The Express.
London, England, 1855-12-25 00:00:00

THE FALL OF LARK.

this topic the Wogs' Gassa• retearks :
adoubtodly the nest impormat moult of this *mat will
the =Amiss of popular climbs is Par* when the
me sea hardly be said to be is luau el poem But Ow
however highly we may estimate Motaravieff, we WS
to admit, that the rural state of the war is mily
slightly dusted by the fall of Lars, a bet that is mauls*
`wee by the Nem Prussia* Gametle. Kan may be walled
• key to Asia Miser t the look, bewever, is very tasty.
astaral obsteeise, ranted by the ormatry itself
+erg► its +sat et reeds sad its bag vaunt taws, an so
, that Priam Pesklewitek, whew ho had takes Lars,
evea Iremeam, is 1828, hardly doled to pros 'ad
than a few days' mashes is adman. G.-
,‘ Xonsieff is musk to week to abeam further is this
laelemeat mama ; espeidally sow that Omer Paces is
@smelly before Kate's. What we alma ustisestead is,
• why **Tuts have dose so little Dar the relief of Ku. ,
. why the 2mM, if we essept a few spirited most,
Ave seat so aid to the disweesed beta's's. The Turkish
'utiliser twoope fused by ties iato a matiageat wee
ready to take the bid la AprU last. Tim hitch is the assay,
the petty Pansy of the Aare ia that army ag Mast the
latliaa seems sad the auxiliary weeps, this has bees put of
Nem. It is useable that the Preach de sot ukase the
ardour is the loglisit 89 for aadertakiag operations
Asia, far otherwise we dad it hard to oomprehead why
Me allies do ad mete oat their blows la that quarter, where
bank is least aide to parry these, sad when they would be
mast deeply felt. To drive bask the Remises thrush the
&►lies of die Osamu would be taatamosat to barring them
of Asia.

THE SOUND DUES CONGRESS.

Orson own own

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COPENHAGEN, Dec. 19.
The mach-talked-of Sound Dues Cowes hie
proved a decided failure. Sweden is the only state
that hes sent a commissioner, in the =mi M.e
Gyldsastelps, the director of the
deperthesat. Most of the German States have
&dad having anything to do with it, espesielly
I Nano= sad Oldenburg, whilst Iflecidsobarg hes
irked it has no °blood= to the continuation of the
Sethi Dun to be levied as hitherto. This has
inked some surprise, as the present prime minister
d that Grand Duchy, Berea von Bliley, was some
**sago sent cm a special mission to Copenhagen, for
tile apses peeps= of negotiating with Denmark for
169 Wiliam of the Sound Doss. The probable
ICI
d this shanp in the views d the cabinet of
1 Ithiwerin is attributed to the fears entertained that
1 the free pomp of ships to the Baltic may seriously
interfere with licaleaborg's share of the Elbe Doss
which she inflicts oa oommsros. With regard to
Ruda, Count Nemelrode hes told plainly the Danish
na, fey at IR. Petersburg that Russia cannot son-
rea to the proposal for sapitalisimmate
Dem, as the Minister of
wield certainly not be die at premed be
seise
Aso mach
an'gooeythat as would be rooked he ply
1 Ress's shire, d smegoosily weir Os
' swine@ to me it enteredthey=smoulders that
the Russian trade is completely annihilated by the
war, and that they am Jr facto_ absolved from the
payment of Sound Dues, this declaration of the
Russian arch•chaasellor will not create any sesprim
As for Ragland, Lord Clarendos has fully misled
the policy that the British Cabinet is prersisi to
follow, and has given Denmark plainly to mho-
stead that, it she permits the es iv
ether flag to pass the Sound or the Belts witheat
t of the customary dose, she meet be premed
be
his cabinet will require the' mass ei
vastness for the British flag.
It is generally understood that Denmark hes con-
eluded a similar treaty to the Swedish one with the
1 Western Powers, and that it will be pabliebed in a
1 day or two, se soon as the szthaage of the ratification
shall have then effected.