The Express.
London, England, 1855-03-14 00:00:00

THE LOWER DANUBE AGAIN CLOSED.

The Monitair of yesterday gives prominence to
the following extract from an Austrian journal :
" For some day. past than has been a rumour at
Bucharest that the Russians intended to withdraw
their permission for the free navigation of the Lower
Danube. This rumour has, unfortunately, been fully
confirmed. Telegraphic intelligence announces that
the commandant of Rent has just prohibited the
navigation of the Lower Danube by an official note,
and only makes an exception in favour of six or
eight vesesla that happen to be present at Oalats.
In consequence of the declaration made by his
Majesty the (late) Emperor of Russia, in virtue
of which Austrian navigation was not to be im-
peded along the Belearabian west, a great
many purchases have been made, and several.% ships
chartered for their transport. ha the Russian autho-
rities had permitted the ships laden with corn to hail,
along the coast of Bessarabia, all the merchants, per-
haps also the diplomatists of every country y well,
believed it to be a matter of course that the ships is
ballast that were on their way to take in freight
were las:Judea in this permission. It seemed so clear
to every one that the large ships could not come
from Vienna and Pesth in order to take in cargo, bat
that they would be obliged, on the contrary, to enter
by the Salina month for that purpose, that no one
dreamed of a Russian equivocation. However, it is
not permitted, so that Austrian commerce and
navigation again suffer a detriment, while we hope
the peace will indemnify it, seeing that Austria
cannot and most assuredly will not submit to such
duplicity."

jRY AND THE GOVERN-
MENT.

—•--
Ix is but two days slam we announced the fact of
Lord Ssarrissaunr's having joined the Adminietra.

tion ; we have now the ple;sing duty to perform of
announcing that he has quitted it. What a glance

at the interior of his ither-in-leves Cabinet may
have revealed to his conicientione mind we may
peesibly never know. Like CX3AB, he might epito-
mise his recent proceedings in three weeds, and, in
the grand historical style, exelaire—"l came, I
saw, I bolted !" The circumstantial insinuation

against the political morals of those who sought to I
make him one of their fraternity ii, to say the least
of it, not Battering. Lord Elatrraslitatv has hitherto
preserved his reputation as a purist in public life.
The mesas by which he centrived some years ago to
turn Mr. Itounrcx out of the representation of
Bath have never been indeed thoroughly explained ;
but fanaticism had, no doubt, a good deal
to do with it; and there were many dispassionate on-
lookers at the time who said that the malt was mots
attributable to cant than cash. Since thin the noble
lord has chiefly devoted himself to what are tingly
deseminated social questions, and to those of a
pariah) character. His thoughts have been divided
between manures for limiting the hoar, of labour
and the agitation BR the diseadownerst of Maynooth.
His refusal of °Mos Bahr Sir ROBERT Pair, is as
wall known es the gnaw& he eseigned for it, namely,
that be telibeiseld do mere to advasei his hvoirits
(Nate eat olden that in it. What there appeared
to hiss is the eowpositios of the present Cabinet that
ledlifew be think 'differently regerdisg•a mat in it, we
de net undertake precisely to die. Bat the fact is'
oertdk that, when asked, a ow& • ids, to join
the administration, be candidly repaid that be was
not aware of any reason why ; ought ins ;
plainly implying thereby the. he 'apposed -UM
PALITERBTON to have toss a. aka* hi the many

orthodox proferidono at Tothari-jifilikkoard htm
mks, sod that of emu Lord oinzioroxii Gorsea-
, mat would to.thodiacted Jo gashoiny thereto. Un-
oonosoled was Lord Buorrionnthfo cosotornadoo, and

1•110•••••••••••• Iry wm,
by so mesas inarticulate his 'lstria, at being botanist]
that in plain English the thing sitsuldlot do—why; ise
ooald set far the-iii eof him lesegiss. The poidtion
was Whyter ewe. He had been wooed, and Was
seedy to be wan t, when in the 'say' sat of yWding,
the gay deceive, turned upon his but, mad left him
is the pitiable yet =pitied psi OC of as elderly
Waal who has been openly pet: When, never-
theless, the artful melt renewed bit amain car,
the heart of the Berl milted again bier 1 it
Ina the easy of others that had Wr af!thief
be-
r twice thew ; all wen forgotten sal, forgiven,
Chanseller of the.Doehy be nail
Two oenturies.egs a certain Afielif Morn had
filled the Ow of Chanetlits. • Yard
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SHAFTES3I7IIIT Wu, indeed, mins his ismendait iu
everything bat the maw. Ho was 414 bid
bat subtle and elapsed an Loci*.
.14 AO of all
JOHI4 DRYDE'S matchlem praise,•iistoey push&
writing him down a most accomplished scoundrel.
Courtier and demagogue by turns, he vas as ready to
plot with the Puritan aa to pueesste is the

Oiseles awns. lovalaslie he hill voistee rev
amps sad withetiag Wages, be was deli by the
LYsi lioto breed* Emend to the vs:. rui*
to the sooomplishament of their designs; for,
ao popularity of their own, they were reedy
to take his into joint-Meek, and to bray oat his
half-anarchic name to the country, to duals and
delude the crowd. Nothing, as we have said,
an be more unlike than the perfidious
AISLES of the Restorstion and the punctilious and
pedantic) man of oar time. And yet, in the confu-
sion of some men's ideas, it is perhaps sot impos-
sible that some fantastical resemblance may have
seemed to exist under the faint phadow of a

Be this as it say, we know that among the
datterere of all work who wait upon the nod of
power, Lord 118srrisatrat's adhesion to the govern-
ment was wade the theme of no ordinary exultation,
especially on the ground that his name might be
need conveniently in certain constituencies at the

ensuing elections, and would serve as short-hand for
philanthropic sympathies combined with evangelical
tendencies, antagonises to democracy, under the
plea d aversion to American slavery,—" short time,"
and "No Popery I" And for a ministry thinking
of a diesolutioa of Parliament, without being able to
think of a political programme on which to go to
tineetveley, there was—let us own it—something
liffileitfel in catching, just in time for use, a man who
fe in himself a walking eneyelopeedia of clap-traps
At for the hustings. What these worthies will say,
now that the political Dr. Dislomeare has driven
away, taking with him hie whole boxful of quack
medicines, we shall not venture to conjecture.
To be serious, however, though it is certainly diffi-
cult, under the circumstance*, we think it credit-
able to Lord SHAFTIODUZY to have resigned so soon.
He wasevidently under the impression, when invited
to join the Administration, that he would be left free
to speak and vote, as had hitherto been his watt,
upon all questions social, religions, and political. The
notion never entered his head of betraying his
followers, by the abandonment of the peculiar tenets
of whisk he is so conspicuous a champion ; and he
seems to have considered it wholly impossible that
any thirteen noblemen and gentlemen in England
should have harboured the idea of tempting him to
do so. He felt satisfied that they meant him fair,
and that it would rather be takes by the world as a
good sign of them then a bad sign of him, that they
had solicited his countenanoe and aid. How little he
understood the real motives of those he had to deal
with, is now sufficiently plain. They did not want the
bark of the dog, but his skin. They had no objection to
certain reminiscences of hie pestopinions, provided that
for the future he would consent to endorse theirs. The

name Of SHAFTESBURY on their bills might occa-
sionally be useful, but he was to have no power to
draw political cheques, or issue in the nem of the
`Arm any promissory notes. That would never do,
they thought, and so they told him; whereupon the
Earl indignantly withdrew. Thus we are as far u
'TOT from having a Chancellor of the Duchy. How
the county palatine will be able to sustain the pri-
vation, we shriek from the painful task of investi-
gating. Will no gentleman in the House of Com-

mono come to the relief of the Piums Mumma,
and propose that the mock Chancellorship should be
pat into =omission, as the real Chancellorship has
often been ? In these expensive times, it would be
a graceful act of economy on the pert of the peerage;
for it is needless to say that, among the numerous
individuals to whom it has recently been offered,
none have belonged to the vulgar classes of the
oommunity.—Daily News.

PORTSMOUTH ELROTION.

The polling for this borough commenced at eight
o'clock yosterday (Tuesday) morning, and dosed at four,
with the subjoined results, Lord Kouck cossaaacing with a
eonaiderable majority, which was maintained throughout
the day. There are about 3,200 good voters i• the borough,
so that it will be 'sou that a largo somber did not record
their vet«.
... . _ .

Monet. Oacelee.
9 o'clock ll 6
12 o'clock. 578
4 o'clock 14478
Xs}corky for Lord lionck

The deckyard sod other establishments gave those of
their men who are electors two hours to record their votes.
It is usual to give half a holiday on snob ostasions, but the
ezigesteies of the public service would sot permit of this at
the present time.
At the (Alleluia of the poll Lord Mos& thanked the
electors he the mildews they had displayed in himself and
the government of Lord Palmerston by retuning him by so
everwhelmieg a ineierity, sad be plumbed that that an-
tidotes should meet with every return on his part.

Nearly one half of the apses of the Journal do St.
Petoriboray, of Kant 6, takes up pith a report of the
deflate is the Hew of Cassese, in which 84 Jess
Graham, Kr. Gittletose, sad Kr. Sidney Herbert, stated
dub waves for risitties Lord Peletentaa's Misietry.

Belgium. is still wiiiont a Cabinet.• The latest @c-
oonskin that K. Theo: bad had an sadism of the King.
Prussia, it in said, still objects to the condition
required by the Wellies Powers, that if she takes part ID
the conformer/ at TIAN% she mast undertake to pane
emigre seeenres wind Soda should the negotiations
fail .
Oa Moaday nut WI Lyndhurst will call the
attention of the House of lA* to the position of Freesia
with reforest, ta,the appreilhiss negetiotions at 'MUSS.

Pays Cioniv.—Kilnie letter in the hidepend-
sea 13•190 has the folloirimm—A. The Sams et the 32. d of
the line, reviewed by the Swim ea Saturday, dined the
sae evening at the T.l ssisi, the Emperor and Empress
ea*Shang SIMS with addirthibbtlity. -Is the mune of
the evening the Ithipres eddreenag herself to as *deer
*till very yams, sad learn's' fres Ms that ha had
already posed through several sempaigne is Mika, seated
Is intimate that lee sight have to undergo one mall sere
arduous is the Crinel. The ofdeer replied that all
he regretted in leaving was, his inability to avail
himself of an invitation width he had resolved to a
mirth at the,Tuileries as the 17th. ' Keel the invitation ;•
replied th► Empress, rno :shell give that bill at Cm-
sernithd/olkind shall finite the ladies of the Soltaa to it.'
althihm ame.• gods( roafssed, railed the Emma
lledisthellolle: nisi, benioniag still diessaserted by
the thighter moiled by his esborteasseek addled the Eth
remeligs themenl.' Upos that there was teeth laughter ;
bett * Mims remarked, This time you have sot to
Serrod=, for very soon he will to Ybut enesumader—
thi "
The Rev. B. Melville, 8.D., bee bees cakielly
dotted to Mood before the HOMO of Commons at Pt. MS-
wet's, Westminster, cs the 21st lost., the day ~gored
fie &general feet.
Ii the Home of Conmens to-morrow evening lir.
wil gilkatio a d
treatyprivate
n Palmesstes whether it is to:, in his
ids between imam oath Amens, and if is whether *
Mare of sash treaty is known se and approved of by the
goverammt."
11./Cireiwki. noticing the Harm* report. says
thee all it veepostateht" that a slight lairevasacet sight
le MOM fa-this department nod a trilliag esthetics Is
11/1/1* el the =Ss queelion—how the Pronetaat people 'of
ht,get_ yikot. psemition with this Popith
Wig saYeEnt takenteti."' '• '
'torn, Prime Albert, sod the Genet =,
erceetiaii. h meted that tar
viling a AO se Airier Reaphol le see the
11010. age dallitteee fees 8
*oleos Emden fee the Babb.
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irwicobtalatiVe ilia; et largeasfiriss. desseniaes-
eta emansaity el book wan.
CIMITAL PAL&CL ONE SHILLING DAY.—
Twig, Wank 13. Alstlidone oa paymad, 763 1 (WO
Wolin 1,081.