The Express.
London, England, 1856-02-29 00:00:00

RUSSIAN DESPATCH.

The Invalide Rouse of Feb. 21 contains the follow-
' ing despatch from General de Ludcrs:
Mien in the Crimes have remained unlhanged sicco
Jae. 26 up ,o this date (Feb. 4) The I nitlery tram the
frrtifitat nos on the north side, and the r.fiemen tram their
lodgments upon Mackensie hill, have eoatinued tsar firs
spinet the enemy.
ID the night of Jan. 28 siz cutters a tempted t double
our gourd vessel stationed in tie bay of Sebastopol, near the
sunken steamer the Vladimir. The son-soromimioned of-
ficer who commends tha b, a: bavieg perceived the enemy's
movement, immediately gave the proper rignal, upon which
the batteries on the tooth side opened fire against the mat-
t:re, while the troops ranged near to k to arms and ad-
veined towards the ,asides. After tatf as hour's cannon-
; ads the tette n withdrew.

,i In the night of January 29, Naval Ensign Bst,ivikoff,
I cruising with a boat in the Sebastopol B eneoung red op-
14posite tie Paul Battery some hostile ClretP, who attempted
to cat off his retreat. To the grapeshot tired from the toot,
the enemy replied bye fusillade and by a diechsrge of grape
shot feint a piece of light calibre on one of the cotter,.
At a signal given by Ensign Barovikoff, the boleti,. as
the north aide opened a cannonade, but the enemy hod
dir-
appmted.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(PROM OUR OWN COYUYSPONDINT.)
PARIS, THURSDAY ETZNINO.

The Pays and the Patric both announce that the
second sitting of the Congress took place at one
o'clock to-day. The Presse, which made a mistake
yesterday, does not run the risk this evening, for it
says nothing either way.
_ _

It has been stated in many quarters to-day, and I
dare say it has him printed, that all the Four Points
were accepted by Russia at the first sitting of the
Congress, and that nothing but the Filth Point
remained for discussion. This is a piece of false
news. The Petrie contains au explanation of the
rumour which at once commends itselt to common
sense as correct. After the verification of their
powers., the plenipotentiaries, it is said, proceeded
to the examination of the preliminaries of peace,
and in order that nothing might be changed in the
Austrian propositions, every member of the assembly
peraphed them ne rarietur. It is evident that the
businsas above described was merely formal, and
could not have been expected to lead to any discussion.
The plenipotentiaries simply verified the verbal am-
, racy of the copy laid before them, of the Austrian
propositions which the Emperor of Russia accepted,
but all questions about the interpretation of them
were neerved. You perceive that the government
journals do affect to talk of what takes place in the
Confereaces, and so far as they do so it is to be pre.
sinned that they are inspired by what they consider
to be sufficient official authority.
A private letter by tho last mail from the
French camp in the Crimea gives a very bad
account of the state of the French army there,
both u respects health and comfort. In the
contrast which is draws between the condition of
the French and English troops,: it reminds one
forcibly of the letters that were written from the
English camp last year, only that the case as be-
tween the two armies is precisely reversed. Let us
hope that publicity, which has confessedly done so
much to remedy the evils under which our own
brave men suffered, may not be without its benefit
for our allies, although their government may not
like it. The following is an extract from the letter
to which I have referred :

The sanitary state of this army is d. p'erable. The hos-
pitals were never to crowded. Some regiments are reduced
to their mere nukes. lo January there were 500 cases oil
scurvy in • single division. The doctors have trim 150 to
200 sick tt visit twice • day. Many of them have
suck under their task, sad others era seriously stta^ked:
The Commissariat ecotone's s 100 per rent. upon the bread
mid most, and burdens the hospital budget with 2,000 or
3,0001 r. The English bare none of this skin flint scot omy.
What is the cats, seance ? Our food is ha., insufficient,—
nothing like what it ougtt to be to sustain the men in this
chilly, damp, weather. The authul tithes that were cm-
, strse ed for 250 men, are m. de to ho'd 920. r 1,000. There are
but fiur sump one where there would be fifteen in France, at-
cording to usual regulations It is retell ice inceivable that
i the administrat on sbouid not have firemen in Amnia that
it would freeze is Demob. r. The skies end venblis fen
winter are oely acw arriving. Toe Er g'.,sh were not taken
by ITU' r.se in this way.

M. Nisud, the professor whose lectures have lately
been the occasion of so many disturbances at the
Sorbonne, had a private audience of the Emperor this
morning.
M. Lagouvd, the new academician, the author of
Adrienne Lecourreur, was received at the Academy
to-day, and made the customary inauguration speech.
He was replied to by M. Flourens, Direclor of the
Academy.
M. Emile de Girardin is about, it is said, to take a
second wile. I understand the lady's name is Mdlle.
Cheppert.
The name of Madame Wilhelmine de Chezy, who
wrote the words of Weber's opera, tt Eury ante," is
in the list of deaths to-day.
There has been a further fall at the Baum. The
Rents (helloed 20c. for cub, and 15c. for account,
closing at 72fr. 80c. and 72;r. 90c. Railways
were, on the who'.e, rather better. St. Ram.
bert and Grenoble is about to issue 25,000 new
shares, of which 20,000 are taken by the Credit
Mobilise, and 5,000 will be distributed among the
shareholders-one for every five share.. _

There is • rumour of the poetponemeot of th•
opening of the Corps Legialatif from March 3 to
March 15.

PIEDMONT.

The Opinione of Turin, of the 26th, states that
the Piedmontese government has addressed a note to
Ikm representatives at foreign courts, declaring that
the late aptuesty granted by Austria cannot be
accepted by Piedmont as a reparation for the
tics committed by the former in laying the property
!of Sardinian subjects under sequestration.
The following are the chief items of the Piedmon•
tees Budget for 1858:—Finance department,
76,134,7541 r.; Once and Justice, 4,328,331 fr. ;
Foreign Affairs, 3,431,745 tr.; Public Instruc-
tion, 2,018,9540. ; Interior. 7,601,8471 r.; Public
Works, 11,783,716 fr.; War, 32,247,528 fr.; Navy,
4,355,060 fr.

TURKEY.

TRIESTE, FIIB. 26.

Constantinople letters of the 21st state that the
Sultan's hatti-scheriff relative to the reforms in fa-
vour of the Christians, has been read and promul.
gated in the presence cf the reclesiutical, civil, and
military dignitaries.

DENMARK.

(iic ova own

COPENHAGEN, 1 HCIODAT.

All the members of the late government who were
impeached of high treason, have been acquitted by
the High Court, free of cove.

The Emperor of Austria, "desiring to recognise
the mimics. which Baron de Ito'htchild ta• r ndertd the
Mato," has contorted upon him tho dee, rs' oa of the Second
Clam of the I on Crown.

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