The Express.
London, England, 1855-01-10 00:00:00

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has been improved. Bee this ttiellit .P
a strong body of his hardiest
trod the soil of the Crimes, The force
at Espatoris is sueloient to threaten.:o*
even to assail, the imcsprtaa_Risehr i
Perekop. The Russian army in the field spin= te
have suffered even more than etle t> inn
exposed unsheltered to the inclesseaey of die wisSIM
and a great pert of it has been obliged to seek MI-,
ter in Baktehi-Serai and Simpheropol. By meaiiii
of LIPRAHDI'S amps it retains its hold on the beiglito
which front Balaklava and Inkermann, bat it is dis-
tributed over a long line, and obliged to make face at
ones to the Allies on the heights above Sebastopol,
and the Turks of Owlia PACEA at }kriteria. The
French and Eogliah batteries have again been sup-
plied with ordnance, and the Russian fleet is as
hermetically sealed up as ever. The Muscovite is in
the toils, the Tinchal has closed around him.
One terrible effort, and Sebastopol—the Crimea—is
wrested from him.
With such prospects before them, it is impossible to'
believe that the French or English Governments
can be so insane as to contemplate the possibility of a
peace upon any other terms than the cession of the
Crimea by Russia—at the least. One wild emotion
of rage would convulse the armies, which already feel
it crumbling in their grasp, were the quarry which
they have suffered so much to bring to bay, to be
snatched from their hands at the moment they are in
act to pounce upon it. And a contagious thrill of
indignation would rush along the veins of the allied
nations, full-fraught with danger to any Government
that should interfere to break the fall of Russia.
We will not believe that any dishonouring,
patched up, resultlem peace can be in contemplation.
From the same sources whence we derive the informa-
tion that negotiations have been renewed at Vienna,
we have assurance of the Allies having stipulated
that no suspension of hostilities shall take place while
these negotiations are in progress. Assured that the
war is to be urged on with unrelenting vigour, we
can look on with comparative indifference at the
insidious attempts of Russia to detach Austria from
the Western Alliance, convinced that they must
prove abortive.
Austria, though timid and hesitating—end they
who know most intimately the actual condition and
immediate prospects of that government can best
feel what excuses it has for being so—is now too
well aware of the real aims of the CZAR lightly to
throw itself loose from the Aoglo-French
In addition to the hereditary policy of the House of
NOYANOFT—in addition to the pressure brought to
bear upon NtcwoLts by the Muscovite or Sclavonie
party—the CZAR has had a private and personal
motive for taking, at the present time, the rash step
he has ventured upon. An unnatural discord disturbs
the peace of his family. His lOW ALEXANDER and
Cossr•srutz hate each other. The former, of a mak
perhaps effeminate, disposition, clings to that meths et
the court and nobility which affects the civilisation et
Europe; the latter, of a hardier temperament, spew
thisee with the Muscovite party, represented by MENT-
CHIKOPY and the Primate of Moscow. NICHOLAS is
haunted by the dread that after his death the tragedy
of the Theban brothers may be re-enacted in his
lemily, and that the unnatural feud may extend its
influence beyond the walls of the palace, and shake the
Empire even to dissolution. To avert, if possible,
this evil, appears to have been at least one of his'
motives for grasping at extended dominion. He has
sought an independent kingdom wherewith to por-
tion off his younger son and induce him to leave the
rights of the elder born uncontested. The throne of
Constantinople—the vision that has haunted the Czars
Over since the days of Cannama—first attracted his

eyes; and hence his attempts to sound the English
Minister at his Court as to whether England—
if allowed to seize upon Egypt, the highway to
India—would connive at the Russians retaining hold
of Constantinople. But the campaign of 1849 had
suggested an alternative chance ; and hence the en-
deavours of his emissaries ten or twelve months ago
(u we stated yesterday) to learn whether the Hun-
garian Magnates would be contented to purchase
Russia's recognition of their national independence
by accepting Cormzurrita as their King. These

intrigues are now known to the Austrian Govern-
ment, which is therefore aware that Russia, intent on
western spoil, has been sitting ready for tho spring,
hesitating whether to make it southward upon Turkey
or eastward upon Hungary.
Did the question lie between the people of Hun-1
gary and the house of HAPSBURG. it would clearly
be the duty of France and England to abstain from
interfering in such a purely domestic quarrel. But
if the question shall be raised as to whether France
and England ought to stand aloof in the event of
the house of ROMAROPP attempting to snatch Hun-
gary from the house of HAPSBURG, a very different
answer may be given. It is not likely that the inha-
bitants of Hungary will feel any very lively wish to
be handed over from the rule of Austria to that of
Russia, or that they would have any chance of bet-
tering their condition thereby. Aa aggression by
the CZAR on Hungary would be a case exactly
parallel to his aggression on Turkey. Matters
standing thus, might it not be well for the Hun.
garian patriots to try whether they cannot come
to terms with the house of HAPSBURG P Even
the statesmen of Vienna must by this time begin to
suspect that, though arms and foreign allies may
repel foreign aggression, the permanence of a dynasty
among a brave and intelligent people must be assured
by other means. Nay, there is some faint reason for
believing that the Austrian Government begins to
perceive that the removal of so dangerous a neigh-
bour as the Muscovite from its frontier would be

cheaply purchased by the cession of its own share in the
spoils of Poland. These things are, it is true, as yet
but problematical—dimly seen in the distance of

posumuty ; yet they are not altogether undeserving
of the oonsideration of the friends of national inde-
pendence and good government in Europe.—Daily
News.