The Express.
London, England, 1862-11-24 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, Smoky Virgin°.

The government writers either are or profess to
be extremely unhappy about the ambitious designs
of England in Greece. The " laurels" of Prince
Alfred—l am speaking literally—will not let them
sleep. They complain, indeed, greatly of the un-
derhand manceuvres of perfidious Albion in support
of a candidature which she officially disavows ; but
their crowning—their insupportable grievance, is
that the bust of Prince Alfred is to be seen in all
the cafes of Athens, covered with " laurels" and
flowers. The Constetutionnel is instructed to aban-
don for a moment the bitter tone indulged in by
its fellow labourers, and to write an article full
of urbanity and propriety, declaring the statement
I of the Precurseur of Antwerp that Lord Cowley
and M. Drouyn de Lhuys bat had some smart
sparring on the subject of Greece utterly incredi-
ble on the simple ground that the London protocol
of February 3, 1830, excluded from the throne of
Greece "any member of the reigning families of
the states parties to the treaty of July 6, 1827"
(France, Great Britain, and Russia). This respect
for treaties is no doubt praiseworthy in principle,
bat it is a new-born sentiment in the French go-
vernment press, differing very widely from the
ideas which they promulgate when it suits them to
the effect that antiquated treaties are of no account
when opposed to the principles of nationalities and
universal suffrage. Long before anybody dreamt
of Prince Alfred as a possible candidate for the
throne of Greece, the French government
bad settled in its own mind that the
Duke de Leuchtenberg, a relation of the
reigning families of France and Russia,
would be a capital representative of those two
powers in the East to the exclusion of England.
The flimsy argument was advanced, by way of a
feeler, that because he is not in the direct line of
succession to either of the crowns, therefore he is
not such a member of the families as was contem-
plated by the protocol ; but, in case of this being
over-ruled, they were quits ready to go in for the
paramount right of the Greek people to choose any
ruler theypleased. In this order of ideas a Frenehi-
fied Greek in Paris, named Agathon Bougiclis, who
pretends to speak in the name of all his country-
men residing in this metropolis, published an ad-
dress to the Hellenic Constituent Assembly (that
is to be) exhorting them, in the first place, to de-
clare that the treaties which presumed to fetter
their choice are obsolete, and, in the second, to
choose for their king " a scion of the family of that
great captain who was only prevented by the hos-
tility of the old world from realising the deliverance
of the east." It is quite certain that French diplo-
macy was but a few days ago prepared to support
the doctrines of M. Agathon Bougiclis in favour of
the Duke de Leuchtenberg. Now, however, these
unlucky laurels that the Greeks so obstinately per-
sist in placing on the brows of Prince Alfred's bust
have turned the tables. The Patric announces that
Baron Brunnow, the Russian ambassador in Lon-
don, has communicated to Lord Russell a despatch
from Prince Gortcbakoff, stating that Russia means
to adhere to the spirit and the letter of the
London protocol, and, in consequence, will
not recognise as the sovereign of Greece any prince
belonging to either of the three interdicted families.
M. Oubril, the Russian charge d'affaires at Paris,
has made a similar communication to M. Drouyn
de Lhuys. The Patrie is careful to add, in a sepa-
rate paragraph, that whether the Duke de Lomb-
tenberg comes within the exclusion is a ques-
tion for discussion.

•
An extraordinary cabinet council was held thisday
(Sunday) at Compigne. M. Drouyn deLhuys, who
is staying there, has his secretary with him, and
the belief is that in the course of the weak the
Nonikur will coutain a political manifesto.

M. de la Tour d'Auvergne, the newly-appointed
ambassador to Rome, has been sent for to Com-
piegne, and his departure to hie poet is deferred
till the beginning of December.
The France and other government journals
betray evident vexation at the dismissal of General
M'Clellan, which plainly betokens the determina-
tion of President Lincoln to go on with his anti-
slavery proclamation, and bodes the ill-success of a
great many pretty little schemes which Mr. Slidell
and the Emperor have been concocting between
them. - _

The church of Saint Elizabeth, in the Rue du
Temple, was crowded yesterday to witness the
marriage of a young Chinaman with a Paris girl.

AMERICA.

(REUTER'S TILTARMI.)

The Royal Mail steamship Arabia, Captain
Stone, which left Boston on the 12th and Halifax
on the 14th inst., arrived iu the Mersey at 2.30
yesterday afternoon.
A Washington letter of the 11th says :
Major-General M'Clelian and personal staff left Warren-
ton at 11 o'clock today. On reaching Warrenton Junction
a salute was fired. The troops, which had been drawn up
in line, afterwards broke ranks, when the soldiers crowded
around him, and many eagerly called for a few parting
wools. He said, in response, while on the platform of
the railroad depot :—" I wish you to stand by General
Burnside u you have stood by me, and all will be well.
Good bye."
To this was a spontaneous and enthusiastic response.
The troops were also drawn up in line at Bristow Station
and Manama Junction, where salutes were fired, and where
M'Clellan was complimented with enthusiastic cheers. The
party arrived here this afternoon just in time to take the
5 o'clock train for Trenton. The cars being detained owing
to some impediment on the track, General M'Clellan was
recognised by the many soldiers quartered in that vicinity,
when be was greeted with oft-repeated cheers. The follow.
iog farewell order was read to the troops composing the
army of the Potomac, yesterday morning, on dress parade :
"Head-quarters, Army of the Potomac, Camp
near Rectortown, Virginia, Nov. 7.

" Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Potomac,—
An order of the President devolves upon Major-General
Burnside the command of this army. In parting with you
I cannot express the love and gratitude I bear to you. As
an army you have grown up under my care. In you I have
never found doubt or coldness. The battles you have fought
under my command will proudly live in our nation's his-
tory. The glory you have achieved—our mutual perils and
fatigues, the graves of our comrades fallen in battle and by
disease, the broken forms of those whom wounds and sick.
nese have disabled, the strongest emaciation. which can
exist among men, unite us still by an indissoluble tie. We
shall ever be comrades in supporting the constitution of our
country and the nationality of its people.
" G. B. kl`Cumtati, Major-General U.S. Army."
General M'Clellan arrived at Baltimore on the
evening of the 11th, on his way to Philadelphia,
whence he was to proceed to Trenton, New Jersey.
At the last-named town great preparations were
being made to receive him.

NEW YORK, Nov. 13.

The prize steamers Reliance, Swan, and Union,
have been sold at Key West. A large side wheel
steamer, tho Caroline, formerly called Arizona, has
been captured about 50 miles off Mobile, laden
with arms and munitions of war from Havannah.
General Corooran's brigade has left New York
for the seat of war.

The Harper 's Ferry Investigating Committee has
ordered Colonel Ford, of Ohio, and Major Baird,
of the 126th New York Regiment, to be dismissed
the service.

It is semi-officially announced that there are no
divisions in the cabinet on government measures.

Lieutenant Johnson, of the 17th Kentucky
Union Regiment, having tendered his resignation
on account of Mr. Lincoln's proclamation, has been
dismissed the service in disgrace.

The Richmond Examiner says that the declaration
of the British Secretary of War, that the South had
not yet accomplished her independence,baa dissolved
the prospect of foreign intervention. The Examiner
thinks that England wishes to see the continuan.e
of the war to the point of exhaustion of both North
and South, iu order to remove American rivalry in
commercial enterprise and empire.
Lord Lyons left New York for Washington on
Tuesday last.
Archbishop Hughes has written a letter to Mr.
Seward, in which he says that America should be
prepared, for there is no love for her on the other
side of the Atlantic. Generally speaking, in
Europe the United States are ignored, if not
despised ; treated of in conversation in the same
contemptuous language that Americana might em-
ploy towards the inhabitants of the Sandwich
Islands or Vancouver Island. The archbishop is
sorry to say that these assertions are unquestion-
ably true.
Letters are published in the New York journals
showing that Superintendent of Police Kennedy, of
New,York city, on his own authority, caused a lady
from New Orleans, 22 years of age, named Brins-
made, to be arrested in Washington and brought
to New York, where she was confined in a common
oell of a police-station during five weeks. All ap-
plications of ber friends to see her were useless,
Kennedy threatening if they continued their ap-
plications to have them arrested. They then ap-
plied to the War Department and to Provost-
Marshal Draper, at Washington, who denied all
knowledge of this arrest ana ordered the lady to be
released at once. The grounds of her arrest were
Kennedy's assertion that she sung secession a 1.%
on the steamer coming from New Orleans, and
that she was a spy. The New York journals
denounoo Kennedy's conduct as most infamous.
The Federal expedition which left Newborn,
North Carolina, has captured Hamilton and is
advancing on Tarborough.
The correspondent of the Boston Journal, writing
from the squadron off Charleston on the 18th of
October, says that the British gunboat Racer en-
tered Charleston, and took away as passenger the
British consul, who states that the Confederates
have launched a powerful ram, and that two more
are ready for plating with iron, which they expect
to arrive from England. The steamer Nash-
ville is lying at the month of Stone Inlet,
six miles from Charleston, watching for a
chance to run out. There were 200 cases of
yellow fever at Charleston. The same correspon-
dent says that a steamer ran the Charleston blockade
on the Bth (1). The Federal steamer Flambeau
fired twenty-two shots against her sides to stop
her, but the shots rattled off like bail. She is sup-
posed to be iron-plated, and also to have iron plates ,
on board.
Major Sanders, • eon of George N. Sanders, has
been captured on his way to Europe with Confedev
rate despatches.
• The Bermuda Gazette says that Admiral Milne,
• with a large fleet, will leave Halifax for Bermuda
• on November 15.
General Fremont has been ordered to report him-
self for duty.
• General Scott has replied to President Buchanan's
communication that Buchanan might have rein-
s forced Forts Jackson and St. Philip with malt
garrisons until Congress could have raised volun.