The Express.
London, England, 1853-11-07 00:00:00

LATEST FROM ABROAD.

RUSSIA AND TURKEY.

BERLIN, Nov. 3.

It is positively known here that the Emperor
Nicholas has rejected the last joint proposition of the
Four Powers, and authorised M. Meyendorff to enter
into new negotiations through the medium of
M. Buol.

CONSTANTINOPLE, Ocr. 25.

Reechid Pubs declares that his government will
now accept no solution which does not include the
immediate evacuation of the violated territory, and
the admission of all the Sultan's sovereign rights.

SPAIN.

A private telegraphic despatch from Madrid, dated
Nov. 2, announces the arrival of Narvaez in Spain.
on the morning of the Ist.

The Spanish Ambassador at Paris, the Marquis de
Vilma, has been sent for to Madrid, having been
appointed to the Presidency of tho Senate.

RUSSIA AND TURKEY.

The telegraphic despatches received from the seat
of war on Saturday leave the designs and objects of the
Tnrkteh and Russian commanders equally in doubt.
As only skirmishes and movements of outposts are an-
flounced, we are left to conclude either that no serious
engagement had taken place, or that the Austrian
government, by the grace of which the electric spark
is permitted to emit its gleams of information, has
not thought the news fit for transmission. It is
humiliating to perceive that, while • cunningly-
devised fable like the memorable " armistice' of
Saturday week is willingly flashed over Europe,
a straightforward and faithful statement of
events may not be forwarded from Lem-
berg Hermannstadt, or Semlin, for money. The
dispatches published in London on Saturday bring
dews the news from Bucharest to the 2nd instant.
Those itemsof the intelligence which relate totransac-
tions between Kalafat and Krajowa thus made a long
detour, and might have been sent to Vienna four-
and-twenty hours earlier by the direct route. A
correspondent calls attention to a telegraphic des-
patch published on Saturday morning by a contem-
porary, announcing the defeat of the Turks between
Kalafat and Krujowa, and to the letter published
later in the day by the same journal, in which the
same event is dwindled down to a check. The grain of
truth in the matter is that whereas the Turks
crossed the Danube without resistance, the appear-
ance of Itussians on the road to Krajowa imposed on
them the necessity of advancing by the slower pro-
cess of fighting their way to their destination. The
tumifieation of an occurrence so commonplace into
" important intelligence " shows that the Czar has
good friends in England.
More important, perhaps, at this moment than the
news from the Danube, is that from St. Petersburg,
which announces that the Czar refuses to consent to
the latest joint proposal of the four other powers,
for the adjustment of the difference between
himself and Turkey. The scheme in question was
devised in conformity with the professions made
at Olmiitz, and, it may be said, at the instance of
the Czar. Put to the test, the Russian monarch
shows that he is as insincere as he is ambitious. Still
desirous of gaining time, he has sent (while unaware
of the passage of the Danube) new propositions to
Vienna, which he expects will be entertained by the
governments of Europe.
From Constantinople our intelligence is by express
despatches of the 24th ult. At that date what may
now be distinguished as "the note," that last sent
from Vienna by the French, English, Austrian, and
Prussian governments, and to the transmission of
which M. Meyendorff, the Russian ambassador, was
a ob had not reached the Turkish capital. A
scheme, materially identical with that proposed by
the Czar at Olmntz, had been presented by the Aus-
trian and Prussian ambassadors and conditionally re-
ceived, Iteschid Pacha declaring, very distinctly, to the
ambassadors that, with a full knowledge of the im-
portance of the resolution, the servants of the Sultan
had determined not to consent to any arrangement
which did not primarily secure the surrender of the
Principalities and the maintenance of the Sultan's
rightful prerogative intact. At the.same time to give
one more chance to diplomacy, orders were sent off to
Omer Pacha, requesting him to postpone the opera-
tions which were about tocommence,but no order fora
suspension of hostilities, or for the conclusion of an
armistice, was sent to the general. Indeed the
instructions forwarded were much more of a confi-
dential and discretionary, than of an absolute and
categorical character, and the application of them was
left almost entirely to the judgment of Omer Pula.
The reproaches flung side-winded at this meritorious
officer, as if he were acting independently, or in
defiance of his government, thus fall to the ground.
According to the telegraphic despatches, three
French ships of war were before Constantinople, and
as may British vessels were daily expected. Unless
we are to infer from this passage that the rest of the
fleet was to follow with some definite object, the fact
is unimportant and unmeaning. More than six ves-
sels of the allied fleets went to Constantinople a few
weeks ago. aid came away re Weeta. But private
letters speak of a force of eight men of war and four
steam frigates from the fleets which were expected in
the Bosphorus preparatory to sailing for Batoum.
This would be direct participation in the war by
France and England, an event for which previous
intelligence has hardly prepared us.

FRANCE.

PARIS. &MAT MORNING.

The following short article ,at the head of last
night's Patrie is the latest exposition of the govern-
ment view of the eastern question. You will per-
ceive that it contains not one word to countenance

the recent reports from London that the question is
in a fair way of settlement. On the contrary, the
article clearly gives it to be understood that Itussia
remains intractable. _ _

France, since the commencement of the eastern question,
has shown in the most striking manner that she desired
peace. She persists more than ever in this policy, so pre-
cious for European interests, but she will none of an ephe-
meral peace, which would permit Ramie. on the first
favourable opportunity, to recommence her ambitious
intrigues, and to agitate the world by again invading the
territory of a friendly power that she would supprese—to
use a favourite expression of one of her most important
statesmen. The western powers, devoted with their supe-
rior intelligence to the arts of peace, the sole element of the
happiness of the peoples, cannot admit that a nation having
no greater rights upon this earth than themselves, and ren-
dering less service to humanity, shall incessantly disturb
other states, and break the Eurepean equilibrium for the
mere satisfaction of its own pride and ambition.
The Bourse opened with a strong tendency to a
rise, but the movement was soon checked by intel-
ligence of an alarming kind. News arrived from
London that martial law had bees proclaimed by the
Russians in the Danubian principalities, and all
intercourse with the Turks prohibited on pain of
death. The delusion to which so many fondly
cling, that diplomacy clearly sees its way to a
settlement of the difficulty, received a rade shock by
a very positive assurance in the Press of Vienna
That the new proposition for a mediation had not
been accepted by the Emperor Nicholas. Neverthe-
less, prices did not fal! below the closing price of
Friday, and upon a " discount" of 3 per cent to a
considerable amount being posted, they began to
recover. This reaction was favoured by a report of
the vaguest kiad that some good news had been
brought by the packet just arrived at Marseilles. In
the result the Threes rose 40c., and the railways, in
which a large business was done, all rose, and some
of them considerably. Strasburg was not to be had
at any price, and were last quoted at a rise of 22.60.
The Alexandre packet, which left Constantinople on
the 23th of October, arrived at Marseilles at 7 o'clock
yesterday morning. The Thabor, which arrived on
the 3rd, left, it is said, on the evening of the 24th.
The Thabor is the boat built on a new principle,
which left Marseilles on the 14th October with the
prefect of the Bouches du Rhone on board, to make
an experimental voyage.
On Thursday another accident occurred on the
Orleans and Bordeaux line. A collision took place
between a passenger and a luggage train. It is said
that several persons were hurt.
The importation of corn goes on in an increasing
ratio at Marseilles. In September 167 ships were
entered inwards freighted with 688,4114 hectolitres