The Express.
London, England, 1853-06-25 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 25, 1853.

lin the case of carriages which conveyed mackerel,
and other quickly pefishable fish, front the coast. We
shall nut new need even this help, or fancy we need
it. There is 119 pmt-horse duty on the locomo-
tive ; and the demand and supply of fish seem now
to be left to adjust themselves. While there was
meddling on the ;me hind, and negket on the other,
duties and bounties wlth.li were a hardship to the I
consumer, and au absence ofroads to a market which I
i was fatal to the producer, the sight might be seen,
all round our coasts, of disco traged fishermen, bury-
; ing cartloads of stale fi.h in the sand, while there
were multitudes of wistful people in the inland towns
v.-ho were hungering for what was thus destroyed.
The common notion, that our labouring classes do ,
not like fish, must be known to be a mistake by all
who have lived in any town near the coast, and by
all (we hope we may now say) who live in any town I
along the South \Vales Railway : for there is no I
mistaking the eagerness with which the wives of the
poor rush to the market, and return with three
mackerel strung on a ru,h in one hand, and a bunch I
lof fennel in the other. Even in very remote and
I secluded towns, the benefit is visible to the mcst
I careless eye. In a lay district, where the
single fishmonger lies had a life-long monopoly
with his fish-cart, bele extremely angry, after the
-
opening of a railway, that the gentry will not con-
tinue to dine prepostirously late for his sake, and be
often disapeointcd of good fish after all, but now buy
the fish, all redolent of the sea, that the railway
brings in four hours, and dine at what time they
Ichoose ; and now there is a broiling and boiling of
fish in many a cottage that he passei. and his eye is
vexed by patches and heaps of cockle shells about the
doors, or paving the garden paths. Our people no
more dislike any good food than the Hindoos dislike
good clothing, as is proved as often as the commodity

and the consumer are brought together.
We think this news—of the activity and hilarity
now prevailing in Swansea Bay—is of importance to
the farmer full as much as to an) body. He must
look to his stock. lie might, by skill, increase pro-
digiously the quantity of stock maintained on his
farm ; and he will have to do it. By the same
opening of the railwa3 a that feeds men with fish land
is fed with fish. The sprat fishery, for manure,
which answered well while there was only
a coast-farm demand, will answer better than
over now that an increasing demand for manure is
coincident with railway extension. The farmers
must move heaven and earth, or rather Downing-
street and Peru, to get guano. They must never rest
till they can raise green crops enough to sustain a
doubled stock, or a tenfold, if they like, and till they
have manure from their stock to thicken their crops
again; and so on, in that enriching circle. Mean-
time, we shall be eating more and more fish, and con-
firming the habit of animal diet among oar labourers.
And there is no fear but that, when fish and meat
are alike abundant in comparison with what they
are now, our people will not stay long to consider
which they will choose, but will consume them
both.

the sum of three millions and a half of piastres.
'lbis is not in the shape of either loan or tax, but a
volitatary subscriptiim on their part. Similar sub-
scriptions arc pouring in from different parts of the
empire. These then arc the " purses kept for con-
tingencies like the present," of which so much has
been said. The spirit of patriotism, which would
seem to have slumbered so long, is at length lairlv
aroused in the breast of the Mussulman ; and should
the struggle take place, the Turk will make a much
better fight than was expected of him.
FRANCE.

PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING.
The Bulletin de Paris, a lithographed political
correspondence, published under the immediate con-
trol ut the Minister of the Inn riar, had a paragraph
last evening which has excited great attention. It
states that Russia will be called upon ty the
French cabinet to declare her intentions openly ;
to nay whether she is really for peace or
war; if for peace, and she will negotiate
sincerely with that view., France will give
F her co-operation, and do everything in her power
to obtain a solution honourable to all; if fur war,
Franco, although so conciliating and so anxious to
! preserve peax, will accept war ; but what she will
insist upon is, an immediate decision either for peace
or war. She will not admit of more delay; there has
already been too much. This, says the Bulletin, will
be the ultimatum of France. There cau be little
doubt that the liui:ctin has authority for this impor-
tant statement.

It has been often observed when the government is
hcsitsting what course to take with regard to some
important question that the Patric is instructed to
write in a totally different strain from the other
semi-official journals. This system of providing two
strirgs to tLo bow was acted upon yesterday in a
remarkable manner. The articles in the Cuisstitu-
tionnel and Pays. to which I directed your attention,
were considered in high quarters to betray too
great an anxiety for a peaceable solution of the
t:astern difficulty. It was feared that they might
create an impression unfavourable to the dignity of
the government. Accordingly an article of an oppo-
site tendency was sent to the Patric, in which not a
word was said about the " pacific nature" of the Nes-
selrode note, or the opening alforded by it for negotia-
tiou, but on the contrary, it was assumed that if Russia
persisted, war would be inevitable. Several copies of
the Patric, containing this article were struck off at
early hour, in order to be distributed at the Bourse
before the close, and it is conjectured that they con-
tributed to the fall which took place during the last
half-hour. The following passage was particularly
noticed

Russia insists upon her ufffinetium, and threatens hostili-
ties—hostilities which, commercieg with the invasion of the
Turkish Danubian provinces, might finally result in the oc-
cupation of Constantinople itself. Can France and the great
European powers, after having solemnly consecrated by
treaties the existence and independence of Turkey, permit
them to be attacked? Can tht y allow the Emperor Nicholas
add a new empire to the pitdessions, already so vast, of
which the Russian empire is composed? Te propound
such a Guest:on is to resolve it. If the great European
stabs scut their eyes to such an enormous increase of
the power of one of them, every condition of equilibrium
will cease to exist. There will be in Europe but one great
power,Rusia, before whom the other states voll be re-
duced to the condition of second rate powers.
I have not heard of any political news to account
for the extraordinary rise at the Bourse to-day. The
settlement is approaching, and as it has been found
for a long while that the speculators for the rise have
generally had the best of it on settling days, the
" beers" are afraid of being again caught, and have
bought in to close their accounts.
_ _ _ _ _

Toe Moniteur contains a decree from the Emperor
modifying the organisation of the ministerial depart-
ment of the Interior, was to meet the changes called
for by uniting to that department the ministry of
Police.

Themarket for government securities was generally
active throughout the day, and at the termination of
business an advance bad taken place in every de-
scription of stock. In the quotation for mone7 the
improvement wet to the amount of 40c. in the Three
per Cents., and of 55a in the Four-and-a-Half per
Cents., whilst in that for the end of the month the
Three per Cents. rose 43c., and the Four-and-a-
Half per Cents. 25c. Bank of France shares ad-
vanced 10E The concluding quotations were :—For
cosh : Three per Cents., 77 ; Four-and-a-Half per
Cents, 101.75. For the account: Three per Cents.,
77.20; Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 101.65; Bank
Stock, 2,680 f.
There was a considerable movement in affairs at
the railway share market to day, and eventually a
general improvement had been established in that
description of public security. Paris and Orleans
shares advanced 15f.; Paris and Lyons, 12f.; Great
Northern, Western, Rouen and Havre, and Paris
and Rouen shares, each 10f.; and Paris and Stras-
bourg, 9f. Closing prices :—Northern, 890; Orleans,
1,065 ; Paris and Strasbourg, 900; Paris and Lyons,
904.50; Paris and Rouen, 1,015; Lyons to the Mc-
dit., 727 ; Western, 710 ; Rouen and Havre, 470.