The Express.
London, England, 1858-09-17 00:00:00

THE RUSSIANS AT

A certain degree of misgiving has been caused
among the English friends of oonetantional Sardinia by some
extraordinary announcements in one or two English papers,
stating in effect that Sardinia bed sold the port of Vi Barents,
in the Mediterranean, to Russia, for a military arsenal. The
report has already been contradicted in a telegraphic despatch
from Turin, and pending the receipt of the definite Intelli-
gence which our Correspondent in that capital will not
fell to send when he learns what importance has been at-
tached to the subject here, we publish the following extract
from the letter of the Paris oortespondeet of the Times,
dated Wednesday, September 16:
"When a summer lake lies smooth as glue, the suddee ar-
rival of a water-fowl beootnes quit* an event. The small dunk
or tiny diver, which in a stormy season wouldakiro unnoticed
between the waves, is looked upon with interest and ecquiree •
sent of importance. Hie splash into the water sands loud
in the stillness, and around him receding circler furrow the
airfare to a distance that reeves strangely oat of
with the dimensions of the intruder. Than it lin:Lerlk
oar pretest state of profound poHtkel calm, • mord, let
loom by use of your London contemperarim, km made •
stir wad attracted an attention to which It had easy little
' real ads. The peper in question aonsdid seek
en alum as meld not fail to and en egored:rall the aredalme,
end wee sure to be circulated with isaproventests sad
esamreratiosa. Ruda had been playing bar std artful
pew It was sot for nothing that she had
songht a reppreckewast with her stoat little an-
tagonist in the Crimea, not for nothing that the
Grand Duchess Halm had vialted Turin, and that
Priem Carignea lad received (?) a pressing invitation to the
Wens, review& Then wee deep meaning and intention
talking ender these friendly demonetratlona, and the wily
Mwerovite bad jut obtained the object proposed. He had
ranted from Piedmont. for • term of yam, the important
port of VOlabanos, within ten mikes et the French coast,
and ft world shortly beware • emend Cillweljar and a Rae-
vore=. Heggsforward Rawls algid keep • fist al
skips at Yillatranea. s.d trioa elm at propos-
dorms Is lie Ifoliloovomm. gka inlOt menblne with
Treace te sot Nap/mere alovai., pow la that en. In short,
there wee no saying elan oM Opt met do, if you wadi bet
believe the alarmists. 'oxis lam loporith variations. •
Roam gamma was weseetpy du plow.
ea foram journals asmfihd Is bumf to arma, moo of
them thinking of the wilbssentien whether, as• ewes**
tional King. Victor add am ads, wawa •
vote of the Claude% • Sof loodelss•—•• muter
though the port* tome owl she assoinik• looked
=. The MA ad lb• moire us Ws
Turin. NOM* in the Asps of • body or =gas
taken place. The flardinlaa ',Gramma km
granted porukoloa le the BaNW aim affaramasTroiLtilY
to manilla a iteslity &ass at Tatham. There Ile so
questkm era SWIM ism merle( *gm at cit the piste's
crinmeeles fete • asoond Gibraltar, any men than there are
grow& he MIAs as one of the most sceenMc of the Poui•
paw! O•4ley 1111, that benodorward Piedmont MO be
Magi won merely as • Rawl= province."

BUZZ &WINO IN PitiffselO.—A Roman catholic
&maim of the Ream of Correctioa of Rawls., pregame of
Poem. Pi s. Poland, says ate German issaccal of
Frealdora mime Um ago found saved relosint Mks in
the lank ohms plenum he strongly limeed the min,
nab obisi glen up the liaise, sad threw thdes Into the ire.
The publieprasestee, Merin of this. had idea genemmisi br
Onhoorinenelvetle property. awl be vas oohed le Mir
thaw lowed • *We Illepehmeent. Ite bee applied to
the segsrear
no end raised the einhaleeLsteedis auks he
bad eanseittsd no offence. Inasmuch as the Memo hod en-
!newly given up their Bible'. But the apart declared that
the wee. Nang. dorm" wen) not tree ego% awl It con•
firmed the condemnation.

HEALYII or SYDNEY.—The usages or deaths
registered in Sydore in the month of J amounted fp 1,60,
vit., 93 make and 67 females. The most bid diseases haw
ism%
hose those of the rreptrotory and berms The
1 number of deaths ?referred daring the *Oath
of 1867 Imo 91, end in 1866, 104. The number et re.
'Jeered in June amounted to 220; this umber of
118 moles and Ur females. being 6 infuses of the (wow
We understand that the Prost has
within the last week pseud entirely 1111111 of OD of the
late management, and that the direction has hein eatenstad to
e gentlemen of loci acquaintance with public affairs, whose
nontributiona on many subjetr a of high importance in
journal, of oonaereatirs principles bays attracted touch at-
tention.

THE NEW INDIAN DEPARTMENT.

We are now enabled to enumerate the principal
dam la the new establishment of the Secretary of State for
Ind* ea just proposed to be constituted by Lord Stanley,
sad to furnish the Denise of the eeveral gentlemen In charge,
se secretaries of the various departments. They are ea
follows
Rivitxus—Mr. Ptidesur.
JUDICIAL-111". Hawkins.
Pouncat—Mr. Kaye.
RAILWAY AND TILLSOLAPII—Mr. NETS'S.
PUBLIC Wonse—Mr. Thornton.
Pusktc on Gintianr.—Mr. Bourdillon.
MILITARY DEPARTMENT.
SICRITART—Not yet known.
ASSISTANT-811CLITART—Mr. Ede.
MARINE AND TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT.
Surenurrattnamr Mr. Plowden.
Acconarraxt-Oariasx.—Mr. Friend.
Aurirron—Mr. Bandon.
Cumin—Mr. Dunmore.
INS?ICTOI•GINI1AL OP STORRS—SIONSI Bonner.
AGENT ro ADMINISTRATOR-GEWRIAL—Mr. Clarke.
STATISTICAL DBPARTRINT AND KW= OF RECORDS
—Mr. Hasidic
Cum CLanx—Mr. Onelow.
_ OFFICERS OF COMMITTEES.

SZOTUTTARY TO FtwAxos, Holm, AND PusLic Wozxs
Commirris—Mr. DAJIVIRIL - __ _

SIOI.ITAIT TO RITINVI AND iI7IIIICIAL-I[l. M-
artz. _ _

8110111TAILT TO POLITICAL MID MILITAAT7-41.T. Bade.

The gentlemen named as secretaries above have, we be,:
liars, all been in charge of the duties which they have now
to parfait ender • different denomination. Mr. Prides= '
was ardstant-examiner. Mr. Hawkins was also appointed
an asibtant-examinee upon his retirement from the aloe
of Secretary to the Indian Law Commissioners. He is re-
Crilm a high authority upon judicial questions, having
important poets in the civil service of India. Mr.
Haye, besides the responsible °Sloe he Las heretofore tilled
in the Examiner's Department, is known to literature as the
author of "The Life of Sir John Malcolm," and the "His-
tory of the Affrban War." Mr. Danvers has been con-
nected with railways and telegraphs from their introduction
into India, and was the first witness examined by the par-
liamentary oommittes of last session. Mr. Thornton was
selected for the Palle Works Department upon its forma-
Son • few years agand Mr. Bourdillon bas been connected
with the General , t, which embraces subjects con-
nested with education, the Post-office, and matters of a mis-
cellaneous character.
It will be observed that two distinguished men—namely,
Mr. John Stuart Mill and Mr. Philip Melvill, both retire
from the public service, with which they have been long and
honourably identified, ths former as the head of the
Examiner's Department, and the latter as the Military
Secretary.—Tiers.