The Express.
London, England, 1864-09-01 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 1, 1864.

ing the wounded, M. DI PRIMAL, sous-intendant 1
of the Imperial Guard of Paris, thought they
would have enough to do to transport themsalvea,
and would prove an incumbrance to the army.
There was also a disposition on the part of these
officers to extol the sufficiency of their own
eystems ; in none was this more noticeable
than in what Dr. RUTHERFORD had to say for
the English service, which amounted to
this—that we had made great improvements
since our Crimean experiences, and had got a
most efficient hospital corps, and Miss ThotrriN-
GALE'S nurses, a full complement of ambulances—
though the system by which these are ma-
naged in the field was not explained—and above
all, a department specially charged with providing
the wants of the sick—the purveyors. This sys-
tem, the Conference were told, had perfectly satis-
fied England, not only theoretically but practi-
cally, in the war in China, and that it would be
for the advantage of other nations to adopt it.

The fact of this International Conference evi-
dently does not indicate that much reliance is felt
on the military systems as at present organized, and
indeed it was the disastrous condition of the sick
and wounded in the French army during the
Italian campaign, especially after Solferino, as
witnessed by the Secretary of the Association, M.
DUNANT, that gave rise to this endeavour to
remedy the defects of military organization.
That was a teat of the improvements made after
Crimean experiences ; and we must confess for our
own part it would be a great satisfaction if we could
be entirely persuaded that our reformed Purveyor's
department and our new Hospital Corps with its
Military Train in aid, would not break down under
a test like that of Solferino. The American war
came upon the nation suddenly, and it was found,
as M. Bonnier' well said, easy to improvise soldiers,
but impossible to do the same with " hospital
" corps." Had it not been for the forethought of
some of the American citizens, who, like these
good Samaritans of Geneva, wished to provide
against a repetition of the Crimean calamities on a
gigantic scale, there was nothing else to prevent
tenfold horrors of war after all the great battles.
The United States Sanitary Commission, which
provided every kind of hospital stores and food, by
its admirable organization and energetic action in the
field, not only proves of what value are the services
of volunteers on the side of pure benevolence
and humanity, but the continued imperfections of
the means of field transport for the sick and wounded
with the necessary hospital stores. This uncon-
querable obstacle to armies in the field has been
almost entirely surmounted by a Volunteer Sani-
tary Association in this case, and on a scale compared
with which our experiences are literally nothing.
At least, if the great regular armies are not disposed
to take advice from civilian philanthropists, they
ought to examine the means with which the Sani-
tary Commission in America has worked. Taken
in connexion with this, the International Confe-
rence at Geneva has directed attention to a condi-
tion affecting European armies which no government
should overlook—that while the art of war has
developed and perfected its terrible weapons, and
works with more concentrated fury and destruction
than ever, yet no increased means of succour and
relief have been provided equal to the awful de-
struction of life and limb upon the battle-field.

DEPARTURE OF THEIR ROYAL HIGHNESSES THE
DUKE AND PRINCESS MART OF CAMBRIDGE FOR GERMANY.
—Their royal highnesses and suite left lan night by the
8.30 p.m. mail train of the London, Chatham, and Dover
Railway, from Victoria station, for Dover, where they em-
barked immediately for Calais on board the Lowden,
Chatham, and Dover Company's special mail packet the
Wave. Their royal highnesses were received at Victoria
and Dover by the principal officers of the railway company.
The train ran for the first day on the Admiralty pier at
Dover, alongside the man packet. We undentand that
both the morning and evening mail trains of the London,
Chatham, and Dover Railway Company will in future land
and embark the mails and passengers and their luggage to
and from the trains and mail packets at the Admiralty
pier, thus entirely superseding the use of small boats, and
saving the transit to and from the packet and the railway.
This will be a groat boon to travellers on dark and bois-
terous nights, and save them the expense of cab or omnibus
hire, and the well-known exactions of that almost now de
fund body of plunderers, the Dover town porters.

Her Imperial Highness the Grand Duchess
M irie of Russia, his Excellency Count Strogonoff, and the
Countess To Igo,' have left Claridge's Hotel for Torquay.
The Duke and Duchess of Richmond are enter-
tainieg a select party at Gordon Cutle, S.B.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Hastings have
returned from Scotland to Donnington Park, Leioestershire,
where they will receive company during the Derby races.

The Right Hon. Sir Charles Wood, Bart., 3LP.,
will remain in attendance, u Secretary of State, on the
Queen at Balmoral up to the 12th inst.

The Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, M. P., Secre-
tary of State for the Colonies, has arrived in town.

Sir Fitzroy Kelly has arrived at the Hotel
Bristol from Switzerland, on hie way to England. Baron
Meyer de Rothaehild his alighted at the same hotel.

A manifesto has just been put forth by the Rev.
Dr. Pussy on the &abject of the recent decision by the
Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in the cast of
" Eiaays and Reviews." He rys that, as to Mr. Wilson's
case, "the Lord Chancellor did for those who trusted him,
and not our Lord or His church, abolish the belief in hell ;"
and that, as to Dr. Williams's ear " there was a jubilee of
triumph among half-believers, as if all barriers were thrown
down, and disbelief might have its free come." By
an analogy from French history, he urges that the English
Crown may stand in need of the aid of the English Church,
and the state may wish that it had cot weakened her. Let
churchmen, he says, support no candidate for parliament
who will not pledge himself to do what in Win lies to reform
the Court of Privy Council, and besiege parliament until it
is reformed. It has been suggested that no church should
be offered for consecration, no sums given for the building
of churches which by consecration would become the pro-
perty of the present church of England, no sums given for
endowment in perpetuity, until the present heresy-legalising
court shall be modified. " This will show our rulers that
we are in earnest." Such is the substance of this curious
document.

The English ship General Slade entered the port
of Fkuunp on Thursday last, coming from Guernsey, hav-
ing several of her crew severely wounded in consequence of
an accident which occurred during the passage. The crew
wen nearly all in the cabin, some sitting round a table and
other standing, when one of them, having lighted a match,
Caused au explosion of gas which had escaped from the coal
bunker. The men who were standing were severely burnt
in the hands and arms.

THE PRINCE AND PRINCEM OP WALES AT ABER-
GELDIE.—On Saturday their
atoial Highom
rs es, accom-
panied by the Hon. M. Coke Lord Amato*, Major
Teesdale, he., drove to Strathdon, to the seat of Sir Charles
Forbes, "Bart., of Newe, and viewed several of the places of
note in the district returning by the low road from Strath.
don, and through Ballater, reaching the castle is the even-
leg. On Sunday the Prince and Princess, the Hoo. Lady
Coke, Ac., with Lord Hamilton, Msjor Teviedals, Mr.
Wood, and Dr. Robertson, attended public worship at
Crathis Church. The Rev. Dr. Norman M'Leod, from
Glasgow (who arrived at the cantle on Saturday afternoon),
preached a moat instructive and eloquent sermon from St.
Luke, 16th chap., 25th verse. The church has Dot been so
full for a long time put. The rev. doctor left .kbergeldis
on Monday about 12 a.m. The Hoo. Lady Phipps and the
Han. Miss Phipps and *errant. &mired at Abergeklie on
Saturday evening.—Dusdre Advertiser.
ST. rAET.PB CATHEDRAL.—The following are the
?satiation appointed by the Bishop of London to preach
in the cathedral on Sunday mornings in the month of Sep-
tombs, :—Sanday, September 4. the Rev. John Henry
Coward, M.A., of Pembroke College. Cambridge, rector of
St. Benet's with St. Peter's, Paul's Wharf. Sunday, Sep-
tember 11. the Rev. Michael Gibbs, of Goovills and Caine
College, Cambridge, vicar of Christ Church, Newpte•
street, and Proctor in Convocation for the clergy of the
diocese of London. Sunday, September 18, the Rev.
Richard Bargees, 8.D., of St. John's College, Cambridge,
rector of Upper Chelsea. Sunday, September 25, the Rev.
William Gilson HumphrT, 8.D., of Trinity Collage, Cam-
bridge, vicar of St. Martues-in-the•Fields.

It is asserted that active negotiations are going
on between Paris and Turin on the subject of the
evacuation of Rome.

AMERICA.

(RZUTZIeII IMMORAL )

SOUTHAMPTON, AUGUST 31, EVI2II2IG.

The Hamburg and American Company's steamer
Saxonia, from New York on the afternoon of the
20th inst., has arrived here. She brings 37 bags of
mails, 109 passengers for this port, Havre, and
Hamburg, 4,000 dela. in specie for Havre, and
2,800 dole. for Hamburg.

(Vii Cape Ramo and Southampton.)
NEW YORK, Auoun 22, Emma.

On Friday, thel9th inst., the 6th corps of Grant's
army took up a position on the Weldon Railroad,
where they were surprised by the Confederates,
and driven back with the loss of 3,000 men. The
Federals were subsequently reinforced, and reco-
vered lost ground. Fighting continues.
Grant's troops have recrossed from the north
bank of the James River.

AUGOIST 22, Evxwnrc.
Early's advance northward is creating much
excitement in Maryland.

INTELLIGENCE.

NEW YORK, Atrauer 22, Nosurtmo.

Gold, 2571. The government has anticipated the
payment of the November and gold coupons of the
loan of 1881-1882 without discount.
NEW YORK, Accuerr 22, Emma.

, Gold, 2561. Exchange on London, 280. Stocks
tending downwards. New York Centrals, 1271 ;
Illinois, 1291 ; Erie, 1111 ; United States Bonds,
5-20'e, 111. Cotton, middling Upland, 182.
Breadatufla advancing. Petroleum, crude, 54 ;
refined, 86 to 88.

(From► the Tinter.)
NEW YORK, AUGUST 21.

Warren occupied the Weldon Railroad at Reams
on the 18th. On the following afternoon the Con-
federates attacked, but failed to dislodge him. The
Confederates were repulsed in an attack upon Rid-
ney, at Deep Bottom, on the 15th. The losses are
heavy on both aides.
Gold, 257.

King Leopold is said to have derived great
benefit from the sea air of Ostend, "sod it has been re
marked," says a letter from Brussels, •• by the frequenters
of the Dive '—the splendid promenade at that watering
plaoe— that his Majesty, who was to be seen there ►t almost
all hours of the day, walked much more nimbly than either
of his sons. The Duke of Brabant, the heir apparent, has
an evident weakneas in his limbs, which gives to his royal
highness s certain degree of lameness ; while his brother,
the Count of Flanders, is very deaf, and has, from being
tall, cocaidon to stoop so as to hear what is said by those
with whom he is conversing, which makes the contrast be-
tween him and his royal septuaginarian father the more
perceptible."
_ .

The Kreutz Zeitung, reviewing the late speech of
Lord Palmerston, in which the Premise mentioned various
mean which would have rendered it difficult to send an
expedition for the defence of Denmark, remarks :—" It is
interesting to compare them retraepective argument.
with the promises which were made to Denmark, and the
threats which were offered to Germany. The argumeate,
perhaps, were just, but then the threats must have been
false. The democrats of the Danish cabinet allowed them-
selves to be deceived by these Waite and these promises
but not so the statesmen of Germany. There le the dif-
ference. The English army is certainly too feeble to fight
alone a great European power,—the Raman war hie proved
it; but in Sleswig and Jutland, supported on both coasts
by the fleet, it would have been a very respectable enemy,
which would have paralysed the movement. of a much
greater army than that which the German powers had
sent. This no one eau deny ; but the truth is that England
did not see that she could gain anything by it. Whoever
Lord Palmerston may have deceived, be he not deceived
us."

The Charirari publishes a wood-cut representing
the travelling vehicle of a quack doctor, in which a Jut-
binder is seated on the chair of operation, an Austrian
behind turning a hand-organ, and a Prussian in front ex-
claiming, " Allman! an extraction likewise in this case !
Grind on there, music! Louder, louder! Be may bawl
out as he likes !"

Mougieur Thiere, to whom the Duke de Pereigny
very distinctly alluded in his last speech at St. Etienne, has
determined to publish a pamphlet, in which he will refute
all the arguments contained in M. de Persigny's speech, and
endeavour to upset his theory of government.

A Paris correspondent save :—" There area great
number of Americans io Paris who are watching with un-
usual anxiety just now pining events on the other side of
the Atlantic. We have gentlemen from the North as well
as gentlemen from the South amongst us, and they may be
MD, the Northerners at the Hotel dit Louvre and the
Southernen at the Grand Hotel, daily meeting in consider-
able numbers. These exiles from their native land, gene-
rally for political reasons, receive letters by every mail, and
we get reflected the various phases of political feeling alike
at Richmond and Washington."

Although shooting is only to commence in
France on the 3rd, which is somewhat later than usual,
game has already bean sold in Paris, every imaginable
expedient being resorted to in order to elude the vigilance
of the Custom-house oftloem stationed at the barriers.
Their attention was last week attracted by the unusual
number of pigeons and fowls brought into the market. On
investigating these innoceat-looking birds, they proved to
be partridges and pheasants in disguise—" wolves in
sheep's clothing." List Friday, at the St. Lame station,
the unusual dimensions of a crinoline having created some
surprise the fair wearer was politely requested to step into
the wsiting•room, when, with the aid of some female
employes, no lees than forty partridges were detached from
the above-mentioned "cage," as in this instance the
lady's garment might with every truth be denominated.

The sporting season seems to be in full vigour
in other places than the moon. A wolf-bent was organised
two days back at Radlly-Saint Loup, Aube, in co•ss-
geeece of complaints made by the inh►bitants of depreds-
time committed on their flocks. Twenty-eve permits, well
armed, and • dozen dogs, surrounded a wood of about 100
acres, where the wolves were supposed to have taken
refuge, and after an active chase of about an hour and a
half, they returned home in triumph, followed by a waggon
bearing • large he wolf, the dam, and eight cubs, all
killed by the party.

Count lisisiom, Prussian Minister at Turin,
writes to a son of the late Baron Bannon ;—" It is to be re-
gretted that Baron Bans= did not live to see the year 1864,
which has so signally verified his view of the London
Treaty. This pragmatic sanction, erected, like the Ice
Palace on the Neva, in sontempt of the laws of nature,
has melted away before the irresistible faros of things as
the► are. The Duchies, delivered at last from their long
struggle for existence, will now be permitted to tarn to
higher things. To behold such a result would have been a
joy of joys to your father."

PRINCE HUMEERT.—A correspondent of the
Dtbage, writing from Turin on the 28th tilt. says:—" The
semi-official papers contradict with some little animation
the reports in circulation respecting the marriage of the
hereditary prince ; and in order to complete their denials,
they speak of rumours which have also been circulated of
the marriage of the prince with a Danish princess, whose
name, lbalieve, is Maria Deem. The conclusion to be drawn
from these contradietioos is that nothing is yet decided.
As so the Danish princess, she is outof the question ; she is
a protestant, and it le doubtful whether she would consent
to abjure. Now upon this point the will of the King is
very firm, and Victor Emmanuel is completely in mooed
with his government. These samples may appear surprising
in the present state of the relations between the kingdom
of Italy and the Holy See ; but things are not regarded in
the semi manner on both sides of the Alps. This is true
in all things, io polities as in religion. The shades of aiii7-
ewe which distinguish the two nations do sot at mice
Milks the eye. Time is seeded to appreciate them, and
after a rather loeg stay in this °wintry I perceive fresh OWN
every day. What is certain is that the hereditary prince
has arrived at an age at which be ought to marry, and it
may be added that the nation which associates the dynasty
with the idea of its indepeodenes, ardently wishes the heir
to the throne to cheese a eompanion and ensure the perpetu-
ation of his nos."