The Express.
London, England, 1855-03-05 00:00:00

BLOCKADE OF RUSSIAN PORTS.

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(From Saturday's Supplementary Gazette.)

Fureign Office, March 3, 1855.

It is hereby notified, that official information has
been received from Rear Admiral Sir Edmund Lyons,
G.C.8., commanding her Majesty' 1 forces in the Black
Sea, dated her Majesty's ship Agamemnon, off Sebastopol,
February 11, 1855, that from the I,it of February last, " the
mouth of the River Dniester, the Porta of Akerman, Ovidi•
opol, Odessa, all the Ports situated between Ochakov Point
and Kinbourn Point, including the Ports of Nicolaev and
Kherson, the Rivers Boug and Dnieper ; also the Ports
between Kinbourn Point and Cape Tarkan, including the
Porta in the Galas of Perekop, the Port of Sebastopol, the
Ports comprised between Cape Aia and the Streit of
Kertch, including those of Fate, Aloushta, Boadak, Katie,
or Theodosius. The Port of Kertch, the Strait of Kertcb,
the entrance to and all the ports in the Sea of Azov, includ-
ing especially the Ports of Berdiansk, Taganrog, and
Ambit; the River Don, and also the Ports of Anapa and
Soujak, were strictly blockaded by a competent force of the
Allied Fleets of France and England.
"That the Ports of Eupatoria, Streltaka, Kamiesh,
Knestch, and Balaclava were, and are, and will remain
open sad free from all blockade until further notice ; and it
is hereby further notified, that all measures authorised by
the Law of Nations, and the respective treaties between her
Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland and his
Imperial Majesty the Emperor of the French, and the
different Neutral Powers, will be adopted and executed
with respect to all vessels which may attempt to violate the
said blockade."

ALLEGED EICENIVE FLOGGING AT SPITHEAD.-1
from a correspondent )—The Calcutta, 81, Captain J. J.
litopford, still remains at Spithead awaiting orders. Re-
ports of a most painful nature arc in circulation regarding
dds ship. Siam it arrived at Portmsquth, on Saturday last,
rob. 2,, it is said that no lens than 144 I..shes have berm in-

1 1 opsweeew imparting", two granaenuaren, nein
voice, with Intl consei , a great calm, and much - -
pathies of the brother Emperors, on the score of the p!ovioions upon it for unless this ia done they will Lord it:a-My--
resew. of mind. Th. 6. - -11 bat difficulties of a new reign, and of the broken health disclaim all responsibility hereafter.—Daily Lord Mulgravo Sir B. HerriZ,—lria ibis ship. Sizieit it arrived at Port,nr,uth. on Saturday lasr,
Mr J. Webb. Bat. Feb. 2i, it is said that no ler. than 144 Lishes have bean in-
flirted en board. it is stated that (no boy received thee, offence. The organisation of that army goes on not
pa Is rm,postponed in order not to give Prussia a cause or
•dozen on Wednesday, sad on Friday a marine got four withstanding,
has a!ready been administered. The Emp bears of the DOWAGER EMPRESS, so likely to give way
CRYSTAL PALLCL—The success which ham attended dozen, another marine three dozen, and an ordinary seaman
I.* • up, and shows much resignation: "—Daily News. entirely under this sudden bereavement. Besides, there THE NEw LVNACY BILL.—Lord St. Leonardo' bill the establishment of a news reels la the Crystal Palace has two dozen. Nearly all her lieutenants have left her, and l h both
engt the o s ton
are symptoms which denote that the Emperor of the to explain and amend the Louisa Regulation AM a 1883, induced the directors to asairsanza the formation of a free there is only one junior officer ie her that joined her on her At the Littleanßdoutrallee composition
it(iSounnodfayit) talpiePeßanenitet
in the House of Lords, has Just been issued. It is to Libra (available to visitors) in mannien therewith. The be* tag commissioned only a few months rises. No lam than in the morning at 73fr., being a rise of
Funs may possibly find himself embarrassed by now
wble the Lord Chaacellor, in matters of lonia, to on- artistic and thieutifie works wilested for the use of the cow 80 men have deserted from this ship, and notws
' staff Wilt form the nucleus of the aimwas done
Tint SOUND DUNS:— domestic diMcnlties. Some recent measures of even ten the oommittee of *states to grant leases ding onithatandiog
WV ftb. , h library. The the repeated drafts of men she has had. she is still. 160 shortC net lot • nel and Tainie.
following proposition has heel petsautedl
to the First. •
Ch RI wonted severity in regard to the am matainar mee. 'lawmen° 00aaraoy nal forth large dens- of her complettient. It is to be hoped the Admiralty will
Ur hoe, signed by menhirs of all panics :
" Th•Ohazahrior 1 • • • Sooty WALES iLtILWAY —Traffic receipts for the from Mi. sus W. and was Chambers and other pub- ieuire into these alb gatioas: the awls that the system abort
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batan d i an
Emperor R • I insuid a precise
at the new of Russia
Dome that the z eat win seglkut SO opplartasity alight some arrests of parties 00 au • spicion of secret con- •
week ending Feb. 26, 1855 4,16 M oe. 6d. ocurespoaa. Debora, at well as liberal promises of from manpursued by Captain 8 f d y tOp 41. , when he commanded the
""aving the atx)lit" the B‘thed crow" • spirsaiso, cannot have escaped the notice of our lag week, 1864, 4,2031.9 e. distingaished friends of education. Amason, has been the subject of animadversion. motion, stating that he was detiri.us to make Pea"
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as seen as the enemy should have evacuated the
Ressian territory,* occasioned a felt. The last quo-
tatioe, as far as could be ascertained in an irregular
market, was 71fr. 80c.
A despatch from Turin &nommen that the Pied-
znootese government bad published a species of ma-
nifesto, in reply to M. Neseelrode's circular declaring
war against Piedmont.
The veteran and univenally respected republican,
7d. Dupont (de l'Eure) died yesterday, at his estate
at Rongsperrier.
There is nothing in the original articles of any oil
the French papers to support the extremely sanguine
view taken by the Bourse of the political consequences
likely to result from the Czar's death. The govern- ,
meat journals. the Cofeetitutiennel and Pays, not
having yet received th it cue, abstain from any spe-
culations on the subject. The independent prints
express little more than a faint belief that the chances;
of a settlement of the Eastern question are augmented.
The Asseftelotie Nationale, while regarding the
event as one o: a tendency favourable to peace, thinks
hat those who flatter themselves that pesos is al-
ready as good as made, are very likely to be deceived.
Within the last three months, it observes, the policy
of Nicholas himself bad undergoes a great change.
The attitude of Austria, the preesing solicitations a
Prussia and of ail Germany, had wrought upon Ide
mind, and the acceptance of the Four Points as laid.
down is the memorandum of the end of December
was almost a compl, to reversal of the policy till
then pursued by the court of St. Petersburg. Will
the new Emperor desire, or find it possible to
go beyond the limit of those concession.? Will
the Western Powers not feel themselves still bound
to insist upon all the conditions which they intended
to impose upon the Emperor Nichols. P Without
professing to solve these questions the Assemble.
thinks that if the dee:ructiuu of Sebastopol be still,
the preliminary wee qua non of peace, it is difficult
to see how tin- queetuni Chit be settled other wise
than by arms. Is it possible to conceive that the new
Emperor can commence his reign by consenting to
the demolition of a citadel which for the last six
months has resisted tt.e combined teats of the two
greatest powers of Europe ?
The Steele Mays
The death of the Emperor Nicholas has given rise to
eonfldent hopes of peace. We trust they may be realivd,.
but we do not share in. these hopes so completely so tee
speculators 02 toe Burs. ne to do. It is, perhaps, pro-
dent to refiect that the sew Emperor, brou;ht up to
the political traditions of his country, may naturally desire
to illustrate the commenesimmt of his reign by en ener-
WM attempt to revered vie suc_easive checks which the
hessian arms have cuff red during the last eighteen month
We greatly fear that E erotic sill still have to contend with
the secular policy of Nowa, and tort the substitirion of
one Imperiet person ige for another will have but little
effost upon the diptuatstiz conferences. NutwitnatauLtiog
these somewhat WrfitiLe oliaervatmos, we no not deny that
the death of the es id of ine note in a despotic govern-
ment as an immense event. We merely desire to put honest
tradesmen on their guard against a rash coatidence which
has so often calmed • ill b.inuaroent and ruin.
The Dads asys:
Public monists is Komi% attributed to the heir apparent
political opinieus dffereut from too's of his father, and
more especially on tree tuui•et of the war. It was affirmed,
whether rightly or wrongly, that the prates did not always
approve the conduct panted by the Cabinet of fit. Peters-
burg within the lest two yenta with respect to the Eastern
question; and that, for 'sample. be viewed with regret the
mission of Prince Ilentchik and the invasion of the Prin-
cipalities. It is impassible to farsees the consequences, evan
the most immediate, of the Cs•r's death, but in our opinion
t►is event a..gmente the chances of peace. Be was razed for
inordinate ambiti a, and, to spite of his protestations, the
whole responsibility sit the war was Acid upon him. 11.,
knew this, end resented it deeply. The struggle bad there-
fore, in some 2i9t, new,.•: a pi iadaal one. it is therefore
permissibie to hope tiost the relations of the enemies of
Russia with her new &Amigo Mill be more feciks than
they were with th., Emperor Nichols., and that the Visana
Coeferences will open under auspices favourable to the re-
establishment of a gt atria peace.

AUSTRIA.