The Express.
London, England, 1853-01-05 00:00:00

SPAIN.

We have received the Madrid 4ournals of the 30th
tilt. The Madrid Gazette contains several decrees
of appointments of public functionaries, and an-
nounces the following diplomatic changes • M. Gerar-
do de Souza, first Chef de Section at the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs, is named Minister Plenipotentiary
of Spain at Parma and Tuscany; M. Lozano, Charge
d'Affaires at the Carraccas, will replace M. de Souza.
M. Arnaud, Minister Plepipotentiary in Belgium,
proceeds in the same quality to the Hague ; M.Sondo-
val, who was at the Hague, proceeds as Minister Ple-
nipotentiary to Mexico. M. Sancho, Secretary of
Legation at Rome, proceeds to Belgium as Charge
d'Affaires; M. Vera, Secretary of Legation at Lisbon,
goes as Charge d'affaires to Camara ; and M.
Banuelos goes from the Legation of Washington to that
of Rome as secretary. The Gautte also publishes
the revenue returns for the month of December last.
There was a falling.off as compared with December
183 l of more than nine millions of reels (more than
two millions of francs).

RUSSIA.

Letters from Pawn and Warsaw, in the Frankfort
Post Gazette, state that the movement of troops to-
wards the western frontier of Russian Poland is going
on very slowly, and on some points has been sus-
pended. The provisioning of the
.magazines, how-
ever, proceeds with undiminished vigour.

TURKEY.

The Oriental Company's steam-packet Sultan,
Captain G. Brooks, arnved at Southampton yester-
day. Her dates were—Constantinople, Dec. 18 ;
Smyrna, 21st; Malta, 25th; Gibraltar, 30th. She
brought ship letter bags from the above places. The
Sultan brings 7 first-class and 4 second-class pas-
sengers.
Her Majesty's fleet was left at anchor in Gibraltar
Bay.
The cargo of the Sultan consists of 25,0001. specie";
4 tubs leeches, 23 cases gums, 11 cases scaminy, 470
packages black fruits, 100 cases sponges, 2,027- cases
raisins, 9,587 drums of figs, 21 cases fruit, 96 cases
opium, 2 cases tobacco, 104 bales yellow berries, 208
packages silk, 79 bales sheep§ wool, 920 bales goats'
wool, 10 bales skins, 55 packages sundries.
The political intelligence received from Constan-
tinople and Smyrna, by the Sultan, has already been
anticipated by telegraph via Trieste. The Journal
de Constantinople publishes a letter from Damascus
on the recent return of the expedition against the
Draws to winter quarters,'wbich confirms the state-
ments of our own correspondent, published on Mon-
day last. The same journal denies the statements of
the Austrian journals, that Vamik Pacha is blockaded
at Mosul, and Mehemet Rechid Pacha at Bagdad, by
the Arabs, but gives no positive intelligence of the
actual condition of the districts under these gover-
nors. The Impartial, of Smyrna, publishes the fol-
lowing memorandum, dated Dec. 14, 1852, notifying
the blockade of Montenegro to foreign powers:
Notwithstanding the clemency of the Sublime Porta
towards the Montenegrins located within the Ottoman
Empire, these people have never mead to abuse this
forbearance, by indicting all possible mischief on their
neighbours. Lately they have incited the inhabitants of
the environs of Hersek to revolt, and have invaded and
pillaged village after village. Moreover they have at-
tempted to kindle sedition among the inhabitants
of Pifi, who profess the most loyal sentiments
towards the government, and not being able to
compass their ends they have fallen upon them and burnt
their hoaxes. More recently, they have suddenly invaded
,he village of Labliak, near the town of Scutari, and seised
the fort. The massacres of Hersek and Pin having been
brought to the knowledge of the Sublime Porte, it has
been judged necessary to take prompt and energetic mea-
sures to prevent a repetition of such violence. It has there-
fore been resolved by the imperial government to
dispatch troops to thd scene of there disorders,

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