The Express.
London, England, 1853-02-01 00:00:00

MONTENEGRO.

The strife about Montenegro is assuming serious
proportions. Omer Pacha and the ltadika Daniel
promise to become less than secondary personages in
the drama. Austria, urged forward by an unseen
hand, is to do the Czar's work, dismember European
Turkey, and perhaps enrich herself with one or two
of the provinces now subject to he Sultan. Such at
least are the doings openly discussed at the court of
Vienna, and embodied in all the correspondence of
the entire European press dated from the Austrian
capital. George Petrowitch, cousin of Daniel, is still
at Vienna, where he appears to be singularly wel-
come. hat promises may. have been made to
him, and whether, as is asserted, Austria
has engaged to defend the Montenegrin
Ifrontier from Budua to Albania, it is impels-
, Bible to say. But certain it is that General Leinituren
has been sent off to Constantinople by special
steamer, with most urgent instructions, while the
Austrian army of Dalmatia has been reinforced,
until it now numbers between 25,000 and 30,000
men, a force preposterously out of proportion to the
defensive needs of the frontier at any time, and espe-
cially so when each of the possible invaders has an
enemy in hand. The latest movements in the war
department at Vienna indicate immediate military
action. On the 24th ult., two corvet batteries were
sent from Vienna to the frontier, and two days after
the regiment Constantine was ordered to ratter°,
with all its equipments and field batteries. If
English diplomacy be worth anything, now is its
time.

The house of Hapsburg appears willing to seize
this comparatively safe opportunity. of paying the
debt which she owes Russia for aiding her in 1849,
by robbing Turkey, which did not aid the Hunga-
rians when the existence of the Austrian monarchy
was in question. It will, however, be for the western
powers to consider whether the important military
and naval positions aimed at by the secret protection
of Montenegro are to be quietly conceded to a power
more Asiatic than European, because the ruler of
Austria, the pretended bulwark of the west, has an
account to settle with the Czar. . . . .

It was reported at Vienna, on the 27th ult., that
Col. Rose had been recalled from Constantinople.
Austrian letters quoted in the German papers
maintained that the victory obtained by the Monte-
negrins on the night of the 15th was important ; that
the mountaineers, profiting by the complete dark-
ness which prevailed, surprised the camp, and scat-
tered the Turks in all directions. The !Montenegrins
took seventeen flags, among them a sacred standard,
' called Alaj-Bariah, 180 cwt. of powder, 60 horses,
and 317 Turks' heads. We have looked in vain for
the record of this success in journals usually well-
informed and of decidedly anti-Turkish sympathies.
These journals, on the contrary, represent the Mon-
tenegrins as fighting under a sanguinary discourage-
ment, and resting all their hopes on foreign succour.
Thus the correspondent of the Russian organ, Der
Lloyd, writes from the Narenta, Jan. 19, that the
tide was going against the mountaineers, and scenes
of horror enacted by the 'lurks were the order of the
day.
A private letter from Vienna, emanating from a
well informed source, says :—" It is not true that any
serious eng gement has taken place in Montenegro,
since the recapture of Zabljak. Omer Paella is pre-
paring for a simultaneous and concentrated attack
on different points, in order to subdue the Montene-
grins by a decisive blow. All the eastern parts
have declared for Turkey, so that the remaining por-
tion is the other half of the country."

CANADA.

TORONTO, JAN. 17.

The news from England by the lust two or three
mails has excited various feelings of deep interest in
Canada. The announcement on the part of tke late
l)erby government by Sir John S. Pukington in the
House of Commons, that the control of the clergy
reserves would be kept in England, aroused much
indignation among the reformers, while the conserva-
tives gave vent to rejoicings. A little later, the news
of the overthrow of the Derby administration arrives,
and the feelings of these two parties undergo a
change.
If the government of the Earl of Aberdeen main-
tain its ground, it will have to repeal the imperial
Clergy Reserve Act of 1840, as all the members of
the late whig cabinet are pledged to that, and the
Earl of Aberdeen expressed opinions not many years
ago in a despatch which would support the same
view. _ _

It was understood that the Canadian government
would pass a strong address during the approach-
ing session of the legislature in reply to the an-
nouncement of the Derby Governmect ' • but pro-
bably this intention may be altered, or much modified,
in consequence of the accession of the new govern-
ment. Certain it is, however, that the reformers of
Canada will earnestly press for the secularisation of
the clergy reserves. The:conservatives, on the other
hand, will leave no stone unturned to prevent such a

When the announcement of Sir John S. Pakington
first arrived, the language of the reform papers, foe
the most part, was indignant; indeed, violent ; and
might be literally taken for disaffection. In this
respect it probably exceeded the actual feeling of the
country. Nothing could induce the Canadians to
turn from the career of improvements into which
they have entered. They consider railroads of more
paramount importance than politics.
One of our city papers, the other day, made an
amusing dissection of some Canadian news, which
appeared in the columns of one of your contempora-
ries. There is a feeling in the colony that the people
of the mother country are ignorant, to an unpardon-
able degree, of Canada, both as respects its condition
and its magnificent resources. This feeling does not
tend to draw closer the bond which ought to connect
the mother country with her offspring, as the sense
of neglect is not one which men can patiently
endure.
The Canadian legislature will commence its session
in about three weeks, when several measures of im-
portance to the material interests of the country will
engage its attention.
In Upper Canada, many of the papers have kept
up a war against the Canada Company for the dis-
missal of Mr. Jones, its late commissioner.
Lord Elgin appears to be winning favours for his
hospitality at Quebec.
The weather has been unusually mild this winter.
The bay opposite this city has not been frozen over;
and there has been less snow than the farmers re-
quire.
Some large lots of flour have been bought up for
spring delivery and exportation. Superfine No. lat
21s. 6d. to 225. 6d. per brl. ; extra, 220.6 d. to 235. 9d.
do. Wheat is sold at 4s. 3d. to 4s. 6d. per bushel,
but millers do not show much inclination to pay over
3s. 9d. (These prices are currency, not sterling.)
Provisions are high; prime mess pork sells at 14
dols. to 16 dols. per brl., and other kinds in propor-
tion.

MURDEIt AT PRESTON.—The Town Hall of Preston
was densely crowded yesterday (Monday) by persons
anxious to hear the examinations in a case of murder com-
mitted at an early hoar that morning in Turk's Head-
yard. The name of the deceased is Thomas Wilcock, an
itinerant nut seller, and the parties implicated in his death
are James Pucker, also a nut seller, and Ralph Ireland,
a journeyman joiner, both of whom appeared in the dock.
John Atkinson, a bailiff, living in Turk's Read-yard,
deposed that about firs minutes before two that morning
being in bed, he heard some one exclaim," Thou shalt
have it now for what thou haat done before." Witness
immediately got up and opened his window, when be saw
the prisoner Parker strike a man twice. The man fell
down, abet never spoke afterwards. Some one cried ote for
the police. Policeman Maclean came up, and then went
for assistance, saying he believed the man was dead. On
examination it wa• found that life was quite extinct. Wit-
ness was sure Park( r was the man who struck the deceased.
He recognised Parker from having known him by sight.
Witness could not speak to Ireland, the other prisoner, as
he did not see him at the time of this occurrence. Saw
Parker run away. The prisoners were remanded to await
the result of a coroner's inquest.

THE Pon op Irswien. —The following is the
official report for this year :—Duties received, 24,n481.
18.. 10. Foreign vessels—lnward 117. tonns_e 10,303;
outward 10. tonnage 1,008. Coasting vessels—(award
1,46 t, tons 110,323; outward 829, ton, 4.3,176. Compared
with the previous year, the Customs' duties show a tailing
,df to the extent of about 1,400/. ; the foreign trade inward
an increase of 29 vessels and 4,422 tons ; the foreign trade
outward an increase of 8 vessels and 684 tons; the coasting
trade inward an increase of 124 vessels and 9,662 tons ; the
coasting trade outward an increue of 44 vessels and 4,306
tons.—lpsscieh Express.

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