The Express.
London, England, 1856-08-22 00:00:00

Marisa Ball"--as you pus no their Ninevits physi.
epaulet; sad imposing beards twisted into inn.
=fable ebony corkscrews. Next comas a poop of
Russian officers, tine young fellows, nearly all over
six feet, with delioste—almost English features, and
wearing their long and somewhat ungraceful grey
mats with osnamendable resignation. I must my

in pustule, that I have frequently had to
thank those gentlemen for the ready courtesy
and politeness with which they invariably az-
swered those inquiries which a stranger is
obliged to make in getting through a large city for
the first time. They all speak French, and many
of them English, and are ready to assist you in
any little perplexity that may arise in your peregri-
nations. The poor Mujike are, I believe, equally
willing to oblige, bat to ask them a question only
sirens you to a torrent of fervent liclavonic, mow
panied by the wildest gesticulations, and sometimes
an exfiapore hornpipe, while the result is not of any
very considerable assistance to your own organ of
locality. I have watched these men with much in-
terest and curiosity since my arrival in Russia, and
have invariably observed them to be tall and strong,
in good physical condition, and having honest and
open, though not always very intelligent counts-
nanoes. The universal beard gives them a
great air of manliness, and the manner in which
they perform their work, which is often severe, io-
dinates the possession of great muscular strength. The
" leboostchike," the Russian equivalent for cabmen,
are the finest charioteers in the world. To see them
urging their high-mettled Cossack horses along the
Nevskoi, you would fancy the Olympic games were
being enacted over again, so rapid is their pace, so
great the dexterity with which they dart in and out
and over all obstacles. It is true that sometimes
they leave an unaccustomed traveller behind them on
the wooden pavement, bat they generally find it oat,
and come back for him, giving him at the same time
a caution to hold harder when he rides in
a drotschki. There were lots of them strolling in the
Nevskoi to-day, and they seemed very jolly and
contented. A funeral next attracted my attention.
The coffin was borne on a low carriage, decorated
with the usual trappinge, and wee preceded by mutes
in cocked hats, and each bearing a light enclosed in
what looked very like a miniature street lamp. Greek
priests followed, two and two, and looked exceed-
ingly venerable in their sacerdotal robes, and long
flowing beards. They are generally tall and hand-
IMMO men, and are studiously graceful and stately in
the performance of their religions rites. However,
as I shall no doubt have better opportunities of
observing. them at Moscow, I shall not permit their
peculiarities farther to elongate the present letter.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, THURSDAY Rvisento.

Last evening • memorable international dinner
was given in the splendid dining hell of the Hotel
dos Louvre by the medical profession of Paris to the
French, English, Sardinian, and Turkish surgeons
who served in the Crimean war. Upwards of 600
people at down to dinner, and but for one of those
objections which are so often raised to any proposi-
tion for common action on the pert of large bodies
of men, tie number would probably have been
doubled. Baron Paul Dubois, the senior member of
the Faculty of Medicine, and the aooonoheur who
at tended the E comae at herr coafinement, took the chair.
At the dessert, Baron Dubois proposed the following
toasts The manes of the medical men who died
in the East," and "The Emperor of the French."
Several other toasts were drunk, all bearing upon the
medical services rendered in the late war. One of
them was proposed by Sir John Hall, C.B. A
toast was proposed to the Russian doctors who had
humanely taken oars of our prisoners.
The Assembles Notiosale, which revelled in delight
at O'Donnelli coop great, now throws O'Donnell
overboard. It is clear that the small leaven of libe-
ralism by which O'Donnell hopes to cling to his ill-
gotten power, is all too much for the retired statesmen
who speak by the month of the Assembles. They
were glad to see the honest Espartero got rid of, but
have no notion of stopping short in the mirth
of reaction. Now tkey say the government
of Spain is in • predicament which cannot
continue much longer. It is not, and stu-
diously avoids pretending to be, • dictatorship.
It cannot be considered the government of a majority.
It halts between a variety of opinions, seeking
support where it can in the name of a sort of
feleetisme which It would be at a loss to define. It
was all very well, the dssereblie says, to remain
without a programme as long as Seragosea held out,
and the only consideration was how to re-establish
order, but now there is no excuse. If the " mode-
rate" party is to govern, it has its chief ready chosen,
and evidently will not serve under the leader of the
revolution of 1854. Bat If the government is to
remain in the hands of the progress's% what was
the use of the bloody struggle of the last
few week'? Would it not have been better
to have let Esp•rtero and Bement* alone ?
Such is the very difficult dilemma which the Assembles
offers to the O'Donnellites. It concludes by lesion•

atiog that O'Donnell would be glad to ally himself
with the moderate progressiets, but that the Queen
prevents him; and it applauds the Queen.
The Bourse has been very dull and without any
remarkable feature. The Rents closed at yesterday's
prices. In railway, there was scarcely au alteration
to the extent of a franc or two.

A large order has been received at Lyons from M.
de Risseleff, the Russian ambassador at Rome, who
is preparing the palace of his embassy for the recep-
tion of the Queen Dowager of Russia. Her Majesty
proposes to pan a part of the autumn at Rome.

The authenticity of the document published by
the Cologne Gazette, purporting to be an analysis of
the note addreseed by lb* Bing of Naples to the
Western Cabinets, is not taken for granted by the
French journals, which, however, do not seem to have
received any official instructions to throw doubts
upon it. The Pays, after citing the remarks of the
London papers upon the note, merely says, "for our
own part, we reserve our opinion until the entire an•
thentioity of the answer is established." This reserve
admits by implication that the document is at any
rate almost authentic. The Jesuit ice! Univers goes
a little, and bat a little, farther in its objections. It
says:
The journals publish an analysis of the note which is said
to have bees despatched by the King of Naples to the Wast-
ers Power,. Frame sad England not bared addressed to
the Neapolitan government as identical note, it is Namely
probable that the reply of the Neapolitan cabinet world be
the ease for both gomramente. Nor, 00000 , the analytical
term of this donna% names es to newel its omitting., ;
we will, therefore, welt before we pahlidt it for pm/s
wales may Mew that the oommuniestion of the Coloym
site merits emadenee. - _ . _

An barrio! decree of the 13th, in the Bit&hos des
Lois, opens a supplementary credit of 1,338.000 fr. to
the, Minister of Foreign Affairs, of which 123,000 fr.
are for diplomatio presents, and 1,233,000 fr. for mis-
sions and extraordinary exposes. Another decree
opens an extraordinary credit of 26,946 b. to the
Minister of State for the asst, of the funeral of M.
Potosi; and a third sedans a supplementary reedit
of 213,000 tr. to tea Miablisr of the latarice for gates