The Express.
London, England, 1856-06-21 00:00:00

fortunes calling for aid, the Commission is di
of performing its labours with the utmost p
despatch. It has, therefore, renewed its rey
those who have collected individual bobicript
remit without delay the amounts receirid up t
date at Paris to the central treasury, and
departments to the treasury of the receirere•gt
This request, nevertheless, does not apply
I sums remitted to the departments mit ch bar
most severely devastated by the inundations.
Oral may be regarded as having h.d in the vi
the contributors a special destination from wt
would not be fitting to turn them.

The commission, which, by the communicate
receives on the subject, is enabled, in p.rt at le
appreciate the full gravity of the ca! .mines
provided for (and the causes of which hive ri
completely ceased), has considered it desirable tc
a new and earnest appeal to private charity in
of the victims of the laudations.

ITALY.

THE PAPAL RECRUITING STAFF.

GENOA, Jur]

The only concession the Papal Court seems
disposed to make is to agree to the departure
French and Austrian troops, and the subatitut
a pontifical army, if General Farina can contr
form one. Cardinal Antonelli has instructs
curates to pick out those among their penitent
are, by their years and physical constitution
qualified for military service, and to bring the

enoe of the confessional to bear upon them in
that they may be prevailed upon to breams so
But the experience of 1848 has shown that evre
titled troops may be easily induced to side lei
revolutionary party. The Holy See would for this,
prefer Swiss to natives; hut the English, F
and Neapolitan levies in the Helvetic cantont
exhausted the disposable recruits of Switze
An application has, therefore, been made to F
not to allow her two regiments to remain at
Vecchia, for the cardinals have little affection f,
generals sent them by Napoleon 111., but to ham
to the Pope the Helvetic Legion raised durin
war, and stationed at present at Dijon. The re
the Emperor to this application is unknown.
the Legion has received orders to hold itself in
new to march to Marseilles; but it is quite unc
whether its destination is to be Algiers or
Vecchia.

RUSSIA.

The Cologne Ga:ate has the following fro
Petersburg, dated June the 12,11:

" The development of the Itu,sian navy,
dieted in the Black Sea, is to be carried out
Pacific. The Amoor, Sake, Oehotek, and Pet
lovsk have with this view become the sprcialt
of attention and care on the part of the Russia
miralty. Thewoodtd district of the Lene, and tl
iron and copper mines of Nertchinsk,will form
materials tor ship-building. The governint
sending out a number of Akers, seamen, eng
and workmen to those parts, and Vice-A
Putiatine has been appointed to superintenl
carry out the great scheme. The intro.'',
activity of the local administration on the Amo
the acquisi,ions they have made there of tet
are well known. But it is not merely in the
taut region that vessels ore to be constructed ;
row steamers will be also built in the Whit
the Biltic, on the Don, Bong, and Dnieper,
Caspian Sea, the Like of Aral, on the Ox
Jaxartes, while flotillas of screw gunboats are
tect both Rapidan trade with Asia generall,
increase her influence as well as power iu Pers
Tura°, that is, in Bokhara, China,and Kokhan
" Yesterday evening, at nine o'clock, his 111
the Empror returned from his journey on boa
steamer Alexandria. On lending at the E
quay his Majesty was fec,:ived by the p.:opli
enthusiastic cheering."