested during
the last few weeks have successively vanished into
thin air. The one great fact remains, that Russia is
steadily advancing. The story that the Austrian
mediation had been accepted is now abandoned, and
it is said by the very parties who affirmed the fact
over and over again, that M. do Bruck, feeling that
the close relations subsisting. between Russia and
Austria might fairly give rise to mistrust on the
part of Turkey, had suggested that Prussia should be
the mediator. This is evidently, under the circum-
stances, an idle suggestion to evade a difficulty.
With respect to the sending of M. OzAroff to Con-
stantinople, which has been talked of as such a con-
ciliatory step on the part of Russia, the Siecle
justly observes, " It was easy to foresee that in com-
mitting, by the invasion of the provinces of the
Danube, a flagrant violation of treaties, the Czar
would make a last diplomatic effort to induce Turkey
to accept this attack without calling for the interven-
tion of her allies."
From correspondence of the Conatitutionnel down
to June 23, it appears that nothing was then known
at Constantinople of the orders given to the Russian
army to cross the Pruth, but the announcement of
that act was looked on as highly probable. In that
expectation, tho preparations for defence were urged
on with extreme activity, and the greatest en-
thuAasm was still prevailing in ranks of
the population and of the Mussulman army. The
troops from Smyrna had arrived, and were trans-
ferred the same day towards Varna. Selim Pacha
had left for Ilattoum, an extreme point of the Asiatic
frontier, the position of which on tho Black
Sea has, as is well known, frequently tempted
tho ambition of Russia. The Minister of War
and the general in command of the im-
perial guard were preparing to leave Constantinople
for the principal camp of the army of Ronmelia.
Admiral Ziver Pacha had left for Bcsika Bay, on
hoard the Saida Chadi, to pay hie respects to the
French and English admirals, and to arrange, with
them, it is said, on the best mode of towing
tho three deckers, in case ulterior events
should oblige the combined fleets to pass
the Dardanelles. The Isle of Princes had
been selected for the anchorage .of the fleets.
Ziver Pacha, who, as is known, is an English-
' man, met Admiral de la Sane on board Admiral

Dundas's vessel. to celebrate Queen Victoria's birth-
day. A division of the Russian fleet had appeared
near the coast of Anatolia, to cut off supplies or any
aid whatever to the Caucasian population.
There was not any great change at the Bourse to-
day, bat business was exceedingly languid. The
principal subject of conversation among speculators
I was the probable consequences of Mr. Layard's
motion to-morrow night. An impression prevailed
that • modification of the English cabinet would
result from it.
I have heard nothing more worth mentioning about
the Opera Comique conspiracy.
The Courrier de Gironde announces the arrival at
Bordeaux of General Cotto and Colonel Edgar Ney, I
aides-de-camp to the Emperor. They are doubtless
on their way to the Chateau de Pau, to make pre-
parations for the visit which the Emperor and
Empress still purpose making there before the end
of this month. There is some talk of the Emperor 1
attending the hum ;umtion of the railway on the
18th, ineoy. but this does not seem very feasible.
Should his Majestyl go to Pau, ho will at all events I
return for the lath August, for tho celebration of
the Wte Napoleon.
The Moniteur publishes two decree/I, one ordering
that the members of the Imperial Chapel shall be Hon-
orary Canons of the Imperial Chapter of St. Denis, and
have the right to assume the title and insignia of that
body; and the other that the members of the Metro-
pelican Chapter of Paris shall wear over their
ordinary dress suspended round their necks by a light
blue ribbon, a decoration consisting of a cross, with
five branches, enamelled in white and violet, and
having on a blue ground, on one side, the effigy of
the Holy Virgin, the Patroness of the Church of
Paris, and on the other, the inscription " Chapitre
Marepolitain de Paris-1833—Napole n 111.,
Empereur." This new decoration is conferred in
commemoration of the Emperor's marriage.
BOURSE.
PARIS, JuLT 7. MI6 11OP
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