The Express.
London, England, 1862-11-29 00:00:00

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TURIN, Nov. 28,
co-day, in the Chamber of Deputies, Signor
Potruoelli stated his belief that if the government
bad not been victorious at Aspromonte, the gravest
misfortunes would have fallen upon holy. It
would also have caused the disembarkation of
25,000 Frenchmen on the Neapolitan coast.
Signor Petrucelli approved of the energetic
language of Signor Durando's note, and con-
tinued—" We should show to Europe that
France violates our rights by her occupation of
Rome, and demand that a period be fixed for its
termination." Signor Petrucelli announced that
he should bring forward a motion to the effect that
the parliamentary session of 1863 be opened at
Naples, and concluded by stating that he should
vote with the government.
Signor Toscanolli afterwards spoke against the
government.

WINDSOR CANTLE. Nov. 28.

(sson 's nisowt.)
AMERICA.
NEW YORK, Nov. 18, Emma.
(Per Sootia.)

The Queen, accompanied by the Prince Christian,
the Primers Alexandra, and Prime Leopold, drove out yes-
terday afternoon. Lord Curies Fitzroy (Equerry-in-
Waiting) attended en hcceebeak.
The Prince and Princess Louis of Here took • carriage
drive.
The Prince Christian (of Denmark) sad the Princess
Alexandra left the Castle yesterday st twenty-five minutes
peat Mc p.m., far the Continent, Wended by General and
Madame d'Oxholm. Colonel Seymour, C. 8., Groom.in-
Waiting to the Quern, also attended their Royal
Highnemes.
Prince Leopold and Prince Louis of Hesse accompanied
the Prince and Primes, to the railway atatioo, where a
special train wee in waiting to convey them to Dover.
The Hon. Horatio Stopfard and the Hon. Harriett
Phipps have succeeded the Hoe. Lucy Kerr and the Hon.
Victoria Wortley m Maids of Honour in Welting.

General Burnside Moe issued an order dividing
the army of the Potomac into three grand divisions,
to be commanded by Generals Sumner, Franklin,
and Hooker.
A reserve corps is to be commanded by General
Siegel.
President Lincoln hal issued an order enjoining
the strict observance of the Sabbath in the army
and navy.
The Federal expedition from New Orleans, after
a successful skirmish at Labandieville, entered
Thibordeaux without opposition.

Admiral Reynaud, with the French squadron, con-
sisting of La Guerriere, the Renandin, and the Cati-
nat, is at New Orleans. Large numbers of French-
men have visited Admiral Reynaud at his lodging,
in procession, headed by the different members of
the legation, in order to pay their respects.
General Butler has paid an official visit to the
admiral on board the Catinat.
Various rumours are current that President
Davis has offered to sell 1,000,000 bales of cotton
at le. per lb., payable iu gold. He is also as-
serted to be giving permission for shipment, buyers
to arrange with the Federal government for its
exemption from seizure on the seas.
The Federal government is reported to be ma-
turing plans for an early supply of cotton.
European capitalists are said to have purchased
at Richmond 4,000,000 of the Confederate bonds,
with exchange at 00.
Contradictory statements are afloat with respect
to Fremont's receiving a command. According to
some accounts he will command the defences of
Washington.
The entire coast of Texas is reported to be in pos-
session of the Federals. A small Federal negro force
has proceeded inland from Port Royal. They
were engaged in skirmishing and are reported to
have conducted themselves well under fire.
The Federals have occupied Holly Springs,

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council eat yeeter.
day. A petition (part-heard) for a prolongation of Betts'
patent for improvements in capsules was concluded. Lord
Chelmsford stated that their lordships would take a short
time to consider the cats. A petition for a prolongation of
Cartwright'a patent for Carpenter's brace was heard. Lord
Chebnaford, on the part of their lordships, stated that no
we had been made out for an extension. The Lords pre.
sect were—Lord Chelmsford, the Lords Justices Knight
Bruce and Turner, and Sir J. Coleridge.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office
from the Governors of the North American Provinces.

THE PRINCE OF WALES' HOUSEHOLD,—BLICKINO-
RAM PALACE, NOVEMBER 27.—The Prince of Wales bag
been pleased to make the following appointments in hie
household :—Esrl Spencer to be groom of the stole. To be
lords of the bedchamber to his Royal Highness : The Earl
of Nourt Edgecumbe, and Lord Alfred Hervey. To be
comptroller and treasurer: Lieutenant-General K Dolly'.
To be grooms of the bedchamber to his Royal Highness :
The Honourable Robert Henry Maude, Charles Lindley
Wood, F.sq. To be equerries to his Royal Highness : Major
Teesdale, C. 8., Royal Artillery ; Captain G. H. Grey,
Grenadier Guards; Lieutenant-Colonel Koppel, Grenadier
Guards. To be private secretary to his Royal Highness :
Herbert W. Fisher, Esq.—Gazette.
The Marquis of Hastings has arrived at Long's
Hotel. . .

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The Marquis de Lsvalette arrived at Albert-
gate Hour yesterday from Suffolk, and will leave town to-
day for Paris.
The Earl and Countess of Craven and the Ladies
Craven left town a few days since for Ashdown Park,
Berks.
The Dowager Lady Garvagh, Lord Garvagh, and
the Hon. Miss Canning have hit Portmui-square for Italy.
The Belfast News Letter, in reference to the earl-
dom of Cranford and Lindsay, states that " This long and
extraordinary case is once more before the public, • new
claimant having appeared in the person of Robert Lindsay,
• retired sergeant of the 19th Foot, parish of Gilmore, in
the county of Monaghan. the only surviving eon of the late
Mr. James Lindsay, said to be the lintel descendant of the
Earls of Cranford and Lindsay."
The United Service Gazette states that the Officers
who have served on the personal staff of Field Marshal
Sir Edward Blakeney have subscribed to present him with a
miniature model in gold of the baton which is the insignia
of the rank of field-marshals The miniature baton is ex-
pe:ted to be reedy in about three weeks, when it will be
presented to Sir Edward at Chelsea Hospital, together with
a short address illuminated on vellum, and signed by the
oeLers who are included in the presentation.
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Mississippi.
An attack by the Federals on Vicksburg is ex-
pected, and the Confederates are moving large
forces to defend this point.
The Federal steamer Dacotah has returned from
an unsuccessful cruise after the Alabama.
The Federals have occupied Mackey's Point,
South Carolina.
A 15-inch gun, weighing twenty tons, has been
successfully fired inside the turret of the new iron-
clad steamer Passim ; four men sufficed to work
the gun. The ball weighed 3301b5., and the charge
of powder was 351bs. The recoil was two feet
e'4lit inches.

NEW YORK, Nov. 19.
Burnside's army has evacuated Warrenton, and
is moving on to Fredericksburg.
The Common Council of New York has tendered
M'Clellan a public reception.
The total amount of bids for the 13,000,000 dole.
loan on three years' 7.30 per cent. bonds was
3,32000,000 dols. The loan was taken at an average
premium of over three per cent.
An independent organisation of bankers and
brokers has been formed in New York for estab-
lishing an open Stock Exchange on the plan of the
Paris Bourse.

Maior-General Lord G. Paget, C.B.i having
p-oceeded on leave of absence, the command of the cavalry
brigade at Aldershot has devolved upon Major-General
Brook Taylor.
The distribution of prizes competed for by the
members of the 40th Middlesex Volunteers (Central Lon-
don ifie Rangers) took place last evening at the Music-hall,
Store-street, in the presence of a numerous and enthusiastic
salience. Sir M. Pato, M.P., occupied the chair. The
report of a committee of inhabitants of the district was
read, stating that eutncriptions of sufficient amount had
been received to enable thew to present a silver challenge
WAIN and they hoped next year to be in a position to offer
additional primes.
The Admiralty have published a large blue book
containing the detailed accounts of the cost of the various
articles produced in the workshops of her Majesty's dock-
yards and steam-factories. This is the first time such
accounts have been printed for the information of the
public.
Two members of the Meath police hare drawn
the sum of 4,500 florins (over 4000 at a lorry on the
Continent by a joint valid 121. share. One of the party sold
his chance to the other, and emigrated to Australia in July,
1861. He has been written to by the agent, inquiring if he
had sold his chance, giving him six mouths for • reply or no
reply before the whole amount is paid over to the other
Party.
The Cambridge Independent says :—" Those of
our readers who have heard the masterly sermon' which Dr.
Vaughan has just been preaching before the University, on
the objections raised by a bishop of the English church to
the divine authority of the Pentateuch, willbe glad to know
these sermons are now published by Macmillan and Co.,
under the title of 'The Book and The Life.' "
Mina Bremer's new work about Greece contains a
diary, made during her first winter in Athena. One of the
entries is as follows:—" November 14.—England's young
I prince Alfred makes, in the meantime, sunshine at Athens.
Yesterday • great ball was given for him at the palace.
also was amongst the guests, in consequence of an invitation
from her Majesty. I bad already seen the young prince in
Malta, but I was very willing to see a royal ball at Athens ;
and at 8 in the evening I accordingly went to the palace.
The prince had grown since I saw him last—now a year
since—but still had the same chinning characteristic, the
unpretending boy nailed to the gentleman in bearing and
fine tact. It was beautiful to see the simple, graceful lad,
out of uniform, and without the slightest distinguishing
ornament, leading in the polonaise, whichalways here opens
the ball, the Queen of Greece, resplendent with jewels aid
good humour, a reel Semiramis, • queenly figure, capti-
vating all eyes. This evening, however, perhaps the greater
number were captivated by the unpretending son of Queen
Victoria."
The following is the list of the fourth and last
eerie, of guests invited to Compiegne :—Marshal Valliant,
M. and Mdme. Foeld, the Count and Countess de Cheer-
loup-Lnbat, Earl and the Counter Cowley and their
daughters, the Earl and Countess of Westmoreland, M.
Devienne, Mme. de St. Arnaud. widow of the deceased
st.rshal, M. de LAC-doyen', the Duke de la Force, M. and
Mme. Vnillefroy, M. de Gartniny, M. de Jaucourt, the
Marquise de Listour.llnubourg, the Marquise de Caumont-
Wave, the Count de la Poem, Mme. Corsa, the Baron and
Barons .1. David, M. Gerome, the painter, M. Pala, M.
Darcy, and M. Egger.
Cochin China has scarcely been taken possession
of by the French, when it is traversed by electric lines.
One is at work regularly from flagon to Too-Henn, and
soother to Tran-bou. Letters state that r soon as the dry
season seta in, other lire are to be established between the
principal towns.
Changes have been recently made by the Sultan
amour the officials of his palace. The new chamberlains
sad saides have been for the most part chosen from
among the young men who have been educated in France,
and one of them was military attache to Djemil Pasha when
ambassador in Paris the first time.
SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS FOR THE ENSUING WEEK.-

The Etna has arrived out.
The New York journals publish advices from
Vera Cruz to the let inst., according to which the
Mexicans were making great preparations to defend
Puebla and the road to the capital.
Two guerilla chiefs had declared allegiance to
Juarez.
Numerous deaths had occurred from yellow fever
in the French fleet, including three officers of the
frigate La Normandie. The sickness was, however,
abating.
A furious gale had seriously damaged tho ship-
ping at Vera Cruz and Sacrificias. The French
steamer Chaptal was driven ashore, and would pro-
bably be lost. rrwo French transports were wrecked,
and many lives lost.
It was supposed that Almonte would leave
Mexico, as the French arms no longer protected
him.

QUEENSTOWN, Nov. 29.
The Royal Mail steamer Scotia, from New York
on the 19th inst., arrived here at 3 a.m. to-day,
with 127 passengers and 869,060 dollars iu specie.
She landed 196 sacks of mails and four passengers,
and proceeded immediately. All well.
The Scotia was detained until the 20th by fog,
and has made the passage in eight days seventeLn
hours.

PRINCE ALFRED AND THE GREEK
THRONE.

COBURG, Nov. 29.

The official Coburger Zeitung of to-day says :
" We are enabled to give a most positive denial to
the statement that Prince Alfred is a candidate fur
the throne of Greece."

Monday, Royal, 4, Anniversary ; Entomological, 7 ; Royal
Academy, 8, " Anatomy," Professor Partridge ; Architects,
8 ; Royal Institution, 2, Cameral Monthly Meeting.—Tues-
day, Ethoological, 8, " Human Remains, Wroceter," Mr.
Wright ; " Languages a Test of Races of Mao," Mr. Craw-
ford; "Aborigines, Australia," Mr. Fred= SYto-E1170114
7§ ; Digitisers, 8, " Internal Disturbing Forces of Loco.
motive Engines," Mr. Makinson ; Photographic, B.—wed,
nesday, Society of Arta, 8, " Thompson's Boat-boilding by
Machinery," Mr. Puaeley ; Geological, 8, " Enaliceaurian
Vseisbies, Nova Scotia," Mr. Marsh ; " Thickness of the
Panama Formation, wear Buenos Ayres," Mr. Darwin ;
" Fond &Mischa," Mr. Rupert Junes; " Locality, in Sibs-
As, of Fawn Fatheriss," Mr. Aus—Tharw y.
la Lioness.,
8 ; Chemical, 8, " Organic Matter in Drinking Water,* Dr.
Woods; "Reactions of Sulphate and &Aphid* of Lead
Iwith Hydrogen and Carbonic Oxide." Mr. Rodwell ; Anti-
quities. 4—Friday, Archeological Institute, 4, " Roman
Villa, Oxfaedshirs," Professor Westwood.

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY 'EVENTI4IO, NOVEMBER 29, 1862.

(fox OMt SPICIII.

AMERICA.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 14.
The great topic of conversation all the week has
been the removal of M'Clellan. It has been known
for some time that the President had lost all pa-

tience with him, that he had only 'estored him to
his command after Pope's reverses in deference to
the strongly expressed desire of the army, that he
had repeatedly conveyed to him the greatest dis-
satisfaction with his policy, and that he was deter-
mined that the campaign now opening should be

the General's last chance in case of failure,
and that three weeks ago he had given
utterance to his determination to remove

him at all hazards, in case he did not
make certain movements within a certain time.

In spite of all this, however, the blow, when at last
it came, took everybody by surprise. The Repub-

limns did not look for it because Mr. Lincoln has

given so many proofs that he considers the conci-
liation of political opponents one of the greatest, if
not the greatest, object to be aimed at in the dis-
tribution of offices, and the Democrats have so long

given M'Clellan a clamorous support, as empha-
tically their champion, that it was believed he would
do as he has done in so many other cases with less
reason—keep him in office as long as the "con-
servative" party chose to insist upon it. The de-
mocrats themselves did not look for it,
because they considered their recent vic-
tories at the polls as giving them a sort of right
—and a right which Mr. Lincoln was just the man
to treat with religious respect—to have the man
of their choice in the command of the army.
M'Clellan had all along represented what, in their
eyes, is the " conservative " interest ; and the tri-
umph of " conservative " votes in the recent elec-
tions they looked upon as a sort of popular con-
firmation of his claim to retain his post. He as-
sumed[the office immediately after the battle of
Bull's Run, with the heartiest approval of all
parties. He had achieved certain small suc-
cesses iu Western Virginia in a very masterly way ;
he was known to be an accomplished officer on

paper ; he was modest, unassuming, and personally
popular, so he proceeded to reorganize the debris of
Bull's Run, amidst general acclamations, some of
the newspapers, as 'anal, doing their small best
to make him ridiculous by calling him their
"Young Napoleon." It was discovered in a very
few months, however, that he resembled Kutusoff
far more than Napoleon, that he was by nature
slow and cautious, careful in all details, fond of
finish and completeness, constitutionally averse to
great risks, and in fact, that whatever amount of
patience and fortitude he might have, dash, and
rapidity, either of conception or of execution,
he bad not. Now these might be excellent
qualities for a rebel, because for him
to gain time, and to stave off subjugation and
punishment, is to gain everything. To do this,
without achieving a single success, will in the end
accomplish his purpose, as was proved in the war
of the Revolution. But to put down a revolt quick-
ness, hard blows Off= reposed; an apparent im-
petuosity and want of caution, whZ*lo4 the
reality may be, are absolutely necessary ; and for
these things M'Clellan was evidently not the
man. The anti-slavery party from the outset
has feared compromise, as compromise could only
take place upon the basis of slavery perpetua-
tion ; and as delay, by wearing out Northern
patience and chilling Northern enthusiasm,
daily made compromise more feasible and more
likely, they began to clamour fiercely against
M'Clellan as delay personified. Their hostility
was increased by the fact—and fact I believe it is—
that he has maintained ever since he took the com-
mand of the army close and intimate relations with
a number of prominent New Yorkers of strong
and notorious pro-slavery and Secessionist prin-
ciples. He has been in active correspondence with
them throughout, and this, coupled with the fact
that before the war his sympathies were all with
the South, that he had at the last Presidential elec-
tion voted for the extreme Southern and pro-slavery
candidates, Breckinridge and Lane, led the Repub-
licans to ascribe his procrastination to other and
worse things than caution. The more they doubted
him, the more they accused him of secret sympathy
with the South, the more the Democrats clung to
him. The things which made him odious in Re-
publican eyes made him admirable in theirs. He
apparently did not want to push the South to ex-
tremities, neither did they. His operations were
so slow, that the door of compromise bid fair never
to be shut as long as he retained the chief com-
mand, and this was the one thing they sought for
in the general-in-chief. There has probably been
nothing so singular in this singular war as the
fact that a general wbo during two years' leadership
of a large army has not achieved a single brilliant
success, has sustained several signal reverses, has
failed utterly in one campaign, and who does not
possess any of the traits either of manners or
character which usually captivate the popular
imagination, should nevertheless be the idol of a
large party, containing in its ranks the most fickle
and least intelligent portion of the people ;—and
yet so it is. I have already expressed my opinion
that M'Clellan was a loyal and zealous officer ;
that he conducted the war to the best
of his ability and according to his light ; and that
he was no doubt seriously thwarted by the meddling
of politicians. Admitting all this, however, there still
remains abundant evidence that he was wanting in
that supreme daring which at the proper moment
commits everything to the fortune of battle with
unshaken nerve and unclouded eye. This he had
not, and not having this, his many other great qua-
lities were, considering the nature and exigen-
cies of the contest, to a great extent wasted. There
is one drawback on his removal, and that is the
time at which it was made. It ought either to have
taken place when he allowed the enemy to escape
after the battle of Antietam, or not until he had
brought the operations which he had just begun to
a crisis of some sort. But this want of discretion
is, and has been from the outset, one of the great
weaknesses of Mr. Lincoln and his cabinet. The
change has, on the whole, been well received in the
army, though apprehensions were at first felt that
it might excite some trouble. General 11•Clellan
was liked by the troops rather for what he did not
do than for what be did. They have suffered
so much since the war began by being led
into scrapes by inoompetent officers that they
were disposed to love one whose disposition was to
risk nothing without the certainty of success.
But the army has learnt enough subordination to
accept whatever the government orders, without
much murmuring. In this General M'Clellen
himself sets them an excellent example. General
Burnside, his successor, is a New Englander, from
Rhode Island, educated at West Point ; and
although he bad retired into civil life before the
war broke out, he had seen some service in Mexico
and on the frontier. He commanded the expedi-
tion sent against Roanoke. Woad sad Newbern,
last spring, with distinguished success, and
his division played a prominent part in
the victory of Antietam. He was a warm

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