The Express.
London, England, 1853-10-14 00:00:00

MINCING-LANE.-THIS DAY.

Sucu.a.—The public ules are rather large, and pro-
gressing heavily. The market closes with less animation
than it opened with. The refined market is firm ; grocery
lumps, 455. to 465. 6d.
Comas.—The market has been steady, and prices sup-
ported. Native Ceylon quoted 465. to 465. 6d., partly
nominal. _ _

TEL.—There has been a fair amount of general business
Dne at full prices.
RICIL—The market bas been dull.
SALTPETRI.—Price have been fully supported with a
mited business.

Corrozr.—A full amount of business, and prices have ad-
vanced id. upon the lowest point of last week.
IxDtoo.—The quarterly sale has gone off briskly at a
slight advance on last week's quotations.
Spices have sold steadily without altering quotations.
SPIRITS.—Rum and brandy have been dull of sale.
FRUlT.—Currants have been in limited demand ; prices
are fully supported. Valencia raisins: A large business
has been done ; the price has declined to 471. Smyrnas
quiet.
In other artieles no material alteration.

TALLOW MARKET.—THIS DAY.
The tallow market continues steady at the the follow-
ing quotations:—Town tallow, Ms. ; Petersburg Y.C. on.
the spot, Ns. 61. ; Oct. to Dec., 665. 341. ; Jan. to March, 595.

SMITHFIELD MARKET.—THIS DAY.
We have again a large supply of beasts; the demand is
exceedingly small, consequently a considerable number
remain unsold. Priced on the average are about
24. per 8 lbs. lower than on Monday ; indeed our top
quotations are only realised in few instances. Although
the number of sheep is not large, it exceeds the demand,
and lower prices are submitted to. Trade is very dull for
calves, at a reduction of fully 4d. per 81be. Our foreign
supply consists of 426 besets, 2,190 sheep, 346 calves, and
10 pigs ; the number of mach cows is 85.
Per stone of Ma s. d. a. 0. Yee lions of filts. ►d.s. d.
Elan Sea,, Hattori,— 4 0 4 3 'lMrt Diu. a 111.-bds. SO
Bad Matt-ham...... 3 10 40 I Bat Lola-410a" • •••• •46 4 4
decon.l quaky 1.148a5.. 24 3 3 Do. do. Shorn
this.' . 33
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Pot. Um. Mar-bre& 4 840 Luaba .....
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Ho.t. at I..arket. 1,140; Steen and. lambs. 5.150 ; Mao, 514.
Pip. W.

HIDES.—THIS DAY.
HIDES.—The present prices are :--561155. to &Ms., 21d.
3d. ; 64Iba. to 721ba, 3d. ; 721bs. to 80Ibs , 3d. to
80Ibs. to 88111..,881be. to %lbs., 30.
to 31d ; 9611 n. to 104tba., 31d. to 4d.; 10411 n. to 112185.,
4d. to 41d. Hone Hides, 61. 6d. Calf Skins, light, 21.0 d.
to 3s 6d. ; full, 6s. 6d.
Beanosusett.—Sheep skins, polled, 4a. ed. to es. 4d.
Kents and HalUbreds, 4s. 28. to 4s. 6d.; Downs, 3a. 3d.
to 3s. 10d.

BOROUGH HOP MARKET.-THIS DAY.
Messrs. Pattenden and Smith report that the market to-
day is very brisk. Duty, 135,0001.

COAL MARKET.—TRIS DAT.
was Ead Braddyll's, 30s.—Shipa at market, 9. Little
business attempted.

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LONDON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14.

MR. GtAttsroxt's dogmas respecting the Eastern
Qaestion. and matters therewith concerned, are of a
far more dubious character than his references to Free
Trade. The •• Turkish" part of his Manchester speech
is unsatisfactory, and we must frankly say not
a little Jesuitical. Unfortunately, too, it completely
substantiates the thsagneuble surmises which hare
been put in circulation respecting the part taken by
the Aberdeen or Peelite section of the Cabinet. Mr.
Gs ueitoNt must be regarded as speaking the senti-
ments of Lord A DERIMEM and his friends, as con-
trasted with those expressed by Lord JOHN RCULLL
and Lord PALmsastow.

Mr. GLADSTONE commenced by the gratuitous as-
sumption that the parties in England who have
complained of the dilatory and undecided action of
the Cabinet in the Husao-Turkish dispute are eager
for war. The reverse of this lathe truth. The great
objection urged against the temporising policy of the
Western diplomatists has been that it gave Russia
time to strengthen itself in the unlawfully occupied
territory of the SULTAN, and that it promoted the
growth of impatience and irritation among the
Turks, rendering a hostile collision a thing scarcely
to be avoided. In short, those who have been
loudest in complaining of Ministerial kicheme have
been so in the interest of peace. This Mr. GLAD-
STONE must have known; but it suited his object for
the time to assert the cwitrary,—and he did so.
Having thus attempted to prepossess the minds of
his hearers against those who dissent from the
policy be favours, Mr. GLADSTONE went on to untold
that policy cautiously feeling his way, trying
the tone of the meeting before he committed himself,
as he went on. He explained that the great interest
of England in the Eastern question was, by prevent-
ing the breaking up of the Ottoman Empire, to pre-
vent the absorption of power by Russia, which would
be the first result, and the wars arising out of quar-
rels about the division of the spoil which would
ensue. He held that the simple maintenance of
the Ottoman Empire, independent of these con-
siderations, did not concern England. Had he
stopped here no objection would have been raised to
what he said; but he went on to declare that the
independence and integrity of the Ottoman Empire
meant something very different from the independ-
ence and integrity of England or France, and to talk
about the political solecism of the Mahomeclan faith
exercising what may be called a despotism, but he
would only call • domination, a sovereignty, over
twelve millions of our fellow-Christians. These

considerations are quite irrelevant to the ques-
tion. The Ottoman Empire, it is true, hangs
more loosely together—or appears to us to hang
more loosely together—than England or France,
but so does the Austrian Empire, and so, for that
matter, does the Russian Empire. Again if it is a
political solecism" for twelve millions of Christians
to be subject to a Mahomedan Government in
Turkey, what is it for millions of Mahomedans to
be subject to a Christian Government in British
India? When the question is of the main-
tenance of the independence and integrity
of any State against lawless and unprovoked
invasion we have nothing to do with the
vices or virtues of its internal organisation. There
can be only one law of nations for States ; if it is to
be varied in each particular case it will cease to be a
general, a known, a practically useful law. Of
this Mr. GLActroxx, whose intellect is emi-
nently acute and subtle, is well aware ;
in affecting to ignore this principle therefore
he must have had some ulterior object. That object
is not far to seek ; it lies on the serface. By hinting
at the assumed weakness and dilapidation of the
Ottoman Empire, he threw cold water on the seal
with which his hearers might be disposed to assert
its independence and integrity ; by talking about
the " political solecism" of Christians subject to a
Mahatma= despotism, be excited sentiments inimi-
cal to the Turks, and leaned the indignation felt
against R. Mr. Okanwroza,in short, following
in the wake of the 27sses, did his best to let Russia
off as easily as possible, and to minimise the sym-
pathy felt for the Turks. But the people of
England will recollect that the right of the
nations of Europe to rise in combination against
the despotism of KtroLaox was not lessened
by the ease with which that conqueror had previously
rods roughshod over and trampled in the dirt the
weak and vicious Oovernasts of Pope, Emperor,
Lags, Eaters, and the whole array of more Walla
sovereigns. As for the " despotism," et " domina-
tion," or "sovereignty" of Mahon:edema over Chris-
tians, it will be time enough to speak of it when we
Ira of the Turks expelling missionaries from their
territories, as the Free Church missionaries were
best those of Austria—persecuting Protestants es the
Orand Duo of TUSCANY has the MADILI and MIS
CC/11X011AMIL, or branding all Bible Protestants,—
the an as incendiaries, the women as something
still more degraded,--as was done by the Pore in es
encyclical letter.

But Mr. Gunetorin's groundless imputation of a
kve for war against all who dissent from his policy,—
his sophistical distinction between the independence
and integrity of Turkey and the independence and
integrity of France or England,--and his uncharitable
and untrue insinuation against the tolerance of the
Turks, were all only preparatory or prefatory to the
development of his grand scheme of European inter-
national policy. Raving done his best to make
Russia appear as little unamiable, and Turkey se
odious as possible, Mr. OtAncroxe adverted to the
proposal to settle all national disputes by arbitration.
Considerable program, he went on to say, had
already been made in realising that excellent
and humane idea. The Great Powers, he
reminded his hearers, have during the lest
twenty years interfered with authority to pat an
end to local disputes. "It was quits clear that the
effusion of human blood had been prevented • •
in the main by the intervention of great States, who
in the combined affsirs of Europe have a right to say
to Europe—with something at any rate like author
ity—toaay to particular corners and portions of Europe
"You shall not prejudice the general peace, and you
shall not set us all by the ears on account of your petty
local interests, and to recommend to them arrange-
ments which upon the whole it has been found for
the interest and compatible with the satisfaction of
Forties to embrace." We wonder how the originators
of the plan of national arbitration will like
Mr. GLADBTONIeII realisation of their project, in
which the right and power to dictate to all minor
States is conveyed to the Five Omit Governments,
three of which are despotic, one banging in the
wind between the legitimate and the revolutionary
basis of authority, and only one the representative of
a his and liberalised people.

The instances cited by Mr. GLADSTONE to slum
the beneficial results of " arbitration," as exerrlsed
by his crowned arbiters, are Belgium, Spain, Turkey,
and Greece. In the tint place, all these " arbitra-
lions " were enforced at the _expecte of more or less
bloodshed ; but that is not all. In Belgium the
arbitnl settlement of the Great Powers, which
conjoined Holland and Belgium in a eat-
and-dog union, was set aside by the latter
nation with the assistance of France and Eng-
land, Mr. GLADSTONE'S party crying out against
the proceeding as iniquitous, and seeking to drive
Earl GREY from office because he was a party to it.
In Spain the Cortes was suppressed by French
arms, the absolute powers approving, and England
vainly protesting. The interference in Turkish
affairs is now the main theme harped upon by
those who seek to show that the Ottoman Empire
cannot and ought not to be upheld. The gain of
IGreece by being transferred from the despotism
lof a Turkish Sultan to the despotism of a
German King is extremely problematical, and
it was purchased by the bloodshed at Nava-
rino. Mr. GLADSTONE'S illustrations of the
working of the arbitral interference of the
Great Powers are anything but inviting, and he has
omitted every case which he thought told against
him. The arbitration of the Great Powers sent Aus-
trian soldiers to crush Neapolitan liberty in 1822,
and to uphold the Absolute King ever since: the
result is that tyrannical system against which Mr.
GLADSTONE himself has so loudly protested. It sent
French troops to re-establish the temporal despotism
of the Pori. It sent Russian troops to extinguish
the liberties of Hungary. A rude soldiery have
been the instruments with which the Great Powers
have " recommended " their arrangements; the mar-

tyrdom of patriot, on the scaffold, in the ditchA of
fortresses, and in the stifling atmosphere of subter-
ranean dungeons, is what he alleges have rendered
thew arrangements " compatible with the satisfac-
tion of all parties."
The language of the Tunes had excited suspicions
as to the foreign policy of the Aberdeen section of
the cabinet. Mr. GLADSTONE, as mouthpiece of that
section, has at last spoken out, and the worst suspicions
of the public are strengthened. He and the other
Aberdeenians would again make England a ser►ile
abettor of the despotic policy of the Continental
Monarchs—a disgraceful bondage from which Eng-
land has been released ever since the death of Lord
ABERDEEN'S patron and master, CASTLEREAGU. Such
an inglorious recurrence to the shameful policy of
the degraded Clierczaaxos and Sri:mount would
not ensure peace, for the struggle between peoples
and abeolute monarchs is not to be so terminated.
And it would outrage every honourable and inde-
pendent sentiment of Englishmen.

LATEST FROM THE CONTINENT.

TURKEY.

CONSTANTINOPLE, Ocr. 1.

A further levy of 80,000 men has been ordered.
These troops, with the army corps of Syria and
Arabia, are to reinforce the camps at Batonn and on
the Black Sea.

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, Orr. 10.

The fast steamboats of the Imperial Danubian
Steam Navigation Company have ceased to pass
below 01110T11, but the ordinary passenger boats still
run as before.

ITALY.

ROME, Ocr. 4.

The British schooner Candidate we. put under 10
days' quarantine, although she sailed from Liverpool
with a clean bill of health nine days before the first
cholera case at Newcastle. The authorities now
further require the consignees to disembark all the
cargo, open the bales, and expose them to the air
for ten days in open boats, which they are to hire
at their own expense. Upon remonstrance the con-
signees were told that they might take the Candidate
elsewhere.