The Express.
London, England, 1855-10-24 00:00:00

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24.

8171ELT these Russians are the politest enemies that
ever an army had to deal with. They are always on
th, alert to save our men trouble. If a demonstra-
tion is made against their ship*, instantly the vessels
are sank by their own heads. If indications are
gime of it serious desire to take one of their forts, it
is blown op forthwith. It would not in the least
Empties ns to learn that, after blowing up the forti-
fications oa Malakoff Point, the Russian Commander
had despatched a flag of truce to express his regret
that the laziness of his soldiers, or their uncertainty
se to our wishes, had prevented their doing as
mach to the forte at Kinhorn. These exploits of
the Muscovites impart to their Emperor's visit to
the southern pies of his dominions, a character un-
precedented in history. We read of many Kings and
Kaisers who have repaired to the theatre of war, to
p through the form of receiving the submission of
towns, fortresses, or armies, that had previously been
redacted to extremities by their generals. But
ALI:LANDER IL is the first Sovereign on raved
who has travelled so far to witness, with
his own eyes, the dexterity with which his
soldiers can destroy and evacuate their own
defences. The Roman Emperor who went
from Rome to the Belgian coast to wit-
ness a sham embarkation for the reagent
of Britain has hitherto been thought the most
sublime ninny on record : his laurels must fade in
comparison with the Russian Emperor, who has
travelled from St. Petersburg to Odes+ to witness an
unresieted irruption into his own dominions. How
the news of his passive exploits may be received at
Bt. Petersburg it is not easy to reojectore. When
the inhabitants of that capital learned that their
Black Sea fleet bad been sunk by the orders of Prince

LATEST
-EWS FROM ABROAD

THE ALLIES IN THE BUG AND
THE DNIEPER.

(ST INTIMATIONAL TILIGRATIG)
(PROM OUR OWN 001111SPONDINT.)
HAMBURG, WRDNIADAT MORNING.

A despatch received yesterday M St. Petersburg,l
states that rep to Monday night nothing of impor-
tance had been undertaken by the Allies between
Kinburn and Nioolaieff. Gan-boats bad asoended
the Bug and the Dnieper to reconnoitre, but bad
retired.

(IT ISSCTIIO TILIGRAPIL)

TIIISDAY.

An imperial ukue just issued permits the free
importation of European colonial produce into the
Transcaucasian provinces via the overland froatiers,
of Persia and Turkey, during the continuance of the
war.

Mnircaixorr, and that their forts around South
Sebastopol bad been blows up by the orders of
Prince Cloarrnexorr, they could console them.
selves by the reflection that these misadventures
could *lily happen in the absence of their Etopetoe—
Zeit clod op= earth. But their Emperor has gone
to the mese of action, and matters go on in his presence
exactly as they did in his absence. May not this shake
their confidence in his miraculous power to protect
them? And may not the consequent want of faith
in him prepare au iodiffaent reception for his Impe-
rial Majesty oa his return ? The reverence with
which the Russians regard their Sovereign border.
on idolatry ; but old chronicles tell us bow
the worshippers of idols have ere now, when
tired with praying to their wooden gods
without effect, tried whether they could not
beat them into better behaviour. If the Russians
have ever read the story of the man who, tired out
with fruitless prayers to his idol, threw it rudely down
from its pedestal, and was rewarded by a stream of
gold ceis which, hayloft bees deposited in a cavity of
the image, flowed from it when broken, they may be
tempted to repeat the experiment epee their own flesh
and blood divinity. But possibly the politeness of
the Russian., is saving the Allies the trouble of
destroying their ships and forte. is the re-
nit of some deep-laid abase. We may
read in the next number of the Journal
is &. Pitersbessrg that conies to band an
exposition of the Machiavellian policy of its Go-
verment. In this way the other great humbug of
the day—the Tissue—when it has been plied by a
Tatar canard about the fall of Sebastopol, or by a
stock jobbing telegraphic message intimating the
departure of a courier from Berlin with letters of
real to the Prussian Minister in Loadoe, or by a
private letter announcing that a polies superinten-
dent bad been empowered to postpone the Jesse of
the report of a Royal Calming= on his own conduct,
coolly assures its readers next day that it wee aware
of the falsity of the reports, and that its grave
moments on them were delicate irony. The 2Tster,
whoa trapped in this manner, uniformly follows the
example of Falstsj; who, when the Prises and
Psis* lured hiss on to swagger about his expleita
at Oadsbill, sad then turned resod upon hiss sad tail
him bow they had frightesed him, exclaimed, MEy
the Lord, Hal, I knew you." The Tiouser, it is well
known, h carefully reed at St. Petersburg : they
who were about the Russian court when its turgid
deauticiations of the war at the first breskitig oat
of the Eastern troubles encouraged the late Em-
peror and NEBIIIIIIOD3 to persist in thin age
slow on Turkey, east tell what high mat it em
joyed them. ALEXANDZI IL may ego a leaf
out of the Maar book now, in order to assemeit

for his continued reverses to his people wavering It;
their faith in his invincibility. Bet the citizen@ of St.
Petenburg, though 'stacked; servile, are no look
They will whipper in each other's ears—after looking
round them to make mere that no polies spy is near—
that this profound policy of destroying and abandon-
ing one stronghold after another may end in leaving
their country utterly defenceless. And from this
confidential expression of opinion they may go on to
ask whether, seeing that the melt of all this wily
policy mast be submission at last, it would not be
better to get through the disagreeable task at once,
and surrender at discretion now.

3TAT=TIM or CalMS.—Darisg ths pa= week the
dl ishaelreas Glimmer &saki= have bees held throughout the
weans seasties, sad a statement .1 the sountent thee for
criel.sempresil with iless tried at the earrespeadleg period
ha Isms, yews, ghee a fah IS.. of the suite of erste la
thine emandes. la Benet, between the llth al October,
Ma, gad the 11th of October, 1884, them were 311 Perseus
ammitied be trial, sad 16 juveniles dealt with summarily.
the gest year, however, there were wily 266 eas-
t= the number of jewmaile aCendets was 'stressed
te 36, whiled were dealt with eammeelly ostler the sow
at. la Sesneent the= were 28 primes, Be trial, of wheat
SOW nether read sat writs, 4 impesitaily. end 3 mei la
OalswaU theft were 38 at the lest sessim=l as the sins
canadliat period to 1868, 41. At Bath mem 111
sms§ I sad as lialiabasy ase•—• eiesseesteese has
hal samwred fur the lest 13 years. At await &dog the
year the weekly averages bay* hen 88, if wheat 17
ewe Imam 11 reseals, 3 jeveails effeeden, swill debtors.
Of Chase 17 could read sad write, 4 meld as,, asd the re
makeler wars wittiest education. la the smady ef Doves
ewe were welly the sante sash= of ppm= committed
te the gaol during the peat quarter ae derleg the MN-
opoggig quarter of last =or.
FROST APPEARTT4O.—A ring ma mama Frost,
sea of the We Mr. W. B Irma, d lik sows. a gelemls is
the 41.1 Rieman, made aaasespeserd appeentem ben as
Tared= last, as his Idoode had =sewed " ariassOr
Satellites= of his dee* WI boss is souvoisi tar bee
ninths. limps.= thee he was =meet at the balk of
lelehlava. end was WM* wooded while la the tramiss
obtainsil slisesse as Sib rise
is asueimiessee of
belles wieuesbed. ik the impish. et him
&Ma. dist We of Ms sionvolos sat
dillisseitlass. lad
by separate negate, solonaskomed le is lie pelalllos
asotlier. whs Ira maned Invalided, bad gibed ups 611111
sad sestrowil eliat statmest —Amp Pad.
EXTMOIDINMULT QUICK PAIMAGL-111.=
Ala bassers Cho, of Glasgow, wide the rueCho, fres
S. Citrons le 76 days, bele, ceseputed the quisling yamegs
es mead.

... The

THE EXPRESS. WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 24 1m55.

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legislation, it ought to be on the desk of every
thoughtful merchant.
The following telegraphic despatches have been
received in Paris today _

II MARSEILLES, OCT. 23.
"A despatch from the Crimes, of the 13th int.,

have opened to-day a flee
against Forts Constantine and Catherine.
"The position of the Russians is becoming move
and more difficult. It is generally believed that they
will soon evacuate the facts to the north of Sebes.
topol.

" It would appear that Prices Oortehakoff intends
to retire, and to 000ceatrati all his troops at Sim-
pheropol.

"' The Allies are advsmeing on all points, and the
enemy retires in proportion as they advance.

" , the division of General Antoine:re hes marched
boldly forward, end is established on the heights of
the Belbeek.

" The division of the Chianti d'Afrique had ad-
vanced on the 11th as far as Baidar. The situation
3v excellent.

" Marshal Pelletier has acquired a great ascend-
ancy among the Allies.
"'The army of linpatoria has received considerable
reinforcements. The division of General Feilly has
rejoined that of General d'Allonville. The Eogli►h
cavalry has already disembarked at Enpatoria.
"At Constantinople troops have been embarked
foe Trebizoode '

',MADRID, Ocr.
"The Government has declared in the Cortes that
the sanitary state of Madrid is not alarming.
The Government places in adjudication the works
of the Puerta del 801.

"Everything is tranquil."
The Three per Cents. closed today at 64f. 26c. for
the end of the month; ths Four-and-a-Half per
Cents. at 90f. 26e.; and the New Lou at 661. 300.
Orleans Railway Shares, 1,1961.; Great Northern,
870 f.; Strasbourg, 9121. 60c.; New Shares, 7601.;
Paris and Lyons, 1,12014 Lyons to the klediterra-
De" 1,216 f.; Western of Francs, 7701.; Bor-
deaux and Cott', 6701.; Great Central of France,
687 f. 60e.; Lyons and Geneva, 660 f.; Bauk of Credit
Mobilier, 1,187 t. 60c.; Austrian Railways, 727 f. 600.

BRITISH CONSULS AND THE FOREIGN
LEGION.

Mr. Curti', the British count at Cologne, wee tried
before the Correctional Police-court of that town last
week, charged with having reduced Prussian objects
to emigrate, and with having been accessory in the
enlisting of others in the British Foreign Legion.
The trial ended in the following soutanes :—" The
acts that have been proved against the defendants
Curtis, Engels, and Begetter do not amount
to enlisting in the legal sense of the
word, inasmuch as it Is not proved that either
in this country or in Voisin° any definitive en-
listment took pine. The said defendants are, how-
ever guilty of being accessory to other recruiting
agents. The defendants Hay (the secretary) and
moths, mast be acquitted, the cue not being suffi-
ciently proven spinet them ; Consul Curtis, and with
him Engels and Eimer, are therefore to be visited
each with three months' imprisonment, and each of
the other parties with a fin of 60 thalami'

THE SULTAN'S THANKS TO THE BRITISH
ARMY.

(PAM LAST MOW?' GAZIITTIL)

War Department, Oct. 23, 1866.
Lord Panniers has received a despatch end its
enelosare, of which the following are copies, ad-
dressed to his lordship by General Sir James Simp-
son, G.C.S.

Sevastopol, Oct. 9, ISM.
My Lard,—l have the honour to transmit to your
lordsldp the complimentary letters which I have
received from his Imperial Majesty the Sultan, on
the semi= of the termination of the slap of Sem-
topoL—l have, dm.
JAMES SIMPSON,
General Commanding.
The Lad Penman, &a

deseral,—Mto Vitteire brillauto °tome per is coursp
broke, Meat de seurcueor lea arms de "Masse. Mei
et nee pays sous volts felicitous, roue et la brave Armes
quo la Betas ayes august* et intim, Allies a miss sous tote
counaudeuseat, 00111/1110 rai khaki ass breves Allies les
Frascati et les Sardis. Lu Tuquie yews est reessaalossits
as l'Atigleteere comae olio yetis admire ayes le meads
*Mier.
La prise d'ase place dust to siege ens etujoure memorable
dais les samba stilitalres est la resomposse la plus glorious'
des efforts foreign's que les eases de ass pays iaLlsomoot
We oat faits dipole le aosseeenisat de estop outpaptio.
Le Tout-Puissant es bealsosat 15... arms' les a ready la
globe et l'orgueil de lour pays.
Bolos, Mossieur le General, saes iaterprete eaves do
vows brave Armee pear lei 41:primer see seatissrate.
Is Presideut d. Coassil-Geueral de Gums, le Getiessl
do Divisiou Bakst Pasha, vie je charge de eons remoter,
ems prostates, volts consitutittaera de vive-turn uses Mesita-
dens les plus i 5..... i vow at i vos braves solopssuess
Warms& _ _ _

-tiar es j. Os Din de Toss nett tales= es 8e Selate et
digs, suds. [Blistisre.]
Felt es P. 1.1 de Tibetans, 1e 11 de Is lase de Monr-
oe= 1278, 23 &pants= 1866.
As Gametal Stares, Osstaesdest ea Chid
des Troupes Witankises es Orions, AL

Le 72 flepterabr
Gaseral,—Ba MsJoni Imperials I. Suns ni, uses
Posts Basserais, distrait drji depuis loestempe some
imeori met marque selateata de la haute eseslderutias tpi'd
suacur ass swiss es Tees sosterast es downtime
du Meigidii. II Welt demo ravines de Is
lelllaute quo les sines .111.1111 Timmer de rem porta
=d g•r le Pr/eldest du Cassell General de la omens,
de Divides Rifest Psellel. de vent tosiottre d• es
mein issigaes de l'Ordre Lsysseeds Ditelgidii de Pre-
fine C 1..., staid wee y relent, stye.
senslossie de is baste Wes et dew te
liar null fait de vas nitrites.
Qsast s ROI, Moos. Is Oeseral, is Winepress do vow
aria MS felicitations bias sissoese pour retie haute searcias
distlactiss. K mime Wasps ds wed assainer are
seatinoste i r din skinks, Willesiles gee Ise armies
is l'AlUases eat rsispietoss Minis Ii sessawasessot de Is
waspasso.
Agnes, Nam Is Osseval, las ansrason de as plus
haste aeaslderatiou.

FUAD.

.411eilee;11;;;; le General illeapsen.
Commandant on Chef des Minya
Britennknee en Crimes.

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SOUTHAMPTON, RZWINIDAT RUINING.
N. Nubia bee arrived with the India Mail.
Among her passengers is General Markham, who
commanded at the Medan.
Her Majesty's ship tianspereil hft Gibraltar on the
19th for the West.