The Express.
London, England, 1853-09-22 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVININO.
Considerable sensation was occasioned to-day by
the publication in most of the morning papers of the
following private telegraphic despatch, dated Vienna,
Tuesday, Sept. 20 : "The mediating power [Austria]
has not adhered in its full extent to the proposition
of the two Western Powers, tending to give to the
Porte in a Collective Note guarantees against the
future interference of Russia between the Porte
and its subjects. Count Buol has declared that
the project of note proposed by M. Drouyn
de Lbuys was not sufficiently pressing in
the sense of acceptation. Energetic instruc-
tions have been sent to M. do Bruck. The cir-
cumstances no longer permit collective action ; each
power is free to give assurances. Above all, it is
inecessary to insist on the acceptance of the primitive
note by the Porte. It is thought that if the Porte
accepts, the Emperor of Russia may, at Olmutz or
Vienna give the order of evacuation. The Conference
consider the state of things as very serious at Con-
sten tinople."
Although there appears to be some foundation for
at least part of the above intelligence, there is little
doubt that the despatch itself has been concocted in
Paris. The date of the 20th seems to have been
appended to give an appearance of very recent news,
but it is I believe pretty certain that a despatch
dated, Vienna the 19th, which appears in the rust
Amp! Gazette of Frankfort, is the only real autho-
rity upon which the Paris implication is based. The
despatch of the 19th is to the following effect:
" The representatives of the mediating powers have
re-a,s:mbled in conference to consider tho Turko-
Russian question. The proposition that a collective
note should be addressed to the l'orte to calm its
apprehensions is said to have been rejected. Count

Bud declared that M. de Bruck had most positive
orders to do everything possible in order to obtain
the signature of the note by the Porte in its primitive
form. Prussia is reported to have joined with
Austria. The representatives of France and England
then declared that in point of tact it was of the highest
importance to work energetically at Constantinople
to get the note accepted without modifications, and
' that Instructions to that effect had already been seut
to M. de Lacour and Lord de Redcliffe."

The Bourse was but little affected by the news.
The Threes opened at a fall of about 30c., but
speedily recovered. Telegraphic accounts from Vienna
reported a rise of upon the Metalliques. Subse-
quently the Bourse became somewhat weaker, and
the Threes closed with a fall of 30e. for cash and 15e.
for time. Bank of France shares rose 15fr. There
was a rumour that the Bank was going to lend 100
millions to the Bank of England.
The Asseniblee Nationale says of the despatch
from Vienna :—" Our readers will doubtless have some
trouble in finding out the meaning of this so strangely
worded despatch. All we can say is that it is not
more intelligible to us, but at all events it does not
inspire us with the least alarm." The Anon-
like is consistent. It has never ceased to
declare from the first, that there was nothing alarm-
ing in the Eastern question, and it would doubtless
continue to say so, if Russia were in possession of
Constantinople. In an article written before this
telegraphic despatch appeared, this journal bays:—
" Nothing can hinder a speedy solution, neither the
letting loose tho fanatics at Constantinople, nor the
aggressions of the barbarous tribes sent from Asia
aflfries. In either case, means of repression are
prepared by the common consent of the Powers."
An article in the Times of the 19th was thought
here to show that the English government was still
resolved to stand by Turkey. The Sleek says of it:
—"The Times, which for several days past has
taken great pains to prove Turkey altogether in the
wrong, because she has the hardihood to say a word
in her own cause, expresses to-day sounder views,
more just sentiments, and we hasten to notice this
evident sign that in the City of London, in the very
centre of commercial occupations, people understand
that a peace obtained by using violence towards the
right of the weaker party, would not be a
true or durable peace." After quoting parts of
the article, the Si'ce/c continues :—" This lan-
guage on the part of a journal said to have
relations with the government, is, we repent, very
significant. It proves that public opinion, although
it may have hesitated for a moment, owing to the
confident assertion that the Eastern question had
been brought to an honourable termination by the
labours of the Conference, never dreamt of allowing
itself to be checkmated by the Aberdeen cabal."
The Assemblee Nationale, however, which, perhaps
knows better, gives the following explanation of the
apparent change of tone :—" As to the article in the
2'intes, it in no respect deserves the importance that
has been attached to it. The article is nothing but
an amplification intended to give a favourable colour
to the metamorphoses now being effected in the atti-
tude of English diplomacy at Constantinople."
The Emperor yesterday arrived at the Camp of
Satory at half-past two o'clock, and commanded the
troops throughout a variety of mannairres. The
artillery and cavalry formed the centre, and the
infantry the wings. The right wing was under the
command of Marshal Magnan, the left of General
Levasseur, and the cavalry of General Kerte. The
Empress, who arrived in an open carriage, with the
Duchess d'Albe by her side, and followed by their
carriages containing the ladies of the court, took up
her station near the hippodrome lately erected by
the troops. The manoeuvres commenced by an attack
on the centre, which gave way under the
protection of a fire of artillery. When the
movement of retreat had ceased, the cavalry
made a charge on the attacking party, forcing it to
retreat in turn. At the same time the infantry
formed into oblique squares, and kept up a sustained
.fire, whilst the cavalry regained the position which it
had occupied before the charge. The enemy then
made a movement on the right wing, and the troops
there were forced to change their front to oppose
them. After several manceurres on this side, the
cavalry made another charge, and the enemy were
in the end altogether beaten off. The whole of the
manoeuvres were executed with great accuracy and
spirit, and when all had ceased, the troops were
formed into three sides of a square, the carriages of
the Empress and of the court, and a considerable
crowd of spectators, occupying the fourth side. The
Emperor then proceeded into the centre of the square,
accompanied by a numerous staff and a considerable
number of foreign officers, Austrian, English, Pied-
montese, and Dutch. The Emperor, having on his '
right Prince Napoleon, and on his left General Prince
Jablonowski, of the Austrian service, then delivered
the following address to the troops:
Oaken, non-commissioned off nn, and soldiers !—At the
moment when the Camp of Setory is about to be raised, I
desire to testify to you my entire satisfaction. The three
divisions which have in succession occupied it have mani-
fested that discipline and confraternity, and that love for
the profession of arms which keep up the military spirit so
necessary for a great nation. In fact, who is it that in dif-
ficult times has supported empires, if not these assemblages
of armed men taken from the people, broken into discipline,
animated with the sentiment of duty, and who preserve, in
the midst of peace, when generallT egoti,m and interest in
the end enervate ever) thing, that asvotednem to the country
founded en self-denial, and that love of glory which is
founded ea a cuatemlit for riches. That it is
which bee always made armies the sanctuary of
bosom; and consequently, as long as peace con-
tints's, there exists a community of sentiments,
I may even say a sort of *sprig de cars, between us and
foreign armies. We love and esteem those person., who in
their own countries feel and act as we do; and as long as
political events do not turn them into enemies, we are happy
to greet them as comrades and as brothers. Receive, my
friende,;witk my encomiums for your good conduct, my
thanks for the marks of attachment which you have given
to me and to the Empress. Reckon on my affection ; and be
certain of this—that next to the honour of having been
three times elected by a whole nation, nothing can afford
me greater pride than to command such men as you.
These words excited the greatest enthusiasm, and
were followed by long-repeated cries of " Vive l'Em-
pereur ! Vive l'lm peratriee !" The Emperor then
distributed tho cross or the military medal to several
of the troops whose conduct appeared to merit the
distinction. The troops filed off before their Majes-
ties with loud acclamations, and the proceedings ter-
minated. The Empress then withdrew, and the
Emperor gave a collation to all the officers near
Marshal Magnan's tent. In front of the tent was to
he seen a colossal bust of the Emperor, made in
twelve hours by M. Rouband, a pupil of Pradier. At
six o'clock, the Empercr returned to Saint Cloud
amidst loud acclamations.

The Moniteur contains an imperial decree ap-
proving of certain modifications in the statutes of the
St. Germain Railway Company.
The truthful and highly valuable articles of the
Echo Agricole on the con question bare drawn down
upon it a " warning.", which appears in the Moniecur
to-day. The warning states that this journal, in
spite of repeated non-official intimations, has pub-
lished, particularly on the 15th and 18th of the pre-
sent month, articles on the subject of food calculated
to excite alarm and to produce a factitious rise in
corn. This warning is an indication of a deplorable
policy. It appears that the blind efforts of the
government to stifle the truth and produce a factitious
fall meet with but little success, for I observe to-day
in the Co),stitutionnet, no willing witness to the
true state of things, the following paragraph :
—" Monday.—lteturna from nine-tenths of the corn
markets in the departments come higher by about
2fr. The markets are supplied but slowly. The
arrivals are less than usual at this season of the year.
In Paris this morning flour was in great request.
The beet qualities reached :tar."
The Emperor and Empress leave St. Cloud at noon
to-morrow for their Northern tour. The following
programme has been published showing the precise
hour at which they will arrive at, and leave each of
the principal towns on their route :
Thursday, Sept. 22.—Departure from St. Cloud, at coon.
Artival at Ames at 3.45.
Morning of the 23rd, spent at Arras.
Departure for Waal at 10 o'clock.
Second and third days, Friday 23, and Saturday 24.
Arrival at Dnuai et 10 25. Stay one hour and a half.
Departure at 11.5-5.
Arrival at Valenciennes at 12.30. Stay one hour and-a-
half ; departure at 2; arrival at Lille at 3 30.
Sept. 21.—Stay a' Lille. Visit to Roubaix and Turcoing.
Return to Lille at 4.45.

Sunday, Sept. 24.—Departure`at 10.30 a.m. ; arrival at
Harebroilek at II '+o; arrival at St. Omer at noon ; arrival
at the esmp of Helfaut at 1.30; return to St. Omer at 6.
Monday, Sept. N.—Departure for Dunkirk at 10;
departure (or Calais at 2.30; arrival at Calais at 5.
Tuesday, Sept. 27.—Departure in carriages fur Boulogne
at ll ; arrival at B 01110rele at 2.
We Inesi.ly, 28.—Departure from 13,m1.,gne far Amiens
at 10; arrival at Abbeville at 11.25; departure at 1 ; arri-
val at Amiens at 2.

1 hursday 29.—Departure from Anairns for Paris at
noon.
The Mayor of Lille has issued a prcthination
urging the iohabitants to make a " spot tarsals
manifestation of their loyal sentiments towards the
"providential man ".who has saved the couLtry, and
reminding them that he and the worthy tornpanion
of his destinies take particular delight in that ho.
wage which comes from the heart. There win
therefore be but one thought and one cry in Lille
" Viva PEmpereur Vice l'lmpf-ratrice!" ,
The visit of M. Maple, the Minister of Public
Works, to Perigueux, whither he has proceeded first,
will not, it appears, be of any great length. He is to
visit the works on the Lyons to Avignon railway,
and to examine the state of the ports of La Joliette
and of Arenc, at Marseilles. The question of corn,
in what concerns the arrival of vessels laden with
wheat, and the measures to be taken for hastening
its conveyance by land and b 7 the Rhone, are also to
be the objects of the minister s attention.
The government is about to exhibit, at No. 6, Rae
de Bourgogne, a collection of articles from Algeria,
consisting of cotton, silk, cochineal, corn, oilseeds,
wool, timber, wine, sugarcane, stuffs of various
kinds, some ornamented with gold, saddles, burnous,
and other objects of interest.
The marriage of Count thivier de Laroeliefoucault
with Miss Montgomery, daughter of a New York
merchant, was celebrated yesterday at the church of
Ste. Valero, in the Faubourg St. Germain, in presence
of a brilliant assemblage of fashionables.
The immense and magnificent establishtnent of
M. Jourdain-ltibouleau, at Louviers, the largest
cloth manufactory in France, in which aliout
1,200 workmen were employed, was completely
destroyed by fire on Sunday night last. The alarm
was first given at about half-past eleven, the drums
were beaten, and the tocsin was sounded, and the
people assembled by thousands to render assistance.
In fess than a quarter of an hour the whole of the
tour buildings, each five stories high, of which the
manufactory was composed, were one mass of flame,
and the attention of the firemen was then directed to
saving the dwelling-house and the adjoining mann-
factories of M. Lbuilier and M. Poussiu, in which
they were fortunately successful, as well as in
saving the bridge which stands at the corner of one
of the buildings destroyed. The loss is estimated at
1,500,000 fr. Fortunately the buildings were in-
sured. The municipal council has voted a sum of
100,000 fr. to meet the most urgent wants of the
workmen and their families, who amount in number
to nearly 3,000.

RIJS:.IA AND 71.72 KEY.

PUBLIC MEETING AT SHEFFIELD.

A public meeting was held on Tuesiiiieveniug,
in the 'lowa Rail, for the purpose of considering " the
present unsettled and unsatisfactory state of the Eastern
question, and the propriety of memorialising the govern-
ment, urging them to take prompt and deci,..ve measures
to cause the immediate evacuation of the Danubian princi-
palities, and to prevent Russia from again outraging justice
and international law by a forcible and warlike occupation
of Turkish territory." The meeting was called by the Mayer
(Mr. Matthews), in pursuance of a requisition, signed by
about 140 persons, at the Lead of . whom was Mr. Overend,
J.P., a deputy lieutenant of the West Riding. The meeting
was so largely attended that the large room of the Town
Hall was filled. The most entire unanimity appeared to
exist in favour of the sentiment embodied in the ?qui-
sition to tho mayor as quoted above. The mayor being out
of town, Mr. Alderman Cann, the ex-mayor, was called to
the chair. In his opening observations he r‘inarked that
it was competent in that meeting to pass resolutions that
would strengthen the hands of government in its policy as
behalf of Turkey during the present European crisis.
Mr. Isaac 'Rossini' moved the first resolution :—" That
the unjustifiable aggressions of Russia upon Turkey, the
meanness and the base duplicity which Russia has mani-
fested in sapport of those aggressions, and its long•con-
tinutd forcible occupation of Turkish territory, without
any colourable pretext whatever, imperatively call for every
nation having any rew:rd for tke principles of justice,
honour, and international law, to take such prompt and
decisive measures as sha.l cause the rights of Turkey to
be respected, give her ample reparation for the outrages
to which she has been subjected, and effectualiy to
prevent a recurrence of similar proceedings in future."
Mr. Ironside held a strong opinion that if the tour powers
had not interfered at al', but lett Russia and Turkey to
themselv.a, the question would have been settled now, and
that the Russians would hove been driven out of the pried.
palities.

The motion was seconded by Mr. Starittx Bloom,
supported by Mr. CIIA:ILES ALCOCL, and carried by accts.
mation.

Mr. G. L. SAUNDERS moved the adoption of a memorial
to the Earl of Clarendon, the Foreign Secretary, canning
the absence of any colourable pretence on the part of Russia
to oetupy the Danubian laincipalities, and concluding with
this passage :—" Your memorialibte therefore pray that the
British government will take prompt and decisive measures
to cause the immediate evacuation of the Danubian princi-
palities—to make Russia bear all the expenses consequent on
her lawless proceedings, and to prevent her again outraging
justice and international law."

The motion was teeonded by Mr. MELLING ; and Mr.
IBBITI having spoken in support of it, the memorial was
adopted, and signed by the chairman on bchalt of the
meeting.
Some proceedings then took place with reference to
raising a sum of money for presentation to Kossuth, after
which the meeting broke up.