The Express.
London, England, 1853-10-01 00:00:00

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:.(J.VDOS, SATURI4II; OCTOBER 1.

Tut rld English notion was that everything
English was tight—everything foreign was wrong.
There was a fine breadth of prtjudice about this, but
at least there was hearty nationality also. Roast
beef. old port. and teacoal tires might he called
Anelican idols, in whose merits every true JOHN
HU LL was septic's& d to have implicit faith.
He was understoll to like them, to honour
them, to matutain their virtues against all
comers. No picture of llotivitros was more
tharough:y English thin the one, where a smiiing
cook, before the gates of Calais, groans under the
weight of some giant ribs of beef; no song has ever
been more hearti;y chorused, in all parts of our
island, than the " Roast beef of old England." A
companion " prejudice," if we are to call it so, ran in
lour of the inn-fireside, the " hearty welcome" that
weary travellers get from civil Bonifaces ; the cheer-
ful meetings that took place under the roof-tree of
'White Ilarts and Red Lions. But we are now told that
all tLette " prejudices" must be rooted out. " May I not
take mine case in mine inn ?" asks our old Shake-
perian friend. " Certainly not," replies the limes,
" yau can take nothing there but discomfort."
SitEN,TtPNE, long ago, sighed out what he thought
a truth : _

Whoe'er ha% trarelled life's dull round,
Wh..,.•er Het elned path hAs been,
31 ,st siteb to thank bow oft be's found
Has .ur, wele..me at an inn.

No thing, s.tys Printing House-square, for
" welcome" read plunder." To be English is to be
wrong—to be foreign is to be right. The Times
tells us that there is nothing in our nation equal
to "the Foreign Hotel." The grumbling formerly
indulged in by Englishmen abroad is now all to
be kept for home exercise. We are henceforth
to how down to the Foreign Hotel system,
to worship Table d'llOtes, and to condemn by wide
and general consent every particle of English
Hotel arrangement. Instead of everything Eng-
lish being good, we are called on to endorse
the assertion that English Hotels are vile,
extortionate, dirty. All our caps are to be thrown
up for the ho' our of Monsieur E.tusvcaE, of
L'Hotel Cour Imperiale; and we aro at once to send
howling to perdition the entire generation of the
English Bouifaces. Dawn with the Red Lion, the
White Hart, and the George. The King's Head is
to be abominated, and the Queen's Arms despised.
" Mine Host," who, since the days of Cnsunflt and
SHAN'TEARE has tern a sort of centre, round whom
jollities and enjoyments of various degrees have been
held to circulate, is now be ticketed off lecondemned
scoundrel, fit company only for the Jew Fagins and
the Bill ketes of the " Nev.gate Calendar." We
aro told that " landlord" in all parts of the country
means tither insolent extortioner or crafty cheat.
'lnc decent inn, ready at all times to instal the
travel-tired Euest beside its cheerful fire, and to send
up the pleasant contents of its larder for the satisfac-
tion of the hungry, and of its cellar for the solace of
those who may be athir4. is to be " put down" by the
Times as Sir PETER LATILIE "put down" suicides.
Landlords—if the Tikes and its correspondents
be believed are brigands ; their wives aro the
drawers of fraudulent bills; the waiters impostors,
and the chambermaids cheats. From the very sign-
board to the uttermost corner of the kitchen every-
thing is wrong—false—rotten. " English Hotel" and
" den of thieves" are synonymous terms—and nothing
is fit for a human being but a German table
ell4te or a French restaurant. Down with
roast beef, port, and sea coal fires, and virtu
without end for fricassi, soups maigre, and charcoal.
Down with the old solid mahoganies, the warm car-
pets, and snug private parlours, and in their stead
set up dingy marbles, fly-spotted looking-glasses,
drafty miles-a-manger, and porcelain stores. In
short, if we agree with the Times, we may vote
every English Tavern and Hotel fraudulent or
" slow," and every foreign one cheap and admirable.
Such is the new faith on Hotel-keeping and Hotel-
keepers preached in Printing-house-square.

Of course from this universal condemnation here
and there just one pe• inn is to escape; and then the
favoured hostelrie is puffed as vigorously as all its
compeers are condemned. The class in general are
to be libelled that the favoured hotel may be all the
more prominently commended. This has been done
by the T1104e3 in several instances, bat in some cases
with especial offensiveness. Thus, for instance, a
particular inn has been selected in the Isle of
Wight as • model of cheapness, and ei the
rest of the hotels in the island condemned. Does
the writer of this mean to say he has tried
every other inn in the entire Isle of Wight? If not,
how can he venture to libel—and that his
charge is a libel there can be no doubt—
not only the especial rivals of the inn which he puffs
but a whole class throughout an extensive district ?
We do not for a moment suppose that the Times
is venal in allowing itself to be made the vehicle for
puffs which a fifth-rate journal would reject, and of

LAT EST FROM THE CONTI N ENT.

VIRNNA. SRPT. 27.
It is expezted that the Cz tr will least• on the 29th
inst.ttit for Odessa.
'l•he Czar rtetiv,tl tl.e Eirl of Westmmeland nn
Sunday. The inter% iew was unusually protracted.
It is understood that his Majesty displayed the most
friendly feeling towards the British Ambassador.
The Earl of Westmoreland has also had a conference
with Count Nesselrode, in the presence, of Baron
Me,.tr.elortf and Baron de Budbeig.

ln these interviews the Czar and his servants have
protested their anxious desire to preserve peace, but
maintained in all points their interpretation of the
Vienna vote. Count Nesse!rode proclaims that it
is love of peace that makes the Czar anxious to ob-
tain a treaty of a simplicity nut to be misiu•crpreted•

RUSSIA AND TURKEY.

indiscriminate libels which, under other circum-
stances, the Times itself would avoid. It doubtless
runs its muck without any pecuniary dishonesty,
and has allowed, without special reward, license to
the guerillas to whom the maintenance of the anti-
English Hotel battle has been confided. The lean-
ings of the Times are all " Continental " as distin-
guished from " English," and its preference for
Foreign Hotels, its likings for fricassee and soupe
maigre, is quite of a piece with its patronage of Hos-
ea, Austria, and "strong Governments." Its
gross and one-sided attacks on the Hotels are
doubtless believed by itself to be honest. It
seems never to have occurred to the enemy of
English inns that sweeping and indiscriminate cen-
sure is almost always unjust, and that on a subject of
this sort, the case of each writer of a grumbling let-
ter might be attended by peculiar circumstances
carefully kept out of sight.

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Letters from Constantinople of the Pith ult. state
that the Sultan had steadfastly refused to iign a
war.ike manifesto that had been submitted to him '
for that purpose; but, on the other hand, the four
ambassadors had not prevailed on hint to accept the
muddled Vienna note. The news that the Emperor
of Russia had rejected the Turkish modification was
known in Constantinople on the 14th in the diplo-
matic circles. The couriers with the instructions It,
the ambassadors were expected on the 18th.
On the conclusion of the fetes of the Bairam, at
Constantinople, a grand council was held at the
Porte. In addition to the members of the cabinet,
Isome great peronages, such as the Cheik-ul Islam
(chief of the Ulemas), ex-ministers, &c., were sum-
named. The results of the deliberations was not
known when the mail left. Fifty pieces of artillery
and • 2.i,000 muskets had been sent to Varna. A
letter from Besika, received by the Courrierelc Mar-
seille, after announcing the departure of the steam
frigates for Constantinople, states that the other
Ivessels of the combined fleets were making prepara-
tions to be ready at the first signal.
The Joarnal de Constantinople publishes a letter
ifrom M. Chlteau.ltenaud, which positively denies
that there is any truth in the report recently spread
of the principal surgeon of the hospital of Shninla
having attempted to poison Omer Paella, and having
accepted a bribe from Russia for the purpose. 'the
gentleman referred to is M. Pelletau, and he is still
in exercise of his duties.

The Allgemeine Zeitung brings a confirmation of
en earlier statement of the Express respecting
the refusal of the Vienna Conference to despatch a
collective note to the Sultan, and mentions, in addi-
then, the various means proposed for moving hint to
accede to the concession desired. On one side it was
suggested that the Sultan should, together with the
note, send the Emperor an autograph letter.declaring
that he signed the Vienna note without alteration,
because ho perceived nothing in it obnoxious to his
own digni.v and sovereignty, while, on the other
hand, the Emperor of Russia would be prepared to
despatch a satisfactory reply to these remarks. The
French ambassador, according to this authority,
was instructed to declare to the Porte that France
would be security that the Vienna note alretuiy con-
tained everything that the Turkish modifications re-
quired; and that France would neither now nor in
future assent to an interpretation prejudicial to the
independence and sovereignty of the Porte. Lord
Redefine was represented to be instructed in the
same sense, excepting (tor want of instructions) the
undertaking of thq security, with reference to which
the declaration of the English government is re-
served.
A letter from Moscow of the 18th ult. states that on
his way to Olmutz the Czar reviewed the 6th Corps
d'Arrni.e, commanded by General Tcheodaeff, and the
reserve division of the 4th Corps. At Toole, a
triumphal arch was erected by the Greek clergy,
with the following inscription :—" To the venerated
chief of the orthodox religion ! To the pillar of the
faith ! Ile will triumph over all his enemies."
Letters of the 2lth have been received from
Malta. Not a single ship of war remained in the
port. On the evening betore a Prussian frigate had
quitted her anchorage for the Dardanelles, having on
board the first secretary to the Prussian embassy at
Constantinople, with instructions for his ambassador.
A correspondence :rem Erzeronm of the 27th, so•
murices the arrival in that town of an extraordinary
courier coming from Teheran with despatches for
Constantinople. It was given out as certain that
Persia had placed 1000 of her best troops at the
disposition of the Sultan. This news is important if
true, because the cabinet of St. Petersburg has neg-
lected no means to exercise en influence upon Persia
and to isolate her from Turkey.
A correspondent of the Sallow: Zeitung writes
from Vienna, on the 25th alt, in harmony with our
earlier telegraphic adviees :
Wet Duol declared to the representatives of England and
France, previously to hi. departure for Olmutz, that, af'er
the latest communication of the British cabinet, to the
effect that it could not urgently press the simple accepta-
tion of the Vienna note on the Porte, the only collective
step isscricable was the despatching t•s Constantinople, in
the shape of an identical note, the declaration already fre-
quently mentioned, that the Vienna draft of a note con-
tain( 3 nothing dangerous to the s.,vereignty of the I'orte.
It was said that France had not expressed her intentions
definitely with regard to the manner in which the accept.
ance of the notes should be pressed at Constantinople."
It was rumoured at the Bourse on Thursday that
the French government had received intelligence
from Olmutz of the Emperor of Russia having re-
tracted the interpretation which he had put upon the
note of the Conference of Vienna, and that the King
of Prussia had expressed strong disapprobation of
the note of Count Neeselrode on the modifications
proposed by the Porte. This statement, (however,
is not confirmed.

FRANCE.

PARIS, FRIDAY Motwtso.

A report of an approaching ministerial modifica-
tion was very widely circulated yesterday. Accord-
ing to the rumour, which may after all be nothing
more, M. Binesu, the present finance minister, will
be made Governor of the Bank of France, the port-
folio of finance being resumed by M. Foul& This
arrangement, it is conceived, would give the govern-
ment a more entire command of the resources of the
State, and a greater influence over the money market
than it has at present. M. de Persigny would suc-
ceed M. Fould as Minister of State, and AL Fremy
be the new Minister of the Interior.

M. Benoit Fould, the present head of the banking
firm, met with a serious accident in a carriage, two
or three days ago, from the consequences of which
his brain is somewhat affected. This is, I believe,
the foundation of a c,sisarel that has been flying about
that M. Achille Fould, the minister, had gone out of
his mind.

The Bourse was at one time very buoyant yester-
day. The 'fhrees rose to 75.35, but again within
the last few minutes a panic set in, owing to reports
that Consols were lower. The news on this subject
circulated on the previous day was entirely false, and
may be so again. Bitter complaints arc made of the
want of authentic information. Within the last two
or three days the aubm trine telegraph has been mo-
inopolised during the greater part of the twenty-four
hours by the government, and bankers and mer-
chants have not received their ordinary despatches.
'1 he last price of the renter was 7-I.w), being still a
rise of 70e. The sudden reaction was not so violent
in the railways, most of which closed at a consider-
able advance. Orleans, Strasbourg, and Rouen rose
20f. Credit Mobtiter rose 22.5• i. Bank of France
i remained stationary.
Oaring, as it is prasutned. to rough weather in
the channel, the Lond 111 evening papers and Ictteris
were not delivered till atter three o'clock this after-

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY'S EDUCATION SCHEME.
—A n..mber of the teach.n employed by the General
Assembly of the Church of 81,:otland, and others, enter:ailed
Mr. John Keith, clerk to the General Assembly's Kluza-
trio Committee, at supper on the 233 inst., and presented
Lim with • purse euntaini•g 31 guineas (being contribu-
tions from 139 teachers), as a token of their appreciat.ou of
his labours in connemon with the education scheme for
the last fourteen years, and as a mark of their pad. !noon.
tude for his uniform kindness sad his unwearied miens 'the Assemble], alludes to the rep' its current on
'ion to tt:,•:r interests ea all =salons. —EdiaborgA Courant,
Sept. 27.
Wednesday, that M. Kiswlef, the Russian Ambassa-
A MAN CIICSIIED TO Deant.—On Thursday, u ° dor, had demanded his passport, and adds that the
we 01 toe men ens,,loye.: a! the Great Northern Itai,way , sem,' thing was said with respect to M. Hubner, the
station at D•oscaster, named Alfred Moore, was assietius to Austrian ambassador, but gives a positive contradie-
shunt art eneme into ore of the locomotive shed., the cutter
ti
of the co:Atoms red of :he waeels nearest to ',int ciugiit on tu both rumours.
his trevert, when, to save liimstlf from bring drawn under ! the Ibmileur repor.ll that at Calais, on Tuesday
the mishit's., be seir h of a pile of timhi.r, whier. im. morning, at 9 o'clock the Emperor eased oat
mediate.y gave way, aria p .nr fellow was crushed wiltout an escort, accotupanied by the Ministers of
sit beget is • pi. cc of the n o and the bsr of the War and :Marine, the Prefect of the Pas de Calais,
Wheu t..10m up by some of his comrades be was the Mayor, and two aides-de-camp, to visit that pent
hut he c.mll not b:Ef to re:nosed, and died sleort.y tile town called the Quartier, which is inhabited
after ear is on the spot. of
fittiti.wsuraT AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY. by fishermen and their , families, to the number of
Tease e septs for week ended srpt. IS, b.-4,9121.0 lid, 3,000 souls. His Majesty afterwards inspected the
Corresponding period last yes:, 5414 17$. d. port, eu.d examined ou the spot a plau for its im-

provement, projected by Vaisban, and afterwards
altered and submitted to Napoleon I. in 1808. The
amelioration would render the harbour accessible at
all times of the tide, even for ships of war. At I
Boulogne the rain fell so heavilv when the imperial
carriage arrived at the Sub-Prefecture, that the
Emperor accepted an umbrella from the Mayor
to hold over the Empress as she ascended I
the steps. The Emperor, then, notwith-
standing
the heavy rain, went, accompanied
by Marshal Valliant, the ministers, sad the Pre-
fect, and took up his station under a military tent
placed in the Grande Rue, to see the deputations of
the communes pass before him. Each deputation
was preceded by its banner and band, and the cere-
mony lasted upwards of an hour. The Emperor
then returned to the Sub Prefecture, where a recep-
tion took place, commencing with the bishop and his
clergy. A considerable number of English officers
in uniform were ohserved to be present, as well as
Mr. Hamilton, the English Consul, and the Mayors
of Dover, Ramsgate, Margate, Folkestone, Hastings,
and several other English towns, invited over by the
town of Boulogne. The English Consul presented to
the Emperor the address from the English residents
and visitors is the town, which was in preparation
long since, nod has already appeared in your
columns. Four hundred signatures were obtained
to this address. It does not appear that the Empe-
ror made any answer to it. After the official recep-
tions, the emperor was pleased to admit a deputa-
tion of the fishwomen of Boulogne to pay their
respects to him and the Empress. To the latter they
offered a silver fish in a net of the same metal, with
a compliment in verse, composed and recited by one
of them, who already, as she took care to mention,
had had the honour of complimenting Napoleon the
First. About half-past 4, the weather having some-
what
cleared up, their Majesties went out in en open
carriage to visit several of the public establishments.
On passing by the Chateau, the Emperor pointed out
to the Empress the room which had served hint as a
prison, and said loud enough to be heard by all the
persons who accompanied him :—" It was there that
Persigny, seeing me leave, said, 'Allez, mon Prince,
—the shade of Napoleon protects you.' " Within a
few paces of the famous column dedicated by the
grand army to the glory of the Emperor, Louis Napo-
icon stopped hie carriage, and showed the Empty"
the spot on which his uncle's tent was erected,
when he for the first time distributed crosses of the
Legion of Honour to his companions in arms. Their
Majesties descended to the port, where the Emperor
alighted and conversed for a short time with the
Minister of Marine and the Prefect on the improve-
ments which it was advisable to have effected by the
prolongation of the jetty GOO feet and the ter-
mination of the dock commenced by Napa
Icon I. It is supposed that five or six mil-
lions would suffice for these ameliorations, and
that the whole could be finished in about four
years. It is believed that his Majesty will before
long give some orders relative to these works. Yes-1
teriay morning their Majesties visited the fleet, and
quitted Boulogne at half-past one, arriving at Abbe-
ville a little after three o'clock. They entered the
town in an open carriage, and after proceeding to the
church, alighted at the Hotel de Ville, where a great
number of deputations were received. They then
proceeded on their journey, and arrived at Amiens
at five o'clock, and alighted at the Hotel of the Pre-
fecture in excellent health.

Their Majesties arrived in Paris at the station of
the Northern Railway in the Place Lafayette at
half-past 5 last evening. I have just seen their car-
riage, escorted by a strong body of ,aides, passing
along the Boulevards towards St. Cloud. They leant
back in the carriage, being doubtless tired, and
within but the tip of the Empress's bonnet was
visible.
The Minister of Marine went on board the ad-
miral's vessel of the Ocean squadron off Boulogne on
Wednesday.
Within the last three weeks no less than eleven
prosecutions, all ending in convictions, have been
brought before the courts of Vesoul. Pontoise, Metz,
Nantua, Chaumont, Chatillon, and Die, against indi-
viduals charged with using insulting language
towards the Emperor.
. . . .

The Moniteu;states that in addition to the differ-
ent countries which have before signified their inten-
tion to send their productions to the Universal Exhi-
bition of Paris in 1835 may now be added
Austria, the Brazils, Peru, New Grenada, and
Haiti. The despatches announcing this deter-
mination, rays the Moniteur, show their eager-
ness to co-operate in giving eclat to this great
tournament of labour. In the Brazils, in partieulu,
a credit of 300,000 fr. hu been demanded from the
Chamber of Deputies in order to facilitate the send-
ing of articres of Brazilian production.

PARIS, ENIDAT EVENING..

The Emperor has lost no time after his return in
attending to business. He presided to-day at a
cabinet council at St. Cloud. The rumours of a
ministerial modification continue to be spoken of
with an increasing belief in their truth. I hear it
said in many quarters to-day that M. Fould will not
assume the responsibility of the finance department
at the present moment, but will leave the ministry
altogether. In that case, M. Bineau will remain
at his post, and some other person will be
found to replace M. D'Argout as governor of
the Bank of France. It is not thought, whether
war should be declared or not, that the government
can possibly avoid having recourse to a loan.
I am enabled to assure you positively that an
official communication has been addressed to Russia
by France and England, to the effect that the fleets
have been ordered to Constantinople, as a demonstra-
tion of their intention to support Turkey, this demon-
stration having become necessary in consequence of
the interpretation put by M. de Neonlrode upon the
Vienna note.
The AnitaMe undertakes to assure the world
that the Emperor of Russia will still be magnani-
mous. "By the fact of the entry of the fleets," it
mays, "the treaties of 1841 cease to exist, and the
Emperor of Russia is very possibly not sorry for this.
But, however, that may be, what conduct will be
pursued by the cabinet of St. Petersburg? Will it
make the entry of the fleets a reason for taking some
new advantage of Turkey? We think not. We
believe that for the present the Emperor of Russia
will content himself with the position he has taken,
that he will strengthen himself in that position, and
keep his troops in the Principalities, but that he
will not make any fresh movement as a reply to the
entry of our fleets. Such at least is our hope."
There were considerable fluctuations at the Bourse
to-day, consequent principally upon the state of the
account. It was the day for declaring options pre-
vious to the settlement, and, contrary to the general
expectation, it was found that, instead of the
" bears" having oversold themselves, the balance of
transactions was against the " bulls." The Thews
opened at 75fr. 95c, rose to 75fr. 50c., fell to 75c.,
and closed at 75fr. 10c., with a rise of 25e. from yes-
terday. The railways were somewhat better. Rouen
closed 12fr. 50c., and Lyons, 10c. higher than yes-
terday. The quotations of the French lines are
higher in London than in Paris, and several English
speculators have been compelled to purchase here.
General Canrobert, in a farewell order of the day
addressed to the army of the camp of Helfaut, said
to them," When a man has the honour to command
soldiers such as you, the most ardent desire he can
form, is to be called upon to lead them against the
enemy !"
Several political arrests were made last evening
among the bystanders at the Northern Railway
station waiting for the arrival of the Emperor and
Empress. The Uuiou speaks of one man in a blouse,
who was arrested for speaking disrespectfully of the
Emperor. But a friend of mine, who w s present,
saw six persons pounced upon by the eergens-de-ville
and marched off in custody.