The Express.
London, England, 1855-09-14 00:00:00

THE CRIMEA.

Le Nord says :—" The evacuation of the Crimea
by the Russian army is talked of at Paris. We
frankly admit that we have no official intelligence on
this bead : we shall wait for facts. No doubt we
shall soon know in a positive manner whether the
movement executed by Prince Gortchakoff is the

commencement of a retreat, Cr whether the ems-
mander-in-chief of the Russian forces has merely
taken up a defensive position more impregnable than
that which he has just left."
The Moniteur of yesterday °entail's the following
observations:

" The inverted order in which the last despatches
from the East were received, the necessarily laconic
brevity of those despatchers, and the prodigious
rapidity with which the events they announced smo.
(*cried each other, gave rise to a feeling of uncer-
tainty and surprise, which perhaps prevented us
from appreciating at the first moment the decisive
importance of the victory just obtained by the allied
armies.

"The world hu not generally comprehended the
fall extent of this triumph, laboriously prepared
during a whole year, and gloriously achieved by one
heroin and supreme effort. After such protracted ex-
pectation, the news of the Josue of the contest was so
sudden and exciting, that it has not left men's minds
is that state of calm which is requisite for clearly
estimating the facts that have taken place and their
full bearing.
" These facts are immense, and maybe summed up
in two words—the fall of Sebastopol, and the destruc-
tion of the Russian fleet"

AUSTRIAN

The Austrian Gasett*, in giving insertion to certain
extracts from some of the London journals, eppeads
the following expressions in regard to England :
" England has been unanoceseful in making the
Austrian army her 'mercenaries; and as the idea of a
pacific solution has already commenced in France, the
policy of England, alarmed thereat, holds up the re-
volutionary torch in order tospread hatred and discord
and to finish the work which was fora time checked in
1848. England may decree laurels to Piedmont. Aus-
tria will be as little moved thereby as by the hollow
phrase@ of the English journals. Austria, like the
whole world, koows the value of British faith and
England's friendship, and that she is ever ready to
let slip her 'sad dogs upon those who refuse to hunt
for her."

THE FOREIGN LEGION.

/, SZPT. 10.

Her Majesty's ship Alban arrived yesterday from
England for the
_purpose of embarking another de-
tachment of the Foreign Legion, but as some oases of
cholera had occurred on the passage—one of which
was fatal—the coloneleoramandant has prudently
resolved not to embark the men on board the Alban,
but to send her back empty, and has written to
Colonel Hodges at Hamburg to beg him to telegraph
to the government to that .61*.
Lest week 70 recruits arrived, and yesterday and
to-day upwards of 100 more, of whom, however, 24
were rejected as unfit for the service. This is a very
large proportion, but it refutes the calumnious asser-
tions of the German nawspepers that all recruits are
accepted without any E.:animation.
The Second Battalion is now complete, and enlist-
ing for the Second Rifle Carps has already com-
menced. The officers have arrived.

A e7riesoioiesTie.iiiieUoWilieiise and fall of the
tide are being made, the height of the water being re.
corded every half-boar. This is with reference to
the works neceissry for the contemplated harbear.

GERMANY.

lisrr. It.
Tbe glorious myr of the fall of Sebastopol was
rewired hers with groat enthusiasm and mind
rejoicing. The gestations of all descriptions of funds,
.bares, and !titer soiaritiss—nrith the exception of

'Rassiin steek—haye advanced, and large iisqlkeoi
have bens made. It is glearally expend *at in
eseesqesace of the fled MONO the Grime. est..-
this; ware will be stamped in the Bettis been the
was. of the assapaigra. It is esneldsead Use met tee
bie to was a Woe at Quote& or level, sad new
b tbe tims, whoa the enemy is wirers& by the,
bee et hie owed istpregeabL eteasshobl ia

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..XPRESS FROM PARIS.

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P PARIS, TurmanAd livmerici.
Magnificent weather, mush as has mot been sees in
Paris since the Queen's departure. favourekthe '
Emperor's public visit to Notre Dame to-day, to
offer up solemn thanks to Providence for the great
triumph of the allied arms. The Archbishop of
Perim, who, when the first news of the victory ar-
rived, was at his. milliii-orikirot, Tii--t&"- eolith- of
France, set out for Paris instantly, in order to offi•
Gists in person at the great religious solemnity, which
he anticipated would be ordered. His Grace, mem-
panted by hie Victim-General, the Metropolitan
Chapter, the Cures of Paris, and the Canons of St.
Denis, received the Emperor on his entry into the
Cathedral of Notre Dams. As soon as his Majesty
alighted, the Archbishop advanced to meet him, and
addressed him very nearly in the following words :
Son,—l hasten to receive your Majesty on the thresh-
hold of this august Map* which this day echoes the
Reclamation' whist proclaim the glory of Foam. May
our solemn thanks for the epleidid sasses' of our arms
mount to the throne of the Most High. So mach
heroism will soon be re wardrd. The great object
propomd, whisk your Majesty, in sewed with
your ltujestje allies, pusses with so math firmness
and wisdom will mum be attained. A glorious and durable
pesos will be established. Bat, Sire, that which adds to
the nation's joy nadir ;mint airsarastanass is the thought
that Reason, after preparing for you all these triumphs, is pre-
paring for yea over and above, domestic joys, whisk will be
the more precious to your heart that they will else be the

moues of public happiness.
This—the first official intimation that the Em-
press is in a state which promises a direct heir to the
throne—le the great news of the day.
The To Dams wow exquisitely sung, and afterwards
DOMIII Salem was repeated three times. The Em-
peror remained standing during the greater part of
the ceremony. The cathedral was quite filled by
persons provided with tickets.
The Empress was not present. The Emperor was
accompanied in his state carriage by Prince Jerome
only. Abdel-Bader, who looked veil ill, and leant
upon the arm of a French officer, was present, at-
tended by three Arab chiefs.
The lifemiteur of yesterday contains the following
decree, announced in the telegraphic message of our
Pane correspondent :
" Napoleon, by the grace of God and the will of
the French people.
" Taking into coosideration the eminent services
rendered by General Folksier, especially in the
Crimes, while oommanding our army in the East, we
decree as follows:

Aimable Jean Jacques reneger, general of
division, is raised to the rank of a Marshal of France.
" Dated St. Cloud, Sept. 12, 1855.
" NAPOLEON."
A painful sensation has been created by the news
published in the Independence Beige of yesterday,
that Colonel Gainer& one of the moat respectable
members of the old republican party, formerly com-
mandant of the artillery of the National Gaud, and
who, it may be remembered, was condemned by the
High Court of Justice of Versailles, for taking part in
the affair of Jane 14, 1849, and was afterwards par-
doned by the Emperor, without any solicitation on
his part, was arrested a few days since at the funeral
of Madame Domes, the widow of a representative
who was killed in 1848. There is a report that he
was arrested only on account of the costs of the trial
to which he is liable jointly and severally with
others, but the Preen aye it cannot guarantee
the accuracy of this version, and indeed
it is scarcely credible that such a melancholy occa-
sion u a funeral should have been selected for en-
forcing a claim of such a nature, which, for anything
that appears, might have been settled long ago.
Moreover, it is said that several other arrests among
persons of the working clams who followed the hearse
were made on the same day.
There have been some rather serious disturbances
in the departments of the Meuse and Vosges, in con-
sequence of the high price of corn. Two battalions of
the 34th regiment of the line, which was on its march
to Marseilles, were detached to pacify those districts.
At Bar-le-Duo particularly, there wu considerable
excitement. A traveller who has arrived in Paris,
this morning reports that the soldiers of one of these''
battalions were observed to have blackened fingers,
and from this circumstance, and the disinclination
shown by the officers to answer guidons, it was
thought they had been firing. At St. Melo,
complaints being made that the bakers did
not bake bread enough to supply the population,
the Mayor sent for them, and threatened to apply the
law in its utmost severity if they did not bake a suffi-
cient quantity to meet the• demand. It is said that
this threat had a beneficial effect, and that the shops
are now well supplied.
Flour rape 21r. at the Halle of Paris yesterday.
At the Bonus, considerable surprise was expressed
that General (now Marshal) Pillager's despatch, an-
nouncing that Sebastopol, instead of being
totally destroyed, contains an immense quantity of
stores and buildings, did not occasion any marked
rise. The Rents was very calm throughout the day, and
closed at 87fr. 800., with a ries of 10e. Credit Mehl-
lier was firmer than yesterday. It appears, on refer-
ence to the statutes of the Company, that its charter
is granted for 99 years from Nov. 18, 1862. It would
seem, therefore, that there is no foundation for
what was universally said at the Bourse yester-
day, that the new obligations were invalid, be-
cause the Society itself would cease to exist
in thirty years. However, the subscription which
was originally announced to open today, has been
postponed till to-morrow, in order, as it in said, to
make some modification in the conditions of the issue
of the obligations. The explanations must have been
thought satisfactory, sines the shares closed firm with
a rise of 25fr. Austrian railways fell 3fr. 76e. A
good deal of business was done in the Sardinian rail-
ways, which rose rapidly from 610 to 623. French
railways were rather weak, with but little change in
quotations.
" We learn from a good fauns," says the Cum's,.
de Marseille, "that in ouesqleence of the success
at Sebastopol, and the evacuation of the Russian
fortifications, Marshal Valiant, Minister of War, has
suspended the sending off of siege inaltirig and pro-
jectiles, which were being forwarded from this port
for the Crimea."

A detachment of the Cont-Gardes, fifteen in num.!
her, arrived at Lyon on Tuesday, in grand uniform,
in order to save as /wort to the King of Sardinia.
It is thought that his Majesty will reside at Com-
piigne during some part of his visit.
The squadron of the Cent-Gardes is, it is said,
cheat to be augmented, eo as to form almost an ordi-
nary aquaria. Ae, however, it would be too dill-
•ealt at present to recruit all the men amongst non-
socumissioned Assn, as was done at the first dam
tbey will be taken from amongst the best cavalry.
The International Congress of Statistics assembied
again yesterday, under the presidency of M. Rather,
Minister of Agriculture and Commerce. Papas
"Uwe read on the statistics of England, the United,
States, the Lanbardo-Venstian, and other pratiaess
it Italy. Tuscany, Greece, and Portugal. TM peps
se England was drawn up by Mr. Nubian/se. and
-0 on the United States by Mr. IlLeassoli. A
angtheeed dheassioa then took plies on the Map-
- t
thee of a Nikes system all weights and mantras I.lk

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retails. The Congress evestaelly voted

that that adipose of each a system was very
'desirable.
The Mut Pub& o 4 Lyons states that two out of
the five sisters of chadty, who left that city for Sas-
sari, in Sardinia, have aied of cholera while minister-
ing to the affiiotedlls that town, when, it may be
remembered, the scourge committed frightful ravages
a few months ago.
The Princess Trivulsio Belgiojoso, well known in
the

_ the took in thi events
lialy in 1848 and 1849, has just arrived at Mont-
pellier from the East.
The abasinittoe of the banquet to be offered to
Prince Napoleon has held several sittings, and it is
almost resolved that it will take place on the same day
u the ball which the pity is to give to the exhibitors
at the Hotel de Ville.

A body of about 100 Russian prisoners arrived
yesterday at Lyons from the depot of the Isle of Aix,
on their way to Marseilles. They are there to be
embarked for the Crimea, in order to be exchanged
against a like number of French soldiers taken by
the Russians.