The Express.
London, England, 1855-12-13 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

FIGHTING IN THE CRIMEA.

Jaw MqppYroar, of this day unman that We
CEVor Wm has resolved, the following is
Asspatrkfrom Marshal Pslisdir
t• " 8113ABTOPOL, Dec. 8,1 rat.
ts r have seedved the felbwing despatch tram
the Goneral in sommaaad of the lot Division of the
lit Corps :
' " A body of from 2,000 to 3,000 infantry, and
about 400 er 600 horse, at daybreak this morning,
attacked Daga•Oarkoesta.Bkraks.
" The enemy beat a retreat after a sharp fusillade,
which bated for an hoar sad a half. ,
" Bow 30 prisoners was loft la oar hands,
two of whoa were *Mews.

" I sm not mite of the number of killed and
wounded.

" Our loss Is issigoillesid."

Tag cRIMKA.

A telegraplilo dispatch from Marseilles, dated
yesterday, announces the arrival of the Ganges, with
Constantinople news to Deo. 3:
" Admiral Stewart's squadron was to Wye on the
4th for Smyrna. Prom theme, according to report,
it was to go to the waters of Grua and the Adriatic.
The English cavalry which was at Burtch and Bala-
klan has retuned to Constantinople. It is now very
difficult for English Ames in the Crimea to ob-
tain leave of absence. General Williams and
Karim Pasha have been created Machin, for their
splendid defines of Ears. The Belgian Ambassa-
dor at Coostantinople has been made • Commander
of the Order of Medjidid. The members of the
C 01110116311 for the cutting of the Sues canal were
presented on November 23 to Said Pasha. The
levelling*, soundings, and other preparatory works
are nearly terminated. The Comnilision is about to
survey them. The Dot& Engineer. M. Conrad, is
the director of the works. The Commission is every-
where well received by the population.*
Another despatch, with farther news, by the same
' boat, is to the following effect :

as MARSEILLES. Dza. 12.

"The English squadron had arrived st Quieten-
dimple. The English cavalry end that of the Anglo-
Ottoman contingent had also arrived, and were to
winter is the neighbourhood of the Turkish capital.
The accounts from the Crimea are to the 30th alt.
All military operationa were suspended. The troops
were still employed is demolishing Bebaetopol. and
constructing shelter for themselves out of the ruins.
The Ruda= were unmoving from their lines of
defense, and concentrating their troops at Bakhtelti.
Beni and at Bimpheropol. The corps of the Bello&
has also buss reduced. The somata from Hatch,
Eupatoria, and from 'Unhurt' contain nothing new.
The Russians es well as the Allies were preparing
their winter quarters. The Bea of Azoff was be-
ginning to get very full of

A letter from Berta of the 16th alt, in the Com:
siitrtionnei, sap :
TM wiad has bees blowier heavily from the eestwerd
for the hot font days, sad has gins as a saddles treasitioa
from new to 'Hater. We ham sot, however, bees
Mime by surprise. AU the Fres* troops seesawed at St.
Peal are well sheltered, but at Yeas!' the Mate have all
yet bean replaced by woodea hate. This, however, is as la-

aosvemiseee wbluh will sot last hag, megaratimis having
hem already made to obviate it. There kneeing sew from
the Ssa of Asia. We have sot baud of say apathies
from the late gales, but it is to be feared that assay of the
Austrian merelmat vends la that ses will have suffered. A
&mum hoe takes plate la the Wends vends of war is this
station. The Cates aid the Pune. bare left the flea of
Asoff, sad bus massed by a bomb vessel, the liesostria.
Her two formidable mortars aro .beat to be brought to
play es the Rood= amp of Cliaitehl, whisk is oat of the
reach of oar heaviest gum, but whisk will sot be
so with the master menus of the fiesostris. The
essay will soon be disagreeably sarprissd by a visit hem
SOWN of the pre* ile, of this vessel. acme of whisk have
bees yet lased is this part of the world. The essay has
set made any fresh sensual la the eastern part of the
Crimea. At 'Carta the tows is clued by mesas of barrip
sada plead at the extremities of the Meets Moan late
the epos sostatry, sad the wester. part of the plate, whis►
is 'pea to Wreaks, Is about to be Mosey feetiaed. A
report le sanest hero that the Itaesiaas iatead dais( the
whiter oak's( a. attempt to ream their axamaaisatites

with the wait ef Asia. It is somewhat doubtful whether
they will bawd say attack against Bt. Paul, the ennuis.
to whisk have been readied impregnable by the Preach.
but I tbiak it sot improbable that they may make ea
attempt *Oast Kutch, when they may hope to have easier
work against** /Melo- Turkish oestiegest. The object of
tM liassisas would hen destroy that plea 'stingy, which
they mush regret act Maims dose before they abandoned
it. Wises it le econsidered that tench is a rued depot for
provisiess, it is sot sufkiestly girrisesed at preens,
altbosgb oseitylod by some regular troops sad Use lamas
coatlageat.

RUSSIAN FINANCES.

HAMBURG, Dzo. 11.

At Minnow. Nichol, and Astrakan, the small
tradesmen refuse to receive Bank of Russia notes.
People an beginning to bide their coin. Several
boards bare been already discovered.

BERLIN, WIDXIIDAY.

Yesterday the hoses of Mendslasoba here opened
sabeoriptioes for a wow Road= Five per Cleat. Leas,
at 86, with bat little a/OMM

Dna 2.

The Chief &Weal of the fleet, the (leased Doke
Constastine, has published an order of the day in
which h• ceders the captains of the Baths mewls to
send reports m soon as poesibbs of the supplies which
they have received from the different administrative
authorities, and to make known especially the articles
which have not been given to them in suilleient quan-
tity. This order can only have been actuated by the
bad sanitary state of the lint, of which incredible
things are told, and which are attributable to the
numerous sets of negligence on the part of the cos-

THE BALTIC.

We are informed by our Baltic correspondent that
yesterday (Wednesday) the Magitienne, Locust,
Cossack, Ampkion, Driver, Vulture, Desperate,
Harrier, Esk, Porcupine Tartar, Gayest, Conflict,
and Pyladee passed Maim:, oa their homeward way.
The Euryalus and Imperious. arrived at Kiel on
Tuesday, and were the only vessels there.
A letter from the tame correspondent states that
to mewly built steam gunboats, accompanied by a
steam frigate, bad arrived at Helsingfors from Cron.
stadt, and anchored in the inner peat, inside Bwea-
bag. The gunboats were built this summer at
Creastadt, and the engines made at the Imperial
history star St. Petersburg.

Roar-Admiral Diadem, C.B.Cossaader-to.Chist
et the &hie Fleet, retuned ea baud the Doke el Wel.
UMW' Spewed, yeetonley. oolosepaiso by
the Cereals el the Flint. the K... F. T. Peahen, to make
erreageseale fee bars. Beek will Inv* lee Lemke this
'7.