The Express.
London, England, 1856-06-11 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 11, 18541.

him on owe of the erearbeaehee in the Lords—
" why are the beards of Bishops th• most 'cultist"'
ell m of leherre in the eerical sinefordf " Hie
noble neichbeir tried in vain to pees the riddle,
and when he had given it cap the Archbishop, looking
very bard at his robed broths's, exclaimed—
" Because they have bat one Bob DALY amyl
them, and they think it quite enough for them."

No lea than five abortive attempts wars made
last night to " count out" the Roam of Commons.
Yet Tuesday is now the one day in the week reserved
for private members ; and last night Sir Ristrurz
PIART'II Resolutions respecting the Law of Property
Si it greets married women, and Mr. Ciumneis'
motion for a select committee on the Law of Artistic
Copyright, stood on the list of motions. Such ques-
tions may possess little interest for the packs of party
whippers-in, who shah at being detained from their
congenial places of nocturnal resort ; but the country
takes a deep interest io them, and will not tolerate a
practice which goes far to preclude their discussioe.

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The dismissal of Mr. Crampton has not yet taken
place, and whilst it is positively affirmed by the go-
vernment organs that he will be dismissed, the delay
mime in many the belief that the excitement is
simply kept open far electioneering purposes.

TURKEY.

A Constantinople letter of May 30, while con-
firming the news that M. Fonton, the Ruled=
Minister, bad protested spinet the admission of
MoakLiss Puha (Prince /Rowan) as second
Turkish Commissioner for the settlement of the
Besesrabian frontier, states that at a council of
ministers held in the evening of the 29th, it had
been resolved that the pretensions of the Russian
Minister were totally inadmissible, and that the
Porte would maintain its right by every
means in its power. It is thought, the letter
adds, that the representatives of England, France,
and Austria take the same view of the mat-
ter as the Porte. Instructions have been sent to
i Derrick-Pemba, the Ottoman Commissioner at Oasts.

A letter from the Crimea, of May 23. states that
several storehouse, Natal:ling from twenty to thirty
thousand hectolitres of barley and other provisions,
had been burnt down. The @venation of the Crimes
bad bean checked by the want of tr►nsports; but se-
veral vessels, returning in, ballast, had lately pasted
through the Golden Horn for the Black s:a.

The Sardinian Minister of War has addressed a
circular to the officers of the army, informing them
that her Britannic Majesty having been pleased to
award a number of medals to the Sardinian troops
that served in the But during the late war, it is ne-
cessary they should send in lists of men under their
command who may be entitled to the I istinotion.
None are to be recommended bat those who were in
the Crimea before the 9th Septimbrr last, stayed
there all the time, sad distinguished themselves by
good behaviour. All the officers, all the Royal Car-
biasses, and all the troops engaged on the 16th
August (the battle of the Tchernays), or on the Bth
Septembr, are entitled to a medal; for the other
troops only a certain number of medals is prescribed,
to be distributed according to merit. A list is an-
nexed to the circular, showing the number allotted
to each corps of the latter class.
The Piedmontese government has decided to offer
2,000 medals to the French troops who have been in
the Crimea. A letter from Turin states that they
ars to be divided proportionally between the army
and navy, the Sardinian Generals having had full
occasion to witness the admirable conduit of both
branches of the service at Sebastopol during the war.
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U•usral Alfonso Ls Marmon had an andienoe of
the King of Sardinia os the tad at the Chateau of
Pollens*, when he pained the rest of as day with
Count de Cause.

The Xing of the Two Sicilia has issued a demo
in seven articles, enacting that persons carrying pro-
hibited arms, without a Hoene* from the police, shall
be punished with imprisonment in irons of the first
degree (the lightest), and that the manufacture of
inch arms without a license shall be punished with
the third degree of imprisonment and a fine. The
same punishment is prescribed for those haring pro.
hibited arms in their possession. In all caws such
arms are to be confiscated.