The Express.
London, England, 1856-03-24 00:00:00

RIGA AND THE GULF OF FINLAND.

A letter from Rip of the 16th, in a Russian
journal, says :
• " The navigation of the Gulf of Finlaud is inter-
rupted by the rigours of the winter, and this state
of things may continue until the breaking up of the
ice, which does not usually take place until the end
of April. Communication with the coasts of Fin.
land is effected only at great risks. We are assured
that some foreign vessel', bound for our city, are
checked by ice in the very middle of the Gulf,
and are threatened, not only with the loss of their
rich cargoes, but with utter destruction, from one
moment to another.

"In the almost certain prospect of peace, our mer-
chants daily receive important orders from abroad
for different products, such as flax, hemp, tallow,
oleaginous and cereal grains. Prices ars firmly
maintained, and it is believed that with peace once
omcluded, a fresh rise will follow, in anticipation of
large exports of these products."

ASSASSINATIONS IN PARMA.

On the 18th, Chevalier Bard, Auditor of the War.
office at Parma, was attacked by an assassin, and
fell dead, after receiving two blows from a stiletto•
This assassination and the one which occurred
scarcely a week before seeming to indicate a plan of
conspiracy, the Ducby of Parma has been since the
19th in a state of siege, and has been occupied by
General de Crenneville at the head of two Austrian
battalions.

THE BERLIN BOURSE.

BERLIN, SATURDAY itYZNING.

The Berlin Mont.!~ (aisini;iinte---iger)coo---tsios
an order addressed by the Minister of Commerce to
the Committee of the Bieck Exchange, forbidding
brokers to boy or sell shares in foreign undertakings
when the tame are not folly paid up. Brokers dis-
regarding this injunction will forfeit their privileges.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

CiRON ooi OWN

PARIS, 60114 DAT Rraxixo.

The Mats says that, according to information
which it has reason to believe correct, nothing has
occurred in the Congress to warrant the announce-
ment made by an English journal that the armistice
will be prolonged to April 30. The Dlbals agrees
in the opinion generally entertained that the treaty
of pesos will be signed before the 31st of this mouth,
sod that, consequently, no prolongation of the armis-
tice will be neeessary.
I know for certain that an extraordinary repre-
sentation at the Opera has been commanded for
Tuesday night. TM reason for the entertainment

is not .tated, but I should not be surprised if the
Emperor and all the plenipotentiaries were to ap-
pear there in state is celebrities of the treaty of
pease, which it has been already whispered will be
proclaimed on that day.
The Bieck has an article upon the state of the
negotiations. which I seeped to be in the main as
reset „floial as the one which was lately copied into
the Yoniteur, although, by way of a boutade to
please its republican sateoribers, it testa out by
lamenting that it is " reduced to seek for informa-
tion in the press of free countries." After stating.
on the authority of a St. Petersburg oorreepondent,
several facts which are already supposed to be true,
each se that Rank omelets to the noutralisatiou of
the Black Sea, that Sebastopol shall not be restored,
that Nioolaieff shall be insrely a commercial port, that
the exclusive Russian protection of the Principalities
shall be abandoned, that a sufliciest portion of Bes-
sarabia to secure the free navigation of the Danube
shall be coded, that a ensisaimion shall be charged to
trace the new froader line, that Russia shall content
1 herself with a part in a common protectorate of the
Christians in the Bast. and that the crossing of the
Path boundary by a Ratite soldier shall be a
cants US, the Stitch says :-'=" Although these details
are believed to come from well-infonned perms, we
only publish them under all reserve."
Bat then follow theme importaat paragraphs, to
which the sentence about reserve does not gramme
tioally apply :
Tb. questlea el the Priseipslitise will also, it appears.
be eshaittad to the 'cam'e'ra appended to settle the
bosoduy liar. TMs essamehelea will probably Ink. its
report is Aspect mit Its for the Meldayleas sad Walls-
*ideas new I. come to a sated aadereteatias, to lay
adds all their antirabies, a/1 their preneasioes,
sad to slew themselves se seated that the coeuniedosee.
mg be able to propose la horror of this Itesnela people,
wetly of sympathy. ea ergeanatioa Is harmony with
symp dowse of stvilbatioe of this melees% whom is the
advanced paid of the Rut
Our errrespaadeat dose set presemsee the Denis same
of reload.

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Milled its greed teett if &Mies be deem ter Poised, ed
we will week midges t. thee whew the awealeeke
reams hem the Seek at ;Oita semeet the Cagier. will
[wait agate, ts. peat mese et Poland will abuts sowethiss
sire thew a diedaleal 10111110:1

Wheal the Coopers preemie to regulate the erudition of
the euesatlea of the easupetles el the Crime by the allied
trews, It will also pay Ulundi:oil 6, lb, ootapatlea of

• It may sem sopssassos to say that is provision to
the oritootb of my ls list that Ws snide Is ttai sMI, so
Is sly cooolotlos that Ms prinks It dolosise.

Bean by the Preach troops, sad the occupation of the le-
gations by the Austrians. The representatives of Europe
will sot safer that Amnia, who alone galas by the Wilke
of the Turco•Eumlea dispute, shell extend her power la
Italy. En afieadaset the solstice of the question of Beim
independent* which the Seeds Is oestintally treating of ;
the foreigner must quit these countries, which have berm
but too often trodden under foot by conquerors. Frame Is
willing and able, without danger to her policy, to out the
example ; Austria most follow it. But it will be said,
what will become of the temporal power of the
Pops if the soldiers of Franca and Austria leave
him face to fat, with a hostile people? We
are of °plains that this hostility is greatly exagge-
rated. We believe that if the Pops will give gua-
rantee, to the people subjected to his role, if he will imitate
the example of Piedmont, and govern is a liberal spirit, be
will recover the sympathy with which he was received on
his ameseiou to the Pontifical throne. But we stop: we
will not rheas incidentally this great Italian question,
which goes to the heart of all those who have embraced the
sacred cause of liberty sad the independence of nations.

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The Mossiteur of this day publishes the following
bulletins:

Palace of the Taileriee, March 22.
The health of her Msjesty the Empress continua to be
satisfolory.
His Hightten the Imperial Prince riestinaes perfectly
well. No more bulletins of his health will be lamed.

The latest bulletin reports the health of Prince
Jerome to be satisfactory; it is said, however, that
the patient has arrived at the period when relapses
may occur, and that the state of the Prince will re-
quire the constant exercise of care and skill.

At the Little Bourse on the Boulevard the Rents
was done at 72fr. 85c. for account, being a rise of 25c.
from yesterday. There was an unusually large
gathering of coululiera assembled to talk over the
new measure taken by the Prefect of Police, which
so seriously afficta their interests. Many of
the speculators for the rise in the foreign Credit
Mobitiers openly oxpress their determination not to
meet their engagements, and justify their resolution
on the ground that their contracts were based upon
a state of things which has been swept away by a
via major.
The grand Te Deum for the birth of the Prince
was sung to-day at Notre Dame. The Emperor was
not there, but the attendance of official per-
sonages was very great. Many of their carriages
were afterwards seen in the Champs Elyeees and the
Bois de Boulogne, whither the fineness of the %sa-
-1 they had attracted immense crowds.

This day being Easter Sunday there are no evening
Papers.

There is a hope that Madame Volnys, the charming
actress, who will be remembered by old London
playgoers under the fairylike name of Leontine Fay,
may appear once more on the boards of the Theatre
Prussia. Her long engagement at St. Petersburg
terminates at the end of this year. She was in Paris
lately for a few hours only, on her way from Nice,
where she had been to see a sick daughter. During
this flying visit she saw the director of the Francais,
and expressed to him a desire to finish her dramatic
career on the scene of her former triumphs. M.
Empis could not do better than engage Madame
Volnys to fill tho vacancy caused by the lamented
death of Madame Allan.