The Express.
London, England, 1853-10-25 00:00:00

RUSSIA AND TURKEY.

The Vienna correspondent of the Cologne Ga:ette
writes, on the 19th inst., that on the sth inst. a con-
siderable number of pontoons and materials for
bridge building arrived at Widdin, and that since
then a bridge had been built from the Turkish shore
to the small island in the middle of the stream. The
island, which is ordinarily inhabited by about a hun-
dred fishermen and their families, has now received
a Turkish garrison. The Russians were marching in
great force to Kalafat, opposite Widdin. Omer Pacha
was at the latter fortress directing the works.
The Vienna Wanderer publishes a letter from
Odessa, of the Bth, according to which the declara-
tion of war had thrown the commercial body there
into confusion. There were 200 vessels in port, all
of which must leave, and freights to England had
reached to the enormous price of fit. per ton.
We have letters from Constantinople of the 10th.
No event of importance had occurred there since the
date of our previous advice, four days earlier. The
army of Asia was every day receiving new reinforce-
ments, both of recruits and veterans of the reserve.
On the 6th war steamers brought 1,600 soldiers from
Beyrout and the same number from Tripoli (or Syria),
in addition to 1,800 landed from Beyrout on the
day before.
The article in the same official Berlin paper, the
Zeit, in which it is said that the Prussian position is
ono of mediating neutrality, has encouraged a mul-
titude of reports, all pointing to a new Conference,
which, it is alleged, is to be opened at Berlin.
A German paper says:—Toe first cannon shot
fired on the banks of the Danube has been fatal to a
Russian officer. A letter from Bucharest, of the
11th says :—" Lately, Prince Oortschikoff, being at
Oltenitza, sent orders to some officers of the engi-
neers to ascertain the depth of the Danube in the
neighbourhood. The Pacha of Rustjuck, in conse
quence, sent a flag of truce to warn the Russian
officers that if they approached the right bank of the
river, he would certainly fire on them. The warning
not having been attended to, I.e directed a cannon to
be tired on the party, and a major in the Russian
service was killed."

An extract from the St. Petersburg Jourruzl states
that the British ambassador had lett that city.
Private letters of later date, however, received in the
city, say that this is a mistake, no such thing having
occurred. Query : How happens it that such an
announcement should find its way into a journal
subject to such strict censorship as is the St. Peters-
burg Journal?
The ("rondo& Gazette contains a letter from
Bucharest, of the 10th, which describes the sensation
produced in Wallachia by the declaration of war ou
the part of Turkey

Colonial produce, it is said, at onre rose in value from 30
to 40 per cent. if great movement was immediately ob-
aervablo in the Russian army. l'rince Meuchikoff was
expected from one moment to another to assume the direc-
tion of affairs. At a league's distance from Bucharest a
camp of 30,000 men had been established. Other camps
had been formed within convenient di.tances. Not less
than 180 waggons, laden with materials for wooden bridges,
bed arrived near Bucharest, 11114 hordes of Cossacks pa-
trolled the hank of the Danube. The body of troops under
General Liters, 25,000 strong, was approaching. The
Boyards had made their arrangements to quit the country
at the first cannon shot. he camp of the Turks near
linstjuck, composed of white and green tents, was seen to
rise in amphitheatre:on the Balkans,! and presented a most
picturesque appearance from the left aide of the Danube.

ITALY.

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In another column will he found a report of the
recall of the French Ambassador from Naples.
The following is the letter of our Roman cot.
respondent :
MAI:, Oct. N.
The Minister of Finance's promised statement cue.
corning the actual deficit of the Papal exchequer,
and the finsncial result of the republican period of
administration, was published in the official journal
of the 11 th and 12th curfew. From May, 1011. to
the end of 1830, the aanual balance was generally
on the surplus side, so that at the end of that period
there was an accumulated surplus of 5,331,310 scudi,
62 bedews, 4 quattrini. From 1631 to 1847, during
the disastrous financial administraticii of Gregory
XVI., the state revenue and expenses assumed dif-
ferent proportions, and the end of 1847 showed a
deficit of 17,314,034 scudi, 1 baioc, 3 quattrini,whillt
was increased by the erd of 1849 to no less than
23,449,642 scudi, 5G baioc, 6 quattrini, thus swal-
lowing up the accumulated surplus of 1830, and
leaving 18,098,101 scudi, J 1 bailees, 1 Taft rib
which has been increased at the rate of atm' two
millions of scudi per annum since 1849, us will be
shown when the minister's financial review will be
brought up to the present period.
The, distress prevalent throughout the country is
consequence of the failure of the corn and wine mops
and the bad appearance of the olives, as well 1:4
the determined resistance everywhere experieLeed
by the government tax-gativeters to the obnoxious
tax on industry, have induced the government to
suspend thut tax until the middle of next year.
The following notification was placarded yesterday
morning, and its insertion in the Ronnie journal
was considered so nylon that a second official
part was printed after the foreign intelligence en
purpose:
Present circumstances have directed the Uoliaess of our
Lord's loving cars more particularly to thc num,' u..-s clan
of his subjects employed in wiles, commerce, atd the librml
professions. Rance he has autheripid us to emanate in his
sovereign name the following dispositions !-1. The pay-
ment of arrears up to the end of 1852 of the tax on oecupa.
lions (usereiza), created by ;be two laws of the We Oct.
and 29th Nov., 18.50, is =wended until the end et hue,
18;3. 2. The sbov., tax is remitted fur the whole of the
present year and for the ballot' next year.
The Pro-Minister, A. 0411.1.
From our residence, the 12th Oct., 1653.

Corn still maintains its high price here. A lung
article in the _Pieria), of Ancona, tends to demonstrate
that an unnecessary panic prevails in the province of
La Marcie, since the quantity of wheat housed (87,601
rubbia) is only less by one-third than the harvest of
1852; whilst no wheat has been exported, and a
quantity has been and is still imported duty free.
From the 22nd August to the Ist October, thiity-one
vessels brbught into the port of Ancona i,719 rabbit
of wheat, 465 maize, 3:30 broad beans, $3 beans.
The state of the currency just now in Rome is
most singular. every kind of money being at a pre-
mium, save notes of a hundred dollars. Silver,
per cont.; gold, 4; copper and sma.l n0t,,., 14. In
fact the par is only represented by hundred dollar
notes.

Another French general arriva here on the 10th
to inspect the engineers.