The Express.
London, England, 1855-10-12 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 12, 1855.

round for the purpose of forming their treenhes they were
&stint' of provisions. It is known t►at they were all this
time suffering front pestilesee—that dines' visited their
ranks ; and notwithstanding they wen destitute of
sll these appliances, so far from feu, or desertioe,
our onnedies taking polemics of their Minds, their
sufferings only seemed to inspire them with a more heroic
determination to aoaqur the enemy, or to leave their
whitened house as a teatimony of their duty sad devotion
to their nanny. Mond sheen.)

Deputy Deets, in esconding the mottos, aid—My Lord
Mayor, the hon. aldermen Itu so graphicaliy outdo eloquently
deeeribed lb. Bonne of the sampaigu, which has been a
subject of begat gratitude on the part of the nation, that
Isbell sot attempt to fellow him. If ever there was • time
when the Common Connell of the City of London might
address the Throne in tones of eengratalation I believe this
is the time. I believe we may go up to the Throne to eon-
gratelate her Majesty upon the heroic deeds of her army
and nest. (Hear, hear.) We all know that war is a terrible
soup. We have been all horrified by the details of the
earls of fire that have encircled that devoted city, and
which have hurled to eternity hundreds of thousands of
ma; and, whilst we glory is the result, we deeply deplore
the necessity. (Hoer, hear.) Bat thou are things more
terrible this war. There are pictures that the medal
may draw which wield beeves more to be dreaded Oka the
campsites of the last two peen we hate had shadowed oat
to um by the deeds of Russia, as alluded to by the worthy
aldermas, when she attacked • defeneelem fleet and scattered
it to deetinsetion, what her will would have been if she had
been =slushed in her career of lawless ambition aid dossi-
patios. If England and Franc*, to their immortal glory, had
not stood oat for liberty, civilisation, and order, bat allowed
this milord power to march on to her prey and taken her
stand is the Mediterrsasaa, the traces of learning, and civi-
lisation, sad order need have been blotted out in the West.
(Hear, hear.) This would have been more frightful than
ens that war ; and, mein the success which has hitherto
attended au arras, we may properly go up to the throne
with the leagump of envatnlation. (Hear, hear.) Her
Majesty is to be aosgestalated upon the stern
velour of her troops, and the faithful 'Liana of
the noble French sad &idiotism She is to be emigrate'.
laud upon the sustaiaed opinion of this country, which Kee
UM importance of the steps which have been taken. She is
to be congratulated epos the malt of the last campaign;
and Ido not thick that this court caa be espied is any
thing more fitting or gracious tba that they should humbly
tender to her Majesty, at the foot of the throes, the ungratu-
tallow of the citizens of Leaden. (Loud akein.)
On the motion being put,
Mr. Emmet said he did not consider that the present
was a fit tints for the voice of congratulation, and hoped
that the corporation would wait till some more decided,
clear, entails, and unquestionable funs were brought
before them. No man would be more delighted to support
the warmest expression of congratulation to her Majesty,
sad the most enthusiastic expression of gratitude to our
gallant troops, when the proper time arrived, than himself.
Eighty thousand of the best blood of Britain,eighty thousand
of such men as ten years mast elapse before their places
weld he supplied, had bun sent out to the Crimea, fifty
thousand of whom bad melted away. (Hear' hear.) Did
these sink before Russian iron and before Russian hard
steel ? No ; a large portion had melted away before aria-
tocratio rule, before tided insolence, and Delors the ex-
hea-ted and nerveless powers of the body that called them-
selves the government of the country. Thousands upon
thousands of our noble army bad fall's, not before Russian
steel, but had stiffened is the Machu, had died of fever in
• foul, nasty, 'miserable condition, became there was not
energy and common industry on the part of generals, staff-
Ulcers, ministers at war, Sidasy Herbert', and things of
that sort. (" Her, hut," and laughter.) The report of
the Sebastopol Committee proved that • large portion of all
the misery, suffering, and loss of life and treasure was to be
&and solely in the inoompeteau of the men hold-
ing official appointments sent out by the govern-
ment to the Crimea. (Hear, hear.) In the late storming
of Sebastopol the French had done a great deal mere this
the English, not because they had better soldiers, but be-
cause they had odious trained and eduosted—picked out,
not became they wore the sons or bastards of noblemen, but
the children of nature's aristocracy. He (Mr. Elliott) hoped
that the corporation would pause before they gave the
weight of their authority to so important a proposition as
going up to the Throes with the language;of coegratulatiou
upon events, all the circumstances counseled with which
were doubtful, to a very great extent humiliating, and by
no mesas of eo deer and defined • character as to justify
their taking the proposed sup.

Alderman SIDNIT said there was no doubt whatever
that the war, especially at its commencement, was con-
ducted to the great diagram of the Ministry, but the
notice was not for criticising the conduct of the
war. The country was now engaged in a gigantic
*veggie with the greatest military power in the world,
and either sivilisation men triumph, or despotism, with its
oppressive rale, mast ezpand its sway over the freedom and
liberties of Europe. (Hear, bear.) He (Alderman Sidney)
considers.' this to be a time when the corporation, notwith
standieg all the bungling and disaster in the coaduct of the
war, notwithstanding the doable theme-tax and the addi-
hoed tares epos utieles of coasemptioe, should say to her
Mojesty, with an unmistakeable voice, whether they were
'axiom for peace spots any terms, or that the war should
be conducted to a conclusion honcterable to this country and
to the best interests of the world. (Hoar, hear.) Rethought
there should be aa addenda= to the motios,espreseive of the
earnest hope of the court that her Majesty, in co, jimmies
with her noble sad gallant allies, would take means
of bringing the cammet to a male and boacoarable termination
by exerting themselves is the due prosemition of the war.
(Hear, beer.)
Mr. Cox considered the right which the smut possessed
to approach the Threes a most important privilege, and as.
which should be exercised with very great caution. The
queetioa was whether that was • proper time to approach
the Crown with an address of eongratulatios. He thought
it mach bettor to approach the Crown with wailing sad
lameatedon, bemuse he had emu aetbiog of late that he
could tall glorious games& If the battle of the Alma hod
beta fought last month, he should have bad no diMeulty
congratulating her Majesty ; bat the time for that had now
gone by. 8o with regard to the battle of Inkermann. Mt.
Cox, after statisg that the &haricot the Eagihh on the 18th
Jars oa the Greet Redo' wee sae upon which no Bug.
114 mm could congratulate hieseelf, lad that their late attack,
although the French troops succeeded, ended in a frightful
defeat, moved, by way of ameadmoat, the previous

violation.
Mr. Hawnists, la seconding the amendment, said that if
the court had approached her Majesty in terms of remon-
strant:oat the mismanagement alike war it would have been
a noble privilege, and nobly amortised; bat that they should
seek the first opportunity to congratulate her Majesty en
the name of the British arms, whoa the man mail might
brim SOWS of disaster, was a matter which he could oil
understand.
Mr. Buena said, lamenting as he did the stal.adminiars•
ion of affairs in the highest quarters, u connected with both
army and navy, that was no reason why, in spite of all the
evil 018/1111140118 that had flowed from it, when they
found themselves la poseastion of Sebastopol, in majmetion
with their allies, the mutt should not moat a respeethel
address of magratulatloa to bar Majesty. (Beer. hear.)
Mr. H. 1.. TAT 1.01 repudiated the idea of members of the
Wart artributiag the late success in the Crimea to valour
Of **Basil* troops. It wee the Parnell troops who took
SebillgelL Withal' the assistant* of the English troops
the/ MGM mit bays ratheeded ; but, in point of fact, it was
pethlNSlllhalibench, sedated by the Inglith, who captured
("Ross, bear," end "No, no.") Be (Mt.
=heath vets far the aanadineat.
Burns said it was the attack of the combined
horn tbeS hrd Se the eaptare of the lialakbeff Teeter aid
ihe mniMMisa of Sebastopol by the Remise army. Beek
She amil Tree* hoer Midden. their duty, and the
Nona general, is bh despataisse, had mid Oast tribute to
the gallantry and valeva of the Imeihk soldiers. (Hear,
Mar.) Deputy Bower soaciuded by espreseing hismeif in
favour of the *WOW notion.
lb. Fax said he owed net helpespessini his deep Mid