The Express.
London, England, 1855-08-30 00:00:00

TILE QUEEN'S VISIT TO FRANCE.

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(From ths llorsileur)
The Queen of England has just quitted our hos-
pitable shores. Her visit will be remembered as one
of the greatest events elan epoch fruitful in novel and
remarkable incidents. Let us salute once more this
august Princess, the messenger of concord and
peace! Let us salute, with her, her youthful
family, the hope of three kingdoms, and her royal
husband, who has so well understood the genius, the
manners, and the atts of France.
It is not the first lime that crowned heads have
visited our country. Peter I. came here to study
civilisation, to employ it against civilisation itself.
The Emperor Joseph 11. here showed himself more
a philosopher and a critic than a monarch. The one
and the other excited the curiority, not the sym-
pathy, of the public ; and the nation regarded with
indifference thee' travellers who were not its guests.
The presence of Queen Victoria, on the contrary, has
moved the whole French nation. From Boulogne
to Paris, from Paris to Boulogne, she has met a
triumphal reception from our electrified people.
This is because it was not a mere personal feeling
which has brought this illustrious Sovereign among
us. She has been among us to seal up seven ages of
unhappy rivalries, and to cement upon a firm fou
Son the alliance of the two greatest nations of the
West.

THE BALTIC.

BEF.LIN, Avo. 29.

The allied fleet, which was ber.ore Cronstadt, has
gone farther oat to sea. It h:e taken up a position
(to the number of 15 micas) west of Fort Tol-
burkine.

RUSSIA.

The inva/ide Rum publishes a long report from
General de Berg of be bombardment of Sweaborg.

General de Berg states the loss of the Russiats,
during the bombardment, to have been 44 men killed,
two superior offioers, three subaltern officers, and 110
men, wounded.
In addition to this, 11 men were killed on board
the man-of•war Ramie, and one subaltern and 88
men wounded; and one sailor wounded on board the
Esechiel.

Now that the course of events has enabled France
and England to become more intimately acquainted,
they see with admiration that they are indispensable
to each other, and that they are neighbours less by
dbajszta-position of their coasts than by the common
Ipotoession of liberal civilisation. And yet their sen-
*mots had not until now passed the limits of a reci-
=esteem ; they had never been blended tither in
tine policy nor in the glow of an ardent friend-
ship. It was reserved for the Emperor to bring
about a more intimate relationship. When, by the
public voice, the chief of the Napoleonic dynasty was
placed at the head of the state, he found national
hatreds which had preceded him, stubborn con-
flicts which he had not raised, inveterate passions
which were only turned against him, because he was
the highest personification of the principles of 'B9,
'ben imperfectly understood. To-day those immortal
principles have triumphed over the resistance of
Europe, and liberal England has acknowledged their
legitimacy. The heir of the name of Napoleon there-
fore had no reason to prefer another pert to that of
pacificator—a character more conformed to his mag-
nanimity, to the real interests of his country, and to
the ideas of his age. And as the Emperor had ad•
mirably comprehended that the lasting and cordial
concert of France and England constitutes the most
powerful force fir urging on the progress of the
woad in these days, he has extended a friendly hand
to the English people and government.
England has enthusiastically responded to this
appeal—has grasped this loyal hand in her own, be-
cause it was that of France herself, thrice personified
in the Emperor, and her well-beloved Queen has
crossed the straits with the winning cortige of goad-
nes., grace, and the sweetest majesty, in order to
bring us the expression of England's confileuce in a
great nation.
That was indeed a moment ardently looked for by
France, when she could give scope to her own en-
thusiasm ; for it is not enough that fusions be pre-
pared by the policy of princes: none are genuine
save those which the peoples effect themselves. It
was therefore not enough that St. Cloud should
worthily reply to the Royal hospitality of Windsor.
Paris wished to vie with London in its
rejoicings and spontaneous transport.. Queen
Victoria has seen the popular jay burst forth along
her passage. At the theatre as at the Palace of In-
dustry—in the Sainte Chapelle as in the Hotel de
Ville—on the Boulevards inundated by the waves of
the population as on the Champ de Mars resounding
with the cheers of the army—each of these visits was
a festival, and each of these festivals was an
energetic manifestation, when the acclamations of
the French people had for witnesses thousands of
stranger., who flocked into its walls attracted
by the wonders of the Exhibition. It may
be said that in order to be more solemn, this frater-
nal alliance was celebrated in presence of the whole
world represented at Paris.
Providence—we cannot but recognise it—seems to
have reserved for this present epoch profound sub-
jects for meditation. It is at Versailles, in the palace
of Louis XIV., that the Emperor Napoleon 111. pre-
sents to the Queen of England the most splendid
magnificence of his court: he revives there for her
the noble pleasures and pomp., long since extinct, of
the great monarch, that haughty enemy of the revo-
lution of 1688. On the same day, this noble-hearted
Queen had repaired to the funereal asylum of those
Stuarts whom her dynasty replaces. She did more,
and surrounded by her family, in pensive mood, she
came to lay on the tomb of Napoleon I. the concilia-
tory sentiment of which her journey is the symbol
and the seal. Lastly, France and England.
who have closed the history of their divisions,
instead of persisting, like Rome and Car-
thage, in nurturing implacable resentments, unite
• tbeir policy, their interests and their blood for one of
those immense causes that decide the future state of
humanity. Such contrasts confound the foresight
and precaution of men ; nothing is left for the human
mind but to bow before that supreme wisdom whose
greatness is alone immutable, and which subjects our
most deep-rooted passions to the harmony of its pro-
vidential designs.

DEATH or MR. J. CARTER, the engraver of
B. W Ward's "Sane In Change Alley daring the Agita-
tion of the South Sea Babble." This talented artist ex-
pired suddenly lad week, having only just completed the
'republished plate of " West's first Effort is Art," from
Ward's picture of that title. The genius of the deceased
will live in the recollection of ell lovers of art. He his un-
I happily left a large family and a numerous tire!, of friends
to mourn his loss.

FLOWER SHOW AT CREMOREE GAIDENB.—The
floricultural world is ea the gin vivo, la eoeargaence of the
ispeetatioas awakened by the Bower show that is to take
plies at Cream" Gardena Ibis day. Many of the mammal
flowers have already attaised their full developuteut.

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 30, 1855.

AUE72III AND THE ITALIAN LEGION. I.

LATEST FROM ABROAD.
A leftist of the 24th, in the Leipzig
-V"—// • • Carafe. toys: " Lord Elliott, whorepleaes Lord
° CRIMEA. Wrkinorelaci at the Embassy during his absence,
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ksd a long conference with Count Buol,yerterday, in
Prises Clciriabakoff mtlarls ft", Se ]undo under consequence of despatches received from London. The
ate of tbtsWen— big of.* 48th: ml's fire fire is slack. Nothinglw " subject of the interview is stated to have been the
"The enem
formation of the Italian legion. Lord Elliott is said'
is.
to have declared, in the name of his Cabinet, that the
Western Powers are still resolved not to take advan-
tage of the present crisis to moot questions of nation-
ality, and that the depots of recruits now at Novara
will be removed further from the Austrian frontier."

from Vienna