The Express.
London, England, 1853-06-06 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY, JUNE 6.

A G€recut. impression seems to prevail in well in-
farmed circles that the Turkish question is likely to be
pacifically settled by the timely intervention of the four
Great Powers, who feel that they have a common in-
terest in resisting any violent disturbance of the ex-
isting status quo. England and France have already
evinced in concert an active solicitude on behalf
of the Porte; Austria and Prussia have hitherto
maintained an attitude of reserve, owing, doubtless,
to the greater intimacy of their Courts with that
of St. Petersburg, and, it must be added, a greater
sympathy between their statesmen and those of Russia.
/tut with all the unwillingness of German Princes
and politicians to incur the distrust or enmity of a
Potentate to whom they are fain to look as their
most reliable defender whenever they go wrong in
the estimation of their own people, and their surest
ally in case of any aggression upon their territories
from without—it is impossible for them to behold
unmoved the outbreak of a struggle, which, once
begun, will inevitably involve all Europe in its coo-
sequences, and cause them, however sincerely
averse they may be to war, sooner or later to be ins.
untried in all its perils and calamities. Louis NAPO•
160 N has made no secret of the course which
.he proposes to pursue in case of any attempt by
Russia at territorial aggrandisement; and Prussia is
Soo neatly and tee deeply eoecerned in any retalia-
tory movement which France may make, either on
Belgium or the Lower Rhine, to spare any efforts
within her power to avert the provocation. Prussia
may care little for the independence of Turkey on
its own scorant ;but the self-interest of that country
L directly and intimately involved in the integrity of
the Ottoman Empire by her proximity to France.
For eight-and-thirty years the Rhenish provinces
have acknowledged the sway of the House of
BRANDENBURG ; but let the Treaties of 1815 be once
torn up, and who shall say how long the Rhine
provinces will continue a portion of the Prussian
nionarchy ? So likewise with Austria, who is com-
pelled to bold down Italy with one band and Hun-
gary with the other. What must her position be in
the event of a general war? Or where could she
And allies or resources adequate to so fearful an exi-
gency as she would find herself placed in ? What-
ever dreams of acquisition in Bosnia or Herzegowina
Austrian statesmen may have cherished in more
torpid times, and however anxious they may still be
to isolate Hungary from all contact on her south-
eastern frontier with an independent power, the
present feverish state of that country, as well
as of Northern Italy, paralyses at Vienna
all thoughts of such ambition. The influ-
ence of Prince MarrEntsicu is once am
felt in the councils of the valetudinarian empire, slid
the wary and astute veteran has throughout his
long cue.: consistently held, under every vicissitude,
to his early maxim that there was no bribe or terri-
tory or treasure that Russia could offer which ought
to induce Austria to assist her is acquiring a perma-
nent footing south of the Danube. Thus every
motive of present need combines with those of set-
tled policy to render Austria desirous of seeing the
tire extinguished in her neighbour's house, lest
haply some chance spark may fall upon the rodf of
her own.

Using their good office* in concert, the four
'Powers can hardly fail of being successful in tip
projected work of mediation. They have, in fact,
far higher claim upon the returning sense and reason
of the CZAS than that of powerful and experienced
advisers. They are themselves deeply interested,
though in different degrees, in the peaceful solution
of the question ; and they have a right to interpose
in alfriendly tone of authority and remonstrance not
to be disregarded. It is probable, indeed, that troops
may have been moved ere this upon the frontiers, or
.may even have entered the Danubian principalities ;
or, if seek demonstrations have not yet actually
taken place, that within the present week we
may hear of their occurrence. But we shall not
on that account forego our belief in the efficacy of
,the joint interposition of the Western and Central
Towers. The arrogant temper of a baffled despot
:may impel him to execute certain preliminary por-
.tions of the:violence he menaced before the reaction
'of reason can set in on such a mind ; and it is also
-possible that men of cooler heads around him may
epaulets upon being able to obtain lase humiliating
terms for their disappointed master, by affecting to
treat' u though Moldavia and Wallachia were
already reduced by conquest into possessing
as Muscovite provinces. too in like mas-
on we need not be startled at hearing
that the ocasbined fleets of France and Eng-
land have been invited by a special fir-
awn to pew the Derdanelles. But notwitbstand-1
ing these or any similar mandestatioos on the one
aide or the other, we shall continue in our belief
that the independence and integrity of Turkey
is secure. The public opinion of France and Eng-
land has pat its veto upon the rapacious projects of
the Autocrat; and however he may bluster or
fume, he will not in the end dare to resist their
decree. His Generals may, in violation of the esta-
blished usage and law of nations. cross the Pruth
and weepy the undefended towns and villages of a
neighbour who has neither given him offence nor
justitichtion for such an outrage, by act, word, or
deed; bat, like the invading haste of the tyrant of
old, by the way that they came by the same shall
they return, without being suffered to encamp round
the manacled city, or to direct a single missile
against its walls.

Twebe is to be a record. of the Great Exhibition.
Future generations me not to be without a memorial
of tbe great deeds of English and continental industry
in the nineteenth century. Hitherto we have bur-
dened the soil with trophies of military achievements;
we are now going to erect a lasting monument of
the still more marvellous deeds which are the pro-
ducts of the arta of peace. The must original and
the most beautiful erection of modern times—an
erection which would have been impossible
in any other country than this, where
manufacturing skill is at a maximum, and where the
capital employed in manufactures is so great that it
shrinks from no enterprise, however gigantic—this
erection, although removed from Hyde-park, is to
be commemorated there. The gorgeous collection of
everything rich and rare that the wit of man could
imagine and the industry of man effect, although
scattered, is net to be lost to memory. That astound-
ing spectacle of hundreds of thousands of working
mei assembled under tLe largest roof ever erected,
geeing quietly upon the miracles that they and their
brethren bad performed. is to be kept for ever
fresh in the remembrance of man by a fitting memo-

Ilia The great workers, the own of thought, the

inventors, the manufacturers, the labourers are at
last to see their deeds solemnly commemorated bb a
grateful country. A committee of ieblemen ami
Iroise
gentlemen have taken the thjag4 hand. 744
have given the subject themostmetleas cons iqn,
and on Saturday held Otteregiaspeith a
in the chair (everything gees -:Olf so oracle,
better with a nobleman in the chair). They
made delightful speeches, and decided that
the manufacturing triumphs of English work-
men will be most fitly celebrated by putting up
—a statue of a Norman King made by an Italian
sculptor. Note the admirable, the exquisite, fitness
of this decision. The Crystal Palace was built and
filled to show what manufacture and commerce
cereal do. It was an illustration of the beautiful
lines of COWPER, which the Committee of the Great
i Industrial Exhibition in Dublin have so appropriately
placed at the beginning of their catalogue :

The band of eommeree was designed
T' associate all the branches of mankind ;
And if a boundless plenty be the robe,
Trade is ate golden girdle of the globe.

Yet the triumphs of trade are to be celebrated by
the statue of a Norman crusader. RICHARD L, who
in Ins heart scorned trade and traders with a depth of
contempt of which moderns can have little concep.
tion, is idealised and pat into bronze as the best
memorial of the deeds of tradesmen. Try to imagine
how CtEUR DE LION himself would have looked at
any one hardy enough to prophesy that he should
one day serve as a mark to chronicle the labours of
handicraftsmen. If the grim king could rise from
his grave, and be told of the use the gentlemen who
met on Saturday, at Willis's Rooms, are going to make
of him, it is probable that no office in London would
effect an insurance on the life of a single member
of the committer—if said offices knew CtEUS. DB

Ltotes Norman notions about trade.
That the Baron Msoocarrn's statue was a work
of great merit there is no intention to deny. At the
same time there can be no doubt that there were
several works by British sculptors equally merito-
rims, although not quite so large. What can be the
meaning, then, of making a selection which places
other, and particularly native artists, in an invidious
position, and which at the same time is the very worst
that could have been made when its fitness for
the purpose is considered. Any sensible per
son, with no prejudices to lead him astray, if
asked what statue would have been the most
adapted as a memorial of the Exhibition, would
have answered, one of WATT or ARKWRIGHT,
Or STEVENSON or JACQUARD. " Idextinguishable
laughter" would have followed the proposal of setting
up a statue of Cliult ne Lunt for such a purpose.
The committee themselves can scarcely be considered
to have been unconscious of the absurdity of their
proposition. The proposed statue, then, being no
better than many others, and utterly unfit as a
memorial of industrial achievement, we are left to dis-
cover what can be the other motives which suggested
its erection. And there can be no doubt that the
sculptor being an Italian had a better chance of
having his merits recognised than if he had been an
Englishman. We don't wish to set up the cuckoo
ory of " native talent." All that is necessary to ob-
serve here is, that foreign artists in England, by
means of their ambassadors, and noblemen of their
own country, resident here, have a better chance of
recommending their works to the wealthy and the
aristocratic than English artists, who have no such
introductions. But, if being a foreigner was some-
thing in the sculptor's favour, being a baron must
have been infinitely more so. The apron
and the chisel, which would have excluded an ordi-
nary artist from the saloons of the aristocracy, were
no impediment to a man who had baronial blood in
his veins. His patrons were at the same time his
friends. " Why does papa ask you to dinner, mama
says you are only an artist ?" was the question put
by a little girl to a well-known painter, in the pre-
sence of her discomfited mama. Now this question
would fall harmless upon the sculptor of Cana DR
Llott, who is a Baron every inch of him. Thus there
was no difficulty in getting up a right noble
committee to do a great deal for the Baron
and a very little for the Exhibition. At
the first summons of the noble committee, there rush
to the place of meeting a tumultuous flock of the
gentle and simple who are always at the beck and
call of noble committees. The noblemen vote the
brother nobleman's statue a noble performance and
worthy of being erected somewhere; and, inasmuch as
it stood in the people's Exhibition, it shall be said to
be a memorial of the people's achievements. It is no
matter that this King RICHARD is connected with no
portion of our history in which anything was done for
the people. Hisao matter that " the people" in the true
sense of the word did not exist is his time. It is no
matter that the whole spirit of the age was utterly
contrary to that of the present. Never mind the in-
congruity. If we must have noblemen to preside
over industrial matters, whit can we expect but that
they should act with a fellow-feeling for nobility
and Norma royalty t And although there may be a
little want of adaptation to circumstances in the ram-
, lotion the committee have come to, let the middle
classes be eternally grateful that their noble Mendel
have determined to put up a lasting memorial of the
wonders of labour and the miracles of trade in the
. statue of a warrior king carved by a noble sculptor.

THE Tilliiil COaromm6x.—The corporation of
the Trinity How gave their animal banquet, at their bow
oa Towne bill, on Saturday evening. His Boyd Highness
Prince Albert presided on the occasion as matter of the
corporation, and delivered several appropriate and eloquent
addresses- The' Earl of Aberdeen and her Mejesty's
ministers, with the Bari of Derby and many other dirtin
welshed 'Bobby's' and gentlemen, were of the party. We
hope to he enabled to furnish our readers with • report of
the peoesedisge in our neat impression.
REFUSINTATION OF BTROOD.—(From our Cone-
spaidess.)-BMsod, Juno 6.—The death of Berl Duels,
land the ennewprest elevation of his roc, Lord Moreton, to
' ohs peerage, having sawed a vacuity in the representation
of this borough, the plate is again in a rate of political ex-
citement, and annserene auaidatm are spoken of, but as
yet none hag declared himself.. A public meeting of the
demon is to be hold te-meerovr (Monday) on the subject of
the repreeentation. The last election was hotly contested.
Fear candidates were brought forward for the two seats,
viz , Mr. gaups (liberal), who sought re-election, Mr. Nor-
ton (tidied), Lied Moreton (liberal), and Mr. Baker (con-
servative free-trader). At the claw of the poll the num-
ber were—Mr. &rope, 665; Lord Moreton, 628; Mr.
Baker, 48*; Mr. Norton, 310. The present vacant seat
will undoubtedly be contested.
Tun New WESTMINSTER BRIDOK.—The Thames
Navigation Committee of the City Corporation recommend
that the parliamentary bill for sanctioning • new bridge at
Westminster be opposed, now that, as amended, it provides
that the central arch shad be only 20 feet above high
water tank instead of 25 feet, the height originally in-
serted in the measure. The commit'ee also recommend that
• petition should be presented against the erection of the I
bridge according to the proposed plan,on the ground
that it would materially interfere with te navigation of
tle river.

..-
te CRLF.BRAVON OF SIR JAMES GRAHAM'S
RittinuAT.—On Wednesday last Sir James Graham's birth-
day WM estenated in Longtowa by the tenantry of the
Netherby estate and others by • public dinner, at which
the keens of the right hon. baronet and the umbel a of
his lenity were drwak with cordial enthusiasm.—Cartisfe
Jownerst.

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" HOOKING" Or THE BELGIAN SUBMARINE. TELE-
SATriDAY.—A mishap took place this
morn , which was likely to have much damsged the
sebmariee thews cable which has recestly been laid down
across the flhaansl to Ostend. It appears that a vessel
called the Vicar of Bray, Mr. Haulms muter, which has
lately arrived in the Closanel from Afriekwas about getting
under weigh from the South Foreland fur the river, when
the anchor caught the imbalance cable. All the effects of
j the crew failed in bringing her up; she maid not be on
hocked, and, as a lan expedient, the vessel was obliged to
II slip from her anchor, and as much as 15 fathoms of cal:l'4
which were sttached to it. The submarine cable seems not
to have suffered the least by the " hooking," as the mes-
sages have toes through witi.out the least hindrance.