The Express.
London, England, 1860-04-03 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY

rapidly exposes the absurdity of the pretence
int iti
that the increased power of Sardinia,' •• • pops-
lation at most of 12,000,000, can be a ree oj
"APT to France as the first military po of thn
Continent, with a population al 31,000%0*
essentially warlike and occupying ti vast clomp*
territory, full of natural resources. The mugged'.

tion that Sardinia might become a member of a

Confederation arrayed against France, and that,
by having both sides of the Alps, she might open
Ile road to other Powers to invade France, is met
by the remark, the jnstioe of which will strike
every mind, that " there never can be a con-
" tederacy organised against France unless it be for
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common defence against aggressions on the part
" of France, and that therefore Francs has it at all
" times in her power to avert the formation of inch
" a confederacy. There is no power in Europe that
" does not wish to maintain friendly relations with
" France, and there is none that could hope to reap
" any advantage from a voluntary and unprovoked
" rupture with so powerful a State." The chances
that such a confederacy would find an instrument
in Sardinia are of course diminished, not in
creased, by the power which its Government has
lately acquired in Italy, and the circumstances
under which it has been obtained. The argument,
then, in favour of the annexation of Savoy founded
011 the assumed insecurity of the French territory
bordering on that province falls to the ground.
But the moat important part of Lord Joan Eve-
nts's despatch is that in which he considers the
draw) assertion of M. Twouvenzi., that the de-
emed for the cession of Savoy to France ought not
to give umbrage to any State, because it is
icansied on a just balance of forces, and is
especially pointed out by the nature of
things which has placed the French system
of defence at the foot of the western slopes
of the Alps. Those who read M. THouvinses
&vetch published ten days ago will remember
that, just as after taking credit on his master's so-
count for disinterestedness in going to war in
Italy, he proceeds to admit that the Eurssoe
foresaw circumstances in which disinterestedness

would have to give way to prudence, so also
after renouncing in terms the theory of natural
frontiers, he immediately, and without the least
explanation of the inconsistency, proceeds to de-
velop and apply that very theory to the case in
point. Lord Joax RUMILL, in reply, observes that
if France, which is so strong in her population
and resources, and is placed so advantageously for
defence, astern; the necessity of despoiling her
neighbours, then no State can be safe. He says :
" Her MAJESTY'S Government must be allowed to
" remark that a demand for cession of a neigh-
" bones territory made by a State so power-
" ful as France, and whose former and not very
" remote policy of territorial aggrandisement
" brought countless calamities upon Europe, an-
" not fail to give umbrage to every State in-
" terested in the balance of power and in the
" maintenance of the general pearl. Nor can
1" that umbrage be diminished by the grounds on
" which the claim is founded ; because, if a great
" military Power like France is to demand the
" territory of • neighbour upon its own theory of
" what constitutes geographically its propersystan
" of defence, it is evident that no State could
"be secure from the aggressions of a
" more powerful neighbour ; that might
" and not right would henceforth be the
" rule to determine territorial possession,
" and that the integrity and independence of
" the smaller States of Europe would be placed
"in perpetual jeopardy." In this passage the
Foreign Secretary of England has expressed
thoughts which have been working in milliona of
minds all over Europe. It is not, as some French
journalists idly write, that anybody grudges France
the increase of power and territory she gains in
the annexation of Savoy, but every one feels that
I pretensions have been disclosed fatal to the
repose of Europe. France has announced most
explicitly a theory of geographical boundaries, and
has shown that in seeking to carry it out she will
regard nothing but her own power. It win not
the object of Lord Joix Russma to inform M.
Titosivnin., through Lord COWIZT, in what way
the English Government will oppose these pre-
tensions, but to show that, while their tendency is
clearly seen, their principle is not for • moment
admitted. What may be done by diplomacy to
smooth down present difficulties, more especially
those which arise out of the claims of Switzerland,
time will show. K THOUVINICL speaks of
some satisfaction which France is ready to
give to the Swiss Confederation and the Powers
which signed the Treaty of Vienna, although we are
utterly unable to imagine any arrangement short of
the cession of North Savoy to Switzerland that
can or ought to satisfy the world. But nothing
which the French Upturns may now do can re-
move the profound distrust with which all his acts
and words will henceforward be regarded. With
his own hands he has dug a tremendous gulf, in
which lies the confidence once felt in him by •
generous people. We ought not to deem ourselves
unfortunate in receiving the warning in time.

Mr. Grant, late paymaster of her Majesty's ship
Britannia, will be attached to the suite of his Royal High.
awls the Priam of Wales during the forthcoming visit of his
royal highaor to Cased&

In committee on the Representation of the People
Bill, Mr. Potts wal mo►e "That all lodgers is the United
Kingdom, paying the income-tax, be entitled to vote at elec.
time for representative. in parliament," Mr. Osborne will
move, "That no candidate shall in any cam be liable to
pay, in respect of the ch►rges fur hustings, polling booths,
clerks, or any other neormary election expenses, a larger
rum than 1001. for a county, and 50f. for a city or borough
election ; and that the excess of all such expenses, beyond
the sums shove named to be payable by each candidate,
shed be borne by and defrayed out of the lame fund, and
intim mme proportion, by every locality, as the expense. of
registration of voters are or shall be bores and paid."
A letter, written et Florence during the entry of
Prime Carignan concludes:—" Flowing in the mat
.es of Weal beneath ; then ministers, magistrate.,
glipitariss of ell nenks--whole coachfule of them—ten

isairiegwo—twenty, thirty, forty—all the Enwrr of the
Plottetine nobility, and not a few of the distin-
plated Amager@ ; then battalions of Pialmonteee gre
maws ; Um, again, and all along the procession, Dolts
Life Clearila, with their numberless standards ; among them,
want ecespietions, acne atter the carriages, the banner of
VOIMO M Mourning. This is, indeed, an ovation. Poor
fibs-Pint what a contrast to your drive through these
mins streets An mouths ago r
_

The magistrates and authorities of Berlin having
gessented the Pries &pat with an address on Ids birth-
Ow, his royal highness returned a reply, in which he says :
—" The severe sedlerisgs which, by God's inscrutable will,
hue fallen upon sir King and lord, and which you with
deeply deplore, continue unchanged, and still impose
upon ins the heavy duty of guiding the reins of govern-
mot. With you I implore the Almighty that, if storms
shoat nee mound us, I may succeed in quelling them. I
hays seen with pleasure that you recognise my exertions for
this welfare of Prussia and for the whole of Gsrmasy, which
see uaremitied for the tree unity and preservation of both,
sod will ever so resuin. As King and people in Prussia
sue always one when the cares of the period drew DMZ to
them, so will the people show this in our dar, and the
capital will give an illustrious rumple."

-The Live= Burial Board have awartled prises
t. Mr. C. 11. , of Liverpool, and Mr. W. Stokes and
Yr. Wiest)le. of &odes, for their plane for a new cemetery
at Walton, near Liverpool, which is to cod 100,000 f., and to
extend over 100 acne.

Cbr Court.

4 pse Quin and the Wince Connect hit BuliargH
hip Palm* tortillndsor Cagle at tilnikaates befesi 4
Week ynteristafterooon,groom bribe Prince id
Wales, the halm Alice, bolos Prince Arthur
'tine Le80114,16e Prinosseas ffelena,Sitalatt, and Bean*:
The royal mite consisted of the Marehionain of Ely, Lady
Caroline Barrington, Hon. Eleanor Stanley, Hon. Flora
Macdonald, Lord Cremona., Major-General the Hon. Charles
Grey, Lienienant-Colonel Hi:woo* Colonel the He.. A.
N. Hood, (a sin Du Plat, Captain Grey, Major Cowell,
end *cot 111pIdnetone.

The Queen and Prince were eataucted to their carriage
by the Earl of at. Germans, Viscount Sydney, Marquis of
Ailembury, Lord George Lennox, and Major• General Wylde.
A detachment of Light Dragoons escorted the Queen front
the Palace to the terminus of the Great Western Railway
at Paddington. The royal party left by a special train for
Windsor.

WINDSOR CASTLE, IiONDAT.
The Queen end Prince Consort, accompanied by the
Prince of Wale•, Prince Alfred, the Princesa Alice, the
Princes Arthur and Leopold, sail the Primmer Helena,
Louise, and Beatrice, and attended by the Indies end
Gentlemen in Welting, arrived at the Cud* about half-part
four o'clock from London, having travelled by • special
train on the Great Western Railway.

The Right Hon. W. Cowper, ILP., Kilda Fuhar,
Bart, N.F., the /layer of Hertford Mr. Gillbertsord arq,
the
Town Clerk of Hertford (Yr. Longman), Messrs. John
Griffon, Joseph Lynam, Y. Crawley, Ludlow, end Carib,
of Hertford, had an interview with the Right Hon. Sir G.
C. Lewis at the Homo-office yesterday, upon the subject of
depriving the borough of Hertford of one of ita membets,
as contemplated by the new Reform Bill.
Yr. Rosa, from Canada, had an interview with the Duke
of Newcastle yesterday at the Colonial-office.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office
from the Governors of the West Indies, (Ups of Guod Hope,
Rt. Helena, and from the Lord High ColllMialliOnir of the
lonian Islands.

The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort are parsing
the season at Badminton, whore they intend to rateive •
stimession of vimitors during the Baster holidays.
The Duke of Newcastle and Lady Susan Pelham
Clinton will leave town i• • few days far Chamber Pack,
Notts, for the Baster holidays.
The Earl and Countess of Dalkeith will arrive at
their new residcace in Cnrsoa•street to-day. from &Woad.
The Earl and Countess of Ellesmere are passing
the ware at Torquay.
Frances Countess Waldegrave and Mr. Harcourt,
LP., leave Carlton-gardens to-day for their villa residence,
etrawberry-hill, Twickenham, for Eater.

The Earl of Airlie left town yesterday evening,
for Scotland.

The Earl and Countess of Yarborough and Lady
Sophia Path= are staying at Starkey 's Royal Victoria
Hotel at St. Leonard's-ea-Sea.

The Count de Mahanit has left Coventry House
for Paris.

Lord Foley, who has been suffering from indis-
position for some days past, a sow much bettor.
lady Marian Alford will entertain a succession of
visitors at Ashbridge Park drib( the holidays.
The Hon. George Byng, M.P., and Lady Alice
Byng have left town on a visit to the Countess Dowager of
Illeseners, at Hatehford Park, Surrey.
The Right Hon. W. F. Cowper, M.P., and Mrs.
Cowper will leave town in a few days for Paris, on a visit
to the Hon. Spencer sod tally Harriet Cowper.
The Right Hon. B. Disraeli and Mrs. Disraeli
received at dinner as Saturday, at their resider*, Greer-
vor-gate, his Ereallssey the Prurian Minister and the
Counter Bernstcelf, the gad and Counter of Egliatos,
the Earl and Counter of Partatthigighl, General and Lady
Allem Peel, Sir John and Lady Pakingtoa, Sir Anthony
sad lady de Rothschild, the Marquis of Bath, the Earl of
Powis, Viscount Ruaoath, sad Mr. Wm. Legh, M.P.
A marriage will take place during the approach-
ing summer, between Colcnel Leith Hay, C.B. (93rd High-
landers), of Leith Hall, Aberdeeashire, and Miss Hamilton,
of Creiglaw, Wigtoeshae.

The Right Hon. Lord Chelmsford, we (Essex
Errata?) learn, with the same feeling for the town which
induced him to come to this locality for his title of nobility,
bee signified his consent to become President of the Chehns.
ford Literary and Mechanics' Institution—a post left vacant
by the late Bishop of Rochester.

On Saturday notice was received that, in conse-
quence of the illness of hu family, Sir John 141WitI100 would
be unable to visit Glasgow to-day (Tuesday). The presen-
tation of the freedom of the city to him is consequently
postponed.

We regret to announce the death of the Hon.
Vietor Alexander, " Master of Kinnaird," eldest and only
surviving sou of Lord Kinnaird. The intelligence was re-
ceived on Friday evening by his uncle, the Hon. Arthur
Kinnaird, M.P., by telegram from Naples. The deceased
had beet recently on a tour in Sicily, accompanied by the
Rev. 8.. Yeomen. He was on his way hack to Rome when
seined with a violent and fatal attack of malaria fever. His
lordship and Lady Kinnaird were travelling up from Perth-
shire with the intention of hastening to the Continent when
the melancholy tiding. met them on their arrival in London.
Their son was born on the 13th of May, 1840, and cones-
quently had not completed his twentieth year.
We regret to learn of the death, at Bleandyffsyn,
Cardiganshire, of John Lloyd Davies, Faq., a magistrate and
dsputy•lientenant for the counties of Carmarthen and Car-
digan, and late ILP., for the Cardigan boroughs.
Sir S. Morton Peto, being confined to hie home
from the effects of an accident, has paired with Mr. Garnett
until after Fester.

Mr. Horsinan, M. P., writing to a friend at
Sarovel, just before the late meeting of him constituent.,
said, "I think that I have been shown, in • very marked
manner, that my presence is not desired, awl that I there-
fen slow most consideration and respect for those by whom
the meeting has been convened by allowing them to con-
duct the proceedings in the manner most agreeable to them-
selves. You inform me that, so far se you know, no hostile
movement is intended to be made towards me, and you ex-
press a hope that I will give you and other friends credit
for candid sad straightforward dealing with me. Ido so
very cordially and cheerfully. I believe the time will come
when you will feel th►t you have been hasty and unjust,
but, though I may question the judgment that is exhibited,
I can impute it to none but pure and honourable motives."

" Will you allow me to state," says • come-
spo•dent, "for the information of those men who have lost
an arm in her Majesty's service, and are willing to work for
their living, instead of depending, as some do, on the charity
of various societies and the public genendly, that there Is
plenty of occupation for those who possess a good character
and appearance? Since the lot of January this year twenty
of the London division of the corps of Commissionaires have
obtained permanent situations, and in consequence twelve
of the posts established last year are now vacant. This last
circumstance will account for the inconvenience many per.
sons have lately experienced from not finding men where
they have been accustomed to see them."

Last evening the Rev. J. ht Bellew gave in the
great room of St, Martin's Hall, which was densely crosrded,
a lecture on "Milton," for the benefit of the Printers' Pen-
non Society.

Proceoli up have commenced towards building a
new wing to Tottenham Park Rouse, the family residence
at Marlborough of the Marquis of Ailesbury, the cost of
which will not, we (Solistnery.fetirrial) apprehend, be under
40,0001. A chapel of ease is likewise in progress for the
use of the household.

Mr. Glasaforcl Bell, sheriff-substitute of Lanark-
shire, has assented to the request made to him to deliver
the inaugural addrus on the erection of the monument at
Yarrow to the Ettrick bard. The inanguration i■ fired to
take place on Thursday, the 28th of June. Mr. Maiden!
Bell enjoyed the intimacy of the poet, and WWI privileged
with his services as one of his contributors when he edited
the Literary Journal.

The authorities connected with the Medical De-
partment of the Army have, with the concurrence of the
Secretary of State for War, decided on establishing a sana-
torium and invalid establishment at the Cape of Good Hope
for the reception of the sick and disabled troops belonging
to the various corps serving in China. This arrangement
has been made by the government in order to obviate the
necessity of forwarding the wounded and invalid troops
over the loop voyage to England. Information baa been
received at the medical establishment, Chatham, that a
number of medical officers will be required for the new
establishment, and these will be despatched as early as pa-
yable.