The Express.
London, England, 1853-08-23 00:00:00

requirements of many masers as the services of
European labourers, Li. they will supply their
places when scarce, and will help in time to beat
down wages to the Chinese level. In fact, one re-
markable consequence of this ;tew trade is to equities
the condition of widely different nations. Australia
is by no means exclusively dependent on England.
and, though we have the lion's share of its trod%
and though it is • new home foe ear enterprisio.
people, they will have to compete *ore with the pro-
ducts of America, and the ;Mouses sad products of

One very sound symptom of Models Australia is
to be found in the publicity with which it
is carried on. Sydney, Victoria, and South
Australian papers all teem with advertisements

of mercantile- sales. There is no &cal im-
pediment to this mode of doing business, and it is
extensively resorted to. Where that takes place,
much fraud, either on skippers or on buyers, can
scarcely exist. Imported commodities are at once
brought to the hammer, and the proceeds may be
remitted home by the next packet. That mode of
doing business relieves this trade from much of the
danger supposed to attach to it. The time for
making the returns is shortened, bad debts are
avoided, and nearly all that can be lost
is the difference between what a man hoped to
gain and what is practically realised. Though only a
part of the gold comes to us, the trade cannot be to
any extent, nor for a long period, a losing trade. Let
us make the most, therefore, of our good fortune, but,
remembering the competition to which we are ex-
posed in Australis, let us act with reasonable discre-
tion.

Tire orators and journalists who indulge in san-
guine expectations of a speedy and satisfactory
termination of the Russo-Turkish embarrassments

forget that they are the growth of many yearrs. The
overweening pride of Russia has been fostered and
dandled into its actual monstrous growth by the
mistaken flatteries of more than a century; and
diplomacy has gained for Russia one dangerous con-
cession after another from the Ottoman Government,
till it is scarcely possible to deny her treaty-based
rights to meddle in Turkish internal affairs whenever
the fancy seizes her.

The politicians of the west of Europe in their at-
tempts to conjecture what will be the course pursued
by Russia ' constantly allow the entirely different
constitution of Russian society from that of civilised
Europe to escape their recollection. The Russian is
either a serf or a servant of the State. The Russian,
not in the service of the State, is illiterate and fana-
tical; ready to be led unhesitatingly into any cru-
sade to promote the ascendancy of his church, its
saints, and its earthly bead the Emperor. The
servants of the State—at least those of the
higher and more influential ranks—are for
the most part sceptical voluptuaries, and over head
and ears in debt. The organisation of Russia is
entirely military; even its universities are organised
on a military footing, and placed under military
authorities. The resources of Russia are limited;
that State could not for any length of time carry on
a war of aggression except by making the enemy
hear the cost of it. The Emperor of RUSSIA has,
therefore, at his command a nation that is an
army ; the private soldiers inspired by fana-
ticism—their leaders by the desire and need
of plunder to recruit their embarrassed finances.
They will follow him wherever he leads. They
would avail little in the invasion of countries like
England or France; but they might ravage like
locusts for a length of time the fairest provinces of
Turkey, or even Germany.
This mischievous and semi-barbarous Power, hang-
ing like a pestilential fog on the European frontier, is
moved by a Government puffed up by the rival flatteries
',revery court in Europe for the last century. Every
European Government has shrunk from a quarrel with
a Power which might prove troublesome, and from a
war by which there was nothing to be gained. The
ostentatious deference paid it from these equivocal
motives has naturally been received by a semi-bar-
barous Government as an expression of real fear.
Ramis, in its overweening vanity, deems itself an
overmatch for any nation upon earth.
It is therefore certain that even if Russia is obliged
at present to let go, reluctantly, its clutch of the Da-
nubian Provinces, the mortified vanity of the CZAR,
the bankrupt condition of the nobles and high
military officers, and the fanaticism of the lower
order'', will prompt to an early renewal of
aggressions upon Turkey. Plausible pretexts will
not be wanting. The claims of Russia to patronise
and protect the members of the Greek church, have
been made her pretext on the present occasion. The
privileges and immunities guaranteed by treaty to
its trading subjects within the Ottoman dominions
may be made the pretext on the next. The Porte,
for more than a century in the leading-strings of Eu-
ropean diplomacy, has been induced to con-
cede to Russia a power of asserting im-
munities for Christians of the Greek rite,
and any one who pleases to assume the character of
a Russian trader, that co Government can safely
allow another to exercise within its dominions.
Unless these unwise concessions can be rescinded,
Turkey r ill continue at all times to stand within the
danger of its unscrupulous neighbour. It is on this
ground that many think a war with Russia might
eventually prove more advantageous for the Ottoman
Empire than a peaceful termination of the pre-
sent imbroglio. A war would put an end
to all existing treaties betweeu the two countries—
a pacific termination of the present dispute would
allow the heads of those hydras to grow up again
immediately into poisonous strength.
Be this as it may—let the dispute terminate by
wordy negotiation or by blows—there is but one
source of safety for the Ottoman Empire in the fu-
ture, and that is, a more jealous assertion of its
independent actio • by the Ottoman Govern-
ment. The usurpation of powers by Russia,
which no government can early delegate to another,
ought to be cautiously but systematically and vigor-
ously checked. The latitude of interference usurped
by the diplomatic colonies permanently established at
l'tra ought sternly to be contioed within narrower
limits. 'lle Porte ought to insist upon being master
in its own house. Notwithstanding all that is said
to the disparagement of the dominant race in
'Turkey, this is perfectly possible. The °manioc
is nut a mere Turk : there is, in fact, more Greek
than Turf:fah blood in his veins, and the Greeks who,
' in the course of four centuries, have by conforming
• i to Sluhuminedanism been engrafted on the Osmanli
• stock wen•, in fact, the most vigorous and aspiring
of their race. Will the hands of the Osmanli•° be
checked to the extent some imagine by the
j jealousy of Christian subjects? Tim histm y of
, I Transylvania and adj9iiii.l4 countries proves
t' that their Christian ls)pu:atlons have repeat-
edly thrown themselves into the arms of the
Osunudee, to escape the tyranny of Claisfian viers.
The Osmanlee is neithe• incapable of conforming to
11 the spirit of the age, nor of gaining the euefidtime
and affection of the other races among whom he
lives and over whom he exercises au ascendancy.

S►R FARREL/Jul: T►►Et►cEß, it is understood, is
pint: to give the public " a fu:i. true and particular
account" of the gr Smyth t►.tud.

JIUSSIA AND TURKEY.

Letter from the frontier of Poland to the 16th
inst. are of a warlike tope. The continuous military
preparations is Russia and Poland are in strange
eontrast with the universal talk *Wit peace in the
west. It is muttered that in the event of hostilities
commencing between Russia and Turkey. Prince
Gortchakutf will be superseded by another com-

The administrative council of the kingdom of
Poland has decreed the confiscation of the property
of eleven political refugees. A political convict con-
demned to imprisonment for life has had his sentence
modified—being permitted townie in Siberia for life.
If the most strenuous efforts of German newspaper
editors can demoralise the Turkish armies by repre-
senting them as undisciplined, sickly, and ill-fed,
Russia would have an easy task of it in the came of
war; and if the most strenuous efforts of the same
worthies to sow distrust between France and Eng-
land could avail, the entente curdiale between those
nations and their governments respecting the eastern
question would be already at an end.
A Vienna letter of the 16th, in a Frankfort jour-
nal, says:—" We have received from Belgrade news
of a rebellion, on a small scale, having taken place
in Servia. The object of it was to replace on the
throne the son of Prince Itilosch."

FRANCE.

PARIS..MONDAT ETZNINO.

Within a few minutes after the Emperor's arrival
at Dieppe on Saturday evening, and before dinner,
he went out of the Hotel-de-Ville on foot, and lean-
ing on the arm of an aide-dc-camp walked upon the
sands. Later in the evening the Emperor and Em-
press appeared without any escort on the terraceln
front of the baths. On Sunday they went out three
times in an open carriage, going at a foot pate, so
as to give the natives abundant opportunity to
gratify their curiosity. After mass at the church
of Saint Jacques they made an excursinn to the
pretty valley and ruins of Argues, acx•mpanied by
Mesdames F.ssling and Montebello, General de Mon-
tebello, and Colonel Finery. In the evening the
company of the Paris opera performed the " Bailriere
di Seviglia." It is believed that the Empress will
stay at Dieppe three weeks. A great variety of fetes
are spoken of, and it is said that English watermen
from Brighton and Newhaven will be invited to take'
part in the regattas.
The absence of the Emperor, the court, and almost
all the ministers, leaves Paris, politically speaking,
even more dull than it has been for this long time
st
pa.
The Bourse opened heavily, but about two o'clock
a rumour that some good news relative to the Eastern
question had been received was very generally
credited, and caused a sudden rise. What the nature
of the news may be, if any really hare been received,
has not transpired with any degree of certainty.
Some say the Emperor of Russia has consented to
give guarantees of the evacuation of the Principali-
ties, while, according to another version, the Sultan
has given his unqualified adhesion to the note of
Vienna.

M. A. Odier, Censor of the Bank of France, an
ex-deputy and an ex-peer of France, has just died at
his residence on the Boulevard Poissonniere.

The rise in corn was general throughout France
last week. The southern and eastern districts are
those in which scarcity is most apprehended, and it
is there that the principal purchases have been made.
Orders from Languedoc come in thickly to Marseilles,
and Burgundy, Lorraine, and Alsatia, send to buy
both in the markets of Marseilles and Paris. Flour
has risen in the latter market from 7fr. to Bfr. per
sack. The stock of flour in the warehouses at the
" Halle aux bles," which usually amounts to from
30,000 to 55,000 metrical quintals, is at this
moment reduced to 15,000 or 16,000. Returns
just received from th,: different market-towns around
Paris show a general rise in Wheat since last week
of from 2fr. to 2fr. 50c. per hectolitre. It is known
that the price of bread will be raised 10 centimes at
the end of the month. Although the new Wheat is
deficient in quantity, it is said to be very good in
quality. The average weight is 4 kilogrammes more
than last year. This explains in great measure the
difference between the prices of old and new wheat,
the former being worth in Paris but from 38 to 43
the hectolitre, while the latter is quoted at from
43 to 46. According to the last accounts from
Bordeaux, the intense uneasiness that prevailed
on account of the grape disease has subsided.
People even begin to hope that in some vineyards
the crop will be equal to last year. The white vines
of L'Entre•deux-Mere especially are looking very
very well. Still wines continue to be in great
demand at Bordeaux. In Champagne, Burgundy,
and the Orleans country it is now hoped, should the
weather continue propitious, that the vintage will be
a fair one, both as to quantity and quality. The
copious soft rains which were much wanted, have
swelled the grape. At Nantes wines cannot be sold
on account of the high prices asked; but a letter
from a broker there expresses an opinion that holders
will be soon obliged
ito give way.
re The train to Havre which Queen Christina was
on Friday experienced a delay of an hour and a half.
It appears that a locomotive going from Sotteville
for the station of the Rue Verte, at Rouen, ran, in
the tunnel of Beauvoisine, into a goods train pro-
ceeding slowly to Havre. Whether the conductor of
this train did not hear the whistle of the locomotive,
or whether the thickness of the atmosphere in the
tunnel did not allow the driver of the locomotive to
see the signal placed behind the train, the locomotive
overtook the train and dashed into it. Fortunately
no per-son was hurt, but two waggons were broken to
pieces, and the goods which they contained scattered
about. It was the time lost in clearing the line of
the articles thus lying about which caused the delay
in the passengers' train, as stated above.
PARIS Boussz.—Closing Prices: Four-and-a-Half
per Cents., 105 f. 30e. ; Three per Cents., 80f. 20c. ;
Bank Shares, 2,850 f.

BELGIUM.

ARRIVAL AND RECEPTION OF THE
DUCHESS OF BRABANT.

The Duchess of Brabant arrived in Brawls on
Saturday evening. Her Royal Highness had slept
the previous night at Aix-la•Chapelle. At Ba. m.
on Saturday morning she took her place in the
railway carriage prepared for her. The Prussian
authorities of the district were in waiting; and she
was accompanied by a detachment of the Imperial
Archer Guard (of the splendour of whose silver hel
mats and white doeskin breeches the Belgian jour-
nalists cannot find words warm enough to express
their admiration), but up to this point of her journey
her Royal Highness travelled as a private individual.
It was only after crossing the Belgian frontier that
her progress assumed an official and sovereign cha-
racter.

The Hotel Braley, in the environs of Verviers,
had been fixed upon for the de!ivery of her roya:
highness's person, by her Austrian attendants, to
her spouse and father-in-law. To this end, the
place had been declared neutral terri.ory for the
time being. The declaration of neutrality was read
by the imperial secretary, speeches were interchanged
between the Belgian and Austrian plenipotentiaries,
and authenticated copies of the proclamation were
presented to each. In the meantime her royal highness
had arrived (circa 11 a.m.), and rdired to change her
simple travelling dress for a court costume radiant
with diamonds Xing Leopold and his sons arrived
a few minutes later, and the I)uke of Brabant was
invested with the Order of the Golden Fleece. The
Koval personages, after these preparations, entered
the grand hull, and Count ('Sullivan de Gross
Commissioner of the King of the Belgians), and
Prince Schwarrenberg (Imperial Commiasioner),with
formal sretches delivered over their young and
hlontningoliarge to king Leopold. A receipt for the
lady wvs duly made out, and placed in the hands
I of Prince Schwarzenherg, several noblemen all gen-
tlemen were then invested with orders of knight-
hood; and the party adjourned to a soletnu break-
! fast, at which they continued till 1 p.m.
At 1 p.m. a railway train stomas! before the gar-
den of the Hotel Braley, and the royal family were
accompanied to it by the family or their noble host,
and took their places in the carriages prepared for
tnem. Speeches at d addresses were inflicted on
King Leopold and his fair daughter-in-law by the
authorities of Verviers; and as they passed along
the line by those of Liege, Tirlemoot, Louvain, and
Maliues. There were also bevies of beautiful girls,