The Express.
London, England, 1854-01-16 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 16, 1854.

France in ethane, with England. The three go-
vernments, neighbours of Russia on the Baltic, what-
ever may be their secret wishes, are all bound over
to act honourably towards England and France in
the impending struggle by the popular feeling among
their subjects.
It is with no common pleasure that we find our
selves, while dist:using such cotWagencies, repeat-
edly writing " France and England" u the desig-
nation of one interest and one will. On the great
question which now agitates Europe there is an en-
tire concurrence in the views and sentiments of these
two great nations. May we find, as years float 00, the
same identity of purpose inspire the two peoples at
the head of European civilisation ! The cordial
sympathy and mutual confidence of the French and
English peoples will keep their Governments in
the right track ; their union will be a guarantee for
the future of the friends of national liberty and just
government over ti-e whole of Europe. France and
England have a mission which they can only dis-
charge in concert; and that mission is not to inter-
fere officiously in the domestic concerns of other
states, but to hold out in themselves examples of the
benefits of civilisation, and to be the ready chem-
. pious of independent nationalities when threatened.
and the intercessors for peoples who have unsue-
i cessfully struggled for liberty when prostrate at the
r feet of despotism.

THE WAR.

RUSSIA AND TURKEY.

The Vienna papers supply, indirect, but 'strong
evidence of the presence and activity of the Tarks at
Karakal, although the double watch whist Russia
and Austria keep on all communications dim the
Principalities, renders the sources of infornallas ell
but inaccessible.
The Wasderer, of Vienna, under date of Krajowao
31st ult., says:—" For the lut five days, the tran-
sport of wounded Russians has continued without
interruption. They arrive by the two roads from
Kalafat and Kerala. It is very probable from this
fact that sanguinary conflicts have taken place is
both these directions, but no details have been yet
received. It is, however, certain that the Turks
have gained great advantages, notwithstanding the
reinforcements which had been received by the Rus-
sian corps operating against Kalafat. The greater
part :ot the new troops are engaged in keeping the
Turks in their position near Henkel, which is the
real cause why the Russians have been prevented Irma
undertaking any serious operation against Kilda.
They do not feel themselves sufficiently strong to
contend against the Turks. Since the battle of
Oltenitza, the Turks have given so many proofs of
beauty that the Russians, not excepting the Cos-
sacks, dare no longer to attack them unless when
very superior in number, and it is positively stated
that Prince Gortschakoff has given orders to the
commanders of corps rot to risk an attack unless
with a superior force. On the 24th a cannon shot
was fired from the right bank of the Danube, which
fell close to the quarters of Prince Sc.harmanoff.
There was found written on it the words, ' Good
morning to you!' It was sent to Prince Goebel*.
koff at Bucharest."
A letter from Kralove, in the Meleager de Dean-
sylvanie,states that the engineers of the country had
ressived Rom the Russian General Arep the most
=instructions to render the roads practicable for
;sartillery, on the latest by the end of December,
Ism Slating to Karakal.
A private telegraphic despatch says:
VIENNA, lAN. 14.
The answer of the Ottoman Porte accepting the
proposition of the Conference of the representatives of
the Four Powers, has arrived here. All the Anabu-
fedora consider it sufficient. It his bee, already
transmitted to St. Petersburg, accompanied with
pressing recommendations that it should be favour-
ably accepted.
The Genes Gazette of Voss asserts that the re-
fusal of the itsposse of Russia to accept the resolu-
tion mispri at Constantinople was positively
iniess In a fact at Vienna; and further that M.
de lispeedlor% his ambassador at the court of Austria,
bad suleeertain intimations that left no doubt upon
de sikject.
Pikes letters from the Danubian provinces still
risktessding to the Petrie, of the affair at Kale-
esrehat was sanguinary, and the Russians
ssihredassiderable lose. Among their dead are to
le bided an aide-de-camp of General Arep ;
ism the Colonel of their artillery ; two bent.-
°planets, and a large number of other officers. At
the date of the latest news Omer Pacha had just
sent in to the Divan hie report of the action, so
favourable to the Turkish arms.
A private correspondence of the 20th, from Odessa,
is alluded to by the same journal, as furnishing some
interesting details. It was mentioned there that the
Russians were preparing at Ismail a new expedition
against the batteries raised on the right bank of the
Danube. Another rumour was rife, that the Russian
admiral had held a council of war at Sebastopol, to
decide on what course was to be taken until he re-
ceived the new instructions known to be on their way
to him from St. Petersburg.
The Vienna Lloyd of the 11th says the news
from Bucharest comes down to the 3rd. The corps
of Osten Sacken was making forced marches. In
Bucharest troops were leaving every day (Sunday
included)—two and even three battalions with guns.
They are partly sent to the more important posts on
the Danube, partly into Little Wallachia. Two di-
visions of infantry and 3,000 cavalry would remain
sear Bucharest, as they were to be employed on those
pellets of the Danube not yet garrisoned, but which
pedlar Wed he attacked by the Turks. No feats
dame to nom, says Lloyd, down to the 3rd inclu-
sive, hid bees liesentted to them from Bucharest.
The same ZJJ mentions its receipt of a letter of
the 3rd from Orsova, which says that the Russian
troops by the end of December had fully completed
their entrance into Little Wallachia, and occupied
the positions respectively assigned to them. The
head quarters of the Itussian General Fischbach was
at Radovan ever since Christmas, distant somewhat
more than 25 miles from Kalafat. The Russian vanguard
was between Tehoraju and Drumm. The head-
quarters was ever since New Year's-Day in KarakaL
Me advanced posts were on the one side by the
Danis, on the other side near Drenik. General
Amp and his staff will fix their head-quarters in
011111,41. The Remise **lawns that appeared near
=sit fife km Omen, a short time back, had
sew Mir math, forming the right wing of
that 110 e drugless within which Kalafat is io-
dised as by as are of a circle.
A letter Sus Orsova of the 3d inst. informs, posi-
tively, the same journal, that corps are being formed
in Albania, Macedonia, and Rumelia, as well as in
Bessie, partly by recruiting, and partly by the cali-
fsi feat the Spates troops. Their destination is to
baths ant of war near the Danube next spring.
Onto Pasha would, therefore, receive in this way a
idallsessent of between 30,000 and 40,000 men.
111=artogether under arms of the Spann, the
id! cavalry, has never yet been dose lbws
the destruction of the Janissaries.
Private letters from Odessa, of the 22nd, state that
the mismandant of the Russian flotilla in the Sea at
Anibal sent an aide-de-camp to Sebastopol for Is.
I strudese in the critial position in which he Mead
hi smalf pissed. Russia has in that sea oely au is.
Wet dm of ships, with which she could sustain se
swim streak, ; and if, on the other hand, the
is to Wm refuge in Sebutopol, it will leave
the Baru adablislusants in the See of Azof, which
aes if peat toped:nee, without defence. The same
earrupflelkine says that two corps of 12,000 men
men woke ides to embark at Sebastopol upon
Ruda mausf-war, at the moment when the deci-
des or MaR Osastantinople, in consequence of the
whir el Skips, was known. This operation is now
therellom ponlysed.

Oar oorrespondeat at Panama writer:—" Austra-
lian news has been received at Panama, via Callao,
to the 19th October (six days later than previous ad-
vices received in England). There was a rumour
swag some returning Americans of an outbreak
amen the miss., and a obllision with the military
or Oka, bat theism, do sat mastics it."

FRANCE.

PARIS, SATURDAY EVIRING.
There has been extraordinary excitement, Ind a
great rise at the Bourse to-day. The Bente opened
heavily, with a fall of 35c. from yesterday, the specu-
lators feeling uneasy at the report that the French
and English fleets were escorting Turkish vessels
carrying troops and munitions of war to Battoum.
A fall of in Consols, reported by the first telegraphic
despatch in London, depressed the Rents a fraction
lower than the opening price. But later in the day,
reports of the most peaceable character obtained
credit. It was confidently asserted that the
Czar's answer to the ultimatum of the Western
Powers had been received, that it was much
more conciliating than had been expected, and
that he even consented to evacuate the Principali-
ties immediately, in order to prove to Europe his
ardent desire to maintain peace. He was ready to
renew his engagement to respect the integrity of the
Ottoman empire, bet (and this is probably the only
point in which the rumour of the day is consistent
with truth) he still insists upon settling the religions
question between him and Turkey by direct negotia-
tion with that power. The speculators for the rise
spread the news with so much success that before two
o'clock the Rents rose to 71, and when the second
London despatch brought Consols at yesterday's
prise of 931 to the upward movement
knew no bounds. In a few moments tho
Three per Cents. ran up to 72.50, being a rise
of 2 per cent, from the lowest price of the day. Im-
mediately before the close, numerous offers by parties
anxious to seize the opportunity of realising profits
brought prime down considerably from the extreme
high point, but the last quotation was 72.10, being
1.40 higher than yesterday. Bank of France rose
10f., and Credit Mobilier, 10f. The railways im-
proved considerably, but not in proportion to the
Bente, 20fr. being the greatest rise in any instance,
and many lines were only from 2f. to a. better.
I have not been able, after making many inquiries,
to find any good foundation for the news spread on
the bourse. 1 think I may safely say that nothing of
the kind is known at the principal embassies. The only
shadow of pretext I can find for the rumours is the
following paragraph in the Wurtenasurg Monileur,
purporting to be a letter from St. Petersburg of
the 3rd:

Accounts worthy of credit state that the Emperor
Nicholas has formally rejected all foreign intervention in
the dispute with Turkey, and especially the request made
by the cabinet of Vienna that his Majesty shall accede to
the propositions of the conference. The Emperor says that
the dispute concerns only himself and the Porte, and that
he demands only what he has a right to demand by treaties•
If the Ottoman Porte recognises them, it has, says the Em-
peror, only to send a plenipotentiary to Bucharest. It is
said that Priem Oortschakoff has received instructions to
negotiate if necessary, bat in the sense of the maintenance of
the pretensions of Ramis.
If this be all, the news which has made so much
sensation is not worth a rush. The Porte, out of an
extreme desire to meet the views of the intervening
powers, expressed its willingness to send a plenipo-
tentiary to treat upon certain bases on " neutral ter-
ritory." It is in the highest degree absurd to repre-
sent the Emperor of Russia as conciliatory, when he
repudiates altogether the intervention of the four
powers, and mockingly offers to receive a Turkish
plenipotentiary in the camp of the general now in
wrongful and hostile occupation of a part of her
dominions. This paragraph of the Wurtemburg
Moniteur simply goes to confirm the story that the
Czar "will not yield so much as a single hair of the
beard of one of his Cossacks."
The Patric, alluding to the rumours at the Bourse,
get—" Less than ever do we feel ourselves autho-
rhed at this moment to echo the various assertions
hazarded on the subject of the pretended answer of
the Czar." And in the "Latest News" of the same
journal, I find is said A letter from Vienna, of
the 12th, states that news had just arrived from St.
Petersburg. It was reported that Russia would not
make any official answer at all to the communica-
tions made to her by the Powers. It has been un-
truly reported that the Emperor of Austria was
going to Warsaw. His Imperial Majesty
.will not
quit Vienna." This contradiction reminds me
of one of the reports current at the Bourse which
I forgot t•-) mention. It woe said that not only had
the Emperor of Russia consented to make terms of
peace, but that the Emperor of Austria was going
to meet him to make final arrangimenta.
A telegraphic despatch received in Paris to-day
states that a Marseilles journal announced by mis-
take the arrival of the Ajaccio from Constanti-
nople. •
The Moniteur quotes from the Daily News the
account of the outrage of the Russian authorities at
Sebastopol upon the English engineers made pri-
soners at Sinope. All the other papers notice it
also. The Freese says the indignities thus offered
to British subjects cannot fail to call for a repre-
sentation from the English government.
The attendance at M. Armand Bertin's funeral, to-
day, was a striking testimony of the estimation in
which the press is held by the Parisians. The church
of St. Thomas Aquinas was completely filled during
the celebration of the funeral service. Many people
who could not find even standing room, waited in
the square in front to join the procession to the ceme-
tery. I have scarcely ever seen so many private
carriages at a funeral as on this occasion. Among
the imminent personages present—men of letters,
weigh. deputies, and members of former legislative
assemblies, members of the Institute of France, of the
Council of State, professors at the Sorbonne,
he.—were MM. Thies, Guisot, Dupin (sine),
Dechttel, De Salvandy, Cousin, Villemain,
Baint-Marc Oirardin, Viennet ; Berger, ex-
prefect of the Seine; Rouher, ex-minister, now
president of a -section of the Council of State; de
Buyer, the procureur-general ; General Rulhiere, all
the writers in the Dames, and most of the members
et the Parisian press. M. Petit, the chef du bureau
of the press at the Ministry of the Interior, was also
present. The long duration of the funereal mass, and
We great distance to the cemetery (Mont Farness.)
necessarily prevented many of the persons who at-
tended the church from following the corpse to the
grave. M. Guizot was, however, one of those who was
observed close to the coffin when it was lowered into the
ground. It was generally expected that he would
wok. The only oration delivered, however, was a
short, but exceeding touching ones by the eminent
publicist and old colleague of the deceased, M. Saint
Girardin. He began by saying, " I have
promised to attempt to speak"—and choked by emo-
Gen was unable for some moments to proceed. When
at length he found relief in tears, he alluded to the
premature death of Madame Armand de Bertin only
a year ago, and in a most affecting manner spoke of
the efforts made by the friends of the late editor
of the Debate to console him under that dreadful blow.
They spoke to him of his children, his professional
Mends who looked up to him, and urged him to live
and prove that he could bear private calamity with
the ease otat4y fortitude which he had strug-
gled with bibs &en withters. When he pointed to the
son of the deesond who were weeping round the
woe, there woe scarcely a dry eye in the surround-
ing crowd. Ose sentence only that may be copal-
&seed political waseed M. Saint Marc Girardin. He
of M. Beirdes "reasoned love" of liberty.
rt rapidly quitting this subject as unfitted to
the occasioe, be alluded to the irreparable loss
obtained not only by his immediate fellow labourers,
bit by that phalanx of political men, some time
and ministers, that galaxy of essay-
distinguished writers of all classes, who
Ad with each other in giving their ideas of the
Liunder M. Bertin's enlightened patronage, and
:ea ter part of whom were at that moment look-
ing upon his tomb. General Berths, the brother of
the deceased, who has a command in the provinces,
was not present, although in the Press. he is stated
to have ban the chief mourner. M. Saint Marc
Girardin stated, that owing to his military duties he
was unavoidably absent.
The Monshor contains a decree tiring the diameter
(17 millimetres) and weight of the gold please of
10tr., and et the same time ordering the famAln

Of piirsi of sfr. in gold. The new sfr.-pieoes are
to weigh 1.6129 gr., and to, be of a diameter of 14
mill astres.
General Prim has just arrived in Paris from Max-
seines. He intends proceeding to Madrid in about
a week, to render an account of his mission. He
hopes to be able to return to the East in the spring,
should political affairs Gentians of a warlike cha-
racter.
The Hon. J. Y. Meson Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States, has
arrived in Paris.
Two men-of-war of the first class, the Louis XIV.
I and the Ulm, are about to be launched at Rochefort.
One will probably be launched on the 28th of next
month, and the other in April.
A letter from Toulon of the 11th states that the
Vauban steam frigate, Captain d'Herbinghem, an
aids-de-camp of the Minister of Marine, has just
left that port to join the French squadron at
Constantinople.
From the returns of the Bank of France coming
down to Thursday, Jan. 12, it appeanthat the or
talc reserve has fallen off 15 millions in Pedesed
7 millions in the branch banks. The discount woes-
sedation has increased 11 millions in Paris and 8
millions in the departmental establishments. The
advances on French public securitio; have diminished
I million in Paris, and abort the same amount in
the branch banks. The advances on railway shares
and bonds are 21 millions less in Paris, and 2 mil-
lions less in the provinces. On the side of the liabili-
ties, the notes in circulation have increased 18
millions in Paris, and fallen off 61 million; in the
branch banks. The credit account of the Treasury
has diminished 11 millions. The accounts of private
individuals have declined If million in Paris, and
21 millions in the branch banks. The whole amonat
of the metallic reserve is at present 294; millions 00
643 millions of notes in circulation.
A negotiation is said to be in progress, and nearly
completed, for the sale by an English company of
seven large steam ships to a French company, which
is said to have some connexions with the French
government. The sale originates in the arrange.
ments of the Admiralty, as to its contract with the'
owners of these vessels, which will now in all proba-
bility pass, at a large advance on their cost price, into
French hands, and be placed, when not wanted by the
French government, on the New York line.
PARIS. SVNDAT EVIMING.
There is nothing whatever to-day to confirm the
pretended news from St. Petersburg which produced
such an extraordinary sensation at the Bourse yes-
terday. It is even said that the whole story rests
upon a mistake in a telegraphic despatch from Mar-
seilles, which, meaning to state (what the Moniteur
has already announced) that the Sultan had accepted
the proposals for negotiation made by the Powers,
said that the Czar had accepted them. People
still found a timid hope of an arrangement
in the fact of the acceptance of the Sul-
tan having been reported "sufficient" by the
Vienna conference. A sadden rise at the Bourse of
Vienna, which was, however, but the reaction after
the panic caused by M. Droayn de Lhuys' circular,
favours the impression that the news in that capital
mast be considered relatively good. lam told that
one cause of the rise at this Bourse yesterday was the
belief that a loan will be avoided by the expedient of
opening a credit for government of 200 millions with
the Bank of France.
The Assemblee says its own private information is
in complete accordance with the denial given by the
Patrie to the pretended journey of the Emperor of
Austria to Warsaw.
An undue importance has been given to the fact
of M. de Kisselef not having been invited to the
last ball at the Tuileries. The party was very small,
and many other members of the corps diplomatique
were not there. After the marked attention shown
to M. Kisselef at the Princess Mathilde's ball, it is
I not probable that the Emperor would wish to slight
i him nan petty way, so long as diplomatic relations
between the two courts continue. I have no doubt
'that if M. de Kisselef shall be still the accredited
Russian ambassador in Paris when the next ball is
given, he will be invited.
There is no relaxation of the activity already no-
ticed in the marine department. The Admiralty Coun-
cil meets nearly every day. Orders were last week
sent to Cherbourg to press on the completion of the
new line ship Tilsit, 90 guns, so that it may be
ready to be launched in April, and fit for sea in June.
The ship carpenters work on Sundays, and an addi-
tion to this body is about to he made. An extaordi-
nary levy of sailors has been ordered. The Toulonnais
announces that important armaments are going on in
the port of Toulon.
A letter from St. Etienne states that the armourers
in that town were never more fully employed than