The Express.
London, England, 1855-08-27 00:00:00

LETTER OF THE EMPEROR TO GENERAL

PELISSIER.
" Oeneral,—The fresh victory gained at the Teher.
naya proves, for the third time since the commence-
ment of the war, the superiority of the allied armies
over the enemy in the open field ; but if it does hooour
to the courage of the troops, it evidences no less the
good arrangements you had made. Address my
congratulations to the army, and receive them also
yourself. Tell your brave soldiers, who for more than
a year have endured unheard-of fatigues, that the
term of their trials is not far distant. Sebastopol, I
hope, will soon fall beneath their blows, and were the
event delayed, still the Russian army, I know it
through information that appears positive, would no
longer be able, daring the winter, to maintain the
contest in the Crimea. This glory acquired in the
East hu moved your companions in arms here in
France; they all barn to have a part in your dangers.
Accordingly, with the two-fold object of responding
to their noble desire, and of procuring some
repose for those who have achieved so much,
I have given snob orders to the Minister
of War, that all, the regiments remaining in France
may proceed in due succession to relieve in the Rut
others which will return. You know, General, how
afflicted I have been at being detained away from
that army, which has again added to the fame of our
eagles; but at this moment my regrets diminish,
since you enable me to perceive the speedy and deci-
sive success destined to crown so many heroic
efforts.

" Whereupon, Genaal, I pray God to have you in
his holy keeping. _

" Virittea at the Palace of St. Cloud, August 20,
NM. "NAPOLEON'

KIEL, Almon, 26.
Th. French war ship Marne hu arrived with 200
primers.

THE WEST COAST OF AFRICA.

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The African Royal Mail steam ship Candace, Capt.
W. R. Hawksley, arrived here this morning. Her
'dates are Cameroon', July 18; Lagos, 22; Accra, 24 ;
Cape Coast Castle, 25; Monrovia, 30; Sierra Leone,
Aug. 3; Bathurst, 8 ; Gores, 9 ; Teueriffe, 18 ; and
Madeira, 19. She brings a mail, 28 passenger., 2,000
ounces of gold dust, and a cargo of camwood, palm
oil, ivory, gum, ginger, pepper, nut-oil, wax, and
,cochineal.

At Lagos were her Majesty's ships Scourge. He-
elate, Antelope, brig Philomel and brigantine
Dolphin ;, and a Dutch man-of-war steamer at
Bathurst.

The natives of Soabbagee, a town within the ter-
ritory of the British settlements on the River Gambia,
broke out into open rebellion on the 17th of July.
A party from Bathurst, consisting of police, magis-
trate., and constables, supported by a small military
fora, under Lieut.. Davis and Armstrong, at-
tempting to take a man into custody at Scabbagee,
were fired upon end obliged to retreat, Lieut. Arm-
straw being seriously wounded, and two soldiers left
prisoners. In the afternoon the natives of Soabbagee,
joined by others, burnt three English villages.
The governor, Lient.-CoL O'Connor, with his forces,
consisting of two hundred and sixty men and officers,
made an attempt to chastise the rebels, about a mile
from Scabbegee, but after fighting for two hours, was
repulsed, with a loss of 30 killed and 3 wounded, Cap-
tain Degriney, of the Gambia Militia, being among the
former, and his Excellency among the latter,he having
received two wounds. The rebels then threatened to
invade Bathurst; but a reinforcement, consisting of
the French man-of-war Entreprenant, and one hun-
dred and fifty French white troops, having arrived,
from the French settlement at Gores, a second ex-
pedition was made on the 3rd instant, led by Goil
vernor O'Connor, and after a desperate resistance on
the part of the natives, the stockaded town of
Seabbagee was carried at the point of the
bayonet, the French gallantly leading the ad-
vance, and the town was totally destroyed.
The French lost one non-commissioned officer, one
rack and file killed, and five wounded. The British
troops and volunteers, thirty-five wounded, but none
killed. The natives lost two hundred. This has
given temporary security to Bathurst. Her Ma-
jesty's ship Myrmidon, Capt. Mouse% arrived at
Cape St. Mary's after the second attack. A council
of war was held, and it was resolved to
act on the defensive, unless the English had an
equal number of troops with their white Allies. The
Governor, whose wounds progress favourably, will
act on the defensive, and held St. Mary's for the pur-
pose. The Candace was detained 24 hours for the
Governor's despatches. The Governor had a fall
from his horse on the second expedition.