The Express.
London, England, 1853-11-21 00:00:00

nix EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 21, 1853

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'FRANCE.'
• PARIS, SUSDAT Evainso.
The Motaiteur confirms the retreat of the Turks
across the Danube, and the evacuation of Kalarach
and Guirgevo, but states that the Ottoman troops
continued to occupy Kalafat and the neighbourhood
with 25,000 men, and are receiving reinforcements
from Sophia and Widdin.
It was announced in the Paris papers of yesterday
that Namik Pasha, who is charged with the negutia-
tion of the Turkish loan, had arrived on Friday in
Paris. Such is not the fact. The Pasha arrived this
morning at six o'clock. He was expected last even-
ing, and Vely Pasha and his secretary waited for
him at the Lyons Railroad till ten o'clock last night.
The ambassador went again this morning to meet
him, and the two Pashas exchanged their first salute
On the Place de la Bastille; the new comer then en-
tered the ambassador's carriage and proceeded to the
Embassy, where apartments have been prepared for
him.
M. de Kisseleff is at Fontainebleau since Friday
evening. He had been ill, but made an effort to
present himself at the Imperial festivities.
The following commissioners have been appointed
by the Minister of Agriculture, Commerce, and
Public Works, to prepare a report on the best mode
of establishing regularity and security in railway
travelling -.—Rotther, Vice-President of the Council
of State; Thayer, Postmaster-General; Vuitry, Coun-
cillor of State; Dubois, Councillor of State; Pio-
bert, General of Artillery • Frissard, Inspector
of Roads and Bridges; Combes, Inspector-General et
Mines; Vougy, Director-General of Telegraphs ; De
Bourenille, Director of Mines; Bueche, Inspector of
Roads and Bridges; and Tourneux, Chief of the
Service of Railway's. The commission is to be go.
sided over by the Minister of Commerce in petals.
A letter from Marseilles, of the 18th inst., states
that a private in the 10th regiment of Light Infantry
has been arrested in that town in the act of posting
revolutionary proclamations on the walls. The indi-
viduals convicted of having conspired to assassinate
the Emperor have appealed against their sentence.
PARIS, SATURDAY EVENTRO.
The Moniteur takes no notice whatever of the im-
portant fact of the re-crossing of the Danube by the
Turks, and does not even re-produce the telegraphic
despatches published by the English papers. It
seems to be beyond a doubt, however, that the Turk-
ish force that was marching upon Bucharest from
Oltenitza has voluntarily retir4 and
.gone over to
the right hank of the river. The reports industriously
circulated at the bourse, that they had lost a battle,
are totally unfounded. The Amon/doe pretends this
morning that the Turks have no longer a single sol-
dier in the Principalities, but this is a gratuitous,
assertion. The telegraphic intelligence refers only
to that part of Omer Pacha's army which was''
operating in the neighbourhood of Oltenitza, but we
r know that the Turks also occupied a strong position
in Little Wallachia. The latest Coastantinople
I journals state that 25,000 crossed the Danube in
one day, near Widdin. This corps has received several
reinforcements, and was concentrated around Kalalat.
Nothing decisive is known from Giurgevo. We
must, therefore, wait patiently for detailed intelli-
gence, before forming a judgment as to the extent or
object of Omer Pacha's retrograde movement. The
Patrie says, in a leading article, that Oaten- Sacken had
effected a junction with oortschakoff, and that their
united forces amounted to 75,000 men, but the source
of this news is not given. The number must, in all
probability, be a gross exaggeration, for subsequently
to the despatch, stating that the first named general
had crossed the Prath with 50,000 men, I have seen'
another, speaking of the advanced guard of hie arm,
consisting of 9,000 men only, as having actually''
crossed.
Lord Cowley went to Fontainebleau yesterday,
arriving there at noon. M. Waleweki, whose sudden
departure from London was kept very secret here, is
now, lam told, on his way back. He came to Paris
from Fontainebleau this morning.
Namick Pacha, Minister of Commerce of the Otto-
man Porte, who came from Constantinople by the
Mentor, has arrived in Paris with instructions, as it
is understood, to raise a loan for the Ottoman govern-
ment. He will in all probability proceed to ...ondon
shortly.
All the Russian residents in Paris have received
orders from St. Petersburg to settle their affairs, and
to hold themselves in readiness to leave France at
any moment should it become necessary for them to
doss
The Siecle says that M. Fiquelmont—who, as I
stated two days since,was likely to supersede M. Buol
Schauenstein as Minister for Foreign Affairs in the
cabicet of Vienna—has been actually appointed, and
adds that the nomination was made by the desire of
the Emperor of Russia, who had said, " We must get
rid of men of protocols and conferences." I learn,
however, from a private source, that M. Fiquelmosseal
appointment, although considered certain, has set
yet been gazetted.
Tlie confirmation of the retreat of the Turks across
the Danube produced a favourable effect at the
Bourse. The speculators consider the winter cam-
paign over, and resume their confident* in diplomacy,
whose renewed efforts during a four or five months'
forced armistice must, they flatter themselves, be
sotessaful in patching up a peace. The Threes rose
de& far account, and 30e. for money. All the prin-
cipal railways were higher, and considerable busi-
ness was done in them. Rouen was in great favour,
the report of a projected fusion to unite this line
with that of the Ardennes being revived. Veille
Montagne shares were in great request, and rose 20f.
Bank of France fell sf.
A correspoedmit of the Independance of Brussels
says that, astrary to expectation, the Superior
Council of Grasmere° and Manufactures have, "as it
is said," voted ley a majority of one voice against the
government pee‘ect for a reduction of the kw duties.
It is aloe rumoured that two of the ministers, of
whom IL Bissau, the Finance Minister, is one, have
c= ed against a free trade policy. I think,
, it may be safely assumed that the Emperor,
who is empowered by the constitution to modify thi
tariff at his mere will and pleasure, will not give
way to a measuring cost majority of a body whom
opinions, however valuable as those of experienced
Iwo, are in no way binding upon the government.
It is nevertheless somewhat ominous that the Condi-
tistionnel has another long anti-free trade article to-
day, in which it seeks to tranquillise the monopolists
on the very ground that the Emperor has thought
fit to consult the Superior Council of Commerce, and
usures its readers that no serious innovation will be
made.