The Express.
London, England, 1863-04-02 00:00:00

FRANCE.

It is officially stated that the last reports received
from Mexico announce that General Foray had
summoned a council of all the generals and chiefs
of the service for the 28th February, in order to ar-
range the details of the movement on Puebla, and
give them their final instructions.
The parka of 'artillery, the war material, and a
great depot of stores were concentrated at Quec-
holac, to which place all the munitions necessary
for the first operations bad been conveyed.
The sanitary condition of the army was very
satisfactory.
The

of to-day, in an article signed

by M. Limayrae, says :—" In the maintenance of
IL Yould in the ministry, the country will see
with pleasure a trash pledge of good order in the
finances, and of reduction in the public burdens."

DENMARK.
COPENHAGEN, Aram 2.
Lost night a most important proclamation of the ,
King was published, referring to the separation
of Holstein from its connexion with the entire
monarchy.
The introduction to this document says :
" The proclamation of the King of the 28th of
January, 1852, stated his Majesty's intention to
combine the different portions of the monarchy, by
means of a common constitution, into one single
well-regulated state. This intention could not be
realised because the Federal Diet interfered in the
interior affairs of the monarchy, awl set up demands
not founded upon Federal laws, and incompatible
with the independence of the crown and the
privileges of those portions of the country
not belonging to the Confederation. The
Estates of Holstein have, iu addition, rejected
every proposition which might have led to an
agreement, and have declared themselves hostile to
any common constitution based upon united repre-
sentation. Such a state of internal discord, by which
the development of the kingdom has been pars.
lysed for the last ten years, cannot longer continue.
In consequence of the unsatisfactory results of the
last assembly of the Holstein Diet, we deem
it our duty as ruler, to settle the position
of Holstein in the monarchy, as we con.
eider must in conformity with our Federal duties.
For the present we confine ourselves to the moat
, urgent part of this task, reserving any further
developments for a future period.

"By this present proclamation, therefore, we I sent moment. Ileums. Berea and Co. hare also just pub-
grant to Holstein an independent army. For the 'idled a war map of Poland, stark's( ce. with the &Ms,
floes of the kingdom, with the tawitorles
future Holstein will share with the rasa of the ; thepectidifereut iwtiacq
uired by It Prussia,
mit stain.
debt, monarchy the civil list, the aPPanagea' the public This is entlennely sueocable, and u all the railways and
debt, the navy, the departmeet for foreign no. on itvoit, it will be Tory useful all ttit, wish to
affairs, the administration of the domains, the follow intelligibly the military details of the gloat patriotic
customs, and the postal arrangements ; but even in striate going on in that unhappy country.

THE VOLUNTIBiIt REVIEW AT BRIGHTON.
....o.
Tbe following is a WI of Volunteer Corps which
have received the "sanction of the Secretary of
Elate for War to attend the Review at Brighton, on
Monday next.
corps. zamsmartera
Honourable Artillery Oompany Finsbury
let Heats Light Hone Droxford
let Administrative Brigade Hants
Attillery :
let Haute Artillery Bitterne
2nd Haste Artillery
3rd Hants Artillery
let Administrative Brigade :
let Seams Artillery
2nd Sesser Artillery
3rd Buses Artillery
4th Bum:
4th Cinque Partal=ery Hutiop
lit IliMkesa Artillay
2nd Middlesex Artillery
3rd Middleman Artillery
lat City o/ Leedom Artillery
2nd Barmy Artillery
let Middlesex Itaguleer! .. S. Kensington Mos.
let Tower Hamlets Engineers Chnnon-strest Bred
Ist City of London Engineer Old Jewry
2nd Administrative Battalion :
led Middlesex Hampstead
12th Middlesex Barnet
13th Middlesex
14tki Middlesex Highgate
33rd Middlesex Tottenham
41st Middlemen

Lit Middling= (Vitbeki)
28d Middlesex (Soak
dcli Middlesex leliogtou

9th Midden: (West)
.hoes
11th Middlteex (Bt. asergs's)
15th Middlesex (Leedom Soottioh) B, Adtdphi-tertaes
ltith Middlesex Moani•low

18tb Middlesex Barrow
19th Middlesex - spurs,
Bloomsbury
20th lfuldlesex 237. Euston-rand
21st Middlesex (Civil Berries)
lied Middlesex (Queen's)
per Belgrve-plaos
23rd Middlesex (Inns of Court)
Bith Middlesex
28th Middlesex (Landes Ldsh)
2rth Middlesex Relent '6
-park
39th Middlesex
32nd Middlesex Burlington-house
36th Middlesex Paddington
37th Middlesex
n-....-. 1 ......

THE STRENGTH OP THE HARBOUR OP
CHARLISION.

COILING STBUGGLB AT CHARLISTON.

(Frees the Claseteetoe oorrellwadeeee of the Mobik it/Omer.)

The struggle, when it comes, will certainly be of
• fearful character. It will be the @hook d Immangient
forces, the relative powers of which are yet untried. The
long mooted question of the fighting value of the ships
'phut batteries will be brought toe test non cosensive
than any to which human warfare ham yet =WNW ill
In other words, the Monitor iron-clads which the Mabel
flaim to be the most impenetrable vessels ever oesslaucted
will commonly come within point blank nags of do most
_ _

1111011.011/ and powerful tottrgice that have fiver yet bum
need in a single engagement. We have good mama, too, to
believe that oar gone will be managed with admirable tact
and prosisio& The mare important batteries are manned
by the South Oarolies regulars, for whom the credit in
claimed, and I think justly, of being the most expert and
praelital heavy artillerista in the t3oofederste army. The
forts are well altered, and General Ripley, who has made
the ortody of heavy ordnance a specialty for year, end
whom @mellows, in that particular branch of military
knowledge is an admitted fact, will himself take command
at Fort Sumter as soon as the enemy makes his appear-
IMO&

It IS scarcely possible that any floatiog thing ma breast
unbermed the ooneentrated storm of heavy metal front the
gime of likunter, Moultrie, and Battery Bee, the three prin-
cipal works commending the throat of the harbour. Nor
can the peril of running this terrihiegauotlet be diminished
by an attempt to pass under cover of the darkness, as has
been the case at Vtckiburg and New Orleans. So tortuous
end intricate is the channel leading to the forte that
the most experieneed pilots of the harbour would not
venture to bring in a vessel by night, under the condi.
lions which the seamy cannot escape, viz., without light
or landmark to guide the way. Even when the blockaded
ranging reside leave the harbour, it is alwsya
nearesty to aid their exit by pre viousl7 arranged lights
(shaded) and signals ; so that it is reasonably certain that
the attacking iron-clads must either enter in open day, or
incur the Imminent hazard of getting aground upon one of
the moat treacherous bars oo the Southern coast, which
seldom yields a vessel when once it has grasped the beat
But if, perchance, despite of mazy channel, multiplied
torpedoes, and the combined batteries of the forts, some of
the nine Monitors should chums to get into port, they
would dill have to encounter a ooncentrated fire of other
batteries, which, as the Yankee papers have learned from
contrabands, "line the shores of the interior of the bar.
hour." Aid then will come the " tug of war" which will
determine as poseemion of the honoured old city.

38th Middlesex (Artiste') Burign-boom
39th Middlesex (the Finsbury) ClerWkanw toell
40th Middlesex (Central laden
Rife Rangers) Gray'sion
43rd Middlesex
46th Middlesex
48th Middlesex (Havelock's)
let Administrative Battalion :
2ed Surrey
4th Surrey Brixton
Bth Surrey Cershalton
Ilth Surrey
2nd Admieistrative Battalion :
615 Surrey
9th Surrey
15th Surrey
16th Surrey
let Surrey (South London)
sth Surrey
7th Surrey
1oth Surrey
12th Surrey
Lath Surrey
19th Torrey
21st Surrey Batteries
73rd Surrey
It Administrative Battalion :
9th Sumer
1oth Sussex
11th Sussex
12th Smear
15th Sumer
2nd Administrative Battalion :
sth Sumer
6th Sumer
7th Sumer
Bth Smear
13th Sussex
18th Sussex
Cadets.
3rd Administrative Battalion:
Ist Samar
2nd Sumer
4th Sussex
2nd Admialeiratim Battalion :
sth Eager
9th Essex
Ist Administrative Battalion :
3rd Kent
4th Kent
7th Kent
Bth Kent
13th Kent
18th Kent
25th Kent
27th Kent
2Bth Kent
Fled Kent
34th Kent
17th Kent
lst Administrative Battelios, awns
Porta :
let Cinque Ports Harting.
16th Sussex Battle
17th Sumer Etchingham
19th Sumer Eastbourne
Ist City of London Rifle Bripde
2ed City of London
3rd City of London
4th City of London
2nd Administrative Battalion :
4th Hants Havant
sth Beat Portsmouth
6th Haab Gosport
Ind Haab Crisham
3rd Administrative Battalion :
7th Hants Faversham
845 Haste Bitterne
12th Heats P field
17th thugs Titchfield
20th Hants Wickham
21st Hants Acton
2.tod Haste Bishop Waltham
Ist Hants Wincheeter
2od Hants Southampton
16th Hint. Alrestord
Ist Administrative Battalion :
Ist Isle of Wight
2ed Isle of Wrght lfirtiPort
3rd Isle of Wight ltOs
4th Isle of Wight Nueva
sth Isle of Wight Vaateor
7th UM of Wight
Bth Isle of Wight Freshwater
Zed Towel Hamlets
4th Tower Hamlets St Leasard's, Shaw
ditch
6th Tower Hamlets Horton
Bth Tower Hamlets West Wig' Doek
9th Tower Hamlets London Doc:.-boas
12th Tower Hamlets Stoke Nerriegtoe

ma INTENDED VOLUNTEER REVIEW AT OXFORD.
—The Secretary of State for War has given his sanction to
a review of volunteers taking place at Oxford, on Wednio.
day, the 24th of June next. Invitetious have been for-
warded to the volunteer corps in twenty-four adjoining
counties, and the following have already, among several
other companies, intimated their intention of taking part in
it, namely, the 15th Worcestershire corps (Sot administra-
' five battalion), and also the 12th Worcestershire. Arrange.
I meets have been made with the railway companies to con-
vey the volunteers at a low rate of charge, and it is con-
fidently anticipated that 12,1)30 or 14,M0 volunteers and
tromps of the hoe will be present.— Worcenershire Chronicle.
The ROYAL FAMILY Or FATEFUL AND THE POLISH
Rerucmts.—The present King of Pianist Emmons to have
been formed to show the mischief which honest stupidity
can create in a constitutional government. Perhaps there
may be a moral yet reserved, and be may be also fated to
illustrate the ease by which in a constitutional state lied by
lawful and peaceable means such an evil can be abate&
But this is a matter for which the world will hold every
member of the royal family of Prmeia and every man of the
Prussian nation responsible. If the blood of these Poles
should be shed through the agency of Prussia, it will not
suffice to tell Europe of the Prussia, king, or the Prussian
minister, or of secret or open couventioos between Primal'
and Russia. After all, the King of Prussia is but one
Prussian man. He is entitled, as we hasten to say, to
every mark of respect to his rank and obedience to his law-
ful authority ; but there is a point as which eves a King
must be disobeyed. The time is goon by when if Kings
west mad their people could only weep. There am neer
Mom which, according to modern ethics' justify soy =co.
ful interference. The Kiog is now, as the world is &Mho. '
ritatively told, contemplating an odious crime ; we moat, in
the name and even for the credit of
.England, be bold
to ask if the Omen Primes of Prussia has so potent
• word to say to save his own family and his own coun-
try from the ignominy of such blocdioillinsse. It is
well known, both in Berlin and in Leaden, that the prime
' has no sympathy with the senseless delimit= of kin father,
and he has not been careful to conceal his dies= from thi
; fatal policy they have produced. But this I. mot
It these men are slaughtered by the act of Frederick
William, their blood will be upon the head of the Pram=
tuition and of the royal family of Pored& A mesa cease*
with honour stand upon points of etiquette whet au out-
rage is about to be committed in his preemies, sad if this
wrong be done the voice of Europe will visit it upon ell
Prussians an a national crime, but chiefly and Ilipsoially
upon all Prussians who were so placed as to be able to
make ergo an attempt to prevent it.— Time