The Express.
London, England, 1855-03-12 00:00:00

'AFFAIRS AT ST.

On Saturday last reports were current in London
that serious dlAurbanoss had broken out at St. Pe-
totems. The interdict laid on the telegraph by the
Russian Government, while it encourages speculation
as to the probable state of the Russian capital, makes
it impossible either to verify or refute the rumours in
question. If, as we do not expect, it should prove
that order doss not reign at St. Petersburg, it will
doubtless be oar duty shortly to record occurrences
which the word distarbanee would but feebly represent.
The Continental papers contain notices of the course
of events only to the 3rd.
"According to letters from Bt. Petersburg," says
the Weser Casette, " the population of St. Peters-
burg cannot accustom themselves to the idea that it
is the Grand Duke Alexander and not the Grand
Duke Constantine, who has succeeded his father; and
they invoke the ulnae of Peter the Great of the 6th
February, 1722, which confer on the Emperor the
right of nominating his successor. It was in virtue
of ukase that Peter appointed Catherine I. to
snowed him.

" Accounts from St. Petersburg," says the Gazette
de Avow, " speak of remonstranoes which are said to
We been' aissd to the new Czar by the body of
noblesagainstthe arming of theatre. It is well known
that this measure, comprised in the general arma-
ment or4sted b the Emperor Nicholas, had not met
with any opposition. If, as it is said, its execution
now meets with any remonstranoss on the part of the
nobility, it is doubtless because the resolution of
emancipating the serfs having been long attributed to
the heir presumptive, now become Emperor, it is
feared that the arming of that class will be a good
step towards that object."

AUSTRIAN DESPATCH ON MOBILISATION.

The Monitnrr of yesterday publishes the following
'balm, addressed by the Aeries& pvereaseat to Its envoys
at the Omen Coates, is eoesnassee of t►e vete passed by
the Dist e• Bth of Febreary :

" Visaaa, Fob. 16, 1866.

"Oar previous oosmanicatione will have left. you no
room to doubt that the Imperial government has seen with
satisfaction the federal resolution of the fith hist, which de-
creed that the entire principal ocatisment of the federal
array should ha so prepared as to be able to Numb and
enter tato skies within the span of (heal days after in-
vitations Issued to the respective prunments. In fact, we
see in this federal resolution as event of the greatest Im-
portance, were it even solely became we have thereby for-
innately escaped, for the moment, from the scission which
the questioe of the military preparations on the part of the
Osman Diet threatened to introdnee.

" Considered in itself this moieties' appears to as, more-
over, to be a very natural sanctum*, of these conaidera-
lions to which the present state of things give rise, and to
meet the indispensable neeemity, on the pin of the federal
may, of being fully prepared to take up any strategical
position whatever without loss of time. It le true that we
have not been able to agree with the reasons on which the
salted committees of the Diet based the proposition which
bee now become a federal resolution. It will be understood,
in fact, that we cannot admit our adhesion to have, in the
eyes of the Western Powers, the appearance of a demon-
stration directed against either side ; bat the Germanic

eentederation itself, which in this question is no loopy
placed esolasive►y on the ground traced out by the federal
act, baton that by the albinos of April 20, mid the subsequent
resolutions appended thereto, has already taken, according
to Our ocavistion, far too determined an attitude for the
supposition that the motives of the measure it haa just
decreed are solely derived from the general threatening u-
pset of European affairs.

" Neverthelem, we think we ean admit with certainty
that those motives, insuffteient in our eyes, will fled their
*effective in the real end legal state of the question, and
especially in the Ratan of the relations with those rowan
to whom we are allied by a alma treaty.

"Your lizselleney will have the goodness to regulate
your language on the subject of the federal solution in
question, is assordatee with these indieatioiss. The inints-
diets execution, as sawmills as possible, of this resolution
is now assuredly as affair of hamar for Germany ; and we
have not the slightest doubt but that all the federal govern-
orate will with equal seal suditavom to give weight oa
their side to the measure so resolved as, and to contribute
by their auxiliary efforts to the rad, that the military can.
stitation of Germany may prove itself adequate and fall
the task that has devolved ea the confederation is Its qua-
lity of a great power.

" In m fez as Arleta is coosownsd, his Majesty the Em-
peror has immediately mad* the necessary anangements, in
order that, within the torn of Alma days as timed upon for
rendering an amount of the swarm taken by the several
governments, tiro Westin strength of the entire army &a-
erially on a war-footiag, and plamd ander the orders of the
Ordnance-Master Baron Her, may be oonunnaisated to the
Diet, whereby it may be also shown that the military
preparations of Austria far surpass the amount decreed by
the Diet.

" It is seemly seastary for u to formally expressos this
subject oar ewtietbs that the oompkte inadmissibility of
the proposition made during the vote by the representative
of Prude, not supported by any other government, to the
effect that the Owing of troops on • war footing niust take
place within the limits of the federal territory, has not
escaped the appreeiation of the German governments, the
said proposition completely lasing sight of the tact that the
measure now adopted by the Diet is only a sonsequenee of
previous resolutions, &wording to which the comma de-
fence with whisk the Confederation hes charged itself, in
. _

eonsidnation of the daagen which threaten finnan inte-
rests, is not only to protect the Gerona federal territory, bat
also all the territory of Austria and of Prussia, sad ens our
position la the Principalities. There will be no impropriety
In your Bacellerhay connunieatiag this despatch confi-
dentially to the ',constant. Accept, st.e.,

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