The Express.
London, England, 1855-04-09 00:00:00

THE WAR.

Tbe Wore boa Constantinople of the 26th ult.,
published by our Perisooatemporaries, do not furnish
nay more ample details of the affair of the night of
the 22nd than those given in the report of General
Canrobert. They all, however, agree in saying that
sines the battle of Inkermann nothing has taken
place which has been more glorious for the French
arms. The days preceding the attack in question
were signalised by a series of partial engagements
near the Malakhoff Tower, to the defence and attack
of which all the efforts both of besiegers and besieged
appear to be now directed. It was in one of those
affairs that Admiral btomine was killed, as already
mentioned. He was struck by a shell thrown from
the French batteries against the hillock in front of
the tower, while the French soldiers were attacking
the Russian ambuscades.

FRANCE.

DINT ON THE DAILY MAWS.)
PARIS, SUNDAY EVADING.

The Debate says that, while the formal debates of
the Vienna Conferences are suspended, so far as con-
cerns the third point, until the arrival of the fresh
instructions which are expected to-morrow, frequent
unofficial meetings take place in M. de Buol's
to talk over the various solutions suggested either
from Berlin or elsewhere. To these meetings, it
appears, not only the plenipotentiaries of the parties
to the Conference, but also the ministers of several 1
seeaudary German states, are admitted. Under these
circumstances, the covenanted secrecy of the Confor-
mers must be very ill kept, and it may well be that
the revelations which the Debate proceed, to make ere
authentic. According to this journal many combi-
nations have been proposed for attaining the object
of diminishing Russian power in the Black Sea. Two
have been already mentioned frequently with more
at Iwo detail. The first scheme was that Russia
&add consent to a material diminution of her naval
lame in the Black Sea, that she should engage n
order any pretext whatever, to exceed the limit
fixed, and that ►he Western Powers should be re-
stricted by treaty from having a larger fleet than
Russia in the same waters. By the second, which is
thought to have been suggested by the cabinet of
Berlin, the Western Powers were to be at liberty,
with the consent of Turkey, to create on the Southern
Coast of the Brack Sea—as for example Sinope,
Bourgas, and Trebizonde—maritime establishments of
sufficient force to counterbalance those possessed by
Russia in the Crimea. In either of the above hypo-
theses. ships of war of all nations were to be free to
psis through and anchor in the Straits of the Dar-
danelles and the Bosphorus, and the Sea of Marmon.
All restrictions upon ingress to or egress from the
Black Sea were to be removed, and the Russian ports
there were to be subjected to the rules and obliga-
tions of the law of nations. The Debate now says
that a third plan specially occupies the attention of the
Vienna diplomatists at the present moment. It is pro-
posed to maintain and proclaim anew the principle of
closing the Straits, to declare the Black Sea a mare
demeans, but, at the same time, to stipulate that the
powers bordering on that ass should have no naval
force there. This is, in short, the proposition tele-
graphed from Berlin to the Daily News, that the
Black Sea should be made a commercial lake. A
fourth plan is that the Straits of the Dardanelles
should be closed against Russia, whose ships of war
should not be allowed to leave the Black Sea,
but open to other nations. This—subject to what
Turkey may have to say upon the matter—is no
doubt a plaa very desirable to be realised. It would
effectually humble and control Russia. Of all pos-
sible solutions 1 venture to say that the worst would
be the one that should permit the perpetrators of the
massacre of Sinope to penetrate into the Mediter-
ranean.

The Russian Plenipotentiaries provisionally repu-
diated any proposition tending to limit the Russian
naval forces in the Black sea; they made no objection
to the abolition of the principle of the closing of the
Straits, they were ready to consent to the free circula-
tion of ships of war of all nations in the Dardanelles,
the Bosphorus, and the Black Sea, provided that it was
well understood that Russian ships of war should
enjoy reciprocal rights, and might always freely pass
backwards and forwards from the Black Sea to the
Mediterranean. They were willing that, if desirtd,
the Sultan or the Western Powers should have the
right to make ss many maritime stations as they
pleased on the Turkish coast opposite the Crimea. In
support of their views the Russian Plenipotentiaries
observed that hitherto the operations of the war had
not been such as to produce any effect upon the ne-
gotiations. There were, they said, neither conquerors
nor conquered, and the Emperor Alexander was still
as much master of the Crimea as of the other pro-
vinces of his Empire. This proposition was con-
tt sted, and it was urged that the Emperor of Russia
was not master in the Crimea, sines the allied armies

occupied all the ground that they desired to occupy
before Sebastopol. and since the allied fleets enjoyed
lundisputed rule in the Black Sea. The Russian. Ple-
nipotentiaries particularly objected to the closing of
the Straits, whether with the condition that no navy
whatever should be maintained in the Black Sea
either by Russia or Turkey, or that the Russian naval
force should be limited.
While these discussions were going on, Prussia, who
was one of the parties to the treaty of 1841, put in her
claim to be a party to any conference in which the re-
vision of the treaty was proposed. This claim was,
of course, supported by Russia; but the Debate is con-
strained to admit that the Plenipotentiaries were indis-
prised to accede to it. A postscript to the article in the
Debuts states that letters just received from Vienna,
announce that OA Conference hsa closed its delibera-
tions on the fourth point, and that the Plenipoten-
tiaries are agreed on the subject of the protectorate
of the Christian subjects of the Sultan, as they were
some time since agreed with respect to the protect°.
torate of the Priocipelities and the liberty of the
Danube. This statement of the Debuts must not be
understood es coo tradictiog what has been said repeat-
edly, that the adherence of Russia to the First. Se-
cond, and Fourth Points is subject to "reserves"—in
other words, as I take it, that the adherence amounts to
nothing.
The above article in the Debate produced some
effect on the Little Sunday Bourse. The Rents
which closed yesterday at 69k. 160., rose to 69fr. 45c.
The Austrian Railway rose 2tr.

We learn that a magnificent antique statue, in red
Burble, wu purshasedlor the British likileous, at the him

sale of M. CuHot's (*ltemise at Paris. Es•kiag Jerome at-
tempted to become its purchaser, is order that hi sight
octant it to the Masson of the Louvre. M. Collot was
form. rly Director of t►e Paris Mist.
For the second time, the