The Express.
London, England, 1853-08-05 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 5, 1853.

highest order of manufacturers; and the same
virtuous desire for the elevation of the clam they
employ may be as afectnal in Norfolk and Hereford-
shirn as in Lancashire; and more so as the national
opinion and conscience are daily ripening for such
enterprises. _

There are other important matters that the agri-
culturists of England, and especially the members
of the Royal Society, must be so good as to set
their minds upan—for their own sakes and other
people's. It must have been a painful thought to
many of those recently assembled that their
Council had refused to afford information, or any aid
whatever, to Government, towards organisiva a
scheme for obtaining statistical returns of the condi-
tion of agriculture. The excuse was—dread of future
legislation founded upon the information to be thus
obtained. I is scarcely credible that the represen-
tatives or managers appointed by such a body as the
agriculturists of England are becoming now—rising
daily in intelligence and practical wisdom—should

have made such an answer as that to such a request—
should have refused ouch a boon as would have
placed their fortunes as a body beyond the reach of
the worst evils of vicissitude and uncertainty. If
those who met at Gloucester believe that they gain
anything by theca reunions—any advantages
by concert—any guidance by mutual communication
—let them consider that the publication of the sta-
tistics of their occupation and their class would give
them those very advantages in•a more extensive
manner, more continuously, and in a more reliable
form. Till the thing is done the agricultural inte-
rest must remain half stifled under the incubus of
uncertainty, and exposed to the evils of isolation,
while every other class in society is cultivi.:ing mu.
tual communication, and a contribution of each man's
experience for the guidance of all. Moreover, society
chooses to have what no class has any right to
deny ; and the farmer's experience is precisely that
which it is most important for society to have.
Our manufacturers must know how much wool and
flax we grow—shipbuilders, how much oak—graziers,
and butchers, what green crops—and everybody
how much grain. It is necessary for the nation to
know what food and raw materials the country pro-
duces ; and it will be wise for the Agricultural
Society to help the nation to that knowledge, as soon
and as effectually as possible, by the peculiar means
at their command.

It is much to be desired, again, that the Society
should consider how best to facilitate a junction be-
tween agriculturists and Boards of Health every-
where. What is their meat is our poison; and we,
speaking for all towns in the name of thegreatest of all,
call upon them earnestly to rid us of our poison, and
make meat of it, for the universal benefit. On the one
hand, we have the shopkeeper or clerk complaining
through the newspaper of being cursed with an out-
fall of sewage in his neighbourhood ; and on the
other, we have the market-gardener complaining to
the Board of Health of the diversion of a similar
outfall, which is found to have been making his for-

tare for many a year. This sewer hadilled his
pocket through the pleasant medium of the most
fragrant mignonette to be found in Covent-garden.
We are willing to sell : the farmers are eager to buy.
The thing wanted is power in the Boards of Health,
or some such agency, to provide the necessary appa-
ratus fur transmission of the manure—an apparatus
which would, no doubt, yield a good rent. There is
muzh to be said about this, as the society will find,
in proportion as it reflects upon the magnitude of the
interests involved. Distributory works are instituted
in two towns, and will soon be in ten more. The
farmers in the neighbourhood will have something
to tell that we should like to hear; and so, most
assuredly, will the townsmen. We, for our part,
shall henceforth be sharpening our pens for drawing
out articles of partnership between our boards if
health and the farming interest; and we now, in the
name of town and country, invite the aid of the
Royal Agricultural Society in arranging the method.
Almost any terms would be advantageous to all
concerned.

RUSSIA AND TURKEY.

The Pattie has tho following from /may, of the
20th ult.:

_
Information has just been reeeived from St. rettrsburg.
that the Russian government, while leaving to the • igning
princes of Moldavia and Wallachia their title and their
nominal power, has decided that there shall he joined to
them a council of government composed of three members
appointed by the Czar. All affairs are to be submitted to
thus council, whose decisions will be sovereign In-
dependently of this fact, the country hes just
been subjected to • contribution in kind. Several young
Boyards having manifested their discontent at the cautions
committed by the troops who occupy the country were
immediately incorporated in the Russian army, whem they
will be compelled to serve for three years. Emphases bare
been for several days past taking a plan of the town, of Jassy
and Bucharest. which are, it is said, to be fortified in such •

manner as to be able to support the Operations of the Damian
arty.
A letter from Riga states that several Rieman
ships, which formed part of the 2od Russian Beet,
have been sent to Cronstadt to complete their filing
out, which was not finished when they sailed.
A letter from Constantinople, of the 21st ult.,
states that news of tho assembling of a corps of Rus-
sian troops in the neighbourhood of Brzerouir was
fully confirmed, and that that city would be iusested
by the Russians in the first fortnight of August.
A private telegraphic despatch from Vienna brings
the following, dated Constantinople, the 25th tit:—
" The ministers of the Porte held a council to-day,
and afterwards sent off a courier to Vienna. The
public mind is more calm, bat the preparations for
defence continue. A portion of the Imperial Guard
left for Schumla."
The Russian troops in the Principalities suffer
very much on their march from the heat, which is
very great. The number of the sick is enormous,
and private houses have been engaged at Bucharest
and Jassy for military hospitals.
Letters from Parts report that the Russian ambas-
sador there continues to express a confident hope of
a pacific solution if the crisis. But as M. Hisseleff
would be one of the last men to admit that the Czar
will recede from his wrongful demands, and is unable
to conjecture in what manner the solution will be
brought about, it is no wonder that the greater num-
ber of politicians regard his professions as among the
arts which have until lately lulled cabinets and
peoples into a deceitful security.
The German Journal of Frankfurt, under date of
Berlis, 30th ult., says that the events which have
recently taken place at Smyrna have determined the
Austrian government not only to demand ample re-
paration from the government of the United States,
but to require the Ottoman Porte, in addition to the
satisfaction it has already given to use all its efforts
to procure without delay the extradition of Costa.
• The Austrian government is following up the affair

with the greatest energy.
Letters from St. Petersburg, published in other
German papers, state that the Czar, upon bearing of
the Smyrna affair, advised the Austrian government
to wind it up as soon as possible, and do anything
rather than open a door to the interference of the
United States in European affairs.
The Patric repeats the statement that the Hame-
-1 dare of Moldavia and Wallachia have been sam
mooed to Constantinople, in consequence of their re-
fusal to pay the ordinary tribute to the Porte, and
that the consuls of England and France in the pro-
vinces have received orders to lower their flags.
Accounts from Odessa of the 17th July announce
that the Grand Duke Constantine, lately named
Grand Admiral of the naval forces of Russia, had
just arrived in that city. He was to proceed forth-
with to Sebastopol to inspect the two naval divisions
in the Black Sea. He was accompanied by a con-
siderable suite of naval officers and by several engi-
neers, who are about to make hydrographic surveys
along the shores of the Crimes. A letter from
Vienna states that Nicholas himself has left hie
capital for Odessa*, but this appears doubtfuL A
letter from St. Petersburg, of the 24th ult., in the
Patric, says: " The evening before last the Emperor