The Express.
London, England, 1855-09-25 00:00:00

THE HAWSE AT PERNAU.

PERNAU, Sum 16.
On the afternoon of the 11th inst. four English
war steamers came in and anchored in the outer
roadstead. One of them (the Archer, Capt. Heath-
cote) put out a boat and rowed into the harbour,)
where a crowd of people were assembled at the pier-
head. In the boat were two officers, the inter-
preter, and nine sailors, all well armed. On their
arrival Captain Heathoote demanded to see the bar-
pmaster, and put several questions to him ; for
instsnoe—if there were troops in the town, whether
any of the buildings were government property, &c.;
and on receiving a reply in the negative, notified his in-
tention of landing the next day with Capt. Ommanney,
senior officer of the squadron, to convince themselves
of the truth of the statement. Just as they were on
the point of rowing o 0 four Bashkir. belonging to
the detachment which had just quitted the town,
were seen galloping over the bridge. On Captain
Heathcote's expressing his surprise at this, the
burgomaster explained that the troops had all quitted,
and these must have been left behind by chance.
The following morninfailzi English boat appeared
again,
again, this time with a of truce, but remained at
the mouth of the river, m signs and waving the
white flag. The commander of the pilots put off in
hie boat to explain that they were not permitted to
receive a flag of truce. The British officer told him
he had a letter to deliver personally to the burgo.
master, requiring him to come out in a boat with a
flag oetruce and receive it, which the latter did. The
letter was from Captain Ommanney, informing him
that he had arrived off the town with a sufficient
force to reduce it to a hap of ruins, but that he
would ewe it on the following conditions :-1. The
garrison to lay down their arms and surrender them-
selves ea prisoners of war. 2. All the property in
Pitman belonging to government to be given
up. 3. All the shipping in the river to be given
up. The burgomaster, accompanied by some of the
most respectable inhabitants, must come on board the
Archer to talk over the affair; after which the com-
modore would come on shore to superintend the exe•
cution; and lastly, that the slightest attempt at want
of faith or a hostile attack would inevitably cause the
destruction of the town. One single hoar was allowed
to make up their minds.
The Burgomaster Tilling, accompanied by the
Councillor of Commerce, M. Schmidt, accordingly
went off to the boat with the flag of truce, and thence
to the Archer, where they had an interview with
Captain Ommanney, who received them very politely,
and took from them their written answer, that there
were no troops in the place, that there was no pro-
perty belonging to the crown, and that the ships lay
seven wrists (five miles) up the river, where, bow.
ever, there were troops, and that if the English
wanted the ships, they must go up themselves and
take them. Lastly, they prayed the commodore to
spare the town. The burgomaster succeeded in his
endeavours, and Captain Ommanney let him go ashore
in safety.
The English squadron consisted of the Hawke, 60,
Captain Ommanney; Archer, 16, Captain Heathcote ;
Conflict, 8, Captain Chamberlain ; and Cruiser, 17,
Captain Douglas.

Cnitra.—The New York papers announce the re.
esipt of advises from Hoes Hoeg, ens San Frameisco, to the
99th of July, 'risk& is mere than fortnight later than
these previously TOOSITSd is this country by the overland
rests. Oa referring to the intelligence so given we Dad
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FRANCE.

(MOM ODA OWN

PARIS, SONDAT ETINIMO.

The following despatch announces the arrival of
the Simois, but does not say that the ship brings
Marshal Pelimner's expected despatches :
"Marseilles, Sept. 23.
I " The Elimois briop Constantinople news of the 14th.
A Ti Deum had been celebrated on the occasion of
the taking of Sebastopol. Great enthusiasm pre-
, veiled. The Emperor Napoleon's expressions relative
to ne— laud Pacha had made a great sensation"
"According to letters from the Crimea, the northern
fort and the Russian skips had opened a violent fire,
on the Bth, against the positions conquered by the

"The Presse d'Oriene reports that the Russians
had destroyed the forts of the roads. They had
blown up the central bastion, and the forts St. Paul
and Nicholas. Fort Alexander and Fort Quarantine
had been in part burnt. It was rumoured that the
Russians were marching towards the Mackenzie
heights. The brigade of elite of the Sardinian army
had fought side by side with the English. Fifteen
hundred Russian prisoners were taken in the Male-
khoff. There was a report that the Russian general
Osten Sacken had committed suicide. It was confi-
dently asserted that the fleet would bombard Odessa,
and that Marshal Pelissier would pass the Talisman
to attack the Russians.

"The French general, M. de La Mottexonge, was
wounded."

Of the above news it is to be remarked, that all
that is new is very doubtful.
The following telegraphic despatches have been
received:

" Vienna, Saturday.
"Letters from Naples confirm the changes in the
Neapolitan ministry. The Minister at War, Prince
habitat's, is superseded by M. Picena, but be is still
to receive his salary. General Winspeare has bees
appointed Secretary of State; and M. Bianchini,
director of police, in the place of M. Mazza. It is
hoped that these changes will satisfy the Western
Powers."
The

publishes a letter from its
Vienna correspondent, from which it results that
Austrian finances are in a much better state than
people suppose, that all the rumours of the Emperor
to oouncil having rejected Baron de Bruck's plans of
financial reform are unfounded, that on the contrary
they were approved of by his Majesty before he lett
for Ischl at the beginning of the month, and that
when a few minor details are settled they will be
carried into execution. The correspondent proceeds
to give a sketch of what these plans are, assertioF by
way of preface, that they are not mere palliative*,
bat go to the root of the evil. It appears that a prin-
cipal symptom of the disease in the Austrian snobs-
quer is what, in the simple but expressive language
of a Chinese financier, would be called " the excessive
oozing out of the Sycee." The bank stopped payment
in 1848, and its paper has been at a discount ever aim.
The discount, which at times was as much as 70 per
cent., ruled at 26 per cent. on an average after Baron
de Bruck's retirement from the ministry some time
since, but since, his return to power it has been re-
duced to 10 per cent., and even lower. The new
finance minister wishes to do away with it altogether,
and the correspondent wisely argues that this result
will necessarily be accomplished as soon as the bank
shall be in a condition to resume money payments.
It is said with equal acumen that to attain this grand
object the amount of cash in the bank coffers must be
augmented so as to respond to the requirements of the
regular circulation. The government intend., it is
said, to repay to the bank the remaining amount of
the money owing to it by the state, by means of an
" ingenion. combination, which deserves to be ex-
plained. Austria, reported to be so heavily bur-
dened, " has resources of which foreigners little
think." The correspondentfindsit convenient to forget
that these heavy burdens, now made so light of, were
but a few days ago urged in the columns of the
Constilutionnel as an unanswerable reason why Aus-
tria could not join the Western Powers in the war.
However, he proceeds to say that at a moderate va-
luation, the state domains, mines, and railways are
worth 1,600 millions of florins. It is proposed to
amigo the domains to the bank as a security for the
above-mentioned debt; but in order to avoid the evils
of a too hasty throwing upon the market of a great
quantity of real property, a mortgage bank will be
created, with a capital of 100 millions of florins, the
lobate. to be paid for in specie and not in paper.
This, the Cbnstassiionnel says, is the bank of which
the journals have talked so much without being able
to indicate either its object or its mode of action.
This bank will have the power to sell or
mortgage the state domains in proportion as
the National Bank of Vienna may have oc-
casion for cash. The sales will be made under
the surveillance of the Finance Minister, so that the
bank cannot sell more than sufficient to realise the
amount of money owing to it. It is suggested that
doubts have been entertained whether the interest of
, 6 per cent. offered to the shareholders in the pee-
-1 posed mortgage bank will be a sufficient temptation
I to attract capital, seeing that other investments—the
Austro-French Company, for example—hold out
greater temptation. And this, "perhaps," may be
the reason why Baron de Bruck listened to a counter
project submitted to him by M. Isaac Pereire, on the
part of the Credit Mobilier Company, which " com-
bined conditions singularly well adapted to the
financial state of Austria with a scheme for a much
smaller amount of capital than that proposed by
Baron de Bruck for his mortgage bank." The cor-
respondent then, without telling us which of the two
schemes has been adopted, and leaving it, in fact, to
be plainly inferred that both are still sub judice,
jumps to the comfortable conclusion that at all events
Austrian Bank paper will be no longer at a diaconut.
He then gives some explanation., not sufficiently clear
to be interesting, of the mode in which Bares do
Bruck hopes in three years' time to make the re-
ceipts balance the expenditure ; and concludes with
the remark that the Austrian national debt, 1,693
millions of florins, exceeding but very little the value
of the state domains, mines, and railways, the finan-
cial situation of Austria is far from being dangerous.
A great deal of business has been done at the little
bourse on the boulevard. Credit Mobilier rose from
1,270 to 1,360, in consequence, it is said, of differences
in the management, and between the company and
the government, having been arranged.
Toe Minister of Public Instruction has granted a
week's extra holiday to all the public schools and
colleges, in honour of the taking of Sebastopol.

a This alludes to the alleged exponsion, " greet MID.'
which was repudiated by the Jlowiteur.