The Express.
London, England, 1853-12-16 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, WEDNISDAT EVIXINO.
The event of to-day is the effect produced on the
Bourse by a warlike article in an English journal,
which puma as the organ of Lord Aberdeen and has
hitherto been the apologist of Russia. The extremely
energetic and (to ordinary readers at least) unambi-
guous language in which this journal now abandons
the " cause of peace" u no longer " compatible with
the honour and dignity of the country" has led to a
very general belief that nothing can now prevent the
French and English fleets from proceeding to Sebas-
topol to avenge upon Russia the injuries inflicted
upon the Turkish navy at Sinope. The suggestion
that the ambassadors, in the events that had hap-
pened, must have powers, without waiting for further
instructions, to order the fleets to act pro-
duced a very great sensation. These uneasy
impressions being strengthened by a further fall in
Consols, as reported by telegraph this morning, the
Rents opened very heavily at 45fr. 50c., and declined
to 75fr. 100., at which price it closed, being a fall of
75c. from yesterday. -With scarcely any exception
all the securities were much lower. The railways I
generally fell from sf. to 10f., in some instances
more, and closed at the lowest prices of the day. I
have, however, seen several people—and in stating
this I assure you that I give their opinions, and not
my own—who think the article of the Times a mere
deceptive concession to outraged public opinion in
England. As they read it, the big words hurled at
Russia only apply to the case of her having forced
the pert of Sinope to destroy inoffensive ships lying
at anchor, and as it cannot in fact be doubted that
those ships, or at least some of them, were in the
vet 7 act of carrying supplies to the Turkish army in
Asia, it will be said a tew days' hence that there is
nothing in the affair to check the prosecution of the
new Vienna plan for a treaty of peace.
The Patrie, in its " latest news," says :
Private letters from Constantinople, of the 30th, speak of
a desperate battle, said to have been fought on the banks of
the Tank, and to have been commenced by the Russian
with the view of preserving their communications between
Tiflis end the Caspian Sea. This engagement, in which
the Russian troops are reported to have sustained con-
siderable loss, led to no result. It appears that ell the
revolted tribes of Cinemas and Georgia were in movement
at the date of the last news. _ _

Several German journals publish accounts of the
execution of an officer accused with ltadsewitz or
Gadsewitch of having been in correspondence with
Omer Pacha. This execution is said to have taken
place on the parade-ground of the Guards, and to
have made • great sensation.
Another gallant attempt to achieve the problem of
making Paris a "seaport," is about to be made. A
ship builder of Nantes, jealous of the reputation ob-
tained by the owners or the Sole and Luomigniere
of Bordeaux, has built a vessel, to be callenhe Paris
and London, which is intended to trade regularly
between the two capitals whose names it bears.

THE WAR.

RUSSIA AND TURKEY.

The following letter is by the St. Petersburg cor-
respondent of the Algemeins Zeitunei, a journal
which will not be suspected of unfriendliness to
Russia. The secretary of Prinoe Gortschakoff men-
tioned in it has, it is understood, been executed at
Bt. Petersburg :
ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 13.
" A few days ago the secretary of Prince Gorte-
chakoff, a Pole, named Radzevitech, was brought
here, and in the first instance transferred to the cue-
mates of the fortress. The charge against him is,
that he communicated the Russian plan of operation
to Omer Pachs. A similar charge is made spinet
another Pole who was serving on the general's staff.
A third young Polish physician, it is said, has gone
over to the Turks. Prince Gortschakoff was at first
disposed to order the execution of Radzevitsch ; but,
on second thoughts, he resolved to send him hither.
Oortachakoff has at this moment no easy task.
The unfavourable commencement of the war
is partially explained by the communications be-
tween Radzevitsch and Omer Pasha. The emperor
is exceedingly dissatisfied with sacrifices of men
which serve no purpose. General Dannenberg has
indeed dislodged 23,000 men with 6,000, but from
whence? From a position which was of no use to
them. At first it was thought to give the chief
command to General Luders, the favourite of the
Russian soldiers, the conqueror of Bem, the " spoilt
child of fortune;" but that would have been to
offend the older General, Osten Sicken. Then
Rudiger was proposed, the Emperor said no, he
wished to have a general with a pure Russian name
at the head of his army, and so GorUichakoff was
chosen.

" It is stated that Prince Woronzoff (who is at
this moment seriously ill, and as whose successor
Prince Menchikoff is mentioned) lately reported to
St. Petersburg that he knows that great frauds are
now being practised in the army in the Danubian
Principalities by the commissariat, and that the sol-
diers are exceedingly ill cared for. An old officer of
his staff was immediately sent from St. Petersburg to
the Danube to investigate the facts. He found
everything in the fairest possible order, and Woron-
zoff received rather a sharp answer. He persisted in
maintaining the accuracy of his information, and a
second officer was sent to thy Danube, and discovered
the true state of the cue. For a monarch so careful
of his soldiers as Nicholas L this must have been a
very disagreeable discovery. Usually the sick in
the army are reported two per cent. This propor-
tion suddenly increases to 30 per cent. as soon as an
inspection becomes probable.
The St. Petersburg Chart Gazette contains an im-
promptu by M. Newachowitsch, supposed to be occa-
sioned by reading the Emperor's manifesto : "The
Czar gives the word, and all is prepared. The land
overflows with bravery and courage. Every Russian
heart beats with solemn emotion, and the Russian
standard will wave in bloody war. Behold the fields
covered with our soldiers ! See the fame-covered
warriors! mark the death-bearing bayonet ! look
upon the brethren gathered under the standard of the
cross, and cry. Great is the God of Russia!' "
The New Prussian Gazette, which is to be trusted
when Russian affairs are in question, states that the
Czar has lately declared that he will not forego the
least part of his demands on Turkey, and that the
Vienna protoeol contains nothing which he would not
be ready to subscribe. Indeed, he regards the Vienna
protocol as a document by which England and
France renounce their attitude of hostility towards
Russia. "Now, at length," says the pro-Russian
writer, " Russia has its hands free to carry on the
war on the Danube, for since the maritime powers