The Express.
London, England, 1853-10-31 00:00:00

G ItEECE.

ATHENS, OCT. 17.

The official journal contains an article cont.•riling
for the strict neutrality of Greece, and reprehending
those who attempt to excite a fanatical hatred to
Turkey. The government has forbidden public
functionaries to keJnie candidates for election to the
Chamber.

FRANCE.

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PARIS. Srsn.►V EVENIN

The Muniteur says the government has received
from the French Ambassador, at Constantinople,
telegraphic despatch, dated October 21 :—" Prime
Gortschakors answer had been considered as a
refusal. Neeerthcless, in consequence of a repro.
sentation from the ministers of the tour allied e,:urts,
the Ottomen government had ordered a suspension
lof hostilities till Nov. 1. In case, however, of has.
tilities having been commenced, the order was to
considered null and void. The combined fleets were
to enter the Dardanelles the next day."
You will see by the above that there was an im-
portant stimeBsto reri in the despatch from Vienna
which occasioned the enormous rise at the Ilatu-,c
yesterday. The order to suspend hostilities was cot,
ditional, and not absolute. If hostiliths should
already have begun, the order was to go for nothing.
The Porte obviously felt the consideration to which
I alluded yesterday—that to check the enthusiasm
of Omer Pacha's tm..ps after the war had be-
gun would be fatally to prejudice the cau,e.
The " new phase" is, however, variously regarled
here. The " little 13ourst" mustered in great force
in the Iloulevat d this morning in spite of renewed
prohibitions. The first business done was at 00c. or
70c. lower than yesterday, but the quotations soon
improved, and 7;gr. 30c. was pretty well maintained
throughout the day. This is only 20c. below the beg
price of yesterday. Some sergeits do rifle came up to
a group of speculators, and inquired whether things
were up or dawn. On being told that the rente was
rising they went away. Had it been otherwise they
would probably have dispersed the meeting.

The only two jqurnale that have yet had an op.
portunity of commenting on the announcement in
the Moniteur, the Paine and the Preae, take ve:y
different views. The Patric says :

Notwithstanding the condition attached to the order cent
on the 21st to Omer l'acha, we hope that the wisAir of
laatchta, which for the rtst was not important, will have
no serious cons( gurneev, and will not be an obstacle to the
continuance vet negothdions. But upon this point we ate re-
ducart to conjel tow, and no one can:say hoe Omer Puha
may have interpreted his instruct lens aftiv this fuit ac'ompti.
The affair of lsalchta is, therefore, under present circum-
stances, in every way regrettable. It may compromise the
peace of the world. Russia has again assuta• dan immense
rcsi.onsibility. 'While protesting that she desired to pre-
serve peace, she has already twice jointed treaties, fir,t by
crossing the Pruth, and next by forcing the passage of the
Danube. At this moment the most recent news states that
the Ituasians are sending considerahle reinforcements into
Asia, and that a corps of troops has left Poland by forced
marches for Bucharest, to strengthen General G
sebakoll's army. Still in spite of the impcnacce
of these facts we must observe that the Four Pow, n have
never for an instant ceased to act its common for the main-
tenance of peace, and that at this solemn moment they are
redoubling their efforts to effect a solution satisfactory to
the contending parties.
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The PresTe: howercr, while noticing the Tarim:
'Versions of the new eflurts of diplomacy, makea co
account of them. h says :

The despiesh of yesterday was but a fattest akrte. The
most impsirlont latilf wad suptireased. After the rectifica-
tion of the Mel, itt ur, it is evidently of no importance what-
ever. Howl!din, having bi gun, the order to suspend them
till Nov. 1 is necessarily null and void ("on man).
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The rumours to-day are more warlike than ever.
There is a talk of a government contract tor steam-
boats to carry troops to the Levant. The Pays, far
from treating the affair of Isatcha as unimportant,
says, after quoting the paragraph from yesterday's
Moniteur :

Subsequent intelligence leads us to think it almost ger-
tsia that the fortress of Isatcha way really burnt by the
Russian ships which succeeded in forcing the passage, not-
withstanding the heavy loss they sustained from the 0:-
toman fire.

The Patric says, in allusion to the alleged reduction
in the Austrian army:
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We said that the generals commanding in Italy and
Ilangary, so far from i:iminishing their forces, bad asked
' for reinforcements: several German journals—andi in par-
ticular the liocrsen-Italle—tow announce that Austria hu
just sent several regiments into Lombardy to strengthen
the garrisons.
The court of " Mises en Accusation," at Poitiers, has
committed Baron Asselin de Crk7-7ecceur, a railway
inspector of the first class; M. De Sasaenay, another
inspector; M. 'Andre, keeper of the night station, al
Ituffec ; and M. Le Roy, another officer of the
Orleans railway, to take their trial before
the tribunal of correctional police upon the
charge of having, by a succession of imprudent acts,
by inattention, negligence, and disregard of standing
regulations, and of the Orleans Company's instruc-
tions, involui,tarily caused the death of several per-
sons, and the injury of several others. M. Charles
Didion, a director of the railway, and five other
officers of the company who were included in the
accusation are discharged, the court having found no
sufficient evidence against them.
The prisoners who are to be tried will he liable if
found guilty to from six months' to five years impri-
sonment, and to fines of from 3001 r. to 3,000 fr., und..l
a law of July 13, 18-15.