The Express.
London, England, 1859-05-17 00:00:00

RUSSIA.

The Nord publishes the following telegram
" The Russian government has given orders for
the Ist, 2nd, 3rd, sth and Bth corps d'artnee to be
placed immediately on a war footing, with the whole
of the artillery and cavalry belonging to each.
" The reserves are to be called in, and all soldiers
on furlough to rejoin their colours, to be ready to
march within three months."

It is rumoured that four new marshals of France
will goon be nominated, viz., Prince Napoleon, and
Generals de MacMahon, Niel, and Reguault de
Saint Jean d'Angely.
The Spanish government has given orders for the
supply of tents for an army of 30,000 men.
During the absence of the Emperor of Austria
with his army, the Archduke Regnier is to be en-
traded with the administration of affairs.

The Swiss fortifications on the frontiers of Lom-
bardy, at BeMoron* and Luzionsteig, are at present
receiving additions, and it is intended also to
strengthen still farther those of St. Maurice, in the
YAWL

The governor of the navy department at Trieste
announces that the ports of Chioggis, Lido, and
Malamocco, near Venice, are to be barred up during
the war, and that merchant vessels cannot therefore
be allowed to enter at night. In order to enter by
day they must take on board one of the pilots spe-
cially appointed by the government.

The Colmendeit of tie fortress of Zap has put_
limbed a notice declaring all the fortified points of
Dalmatia in a state of war, and all flags neutral ex-
cept those of France and Sardinia.
According to late official returns, the permanent
army of Prweia amounts to 211,791 men, and with
the war reserve to 279,896.

The FremdenbloU announces that the Austrian
army now counts the following German princes
among its generale :—The Lendgra're Ferdinand of
Hesse-Homburg; Alexander, Prince of Wade's-
berg Alexander, Prince of name ; the Prince of
BehleswirEoletein ; and the Princes Gustavus and
William of Hohenlohe-Langenburg. Prince Nicho-
las of Nassau has arrived in Vienna on his way to
join the Austrian army in Italy. Prince William of
Schaumburg-Lippe, eon of the reigning prince, has
just entered the Austrian service.

The 'Mats observes that "the future conduct of
Prussia will depend on the definitive meaning which
she may attach to her favourite expressions—the
security of Germany and maintenance of European
equilibrium. It will only be when our victorious
army has reached the plains of Lombardy
that Prussia will declare by her conduct
the exact meaning she ascribes to the ex-
pressions which she now employs to define her
policy, and we hope that her conduct will then be in
accord with the interests of our country. Hitherto
it is impossible not to see that she uses language in-
tentionally obscure, and that while constantly speak-
ing of the law of nations and the European equili-
brium without saying more, she is anxious at the
Name time not to alarm the passions of Southern
Germany, which declares the Austrian domination
in Lombardy necessary to its safety, and to avoid
pronouncing against the French government, which
declares openly and sincerely that its sole object is
the independence of Italy, and that it will comien-
tiouely respect the territory and security of
Germany."
The Italian Committee at Paris daily sends off
numerous volunteers to be enrolled in the legion about
to be formed at Turin. The Roman Duke Philip Santa
Montefeltro, general in the service of the Venetian
republic, who in 1848 saved Venice by holding the
Austrians under Nugent in check at Treviso, leaves
Paris to-day to place himself at the disposal of
Count Cavour. He will either have the command
of the abovementioned Italian legion, or proceed to
Tusoany to command the Roman volunteers now
being enrolled in that country. It is stated on good
authority that the French Emperor intends to lay
the foundation of a large national Italian army, ex-
pected in time to swell to the proportion of not less
than 200,000 men. The Tuscan army, under
General Ullos, is the nucleus already formed. The
Roman army will speedily follow. The fine
Roman regiment of dragoons recently mentioned by
• correspondent as having occasioned great un-
easiness to the Papal government, is described
by Romano as containing the very strongest elements
of political insubordination, being composed (as far
as the non-commissioned officers and privates are

concerned) of reckless, dare-devil miurois snide,
excelling in physical qualities—men who, were they
et the middle instead of the popular class, would
long since have been exiled as dangerous to the order
of things existing under Antonelli and his violet-
hosed myrmidons. We shall probably hear one floe
morning that this entire regiment (perhaps not even
minus the superior officers) has m►rched over the
border into Tuscany with bag and baggage, and
without any orders from headquarters,.