The Express.
London, England, 1859-09-22 00:00:00

NAVAL AND MILITARY.

ADMIRALTY. SEPT. 21. APPOINTMENTS:Cap.
Wes Lord J. Hay, C.B. (1864), to the Odin, 16, paddle-
wheel stems frigate, at Portamouth, oontreimioaed ; sad R.
Dew (1864), to the Eameater, 14, screw steam ship, at
Devoupet, commineloneL
Commander Bir Y. Ilargregor, Bert. (1866), supernu-
merary to the Arrogant, 47, some steamship, at letautouth,
kr aerobes in the Maunder, 44, at Portsmouth.
Lleutemants 0. Pairholme (1851), to commend the Havock,
praboat, eomatiestooed ; H. L. Holder (1864), to command
the Cookrheter, gunboat, commissioned; A. O. Boyle. to
command the Hardy, gunboat, commissioned ; and W.
Howarth (1866), to the 'Bernal, gunboat, omatuiseloned. .
Master J. 0. Jones (1866), to the Urgent, *crew Means
stormhip, at Portsmouth.
remote'', P.. Cummins (1852), to be neretary to
Rem-Adrairal L. T. Jones, who is appointed estrad in cos-
wand on the Beet India and China nation • H. C. Pool
(1812), to the Pearl, 51, 'mew stems corvetr, at
aeoath; H. W. Death (1863), to the Odin; J. B. J MOMS
(1864), to the Encounter, 14, screw stemaship, at Devoe-
port; J. Wolter', to the Renard, 4, screw steam remit, at
'Shame= ; and .1. H. 8. Hooper 0866), to the Victory, 101,
airship, at Portsmouth.
Asest.nt-Burgeon Dr. H. 8. &MA (1867), to the Pearl.
AmMtsut-Payseaster O. Y. Slaughter (1843), to the
Hastings, 60, screw steamship, at Liverpool.

CHATHAM. Barr. 21.
In consequence of the numerous casualties which
have mourn dto the Bth and 10th companies of the Royal
Enemas now serving is Chins, both of which hays been
redoced onosiderably below their original strength, • lime
detachment of Royal Engineers will shortly be sent out
from headquarters to augment the conmeniee, each of which
is to be raised to 160 men of .11 ranks. The Royal Engi-
neers to be despatched to China will be those who are most
advanced In their field works, and who have gone through a
souse of instruction in driving sad pontoonisg.

Rear-Admiral Decree arrived at Malta on the
14th, from Ragland. This gallant °Blow will take the post
of captain of the Mediterranean Beet.
NAVAL AND MILITARY MOVEMENTS IN LlVER-
root.—Lett night a detachment of twentyleven naval
volunteers left Liverpool for Pornenoutb. Her Majesty'. ship
Deposal, now lying la the Malley, only waste a hundred
men to complete her full complement, sad it is =peed that
this number will be completed by the end of the week. On
the 29th inst. a detacheneot of the Soots Fealties Guards
will tinges at Liverpool from Dublin. The detachment will
consist of twenty °Boers and seven hundred men. On the
same day a detachment of the Grenadier Guards will un-
bolt at Liverpool for Dublin. The detachment will number
seventeen others and 800 own.
DEATII Or VICE-ADMIRAL BRENTON.—We have
to record the denim of Vice-Admiral Jaha Breslau, who
died on Saturday lee at Hyde, lake of Wight. TN) gallant
admiral was born 28tk August, 1782, and entered the
navy in Anna; 1798. Dyeing hie hanoarabile proteaelonal
caner in the navy he served emirs some of our ablest
admirals, among others Smenterta, Callingwood, St. Vincent,
Codrinaton, dc. When in the CEO 41., fiership of Su. Jas.
Seeman r., be peektheed, in July, 1801, is the battle off
Alpena, and la We same mouth assisted is the detraction
of two Spanish first-rate sad the meters of a French 74 is
the Oat of Gibraltar. As acting lieutenant he was present
at the ',steatite of Klemm Under Captain Hope
Stuart, ha proceeded to the Ballo to aid the Hamden
Admiral Muller In the String out a flotilla of
sembosts for the protection of Riga, and while is that meek*
wok pert is the expedition against the French sad Premien'
at Mittau. For his meritorious conduct on that occasion the
Betwor of Ramie decorated hlm with the Order of Sr.
Vladimir of the 4th ohm. lie remained in active employ
until altar the pesos of 1816. The deemed °those. commie-
**
bore date as follows :—Lieutesatt, Sept. 6, 1806; cow-
=oder, Nov. Ilk 1812; eaptals, Deo. 211, 1822; rear-admt-
MI, Dec. 17, 1842; end viewedzaked, Jan. 6, 1858. lie was
cousin of the late Sir J. Breaks, Bert, H.C.S., end Captain
Edward Ulnas BreaMa.

CMYLOW BAILWAT.—The following is an extraM
of a later, dated Colombo, Anna ld, :—" Thoy•pagi
of the committee of the Legidetive Council on the 'MOW et
the railway is mot expected to be published until the sad et
this er bemimaleg of meat mouth, and meantime the inhale'.
taste et fOrelembo &Mr Main their opixdoo, althaegh the
prawn tee m is ,r 7 Mares to tea prosecuam of tie the
datakieg. We do mot see why the ohms should WI wk.
if aay, below par, sa the colony, in the event or ite being &-
e that the works alweeld be stopped, If paint* will no
"AM tar homeambie armor compromies folio caraway."

Pnejanb Infantry, reporting that a strong tendency
to embrace the Christian religion hod manifested
itself among eons of the men sake hie command.
Sines the regiment entered the Penjettb four men
had been baptised by Christian Missionaries, and •
esseidirable number, varying from twenty to sixty
eeseveaty, were in the habit of going to the clergy-
man, to hear him expound the doctrines and the pro-
*pee of GospeL The captain took pains to ascer-
tain whether their conduct had given offence to their
eammitlea, and whether there wee any ill-feeling on
the eaMeet in the regiment. He found there was
toes whatever. The convention and baptism of the
Mr men, and the prospect of their number Wag
largely increased, excited no alarm and indignation
such as we have been often told would follow mie-

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carried out. Bat they cannot @appose that after
taking pains to guarantee their freedom, we
English, whose whole history la a struggle for that
boon, are going to lay down our own religionsliberty
for the privilege of ruling in India. In this journal
we have steadily maintained that the duties of the
Government as to religion most always be limited
by the rights of the native inhabitants in the same
respect. But as individuals, and apart from the
exercise of official authority, they must expect to
see us everywhere claiming the fullest liberty. Let
them not be deceived by those who tell them that
the equitable religious policy in India which sumer
sive British Governments have approved has been
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&ONDOE THURSDAY, VITT. 22.

EVEgT man moat, of 00111/111111, judge for himself
what amount of confidence is to be placed in the
Emperor of the FRENCH. One of the serious diM-
culties in the present state of Europe is beyond
doubt the want of confidence universally enter-,
tainted as to the designs and intentions of that Poten-
tate. What ciao be anticipated, people ask them-
bolos, of a Monarch with half a million of men and
a great fleet at his disposal, who a few months back
began • war for the liberation and freedom of Italy
from the Alps to the Adriatic, and now expresso
himself desirous of restoring the Austrian sad
Bourbon Princes to the dominions from which
they fled before his victorious tors ? It is
this deplorable uncertainty, felt quite as much, the
public may be assured, by responsible Ministers as
by themeelves, that redacts European stairs to •
kaleidoscopic entertainment, in which no one

adopted from exams of caution. It is founded on
principle, and while it protects the Hindoo or
Hahomedan, it will not satrifios the Christian
soldier or magistrate to their prejudices. It would
not be for the advantage of India if our officers,
civil and military, forgot that they were Christiana.
Mr. CUST has done well in making 'arm stand for his
own liberty, and that of all official persons through-
out India. We hope that be will have imitators/
both as to etaadiketaess sad discretion.

knows what he ham to see next. For this state of
the political atmosphere the world is indebted to
Loins NAPOLEON. He, and be alone, I responsible
for the situation and its embarrassments ; and, as we

"to it. The men who would mutiny on • more

suspicion that their religious diameter was
to be clandestinely ruined by greased cart-
ridges could preserve all their equanimity
in pr sends of a work of conversion carried
oat openly by purely moral means, and without the
overbearing constraint of human authority. Cap-
tain HOVLNDF.N, remarking this, Saw no occasion
for interference, but as a matter of precaution
reported the movement to superior authority. The
essamsnication in which thee, faots were brought
under the notice of the Indian Government was

replied to by • short despatch in which the

GOelatiOli-Oirmact. in Ccrettail, define that
diem cesnianding troops at Peehawur may
be warned " against using their authority id
0 any way for the furtheresoe of convention."
The advise was good, aims any mach exercise of
authority would have been certain either to stay the
progress of the conversions or to deteriorate their
character, bat It doss not appear to have been re-
quired. No tossios at authority by sews for
religions purposes had up to that time been alleged.
The subject, however, was mom wired in a more
exciting form. The Lahore Chronic:* published a
letter from a correspondent at Utrviteur, in which
the baptism of six adult natives was re-
ported, and it was added :—" As usual in the
" Punjaub all the civil authorities attended the eery-
" many of the baptism of these natives, Mr. CUST,
"the Commissioner, Mr. F. Cams, the Deputy-

said on Tuesday, Europe await. with patience, but
not, he ought to understand, with resignation, his
deci►ion—Austria or Italy ?
Pending the Imperial deliberations, it is not at all
eurpriaing that sespicione should arise that their result
w ill e :Whit the Es r tette mega/illy faithless to Aastria
and to Italy. Such suspicions are very natoralumbethe
circumstances, simply because they are very edger
and in periods of suspense vulgarity affords a papaw
solution of difficulties. That France, or its 11.114
has any intention of directly appropi Sting to Itself.
or himself, any portion of the territory of Italy fa
evidently oat of the question. Such an idea has nat.
we may be tolerably sure, been seriously enter-
Weed by a Sovereign who has assured hie
contemporaries that be "understands his ape**
and who, down to the Peace of Villaftseee, trerlaidy
gave strong evidence that he did so. Of aquatic
design we may with reasonable certainty acquit
Loci, NAPOLEON. It would completely isolate bins
plunge Frame and Europe into prolonged war,.
Stud, of which satisfies the EMPIIIOII at a tine
maks the BONAPARTE dynasty a Ntilllife to the
world; mad, as all history testifies, would terminate
in disaster and di appointment. The " man of his
" epoch " is too sagacious to try that game.
Hut a French throne in Italy may be wanted
for Prince NAPOLEON. A throne for a cousin
—not territory in Italy for France—may be
the mysterious design. It is poesible, but not,
we think, probable. It is passible, in an
English view of Italian affairs, beelines of our want
of confidenoe, founded on the EMPEROR'S want of
frankness and loyalty to Europe. But it is not pro-
bable, because inch an attempt would be to sacrifice
France to the family of its Sovereign, and because
there are no such relations between the EMPEROR
and his cousin as would form a rational inducement
on his NIA] MT'S part so to outrage the public senti-
ment of Europe, and to pervert a war under.
taken for the independence of Italy to its I
degradation. We cannot, therefore, regard as
rational the apprehensions entertained and ex-
pressed by a contemporary ; and we must do
the Emperor of the Farxca the bare justice to add,
that, so far as public occurrences go, there is not
sufficient evidence to justify and support the charge.
It is, we believe, a mistake to suppose that the
Imperial family in this generation is a very united
body. On the eientrary, it is perplexed by jealousies
and rivalries, and diet:acted by serious differences
of opinion. In Freon/ itself the opinions, the emacia-
tion., the cosdact, and the manners of Prince
NA roLto:s have regret ly been a subject of
latanvesience to the Earesoa. If's career in pre►
parity has not raised tbe Petsca in popular 'stem,
sad although he is sot wittiest considerable eap•
city, liberal iseliaations, and political anibiths. be
ia withost that moral discipline, that soberjassieste
sad that personal courage, which beereak• reel,
career, or encourage the Estrum& to spa ell he.
dependent ems for him. As he has bees as Soon-
realises to the Esc►taoa as a weber of the
Imperial family La Frame, so be woad be &dope
to the liereaca se a seesi-lelepeadest Priam in
Italy t sad that, it in generally .apposed by those
who hare been admitted to Imperial intercourse, no
ems apprehends more clearly than the personage
oast miecensed. There are of owes sees—happily

" Commirioner, Mr. CORDERY, and Lientinant
"Joßw CRAtXRRa, from whose regiment two of
these converts same. In days gone by no servants
1" of Oovernment dared to attend on sash occasion',

"bat anewera has dawned over the Punjaub. All
" this yon will tee has taken place too in the
great seat of the Sikh religion, and the eon-
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sot may—needy subservient Frenchmen of all
dome. Amo•gst them, we regret to say, say be
gonad writers of ability and position—who would be
glad to open • career of luxury, licenos, and fancy
democracy for themselves with • French Princes at
Flames ; and to them, to their overespondenae, and
their iatrigase—perhaps, also, to the wishes of the

PRINCE hiteselfLatai be traced the plan, rather
Ws to the Sarum. At it is ea

WITHIN the lest tem minim doe togas Govern-
ment has had occasion to bsse soma dcesumats,

coesiating of Minutes or Deepatebes Olplaiaing and
applying the principles of its policy respecting the
religiose beliefs and usages of the Bailee populatioa.
Os the arrival of the lest Calcutta mail we published
▪ ssrempersderace which had taken place between
Leal Comm° mad the Lir atenant-Oovernor of the
Penjaub respeedag the proselytism which it wu
alleged the chief officer' of the latter Government
ware rattan at Urnritsur ; and by the mail from
Bombay jut arrived we have the minute of Biz
Miami TRITELY AN on the memorial of come sa-
tire inhabitants of Nladru, complaining of the sib-
@Unwire. Bach of these involves principles of '
government to an extent which makes it dadrable
that their bearing and significance should be under-
etood in this country.
From official documents supplied by the Adjutant-
General of the Indian army, we learn that last April
Major-General STE/NET COTTON, commanding the
Peshawar thrielow, forwarded to Calcutta a letter
from ClipElLtEl HOTLY:DEN, commanding this 24tb

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 22, 1859.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE,

FRANCE AND SARDINIA.
BERNE, SM. XL

The Sardinian government hu addressed a cir-
cular to the Great Powers, denying the report of
the cession of Savoy to France, and declaring such
report to be entirely void of fonndation.