The Express.
London, England, 1855-06-25 00:00:00

morning. It is understood that some Cossacks
showed themselves near Tohorgoun, and that a slight
skirmishing occurred between them and some of oar
outposts
June 12.—Everything is at present very quiet in
the batteries. A few shells were discharged from
time to time during the night spinet the working
parties in the direction of the Reda° and Malakhoff
hills. There was also rather more lire on the lett,
when it has been unusually slack during the put
week.

sem. who been wounded, was kept in
pow:, °,,b, F ismer. He had been treated
riagr-y by some of the French officers ; they had
to him some water, and wine, and had
after
• n him a cigarette. The Russian
Wei "" this sr h
L., iota'', got t, when turning
Mg s little way, he set fire to some gunpowder
__PTibogeel shells, which were lying in a mull heap
11. hand, An explosion took place, not in itself
1.1-o i t nce, but it raised an alarm that the
If lauc-11% %seed, and that the mines w abut
Pliao b' wits
d A • t.nt
db.rg, • n ins escape was glade.
the greater pert of the troops, who had
oe,op to the ditch of the Malekhuff, came re_
back; end this eveot added to the confusion,
11;71 which the enemy did not omit to extract a
11191"liTY -"etage. luded about 6 ' lock
Tbe artnisttos was oono o , and a
von ere was again commenced against the Russian
"gra lice of battle ships have taken up a position
true to the entrance of the South Harbour. They
eJ~",a, to be so placed that their guns would act upon
isllll.ethoff-hill. The masts of a third ship are
icy mev
n behind Fort PauL Two of the ships
t eo-detkers, one is a three-decker. Two
piakkerar steamers are near them.
Istelligtoce bee reached the camp that Tore:wog
pigio, near the mouth of the river Don, have
aak.o our fleet, and that a vast quantity ot
Mess "- has been seized and destroyed. these cap-
s. W' int important ;
tor from the former place the
logy bec obtained iron making grins, the
ow, it, tar picking gunpowder. Vast quantities of
me*
conveed from ioterio
std
be rivers Volgarovisions, and Don,y have alsothe been we-
r
ird ;roan tuts port.
A TI rc mate tusillade occurred in the direction ot
ge Mello: lon Vert at 9 p.m., and shortly afterwards
*awed Fteneh Division, who had only been re-
lieved in the morning, moved down to the Karabel-
pia whir n. a reserve force. The fire of musketry
mg re isst long, but was very concentrated and
*wee A Russian taros, it is said, advanced
Imes the Mameloo Redoubt, but the fire of the
liwb coven' g party made such an impression that
the Roseau. quickly retired.
-ems' nes here throwing shells into the Mame-
). tr. T. ...in, steamers behind the Maiskhoff Tower,
egg a‘. how t and batteries on the west side ot
*leiter; hay, the French have had a large
mate of rseuelties.
Tor 10.—A heavy shelling fire we kept up all
sigbt :r.ete both our attacks against the Redan
Blalskor bmieries. There was scarcely any firing
m tbr The enemy scarcely replied. The Cossack
lotteries en the north side of the roadstead fired Me-
Rawl sgsiost the redoubts now occupied by the
bei. on Mont Sapoune.
Capteio Wsiker, of the 3rd Buffs, was wounded in
Os elm lot night,
_hut not seriously. 'lbis officer
iss lately promoted from the 30th Regiment, of
ehith be was adjutant, for gallant conduct before
the many.
It is coutidently rumoured in camp that the usati:t
'pint the l.et.khuff and Red= is to take place: to-
day. Al. Ite batteries in front of the ruin of the
Baud t rte t r, now a mere heap of stones, are silenced,
is is me, the beds°, and it cannot be hoped to effect
gash ;tinter destruction against them by artillery,
estbst the rumour seems probable. All the troops
me eager f.r the undertaking. The Russians have
Isserseted .1 small howitzer battery behind, and to
use left of the Round Tower, the shells from which
me solo ently striking the parapet of the approach
the tele.arry, and the right of the Quarry Arai ;
miser men holding this work are much haraued.
Thy traqes 1:, the Matoelon Redoubt are also suffering
Moly ti ..11 the fire ot the enemy.
Beall vt.'smers left the Admiralty harbour several
limes in tee course of to-day, and went over to the
auth side. They were crowded with men on the
64 soil seemed also to be carrying a quantity ot
mists or luggage. Perhaps this may have been
Meade 1 :ten.. The end of the building, usually
oinked in plans of the town as the Hospital, is
riddled with shot, and there are numerous holes in
*she ot t he long white buildingcal led the Barrack;
bat the principal and more prominent structures
"paw as ?et uninjured.
Is the course of last night two of tve line of battle
ships were towed close into the mouth of the Admi-
ralty It rhunr, with a view apparently of bringing a
firs to .t upon some part of the ground we occupy.
They were compelled to shift their position by some
&bane of shell from the Lancaster gun in the
tick Attadt, and are sow moored in a crescentic
Bee, a considerable distance off in the roadstead, but
%inside on to the Admiralty suburb. Toe three-
eau ties between the two frigates. A large ship
dill euntirues under Fort Paul. At 5 p.m. this vessel
wee etrop...ted to haul a short dishiness round to the
sestmee. as some of the shell went close to its stern,
Ist it It a aoed under protection of the building ot
the lot . f ved men-of-war steamers remain out in
the rootacol, near the ships. These vessels seem to
have tart' np this position to fire, if necessary, upon
tY Matelthnif hill.
Begs et chuff are being taken down to the bat-
*hes aid advanced works. It is supposed that they
lee intended to fill up the ditches before the Roden
mid In. niloff bastion of the Malakhoff, and the idea
that tr, assault is to take place is strengthened. The
Preach olio have a report that they are going to
attack the Malakhoff immediately.
7 p.m —To the surprise of every one our fire is con-
s'ackeolog. Late in the afternoon an order
was an: doers for the fire in the advanced batteries
II be stopped. and for the fire in Chapman's and
Gordon', batteries to be confined to a certain limited
limber of monde each hour. Every kind of rumour
is stet pritsodiog to account for this change. The
Moak gives up for the present, according to some
pewee, braves the French general did not wish it
Übe andertoken until a large battery had been cote-
Ilded in the Msmelon Redoubt. According to many
Oben (i. n, raj Pelissier was most eager to have fol-
lowed so the advantages already gained by an imme.
dive st.ack no the Roden and Masking, but, in the
mtimerna at the EnglishCommmeder-io-Chiefoomasty
Miens sett ease bad fallen in the assault on the Quarry
Seib IA to prevent a further undertaking of that
Min being advisable, and it was therefore post-
A deficiency of gunpowder is also spoken of
Y sae Nut cries, as the cause of slackening fire, as so
but a Are °mild not be maintained long without the
apply Nib, altogether exhausted. No doubt the
seamy et.l elks immediate advantage of the opportu-
aity to notengthea the works which have been so
tllask damaged. A general despondency and feeling
elimita.ioro have followed this change in the condi-
gn of ttf Ars envy one sees the prospect ot the
dol• he rt indefinitely prolonged.
Joffe 11.—The fire gradually slackened lest even-
hg, ...wards night the fire on both aides maid
°,11,11 r. Occasional shots were fired in the night,
hug trots the Camel batteries at lokermarat
cad on •...• north side of the roadstead, to interrupt
the week. of the French in the batteries they lately
alined,.. Mount Sapoene. Daring the night scarcely
a shell •a. tired from either of our two attacks.
The ser,enees ot the cessation of fire stilt continue,.
It is sr., surmised that instreetioss on tb• subject
save h.., reaalead from the nisistry at home, sod
that tie. hpienistioos for pesos an likely to terminate
tavour..h t, or that perhaps the Radian general, find-
°. bi.. If in difficulties, is outing to terms. All
sins et conjectures are on the tapis to try and ex
pate e. extrannioary a change. No doubt the
er.s.pe are equally astonished with ourselves.
But as n r as can be saes there is no disposition oe
the Pau f the sway to yield, for he is evidently
'lame 1 meantime to dispute oar further
c
siny as possible. The troops hoirrierhe
99r"3 .. will continuing to safer from the enemy's
MN; St • l should the same rate of loss nodose, the
"urn- of killed and wounded will show an sane
entitle . of loss greater than might have been ex-
Pitted 'turn an assault. The commanders may be
aware, however, of difficulties and dangers is the
tindensk rig not obvious to ordinary spectator. A
leg of truce was hoisted yesterday from Fort Con-
Weans, for the purpose of holding some comment
Utica with our fleet : the nature of the commence

The weather has been cool, beiog tempered by a
wind from the north. This day however the wind
has shifted more to the eastward, and the sun is ex-
erting great power. The health of the troops en-
gaged in the siege continues good ; MCI of cholera
are very rare. and of a mild character. In the neigh-
bourhood of Balaklava this disease prevails to a
greater extent, and some of the troops have changed
the positions of their encampment in consequence.

ticiiiiss7l;;; t;;;lspinti
There have bona mutely any seimaltim is the
better*. to-day. Amistant-Surgeoa Irwin, Fiord
Navy, wind • same omission in the Bailors'
musty. light attack, from a pion of shell. Thus
Ira" no ca•tielthis among the alone or tame in the
hit &Hack.
theoe wokstsy sad a taw heavy pas were heard
It tie dilution el dm piths at eh early how this

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 25, 1855.

1111100117 07 VII DA UM 1113W5.)
PARIS. SOSDAY 11•7111110.
The English papers ars canvassed with great
anxiety on account of the details they give of the
immense lasers suffered by the Allies on the 18th, nO
authentic intelligence of which has been received
, here. The contradiction of these reports in the Lon-
don evening journals, and the somewhat cheering de-
spatches from General Praisingr of the 19th and 20th,
published by the Moniteur. encourage the hope that
the disastrous accounts circulating in London may be
exaggerated. There are, of course, many reports
here about the French losses. The only one which
reaches me from a source sufficiently respectable to
be alluded to is, that General Mayran was killed,
and General Brunet missing. At the Little Sunday
Bourse scarcely any business was done. The last
quotation was 68fr. 700.
The Afoniteur, while fulfilliog the easy task of
replying to the sophisms of the article in the St.
Petersburg Journal, which seeks to thrqr upon France
and England the responsibility of the upture of the
Vienna Conferences, adheres with a pertinacity little
justified by facts to the policy of representing every-
thing smooth in the relations between Austria and
the Western Powers. The Mullin Plenipotentiaries,
it is said, in pretending a desire to treat on the basis
of the last proposition suggested by the Vienna
diplomatists had evidently no other object in view
than that of turning to their own advantage an
"apparent dissidence between Austria and ourselves."
In support of this view the Moniteur asserts in italics
that Count Buol's proposition was based upon "a
principle of limitation explicitly laid down. But
Count Boors letter to Baron Hubner, published in
the Daily News of Saturday, gives the most complete
contradiction to this assertion, for it states expressly
that "Austria does not look upon the demand for
au international tong 'gement to compel Russia
to submit to a permanent limitation of its
forces in the Euxine as entering into the stipu-
lations of the treaty of December 2." In the same
circular, Count Buol admits the importance of put-
ting an end to the Russian " preponderance" in the
Black Sea, but this result was proposed to be attained
by means which France and England were agreed
to consider as inadequate. The Moniteer, in
its present tenderness for Austria, cites the
expression " limitation of force" as syno-
nymous with "cessation of Russian preponderance,"
choosing to forget that Austria does not concur in so
interpreting the two phrases. The main argument
of Count Buol is that the preponderance may be put
an end to in other ways, and that the proposed limi-
tation would be of little avail, or at most but one
among many other means to an end, but the Moniteur,
in the very article I am now citing, defines what it
means by the cessation of Russian preponderance
when it says that " without it all other guarantees
would be illusory—that without the reduction of the
aggressive force of Russia in the Busing," the sup-
pression of the political and religious protectorate of
Russia in Turkey and the liberty of the navigstion
of the Danube would be "purely nominal." Thus it
is confessed, in spite of all verbal quibbling, that the
difference between Austria and France and England
on the construction of the third point is radical and
not merely " apparent."
It will be remembered that the wife of a French
General was lately sentenced to imprisonment
for adultery committed with Colonel Charras on the
night of the coup (fetal. The Court of Appeal yes-
terday quashed the sentence, on the ground that the
period fixed by the Statute of Limitations (three
years) had elapsed since the commission of the of-
fence, and it overruled the doctrine of the court
below that evidence wad be received of a repeti-
tion of the crime in a foreign country. The General
is decreed to pay the costs.

FRANCE.

In asheetibing to the formula that • e bad molested to
her ea the peeliminary sondition of all negotiation, and
which Count Bail brought forward again when he Domed
the seateresees, Ram is bad admitted—we ars bound te
thick SO at least—the necessity of making on this poiat a
nal sacrifice. Bat as soon as the gasetion was raised, the
Bastian plesipmentiaties did, on t►e contrary, reject both is
principle and fact, wider whatever form it might be pretested
them, el limitation of forma The counter-propositions
which they brought forward bad so other object save that

(now Tin

d eluding and not solving the question.
It was in consequent" of the absolute rejecticia of the
system of limitation proposed by us, that the conferences
were at first suspended; and it was after the publication of
Oemat Nesselrodes circular of May 10, in which there was
a renewal of the declarations made in this respect by the
Russian plenipotentiaries, that we were invited by Austria
to a final conference.
It was, therefore, to be presumed that at this last meeting
the representatives of Russia would not persist In rejecting
the principle which alone could serve as the basis of a suit-
able arrangement. And yet the Soudan plenipotentiaries
whoa arpreciating the proposition made by Count Beol—a
peeposition based on a principle of limitation explicitly laid
down—negletrted no mode of giving it to be understood that
the non.examination of it was from no opposition of theies.
But this ondeacensioo, so contrary to their previous attitude
on the same ground, had evidently fee its sole object that of
profiting by an appearance of divergency in opini.a Wenn
Austria and us.
Prince Oortchskoff did not consent to reveal his opiniol
until he had well ascertained that the plenipotentiaries of
hawse and England would not fully adhere to the pap"-
tiara of Austria. At length, being pointedly requested hg
Bares Bourqueney to explain himself upon the priesiple
of limitation, Prince Gortobakoff, with a movement of open-
heartedness that we cannot but admire, ended by repro-
ducing, with the most desirable perspicuity, all the objet•
times he had previously advanced against t►is principle.
" Prince Oortchakoff," says the protocol of this last meet
ing, "renews his declaration, that both at the conference,
sad elsewhere, and wh the question has been mooted.'
he has constantly declared t►at any limitation of forme
sought to be imposed upon Russia would be regarded by
her plenipotentiaries as an attack npoa their master's rights
of sovereignty, and as insurer notable obsta:le to pears;
that he had remained invari►bly faithful to this principle,
end that he again established it in this closing conference."
Prince Oortchakoff rejected, therefore, at the elope of the
exigetiatiou, as he had previously done, all system of liana*
Ilia whatever. Re rejected on principle the Austrian pre-
poiliso, as he had rejected ours, and, by se doing, he took
It ups himself to characterise himself his apparent modem.
den by very clearly proving that his offers of refitting to Be.
Petersburg did not imply any idea of conciliation, sines he
heisted at the same time es inadmissible the mode proposed
by the cabinet of Vienna. We can only give our confirm..
Den to what the protocol of June 4 unanswerably proves.
It is, then, upon Russia that the entire responsibility rest♦
elmserning the rupture of the negotiations. It is her DUO.
Eery that has paralysed the efforts nobly made by the
AMA Powers fur the attainment of a practical result.
homes and England brought to the conferences those
sendssents of moderation, by which they showed the
selves to be constantly animated in the different
Oases of the crisis. Provoked into a war that
we eadsseented to prevent, and the Initiative of which
entinly belongs to Ramie, we have banished her flag from
every sea, and we could at a slight expense prohibit its re•
appearanos in the Eosins. We offered to recognise her
power of so appearing, provided there be a limitation of her
Perces in that sea. That limitation is a security which the
general weal demands. It is no fault of oafs if Russia hes
espied herself by her policy, too long eggreseive, to having
sub concessions required from her ; and they alone are re-
sponsible for the continuance of the war who obtinately
persisted, to the last day of negotiation at Vistula, to
refuse on this point to Europe all valid guarantee.

ITALY.

FRENCH REPLY TO THE "JOURNAL DE
ST. PETERSBOURO."

The Daily News oontspondent at Rome, referring
to the late attempt on the lite of Cardinal Antonelli,
writes :

The Monitor of yesterday contains the following
The official journal of St. Petenburg kes just published
an article, emanating from the Russian government, as an
maser to the circular addressed, under data of May 23, by
Count Widewski to the agents of Prance is foreign man
tries. We should cot bays noticed this publication if its
object had merely been to oppose to the circular of May 23
a reply, which in truth does not at all weaken the 1.116,011•
tog of that peper. Bat the Jammed els Petenborrg
broaches at the same time another triple—tits rep.
tare of the conferences at Vienna; end it endeavours to
fix upon us the responsibility of it. We shall rapidly pew
over the observations which Count Welewski's circular sag-
seated to it, in order that we may famine this reproach.
The Russian government attaches greet importances to
iismosstrating, that the question of the Principalities is
settled, as likewise that of the navigation of the Danube. It
almost goes the length of attributing to itself the tiative
of what has been done for the attainment of this
remit ; at all events, if we are to listen to it,
it would seem es if Russia always desired what
the Allied Powers have believed bet to have hitherto
invariably refused to the wishes, long slum expressed, of

ROME, Jona 14.
The assassin having been taken to prison, was dis-
covered to be a hatter, named Antonio de Felice, a
ernati of by no means reputable conduct, and concern-
ing whose unity doubts had been frequently enter-
tained. lie was also on the list of preceltati, a class
of persons whose political opinions subject them to'
continual police surveillance. Monsignor Mat-
teucci sent a strong poem of gendarmes to his rad-
dews immediately, to lay hold of his papers and
property, in hopes of discovering his accomplices, for
in the preparatory examination the same evening, in
spite of his promise to reveal everything, he persisted
in stating that he had no accomplices, and that the
attempt originated with himself. The whole affair
has the character of madness, from the locality
chosen for such a crime to the style of weapon selected
for the perpetration of it.
The Pope having been informed by the cardinal
himself of the danger to which he had been exposed,
and the affair having been divulged in the course of
the evening, a vast concourse of visitors, amongst
whom were most of the foreign ministers and mem-
bers of the Sacred College, waited upon his emineemi
to offer their congratulations yesterday morning, and
the cardinal,who appeared to have entirely recovered
his self•poseession and urbanity, was unwearied in
satisfying the curiosity of his visitors, and repeating
the narrative over and over again.
The telegraph was set to work immediately after
the occurrence—indeed, the announcement of mdse•
trophes appears to be its principal employment, as
far as the public is concerned ; for, incredible as it
may seem, although the government receives regular
telegraphic intelligence of the events of the war, no
portion of it is ever inserted in the Rowan Journal,
which coldly furnishes us with second-hand news
from the Tuscan papers two or three days after the
authorities have been in possession of the facts by
telegraph. Notwithstanding this oontrsdieties, as
announcement appeared in the Romeo Jostenel of
the 12th stating teat his Holiness, desirous of extend-
ing the privileges and advantages of telegraphic
communication to the city of Ferrara, had generously
contributed two tons of wire for the oonjanstiaa d
that city with Bologna.
The Roman Journal of yesterday evening gives a
brief account of the attack on the cardinal, stating
that the assassin was armed with "a bilurcated WM.
OW arms biforasia)— which oertaiely hes a 11111110
appearance in an official paper than the
denomination of a carving fork. The account
also states that the whole city bad shown the greatest
" iodigoation at the horrible attempt;" bat, judging
from the remarks in public places, and the satirical
comments on the "bifurcated weapon," it would ap-
pear that at present the ludicrous prevails over the
horrible in the mind of the Roman public.
Yesterday morning a sentry was plead on the
stairs of the first floor at the Vatican, before the fiecre-1
tsry of State's suite of apartments, to prevent a repe-
tition of scab bifurcated attempts in future.