The Express.
London, England, 1858-02-03 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 3, 1858.

England to the bourgeois-Protesten principles of
conventional morality, which nothing has been
able to shake; the revocation of the edict of
Nantes, and the dragonnades of the Cevennes,
almost eradicated those principles from French
society. Even the nobles of England have adopted
the conventional morality of the puritan shop-
keepers ; even the lowest grades of society in
France have adopted the conventional morals of
court practice modified by cloister theory. So
strong is the influence of the social atmosphere one
breathes from youth upwards that even upon those
persons of both nations who have cast from them
their national religious creed the conventional
morals associated with it have retsina their hold.
Now highly though we prise those homely virtues
which are the animating pi inciple of our English
liberties, we are keenly sensible of the benefit that
would accrue if, by allying them with the more im-
pulsive virtues inherited from the Courts of Europe,
the selfish Pharisaism so often associated with
them could be diminished. And oar gallant
neighbours across the Channel must bear
with us when we express the opinion that
they would gain immeasurably if somewhat of the
old Huguenot spirit could be resuscitated among
them. But it is with Prussia, not with France, that
we have to do at present. The middle and lower
classes of Prussia—and, indeed, of the far greater
part of North Germany—are characterised, like
Englishmen, by the conventional morals of the
bourgeois-Protestant school. Unfortunately the
princes and nobles are to a wide extent tainted by
the lax principles of the laxest sect of the antagonist
school of European civilisation. The evil effects of
this on the general morality of the country is
increased by the great number of small Courts
sprinkled over Germany. But the political evils which
flow from this source are even greater than the
moral. A gulf is thus interposed between the Courts
and the Hite of the industrial classes of North
Germany over which neither can pass. The Queen
who, by an unostentatious, undeviating union of
the bourgeois sad the courtly virtues in her own
person, could make both fashionable at Court would
do as much for the moral elevation of her people, and
for the permanent, secure establishment of a coa-
sututionat throne in Prussia, as the wife of GEORGE
111. did in England. Queen Cummerrre no doubt had
her weaknesses, like all women, but there was a vein
of romance in her character (as is shown in her
juvenile letter to the King of PRUSSIA, and her
strict adherence to the determination to adapt her-
self to all her husband's views with which she came
to this country), tempered by a sound practical sense,
to which the domestic life of England, in all classes,
is largely indebted for its comparative purity, and to
which the throne of England is largely indebted for
its stability throughout the revolutionary era,
Society as yet has namely done her memory justice.
but future historians will. May her great grand-
daughter emulate her virtues as successfu'ly as her
grand-daughter has done.

INDIA.

(FB.olli OUR SPROUL

BOMI3A.T, JAN. 9, 1669.

From Indore, where by this time the whole of
Sir Hugh Rose's division has been concentrated,
an advance will doubtless be made westward
towards Bepore, in the vicinity of which Brigadier
C. Stuart has already taken up his position. The
()merit division is already in motion, and General
Roberts bas left Ahmedabad for Deesa, after sending
on a heavy siege train. The first tleistisation of the
corps will doubtless be Awe, from whence it will
proceed towards rota, leaving Godeypoor and Jey-
poor to be dealt with by the brigade proceeding
from Hyderabad (Scinde). Rajpootana and Central
India are thus surrounded by divisions converging
from the north-east and south-east, whilst from the
south Brigadier-General Whitlock, with a force im-
posing enough for every purpose, advances from
Nagpore. Already many of the troops destined
for service under the last named general, have
been brought together, and when the whole
of them shall have been concentrated they
will number little short of 5,000 men, as may
be seen from the following list :—Two troops Horse
Artillery, and three companies Foot Artillery with
two light field batteries attached, one of bosses and
the other of oxen. The whole of her Majesty's 12th
Lancers, and the 6th and 7th Madras Light Cavalry.
Her Majesty's 43rd Light Infantry, the 3rd Madras
European Regiment, and the Ist, sth, and 19th
Madras Native Infantry, with two companies of
Sappers. The brigadiers are W. H. Miller, of
Artillery ; A. W. Lawrence (brother to Henry, John,
George, and Richard), of Cavalry ; T. D. Carpenter,
Madras Army, and J. M'Dnff, 74th Highlanders, of
Infantry.
From the west the largest corps will prooeed,
being none other than that commanded by Sir Colin
Campbell in person. This gallant and energetic
officer has already commenced a movement destined
to clear the Dcab, from Cawnpore to Delhi, of every
insurgent.

A strong column, under Brigadier Walpole, left
Cawnpore on the 18th inst., and reached Akberpore,
ball-way to Calpee, on the 19th. It remained there
for two or three days, engaged is settling the sur-
rounding country, which has been so long disor-
ganised by the insurgent troops. With this column
are the Rifle Brigade, two battalions; 38th Foot;
Bouchier'• battery, and Blunt's troop Horse Artil-
lery ; Ist Punjaub Cavalry; and other squadrons of
the 9th Lancers. It will proceed towards Etawah,
and follow the left bank of the Jamas to Agra.
Sir Colin, with the main body, which baa doubt-
less left Cawnpore before this, was to move up-
wards along the right bank of the Ganges, crossing
the Khala Nuddee near Kanouj, to occupy Fatteh-
ghur and Furruckabad, and thence to Agra, when an
imposing force will thus have been oonoeuttated.
With Sir Colin will be—Remington's troop Horse
Artillery; Smith's bate/ Royal Artillery; the
Naval Brigade, with six 24-pounders, two 8-inch
howitzers, and eight mortars ; two companies sap-
pers and miners ; Bengal ditto, and two companies
Punjaub ditto ; the cavalry which went down with
Grant's column, the Bth Foot, 23rd Fusiliers, 42nd
Highlanders, 33rd, 64th, and 82nd Foot, 93rd
Highlanders, with a regiment of Punjaub infantry.
That the Commander-in-Chief thus leaves on one
side the Gwalior force and its auxiliaries at Calpee
is a proof that be consider, them too dispirited
again to attempt the passage of the lames, and that
be prefers moving upon them from Agra to crossing
the lumen lower down. There seems reason to
believe th►t the bridge of boats at Calpee bas been
broken up. Sir Colin, however, has taken meanures
to prevent a surprise at Cawnpore by leaving there
the 32nd, 34th, and 88th Foot, with " the faithful
remnants of the Lucknow native corps, who be-
haved with groat gallantry and fidelity."
In addition to the reasons which might render a
movement up the Doab preferable to any other, a
powerful motive in favour of Sir Colin's plans was
the absence of transport, provisions, and ammunition,
to obviate which the convoys under Colonel Seaton
and others had been despatched from Agra, Meerut,
and Delhi.

Colonel Seaton,• after beating the insurgents
at Gungeree and Puttialee, msvched rapidly to
the south and reached Mynpooree on the 27th.
From thence .he has probably continued his
march towards Cawnpore, escorting thither such
portions of his convoy as have not been
distributed amongst the divisions of General Wal-
pole and the 03MMAIlder-in-Chief. His force will
swell the garrison of Cawnpore by a goodly number,
which may be increased by the 7th Hussars now
being honed at Allahabad, and other troops sent up
from Calcutta. No fears need then be entertained
for the safety of General Outram, whose position at
Alumbegh is so strong that he was able to attack
the enemy near his position on the 22nd of Decem-
ber, taking from them for• gone with bat trifling
loss to himself. The force at Sir James's command
consists of one Royal Battery, two Bengal Field
Batteries, a heavy Bengal Battery, a company of
Madras Sappers, the Military Train (two squadrons)
as Dragoons, some Irregular Cavalry, her Majesty's
sth Fusiliers, 78th Highlanders, 88th Foot, 90th
Light Infantry, Madras Fusiliers, and Ferozepore
Regiment. There is a detachment of Horse Artil-
At Delhi the course of justice no longer suffers any
impediment, so far as the minor agents in the
rebellion are concerned. On the 22nd of De•
eember the Nawab of Jheyghur was hanged.
Whilst retribution by the cord is thus dealt out in
the old capital of the Moguls, measures of another
kind are no lees actively pursued in the Punjaub.
Sir John Lawrence has requested the government of
Bombay to send him as many troops as they can dis-
pose of, as he is forming a brigade under Colonel
N. B. Chamberlain, named brigadier for field servings
to proceed at once into Rohilcund from Lahore.
Bahadoor Khan's rebel bands, who have so long
blockaded Nynee Tal, have become bolder, and this
is an additional reason for sending a force into •
province the Hindoo portion of which would not be
sorryto see its Mnsaulman oppressors chastised. The
outposts of Nynee Tal were attacked on the morning
of the Bth December by the Bareilly insurgents, who
cut off the cavalry vedettes at Isla Doongy ;
and after firing on the Thnkoor cavalry (just raised)
who were on parade, being drilled by Captain Creas-
man, they attacked the police-station a few hundred
yards off, and cut up eight of the Thrums people.
The cavalry, not having any arms with them at tha
time, the insurgents were able to retreat without
molestation, killing those of the cavalry who were
at picket duty on the road. As soon as intelligence
was conveyed to Nynee Tal, prompt assistance was
rendered. One hundred Goorkhas, under Captain
Ross, and one hundred of Read's levies, under Capt.
Baugh, proceeded to the spot with all partible de-
spatch, but without result.

Fifteen hundred Goorkhu have at last arrived at
Burm I)ee from Nepaul, and one thousand of theme
are on their way to Nynee Tal, where they may be
expected by the 20th. Some movement would then
be made against the large body of insurgents located
at Sandia, reported to number 5,000 men of all arms.
In the South •Aiahratta country measures more
active than any yet undertaken hare become at last

neosuary. The Rajah of Shoorapore, whose move-I
meats I have mentioned in seversl letters, has at
lut declared himself, and is to be punished. Her
Majesty's 66th was sent on to Bo!gaunt from Bom-
bay some days ago, by the Feroze, reinforce-
ments of new recruits for her Majesty's 6tth and
the 2nd Europeans having been forwarded previ-
ously. With a portion of these and detachments
from Kurnool of 170 12th Lancers, 100 Artillery,
1,000 her Msjesty's 43rd, and 450 Mysore Horse, the
borders of the Nisam's dominions are likely to be
soon settled.

The remaining portion of her Majesty's 72nd
Highlanders having arrived, the whole of the regi-
ment will be despatched immediately to Tankaria
Bunder, to join the Deers column. The blot remains
here, and the Bth Hussars will start about the 20th
for Mondavi. _

POSTSCRIPT.
BOMBAY, JAR. 9.
The news front the Panjaub is unfavourable. Sir
John Lawrence had other reasons when he sited
for reinforcements than that of a campaign in Rohil-
cund. The Sikhs are not safe, and besides this the
Affghans threaten on the northern frontier. With
such an old man at the head of Affghanistan u
Cost Mahomed, no reliance can be platted on the
maintenance of order there. It may be neoeseary in
consequence to seinforce the garrison of Peshawar.

THE BRAZILS.

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SOUTHAMPTON, WIDNUDAT.

The steamslip Petropolis has arrived from
the Brazils, with twelve passengers, 6,000 bags of
coffee, 71,0001. in specie. The latest dates are—
Rio, Jan. 1; Bahia, Jan. 7 ; Pernambuco, Jan. 10;
St. Vincent, Jan. 20; Lisbon, Jan. 29.
The Avon, with the outward mail; arrived at
Bahia, Jan. 1.

AA Rio there were heavy etocke of coffee on
hand; quotation' nominaL Sales of all articles
excepting wines were limited. Exchange 24 dole.
Freights dull. The Bank rate has risen to 11
per cent.

At Bahia the sugar crop will be late and deficient
in quantity. Supplies are coming in sparingly, and
good lists are difficult to obtain. No sales of cotton.
Coffee inanimate. Ram dull. Freights fiat, and,
at, Pernambuco, sugar dull ; quotations nominal.
Cotton dull. Runt inactive. Exchange transac-
tions limited, at 24d. Freight' dull. Bank rate, 12
per oent.