The Press.
London, England, 1854-03-11 00:00:00

THE PRESS.

The first division of the French expeditionary
army is to embark at Toulon, and at the different
ports of Algeria, on the 20th of March, and to sail
on the same day for the Dardanelles. The second
division will sail on the 15th of April. 18,(XX) men
are under orders to leave Algeria for Constantinople.
The second expedition will bring up the French army
of the East to 50,000 men, of which it is calculated
that, making allowance for sickness and other
casualties, 40,000 may be put into line.
Twelve steamers are in course of armament at
Toalon, and in a few days will be ready to sail with
the troops destined for the East.
It is said that Prince Napoleon will not go first to
to Constantinople, but to the Greek frontiers. He
will take with him a numerous corps of Chasseurs of
Vincennes. Count Branicki, a Polish nobleman of
great wealth, who has long been resident as an entigri
in France, where he possesses extensive property,
has been appointed aide-de-camp to Prince Napo-
leon, and will accompany the Prince to Constanti-
nople. Count Branicki was formerly a colonel of
cavalry in the service of the Emperor of Rus-ia. He
is to be raised to the rank of lieutenant-colonel, in
the service of France.
Orders have been received at Marseilles by tele-
graph to charter one hundred vessels to carry troops,
stores, and ammunition to Constantinople. The
Government agents are now taking steps to obtain
the requisite number of vessels.
A petition is in course of signature at Mar-
seilles praying for the suppression of letters of
marque, and that corsairs may be treated as pirates.
A great number of the leading merchants of the city
have signed.
The Marquis de Turgot, the Minister at Madrid,
has been recalled. M. de Lacour, the late Minister
at Constantinople, has been appointed Minister at
Naples, in place of M. de Maupas, recalled.
The last of the Russian agents in Paris (the Count
de Tolstoi) has left that city.
Three Russian vessels have been sold at Trieste.
Their crews return overland.
General Moore and forty English officers arrived
on the sth at Marseilles.
General de Castelbajac left St. Petersburg on the
21st ult., on his way to France.
The Princess Lieven, on leaving Paris, has taken
up her residence at Brussels. One of her first
enterprises there in favour of the Czar was to try to
gain over the three French exiled generals, namely,
Gene. als Changarnier, Bedeau, and de Lamoriciere.
She accordingly sent an intimation to them that they
would be welcome guests at her house. To the
honour of these officers, they simultaneously declined
the invitation, intimating that, though they were in
enmity with the existing ruler of France, they were
still Frenchmen, and French soldiers ; and that they
could not visit any Russians as long as Russia was at
war with France, as the enemies of France would
always be theirs.
The Assemblie Nationale has been suspended for
two months. That journal has from the beginning
advocated a Russian policy, as being somehow asso-
ciated with the cause of the Legitimists. In the
decree of suspension the Minister of the Interior
assigns as the reason for the proceeding—that, in
spite of the warnings and non-official recommendations
lately given it, the journal persists in the anti-
national system of polemics, which it has indulged
in since the commencement of the Eastern question.
The gerant has given notice to the subscribers that
the publication will be resumed on the expiring of
the period of suspension. It is probable, however,
that the itasemblie way be definitively suppressed
meanwhile.

DENMARK.
The Cologne Gazette states that a courier bad
arrived at Copenhagen from St. Petersburg with des-
patches, in which the Russian Government demands
from that of Denmark that it shall refuse to supply
the English and French squadrons with provisions
and coals.