The Express.
London, England, 1855-02-12 00:00:00

THE W.R.

VARNA, FIB. 4.

Thirty thousand Ottoman troops hare landed st
Eagatoria. Others an on their march for this port,
Mil will be embarked for Eapatoria as they arrive.
as w event hum-caned before Sebas:oiol.—Daily
SIM

The French government has received rews from
Varna to the 6th. Omer Pacha had left for Bourges,
to inspect the cavalry and magazines. After that
inspection he will embark definitively fcr Eupatoria.
—Dully Newt.

CONSILNTINOFLE, FED. 1.

Twa-thirds of the Turkish army have d.oembarked
at Eupatoria. The Russians are encamped partly
Jo the villages of Alma and Be:beck, and
partly at Fienpheropol acd the environs. General
Ulrich, with the Guard., est off for the Crimea
on the 30th January. The Egyptian reinforce-
meats have arrived from Alexandria in the Tagus.
During the night the artillery of Sebastopol fires
Incessantly. The allies reply during the day by the
timilleurs, who kill a number of the Russian artillery-
men. One thousand sick of the English army
disembarked on the 31st at Constantinople. General
Osten-Sacken asked for an interview with General
Canrobert. The staff of the two generals remained
at a distance during the interview. The Divan has
communicated to the ambassadors of the Allied
Powers several propoeitions for reform in the civil
service.—Daily News.

Satnrilay'd Von tour con'ains the following :

The Minister of the Marine and the Colonies has
received from V.ce•Admiral Brad the following
telegraphic despatch:
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" Mottebello, Jan. 30, 1855.
Kamiesch Harbour.

The General-in-Chief demands of me 30 fresh ship
guns, and 15,000 charges, in addition to the 32,000
already required.
" The Duperre has just anchored in the harbour of
Kamiesch ; she brings 930 military passengers, 32
hats, 1,000 bombs, and 320 barrels of powder.
" The Panama brings 160 passengers, and army
stores (camp furniture and tools)."

(BY SYBIIMUNB •ND sarnsu Int.)
MARSEILLES, Sumwr.

By the Valetta, arrived this morning, we learn
that the telegraph had announced the arrival of the
first detachment of the 10th Hussars at Suez, from
India. —Daily News.

The Moniteur of Saturday said : " The 10th Regi-
ment of her Britannic Majesty, which is on its way
from India, and will proceed to the seat of war, is
expected at Suez on the licith of Feb. This regiment
has a strength of 650 men, and the same number of
horoev. It will be maintained at the charge of the
government of the Viceroy during i:s passage
through Egypt."

Alv ices from Vienna state that according to intel-
ligence received there the head-quarters of Prince
Gortchakoff are to be removed from Kischeneff to
Odessa. The Russian division posted near Eupatoria
has been forced to retire from the neighbourhood for
want of water. Since the frosty weather has set in
there has been great want of water at Perekop, but
there are abundant supplies of provisions.—Dally
New!.

ST. PETERSBURG, FIB. 3.

11. e Journal d. St. Peters&ourg contains an address
by the Czar to the Hetman of the Dan Cossacks,
expressing his confidence that they will fight
oours;sonsly for the church, the throne, and the
conn•ry.

EGYPT.
ny SVDMARINZ ♦SD ZOKOPIMII rmacasrii.)
ALIXANDRIA, FEL 6.
T:ie Viceroy of Egypt hu abolished Customs
duties except at Suez.—Daily News.

DENMARK.
(rty INTIRWATIONAL COMPANT.B

COPENHAGEN, SMIDAY.

'l. Volksthing has resolved itself into a committee,
to inquire into the abases committed by the late
ministers, in order tr give them an opportunity of
explaining their conduct.—Daily Veers.

CP.A.COw, FEB. 2.—General Schlick, commander
of the fourtb army eon* in °allies, arrived here ye.terdar
and to-day passed U., troops in review. The supplies col-
, heeled for the army ere immense. The little town of
Dukla, in one of the Wiles of the Karpathiss Mountains,
is one of the principal depots—en its bower, in fact, have
been turani into corn stores.

ARISTOCRATIC STATESMANSHIP.
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Ms sew Cabinet is complete; aniseed, s few
subordinate places in the Ministry remain to be filled
up. Lord PALMERSTON'S constiSentskeving, very
properly, disposed with his appearenessi the hust-
ings at Evert" he can proceed to business at once.
His Clovernemest will be jsdged of by he works; the
people will wait to see what it does blare giving or
withholding their confidence. Lord PALMUISTON,
however, may rest seared that if be parses the bold
and ;honourable coarse which is required to re-place
this country es the eminence from which the
cowardice and imbecility of the Prime Minister who
preceded him appears temporarily to have de-
pressed it, the people will support him.
But, before the late Ministerial break up and re-
construction is allowed to pass into the region of
history, there is as of its features that requires to be
commented on. The constitutional conduct of the
QUEEN on the °pommies has been made the subject of
panenrio ; and we would be as emphatic in its
praises as any, but that it does not take us by ear.
prise. It is exactly what all her MAJESTY'S antece-
dents led us to expect. First, the QUEEN sent for
Lord DERBY because his party made a majority of
the majority ; next, she sent for Lord JOHN RUSSELL
because his *session from the late Government was
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one main cause of its breaking up ; and lastly, she sent
for Lord PALMERSTON, the champion of the defeated
Cabinet, because the other two political leaders had
found themselves unable to construct a Ooveroment.

So far good; bat how comes it that the real victor—
Mr. ROEBUCK, whose triumphant motion gave the

deathblow to the late Ca-binet7waa never eon-

suited ? We shall be told that Mr. ROEBUCK'S unfor-
tunate state of health placed him out of the question ;

but would Mr., ROEBUCK bees been sent for, °vet

though he had been.o hale and robust u OLD Pena
was at his age? We mean no imputation against
her MAJESTY for the omission. Had she had one
counsellor capable of advising her to take such a step,
we feel confident her true British heart would have
prompted her to act upon his suggestions. But she

is surrounded by a jealous and narrow-minded caste,
who seek to interpose themselves as a hedge between
her and the great body of the people.
We republish from last Saturday's Spectator a
very ramarkahle letter from a French nobleman of
old family, which is well worthy the attention of this
class of courtly politicians. "R— told me the other
day," says the letter writer," that the aristocracy had
never been stronger in England than they are
now ; fur that they had never poured out
their blood more freely. Bat I must remark that it
is not altogether by military services that our aristo-
cracy can maintain itself; otherwise ours would not
be levelled with the dust as it actually is; foe who
were ever more prodigal of their lives than the
French gentilshonnnes, of all grades, the leaser as well
as the greater? My grandfather and my granduncle
both met their death on the field of battle; their
father and their grandfather experienced the same
fate ; and there is hardly a family in the neighbour-
hood of whom as much cannot be said. Yet there
remains not a trace of their power. The last cannon
I that was mounted on the old baronial chateau of
T— in my neighbourhood, now half-buried in the
earth, serves as a post to tie up cattle; while the
chateau itself is degraded to a farm house. I will
conduct R— thither when he comes to see me : it
will show him what mud be the fate of an aristocracy
which though they know how to die, do not know how
to govern."
The truth is, that the English aristocracy has
grown more ooafident in its strength exactly in pro-
portion as its real strength has decayed. In propor-
tion as it has kept aloof from the people its power
has departed from it, but in its isolation it has no
means of ascertaining the fact. When the old Cava-
lier nobles looked down upon the House of BEDFORD
because its fortunes were founded on grants of
church lands, and augmented by successful specula
tions in draioing the fens, that house was able to
shake a dynasty. When men were yet alive whose
fathers could remember the first CAVENDISH who was

ennobled, the House of DEVONSHIRE was as power-
ful as the House of BEDFORD. What is now the
influence of either house, compared with what it was
in 16S8? And yet the individual influence of each
has diminished less than the collective influence of
their order. The English aristocracy over-rate their
power, as the sick man whose spirits are raised by
the stimulus of fever imagines himself capable of
1 efforts far beyond his strength.

A kind of dawning consciousness of this die-
agreeable truth may be detected in the special
pleadings that we hear put forth in vindication of
exclusive aristocratic rule. We are told, for example,
to look to America, and see how democratic institu-
tions necessarily produce mediocrity in the statesmen
of a country. We suspect Englishmen would have
reason to be glad if mediocrity were the worst that
could be laid to the charge of the imbeciles
who have so shamefully mismanaged the war.
But how stands the case? We have ourselves

more than one* expressed regret that the Women-

TONS, JEFFEESONS, and MONROES, of the early his-
tory of the Republic, should have been succeeded by
such vastly inferior statesmen as the TAYLORS and
PIERCES. Still it remains a truth—a most mortify-
ing truth for Englishmen—that in all the diplomatic
contests we have of late years had with our cousins
across the Atlantic, their mediocre statesmen have
got the better of ours.
Again we are told that statesmanship, like every-
thing else, is a trade that requires to be learnt early ;
that s Duke who gets into office at twenty-five must,
ex necessitate, be a more available Minister than a
Commoner who has no chance of such pro-
mo'ion till he is put fifty. There is a
fallacy lurking underneath this statement. The first
I Lord 3IALSIESBURY and the late Lord METCALFE

were, perhaps, all the abler in their profession for
having commenced early in life. But the case of
neither is exactly parallel to that of a nobleman of
high 'rank early inducted into office. Matuassrav
and METCALFE had nothing to rely upon bat their
own abilities: they felt that they must show them-
! selves capable of office, or be thrown aside. But let
' the hypothetical Duke be the greatest gull and fribble
of hie age, he will get his work done for him by
others, and will, except on extraordinary emergencies,
be retained in place. But there is a more radi-
cal error still in the argument we are combatting.
Statesmanship and ability to perform the routine
duties of office are two very diftrent things. The
titst Lord IlautEsnuxr would have been greater as
a statesman if he had not run all his life on the
diplomatic rails. His experience was limited to the
traditional practice of his profession ; he could not
see the change which had taken place in the internal
reatiots of society and in the relations of States to
each other, and hence it came that his very ability
rendered him at times mischievous. The truest
statesmen are those who bring to the trade of politics
a large and diversified experience of other pursuits.
Our wish is to strengthen and uphold—not destroy
—"our old nobility." Bnt that can only be by com-
pelling them to come out of that "Bastille of their
ratk " in which they have immured themselves, and
gain strength by entering into vigorous competition
with others. We have no hope that they will do this
of their own accord ; the competition must be forced
vac them. The unprivileged classes wit assert
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