The Express.
London, England, 1865-09-05 00:00:00

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AMR WATIE AT LONDON-BELUGA
Sins DAY Morning, 111.
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LONDON. TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 5.

Wins our gallant neighbours Tare on a Ad% to
our shore. we abstained, in common with all our
contemporaries, from any words but three of hearty
and honest weloome. In common with the rest of
our fellow-countrymen, we have rejoioed, without an
after-thought, in such a meeting, and desired nothing

more than that our guests should enjoy their stay
among us, and carry home to Cherbourg and

Toulon the happiest recollections of Plymouth
and Portsmouth. JlThere was everything in such a
meeting to inspire generous emotions—ell the con-
trasts of a former time, all the satisfaction of the

present, all the promise of the future. Nor was there
• syllable of kindness uttered on this glad occasion
that every Englishman would not reiterate. It was
good for both the neighbouring nations, good for
Europe, good for all mankind, that the Nevies of

France and England should ride peacefully together
in French and English waters, fraught with mes-
sages of friendship and good-will. It was good for all
humanity that the sons and grandsons of old and
almost hereditary foes should meet as com-
rades, bound to one another by mutual offices of
courtesy and regard. The two Noviea had away re-
spected each other as enemies ; happy the day in
which they have learnt to respect eaeh other as
friends and neighbours ! Englishmen have no
other feeling than that of admiration for the skill
and science, and the brilliant daring, which have
always distinguished their gallant rivals, and made
even their reverses glorious. If nothing more
were meant by last week's festivities and by so
memorable an interchange of chivalrous hospitalities
than the sympathy of the two Navies, and the most
conspicuous national expression of the sin-
cerest desire in all good men's hearts on
both sides of the Channel for lasting peace
between neighbours so potent for good or for
evil, we might be content to let the parting guns
and cheers of the two squadrons on Satnrdaymorn-
lug last tell their own tale without commentary.
And in sober truth, nothing more than what was
visible to all eyes and audible to all ears, was
meant by that happiest of meetings and of partings.
Bat we are warned that there are malice-mongers
and mischief-makers here and there, who in com-
pliance with we know not what dictation, would
fain persuade all who will listen to them, that in
these neighbourly visits to Cherbourg and Ports-
mouth there lay 'aid something more than met
the common eye—some mysterious political
design—some profound and far-reaching sug-
gestion of a more positive and practical alliance of
the Western Powers, in pursuance of a more
intimate and united policy. The Fortnightly Renew
—which by the conditions of its publication is
quick of apprehension but deliberate in reflec-
tion insists that these " pretty naval spec-
" tacks and amiable speeches" will be "looked
" upon as a political demonstration," and as a sign
" that the ehttnte between the two countries goes
" far deeper than it does in reality," and will " tend
"to create a suspicion that we are bound to an
" intimate partnership in French policy." Our
contemporary is even disposed to "admit" the
reasonableness of such an interpretation, and pro-
tests against it, as we should also do most unre-
servedly, did we imagine that any thinking man on
either side of the Channel or the Atlantic could
for one moment suppose an " intimate
" partnership " of England in French Im-
perial policy to be remotely probable or
even possible. Of course, we are not unaware of
that peculiar manufacture of a counterfeit English
opinion for other than English purposes and objects,
to which the Fortnightly Review so pointedly refers.
It is perfectly well understood in Paris and in Lon-
don, and equally laughed at in beth capitals. No
independent French journal, no intelligent French
reader, is now the dupe of this singular
trade in articles composed for re-exportation,
and professing to represent with authority the
policy of the English Government and the sense of
the English people, when in fact they represent
nothing but the superior inspirations of the
French Foreign-office. The principle on
whieh this international journalism is worked is
that of the twin screw—one screw in Paris and
another in London ; combining great facility in
turning with sufficient speed to escape detection.
There are some few simpletons, it may be, who
attach importance to sounding declarations which
they attribute either to the Emperor of the
FRENCH seta Lord Pauserieroe, or to both at once;
but for any power all such rhetoric can possess of
misleading the public mind in Femme or in
America, we believe we can assure the Fortnightly
Reriew that since the Grovla and PZRSIGNY scan-
dal nothing above a gudgeon in sagacity rises at the
bait. If " the English organ of the French Foreign
"Office, or the special organ of the British PREMIER,"
had represented the policy of the English Govern-
ment or the will of the English people, we should
long ago have been rearranging the map of Europe
in a Congress of Paris, or dividing the responsi-
bilities of the Mexican Empire, or recognising
the Confederacy of alaveholders at Richmond.
Intelligent Americans who have followed with
attention the diplomatic transactions arising out
of their civil war, will no more mistake or exagge-
rate the meaning of these neighbourly hospitalities
of Cherbourg and Portsmouth, than intelligent
Italia* who have not forgotten the French
Earaeon's proposal, that the British and French
Mediterranean squadrons should combine to inter-
cept the passage of GARIBALDI from Marina to the
mainland of the kingdom of Naples ; and who
remember the very different functions of the
British fleet in the Bay of Naples in those days,
and the French fleet stationed at Gaeta.
The simple truth of the matter is that,
however cordial may be the understanding of
the two Governments (and too cordial it
cannot be) of France and England, the tdem
relic atyne idem tone can form no part of

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that understanding, until
ciples of the two Governments
—that is, until the Government
to be arbitrary, secret, personal, and irrespon-
sible, or that of England bases to be open, respon-
sible, parliamentary, and free. We thereforeentirely
agree with the Fortnightly lievicw in earnestly
depreciating any such misinterpretation of neigh-
bourly courtesies as should imply "an intimate
" partnership in French policy." It is probable
enough that the friendship of England has been
of greater service to the Emperor of the Faairoa
personally than his warmest friendship could be to
this country. Under clover of our friendship the
EMPEROR may sometimes pursue designs and
objects of his own, near or remote, with a sense
of security from interruption. But we should
be relootoat to pursue a line of comparison so
invidious as this. So long as the EMPIROR respects
onr interests, we are ready to acknowledge the
worth and sincerity of his good will, without putting
too fine a point on the advantages he may per-
sonally derive therefrom ; and we most unfeignedly
trust and believe that the friendship—we do not
say the " partnership "—of the two nations cannot
be too cordial or too close for the interests of peace
and civilization.

trbt ann.

TUE ROZENAU. CCIBURG, BtPTIDIBIEI 2.

The Queen and Princess Helena toot an excur-
sion os Thursday to the °natio eL Xiolaborii. 'Mended by
Lady Cherohlil.
Priapus Louise, Prises Arthur, sad Frio«, Leopold,
Were prewait oo Thareday sight at the Opera at Coburg,
whim the Freiehuts war performed.
Prieee•.e Helena. atteadad by Lady Churchill, dined pith
the Dohs sad Denham of Same Coburg, at the Kallenberg
yeiterday.
Prises Arthur left Coburg this moraine for England, at-
tended by Major lilphiostoes.

nanntalies were received yesterday at the Cloiosial-affiee
from the Governors of the Cape of Good Hope. Natal, St.
Helena, and Canada. Despatches were seat to the Gover-
nors of Malta and Hander's.

His Highness Prince Schwarzenberg has re-
tamed to Ohuidge's Hotel from visit's' his Once the

Duke of Bedford at Woburn.

The Duke of Rutland Ilse been eetertainlog, at
Loma:haw* Lodz*, Derbyshire, to shoot grouse on his
amellest moors, the following distiegnished party :
Earl and Countess of Tankerville, Earl and Countess al
Bradford, Viscount Newport, Mr. and Mrs. John Leslie,
General Hall, and Colonel sod Mrs. Rialterd Curzon.
The Duke of Devonshire will entertain a large
I party at Holkar Hall, near Millathorpe, towards the end of
the month, io anticipation of the marriage of his only
. . _

daughter, Lady Louisa Cavendish, with Captain the Hon.
Francis Erato% R.N., brother of the late Earl of
Ellesmere.

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The Marquis and Marchioness of Bath left
their midi:mein BsWars-Name at the elate al the peat
week for Lousiest Park, Wilts, swompaaled by their
family.
The Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, Bart., M.P.,
_ _ . .

has left tows for • tour of visits, after which he goes to
!reined.

The Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, M.P., ar•
rived in town lut evening from hie vest in Lancashire. .

The Channel squadron now at Spithead, under
the commend of Rear-Admiral 8k Sydasy C. Decree,
K.C.8., weighed their anchors yesterday morning from the
off-shore positions they have held duties the stay of the
imperial squadron, and re-aneborei in a double line in •
more la-shore position, and In nearer communication with
, Portsmouth Harbour. _ _

A letter from Baden says :—" We have here a
good sprinkling of the upper tea thourand of London,
Paris, Berlin, and St. Petersburg ; every phase of metro-
politan life throughout Europe ; ►ll is glare and glitter,
without the misery that constitutes the dark Ede of the
picture, though not without some of those somewhat gun-
tionable features mishaps. which the lover of the Good no
less thee the Beautiful would rather were left behind—two
score thous:ad people, most of them burdened with a re-
duodance of wealth, of which they aro at no lose has. for
the means of ridding themselves. Along the verdant atke
of the Licht/Mimi, oa the beck of the 'hallos but pure, bul• •
Wing stream of the Ore, you have hers, is the cool
hour of the afternoon, a minaturo liyde•puk end Bois de
Boulogne, a corso of stylish equipages, with groups of pl•
lent eqoestrians, and gaily dredged harangue, princeling,
and (mane, both the genets' and the counterfeit articles,
tugging for very life at the reins of their playfully reetiff
or fidgety steeds, from the low sesta of their elegant basket
pony pheetocw, or more peeteetious Woman. We have
concerts in the evening, with Patti, ►t 20fr.; the last of
Verdi's opens, with half the Parie, half the Visalia (plan.
tray, in a golden theatre, the lustre of which is out•desrled
by the diamond, of a hundred ladies' tiaras ; we have all
that taste and luxury con contrive to drown care or beguile
sorrow by dint of light, and sound, and beauty."
" I heard an amusing story the other day,"
writes the Paris correspondent of the Post. "It happms
occasionally that Eogliehmen travelling abroad do not get u
much mosey from home as they require. Some people le
this world are infemouly twitted by rich relatives. Friends

are applied to for additional funds, but friend■ are not
always so sooommodatingu they might be; even my aunt
gets tired of media, money to some extravagant people.
Now it appears that one of her Britannic Idtjsety's
subjects travelling in Italy bad exhausted the
geoermity of all friends at home—was always
writing for mousy ; it became a habit. Some-
times he bad a sham illness in order to get funds ;
sometimes he obtained a few pounds 'to mist In the
building of a protestant church,' and *pee or twice a reli-
gions lady mut Dim ten pounds to aid is the good work of
converting some Jews of the Boman Ghetto. But in time
he wore oat all his resources, and, to use his own expres-
sion, he had 'shut up everybody.' Necessity quickens
the wits of most people. A bright ides struck him. He
wrote to use of his old friends declaring that be had been
taken by the brigands is the Neapolitan states, and could
only get away by paying them SOL The appeal was suc-
cessful; he got the money, and is 'all right' again for a
time."

It may be of interest to frequenters of English
watering places to know that the famous Congress mineral
spring at Saratoga, New York, was recently *old for I
310,000 dollars.
The following new amusement is just announced
in New York :—" Frank Cahill, while in the United States
army at the South, made • large collection of immense bull-
frogs. It is understood that ha hae taught them the Obi-
new language, and numerous feats of light gyumutics, so
popular now as • means of physical development. He
intends to exhibit them in various ultatory feats in cos-
Revlon with • comic lecture of the frotlattoca Wad style,
at Dodsworties Hall, on the evening of the 11th of Sep-
tember."
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company have
established • line of steamers to run between Baltimore end
Liverpool, and have already purchased four propellers fen
the enterprise.
The friends of "John Brown " intend erecting a
monument to his memory at Torrington, Connecticut, the
place of his birth.
A curious case is being tried at Buffalo, New
York, to decide whether professors of spiritualism are sub- I
jest to • limn-Um for practising jugglery. The tax i
I 111•0111.0111 think they are, while the professors think they
are not, and the consequence is that the strangest collection
of people outside of a lunatic asylum hae been brought to-
gether in the court at Buffalo.
The Irish registrar-general's return for the last
quarter shows that the population of the eountry continues
to decrease. It cannot row be more then 6,400.000. The
' emigration for the past quarter was lose bas 11,214 than
that in the corresponding period of 1864 ; but adding the
emigration of the two quarters of the present year together,
and subtraotieg these from the exam of birth. over
I deaths, it appears that the emigration outnumbered the
agarsi inenme by 22,806, 'which repreesete the decrease
of the population for the tint half of 1865. From this it
; I will be seen that the tattles continue, but at an abated
rate. It is 20 per oak lam than last year.

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BERLIN, Starr. 5.

The King of Prussia is expected to arrive here
on Thursday next after baring bad an interview
with Queen Victoria at Darmstadt.

INDIA AND' CHINA MAILS.

axe?. 5.

The Messageriee Impiriales steamer Maoris, with
India and China mails, arHved here at 2 a.m.
to-day.

AMERICA.
QUEENSTOWN, Sin. 5.

The extra Inman steamer .oity of Cork, from
New York on the 24tli ult., arrived here at b
to-day. She landed 54 passengers, and proceeded
at 5.90 a.m. for Liverpool.

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