The Express.
London, England, 1863-06-24 00:00:00

NAVAL AND MILITARY.

ADMIRALTY, JUNI 23. —Arra
tenant A. A. S. Watts, to the Liv L
Masters' Amistante F. H. W hitbet, to the Orlando ; and
W. E. Filmer, to the Victory, ae atipermunersly.
Mr. E. A. Richmond has beat •ominated to a naval
cadetship.

.—Lieu-

ENGLISH M.P.'S ON A CONFEDERATE

MISSION.

The Paris correspondent of the Times, writing
yesterday morning, sap :—" At the Oabir4 Council held
on Thursday last, at which the Emperor presided, it was
resolved that a despatch should be addressed the same day
to the French Ambassador in Lauda, hartestia him to
renew the proposals on the part of the Emperor to the
English government for • joint (diplomatic) action in
America. The dispatch woe written, and it is probable
that by this, or before this, Baron Gros will have carried
out the instructions it contained. Mr. Lintleay and Mr.
Roebuck came over to Paris on Monday morning.
They proceeded forthwith to Foatainebleaa. ifir. bindmay
asked for au audience for himself and Mr. Roebuck.
It was instantly granted, and both gentlemen were received
by his Majesty most graciously.Ta conversation lasted
some time, and the Emperor declared in the most formal
manner that he entertaitied the same views as before with
respect to the civil war in America ; that he was desirous
again to interpose his good aloes, and equally desirous that
Euglaud should join him ; that he believed the joint iota-
caution of France and England would he attended with
good results ; and that, in again proposing to Eagland to
act with him, he was moved by no unfriendly feeling to-
wards the North—quite the contrary. His only motive was
to put a stop to the horrible carnage in America, the more
mo as it was productive of no results ; and the more to be
deplored as there was no chance of restoring the union. A
statement made many mouths ago to the effect that the
Emperor bad proposed to England to join him in mediation
between the belligerents was contradicted, and, if I am not
mistaken, in parliament. I may now mention that the
Emperor, io his conversation with the two gentlemen yes-
terday, completely corroborated that statement. He
declared that he did propose mediation at the time specified ;
and, perhaps, I am not going too far in saying that Mr.
Lindsay end Mr. Roebuck have his authority for declaring
in parliament that what was then stated, respecting the
offer of mediation, was perfectly arena. and that he felt
much regret it was notated upon. Such is, I bare reason
to believe, the substance of the conversation that took place
yesterday at Fontainebleau."

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24.

THE solution of a problem which has tormented
the brain of Europe since the earliest migra-
tion. became communities, lost, yet living
a life of their own, in the depth. of burn-

jug deserts and along the courses of mighty
mountain streams—the discovery of a secret
which more than two thousand years ago arrested
the audacity of explorers and held the imagination
of poets spellbound; this is a victory of which
the nineteenth century—in its greatness and its
littleness so apt to justify Heiner's estimate of
man—may well be more than idly proud.
And without indulging in any spurious patriot-
ism, we may be allowed to say that
such a victory seems to belong by a kind of na-
tural right and according to the fitness of things, to
England, the planter and colonizer, and peaceful

subduer of new worlds. M. or LESBIOII, we are
persuaded, will not grudge this greater labour
than the Suez Canal to • nation of narrow ideas
and selfish aims, and the Emperor of the Emmen,
while he is carrying the advantages of Parisian
civilization into Mexico at the point of the bayonet,
will not disdain the honour of giving his name
to a channel of the Victoria Nyanza. For, in
•truth, if the glory of these bloodless conquests has
been achieved for England, the whole world par-
takes in the triumph.
There is something refreshing in this welcome
so nobly won and so justly bestowed upon the two
discoverers of the Sources of the Nile, in the
midst of the vulgar honours continually la-
vished in an age of false pretences upon
successful traffickers in human servility, or
upon the idols of conventional social worship.
Captains Slums and Grairr have burnt no
cities, laid waste no fertile countries ; they are not
men born to flattery and homage "as the sparks
"fly upwards" ; nor are they heroes of political
party or hereditary power, or of dominant
wealth, or of " interest" in high places. Here are
simply two brave gentlemen and soldiers, who, in-
stead of employing a leave of absence in cultivating
the graces of " good society" and lounging through
a London season, have, at the certain sacrifice of
health and the imminent peril of their lives, spent
two years' leisure in the service of human know-
ledge ; many weary days and unresting nights,
buried in the vast solitudes of trackless
wildernesses, surrounded by the strange and
threatening faces of savage tribes, con-
fronting the rage of the elements and the terrible
surprise of cruel men ; undaunted by wasting
heat, by thirst, and hunger, and fever, and lone-
liness, and silence, and far separation from all
familiar and friendly custom, and carrying through
all these trials and dangers incessant, an unshaken
purpose, a fixed resolve, a buoyant and happy
temper, an ever confident and courageous hope,
and the cheering comfort of a manly friendship,
knit closer and wrought firmer by mutual devo-
tion to a common cause. Captain GRIXTII
modest and touching tribute to his comrade
was a crowning grace to the welcome of Monday
evening at Burlington-house. Whoever knows
anything of the personal history of Arctic voyages,
or indeed who has had any experience even of
ordinary journeys, can testify to the severity of
the ordeal which mutual friendship sometimes un-
dergoes under the strain of an unbroken and pro-
longed companionship.
Let us leave for the present to geographers to
discuss the question of the precise merits and im-
portance of this great adventure, to merchants the
calculation of the possibilities which • glance into
the heart of equatorial Africa discloses, and to the
daring speculations of the highest Science to build
larger and happier destinies for m►nkind upon the
fact that, very near to the sources of the Nile,
are to be found tribes of men who, though without
religion and unconscious of • soul, are instinct
with the virtues which we call Christian, and
ruled by kings who are not only kings but " gen-
" tlemen ;" kings by a right divine which some
European nations would be glad to acknowledge
in their sovere'gns. Captain SPERE'S unaffected
address on Monday evening was quite as
full of eloquent and far-reaching suggestiveness
to all students and thinkers, is of practical
instruction to geographers. Evidently the trials
and hardships of African discovery are not only
those of bodily endurance, but of the meeting with
tribes of human beings who have never seen a
white man, and who treat every stranger of
their own race as a natural enemy. Yet, in the