The Express.
London, England, 1859-09-07 00:00:00

RUSSIA.

A St. Petersburg letter of the 29th ult. says:
A new line of railway, intended to unite Kiev to Odessa,
is In c ntemplation. The company, which has already re-
mitred the preliminary authorisation from the government, le
esgaged In cooking the surveys, In order to ascertain the best
d'ection to be followed. Very considerable works are, it
is said, to be executed In the Caucasus for the
hapromment of the great military road of Georgia.
The avalanches of snow, which are very frequent in
the mountains, read the great height of the chain of the
Caucasus reader omonamileations In that country moat dai-
mons, and frequently impossible. Two commissions bad
appointed to examine into the subject, and they have
proposed • new line of road, which will avoid most of the
difllcuidee of the old one. The highest point of this new
road •11 be on the mountain of the Crow, 7,608
feet above the level of the sea, while the pas-
sage of the Saint Gothard is ally 6,600 feet.
The works to be ex, mated will be on a gigantio scale, and
cannot be terminated io less than 16 years. A stun of
12 millions of francs has been specially sidgmel for this great
enterprise of public utility. Several new periodical publics.
lOW have lately been started in some of the large cities of
Russia, treating upon questions of history, sOMiatice,
In owe of them I find an article on the hatrodnetion of a
new system of administration in the Mates which form the
majorm of the Counts Stroganoff. The majors& comprises
1,400,000 acres of land, of which nearly 600,000 an forgets.
The number of villages manufactories, end other large
eatablishmenta amounts io 2,640, raid the number of peawats
of both seise to 167,000."

It appears from a letter, addressed to a oontempo-
ray by the brother of Madame Mario (lets Mims Jessie White),
that in 1857 Genera Gr.:bell' authorised her to collect
money in his name for the Deign cause. He elm I-Mittel
her the education of Ms eon. Diadems Mario had very
legitimate mesons for re.rtening to the country to watch by
her manias. she now belongs, quite apart from Mazsinien
or ray other "movements."
Mr. W. J. Thompson, churchwarden of St.
George's-la-the-East, contradicts the statements of the Rev.
F. O. Les sa to the oecua recces on Sunday last; and oh-
saver, "At the contusion of the evening service I atom-
pale! Mr. Lee sod the choristers to the vestry-room to pirce
tact them from Math, and on try leaving them In the vestry-
room Mr. Lee =premed his thank. for the sees ci. I had
rendered to them. I therefore feel mach surpleed at the
charge of neglect of duty imputed to me in Mr. Lee's letter,
more e•pecially as he was sn eye-witness of the arduous
duty which I had to pe.:oror in endeavouring to preserve
the passe sod prevent a distuebsuca in a congregation of
upwards of 1,000 persons:' An "Old Inhabitant" of St.
George's observes that " the rev. gentkman bet the remedy
in his own hands, and he can cause a mention of the die
turbanoes at our parish church Immediately by performing
the services in a similar manner to thus of the surrounding
churches, rad by delivering the sermon in a black gown. If
the rev. gettlemen sill pursue this court* next Sveday,
Le
may be armed he will be free from any intaruption."
DARING HOTEL ROBBERIEB —On Wednesday
morning a gentleman (Mr. Wine de, of Hillgay), staying at
the Bath Hotel, in Yarmouth, with hie wife, west out at
half-put six o'clock to bathe, leaving his wife in bed. On
returning in shout h.lf an hour he discovered that wine
unions had entered the room and carried off from
the table the lady's gold watch and chain and a gold pin,
which had been lying there. The alarm WS/ glues, bat
so clue could be weaned to the robbery, except that
one of the servants had eau a strange individual on the
Maims., who requested to he shown to a closet, snit
shortly after, as the servant was coming out of one of
the rooms, was seta by her to pat Lie brad out f the
eloeet and draw it in agaia. The police were wait for,
and one officer looked round the house, and of course
discovered nothing. It was afterwards toned that a
puree oontsielog 91. es 6d. was taken at the same time
from under the looking-glue on the dressing-table. On
Thursday morning a eiruiler robbery was committed at the
Rout Hotel, Norwich. A commercial traveller, Mr. W.
Crighton, sleeping in Ilan house, awoke at 6 o'clock, sad looked
at his watch, which hung from a hook above hie head, and,
having gum to sleep again, on awakialag alsont lo'clock, sow
a men heckles oat. f the bedroom, evidently watching the oc-
cupant of the bed to ice wham. he had been disturbed.
Thinking some gentleman had intend his room by mis-
take' Mr. Crighton allowed him to leave it unquestioned,
but the met instant miffing big watch rushed to the
door, and seeirog the preen running as fast as be could
down the stake, followed him, Mkt ultimately put,ued
him to the yard, where he was captured and brought
boob by tome men. The watch was found on some
boxes ea the landing. The Individual thus apprehended,
who pre hie name at Meyer Hirsch, a Genus, residing
In London, and professed to be unable to speak Enslish,
was charged before the magistrates the mom day, when
one of the savants in the hotel Meted that she on. the pri-
mmer, after brushing his clothes in the pwgr, walk up
gales, after which abe saw litre upstairs, at the door of are of
the rooms, sad again a few minutes Wee at the bottom of
the sWr., when he followed her, mad triad the door of one
room and afterwards went to two atlas. The planar slid
another roan was going down s'elre at the same time as
himself, dreamed like himself. He was remendtd for further
inquiries—Bury and Norwich Fat.