The Express.
London, England, 1856-04-21 00:00:00

Tile Latie, sad Gentlemen cf the Court aid the Mimetic
Boss old oleo sveoded the service
.

ses;Rny.l ..d th.Pdsoer Alice visited the
Deedless of Kest yesterday.

A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday after-
noon at the Foreign.offioe, Downing-street. The
Ministers present were Viscount Palmerston, the Lord
Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Earl of Harrowby,
Sir George Grey, Mr. Secretary Labouchers, Lord
Penman?, the Chancellor of the Exchequer. the
Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith, Sir Charles Wood,
Lord Stanley of Alderley, the Right Hoo. M. T.
Baines, the Marquis of Lansdowne, and the Duke
of Argyll. The Council sat two hours and a half.

TbeCoultthe a Edae.tioa of the Leas of her Majesty's
Most Hooriamble /envy Conseil had a meeting ou &tar-
dily at the Privy Council °Mee. Protest: The Lord Pre-
aideat, the Data W Argyll, the Marquis ol Lawdowas, the
Hid of Harmony. the Chaise,lkor of the Borings's, tkr
Charge Orsy, sod the Right Hoe. M. T. Hama.
Dwpatehm for the Governors of Ontranor. Mai* Ceylon
and Hoag Hoag, were seat oa Saturday 1t... the Caloaisl
°Moe.

Our Malta correspondent writes, under date of
Weduesitsy late:—" The Narvik Delhousle st ll continues
here in meet the asses state, his health t alsrably good, but
Me leg continuing so at slowly bad se to pravest Ws moving
without assistance. It is Intended that be leaves Imo about
the 18th in her Maj.sty's ship Tribune, for Ragland direct.
Part of hie suite wall hats ti go is some other way, the
Tribes. sot having aceoamodatios for all."
His Excellency the Earl of Clarendon is expected
to arrive is tcwo, from P.ris, this evening.
The Marchioness of Breadalbane intends to give
a party on Thuradsy, the 29th of May, is honour of her
Mejeety's birtliday.

The Earl of Eglinton entertained at dinner, on
Saturday evening, at his mansion is St. Juan's-square,
/Jimmie'. and Viamsantms Ingestre, Viscount and Viscoun-
ts si Denton, Lard Vint, Lord and Lady Douglas, Sir
'Cato sad Lily Farquhar, Sir Archibald Campbell, Sir
Willoughby Cotton, Mr. and Mrs. Horsley Palmer, Mr.
and Mrs. Palk, Mr. William Stewart, Mr. R. Talbot, and
the Mires Cockerel'.

Lady Lyadhant will give a ball on the sth of
Mar.

Lady Sondes has fixed her first ball for the 6th
of May.

Sir John and Ludy Thor*ld have been receiving a
select circle of fries& at Byetoo-park ; amongst °them, the
Marquis of Toeeddele and Lady Jame Hay, the Host. Jame
llsodosteld, Mr. sod Mr.. Lumley, the Ludy Adelisa Nor-
man, Mr. sad Mr•. Br matey, the Marquis of Granby, Lord
Forester, Mr. T. B. litldyarJ, Mr. Bulk. Staahipe, de
Her ladyelpp, we ore happy to learn, is intim:miss rap:dly
in health.

The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone and Mn. Glad-
stone entartalsed at dinner on Satsrday evening, at the.r
mansion so Carlton hums-terns*, the Dichosa of Sather.
Ind, the Earl and Countess of Ellrwin and Lady Banns
Horton, Levi and Lail °retro,' and the His. Miss
lons Loyd. Lord Lyttslion, the Right Sol. SU Charies
Wood, M.P., sod Laip Mary Wood, the Bishop of Oxford,
Mr. Herourt, Mr sad Mn. Edward Elior, iket. Mrs.
Gladstone neelved a few friends in the evening.
The Right Hon. Sir Benjamin Hall, M.P., has
given &suers daring the past week at kis redden*, is
Great Stanhope-ttreet. TO* f Homing, among others, have
been gee to of the right hon. baronet:—His Eseelleney the
' Netherlands Minister, his Eseelleney the Simon Monist/sr,
the E►rlof Zetland, Lord Falkland. Viscount Mosek, lord
Linsley, Sir H. R. Ferguson Devi*, Sir John Slicilky, Sir
B•ldw!a Wrlker, Sir Charles Bury, Sir Charles B • lake,
Mr. Campbell, °Metal Bahian. sad Mr. A. Berrisgtee.
Oa Wodbooday Me insets the Bishop of Oxford,
this Soaker, Lord 11...1scrt Grosvenor, Sir Bdeased koes,
Lord Adolphe. Fitsclarenee, Lord Wodebone, Col. the
Hon. C. B Phipps, Baron Merocketti, Sir Edward Cast,
Mr. Speiser Walpole, Sir Elward Lynx Balwer, Mr.
Austin, and Mr. A. Berrlogton.

The Hon. Mr. sad Mn. Smyth Vereker reeeived
at Caner, sa Saturday, at task resideses fa Chastises-
place, his 'hollowly tbe Netturrlaude !Calmar, the Bari
sad Coast's+ of Learshorosgh, the Berl of Mayo, Lcrd sad
Lady Doers' a sad Min Fleming, Sir James Mithesoa,M.P.,
sad Lady &fathoms. Sir Hoary Cottsrell, Bert., 81t
Charles sad Lady C 4 cilia Des Veal, Mr. sad Ms..
Verelmlo, Mr. sad Mrs. Talbot Clifton, sad Mr. mad Miss
Viseast.

W. (Horsld) an 'Gabled to eats that Vissount
Pshaustoa sad led Persona an to have the 1 meat
Germ.

Lord Sydney is to mooed Locd Cowper as Lord
Urstroaat of Lost.

lArd Broegbaa arrived la Park free Ceases on
&away wily, sad woe to leave thle nomad for Leadoe.
The Prime lad Prisons de Joiaville, the Coast de
Ntailly, sad the Duke sad Molar d'Aeteale, sabred at
the 1111lsad Hotel, Derby, at Thursday digit, Irma loa-
ded. Oa Friday metals( their royal higheatate took dab
departure at reek fee Chatewerta,

The lets visit d tbo Coast do Chambord to Qom
Marie Alas& h diserlbed r Italia' bees a " as
aslant ken • " " vidt. The pleolpeteedariee
*Urged to mute belershead the eesditleas of the set of
laths. had to ...eider the titles to be used. The
Priors of Odessa Gould sot give the Coast the Mk et
kleg, heamme m he le set actually as tie throne they would
thee have lassoed es past, aid east a slur apes the reign
of their father. Catergatatly it was Betided that It should
set be tesekisted • *ldeal males at all, bat a reuses
faisili. The Oust d. Obsabsed was Mesela.
sent; the Gams spoke to her " nephew." sod the rises to
II "asst."

Tbs sossiaatioa of iL d. Panetta at the Prima
seeitaly was nada hums te the Belem by the Boras d.
Brats Nis Majesty roseivel ths bum with issali Mad-
sen. sad etwervid that be hod reed with *rem all
that had late bus violates p..—pertkisluty his " Rickey
of
the Dukes of Barseady," whlait M had the aperients,
• r, alias with tbs amplest leisure." To sadorstesd this
nark. the reader @Meld he told that Prime Novises,
woes is his prima et Nes. wrote to tho terse relosetise tha
ka te •My gie Ws work—a request with whisk tha
harmed atadralslas metal, eoactiod.
Oa itridayot ststo Amor of thirty cams mg
Oros at the Palma, u lirwoods. se the esposice ef sheet
Beers 'Most from ths Park Osepaso Th. Cow was
• hp the Klee sad tbs Doke et licsbeat at halt-pen
less east left f r Tires immediately War dieser.

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 21, 1856.

THE EMT.

MARSZILLEB, Maxim
TM Demise hoe arrived with advice@ from Coo-
staatimple of the 10th, sad from the Crimea of the
Bth hut. She has brought 248 military ma sad no
Mk.

The Promo d'Orinit alarms that the Hatti-
Hinayana relative to the Christians is not inserted
in the treaty of pease. The plenipotentiaries, says
that journal, online themselves to mentioning the
importance of that mt. It adds, that the cessation
of mespatioa is formally *Updated.
Ten ships of the line and six frigate. had been
sent to Bamisseh.

The Russians were making large purchases at
Kamimeh.

Arif Bey arrived at Constantinople on the 9th
with the text of the treaty of peace. A. Council of
Ministers wee held next day to proceed to the retie-
°mice. The sou of Feed Effendi was to leave on the
14th, bearer of the ratified treaty.
More disturbances had taken place at Kataya and
Tokat, attributed to the newly-introduced reforms.
To accelerate the evacuation, a portion of the Eng-
Bah fleet, originally intended for the Baltic, was ex-
pected at Constantiaople. The papers state that two
regiments of English cavalry would leave in May
for the East Indies, and that two divisions, under
General Campbell, would be sent to Canada.

TURKEY.

TOON 0171 OWN

allll. 7.

- - •
I announced in my last that General Larchey com-
municated to • friend of mine the conclusion of
peace, and that the news had arrived by telegraph
during the night. In writing, ho sever, on the 31st
ult., I was rather inclined to doubt the accuracy of
that statement, inasmuch as our matin slumbers, as
usual, had been deep and sweet, and undisturbed by
the roar of artillery at sunrise. At noon, however,
as noticed in my postscript, something did, in fact,
come off—the warships were decked for the most part
with the allied fine, and the fortresses of Tophate
and the Seraglio Point responded to their guns,
which had been, however, booming more or less at
irregular intervals for some dais in honour of the
French prince. But all was so insignificant and so
utterly disproportionate to the great event intended to
be commemorated, that the public mind still fluttered
in doubt and anxiety till nightfall. Then, defini-
tively, some squibs, rockets, and flickering lamps
seemed to predict a display of fireworks and a general
impulse
tailed the powder, the oil, or the
tailed ; the winds and the weather were not the thing,
and the whole turned out, of course, a dead failure.
How different was the scene after the battle of
the Alma, of Inkermann and even on the falsely re-
ported intelligence of the capture of Sebastopol, at
the outset of the war l The Golden Horn, I recol-
lect, wu all night long one blaze of light, and every
nook and earner of the city a scene of revel and fes-
tivity. The firework, were splendid, the cannon
thundered by land and seat emblems, device., the
Tourah with versets of the Koran formed in
graceful outline by thousands and thousands of
variegated lamps, were suspended from minaret to
minaret surmounting the stately mosque domes.
But, strange to say, on the present occasion there
wee a something wanting ; and from the very
first announcement of the Peace Conferences,
as already remarked, up to their final and successful
conclusion, I have never been able to discern the
smallest evidence of triumph and exaltation among
the Byzantine. Such then are the signs of the
times.

Not far from Miasirie's Hotel, in the street leading
down to the harbour, is the British Army Post-office
—a modest little department, but whose signal
services during the whole course of the war are, I
think, highly deserving of honourable record. In this
opinion all will readily soncur—the European colony,
the British resident'', our soldiers, sailors, the pil.
grim, the traveller arriving from a distant tour, who
repairs thither straightway', in quest of tidings from
his native isle.

This humble locals consists of a proesenium, not
exceeding absolutely some twenty feet by fifteen,
with a dingy, darksome inner compartment, of about
double that extent, wherein may be seen, any day on
the arrival of the home mail, huge piles of new..
papers, endless letter bags, books, packages, and so
forth, lying about in chaotic heaps. Such is the ap-
pearance, at least, to those who, like myself, are
unversed in the arcane of postal science; and really,
the amount of daily labour in this sombrous encloaare
is incredible, enormous, considering that there are
not more than six hands to moderate the whole, and
keep this most complex machine in almost perpetual
motion.

Within the precincts of this unobtrusive little
establishment, red tape and routine, it would appear,
are as things unknown—for all is conducted in perfect
order, and with the most surprising desywch and
assiduity. The few officials of all grade. are most
civil, obliging, and anxious to render any possible
little servioe, and the perennial head clerk above all,
Mr. I—, the veritable genius lad, who, when under
the necessity, psrohaoce, of dismissing you with •
" Nothing to-day, sir," looks almost as if disconcerted
himself, and disposed to sympathise in your ill
fortune.

In the coarse of a single week, only fancy, from
ten to twelve thousand lettere, with perhaps nearly
an (gull number of newspapers, pass regularly
through this ;flea Wides books, various packeArg
and stores, which, after having been careintly sorted,
are forwarded to their different destinations, and
ready on arriving for immediate distribution. The
whole return army correspondence comes in on Mon-
day, and is made up the sense day for transmission
to England, Marseilles, Greece, Gallipoli, and Corfu.
Oa Tuesday is the Loudon mail, and which, ehou,cl
it arrive, is instantly sorted and despatched to various
points at the seat of war. Wednesday is principally
devoted to granting money orders. On Thursday
again arrives the Crimean mail, and is forwarded with
the Constantinople lettere to England, Marseilles,
Smyrna, Dardanelles, and Malta. On Friday, again,
comes the despatch of money orders; and on Satur-
day la the second weekly horns mail, which is sorted
SA haters and sent on with all possible expedition.
Io addition to this normal series of weekly postal
operations, mails cocesioaally some in by transport
ships, consisting at packages, books, stops, and
so
forth, too cumbrous for transmission via Fresco. The
expedition of the local poets, moreover, devolves upon
the office—twice a-week for Nicomedie, Boma and
Varna; oboe, for Trebizond, Stoops, and other ports
of the Eosins ; and twice; daily, besides, far Seatari
I and other districts along the sea-board. This Glee,
moreover, has bee* extensively resorted to by the
European colony sal British residents for the trans-
mission of letters, free of postage, to the Crimea and
other localities within its spheres, epaeatiot. Lastly,
by almost every English mail, letters and newspapers
la great numbers arrive for private individuals, which
ere duly consigned to that address, although
intended, strictly speaking, ably he government
mdse.

This, thou, yea will admit, is a tamable mantel
weakly labour, sad which is most moditably sad ex-
psdideasly dispatched by a little gawp et siz pm-
sma
lest dab esesprisiag the postmaster, seilast passessar.
as& .
Ude, amiss tiff a sleigleames at Mari, which
it is hoped may not dime tampadea to the areal
suit wbo to sew is dam, st.sd is the
widest Naar thait aims owe hoe.
pitala, a after sedate srs trlesffie based
sure and tbilr amisialto elsesikass is a them" of swi-
m:al admired's. Us Vasa medial staff admit
that the relative Width el oar army, respostively
with theirs, dyad" selkely es the great superiority
of oar hospital arnageatals, as well a the quality
and sandals's., eat affaestary applies.

A letter fres Istekset (liesitery) tays, "The
peraladas Ms WIN will js, as .Met elsamory On
Bawer. wimp W blipmes4 misty-fair laihriduky wafts
lobos' an hulloes Neetleetee, sestesail is uvula rasa
hapriiasoust. Mt MAE, Moe pall la tr. Beeiterlea
loreneetlea."