The Express.
London, England, 1854-01-02 00:00:00

pqp6 el the Russian fleets and smiles is within a few
Uwe' mil of Stockholm, which') is bat weakly forti-
dei. To repel a Russian fleet, the Vag of atropin
edy 10 ships of the line, 20 frigides and smaller
wok 12 war steamers, andmdffibilia boas of di*
1111119111 k navy; 2 frlgatEualler yank 6 ime
etekkist. and 138 gnu 44111Ithe
nisi= navy. The 13 • nig nubbin 114,013
ass of all arms; the Romagna, 23,484—in all
167,011. Bat of these, not men than 21.000, if
ummy, ere permanently under arms; the reminds,
midis of various kis& of militia. It may
dawn additional light on the •defensive arrange-
ments of Strolling to notice the time it would take
to concentrate its troops upon throe principal
points, with a view to resist an invader.
It would take 81 days (or 33 days by forced marches)
to concentrate the whole Swedish army at Stock-
holm ; three-fourths of it weld be drawn together in
29 days (or in 16 by toned marches). It would take
83 days (or 41 by forced marches) to concentrate it
at Christiaastadt, on the southern coast ; and 78 days
Ow 39 by forced marches) to concentrate is at
Weendrileg. within 40 miles of the coast, at Gotten-
burg. From the mountainous nature of the nanny,
man more time would be required to being the Nor-
"vim sestiesset into play. It is obvious, there-
hi% Aid retailed kingdom subject to King OSCAR
are nos ipm We than Turkey to cape single-heeded
with Ramie. And yet, unless the Baltic is to bestir
a ROSSiall lake, they must be encouraged to resist the
encroachments of the Cue, and supported in didr
resistance. This is especially the interest of Ertgisi4
bat that of our ally Frans is next. if nand
it be inferior. Though Sweden and Norway be nor-1
equal to a contest with Russia, they would yet be
invaluable allies in a straggle to preserve the liberty
of the navigation et the Baltic, both from their local
position sad the valour aid skill of their land and
ma foram An English fleet, or a combined French
and English fleet, weld not only guard them from
Russian invssios, bat strike the first blow at the insi-
dious aggressor, sad restore to Sweden the territory
of which it has bee. robbed, whose inhabitants still
retain a kindly feeling to their old fellow-citizens.
At present any naval operations in the Baltic are
impossible, but it is to be hoped that the English
Government will embrace the earliest opportnaity
afforded by the breaking up of the ice to be on their
guard in the Baltic as circumstances may require.
They can and ought to be prepared to act before
Russia. We say this, not merely with reference to
the unprepared state of the Russian Baltic fleet, but
' to the process by which the ice in that sea breaks up.
' It Ant begin to break ap and disperse in the parts
' nearest the ocean; the meeting of the waves from the
North Sea is a main agent; and hence the Western
I Baltic will be free from ice. and open to the fleets of
' England and France, while the ships of Russia still
' continue ice-bound in its Eastern recesses. At Stile,
on the west side of the island of Oothland, and at
I Capelehamn, on the east, there are harbours with
depth of water (it is understood) for ships of war s
' and a naval form, each as England and France swald
I easily fit out. would, if stationed there, command
• the Gulfs of Bothnia 'and Finland, lock up the Bus-
. sin navy as in a pond, secure the free navigation of
the Baltic, and be in readiness for any ulterior cope-
I rations that might be rendered necessary by the
aggressions of the Czaa.

LATEST FROM ABROAD,

111AlfA ikND TURICtIr.;
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NtliViAll29l AND implant easmusit.)
ONSTANTINOPLE, Di.. ll
Mil Packs ash Atha* Pacbs have catered
Waist.

Tire*lsa Psis*ONE*
the Ilan have ast iskseddialiii Sea.

D. Midi -bane item modiirarViisaa, which
data that die Grand Divamodmt three days' di:a-
brades, bad detsmathei yea osoriting
prepaddith of the 'Cleans Otollooloo ooljoit
to do amilitjoos that the Daaallas Pre.
visors 1111-411611111111161 d, and that the iadepthimse sad
integrity ef the Ottoman Empire be secured.

PIEDMONT.

TURIN, Dia. $O.

Bans disturbances have taken plats at Aosta, but
seder was promptly restored, without the employ.
men of force.

AMERICA.

gbe C...._ourt.
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WINDSOR, Dac. 31.
The dinner party yesterday iaeladed the Duke of
Oembridge, the Berl and Counter Orinville' the Marquis
Isitawsberoorn, Lady Harriet Hamilton, Lady Beath':
Lord and Lady John Rama, Lord Raglan,
mg the Elm. James Macioaeld, in waiting to the Duke of
OHHlgallA
!be beal ef the lit Life Guards attended in the Castle
111=.11=r, awl the following pieces:
OldriaL
°maw SA (Opera Casada) Duce al Sara Coteau,.
ifskit-41morealearses* Massy.
Ildsedes—ins Martyrs
per. Roam.
1i11.,".... . . .., ..... ,
ItlfteM'egelit
it; was ... tediums: in the ma-
meergaike=4.
its
Headeeoka.
ye.. „... ..
emaag
_Ohs to she pm weft distributed
is the Otani it Medea Coale Ws norang. The
Ms"
tsarina eameimbed a alien ON am lama 'withal in
Wiadme eal Man pear. At 10 o'clock the Queen
wed Prlftem, amenipseledmarif: royal children, the Duke
ef Omalidepa the .a Maroon, the Earl sad
Osandenelibmaggs, Lady sad Lady Ikatriz Basil-
len,ciall sehnied by the ekne Unread Ontlemen
la Weide& left the Cades sod peneedled a the gallery of
the Rifts SAW to witness the dlearilattlas, whin took
plan wake the eeperlatimmlnee el aim stogy of Windsor
sad Cletrer, the How. sod Bev. O. Wey, dogmatist
daphla te die Queen, mad she Winn of the poor.
The ells emensted ef Jena ef mustrempertissed le the
names imillesh red dealer &Wed emus the members
et des Cathie. Cab eitallislesi man pee pateengo ef her
/ftesay. all amnion !widths emerwary te their eontriba-
tie" with the 'Ulnae clods W the eames'e assay.
Omen awe else ikerftele. at the bean et the pew people.
Mame Albeit, with the Dalieef Ummeteldaa enerapened
iy Merl fume end aemMifinAbtreste, afterwards
ma all almatl t ab ettewisd the Hoe. Deily de
Bee see the Ise. Jean
ne DM mad Oman= fkaavilio, Lord and Lady Jolla
Iftwedle
see Lead Pasha left the Lifts to-day.
TY Q had • Amur party this day. The esapeay
issiedell the Damao el Hen, the Duke of Cabe s s.the
N=s.st Abseeeen. the Wise Harriet awl &lawn
the Ley ha Waiting to the Dubow of Kest,
the Hareem de lip" Or Jmes Clerk, and the Hoe.
Juan lileeftweeld.
The bad of tbe Seam Fusilier Ovards attended daring
itcromietliieyed the following pies:
astintlen—"Le MU" —...—...—.. ...... ..... =te
...in
?rime

1161:-.....- .allll Cleigi
0,1161.16.......
Hot Majesty had afterwards as evesiag party at which
win gassant Lady Caroline and Mies Barriagwe, Lady
Fame am" Lady Limbed' de Roe, the Bul el Mount
Chutes, Lard James Many, Coloitel the Hoa. Charles sad
Mn. 0P1L4011111161 tha Hon. C. B. sad Miss Phipps, Sir
thilt7, and Kina Comer, and Mr. J. H. Farquhar-
dßattens. SIM Twain Oturde.
The Go
aeen's prim* hand etwaled the evening party.
Mai 1 Priam Albert Ms Sessdna of skating this after-
nem. A harp al the tams of the garrisoe men
primal. and the af Me avert.
TM Qum, stssadad bide ladies in waiting, 'ad seem.
pealed by the Dale oftlandiship sad the visitors staying at
the Oldie, wintered thetteMak •
The bead et Me Baste ted IMr 011111411 played ea the Lee
1 dean the doe bar Meanly ale peelesi.

JAN. 1.

The (beta add Primo, the Pelage of Wales. thefrisee—
Royal. the Prisms ANN. the Redoes of Kent, and the
Duke of Coat ad Miss Ad yurdesee of the
this
sad the deems* adesead Alias service this
mossiest& the -geftde ddt of the Code. The Marquis
of Abereere, sal the Ladles Harriet sad Beatrix Estailtoe,
'Na mat the asevisc The Res. gad Rev. G. Wellesley
Colonel 'immesh' ham seeeeedett Lord Alfred Paget as
Egeerry is Waiting to the Qaess% sad Lista:Col. F. day-
' ewer Grows is Weida', bee waeseeded Captaia the Hoe.
Dudley de Roe is atteadeaes toe Prises Albert.

The Lord Chasmlier of Ireland bed an iaterview with
tits But of Lbwleen es &duds', at his odleiel residence
is DJeraleiretnit.
Despatches for the Governing M the West India Colonies
were sent maleeordey from the Colonial- adios.
Earl Spew is appointed Lord High Steward of
her Majesty's twatehMC la the room of the Duke of Nor.
folk, who reslgas the appointment on accoant ofiseraised
health.

TUE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 2, 1854.

journal publishes another helbotin of a trifling en-
crt which is said te base taken place on the
it near Brims, an the eve of the battle of
Akel-Teitise, and in which, asearding to this bulletin,
the ilium the part of the Moans was insignificant,
being 111111 ell to eight traNdeL The Turks, on the
seatreiry, are sod to hate lost 200 in killed and
wooed* and 99 *sense&
The Zseetids Anise, of the fist, publishes the
Miming resent of the Eupora of Romig ad-
dressed to the - Grand Doke Ooestantine Nioolaie-

•
witch :
Tit ear well-beloved sou the event Duke Coastantia•
Nissidewiteb,—After heyieg serseg4 deputy of the
eldellatell el the Mediae, sad is with Weeders
the wipes elfleor lo the oesedge.it has bee& plea.
stag os modem freasi=euredzesuradlaig ell the
bout et d that yes have thee
reeyeadoi to the =awe *mod fa you. The import-
sat week of drawing op tegetri for the service of the
Medea with whisk yea have been dreg* her be.. wow
Willa by yea with seessrliable sows, es toollied es te
by oar eirs.dle•easep, Dermal Prises Neweittlielr. Bevies
Ulm des* his shosose the directly& of the Ministry el
Lidazifiltri• WV swaged is a very short spore et
M Mot • eiosilletebie recietrioa in the elpeeossof the
illsgeelibeil of the Oemeheed Ali doss faete,bygkfig
pitmen le crer it.
petered beset, give yeti a right loses- tali=
dealer iloiloses, to Isetiosay of which we mere you
Pright Goad Cross of the Ist Class of the Order of St.
ef whisk wu hireyrith lead you the insignia,
le weer them eseseiliog to the statutes. We
teat by seathadog to act with the ears seal
yes will beim the bosh of the administration confided to
per ID ro 411.11181 dopes of perfects**, sad render yourself
wertly.sibould eiromeloosos require it, of leading our fleets
to smoke huh glory erilmilsthe seemies of the country.
NICHOLAS.
- 71`-'
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St. Petembers, Dee.
The Loyd of Yietina, of the 26th, says "A letter
hem Odeon, of the 15th, states that Sheffi Khan,
lotorly Charge d'Affaires of the Shah of Persia at
the British Court, had arrived in that town on his
way to Teheran, where be was received with great
distinction. He will probably continue his voyage
es board a Russian steamer. The Russian cplonel,
M. de Kewalewski, has left for Montenegro, having
been charged on the part of the Czar to present
Prince Gallo with some cues and other church or-
Bement'. According to letters from Semlin, of the
flith, the Danube is fall of drift ice beyond Widdin.
Loners from Gttaro state that the Turks are in-
t...sin their army sf observation on the frontiers
et
almo Montenalegrode, but the troops forming this corps are
st lRa
The note published on Friday in the Moniteur
is followed in the Patric by the remark that "in
enmeshing to negotiate on the bases laid down by.
Os kit mete of the Four Powers, the Ottoman go-
viennum4 gives proof of a spirit of concilivion and
mauls to herself more than ever the sympathies of
Merepes." This is trifling with and mvstilying the
If by " the last note of the Pour Powers"
labia
the short collective note published by the
Delete, and adopted as authentic by the lifoniteter,
then it contains no bases for negotiation. If the
identical instructions to the ambassadors are
referred to, then the document containing them
only mentions that the Porte is to treat directly
with Russia, and is not to be asked to grant anything
which it has already refused. The Powers are
already aware, whether they have received formal
notilisados of the fact or not, that Russia will not
oesatiato em the terms which they propose. As.
cardiegly the Pairs** gloomily concludes the article
feet quoted with the poor faint hope that "in pro-
moor of what is takirg place, Russia will not per-
severe in her disastrous course ; and we are mere
than ever convinced that, if the difficulty is to toms
day settled by force of arms, the war will be *sow
scribed within the limits of the country where It
'weeks out."
The Press, asks, respecting the agreement of the
Porte with the Powers, whether this accord would
have been a perfect one, unless it bad been a forced
one. It is the consequence, says the Paris journal, of
the refusal by which the two ambassadors of France
and England set aside the demand for assistance
which was made to them on the sth December, by
Reschid Puha. As the order was not immediately
given for the two squadrons to enter the Black Sea,
and to demand satisfaction at Sebastopol for the dims.
tor at Sinope, the Divan could not do anything bat
what it has done—reply by an assent to the
dons of the conference of Vienna, and thus Crii:o
the four mediating Powers the responsibility of the
osoolosiou, whatever it might be.
The &sok which is reported to receive intelli-
gence from the Ottoman Embassy, says that the ex-
pressions_emloyed in the Nonitzur speak for them-
selves. Hid the Powers been able to deduce the
slightest probability of a diplomatic arrangement of
the subject from the explanations given by Turkey,
the Monireur would not have failed to let the public
know of it, especially at this moment, just as the
year is closing, and everybody is looking with
anxious curiosity into the future. The only thing
which is implied by this little official note is, that
there is a perfect accord between the Four Powers
relative to the solution which the Eastern question
may obtain.
We road in the Union:
Either we us very much deceived, or the note published
tiillthes M"i
ad titturii "ye mt b.el subjectl gt isoffset East* trerTmigterent:
of the paths. ilk monueur certainly tells us that a per-
fect takes at Constantinople -between the aeon
sad the ; but whet it does not say, and what
the pahais very &sawu to know, is the Hass of the row
laths op* te in commas, end the conditions in yids*
en kin Mk the Porte may honourably concur for the rs.
of peace. if we compare this veiled kw
et* more clear and quasi-belkixise tons of the
we are led to interpret the news of the Mora-
Om s isas tranquillising
bumf% Yes neither compromised the diplomatiata nor us
ewe regewoho few prudence.
The lowtOglio of Malta of the 21st publishes, bat
without attaching any credit to it, a letter from Co..
stantinople of the 15th, stating that, in the night at
the 14th, a Russian *hilt'. of war having on board
materials for destroying by fire the combined fleets in
the Ikerberoa, had been perceived from the forts, and
trot spew, NA that the crew had then attempted to
throw these materials overboard, but were prevented
from doing" and made prisoners. There cannot be
any truth Is this statement, which bears indeed impro-
bability on the face of it, for none of the Constanti-
nople letters of the 15th, which have reached Paris,
mention such a circumstaaos, and the accounts of the
18th from Constantinople, which have been received
by telegraph, are equally silent as to this pretended
event.
a ;

breaks oat."

. the Czar !" They have no
to express the 'ammo con-
Ay hold the opinion exprireed
Jrie that Russia is to be beaten
,contest by a kind of de-
" ingest force." This phrase seems
oath wrong as unmeaning. It is a
Urn brain. Russia is drunk with the
oeseciousnees of brute force, which is indeed a con-
jemptible thing compared with that which can create
itilrd Ws, work oat a free constitution, and secure
esesings of constitutional government. But the
work of Russia is more elementary. Great Britain did
the fighting which secured her territorial limits and so-
oared :to national independence =ay generations since.
Russia has hers still to do, and for doing it her armies
stand her in a thousand times better stead than acres
of newspapers or thousands of parliamentary orator.
Yon with your refined ideas may say, "How much
better were it that the Czar should develop the im-
mense resources which Ramie possesses in her bound-
less and fertile fields, her forests, her mines, and her
lakes." All that is very true, but that is nothing to the
point. The Russian idea is fixed ; extension
of territory towards the Mediterranean is its ob-
ject, and nothing will prevent its realisation bet
fleets and armies. This is the simple truth, sod the
sooner the governments and people of England and
France, believe it the more straightforward, business-
like, and intelligible will the Eastern policy of the
two natives become. Depend upon it, that however
the cabinets of the two countries may find it answer
their purpose to talk of the duplicity of the Czar, he
has not misled them in this case, but they have il-
fully deceived themselves. He is, after all, a man et
simple character, easy to be understood by all who
have eyes to see. His plan was unfolded before all
Europe last spring : he has hitherto executed it with
success for no other reason than that he has executed
it with patient steadfastness and a firm resolve. It is
false that there has been perfidy on his part. He is, and
has been, neither better nor worse than the Menchi-
koff note, or the Vienna note read in the Nearelrode
sense, and the accusations of double dealing Eloootoi
against him will recoil on the heads of those who,
six months ago, hypocritically praised him for con-
cessions never made and moderation never exhibited,
and now take revenge on Lim for the failure of
their own plans. The Czar is an ambitious tyrant
and a ruthless destroyer, but he is too proud not to
be consistent even in violence and wrong.

Dm. 18.

I believe the only military movement in Finland
is, that 6,000 sailors have been sent from Petersburg
to HeWasters, to man the ships that are lying there.
Recruiting, however, is going on briskly, but not in
the usual compulsory manner of Russia, as Finland is
free from that system for a period fifty years after the
anneratios. No one can be surprised that Russia
replaces the Finnish regiments by Russian. The
former are employed in Russia—perhaps against the
Turks.

FRANCE.

PARIS, Surma EVININO.

The Parisians have gaily. endeavoured to make
the best of a very unpromising New Year's Day.
The year begins with commercial languor, finan-
cial uneasiness, dearness amounting to scarcity,
and the prospect of a general war. In all human
probability the present month will see trade dis-
tressed, the funds lower, provisions dearer, and
war declared. There is no more remarkable feature
of the present situation than the unanimity with
which the people, who any time these last six
months have been always ready to swear
that the Eastern question would certainly be settled
by diplomacy, now throw up their cards. However,
the population turned out today in winter clothing—
last winter's in more than the average number of
instances—to pay new year's visits and buy etrennes.
The difficulty of locomotion in the streets was
a type of the apprehended troubles of the coming
year. The weather was in that worst of all
states, neither frost nor thaw. The snow, which
tell copiously during the night and at intervals,
this morning, forms in the crowded streets a
damp unwholesome conglomeration of sandy mud,
while, in the open places and gardens, it does not
melt, and is not frozen. Carriages get along even
slower than pedestrians, but those who ride are at
least protected from thecatarrh-provoking influence of
a pavement which not even vulcanized caoutchouc can
defy. Still, the boulevards are crowded, but it is
remarked that bombance d bon marche is the fashion
this . year, and toys at two or three sous
are in great demand, while those that cost a
shilling are neglected. The French have within
living memory had so much better experience
of bad times, that they smell them afar off, and
practice prudential economy to an extent of which
Londoners have no idea. The booths are as nu-
merous, perhaps more so, than usual, but it is feared
that many of them will not pay their expenses.

The receptions at the Tuileries were rather
" triste," so far as may be judged from the exterior
aspect of the palace during the day. Owing, pre-
bulgy, to the disagreeable weather, there was not a
greater crowd to witness the arrivals than may be
seen any morning at an ordinary inspection of
troops. Several splendid carriages (very new by
the way) with those rich liveries and gorgeous
armorial bearings which the elite of the old
French nobility refrained from sporting in 1848,
and for a long time afterwards, were seen
driving through the snow in the Court of
the Place du Carroussel. But the nume-
rous embroidered officials, officers of the na-
tional guard, &c., &c., who usually go to court on
foot, were fain to protect their precious uniforms
from the snow by rusty cloaks and other indescrib-
able garments which did not challenge admiration
in a state procession.

The Monileur does not contain the expected list
of new princes and dukes.' In the way of New
Year's promotion there is nothing in it but the
appointment of General of Brigade Cone to the
rank of General of Division, the promotion of half a
dozen colonels to the rank of general, and a long
list of military promotions and concessions of the
medal endowed with the proceeds of the
confiscation of the Orleans property.
Unusual efforts are being made to alleviate the
distress of the poor during this inclement season.
The Prefectof Police has recommended thegrooers and
other tradesmen to discontinue their usual Christmas
boxes, and give a proportionate sum of money to the
poor. In many shops placards are exhibited, an-
nouncing that in pursuance of this intimation Christ-
mu boxes will not this year be given. The bakers
of Paris will give 400,000 lbs. of bread to the poor in
lieu of Christmas boxes. The Christmas boxes in-
tended to be suppressed are wages of corruption of
the very worst kind. According to the established
habits of Paris the family butcher bribes the domestic
servant to shut her eyes to short weight, and the
grocer pays, at the end of the year, an agent who
does her utmost to force the employer who trusts her
to consume adulterated merchandize. The interest of
the tradesmen is unfortunately so entangled with
the vicious system that the present ostensible aboli-
Ition of Christmas boxes will probably operate upon
most of them as a tax for the poor, and they will
continue to bribe the servants of their customers.

The Northern railway, at the instigation of Baron
Rothschild, will give 400,0001b5. of bread to the dif-
ferent towns through which the line runs, to be die.
tributed during the months of January, February and
March.

''''.% .4.4. ..
D. soloist anangentent of des dilimisso between '"Dreat, is ihe
_NeltCaemed Peorsta." words strong
atraTs: "A private letter from Row- tempt is *Ai
• row d the annseumes that *llltmily tif Mr. in some new"
Thant dCloglisli share giA4ru at the in pm pre.
' Coast had just arrived in that Own..eons/ration on
adr.i.hosSasill Teas himself about to Of Persia and ' to them sot so
19. rilthls godly as soon as hi. God inetrustions. phantom of tb
aso Id! expected about the 15th of Deo., should consciousness c
bass arrived. temptible thin'
The /moat de St. PeercalAtary .of. As 22ud.his a parliaments, w
segtolossito Sootaining a very bong relent from the blessings. c
• emassil Asikaaikoff of the battle ofAlealiabielte, bat work of Russia
it MINIM* t development of ths drat report of the the fighting.wl
thick IMO ices fi i that affair. It contains no new fact, ouesditsnsuon
deli- sad hi is inetely caused by a number of in- Russia has bet
6. fansidrtbb issideatt of
.that . battle. The same stand her in a