The Express.
London, England, 1855-04-28 00:00:00

NOTES OF PREPARATION FROM RUSSIA.

RERUN. Arau, 23. 1
Private letters received here yesterday from St.
Petersburg state that the appearance of that city de-
notes the activity displayed for the energetic eon-
-I)tinuance of the war. The Czar devotes his whole
time and attention to the military preparations that
are going on. Prince Dolgoronky and General Roe-
towzow are daily sent for several times by the Em-
peror. Count Riiliger is also often seen hurrying to
the Winter Palace. The towns and villages &tumid
swarm with soldiers of the militia, clothed in their
half military dresses. On their caps they wear a
cross, underneath are the words, in Russian, "For
Religion and the Czar."
The whole of the extensive territory of Bessarabia,
and the provinces of Kiew, Podolia, and Cherson, are
placed under the supreme military authority of Ge-
neral Liiaers, hitherto provisionally commander-in-
chief of the army of the south. General Luders is
at this moment at Kitcheneff.
Letters from Riga confi the arrival of the ad-
vanced guard of the Asiatic hordes, who cannot be
prevailed upon to sleep. in the houses or barracks
prepared for their reception, under the impression of
danger should an earthquake take place. They have,
therefore, obtained permission to picket their horses
round the churches and bivouac themselves in the open
air, making use of their horse's neck as their pillow.
They are described u a most thieving race, nothing
being secure from their depredations, especially all
articles of brass, tin, or copper, the polished surface
of which excites their cupidity.

THE BALTIC BLOCKADE.

(1110 X LAST NIOILTS OASTITL)

FOREIGN.OFFICB, Aran 27.
NOTIFICATION.—It is hereby notified that her
Majesty's Government hu received information from Capt.
Watson, R.N., commanding a squadron of her Majesty's
ships in the Baltic, dated " Her Majesty's ship Impineuse,
off Libso, 19. h April, 1865," to the effect that on and from
the 17th day of April, 1855, and in the name of her Majesty
sad of her Ally, his Majesty Napoleon 111., Emperor of
the French, the Russian port of Libau, on the coast of
Courland, was plated in a state of strict blockade by a eom-
patent force of her Majesty's ships and vessels ; and that on
aid from the 16th April, 1866, all Russian ports, roads,
haven+ and crooks, from latitude 65 deg. 64 min. north,
longitude 21 deg. 5 min. east, to the Filsand Lighthouse, in
latitude 68 deg. 26 min. north, longitude 21 deg. 50 min.
cast (including especially the ports of Btekenbaus, Wia.
data, and the entrance to the Gulf of Riga), ware alsJ placed
in a state of strict blockade, by a competent force ; and it
is hereby notified that all the measures authorised by tte
laws of nations, sad the respective treaties between her
Majesty and her Allies with the different neutral powers,
will be adopted and 'muted with respect to all stases
which may attempt to violate the said blockade.

THE GREEKS AT

The French and English reports of the night
sorties of March last made frequent mention of warriors in
Greek costume fighting on the Itossian side. The leader of
those meo, who firm a free corps, is Aristides Christorerl, a
native of Messembria, on the Black Sea coast. When a boy he
was taken to Odessa and educated at the commercial school
there. When a youog man be forsook commercial pursuits
to take part la the war of Greek independence, and from
that time served in Greece until 1854. Last summer, when
It became plain that the allies would sot allow Greece to
be made the basis of clandestine operations against Turkey,
Christoveri with many other Greeks made for Bessarabia.
He was decorated by the late Cu, with the order of St.
Anne.

MEMORIAL TO SIR GEORGE GREY, BART.,
M P SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME
DEPARTMENT, IN FAVOUR OF LU[OI BURA-
NELLI.

(Pnstated April,23, 1855.)

• . .
We, the undersigned physicians and surgeons,
having carefully examined the evidence, hereunto annexed,
relative to thecae" of Luigi Baronetli, now lying in New-
gate under sentence of death for murder, do hereby express
our MANED and matured opinion that the prisoner was in-
"are at the time he committed the crime.
We do further affirm that had we been consulted on the
evidence now diacloeed u 0 the condition of the prisoner's
mind before the act was perpetrated, we should have had
no hesi'atnn in subjecting him to medical treatment for
mental disease.
We therefore are confident that had the prisoner been in
a different rank of life such steps would have been takes
respecting him as would in all probability have prevented
the commission of the murder; and accordingly we do
earnestly pray that the extreme sentence of the law may
act be caviled into execution in the ease of a person whom
we believe to have been a lunatic when be perpetrated the
apt for which his lite has been declared lorteited.
(Signed)
Jostre CONOLLT, M.D., Consulting Physician to the
}Unwell Lunatic Asylum, &e.
WILLIAM DALT, M.D., F R S., Physician to the Mill.
bank Prison, and Assistant Physician to St. Bartholomew's
Hospital, ace.
FORIZE WINPLOW, M D. Ac.
ALSIANDES SHAW, Surgeon to the Middle-
sex Horpital,&!.
MITCHELL BENET, F.R.C.S., Assistant Surgeon to the
Middlesex Hospital, &c.