The Express.
London, England, 1855-02-07 00:00:00

THE WAR.

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would reline to moo I- and, is addition
this, I ham ao doubt that a sort of ambush
fag is growls( op batons the allied powers,
armor
some seerlike mast be =eh to Austria in retura or
bee smistanse, and that this will be the expeleleof
keeseeshe from the Turkish territory. It sayilg
this, I ees sot expressiag simply my private opiate,
bat thee enemy more smapsurnt to Judo than re-
ael4 and it is peppering by various little dress-
dames, trifling in timmelves, but eadleiently
poetant when taken is enaction' one with the Mb,.
Great and Leahy experesed discontent
sesoixthe Poles and Wellaohians, that irgraal;
spend her money :awaiting a corps of mere-
nadas in her midst—when nothing but money
ma permission is wanted to create a risieg
as maim in Poland and Wallachia spirit
the common enemy. The allies are evidenty
making desperate efforts to avoid a war of nada-
elides, but depend upon it, with all the force at thir
command, they will never make a deep and lsstisg
impression oa Russia, if they do not strike at hrc
through the populations she has wronged and ott-
raged for generations, and if they do not oat
openly and heartily on their side the unconquer-
able hatred of millions. They will be forced inb
this before the war is over, but then it will come wifa
• bad grace. I will refer to this more at lough
when I have more time, and, at the same time, sub
mit one or two facts bearing' upon it.

Advice' from the Cams via Constandesple Neil,
Marseilles seafirm the Hessian despatch publisher
yesterday, sad show that our gone are still silent 1
before Sebastopol. From the fact that Sir Ciente.
Brown had lett Malta for the camp, it was inferred'
that active measures were in prospect. The Third
French Division had taken its plain in the Emilia
treadles. A Sardinian general arrived at Consiesti-
nople on the 28th, to prepare for the seeeptist of the
Piedminiteee army, which will be ready to embark
by the time that the English transports in which the
troops are to be conveyed shall have arrived.
The Corriere Dalian° of Vienna of the lit sari
We ar assured that Holland has concluded as
offensive and defensive alliance with England sell
France." We do not find anything to confirm
this in the journals of the Netherlands, nor in the
previously known relations of the Cabinet of the
Hague with the governments of France and England.
The Queen of Holland is a grand-daughter of a
fume and niece of the reigning Czar. One of has
brothers is also married to the Orand Duchess Olge,
mond daughter of the Csar.
The deobtful tone in which the ezpeeted poem
eedimieses at Vienna, and their peseemei bases, bete
wields this. few days been mentioned, both in the
Motaserand in the despatch of M. Drouyn de Lhays
has excited considerable attention; the more so se
advice@ from Vienna are not of a character to sustain
the hopes formerly built on the Czar's acceptances of
the four points. The third guarantee, it will be
mmembered, has never yet been defined, but was
avowedly left to abide the events of the war. The die-
deserts made in England darieg the ministerial in.
hemp= have led many attentive observers alma
M believe that the vagueness of the third guarantee
was a consequence of divergent opinions existing
along the members of the English Cabinet
as to the objects of the war. This view
lads expression in foreign journale, which, moreover.
notice, as tending to confirm it, that whereas Prime
Oortchakoff's acceptance of the four points was
notified on the 7th ult., Lord John Russell announesi
in the Hones of Commons sixteen days afterward'
that Lord Westmoreland had not received full powas
to treat with the Russian envoy.
The immense Austrian military preparations on
the Russian frontier abate still further from the con-
fidence recently felt in the prospect of negotiations.
We may notice here that the telegraphic report that
the Turkish minister at Vienna had received his full
powers is untrue. He has received provisional in-
structions, but not the powers in question. _ _

I think it my duty to—inform you that by the
accounts received here from Sebastopol, the latest
yesterday, affairs are in a horrible state in the Epp-
lish camp; of all the comforts and supplies you t. 2
England are sending eat, nothing reaches the
soldier,. The authorities refuse to unload the
transports at Balaklava, and the captains, actin
for the maturity of their ships, fling everything out
on the beach, where they lie and rot. A cargo o!
houses hes actually gone back to Constantinople.
8,000 great coats, lined with far, are lying at Bala-
klava, and the officials will not send them up to the
camp, though the men are dying like 000kroachet.
Everything is in the most horrible and disgracefil
confusion. The English name is becoming sullid
in the eyes of foreigners, and English lives are btitg
lost by hundreds through the laziness, iocomp•
teecy, and obstinacy of the officials. Stop sending
out contributions; they never get further that
Balaklava, and are lost there. It is easier to sends
thing to Australia than get it feom Balaklava o
the camp.

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,ASSINATIONS IN CONSTANTINOPLE

The following letter, though we (Daily News) hate
reason to believe its details to be perfectly true, niats
like a leaf taken from the "Arabian Nights : "

Letters from Vienna of the 30th state that the
whole of the Austrian army has received orders to be
prepared to march. A German journal of great credit
says :—"Austria's first corps d'arra e consists of 67,600
men and 144 guns; her second of 121,000 men and
186 guns ; her third of 286,000 men and 252
guns; her fourth of 119,400 men and 104 guns : in
a 11694,000 men and 686 gum. Her reserve in two
months could be raised to 200,000 men, by compris-
ing the frontier regiments." The object of General
Count Crenneville's mission to Paris has been repre-
sented as including the discussion of a plan of
sending an Austrian army to the Crimea. It is
scarcely necessary to point to the geographical rela-
tion of the Austrian capital and Warsaw as a sum-
mary refutation of this Wes.

CONSTANTINOPCB, ha. 20.
Many of your readers will doubtless remember
that this capital has for some length of time been the
scene of many mysteriously perpetrated robberies of
houses, and the equally mysterious and sudden dis-
appearance of many an English private or A.B.
This killing' work reached its climax about May and
June last, at the time when so many troops were
quartered in and about this city. Some people re-
garded these acts of bloodshed u nothing more than
the result dense midnight brawl, others considered
them the works of Moslem fanaticism. But the feet
was n satisfactorily accounted for, nor did the
many investigations of the police ever succeed in
obtaining any clue as to the perpetrators until very
lately, when the mystery was cleared up. And it is
a blessing that the villains have been at lust
secured, as the cases of murders were again
becoming very frequent. On the 2nd January a
gipsy came to the chief Castes, or superintendent of
police, and offered to disclose the haunt of a gang of
murderers on payment of a reward of 1,000 piastres.
Though immediately secured, he refused to divulge a
single fact without the promise of the above sum.
The threat of immediate execution was next tried
on him, when the gipsy, in order to save himself,
declared the whole as a got-up story. Hereupon he
was sent in charge of &Cavan to the prison, but
neither vans nor handcuffs are in fashion here, and
the gipsy managed to make his escape again. Next
morning he was found dead in the open street, with
fear deep gashes in his breast. It is supposed that
the gang got wind of the gipsy's intentions to
betray them, and accordingly quietly despatched
him, to render him harmless for the future.
In the evening of the 3rd, as some Canines wens
making their rounds in one of the streets of Galata,
they observed two men carrying a large bag between
them, apparently with much diSculty. The polio-
man suspected them by their manner to have com-
mitted some theft, and accordingly, to escape obser-
vation, got into the shade of a dead wall to allow the
others to approach. But this plan failed, for the
moon that moment re-appearing from behind a cloud,
threw her light full on the dead wall, whereupon
the two men let fall their bag, and took to their
heels. The bag was found to contain the body of an
English soldier, with a bullet through his head.
On the night of the Bth three French soldiers,
walking through one of the streets at Pere, suddenly
came upon two Oriels carrying the body of an
English sailor. Suspecting the commission of a fool
deed, the Frenchmen noshing their rifles which kweg
at their sides, and gave chase to the Greeks, Ai
instantly dropped their burden, and ran off. The chime
continued, up one lane and down another, for elms
time, when the pursued suddenly halted, and gave a
loud shrill whistle. Suddenly the previously empty
lane was crowded with dark figures, who rushed es
the unfortunate Frenchmen who had thaw=
endeavoured to avenge the death of the
sailor. They fired and made a gallant stand for sow
time, until the overwhelming numbers bore then
down, stabbing and clubbing them without merely.
Soon after, some camases poising by, the ruffians
disappeared again as quickly us they had come to
the rune of their fellow murderer, but not without
leaving two of the Frenchmen dead. The third lived
just long enough to make his statement to the pollee,
who instantly searched all the neighbouring beam,
courts, and alleys, but without finding anything wee
picions whatever.
A former member of the Baden Volunteer Cwm
who has been obtaining a scanty livelihood here by
executing all sorts of commissions, whereby he not
Infrequently came in eoetact with some of the scram
of all nations, volunteered to find the haunt of this
mysterious gang, and as he could be generally de-
peeled upon, his tender was accepted and a dagger
sad a revolver given him for protection. On the
morning of the 9th he was found dead outside of
Pers. A Canis who bad also volunteered to solve
the mystery, likewise fell a victim, and was picked
up one morning covered with dagger wounds and
perfectly dead.
On the 11th, however, the mystery wee
solved. It happened as follows :—A Pole of the
name of Gleba= and an Italian, Pisani by name,
happened to occupy the same room. The Italian led
a very free and easy life, was seldom at home, and
doss not appear to have been a novice in gambling
either. After having been out all night, Pisani
entered their common dwelling on the morning of
the 10th, with dejected look, which caused
his friend the Pole to demand of him
what ill lack be had had. Pisani answered,
tbs_t be had lost all his cash that night at play, and
W eves to leave his gold watch as security for a
berrowed sum, adding, " I shall go and redeem my
watch directly or the rascally host will change h—
and I would not lose that watch for the world.
Hang these =melees streets and numberless how!!
I should despair of ever finding the cabaret again
but for a clever trick of mine: as I left the house I cut
a large muse an the hoses door with my knife—that
is my only guide, but it is a mark which the old
rogue cannot easily efface." He took all his money
and every valuable trinket he possessed, and departed
determined to lose all or win his money back. Gle-
ba= had a presentiment that something woad go
wrong, and determined to go in search of his friend
if he did not make his appearance by next morn-
ing. Morning came, but no Pisani; and Gle-
ba= therefore set out to carry his resolution
into effect. He had wandered about fruitlessly for
about an hour, when he entered a small cabaret
to refresh himself with a glass of rum. He me
the hat a piastre, and demanded his change in
In one of these pares he had only the day
Coate scratched his name with a nail, and reoog-
nised it as belonging to Pisani, who must have
yea away that para. He therefore entered
d
tto conversation with the gin-shopkeeper.
his whether as IteXia bad been here lately, and

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'MB EXPRESS, WRDNESDAir EVENING, FEBRUARY 7, 1855.

labetber he had played at his house. The man
seeded the question, and his manner appeared alto-
gether so odd that alums quietly took his de-
-1:71.in order to have a look at the street
Sure enough, there wu the cross hur-
riedly scratched on the outside. Turning into
the next dread:* met a file of policemen attending
oa some arabas, which metalled the bodies of thole
who had fallen victims in the past night. There
were 14 corpses; of these, 7 were English, 4 French:
Pisani lay lifeless there too. No doubt could now
exist as to who the perpetrators of all these crimes
werejand where their den was ; and on that time
day the whole premises were surrounded by mili-
tary, who effected the capture of 15 men and 8 wo-
men, all of whom will no doubt meet with the
punishment they so richly deserve.