The Express.
London, England, 1855-01-27 00:00:00

FRANCE.

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(ISOM TEI

OW THI DAILY NOWA)
PARIS, FuDAT Eviumia,
The Bing of Prussia has determined to make
another attempt at separate negotiation. The Berlin
Ifelegraph announces to-day that the Prussian Lien-
tenant•General Wedel is about to proceed on a spe-
cial minion to the government of the Emperor Na-
poleon. In the present temperament of this govern-
ment I can only say, that if General Wedel expects
to have better luck than Baron d'Usedom met with,
he mug come with a much more straightforward
proposition. •

- The following despatch has been received late.this
evening :—" Vienna, Jan. 26. Constantinople, 18.
A movement got up by the Sophtsa (students in
theology) has been put down. The Porte is delibe-
rating on the subject of the services rendered by the
French patrols. The Evelio° has gone ashore. A
considerable number of wounded have arrived from
the Crimea. Their wounds are aggravated by the
frost."

The Asset:alb Nationale asserts that Lord John
Russell will be the new Premier; and that Lord
raseerston as the head of the War Department will
absorb the portfolio of the Duke of Newcastle and that
of Mr. Sidney Herbert. Sir Jas. Graham, according
to the same authority, will retain the direction of the
Admiralty, and Lord Clarendon that of Foreign
Affairs, and the Cabinet will be completed by the
addition of some radical reformers " not of the
Manchester school, for they are in favour of peace;
but of the opinions of Sir W. Molesworth.* Lord
Grey is pointed out as the successor of Lord Palmerston
in the Home Department.
The Debate has a similar version, adding that Mr.
Gladstone, "notwithstanding all the entreaties used,
persists in retiring."
At the Bourse the Rente opened somewhat heavily
in ooesequence of Lord John Russell's resignation,
but the great abundance of money and the extraor-
dinary confidence) which seems to have taken a fast
hold of the public mind in the face of all the war-
like news soon began to produce their effects. After
a depression lasting cot more than • quarter of an
hour, during which the Three per Cents, went down
26c. from yesterday, they recovered and closed firm
at 681 r., with a rise of 10c. The St. Ger-
main ailway was again in great favour,
and rose 17fr. 50c. Rouen rose 15fr. A
large business was done in the Western and North-
Western lines, in consequence of reports that the
fusion was in an advanced state. Lists of the terms
agreed upon by the different companies were handed
about. The difficulty, however, remains, whether the
conditions req'iired by the minister with regard to
the Brittany sections will be acceptable.
A report that a new octroi duty of 20fr. per 100
kilo. is about to be laid upon sugars and coffees on
their entrance into Paris, has created a great sensa-
tion in the northern departments. The sugar growers
and merchants of Valenciennes have convoked a
meeting, to be attended by committees from Lille,
Arras, and Douai. The sugar committee of Picardy,
which includes delegates from the departments of
the Aisne, Oise, Somme, and Marne, hss been in-
vited to attend. The fear chiefly entertained by the
cigar growers is, that the municipalities of provin-
cial towns whose revenues are not sufficient to meet
the extraordinary expenses entailed by the alimen-
tary crisis, will follow the example of Paris and lay
on an octroi duty upon sugar. A petition to the
Emperor, praying that the Paris municipal may be
directed to withdraw the measure, is in course of

signature at the Bourse.
An Austrian general is expected in Paris shortly,
to reside here as a permanent military commissioner,
in the same way that the French general, Letang,
does at Vienna. The French and Austrian Empe-
rors will then be in constant and intimate intercom-
munication respecting the great military operations
likely to be rendered necessary by the continuance of
the war. _ _ _ _

It is thought that a lottery, with a capital of 10
millions of francs will be authorised this year on the
occasion of the Great Exhibition.
A new play, coming out at the Oahe, to be called
the "Masque de Poix," is announced in the bills as
the production of a M. B. Antier. This, however, is
a nom do guerre. The author is M. Mocquert, the
Emperor's private secretary, who wee formerly not
unknown to the literary world, as a translator of
" Tacitus," and is now supposed to have something to
do with the composition of those terre speeches which
it is his immediate duty to transcribe.
At midnight op Wednesday the thermometer
stood at 3 4-10ths below zero, Centigrade, 25/ Fah-
renheit; at 6 o'clock yesterday morning (25th), 4 C.,
24; F., Sad at noon 1 2-10ths above zero C., 341 F.
The floating ice has completely disappeared from the
Seine. Notwithstanding the thaw of the last few
days, however, the country around Paris is still
severed to some extent with snow. The sharp frosts
which have taken place in almost all parts of France
have not only done gnat good, by preventing a too
early vegetation, bat have given an ample supply of
ice for the summer.

PRUSSIA.

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OP 7/11 DAILT NUTS.)
BERLIN, JAN. 23.

, It is now generally believed that Austria will,
, after all, bring forward her threatened proposal to
the Bundestag, for the immediate mobilisation of the
• whole of the eleven army corps of the Gerrifan Con-
, federation, and important news may be, therefore,
shortly expected from Frankfurt. I hear that most
of the representatives of the German States arc in
• possession of instructions from their respective govern-
, meets which way to vote, and the debates in tho
• Diet are likely to prove very animated, as Preside
accepts the challenge, but has expressed her intention
not to mobilise the whole of her army, as required
by Austria, but only that part composing her
contingent to the confederation, if ordered by the
majority of the Diet; but she still hope. to have that
• majority on her own side.
, Although the Kreus Zeigung—the avowed organ
, of the Russian government here—trumpets forth to
, the world that Lord Westmoreland and the French
ambassador at Vienna have received telegraphic de-
, 'patches announcing that their full powers are on
the road, other accounts from well-informed sources at
Vienna deny the troth of the statement, and it would
be well, at all events, not to place implicit faith in
it, till further particulars are known. But if it is
true, what follows? Why, simply that Russia hopes
to gain time, if nothing else, from negotiating on
terms which she has long since made up her mind
to reject, and which she never can accept without
compromising the Ceir personally in the eyes of hie
own subjects.
The eyes of all Europe are now pretty well open.
' to the " artful dodges" of the Emperor's wily policy,
which is so skilfully contrived and generally so well
masked, that it is a difficult matter to see its drift;
bat in this ease it requires no great amount
of intelligence to nuderstand the immense
advantage Russia derives from preventing Aus-
tria from acting on the offensive; and that every
day gained by a display of willingness to negotiate
and make concession, allows her more and more
time to perfect her defences and move her armies to
the frontiers, so am to be enabled to withstand the
impending collision with the greatest possible chances
of success for the Russian arms. Why, we hear from
Warsaw that io spite of the severity of the winter,
numbers of houses are being taken down to clear a
space for the glacis of the two new forts in course
of oonstroction to strengthen the citadel, and of
course every day gained is of the utmost import-
ance. The present object of Russia is, then, to keep
Austria in suspense, and prevent her from making an
energetic attack by. pretending a perfect willingness
to treat for peace—in fact, to throw dust in her eyes.
How far she has succeeded may be gathered from
Count Baas statement, that " peace is nearer than
is generally expected."
And yet in the tone of the St. Petersburg journals
no echo of these professed pacific intentions is to be
found. On the contrary, they continue imbued with
the same bitterness of feeling against the Allies, de-
signating England " divided at home, and powerless
abroad," and pluming themselves on Russia's being
"invincible at home and irresistible abroad." Surely
this does not give a proof of the moderation for
whielkshe wishes to take credit to herself, particu-
larly 'vibes% one wilder, the state of the press in