The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1853-09-22

alliance itself and the whole of its append.
ages, served chiefly TO show that the Govern.
ment had overheard the whisper. II Russia
despoil Turkey, France will avonge itself ON
Belgium. Since then, indeed matters have
taken different turn in the East but there
was something ominous in the bunt, and King
Leopold is awake, to say, France. do not like
to trust thee, and will strengthen myself by
new family alliances, for my father-iu.law Il
no longer King of the French The House on
SAKE Cobourg is- wonderfully in the ascend
ant and if family ties bestow solid. tangible
power, is at this moment perhaps, the most
powerful in Europe. IL is curious spectacle.
The disappointment and jealousy OF France
in regard to the recent marriage, are openly
| expressed in the Partisan newspapers and
when the dumb are permitted to speak, we
know whence the voice comes.
The anxious look ont for the harvest. as
intimated in our last is becoming more
and more impressive upon all other colIat-
eral circumstances and prospects Half q
week OF fine, or half week of bad weather,
has an influence OF a magnitude hardly to be
credited working into every matter of detail
in every branch of human dealing materially
| affecting national affairs, and though sufii-
| GENTLY obvious in the greater transactions OF
commerce, yet still more powerfully operative,
where it is barely impereeptble in all the lesser
business Of life. In this country, there is no
question of a short crop; and from all that
can be ascertained of the Continent, the sup.
plies will be both scanty and dear What the
breadstufs of America may do will be a ques-
ton Of prices; but taken altogether, even un-
| der favorable turns in the quarters looked to
| from, tb,a date Abara rnnSt ka N IL n
advance in the cost of provisions, nearly if not
all the neoessaries of life, during the ensuing
winter. Should events be generally unfavor.
able, it is probable we shall have the quartern
loaf and the pound of butchers meat up to a
shilling. Couple this with the disposition to
strikes, hitherto partial and not strictly con.
nected, and suppose them more general and
fraternally organized, and you have condition
of things such as the worst enemies of Eng
land might be sorry for. France is already be.
stirring herself to guard against the danger Of
scarcity, and it behooves other countries also
to look about them against a not improbable
evil day. As for ourselves, if we must largely
increase our imports of corn, We must proper,
tionately augment our exports of gold and
the effect of marked diminution may be an
ticipated from what We see when only two OF
three millions are distracted from the Bank
funds. Already has the anxiety Of French
importatons raised the price of wheat in the
London corn market twelve shillings above the
average of last year 1t is indeed a wonderful
phenomenon of the nineteenth century, to wit
ness mighty empire paralyzed by few show.
ers of rain, and restored to health and strength
by eight and forty hours sunshine.
THE TURKISH QUESTION. Sept. 2--lt was
Horace Walpole, We believe, who Observed
81 don't think there is 50 easy language in
the world as the Ministerial. One learns il
| in week. That it is not however 80 com,
prehensible as it is easy, has been demon
strated by the revelations or explanations
of the Turkish question, vouchsafed by Lord,
Clarendon, Russell and Palmerston to Parlia
ment, before it was dispersed by Her Majesty,
gracious letter of leave. 1t is almost ludicrou'
| to look back ON these answers to interrogato
ries, even within 80 short a time, and notice
their true nomeaning, or their absolute talst
scent of information Notes, contents un
known, have been despatched right and left
some have succeeded somewhere, and other
have mscarried there. But dare say all vii
end we'll Trust to the wisdom of your Cabi
net. The evacuation of the Principalities i
sine qua non, and it will, think, be per
formed in graceful manner, avoiding the rud
appearance of compulsion, and therefore i
was deemed best to say nothing about it.
| Since this lucid view was 30 oracularly pro
mulgated, THE Note par excellence was kept
for discussion ten days at Constantinople, anC
returned by a courier, on the goth, to Vienna
with the apparently quite unexpected rider o.
the Sublime Porte that it required some modi
ficat0n before it could be accepted, and the
| Egyptian fleet arrives in the Bosphorus Thus
10 use vulgar saying, the fat was all in thu
fire again, and charming theme thrown Ou
for the quidnuncs and news-writers Throughout
Europe-namely to discuss the language of I
document Of which they knew nothing, anC
speculate upon the corrections thereof, of which
they knew just as much Upon these sole
data we havs accordingly had articles Of ever,
description which ignorance could suppOs
or craftsmanship desire to propagate--only
seemed to be agreed on all hands to- asser
that the Mussulman's notifications were of
very unimportant character. If the Turk
thought so, they must be the grOssest dolts tina
ever drew breath, to lend themselve to pla,
the Russian, and stake their existence agains
a mere trihe for the Fabian policy is perfect
ruin to Turkey, and every day lessons the risL
| Of Russia. Therefore, whether to insist on The
| otherwise certain evacuation Of the Provinces
as an PRIOR step, or word in some more dis
tinct but needless phraseOlogy condition about
her Greek subjects, it would seem that if a col
lision ensued, it might truly be entitled TIL
ETIQUETTE WAR; which, considering the prac
teal sense and enlightenment of which the
nineteenth century boasts, would be as absurd
quarrel as ever drew blood from DULLES OF
foOls. vet even NOW the chances Iook prattv
equal, and the toss of fanatic may defeat al
negotiation, and involve Europe in the desola
ton of contest, the end of which no human
being can foresee. And at last the whole Sc.
cret IL out. The Note, and the alterations by
the Turkish Government, are now before US
and it will be seen that the latter arc by nc
means 30 unimportant as was limited. On the
contrary they maniully assert the integrity
and independence of the Mussulman Empire
and admit of no equivocal phraseoogy what.
ever. The Sultan will not eat dir. Viii the
Gar eat the rather dirty repast which, with
| the appreciation, it is said, of the four Powers
has been forwarded to him from Vienna? Thai
is the question; and meanwhile it seems diff
cult to restrain the fanaticism of the old Turks
who having now assembled large army and
potent fleet are prone to plunge at once into
the chances of war. Our next letter will prob
ably determine the result of this new phase o.
doubt, and we will for the nonce conclude with
Goethe's remark, that obstacles generally
spring up from the quarters where they arc
least expected.
LONDON PExCILLINss.
FROM OUR FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT.