The Express.
London, England, 1855-12-10 00:00:00

OF WAR AT

HAMBURG, Dim 6.
It is now several weeks sines the British coned- '
general here, Colonel Hodges, was instructed by the
government to present to the Senate of Hamburg an
energetic note, strongly protesting against the laxity
with which the government of this city observed
their so-celled neutrality, and the glaring and open '
as in which contraband of war (and more tape-
sialb articles of sulphur and saltpetre) was sent
Irani here by the Premien railroad to Russia.
Within the last ten days large quantities of these '
utilise have been imported here without any notice '
being taken of it, or protest raised from any aide
whatever, and it is ao secret here that the purchasers
are the agents of St. Petersburg houses, and that the
goods have been sent on by railroad to Russia. That
your readers may judge for themselves of the Tian-
tity of sulphur and saltpetre imported into Ham-
burg within the last few days, I beg to subjoin the
following particulars, taken from our official import
lists:
Antagonist (British barque), Blake, master, from Terra-
nova4l,l2o.ooolb. sulphur.
Labors (Danish schooner),Captain Muhl, from Marseilles,
160 chests of sulphur.
Albis (Bamberg brig), Captain Ahrens, from Iquique,
1,769 begs of saltpetre.
Johann Julies (Holstein barque), Captain HUM, from
Iquique, 3,116 bags of saltpetre.
Jane knee (British mbooner), Bunt, master, from Pa-
Maki%llastela 630 ouster. (cwt.) of
clisagatrileyer, from Girgenti,
1,665 sentare of sulphur.
Huts Yriedridt (Danish brig), Captain Brand, from
'lquique, 3,167 bags of saltpetre.
Alden Hied' (Norwegian brig), Captain Bruhn, frees
Lions, 2,880 mum of sulphur.
Blida (Humbug brig), Captain Jachtmann, from New
York, 1,68833 bags of saltpetre.
Here thou we have, in the short space of ten days,
no leas than five argots of sulphur and four of salt-
petre, with the certain knowledge that they are sent
on to Russia, and converted into gunpowder to be
used against us.
Within the last few days a large demand has
sprung up hem for empty sugar chests, particularly
lee those from Hammitt' and the Brazils. These
sheets are conveyed to the so-called Theerhof—a large
isolated stack of warehouses used exclusively for
warehousing tar, turpentine, oulphur, saltpetre, pile,
and other @sally inflammable articles of merehamiles
--where they are filled with sulphur. As large
quantities of Brasil and Havanna h sugars are sent
every day to Russia by the railroad, it is not irratiooal
le suspect that this sulphur, packed in old sugar oases,
is else intended for transit to Rama—probably to be
mixed up with other and similar chests of real eager,
to meek the real nature of the transaction, and satisfy
dm soy soNdsecat of the Premien offici:ils.

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The Dragon arrived here from IPiro—liound on
Saturday evening. When she left that anchorage,
the weather had beams somewhat milder, and
Admiral Baynes, with the Retribution, was still in
the inner haven, and the rations cruisers continued at
their appointed stations, maintaining the blockade in
all its rigour. TM Dragon hes been pretty moms-
tat in captures. In addition to the Lubeck mead,
already 'motioned, she had taken sod destroyed a
large number dem& coasting craft. The cargoes of
rye, &0., were, however, removed, and subeequently
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