The Express.
London, England, 1865-09-11 00:00:00

S EPTEMBER

rift itirPtOß 0,1 'HE FRENCH LT iffirun
A letter Mom dated Friday sart4ETln
Bo:tomer sad Em arrived at their reside Uzi
shanties retrial tit -Put 2 p.m. se•wralao
press and the Prtnoe Imperial wore seated In au open
Hags, in advent), of which about a dozen of the Cent Gerdes
rode ; the rest followed, sad the rear was brought up by
the Chateaus. The Au body of men who farm the
household guard of his Majeety is sow seen for the
brat ante in this part of the country, and I need hardly say
is greatly admired. Indeed, it forms one of the priocipal
attractions of the occasion. The Imperial Curd lined
the road leading from the Newsom into Biarritz, and
krpt the pauses clear. As the Emperor drove slowly
along the exits of • Vivo l'Eceplareer: which woos but
partial daring the fled moutrate, grew more !to-
ilsome end loader, earl es he approselted the residence,
om which the tricolour hod just been hoisted. it swelled into
a prolonged shout. The day was beautiful, and multitudes,
to the greater part of wham the aunt was a novelty,
crowded into Blunts from ell the country rout.
For bona before the airiest they thronged the streets
and the roads leading to Biarritz, tilled the he'ecosies,
sod might be seen on every point from which a view
could be °Maud. Of the Impetial Guard, which, u well
as the Cent Garde, has been brought down is con-
sequence of the Queen of Spate's expected visit, there
ere about 400 men. The Cent Cards are lodged in
the house' attached to the Palau, and the Imperial
Guard, as well am the detachments of the garrison
of Bayonne' are encamped in a specious Mid near
the small lake or reservoir whioh is need to irrigate the
grounds, and are within a abort diatom)e of the imperial
abode. As for Biarritz itself, I can ally ray that it is, if any-
thing, moreorowded than ever. There is, I believe, hardly 6,4
country in Europe that has not its repreautative—some of
very highest*. Nothing can be more soimated, particularly in
the morning and eumitg. Foransioalete are to be met with in
every direetioe, oa their way to visit the picturesque muss
in the neighbourbood—limbo, St. Jean de Les, Foams-
bit, San Sebsitian, and other points famous in history and
romance. The sae is still hot, ma in midsummer, though
iu the morning and seeping tempered by the breeze from
the mountains and the ocean. The ultimo lingers
long io this favoured country, and winter is always slow
in coming. Some Wt year a little chapel has been built
in the grounds of the psi WO, at a few minutes' walk from
it, so that the court will not, as hitherto, have to leave
the enoloeuro to attend ditties service oe the Sabbath.
The workmen put the last band to it only yesterday."

THE SHENANDOAH AND THE BRITISH
GOVERNMENT.
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The Times of to-day, after commenting upon the
ravages committed by the pirate Sbeouideah sloes the close
of the American wet, says it is worth considering whether
a farther step than that strictly required of as by interim-
time" law would not be justified under the peculiar oiream-
stances of the mac. " Oar neutrality, with its very limited
' rights' and very onerous 'duties,' hes owed with the
war, and nothing reclaim but our obligations, legal and
moral, towards a friendly power in time of peace. We have
amply satisfied the requirements of honour as between our-
salvia and the now extinct Confederate goveramcat, and
there is no longer room for the exercise of impar-
tiality. There is no such thing r. • ' Confederate
steamer Shenandoah,' for there is no belligerent
power to claim her or to be responsible for
any enormities that she may perpetrate. Captain
Waddell is, to all intents sal purposes, his own
master, and has the abalone disposal of all the
plunder which he may accumulate. In other words, he is
engaged is • rivet* bucausering raid, and hay thereby
made his:wolf the enemy of all civilise' nations. He may
have had good reasons of his own for sparing British
merchantmen, but there is no good reason that we can see
why be should be spared rather then soy other pirate if
he should chaos to fall ha with a British mannf.war.
It was not his respect for Basilisk hospitality, but
the vigilance of the colonial government, that alone
prevented • gross breach of our laws when the bks
nasiloah lay in Austrai is waters. Justice and policy
alike suggest that we should aid the United States in cutting
short his lawless career, sad putting down outrages so
ruinous to commerce and so dirge iceful to civilisation.
We hope that instrectioas to that effect may be sat to
the commander of our squadron to the Pacific. It is as ant
that would be appreciated by the United States and justified
by public opiaiou is Great Britain. Nothing but the direst
amenity could excuse the system of aondemaieg and burn-
ing ships on the Web sw adopte 1 by the Confederate
cruisers during the war. So strong was the feeling against
it in this oountry that many people could be induce'
to believe that it was toleramd by internationd law. As
now practised by Captain Waddell in aim-ant delete. of all
law, it can excite nothing but horror, and the circumstances
of the Shenandoah being lapelled from our own shores,
after aU our °Matte to maintain the spirit of the Foreign
Enlistment Act, will certainly sot win for her any amp-
tiooal sympathy."
(From the New York Tribe:lc of August 28.)
Saving always the murder of the President and the Ora-
cities of the An lersonville dungeon, we know of nothing in
the whole series of rebel crimes equal in absolute wanton
wickedness to the herniae of the American whaler, by the
area Shessandoals, on the oath-west mat. TIN) business
of whaling has been for some time epos the dallier, ad
years must elapse before the once opulent city of New
Bedford, Masesebusette, can recover from the blows which
this outlawed rover bas indicted upon its before waning
prosperity. But only those who are acquainted
with the peculiar character of the whaling besieges can
understand the amount of private distress which these
felonies will occasion. In the first place, the ships are owned
not by one or two capitalists. bat by • number of smell
shareholders, who have invested their savings in the pur-
chase of an eighth. a sixteenth, or • thirty -second part of a
ship; snd these shares ore often held by widows and
orphene who depend solely upon the returns for
support. " A broken voyage," even when the
ship return., mean. not only diesppoiltment but
privation, and sometimes „pinching poverty. But with the
ship goes the whole investment, unless Maranon has been
effected at enormous rates, and this, upon the suppressiou
of the rebellion, was naturally given up. Furthermore, the
crews of these vessels are paid sot by regular monthly
wages, as in the merchantservice,but by • stipulated
rer centage upon the net profits of the voyage.
Wh the Shenandoah barns a whaler every-
body ,in the least connected with the voyage
suffers —the pato wars, the outfitters, who have
• lien on the catching. for their advances, the officers, the
crews, the !amass of the crews, and traders who, upon the
credit of the voyage, have supplied these families with the
name wigs of life. Every ship burned takes away so mach
business from the boat-builder, the ship-carpenter, the rigger
the call-maker, the blacksmith, the baker, the caulker, th;
stevedore, the pilot, the chandler, the nautical instrument
maker, the slop-seller, the flour and pork dealer, the
druggist, the insuraace aloes, and the 6inks. The cult
is all-embracing. It reaches every shop, every house, and
every street. It is only lately that anybody his dime any
budnessin New Bedford notdirectly connected with whaling.
But the vocation was extremely profitable, and the town
had grown very wealtbr—it was famous for its fioe pub-
lic buildings, for its excellent schools, for its large public
library, for she beauty of its private resiences, for
its charalawa, for ite excellent ship Wilda's, for its lyceum,
one of the oldest in the United Staten and for its first-
rate commercial credit all over the world. Only one year
ago it celebrated the two-hundredth anniversary of its
foundation. This is the city which one wicked enterprise
has brought nigh to ruin, and has filled with anxiety sad

&strew. -
But there are 4111 farther aggravatioes. The commander
of the Shenaodosh knows very well that the rebellion has
collapsed, and be is runoing a muck merely for the Wye of
remege. He ha, not even the hope of profit which stimu-
lates the ordimuy pirate. In comparison with the pro-
' party which he &strop, that which he retains as the re-
sult of his theft Is insignificant. The hoods which be
extorts from the masters of ships which beeping are of so
value, and he knows that they are of nose. He is only
trying to keep up a pretence of lawful warfare. If anybody
is to be hasped for participation in this revolt, Waddell,
the commander of the Shenandoah, is the mac.
Among :he items of intelligence are two which are sot
ealeelated to promote eatioeal comity. We are told that
'motet the people on the Shenandoah " was an Englislinsaa
who seemed to be prospecting for Eva vessels to be put on
&Hoe betweve Australia sad New Zealand, and probably
would mindless IMMO of the captures of the pirate.* For-
they. "as Eailish vessel, laden with coal, was sees by the
ship William Gifford, booed for the Sbeeandoah." The
people at New Bedford lied little eines to love Ragland
before, for twine they have saffered from sn English Mea-
l Mon Their affection now will be roMorially diminielted, if
capable inutio at all.

Mr. Bright and his daughter are spending a few
days at Pira►eres, the Highland residenos of Mr. Thomas
B. Potter. H.P.
The Times has a letter this morning from Mr.
J. P. Benjamin, the wail knows member of the late Co..
federate olio* who has just arrived in England, le which
be seeks to threw all the respoonibillty of the refasal to
seamy planer' dories the war open the Mewl asthe-
riga& Yr. Davis espedally, be was, wee opposed to ill
Ws of retalletlos.

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