The Express.
London, England, 1855-02-15 00:00:00

THE WAR.

The Gazette de &less; and the Gazette d'41198.
bourg assert positively that Naples is about to accede
to the Western alliance. The Gazette 4 Verona
considers the news very probable. Portugal, it aka
says, is about to join the alliance ; it could famish
12,000 men. The Sreuz Zeitung states, on the con.
teary, that Portugal has positively declined active
participation in the alliance. We believe that at
present all that can be positively affirmed is that the
Allies are seeking to unite all the secondary state. of
the continent in a general European coalition against
Russia, and that the work is making steady program.
"The Swedish government," says the Patrie, ais
continuing its military preparation!. The Hereditary
Prince displays the greatest activity in everything
connected with improvements to be introduced into
the army."
"The majority of the States of the Germania
Confederation," says the Patrie, "are making
rangements for putting their contingents on a war
footing. Their number of homes is nearly every.
where completed. In Hanover and the Duchy of
Nassau the recruits are ordered to join their rt.
spective corps in the course of the present month.
It is expected that Hanover will prohibit the
exportation of horses."
The Warsaw correspondent of the Journal 4
Fraiscfort wr.tes, that it will be next to imposaikk
for the Czar to levy a war contribution, as the re.
sources of the proprietors of land have been all but
cut off by the prohibition to export grain. Deprived
of their natural market, the corn producers have been
compelled to sell their corn for the use of the army
at prices far below its value.
The Nuremberg Correspondent, by publishing the
text of the resolution lately adopted by the Germania
Diet, clears up the uncertainty of meaning hitherto
attaching to the Knegsbereitschaft, or maims foe
war lately ordered by that body. The following is
the resolution :

That the governmenta be invited to place the principal
contingents, as flied by the rewind military constitution of
the Confederation, on a war footing; so that it may be
equipped, armed, and ready to take the field, according m
Art. 36 of the revised constitution, within the period of a
fortnight. In order to attain this end, the following
sures shall be taken :

To fill up the ranks of the troops that are to be plated at
a war footing.

To pnrel;se all the horses necessary for the impede
aforesaid, in order to have them traintd and accostonted
to service.

To purchase stores and supplies, and all sash other
things as it might be difficult to procure at the moment
of need.

To make all the necessary preparations for the establish-
ment of the administrative, sanitary, and other services
which are not organised in time of peace.
To come to an andentanding with regard to the oem.
mend, and the common and respective positions of the
mixed corps &armee.

And to give notice of the execution of the said mums
within the shortest period possible, but at the latest within
a fortnight.

The Journal de St. Petersbourg of the 6th instant
contains a report from Prince Mentchikoff to the
28th, in which he speaks of some shells of prodigiouS
magnitude, thrown from the French trenches into
Sebastopol, bat states that they did no harm.

FRANCE.

(PIOX TI3

OP TED DAILY Jaws.)
PARIS, TUESDAY EVIINING.
It is now said that when the Emperor leaves Paris
to take the command of the army of the Rhine the
compliment will be paid to the Empress of appoint-
ing her Regent of the Empire ; but that Count de
Moray will be made President of the Council of
Regency, and of course will have the real conduct of
the government.
An important change in the command of the army
of the Cnmea, which has been often talked of before,
is now authoritatively announced. That army will
be immediately divided into two corps d'armee,
the command of one of which will be given to Oa
neral Peliasier, and the other to General Baguet.
This cheap, although not equivalent to the deposi-
tion of General Canrobert from his command in
chief, will very materially diminish the importance of
his present position.
The Gazette de Lyon states that when news
arrived by the famous Tatar of the fall of Sebastopol,
orders were instantly sent to Lyons by firms of
Paris, to manufacture at once a large quantity of
pocket•handkerchiefs, giving a " View of the Cap-
tare of Sebastopol." Although the looms were
worked night and day, the handkerchiefs could not
be completed before the news turned out to be false.
Since then they have remained on hand ! Now,
however, says the Gazette, the travellers of the Paris
firms are proposing the pocket-handkerchiefs for
sale to provincial dealers, in order that they may
be able to offer them to their customers the moment
the news of the capture of the town shall have
arrived.

A prospectus has been in circulation for some
days for a pleasure trip to Sebastopol at the com-
mencement of the spring season. The travellers
are to start from Paris and proceed to Ma:seines,
thence to Constantinople, next to the Crimea, after-
wards to Egypt, and, finally, home by Algeria. The
vessel fixed on for the tour to the East is the Isabella
steam pleasure yacht, under the neutral colours of Tu.
piny: The charge for each person is to be 12,000 f. The
trip is to last three months, and only ten passengers
are to be taken.

The Moniteur de la Flaile announces that on the
pressing demand of General Canrobert, the Minister
of Marine has authorised the three companies of
Marine Artillery, which are at present stationed at
the Piisens, to be sent to the Crimea.

Colonel Storks (the son of Mr. Sergeant Storks) left
Paris last night for Marseilles, to embark for Smyrna,
where he is commissioned by the English govern-
ment to organise a military, hospital. He was
accompanied by an aide-de-camp, and two surgeons.
Seventy English surgeons, selected in London, are
about to follow to perform the service of the new
hospital, under the colonel's orders.
The Duchess of Berri left Parma on the Bth for
Venice.

Count Melchior de Polignac, formerly governor of
the Chateau of Fontainebleau, has just died in that
town. He was the last surviving brother of Prince
Pohgnac, the too celebrated minister of Charles X.
The Pays, in alluding to the circumstance of the
Emperor Napoleon having conferred the grand
cross of the Legion of Honour on the Turkish
ambassador, says :

This high distinction is a testimony of justly merited
sympathy and esteem. His Excellency Vcly Dacha has
worthily represented his country at the court of France.
His amenity and conciliatory spirit have not a little contri-
buted to strengthen the friendly relations which will hence-
forth unite the Ottoman Empire to the Western Powers.
Vely Pacha is shortly to leave Paris, to enter on the new
function to which be has been summoned by his sovereign,
but the crowd which on Saturday attended his brilliant
ball must have proved to him how sincere and sympathetic
are the feelings of esteem which he leaves amongst us.
The Mayor of Toulon has received a telegraphic
despatch from Count de Kerviguen, member of the
Legislative Corps, informing him that a treaty has
Wt been signed between the Minister of Public
orks and the Lyons to the Mediterranean Railway
Company, for the execution of the line from Toulon
to Marseilles. The government agrees to give that
company 30 millions, payable in 12 equal annuities,
for executing the works on the line. The line is tobe
opened to the public by May 1, 1859.
A sale of cotton, recently imported from Algeria,
took place the day before yesterday, at Havre. There
were a great number of manufacturers present, and
the sale went off with great spirit. The Courrier du
Havre gives the following account of the sale :
“Fourteen bales from the province of Algiers, which
resemble in length of fibre, fineness, and colour the
American Bea Island cotton, were knocked down at
from 2f. 40c. to 3f. 40c. per lb.; and 32 bales of the
same quality, from the province of Oran, sold at
from 2f. 35c. to 4f. 50o."

SHIPPING IN THE TYNE.—The Tyas still remains
tall of shipping. Then are above 1,000 ship+ in port, the
greater proportion of which are coal-laden. Some of them
lave been waiting for a " na tide" a month.