The Express.
London, England, 1858-06-05 00:00:00

JAM 15..A..r.ttE1515, tiATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 5, 18148.

miles lower down was skilfully planned and exe-
cuted ; and the series of successful engagements with
the enemy asid the oecupatioa of that/ Witte' sill
resat wditable Brigafileraes. Aelrisult is
that tED Brigadiir is now wi ' fifty mild,' oh five
days' larch, of tilareillyi Epithet troops,
wfigil may be 'Wined the esaikii4colmhn, though
their numbers and composition Ore quite unknown,
seem to have advanced to Pilleebheet, which is also
within miles of Bareilly. The western column,
rider Geduld M. %ft Putt sales, wkci is forty-
four miles north-west of Futteyghur, and some sixty
miles' south-west of Bareilly, on the right bank
of the Ganges. On the 28th of April he
crossed that river into Rohilcund, to co-
operate is the attack on that city. Lastly, Sir
COLIN CaiIIPWILL having reached Fatteyghur on
the 21th of April, messed the river and entered
Bhahjehanpore with the southern column under Bri-
gadier-General WALPOLL It thus appears that four
columns—one on each side—were within five days'
march of Bareilly on the 30th of April. The result
of the attack we will not anticipate. Its object
clearly is to destroy those rebels who have takes
refuge in Bareilly. That done, the army, we pre-
sume, will retire, like that of General ROBERTS at
Kotah, into quarters.

oi correct ; but we feel so perfectly certain of their

lath Uselessness that we can attribute his Lori--
ilipri to nothing short of nolsonunsie,
or of that abandon of intellect on Ws single point
which has been noticed in former debates.
We are no champions, as all mtaknow, of NI"-
LION the THIRD. He wins from us few words
of praise in the midst of repeated bunts of indigna-
tion and disgust. But this we will ay of the
Estripp., that he has hitherto kept faith
'lei a. This has been fully exemplified
throughout the course of the Indian insurrection.
The EMPEROR has certainly discountenanced and
prevented very many French officers who were but
too ready to proceed to India. The EMPEROR shares
the views of all Frenchmen with regard to Turkey,
yet we do not believe he has ever countenanced one
of the multitudinous schemes and intrigues for in-1
jiving and breaking up that Empire.
With respect to Egypt, the French EMPEROR is
a politician of too much sense and prudence ever to
tarn French ambition in that direction. Egypt is
essentially a land which forms a point of transit.
Any power that would seek to seize and appropriate
Egypt would instantly find all other powers united
against it. We may be certain, therefore, that neither
NAPOLEON 111., nor say prudent Frenchman, will
dream of taking Egypt any more than he would
dream of occupying Constantinople or seizing Panama.
These great points of European interest no Power
will grasp, because no Power could possibly keep
them. The idea, therefore, of the French, and
above all of the present French EMPEROR, conquering
Egypt is the most gratuitous mixture of calumny
and folly.

The military combination which we have jut
described has not, however, been executed without
serious lame. The blunder of General WsLrout
is the most important and the most grievous, far it
eat the life of ADRIAN HOPI, one of the most able
soldiers, and one of the most gallant and popular
men in the British army. General WAtrote
started from the Moosabagh, near Lucknow, on the
Bth of April, with two batteries of Artillery, two
regiments of Cavalry, and four regiments of Infantry,
besides Engineers, flappers, and provisions for two
months. His line of march was north-west along
the right bank of the Ganges. On the 16th he came
upon a fort, now called Roodkantow, which was in
the occupation of the enemy. It was in a j angle, and
consisted of a mud wall loopholed. Incredible u it
may seem, the General made no reconnaissance.

Egypt is guarded by the mutual jealousy of all
the European Powers. It is far better-in the hands
which now hold it by treaty, and by European
sanction, than in any other. It is tributary to
Turkey, but to all intents and purposes independent
of the SULTAN, who by re-imposing his sway over
it would merely weaken the stability and security
of his hold upon the country. The notion that. it
Europe should fail in maintaining Egypt inde-
pendent of its several Powers, Turkey could accom-
plish that task, is another phase of Lord PALMIE-
sroN's monomania. For, whatever chances there
have been, or may be, of Egypt's conquering 'Purley,
there certainly can never be a possibility or chance
of the Turks reconquering Egypt.

He led his troops towards the right, and
suddenly found himself in front of the
'strongest face of the work. The 4th Pun.
jabees rushed on, got into the ditch, clam-
bered up the walls, but not being supported
were driven back. The 42nd were kept in the
jungle, seeing nothing themselves, but seen by the
enemy only to be fired at. In We position the
gallant regiment remained during the day, and it
was in attempting to extricate them from their posi-
tion that Brigadier Hoe a fell. At length General WAL-
POLE withdrew his troops, but not until he had lost
eight officers, one hundred men, and eleven camp fol-
lowers. During the night, however, the fort wee eva-
cuated, and next day the column moved on. Having
again met the enemy on the 22nd, WALPOLE joined
the COMMANDEZ•IN-CHIEF at Futteyghnr. Now, if
the amounts are correct this neglect of General
WALPOLE is a serious matter. In India a
reverse, however slight, has the most dime-
trove effects both upon oar friends and upon our
enemies. But this is not all. The value of Euro-
pean soldiers' lives is, at present especially, above all
price. Moreover, it is said that to attack a fort
without artillery wee a direct violation of the com-
mands of Sir COLIN. At all events, the neglect to
make a reconnaisminos—if such really was the ease
—is negligence se gross, and has within the lea
twelve months in India led to consequences so @tri-
nes, that it ought to be visited with the most severe
punishment. Certainly it is satisfactory to find that
Sir COLIN CAMPBELL has now himself assumed the
command of General WALPOLE'S division : nor is it
without cariosity that we await the publication of
the despatches of that omoer.

The argument, therefore, that France has invented
the scheme of the Suez Canal in order to make a
deep and wide entrenchment to keep out the Turks,
is something so ridiculously false and risibly absurd,
that we do not think even a Minn/tames gravity
could keep countenance on hearing it propounded.
There prevails, no doubt, rivalry in Egypt between
English and French, between railroad and canal, as
there does at Constantinople between the Embassies,
and their dragomans. Commercial and speculative
rivalries get hooked on to the rivalry of diplomatists
and agents. Prams), we dare say, wants to cut
through Suez with some infantine project of esta-
blishing a line of packets between Marseilles and
Mayotte. Why, in the name of common sense,
not let the projectors proceed with such schemer,
and get the proof of their absurdity from fact',
instead of getting the snub and the rebuff from
us ? Our resistance merely makes Frenchmen
suppose that we have really interests at stake, and
that English greatness would receive a blow and a
humiliation from the cutting of the Isthmus. If we''
were indifferent on the subject; we may depend
upon it that France would be so too. The making a
btate affair of it, as Lord PALMERSTON has done, is in
fact the only feasible and efficient way of cutting the
Isthmus. If it be ever done, Lord PALMERSTON has
done it. But we think his Lordship, should he un-
fortunately ever regain the position of Premier, will
have done something of far greater magnitude
than even the cutting of the Isthmus. Hs
will, first of all, by a war, have placed France
on a par with England in the Levant—France,

IT is easy to perceive that the Emperor of the
Flaxen and his Ministers view with satisfaction
the maintenance of the Tory Cabinet is power, and
that they deprecate the return to office of Lord Par,
isurron. The disclosure which Mr. Disnanti
made the other night of what had been admitted by
M. Ds Pi:m.lmm is alone a proof. We perceive
that in its report of the debate in the House of Com-
mons on the 'abject of the Slough dinner, the Moni-
tessr gives Lord Pautrasrott's speech in a few lines,
Mr. Dtensatre in as many columns.
We see, and record with regret, that the Tories,
who cannot be supposed to be attached to the great
alliance of the West from its furthering progress and
maintaining Liberal interests, do still uphold that
alliance with better effect than their predecessors.
Had the circumstance of Lord PALMERSTON being
second in French esteem proceeded from hie having
boldly upheld the honour of his country on vital
points, snob aa French dictation or bluster, we
should frankly give his Lordship credit for his conse-
quent coolness with the Tuileries. But it is mani-
fest that the late Ministry gave no such cause of
umbrage. the sole reason for the estrangement of
France has been Lord PALMERSTON'S policy, or
rather we should say, his ?monomania with regard to
the Levant.

which previously was almost unknown upon the
Bosphorus; and, after having raised France into
the oonqueror of Russia, he will have forthwith
inaugurated a rivalry, and rendered inevitable •
tierce w►r between England and this very rival
which he has himself created.

!Mr ffourt.

RETURN OF THE QUEEN TO LONDON.

The Queen, accompanied by Prince Arthur,
Primo Leopold, and the PIiOCIIIIIIII Allot, Helms., Louie',
and Bestrios, left Osborne at 3 o'clock yeaterday afternoon
for Buckingham Palms.
Her Majesty wee muscled by the Dachas at AB's.. the
Hon. Eleanor Stanley, the Han. HOMY Seephod, Loot
Po'earth. Colonel the Has. Sir Charlem=rebgar-
General Bower* aid the Master et the.
The Omen embarked at Trinity Pier, Cease, an board
tee Fairy, royal mesa yacht, cured to Otrepat, and
raelled by • special treks on the Somdt-Westarn Baling
.c....gri to the vete station at Vauxhall, tram whirrs km Majesty
ed to Buckingham Palma, martsd by a party et
la Dram:one.
be Queen arrived at the Paw at tea minutes before
7 o'clock and was received by the Manna of Bieber, Lel
De laWarr, the Dabs of Besatort. Viscount N
LerdmißEasz Laid Norm, Lenox, Mr. R. Ormasb=
sad 42remeras=
The by Prbese Victor it Boiserkeles,
hemared the perhrmemse at the Haymarket Theatre with her
fa the emelem. Ear Majesty wee Memiled by the
Moen,
J the Ham. liseight llMphrd, Lord
Bynum, imd 1341,4141 th.
The Prima strived yeeemdey .mini at /labels.
hem neer Potsdam.
The Viscountess Jocelyn hart ameesetbei the Deafen of
Atboll, as the Lady in Waiting to the Qum. Lied Byron
and Ms. R. Otasby Oen bare smomeded Lead Palearth and
air Edward Bowsaw an the Leal and therm In Weida/
theto
Sr
aralesty .lion Major-Giseresl Benverle km mcaterled Major-
,C. Grey as the Equerry in Waiting to the
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In the affairs of that quarter of the globe, and in
all the questions which have arisen, Lord PAULIN,
STUN persista in regarding France u the arch-
enemy of England. France, according to the
visionary assumption of his Lordship, has her ambi-
tion flied upon Egypt. France hoe lent her en-
gineers and her plans to fortify the coast of Egypt
against OIL She has put forward M. LESSEN to eat,
sot a canal, but an entrenchment of three hundred
feet wide to prevent Turkish armies from penetrat-
ing into Egypt. And France has done this princi-
pally with the view of hostilely intercepting the
communications of England with India. Such was
the political information, such were the political views
which Lord PALMERSTON divulged and developed
on Tuesday night last, and them views he did his ,
utmost to impress upon, and accredit with, the
British public.
The first remark to be made upon these assertions
and assumptions undoubtedly is, that if they betrae
then hie Lordship is the most witless and short-
sighted of politicians to have broken oar long-
standing alliance with Ramis, and to have gone over
to the French EMPEROR, first to approve his arbi-
trary destruction of the constitutional liberties
of his country, and then to embark with him in a
war to drive Russia from the Danube. No one can
have hailed to perceive that in a war in which we
proposed employing at first but 25,000 men—a num-
ber which we could not think of more than doubling
ll—emcees must have been greatly owing to France,
and must greatly enhance her power in the Levant.
Lord PALMERSTON in fact it was who made France
the first Power in the Lev.nt. And no sooner had
his Lordship done this for France and its EMPRIOR
than he quarrelled with them, and has continued to
gunnel with them ever since. And on Tuesday
night his Lordship made a formal denunciation of
Enoch ambition in Egypt, so pointed, and so outrage-
one, that he tan never again resume office without
blowing our rivalry with France in the Eastern
regions of the Mediterranean into an incendesainoel
that nearly approaches war.
We should be the last to attack Lord Puma:n-
um er cavil with him for his free-spoicen opinions,
whatever the amount of peril or provocation is his
words,cwald we believe that they were well-fautisd ,

Priam vide, al Robseleles visited the Duchess of Kent
yeelerelay, at her reddest Cheescritoses, &. JR/Dee&

A *tidbit had en intsawiev yesterday with the Right
H. T. thstitsvon-fistrourt, at the alliee of the Poor Law
Board, an the snidest of the hill babe parliament relating
to the ronoval Of Irish slid Host& pampers.
Lard Farallon Wag .the Bari
el Darby, at his dada in
• deffeledis. 00•Xells, Rabinsolr.
vet& Xr. Duna in the 11=
dal Wm had en iatmetsw with the Right Hon. T.
thabseva >fetooert at the edits of the Poor Law Board, yes-
midi., ea the subject of repeal for dividing the 'Wan*.
isa Dales.
Dagraishis ware receiMalemierday, at the Ceitaial-
im hos Xs Governor ta mad from the Lord High
Desmaiadeser slag lasi= Lands.
Desgatalme war Mt from the Colonial-MIN yestsrdey,
tow UAW= of Canada.

A telegram from Harlin, dated yeskealay, says
" Rio Royal Highness Priam Albert was received this
woreing at the Grosabesna it t 1 at the Awbalt railway by
his solvds-law, Priam Riederisk William. Their toyer
hiplumwass loft is • patchable for ih• shalom et flabals-
berg, car Potsdam, whseeitser entree at 8 deice& a.m.
Ths Prism of frusta was there waiting to mostly his dis-
tinguished graft nines Albert will probably take his
deperturs on Monday amt."

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