The Express.
London, England, 1855-01-17 00:00:00

THE ' WAR.

The Emperor of Austria exposed ea Mosday to
a dovetails& from the Bank of Vienna the hope that
pesos wield be re-established.
Telegraphic amounts from Vienna, one of which,
from our own correspondent, appeared in nearly the
whole of our impression yesterday, state that the ,
Bassi= detachment which crossed the Danube on
the 7th and Bth, has repassed the river, and re-entered
IsmaiL The affair being terminated, we may be
allowed to fecal the faot that the southward passage
of the Danube by the Russia= was announced by
us twenty.four hears is advance of our contempo-
raries, and that its limited object as now disclosed
was from the first indicated in oar columns.—Daily
News.

The irtateisberg Moniker, in communicating the
sense of M. Manteuffel's note to Count Buol of the
lith inst., shows the position which the Prussian
Cabinet has chosen to take up at the moment when
invited to mobilise its arms,. The Prussian Minister
in declining to accede to the request urges that
Austria has nothing to fear while maintaining • '
defensive position, " the peace-loviog disposition sad
the assurances of the Roamer of Russia being
worthy of all confidence." He then reminds the
Vienna Cabinet that the treaty of April 20,1834, was
made in order to restore pewee, and not to extend war,
and also that it prescribed a community of action to the
contracting powers. This part of the treaty, M. Man-
teuffel complains, Austria has not observed ; but, by
concluding with other powers treaties to which
Prussia was not a party, has virtually set the treaty of
April maids. M. Masteudel adds, somewhat haughtily,
that Prussia wants no 38 days' notice for mobilising
100,000 men, seeing its government has unosteota.
tiously taken its measures, and is ready to defend
and assert the interests of the country "from what-
ever quarter they may be menaced."

Ult. 6.

The Russian Military Gazette publishes to-day a
register of the names of ofileen who fell at Alms, or bays
sines died of their wounds. The total loss sustained was
forty-ax others killed, including two generals, and eight
stadium. Priem Psskiewitch has arrived, secordieg to
report, in Ostschins. The Grand Duke Alexander Is like-
Willi awaited there. The Christaiu festival oommesuces to-
morrow, and in many houses it is kept up for the space of
three or four days. A little more activity taigas is cease-
quince aasonrt the publ.c. The cold is not 'avers, nor is
a rigorous winter expected. Great activity is displayed in
the Finnish ports. Complaints of the want of shipping to
carry oft the stock of taw material on head are being
made. The ire will, it is feared, soon set in, and put an
end to all navigation. An Odessa satrehaut of the name
of Mate las been publicly thanked by the Czar for the gift
el 2,000 darts, which be has met to the Crimean army.

A letter from Erzeroum, 19th ult. in the Moniteur
aye:—" The Roveian divivion, which had occupied
the villages of I)iadin, Ulch KtLivia, and Kara Kili-
an, is the neighbourhood of Dayszid, has completely
evacuated the Turkish teritorv, and t etired to Erivan.
In consequence of this retreat, the road from Persia
is entirely open, and the commerce of Erzeroom
begins to resume its activity. This movement is
attnbuted to the coucentration of Turkish troops at
Taprak-Kale. The Russians before retiring burnt
the neighbouring villages, and desolated the country
on all stdes."

A letter fro® Cracow of the 2nd, in the Co/Wan-
/know,* my.:
The recruiting ameept the hews, and the carrying off
for the military schools of Jewish children aged from right
to ton, sasses amoapt that elms of inhabitants in Poland
Indescribable Virtue and desolation. la all the towns sad
villages wear Kielei ambled but weeping and lamentation
are to be beard. Mothers tear their hair end beat their
heeds against the wells, sad lathers sacrifice their last
peony to buy off their soca. Recently en unfortunate
man, whom oldest win, though just about to be married, had
been carried off, went to the chief town of the provisos to
beg that a younger
.son, who accompanied him, might be
taken instead of MI brnther, but the mead sun was like-
wise taken, and the elder was nut given up. Tile gave such
a shock to the father th. 4 he was taken ill, and in three
days died. The manner in which unfortunate recruits ere
treated is really cruel. Thus, fur *sample, those assembled
at Kielri were not long since, in spite of the cold, placed
quitivaaked la rows la the streets to undergo medical in-