The Express.
London, England, 1855-09-28 00:00:00

SPAIN.

Telegraphic reports from Madrid of the 25th state
that the Queen is going on well after her late mis-
hap.
The Madrid journals of the 20th have arrived, but
contain no news of interest beyond what was given
in the letter of that date received yesterday. A letter
of the 21st says :
The news sant off by telegraph of a detachment of 150
soldiers having been captured by the Carlist band of B.rges
at Tramp bas created great sensation here. Borges set the
°Moen at liberty, bet detained the soldiers. The govern-
ment has decided that the treasury shall pay the expense of
the mobilisation of the national guard in the provinces of
Catalonia and Aragon, the ausrd having been employed by
the military authorities. The police of Madrid have seized
14,000 copies of a violent aad seditious proclamation. The
Garatle denies that • conspiracy has been discovered at
Valencia, as reported daring the last few days, and declares
that the movements of the democratic party in Galicia cause
no alarm. It is not Messrs. Rothschild, as has been stated,
bat the Compasy of the Ctedit liohilier of Paris, to whom
M. de Salamanca has undertaken to Bell the railway from
Madrid to Almanac. A band of 200 vagabonds recently
assembled at Tarifa with the avowed intention of proceeding
to a divisloa of private property ; but some of them were
arrested, and the othen dispersed by the authorities. Some
arrests have taken place at Barcelona, but the cause of them
is not known.
The Madrid journals of the 21st state that the
Queen had given 20,000 reale (5,000 f.), 10,000 of
them in the name of her daughter, for the relief of
the distress existing in the province of the Asturias.
Large
France, end the consequence, weea rise in prices.
quantities of wheat were being exported into

NEW CHANNEL AT HAULBOWLINE.—The large
and powerful dredge-11 at Lee, belonging to the Harbour
Commissioners, is W,, by their pernsis,ion, engaged in
cutting a channel as the expense of the Admiralty, from
that close under Re thy Island to the main channel between
Heolbe,rlio•rui Va eeeee town. The new cut will be about
eighty Nee wide, and will allow vessels to lie close to the
eagles gee! est lianlbowlice to discharge or load, the
lowest depth 'of water in it bring intended to be about three
feet at low •rater of spring tides. In connexion with this
cut some ce, the slob to the southward of Ilaulbowline is
beieg tai.ea io, and we believe about 200 eonvicts are em-
ployed '..a the work. The new channel will give the much-
wonte.d direct communication for boats at all times of tide
'soviets Queensto en and Spike Island and the harbour
r.nerally.—Cork Reporter.
The Melbourne Age of June 11th states that Mr.
B. C. Aspinall, barrister, sots of the Rev. J. AspinalL of
Altborpe, and only two sessions ego a member of the ye-
pollen' gallery in parl;sment, is a favourite candidate
amongst the diggers of Bsllarst for a scat in the Ligislst:Te
Coosa .


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HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
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To-notoom—Mersing. 416 4h. 10.•

LONDON,FRIDAY,

Wan will the Allis. do next P has been the ques-
tion on every tongue sines the fall of SebestopoL We
had last night the good fortune to furnish in a special
edition an answer to this inquiry. The generals of
the Allied Armies, which Russian journals assure us
are besieged and hemmed in by Prince Gottr•
CIIAXOPTII troops, have felt that they could soave.
niently spare a large number of men from before
Sebastopol to reinforce the corps at Eupatoria.
The fact indicated from several sources as probable
is now simultaneously announced from Constanti-
nople and St. Petersburg. Prince GORTCILIMOFF in-
forms his muter, who has gone to meet bad news,
that a reinforcement of 20,000 troops of the Allies
had landed at Eupatoria, and that the division there,
raised to a strength of 30,000 men, bad attacked the
Rend= infantry, " which retreated over the heights
of Resta. " Whether these words oonosal the
serious defeat of a Russiin corps, or sufficiently
describe a preliminary operation, is reserved
for future accounts to tell. The engagement
took plus on Saturday last, so that not muck time
could have been lost after the disembarkation of the
troops. Sufficient data for judging of the precise plan
of the Allied Generals are wanting. The important
essa to which the possession of Espateriseaknatei es
conveniently for menacing the communientiMMeir tttis
Russian army, may be applied are ovarian, user
nixed; but the strength of the Allied terse theft es
estimated by Prince GOITCHAZOIT, is at mast Oft
smell for their development, and we shall not be sefe.
prised to learn that the 30,000 men of whom he speaks
are the pioneers of a larger corps. We abstain,however,
from premature speculation. and are for the present
content to note theoudinal fact that the AUied Generals,

lot enplaning in a mere possession of Sebastopol,
pumas their advantage, and act offensively against
the enemy. They have as aim, a resolve, and a plan,
which is already in executkm.

Evert amidst the uproar of victory it may not be
unprofitable to out a glance at the past. True we
have destroyed Sebastopol—all, at least, that gave
terror to that name : and indeed the very magnitude d
the catastrophe, and the difficulties in the way ef Ma
accomplishment, seem to furnish an ample justifies.
don of our policy. Before the campaign opened, and
whilst it proceeded, what oscillations in public
opinion—at one moment Russian power proclaimed
a bugbear, at another proclaimed invincible !
After the siege of Silistria and the battle of the
Alms, the Russia* soldier and the Russian officer
were the theme of almost scorn and contempt. Alter
the flask march to Balakiava, and the measures of
the Russians adopted for their defence, increasing,
as they did, in vigour with their increasing difficul-
ties, they became the object of as extravagant ad-
miration. Now, however, we trust that neither Mr.
COBDEN nor any other man will dream of crumpling
up the Russian empire like a scrap of paper) nor will
any reasonable individual—much less an English
statesman—lower himself, as Mr. GLADSTONE did,
by false exaggeration of his country's dangers, or
bid us fall upon our knees for deliverance from the
hands of the enemy. The Russian power is not a
bugbear, neither is it invincible. To sober-minded
men this was always apparent; to the most incredu-
lous it is now equally obvious. Nor, indeed, are wit-
nesses wanting to prove the truth of both assertions.
Ask any one of those gallant men who on the
dawn of that memorable Sunday stood, smeared with
glorious dust, on the blood-stained ramparts of Sebas-
topol, amid the crash and devastation of a burning
city and • sinking fleet, gazing through that curtain
of fire which debarred the cooquerori from pur-
suing those vanquished columns as they defiled,
with sullen tread, across that bridge of boats from
the lines they had held with such noble devotion—
ask, we say, any of those men whether a Power
which can command the lives of such soldiers
is a Power to be treated with indifferenseP
And, on the other hand, what shall be NM of
the men who dared snoocesfully to meet snob $
foe—who had the peneverieg courage to enders
the rigours of • Crimean winter, set, amid hunger
and cold, through sleeping nights and watchful days,
to execute miles of trenches, and that in a rocky soil,
till they almost touched the very guns of the
besieged—to arm them with mortars and with
cannon of such number and calibre as have never been
known in war, and finally to assault with sitcoms
a system of bastions and entrenchments behind which
there stood au army of some forty thoosand men--w
exploit unparalleled in history? Let any men
ask himself whether statesmen such as Lord JOHN
Ruser.u. and Mr. GLADSTONE, who seemed to
doubt the ability of the Western Powers to
curb the ambition of the East, are states-
men who formed anything like • just intim&
of the might which they knew not bow to wkM P
Doubtless, the Rossi** nation is great, but it is mg,

nocontroliable. And that Ran mast be blind
who,havisg observed the history of the last yesr,yet
questions the energy of the Russian Government and
the power at its disposal. Is it not the truth that,
notwithstanding the blockade of all their ports, that
succeeded in feeding not lees than four great armies,
sod in keeping three empires at bay P
To doubt the designs of the late CZAR is of coarse
impossible ; and now, having learnt the energy and
ambition of the Russian character, it new equally
impossible to doubt that bad not those designs been
checked, they would surely have been pot into execu-
tion. And bow would the pesos of the world be
neared, if the Czaa were enthroned ea the Bospho-
rus? Happily, the infatuation of NICHOLAS precipi-
tated the catastrophe. Happily, tke position of the
European Powers was the very ravens of that in
which the Eitrzaoa expected to find this t for be
expected to find them disunited, whereas be fossil
them united. The result has been his signal overarm&
Russian power is the Black Sea is for fibs puma
annihilated, and its prestige throughout the But be
and England are united by the
' seems.

this happy result, we,
what would have been
had pease been concluded
taken. In vain might
in all the languages

of the mirth the stipulation framed to curb'
the Russian power. Russia would have pointed
to the essibised armies of England sod of France
essapelled to ovseuate her sacred tordteries. la
vain the philosophic statesman might have proved by
ingesioss arguments the value of the stipulations
obtained for the security of the Turkish Empire and
the future peace of the world. The rough soldier and
the man of blunt sense would have said, and said with
troth, the fleets and armies of the two greatest
empires in the world, having genie to conquer Sebas-
topol, were compelled to retire, their design unto-
somplished. It is impossible to define prestige, or to
measure its effects. Nations not less than individuals
mast accept it as a feet, and bow to its influence.
Bat it is impossible to doubt that the permanent with-
drawal of the alhed forces from before Sebastopol would
bare been a fatal step. Such an act would certainly
have been misoonstrned—and we may rest assured

the emissaries of Rosie would have aimed no paius

to encourage that misconstruction ; and every petty
state with whom our Government might have
come in contact would have been encouraged to
insolence which would have oompelled us to a con-
stant exhibition of our power. Whoreu this incon-
venience, grievous se it is, must sow be endured not
by us but by Russia. Knowing, moreover, as we
do, the passion for military glory which inflames
our French allies, it is not hard to speculate upon
the consequences which would probably have
followed if the 100,000 men now glorified
by the conquest of the Malskhoff had re-
turned to France with nothing to emblazon on
their banners but patience under privation and the
fruitless victories of Alma and of lokermano. Nor,
indeed, can we fail to see that under circumstances

such as thess the cordiality of feeling which now
happily subsists might, amidst the irritating discus-
sions incident to a complicated treaty, have given place
to angry disputes and speedy discord.
It is well, therefore, that the shortsighted policy
of the diplomatists of France and England at Vienna
was swept aside by more resolute and profound
plans; for we verily believe that, had this not been so,
instead of the echoing peal of glad triumph with
which city answers city, from the Straits of Dover to
the Northern Atlantic, we should have heard nothing
now but the threatening murmurs of a discontented
people.

VW Court.

BALMORAL, SIP?. 26.

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The Queen, with the Prince, the Prince= Royal,
and Prince Frederick William of Prank, attended by the
Hon. Beatrice Byng and Captain Heintz, attended ynter-
day to the summit of Lash-na gar.
The Prince of Wales and Priam Alfred, atttaded by Mr.
Gibbs, drove to Inversesld.

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Viscount mad Vieeounter Canning and Earl Granville
left Balmoral yesterday.
The Dachas, of Wellington has succeeded Lady Canning
in the duties of Lady of the Bedebomber to the Quin.

The Earl and Countess of Elgin hare left Broom
Fifeehire, oa a tour of visits is the north of Boatload.

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Earl and Countess Fortssoue hairs left his Lordship's
shooting questa, he the Highlands, for Teetotal&ll, LW-
oolashire.

Mr. Dunlop, M.P., addressed his constituents in
West Blaekhsll•strest Chapel, Oessnook, on Wednesday

Mr. Edward Baxter, M.P. for the Montrose Die-
Wet of Betels, addressed a nesting of his constituent. is
the Guildhall, Montrose, oa Tuesday evening.

Mr. Layard, M.P., hu arrival at Genoa.

Mr. Chula Dickens w ill read his " Christmas
Carol" at the Peterborough: Mechanics Institution on the
18th of December.

VISIT OV THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE TO LIVER-
POOL —At a menial meeting of the Liverpool Town Coun-
cil on Wedussdy, the Mayor (James A. Tobin, Esq.)
announced that tba Duke of Cambridge bad accepted tas
worship's invitation on Tuesday, the 9th proximo. The
announcement sensed moral satisfaction, and the motion
for an address Aces the corporation to the duke was
unanimously permed. It was also resolved that, imiag to
the successes of the allied armies in the Crimes, the day of
his royal highaess's visit should be kept as a holiday in all
the public departments under the cannel', and that the
Town-ball and public buildings be Illuminated. The sound'
also called on the inhabitants to join in the demonstration

by displaying bsnnen during the day, sod illuminating In
the evening. Public amusements will be provided at the
corpora,* 'swam, and boyars. lighted in the suburbs. In
the evening, the Mayor will give a grand baaqust to hi
august visitor, after which a WI will be held at the Tow.-

gone, whilst Francs aid EDI
common ties of danger and so
But whilst contemplating
cannot forbear considering
the position of the Allies ha
1 , without Sebastopol being t
the Allies hate proclaimed
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