The Express.
London, England, 1855-05-22 00:00:00

THE COMMAND OF THE FRENCH ARMY.

THE Emperor of the Fames has given an-
other proof of his being is earnest in the war
against Russia. The Moniteur of Friday contains
the appointment of General Pzusava es Com-
mander.in•Chiet of the French faeces is the Crimea.
It is said in the same official paper that Genital
CAEIROBUT has resigned the poet be held on amount
of ill-health. But se the following paragraph
annonnoss him to have taken General Pausstica's
place as Commander of a Division, the public are not
boned to believe any more of the alleged meson than
they like. As officer who is too unwell to remain
at the head of as army can hardly be fit to
main= on active service at all ; sad, therefore,
it is not unnatural to conclude that General
CANEOBERT hes received from his Imperial
Mader a hint that he could no longer be at
the head of the French army before Sebastopol,
but that, being a brave man and a good soldier, he is
unwilling to leave the seat of war so long as
there is a thence of a shot being fired. Further

than this it behoves as not to examine the cane of
so important a change. With that courtesy for which
their nation is so celebrated, the French have ab-
stained all along from commenting upon the menet
d many English General officers, who, although too
dek to remain in the Crimea, have been well enough
kit ward months past to dine out at public dinners
Wise and three times a week, and to take part in
every festivity—public and private—to which they
have been invited since their return to England. Sir
Ds LACY Evans is an exception to this almost
universal rale, and we wish he wee not the only
one. Let me, therefore, follow the example est tie by
our neighboste, and neither talk too mask am
inquire too minutely as to the why and the whet,-
fore a General officer belonging to the army of our
allies has been placed in an inferior position to that
which he previously tilled. Whatever may be the
Eamon for the change, it cannot be said of General
einnonzar that he has made his health an excuse
for leaving the seat of war. In hie reply to
Gessral CANBOBIZT, the Munoz congratulates
Mm en his desire to remain with the army ("II
eratfikaits du sentiment qui cons fait dassender do
rake 1 Penn& 1, and names him not merely to the
amend of a simple division, bet to that at the seer
larastia which PELISSIOt hes been at the head el Mace
Ms arrival from Algiers. The soldierlike sentiment
d Goad CANZOBIZT is precisely that which k-
ind Gemini Bun to rise from a sick bed in wear
lobs pima at Inkermana, although he &And
nide; the emend of his division oat ci Major-
Omni Penniman% hands. Would that we
man record a few more similar butanes of devoted-
ness.* their profession on the part of English 0~111
am. sham the war began.
Bellosa, if ever, has any appointment in Freacn
given greater satisfaction than that of General I
Pews= to the chief controand in the Crimea.
Our neighbours are in polities far more bitter mean
than &Widnes. Nor is this to be wandered at.
The injuries whisk one or other party ham at times
inflicted upon its opponents are too merino to be
away forgotten. This is the reason that, except
amend his own adherents, no nomination of the
Iterzione—and it was exactly the same in the
days both of Louis Pamirs and CliA2llB THE
TIIITH—is ever spoken well of. Bet this rale
doss not apply to the promotion of Gametal
PILIMIKR to the chief command of the French forces
in the Crimes. Both on Friday and Saturday last
this appointment was freely canvassed in Paris, and
in all nobs of society, from the speculators on the
Bonne to the Legitimist drawing-rooms in the
Faubourg St. Germain, it was a matter of eangesta-
laden unapt all men, as affixing an additional
chance that the war would be brought to a
speedy and hismoorelge termination. Nor should the
fact be overlooked, that General Pumps= tea by
no means be called one of the Emmen', own new
tares. He is, and always baa been, a declared re•
publican in polities, although his long abuses hem
France has happily prevented his being mixed ap
with react changes. The General wont to Algiers
in 1830, soon after entering the army, and with the
empties of three years, during which he wee
WNW as a Major to the Paris divisitm of the army,
he sever left Africa until Wend to the Crimea a
inert time ago. He wee a pupil of General
BveuuD'a in military matters, cad few men
of his age for he is under fifty —now
living have seen the great quantity of active,
service which it has fallen to his lot to vitamin. Not

oaly is parietal courage and bravery hos PILIOSIIR 1
distiagaishrd himself, but he is also a moist& ogles 1
of gnat mown, having duly qualified himself for,
sad served on, the staff of the Amen way for salty
pars. A great eatery was made agaiast his in
Europe ems tine ago, for having &Amid by packs