Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-08-19
- From the Paris Sieela July ss:
The Policy of England nntI Franz

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oortahce, were Immediately forwarded & Lord Cow
lev at Chantlly. and we are informed ma. al z o Il
clock in the afternoon his fordship arrfed IN Pans
TO have conference with the Minis3 OF role,gnJ
Affairs. However we'll sealed ofhcA oespatcnes
nav be- something always escapes thu the en-
velopes and the triple seals. We r@le therefore,
with certain degree of confidence, nat IS stated
to us in our letters from London and persons VINO
left London at the same time with he letters ne
English government it is said, has informed tnat OF
France that the moment has cOmeS0r discussing All
the plans of proceedings in theAsvent OF war
which is happily still not certain. AS regards the
condition of the evacuation of th provinces OF the
Danube the British cabinet is B opinion that IL is
implicitly laid down in the PROPOSITIONS OF arrange
ment which have been sent to = Petersbufgh; Dut
il thinks it would not be amiss to lay It down ex-
plicitly, negotiations be arrled on with non
or only this condition. On letters INFORM US Oh
something still more serious. he Eng1sh govern
ment admits that the fleets cs,not without riskng
the respect due to the two grat naval powers re-
main in BeSka bay; and anorder is to De sent 10
them pass the DardanelleS but without undertaK-
ing any warlike operations without fresh lnstruc-
tons. The reasons whci nave determined the
British cabinet to take a kesolution apparently so
onnosed to the ostensihle Eoicy of Lord Aberdeen
are as follows: France all England have conclu
81 ely demonstrated that hey have right to take
stem which thew hayelot yet taken. This Is a
striking proof of their federation. But this mod
Grafton NAV have, andh fact has, been taken by
the mass Of Oriental Fpulatlon as sign OF lear
and hesitation in the zee OF Russia. In inns OPh-
ion on their mart tber les real danger While Rus
sia instals herself asa sovereign in two rich pro-
vnces, whence she nay act upon Servia and Bulga-
ria, the Sultan in til eyes of many people appears
to be abandoned bynis allies, who lose with him
the prestige of the power. Besides, in what res
pect would the enty Of the fleets into the Dardan.
Giles change the eisting situation I! To an act of
war Turkey, Eng hnd, and France would have re-
plied bv an act 81 war which, If it did not hasten
peace would atsany rate not postpone It, tor the
Emperor of Russia could not refuse nm arrangement
because Franceind England should nave assumed
a position in Drkey balancing that taken by him.
self in the Darubian provinces. The entry of the
fleets may male Russia show her intentions it can
not alter then. Moreover, it has been found by
exnerience tht ambassadors will not act upon their
own responsibility, and that it was necessary for
the tsthemselves to come to decision rela-
tive to the k.eets II we could have hesitated to
circulate tbs serious and decisive intelligence, it
would ONLY have been because 1T is so contormable
to the pocy advocated by this journal, that 1t
might be hought we had desired rather than known
II to be tse But, thank Cod it is known that we
are actu,ted by patriotic feelings than by all
the alluions of selflove. The news of the ap-
proachig entry of the fleets into the Dardanelles
has bea1 communicated to most seriously as a
fact hsving all the character of moral certainty.
As subj we give it to OUR readers, begging them,
neverh eess, not to forget the difference between
resolution taken and q fact accomplished.
DECISION IN A LIQUOR CASE Judge Manchester, of
Pro dence has decided that where person goes in
to place and drinks liquor for the purpose of be.
coming witness in court against the establishment
Were the purchase is made, such testimony is not
legal. A Mr.. Keefe had been trial for selling
lluor. The Judge after reviewing the case in detail
aid that upon every principle OF law, no man should
)e convicted of crime upon the uncooborated testl
lmony of a man who would go upon the stand and
hoh had ind fha 1ofo
commit the crime for the purpose of having an op-
portunity TO against him-that ii took away
the safeguard which the law had thrown around the
citizen for his protection, and the security of fair and
impartial trialwhen accused ofcrime He adjudged
the defendant not guilty. and ordered him to be dis
charged. Judge Manchester did just as he should
have done. The professed temperance man who i:
mean enough 10 prowl around rum shop, and drink
liquor from the hands of the person who sells it tc
him in good faith, for the purpose of testifyins
against him. deserves to be defeated end pointed at
THE CRYSTAL PALAcE-WM it Pay ?-Some o
the New York papers are discussing the question
whether the Crystal Palace will pay speculation
One of them POUNDS an opinion adverse to it's pecu
mary profit on the following grounds, which may o.
may not be correct
The structure cost $500,0OO, while the cost 0
keeping things in order runs away with $500 pc
week more. The receipts thus far have averaged
about $4,000 per week. Should these receipts con
tlnuo I'LL the grant OF IHe expires year
from last May, the stockholders will be treated t.
the following exhibit Cost of building, $500, 900
weekly expenses for 1O4 weeks, at 81 500 per week
S15GOO0 two years interest on first cost of build
! ing, $4,000 total outgoes, $4,000 Income -
lO4 weeks receipts at $4,000 per week, $4,000
value of building at expiration of the show, $50 O0
whole amount of receipts 1882, 900. From thi
deduct the expenditures, $726 900, and we have
balance of $780, 900 the net profits of the exhbi
ton: But what right have we to suppose that tn
rece pts will average any such sum we have fxe'
upon For the first six months the receipts ma,
equal not only $4,000, but 90 beyond it but wha
will the succeeding six months do? In all proba
bility not over So. 600 per week. By December mex
the foreign contributions will commence leaving To-
home, and with their departure will go some of tn
leading attractions of the exhibition. Now if tn
second six months pay in So, 900 per week, what ar
we to expect from the second year? Barely enougl
to pay current expenses.
Alarming Effects of the Excessive Heat.
New YORK. Aug. 13-Up to O'Clock yesterda
afternoon less than 80 deaths reported at tn
Coroners office of these, upwards of 20 were caus
ed by the excessive heat OF the weather. The Core
ners were bnsily engaged during the day in holdin
inquis;tion. upon the bodies of those who died o
Thursday Many inquisitions will have TO be defer
red until to-day.
New ORLEANS, August 13.-There were abou
200 deaths from Yellow Fever in New-Orleans o
Friday.
! SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR THE New ORLEANS SUFFERER
I-BALTIMoRE, August 14-The contributions
New-York for the sufferers from the epidemic
New Orleans have amounted to $50 900 at Phil'
delphia to $4,000 and at Baltimore to $4,000.
A STRONG TEAM.-There are one hundred an
forty. one locomotives now in the employ of the Ba
) timore and Ohio Railroad Company. The Vince
ing Gazette says that if hitched together they wou