The Express.
London, England, 1858-10-11 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY

hateful and detestable as the operation is, we would
far rather leave its discontinalaos to the imlhnsos
of truth, justice, and morality on the minds of the
Emperor of the Fawn= and hts advisers, than
witness any attempt at interference by ships
of war, which would only aggravate the question,
and sides the matter WOW.. We cannot have one
policy for the United States, another for Franoe, a
third for Brazil, nor go on adapting or modifying our
policy to the strength and importance of the State
to which we apply it.
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Now that which England certainly would not
have done to a French ship carrying these pur-
chased African emigrant' to Bourbon in charge of a
functionary appointed by the French Government.
the Portuguese authorities is the Mozambique
Channel appear to have 4cais. Of douse the @sitars
of a French ship engaged is a traffics in which it is
announced the Exrzeoz takes a special interest.
and which the French Government, by the proems
'of its agent, sanctioned, becomes a serious affair.
We believe that there are no treaties between
France and Portugal exchanging the right of search,
11 or giving to Portugal the right to arrest on
the high sou French vessels carrying on even the
direct slave trade. Indeed, it does not appear
that the French ship in gentian was seized on the
ground of Slave Trade; but because she either
loaded her emigrants in an interdicted Portuguese
port in the Mozambique waters, or had not the pro-
per papers from the Portuguese official'. It is, how-
ever, to be observed that there are constant disputes
(our own Blue-books are full of them) with Portugal
as to what ports belong to her in those waters, and
that a large part of her agents in them have been
Arabs long accustomed to the Slave Trade, and not
native Portuguese. On thee. grounds again we
must hesitate before coming to any decisive opinion
in the matter. If Portugal seeks for the judgment
of England, she must publish the whole case to the
world, certain that here it will meet with the fairest
consideration.

On two points, however, no one need doubt ; one
is, the utter incompatibility of this French project of
African Emigration with humanity or with the
obligation of France to co-operate with England for
the suppression of the slave trade. And this quar-
rel with Portugal is only the beginning of a series
of fraeas in which France will be involved if she
persevere in the scheme. The other point is the
obvious impropriety of threatening Portal* with
violence in a dispute in which in all probability she
is right.
At the Conferences at Paris the French Govern-
ment assented to the principle of arbitration in such
controversise suggested by the English Plenipoten-
tiary.. And yet here we have France, on the very
first opportunity it has of giving effect to the prin-
ciple then adopted, resorting to ships of war instead
of arbitration. It is a sorry sight.

Tat: telegraph reports a signal vengeance taken by
General STRAUBENZEE on the people of Namtow,
He has sacked and burned the plus. Namtow
was a town from which the colony of Hong Kong
was accustomed to draw provisions. It was also
a centre of malevolent agitation where the
Bhunkum gentry were accustomed to devise means
for intercepting or diverting oar supplies. The gun-
boat Starling was sent to the place apparently at the
end of August, or the beginning of September,
to distribute copies of a proclamation by the
Governor of Hong Kong, informing the people
of the conclusion of peace and warning them
against a continuation of the pest annoyances.
The proper authorities were net to be found, and five
persons ventured to poet up copies of the document
in the seaboard suburbs. The people seemed friendly,
but a number of Chinese soldiers rushed down on our
small party, and one of our men, a sailor, was killed,
and another wounded. The people of Namtow,
in their anxiety to excuse themselves, de-
clare that they were powerless in the hands of
a pirate and hi band, who in the prevailing
anarchy had established themselves there. General
Sruesurssa doss not appear to have credited this
defence, or, admitting its probability, did not recog-
nise it as a safficieut reason for declining the oppor-
tunity of making an example of the town where
such an outrage was perpetrated, and the public
was informed by the last mail that the expedition
which was to avenge the crime had sailed, with
what immediate result we now learn.

The sea and land forces released from duty in the
Peiho will soon be returning to the Canton river,
when we may expect that the central difficulty in
our relation, with China, that which the treaty of
Tientsin leaves altogether untouched, will be vigo-
rously handled, with or without the co-operation of
the Emperor of CHINA.

TTIOLLIGENCX
1 •
THE EMPRIIB norm AT CHALONS.

The Empress of the French, accompanied by the.
Countess de Rayneval, arrived on Saturday after-
noon at the Camp of Chalons. The Emperor, ao-
oompanied by Marshal Valliant, minister of war,
the Duke of Malakoff, and a numerous staff, went to
meet her Majesty at Mourmelon. On alighting
from the train her Majesty, accompanied by
one of the ladies of honour, entered an open car-
riage, and, with the Emperor riding on one aide of
the carriage and Marshal Canrobert on the other, pro-
ceeded to the Imperial residence, the officers, sol-
diers, bands, and drums giving the usual salute, ac-
companied by ►oud cries of " Vivo l'Empereur ! Tire
rlmperatrice ! Vire le Prince Imperial r The re-
treat was afterwards beaten by torchlight by all the
buds of the camp united, and the whole line of the
camp being illuminated by bivouac fires, the effect
was very imposing.
The grand field-day, which was held under the
command of the Emperor, at the camp of Chalons on
Saturday morning, was the close of the military ma-
mums of the season, and of the serious studies to
which officers and soldiers have been closely applying
themselves during the last three months. The
remainder of the day was devoted to flees and amuse-
ments. At one o'clock the military nos took place.
The race-ground was marked out opposite the Im-
perial head-quarters, and at one end a mound of turf
had been raised, on which a tent was placed for the
accommodation of' the Emperor, who proceeded to
it on foot, accompanied by Marshals Vaillaut, Can-
robert, Due de Malakoff, the officers of the Imperial
Household, and the foreign officers now on a gait at the
camp. Six races, the riders being officers and sab-offi-
cers, came off, and afforded considerable delight to
the thousands of spectators present. There was also a
steeple-chase, in which the riders had some serious
obstacles in their way, such se walla, hedges, and
ditches. The winner of this race was an officer of
the 2nd Humus. Immediately after the rams were
over all the troops got ander arms to prepare for the
reception of the Empress.

Yesterday the Emperor, acoompanisd by the
Empress, pulsed the troops in review. To-day
their Majesties will arrive at Rheims. They will
return to St. Cloud to-morrow (Tnesday).

The Prussian Moniteur of Saturday pnbliahea
the following decrees relative to the Regency :

.. Rom ORDER cm TEE 7TH 0cr.,1858, conEwing°
THE TRANSMISSION 07 THE REGENCY TO HIS
ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF PRUSSIA.

"Daring the course of the malady which attacked
me a year ago, your royal highness, replacing me in
the exercise of power, has given me lively satis-
faction, and I thank you from the bottom of my
heart. Bat, as by the will of God the state of my
health still prevents me from devoting myself to
the cares of government, and aa the physicians
advise a winter journey in southern countries, I beg
you, under these eirimmeteneee, to take upon your-
self the government until I am able to fulfil again
the duties of royalty ; to exorcise in the quality of
Regent the royal power, being solely respon-
sible to God, in the best and most conscientious
way you can, and to take for this purpose the
neomeary steps.

" As to the affairs of my royal honeehold, I reserve
to myself the direction of those which concern my
own person.

" FREDERICK WILLTA.M.

" Barus.Souci, Oct. 7, 1856."
" ORDER OP HIE ROYAL HIOHNESE THE PRINCE OP
PRUSSIA CONCERNING HIE ACCEPTANCE OP THE
REGENCY, AND THE CONVOCATION OP THE TWO
CIIAMBIIIIB OP THE DIET.

" According to the trnoar of his Majesty's order,
dated the 7th of this month, the will of God pro-
longing the malady which prevents the Bing devo-
ting himself to government affairs, he invites me to
take upon myself the Regency. In oonsequenoe of
this invitation, and in virtue of the prescriptions of
Article 58 of the Constitution of Jan. 31, 1850, I
sesame, dating from this day, as the nearest male
relative to the throne, the Regency of the country,
directing the government in the name of the Ring,
until his Majesty may be again ins state to exercise
the royal power.
" Conformably to Article 58 of the Constitution of
the 81st January, 1860, 1 herewith convoke the two
Chambers of the Diet for the 20th of October, and I
charge the Minister of State to publish this order,
together with the royal decree and
" Wittiest, Prince of Prussia,
" Regent.
(Countersigned) " Vox MANTICREL, VON
DI& HIUDT, SIMONS.
VON RADIUM, VON
BODILLIOCEICINOII,VON
3Luisow, COMTE WAL-
num, Funrwsu.,
VON ILiNTIOTFEL IL*

THE AFRICAN MAILS.

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PLYMOUTH. Jimmy.

The Gambia, Royal African Mail steamer, Captain
J. M. Delainotte, arrived tbia morning with mails
and passengers. She lett Old Calabar August 27 ;
Fernando Po, 31; Bonny, Sept. b; Cape Coast,
II ; Liver* 17 ; Sierra Leone, 21 ; Gores, 26 ; Te-
neriffe, October 1 ; and Madeira, 3.

Amongst her pemeugen are the master, mate, and
engineer of the Malachi:), wrecked off Bonny ; Mr.
F. A. Bailey, R.N.; Mr. IL H. Cook, Master,
R.N.; Dr. Bryan, and Lieutenant Dobie, G.C.C.
She brings 2,384 ounces of gold, 3,880 fr. specie,
414 puncheons of palm oil, camwood, ivory, arrow-
root, cochineal, and indigo.
At Cuseroons and Old Calabar trade was dull,
but the rivers healthy. The Myrmidon and two
Spanish men-of-war were there. Lieut. Glover,
R.N., reports that the Sunbeam is supposed to be
ashore in the Baas, and that the kroomen have
deserted her and taken the steamer's boats.
The Conflict was at Lagos.

The Governor of Aeorehad started on an expedi-
tion to Crobboe, to subdue the Ashantee chiefs, who
had refused to pay the poll tax imposed by the
governor.

_
The Niger expedition steamer Rainbow had
passed Ceps Coast Castle.
Some troops had been sent to Sheebro from Sierra
Leone, in the Spitfire, to put down a disturbance
between the natives, but no definite results had
been obtained.

The captain and crew of the Anglo-Saxon, of
Boston, United States, are lying at Bathurst, all
dal of foyer.

At Teneriffe great fear exists tram the appearance
of the comet.

ma Gambia passed the Ethiope near Santa Cruz.