The Express.
London, England, 1853-11-08 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, MONDAY EVINING
The two government organs, the Constitutionnel
and Pays, concur in admitting with more distinct-
ness than they have hitherto done, the total failure
of the efforts of diplomacy to arrange the Eastern
question amicably, and are evidently instructed to
prepare the public mind for a very serious war. It
has, lam aware, been frequently said of late that
there are now no semi-official journals, but the asser-
tion is far from correct. I have reason to know that
the short article in the Patric of Saturday came
direct from tho office of a Cabinet minister. It
is indeed, true, that every article in a
government paper cannot be so implicitly
' relied upon as an exposition of the views of the go-
vernment as it might have been a year or eighteen
months ago, because since that time the press has gra-
dually been allowed mote freedom. It, therefore, fre-
quently happens that the government writers who
never ventured to launch anything beyond a common-
place sentence without special authority, write from
their own heads, and, of course, sometimes go wrong.
But it is impossible now to doubt that the policy
advocated by the Pays and Constitationnel is
in the main dictated by authority. These two
journals have, since the first of the month,
been under the political direction of M. de la Geer-
roniere, who, it is well known, enjoys in a high de-
gree the confidence of the Emperor. Since this ar-
rangement we have observed none of those conflicts
between the twin journals which were so amusing
when M. Mires, the proprietor of both, used one as
the organ of the "bulls" and the other of the
" boars." To-day especially they both speak pre-
cisely in the same spirit; and I may observe
by the way, that if the French and English
governments are fully resolved to act up
to the professions made by these journals,
there is now no fear that the Eastern difficulty will
be patchei up by a hollow and disgraceful peace.
Their language really leaves nothing to desire, and
plainly indicates that France and England having
at length resolved to interfere energetically, will not
part with the question until they have not only seen
the Sultan reinstated in the full possession of his
dominions, but taken good care that Russia
shall have no pretext for repeating her atro-
cious attempts to disturb the peace of the
world. The Constitutionnel thus throws over-

board the various stories about a new note
on the point of being accepted, with which a portion
of the English press has amused its readers during
the past week :
We were justified in treating with the utmost reserve
those hopes of a prompt and pacific solution of the affairs
of the East, which were even very recently entertained by
the foreign press. Everything tends to show that the new
hopes were but new delusions. While German letters and
newspapers tell us continually that the efforts of diplomacy
will succeed in tins the effusion of blood, events in
the East march with fatal rapidity in the direction of war.
• • We can, therefore, no longer hope that diplomacy
will succeed in preventing the sword from leaping from the
scabbard.

Of the last note, upon which such confident anti-
cipations have been formed, the Pays says :
A note has been spoken of conceived in a totally different
spirit from that of Vienna. This note, emanating from the
English cabinet, corresponds better, we believe, with the
policy of the Western Powers, and gives a complete guar-
' antes for the rights of the Ottoman empire. But however
acceptable this prijeet may be, events forbid us to believe
that it can now be admissible. It will remain as evidence
of the determination of the Western Powers to consent to
no concession contrary to the legitimate interests of Europe
and Turkey, and may perhaps hereafter as the basis
of negotiations when they can be usefully resumed.
This evening's Patric says:
The Assembles Nationals concludes an article on M. de
Bruck's last note, by saying, "The action of the Your
Powers will be confined to the maintenance of the inde-
pendence and integrity of the Ottoman Empire, but the
quarrel between Turkey and Russia will be settled between
themselves." Thu Asseiable'e is mistaken. There is no
quarrel between the two nations in question. • A quarrel is
• difficulty between two people, in which other nations
have no concern. But in the present matter Russia, by in-
vading the Ottoman territory, has railed du Etropeats
question, and that is why all Europe is moved by it.
. _ _ _

_ .
Letters from Bucharest of the 25th state that
Prince Gortschrkoff has but from 70,000 to 80,000
men in the Principalities. He has sent to General
Osten Sacken, commander of the third army corps,
to join him with his forces in all haste. General
Lnders, with the fifth army corps, is ordered to
move into Moldavia. General Dannenberg com-
mands the Russians at Krajowa, and Sarni Pacha the
Turks at Kalefat.

Some bankers received despatches stating that
Consols were expected to touch 96 before the end of
the day. "Discounts," to a considerable amount,
were again effected, and, of coarse, tended to keep up
prices. The last quotation was 73fr. 85c., being a
slight improvement on Saturday. Bank of France
shares rose 15tr. The St. Germain railway rose 43fr.
In the other lines there was ultimately but little
change.
Letters from the Pincus of the 29th ult. say that,
according to general report, the difference between
King Otho and the Ottoman Porte was completely
settled.

Yesterday evening, an up train from Versailles
came into collision with an empty carriage which
had just been brought out from one of the stations.
The engineer and three passengers received slight
contusions.

The trial of the Opera Comiqne conspirators com-
menced this day at the Cour d'Assizee. Thu first
part of the day was occupied by the reading of the
act of accusation. At one o'clock, after a short ad-
journment, the court sat again, and the interroga-
tories began. First came Fullict, wit-, confessed, and
named his accomplices. IL.) says tlitre was a plot
contrived to murder his Majesty, and afterwards
to make barricades. He says that one of the ac-
cused, Alin, a professor of French, proposed
a plan to make barricades. Another accused had a

plan for making cannon with sheets of tin or some
other metal, tightly bound with rope and tarred.
The defence of several (in answer to the question s
of the president) was that they merely came together
for the purpose of resolving on what was to be done
in case of an insurrection of Legitimatista or
Orleauists. _ _ _

During the reading of the Act of Accusation, one
of the accused cried out, " Five la Republique!" and
on the president reproving him for the impropriety
(inconvenance) of the act, another man answered,
1" Ce n'est pas ahe inconvenance."

BRAZILS AND THE PLATE.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Ocr. 9.

The sailing of the Brasileira affords me an oppor-
tunist of sending you a few particulars of the state of our
markets.

From the sailing of the Tay to the end of the month, the
total sales of coffee were 116,000 bags, 85,000 fur Europe,
the remainder (less 2,000 for California) for tho States.
Prices, until the 21st, remained stationary, when an advance
of 100 rein upon all qualities was noted.

The market this month, Instil the arrival of the Severn,
showed little animation, 23,000 bags only having found
purchasers. The packet's news being favourable for the
article, 25,000 bats were taken yesterday, at a farther
advance of 100 reis in price, and large transactions will
probably be effected to-day (Sunday), should such sales be
realised, dealers will push their demands for the small stock
still remaining, to such as unreasonable length, as will
effectually put a stop to all business for some time to come.
Our stock this morning is about 90,000 bags, and our quota-
tions:—Superior, 4,700 to 4,300; good first, 4,500 to 4,600 ;
first ordinary, 4,400 to 4,509; good second, 4,200 to 4,3)0 ;
American assortments, 4,600 to 4,700.

Exchange opened at 28d. and 28:4. ; yesterday it fell to
27jd. and 28d., at which rate 150,0101. were passed, mak-
ing the total transactions shim! the Tay 310,000!. Er-
change on France regulates 340 to 343.
A violent, but happily bloodless, change of government
has taken place in Urugay. The President, Giro, unable
to withstand, and unwilling to yield to, the pressure of the
Flores party, had felt it necessary to invoke the shelter of
the French charge-d'uffaires. Upon this a popular proaun-
ciamcnto took place, and a provisional government was
named. Its members are—Generals Fructose, Rivera; and
Juan Antonio Lsvelleja, and Colonel Venancio Flores, late
Minister of War. General Rivera is little more than a
nominal member of the government, as he is both absent
and sick. The ministers named by the provisional govern-
ment were—Don Juan C. Gomez, Foreign Affairs; Colonel
D. Loren a Battle, War and Marine; and Don Santiago
Sapp, Finance. General Flores is named generalissimo
of the Urugayan forces, and left the capital on the morning
of the 27th with a battalion of infantry and several
equadrona of cavalry. Caucloncs, S. Joii, Duraazo, Mal-
donado, and Minas had adhered to the new government
when the Braziliera left, and nowhere was the peace dis-
turbed. The ex-President Giro had taken refuge on board
the French frigate Andromede, and thence addressed a note
to the foreign ministers, informing them that he preferred
abandoning the field to the revolutionists to remaining end
being a cause of ►loodshed. On the other side, Flores and
his associates published two documents, charging tke ex-
president with unexampled obstinacy and self-will, indiffe-
rence to public interests, and a score of other high crimes
in which the vocabulary of faction is so copious. Arniust
all this commotion, it is satisfactory to reflect that peace
maintained gives prospect of a return of trade.

The following is a letter written by Count Silvius
Olivieri, Colonel and Commander of the Forces of the

Argentine Republic in the last war against General
Urquiza, and recently returned to Europe:
" After two 'Tan' absence I have just returned hither,
my dou friend, from the Argentine Republic. The beauties
of nature in that country are truly amazing. Before I left
Europe I expected to find it uncultured and desert.
Instead of this I found cultivation, commerce, and a nation
animated by true principles of progress and civilisation.
For my own part, I can never forget the cordiality with
which they received me, and the courtesy they displayed.
This courtesy is not confined to the natives of Buenos
Ayres, but prevails over the entire territory of the Re-
public, and the same hearty hospitality is met with every-
where.

As for the enthusiasm displayed during the war, it is
impossible to describe it. Indeed, the people merit a better
fate, and deserve protection in the path of civilisation on
which they advance with rapid strides. Their moral ten-
dencies are excellent. The fine arts are cultivated with
great SUM'S. Music fl •urishea especially. Painting also
is at a high point of advancement. In a word, all the arts
are loved—a clear sign of the healthy civilisation of the
people. Yet the prolissors of those arts are comparatively
few ; and I would always advise meritorious artists who do
not succeed in Europe to immigrate into this country. Work
of all kinds is amply paid ; and poverty, that canker of our
states, is invisible. For these reasons no course can be
sounder than that which tends to promote and facilitate
immigration, ler the country could maintain half Europe,
and return inexhaustible treasures to the old continent;
and I think the present time peculiarly suitable for coloni-
sation, now that the government of Buenos Ayres is well
constituted, with no lack of energy or of enlarged views
favouring the progress and prosperity of the state. If the
European powers would reflect seriously on what would
redound to their own advantage, they could not hesitate for
a moment to sapport this country with their influence ; and
the Argentine soil would glee subsistence, protection, and
favour to hundreds of unfortunate men, compelled to emi-
grate through lack of means in their own country, or
through political opinions which banish them thence. Ido
hope they will at last be persuaded, and countenance a
state so worthy of sympathy and protection.
" The land is most fertile; a fine breed of horses; soil
capable of growing every kind of fruit—scratch it, and it
yields ; the atmosphere is salubrious, with a sky pure and
vivifying like that of Italy. Animals of all species are here.
Immense rivers irrigate the soil, adapted for navigation
through their breadth. Each of these rivers, after watering
a great tract of ground, pours direct into the sea—an im-
mense advantage for the carrying and exchange trades.
The country needs nothing in order to be the first in the
world, except the labour of agriculturists, who are scarce in
the vast territory of the Republic. The immense area is not
at all in proportion to the number of the inhabitants.

When these matters shall receive due consideration,
the state will be more thought of and protected ; and I am
certain that one day it will exercise an immense influence
on Europe, whether by means of commerce, or by tem
pering and balancing the power of the United States.
But, if it is sincerely intended to promote the
prosperity and progress of the country, the European powers
should adopt a frank and straightforward policy towards
the Argentine Republic. They really ought to consider
that the interests of multitudes of Europeans are concerned
in it ; and I cannot understand how our governments should
act so ungenerously towards the country by always giving
their support to the stronger, ignoring right, and forgetting
that justice is the supreme law of state action. This is a fact,
and asad one ; and I myself witnessed proofs of it during
the last legitimate and righteous war. While the people—
and it is a civilised and progressive people—repelled the
barbarities and destructiveness of its enemies, our European
powers, instead of looking kindly on their noble and gene-
rous attitude, recognised a right in the aggressors—a right
which in Europe would have been branded as anarchy and
political subversion. And it is under this idea that the repre-
sentatives of the two greatest nations in Europe aided with
the enemy of the province of Buenos Ayres—l mast con-
clude, in the hope of profiting by the, as I may call it, civil
dissension in order to obtain something. Indeed, the day
on which the barbarian element of the country was dis-
persed and destroyed, on which the enemy of Buenos Ayres
pleaded for life in the extreme danger which menaced him,
our two great powers bad the indelicacy to grant him his
life, making him sign a treaty which, if not nugatory, will
at any rate be an occasion for eternal ill-will between the
natives and strangers. Let us hope, then, that the pretcc-
torate of our nation will be in the right direction. Let them
uphold the legitimate rights of the states, which w il!
tra-
duce to their glory and to the proarerity of the Europe ens
settled in the territory of the Argentine Republic.
I repeat it—what we want there is the guarantee of a
fair field and no favour, and, above ..11, immigration."

HORRIBLE SCENE.—At an execution of four crimi-
nalo in Mexico, on the 24th of September, a shocking ad•
dition was made to the sufferings of one of the criminals.
Three were garotted with the accustomed readiness; but
on the executioners endeavouring to perform the last func-
tions on the fourth, the machinery could not be made to
work. For some minutes end. &Toon to force it to do SJ
were made, but in vain ; and finally the unfurtutrate vic;itia
was obliged to be released from the chair, to gaze on the
corpses of his fellow sufferers, while one of them was lifted
out to make room for hint, and finally to take his seat in
the chair thus vacated, there to undergo hie sentence. This
was the second time, of late, that a similar /Mocking acute
has been witnessed in Mexico.— sac Fork. Herald.

Zto Court.

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WINDSOR, Nor. 7,
The Queen walked in the Home I'urk d all Sloes
We morning.
Prince Albert went out shooting.
The Prince of W.ilee, the Princess It iyal, end Royal
Children took their nein) exercise.

The lord and equerry in waiiing returned trout Doter,
yesterday afternoon.
The Earl of Aberdeen left the Castle this morning, for
London.

Ms EsteHaley Skafee Khan, late Persian minket at this
court, took his departure for Teheran un Friday night, em
Paris and Vienna. All matters reLitise to the legation
have been entrusted by his ezeelkucy, until the arrival of
his successor, to Charles it. Thompson, of Winchester
House, Old Broad•street.
The Earl of Ab,rdeen arrived in town, yesterday, fry
a visit to her :41svaty at Winthur Cam

Despatches were received at the Colonial-ofhee, pester•
day, from the governors of the Americsu provinces.

PORTSMOCTIT, Nov. 7.—Their Royal Ilighneeme
the Duke and Duchess de Brabant arrived at Spithesd lut
night from Ostend, in the Queen of the Belgians mail
packet, having left the lust-named place ut eight o'clock the
some morning. This morning the Belgian Hag was saluted
by the garrison, &c, and at ten o'clock their Royal High-
nesses landed and paid a visit to the Cominander-in-Chief,
Vice-Admiral Sir J. T. Cocl rune, K.C.B. They subse-
quently went out to Spithead in the Fairy stestu-v,:siel, and
went on board the Duke of Wellington, 131, which they
inspected. They then returned into harbour, and proceeded
over the dockyard. This evening they will dine with the
Commander•in•Chief, also stopping at his official residence.
This morning M. Van de Meyer, the Belgian Miaister in
London, came down per South Western Railway, to be in
attendance on their Royal Highnesses.