The Express.
London, England, 1859-12-06 00:00:00

TEE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 6, WC

&trams, with every desire to gratify his cone-
spondeats, Y winetrained to peas en their ineffable
fatuity. The heir Liverpool merchants are not the &et
Englishmen who in the presumed interests of pease
have addressed a foreign potentate supposed Mester-
tain designs inimical to their country. It will be
remembered that on the ere of the Romian wet. Mr.
FUSE, in a most patriotic manner, took on himself
the enormous inconvenience of a wintra's journey to
St. Petersburg, in order to make such representations

to the CZAR as might, he hoped, avert wart his
*reed* ronfiaisee" was honourable and honoured,
because it was not united with *UM graade eraile4."
If the Four Merchants have any English blood in
their veins, we hope their cheeks have tingled by
this time at the reproach with which M. Moo: asp
aineludes, as he had begun his letter—" Great
nations should reaped, not fear each other."
Our Paris contemporaries, whose keen sense of the
ridiculous has been sharpened in the school of
VOLTAIRE, find this Liverpool question a choice
morsel. If its author had confidence in the EMPEROR
why did they ask whether he was about wantonly
to invade a peaceful land ? If they had none, what
satisfaction did they suppose they could derive from
hi. renewed assurance.? Oar contemporary the
Mariclerster Guardia. haa published an explanation
of the conduct of these merchants which saves the
credit of their sober sense at the expense of common
propriety. Their letter, it is said, was writ-
ten on a spirt one day after dinner. It msy be ser-
viceable to jokers of this clam to remind them that
the oorreepoadeami of private individuals with
fereiga Sovereigns it & matter of which the ATTOR-
mirr-Ozingm may take note in a very disagreeable
maw.

M. MOOQUAIeIIISMAT is worthy of a more honour-
able occasion. It is short, simple, and dignified.
The writer is not prodigal of sentimental professions.
He simply points to the peat conduct of the
EMPEROR, claims for him the character of a faithfal
sad irreproachable ally, and adds, by his Mauterr's
special command, that what he has been he wishes
still to be. If this is not enough, there is no more to
be said. The justice of the appeal to past expr
thence will be admitted. As long as M. MocQusitD
madam himself to explaining the disposition
of the Itsraum, he is admirable; when he
proses& to impress an opinion respecting the
" imaginary diatoms" which hay attacked this
country " with the rapidity of an epidemic," he is
lam sure of his ground. If France were in a eme-
tics' so exposed that any of her citizens could not
sleep without inquiring on the other side of the
frostier whether they might do so in safety, W.
MOCQUA.RD wend be among the drat to demand that
his country inlaid be made self-defensive. Bat he
attributes too sent impertasse to the silly things
white have tows! their way into the newspapers, in
the speschn delivered by super-heated orators at the
formation of some of our rifle corps. A popular
movement cannot be carried on with the
measured gravity of a Congress. W hen the en-
thusiastic Rings makes a patriotic speech at a rifle•
seeps meeting, and anticipates the day when he and
his eisarades shall drive the presumptuous invader
bark Into the waves, he simply means that ►e has
sot taken to soldiering as a pattime, but shall be
ready when wanted. He does not so much pan a
judgment on a foreign potentate as on his own
government. Apprehensions of invasion are not so
rife in England as M. MOCQUARD assumes
is his letter. Englishmen do not judge France
by the ravings of MM. VEUILLOT and JOURDAN ;
sad Frenchmen know very well that our estimate
of their dispositiou towards us does not veer about
aseerding to the caprice of the Times. Both is
England and in France there is, we believe, a re-
serve of common sense and a profound conviction of
the commuoity of interest between the two countries
strong enough to recall to reason the Government of
either whenever patina may tempt them into a false
position.

But while this is oar firm belief and trust, we
cannot promise M. Mocausinn or his master that
the grand movement which has attracted their atten-
tion will be relinquished, or its vigour in the least
degree relaxed. If great nations are made to re-
upset one another, it is essentially important that
their position should be such as to cammand respect.
Oar rifle corps and other defensive preparations
'apply a national want, quite irrespective of those
excellent sentiments which M. MoCCWARD,
with an earnestness which does him bossier.
loves to claim for his master. We can-
not, with a dna regard to our enormous interests,
live on the personal sentiments of any ally,
however faithful and irreproachable ; and we must
sot be asked—we are sure we shall not be asked—to
desist from the indispensable work of adapting our
internal and external means of defence to the altered
eireumstances in which dm progress of gunnery
and the use of steam in the navy has
placed our 'horn. Mean suspicions are the off.pring
of weakness, and it is certain that the English
nation will be in a much more favourable position
for doing justice to Fiance and her EMPEROR
when prudent preparations have enabled it to &maim
all doubt as to its sufficiency far its own defence.

DEATH OF YL JIIBI7CI CILOWDEZ, OKI OF THE
IVDOII.B or Till COIIIIIOII ritle.—WO 1111 esasume
the death of 81r Raehead B. thtesdor, Oa 4ed anddealy
Cray norrelag. The learnal Judy wee la mart oe
rdty lam, ti appears:los la hie mud heal*. The
detemed wee oldest us of the Ise Mr. W. M. Crowde..ad
wee is hi. 70th year. The lewd gestkeesa wee educated
et H 1... sad then proceeded to Trinity College, Cmalmridgs,
le ampler hie merge of location. le 1821 he wee wiled
w the bar at Lineeln's lea, sad for a long arks of years
treat the WOMMI Circuit. Oa tho death of Sir Chula
Wetherell, the We jades was sppoiated Recorder of Bristol,
which beatentabie poultice he held for nearly eight years,
whoa Is 1864 he um ejppeiated cue of the pause jedges of
the Court of Calumets nem, as which occasion he nested
the ousemeery bosom of knighthood. The Limmted de-
emed wee fee kw la the House of Common.. bet iag
ret
la perlismeat fru. leauery, 1849, up
Naftgelemtlisa eo the he in 1854, Our emisocamfally
amtmeleg WiarAtiater hi 1841. Sir Richard wee foe some
pare aced far the Admiralty awl Jadge-Advocete to the

LORD CASTLZIOSSI AND THE PRO-PAPAL DH-
uoorraarioNa.—The follarireog leuar has bees deemed
by Lord Cuolensee lathe ragaritioaieta for the Ulmer,
demonstration Is lamtar of the Pope. lite ierry het
meetome that Hr. Jams O'Connell (brother of dee late
Daniel 0' sad hie foe. Mr. Thomas Geßwey, sod
)fr. Creels ea (ell Roman citifies gamtlemes of
pueitios in the comety), satermisel the game Mews
as hie lordship :—" Killarney, Dee. I—Rearmed sad
deft Bir,—l beg to so-knowleags the reeelpt of the m-
eal/time calling • wadies of the deanery of Eillusey,
fur elprefting eftegathy with hi. Holiness the Pops
to which you request so to attach my eignatare. I seal
mutely goy that I, la common with eftry sincere milteDe,
most deeply sympathise with the Holy Father in the /anent
pandas of Mica* of his suites, end I look epos the
mainteesoce, fall integrit, of the temporal power of
the Sumselgs Pistil ihroogitoui his ancient dominions em
eacamery to the free sod Independent 'zero:Moot hie spiritual
asthonty throagtuout Chrlebadoes ; and I dull gladly
swam In any widow to the Holy Father ezprafting
them seatinieate. I ma sot, however, conceal trout
myself that the calling tagethor large masses of the
Ireml pops letka in weeny aigniets, may (srlitiont siring
addition! weight to the espression of empathy with the
holy father) be oftsetrued Jew • menace to Me Omie sod
roof* so a foreign govereseuit, and 4.0 give dal to ;arm
and dining. Is the feted, of our fdlow-eutiects who Older
how 111. IX 11111.01. I /slurp üb.
r.q.i.ida, „mow • her, left my motives should be 611/1.
areceed, I beg Ton ;rill 1/1 publish SM. letter, of 3190 move-
Mead, ma, at is. male time with the requseition Smelt —I
mash' very hdthfally years, CA, rtruusse.—Tlis Rev. P.
O'Conser, Aikaisekettraor."
ROYAL PRIM HOSPITAL. Glt %VI INN.ROAD.
somber of jpeelesie volkagod ea to. bmpluil, damp the
week albs Des. 11. le 2,464, of whicll 683 were sew
MN*

C!,► ereuri.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Duo. 6.
The Quin sod Prince ()snort walked in the
grenade of On Castle Ws monis* ReirMejony .+•iced the
Duchess of last at Fetarmara.
The Royal Dachas vieitatt hoe Majesty in the afternoon at
the Cattle.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the
official residence of the First Lord of the Treaso•y,
is Downintetrest. The ministers present weir
Fitment Palmerston, Earl Granville, the Duke of
Argyll, Sir G. Cornwall Lewis, Lord John Rarror.
the Duke of Newcastle, the Right Hon. Sidney
Herbert, Sir Charles Wood, the Chancellor of the
t.loar, the Duke of Somerset, the Right How.
11.14illiers, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Elgin,
and the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson.

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Connell sat yesterday.
An appeal from the High Court of Admiralty, " The Wil-
liam Hutt," was *menaced. The Lords ream wet —Londe
Cranwottb, Chelmsford, and Kingedem, mad Sir Edward
Ryan.

Despatches 1,11111 Mat from the Colontel•otllos yesterday ti
the Governors el the Ceps of Oood Hop, Natal, sad tit•
Helen..

Preparation' were made for the departure of the
Court from Windsor f,r Osborne at half-peel 10 o'clock yes-
terday morning ; but several telegrams oonveyiug luta-
pace of the boisterous state if the Channel haVag bse
transmitted to the Coeds, the royal journey was postponed
until the middle of the day, ■nd ultimately pat off altogether.
The time of her Majesty's journey will now be regulatei so.
wording to the state of the weather.

The Priocs sad Prioress Frederick William of
hetes* who left Ragland for Berlin on &today morning,
reached Brussels about 10 at sight, aooompenisal by • an-
serous mita. Oa &today that. It,yal Rigkaassia were
received by the Kiag, and doled with his Majesty.
Exo•lliooy the Ambassador of Franco and tho
Cowmen de Penipsy have Ildt Albert-gsts House, on a
visit to the 14r1 mid Counter of Hardwick', at Wimple
Carehridesskfro.

His Expolleocy the Prussian Minister and the
Countess de Hemmed entertained at dinar last stealug,
at Prussia Hoaw—his Excellency MO Portuguese Minister,
Ma Excelling the Neapolitan Mialatlr and Madsen Tar-
pon, his Inceallency the Minister tar the Bur Towns
and Madams Rucker, the Dachas M buena*, Count
Panantarten, Coact Lehndoiff, Count Blucher, Coast
Brandenburg, &c,

Hie Exoe Ileney the Swedish and Norwegian
Meister and the Countess Platen have left toile, on a Vint
to the hlemale sad Marohloneir of Weettnloster, et Eaton,
Cheshire.

The Doke and Duehem of Northumberland are
about 0 set out on a tour through the ewe of Europe for the
winter.

The Doke and Duchess of Manchester have been
entertaining their Serene Highoesies Prince and Princess
Edward of gaze Weimar, the Lid and Coinateee of Cleren-
don and Ladies Villiers, the Earl Corp.,, the Earl of Sand-
wich, the Colligate of Teak/Tellie, Viscount Hamilton, Lord
Olio Fitzgerald, and a saceeesion of friends at Kimbolten
Coeds.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Stafford have
left Still:LA ROOM, 13c. lama's, for 141 lethal, Bslop.
The Earl of Wuhan and Lady Katharine Grey
Egerton bars attired et Knowsley 11,11, on a visit to the
Karl and CAnstass of Derby.

The Earl and Countess of Craven left t3wn yester-
day for flarepotred Marshall, Barba.

Lady Dnfferin and LOrdDafferin are expected in
town las few days from Malt*.

The marriage of Lieatenant-General the Hon.
Thomas Aatiburnttam and the HOC. IC'S Foley Le Bud to
take?lacieearly in February.

•
The Right Hon. Frederick Peel, M.P., and Mra.
Peel hare left Fingers e Hotel for lirraptas-iti-Arden.
Warwickshire.

The Right Ron. T. H. Sotheron-Fatooart, M.P.,
sad Mrs. &theron-Estrourt have left Farrance'm Hotel for
Eetcourt ROOM, Gloucestershire.

LATEST INTELLIGENCh.

THE WAR BETWEEN SPAIN AND MOROCCO.
The Madriiijoarnals of the lat state that the last
accounts tram Morocco est forth that the Moore and
Spaniard+, after the combat of the 30th alt., re-
mained within throe-guinea of a league of each
other, but that the Moors had taken up a strong
position on some heights. Another detachment of
73 wounded had arrived at Algesiras. The despatch
of troops from Spain to Morocco was continuing.
The /barns states that several foreign officers had
obtained permission to serve in the army in Atrial.
The Gazette publishes another set of addresses to
the Queen from the bishops and chapter. expressing
approbation of the war. The number of Moors who
attacked &rano on the 22nd alt. is estimated at
about 14,000. They left more than 500 dead on the
field of battle. The loss of the Spaniards amounted
to 30 men put hors de combat. Private letters state
that the Moors had 1,000 killed in the affair of the
25th. On the side of the Spaniard', the battalion
of Chasseura of Madrid particularly suffered, and
lost its colonel and several of its officers.

The Gibraltar Chronicle of the 29th says :
Private letters from the Spanish camp in Afrioa represent
the action of the 25th' as more orlon., and the loss of the
Spanish army as much more ooasiderable than the published
amount admits. The loss fell chiefly, it is said, on She three
battalions ordered by General Munee to sally from the In-
trenched position and charge the Moors. These battalion
Win fearfully cutup in the bend to hand fight with the Moen.
Itfeasostated oa goJet authority that the Spanish army hes
lost upwards of 600 in killed and wounded since the axe-
menceassat of operations. The fight lag on Sierra Ballow
is still going on, sad 'Mamr of the Loathe., In the dupe of
the pude of *puke from the discharges of taukelty and
011111034 could be deicried during the greater part of yester-
day from the Rook by the aid of telesoors. Amman re-
mired this atoning from Alvaro state that a Oran Saner
port arrived there lot analog acaveyhe 161 wounded troop
fees Cent.. They were leaded sad lbeverded to the has*
tale of that city.

Orleans rose 12fr. 60c.; Northern, 6fr. 26c.; &et-
ers, 10fr. ; Lyons, 6fr. 23c. ; Southern, 7fr. 60c.;
and Western, 6fr. ; the closing prices were, how-
ever, in most instant:se 6fr. lower than the highest
of the da
7-

The law point raised by M. Emile de Girardin
before the Judge of hut action hes been decided in
his favour. The prosecution is put a stop to by an
ordonnanee de •non Au, on the ground that his
pamphlet was seized before publication. Of course
a new prosecution may, and in all likelihood will, be
instituted if the author shall proceed to publish his
work in Paris. Meanwhile the copies that were
seized have been retuned to M. de Girardin. The
public is much indebted to him for having practically
established that, even in matters concerning the
press, decency requires some attention to legality.
I understand that the prosecution against M. About,
whose Question Romaine wu confiscated without
any intention of going further, is now to proceed.
There is a thaw to-day in Paris, with a soft south
wind.
The Nord of Brussels was sized to-day.