The Express.
London, England, 1853-12-24 00:00:00

INDIA AND CHINA.

THE OVERLAND MAIL.

AND NUILOPIAX TimsoiLim')

TRIESTE, Dn. 23.
The steamer Bombay arrived here this morning
at 9.43 from Alexandria, in 112 hours.
ALEXANDRIA, Dsc. lb.

The India mail proceeds this day from Alexandria
to England. The dates are, Calcutta, 20th; Madras
24th ; Shanghai, 2nd ; Amoy, sth ; Hong Kong:
11th ; Singapore, 18th ;... Penang, 20th; Galle,

27th; and Bombay, 28th Nov.
Accounts from Burmah are of a more satisfactory
character. Pegu is more tranquil ; the Dacoits are
disappearing, and famine no longer prevails.
. .

Viscount. Melville is appointed to the command of
the Sirhind division in the room of the late Gen.
Godwin.
The Peshawar force has been concentrated.
Trade in indigo Bat. Exchange at Calcutta,
2e. Id.

In Chins, the insurgents keep possession of Shang-
hai, but those at Amoy have been defeated by the
Imperialists.
The Canton market has improved. Exchange at
Canton, ss. 2d.; Shanghai, 6s. 6d.

RUSSIA AND TURKEY.

TRIESTE, THURSDAY.
The steamer from Constantinople has arrived here
with intelligence to the 12th inst.

It was generally expected that the Capitan Pacha
would be requested to resign in consequence of the
affair at Sinope. Ali Pacha aspires to his poet.
The declaration of war by Persia had not been
received when the packet left, but Achmed Khan
had broken off all relations with the Porte.

The French and English fleets are still in the
Bosphorus. The Porte has placed a very clear case
before the ambassadors and admirals of France and
England, and has asked for tho support of the fleets.
The ambassadors promised that on certain even-
tualities, inch u an attempt on the part of Russia`to
land troops upon Ottoman territory, the fleets should
enter the Black Bea.

The popular sentiment is fast turning against
England.
A Orman has been issued in favour of Serviii, in
which the privileges formerly conceded to that state
are declared and confirmed.

VIENNA, FIIIDAY.

It wu rumoured last night after the close of
business that something unfavourable to the Rus-
sians had taken place in the Crimea. At first it was
mid that an attack had been made on Sebastopol by
the fleets, and afterwards a rising in the Crimea was
spoken of. Positive information is wanting.

THE WAR.

RUSSIA AND TURKEY.

We have correspondence from Constantinople to
the Bth, and telegraphic despatches, with a summary
of intelligence, to the 12th. At the earlier of these
dates the Mogador and Retribution had not returned
from Sinope with their report, and at the later the
messenger from Vienna bearing the collective note
had not reached the Ottoman capital. We learn
generally from the telegraphic despatch that the
statements brought by the 'fair steamer of the mas-
sacre at Sinope are confirmed. The intelligence,
however, had not led to the entry of the fleets
into the Black Sea on the 9th day after it became
known at Constantinople ; and it is, therefore,
reasonable to suppose that that event would
not take place before the receipt by the
admirals of positive orders from Paris and London.
The Vienna telegraph again repeats that the com-
bined fleets are only ordered to eater the Black Sea,
subject to certain eventualities, and then on a pacific
understanding with Rassia. The meaning of this
last expression is difficult to conjecture, except upon
assumptions so dishonouring to our national character
that we refuse to adopt them.
Letters from Paris go beyond these assertions
transmitted from the Austrian capital. It is said, "The
instructions given to the admirals are to the effect
that they shall stop all Russian ships found cruising
in the Black Sea, and force them to return to Sebas-
topol, which port they bill not be allowed to leave
till the conclusion of a treaty of peace." It is of
course unnecessary to say that this rumour needs con-
firmation.

The Vienna Weekly Medical Gazette has a letter
of the sth from the Turkish camp on the Danube.
The writer says that three great columns are to
cross the river as soon as the floating ice will permit.
The greatest part of the artillery, cavalry, and bag-
gage trains is directed towards Silistria. Wounded
men are continually brought in from Rustchuck, u
the out-pickets of both armies persist in firing at each
other. Deserters of all nationalities, who oome in
great numbers tram the left bank, keep Omer Pacha
well informed of what is going on in the Wallachian
plains. The head-quarters are at Ruetchuck, but the
troops are kept in readiness for an advance. The
Balkan army has remised a further reinforcement of
15.000 men, who are principally Asiatics.
The Constantinople correspondent of the Wanderer
writes:—" Even the Greek population asserts that
there is a secret understanding between the British
and Russian Governments. Lord Stratford still
attempts to force the mediatory proposals on the
Porte, but the Turks turn from everything English
with disgust."
The Tried Zeitung says that the highest function-
aries, who speak with great bitterness of France and
England, much fear that the allied fleets are only in-
tended to act as a check on the Porte should it obtain
any signal advantage over the Russian. " The
Sultan must either continue the war with Russia or
make war on his own subjects. The fearful sacri-
fices made by great and small, rich and poor, would
be perfectly inconceivable were it not well known
that the Turks are convinced that it is a qustion of
life and death for them."

A few days ago, it was announced in several Ger-
man and in some English papers that the Russians
and Turks had come to serious blows between Kra-
jowa and Kafait, which resulted, so the story went,
in a signal victory for the Russians. No bulletins of
such an engagement have as yet been received from
Bucharest, but private letters state that a severe
engagement has taken place. The correspondent of
the Frenden Blatt writes from Bucharest, under date
of the 10th inst., that Lieutenant Fischbach had, a
few days previous, received orders from Prince Gone-
chakoff to march against the Turks stationed around
Kalafat, and force them from their position. In the
meantime General Fischbach had received strong re,
inforeements from different parts of Wallachia; and,
according to private information which reached Bu-
charest, the attack took place between Kalafat and
Krajowa. It proved unfavourable to the Russians,
who lost 2,000 killed, and left the Turks in possession
of Kalafat. Another correspondent writes from the
Turkish frontier, under date of the 11 th inst., that
severe engagements occurred near Kalafat on the
2nd and 3rd inst. (doubtless the affair spoken of
above), which proved favourable to the Turks. The
Russian loss is not mentioned.

Tll,l Bucharest correspondent of the Wanderer
furnishes a brief account of the sitting of the Admi-
nistrative Council, at which it was decided that the
Wallachian militia was to form an integral part of
the Russian army. In vain the Grand Ban and Pre-
sident reminded his colleague s that Wallachia was
not at war with the Porte ; that it formed, so to say,
a part of Turkey ; that the country had no cause to
complain of the Porte, and that a war against Tur-
key would be an act of disloyalty to the sovereign
power. The ministers, John :Kano, John °tete-
lechium, and John Bibeseo, and Demetrius Joanid,

the Director of the Home Department, voted
for the incorporation; George Philippesco, Grand
Ban, Minister of the Interior, and President
of the Council ; John Philippesco, the Finance
Minister; and Constantine Cheresco, Count Mis-
time', Grand Ban and Commander of the Militia,
against it. After the division the President bitterly
reproached his four colleagues for their want of pa-
triotism, and accused Demetrius Joanid of having
always furthered foreign interests. When Prince
Gortschakoff heard of what had occurred, ho de-
clared that if it were not for the great age of the
President (he is eighty) he would have sent him, not
to Kischeneff, in Bessarabia, but to Siberia. The
consequence of the weakness of the four Boyards is,
that the three infantry regiments are to be raised
from 2,000 to 4,000 men eimh, and the six squadrons
of cavalry from 2,000 to 4,000 men. When the
regiments which had been quartered at Bucharest
marched to Braila, a great crowd of afflicted people
accompanied it to a place at some distance called
Dudesti.

LPtters from Constantinople fully confirm the
fact of a breach between the Courts of Turkey and
Persia, and we have also positive information of the
departure of our Charge d'Affaires from the Court of
Shah. It is stated that the Russians have promised
Persia support, to raise the Affghans against British
rule. In consideration of this active alliance, the
debt of 50 millions due from Persia to the Russian
government will no longer be clamed.
Recruits from Asia continue to arrive at Constan-
tinople is undiminished numbers, to the great
astonishment of the Europeans in that city. The
men are all volunteers.

The following address was lately presented to the
Sultan by the Greek Patriarch and the Metropoli-
tans of the Greek community of Constantinople.
His Majesty the Sultan, our august master and bene-
factor, has just declared, by an Imperial finnan, that it is
his intention to proceed to Adrianople next spring. We,
his servant, end the Metropolitans, members of the Synod,
prostrate ourselves before the throne of the Almighty,
making ardent vows day and night; and inconformity
with our duties of fidelity, we pray God to mercifully ap-
preciate the courageous intentions, the laudable will, and
the good dispositions which his Imperial Majesty, our legi•
tiruate Sovereign, shows for the integrity of the glory and
honour of his great empire, as also for the welfare and
tranquillity of the trustful subjects who are under his bene-
ficent protection.
As the absence of our august master and benefactor from
the capital of his empire will cause the greatest grief to the
inhabitants of Constantinople, and especially to his ser-
vants, we humbly pray his Imperial Majesty to accord us,
as a mark of special grace, the permission to follow him
wherever he Ray go.
Tu solicit this grace of his Imperial Majesty, we have
taken the liberty of presenting this humble addreu to his
Majesty.