The Express.
London, England, 1855-03-16 00:00:00

FRANCE

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PARIS. TEMIDAT Eva/111110.
A Vienna despatch, dated this day, and received
late this afternoon, states that the Conferences have
opened this morning, and that the Russian esvoys,
Prince Gortchakaff and M. de Titoff, were both pre-
, sent. No representative of Prussia was then, and
therefore Prussia may be said at this moment to be
sore Russian than Russia herself. The rumours
here to-day are of the same pacific tenor
which bare prevailed for several days past,
both in Loudon and Paris, without, u I
conceive, any sufficient grounds. lam told, as a
piece of news arrived in Paris to-day, that Lord John
Russell now expresses great hopes of a pacific termi-
nation of the Conferences. But I receive this and all
other etatements of the kind with the utmost dis-
trust, both because I find them discredited in official
circles, and because it is scarcely possible to conceive
a peace while Sebastopol remains standing which
would not disparage the military pieetige of
the Western Powers, and leave Russia even more
formidable than she was before the war began. It
is worthy of notice that the Monisenr this very morn-
ing cites an article from the Journal de 11-anefort,
in which an expectation is expressed that the Vienna
Conferences will end in nothing, and the "knot of
the question • is stated to be, not at Vienna, but at
Sebastopol.

At th; Bourse pacific ideas were uppermost. The
Rent* rose 60c. closing at 701 r. All the railways
improved, and several of them to the extent of 7fr.
and 10fr.

A telegraphic despatch from Trieste, dated this
day, contains the following news. That relating to
the Crimea, yon will observe, is of earlier date than
the intelligence in the Mowiteur of this morning:

TWISTS, Mason 16.
Advice's from Constantinople to the 6to state that on the
arrival of the steam-packet from Rowena, further rein-
forcements were seat to tht Crimea. Tea vowels had been
despatched to Eupatoria with clothing, ammunition, and
provisions. The &gash commissariat is beginning to buy
►ones. A letter from Athens, of the 9th, states that M.
Canaria, the Minister of Merino, has resigned, and is re-
placed provbionally by General Halergis. The stories of
projected isnarreotions in t►e provinces are contradicted.

The editors of all the Paris journals were sum-
moned to the Ministry of the Interior at three o'clock
this afternoon, and were told that in future they
would not be permitted to publish any intelligence
respecting the movements of the French army, even
should it relate merely to the transfer of a regiment
from one part of France to another. A representa-
tive of one of the papers inquired by way of asking
for an example, whether they were not to be
at liberty to reproduce from the Journal do
Towlon the paragraphs which that journal
was constantly in the habit of publishing about the
military movements in that port. The answer was
that the Toulon journal would no longer be allowed
to publish those paragraphe ; that all the prefects had
been enjoined, by a ministerial circular, to enforce the
same stoney in the provinces which the government
was determined to enforce in the metropolis, and that
if by any accident military news of the kind alluded
to should appear in aprovincial newspaper, the Paris
press would nevertheless not be at liberty to adopt it.
The editors were at the same time enjoined not to
report a word of what might be said about the possi-
ble journey of the Emperor to the Crimea.

A funeral service for the late Emperor Nicholas
was performed to-day at the Russian chapel in Paris,
and was numerously attended by the corps diploma-
tips. lam told that Lord Cowley was there, but I
do not state the fact as certain. The Princess Ma-
thilds attended in person, and the Emperor and
Marshal Prises Jerome were represented by aides-
de-camp. Although, diplomatic relations with Russia
being broken off, the French court is supposed to be
without official intelligence of the Czar's death, the
Emperor Napoleon, anxious above all things to be
esteemed a member of the confraternity of sovereigns
of Europe, takes especial care to leave no ceremony
out to which he can resort consistently with etiquette,
to testify his private grief.

GERMANY.

AUSTRIA.
VIENNA, MARCH 10.

By the aointtnent of Count Rechberg rice Baron
von Prokesch, Austria has prevented the Presidency
of the Diet at Frankfort devolving on the plenipoten-
tiary of Prussia, Herr von Bismark-Bchonhousen.
The question of the appointment of a generalissimo
of the Federal armies has not yet been pot down on
the order of the day, but the following may be con-
sidered as the substance of the views of the principal
German states on the subject. Austria will claim
the supreme command of the whole of the
Federal forces; Proses requires at leut the
nomination of the commander-in-chief of her
own contingent; whilst. Bavaria proposes that
whilst Austria and Prussia each command their
own three army corps, the other four shall be placed
ander a general appointed by herself (Bavaria) In
the meantime other states propose that each of the
ten army corps be placed under the command of an
taker nominated by those states of whose contin-
mts it is composed, and the whole under a general-
issimo appointed by the Federal Diet at Frankfort.
This plan has been warmly supported by Hanover,
and has met with a very favourable reception by
the Cabinet of Vienna. In anticipation of this plan
being adopted, Priam Frederick of Wartemberg has
been already appointed commander-in-chief of the
eighth army corps, composed of the contingents of
Wurtemberg, Baden, and Hesse Darmstadt, the
ministers of war from: these three states having held
a conference on the subject at Heidelberg, and settled
all the details.

From Frankfort we learn that although a month
had elapsed singe the order was given for Krieg*.
bersitschaft, and the different states were ordered to
report themselves ready in a fortnight, only the fol-
lowing governments had done so:—Austria, Bavaria,
Saxony, Wurtemberg, Baden, Holstein, Anhalt,
Schwartzburg, Lichtenstein, Schanmberg-Lippe,
Reuss, Lippe-Waldeck, and Hefts Darmstadt. Prus-
sia, Hanover, Electoral Hesse, Oldenburg. and about
fifteen of the minor states had not yet reported them-
selves ready.
Letters from Stuttgart state that the First Cham-
' bet had voted unanimously the amount of three mil-
lions demanded by the government as the extraordi-
nary war credit required, but rejected by 19 votes to
10 the declaration passed by the Lower Chamber
that Wiirtemberg's policy required the most intimate
adhesion to Austria. The Minister von Linden said
that the German Diet had long since thrown aside
its neutrality and openly joined Austria.
From Munich we learn that Prince Maximilian of
Thorn and Taxis was to proceed to St. Petersburg to
congratulate the new Emperor on his accession to the
throne. The health of the aged King Louis of Ba-
varia was greatly improved, and, as soon as the state
of the weather permitted his travelling, he was going
with his physician, Dr. Becker, to Italy for change
of air. The Minister of Finances had laid before the
chambers the budget for the six years 1854 to 1880,
from which it appears that the annual expenditure is
calculated at 43 millions of florins, being as exams of
' 8 millions more than in the preceding financial period.
The receipts are pet down as equal to the expenii-
, tare, bat the miniater explained that this was the
°cumqeats of the increased land tax. Prince Wel.
Wotan inquired whether the preparation for war
was stopped, and if so, whether the loan for the ids
millions and a half they had voted would emit
unnegatiated. The Prime Minister, Herr vas !Ise
Pfordten, replied that the notice given for putting
these questions was short, but that kis answers
should be as short. To the first it was "No ;" and
to the alma also so No." Baron von Lerehenfeld
then provoked a debate on the expenses of the army,
which amounted to the enormous sum of 63 millions
of florins (upwards of five millions and a quarter
sterling) since the year 1848.

THE LATE ATTACH UPON A RUSSIAN
REDOUBT.

There is some discrepancy se to date in the se-
counts of the late attack by the French on the new
redoubt in advance of Sebaatopol. According to the
reports from the allies, the engagement took. place
on the night of the 23rd ; the Russian versions
that it occurred on the night of the 24th. Primo
Mentchikors version (a telegraphio summary of
which has already appeared), a! given by the Journal
de Sf. Petersbourg of the 7th, is as follows:
" A report from Prince Meotchikoff announces titat, In
the night of the 21st February, we established a redoubt
before the left flank of the fortifications, upft the declivity
of Mount &pouts*, forming the right eWe of the Bay of
Cations, in order to reisaffiesla eheteeies to the progress of
the siege-works. The marries yea so suddenly executed
that the enemy was unable to offer resistance, and, after
resting under arms all night, did not open a fusillade with
oar tirailleurs•catabinien until the break of day.
"Two days after, in the night of the 24th, the enemy
decided to attack this redoubt in considerable force, but the
attempt was repulsed in a brilliant manner
.by there gi-
Witt of lafantry of Sfleoghiosk and of Volhynte, under the
einamoad of Major•Oeneral Khroustehoff. According to
the sursaa et the prisoners who were taken, the loss of the
enemy amounts to nearly 600 men killed and wounded,
nearly 340 of whom are Zoom's. On our side we had 67
killed, 7 sahaltern officers, sad 205 men wounded or

men
contused.

" Lately the opentions of the boaktgen against the forti-
fications of Sebastopol ban ben very feeble ; their enialng
works are impended.
" Sines the strong reconnaisastee made on the 17th by
Lient—Gsneral Khrouleff, nothing new has occurred in the
neighboarhood of Eepatoria."

TRH ARMY BEFOItE