The Express.
London, England, 1855-08-15 00:00:00

THE BOMBARDMENT OF BWEABORO.

Sweaborg has been almost utterly destroyed. A
few shattered earthworks and batteries are all that survive
of a mighty link in that cheiu of fortresses prepared for the
conquest of Europe. Whether Rawls will admit the
moral argument of the defeat, or will await the succeuive
destruction of all her strongholds, this event brings u
nearer the thy when Europe will be relieved from the
Incubus of Russian domination.

Bweaborg cannot, indeed, be classed with Cronstadt for
•trangth or Sebastopol for importance. Its defences are not
of the same character as thou which protect the month of
the Neva. The approach is hy channels of sufficient depth
and width, but through granite rock. everywhere covered
with batteries. As to the value tilt by th Russians on the
place, on the one hand, it appears they took advantage
of the winter to convey to Cronstadt the few
vessels of war seen last year at Sweaborg ; and, on
the ether hand, they have employed the interval
in strengthening to the utmost the fortific dins which have
just been so summarily destroyed. It was said a few months
ago that, having let slip the opportunity of last year, we
should find Sweaborg impregnable. It appears, however,
that with a proper disposition of the fleet, and by keeping a
proper distance, we have disposed of this tomtit, and
shown that wood an sometimes beat granite. Let na
hope that when a boast has been proved idle in one place it
may in another. According to the programme, the mortar-
vessels and the gunboats were to commence the bombard•
meet at two miles' distance, and the liners were only to
come in to finish the work. it this is the arrangement
which has been so signally successful, it augurs well for the
operation of the firilla, promised by Sir Charles Wood, in
the grander sphere of the Neva, or wh else it is to be
employed.—Times.

The probability is that wire will yet be dens, and that
before our ships return to Spithead they will leave inef-
faceable marks of their presence in the Gulf of Finland.
The attack upon Soreaborg will serve to show how far it is
possible to take the place tort by fort, and island by island.
—Post.

Forty years of uninterrupted peace between Francs
and England (says the Pays) have effaced the last
bitterness of the struggle ; a new generation has risen up,
which has not imbibed the milk of national hatred. The
moment had arrived to repair by the cordial association of
the two most powerful nations of Europe, the mischief
which their enmity had caused in the world. This great
idea, the Emperor Napoleon and Queen Victoria have ae-
eompliehed. Thanks be to them fur it ! Lord Clarendon
said the other day in the Hansa of Lords, to characterise
the indents union of the two countries, that there wee ne
longer either a French or an English Cabinet, but a single
one, the members of which sat indifferently on one er the
other side of the Channel. We can in our turn say that
there will be only one people from the day when Qtlerg
Victoria shall have made her entry into Paris.
For the last tire's, months not a single expedition
has taken pine, nor a single gun ha ea fired, in Algeria•
This is the int time linos 1830 that stet a remark *Ali
be mad*.

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At the Privy Conseil bold by the Qum yesterday
Mr. Robert Lou., Mr. Wu. Masai. the lira. Vilma
Cam rod Rear-Admiral the Hos. M.P. Beekelsy, wee.
by **Qua's eassmal, sway aseabeis et bie Majesty's
Mat liesearybk Privy Cased, aid tea their seas at the
baed.
Vieseyat Palawan. Merl Oraville, Vaasa Ceasing,
ead Mr George Gay, had eadleaos a the Gaeta.
Mr. Jostles Willa we poessated te as Qesea by Sir
Osage Gay, Bunten of State la the Rase Departeasat,
ad Naiad the homer a baightbeed.
Vasa% Havana arrived ea a ,Wt te her Melody.
Prase Alban, esemipsaisd by the Priam at Wales awl
Prase Allred. sabstad I. the Vastly and Albert hoday
sad preessad le Periled to impost the prover at the
areelivisser sow eyestreetiai there.
The Dalai of Oloyastsr, ansaited by Lay Casella
Marra. visited the Dolan of Moat yesterday at Clareasio
he..., Pt. haw's.

A (Minot Council was bold. yostotday aftscsoos
at the Foreign-office, Downing-strayt. The Ministers
present were Viscount Palmerston" the Lord Chan-
cellor, Earl Granville, the Marquis of Lowdown*,
the Duke of Argyll, Sir George Grey, the Earl of
Clarendon, Sir William Moteawcrtn, Lord Penman,
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Charke Wood,
the Right Hoe. FL Vernon Smith, Viscount Canning,
and the Earl of Ecrrowby.

W. JAI Wood, Chaim= of the Bard of bleed lite•
vase, ►ad ea latarview wit► t►o Chimes for of the Raabe-
cur leotards, at ►fa dada' towdeetee la Dowaiag•otrat.

SAILING OF ERR MAJESTI'S ESCORT

SQUADRON.

PORTBMOU IH, WIDNZSDAT Mowing..

Ha Majesty's ship Neptan e, 120 ; St. Norio, 120;
Somporail, 71; Mason, 17; Rociatoatl, SWIM glop, 6;
Soolook, 6; Rolla, 6; acid the Fire goon; Sal Sprightly,
ohm; vessels; ILL undo, the ocuasead of Vito.Advairal
Sir Thome Coahrase, K.C.8., whom leg hi oarrioil by
the Nepta•', loft Spithead in Bosley* Obis wiorsfrig, at
6 o'clook.