The Express.
London, England, 1865-03-11 00:00:00

the drop of bitterness which
human happiness is rising '
perial goblet. To all of us
world, Emperors or daily
years bring with them one
penalty of living on when
of life have gone before ; the chilling sense of
solitude and isolation as the comrades of the
morning drop oft and leave us in the twilight
shadows. But how doubly cold, and deep, and bitter
must be that sense of solitude and isolation to a
Sovereign surrounded by respectful courtiers
sad devoted flatterers, who fill the void of
friendships and affections 1 Some human
sympathy is surely due to the Emperor
N•eoLcoN, who within the space of one
winter mourns two such friends as no
confidence, no intimacy, no devotedness,
no fidelity can replace. It was only the other
day that the inseparable guardian of his early
boyhood, the depository of his mother's fondest
hopes and cares, the inseparable servant and
friend of the prisoner, the exile, and the Sovereign,
M. Blocouaan, was taken away. Already •
second and severer, if not a sadder, blow IT
struck him to the heart. The Duo DE MORNS,
who died in Paris yesterday, at the age of 51,
was not only the nearest to the Emesao• by
the accident of birth, but without doubt the
nearest and moat trusted in counsel, as he was
probably the most sagacious and skilful, of him
advisers. Foe M. Da MORN'S was aDM of rare
intelligence, energy, and resource. From his
boyhood up he had improved all the advantages
and opportunities which he found or made ; his
birth, his education, his career at college,
his service in the army, his parliamentary
experiences, his knowledge of the world of books,
and of men, his varied aptitudes for public life and
for the business of making • fortune, and for
"succeeding " in society as a man of ease and plea-
sure, always capable of greater things. In his
shrewdness and suppleness of wit, his buoyant
ease and self-possession, in • certain reckless
grace of manner, which his enemies might call
sinister and unscrupulous, and which, perhaps,
resembled a little the ideal hero of a draw,
in his fine eye for art and the use he made of
it, in his literary taste and facility, be was not
perhaps so much • man born upon the steps
of a throne, as a Prince by right of
nature of modern France. No man had
a finer instinct of a large and luxurious existence,
no man knew betterhowto enjoy this life and to fill
it. There was just • twinge, perhaps, of the smart-
ness of the betting-man and the money-dealer in
his thought and talk and manner, which no supe-
riority or distinction could entirely disguise. The
part be played in the events of December, 1861, is
historical, and no man living could have played it
better. Whether the Historiat of CA:Bas, when
he drew the flattering picture of CESIUM!, had •
sitter, we know not ; but he has treated, at artists
say, the features of that brilliant enemy of "the
" old parties" at Rome with a tenderness which
We trust M. DE MORNS'S political adversaries will
imitate. "He had, if not the reality, at least the
" appearance of the greatest virtues"—is more per-
haps than the friends of this lamented personage
would demand for his epitaph ; but in "his cour-
" teens manners and the show of disinterestedness
which " disguised his ambition and removed all
" suspicion of his aspiring to the supreme power,"
may be recognised the figure of a President,
who never cracked the whip without a compli-
ment or a tron mot over the Opposition in the
Corps Legislatif. M. Ds Mossy was not one of
those who " seek power for ornament rather than
"service," but he certainly knew how to adorn
Ithe agency of arbitrary power, and to
make it wear a semblance •of modest
dignity. There is reason to believe that
M. DE MORNS, who had figured with actual
distinction in free Parliamentary assemblies,
was one of the few in the intimate council of
the Eftesso• who leant to the side of liberty.
Unfortunately, writes the Imperial biographer,
"a permanent good can never be the production
"of hands that are not clean ;" and it was this
charming personage who, on his return from the
Op4ra Comique, signed away the liberties of his
country, and sent the statesmen of the constitu-
tional monarchy to the Mazes Prison in the felons'
van. For M. DE MORNS'S hand was of steel, though
it wore a velvetglove of exquisite makeand pattern.
Posterity will not, we fear, be "easily convinced
" that he was not a conspirator;" but it will reflect
that "laws may be justly broken when society is
" hurrying on to destruction ; " and that " one
" day the tomb of CATlLlNEwmfoundcovered with
" flowers." When Canuitzearesuocessful, it is well
I if that one day is the next after their death.
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WINDSOR CASTLE, Iliac!' 10.

The Queen, accompanied by the Princeee Helena,
drove out this morning, attended by the Hon. Flora Mae•
&maid.

Primer Louise Kids in the Heine Park.
Priomes Helena and Prisons Louise, attended by Lady
Caroline Barriogtos, the Hon. Flora Macdonald, and the
Hoc. A. Harding°, left the Castle this afternoon for Buck-
ingham Palace.

The Dubose of Cambridge and Primers, Mary visited the
Primes and Pawnee of Wales, at Marlborough-hoar. yes-
terday.
The Duke of Cambridge also ♦isited their Royal High.
WOOL
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The Priuce of Wales went to the House of Lords in the
alteration.

Yesterday being the anniversary of the wedding-day of
the Prince and Princess of Wales, their royal highnemee
pve a ball iu the evening st Marlborough-bonze, which was
attended by a numerous and distinguished circle.
The quadrille band of Mesas. Coots and Timmy (con-
ducted by Mr. Cooks) was In attendance.
A deputatioe, consisting of Mr. Bristow, Mr. Farm% Mr.
Browalow Pecker, Mr. Sannel Hughes, Mr. W. B. Dow*
Mr. &upstas Mame, Mr. James M. Dale (parliamentary
agent), sad Mr. Crass (secretary), trensacted business with
Mr. Baring, at the Horne-odice, yesterday, in the matter of
the Kent Gas Oomanters Company.

Deepatehee were received yijeterdity et the Colonial-odic*
from the Goveruon of the Mauritius, the Cape of Good
Hope, and Malta. Despatches were tent to the Gomm'
of Malta, Copies. Hoag Has, sad Libman.

Hie Royal Rieman the Count d'Eu and her
Imperial Highness the Crown Princess ci Bna, attended
M the Baron and Baroness& Legge and IL Libta, haws re-
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timed to the

from Claremont.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess
Is Chutes, haw arrived at the Clarladoiphotal from
Morgastanaa, Ham.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke de Nemours
and Princess Marguerite of Orleans have arrived at the
Clareadon-hotel from Claremont.
The Doke of Devonshire arrived at Devonshire
Hoses, oig Thursday main, from Balker Hail, near
Milaothorps.
COURT MOURNING.—Lose CHARM:III.AM%.
OPTICS. MiSca 9.—Orders for the court's going into mei:ma-
in as flogroday east. the 11th itataat, for bee lets Majesty
the Qom Dowager of the Nationwide, via. :—The ladles
to wear black drams, white gloves, Nash or whits ,
feathers, and fees, pearls, die:weds, or plain gold or silver
(enemata. The pollees, to wear black wart drew, with
black swords and heckles. The wart to abases the Soon-
lag on Saturday, the Mb instant, via :—Tbe ladies to wear
1 bleak dresses with coloured Mikes, flowers, feathers, sad
ornangesta, or dry' or white drosses, with bleak gibbose,
Bowers, [slithers, and orsangswes The seattesswe M eon-
Claus the moths tog.
And on Saturday. the Ist ad
April next, the oourt to go out of mosusing.—fiesink.

position to I,laes to new overtures are not easy to deter-
mine. At Blob:land, and wherever the influence of the
government and of the main army is paramount, nothing is
to be met with. but defiance; and it is wooded ul
how stubbornly the Confederates still maintain their
pokey sad dealers tint they will have independence or
oontineed war. But at a dinars from the seat of go-
vern:neat and Congress, is distriote where the confidence
imparted by a strong sad constantly victorious army dose
not exist, there 'may be a very different feeling. How tar
this may be worked upon y the Fed.'sl government will
be disabled probably within the next few months. Even
though the army of &moral Lee may be able to maintain
lie position, the asocial. of General Sherman will enable
President Wools to snake the moat of any disaffection
which may exist is the states south of Virginia. Should
the Confederate government remain firm, should there be
no renewal of the conference of Hampton.reads, the
Nectars government will probably endeavour to .draw
back the States singly to its authority by negotiation.
with each one separately. The encases of any such attempt
must mainly depend on the conditions which Priaideut Lin-
coln is willies to make with those who acknowledge his
authority. Should any great military advantage be gained
la Virginia the Confederate government may perhaps be leas
arm in purpose, but if Gemini Lee maintain his position
the political eon= of the Northern Preaident will probably
be directed to the legislating and people of the individual
Sinks, and to theme be may show himself more oonciliatory
than to the cabinet and ectignis of Richmond.

(From the Post.)
Although Sherman is sad to possess an army of 50,000
oompeotly kept together, buidee a strong cavalry
tone, it appears that he cannot advance a step without a
severe skirmishing with Beauregard's troops. As for Grant,
he shows no signs of moving, and has even contracted his
lines. There are various rumours as to General Lee's
plane, but it is not at all likely that he should have ma-
tired them to become known. It must be
granted that Johnstone, Hardee, Beauregani, Hood, and
Longues are not inactive. The forces of the Confede-
racy, diapened in various quarters, would, whea messed to-
gether,ud combined with the main army under Lee, unount
to a formidable host of seasoned and well-drilled veterans. In
some minor encounters the Confederates have inflicted loss
and defeat upon the invaders. Thus, for instance, about
40 of Xraby's troopers attacked a Federal force throe times
their number, and routed it, killing and wounding • good
many. The efforts hitherto made by the North have tried
its strength and resources to the utmost. It cannot bear
the stn.ia much longer. A single decisive reverse to either
Mermen or Grant, which is quite possible, and at no distant
date, would most likely bring with it despair and cones'
among the Fe:buds, and freedom and independenoe to the
South.

(From the Mormsng Herald.)
AM=lly to conquer the country. if the country chooses
to fight to the death, is simply impossible. No army that
could be kept on foot could prevent swarms of guerillas
from everranniog the land, cutting off escorts, smiling
Northern pothers, and burning their homes over their
heeds, hoagies on the skirts of armies, tearing up rail-
roads, and making it utterly hopeless for the victors to
make any use of their conquest. And, considering the
ohmmeter of the Southerners, we have no doubt that if
their armies were mulled in the field, and the victory of
the North were what It would call complete, the war
would be sentlased in this way math the invaders shandesed
the weedy is despai►. Bat a state of guerilla warfare,
with. Its creel incidents of murder and ravage on one side,
judicial ammeinations and military executions on the other,
is almost worse than subjugation"; and to avert the alter-
native, say sacirifices, any Imam, are cheap indeed. And
at the present moment it seems clear that the South has
It in her power, by one crowsiog sacrifice, to m►ke her
ladepeadmes secure. The armies oa either side are pro-
bably math weaker than we have been taught to believe ;
and a minforoemmt of 100,000 men would probably tare
the scale finally in favour of the fipath--even if
thaws men were pogroms. Recent Greats seem to
prove that the Confederacy mu raise no fresh army
of white men ; and that if she would Wog the
war to a speedy and succemful close, she must
resort to her ~it reserve of blacks. Recent declarations
from the North show that =biathlon involves
; and a Northern occupation, unaccompanied by sub-
mission, involves it yet more sedately. The Southern
army, the We of the people, and the best sad wisest men
everywhere, are prepared to sacrifice slavery to indepen-
dence. The most sluggish and selfish must now be aware
th►t the choice is no longer between independence and
slavery, but between emancipation by enlistment and eman-
L eipation by conquest. The crisis is so momentous and so
Fusing that the determination can hardly be delayed, and
, we may expect by any mail to hear that the Southern States
have determined, by making soldiers of their slaves, to make
them freeman.

(From the Arany and Nary Ga-vak.)

The fall of Wilmington sets Sherman free from all
snxiety about his right and rear, sod he may continue his
pardons advance to Charlotte without apprehension in
the/ direction. He has now direct communication with
an excielleat bass xt Wilmington, by the Manchester
and Wilmington Railroad, and is getting dangerously
sear PA North Carolina Railroad to Danville, from
which it. is not very far to Lynchburg. As the
Southern papers are very properly forbidden to make
knows military movements which might depress their
friends and give invaluable hints to the enemy, there is not
mach to add to our speculation.. Sherman was appa-
rently still at Winn/borough, bet the peonies position
of his force or of his opponents is doubtful. Charlotte, to-
wards which Beauregard was believed to be retreating, is
situated at • point where the North Carolina Railroad
from Raleigh, aad connecting with the Richmond and
Danville Railroad at Gressaborough, intersects the Wit-
miogtoe Railroad, running doe west towards the Blue
Ridge Railroad, •ad Beauregard will not let it fall into the
sonny's hands if he can help it. It will oiled all his skill to
effect a junction with Lee, and the last thing to be credited
of that general ie that he should have, at rook a crisis, dr
itched Loeptreet from the position in which he was covering
Lynchburg to attack Knoxville. If the Confederate army is
coos driven into Rut Tennessee, or retreats there of its own
sword, the war will dwindle down soon to &guerilla. °twangs,
when the news of such an inscrutable nature u that in the
telegrams of last night, cdujeotztre' is baftled—" The Oonfe-
dente are movie; oa Knoxville," and "the Federal'
are moving from Knoxville !" It would be • very mas-
terly feat if the latter could strike the road between Char-
lotte sod Salisbury, but the distance!. great and the attempt
hazardous, until Be. 'regard be quite disposed of. Still, there
most be great exhaution of men when snob au idea
is even hinted at, and the South must be empty hated
if '5lO Federal@ can venture to march into North
Carolina from New Berne to Tarborough. Another
force is also demonstrating against Goldaborongli, and
could cut oommunicetion with Weldon, if it enc.
ends ; so that Lee's communications with his generals are
threatened on all sides, sad Grant, as if preparing for
a rush, has contracted his liner, and is awaiting all
Thomas's infantry from the west, Hood and his Coated.-
rates being quite in netbibu. The attitude of the Rich-
mond Senate is as hold as that of the Romano, when they
put up to auction the field in which the besiegers' army
was encamped ; but, nevertheless, the news is of • oha-
ming generally to tax she faith of those who believe the
Coefederatas will maintain their coma In the field.

The Poole Herald states that, according to a
Dorset Directory just published, there are 196 professional
persons end tradespeople in the Isle of Portland, 21 of
whom are named Pearce. A corps of 60 volunteer artillery-
men was formed in the Wood some time 6101, 15 of whale
were sawed Pores.
_ .

The doubts regarding the continued efficiency of
the esw Indian telegraph line by the Persian Gulf have
been relieved by the receipt of a number of meerages, dated
from Bombay and Oateutte, up to the 6th of March, one el
Hem being an acknowledgment of a telegrams from London
el the 4th, The delays of the past few days are, therefore,

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mooed to have occurred in the land communication In-
Sweep Baron& and Oointantioople, and not from soy
defect in tbe Golf odds. The camber at messages received
yorkardes is understood to have tom MOM *ea 20, but it
be. ad transpired that say of them hays birtmeht sows of
lamb commercial importaaws At pressed there is soave
deeardomeat is the lime from Coodaatimode to Loads%
which maims 94 bows to he occupied Is the tressmiisies
bon that city.

TUE BILTRE:: • SATURDAY
leis larks ia,every sap of . AMER Whit.
to the brie, of Sat •
lee yhpeatt tLeerit. rota s' ••
eajas. "%:.441 e that d thteeent Liaeoln would
inevitable Density_the Like eceraioe, ea the oommenoement of hie leo* term of
these wie; were y— to atter mite 000ntlistory expreeetons with regard to
. V..: the !loath. The Meow of .the Ooef ederateli and their dim-