The Express.
London, England, 1861-02-07 00:00:00

RUSSIA.

A letter from Warsaw of Jan. 31 says :
As I announced to you, the three Russian army corps
(Ist, tad, and lrd) are collected in the kingdom of Poland.
The 4th and sth have taken up their winter quarters in
Podolia and Bessarabia. The effective strength of these
troops is not greater than 100,000 men.
After this disposition of the foreseen echelon towards the
Austrian frontiers the 6th army corps, which is ready for
the field, remains at the disposal of the government, and it
is at present in the central provinces of the empire. Two
corps of the guards are in the neighbourhood of St. Peters-
burg, and one corps of grenadiers near Novgorod and
Pakoy. Jo addition to these troops Russia possesses the
army corps of the Canaisus and that of Siberia, the strength
of which two may be set down at 120,000 men.
The concentration of troops on the frontiers of Austria is
generally attributed to the serious nature of the deruoustra-
Mons now being made in Austria.
Persons of station in Warraw persist in declaring that the
Emperor intends visiting this capital in the month of March
at latest. The throne hall in the royal castle has been
renovated. They still talk of carrying out the statute
of 1832.

THE INUNDATIONS IN HOLLAND.

(RON A CORRESPONDENT.)
AMSTERDAM, Fn. 3.

The inundations referred to in my last letters
are spreading with fearful rapidity. As the ice breaks up,
notwithstanding that the thaw is gradual and unmeant.
panied with heavy gales, the waters collect in the upper
localities of the country, and overflowing the dykes, lay
villages and towns under water, causing great loss of pros
perty and human life. The small German frontier town of
Emmerich is six feet under water; Arnheim is impassable
from the flood which permeates its streets. More than fifty
villages are totally submerged, and thousands of families have
been obliged to leave their homes to seek a houseless shelter
in the higher districts. It is feared that this city may yet
become the prey of the invading element. The consterna•
Lion is great, while the prospect of the danger increases with
the arrival of every telegram and train. For some days a
considerable portion of the Dutch Rhenish Railway has
been under water, and the rails displaced, so that communis
cation with Germany has become almost impossible. It
would really seem as if old Neptune had turned annexes
tionist, and had commissioned his tributary streams to now
over the domain wrested from him by the industry of man,
and reconnect it with the ocean from which it was stolen.

The Debate of to-day in the strongest terms
urges the prolongation of the French occupation of Syria.
" Let Europe," it Bays, " maintain the French army there,
because it is Christian, civilised, disinterested ; let it add,
if it pleases. Russian, Prussian, Austrian, or English
diem to concur in the common work—we see nothing
to object to; but let it oppose to a too exclusive policy its
collective will, and it will remove from the present year,
which commences with sufficiently anxious prospects, ono
of the difficulties which most threaten its repose."

AParia correspondent of the lidipendaure Rays
that, on receiving the new academician, the Abbe Lecordaire,
on Sunday, the Emperor was in very good humour, and said
something frierally to each of the " immortabi "—especially
to Guizot, to whom he said that eloquence always
pleased him, even when it preserved the character u
opposition. M. Guizot made no reply. In the course ci
the conversation the Emperor informed M. Villemain that
he was about to appoint one of that gentleman's sons.in•law
to an administrative post. _ _ _

The mercury was twice frozen in the therm-
meter this winter at Moscow—on the Pith and the 25th
of January. Mercury, which is the only metal which in
liquid at an ordinary temperature, becomes solid at 40
degrees below zero ; and boils at :Hill. _ .

In the Spanish congress last week the president
of the council, in reference to the passport question, which
was alluded to, maid that a committee of the chamber had
advised the abolition of such documents, and that he ap•
proved of their recommendation, but that as the matter
specially concerned the Minister of the Interior, who was
absent for the present, be had abstained from taking any
resolution.

A Boston (U.S.) letter says:—" The country is
covered with snow fur thousands of miles. The ice crop
will be astonishingly large, and the ice itself astonishingly
good. Several large ships are loading with ice for the
south—though the Ultras say that they will sooner drink
hot water than use it (and they are making enough of
that article)—and others are to cling for Calcutta and
Bombay."

FRENCH lON-INTERVENTION.—The Paris jout•
nate mostly content themselves as yet with reporting the
Emperor's speech, reserving fora day or two their delibe-
rate comments. The Presse, however, in a summary, D.:l
tices one or two points. With reganl to the principle of
non-intervention which the Emperor says he has adopted,
the Prease says :—" Is it non-intervention absolute' That
is impossible. The former interventions of France place •
limit to her abstention. Every one understands that •
case may occur in which France would be obliged to inter•
verse, in sheer self-consistency. In a word, the nun-inter•
relation of France cannot be the non-intervention of Eng-
land."