The Express.
London, England, 1855-08-09 00:00:00

RUSSIA.

A letter from Warsaw, of August 2, in the Con-
' stitutionnel, says:
A correspondent of the lisdependance Beige pretends that
there is a camp of 40,000 men near this place. It is a most
incorrect statement. Neither at Powonaki, nor Wawryo-
sew is there any such number of troops. As to the camp of
Marismont, about which so much fuss has been made,
I have but a word to esy : Mere is so suds thing. Bel
mound the number of troops in Poland is very small. They
are in cantonments is the fortresses of Zamosek and Dem-
blin, in the citadel of Warsaw, at Modlin, in that part of
the old government of Podlachia on the right bank of the
Vistula, along the Mirisk road, at Mediae Miendeyree, &c.
The guards are stationed between Mieodcyrec and
Monito, and Bialystock, and beyond the Boog. It
is manifest that the Russian pl►n of defence was entirely
changed some time since. At first it appeared as if Poland
were about to be oetmpied by a considerable army. Provi-
sions for upwards of two hundred thousand men had been
accumulated in the fortress of Modlia. But now
we have nowhere anything but little garrisons, and
the stoma in Medlin are rotting. Only the other
day, 1,800 tons of salt meat in a state of complete putrefac-
tion, was thrown into the Narew and the Vistula. By al-
lowing the exporation not only of corn but of all kinds of
food, to Cracow, °salmis, and Buckovise, our government
sufficiently proves that it does not apprehend any consi-
derable agglomeration of troops in Poland. On
the other hand large quantities of provisions are
now being sent to Bessarabia and the neighbouring
governments of the Tigris; Podolia, Volhyois, and
Bessarabia, suffer immensely from the continual par
sage of troop. In fact, one must be wholly ignorant
of the present state of the populations of those countries to
believe that they are devoted to the cause of the Caws.
In vain the Christian Popes endeavour to inflame their fa-
naticism. The inhabitants of ancient Poland, as well as
the Zaporogaee Cossacks, are haunted by the desire and the
vague hope of recovering their independence, and it is use-
leas to demand from them the sacrifices which the people
of some of the Genteel province. of the empire willingly
impose upon themselves..

SPAIN.

The Madrid journals of the 3rd have reached us.
The Esparta says:

We suppose that the reader will be surprised to learn
that the government hag taken a decisive step in the grave
question of the East. The day before yesterday the Council
of Ministers held an extraordinary sitting, and after a long
deliberation decided that Spain should adhere to the
offensive and defensive ailianee between France, England,
and Turkey. Yesterday this resolution was commu-
nicated officially to the representatives of France and
England, and they immediately transmitted it by telegraph
to their respective courts, and soma bouts after sent off ex-
traordinary couriers with details. The Duke de Is Victoria
and the Minister of Foreign Affairs left Madrid at ea early
hour yesterday morning for the Escurial, to communicate
the ministerial decision to her Majesty. It is said that one
of the first consequences of the alliance will be the despatch
of an army of 26,000 men to the Crimea, and the engage-
ment on the part of the Western Powers to support the
Spanish government in every way against the enemies who
may attempt to overthrow it. As the gaieties of the alli-
ance comprises others of subsidies and levies of men, it
will be submitted to the Cortes.

A letter in the Gegen* Militaire, giving an account
of the last momeats of Admiral Nachirsoff, at Sebastopol,
says:—" Cow:does that his end was approsohing, he turned
to the seamen by his side, and aid: My children,
never forget to hobt the seals (i 4., the cross of the Russian
Sag of war) at the mainmast in the Preston of the enemy,
as yolk did at Sleeps.' The death of Nachimoff hen pat the
gurison of Sebastopol, and especially the seamen by whom
be was adored, to despair. General Ybroaleff, who rivals
him in intrepidity, attend these words as they placed him in
the can: Mnantaine of enemies' tarpon, ►rave seaman,
shall be thy monement Da bwdet ra.t ! (Let it be so)
shoats the regiment whe assisted at the funeral ceremony."

FRANCE.

offtoll ova 01/74 coal

PARIS, WZDNIUMAY BYININO.
Letters from Vienna positively deny the existence
of the letter attributed to the Empress Dowager of
Russia.

The Jupiter, ship of the line, left Marseilles on the
Bth for the East, with 997 men on board. The
Alexandre steam-packet took her departure the same
day for Constantinople, With 460 men, belonging to
the engineers, on board. The Va'my line•ut-battle
ship and the Unutie frigate left Toulon the day after
with troops, provisions, and ammunition for the
Crimea.

The Constantinople correspondent of the Semaphore
of Marseilles, in speaking of the new Turkish
ambassador to Paris, says:—" I think that Mehemet
Bey will please Parisian society. He is a well-made
man, of about 30, and of pleasing physiognomy,
speaks French well, and unites to a European educa-
tion the tact of an Oriental diplomatist." The follow-
ing are the names of the gentlemen connected with
the new Turkish embassy :—Riza Bey, first councillor
of embassy; Agop, second ditto; Server Effendi and
Blacque, secretaries ; Orner Effendi, second secretary ;
t'efels, Naom, and Paul Manse, attaches; and
Chauvin, chancellor.
The Bourse has undergone a decline. The Rente
fell 26c., closing at 671 r. 15c. Railways were consi-
derably lower.
The Marquis de Villeneuve Trans, a gentleman of an-
cient family, who had commenced a diplomatic career,
and was lately a captain on the staff of the national
guard of Paris, felt an irresistible impulse to serve his
country in the Crimea, and quitting all the enjoyments
of a brilliant position, he, a few months ago, enlisted,
at the age of 25, as a private soldier in a regiment of
Zouaves. He soon rose to the rank of sergeant, and
being still a non-commissioned officer, was mortally
wounded while on duty as adjutant of the trenches.
He died after suffering a painful operation, and a
few hours before his death he wrote a cheerful letter
to his mother. The Monileur pays a handsome tri-
bute to the memory of this gentleman soldier.
The provincial journals continue from time to time
to report exceptional instances, some of them very
remarkable, of the insubordination of universal suf-
frage, which till very lately appeared to have been a
perfectly docile instrument in the hands of the great
inventor of the machinery of 18.51. At Milles
(Seine and Oise) out of 665 registered voters, 436
went to the poll. The entire Government list was
thrown out, and sixteen councillors were elected from
among the opposition candidates by large majorities.
The highest number of votes polled for any govern-
ment candidate was 97, while between 300 and 400
were recorded for every one of the successful sixteen.
At Arretz (Loire Inferieure) the local authorities sent
a printed list, headed " government candidates," to
the residence of every elector, but notwithstanding
this extraordinary mode of intimating to the consti-
tuency how they were expected to vote, not one of
the nominees was returned. In the important town
of Augouleme the government candidates were all
defeated. At Rouen, out of thirty-six councillors, six
were chosen from the opposition, and among the
government nominees thrown oat were M. Davie!, a
senator, and the Colonel and chef de bataillon of the
National Guard of the town. The remarkable mani-
festation of opposition at Havre has been already
noticed in your journal. In some places the prefects
manifest their wrath and disappointment in the
columns of the local prints under their control.