The Express.
London, England, 1864-01-04 00:00:00

TEE EXPRESS,

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'rendered necessary by. hii illegal toot
If there be any bettee grossed far
, CRAWLEY'S demand it must be sought
I not within the trial, but outside of it. An ini-
! I portant departure from the ordinary course of
1 ' proceeding took place, which greatly added to
: Colonel CKAWLEY'S expenses. In regular course
, I the trial would have taken place in India. It was
- I removed to this country, wisely, u we believe,
and, indeed, of necessity, for a trial in India
, would not have satisfied the public at home. But
• for this necessity Colonel CRAWLEY is not respon-
sible in such a manner that the additional charges
of his defence rendered necessary by a change of
venue should be thrown upon him. It seems,
then, that justice would be done if the War-office,
while declining to recognise Colonel Caawtev's
general claim, should allow bim so much of the
expenses as were caused by the Court-Martial
being held in England instead of on the spot.

IT is understood that the Archduke Maximilian
and Archduchess Charlotte are very shortly expected
in Paris, to visit the Emperor and Empress of the
French, on their way to St. Nazaire, where they
will probably embark for Vera Cruz in an Austrian
steam frigate, attended by a French steamer of war.
Several circumstances, including more particularly
the recent visit of Marshal Forey to Miramon, are
said to have determined his imperial highness to
sail ou his great adventure as Emperor of Mexico.
The difficulties originally started by the Archduke
were, it will be remembered, of two kinds. In the
first place, lie required certain securities against the
contingent hostility of the United States ; and in
the second, he demanded evidence of his domestic
security, if not in the result of a plebiscite, at least
in a state of things which should assure Jinn that
lie way not the mere catspaw of a partial military
revolution.

On the former of these points, it is understood
that the extraordinary mission of Marshal Forey
to Washington had for its result an undertaking of
the United States Government not to disturb the
new Mexican monarchy ; and in return for this
assurance, it is believed that certain promises wore
made by France with regard to the attitude of that
country towards the Confederate States. This as-
surance is thought to have served, to some extent,
to satisfy the original requirements of the Arch-
duke as regards pledges of security against aggres-
sion from without. For, as it was only from the
United States that hostility was to be apprehended,
it was thought that the assurance of the Washing-
ton Government would be practically equivalent to
a guarantee of support from Great Britain, which
was originally suggested by the advisers of the

On the latter point it has been, we believe, sub-
mitted to the Archduke that any nearer approxima-
tion to a popular vote among so scattered and ig-
norant a population as the Mexicans, than such as
was to be obtained from a more or less general sub-
mission to tl.e French arms, was altogether imprac-
ticable. It is stated that, in accordance with this
view, the Archduke has been ready to take the
progress of the French arms as au index of the
submission of the Mexicans to his rule.
The Moniteur has just detailed the advance of
the French, Mexican, and Indian forces, under
command of General Bazaine. It announces that
up to the end of November these forces had spread
over the western provinces, having taken Oajaca
and Valladolid, and that they were then closely
investing Guadalajara, which was then daily ex-
pected to surrender. It states also that in the
northern provinces Juarez had fled to Durango ;
that the French were about to take Guanajuato and
San Luis Potosi ; while the governor of Chihuahua
and New Leon, whose capital was Monterey, and
which formed the extreme northerly states, lying
between Sau Luis Potosi and Texas, had revolted
against Juarez, and was ready to accept Maximilian.
Juarez was thus stated to be placed between
two tires.

It is on such a general view of the state of the
campaign that the Archduke's conclusion is be-
lieved to have been formed ; and it is stated also
that the strong representations of the French
government as to the impossibility of establishing
the Mexican government satisfactorily in his
absence, and as to the importance of thus re-
lieving France of some of the burdens of war and
administration iu that country, which press so
heavily ou the French exchequer, have not been
without effect.

The Prince and Princess of Wales took leave of
her Majesty today, and left Osborne for Frogmore House.
The Prince and Princess crossed over in the royal yacht
Fairy to Gosport. attended by the Countess of Maccler
field, Ltantenent-General Knollys, and Lientenaot-Colonel
KeppeL _ _

JAN. 3.

The Queen, Prince Alfred, Princess Helena, Princess
Louise, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, and Princess
Rohm:doh., attended Divine service at Osborne this morn-
ing. The Rey. G. Prothero officiated.
Colonel H. Ponsonby has succeeded Lieutenant-Colonel
the Hon. D. de Roe as Equerry in Waiting.

A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the
Foreign-office. The ministers present were the
Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke of
Argyll, Sir George Grey, Earl Russell, Earl
de Grey, Sir Charles Wood, the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon.
T. Milner Gibson, the Right Hon. Edward Card-
well, Lord Stanley of Alderley, and the Right
Hon. C. P. Villiers.

The Chow:pallor of the Exchequer arrived in London on
Saturday afterooon from Hawarden Castle, Chester.

The Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson arrived in tool on
Saturday, from the seat of Viscount Palmerston, Broadlands,
Hants.

Despatches were sent on Saturday from the Colonial-
office to the Governors of Gibraltar, Malta, Coyloo, Hong
Kong, Labnan, and Canada.

THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES.--WIND-
-805, SATURDAY, JAN. 2.—This evening their Royal High-
Deese the Prince and Princess of Wales, attended by the
Countess of Macclesfield and Lieutenant-General Koollys,
arrived at the Windsor station of the Great Western Rail-
way. Their royal highnesses, on arriving at Gosport from
Osborne, OD the expiration of their visit to the Queen, left
by the ordinary 2.30 p.m. train via the London and SODIII
Western Railway for Basingstoke Junction, where the
train arrived at 4.30 p.m. Here the royal passengers
changed carriages, and entered one of the royal state
saloons attached to a special broad gauge train, provided
by the Great Western Railway Company, consistiog of a pow-
erfullocomotiveaod threecarrines, in charge of Mr. Kelley.
the traffic superintendent of the Great Western Railway,
who accompanied the train to Windsor, where it arrived at
5.30 p.m., a quarter of an hour behind the appointed time.
A large crowd of epectators assembled on the platform, in-
cluding a Dumber of ladies. As soon aa the train paused
their royal highnesses alighted, and were received by Mr.
Kelley and Mr. Matthews, the station master, and con-
ducted through the Queen's private waiting-room, when
two of the ?mice's broughams, each drawn by a couple of
chesouts, were in readiness. They were at once driven to
Frogmore-houve, where they arrived about 20 minutes to
6p m. Their royal highnesses both looked remarkably
well. The Prince sod Princess will reside at Frogmore
during this month, and afterwards proceed to Marlborough-
house, where they will remain for some time.

His Excellency the Italian Minister has arrived
in town horn visiting the Earl and Countess of Shaftes-
bury, at St. Gass's, Donetshire.
The Duke and Duchess of Grafton bare arrived
in town in order to be present at the nuptials of the Hon.
Mr. Baring with the Hon. Miss Digby, which take place
to-morrow at St. James's Church.

The Right Hun. T. 3filuer Gibson arrived in
town on Saturday, from the seat of Viscount Palmerston,
Broadlands, Hants.

The Right Hon. B. Disraeli and Mrs. Disra.:li
have left Grosvenor Gate for Mentmore, Bucks, oa a visit
to Baron and Baroness de kilthecaild.

Ou Saturday Professor Tyndall del;vered the
fourth lecture of his Christmas course "On Electricity," at
the Royal Institution. Having in his three previous
Iscturee explained and illustrated the phenomenon of
" Electricity at Rest ;" or, in other words, of that kind of
electricity which is excited by friction. he proceeded in this
lecture to consider the phenomena of that electricity excited
by chemical action called in the programme, "Electricity in
Motion."

Shortly after the announcement that Dr. Trench
would be the new Archbishop of Dublin, the Rev. Dr. Lee
was in his rooms in college when a gentleman entered, and
in a quiet way said, " I presume, sir, you are the Rev. Dr.
Lee"' The other answered he was. " I wish," rejoined
the stranger, " you to preach my consecration sermon, and,"
he added, "to confer the favour on me of becomin; my
chaplain." Theo, and for the first time, Dr. Lee saw before
him the arclibishop.elesigsate. They were total strangers to
each other. Dr. Trench admired the writings of Dr. Lee on
"Inspiration," &c., so much that he selected the fellow df
T.C. V. u 1,4 chaplain solely upon the evidences of merit
they afforded.

Vice-Admiral Sir M. Seymour, K.C.8., com-
mander•io-chief, and Major.Geoeral Lord Win. Paula,
C. 8., commanding the south-western district, embarked on
board the Fire Q leen 'tetra-yacht, Staff Commander Paul,
on Saturday morning, and proceeded to Osborne, to pay
their respecta to her Majesty.

The new quarters for married soldiers at the
Canterbury Barracks, which have been erected at a cost of
neatly 10,000/.. including extras, are now completed, and
they only await the formal inspection of the authorities to
render them ready for occupation.

THE ROYAL FLUILY AND THE SCHLESWIG-

-HOLSTEIN QUESTION.

The spectator has a curious article on European
royalty. The total number of European sovereigon—tx-
eluding the non-hereditary Pope and the semi-Asiatic Suit 10
—amounted, on the lot of January of the present year, to
exactly 39. Of this number, no fewer than 30 are of direct
German origin, that is born and bred in Germany, while of
the remaining nine, there are four of German descent. The
only five non-German sovereigns of Europe, the rulers of
France, Italy, Portugal, Spain, and Sweden. are, however,
more or less closely related to German families. The fol-
lowing extract will be road with interest at the prravut
moment:

"The marriage of the heir apparent of Great Britain
with the Princess Alexandra has brought our royal family
into some peculiar relationshipe, which may have the
effect of adding still more coofuaion to the greet Schles-
wig-Holstein puzzle. While the present King of Den-
mark is father to the Princess of Wales, his rival, as far as
the German Duchies are concerned, Prince Frederik of
Augustenburg, is likewise nearly connected by marriage
with Queen Victoria ; and both oo the Glucksburg and
the Auguatenburg aide there are a host of morpoiat,c
princes sod princesses which bring the retitionabip down
to the very root of the Schleswig-Holstein temple of the
winds. Prince Frederick of Auguatenburg, the pretender,
pee his band, in 1486, to Princess Adelaide of Hohec-
lohe-Loingenbli4, whose mother is • daughter of the late
Duchess of Kent, by her first husband, and consequently
half-sister of Queen Victoria. The house of Hoheulohe-
Langenburg belongs to the mediatisixl' fill:Milt. of
Germany, and does not stand very high, moos the Ho-
benlulies, detesting the law of primogeniture, have split
into no less thee eleven different lines, all rich in elem.
berm but poor in real uropertv. Nevertheless, in becoming
the rival of the new king of Denmark. the Prince of A ague-
tenburg his the consolation that the family of the former is
not in much better position. The eldest brother of King
Christian, head of the house of Schleswig-Holstein-Gluck'.
burg, L in the position of a country squire in Holstein,
and scarcely any members of his family have risen above
this rank. The eldest of the eight heathen and sisters,
Princeas Marie, aunt of our Princess of Wsles, married
in lilt? a Colonel Lasperg, who died in 1843; after which
she united herself it' second nuptials to a Count Hohen-
tbal, a gold-stick in asitiog at the Court of Dresden. The
second suet of the Princess of Wales is widow of the semi.
lunatic Duke of Anhault-Bernborg : while the third, whose
history is said tube spiced with romance, has become abbess
of the monastery of I trehoe. Dryden's
' I have a sister, abbess in Tereeras,
Who lost her love on her bridal day,
is said to have been put, with • variation, in the mouth
of King Christian, to a ...awful play performed at Comm-
bageo. The five brothers of the King, including the head
of the' family, are altogether social nonentities; two being
country squires, the third an officer in the Austrian service,
and the fourth and fifth majors in the army of Piaui'. Con.
aequently, though the rise of the Glucksburg family
bar been more moid than that of the Coburgs, it sill
probably be confined, at least for some time, to the
sons and daugliters of Kiog Christian, the Leopold of his
house. However, as at is, the achievement is already
something marvellous. But a dozen years ago, an un-
known member of a quite einkuowc family, Prince
Christian of &bless ig.HulateimSonderburg-Chicksburg,
has now become a king whose voice is heard is the councils
of Europa, with a daughter destined to wear the diadem of
the noblest empire in the world, sod last, not least, a son
possessing the privilege of addressing his own father as
Monsieur neon fre,re. It is not often that • youngster of
eighteen besion.es a king before his sire, and has the
pleasure of complimenting his progenitor on his aocessiou
to the throne. But for the existence of royal family
alliances., the case might never have happened • for were
not the sister a Princess of Wales, no wind could possibly
have drifted the young Glucksburg midshipman upou the
throne of the Belleges."

PRONABLR
TUESDAY. ON NORTHERN WEDNESDAY.
Easterly, fresh, flue. Cossre. S. to W., moderate,
Snowy.
S. to W., moderate, WINHERN. A.W. to N., fresh, snow
snow au places, some at tones, or rain.
TAM
8. to W. and N., mo- MIDDLE. W. to N. and N.X.,
some slow. fresh, some snow.
N.S.E to E S.E. awl &CYBELE. E. to S. and S.W.,
9., fresh to strong, strong, some eons.
Tine.
N.E. to S.B. strong, EASTERN. E. to S., fresh, fine.
lonic Snow.
Barometer extreme at Heligoland, 30.91 on 3rd.
Worthern=Scolland. Westerns Ireland. Al iddle=Ni'ale..
ovio.site and adjacent Sow ern= English Channel sod Biscay
Bay. Gastrin= Easissr.l Eugland anal Ueliselaust
8.-Barometer corrected and reduced to ST° at half tide level.
Each ten feet. of vertical elevation, cantle: about one hundredth
of an inch I,I3IISUTIoN and rsi•h ten degree., above 82-, ‘gua_
log nearly these hundredths INCRFASZ E.-Exposed therms..
meter iu shade. D.-Difference of net bulb ;for evaporation and
dew polnt‘. W.-Wind, direction of .TRUE-two points Lan of
magnetic`. F.-Force to 12-estimated . X.-Extreme force
but report. Q .-Quarter a hence ExTREXE tom, NNE=.y,
to 3t-.N'. I. - Initials -Dille sky; v.-clouds detached;;
I -f.st ; h.-hall: L -lightning ; m.-misty)' ;hazy, ; 0.-over ast
Ann,. r.-rain, 5.-snow t.-thouder. R =Rai:stall, snow or
hail melted;, since last report. 8.-Sea disturbance it to 9..

The Paris Droll states that the preparation of the
bill of indictment against the physician accused of having
pisoned his wife in order to obtain 22,0001, from en insur-
ance company is entrusted to M. Oouet, one of the magis-
trates of the Imperial Court of Paris. Orders have been
given that the trial may take place with as little delay as
possible. The case would have been already set down for
trial but for the discovery of fresh evidence, which requires
time for investigation.

The cathedral at Berlin has jtvit received a gift
on the occasion of the erection of a new marble altar. The
gift alluded to is an embroidered altar-cloth, which was
presented by the Queen of Prussia, at whose desire all the
princesses of the royal family took part in the manufacture
of the offering, and each division bears the initials of the
princess by whose hand that particular portion was executed.
A lotto front Brest, in thu Journal du I►arre,
states that the Confederate corvette Florida, having com-
pleted her repairs, has anchored in the roadstead about 200
yards distant from the Federal corvette Keaisage. The
former will commence her experimental tripe on the 10th,
and proceed to sea in the early part of February. A French
vessel of war will conduct the two corvettes beyond the
limits of the French waters, putting an interval of 21 boors
between the departure of each, in conformity with the relit'.
lations of international law.

PRFAIDENT LINCJI.N. —President Lincoln is not
a polished speaker, seitber doss he wield a polished pee ;
but he has a way often of saying the fitting thing—ex-
pressing the right thought or feeling in homely phrases,
that gives to the thought or feeling its due pleas above all
regard to mere style. Thus is gained a remarkable power
in the way of an emphatic and direct simplicity, which
reaches and holds every beersr or reader. In the premium
of the fine, sincere, aml appropriate sentiment, the absence
of the classical finish is not felt. —.ll;ssouri Democrat.