The Express.
London, England, 1856-09-03 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 3, 1856.

THE CORONATION OF THE
EMPEROR OF RUSSIA.

some monis( by the rappel, and pat through all
the evolutions of a sham fight, without any previous
notice or promotion. This, while it will test the
dicier», and reed sees et the troop, will b 3 a splen-
did spectacle for all who may be so fortunate as to be
on the qvi not.
From the Champ de Man to the field on
which the great " lihrt..in" of the people is to be held
is but a step, and threi miles of tables are already
to be seen, flanked by the fountains from 'which
wine and "quern" and " vodka " are to flow during
the festival. I vonland to express my fears that
such an unlimited supply of strong drinks might
create riot and d'sceier, but wee comforted with a
hint that care would be taken in the preparation of
the tempting fluids to prevent much disturbance of
=IA equilibrium Still lam afraid that if Mr.
Henry suddenly appared here from Bow-street on
the following morning he would find ample employ-
ment in inflicting the five shilling penalty.
Another feature of the programme, for which •
grand suet,. is expected, is the Spectacle gala" at
the theatre —a new oce,and I believe ems of the largest
in the word. Its predecessor was burned down some
three yaw since, and the present, which is quite
finished, hes 13 •en only eighteen months in course of
erection. I should stroogly_advise Mr. Gye to get a
drawing of it before he rebuilds Covent Garden, as it
is decidedly the handsomest and best proportioned I
have ever seen. Althouet of twenty.flve feet more
diameter than the Ban Carlos, it appears to be of
moderate extent; and the decorations, while costly,
are of the best taste and design. The architect, the
Chevalier Albert Coves, is a Venetian, long in the
service of the Czar as chief theatrics! architect; and
to a compatriot, Signor Dori, the preparation of the
scenery is entrusted. He bu completed a beauti-
ful dm acne, delineating an episode in Russian
history, in which a peasant and • soldier roused
the people of Moscow to a successful resistance
to the then all-powerful Poles. It ie a fine work,
and will no doubt look splendid when properly
placed in a well•lighted theatre. The artiste., 600 in
number, arrived last night by special train, and were
reduced to great strain for sleeping accommodation.
The petit Lablache was, I am informed, so fortunate
as to secure three camp stool' and a sofa cushion,
with which be extemporised a luxurious couch. As
a matter of course they will all settle down soon Into
comfortable quarters; but a sodden irruption of 600
tired choristers and corypeas was enough to put any
hotel-keeper to his wit's end.

(FROM OUR SPECIAL

MOSCOW. Aaaos2 28.

As the day of hie Imperial &Weety's public entry
more nearly approaches, the appearance of this extra-
ordinary city becomes more and mere gay, more and
more peculiar, more and mote unlike at once what I
had hitherto men in other great continental cities, and
what I had anticipated would be its own appearener.
I had looked forward to some huge relic of former
and more barbarous times, with tumble-doors half
Asiatic-looking homes, and half-Asistio populations—
in short, to a city from which the glory had departed,
and which waited only the slow but certain touch of
time to become for the curious traveller another
Tadmor or Palmyra. What then must have been my
surprise to find myself anal 01109 est down in a capital
gay as Paris, populous uLanden, end having features
of its own which give It great and peculiar interest.
Whatever I may have thought or said in farm of St.
Petersburg as the scene of the coronation, a eight of
Moscow has completely changed my opinion. The
city of Peter the Great is, in truth, on the grandest
scale; but it is all grand, and there is nothing upon
which to rest the eye as it ranges from one colossal
palace to another. One feels in passing slug its
interminable streets, or crossing its praitiolike
square., something like what must have been Galli-
Ter's sensations in the capital of Brobdiguag, namely,
a mortiiyieg conviction of one's own littleness, and
of the immense want of proportion between
the huge architectural shell and its insig-
nificant human kernel. Yon think of the hall
of Eblia u you pze on the solemn grandeur of
the hack church, end long to come to the humb:e
habitations of common men. But in Moscow, with
its glorious undulating site, its long irregular streets
of handsome villas, interspersed with greenery, its
handsome magosina, and its constant rattle of equi-
pages, you feel as if surrounded by human interest,
and cease to wonder why neither despotic power, nor
long neglect, nor systematic preference for a rival can
wean the true Russian from his love for the ancient
cradle of his race. And now it looks brighter and
gayer than ever. Paint, and lime, and varnish, have
done wonders, making evea the old Chimes@ town
look sprightly and modern ; while the gilder has
given to the thousand domes, minarets, and spires of
Moscow a splendour and retolgenoe which can only
be appreciated by being seen.
Stand on the esplanade of the Kremlin, and
having first curiously examined its battlernented
walls, its aseisat treasury, its grotesque church—
the Assumptioc—so soon to be the Kane of a
solemn rite, its gay modern palace, and its thou-
sand and one quaint details; watch for a moment
the people, high and low, military and civil,
as they reverentially doff their hats while passing
seder the sacred gate; and then turn suddenly
towards the vast city that spreads itself out beneath
your feet, count its innumerable church spires of de-
lkate green, bright golden, or royal rt d—look down
its long streets, alive with human ants—learn to
distinguish its fortresolike convents, its regal pa-
laces, its great publie lasting% and you mast in-
deed admit that you are gazing on a panorama to
which the civilised world can age bet few parallels.
We can tell that the Boyar& are pouring into town
by the number of extraordinary looking old equipages
that throng the streets in every direction. I saw one
today that would @stockish Long-acre, draws by a
traia of four wild-looking Cossack hotels, and laden
with a large consigunceet of the loyal noblesse of
rural Russia. Even the mujiks stopped to look at
it, and the who', of the handsome modern landau.
as they dew pest, passed jokes which must have
been pungent from the irritation they created in the
rustle Juin. Bat not only the Boyar& come to pay
their respects to their Czar. The struts are literally
crowded with wild Comities, handsome Georgians,
pale Cireassians, &roe Kirgkisiatm, foppish Persians
—al come to see the sight and pay the regulated
homage to their sovereign lord. One is n tired
looking and asking questions, but that the answers
are always satisfactory would be, perhaps, a rash
assertion.

Sir Robert and Lady Emily Peel, Lord Ward, and
a large party, are all off to bliehni Novgorod, to the
great fair, where I fear their accommodation will not
be much better than that which en the night of their
snivel here ao much startled the Italian invaders.

The Emperor has not as yet arrived at his
little roadside pekes of Petrovski, bat he is mo.
mestarily expected, and everything is ready for
his reception. Clore to the palace is a triumphal
arch, from whence the procession is to start, and
from that to the Kremlin is a distance of five
vents, a tolerably long rout, for a great and solemn
proosseion. The road on both sides is thickly
studded with galleries, exceedingly well constructed
for mist', in which the prices vary from ten to
fifty roubles. Bat the fact is that, by a curious
monetary revolution, the rouble has completely taken
the pleas of the kopeck in the estimation of every
one that hes anything to sell, and will woo, I fear,
be seen only in the cabinets of the curious, if swat.
lowed up at the rate at which it has disappeared
during the last few days. If you want a mujik to go
a menage into the next street be demands two roubles
for the job, and live for deceliki fare, es he weld not
possibly think of walking in weather such ea we are
now blamed with, and the same system pervades
everything with which the visitors have anything
to de.

Lord Granville Is comfortably located in his seen.
did palace, formerly the residence of Prince 011Z111410,
and the street in which It is situated is a scene of
constant bustle. There is a splendid suits of rooms,
elegantly famished, aid capable of accommodating,',
according to the London systems of cramming, two
thousand Tenons; but the Russians must have room
or their Mszonrluv, their Cracoviennes, and teas sit.
down suppers, and therefore it is probable that the
invitations will not exceed six hundred. I believe
his lordship's object will be to please by the good
taste and quality of his entertaimments, rather than
to vie with the Russian motility in that latish'
expenditure which to them would be no novelty.
Whatever is dome at the embassy will, I sot'
sure, be well done, and will fully sustain the
reputation which his lordship has already acquired
in this violent capital. Both he and his snits
its everywhere treated with the greatest
attention and respect, and are unaoimous in their
tentimoey to the kitdliness and hospitality of their
reception.

Yesterday owning his lordship rods over to the
amp, sad was fortunate is witnessing a greed
parade, for which the whole of the Gaud% about
60,000, were termed out. They ere all ass tall mea,
sad go through their evolutions with great °Mahal
mid precision. They march well, bat the kagth of
the step takes from their tread that peealier
weight of sound, so to speak, with whisk oar owe
Chtarde have rude every Eagliihmaa's ear familiar.
The ellen, were nest polite and attentive to
all the spectators, sad frequently asked them what
they thoollt of the troops. Just praise was of coarse
gives, but some learned civilises grew quite critical
is their ermuasets on the Remise mimeo as compered
with the &ilia line. The MSOCIMITTiOrs which
lasted a ample of hours, coedited chirdy of rapidly
moving these great column from it. part of the kid
to seothar,with ea ocomiesal folded, as they Game
late position. Oae of ate officers told me that when
the Emperor arrived, the whole army, upwards of
100,000 sees, would most probably be startled

SPAIN.

MADRID. Bm. I.

The Ganstie contradicts the news that the Eynon
had been seized, and the editor fined, for an article
in defence of Naresex.

M. Zambrano is •ppinted Spanish minister at
Costa-Rica. M. Goal at Chi'', and M. Rome& at the
Equator.

A Madrid letter of August 27, in the Ind 4penclanee
of Brawl', says:

I have hitherto abstained from epeekieg of a very grave
matter, as to which I am enabled to give you details hitherto
unpublished. If I had sent you this news before, the Mode-
redo j le, with their wonted insolent*, 'mull have
cried out "calumny." Now, they cannot. Before the re-
ipilution of 1854, and under the moderate" government,
General Ortega, an intimate friend of Mutes, was captain-
gene ral of the Canary Islands. One of the richest proprietors
of the colony died, leaving swift, the sole heir to ►is laments
(octane. Oen. o:tags, io confederacy with two superior ofil-
ens, at up some false heirs, with whom he shared a great part
of the deceased's praperty. The liodersdo government
would have winked at this iniquity, for it was iuelf gutltj
of the most shameful soalvereations. Happily the Tavola-
Con of July broke oat, and Espertero's government lent •
willicg ear to the complaint of the rightful heirs.,. An
inquiry was ordered, and the court martial has only within
the last few days brought its investigation to a close. I
am wend that the auditor at war demands a sentence of
twenty years' imprisonment in irons egainst Ortega. It is
even said this we), dsy that the government is disposed to
eel' the French government for the extradition of Ortega
and his ecoomplicee. Manila Concha has taken immense
trouble to hush up the affair, but all his effoity have been
ineffectual. He went penonelly to the auditor at war, end
said to him, " It is impossible that a Spanish general CM be
guilty of so serious a charge." The auditor only replied by
showing him the papers, end the marshal was forced to
admit that the accusation was well founded. Marshy' Ser.
num also lock steps to procure en aquittal, but desisted
when he saw the evidence.

The Madrid Gazette of the 291 alt. publishes a
letter from a number of grandees of Bpsin to the
Minister of the Interior, announcing that to relieve
the distress caused by the dearness of food, they have
,ordered all the corn belonging to them, end all that,
which they may receive in payment of rent, to be
sold; also that they have recommended the landed,
aristocracy generally to follow their example. This
letter is accompanied by one from the minister,
thanking the grandees in the name of the Queen.
The sale of the national and ecclesiastical property in
the Beetles provinces wes going on well.
The Epoea says that the government does not
mean to nominate a new minister to Mexico until the
differences with that country shell be settled; and
that it had some idea of dismissing the ministers at
Berlin and Washington.

(MOM A SPICUL

The Moderados are in consternation. You know
that for some days past the journals of the Nereus
party had carried on a brisk controversy with
the Bpoca, and they told O'Donnell plainly that
he meet give way to the natural leader
of the Moderadoa—namely, to Narvaer The
Epoea, for lack of arguments, had made no reply to
their last article; but O'Donnell has brought doers I,
upon them the intervention of a Deus ex machine;
be bas caused to be published the sixth sheet of the
parliamentary report upon the accusations against
Queen Christine. This argument ad hominem is
a terrible vengeance for the attacks which'
have been made upon him, and will be'
an abiding menace for the future. "I have die.
Greatly maintained some reserve upon the subject,"
O'Donnell now seems to say to his imprudent'
enemies, " but see what eve the weapons which
I shall nee against you in future, if your attacks
upon me should oblige me to resort to them.' The
blow has told upoa the Palaces, who know not how
to retreat the unlucky step to which they have
committed themselves. This name of Moderados, with
which the party has invested itself, ie an appellation
calculated to mislead the public opinion of Europe.
Oire would supper*, from the signification of
the word, that these people preached and
practised moderation in the government. I
will send you, before long, a brief sketch of the
history of the lest twenty years, and your readers
will thence learn what to think of these pretended
Moderate* in Spain.
At Barcelona, some bakers have been fined who had
raised the price of bread, without an authorisation
from the municipality. A band° has been published
by the municipal authorities, which reminds one of the
time when a minimum was fixed in France. The
want of commercial confidence which generally
prevails has been aggravated by the discovery of a
manufacture of base coin which was carried on in
Catalonia, and also of a system of forgery which
existed in Andeleeie. The discontent of the
masses is extreme, and every morning sine
the 23rd of August the police have been
employed in tearing down revolutionary placards
which are posted up regularly every night on the
walls at Barcelona. With all their vigilance, the
police agents have not yet been able to discover the
authors of these placards, nor to seize the persons
who stick them up.
At Mahon, there was an earthquake at nine o'clock
in the evening of the 24th. The sea rose very high,
several vessels in the harbour lost their moariogs
and sustained much damage.
One of the Peres ~etynatins, who were exiled by
the government, has disappeared from the town in
France where he was staying, and is supposed
to be hiding in B' ay. To his presence the
redoubled audacity of the Culiste, and the
more decided opposition made to the sale
of the estates in mortmain, are attributed. The
elerical party is everywhere lifting up its head, and
at Seville the monastic house of St. Philip Ned has
just been re-established.

ITALY.

PIEDMONT.

The archbishops, bishops, end vicars-general of
the ecclesiastical provinces of Turin, Genoa, Vercelli,
and the Island of Sardinia, have addressed a collec-
tive protest, dated the 26:h ult., to the Piedmontese
government, in which they declare their adherence
to the protest of the bishops of Savoy, published in
June last, against the measnris taken by the Minister
of the loterior to enforce the new laws relating to
lecalesiastical matters.

Among the subscribers to the hundred guns for
Alessaadria are a gentleman and lady, named Bra-
mante, of Robbie, with their seventeen children—
viz., eight boys and nine girls!

TUSCANY.

The Monitore Toscano, the official organ of the
Tuscan government, states that on the night of the
24th some young men at Leghorn having caused
great scandal by singing obscene songs, the gendarmes
attempted to disperse them and the mob which had
assembled to heat them, but, being repulsed, were
obliged to retire ; they soon returned with a rein-
forcement of troops of the line, when order was
speedily restored, and most of the rioters were ar-
rested. From the tone of the article it is not un-
reasonable to suppose that the affair was much more
serious than is represented.

(TROY OUR OWN

CIENOt., Acorn 30.

Mezzini has published in the journal e
Pepolo an address to all Italian military men. He
reproaches them for submitting to the all-dminent