The Express.
London, England, 1860-03-02 00:00:00

(Stamped Id. Additional.)

dition of the greater number. Let us then continue
our march of progress without allowing ourselves to
be arrested by the murmurs of egotism or by party
clamours and unjust suspicions.
France menaces no one ; she desires to develop in
peace, in the plenitude of her independence, the
immense resources which Heaven has given to her t
and she cannot awake gloomy susceptibilities, since
from the state of civilisation in which we are springs
from dal to day more forcibly that truth which con-
soles and reassures humanity, thatithe more a country
is rich-and prosperous the more it contributes to the
wealth and prosperity of other countries.

BALV.AL AND MILIZARY.

ADMIRALTY, MARCH I.—PROMOTIONB.—ERgi-
aim : W. Prior, inspector of =sahib*, afloat, to the Cots-
4oliand, fee voodoo so wawa antiwar at Skiserosio ; J. H.
Loosloy, innitotor of ineobJetor 'loot, to the Victoria sad
Albert.

Ac;:elantencTe.-4. R. • ASkes. D. N. Wild, and A.
Ballesuca, re-appaNteeEttlet Royel Yeah,.
Paymaatars :G. . owbra re-apihated to the Boyd
Yacht; H. Cuspidal, • tlfbnsorg3
Assistant Parotatere : J. T. (hauler, to the Mk; J.lfirt-
re-appoiate4 to the Royal Yacht ; J. Y. Mater, dainty
.owtor-geacral re-appolatea to the Royal Yacht. '
G. Robioaeo, aaehaeat clerk to the Royal Alberti
G. P. A. Rowe, to the Piagard.

DEVONPORT, FzuItUARY 29.
The screw steam-frigate Mersey, 40, Captain
C. 8., put Into Plymouth Sound, on Tuesday,
with Wawa apemen didective, having parted atampany pe
Maeda, morning st tan o'clock, let. 49.30 north, lon. 4.25
-rest: Ida the Mem, Doessel, Melpomene, Alegre, Tina
West, Aboukir, Queen, and Bodserter Oa Odarday,
111,10 the elitlnton, ohs whisk was steering
Meat half north, came in costa! with 103111 W steam ship
itigters, 91, Captain George W. D. O'Callaghan. iota
were under all awl, the wind . from south south west was
so light that neither ship was under full command. The
Algiers lost her jibboom and dying jibboom. The Mersey
was struck on the port quarter, and had two of her cutters
stove in. Since then the Mirstry has saperlenced a series of
seven storms, which have at &Berea them washed away her
bead, hammocks. hurting, Mosby, about soon,
wind north west by welt, laving a fere* al tee, • tremendous
sea carried off, and drowned, front the mean chains, Henry
Hayward, 24, coxwein of MN meter, a native of Canterbury,
and from the head, John Sentinere first-dam boy, be-
longing to Swansea. The Menai was then underdoes
reefed topsails and fen staysail. The yoke of the rudder has
been bent by weer and the recent violent alisialap at the
as, and this was the ®medial cause of bar rotwitt.
The Channel Fleet, emulating of the followtm, 'teamed
into Torbay on Tuesday forenoon, with top-gal ant masts
and top-gallant yards struck, end yards
of s pointed to Um
wind :—Royal Albert, 121, screw, -ship the Com-
mander-In-Chief, Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Fremantle;
Trafalgar, 90, screw, Captain Fauhawe ; Donegal, 101.
screw. Captain Broadhead; Aboukir, 90, screw, Captain C.
F. Schombere ; Edgar, 91, serew, flag of Rear-Admiral
Erskine; Melpomene, 61, mew, Captain C. J. F. Revert;
Hero, 91. Captain George Seymour, end Men, 80. Cap-
tain J. N. Strange. The fleet was
.at anchor in Torbay
yeeterdsy.
Several line-of-battle ships passed Dartmouth harbour an
Monday night and Tuesday morning for Torbay.

STAFF OFFICEI9.—A return was issued yesterday
of Jhelum.' and dates of appointment of all deems now nerv-
ing on the staff of the army at home and alined, employed
otherwise than regimentally, Molasses distinguishing cavalry,
artillery, engineer, and infantry, and epecifying the amount
of task rapid ire pay and allowance, sad tin date el their
fleet ommaimions.

VISIT 07 THE DUKE OP CAMBRIDGE TO
CHATHAM GARRISON.

CHATUAY, Mama 1.
The ceremony of laying the foundation atone of
Ow large memorial which is to be erected at the eastern
elitism, to Bromptes-barracks to the memory of thomo oti-
ose, and men of the Royal Engineers who fell In the Crimea
during the Bhutan war took place this obersoon by his
Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, in the provisos of
nearly the whole of the generals and other odious of the
Royal Engineers, and a large meowse of spectators. The
memorial, which is to be erected at the mole met oldie ta-
ws, nos-commissioned officer; and men of the Royal
Engineers, will be one of the most handume
structure* of the kind in the kingdom. It will consist
of a lefty central arch, with two aide arches, the
whole being about 36 feet in height, 46 in width,
and 10 feet in depth. The height of the middle seek will be
22 feet, and that of the two 4& inches 13 feet. The whole
will be of a very massim and wabotantlal character, and will
be highly ornamented. It fa to be built of Portland stone,
facet with mettle elaborately carved, on which will be
tosolibed the mums of every officer and man of the Royal
Engineers who fell in the Crimea. The memorial is to be
b .fit from the derigna of Mr. Digby Wyatt, by Mums.
Mansfield and Bon, and the total cost will be 7,0001., exolu-
sive of the iron gates, which will be made from the
emu= taken from the Roadans, and preeented by the
government. The motto of the Royal Engineers, "Quo fee
et gloria ducunt," will be ssggrsnved at the summit.
His Royal Highness, after the perfirmance of the ceremony,
nude a minute impaction of the Royal and Indian Engineers,
the corps marching past in slow and quick time. At the ter-
mination of the manoeuvres, the duke, together with all the
063011 re of the Royal lingineers, partook of luncheon in the
large mere-rhom of Bromptorrharrecke, to which about 100
of the most distinguished officals had been invited. The
duke returned to town in the afternoon, a royal salute from
the battery being fired on hie departure. In the evening a
magnificent dinner wee given by the officers in their tome-
room, and Colonel Sandhi= also had a large dinner party.
The non-commissioned officers likewlie dined together. The
memorial will be about six menthe in progress.