The Express.
London, England, 1855-03-23 00:00:00

THE BALTIC AND GULF OF FINLAND.

A letter from Riga, of the 11th states that thegreatest
activity prevails there. a great number of mea being em-
ployed in raising new fortifications both on the lead eat
sea sides, as it is feared, from that place being the key of
the provinces of Courland and Livonia, it may be the Ant
point of attack by the allied fleets in their next Baltic cam-
paign. The entrenched camp which existed last year is to
be enlarged, to enable, in cue of need, two divisions of
troops to be esta►lished there. Several vessels and cosmos
blocks of stone will be sunk at the mouth of the Galf,
that ship. of war, however light their draught of
water, will find it very difficult sad dangerous to effect the
purege of the Dannemunde, in ordor to arrive opposite the
town, which is at the bottom of a small bay, and where
batteries have been established in a semicircle to commit
every point in front. The Name letter announces the arrival
on the coasts of the Gulf of Finland of four regiments at
Baskin, intended principally to act as videttes is time of
war. A body of from 8.000 to 10,000 light cavalry is es-
peeted. The organisation of the army of the Baltic, under
the command of General de Siewers, advances rapidly. A
part of this body, which was at first fixed at 100,000 mu,
but which will now be carried up to 140,000 men, bee
already arrived at their place of destination.

TURKEY.

We read in the Jourhal de Constantinople of the Bth is t.
as follows :

"The last number of the Seals Gazette contains the text
of the following laws, which have been made by the
Council of the Tansimat, and sanctioned by his Majesty the
Sultan :

0 1. A law respecting the attributes assigned to the Tan-
slant Council, containing the following chapters :-1. On
the laws of the country ; 2. On the execution of the eater
blighoi laws ; 3. Oa the proceedings.
" 2. & law for the internal organisation of the Tansimat
Council, containing the following chapters :-1. On the de•
liberations; 2. On the rules for the correspondence ; 3. On
the decisions malting from the deliberations.
3. A law concerning the mode of composition:and the
attribute, of the General Council.

"4. A law concerning the rules to be followed in laying
down regulations to be adopted in future.
"b. A law conoerniog the penalties against bribery.
"This law consists of the following chapters :—l. Oa
bribery; 2. On robbery; 3. On presents; 4. Raise and
planes for judgmen,.
" The imperial government is engaged in causing these
laws to be translated into several languages. We think ws
shall soon be enabled to publish the French version."

The Tamise, which left Conetantinople on the
12th, arrived at Memellles yesterday, and despatches for
the government left at 4 p.m. Colonel de Saville had
arrived at Constantinople, to select a spot for the encamp-
ment of 40,000 French troops. The news from Baleklan is
to the 10th.

TIM LIVERPOOL ELECTION.-LIVERPOOL, Tomo
OLV.—The writ for the election of a representative fee
Liverpool, in the room of Lord Ravensworth, is said to have
been received this morning by his worshio the mayor (l. A.
Tobin, Req.), and it is believed that Monday or Tuesday'
neat will be geed for the nomination, and the •u seeding
day for the poll. A meeting of the conservatives will be
brad to-night in the Concert Han, Lord Nelson•street, and
of the liberals tomorrow, in the Theatre Royal. There is
as excitement apparently on either side, and nothing in the
appearance of the town indicates that we are on the eve of a
contested election.

CITOTAL PA LOCF..—sinurNo DAT.—THURBDOTs
March 22. Adasis.loos on payment, 447 ; ditto by was
*lota; 87; total; 634.

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primitive iestreettese of Prime deetebakelt, sod from the
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The latest news on the subject of the Conferences
ruches u from London, but u it is agreed as all
hands that the diplomatists have determined before
all things to keep their secret, that news is UMW
'wily altogether ecojecturaL
The Bourse was tolerably firm throughout the day.
The Rents left off at 69fr. Sc.. with a rise of 20e.,
sad railways improved from lk. to 3k. Bank of
Franco rose 6fr.

Yesterday evening politicians were considerably
purled by the following telegraphic despatch which
reads the. in Galortaitt's translation :

Loathes. Much 21.

The Globe of this seising ssys "We have tam requested
M state that the Haag of Prussia was aesideatally ' @Waded
bens partisiseMeg ' a the Coufereasss at Vines."
the Fnoch papers (the Delpate excepted) pub-
lish the suss despatch, the hingiog words in French
being accidentellement reels; de la participation."

Hen; was a piece of news of a startling description,
aid calculated to exercise an enormous influence upon
the situation. "It must be true," said , numbers on
the Little Bourse yesterday and this morning, "for'
it appears in a ministerial Landon paper, and is eel-
daftly a communication either from the English
Mialetry or the Prussian Embassy.' Since Prussia
was excluded from the Conferences by an accident, it
is abundantly clear that she will join them at the
first opportunity. Lord Lyndnurst's. speech, it was
thought, had awakened the King of Prussia to •
sense of his danger, and, informed by telegraph of
the learned baron's withering sarcasms, he must hays,
immediately ordered his minister in London to
executes right about face movement. The old hands
were not, however, inclined to risk their money on
the faith of the despatch. Still, although the exact,
meaning was not apparent, nobody doubted that,
there must be something in it. Everything German
is very commonly obscure, and therefore there was
nothing astonishing in the want of precision in the
news. The Assembler appends • note to say
that to "a certain extent" the despatch appears
unintelligible. The Pays professes not to understand
it at all, but the other journals publish it without
comment. I perceive, by the Globe, arrived this
afternoon, that the paragraph was what in French is
called a "charge," and in English a" sell." The well-
known parliamentary phrase "shut out from a divi-
sion," jokingly applied to the King of Prussia, was a
stumbling block to the French correspondent who
forwarded the despatch, and now this canard will go
the round of all the newspapers in the world, will
affect more or less every Bourse in Europe, and if the
departure of mail packets should happen to suit, en
that the news may precede the explanation, will pro-
duce • great effect in the eastern and western hemi-
spheres.

I bear that Marshal St. Arnaud's family are pre-
paring an answer to the Brawns pamphlet, in so
far as the mi'itary reputation of the late oommander
is attacked by that publication. They are prepared,
it is said, to show that the Marshal's plan of marching
upon Sebastopol immrdiately after the victory of the
Alma was thoroughly practical, and that the Russians
themselves were equally astonished and delighted
that it was not carried into execution. Prince Meat-
chikoff is said to have written to a friend :—" How
could they suppose that I had collected 60,000 men on
the heights of Alma without withdrawing the garrison
from Sebastopol ?" The interstice intended, by Mar-
shal St. Arnaud's friends, to be drawn is that the
allied armies might have pushed on and stormed the
place with comparatively little opposition. Some
curious private letters of the Marshal's, addressed to
his family, are likely to be published. One story in
connection with this subject is, that when, after the
battle of the Alma, the French commandir proposed
immediately to follow up the victory, Lord Raglan
demanded at all events a delay of two days to rest
the troops. " Two day., my lord ; you are asking
of me half my life." The state of Marshal St. Ar-
naud's health was doubtless • very bad reason for
undertaking • rash military operatic•, but the say-
ing attributed to him illustrates very forcibly the
certainty he felt that his end was at band,
and his burning desire to illustrate his dying
momeate by some great exploit. Had his
life been protracted but by the space of
a few hours there is every reason to believe that a
desperate attempt to enter Sebastopol from the north
side would have been made. Whether is case of imc-
cols the place mold have been held by a force es
unprovided with the commonest necessaries as our
armies were at that time, is a speculative question
which Ido not enter into. But this remark is ob-
vious, that if Mentehikoff expected the allies to march
upon the place, and withdrew his army into the open
field, instead of restoring the troops he had abstracted
from it, he must have calculated that we should have
tumbled into a trap.

THE NEW CZARS DECLARATION OP POLICY.

The followlag is the addrom delivered by the Em-
peror Aleseador 11. to the dipleatotie soaps oa the 7di,
a reassary el width Me already mewed la the Daily
Near:

" I ea persuaded, goatlenan, that all year aura feel
einem sorrow at the saisfatuae whin has Wallet as. I
have already melted prone of it from 41 sides; they have
greatly mend is, and I stated yesterday to the mlaisteres
of Prune sad Amen low meek I appreelated them. I
solemnly declare here before yes, patinas. that I roman
faithful to all the seatimeate of lay father, en that I will
persevere la the Ine of pentad prime/des whisk served as a
rale to ray male, the Hamer Alemader, an to my father.
rams primiplis en these of the Holy Allan,. But if that
Allan. se Inger exists, it is eertaialy sot the Walt of my
father. His hatentleas were always upright sad loyal, and,
if esseatly they were misunderstood by some persons, I
do set doubt that God an history will do hi. jade*.
I a. reedy to seetribete to a good anderstaadiag
ea the seaditioas whin he wonted. Like his, I desire
pease, and wish to see the evils of war tenanted ; bat if
the enfernese whin are alma te epee at Views do mot
lead to a result heseerable lee us, then gesdaihien, at the
heed of my faithful Rena, I will softest with the jehole
Radio, an I will perish Boner than yield. As to my per.
easel anima for your average (We the &near ad-
dreamed Berea do !recibir, Manor of Prussia), they lan
sot varied. I ham never doubted of the fraternal affection
and friimdship whisk his Moja*" the Hag always had for
my father, and I told you yesterday how palate! I am to
him for it. lam deeply aessible of the Wad words wbich
the Ilesperor has awn to be treassaitted to me oa this
eaasion. (This was addressed to Coast Bsterhasy, Mimic
ter of Austria.) His Majesty mesa doubt of the sneers
affeetioa whin my father entertaiaed for his at an *pooh,
whisk he himself has mailed by the order of the day ad-
dressed to his army. Be Wad isemb, gentlemea, to com
municate my worts to your respective marts."

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