The Express.
London, England, 1853-11-28 00:00:00

RUSSIA AND TURKEY.

Gold to the amount of about 400,0001. was sent
away on Saturday morning from the Bank of Eng-
land, by way of Rotterdam and Hamburgh, for the
Russian government, in addition to 80,000 ounces of
gold half imperials sent to the same quarter earlier
in the week.

Some further notice of this transaction, as well as
of reports of a Russian expedition across the Danube,
and a Russian loan, will be found in our City article.
Letters from Belgrade, of the 14th, state that the
difficulties with Servia have been overcome. The
Turks are about to garrison the Servian frontier, in
virtue of the treaty of March 11th, 1815, and to send
the 12.000 men whose co-operation has been stipu-
lated fur, to the army of the Danube.
A number of young Wallach. of good family, who
have refused to serve against the Sultan, have been
sent by Prince Gortschakoff into the interior of
Russia, where they will be forced to enlist as pri-
vates in the Russian army.
An 82-gun Turkish ship, just launched at Sinope,
has received the name of the Oltenitza, in com-
memoration of the brilliant victory obtained by the
Ottoman troops in Wallachia.
The Courrier de Marseilles has the following from
Constantinople : " The English Admiral Slade, called
Mushaver Pacha (the foreign Pacha), has left to
cruise in the Black Sea. He has taken with him the
ship of the line the Medjidieb, five frigates, aad a
steamer. His object is to drive the Russian cruisers
from before Anapa, the only fort of the Caucasus for
the space of eighty miles. He is accompanied by
Seffer Bey, the Circassian chief who was so long de-
tained at Adrianople; and he is to supply ammuni-
tion and arms to the Lesghis, and the Circassian.
Numerous Russian and Polish deserters from the
army of General Woronzoff have reached the Turkish
advanced posts in Asia. 2,000 men have, it is stated,
already been collected, but the number is probably
exaggerated." The fort Anapa above mentioned is
for Russia the most important point on the Black
See, enabling her to keep the tribes of the east coast
in check. The fort was oonoeded to Russia by treaty
at the peace of Adrianople, and has always contained
a considerable military force dependent for subsist-
ence on supplies conveyed by sea.
On Friday last M. de Kisseleff declared
that there was no truth in the statement of the
Patric, that the Emperor of Russia has ordered
his armies to cross the Danube. According to
M. de Kisseleff the Emperor would wait the result
of the pending negotiations. This may be as it may,
but it is most unlikely that the Russians will make a
serious entrance into Bulgaria until their army in the
Principalities has been considerably reinforced. The
Patric of Saturday states that all the German jour-
nals confirm its statement of Prince Gortschakoff hav-
ing received orders to cross the Danube, but such
confirmation is not worth a groat. Besides the
statement is not true; only two German journals
allude to this news, and they give it as mere
rumour.
The Patric says the announcement that the
European consuls had left Bucharest and Jassy was
erroneous. They remain in those towns by virtue of
the excquatur from the Ottoman Porte, having no
official relations with the de facto authorities esta-
blished by the Russians, but communicating with
their ojlcieusenient when the interests of their coun-
trymen require their aid.
We read in the Breslau Gazette that the authori-
ties in the Sclavonic provinces of Turkey have
received orders to read a firman of the Sultan, in-
viting the Rayahs to make a declaration of their
sentiments. Assemblies have been convoked on the
matter. The chiefs of communes and Rayahs have
been convoked, and have signed the following
document :

" The sovereign of the Muscovites demands from
our august monarch concessions which his Majesty
cannot make under any conditions. Neither the
Turks nor the Rayahs can blame his Majesty. Ho-
nour to God and to the Emperor, in whose states our
ancestors have lived, and who has granted to us the
kindest protection. Like our fathers, we wish to
live and die under his rule, and do not wish to sepa-
rate ourselves from him. We therefore praise our
Emperor, and will remain his Rayahs for ever."
The St. Petersburg Journal of the 18th contains a
most surprising account of the battle of Oltenitza on
the 4th. According to this report the Russians
drove the Turks right into the Danube, where Prince

Gortschakoff thinks it very likely that many of them
were drowned. However, the end of the matter,
even according to this authority, was that the Rus-
sians retired, and the Turks were left in their original
position. For the rest the St. Petersburg account is
but an amplification of the bulletin previously pub-
lished by Prince Gortschakoff.
The Mot that negotiations for the settlement of the
Turkish question are actively proceeding, is placed
out of doubt by the advice, we received from Vienna
and Paris, u well as from information obtainable
nearer home. Letters from Constantinople have been
published, in which Reschid Pacha is represented as
having in a theatrical manner replied to a new pro-
position laid before him by Lord Stratford, by send-
ing Omer Pacha's bulletin from Oltenitza. According
to less figurative correspondents, the Ottoman minis-
ter deliberated with his colleagues, and after replied
in his own statesmanlike sensible manner that the

project did not appear admissible. But this transac-
tion is merely episodical. An attache,' of the Ottoman
legation has by this time reached Constantinople
from Vienna, with a note which will, it is hoped,
open the way to direct negotiations between Turkey
and Russia.

The following appears in the Clihvee Gazette,
dated Berlin, the 23rd :
Negotiations for terminating the Turco-Russian differ-
ence have been resumed at Vienna. The plenipotentiaries
of the great powers have taken into consideration the new
propositions that have been made. The English govern-
meld, on its part, is labouring seriously for a pacification of
the Eastern question on • basis which may satisfy all the
great powers. It proposes that article 7of the treaty of
Kainardji, as formerly recognised by the Sultan in the
harti Merril!' of the Gth June last, shall be surrounded by
new guarantees. On the other band, guarantees are to be
given to Europe and Turkey against the return of encroach.
meats like those just made by Russia. New treaties, dere.
loping the spirit of the treaty of London of 1840.1, are
to settle the relations between Russia and Turkey.
The English government is of opinion that Turkey ought
to insist on being freed Irons all the treaties under
s'aadow of which Russia endeavour. to meddle in her in-
ternal affairs. In the second place, it thinks that she should
not permit the Black Sea to be any longer a Russia° lake.
England and France have there a commerce which in•
creases every day, and they have the right to watch over
it ; they should, therefore, be able to send, in war as well
as in peace, the number of vessels necessary fur the protec-
tion of their merchant navy. In the third place, it ex-
press,. the opinion that Russia should not be allowed to
establish blockades on paper on the Circassian coast ; and
that the navigation of the Danube should be watched over
by a commission of the neighbourirg states. If the Ger-
man payers should not think right to give their consent to
a pacification, armed, if necessary, on these bases the
Western powers, it is said, in persisting in obtaining
will not think it necessary to show the reserve they would
otherwise have displayed. It is added, that before long
diplomatic negotiations may assume a serious character.
The Sleek says :—" We receive from our own
sources of information intelligence that orders have'
really been given to Omer Paella to pursue the war
with energy. A similar order has been sent to the
generals of Asia. The Porte has approved of the re
trograde movement of Omer Pucha at Oltenitza.
This movement has totally disconcerted the calcula-
tions of the Russian generals. The ambassadors of
France and England have declared as their opinion
that in the present state of things no proposition of
arrangement could be recommended to the Porte
with any chance of success. The despatch published
in London announcing that the Turks have evacuated
Kalafat is unworthy of credit.
In a letter dated Pesth, Nov. 19, we read : For
the last three days artillery, with the necessary men,
has been forwarded to Hungary at the rate of six
and thirty guns a day. The direction of the Northern
Railroad has received orders not to send off any
goods for eight days, as all the luggage waggons
will be required to convey military stores to Hun-
pry. The ninth army corps has received orders to
be ready to march.
Private letters from Vienna, of the 2lst inst., an-
nounce positively the appointment of General Baron
Budberg to the command in chief of the Danubian
Provinces.

A letter from Malta of the 21st states that an Eng-
lish house at Trebizonde had made a contract with
the English government for the supply of coal to
Admiral Dundaa's squadron in case of its entry into
the Black Sea.

FRANCE.

PARIS, SATURDAY ETT:NINO.

The Moniteur contains the expected decree aug-
menting the number of battalions of riflemen (Chas-
seurs de Vincennes) in the French army from 10
battalions to 20. Each battalion is to consist of 10
companies instead of S. There will, therefore, in
future be 200 companies of this force in the army.
The new measure is to be accomplished without any
increase of the general effective. The riflemen will
be drafted from other regiments, and the depot bat-
talions of the line and light infantry will he reduced
from eight companies to seven.

In Marshal St. Arnaud's report preceding the de-
cree, it is said the only additional expense will be
that occasioned by the creation of a staff for twenty
new companies, and the minister holds out a pro-
spect of making up for a part of this expense by
economy in other branches of the service. In this
report the Minister of War says: "Military men
unanimously recognise the important part which this
special corps, consisting of picked men, trained for
activity and instructed to take aim with precision,
are called upon to play in future warfare, whether
acting as sharpshooters to cover the general move-
ments in an engagement (being grouped on a given
point in order by a murderous fire to produce effects
similar to those of the artillery), or whether em-
ployed in special missions, sudden attacks in the
enemy's country, &c. The solution of this problem,
so long sought by all military nations, has undoubt-
edly been found in the institution of the chasseurs, as
is proved by the deep interest excited by this
creation throughout Europe, and the numerous imi-
tations of the force in every European army. Unless,
therefore, the augmentation now proposed were
made France would remain stationary, and in a
state of comparative inferiority to her rivals.
The Siecle, whose news from England is, I must
observe by the way, often more exclusive than accu-
rate, says :
A letter written directly to us from London by a person in
whom we have the greatest confidence, affirms the following
fact : The utmost activity:prevails in the Admiralty, War
Department, and Foreign-office, with the view of carrying
into execution a plan for an armed mediation concerted be•
tween France and England, the basis of which is already
agreed upon.
If this be so, and there is no lack of rumours on
both sides of the channel confirmatory of the fact, it
is highly desirable that the public should know what
this" basis " is. It has been sufficiently demonstrated
that an "armed mediation "is apt to be used against the
weaker of the two contending parties. Where the
right and wrong sides of a quarrel are so plainly
distinguishable as in the present instance, it were
better not to interfere at all than to intervene with
no worthier object than to watch for the easist op-
portunity of imposing terms of peace upon one or
the other belligerent. Such en attitude is calculated
to paralyze and irritate Turkey, and to provoke
without intimidating Russia—to fan the flame of war
under circumstances most prejudicial to the power
with which we profess to sympathise; and yet I
much fear that the French and English cabinets are
not agreed upon any decided and manly course. An
impenetrable, and certainly most unnecessary, mys-
tery shrouds the intentions of the government here,
and a great deal too much is said about " acting ac-
cording to circumstances." There is imminent dan-
ger that we may find ourselves plunged into a tre-
mendous war without distinctly knowing what we
are fighting for.
I observe in a London paper a telegraphic despatch
from Vienna, stating the " fusion " to have been
effected upon condition that the Count de Chambord
should not marry a second time, and, in the event
of his accession to the throne, should abdicate in fa-
vour of the Count de Paris, on the latter attaining
his majority. I believe I may safely affirm that there
is no truth whatever in this report. I cannot, of
course, pretend to know what may have taken place
at the private interview of three-quarters of an
hour's duration, between the Count do Chambord and
the Duke de Nemours. But inasmuch as the fusion
was accomplished with much studied formality, after
many conferences, and in the presence of leading
members of the Orleanist and legitimist parties, it is
hardly likely that the royal cousins should have made
any private agreement diametrically at variance
with the understanding of their respective friends.
Now, I can state positively that so far as the men
who are in daily communication with Frohsdorff,
and who for years have exerted themselves to bring

about the fusion, have any knowledge of the tertni
on which it has at length been made, the Orleans
princes Lave rallied to the elder branch without env
condition whatever. 1 have seldom known testimon'y
so uniform as that which reaches me on this sullm.
The fusion, according to all I hear, consists siraply
in this, that the Count de Chambord has cordially
received as relations the younger branch of his
family upon their renouncing dynastic claims, which
he never has recognised, and never will. 'lle legi.
timists indignantly repudiate the alleged conditions,
and I have heard several of them say that if it were
possible to believe that the Count de Chambord had
been a party to a compact in contradiction with the
whole tenor of his professed principles, they would
join the red republicans behind barricades rather
than ravk as his partisans,

PAM% SUNDAY Eves's.
A new fete, instituted by the Archbishop of Par
,is
and called the Fete des Ecoles, was celebrated for the
first time to-day, in the church of Saint Gertevit,ve
(late the Pantheon). The professed object of this ft.te
is to show forth and extol the reconciliation and union
of religion and science. The vast edifice was ex.
ceedingly full, and the interior presented an interest•
ing and imposing spectacle.
The Musiteer contains a decree increasing the
number of auditors of the 2nd class in the Couacil (,f
State from 20 to 60. They are also, as in the time
of the first Empire, to be attached to the ministry
corresponding with the section of the Council of State
to which they I elong. The object appears to be,
according to a rt port from M. Fould, the Minister of
State, to make the subordinate department of the
Council of State a kind of school where young men
destined for the higher branches of the public ser-
vice may learn bosh the theory and practice of ad-
ministrative government. Another clause in the de.
cree, also borrowed from the Empire, enacts that
maitre de relueles and auditors, when appointed to
any permanent post out of Paris, may, nevertheless, be
considered as employed on an extraordinary mission,
and maintain their position in the Council of State in
the same way as the councillors now do by virtue of
a decree of 1652. The reason stated for this change
is that employees in the Council of State always
leave it with regret, and feel themselves disgrac.:l by
being sent into the country. It is, therefore, thought
desirable to stimulate them to the efficient perform-
ance of their provincial duties by the hope of being
rewarded by promotion in the great government Are
of Paris.

The _Minnow, not for the first time, denies that
pvernment intends to re-establish gaming ]causes,
and says that " the report, which can only proceed
from malevolence, is entirely false."
The " little Bourse " on the Boulevard, and in the
Passage de l'Opera, was greatly excited last evening
by the circulation of a telegraphic despatch, dated
London, twenty minutes past three, announcing a
fall of per cent. in Consols. The liente was in.
mediately quoted 50e. lower in consequence. This
morning the London evening papers were anxiously
expected. One of them only, the Standard, does
quote Consols at a qu irter past two at 951, :, which
wou!d be a fall of nearly per cent, from the open-
ing price of 96, but as none of the others speak of
decline of more than a to 1, and the Standard
itself gives the 3 o'clock price as 95, it is thought
probable that the telegraphic despatch of yesterday
was based upon no better authority than a misprint.
There is no political news to account for such a
serious fluctuation in the English funds, and it seems
most improbable that they should have fallen to the
extent reported, and then recovered to the opening
price within the hour. Under this impression the
" little Bourse" was firmer to-day, but owing to a per-
sistent rumour that the Russians had crossed the
Danube, business was still done at quotations con-
siderably lower than the closing price at the regular
Bourse of yesterday.
The considerable augmentation of the number of
rifle corn panics ((lass( urs de Vincennes) is the nai-
-1 versal topic, and rightly or wrongly is considered as
directly occasioned by the state of the Eastern
question.
The Egyptus has arrived at Marseilles, having
left Constantinople on the 15th.
The Bourse was again brilliant yesterday. The
Threes rose 40c. ; Credit Mobilier, 15 ; St. Germain
Railway, 15; Northern, Rouen, and Lyons, 5
each. Lyons to the Mediterranean declined 7.50.
The project of a treaty circulated by the Gazette de
Cologne was much talked of, but it was thought that
in the present state of affairs Russia would not con-
sent to any such arrangement as is there shadowed
forth.

A marked improvement had taken place in the
Neill' lurk Money Market, and business was de- ,
mdt•lv more active. Stocks had again advanced in
value, and rut.tinutd to exhibit much firmness.
The Cotton M•trket was quiet, and business to a
moderate extent only had been done. Prices, bow-
eler were quite steady. The following are the quo-
rations:New Orleans and Mobile, mid. fair to fair,
•
Il le. to 12Lc.; Uplands, mid. fair to fair, l lc. to
II ic. pir
Ihe market fur breadstuffs was rather quiet, and
no• many transactions reported, holders waiting
tartheradvices from England. l'rices were reported
a, follows:—Western canal flour, 7 dole. to 7 dole.
igie. per barrel, steady; Gennesaee prime wheat,
I dol. ;ye. to I dol. rifle. per GOlbs Indian corn,
sound yellow, Mk.. to 82e. per bushel, s."eady ;
Indian meal, 4 dole. 12;c, to 4 dots. Vrc. per barrel.
The provision market had assumed a dull character,
and pricks had given say and were 'weak.
Little alteration had taken place in freights. At
tLe steamer's departure the asking rates were :
I:our, to Liverpool, 3s. lid. to 3s. 9d. per barrel ;
grain. Is. Old. to Is. Id. per bushel; cotton, 3-16 d.
to Id. per lb.
Exchange on London was quoted at 1091 to 109;,
but those figures acre not well sustained; Paris,
5.1•2; t 03.131; Hamburg, 36; to 37.

VOICE FROM HUNGARY.

S -

I'ESTH, Nov. 18, 10 ♦.M.

Why do your English diplomatists still waste the
precioils hours in the utterly forlorn hope of bringing
about a peace between the proud, unbending Czar,
and the resolute, well-armed sultan? A child might
e that there is nut the least chance of n peace; and
the truces that the English and French politicians
have been sandy trying to patch up would almost
convioce a quiet spectator that they are actually
purchased with ltussian gold' This regardless Czar
must be punished at once. Give him no time to
assenth'e half a million of men, as he intends to do,
and ail! do. alter the first victories of the Turks.
Even the Vienna newspapers complain of the diplo-
matic ar.d dangerous delay of the English and French
politicians. They say the flame is only kept
smouldering a few weeks longer, while the adverse
parties are occupied, with all their might, in heaping
up materials fur a tremendous conflagration. This is
perfectly true. Will Lord Aberdeen, who also begins
to grow tractable, look at facts? What are the Rus-
sians and the Turks about What have they been
constantly and diligently doing since last April?
Getting ready for war, and a great war, a itbout the
least rotation. Long before the April-Menschikoft
thunder-clap, the Czar was gathering his armies, and
even the Sultan saw the cloud coming up, so eat ly as
last January. In positive proof of this I have
only to state that I saw the Egyptian troops
carried down to Cairo in boats upon the Nile, is
February and March, in order to supply the Sultan
with the 20,000 men whom he had demanded of
Egypt. But when these poor creatures said that they
were to " go to Constantinople" I did not believe it,
supposing the Ottoman empire to be in a state of
profound peace with the world. I first heard of the
coming war at Jerusalem in April, and we ;were all
in expectation of being massacred by the Moslems at
the first cannon shot. Thus from the early spring
the soldiers were already in training in Cairo fur
this war, which the Porte then knew that Russia
intended to commence before the clime of this year ;
and the Czar never has intended anything but the
conquest of Constantinople.
I tell England and France there will be no peace !
The Cisr does not act one peaceful thing. Ile
says peace, and levies war. Contradict that if you
can. Not one step backwards has he taken,
though many words backward has he said. His
words are nothing. I em ashamed to see respectable
journals quoting his " raceful " expressions at
Olmutz and elsewhere. 'sow, I boldly ask, to whom
did he speak those peaceful words? Who will swear
to them ? You cannot even name the man who says
he heard them with his own ears. Where are they
written down, these unspoken words of peace ? Now
look at the other side. Vast preparations since the
beginning of the year ; troops forwarded to Bessa-
rabia and the whole south; hurried marches to the
Asiatic frontier; a great fleet in the Black Sea and
Baltic; Menschikoff thunder and Nesselrode echoes
have all spring and summer rolled across the whole
European sky. Russia never begins her wars with
a large force. It requires a small force to be beaten
in order to rouse up the patriotic phleysna of
the northern empire. When the Emperor
can tell his " well beloved children" (for the
soldiers are often seized while, at the age of twelve
to sixteen, they are visiting their poor old grand-
mothentr--these are facts ; or taken away from
school, or sent off at a few hours' warning)—" My
Well-beloved children," then says the Czar, "the
arms of Russia are dishonoured by her hereditary
fees." Then first can he inspire in his knosted
bands something of that ardent fury which glows so
fiercely is his own broad breast. He is a great,
hearty, healthy, iron-hearted, broad-browed, able and
wise autocrat, and has proved it in a reign of 28
years. He does not mean, in the evening of his
days, to lay aside all his glory now. He will not
retire—no, not a foot. He will not yield a hair. He
never did. He will come in the spring, if
not before, with an almost irresistible
horde of Russians, Cossacks, &c., and pour down
like an avalanche, over the Balkans into Constanti-
nople. And then England and Franoe may bombard
and batter away, and lay in the dust even holy St.
Sophia, if they will. What does he care ? That
magic word, Constantinople, signifies to him," Nicho-
las the Great," " the conqueror," the " founder of the
Russian navy" (England look to that), " father of
Russian trade," the "great builder of Russian might
and glory;" the author of this fact: Russia is first
in Europe. It may be necessary, if England and
France only waver long enough, to build a new fleet,
out of Europe, to curb this giant. There is only one
course to bring him to terms—only one. An instant
demand from England and France to evacuate the
Principalities, and give guarantees for the integrity
of Turkey; a congress at London to take the Otto-
man empire into the European family of nations—or
war. That is the only hope of safety now ; the only
means of warding off a universal European war.
Let me turn now to the news of the day, which is
but a beating second in the great wheels of the
century. Last evening, on the arrival of the mail at
half-pest 7, it seemed that the reports of the after-
noon and morning would be confined, for the tele-
graphic despatches favourable to the Russians some-
how are sure to leak out, while all the Turkish
successes are vigorously suppressed. We have now
learned that no news signifies that the Turks have
the advantage, and some of us naturally say the old
proverb of " no news," Sm., is true. Thus, " the
Russians had been successful, and beaten back the
Turks at all points." Then at two points, at Giur-
gevo and Oltenitza. But now we grow cool again
before midnight, and begin to examine the whole
matter ; and thus it appears to stand : The
Russians concentrated their best and largest
force at Budeschti,, twenty-three miles south of
Bucharest, and 12 north of Oltenitza, and on the
banks of the River Argis. The Turks were in the
triangle between the Argis, the Danube, and the vil-
lage of Oltenitza. The region is always a half morass.
Great rains set in (the Russian reports say the
"clouds broke down") on the 11th and 12th, and the
Russian general reports " I began operations on the
morning of the 12th," and then goes on to say that
he "drove the Turks over the river," &c., but speaks
of no battle, and of little resistance. Indeed, he says
that the Turks (who had just before fought him with
sabres and bayonets) " were so frightened that they
did not molest the Russians who were picking up the
wounded Again, he allows that the Turks had
time, notwithstanding their " great fear," to "de-
stroy the quarantine stone-building, blow up their
own defences, cross and burn their own bridge."
And the Russian general modestly tells us "it was
not worth the lives it would cost to follow the Turks,
who kept up a heavy cannonading from the opposite
bank of the river."
The Russian force at Budeschti was 40,000 strong,
for the Bucharest papers say " provisions are sent
every day from the capital for 40,000 men." They
were, therefore, more than double the number of the
Turks, and Omer Pacha, who was at Oltenitza in
person, never intended to fight. The morass,

increased by the heavy rains, compelled the Turks
to an orderly retreat across the river, in the very
face of an overwhelming foe ; and then on the 12th,
the Russians finding the 'lurks were already going
over, began to annoy them, and "drive" them across
the Danube very moderately, and at en extremely
modest and cautious distance, as the Russian general
inadvertently allows.
Thus far, then, we have no great reason to make a I
bonfire of the Russian successes; our news being also
all from Russian head quarters. We wait awhile.
But let me now speak of an event which may have
consequences of great importance. Servia lies be-
tween Wallachia, Bulgaria, and Bosnia, which is on
the Adriatic Gulf. the population of Bosnia is still
governed by Turkish Pachas, and consists of Slavic
Christians, Slavic Mohammedans, and Constantinople
Turks. The Bonitos are assembled in arms, and
waiting to cross through Servia, the direct road, to
assist Omer Pacha; and the latter has sent a demand
to the Servian government to suffer the Bosnian
Turks to pass through upon the great highways.
The Servians some six weeks ago ordered every man
who had no long musket to buy one, and the govern-
ment sold them for 32 silver zwanzigers, that is,
for a little over 11. sterling. What was this arming
for? The Servians answered Omer Pacha that Servia
would know how to maintain her neutrality, and all
the fortresses are occupied, they being (Belgrade, at
least), I believe, in the hands of the 'lurks. Now,
the Servians are either waiting to be compelled to
keep the Turks, that they may look Russia in the
face, in every event; or they are in earnest, and a
division of Omer Pacha's army will march into Servia.
on the east,,and compel a passage for the Bosnians,who
will meet him from the west, and thus the war will
be brought still nearer to the borders of the Austrian
dominions.

I shall here add only one more fact, over which
you may ponder at your leisure. Consulting a tailor
here, he is not able to attend to our work, having a
part of the order which this city of Pesth has to
complete for " 24,000 military suits !" Now if Pesth
has so many to deliver within eight or ten days, how
many will the capital, and the other great towns and
cities, be called to furnish ?

MURDER OF AY AGED CRIPPLE.

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LEIOIITON BUZZARD, BEDFORD*HINE,
SISNDAT EVENING.

The greatest consternation has prevailed in this
populous market-town since Friday last, in consequence of
a most brutal murder having been committed at a place dis-
tant about a mile and a quarter from here, called Heath-
and Reach, by a man named Jno. Burrows, upon an aged
and crippled woman named Olemister.
I► appesn that the murderer, who is an agricultural
labourer, is a married man, and, when at home, lives in the
village mentioned, bat he bears• very bad character, and has
been frequently in the habit of ill-treating his wife awl do.
sorting her for weeks together, so that they hay, led a very
unhappy life He had but very lately returned home, after
being absent for some time at Watford, where be had been
spending his time in the most profligate manner. On
Thursday night he went to bed with his wife, but they
bad not barn there ling before he began to ill-use her; and
at last, seizing her by the throat, tried to strangle
her. After a violent struggle, she managed to get
away from him, and, rushing out of the house, nearly
naked, she went to his I inn's, which is a short distance,
there to seek refuge fromi his brutality. The old man,
learning what had taken place, at once gave her shelter,
and said he would go down to his son, and try and pacify
him. He did so, and finally lay down upon the bed with
him. He lay there until about three in the morniog,when
Burrows began to abuse him, and pu.hing him from the
bed swore he would kill him. He then beat his head upon
the floor until the poor old man was almost insensible. In
this state the wretch left his aged parent, and went in
search of his wife. He then bent his way to the house of

his father, expressing his determination to do for his wife
but she, observing him approach, and fearing she would be
deprived of life should he get hold of her, slipped out of
the house, and concealed herself in a passage close by. At
home he found his mother, who had been for nearly five
months confined to her bed with illness; and, lemm-
ing that his wife had fled, he commenced a most
brutal attack upon the poor oli woman. His fiend-
ish vengeance being partially satisfied, he sat down
and began eating some breakfast, apparently quite calmed.
In the room, and attendant upon the sick woman, was the
deceased, who was a cripple and used a crutch. During
the breakfast she happened to make some remark about
the ill-treatment of his wife, upon which Burrows seised
a long.hsndled hammer, seed for stoue-breaking in the
roads, and attempted to strike her. So great was her ter-
ror at seeing this that she managed without her crutch to
get from the house and into that of • neighbour named
Adams, and, going into his bedroom, might his protec-
tion. Adams got up and took the poor creature in his
arms, but no sooner had he done se than Burrows rushed
let, the room armed with the hammer, and whilst the de-
emed was in Adams's arms struck her three blows on the
head, completely breaking in the skull, and causing the
brain to protrude. Her death was instantaneous. Bur-
rows then turned upon Adams, and aimed a blow at his
skull, which he providentially missed ; sad Adams, rush-
ing past him, escaped by leaping the entire Hight of stairs,
and running out into the road, where be raised ea alarm.
Burrows quickly followed him down stairs and again at-
tempted to strike him on the head with the
hammer. Adams, however, having avoided the blow, and
some of the neighbours coming up, Burrows kept them at
bay. Having threatened any one with instant death who
should oppose kiln, however, and swearing that he meant
to take the life of his wife, he compelled those round him
to give way, and walked off to find her ' • but three working
men who had watched him turn his back came trim be-
hind, and, throwing him to the ground, got the hammer
from him, though not before they had been much hurt by
his kicks. They then procured • strong rope and bound
his legs. The constable by this time arrived, b:inging with
him the handcuffs and leg WY, and ultimately the pri-
soner was secured. They then reamed to look after the
deceased, whom they found lying where she first fell, quite
dead, and surrounded with so awe blood that it seemed all
she possessed had oozed from bee body. Two surgeons
from Leighton were speedily open the spot, but their ser-
vices were unneeded except to mho gene assistance to
the other prams who had bees so heisedy attacked. The
prfiloser's father, an old iten aypetesely verging upon 70,
was most fearfully lamenenl end lowleed *boot the taws
from the violence done le his by lie ass.
The prisoner, after he heed himself secured, made •
variety of grimaces, sod ailiseled to be insane, but the two
medical gentlemen who Saw the attempt pronounced it to
bee most clumsy act, and it was a matter of doubt whether
he had even been drinking.
He was ultimately conveyed to the Woburn Lock-up,
and the police having taken up the inquiry have discovered
grounds for suspecting that the attack urn his wife wee
not the result of • quarrel, but • preamouted intent to
murder her, and that having been foiled in that he had
wreaked his bloodthirsty vengeance upon the poor *-
offending ereaturis who lies a corpse, mangled in a manner
horrible to think of. Prisoner's last regular employment
was with Hr. Bassett, the banker, of Leighton, and apes
leaving that service he ran away with • woman, who
thought him a single man, but from letters which recently
fell into her hands she found out the truth, and the exist-
ens of the wife was deemed a bar to their acquaintanes.
I It is said he bad mat this woman on the night of the mur-
der, and was afterwards heard to utter threats against his
wife.
I It appears that when his victim first gained the interior
of Adams's cottage, she had time to bar the door against
him, and that he struck it with such force that the hammer
went right through the door, forcing it open, and tearing
away all the fastenings.
The deceased, whose name was Charity Olemister, was a
widow, her husband having been killed by a fall of sand in
• pit some years since. She leaves several children, but
sees very young.
Contrary to the usual custom, no officer or official was
left in care of the corpse, which lay upon a bed in the room
where the deed was committed.
The place where the deed has been committed is one of •
few small old-fashioned cotter houses, about a mile and a
quarter from Leighton, on the Woburn road.

EITINSIVZ BUROLARY.—StaIeIy had the above melan-
choly affair become generally known, when a fresh cause
for excitement occurred in the town, namely, the robbery,
by some London thieves, of the shop of Mr. Matthews,
watchmaker, of the High.street. Between Friday night
and Saturday morning they had effected an entrance from
the first floor window, drugged the two dogs, lit the gee in
the shop, and swept off all they could find, many being
valuable watches left to repair. The plunder is estimated
at 1,600/. No clue to the thieves has been obtained.

FALL OF PRICY-3 IN FIANOL—We read in the
Echo Agricola:—" The arrival of foreign corn begins to
make its influence felt on the markets in the interior, par-
ticularly at the moment when the latter are necessarily
about to receive more considerable and more contiaued sup-
plies, as always happens at this period of the year. In the
market of the 12th business was very calm at the Italie in
Paris, and we announced a slight decline on some important
markets which come within the range of its supply. This
reaction has continued, and on Wednesday last there was a
farther fall of Ur. on first quality flour, and 2fr. on secon-
dary sorts. In the official quotations flour is set down at
88fr. ; hitherto the lowest price admitted into the list was
90fr. for 157 kilogrammes. Wheat has experienced a similar
decline, that is to say, the secondary sorts have fallen at
least lfr. a sack "of 120 kilogrammes, and the first qualities
are 50c• • less It is particularly on has foreign wheat that
this retrograde movement has bins the most decided."