Glasgow Courier. — 1853-07-09 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 9.  Yesterday the two Conservative candidates, Messrs. Liddell and Horsfall, were returned for Liverpool by triumphant majorities. There can be no doubt that a similar result would follow in many other burghs were the same energy and combination exhibited as prevails in Liverpool.  As the latest telegraphic intelligence on the Eastern question consists wholly of speculations we do not consider it necessary to do more than to advert to the fact. Nothing can be known positively as to the consequences of the occupation of the Danubian provinces for some days to come.  We have news from Sydney up till the 3d of April, from Melbourne to the Bth, and from Adelaide to the 10th. In all the colonies the markets were nearly bare of goods, and the price of labour still very high. The exports of Victoria amounted in 1852 to £15,000,000. the greater part of which consisted of gold. During the first three months of the present year upwards of 600,000 ounces of gold had been exported from Melbourne alone. At Melbourne fine Adelaide flour was quoted at £34 lOs per ton, and American at 50s to 52s per barrel; brandy had risen to 17s 6d per gallon, and holders were asking 20s; bottled beer, by retail, was selling at 28s per dozen; and draught porter readily brought £l2 12s per hogshead.  Her Majesty the Queen, Prince Albert, and the other members of the royal family, will visit the Dublin Exhibition on Wednesday next, and, as is said, spend three days in the Irish metropolis. This visit will be comparatively private, as there will be no public entry, and no levee, in fact, no court; at which the Irish journals are exceedingly wroth, and endeavour, mots sp/ito, to extract a. national grievance out of what is obviously meant as an act of considerate regard for the convenience and purses of the Irish gentry. Our Hibernian neighbours are really a strange race, who take infinite pains to vindicate their claim to eccentricity of every kind, both at home and abroad. Since the above was written we learn, by electric telegraph, that her Majesty's visit to Dublin has been postponed in consequence of the indisposition of her Royal Consort, Prince Albert.  The passage of tho Pruth is the ' great fact' of the day, for it would be unreasonable now to doubt that it has been accomplished, and that what are called the Danubian provinces are in the military occupation of two separate divisions of the Russian army. It matters little on what day this feat of arms was performed, provided it be performed, and on that point their seems to be no longer any doubt. The Pima, like all the rivers of that region, rises in the Carpathian mountains , and, flowing southwards, falls into the Danube below Galacz, constituting the boundary between Moldavia and Bessarabia, the former still a nominal portion of the Turkish Empire, the latter, lying between the Pruth and the Duiepen being, since 1812, when it was ceded by Turkey, through the treaty of Bucharest, a portion of what is called in modern language, Southern Russia. If the reader will take the trouble to consult a map, he will find that the small principalities known as Moldavia and Wallachia are contiguous to, and run into, each other, and are formed by one of those capricious bends of the Danube by which that river is diflinguished, below Belgrade and before its junction with the Pruth, one of the affluents of the main strum. They are still included in European Turkey, and form a part of that comparatively unknown country which was called by the Roman geographers, Dacia. In superficial extent they amount to 46,000 square miles. This would be considered a small surface in those regions where land is more plentiful than men, bid we shall form a better idea of the importance of these two principalities, in a territorial point of view, if we consider that England and Wales measure only 57,960 square miles, and that with Scotland added, Great Britain has only a superficial extent of 83,480 miles. Moldavia and Wallachia, then, are not unimportant acquisitions if Russia could manage quietly to incorporate them ; ...a tha..;. o ••• cry that this will happen, let the present controversy end how it may. Our opinion, indeed, is, that the Czar has chosen the opportunity now afforded to him by one of the many accidents of western politics to get possession of these provinces, over which he already exercises a quasi sovereignty, first, through the treaty of Bucharest, in 1812, and, second, through the treaty of Adrianople in 1829 ; both of which treaties, and especially the latter, secured to him the protection of the members of the Greek Church in the two provinces. This power, which  is precisely similar to what he now claims for all Turkey, is not a slight thing, for, to say nothing of Sarmatian and Slavonic sympathies in Wallachia, whatever it may be in Moldavia, the Hospodar is virtually appointed by the Emperor of Russia, though nominally by the Sultan, and a small annual tribute is all that remains to the successor of Othman as the sovereignty of two provinces which ly upon his immediate northern frontier, and the possession of which by Russia would completely surround him. So much for the geographical question. The political one is more easy. We do not believe in the probability of war; and we are glad to find that we are fortified in this eonvictionby the high authority of Lord Palmerston, who said the other night in the House that he saw no chance of it. As we anticipated, fresh negotiations are to be opened, and already M. Ozeroff has proceeded to Constantinople for that purpose. The Czar, it is understood, will be satisfied with such a concession to all the powers as he asked is the first instance for Russia alone; and Turkey will be satisfied to grant to all the said powers, as a matter of justice, what it refused to Russia as a concession to menace. Thus the Eastern Question stands, and thus, we trust, it will speedily end.  Ntonx Am.usx—Number of inmates in the Night Asylum for the Houseless North Frederick Street, for the week ending Thursday, 7th July, 1853: Men. Boys. Women. Girls. Total. 103 19 320 160 587 Average number of nightly inmates 84, exclusive of 38 in the House of Industry. . „  ATTEMPTED SClClDE.—Yesterday morning, about five o'clock, a young man, a journeyman compositor, attempted to commit suicide on a stair in George Street, by inflicting a wound with a razor on his throat. It appears that he had been seeking admission to a house of questionable fame, which was refused, and in a fit of drunken rage committed the rash act. He was removed to the Royal Infirmary.