The Express.
London, England, 1855-09-01 00:00:00

LATEST FROM ABROAD.

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HIEL, Auo. 29.
This anchorage is again becoming a scene of activity,
as there is a *mutant mend= of arrival and de-
partures of ships of war. The Marne, with the
Russian prisoners on board for exchange from France,
did not make a long stay, as she left this oe Saturday,
and on Monday she was followed by the Prussian
frigate Thetis, whore destination is said to be Swine-
monde. The more I saw of this floe vessel, the more
I regretted that she no longer belongs to the English
navy. The officers all speak of her as a most com-
fortable ship, and she has given evidence of her
being a fast one, as on several occasions she exhibits
on her log a speed of twelve knots under canvas.

No sooner had these left than the S'Barbe and
L'Arquebuse, French steam gun-boats, of the same
class as La Poodre and Redoute, came into harbour,
and are now busy loading coals. They, in
their turn, have been followed by the English
screw line-of-battle ship Sanspareil, with heavy
mortars from Sheerness, but it is believed
that she is to go no farther, and that she will return
immediately direct to that dockyard, taking back the
mortars with her. This would indicate that no new
bombardment is t 3 take place this season, which
appears to be confirmed by the intelligence received
of the arrival, two days ago, at Elsinore, of five
mortar-vessels, accompanied by the Princess Alice
and the Magicienne. From thence it is reported that
orders had in the first instance been given to detain
these vessels there for the present, but that a despatch
from the Admiralty had cancelled those instructions,
and that they were now to proceed as they had been
directed by Admiral Dundee, as it is alleged they
are not suitable vessels to be employed in the Baltic
at the latter part of the season. If this be true, and
if the immediate homeward voyage of the Sanspareil
should also have been determined upon, it would
assuredly betray a degree of incapacity and
vacillation on the part of the Admiralty,
which is most discreditable to a Board to which
is confided the regulation and direction of
the British navy, and u parliament is not now sitting
it is to the press alone that the country must look feel
calling the government to account for it, although it
is to be feared that it is now too late to prevent the
evil which must of necessity be the consequence; for
it may be inferred that Sweaborg this year, as Bomar-
sand was lest, is to be the only achievement or
trophy, and if all be true which is said here, it is
likely to prove even still more barren and fruitless.
Such exhibitions will more than anything induce
Danes and Swedes to continue to hold aloof, for by
leaving Russia in possession of her fleets and for-
tresses, it is virtually admitted that she is to be al-
lowed hereafter to continue to maintain that threat-
ening porters towards her weaker neighbours in the
Baltic which it is the policy and duty of the Western
Powers to overturn in the North, as much as they
have declared they are bound to do in the Black
Sea for the safety and independence of their ally in
the East.

This afternoon we have a further addition to our
arrival, by the appearance of the Austerlitz, French
screw line-of-battle ship, from the Gulf of Finland.
Her machinery is said to require some repairs, as she
has met with some damage; and in the meantime
they wait orders from Paris as to her future destina-
tion. It is currently reported that the French ships
are likely to return speedily to France, as the English
fleet is considered more than sufficient to keep all the
Russian ships in check, and those of Franos can be
more profitably or advantageously employed in oon-
veying troops to the Crimes, which idea the letter of
the Emperor to General Peliesier as to reinforce-
aunts tends greatly to confirm. Nothing, however,
is yet officially known on the subject.
P.B.—The Sanspareil is now taking in her coals,
and there is no doubt that at present, at least, her
destination is to be Sheerness; but, judging from the
put, this may be changed again to-morrow.

The Warsaw correspondent of the Indepetsdanee
Beige states that the death of General Read pro-
duced a deep impression in Warsaw circles, amongst
whom he spent the last 14 years of his life. General
Suckozaneff, head of the artillery of the active army,
is for the present appointed to succeed him in the
command of the third corps d'armee. A great many
medical men, amongst whom were several from the
United States, recently passed through Warsaw on
their way to the Crimea and the Baltic. Several
American civil engineers have also arrived and
offered their services to Russia.

VIENNA, Aro. 28.

I Letters from (Mats of the 20th inst. state that on the
I previous day a Turkish courier arrived from Constanti-
nople with important despatches from Omer Pacha
to the Austrian commandant of the garrison. In
well-informed mercantile circles it is generally thought
that Galats is to receive a Turkish garrison, and that
the above despatches were to prepare him for their
arrival. Within the last few days a greater degree
of animation wu perceptible on the Lower Danube,
both amongst the Turks and Russians. Omer Pacha
strongly recommends resuming active operations on
the Pruth and at the month of the Danube, in which
he is warmly supported by Ismael Pachs, who his
great influence in the Divan.