The Express.
London, England, 1856-03-22 00:00:00

The Isibtrteg wee the ballade islosd to-day et
th. 'ramie' :

Yank 21. Ultima 11, am.
Mao Narrow caattaase to to to partially well.
The health of the Prtase-loparlal la oaaillest.

No maw bulimia, will be bleed raperakes Me Imperial
Els War.
The mood day of the proem& of Lcosiobaiipo, I

being favoured by tolerable weather, presented a far
greater display than the preceding day ; but still the
number of carriages seemly equalled that seen on
any ordinary flue day in spring. On Good Friday
there were a good many people on the promenade, but
at two o'clock a pelting rain drove them home.
Not wily the well-known oheennt-tree in the
garden of the Tuileries this year was in leaf on the
20th March, but a number of others, principally
cherry, peach, and apricot trees, were in flower.

DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES.

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4 lIAROa 7.

The subjoined I have just received from Jassy. It
is a protest, covered with thousands of sigeatures,
which the principal inhabitants of Moldavia pre.
seated on the lst instant to their reigning prince,
Gregory Oinks. The prince received it very gra-
ciously, and declared that he had himself the day
before sent off a protest to the conference at Pans
against the decisions adopted by the conference at
Constantinople on the subject of the Principalities.
By the time the next mail leaves I shall be able to
transmit von the particulars of all that preceded and
that has been done since those protests.

PROTEST.

Most Serene Highnese,—The high mintrecting powers did
not disregard at Vienna the future wool of the ROlllllll4l/1111
Principalities when commencing the great work of pacifica-
tion ; and the first point of the preliminaries if pesos re-
cognises and gauntries' in their principles the right, which
the principalities powers, ia virtne of their capitulations
made with the Sublime Ports in the 16th and 16th am-
turies, the most essential of which are—eelf government,
the election of the primes by the Roumanians from among
themselms, and a national representation. Oa its side, the
Sublime Porte had already given the same aeraransee
through its commissioner in the principalities, Dervish

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Pitch:, who said to them, in 1854, "We declare
tint the honour sad glory of his Majesty the Sultan
are interested in the preservation of your ancient righte."
These amarancee, solemnly given to the Romanians, have
been for t►em in the midst of the storms and misfortunes
of late a pledge of tope that at the conclusion of peace
their indisputable and isupreseriptible rights would not
merely be consecrated anew, but that the union of the two
peincipalities would be vouchsafed them, so that they might
be thereby enabled to defend both that' own interest, and
those of Eutope on the Danube, ea also to fulfil their pro-
vidential =melon in the East.

The greater the confidence of the Roumanians in these
repeated promises has bees, the greater has beta their dis-
appointment on liming that the representatives of the
great powers at the conferences cf Constantiaople hays
traced oat the bun of a new organisation fir the Principe
LON ; this, too, without having previonely atcsgained their
wishes, as required by the prelimiaaries of peace themselves
—and that the decisions adopted at these confentsoes are so
many violations cf the least sacred rights possessed by the
Roumanians—rights hitherto invariably respected, even in
the most disagrees periods of the history of the Principali-
ties. Our confidence la the wisdom sad justice of the great
powers dots not permit as to regard as definitive the plane
sketched out by the conferences of Constantinople, nor to
believe that the Rousaaniaas are about to he deprived of
their right to create in their awn country the laws required
by their wants or the progress of the age, and that their ha-
ters constitutioa is to best apt d oat at Constantinople under
the control of the Sublime Porte.

In fact, were the decisions arrived at by the members et
the coalman at Constantinople to have the form of law,
the General Assembly or Roumanian Hone of Represen-
tatives, which haa at all times alone ezerciaed legislative
power in the Principalities, instead of comprising all the
vital elements of the nation, property, merit, tride, and in-
dustry, would diaappe.r, in order to make room for a Senate
incompatible with the national tiaditioas and character,
The Prince would no longer be the shoice of the natim,
but, like any other mete Turkish functionary, the Sublime
Porte would take him from a very endued list of math-
dstes. &vent intenal administrative and legislative
ensure would be at once withdrawn from the national re-
presentation, whatever that may chance to be, and settled
authoritatively by the mem►en of the conference. In short,
the right of the Roumanians to have their own national

administration sad legislation would be conoalesihitho
deolaratios "that all the laduetrlal and commercial lows;
all the measures of public interest to be adopted by Turkey
should apply, pkno jure, to the Principalities, as forming an
lateral pan of the (Moan% empire." In a word, the is
dependence of the national government established is sac
of the very articles draws cep by that enufsrence is con.
phately nullified by the articles that follow. Bo mash is
this the cue, that the solemn promise about the ancient
rights sod institutioaa of the Principalities being placed
heocefortb under the gamine of public European right
becomes illusory; Moldavia and Wallachia are reduced to
the condition of Turkish provinces or pechalike, directly
end completely depeadest oa the government at Con-
staatisople.

Highness! Oar emulsion teller that the Pfineipall-
tin have done nothing to deserve, in this age of justice sad
sivilin.lon, the leas of their dearest sad most sacred rights,
which oar forslathen preserved foe as intact ia times whoa
brute km acne saastitund the law of nation. Is this
sad situation, whoa we menu self-goverament and nation-
ality in peril, oar daty towards our fathers who bequeathed
them to us at the prise of tennis of bi- of, towards our
delosadeate to whoa we la our tun are bound to transmit
this petrissoay it least intact, towards the Sublime Porte
itself, aad towards civilised Europe, eonnaads us sot to
allow the imposition of a state of thugs metros, to our
espitulatioes, sod incompatible with or laws and enemas,
withJat raising our vane at Wilt ia protast, and dechnag
is the face of the whole world that the rights of the
Principalities may he violated bat can never be annulled.
_ .

In the absence of the Owseral Assembly, the legslcrgaa
of the county, we the uadersigued, the represeatatlves of
the clergy, bond', and corporations, fulfil aa imperative
sad sacred duty in preeentiag to your ►lghaess this address
sad in entreating you, se prince, Christian, and Roumanian:
sot to allow the rights of our Gauntry to be immolated with-
out using ell the noses required by the abominations, sad
by year duty to that °pastry of which you are the chief.
We further pray your highness to tnasmit the present
protest to the Cesium at Paris, to which we oenfidently
appeal sided the deoleises of the Coafereenies at Coastaati-
sop*.

TW act will awaredly sot be dented a west of rapist
tewasde our smut Suaraia, er of catildesos is t►e exalted
judos of the POINTS who have plead the fats of the Pria-
**lithe luau their his. The set has bees breed spot
se by the denies ■saaftf—the welds, el ear soustry, sad
oar seise of daty to the Morn of ear Where. We have
the esav:etios, that say other people would met in the sane
maser seder eulogists eiresastasese.

Oar ermatry will ;main emia. By a digaiiisd attitude
hememiag the critical stale of the amement, it will merit,
we tope, the "stunt of lumps, la *spastics of which oar
faith is satire. But if, alter q. of a national and pslitical
existence, the Principalities, in t►e Bidet of • war cow
emeced la behalf of the cakes of the Bait, should he Goa
dernsod to see their rights aemprealed and secadoesi, It
would be oar riskt In masa beferebead, to the sight of
God sad the civilised world, against the V{ololllll9 'caulked
oa a Christie' and a free people, to erdir t►at, emit whin
succumbing, we nay be able to nresierm the approbation of
poststily, the alma of •ttr 'maim themselves, sad that
strength whisk miseelence hature was • duty ham been
performed.
hessydiarek 1,1860.

1 Lo Nord dominoes the eneezetion of Chado uan
abomisable epolistioa attempted to be jestlaed by '. lying
pneasta."_
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eTh dballt do Nord pablithen an Imporial order
is the Abet that all poem Is Ueda 'dialog to sobteribe
to fatelo Jeannie nut is NI foe the future through the
gooey of the Rsinas peentilist, ban sot by direct sew
meakietie• with the psbUshere of the Journal..

The Onsets de new publishes in its " ofiloisr
oelaven. As appointment M Coen Oolisrodo, Austrian
Miner et Leaden, to the Legation at Some; and the se-
swot of Count liodolph Appony from Mantel' to the
leepanat Item, end of Covet Hung from Copenhagen to
the mast of Basuto.

We read la the Beersasheile of Hamburg :—" It is
said that Plank bee the Lamina of swath.. a template
teeeeediaties hawses the warts of Visas* sod St. Pe-
tersham sad that, with that obj( a, there will be as late/-
view Demme the atspeeete of Austria sad Rues sad the
Kiss of Prude la sew hews seer the beaters of the three
ereatziee."

TURKEY IN AKA.

The following letter having suffered delays im of
earlier date than another we have already published
from the same correspondent :

ERZEROUM, Fan. 6, 1866.
The importance of Lars, now that it is lest, is felt by
the ministers at Constantinople, who are now eadeavouting
to ascertain the ceases of the catastrophe, and to punish the
guilty. A private letter from Trebisond informs me, that
Omer Fiche was expected there from Bates= with 8,000
men, and that thence he was to proceed to the capital, to
which he had been euramoned for the purpose of giving ea.
planation. with seep ct to his operations in Mingrelis,
I have a letter just to hand, dated Trebizond, Jan.
28, in which my correspondent says :—" Yesterday
all the shops of our city wore closed ; 78 guns
of ruins calibre an to be conveyed from this place to
Enemas. As the stets of the roads does not. permit
as tease horsey, the whole of the male copulation has put
itself in harness to draw the guns. It is a most singular bat
mourafal spectacle. The object of the movement is to de-
f.nd your city in the spring. Yon are grieving that the
Turks go to work so slowly, but you are unjust, for know
that our guns have been dragged this day a distance of nine
miles. This is no trifling progress, and if they can he got
ever as much ground every dey, you may have the artillery
at EMIIOIIO in less than a mouth. Be this SI it may, Ist
us put up prayers fur peace, for if the war tests, we at
Trabizond shall be in a wretched plight, being already
straitened for provisions. It is now two cloys ken I have I
had any meat in my house. The butchers as barfly Ind
enough animal food for the soldiers, and its price has reached
an incredible height. Several persons were Mt re or less in.
jurcd is drawing the guts. Ores poor fellow had a compound
fracture of both legs, which have since been amputated it
the hospltel, to which he was immediately conveyed by some
English officers. How many victims shall we have to de-
plore, before the artillery reaches Erseroum."
Omer Pasha very recently sent some officers from Baton=
to Tnbisoad to prepare quartets for the tecops, which he is
going to detach tram his army. These °theses have turned
out of their owa houses some English subjects, and others
scjoyirg the protection of England. The v.:et-consul el
her Mejeety, Mr. 0. A. Sterns, entered his protest. The
Birder Ehnen received it with a 'sty 11l grace, and sent
werl to Mr. B;evene that when he came to Trebirond be
should pay no attention to protest., but should dislodge all
foreign subject. and consuls residing there. Mr. Stevens
replied that he had to deal with Englishmen, and not with
his Montenegrins, whom Le had uncontrolled power to treat
jest as he pleased. It is te be hoped that the misunder-
standing in question will be adjusted, and that the dispute
will end with the angry words already uttered.
There is a rumour hers that Yaly Mehmet Path% has
been deprived of his command, and that Vefji Paths is
coming to take hie place. This disgrace is caused by
Mehemet Pscha having cruelly ill-nod and tortured de-
Unguents, or parties deemed to be such, in deflates of the
formal orders proclaimed by the Sultan. It is let, ne•
moored, th. t the Muehir Selim Pacha has been recalled to
Constantinople. This report has given great pleasure to
the public, for the general opinion is, that this superior
officer is quits unequal to his cost. It is said that his suc-
cessor will be Menhir leaned Pada, one of the best g Is
Turkey possesses. The latter officer was selected for the
command of the army of Asia about the end of the year
1864, but when he came to know the st ite of things here,
he renonaced the chores to which he was desigrated, and
retuned to the Danube, where he had acquired reputation.

As provisions are very leaves here, the authorities seat
several battalions to pan the winter is ditiereat villages of
the Immediate neighbourhood.

We stunt every rcommt the arrival of Col. Gide and
Major Garden. The first is coming here u British con-
miwigner in place of General Williams. We all hope that.
invested with fell powers, the new comulasionere will exert
such Whiten over the authorities es may compel them to
provide for the susten,nce of the army, and keep it In nali.
moss for action should It be required.

Boole natives attached to the army, and who had accom-
pooled the Multi, Vassif Pasha to Tiflis, have returned to
this plate. Tbey state t►at General Williams wu well, and
that he, as well se the Torkiih Paellas, wu to leave for the
interior. They do rot know the 'reels. place of his destina-
tion. Provisions at Tiflis and Alecandropol bad reached
prices perfectly fabulous.

Ws bits lettere of the 20th alt. ftom Teheran, sad of the
25. h alt. from Tabriz.

The Baldish Consul, Mr. Richard W. Stevens, on the de-
parts» of the British Envoy, took up his abode in the
palace of the Embany. A brother of one of the °oedema
(tosriers) created a disturbance some few dap atter is the
Teheran beater, and killed two IN raise's, one of whom was
a 8,e4 or Moinalman priest. He then took refuge in the
stables of tke Erglish palace. Mr. Stevens had no sooner
leaned the penicillin of the affair than he taforintel the
authorities of the couttry, and dented the ►wamin to seek
some other asylam. The man replied, that he would not
leave the piles, end that they might kill him when he
was. After giving the homicide a grace of two hours that
he might finally make up his mind, the author.ties were
again reclues'ed to come and take him. This they
did, though seemingly with considerable reluctance.
fitevelas, however, when he allowed the man to be
inured off, begged the aut►orities not to punish him with-
oat a fair trial scoordiag to the laws of the land. The
autborairs took the man away and led him into the pre-
sence of the Shah, who ordered him to be killed piecemeal.
They accordingly first wrenched off his arm, then they
hacked him about the head and body, and at last dispatched
him as they would a wild beast. It is asserted that when
the homicide fled to the pals», the prime minister of the
Shah was at once informed of it, but that he delayed
demanding hie surrender, because he was la hopes that the
outraged porde» would have penned the murderer into
the English palace itself, where some of the mob might
have committed eXteleell and outraged the rights cf Mr.
Stave».