The Express.
London, England, 1849-08-21 00:00:00

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OUTGOING. MAILS.
The mails for the British North America ;ad the 'United
States will be made up oaths evening et Aug. 24.
The mails. vie Marseilles, to the Mediterranean, Egypt.
Ceylon, India, Hong-Yong, &a., will be made up on
Amin 24.
' The mails tor Vigo, Oporto, Liebe., Madeira, Cadis, and
Gibraltar, will be made op on August 27.
The West In& Kalb, branding Beneath, Resume, ,
Name, Honduras, New Orion's, and Mexico, and exeluding
those toe Madeira, St.. Jitan.de.Nicaregua, New Granada,
Chili, sad Peru, will be made up on Sept. 2.
The mails Per Madeira, the Brasile, and Buenos Ayres,
will be snide up es Sept. 4.
The mails for Gibraltar, Malta, Greece, the lonian Islands,
Egypt, Ceylon, India, and China, eia Southampton, will
be made up on Sept. 20.

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LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 21.

Mfinsaeirr ALI has enjoyed, during the greater
part of his public career, an European notoriety—to
call it an European fame would be using a bigger
word than the occasion warrants.
In any circumstances MEIIRMRT Au would have
played no ordinary, common-place part. CESAR, it
has been said, if born a villager, would have been
the first wrestler on the green; and MEUEMET ALI,
even in the most remote and barbarous of Turkish '
Pachaliks, would have towered above his fellows. lie
had that within him which prompted him to aspire.
lie had courage, ambition, shrewdness, self-cmtrol,
a powerful will and selfishness. He never coied have
rested in the presence of a suptrior ; he had discern-
ment to detect, and skill to avail himself of the weak-
news of others ; his passions, though strong, were,
as far as outward show went, entirely under his com-
mand ; he could bide his time withLut turning one
moment from his inveterate purpose; all his affections
were centred in self, for he " neither feared
Gcd, nor regarded man," and aimed ever at his own
alfgrandiremint, unchecked by fear or moral or reli-
gions scruples. The past aid present history of
Turkey, and of all semi-barbarous states, presents
n such character.. The peculiarities which dis-
matinguy 7shed MEHEMET Au from the horde of conge-
nial MEHEMETS and HAFIZES were owing to his peril-

liar position.
The lot of MierrEsicr AM was cast in one of those I
border lands on which an inferior and a superior civi-
lisation come into contact. (h. rather it was cast in a
land anliject to the rule of a less civilised race, yet
enclave, surrounded on both sides by the seats of a
higher civilisation. Egypt has become the high-way
alcng which the intercourse between England in the
British islands and England in India and yet more
remote regions of the southern east surges incessantly to
and fro. The social interests and movemer is of Egypt
are unavoidably affected by such close and unceasing
contact with a race of more elevated and aspiring
view!, of greater intellectual power, and of more
eleeplers activity. Even before Egypt became again
the highway of nations, events had involved it in the
vortex of European intrigue and struggles. MEHEMET
Alt, when he first reached the land, found it one of
the battle-fields on which the French and English
were fighting their revolutionary war. During the
interval which elapsed between the close of that
struggle and the adoption of Egypt as the road to
India, scientific and missionary efforts kept propelling
a constant stream of European adventurers into it.
The ruler of Egypt was continually called upon to
measure himself with the men of the European civili-

and of mechanical projectors, were a gross carleature
of the intrigues ci an European court. The careless
manner in which European states confer diplomatic
and consular appointments to semi-barbarous countries
invested not a taw of theta) creatures with a dangerous
influence. England and France have more than once I
been on the eve of serious quarrels to gratify the 1
spleen of some vender of antiques whom rival had
°housed him out of the leg of a mammy, or the ear of a 1
colossal stator—of some railway projector who saw a
rival blower of babbles gaining upon him in the race.
Egypt under MIIIIEMISt ALI 11111,11 the El Dorad do of
showy, superficial, vulgar clevernesses, an they
fought for the plunder, if not with the Bowie knives of
Amerin loafers at the Californian " diggins," not
a an inveteracy and disregard of all decorum not
a whit inferior.
MEHEMET ALI, with his necessarily imperfect
knowledge of the powers and resources of European I
civilisation, was often the dope of the schemes of thine I
men. But with his instinctive shrewd appreciation
of character he never was the dupe of themselves.
He understood them thoroughly ; and this it was that
more than anything else made his relations to Europe
and Europeans exercise an unhealthy influence on his
character. It increased and rendered inveterate the
contempt of men, and the habits of dissimulation„
which every Turkish politician inevitably contracts.
There is • fascination about the history of a court
like MEHEMET Ant's not unlike that which rivets the
attention to the pages of " Gil Blas." Th re is a les-
son to be learned from its records on the important
but little understood art of civilisation. Even had
England less at stake in the future preservation of
order and regular government in Egypt, we might
therefore have been tempted to m °valise on the departed
ruler. But as a land through which the nearest road 1
lies to our important Indian dependencies, it is of the 1
utmost consequence that our relations with Egypt
should continue on a satisfactory footing.
The well-known fact that the mere name of
MEHEMET ALI hue proved sufficient during his
years of dotage to uphold order in Egypt is of good
augury. It seems to indicate something settled and
stable in the dynasty. And if the management of 1
our affe.!re there are placed in the hands of men of
integrity and common sense there can be little
ground for appreheneions on account of the demise of
the late Pacha. But to ensure this it will be requisite
to abandon the practice of conterring consular or
diplomatic appointments there merely to gratify poli-
tical supporters, and upon no better grounds than
that the nominee has a taste and turn for antiquarian
research, which he will be able to gratify in Egypt.
All men ambitious of shining in barbarous diplo-
macy, all engaged in antiquarian traffic, all mere
bookworms, ought to be rigorously excluded from
appointments in countries like Egypt.

Comorn to Miskolc: is more than 150 miles. ge
is reported to have brought away all his guns ' • eid
considering the battles he has fought, the loss he his
sustained in killed and wounded is by no mews se
great as might have been expectel. The distance
between Szegedin and Miskolc: is very considerable;
but Dembineki has already begun to co-operate with
Gliirgey, and a junction between the two cape tat
now be effected without much difficulty.

The result of all these operations may be summed
up in a few words. Both Russians and Austria',
have manceuvred most unskilfully. Paskiewitch ha
failed in both the objects it was expected he railtt
accomplish ; he failed in the first instance to dews
back Dembinski and give Jellachich the reazeogs
Ihe bad promised him on the Theirs, and he Wed
next in intercepting the retreat of Ciwgey fray
Comore. It is possible that the Russians and Afil.
trivia may conquer the Magyars by their overwhek,
iog hordes, but they will scarcely do so by velours?
strategy. Notwithstanding their vast numericalse_
perionty, they have hitherto gained no decisive aria.
tage over us. We have not yet been compelled ;$
adopt the line of the Theism • which the Tirnes tell'
its readers we shall have speedily to fall back upae.
We are still at Szegedin, on the nght balk; owe
Dembinskt's carps, which* covers our pesifoe, ie
seventy or eighty miles in advance to the north•eut.
By this day's bulletin, of which I send you a espy, jt
appears that there has been an undeeisive skirmish st
0. Tura, in the comitat of Pestb, between the Clrpi
of Dembinski ant that of Paskiewitch. This is
probably a prelude to something more serious, jel.
lachich has retreated to the lines of R amuses sad
Caclowitz. Vetter, supported by Guyon, is goisco
attack him there, it is said.

M. Kossuth returned love the day before yesterdir,
from an excursion he made to Arad. He also visited
the lines of Temesvar, which fortress is said to ben
the point of capitulating, the garrison hating eirea
up almost all their horses.
To this budget of favourable intelligence I mast
add some news we have jest received, and which is
by no means so pleasant. Another division of Ras.
sians is reported to have entered Upper Hungary by
the Dukla pass, and another into Transylvania by Ro.
thenthurm. lam afraid we shall be devoured by
quaff
drop the
prudentos tili
v.
' these swarms at last, and not be able to kill them
fast enough. The cholera, however, is decimating
' them at a great rate, owl as the fruit seam' ad-
% anteaegs
e, tahse sei t barbarians,
;taw probably "who
faster. In the meanwhile, there is another army co-
operating with them in the Botchka. Ido rot mesa
Austrians, but an army of locus's, which are laying
waste everything Jellachich has 1. fr. What with
Russians, cholera, Austrians, end locusts, Hon.
gary will certainly have reason to renumber
the year of our Lord 184'J. I saw yester-
day a bottle full of locusts which had
been sent as specimens to the Foreigaeoffil—they
locked lank, sprawling, and hungry, like the lesion
themselves. I wish we could bottle off thelver the
snore way. The mortality from cholera is males
among the Hungarians than among the Bossism. At
tfsegedin, however, it is augmt nting daily. The Diet
met here la, t Sunday, the 22nd inst. I atterdtd this
sitting, at which nothing particular occurred. TM
president, a facetious old gentleman, reriadelthts
in his opening speech, that Szegedin wee the place
where Matthias Corvinns used to hold his diets, aol
that the day of the moth was the anniversim of Om
on which the Joni' ts were suppressed by the Vsticen
which, in his opinion, made it a day of particuhr
good
augury. M. Szemeri, the prime minister, then stl•
drs seed the ass( Wily in a speech of c oieide r shle length
in which he passed in review the state of the nom
Two or three short speeches were then mole by o he
members, and the Diet stemma ed. Everything we
done in a sedate business-like way, without fuss u
enthusiasm. Thera seems to be no opposition party
as yet. Only one member appeared disposed to he
captions, and asked to see the correspondence; ha:
Count Ratthyany put him down much in the we
that Lord l'olmerston checks idle curiosity, and al
he thought it would b.! somewhat premature to pre
duce correspondence with foreign powets heist
relations had been opened with them.

UNITED STATES.-CANADI

Yesterday's Express contained an ample summt7
of the news brought by the Europa. We now r.
the letter of our correspondent :
NEW YORE, Auutsr
I have from time to time kept you attain.' of t:e
projects emanating from New York in relation to
communication between the Atlantic and Pacifist!
the Nicaragua route, and you were in possession e
the facts in advance of all your cotemporarits. Sze
then we have been astounded by an official stamen
from the British consul, to the effect that the Ys
quito country, with its territorial right over de&
Juan, belongs to the English government, or at lm
is under its protection, and the operations of the A*
rican company will be resisted. The following isb
communication :
I am instructed officially to inform the New Yoke:
Now Orleans Steam Navigation Company —which I tie
leave to do through you—that the boundary hue of they*
quito kingdom touches the St. John's river at the Matto
Rapid, about thirty miles below the Lake Nicaragua, !r
that from thence to the mouth of the St. John's thsleff
Lion of that river belongs to Mosquito. I have Worries
infirm the company that the port of St. John's, nos tilt
Grey Town, at which they have agreed with the N cusp
government to build a store, also belongs to Mosquito: tts
her Majesty's government is bound to protect the Hug d
Mosquito in the exercise of the territorial rights which
poetesses over Grey Town ani over the loser Ditto! dui.
John's river ; and that the government of Nitsrffilli
entered into an agreement in regard to places where it

no competence. -
I presume as our government as yet has not f 6
licly given its countenance to the Americssl4l
not fairly a subject of diplomatic corregpondeuce,oi
therefore a note from the consul was the propear
ment to publish for the present.
The cholera appears to be on the decrease. Au,
theory has been started among us, that it pre
most in those parts of the United States which 101 l
limestone formation, and is comparatively intovo
where granite rock and ita cognates are found. At
a careful examination of the facts, I mutat sap: =

idea.
Mr. Clay is now at Saratoga. 'prim witl
family and a retinue of servants, in search of be
Everywhere he has been received with the grto
enthusiasm, but he has declined receiving the pi
honours which have been tendered him. () a e 0(4
sons has received from General Taylor the houctuu
a foreign mission, and Mr. Clay very coaxts4
gives out he does not mall to oppose the preset:l,
ministration.
We have election news from Tennessee, by *6
it appears the whigs have been signally dawn.
They have lost the
the
and leqislature.
result is attributed to the conduct of beneral Tentl
cabinet in falsifying his pledges. It is novil
nearly settled that the majority in the next cww
sill be politically opposed to him, and this sill"!
a wholesome effect. It will compel the sate:inn'
abandon their proscriptive policy, and to lesta
president to maintain his first views—not to lt/
chief of a party, but the friend of the while et
It is too bad to have a truly great man sserito'
his pretended friends.
We have a few more fires and a few moor':1
but as they are not connected with historiesl2.o
and have not ended in the injury of
guished individuals, they are not worthy It'
I will spare you the detail&
We are now waiting patiently the arn.lll,!
Falcon from Chagres, with the two mails cite:,
Ban Francisco. This is rather a novel Citroen
with us, of waiting for intelligence from WO7;
avast distance by the ocean route, or an
mail. We have hitherto been so couiennt 1:10
within hail of each other. Now we wait ivitb_,
lON anxiety to hear from friends and relatiore
the seas, yet under our own flog. ItOt
A propos to this, I had a visit to-day
Bidell, an engineer just returned from the. I'o
of Panama, where he was the chief of a dirinw„i
explored, surveyed, and marked out the linet t of.
from the river Chagres to Panama. lie ino
he met there with your correspondent, sod or.
elated to him some information with reantn.`
health of the isthmus, and he has promistd
details, which will be' communicated to you,
He made this remark, that he never knew ,76.
American character was till he studied its
Nothing can be conceived equal to the 05,
cleverness, the perseverance, or the talent /I°n
emigrants to California displayed while vrs!'''
crowds at Panama for conveyance to Bar"-