The Express.
London, England, 1855-11-01 00:00:00

NOVEMBER 1, 1855.

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EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(11,011 OV3 OWII 001111•PO7DIINT.)
PARIS, WIDIIIISDAY Bynum
Cbesaitutionnel has another long latter froas

Vienna correspondent on the subject of the difference I
between Sardinia and Tammy, which u now rapre-
seated by Ibis standing counsel for Audi* is re-
duced to very trivial proportions. The principal

object of the mean t osoiminication is to Comment
open a "diplomas incident" about which the writer
from "motives of delicacy" said nothing in Ws first
letter, bat which has linos been alluded to by a Bel-
gian joarnal, whose information was "evidently de-
rived from °distal samosa." The circumstances of

Count Casati's appointment as attache to the Sardi-
nian embassy at Flores., and of the Grand Duke's
ultimate refusal to receive hint in that character, must
be fresh in the reeelkotioa of your readers. One fact
of some importance is now, I believe, stated for
the first time, namely, that last year when the
Austrian army had military oecupation of Florence,
the Sardinian government intimated an intention to
send Count Cased there, but abstained from doing so
at the time, in consequence of a representation from
the Tuscan minister for foreign affairs, the Duke de
Caaigliano, that the Count belonging to a family of
Lombard refugees, his appointment would be objeo-
tionable under the circumstances. This fact is brought
forward to show that the Sardinian government had

so right to be surprised at flodiog that on the esoood
maims Count Casati's nomination was distasteful
to the Tunas court. Bat it evidently auto two
ways. For a special regime, namely, the presence
of Austrian troops in Florence having been alleged
in 1864, Sardinia might well thick that this year
when than troops had evacuated Tuscany, all objec-
tion against Count Casati's eligibility to be an aikehi
to the Flames snamasywesremoved.

There is a report of the discovery of a legitimist
sonepiraey, and of the arrest in connexion with it of
a Doke bearingons of the oldest names in Francis. It
is said that the affair is identical with one reported in
a legal journal the other day, a feature of which was
the deposit of a sum of 7,000 f. in a country bank for
the purpose of suborning workmen.

Yesterday morning airsio on the Strasbourg Rail-
way ran off the line near Rpernay. Several persons
were hut, bat no one wu killed. No other details
of the aooident have transpired.

The directors of the Bank of France held their
weekly meeting today, in consequence of to-morrow
being a holiday (All Uinta' day). I have not heard
any reports of the result of their deliberations, but I
understand there is an Worms, in the metallic re-
serve of four millions.

The Bonne again opened very heavily, and re-
covered to some extent towards the close. The Rents
however, closed at the lowest prim of dm day, 641.
with a fall of 260. Credit hoWsver, after
having been at 1,120 fr., closed at 1,1361 r falling
bat 21r. 600. Austrian railways rose 71r. 600. Some
French lines left off at from 21r. 60e. to 6fr. better.

ATHENS. Ocr. 19.
Since the departure of the last steamer, the new
ministry has undergone a slight modification, Siliver-
gos having given up the finances to Lootostavlos, and
Glirigaoopindos being appointed Minister of Pubis
Instruction. George Condouriotti, hitherto Hellenic
Minister at Constantinople, bat been recalled, in con-
sequence of the new 'ministerial arrangements, but
his successor has not yet bun named, and the ap-
rintment will not be filled up till the arrival of M.
riNerittefraot London.
t above-named three gentlemen are
probably known beyond the limits of the Greek fron-
tiers. Kontostavlos is a native of the island of Solo,
and has been long resident at Athens. where he car-
ries on business as a merchant and shipowner, and
has been very smooradal in trade. When the seat of
government was transferred from Nauplia to Athens,
in 1835, there were only five house built of stone to
be found in the city. all the rest being built of
pliistha, the unburned brinks of Attica. Mr. Bon-
tostavlos' was the best and most roomy of the five,
and he rented it to the king for 20,000 dreams per
annum, and eventually meld it to the crown for
100,000 Spanish dollars. The king resided here till
the completion of his pulses, which omandas exactly
the same number of rooms as the year has days. Mr.
Kontostulos has also a large silk establishment at
the Pima, and posemeloos in the island of Agin&
His sister is earned, to M. Pantie Ralli, head of the
eminent firm of Belli, Brothers, and for many years
the Millais canal-general in London.
ChrielensplaSS is a native of the Peloponneens,
and bas been in ofilos at various times before. He
was Mleimier of the Interior under the late President

Zria.Coadourictti is now a very old man, and
was formerly a merchant and shipowner residing in
his native island, the rugged and barren rock of
Hydra. When the revolution broke oat in 1821, he
fitted out and armed all his ships—sixteen in number
—and placed them at the disposal of the provisional
government. Sigma after making this sacrifice be
was still a rich man, and I recollect being struck with
an original idea of his:—the flour of his counting-
hams at Hydra was paved with Spanish pillar dol.
lace. He has never taken any important part in the
political struggles of his country, bat has rather been
considered as a patriot without belonging to any
particular party.

THB SOUND DUES.

(mon ova

COPENHAGEN, Oar. 28.
The Danish memorandum to the maritime states on
the subject of the &nod Dues, is now published at
fall length in the Bet.lisig'ske Mang, accompanied
by the statistical tables I sent you in my last. The
ottly new fester. in the nee is the coolness with
wit,* Denmark expos% or pretends to expect, the
maritime nation to pay her the sum of six or seven
million starling to get rid of a nuisance, by means of
which she hes been laying thi commerce of the
world under eontribution, by claiming and enforcing
toll on the of the Sound, whin all writers on
the laws nations protect against. The tables in
question sbpw the Opal avenge receipts of Sound
Dais on mssehasiis, to mann to 2,103,600 viz
dollars, whisk aalikalised at 6 per nut. oe twenty
years purebeso,modd produce 42,070,000 viz dollars,
or about 8,000.0001. Of this sum Russia is expected
to pay 29 per seat. or 12,383,000 lie dollars ; Great
Britain the manse amount, or 1,770,00014 Prussia, 12
per emst.,or 8,162,000 six dollars; France, 3 per cent.,
or 1,613,000 six dollen; Norway, 606,000rix defiers ;
Hamburg and Brans, 404000 vixliviims; littrep
383,000 viz dollars; Henan 1,600A00 six
Meeklealesegs 10242201121/11014a&
In lips name, tim avenge wedges of the Sound
Doss en ships amend to 200,010 six dollars, whin
espitalissd in the Mee ratio would prods°, the nm
of 6•881,780 xis dollars, or 812,00 W. To this Great
Behan would have to contribute 1,409.880 six dol-
lars. or 200,0001.; Prussia, 887,780 riz dollars; Nor-
way, 746,840 riz dollars ; Holland, 678,000 riz dol-
len; Swedes, 483,820 riz dollars; Russia, 321,000
riz dollen ; Metklenburg, 309,880 riz dollars;
Frown 101,180 viz dollars; the United States,
34.630 tin dollars, &c.
Verily one Is tempted after this to ask Denmark, in
the language of Sam Weller : " Will you have it
I now, or will you wait till you get it ? "

Tae DaiI:MAN PILINCIPALITILL.--MBllBlll6i t.
private "Mats weasived at Visalia kola Beibrest. Owe b
assetlaa (says the Zeit) .1 nlaterelay Os *UMW beeps
la the Deautitaa yriosipallties ; • tarps WOO oboes b
evra spokes at It is aloe acid that tY. sables. of
las proposed at Osastsatisaple So palm the dar•tioe et
Priam Stirbefs goversoisat, *blab It • supeiseki sae by
the terms of tbe Deka Una* assay, tet "Mb *ill
I shortly 'spin.
Caroni. PaLaCZ.— SWUM DAT. OCT. 31.--
kdabstoos es payment, 638 ; ditto by men deka%
140.--Tesel,67ll. Conespcsbasi day last year, 3,242.

OUR ARMY IN THE CRIMEA.
(BEM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.)

CAMP, SEBASTOPOL, Oar. 20.
The camp has been kept an the alert for the last
few days by the expectation of an attack on the part
of the enemy against oar position. As for some time
prrriously the gene& belief had ban that the aggres-
sion was to be on our side, and a movement against the
Russian tenure of the Mackenzie heights and the
north side of Sebastopol was daily looked forward to,
this change in the relative state of affairs has excited
the more attention. The information which has led
to a knowledge of the intentions of the enemy is re•
ported to have been telegraphed by way of Berlin,
and to be derived from the same source as that which
furnished the intelligence of the intended attack upon
the lines above the Tchernaya last August. Its ge-
neral nature is, that the Russians, knowing that
the greater number of our troops on the pla-
teau are engaged in road.making or other pre-
parations for the ooming winter, and taking advan-
tage of our having dstsched part of the army to
Enpatoria, and farther weakened oar line of defence
by its extension as far se the Upper Botha*, have
determined to make another attempt at forcing our
position. The ground where the battle of Inkermann
was fought, is said to be the point again selected for
the undertaking. Base observations of the move-
ments on the north aide of the roadstead have ap-
peared to give countenance to the rumour on this
subject. The fire from the Russian batteries, exerted
with a view to prevent our occupation of the town,
and, perhaps, to keep us from erecting new batteries
or repairing the forts, so as to resist a surprise ore
sortie from the opposite side of the harbour, has bees
considerably increased. The enemy use now en abut-
dance of shells, as well es of shot. New batteries
are being thrown up or armed. Several
large working parties have been busily employed
during the last week about the new fortifications be-
tween Fort Constantine and Fort Bievernais. On
the 17th instant a convoy of nearly 200 waggons
was observed to pees along the heights from the
eastward, and to descend toward Fort Michael. Ihey
were all laden, and seemed to be conveying pontoons.
The disjointed parts of the raft bridge are still seen
near the shore on the opposite side. It would thus
appear possible for the Russians, if ,they met with a
favourable opportunity under cover of night, to
throw a communication across the Great Harbour to
the south aide in a couple of hours or so, or, if it
served their purpose, to make a feint of doing so,
with the object of diverting troops and attention
from other directions. By some persons, it =asserted,
that ea far fro= sending detachmenb oat
of the Crimea, strong reinforcements haws, bees
poured into it chum the Bth of September, us
that, with the garrison of the beseiged town set free,
the Russian force under arms is very considerable.
There have been several large fires, seemingly of
betehirood, among the enemy's camps. On the eight
of the 113th, is addition to these fires, which spread a
glare for a wide distance round, and lit up the white
smoke which rose from them, were lines of what
appeared to be bonfires. They burned brightly and
distinctly, and were obviously close to the Russian
teats, on the heights above the Tohernaya valley.
There were various suppositions to account for these
demonstrations. The =rival of one of the Royal
Princes to visit the army was one of the commonest
suggestions. But to show the uncertainty which
prevails, respoting the movements of the
enemy, there are many, and those in a position
to be able to gain good information, who iodise
to the belief that the rumour of the intended sank
has come from the enemy himself, who has contrived
to transmit it through a source calculated to obtsin
credence from the truth of its termer intelligence
having been confirmed by the ocentrence of the
events then prognosticated. The object of the trick,
if it be one, would be to prevent further detachments
being sent to Eupatoria, and to divert attention from
the movements, perhaps the retreat, of the Russians
themselves.

Every precaution has, however, been taken to
guard against a surprise, and to resist the attack if
attempted. The French force overlooking the Tcher-
nays has been strengthened, and several regiments
have been moved in order to occupy a nearer position
over the lakermann valley. All the redoubt. on
the Inkerroann heights oar our side an fully manned.
The road-making and other fatigues have been
given up for the present, and the troops are kept
ready at a moment's notice, night and day, to move
wherever they may be required. Parades are held
thrice daily to ensure the presence of all the men in
camp. All the troops are assembled ander ewes at
daylight. At night the men lie down with their
arms, ammunition, some biscuit in their havresacks,
water bottles filled, placed at their sides, or in other
convenient situations close at hand, to avoid ell
chance of delay. The enemy will find us prepared
at all points, should he dare agalu to assault our posi-
tion, and will probably tare worse than on the two
former occasions of defeat, when circumstances pre-
vented the Allies from attempting to follow up their
victory.
To-morrow, the 20th, has bun commonly named
as the day settled for the attack to take place.
We have bad some remarkable examples of the
variable nature of the climate of the Crimea
during the last week. The general character
of the weather has been floe, dry, and
mild, But on the 16th and 18th instant it
was oppressively hot, Fahrenheit's thermometer in-
dicating 84 degrees in the shade during the greater
part of each day. Paper and light articles curled up,
and the skin experienced that unpleasant sen-
sation which indicates the presence of a dry
sirocco in the Mediterranean. The wind blew
from the south, with a little eastward in it.
There were only five or six degrees of difference in
the temperature shown by the mercury in the shade
and when exposed to the direct influence a/themes
rays. Subsequently the Drees, has changed nod
to the northward, and the solar heat, them* sew
tinning great. has boss thus messiderabiresespered.
Bader such oirearestanne the climate is Emit deli.
dens ; the atmosphere is pure and Wed, se that
robjeets can be distinguished at long &names ; the
'sea breeze only serves to moderate the heat of the sun
which would be too powerful without it; the con-
trests of light and shade are strongly marked ;flowers
fm great variety are again: appearing; and all around
Moan rather the character of a fresh spring than of
a hiding autumn.
The orders from home for the preservation of the
pablie building. and forts of Sebastopol, with a view
to tide military occupation, and for the repair of the
rides of the town, have led to a cessation of the re-
newal of timber and other articles which were being
removed by the ',troops for the purpose of hutting
themselves for the winter. The following notice has
been eleselated by General Windham, Commandant
of the Xarabelnaia, in the several Divisions, on the
anhject

Ocr. lb.—Major-Hese& Windham' ham Art received
iatareetiake to permit for the figure anything whatever to
be reamed fres soy parties et the tows over Wadi be
is eahisewleat.
He therefore erode this sodas to the pantie easereadiag
divides% that they way provost all parties, public sad
'Weak, frees gags to fete/ mirk's, frogs Bebairtapol sow

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farther orders, as be wilt be obliged to order them a,
beeg
their urival. (8111210 d)

-I‘.Nruto Hsu, Yelar-Gbanc
We have at lest news of the expedition *deb hi
for the northern part of the Bleak lies. A. 04
information wee received only this morning by his.
graph, there is no further intelligens, than g
conveyed in the following general order on the setijst
ommasi 01Ifint.
Head Qsartets, Selsestopol, Oct. 19, OK
The Commander of the Forms has the greatest Wide.
ties in publishing, for the information of the array, gy
lowing telegraphic despatch, received tv.i. day, its Fels,
from Hear-Admiral Sir Edmund Lyon., G.C.E.
Off the Koala of the Dnefper,
" The three forts, on the Lichens Spit, Wilaft 11.
wards of seventy guns, and garrisoned •7
Ytessset
deed men, under the commend of Major-Oman UM&
vitals, have this day capitulated to the Allied forms.
" The day before yerterday, • flotilla of gaa•Mnii taw
an entrance into the Damper, and the Allied Weep bigg
ea the Spit to the southward of the forte; thm, brim.
einealtaneose operations, the retreat of tbe mho.
and the snivel of reinforcements seem go.
blau, cut off. so that the forts beteg buk,
banded to-day by the mortar-vessels, gua.meek. ed
French goating.batteries, and being closely mesessgal,
the steam line of battle•ships and frigates, hat sof In;
feet of water under their keels, were soon obliged I, ie.
render.

"The casualties in the fleets wan very far; he !hi
enemy had forty-five killed, and 130 wounded.

" A steams squadron, ender the orders of hem Adak*
Stewart and Pillion, lie at anchor in the Deism, ea
eminent' the entrance to Nicolaieff and gums.
. .

"The hate are occupied by the Allied keep. Tke
prienen will be sent to Conetantlnople immediately."
Oct. 20,10 a.m.—There e-e no indiesticos of wry
movement on the part of the enemy. Everphili
continues on the alert u if an attack were 'qui&
The regimen of the several divisions are radio/
in light marching order. If the Rusks" "silly la.
tended an attack, they moat have plainly men Maim
had become aware of their intention'.

rTICAL INTELLIGENCI

Moan or Caurn.—Parzumuns.-11), Ir.
John Jones, M.A , incumbent of Christ Church, Lithwirl,
was on Tnewley net collated by the bishop to the &Wes.
cony of Liverpool, and also at the same tine Mann Is
the utiles of rural dean of the deaneries of Wirral sad Ifir-
rington, in the said diocese. The Rev. F. T. cetabedita
has been licensed by the Bishop to the stipendiary meg
Hely Trinity Church, Chester, upon the neminatim site
Rev. F. Ayislibown, the 1110tOf of the same chunk
OIDUIATION.—The Bishop of Chester isles& to Win
neat ordination at Chester on the second Sudsy nisei
T►e candidates are required to send all their
papers to Charles T. W. Parry, Req., Chester, his
secretary, six weeks before the ordination.