The Express.
London, England, 1853-09-20 00:00:00

RUSSIA AND TURKEY.

An important statement respecting the line which
our own government is pursuing in the Turkish
question will be found in the letter of our Paris cor-

iespondent.
Our Brussels correspondent, writing on Sunday,
says:—" A copy of taw Russian memorandum has
reached this city. As anticipated, the Czar abides
by the Vienna proposals, and virtually throws on the
Great Powers all the responsibility of getting those
proposals adopted unconditionally in Constantinople.
The impression in our political circles is that the
PARIS, MONDAY EVENING.
Sultan will not yield on that point."
The -itistrian Corropondenre also gives an official Although the despatches from Constantinople,
stamp to the statement that the Czar is still content brought by the Leonidas, represent the state of the
to accept the first Vienna note. public mind there as more alarming than ever, the
We have letters from Constantinople to the nth Bourse is less uneasy to-day on the subject of the
Eastern question than it has been for a long time.
Our correspondents describe the measures of the
An article in the Assenablee Nationale, reiterating
Porte to restrain the popular excitement, which daily
takes a more warlike form. A number of persons in strong language the determination of the Emperor
have been arrested, charged with distributing ap-
of Russia to maintain peace, and representing him
peals to the nation, and with placnrding the streets
as virtually a member of the Vienna conference, since
with political addresses. The following is a trends.- his second acceptance of the note of the Four
tion of one of these placards : Powers, produced a very favourable effect.
" 0 Padischah Most Mighty! for the love of thy The Threes closed at 771 r. lic. being a rise
of 30c. from Saturday. They were at one moment
sacred person all thy subjects are ready to sacrifice
as high as 77fr. 40c., but towards the close a reaction
goods, life, arid family. But are you also not bound
took place, owing to a report of a fall of i to I in
to draw from its scabbard the scymitar of the glorious
Mehemet, which, like your illustrious ancestors, you Consols. Opinions are now singularly divided as to
the prospects of the Bourse, and arguments worthy
girded on in the Mausoleum of Ebi Eyoub Erissary ?
of attention are used both by the "bulls " and
" Your ministers, loving pleasure and case more
than country, hesitate. the " bears." The " bears " say that most serious
" A great danger threatens. complications may arise from the non•aceept-
a
" God, who wills our safety and prosperity, isnce by Russia of the last propositions of the
ready to aid and succour us : your valorous army and Porte; that the Sultan will not be able to resist the
internal pressure which urges him to war, that the entire na•ion demand loudly to fight for your hostili-
contestablein-
rights. ties once commenced the Russians must sooner or later
cross the Danube, and that then Europe will be forced
" Padischsh, open thine ear : listen to the voice of
thy children." to interfere to prevent the complete absorption of the
Some idea may be fcrmed of the intensity of popu-
Ottoman empire by its powerful rival; that the
lar excitement in Constantinople from this transla-
augmentation in the rate of discount at London to
tion of a placard of which numberless copies were
4) per cent., with the prospect of a further rise to d
pE r cent. on Thursday next, must necessarily lead,
stuck up in that capital in the night between the
29th and 30th of August. It will be an edifying within a short time, to a partial, if not
spectacle if the French and English fleets are em-
a corresponding, rise in the discount charged
played to quench in blood the zeal of these loyal by the Bank of France, for otherwise this
subjects for the rights and the honour of their sore- establishment would find its specie rapidly ab-
reign, and in the name of that sovereign, too; but sorbed by the English market ; that the pre ant
state of the treasury renders a loan inevitable,
since the first partition of Poland the world has
and that a loan could not now be contracted
grown so used with such sanguinary mockeries that
it is now scarcely moved by them. upon advantageous terms ; that the deficiency of the
The persons most deeply concerned in the props,. harvest is very considerable; that a large exporta-
Ration of these appeals were, it was believed, known, tion of the precious metals must be the consequence;
but could not be reached on account of their high and that in 1847 the Three per Cents. were from
position, some of them, it was said, being members of analogous causes pressed down to 72fr. To these
arguments of the " bears," the " bulls" reply .as
the Divan ; Mehemet Ali and Mehemet Ruschid are
the parties more particularly suspected. Our corre. follows : They say that Russia, in maintaining
spondent laments, that owing to the pacific character her acceptance of the Vienna note, has left
of his policy Iteschid Pacha is every day more and the field open for the pacific efforts of the
more isolated, and his fall is considered inevitable Conference, and that it is impossible that the
and imminent. It is to him that the injurious pie- efforts of the Conference, seconded by the am-
cards were intended to point. bassadors at Constantinople, should not be
The Journal de Constantinople of the 4th contains crowned with success; that the precautions taken
an account of the Sultan's visit to the Egyptian by the Bank of England are attributable to a purely
camp. The same journal of the 20th ult. contains a local reason, namely, the emigration movement,
1 long letter from Adrianople respecting the address which now sends both men and capital to Australia;
enforcing toleration, recently delivered there by the that money is so abundant in Paris that the Bank
new governor. The text of this address is entirely of France has not hitherto thought of raising its dis-
in agreement with the translation which we gave of want, and that the moderate rates generally charged
it on Thursday from the Cologne Gazette. The Pacha for the negotiation of commercial paper by private
recommends the Moslems to regard the Christians as bankers prove that there is as yet no necessity for the
brethren, and to practise no injustice to those whom Bank to put on the screw ; that the state of the tree-
the Sultan would treat on the same footing as those sury is, in point of fact, not such as to render a loan
of the same religion with himself. absolutely necessary ; but that, assuming a loan to be
The Vienna. papers state, that Baron Meyendorff, indispensable, the Credit Mobilier Society is in a situa-
who, as Russian ambassador, has been in constant tion to supply the necessary funds on terms perfectly
communication with the diplomatists of the Vienna satisfactory to the government, and without causing
conference, proceeds to Warsaw on the 19th to meet any financial shock; that the deficiency in the harvest
the Czar. Private letters state that Count Buol is less than in 1847, and that, besides, the circulating
Schauenstein will also go with the Austrian Em- medium has increased enormously since that period,
peror to Olmutz, whither the' Russian Chancellor both by the importation of gold from California and
esselrode is to accompany the Czar. by the issue of commercialpaper, as readily ex-
The correspondent of the Berlin National Gazette changeable as bank notes; and that, in short, owing
writing on the 12th inst. from the Russian frontier, to the commercial and industrial movement, a large
says:—" In spite of all the reports so favourable to proportion of the corn which it may be necessary to
Exchange purposes, I can only repeat that, in addi- buy will be paid for, not in specie, but in merchan-
tion to the two corps d'arinee now stationed in the dee.
Principalities, that of Moscow has been already put Several arrests have been made recently among the
it =Mon. The western military colonies are all workmen in the Faubourg St. Antoine. The ostensible
reedy, and the heavy cavalry stationed there is only course is a strike by the men in some of the upper
waiting for orders to march. Even if the war is to manufactories. According to one account, as many as
be commenced early in the spring, the arrangements thirteen factories were closed at one time owing to
Est be already commenced in Russia." strike& The men, it is gait
ollard that their occupation
'Bs,e CWorteGlautie publishes the following letter:
was unhealthy, but the of Health being called
upon to examine the question, reported that there
" BELGRADE, Sin. 4. was no foundation for this idea. The strikes con-
" Reschid Pacha has demanded a direct and peg- tinning after this report, the leaders were arrested,
five answer from the Benign Charge d'Affaires to and it is supposed, though I have not been able to
the question—what would be the conduct of the tier- learn upon what round, that political agitation was
vian government in case of a war? The reply was, the real cause of a movement for which sanitary
that the Serbs could not fight against the Russians, considerations were only the pretext. It is curious
who were of the same religion with them ; but that that copper working should be alleged to be unhealthy
the Servian government would not undertake any- at the present time, for public attention is at this
thing against the Ottoman Porte." moment occupied by a pamphlet published by Dr.
The Emperor of Russia has added to his many Burq, containing very carious detail. of his
titles and designations that of "Sovereign fearing observations in 1849, from which it would
God," (souvenirs crsignant Dieu). This title has been appear that the workers in metal and in
inscribed in the Imperial Almanac. copper more especially, were comparatively ex-
Very lately some German journals alluded to the empt from cholera. He mentions numerous in-
mission of a Persian Ambassador to St. Petersburg. stances of large copper factories in which there were
It was said that by the agency of this minister the not more than two or three deaths among several
bonds of amity between the Czar and the Schah had hundred men, and some of these happened on a
been drawn closer, and it was even said that Persia Sunday, when the men were away from work. In
was ready to cede an important province to Russia ti • t•
en cilia ion of the cholera, which there is too much
fora consideration. The envoy has since left St. reason to expect in Paris from day to day ninny
Petersburg, and it has transpired that although people are now buying cholera belts, made, not of
the Czar has conferred personal marks of dis" kennel, but of thin copper and steel plates, arranged
tinction upon him the two courts are more estranged so as to envelop the ptr-on.
than before. The Post Gazette, of Frankfort, has a It is understood that the Prince de Cheinay, on the
letter from Constantinople of the 23th ult., stating that occasion of his complimentary visit to the Emperor
Nsareddin Schah has ordered the commander-in-chief on the part of the King of the Belgians, will take an
of his troops to advance towards Asiatic Turkey, in opportunity to broach the subject of a definite treaty
I order to succour the Turks, if need be. The Persian ocsimmerce between the two countries. But,owing
minister, Mirza Ahmed, arrived at Constantinople on
to a circumstance which has transpired today,
B
the 22ad ult., and had an interview with Iteschid feared that Louis Napoleon may not be in a humour
Pacha, when he announced that his master's troops to receive the Princes advances favourably. M. de
were on their way, and assured him that the Porte Morny, who has lately been in Belgium, sought an
could reckon on the aid of the Schah.
interview with King Leopold for the purpose
urging upon him the absolu of
1 o The .urnal of Constantinople of the 29th ult. con- t e necessity, if he would
firms these statements in every particular. The
be. it goodjiel terms
im withwEhriacriei,aeofleounrbin4 the license
ff
same organ says : " The Governor-General of Van,
Mehemed Pacha, distinguished in the campaigns of t
sive to press,
the French .I undegrstaneltsilon.
Kurdistan as Kehaya-Bey, and Osman-Pacha, the .
of the Belgians replied roundly, that he was a eon-
proofsfamous Seraskier of Anatolia, receives from all sides
stitutional monarch,.
.and that he could take no steps
of the attachment of the Kurds. These belli-
whatever for restricting the full measure of liberty
colic tribes believe that the hour is come to avenge
and repair the wrongs which Russia has never of the press which his people had become accustomed
ceased to inflict on their country." to enjoy.
The Emperor and Empress attended mass in the
An occasional correspondent writes as follows: camp of Satory yesterday, and afterwards enter-
CONSTANTINOPLE, Seer. 1. tamed a large party at breakfast in the Palace of
We arrived here about a week ago, after a plea- Versailles. In the afternoon the military games,
sant journey. We have been seeing the maques including the famous " Jeu de l'Anguille,"
and bazaars, and taking steam trips about the Bow. were played by the troops in the presence
phorus, which is really beautiful. No wonder the of Field-Marshal Jablonowski and the other
Turks arc determined to fight for it! Last Tuesday foreign officers of distinction now in Paris. To-
we went over to Brousss, which is also beautifully morrow there will be grand manneavres commanded
situated. There we went and smoked a pipe with by the Emperor in person ; on Wednesday there will
Abd-el•Kader X., being indulged with an interview be another performance at the Hippodrome; and on
with his lady. The ex-Sultan of the Arabs is a Saturday the camp will be broken up, after an ex-
noble-looking fellow, his countenance full of intelli- Wenn of four months. 1

FRANCE.

r The fmirerfial of Boulogne states that the English
in the pines intend to present an address of con-
gratulation to the Emperor and Empress on their
visit there. TO, address is said to be drawn up in
very warm terms:, and to have been already signed
by the principal Ent:lish residents.
M. de Persigny ha," arrived in Paris to resume
his defies at the Moistry of the Interior. N.
Fortoul has left fora short vacation, and, during his
absence, the Ministry of Instruction and Public
Worship is confided ad interim to tho Minister of
Marine.

The Meniteur states that the number of persons
killed by the accident on the Paris and Bordeaux
Railway is five, viz.: Two engine-men, two stokers,
and the clef de tram Some of the wounded pm-
sengers are (says the lloniteur) seriously injured.
The Mundeur adds that the Court of I'oitiers has
ordered a judicial inquiry as to the cause of the
accident. The Cunsti'utionnel say. it has been in-
formed that the Minister of Agriculture and Com-
merce and his secretary were among the passengers,
and jumped out of the carriage without sustaining
any injury. The line was speedily cleared. The
Bordeaux trains of yesterday evening arrived in
Paris this morning at half-past nine.
' The Prefect of the Haute-Vienne has suspended
the mayor of Saint Brabant, for having issued a de-
cree prohibiting the inhabitants of his commune from
selling any corn for consumption out of the com-
mune till February Ist, 1854. The decree is, more.
over, declared illegal, and is annulled.
The Emperor yesterday gave a private audience at
the Palace of St. Cloud to his Excellency Vely Eddie
Rifaat Pacha, the Ottoman minister, to deliver a
letter in which the Sultan notifies the birth of his
last son, the Sultan Nour-ed-din; to the Marquis
d'Antonini, the Neapolitan minister, to deliver the
reply of his sovereign to the letters of recall of M.
Adolphe Barret; and to M. Hubner, the Austrian
minister, to deliver a letter from the Emperor of Aus-
tria, notifying the marriage of the Archduchess Maria
Henrietta, daughter of the late Archduke Joseph,
Palatine of Hungary, with Prince Leopold, Duke of
Brabant.