The Express.
London, England, 1852-03-10 00:00:00

DEATH OF MARSHAL MARMONT.

Another of Napoleon's favourite captains has
quitted the scene in which he has long ceased to sustain au
active part. The name of Marshal Marmont will live in
association with those of Bernadotte, Bayonet, Lund!, and
Earthier, his companions in arms, but Englishmen will
especially remember it as that of a general most constantly
found in opposition to our own commanders. Marmont was
with Bonaparte in Egypt, and accompanied bim,with Murat
and Lames, when he had resolved to quit the slue of
disaster. In the successful campaign of 180:i, which ulti-
mated in the peace of Presburg, Marmont commanded an
army corps, and at its termination, having invaded the
bile of Haim and defeated the united Russians and
le its neighbournood, earned the titular dig-
nity w be Dana till death. In 1812 we find him opposed
to We in the Peninsula. He commanded at the
battle of iLmanes, es honourable to the British arms, and
there rushed a severe wound. In February, 1814, he was
operating la conjunction with Mortier on the Marne for the
defence of the territory of France itself, and, being com-
pelled to retreat, fell back upon Paris, Match 20. Ten
days afterwards be was fain to espi.ulate to the allies, and
on the 31st of March marched out of Paris. Marmont now
took the oath to Louis XVIII., and kept it when Bonaparte
returned from Elba. It was his singular lot to have to
surrender Paris a second time, namely, in 1830, when be
had been entrusted by the reactionary ministry of Charles X.
with the command of all the troops. This may be considered
the most interesting position which he occupied, and the
following account of his conduct and feelings, from a record
of that time, will be read with interest.
Early in the morning, the Marquis de &mow/ilk, grand
referendary of the Chamber of Peers, repaired to head
quarters, and obtained an interview with Polignac. He
pressed upon the latter the absolute necessity of ministers
putting a atop to hostilities, by repealing the ordinances,
and resigning. His expostulations were supported with
great warmth by Marmont. Poligoac was obstinate, al-
though the marquis stated, that all the ministers seemed to
him to be subjected "to a power above theirs." Ile next
proposed to Marmont to make prisoners of the mini-ten,
with the assurance that the announcement of this fact
would put an end to the movements of the people. The
marshal, according to the account of the marquis, was
moved to so great a degree, that he shed tears of rage and
indignation, end hesitated between hie military duty and
his feelings. Ills agitation was nearly convulsive, and we
saw him twice refuse with vehemence the orders which
officers came to demand of him, to use cannon against the
populace. Marmont's heart was never In the cause for which
he was fighting. On the Monday, when the ordinances were
first promulgated, he said to his friend, M. Arago, the astro-
nomer, " Well, you see that the fools have pushed things on
to extremities, just as I told you. At least you will only
have to lament such measures as a citizen coda good French-
man, but how much more am Ito be pitied—l who, as a
soldier, shall be obliged to get my head broken in the sup-
port elects that I abhor, and of persons who have long
seemed determined to give me as much annoyance as pos-
sible." On the Wednesday, before the deputies had
arrived, M. Arago had made his way, with some danger, to
the Carousel, and urged upon the marshal that he should
instantly declare to the king that he would not retain the
command of the troops unless the ordinances were recalled.
" The marshal," lays M. Arago, " allowed me to develop
my opinion, but I saw evidently that his whole person was
labouring under excrutiating feelings. His sentiments con-
cerning the ordinances were the same; he seemed to agree
with me, that the step I proposed was grounded on justice,
but yet, in consequence of something that cannot be defined
—something which bad its source in the habits of a military
life—he did not think that then was the moment to put it
in execution. A marshal of France, an old soldier, ought
not, in his opinion, to propose any concession as long as the
chances of the battle were uncertain." Marmont was right
for once. When he accepted the command he knew that
the purpose of entrusting him with it was to enforce obe-
dience to the ordinances. To have laid it down because he
found they were resisted would have been treacherous u
well as absurd.

THE CAPE MAIL STEAMER BOSPHOREIL—By
gentleman who arrived in Plymouth on Monday evening,
we learn that the Bosphorus, Cape mail steamer, was six
days behind her proper time in arriving at Sierra Leone, on
her outward voyage, and from the weather which prevailed
after her leaving Sierra Leon*, on the 6th of January, it
was presumed she would be still more after her time in ar-
' riving at the Cape. Presuming, therefore, that she would
be six days after her time in sailing from the Cape for
England, she could not be well anticipated to arrive at
Plymouth before the 10th or 11th of March ; and, allowing
for the strong eastwardly winds which have prevailed for
some days, it would be difficult to approach the mouth of
the Channel. Tho gentleman who gave this information,
as to the Bosphorus, Captain J. V. Hall, came
home from Sierra Leone in the Ceres, merchant
ship, of London, which put into Falmouth on Satur-
day, through the impossibility of getting up the chan-
nel against the strong east wind. He left Falmouth
on Monday, and came on to Plymouth in the Mercury,
Irish steam-packet, When the Ceres left Sierra Leone, on
the 18th of January, a large fleet of merchant ships were
lying there.
THE MzErTEREANFAN.—The Peninsular and Ori-
ental Steam Navigation Company's ship Euxine, Captain
It. W. Evans, arrived at Southampton this morning, with
dates from Constantinople, Fehrusry 10th; Smyrna, 21st ;
Malta, 26th; Gibraltar, March 2d. The Euxine has en-
'metered heavy easterly gales 'cross the Bay of Biscay. She
brings 27 passengers, specie, value 2,000 f., and a large and
valuable cargo of Levant produce. On the lit instant the
Euxine spoke her Melon'', ship Britannia, from Gibraltar,
bound to Malta,:all well. At Gibraltar exchange on Lon-
don, at 90 days', was quoted at 61*; Spanish pillared
11 per cent. Eemtitm.
STATE OP NEWCASTLE-COURT, STRAND.—Lant
night an inquest was held by Mr. Laughers, at the Castle
Tavern, Portugal-street, Lineoln's-inn-fields, as to the death
of an illegitimate male child named Addison, about two
months old, which was found dead in a house in Newcastle-
court, Strand.—Elisabeth Butler said she lived in the room
with the child's mother. On Saturday morning, about 6
o'clock, Mrs. Addison, the mother of the child, got up, and
said she found it was dead. The father got up too, and
expressed a hope it was not, and then, finding it apparently
so, ran with it to the King's College Hospital.—The Co-
roner : Who was the mother of the child I—Witness: Caro-
line Hailes, my cousin.—The Coroner : Thew else was not
married. Who did she live with I—Witness : A man named
Addison, a sweep —The Coroner : Tell me now the whole
of the persons who slept in the room.—Witness: There
were Addison and my cousin, two boys, and myself.—The
Coroner: How old were those two boys I—Witness :
One was 17, and the other 21.—The Coroner: Did you
ell sleep in ono bed I—Witneas : Addison and my
amain slept in one bed, the two boys in another
on the floor, and myself in another bed on the
floor.—Then altogether there were six persons of both
sexes sleeping in the room. What were the names of the
boys, and who were they 2—The witness said she did
.not
exactly know their names. They were the sons of Mrs. Hades.
Ur. Baker asked the witness, with the permission of
coroner, whether she had not a child two years old sleeping
with her I—The witness said she had. (Great sensatien in
court.)—The Coroner: Then why did you keep that back.
Was that illegitimate like the rest ?—Witness said it was.—
Caroline Hailes, the mother, gave nearly a similar account
of finding the child dead in the morning, and was asked by
, the coroner if she considered this a fit state of living in ?
She said she believed it was usual with poor persons. She
, was examined at some length, but her answers were only a
, corroboration of the testimony of the last witness.—\t m.
Addison, the father, was next called, and, in addition to
, the above, stated that the whole six had, in different places,
slept in the room for the last two years. (Great horror
, was espressed.)—The foreman . Now, mind what you
, swear, wheriyou lived in Little Stele's-place had you not
an old women residing in the same room ?—Witness replied
he had, but ihe was dead.—The Coroner : Then that made
; seven of both sexes.—Mr,. Cheatle, the house physician at
King's College Hospital, examined the body of the child
when it was brought there, Ile atti ibuted death, not to
suffocation, but to a want of free air, under which the child
gradually sank and died.—The Coroner observed that never
in his life bad ho beard of such a grins ease of immorality as
bad that day been placed before hue.—The jury found—
" That the deceased died accidentally horn a went of free
air, and had gradually tank."

trOt COUtl.

OSBORNE, TUESDAY.
The Queen and Prince and the Royal children
walked and rode in the grounds at Osixwne yesterday.
The lion. Col. and Mrs. Grey had the honour of receiv-
ing an invitation to dinner.

Lord Hastings had an interview with the Earl of Derby
yesterday, at his official residenos in Downing-street. Tho
Bishop of London had, also, an interview with the noble
earl.

A deputation, consisting of Sir Do Lucy Evans,
Mr. Leslie, Chairman of the Coacbmaken' Cuiumittee;
Mr. Booker, Mr. John W. Peters, Mr. John Robson, and
Mr. R. Turner, had an interview with the Chancellor of
the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in Down-
ing-street.
Messrs. Powlee and Schneider, from the Port Philip and
Colonial Mining Company, had an interview with Sir John
Pakington yesterday at the Colonial -office.
A joint deputation from the Electric Telegraph Company
and the Irish Sub-Marine Telegraph Company bad un in-
terview with Mr. Secretary Walpole yesterday, at the llome
Office. The deputation consisted of Lurd Enkine, Mr. Su;
Mr. 0. Lathom Browne, and Colonel Wylde, directors;
Mr. West, engineer; and Messrs. Robert Wilson and L. IL
Winekworth, solicitors.
The Earl of Devon had an interview yesterday with the
Chancellor of the Exchequer.
' The Oxford University Commission had a meeting yes-
terday, at the official residence of the First Turd of the
Treasury, in Downing-street. Present—The Bishop of
Norwich, the Than of Carlisle, the Master of Pembruke,
the Rev. It. G. Liddell, the Rev. Profaner Powell, and
the Rev. A. P. Stanley (secretary).
Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Board of Inland Re-
venue, hod art interview yesterday with the Chancellor 01
the Exchequer.
Despatches were received at the Colonial-office yesterday
from the Governors of the North American provinces.

MINISTERIAL EXPLANATIONS.—It is confidently
stated that no formal ministerial statement is likely
to be made before Monday next, when, in both
Houses of Parliament, new explanations from Lord
Derby and his colleagues may be looked for—all
i
decidedly in favour of a "protective" policy. Mr.
Disraeli s not likely to be returned to parliament in
time to take his seat in the House of Commons by
Friday night.

MEETING OF I,ll3EltAt. MEM BEAM of the lions°
of Commons, invited by Lord J. ROY!, II to a roof. ri-ner on
the present positiou of public attain, 1, to be held on Thurs-
day, at twelvo o'clock, at his lordship's residence, Cite-
sham-place.