The Express.
London, England, 1855-01-16 00:00:00

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:LONDON. TUESDAY. JANUARY 16.

LATEST
NEWS FROM ABROAD

RUSSIANS RECROSSING THE DANUBE.
sT OUNNLIINI AND NRITIIIII TIILNONAPN
(7110 X OVA OWN CONNISPONDINT.)
PARIS, TOWIDAT MOILNINO.
Accounts from Vienna state that the Russian de-
tachment which crossed tho Danube on the 7th and
Bth, bee repassed the river, and re-entered Ismail.—
Daily News.

AND limn TILISIAPIII
VARNA. JAN. 9.

Omer Pasha is expected here.—Drily News.

WARSAW, JAN. 12.

By a new decree, the exportation front Poland
of wheat and all other provisions of which the export
is not already prohibited is strictly forbidden.—
Daily News.

(IT INTLIXATIONAL ?IZMIR...MO

COPENHAGRN, Jax. 16.

Bishop Moored, Bregendahl, Haagen, Larsen, and
their party have just laid before the Volkthing a
bill for the impeachment of the former (Oersted)
?dimlstry.—Dally News.

PARIS BOURSE.
PARIS, MoNDAT.

Closing prices:—Three per Cent. Renter, for money,
67 40; for account, 67.50; ditto Four-and-a-Half per
Cents., for money, 93.45. Bank Shares, 2,920. The
Three per Cents. show a rise of about 1 per cent.
since Saturday. In the Four-and-a-Half per Cents.
the advance is nearly 1 per cent.—Daily News.

apart essedons a commotion which extends over
a wide dna& Yet the march of Bessie*
troops to the Crimea, from the inutile, el
escaped the notice of all our well-paidileithe
in the East. From not one of these worthiserloes
Lord RAGLAN appear to have received a hint of w
was hanging over him.
In short, for all the trouble our Wu Department
or our numerous consular and diplomatic genie
abroad have given themselves, the British army, after
its landing in the Crimea, has been left to find oat
for itself where the enemy was, and what his farce
amounted to. The Commander-in-Chief rearmed as
few useful communications from home as if he MI
been frosen up, like poor FRANKLIN, in the Audi
regions, with an indolent pick-tooth Admiralty
resisting all entreaties to open a communisatiMi
with him. This is in keeping with the whale
conduct of the War Department. It has sent oat
men to the Bast, it has sent out stores of all kind's
and as moon as they were fairly out of eight of the
British coast, it has washed its hands of all earth,"
care of them. If the men and stores reached Ode
destination, well and good; if not, ASA Serino thei
department shrugged its shoulders and said it was $
pity. We hear much of Musealman indolence sad
apathy : there are Turks in Downing-street wham
we will back, in this respect, against the most em-i
grained Pacha of the old school.
Mr. LINDSAY, in his late speech at Newcastle,
probed this administrative plague-sore to the bottom
in a few pregnant words:—" If a French merchant
had occasion to send a message by telegraph
to his Minister at War, requesting to know,
for instance, what goods 'were to be shipped
in a certain vessel, there was an answer
by the same rapid medium by four o'clock in
the afternoon. But if you wrote to the Admiralty,
mach nearer, the probability was you would not get
as answer in a week, and sometimes five weeks
I elapsed before an answer was returned. This wee
not the fault of the men, but of the system ; there
was no responsible head, responsible to the House of
Commons, and through it to the country. Messages
were sent from the Admiralty to the War-office, hens
the Miniltry of War to the Ordnance. tram the
Ordinate to Deptford, and then came beak to the
mom from which they originally proceeded." In
short, we have a War Department only in name.
The Ordnance, the Transport Service, the Commissa-
riat, the Hone Guards, are as independent of one
--"itch as much bent upon doing everything

for itself, without interference from the rest—as
ever. The Minister at War may issue commands,
but these subordinate departments only obey them
if they like and as they like. For this scandalous
state of anarchy in the service, many are doubtless
more or less to blame; but the principal responli-
bility must rest upon him who undertook to fuse
them into a harmoniously working system, and has
failed to do so. The Duke of NEWCASTLE cannot
have imagined that he could work his department
without a staff; and with what kind of a staff has he
surrounded himself? A glance at its composition

will show that, with one exception, he has selected
his subordinates, not from the War office, but from
the Colonial•office and the Treunry. He is en-
deavouring to work in a field entirely new to him,
with the assistance of men who know as little about
it as himself. As for Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT, no one

can imagine why a Secretary at War has been left in
the new arrangement, except to be in the way of the
Minister at War.—Daily News.