The Express.
London, England, 1855-05-25 00:00:00

and fraud under which we live—a system of whoelw
meanness and ohamsfainees we need no better illus-
tration than the lardeal discussion of last night in
the House of Ccanweas.—Daily News.

A NAIVE

SIB WILLIAM MOLEBWORTH wrote, on Wednes-
day, to his constituents, in Southwark, "If Mr.
DISRA2II% motion be carried, the necessity of Ad-
ministrative Reform will become more apparent." The
result of a vote of censure against Ministers being car-
ried would, in all likelihood, be their resignation.
The meaning, therefore, of the somewhat oracular
epistle, from which we have quoted, would appear to
be, that the necessity for Administrative Reform is
not apparent to Sir WILLLem MoutsWORTH in office,
but would become obvious to Sir WILU&cc MOLES-
WORTa out of °Sm.—Daily News.

(PROM SRI

FRANCE.

HYDINT OP Till DAILY NRWS.)
PARIS, THURSDAY EVININO.

Great interest is felt here on the subject of Mr.
Disraeli's motion for to-night. The opinion that the
Government will be ousted is very prevalent. The
Bourse, in the early part of the day, was effected
considerably by this apprehension and by a fall in
Consols. But in the afternoon, rumours that the
Vienna Conferenoes would reopen on the 26th pro-
doped a favourable reaction. The Rents closed at
69fr. 10c., with a rise of 30c. Bank of France rose 15fr.
The railways, after considerable fluctuation, left off
without any great change. Some lines were lower
than yesterday, but the majority somewhat higher.
It was reported that government was about to bor-

row 150 million. from the Bank of France, with
which they would get on till October without a new
public loan.

The harper:dance, confirming the news I sent two
or three days since, says that General Canrobert de-
cidedly refuses the command of the corps d'artnes
offered to him, and that he will merely take the di-
vision which he headed at Alma. General de Sallee,
it is said, has been selected in place of General Can-
robert as the second in command to General Pe-
Hasler.

A letter from Corfu, of the 12th, mentions the ar-
rival in that port of the Canadian and Talavera trans-
ports from Batiklava, in order to embark the let
Regiment of the Lancashire Militia and convey them
to Zante to relieve the 31st Regiment of the Line,
which will proceed by the same vessels to the Crimea.

The follo;ving despatch has just arrived:
" BERLIN, THURSDAY.
" The governments of the province of Finland and
the Baltic Sea have been placed in a state of siege."
On the subject of the hoax—of which you will not
hear the last for some time, for the entire press of
Europe will be occupied with it more or less for some
days to come—the Duke de Coigny, an old Peninsular
soldier, writes the following letter to the Potrie.
Lord Raglan will be pleased to find an old " rival in
arms and brother in renown" coming forward to
defend his military reputation ; but it is impossible
not to smile at reading a serious argument against
the possibility of his being the author of the despatch
to which his signature appeared in all the Paris

PaPer.:
Monsieur le Redacteur—l cannot quite say that I have
been for upwards of forty years the friend of Lord Raglan.
We were not precisely friends when we were both of us in
the same battlefield■ in the Peninsula. But, titter long years
of war there came long years of peace, and during thus
years, wh we had the pod fortune to meet, it was
ever with a sincere feeling of reciprocal pleasure that we
held oat to each other the single hand which alone is left
to either of us. That a small portion of the English press
should continually end to throw ridicule upon the
isitisneto confidant of the Duke of Wellington—upon
• man whose own long military career has shed c:me
additional lustre at least upon the English arms, is •
feet which I can only deplore. But here, in my own cow.-
ely, I feel called upon in the absence of my friend to pro-
test, in the strongest manner porible, against any attack
upon his reputation. Allow me to disabuse your mind
(should it be necessary to do so) on the subject of a counter-
feit report of Lord Region, which (to my great regret) you
have translated f►om the Standard. Will you, sir, do me
the honour to believe me upon my word, when I say that
either my old friend mut Lave gone out of his mind, or
he can never have written such a despatch. If you read it
again, you will be as convinced as I am that he could not
have written it.
I am, &a.,

Due Dt COLONY.

THE PENINSULAR MAILS.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-
packet Iberia, Captain Christian, Admiralty Agent,
Lient. tharles Bolton, RN., has arrived at South-
ampton, with the Peninsular Mails.
Her dates are: Gibraltar, May 16; Cadiz, 17 ;
Lisbon, 19; Oporto, 20; Vigo, 21. She brings 751
passengers, among whom are the Duke and Duchess
of Nemours and attendants, from Lisbon; Captain
Curran, 06th Regiment.
Her cargo consists of 1 pipe, 20 quarter-casks, and
26 cameo of wine, 400 half-cheats of oranges, 100
boxes of potatoes, 17 cues of dates, 105 boxes of
eggs, 27 boxes of specie, 3 boxes of saffron, and 27
packages of sundries.
There is no political news of importance.
At Vigo, May 21, the Iberia spoke the Peninsular

and Oriental Company's packet Madrid, and at Lis-
bon, May 13, the Peninsular and Oriental Company's
packet Solent ; and at Gibraltar, May 16; the Penin-
sular and Oriental Company's steam-ship Candia.
Movements of foreign ships of war.— The French
steamers !kepis' and Newton were at Lisbon, and the
Spanish frigate Las Cortes, 32 guns, and steamer
Valesco, 2 guns, and French steamer Tonnes., 4 guns,
at Cadiz.