The Express.
London, England, 1856-09-09 00:00:00

THE IMPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 9, 1856.

THE CORONATION OF THE
EMPEROR OF RUSSIA.
lEVIEW OF TROOPS.-PERFORMANOE AT
THE GRAND OPERA.

(FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.)
MOSCOW, MossAY, Burr. 1.
The meneut the public entry and the subsequent
bassinet at the Kremlin Palace had been disposed of,
the imperial family, fatigued with the parade of
state, retired to a villa of Count Sheresnatoff (the
great Russian millionaire, and owner of 300,000
serfs), situated about thirty-eight vents from Moscow,
whence his Imperial Majesty comes occasionally to
the camp to inspect the troops. On Saturday lest he
had all the amity out in detachments of three from
each regnant, newly, an officer, a sergeant, and a
private, and each trio seriatim went through the m-
inim In the cue of the regular cavalry, the
practice was like that of the other European ma-
, via% and exceedingly good; bat the wild, irregular
Asian squadrons excited great interest by their pecu-
liar motions and wonderful dexterity. The mailed
Lesghiansficingaway theirbattleaxes and pickedthem
up spin at full speed; the little Cossacks charged
with their long lances with extraordinary precision •
and the Cinamians managed their beautiful horsy
in a way that would have dots hamar to Astley's or
Franconfa The appearance of the troops is certainly
magnificent, they being all picked men, ;and visa-
didly mounted. Ow regnant of the Guards-i.
choral mount all chestnut, another all black, an-
other dapple-grey, and with their white uni-
forms, burnished cuirasses, and helmets, they almost
delude one in the sunshine. The most elaborate
oars seems to be taken of their toilettes. When
drawn up in squadron or line, an officer may be seen
going round, followed by a sergeant, brush is hand,
and minutely manning the uniform of each soldier
for a wens or a stain. The moment he discovers
me he calls the sergeant, who commeeces smoothing
end brashly, and finishes by lambing out the
horse-hair that adorns each helmet. The horses
prance and carat awarding to the most approved
principles of the Haute Book, while the ladies
clap their hands in admiration and javenile
mujiks scream with delight The horses themselves
ems to enjoy the sport, and neigh in chorus with a
depth of intonation which sober English troopers
would in vain attempt to imitate. In short, military
pageantry menu to be the great delight of all classes
in this country. To-day, to-morrow, and Wednesday
there are to be grand reviews, but, as
tomorrow is to be the grandest, I defer my
visit to the camp until thee, my hands being
quits fall of other matters. The town is very
fall both of Randam sad strangers, but it is ex-
piated that the week following the °aromatics will
and in a meal chum's, as wen the most gorgeous
sposalles pall by constant repetition.
Peeing the coronation fetes, the great fair of
Mei Novogorod has been going on in full activity.
I shield perhaps have visited it, being only two
days' journey from Moscow, bat that I learnt there
was great difficulty and delay in getting horses for
the return journey. However, I am informed by
visitors who had been tempted to take the trip
by the glowing desoriptions of the handbooks, that it is
an exceedingly prosaic affair, and the inconvenience
to which strangers are exposed beyond description.
In that choice locality the famous Raman bug flou-
rishes in full vigour and ferocity, seeking well-con-
ditioned Englishmen to the bone, while the eating
and living accommodations are of the most punitive
character. As to the picturesque variety of Asiatic(
costumes, it is all bosh, the Tartars being the uni-
versal middlemen for the Chinese, Patsies, and In-
dian trades, and offering no novelty to any one who
hubs* in St. Petersburg a Ifemosw. The principal
articles of traffic are Elliman ins and manufactured
metal from Tula, which are exchanged for caravan tea
and Chinese and Persian silks. I understand that, liki
all other great fain, Nishni begins to exhibit symp-
toms of decline, modern commerce finding more rapid
aced frequently recurring means of carrying on its
transactions. Its passible, however, that when the
railway from Moscow is finished, the ancient Novo-
prod, like its kindred hely city, may experience a
revival. This year's fair has, I believe, been below
the average.

MONDAY NIOUT.

I have just returned from the Grand Opera, which
wog opined for the first time this evening with Bade,
Labia.'" Gamlen, and other London fermatas. The
appeasing of this magnificent theatre when lighted
up and filled with a brilliant audience tally realised
the expectations expressed in • former latter. It has
five tows of boxes, with twenty-eight mats in
each row, and to each loge there is a re-
alist room es large as many a London dewing-
es." The pit I. all divided into comfortable stalls,
and ia no Gass are more east. Mined than the
hem will conveniently accommodate, a hint that
mlikt be takes with great advantage by the
Inalegers of oar London hams. What with the
*WM gold moil work, raised on a grouted-work
e! deie~le grma, the richly carved pillars iced
idliget• ths scarlet velvet lining of the boxes,
and the exquiedtely painted drop Net% the
late*, of the imperial awake presented a
amp tail nett as use could hardly have expected at
la diatom of 2,000 miles from Leedom But when I
add that the-audience was =May mimed of °Moen
Ita gorgeous uniforms, and ladies in grand toilette, you
leen sadly imagine how sorposeing most have been
the postal steel. It only wanted the Fromm of
the Ikaperce and Bum" whose box lea little poises
in itself, to mks the pining complete. The em-
bassies of the great powers were well represented, the
Preach filling one box on ths grand tor, and the
Basil& another. Amongst the latter I recognised
Lady Benny Peel, Lord Word, Messes. Fans and
Carrig, The two ambemedors were also present,
Lard Grooving in a box, and Lord %dams. in •
They loft early, there being, I believe, a
tiff Ohs embassy. The opera was " Patitani," in
Alba Mosio's giggle( so delighted the Russians that
eke was called moral thus before the curtain,
aliksugh I mist add that her acting did not satisfy
as to her Items for the pert of Bollini's heroine.
LaMothe looked stupendous sad rivalled the Greek
prim. in the depth of his 'atoned" and the rest of
the performers acquitted themselves respectably.
Then were no sneer., an admirable practice ; and
when the open was over the audience could go
home without suffering the purgatory of an inter-
minable ballot. The primacies. of the orchestra of
160 performers was worthy of all praise.
I have jut rem to mostioa that Mr. William
Gladstone and some other English civilians wen pre-
sented yesterday.

VAVXUALL WARDENS wno opened last night foe a
brief soma. yenteas to the flail dose sad break* lip 0
that soot lamas newt et Wilma. The wn►etd of the
aira pierferti has pared late the bands 0 a patios=
who esatimplatis &weds. II le balldlag rupees., sad is
a Aid has, think" Vaaaltsallsedems, whisk have new
existed se a plass e/ piddle asaasessat tee sesee than
awe liaadred Ism. min bay. Moue a mow
et bloomy. Lest sight Ogee was a ►tikes Nasal, sad the
teadithaary Total, .aids!, equatriaa, aad pyretosbais
silletaiaawali, ildek dnw tagsther soma *mob of 1
a

The summits of journals hanyecommenoseL The
Aseocialioa via not able to appear oa the 3rd on
account of an article upon the decree reepeoting the
Corte'. To the journal' which have ceased to
appear in the provinces is added the Clamor de
Galicia which was published at Comm. Pre-
'
relative measures are being taken, and the situation
of the press in Spain is u deplorable as that of the
French journals. How can one feel astonished,
then, if parties have recourse to secret publications P
The Moderation, as well as other', resort to this
practice, and that party circulate at this moment a
sheet without the name of a printer, and without any
title,recommending a simple return to the constitution
of 1846, omitting whatever was liberal in it.
The Guadelete of Zara gives bad news of the
harvest in the district. The corn harvest will yield
only sallicient for sowing and consumption of the
inhabitants. Olivia are few in amber and of bad
quality. There will be very little wine, dimese having
attacked the gresterpart of the vines. In the district of
Valenti* the large purchases made by France, and
the bad prospects of the crop, have caused an almost
fabulous increase in the price of corn, which is 60
darns per 60 cantata.

All fears respecting a supply of corn for the popu-
lation have been dissipated, and the municipalities
have contributed greatly to this result by their

[declarations to the People. At Valladolid the
municipality has announced that to the previous re-
. . .

serves they have added 90,000 arrobu of Sour, and
that they will be able to provide the requisite supply
for the winter. Similar aasuranoes have bees given
in Catalonia.

The Journal de Madrid publishes the report on
which the Cabinet has based the decree dissolving
the Cortes. The document occupies no less a apses
than two columns. After a flourish about the deem
convoking the Cortes having been a revolutionary
act, in issuing which the Queen had exercised an
authority not conferred upon her by the fundamental
law of 1845, the report goes on to observe that the
aforesaid decree itself pointed out those legal bases
which the Cortes would not have to discus. The
crown defined their constituent powers. It has
only been by a strange abuse of revolutionary
ideas that people could suppose a dissolu-
tion of the Cortes to be impessible unless by
some suicidal eat of their own. Then charging them
with incapacity and pretension M. Rios Roan adds
that they possessed no power to suppress divine
worship or the monarchy, none to establish any
autocratic rule, none to destroy the safeguards of
individual security, nor to create a censorship of the
press. Do not you admire with me this kind and
modest observation on the part of a minister who
himself cause the journals to be gagged by that)
worthy censor M. Martinez ? In 1864 nobody
wished for the total or partial overthrow of the
then existing dynasty and rule, nor any radial
changes in the political organisation of the
monarchy. And yet, despite the monarchical
tendencies of the manimttomrmuilas the report), the
Cortes would have a us to be seduced
into the destroying of everything, and a still more
radical change would have been effected if the revolt
of 1868 had not presented the opportunity of bring-
ing the country back to its normal state. After re.
minding as that a considerable minority had given
its sanction to the ante of July, and that several de-
puties had joined in the revolt, the report concludes
by drawing a parallel between the Cortese of 1864
and those of 1837. The latter it was who, having
formed the constitution spontaneously, solicited the
decree for their own dissolution, thereby tenderingl
the Queen Gobernadora.

Reiyior upon this precedent of 1837, the report is
followed by the decree of disedutiou.
No allusion is wade to the convocation of a new
Cortes.

Catalonia is in a state of
Three that
Zips-
taro multiplies his bandos. Three that have appeared
In quick succession I send you; they will serve to
explain thercondition of the country. By we, all
gunsmiths and cutlers are forbidden to sell arms or
weapons without taking down the purchaser's name
and address and communicating the same to the
authorities. By another, orders are issued to the
tauter manufacturen to keep a register of their
workmen, and to the workmen to keep each a book,
in which must be written down the place where
they work. the time they come to the workshop,
and the time they have. By a third, an order is
given to all the working men's clubs for mutual
relief to limit their numbers to 1,000 members each.
O'Donnell still triumphs over all the intrigues
that are being carried on against him. Of all his in-
timate friends in Spain the most dangerous one is
Marshal Conchs. The more this latter personage
multiplies in public his demonstrations of devotion to
the policy of the cabinet, the more strictly does
O'Donnell keep on his guard. Me remembers that
Conchs, Espartero's brother is-law, supped at his
illustrious relative's, and squeezed his hand on the
very night when he was about to take part in the
contest that met poor Leon his life. But all
the camarilla of the King, with Concha at
their head, cannot succeed in overthrowing
O'Donnell, who can still depend on a great
part of the army. Another difficulty, however,
is springing up, and which the minister will not find
it quite so easy to surmount. Christina has, it is said,
signified explicitly to her daughter, that if within a
very brief period they do not officially send her a re-
quoit to return to Spain, she shall do so without any
at all, and if oncosts* shall have placed her
perm at of Spain, intends defying the govern-
ment to make her again leave it. You recollect
O'Donnell's public declaration, that with Christina in
Spain, all government was impossible. Now, he is
not the man, it is true, to let himself be stopped
by previous engagements, no matter how solemn
they may have been, but in this instance his interest
will urge him to remain true to his word. Christina
has never forgiven him, and on the very day she
reaches Madrid he would have to surrender his power.
The Queen, they say, has written back to her mother
to say that she cannot induce the cabinet to send the
official recall, but begs her mother to return and
deliver her from O'Donnell.

The press being still in fear of the bowstring, the
moderadce cannot so on the provinces in a Marveled°
sense, but their party meetings increase at Madrid,
and all they wait for is Christina's return, that she
may resew the halcyon days of Marillo and Sertoriug.
Whilst all these wretched intrigues are being woven
or unravelled in the official regions, political parties
are not standing with folded arms. The honest frstr
tioa of pare progresistu are organising resistance
is the provisoes in cue this arbitrary state of things
should continue, whilst the democratic party is biding
its own time, though ready in the meantime to help
the pure progressieu, thus giving to resistance a firmer
attitude and more rapid progress. The resistance to
the law of desamortssacion in the Basque provinces
will not be developed, for although the authorities
mike a show of carrying oat the law, they take good
care to offer for seemly a few communalestatee though
it must be admitted there is no lack of bidders even
then. This is only putting off the evil day. For the
rest, up to the 30th of bat month they had sold 47,053
estates ; these were put up at 285,028,900 teals, and
were knocked down for the sum total of 704,982,069
rests, being an excess above the upshot pries of no less
than 419,953,258 reels. The industrial movement of
the Basque provinces is very considerable. Besides
a plate-glam manufactory they have just set up other;
for copper-sheeting, for the making of gine, soap, as
likewise mills for extracting certain oils, and the like.

PutsTr.a 1N Tottiss Swam—The following
extract has brat handed us from a latter written by
Captain lisary Butehisson, of Sunderland, of the barque
Buret. The letter is dated Batavia, July 10, 1858, at who&
place the ship had arrived ftoa Brides, :—" la waging
through Tones &wits the satires attempted to board ;
Sine were 'best 80 of them in two ease's. They advs.:,cou
with She tat ivightfel yells sad bowling, ant parcsicieg
two more emcees semis' off, I was obi to fir* mg bow
swivel tato the nearest *as, which was only al' oat 40 fast
&teas. What life was lost I cannot say, at 1 island to ego
Udell swivel to give tits mond case a does, I.,at M ob.ond of
I immediately up tabor, with about 70 natives is per
reit. The ship seise shout sin kir.cs, td ete breeze In.
creasing, we fortuaately got d.. of them."—Stowicrimsd
I Herald.
I°ITEM PALACE. •••• ONE SWUM DAT.—•
Mosusy, liarr. B. Adulating as mutat. 10471
ditto by Nam tlakols, 306. Total ofallsol/2 10,806.