The Express.
London, England, 1847-10-20 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY

mutureed. It does not seem iaperaat se disown, the
nature of these olesplitatiens ; it suffices to make known the
point the Ragodaalass haw now attained. The cabinet of
Rowe, request% fa the but note of the 27th Sept, that the
foreign gerviesp should evacuate the town entirely. We can-
not poitaiblyMdeve, says the Frankfort Journal, that this de-
mand, wh is not founded on right, but which has for its aim
to obtain a relaretion of positive right, to please the public opi-
nion in Italy, can be acceded to iu present circumstances,
and considering the form under which the request has
been presented. At all events, the affair appears to be a
work of time. It is affirmed at Rome that government has
requested the mediation of no power, whether catholic or
protestant, and can but deplore any such steps, if they have
been taken, however friendly, or from whatever nation.
New changes seem to be in preparation in Tuscany ; but the
report, lately spread, that a constitution was about to be
granted, was premature. In our opinion, so great an inno-
vation could not be effectrd without the consent of the
agnate.
AUSTRIA.—VIENNa, Ocr. 10.—Baron de Nell,
director of the administration of the Viennese Poet, will go
to Dresden to join in the conferences which are to take place
on this subject.—A dreadful accident took place at Comoro,
in Hungary, by the falling of the bridge there. A crowd of
persons who had assembled to see the arrival of Archduke
Stephen, fell into the river and perished. The number of
persons supposed to have lost their lives is stated at no less
than forty.
CRACOW, Ocr. 14.--On the 13th, the railway was
solemnly inaugurated. After it had been consecrated by
Bishop Sentowski, the first Cracow stesm-engine, with a
long train of carriages and luggage waggons, left at half past
ten for the Prussian frontiers.

RUSSIA.—ST. PETERSBURG, OCT. 9.—Aocounta
from Kostroma state that a terrible fire which had broken
out in that city destroyed 118 dwelling-houses and the con-
vent ; on the tame night another fire broke out in a parallel
street, but happily only one house was humid. The
next day at 7 o'clock in the evening the inhabitants were
a third time called upon to witness a part of their town in
flames. Another fire occurred, which proceeded with such
rapidity that in an incredibly short time 70 houses wore
burnt to ashes. If, through immense exertions, the
government buildings had not been saved, the merchants'
market-place would in all probability have fallen a prey to
the flames. _ _ - . .

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POLAND. —lVAiumw, OCT. 10.—Late on the night
of the 9th the Emperor of Russia arrived in this city from
Lublin, end proceeded to the Lasienski palace. He was ao
companied by the Grand Prince Constantine and General
Orloff. Field Marshal raskowitach has also arrived in
Warsaw.

THE C.tLEDONIA.—This steamer, Cattalo Lott, de-
parted from Liverpool yesterday for II and Boston.
She carries out no specie.

Cbt Court.

WINDSOR, TUESDAY.—Prince Albert, accompanied
by the Duke of Cambridge and the Duke of Wellington,
enjoyed the sport of shooting this morning. The
Duke of Cambridge lunched with her Majesty and
Prince Albert, and afterwards took leave of her
Majesty and her Royal Consort, proceeding from the
Castle, attended by Major Stephens, to the Slough-station,
and travelled to town by the Great Western Railway. The
Right Hon. Sir Frederick Pollock, and General Sir George
Pollock, are expected to arrive at the Castle this evening on
a visit to her Majesty. The royal dinner party at the Castle
this evening is expected to include the Duchess of Kent, the
Duchess of Sutherland, the Chevalier Bunsen, the Duke of
Wellington, Prince Lowenstein, Lady Anna Maria Daw-
son, Baroness de Speth. Miss L. Dawson Darner, the Right
Hon. Sir Frederick Pollock, General Sir George Pollock,
and the Dean of Windsor.

The 'hike of Cambridge arrived at Cambridge-
house yesterday afternoon from Windsor Castle.

The Lords of the Committee on Education of her
Majesty's most honourable Privy Council held a meeting
yesterday at the Council-office, which was attended by the
Lord President, Lord J. Russell, the Earl of Auckland, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Viscount Morpeth, the
Right Hon. Sir G. Urey, and the Right Hon. T. 13. Ma-
caulay. Mr. Kay Shuttlewerth was in attendance.
A deputation from Liverpool, headed by the Mayor
of Liverpool, and including Mr. W Brown, Mr. Cardwell,
and Mr. W. Patten, had an interview with Lord J. Ru3sell
lesterday at his official residence in Downing-street. His
ordship was accompanied by the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, and the Right Hon. H. Labouchere, President of
the Board of Trade.

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The Bishop of Cape Town had an interview with
Earl Grey yesterday at the Colonial-office. Major Graham
had an interview with the Right Hon. H. Labouchere yes-
terday at the office of the Board of Trade. Mr. Divett and
Mr. J. Willson had an interview yesterday with Earl Grey at
the Colonial-office.

The Metropolitan Sanitary Commission eat at
Givydr-house yesterday. The commissioners present were
Lord it Grosvenor, E. Chadwick, Esq., Dr. 8. Smith, Pro-
fessor Owen, L. Jones, Esq., and their secretary, H.
Austin, Esq.

The Earl of Shelburne left town yesterday for
Bowood-park, Wilts.

DEPUTATION FROM LIVERPOOL TO
LORD J. RUSSELL.
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Yesterday afternoon a deputation from the bankers,
merchants, shipowners, and others interested in the trade of
Liverpool, waited upon the Prime Minister at Downing-
street, for the purpose of presenting a memorial praying
that the government might immediately adopt measures
to relieve the pressure which now weighs so heavy on all
the commercial dames of the community.
The gentlemen forming the deputation were to have been
in attendance on Monday, and an appointment was made
by the noble lord for one o'clock on that day, but none of
them made their appearance. In the afternoon letters were
received from Lie erpool, explaining the cause which was
attributed to the pressure of business, Monday being " packet
day." Upon being made acquainted with the unavoidable
circumstance which prevented the attendance of the deputa-
tion, Lord John Russell expressed his willingness to fix the
very earliest hour on Tuesday (yesterday), and three o'clock
was appointed, in order to suit as far as possible the conve-
nience of the depntationiets. They.drputation, which con.
sisted of ten gentlemen, included the following :—Mr. Wit.
Ham Brown, M.P. (South Lancashire); Mr. Cardwell,
M.P. (Liverpool); Mr. Wilson Patten, M.P. ; Mr. O. H.
Lawrence, Mayor of Liverpool; Mr. T. B. florsfall ; Mr.
Charks Turner; Mr. William Steward •, Mr. James Chap-
man, and Mr. Weiley.—Mr. Brown and Mr. Cardwell intro-
duced the deputation to Lord John Russell. The Right
lion. Sir Charles Wood, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and
the Right Hon. H. Labouchere, President of the Board of
Trade, were also present, and took part in the discussion
which ensued. The deputation having been presented,
Lord J. Russet!. received them with much courtesy, and
expressed the willingners which he and his right honourable
colleagues present felt to hear any representations which the
bankers, merchants, and shipowners, of Liverpool, were pre-
pared to make with respect to the presence now experienced
by the mercantile community of the country.
Mr. EITEWAND, Mr. Meows, and other gentlemen of the
deputation, then proceeded to direct the attention of the
noble lord to the critical position in which the merchants
and traders of Liverpool were now placed, in consequence of
the existing pressure on the money market, and the de-
plorable condition of trade, commerce, and manufactures.
They wished it, however, to be distinctly understood, in
thus representing their ease, that the relief which they
sought at the hands of the government was but
of a temporary kind. At the present time, pro-
duce of every kind could only be disposed of
at an enormous sacrifice, which must, sooner or later, it
carried to any great extent, involve the trader in ruin.
Orders from abroad for goods or produce could not be exe-
cuted, from the impossibility of converting into cash the
bills drawn against them. The deputation could not refrain
from expressing their opinion that much of the alarm and
want of ocallidence, which now prevailed amid all classes,
might, in great part, be allayed by the judicious interference
of the government. The memorial which they (the depu-
tation) were charged to present to hie lordship, dwelt
strongly upon this subject, and set forth that in the opinion
of the memorialkts, a temporary advance by government,
to be secured upon the credit of the country, would effect
an immense amount of benefit for the mercantile classes.
and, by tending to allay groundless alarms, cause the *lease
of large sums of money now locked up, and comparatively
profitless in consequence of the panic which prevailed. An
advance of this description they contended it was tke duty
of the government to make, as a continuance of the present
state of things would inevitably have the effect of depriving
very many thousands of the labouring population of all
classes of their employment, and thus prostrate the great in-
dustrial resources of the country. The accounts daily re-
ceived from the manufacturing districts showed that houses
of the greatest respectability and ample resources had bent
before the ovetwhelming pressure of the present crisis ; and
those who were most experienced in monetary and commer-
cial affairs agreed in thinking that if government did not im-
mediately come to the relief of the bankers, merchants, and
traders, on whose prosperity so much of the welfare of the
country depended, the result would be that firms
now solvent, and possessing ample means (if their
securities were convertible into ready money), would
be involved in the common ruin. The deputation concluded
by again pressing on the noble lord's attention, and on that
of his right hon. colleagues, that the memorialists did not
require any permanent measure of assistance ; all they
required was a temporary measure of relief, to enable them
to meat what they hoped and believed to be a temporary
danger.
Lord J. Russet!. admitted that the pressure under which
the commercial classes laboured at present was very great,
and a subject of deep regret. The matter was one which
had occupied, and he assured the deputation would occupy,
the attention of her Majesty's government. He regretted,
however, to any, that he could not hold out any hope to the
deputation that the government could interfere in the way
suggested. The subject, however, should receive from her
Majesty's ministers that attentive consideration due to the
great importance of the interests involved.
A member of the deputation having observed that in the
course of n few days they might again take the liberty of
waiting upon his lordship with other suggestions,
Lord J. RusseLL said that it would afford him much
pleasure to receive the deputation again, whenever they con-
ceived they could aid the object in view ; but, at the same
time, he assured them that he could not hold them out any
L h orb..
deputation then presented the memorial, which, the
noble lord assured them, should receive the best considera-
tion he could give it. The gentlemen of the depute-
lion having thanked Lord John Russell and his right hon.