The Express.
London, England, 1855-01-05 00:00:00

SOUTH AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE IMPERADOR.
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(fox THI COIIIIIPOWDINT 07 TES DAILY Iliti.)
LIVERPOOL, TEVISDAT.
This afternoon the South American General Steam
Navigation Company's screw steam ship Imperador
arrived in the Mersey from the Bnuils, Bm. Her
dates are : Rio Janeiro, December 1; Bahia, 8 ;
Pernambuco, 9 ; St. Vincent's, 19 ; Madeira, 26 ; and
Lisbon, 30. She has brought, besides the mails,
28,0001. in value in specie and diamonds.
The Pampero wu at Lisbon on the 29th, and the
screw transport Royal Victoria, from Falmouth, put
in there on the same date, being short of coal.
Buenos Ayr's has been invaded from Santa Fe by
troops, under Lajos, Costa, and Lunde, which were
totally routed by the Portenos, under the command
st General Horns, with the loss of twenty killed,
their ammunition, baggage, correspondence, &o. The
documents found assert that Urquiza is the instigator
of the invasion. Buenos Ayres is under martial law,
bat reported quiet and enthusiastic.
Business doll. Exchange, 631. Freights from
30s. to 355,

From Monte Video we hear that several changes
have taken place in the Ministry, caused by the
Brazilian influeuos. Trade is dull, and but little
produce arriving.
Exchange rising, 40t. Freights, 43e.
Accounts had reached Monte Video that the rebels
Lad been defeated a second time at Buenos Ayres
and totally disbanded, and that Costa had taken
refuge in the Brazilian steamer Thetis.
Exchange at Rio de Janeiro was Eat, 27g. Freights
to the Channel, lies. to 60..
At Bahia, the sugar comes forward but slowly.
Freights art declining; they are flatted at hem flOs,

to Obs. to the Channel. Exehisp closed firmly

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at 28. s 1
Theo is bat- little change aft '4l4emsaimbese/
Freights are given nominal at Tt. Chanaell
The exchenge, 2& ' Th J fs,
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THE WAR AND THE "sITHEE" NEWSPAPER.

-01rilocestrio cantempararT the Nom put Bath
yesterday an opinion respecting the probable ooese-
queues; of the capture of Bebaitopol, which appears
to throw some light on the devious and erratic
course it has of late penned while commenting on
the war in the Crimea. The following is the par

Nip to which WO refer :
The occupation of the Bassin capital itself, the sneer-
sin oils, palaces into barracks, and the retribution upon
Bernied of the reuses Iseult' it boa heaped in its day on
all the cities that have fallen within its power, could not be
a more irritating simnel, tbs. the occoupstlee or &strew
titre by the allies of those gigantic batteries raised with such
labour end mot for the conquest of the East. The whole
railitony pepulatios of Saris would be termed southward
in see net Garnet, to overflow and swallow up our ont-
parativoly email armies. New levies would be snorted, so
long as then remained a sue who could stand under arms.
No *epees, would be spared so keg as there remained a
noble who possessed the wherewithal for a found soot/ilia-
don. There is nothing the Emperor would sot do to eater-
mints fres the soil the invaders who insulted nee more
than they damaged his power. To be the subject of an
silliremise, to feel the pangs of lost unitary, sad the shame
of disosattare, certainly would be new to Ramis, and we
nay be sure she would russet It to the uttermost of her
power. In spite, therefore, of the palpable advantage we
should derive at ones from the pommies of Sebastopol,
and the endings from Weary to comfort, and from ern•
stain jeopardy to something like security, the new holders
of the city would flad their berth a warm one, and would
hardly have time to tarn round before they found the Rus-
sian nos more upon then

The plain English of this is that England and
Francs, in the writer's opinion, are both together
unable to cope with Russia. If they strike any
heavy blow at that empire—any blow that can be felt
—they will only thereby bring down upon their heads
"the whole military population of Russia, in one vast
current, to overflow and swallow up our compara-
tively small armies." If we fail now before Sober
topol, and when spring comes on in the Baltic, et
°ours. we will have to beg pardon of Russia for per
to interpose between it and Turkey; and if
we succeed for a time we shall only be getting into
a worse scrape. Such, at leut, is the opinion of the
non. That journal sees no hope for France and
England except in their immediate, penitential,
unconditional submimion to the CZAR. The Times
argues for peace at any price.
The public in France or England are not likely to
concur in this strange over-estimate of the power of
Russia. The public in France or England are not so
cowardly, so lost to all sense of justice and self-respect,
as to listen to such unmanly counsels. And even the
Russian Government is not likely toattribute any great
weight to the flattering estimate the Times protease
to have made of its power. The Russian Govern-
ment, though too proud to yield yet, is painfally
alive to the fact that the encouragement held oat to
it by the Times to attack Turkey, at the outset of the
Oriental difficulties, has been a delusion and a snare;
and it will not twice be humbugged by " the leading
journal of Europe."
The English public will recollect the strain in
which the writers in the Times were wont to ex-
press themselves with regard to Russia and Turkey
at the time of the MENTCRIKOFF mission, and for a
good while afterwards. Day after day we were told in
the columns of the Times that the subjugation of
Turkey to Russia was an inevitable necessity ; that
humanity would derive benefit from the conquest of
Turkey by Russia; and that, even though this were
not the case, it would be folly on the part of England
to put itself out of its way and interfere between the
two States. Russia had so long been lying peek
that its systematic designs upon Turkey had almost
been forgotten in Western Europe. For a long time
the duties of European States reciprocally to pretest
each other from external aggression had ceased to
form a topic of public discussion in England. Oneor
two prominent leaders of the Free Trade party had,
after its final triumph under Sir ROBERT Pan, be.
taken themselves to divert the ennui of idleness, to
the occupation of missionaries of the doctrine that this
country ought, under all circumstances, to abstain
from war. Another party among us had been seized
with an unreasoning panic about an invasion from
France. Matters standing thus, it was not unnatural
that Russian statesmen should have been brought to
believe, in the first place, that England would ink
tamely on at any aggression they might perpetrate
On the empire of the SULTAN; and, in the .used
place, that a sincere and cordial alliance between
England and France was impossible. In these
erroneous notions they were confirmed by the articles
in the Times. Baron Bauresow, in addition to his
natural sagacity, bad a long experience of England;
the Princess LIEVEN, the most dexterous and acute
of political agents, has rarely transmitted erroneous
information to St. Petersburg; yet even they were
misled by the pertinacious iteration of the Tunes.
Their representations, backed by the Times, persuaded
the CZAR and his Ministers that the time had at last
arrived for making another bold and decisive step
towards the subjugation of Turkey. In vain did the
best informed foreigners remonstrate. If an Eng-
lishman chanced to say to Count NENSELRODE or the
IMPLEOR that the Western Powers would not
permit Russia to take such a step, he was told that
he had lived too long on the Continent to understand
the feelings of his own countrymen ; that the great
alleaantile and manufacturing community in England
eared only for money-making; and that the rest of
the nation was too hostile to France ever to oo-
=with it. All this, it w repeatedly said by
as
molt and Count NEBBELRODE, was manifest
, from the columns of the Times.
It is therefore, in a great measure, to the
nines that this country and Europe are indebted
for the present war. We have, indeed, said, and
we now repeat it, that Ministers, by their re-
luctance and hesitation to speak boldly out, aided
to deepen the impression made by that journal.
For this fault their reliance upon Count NRISILRODs
may, perhaps, be some extenuation. They knew that
the Count's policy of never contradicting his muter
secured him at all times 'a willing auditor in the
Ms; end that by yielding and biding his time he
was almost always able to bring round his Sovereign
to his own views. But Ministers ought to have
known that Cana NEBSELRODE will thus smoothly
obstinate only when he believed that his Imperial
Master's freak or crotchet of the hour was dan-
gerous or impracticable. And in the dispute mind
by the MISTCRIXOFT mission Count Neaszranlen
hatless convinced by the Times that nothing could
gems& England to go to war for Turkey, or to net
is anssit with France. He saw neither difficulty
INN MOW to gratifying the Imperial whim, and-he
frena the powerful, silent, and indirect
ern which he had so often practised with
SlMmess. - _

To the obstinate pen istanee of the Times in ib
false statements and fallacious arguments respecting
the Oriental Question, when hostilities might yet
have been averted, this oonntry owes that it is at
war. And now we fled the Times endeavouring
to intimidate the country into a cowardly and igno- I