The Express.
London, England, 1855-06-05 00:00:00

NIGHT ATTACK ON THE 22xD.

The following is Prince Gortchakoff's account of
the important attack on the 22nd, hitherto reported
only by telegraph.
SEBASTOPOL, Mar 23.
On the night of the 31st we *mad smash as a coaster
%swoosh, opposite to *a seemiten is boat of the Central
and
to
too Bodes% owl ammessed it with the Aram
tookder to operate against the data lash of the seem?
wors which threaten this beetina. The hardarosof the
round p 00000 tett our digging the wash deep enough. Oa
the eveniog of the 225 d, wises sae sass....re begiasiag to
renew their Ishoem of se the to
ttol
Wsas with emestees enehmtee of
Ws sesseme. A mat sheimas minim wade that
ambit& sight. sad SM hapset emsellwa._._..the ashy amssed.
Oat waileee-12 bateellset stresis—mw•t lesedeellgesensed
Ibe ask spied wide the esteem ass=
uSeihwhe
allaille. kW Om elm Imo, ie elskr/
shistimalle. foe 3.kle wen have hays at Ossrm
The OW If alseOeseral Adisehmowto eimmes the
Mod laigmle et die Math ewer slab.
IllamiewMole little mask km oohed the of the
easehm Is me.. ihrt been% dirudineisSmgellese wiU hal
iheimesikg el fatesswee . dem his greatest
=hoeam eseeeeded Is teldag a -made smash
the same sight (the MIN shishige el the line and
SOMsemesee with east 20,000 wasp es beard, left the taii
al liaise*. Oa the Sled this egistres was lighted how
tie heights el Tells.
It will be remsetholtll that General Peliesisr de-
scribes a severs maid whisk task place us the fol-
f
night, Wbra our alba seemed mi
pomes o
the work; but Prince Gormiskeire meet et this
lowing
sifair hag not been published.

The Austrian Gaze* stew that there is now a 1
telegraphic communication between Sebastopol and I
Odessa. It is, however, not an electric telegraph, but
semaphore. ODESSA, MAT 24.
For these last two months our population has lived
is daily dread of the approach of an allied squadron.
Since the last bombardment, the government has
neglected no precautions for strengthening the
place, and enabling it to resist an attack as well as
as open town can be expected to do. Including some
mortar batteries of great range and calibre, we have
not fewer than 140 pieess of artillery mounted for
ur defence.

LIBERTY OF THE
M PRESS ASSERTED IN
HABURG.

HAMBURG, ULT 31.
In the Assembly of the liiirgerschaft, convoked
yesterday by the Senate to auction several measures
of importance—amongst which was the new law of
the press, of which I gave your readers a sketch in
my letter of the 23rd inst.—the citizens vindicated
their rights to the blessings of a free press, by throw-
ing out the proposal by an overwhelming majority.
The enactments of this proposed law were so oner-
ous, that the ro•introduetion of the former censorship
of the press, happily extinguished by the events
of the year 1848, would have been greatly pre-

!arable.
The Assembly was in a very excited mood, from
the great want of delicacy on the part of the Senate,
in calling on them to vote away some heavy money
bills, notice of which had only been given four days
previously, part of which were the Whitsuntide
holidays, when many people go into the country,
and are glad to escape for a short interval from the
mares and anxieties of both public and private busi-
ness, so that it was evidently the intention of the
Senate to smuggle these bills through, and take the
Assembly by surprise, in which, however, they were
signally defeated.
Without having time given them to consider and
weigh the pros and contras, the Assembly were called
on to vote the following sums of money :-360,000
marks currency in the shape of an extraordinary
credit for accelerating the building of the St. Nicholas
church (destroyed at the time of the great conflagra-
tion of 1842); 163,000 marks banoo tor the purchase
of the theatre ; 83,000 marks currency for the pur-
chase of the inventories and wardrobe belonging to
the same; 10,000 marks hence annually as a contri-
bution to the Theatrical Pension Fund Timid lastly,
230,000 marks bunco for extending the ts of the
harbour, and affording greater facilities for the
accommodation of vessels, by forming a new tidal
basin. And in addition to all this, they were called
on to sanction the most unjust and despotic law of the
peers ever laid before a legislative assembly, but
which they indignantly rejected, as well as all the
money bills, with the exception of the one for the
practical improvement of the accommodation for
vessels in the harbour.
In three weeks the Assembly will be again con-
voked, to deliberate on the new constitution, which
has now been in soak for seven years, and is at
length arrived at such a stage of maturity, u to enable
the Senate to lay it before the BOrgerechaft for their
sanction.

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THE FOREIGN LEGION-ARREST OF AN
ALLEGED RECRUITLNG AGENT AT HAM-
BURG.