The Express.
London, England, 1855-01-15 00:00:00

TURKEY.

Mon run cowsrosziesr OP TEI DAILY XEWL)
CONSTANTINOPLI, Jew. 1.
As Air as we can learn no incident worth notice
bmosesered for several days at the seat of war. The
British works are pregresabag slowly, but still in-
es/)dote, and It is time, mippesea that before the end
d January the allies will tint iss I. a position to un-
&stake any important amine operation. This is
wet unfortunate—all has been too late, and winter
myriad the elite of both armies.
The Duke of Cambridge quits Constantinople to.
Bay with his aides-de-camp by the French mail
et Thabor. His royal highness has been suffer-
Cslightly from the effects of intermittent fever,
esetracted in the Crimea, for which, it is to be hoped,
Ms native air and a little repose will prove an effeo-
gal remedy. Prince Napoleon also is expected
shortly to return to France.
In consequence of some outrages committed lately 1
y Greeks and Italians on French soldiers, General
Lenin has issued an order of the day providing
that the troops under his command are in future to
go out armed, and that any assault on them will be
wondered a capital offence and punished accordingly
withis the space of 24 hours. The French patrols
have been thus assisting the Turks during the night,
at the theatre and other places of public resort, for
the preservation of order.
Soros days ago, a British transport, No. 119, laden
with ooals, was completely consumed by fire. Her
(ergo, it appears, had been damp,combustionwas epee-
teeeoes—and, notwithstanding all the efforts of the
ships of war in port, it was necessary at last On
tow the vessel out towards the coast of Hayden
Puha where, after having burned for 24 hours, she
finally went down.
Admiral Dundee quitted this in the Britannia,
in company frith the Trafalgar, on the 27th ult.
Reinforcements, huts, winter clothing, and other
requisitss,are daily arriving for the allied armies in
the Crimes.
As regards expedition, a considerable improve-
ment has taken place, in consequence of the late
French postal arrangements. By the last packet of
the .;oth ult., I received the French papers up to the
20th, and the Daily News of the 15th and 16th.
The cholera is now happily almost quite extinct,
but the occurrence of one or two fatal eases at Pera
has caused quite a commotion, and startled this
celebrated faabourg from its perennial quietude.
Patricians sod plebeians have been for some days on
the shirt, and are all, I may add, ardent, inflexible
tontegionists. lu days of yore, when pl.egue was
seldom absent—either in a sporadic or epidemic form
—every house was a stronghold, a well-conducted
caret, and completely isolated from the outer world.
This system of self preservation, founded on local
traditions and the experience of ages, was, I must
confess, invariably attended with the best results;
and the European colony enjoyed, as is well known,
comparative immunity, while hundreds of the Mussel-
man population were daily swept away by each
successive invasion of the epidemic. These rigorous
precautions at the present day are happily no longer
required in respect to pestilence, which has gradually
subsided and finally disappeared since the foundation
of the sanitary institution in this country. The
Franks, nevertheless, still adhere to the old system of
"Noll me tenger." in reference to a variety of other
visitations—cholera, variola, scarlatina, and the like.
Apropos of this, I cannot forbear to mention a
ludicrous incident which occurred a few nights ago
in reference to one of those gentlemen, a bus believer
and sturdy advocate of these doctrine,. On return-
ing home from the theatre to his utter dismay he
descried one of our " tars" stretched lifeless appa-
rently, close to his house door. Cholera and contagion
were ever uppermost in his thoughts, and by the
dim light of a small lantern his excited imaginings
soon conjured up sunken eyes, livid surface, mid
other evidences of the foe—although not exclusive
evidences—contaminating his very threshold. To
get rid of this abomination anyhow was necessarily
his first impulse. Off he posted to the next police
station, and there having made known the object of
his errand he returned promptly to the spot with a
posse of auxiliaries. An inquiry was held forth-
with, the leech presiding, hut, true to his system, at
a respectable distance, hallooing out at the same time,
and poking vigorously with his stick to restore
the sinking tar, all was to no purpose. The chief police-
man also groped about for the pulse, but declared
emphatically that the game was up, end Aersel
Creed,. in po.seesion of his prey ! It only now
remained to shoulder and remove the counts clelicto—
the chief caves., in the post of honour supporting
bead and trunk, and two others the lower extre-
mities. The procession bad scarcely commenced,
with slow and solemn footfall, when, lo ! up came a
Jew boy, who in his manifold characters of guide,
broker, used interpreter, had picked up a few words
of our language, and acquired besides, as the event
proved, some knowledge of the nature and habitual
adventures of our jolly tars. Thus, stepping up
boldly, he declared at a glance, " non e muerte, ma
troppu heel° ;" and lustily vociferating, "Jack, Jack,
old boy, ship too much cargo!" and seconding this
apostrophe by a vigorous tug at the ear, strange
to ray, when all else had failed, this last expedient
was crowned with wondrous success, and instantly
restored animation. The first and immediate re-
sult, the proof positive, was a tremendous
blow from Jack's iron fist, right on the nose
of the back ensile' and " life's purple tide "
flowed in torrents. This sudden incident, as may
be imagined, at once dispersed the convoy. ha
was instantaneously loosed, and pitched overboard
by his constituents, and again on his lege in a twink
ling, amidst roars of laughter. He was led off by
his deliverer from the scene of action. The poor cavass
excited, I regret to say, much untimely merriment.

FRANCE.

PDIII7 OP TIM DAILY POWS.)
PARIS, StiTURDAT ETIONING.
The telegraphic news which Punt you ouTtearselay
night of a fresh invasion of Turkey by Russia is
(although I find it has been doubted in London)
abundantly confirmed to-day. The Constitutionnel
after quoting two despatches stating the object of
the Russian movement to be to harass the Turkish
troops about to depart for the Crimea, says, " We
Baty add that the Russian army has crossed the
Danube on three different points and in considerable
susee, and that the movement of the Russians ap-
pears to form part of an ensemble of strategic ope-
ration."
A Vienna despatch, dated this day, Jan. 13, gives
farther remarkable confirmation of the truth of the
original news; it says—" The Russians have entered
the Dobrudcha, and have driven the Turks with loss
from Toultcha to Babadagh. We are without any
recent official intelligence of this affair : Colonel
Manteuliel will leave this evening."
It appears, therefore, that a despatch published in
London yesterday, and accepted by. an evening
represented
as the true version of the affair, in which it as
presented that the Turks had been the aggressors
and been defeated in Bessarabia, is altogether wrong.
PARIS. SUNDAY.
The council of prizes has pronounced the Russian
ship, Couriren, detained in the South Sea by the
steam corvette, Phoque, of the imperial navy, a good
and lawful prize. It has ordered the restoration of
the cargo to the neutral subjects claiming it, in con-
formity with the declaration of the 29th of March
last, in which the Emperor renounced the right of
seizing neutral goods found on board of the enemy's
vessels. Bat this restoration has been made subject
to the payment of the freight, which has been ad-
judged to the captors. The council has further or-
dered that objects found on board and claimed by
the captain as his private property shall be returned
to him.
The Coe qLegislatif sat yesterday at two o'clock,
Count de blorny, President, in the chair. The bill
concerning the ass;gnment of mortgages was the first
subject of deliberation, and Messrs.. Adolphe
Debelleyme, the bringer up of the report, Legume,
and Allart took part in the debate. The two first
clauses of the bill passed, and the debate was adjourned
to Monday. A report was brought up by M. Revell
on the bill for caning out in 1856 a contingent of
140,000 men from the class of 1864. The Marquis
of Aodclarre laid on the table a report on the bill foe
effecting an exchange between the state and the
"presbyteral " council of Rittereoffen (Bas Rhin).
PARIS, SUNDAY EVININO.
Some details, which I believe to be correct, have
been communicated to me of the recent negotiations
it Vicuna. On lan. 6, al you are swam Prime

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