The Express.
London, England, 1865-05-10 00:00:00

OUTWARD BOMBAY KA.L.

The Kamilla, from Southampton, April 27,
reached Malta on the 6th inst. at 2 p.m., and left
at midnight for Alexandria.
The ltuxine, from Marseilles, sth inst., arrived
on the Bth at 2 a.m., and left at 8 a.m. for Alex-
andria.

OUTWARD MAIL OF 2C-26 JANUARY.
The Bombay arrived et Sydney on the 18th
Marcd-

FRIGHTFUL STEAMBOAT DISASTER.
1,400 LIVES LOST.
We learn by the New York adviose received this
morning that a steamer with 2,000 Federal paroled
prisoners has been burnt on the Mississippi. Four-
teen hundred lives were lost.
The Times telegram says :—" %net the Mis-
sissippi transport steamer Sultana, with over 2,000
paroled Federal soldiers on board, was near Mem-
phis, at 2 o'clock, yesterday morning (April 28),
her boilers exploded, killing or blowing overboard
a great number of her passengers ; only 500 of all
who were on board are known to have escaped."

THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON IN ALGERIA.
The following is the full text of the proclamation
addressed by the Emperor Napoleon to the Arabs,
some extracts from which were given on Monday :
Algiers, May 5.
When, 35 years ago, France Owed her foot on the
African tail, she did not come to destroy its nationality,
hut, on the contrary, to liberate the people from loog•oon-
tinned oppression ; she has replaced the Turkish domination
by soother government, milder, juster, and more en-
lightened. Neverthelus, during the fist years, impatient
of foreign supremacy, you combated your liberators.
Far from me be the idea of considering it a crime ; on the
contrary, I honour the feel'ng of warlike dignity which lid
you, before submitting, to invoke by arms the judg-
ment of God. But God has pronounced; acknow-
ledge, therefore, the decrees of Providence, which, in its
mysterious designs, often guides us to a good end by dis-
appointing our hopes and deluding our efforts.
Twenty centuries ago, our ancestors, like yourselves.
courageously resisted a foreign invasion, but from their
defeat dates their regeneration. The vanquished Gaul, be-
came assimilated to the victorious Romans ; and from the
forced union of the contronted virtues of two opposing
civilisations there arose, in the course of time, that French
nationality which in its turn has propagated Its ideas
throughout the whole world. Who knows if a day wi" mot
come when the Arab race, regenerated and blended with
the French, shall not regain a powerful individuality similar
to that which for ages made it mistress of the southern
'horse of the Mediterranean?
Aoeept, then, accomplished facts. Your prophet declares
"God gives power:totwhomsoever He wills."—(Chapter 2,0 f
the Cow, verse 248.) Now the power I bold from him I
wish to ;mercies in your interest and for your advantage.
You know my intentions ; I have irrevocably insured
to you the property of the lands which you occupy ;
I have honoured your cb;efs and 'wooded yor• religion ;
A intend to suiarent your well-being, sod to make
you participate more and more in the r !ministration of
your country, and in the blessings of civilisation ; but it
is on the condition that you, on your part, will respect
those who represent my sathor:ty. Tell your erring
brethren that an attempt at fresh inaurreetiour would be
fatal to them. Two millions of Arabs carrot resist forty
minims of Frenchmeo—a struggle of one against twenty is
madness. You have, besides, sworn allegiance to me, and
your conscience, like your sacred book, obliges you re-
ligiously to keep your sagssements.—(Chapter 8, Of
Repentance, verse 4.)
I thank the great majority amongst you whose fidelity
has not bees shaken by the perfidious counsels of
fanaticism sad *noncom You have understood that, being
your sovereign, I am your protector ; a" those who live
under our laws have an equal claim to my solicitude. Great
reminiscences and powerful interests already unite you to
the mother country. For the last ten years you have shared
the glory of our arms, and your sons have combated nobly
by the side of our own in the Crimea, In Italy, in China,
and in Mexico. The ties formed an the field of battle are
indissoluble, and yon have learnt to know our value both as
Moods and as enemies. Have confidence, then, in your
destinies, as they are united to those of Fauna, sod acknow-
ledge with the Koran that " He that God leads is well
led."—(Chapter 7, IN Araf, verse 177.)

NAIVIZOIf.