The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1853-10-13
NO. 354.
EUROPEAN CORRESPONDENCE.



Eev are not very pacific. The Emperor of
Russia as we anticipated, has rejected the
Turkish notifications of the Viennese note
bnt whether with or without conditions, the
nuble have no information and are therefore
nrecisely in tho same dilemma upon the ques.
ron of peace OF war, as they have been at
every successive step of this most anomalous
dispute IL should seem TO political mind
that this strange state of doubt, ever occurring
could not be accidental; but that arrtertS
psnsees never failed to make mystery, when a
clear and decisive view was most naturally
looked for. The absurdty of transmitting the
original proposition to Petersburgh, and not
simultaneously IL. or in concert with Constan-
tinople. has led to the present embodiment, and
now there will be sending to Constantnope
and not to Petersburgh. We are also in the
dark as to the extent of harmony of opinion
among the referees DO they entirely agree as
to the pretensions of either or both the com.
batants? The slightest difference would para
I'VE action and for aught we know, at the pro-
iected meeting of the Emperors of Russia and
lukewarm to the French and English princi
PIES may be neutralzsd, or even detached
from the Unlon-nay, may be persuaded to try
partition of Turkey IN Europe as of Poland in
bygOne DAYS. Should the latter event be per
petrated, then woe to millions of men. The
antagonism of dcspotic and democratic forces
must be let loose over the world, and tyrants
and reyOlutionsts meet in many a field, far
away from the Danube Austria will find in
Hungary and Italy other employment for her
arms. Poland will be astir again. Will Ger.
many be still What will Persia, what Cireas
i. WnnlI Erapoa he
Rhine, to invade the Austrian Empire Would
absolute France and constitutional England
perseyere long on the same course together
Would they sail together into the Black sea-
and ruin the prospects of Russia for half a cen.
fury there? Would England sweep the Baltic
How would Belgium be affected, and what the
relative interests of Prussia? Questions of Vita
importance, involving incalculable results
spring up like mushrooms and nothing can
prevent them from gathering the strength and
durability of oaks, but the chance of negotia
ton being still practicable, before the fanati
cal Turks and equally fanatical Russians rush
into conflict. There is indeed a rumor that they
have done so, but it does not rest on probable
authority 1t speaks of Omer Pasha being un.
able to restrain the fury of his troops, and con
sequently to have marched them against the
enemy, and fought for several days, with sue
cess at first, but in the end with loss.
We have, however to repeat our caution
with regard to the credit due to the public
journals Nearly all of them are somehow in
terested, and made the organs of reports ant
statements intended to produce certain effects
One is imbued from Russia, another from
France, and third from parties favorable Il
Turkey; 40 that in fact there is a sort of news
paper battling before the actual ight among
nations can begin; for even despots now ar,
compelled to pay some Difference to public
opinion
Lord Clarendon's answer to Count Nessel
rOde's circular has the best of the argument
but, after that of the French Minister, seem,
somewhat tame as well as late. Rumors O.
Lord Stratford de Redcliffe's resignation of hi
functions is exactly one of the journalist ruse,
to which we have adverted; yet Lord Carlisle'
prolonged stay at Constantinople, on his way
to Bagdad afforded some countenance to thu
invention.
The French and English funds, it will b.
seen, have fallen much and rapidly, and oul
Bank is expected to raise its rate of discounts
In ten days, to u or even per cent; for We
are importing gram in immense quantities, anC
the gold must go out for it, far quicker than
any receipts from California and Australia car
supply. Hence the whole system is disturbed
and together with deficient harvest, Their,
are unsettled times to look forward to-
Our late letters being SO full, we will not en-
large ON the same topics farther but simply
notice that Mr.. Calvert at the British Asso
citation at Hull, asserts that there is gold to b.
wrought in forty or fifty districts in England
so that, if other parts fail US, we may help our
selves. Another important matter brough
forward at this scientific meeting, was an in
ventlon for which Mr. George Rennie vouched
and OF which we heard Mr. Fairburn, the emf
nent civil engineer, express his hopeful appro
batOn-an invention by which the heat o
steam, after performing its part as a locomotiv,
power is made to act upon ether, (in a secont
apparatus on the same machine and CONVEX
that subtle fluid into an agent Of equal fore
with the original steam. Thus are two action
orpowers, instead of one, and the saving Of fue
Is estimated at from so to 20 per cent Oul
largest railroad-whose cost for fuel is about
halt million per annum-would thus save
from f250 600 to f30O, 900!
sad exposure of cruelties exercised upor
haPNess criminal prisoners in Birmingham jai
has created strong sensation throughout the
country; and the invasion of cholera com
menclDg at Newcastle, near the site of it's frs
outbreak, and already fatal in London and it
suburbs, has caused much alarm. The ap
prOach of colder weather is favorable; but still
the pestilence may commit great havoc befor,
Its ravages are stopped.
LONDON, Sept. "a, 1853.
Oar home news move in less notorious bu
not less constant cycle than when Parliament
st'. and Eliminates and Obscures the progress
OF circumstances If you have noticed on thu
sea shore, in idle mood, the waves chasing eaci
other swshing along the pebbly beach, and
murmuring in'o nothing, you have perfec
Smitude of the human tides A half dozen
more or less, of smaller ripples come successive
lyon, and then there is O prcdominating swell
ana then more rpples, and then a monster rusl
numbering to the coast, seeming TO overwhelu
a. on mat have gone before, and just perishing
IKE them on the eternal brink So it is will
the tide in the affairs of man Every move
meht Is to the same ending We are nov
among the smaller wavelets; but anon we ma,
nave the giant undulation, flashing the sea int.
loan, and bursting in fury along the strand
only to be succeeded by another series Of rip
pies another flow Of greater magnitude, an'
another storm of the element alike beautiful
IN calm and terrible in tempest, to ravag
Wheresoever it prevailed but like the rest. /
De hushed into a remembrance of sound, fnall
Agnlfying nothing
Oar Queen has had some little outhouses &C
cilentally burnt at Balmoral Even sover
elsn Is not exempt from alarms of fire. Their
was one at Windsor lately, which might hav
destroyed the old royal castle; and now anoth
IT mas threatened, from the sheds of the ma
sons TO impede the buildings in addition to tn
@eN highland palatialvilla residence of tn,
Hleen' The newspapers tell that Prince AL
I u u wrought hcroically at the pumps and a
a,. ~ II. has been rather unsuccessful in hi
havo Hg this season--for be is reported Il
sam snOt with very bad fortune--it may b,
ano,ho oOn'ofaeon to have had useful exercise il
ing good '' "''"s o"u-n'' eA""s'''n
=, "'icfd has visited ma and within n fev