The Express.
London, England, 1862-07-07 00:00:00

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11061019, Juin, 19.

There is but little doubt thatPeneral
will approach Richmond somewhat after the
same plan be pursued at Yorktown. He will
not offer battle, but approach the city by the
slow process of the spade. His foe will undoubt-
edly meet him with a corresponding trench dig-
ging and fortifications, and the rebels may also
try • second time to drive back a portion of his
force, or to out his army in two. Only in this
way can the Confederate capital be rescued from
, the Federal grasp. It is regarded as a moral cer-
tainty that the independence of the South literally
rests on the turn of events here. Tha dash of the
rebel cavalry in the rear of the Federal army at
White House seems, from the last accounts, to
have been more from accident than design, and is
supposed to have been a detachment of Jackson's
cavalry. With two large armies touching each
other there will be a constant repetition of skir-
mishes. There is no doubt that the Secessionists
have been reinforced, and that everything in the
shape of men or materials has been put into
requisition to strengthen the city. Hence,
though victory may in the end crown
the Union arms, it will be only after
great slaughter. It will not be safe to reason from
the past. Because the rebels evacuated Yorktown,
or Corinth, it does not follow they will retreat
from Richmond. In fact the withdrawal from
those places makes a stand here the more imperative.
The Confederate capital will not yield without a
battle. Ido not believe this is as near as many
suppose. Where in the meantime are Beauregard
and his army 1 Whatever the Federal generals
may know, it is certain the press at the North is in
the dark in respect to his movements. There are
constant reports that portions of his force have
gone to Charleston and Richmond, but there is no
evidence of this beyond the guesses of correspon-
dents. It is very probable that his army has taken
dillarent positions, if not different directions, on
account of the difficulty rn getting supplies. The
Southern press is so closely guarded in their men-
tion of army news, that nothing can be obtained
from them. General Halleck's force is still busy in
making railway communications, so as to reach the
great points of the north-west, and thus facilitate
supplies and make the movements of troops more
easy and rapid. The possession of Chattanooga
is important, because it is one of the chief
centres where several important lines of railway
converge. Iron abounds In this section, and the
manufacture of engines and rails will enable the
Federals the more rapidly to complete their railway
connexions. This place is also one of the gateways
to East Tennessee ; and as Halleck has a larger dis-
posable force than any other commander, an en-
trance into this loyal part of the state could better
be made through this opening than anywhere else.
The excessive joy with which news of the capture of
this place was received by the loyal East Tennes-
seans is evidence of their estimate of the import-
ance to them of this Federal success. While Eastern
Teunessee is thus jubilant at the prospect of the
long looked-for deliverance, its chief city at the
West is beginning to give signs of the revival
of trade. On Tuesday of this week 3,000
bales of cotton, 5,000 full barrels and 3,000 half-
barrels of molasses, and 6,000 barrels of sugar were
shipped for the North, and more, it was reported,
would follow the next day. One thousand letters
were mailed on the first day the post-office was
opened, mostly on business to Northern cities. Out
of three hundred who took the oath of allegiance in
one day, five were commissioned officers and one
hundred and fifty were deserters from the rebel
army. Agents who have been buying cotton in
Alabama are reported as transporting it to Mem-
phis; but this at present cannot be to any great
extent. The officers of the rebel army are reusing
all likely to fall into Federal hands, and applying
the torch. In some instances citizens have de-
fended their property with force. In the case
of Beauregard's army the scattering of the retreat-
ing forces was hastened by the premature use
of the torch on the railroad bridges. This
compelled General Brads division to a forced
march in the beat of the day to Boonville, which
soon became • panic-stricken retreat. It was this
portion of the rebel army which General Pope
seized, and though the first report by (senora] Hal-
leck of this capture was exaggerated, there is no
doubt that the number was very large, and that this
corps of General Bragg**, which the rebel news-
papers have described as the dower of Beauregard's
army, has either been demoralised or taken. The
story is current in the Federal camp that General
Pve s prisoners confirm the rumour which Gemara'
Halleck embodied in one of his reports, that Beau-
regard, in hearing of Colonel Elliot's dash, was so
surprised and depressed that he lost for the moment
Ibis self-ocmmand, and gave utterance, in the hear-

L TWOPENCE

of his troops, to words of disappointment and hope-
lessness. The passage of the Confiscation Bill by
such a decided majority in the House of Representa-
tives marks an important stage in the progress of
the rebellion.

FRANCE.

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Pews, SATURDAY EVINIIIO.
Duke Pasquier died in Paris last night, at the
wonderful age of 96. He bad been kept alive for
many months by extraordinary artificial means.
Although up to almost the last hour of his exist.:
ODOR his intellect was as clear and vigorous as when
he presided in the House of Peers to try Louis
Napoleon for his invasion of Boulogne, the physical
man has been long almost gone. His appetite long
survived his digestive powers. His favourite
dinner wee half a snipe, or some small bird, with •
good glass of claret ; but immediately after eating
a lethargy supervened, which was not to be shaken
off by the simple sad ordinary expedient of a nap
in an arm chair. Two or three times in the four-
and-twenty hours he was shampooed, washed with
warm milk, and wrapped • Lmutefiannebi,L

painful digestions were over, and greatly enjoyed
conversation. A few weeks ago a friend jocosely
said to him that he would certainly make up his
100 years ; but the duke, with a consciousness of
his approaching end, said, " Oh, no ; it is not now
a question of years, nor even of months or weeks,
but of days." Some short time ago he wrote a
letter to M. Guizot, with whom he had not been
on good terms for many years, on the immortality
of the soul, and received a very cordial and elo-
quent letter in reply.
Duke Pasquier was born on April 22, 1767. His
family had been eminent members of the judicial
bench for two centuries. He himself was admitted
at the early age of 20 to take his seat in the
parliament of Paris by the side of his father.
After the Revolution he does not appear to have
played any prominent part for many years, bit he
was for a time prefect of police under the first
empire. His fortunes rose rapidly after the Resto-
ration. In 1816 M. Pasquier was elected a deputy
for the Seine, and shortly afterwards be became
President of the Chamber. M. Deem.; of whose
ministry he long formed part, made him a peer in
1822. Louis Philippe, who took IL Pasquier into
his special favour, revived expreesly for him the
office of Chancellor of France, in 1837, and in 1844
created him a Duke. He leaves no issue, and the
title is consequently extinct. His only wife, the
widow of Count de Rochefort., died in 1844.
A seat in the French Academy is vacant by Duke
Pasquier's death. His election as one of the envied
forty dates from 1842. It must be confessed that
he owed his seat in that body rather to strong
political influence than to literary merit, for his
only qualification? the meagreness of which was the
subject of sarcastic comments at the time, consisted
of a vaudeville written in 1806, and a collection of
his parliamentszy speeches from 1814 to 1836.
It is rumoured that the duke has left posthumous
memoirs, and that, unlike lalleyrand, he has not
thought it necessary to suspend their publication.
I have received information of some recent resolu-
tions of eminent Hungarian leaders, which I think
important, and of which you will certainly hear
more before long. Many Hungarian patriots at
Vienna and Perth have long been dissatisfied with
the policy of Kossuth, whom they suspect to be,
whether willingly or otherwise, a tool in the bands
of Napoleon 111. They have no confidence in
Bonapartist professions of liberality ; they have
oome to the conclusion that the Panselerial
movement is inimical to Hungarian interests, and
view with disfavour the recent events in Serra
and Montenegro. This party thinks it may octant
upon many true friends among the constitutional
members of the Vienna Reichsrath, and after
much secret negotiation with the exiles, and
with radical partizans of Hungarian nation-
ality, who were till lately supposed to be
altogether intractable in regard to any compromise
with Austria, it has taken the initiative of the fol-
lowing scheme, which I am assured is assented to
by General "(Lipka and most of the leading Hun-
garian refugees, with the exception of Koseuth and
Turr. It will be proposed to the Emperor of Austria
to convoke the Hungarian Diet at Perth. The Diet
will then declare that Hungary is sincerely desirous
of remaining united to Austria under the auspices
and guarantee of the constitution of Vienna, pro-
vided the Emperor will only grant Hungary a sepa-
rate parliament. A mixed parliamentary com-
mission, in which the crown would be
represented, will be proposed to settle the
terms of the definitive act of union. Should
this proposition be accepted the party declares
that the Emperor of Austria will have no more
loyal subjects than the Hungarians. The Emperor
of Austria, who has been sounded on the subject,
is said to incline to this scheme ; and even M.
Schmerling (who, as the author of the constitution
of February, which contemplated a single parlia-
ment for the whole empire, is naturally prejudiced
in favour of his own work) is by no means obsti-
nately hostile to it. Of course his scruples, what-
ever may be the extent of them, must give way if
the Emperor be irice gained to the project.
I believes pamphlet will shortly appear in Paris,
advocating the above views, and you may expect to
see a grea:. deal of correspondence in the press of
Europe, written by agents of the new Hungarian
PartY•
A good deal of attention has been excited by the
partial realization of the predictions of a new
weather prophet, M. Mathieu (de la DrOme), for-
merly an eloquent member of the National Assembly,
and who, since 1861, has been living in studious re-
tirement at Geneva. He said a fornight since
that the unusual cold summer weather which
has afflicted us throughout the month of June
would change on July 4, and sure enough yesterday
and today have been warm and genial. M. Mathieu
(de la Drdme's) calculations are based upon a study
of the changes of the moon. His theories being
disputed, he wrote a letter last month to the Insti-
tute of France, saying that he would not argue, but
run the risk of prophesying, and " appeal to the
heavens" to decade whether his prophecies were
.ulfilled. In this letter he makes a series of pre-
dictions relative to the weather at Geneva, out
which he considers will be more or less appli-
cable to the neigbouriug states. His predictions—
which, however, reer only to the quantity of rain
that is to fall—ere as follow :-1. Supposing that
it should rain at Geneva from the 4th to the 10th
July, the quantity of water will be very small 2.
From the 18th to the 26th there will be some storms
and hail in different parts. 3. From the 3rd to the
9th August there will be at least three wet days.
4. From the 13th to the 20th, at least four showery
days. 6. From the 3rd to the 20th Annst in-
clusively the quantity of rain which will fall at
Geneva will exceed 50 millimetres (2 inches).
Count Anse, the Emperor's personal friend, is
coming to meet him at Vichy, and of course it is
surmised that important matters relating to Italy
will be discussed between them.

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