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London, England, 1853-09-14 00:00:00

E SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 14, 1853.

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THE WEATHER.—Strx OFFICE, SEPT. 14.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
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51—lowest this morning and during the night.
66—this day at noon.

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 185

The thunderbolt has at length fallen—Russia
has rejected the Turkish Modifications. Such is
the intelligence flashed to us, through Berlin, by
the Electric Telegraph. An a
to our timorous ppropriate pendant
airid irresolute negotiations
Have we not insisted
throughout that nothing
better than this Could
result from our diplomatic
poltroonery ?
Would to oevents might have falsifiedo ntikat, in this respect,
our
predictions
Such, however,
was altogether
:111Possible. Eng-
land was too obviously
,compromisedahll by the
timidity, the delays, and the hesitations
Government. It was manifest, of her
commencement, that the country mu: from the
sooner or
later be placed in a false position—thanks
the
nervous and uncertain foreign policy of
our de
ministration. Therefore it has, in fact, to
the
very letter, so happened. After encouraging the
Divan to count upon our support by dispatching
our armed vessels to Besika Bay—after prompting
the SULTAN, consequently, to exhaust the resources
of his exchequer by enormous armaments, or-
ganised, both by sea and land, for the vindication
of the rights of his Sovereignty—our rulers,
through their representative at Vienna, arrange
with the Austrian, French, and Prussian Pleni-
potentiaries a scheme of reconciliation between
Russia and Turkey, most truckling to the Coun-
cils of St. Petersburg, and most faithless to those
of Constantinople. They so draw up the various
clauses of their proposition that the AUTOCRAT,
through its acceptance, should obtain more than
it
himself had ever demanded, while the sacred
and inalienable rights of the Sublime Porte
shouldbetherebythe
Addedcompromised.
to this, they so con-
trive suggesting this
co
most disgraceful
shall be tr r is-
mated, first of all to St.
Obviously, petet Petersburg, and
afterwards to Constantinople.
there-
fore, the Divan is deprived
of the Opportu-
nity
of objecting to the proposal of the Four
Powers befere it has already been acceded to by
,
the CZAR of course with the utmost eagerness
and complacency. Naturally enough, the result

of all this has deplorably justified the gloomiest
of our anticipations. Russia, recognising on the
instant in this shameless proposal of the Four
Powers the advantages certain to accrue to herself
from its acceptance, at once consents to the Vienna
suggestions promptly and unconditionally. Tur-
key, on the other hand, perceiving at a glance the
faithlessness revealed by her allies in this dis-
graceful proposition—perceiving that the ac-
ceptance of that proposition by the Divan
would involve the degradation of the autho-
rity of their Imperial master the SUL-
TAN, and the virtual relinquishment of his
independence—at once refuse to receive the Note
from Vienna, until it has been rendered palatable
to them by a series of what they assert forthwith
to be imperatively essential modifications. Directly
news to this effect arrives from the Golden Horn,
we are assured that the preliminary changes re-
quired by the Divan are altogether unimportant in
their character, that they are, to all intents and pur-
poses, really quite insignificant. Yet, on turning
to the official despatches of REDSCHID PACHA, the
Turkish Minister for Foreign Affairs, a communica-
tion addressed by him as recently as the 19th ult.,
to the British, Austrian, French, and Prussian
representatives, we find that these wholly " unim-
portant" modifications are, nevertheless, deemed so
absolutely requisite by the Divan, that his Highness
upon one point declares, "It is therefore totally im-
possible for the Government of his Majesty the
SULTAN to assent to such a proposition without
being forced!" Anxiously, therefore, after this, but
still with an affectation of regarding the matter
as really insignificant, the allied Plenipotentiaries
forward to the Councils of the CZAR intelligence
of the modifications insisted upon by the Turkish
Government. Then follows an interval of timo-
rous solicitude. Everybody, sympathising with
the policy of the ABERDEEN Cabinet, awaits the
decision of the Emperor NICHOLAS tremblingly
and on the tiptoe of expectation. That decision is
at last received via Berlin through the Electric
Telegraph a peremptory rejection of the
Turkish modifications ! Can that rejection,
we ask any man of common sense and im-
partiality, can that rejection by the CZAR be
any matter of surprise under the circumstances ?
The Russian Government receives certain pro-
posals from the Four Powers, and accepts them
at once, unconditionally. Shortly afterwards it
is asked to consent to certain changes and modi-
fications in the Note as originally accepted.
Naturally, inevitably, it refuses to consent to those
modifications. It argues of course—No, we have
already assented to it as it stands : it is not ours, it
is your own proposition. The onus, consequently,
of this new complication devolves upon the
Turkish Government. Can that Government
withdraw its modifications ? Scarcely. It has
already declared them to be imperatively essential
as a preliminary. His Highness the Foreign
Minister of the SULTAN, as recently as the
19th ultimo, as already observed, has dis-
tinctly asserted—" It is, therefore, totally im-
possible for the Government of his Majesty to
submit to such a proposition, WITHOUT BEING
FORCED." How, consequently, from this la-
mentable complication of difficulties, can
our rulers discover any means of honourable ex-
trication ? If the modifications be insisted on by
the Four Powers, they will have dealt falsely with
the CZAR, for he has already, as we have seen,
accepted their own proposition promptly and
unconditionally. If, on the contrary, those
modifications be rejected by the Four Powers as
superfluous and unnecessary, the SULTAN, yet
more than the AUTOCRAT, will have been odiously
deceived and monstrously abandoned. Here,
for the present, is our dilemma. For the dis-
grace of having fallen into it, for the in-
famy resulting from it, for the odium that
must inevitably attach to us from the remem-
brance of these most lamentable negotiations, we
have to thank the shuffling, timid, and changeful
foreign policy of the Earl of ABERDEEN'S pusilla-
nimous Government.

The Bears are still carrying on their operations
with extraordinary vigour and energy, and
hitherto with marked success. Stocks and shares
of every description have been greatly depressed,
chiefly from the doubt and uncertainty still
hanging over the solution of the Fastern difficulty,
and in some respects from the fears entertained
as to a deficient harvest, and an insufficient sup-
ply of food for the people. Further measures on
the part of the Bank Directors to enhance the
rate of interest are more than hinted at, and
nothing that can increase the feeling of alarm in
the public mind, or deepen the existing gloom, is
left undone by the bold and not very scrupulous
speculators for a fall. It must be admitted that these
persons are wise in their generation, and that they
turn to the best advantage not only any circum-
stance, however trivial, but even any rumour, no
matter how improbable, that may add to the
panic which they have excited. The proceedings
of the ursa major of the Great Northern Despots,
whose unwarranted and unwarrantable invasion of
the territories of a friendly power led to all these
evils, were complete godsends to his minor
brethren, and the vacillating and temporising policy
of the " excellent ABERDEEN," and his supporters
in the Joint-Stock Administration, consummated
the mischief. _ _ _

If an English Minister had held the seals of the
Foreign-office when the Russian troops first crossed
the Pruth, and thereby created a easus belli which
threatened to disturb the peace of Europe, the
matter would now rest upon a very different basis,
and that most important element would no longer
require to be taken into the calculation. But, un-
fortunately, the England of 1853 did not maintain
the position to which she had been elevated when a
more decisive and manly policy prevailed in her
councils, and when the Minister who suggested a
Quaker-like submission to insult and contumely
would speedily be hurled from place and power,
and when a British Parliament would not abdicate
its functions in favour of any man or body of men,
however well merited the confidence that might
be reposed in his or their ability, and discretion,
and energy. But, nous avows changee tout cekt,
the favourite doctrine now appears to be, that we
should endure patiently any outrage—that we
invariably in
bear our snubb gs with equanimity,
turning ' , the other cheek to the smiter" when
ever the first became unpleasantly warm
from the
concussions. What is the use of
however
being
wauton for war," if no provocation,
`` prepea.ed
or lead to a vill produce remonstrances,
cc a determinedfirst-rate
resistance by what was
anything
once
but which has fallen
must henceforth hide its
from its high estate, :aecir'"
diminished head wheneverpis, requiring in-
con_net n the flnence and respect is on the tapir
make theinbest of
But, although we may
Adminis-
tration whose vacillating condemn
d led to this de-
plorable state of affairs, we must
it, and the questions to be considered
con-
nexion with the subject on which we startenamely the ursine operations, and the depressed
quotations on the Stock Exchange, are the nfo - ow.
ing, viz.—Will hostilities be commenced in which
England must necessarily be involved ? And, if so,
are they likely to be so serious as to lead to any
national resources ?
the
prolonged pressure on .
se nterogato
Now, before we respond to the
stood ries, we
almost
must remind our readers thati wer
When
as yet
alone in declaring that matters we
re
when other
conclusively or satisfactorily arranged,
journals were singing pecans in honour of the
moderation (?) of the CzAit—of his ready conces-
sion to the remonstrance:4 of the other Powers,
and willing acceptance or their conjoint propo-
sitions. We entertained a wholesome distrust
of Russian diplomacy, and believed that he

would not, without a struggle, relinquish !
the advantageous position he had attained,
with his troops quartered in the dominions, and
devouring the resources of the enemy. The ques-
tion of " teeth money" had not been settled, or
the amount of compensation which might be
claimed by NICHOLAS, for the expenses of his
occupation. That his demand would be extrava-
gant, such as could not possibly be submitted to,
was by no means improbable, and that they would
still further entangle matters which previously
had been more than sufficiently complicated, was
to be expected. But that any serious hostilities
would arise, in which the Western Powers would
participate, we never anticipated. The EMPEROR
will go as far as he can with impunity, but he
will know when and where to stop. He is too
well aware of the dangers and inconvenience of a
direct collision with the combined navies of Eng-
land and France to plunge into the contest.
Clouds may low over the political horizon, but
the storm will be averted ; the aspect of affairs
may be threatening for a time, but that is all.
We are firmly convinced that there will be no pro-
clamation of war—no battle in which England may
be engaged. The solution of the problem will be ar-
rivedat more speedily than has been anticipated, and
the rapid improvement of quotations of every
kind of stock will heap ample retribution on
those who are endeavouring to increase the alarm
or foment the panic at the present moment.

There is no better foundation for the fears re-
specting the deficiency of the harvest, or the
supposed famine that is said to be impending.
That prices have risen very materially within the
last few months is certain ; but these additions
are ascribable more to the improved condition of
the working population than to any probable
scarcity. The general employment has created
an additicalal demand for comforts and luxuries
utterly unknown under less favourable circum-
stances. The holders of stocks of every kind are
making the most of the change, but there is no
danger of a deficiency. The table of imports and
exports will prove that fact beyond the possibi-
lity of doubt.
Let persons, then, refuse to sacrifice their pro-
perty at the present prices ; let them decline to
play the game of speculation by casting it on
the market. They may be well assured that there
will be a speedy reaction, if they are only true to
themselves and abstain from increasing the panic
by yielding to the fears excited by unconscientious
and interested persons.

The very sensible remarks on Convocation, by
the Archbishop of CANTERBURY, which appeared
in our paper of Saturday, deserve a brief notice.
His Grace availed himself of the opportunity of
meeting the clergy resident in the vicinity of
Ashford and Sittingbourne, to expound delibe-
rately his reasons for objecting to a revival of the
activity of Convocation. Though much might
be said which his Grace wisely abstained from
saying, yet what he did say is weighty enough.
The Convocationists well know that the country
has plenty of reasons of its own, in addition to
those which the Archbishop appropriately urged
upon ministers of religion, which will always be
fatal to their object. We have furnished them
with some of them—if, indeed, they see fit to
honour us with their attention. We will not re-
cal them just now, but we strongly advise them
to make a " Vienna note " of their Metropoli-
tan's charge, to sign it with all possible dispatch,
and to withdraw at once from a contest in which
they are sure to be thoroughly beaten.
Dr. SUMNER pointed out, with perfect truth,
the utter inutility of a Convocation, even sup-
posing it were a real representation of every part
of the country, in promoting the efficiency of the
clergy situated in districts of a most diverse
character. The real work of the Church has to
be done by individual clergymen. Local con-
ferences of ministers in the same district, all un-
derstanding its peculiarities more or less, and all
having a common object, might, of course, be
helpful by mutual experience and suggestions.
A body like Convocation could do nothing of the
kind. It could not increase the efficiency of a
single parish clergyman. " It could not enable
him to bring one additional soul to vital and
serious religion." We fear, however, that this
just observation, so appropriate from one minister
of religion to another, will have little weight with
the Convocationists. They, the noisiest of them
at least, are men to whom their parish is but a
prison, and whose chief longing is to make them-
selves notorious beyond it, or to gain the power
belonging to chief clerical debaters in a clerical
assembly. The sober part of the public will en-
tirely concur with the Primate.
In respect to other important general objects
for which a living Convocation is desired, his
Grace shows that all of them can be best
accomplished by the existing voluntary so-
cieties and organisations connected with the
Church. For education they have the Na-
tional Society, and the Diocesan Boards of Educa-
tion. For " the extension of the means of grace
in proportion to the population," they have a
society which has been at work successfully for 40
years. For the " propagation of the gospel in
foreign parts" (whether amongst our colonists, or
among the vast numbers of heathen beneath our
rule), they have the society which, for 140 years,
has borne that name. Were they to undertake
in Convocation the work of this society, what
could it do but use the very means—Bibles,
books, and missionaries—which the Society now
employs ? Now, all this is well said. The Arch-
bishop has hit the right nail on the head. " If,
gentlemen, your object be not ecclesiastical noto-
riety and power, if it be simply to forward that
solemn and supremely important work for which
the nation supports you, first attend to your work
quietly and vigorously in your respective parishes
and districts. Secondly, if you contemplate home
or foreign usefulness of a religious kind, why, no-
thing prevents you from aiding old societies, or
forming new ones, if you will ; you are free to
contribute your money, to choose your own com-
mittees, to elect your own officers, and to extend
the Church at home and abroad as much as you
please."
Though not in so many words, the Archbishop
yet plainly tells the clergy of this day that it is
to the voluntary principle they must look for
Church Extension. Before the time of the Re-
form Bill, the Duke of WELLINGTON hirtlgeif; in
his place in the House of Lords, told them expli-
citly the same truth. To a large extent his ad-
vice has been acted on since with great success,
and the Church must continue to act upon it.
Even the present reformed Parliament showed
pretty plainly last session that the time for eccle-
siastical jobs is gone by. The census returns, too,
have made it impossible for any Government to do
more than preserve the present endowments of
the Established Church for the use of its mem-
bers, and Churchmen will be wise not to provoke
comparisons of their claims to increased legislative
protection with those of other sects. As Lord
observed, " the principle on
whichSTANLEY t h
the
has
presentjustly
generation inclines to act, is
that of strict religious equality. " Other sects have
shown, every now and then,
some impatience of
the legislative powers of bishops. What would beseriously
the resistance should any Government
propose to give the Church of England a convoca-
tion—not a mere voluntary association of active-
minded Churchmen—but a convocation having a
parallel with that of our Houses of Parliament
legal status and powers, and a rank ecclesiastically
politically?
We feel pretty confident that the statesman
element will always predominate too largely in
any Cabinet to permit to Convocationists the
chance of Governmental support ; the country is
safe against the nuisance of having to petition
against them. Still, the Archbishop has done
excellent service, in showing that religious reasons
are as weighty
demands.eigh
tyasliNe d
tvicalroeausloinnks, against
however,
that
indulg-
ing their
in another direction the Church does need more
liberty
revelations of Glasgow
of action. Mr. S. G. OSBORNE, in his
vice
religious instruction, to the most depraved degradation,dep
an
shown that We do need means of communicating
twhohsiechwun
of a humbler kind and less
raved
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iaacltleyr e
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legislative removal of every restriction which
hinders active Churchmen, whether lay or clerical,
from providing and giving such instruction. There
is not a Church in Christendom which fetters the
action of its parish clergymen so much as our own.
Strike off those fetters. Emancipate curates from
slavery to the bishops. Give scope to all the
zeal there is for doing good. But let us hear no
more of reviving a defunct scheme for clerical
strife and ambition.

MONEY MARKET

AND

CITY INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.
The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday
were estimated at 4,000 bales, of which 1,000 Ame-
rican were taken for export. The market closed
heavily, and there was more desire to sell. The
sales comprised 3,500 American, 50 Pernam and
Maranham, at 6d. ; 50 Bahia, at 6id. ; and 200
Surat, at 3i-d. to 4d. per lb. Railway Shares
were again very depressed, at a decline of about
2 per cent.
The Panama has arrived from Sydney with dates
of May 7, and the Marion from Melbourne with
advices of June 4, but the amount of gold on board
is not known.

Pursuing the tenor of the observations which we
made yesterday under this head, it deserves to be
noticed that the rates of the Foreign Exchanges
were yesterday afternoon in several cases decidedly
higher. Paris, 90 days, was at 25 20 to 25 ; Am-
sterdam, 11 171 to 18 ; Hamburgh, 13 61 to ;
and Trieste, 10 58 to 11 2. Paris, short, was also
much better ; and the fact is undoubted, as we
stated yesterday, that a leading Hebrew firm sent
in 100,0001. to the Bank of England. The intelli-
gence this morning received that the Emperor of Rus-
sia has rejected the ultimatum, causes not the least
surprise, having been expected for nearly a week
past. Silver has declined id. per oz., sales having
been made of bars and dollars at 600. to 6did.
Whether the demand will be renewed, depends upon
the news by the next overland mail. As to the
state of the discount market here, there is necessa-
rily a good demand, but the Banks have ample
means to supply it, and the only reason why
cash is not more abundant, is that the Bank
of England, it is supposed, may yet further
put up the rate ; therefore capitalists place their
money at " call" only. If the step is to be really
adopted within any short period, the sooner it were
done the better, as it would rectify the exchanges,
and produce altogether a better feeling. With
gold arriving, and still to arrive from Australia,
however, it might possibly happen that the Bank
would find itself above the market rate, or must
resort to the injurious step of another altera-
tion in a downward direction. It is sur-
prising to see such timidity prevailing, and
we have another example of the effects of
making money at one time excessively cheap, and
then, for want of precaution and foresight, having
very suddenly to raise it. Best bills are readily
discounted at 4 per cent., and others at something
above that quotation. There is not, however, so
strong a belief that the Bank will to-morrow raise
its terms.

The Gold Mine Companies of Australia seem

likely, although started -much more recently, to
make as early returns as the Californian under-
takings. The Port Philip Company has received
12,000/. by the Marco Polo, being the produce of
gold assayed and smelted at the Company's estab-
lishment in Melbourne, and found to be 4i grains
better than standard.

The English Stock Market has been fluctuating,
and the uncertainty occasioned by the news of the
rejection of the ultimatum by Russia. There may,
however, be qualifying circumstances that will be
made known hereafter. In the " house," money
has been in more request, and the sales of stock
will account. Such a fall as has occurred is the
first for some years, and when the Eastern
question was far more threatening, the decline
was not nearly so great. As we draw
towards the period of the October dividends,
there will probably be a partial rally, for a great
and sudden fall is almost invariably succeeded by a
subsequent improvement, even if such be not long
maintained. Consols have been quoted 95g to
for transfer, and 95 to 95i for account. Ex-
chequer Bills have been at 3s. discount, and India
Bonds at 2s. premium.
The fall of 6 to 7 per cent. in Peruvian Stock in
the absence of real sales, and with the same confi-
dence as ever in its intrinsic value on the part of
the holders, utterly disproportioned as it is to the
decline of to 1 per cent., and even less in other
foreign investments, has occasioned much surprise
on the part of the uninitiated, but upon inquiry
the matter is more readily explained than would be
supposed. A party who has been speculating
largely for a rise without adequate means,
appears to have become involved, and his
accounts being suddenly closed, there were
scarcely buyers on any terms, the Bears taking ad-
' vantage of the circumstance. In the interest of
the real holder, it would be better if all mere spe-
culations for an advance were brought to a similar
close, as the Bears then would have to buy back,
and such undue fluctuation would not occur.
Peruvian being obviously very low, even in the pre-
sent state of the Money Market, capitalists would
buy if they saw themselves clear of weak time deal-
ers, as it is supposed they now will be, seeing the stop-
page of the party alluded to. There have been no
bargains this morning. Mexican Stock has ruled
at 24g. to I. Grenada Deferred is worth 8i to 9.
Sardinian Bonds have been at 94. Russian Four-
and-a-Half per Cents. have been quoted 100 to f,
a decline. Dutch Four per Cents. are 97i to
Spanish Three per Cents. have realised 464.
Railway Shares are still subjected to much
vacillation, and prices have been unfavourably
acted upon by the embarrassment of one or two
minor dealers. The settlement of the account has
been in progress. The " contangos " have been
to g per share generally. French shares have
been worse also.
The Australian Banks have been cheaper again,
and the Gold Mines dull. The Land Companies
also are heavy.

BRITISH FUNDS, THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
Business done.

3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
3 per Cent. Annuities, 1726
India Bonds, £lOOO
Consols for Account 13th October
Exchequer Bills, id.
£lOOO
Small

i6i---la a
99i
2 osi i i
3d
par

PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Grenada Bonds, Deferred
Mexican 3 per Cent.
Ditto for the Account
Russian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Ditto 4A per Cent.
Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent 46i
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch Exchange, 2} per Cent. ...... ......•.• x d
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates .

HALF-PAST TWO.
95g
95g

Consols
Ditto October Account

MARKET NEWS-(THIS DAY.)

CORN EXCHANGE.

We were scantily supplied with home-grown wheats
to-day. Although the amount of business doing was com-
paratively small, factors were firm in their demands, and
Monday's prices were supported.
From abroad, 12,990 quarters of wheat have come to
hand this week. There was a slight improvement in the
trade, at very full currencies.
Floating cargoes produced quite as much money as
last week.

There was a fair inquiry for barley, but no change took
place in the quotations.
Malt changed hands steadily, at full prices.
Several large parcels of oats found buyers at full
quotations.
Beans, peas, and flour were tolerably firm.

ARRIVALS THIS WEEK.
Barley. 1 Malt.
I 1,190
1
12,990 430 1

Wheat.
630

English ..
Irish ... •
Foreign ..

Oath. Flour.
50 1.020
900
9,180

WHITECHAPEL.

A moderate business was transacted to-day, as follows :
Beef from 3s 2d to 3s 10d ; mutton, 3s 8d to 4s Ifkl ; veal,
3s 4d to 4s 6d ; pork, 3s 6d to 4s 8d per Blbs by the
carcase.

BOROUGH HOP.
A few new pockets from Kent have changed hands at
111. per cwt. The duty is called 155,000/. to 160,0001. ; yet
the demand is steady, and prices are well supported.

CHRIST'S HOSPITAL.—On Wednesday, the 21st inst.,
being St. Matthew's dhy, the Lord Mayor, Aldermen,
Sheriffs, and Governors of the several royal hospitals,
are to attend divine service at Christ's Church, Ne'wgate-
street, where a sermon is to be preached by th'e Rev.
George Buckle, M.A., late Fellow and Tutor of Oriel
College, Oxford. After which they are to'epair to the
Great Hall in Christ's Hospital, where four orations are
to be delivered on the benefits of the royal hospitals by
four of the senior scholars, according to annual custom ;
in Latin by Henry Ludlow ; in English by Johr i Wil-
berforce Doran ; in Greek by Henry Jevers ; aad in
French by Claude Hubert Parez. Two odes will also be
recited, one in English on the " Last Days of King
Edward V 1.," by Charles William Paxton Watt; and
the other in Latin hexameters on " Liberia."
FURTHER DISCOVERIES OF GOLD IN SCOTLAND.-- A. few
days ago it was stated that a gentleman named C alvert
had discovered gold in Westmoreland and Cumb e rland.
It now appears that he has pursued his resear,;:laes in
Lanarkshire and Dumfriesshire, in both of whi ch dis-
tricts he has been successful in finding gold. In t he Vale
of Menuich, at the Glendanan Burn, about fon r miles
from Wanlock Head, he obtained a piece of gold weigh-
ing 4 dwts. It was rough, and of a dark colon cr. At
Lead Hills the gold was of a lighter character. It ap-
peared to be generally diffused on the red soil resting on
the clay slates, chiefly running north and south, inter-
sected with quartz strings running in the same dire etion.
Mr. Calvert found gold in about 14 burns or rii ,ulets,
mainly tributaries of the Elvin Water and Glenge an3n.
Some of the quartz looked at was auriferous, and. „bad a
very fine gold disseminated through it.

LATEST Fl)!'' I*-,; s 7 '

RUSSIA AND TURKEY.

REJECTION OF THE TURKISH MODIFI-

CATIONS.

The Prussian Minister at Paris, M. de Hatzfeld,
received yesterday a telegraphic message from
Berlin, announcing that the Emperor of Russia
has rejected the modifications which were made
by the Porte to the Vienna note.

The news from Constantinople, Aug, 31, re-
ceived by electric telegraph, is as follows :
" All regular communication with the Russian
ports is interrupted."

" The last mail steamer which went to Odessa
has not returned."

" The remainder of the Egyptian fleet has

arrived."

It is said that Omer Pasha addressed to the
Commander-in-Chief of the Russian army a letter,
stating that the Russian gun-boats approached too
near the fortifications on the right bank of the
Danube, and recommending that orders should be
given to prevent this, lest the Turks were com-
pelled to fire on them. Prince Gortschakoff wrote
en the back of the letter—" a des coups des canons
on reponda par des coups des canons.
All the merchants of Ibrail and Galatz are
ruined. In consequence of the news from England
in the early spring they had bought vast quantities
of the standing crops in the interior. Since there
are no vessels to ship off the corn which is daily
arriving, and no granaries in which to deposit it,
immense heaps are lying in the streets uncovered
and wasting.
The Russian forces in the Principalities and in
Bessarabia amount to 110,000 infantry, and
25,000 cavalry.
The Postampt Gazette of Frankfort has the fol-
lowing from Constantinople, 30th ult. :—" Omer
Pacha is placed in a very disagreeable position ;
his troops have declared to him that they wish to
come to blows with the Russians. He cannot op-
pose this feeling, and, on the other hand, he fears
that the enthusiasm of his soldiers will derange
existing diplomatic combinations. The position of
Redschid Pacha is not less unpleasant ; every day
hundred of persons assemble before his palace, and
exclaim that war is the only means of safety for
Turkey."
The same journal states from Brailow in Wal-
lachia, that the troops under General Luders which
hitherto had been stationary in Bessarabia, crossed
the Russian frontier into Moldavia on the 28th of
August. On that day one regiment marched in
and two more followed on the 29th, and entered
Brailow. Other troops are to follow.
It is stated that the navigation of the Sulina
mouth is getting more difficult from day to day.
The water is so low that sailing ships cannot pass
at all. The steamer which was to remove the sand
does not work ; it only pretends to work.
From Vienna we learn that the departure of the
Consuls of France and England from Jassy, had
produced great alarm throughout the whole of
Moldavia.
The Postampt Gazette of Frankfort states from
Vienna that the Emperor of Russia and the King
of Prussia will arrive at the camp of Olmutz on
the 21st inst.
M. Nogues, chief editor of the Journal de Con-
stantinople, has, says a letter from that capital, re-
ceived a warning from the Ottoman Porte not to
publish any articles hostile to Russia, on pain of
the suppression of the journal.
The t Vanderer of Vienna, under date of Con-
stantinople 29th, says :—" A Greek society has re-
cently been formed in London, at the head of
which is Prince Mavrocodato. It is principally
composed of merchants. Its object is to raise the
necessary funds for forming a confederation of
Albanians and Bulgarians. It is easy to conceive
what the destination of this confederation is—it
certainly is not in favour of Turkey. This society
was discovered by a Turkish agent of police. We
do not yet know what measures the Ottoman Go-
vernment will adopt against this association, but it
may occasion great embarrassment to it, as the ma-
jority of the members are foreigners placed under
the protection of their consuls."
Almost all the English sailors who were suffer-
ing from fever, and who were sent to Malta to be
cured, have returned to the Bay of Besika. Their
health is completely restored.

ITALY.
Some Italian emigrants, says the Parlarrbento of
Turin, on recently attempting to cross the Eastern
frontier of the Sardinian states, not far from Sar-
zana, were prevented from passing by the Pied-
montese police.
The Savoy Gazette announces that the cir-
cular of the Minister of War, which declares the
Christian Brethren and the Brethren of the Holy
Family liable to military service, received its exe-
cution for the first time at Chambery on the Bth,
when one of the former, named Father Monarchon
of St. Ivoire, was incorporated in a regiment.
A letter from Faenza, of the 2d, in the Ticinese
Gazette, states that several arrests have taken place
at Forli, and several houses have been searched, in

connection with the 114-e ZlT",,tif,4 fl+ Po ar,l vith
the assassination of the legate of _Ravenna,. The
same letter adds that the road to RD,VeIIII3 iS ju-
felted by robbers.

SPAIN.
The Madrid Gazette announces that the Vice'
Consul of Spain at Bordeaux had informed the.
Minister of Foreign Affairs that the Archbishop 01
that diocese has caused a collection to be newm
the relief of the sufferers from the scarcity
licia.
M. Mendizabal is seriously ill.
The Council of Ministers has resolved to abandon
aga for
the prosecution commenced against M. an
his address to the electors.
The Minister of Marine has been to Madrid t°
consult M. Cortina on the affair relative to the con-
tract for coal for steamers entered into London;
M. Cortina gave him a written opinion that he
had
acted with perfect regularity. This he presente"
to his colleagues ; but they, thinking that M. Cev
tina did not know all the details of the affair, de"
tided that the President of the Council and
the t
Minister of Public Works should have andnonr-
view with that gentleman on the subject, an c
municate to him all the papers respecting
The Bth being the holiday of the Conception
the Stock Exchange was not open.

JAPAN.
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The Weser Gazette, under date of Arasterdatnt
says :—" It is stated that the Russian Goverprus
has resolved to resist the attempts of the Anaeri,,ceou
against Japan, and that the Russian eclus'iled
which recently sailed for those seas was /litmus'
has
for that purpose. The Russian Governnien•
sent for the Dutch Professor Siebold, who regbio
on the banks of the Rhine, to obtain form the
every information relative to Japan, and one d
best means to be adopted to defeat the atteteP,ed
the United States. M. Siebold is well aequaiti"
years'
with Japan, having resided there for manY 'Ad t
The Dutch Government is said to be pleasThils.
this determination of the Cabinet of St. Feteo
burg, as the Americans also threaten the
Archipelago, and as moreover the English in
express themselves in favour of the Americans, and
have lately begun to throw doubt on the Ds
rule in the East Indies."
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ARRIVAL OF THE MARCO POLO