The Express.
London, England, 1867-03-07 00:00:00

THE EASTERN QUESTION.

The Jultriutl de St. Petersbuttry, referring to a cir-
cular in which the Ottoman government claims the
same right of dealing with Candia that Russia has
exercised towards Poland, says :

We need not declare that we do not admit the least
analogy between the Christian movement in the East and
the insurrection in Poland. The complaints of the Poles
were the mere pretexts of revolutionists. Those of the
Christians in the East are powerful realities admitted byall
and by Turkey herself in 1856. But we shall say no more on
this comparison which, however ill-founded, may be used to
the disadvantage of Russia by her enemies, although it
can in no way be favourable to the Porte. As there are
unjust dominations, there are justifiable insurrections.
After having trampled under foot all her engagements in
favour of the Christians, brutal force, it appears, is now
the only instrument which Turkey is determined to em-
ploy in keeping her Christian subjects in the miserable
condition out of which she had promised to raise them.
May the responsibility for the blood which will
be shed fall upon those whose oppression shall
have caused horrible massacres. God will pro-
tect the just cause and give his all-powerful aid
to those who in their misery raise their supplicating
hands to him, and adjure him nut to allow their martyr-
dom to be prolonged under the oppression of a race who
will not treat as brethren the faithful followers of Jesus
Christ. We hope, for the honour of the Ottoman govern.
meat, that the circular is apocryphal, but if it he genuine
it is impossible to foresee the extent of the immediate
evils it may produce. The blood of Christians may be
shed in abundance, but that of the Mussulmans will not
flow less abundantly. If it is to come to an exterminating
struggle, we must despair of the energy of the forces of
modern civilisation, if the consolidation of the Ottoman
power come out of the desperate venture which it will
have hazarded in the barbarian madness of its fanatical
intoxication.

It is stated in the foreign journals that the
Russian troops in Poland have been ordered to
call in their men on furlough by the Ist of April.
It is expected that a southward movement of the
force will take place about that time.

(uuTaa•s irriaitsms4
AUSTRIA.
VIENNA, MARCH 7.
Count Taafe will assume the portfolio of Minister
of the Interior to-morrow.

The Emperor has sanctioned the proposal for a
second Austrian naval expedition to the East for
scientific purposes.

RUSSIA AND AUSTRIA.
ST. PETERBBI7RO, MAncit 7.
Russia has declined to adhere to an international
monetary treaty.
The Austrian government has declared that it
will take the subject into consideration.

TURKEY.

MARSEILLES, DlARcit 7.

Advice, received here from Constantinople
assert that the Porte has formally agreed to the
concessions to Servia and that certain fresh con-
cessions will also be made to Egypt.
A rumour had reached Constantinople of a san-
guinary engagement between the Turkish troops
and the insurgents in Thessaly. The latter had
entrenched themselves on the plain of Orta, where
they repulsed the Turks, who lost 300 men.

SPAIN.

MADRID, MARcii 6, Evrcum.

The Minister for Foreign Affairs has addressed a
circular to the Spanish representatives abroad,
complaining of the calumnious attacks of foreign
journals upon Spanish institutions. The minister
says that Spain is ton noble to reply to such
attacks, and will not give importance to their
authors by prosecuting them before the courts of
law.

INDIA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS.
SUEZ, MARCH 4.
The 21-te,itt arrived at 1 p.m. to-day.

AMERICA.
(DT ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.)
NEW YORK, M.utcH 5. 5 P.M.

Gold, 1361. Sterling exchange on London,
108. Five-Twenty United States Bonds, 1091 ;
Illinois, 116 ; Erie, Cotton : Middling
Upland, 32c. Stocks depressed.

The I' remdentlatt of Vienna relates a melancholy
occurrence at Weeely, near Pardubitz, in Bohemia. The
lighted end of a cigar thrown on to the ground in a dancing
saloon set on fire the dresses of three young women, one of
whom has since died of the injuries received, and the
others are lying in a dangerous state.

The Portuguese government has proposed the
abolition of the penalty of death for a commutation into
that of hard labour for life.

The Council of State has signified its approval
of the bill granting to M. le Lemartine a sum of 400,000
francs as a national recompense. The report was drawn
up by M. l'liospital. The Independence, remarking on
the proposed measure, says :—" The sum is either too
much or too little ; too much if the intention is to pay
the debts incurred by the prodigality of the poet ; and
too little if a gift is made, in the way of a national re-
compense, to the ea-member of the provisional govern-
ment."