The Express.
London, England, 1858-03-20 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 20, 1858.

and change for potage. It is his to wear and enjoy,
but he has no more right to sell it than a moldier has
to pawn his Crimean medal for beer. Any land-
owner obtaining it of him is clearly guilty of unlaw-
ful possession. The right of the State to the free-
dom of all her trustees is one which no private
arrangements about potage can possibly defeat.
The time is fast approaching when the audacious
and increasieg usurpations of the territorial interest
must be stayed with a strong hand. Claims and
pretensions which till lately were kept in the retire-
ment of the steward's dice, are now advanced in
the market-place. Oppressive practices formerly
palliated, are now professed and vindicated. Hints
have grown into maxims, expedients have become
systems. The forbearance of the great body of the
nation is presumed oa and abused. In that readjust-
ment of our internal political relations which every
party in turn has new acknowleged to be inevitable,
the only practicable guarantee of independence, the
protection of the ballot, most be secured to the voter.
Large-acred squires may 07 "coward" and " sneak.'
Perhaps our ancestors of King Amteres days would
have despised us for sleeping behind bolts and bars.
In both cases there is only one excuse—there are rob-
bers abroad. The influence which will remain to
the worthy portion of the landed gentry will still be
immense, and what is more, it will be honourable.
The tenantry of Fawsley will turn out with as much
enthusiasm as ever to shout for its generous lord and
vote for his son. The voters of independent spirit
will be spared grievous sacrifices, and the " con-
" fused" will have less to trouble their ideas. What-
ever may be done to restore the ancient independence
of the county constituencies, whatever reconstruction
, of their elements, or extension of their limits, may
take place, without the safeguard of the ballot, the
, tenant voter will be but the prey of his landlord's
party, the freeholders will be overwhelmed, and we
shall see the House of Commons invaded, as now, by
a progeny, representing neither the conscience, the
understanding, nor the interests of the nation.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(15011 OVA OWN 0011RNSPOWDIXT.)
PARIS, FOIDAT Brume.
Ever since the event of January 14 there were
rumours that M. Pietri's position had become uncer-
tain, but it was only, u I learn, on Friday last that
ke was made to understand that he had nothing to
do but to resign. On that day the Emperor pre-
sided at a council to determine oa the fate of Orsini,
Pieri, and di Radio. M. Pietri, whose position as
Prefect of Police naturally entitled his opinion to
much weight, spoke at great length in favour of a
commutation of punishment for all the prisoners.
He did not, of course, attempt to extenuate their
guilt, but he urged ;many reasons tending to show
that mercy would be politic, in the interest of the
Emperor. A reprieve would, he said, produce an
excellent effect in France and Italy, more particu-
larly in the latter country, where, on the
other hand, it was to be feared that the
execution of Orsini might produce great excitement
and a rooted feeling of bitterness which would
not be without danger. While dwelling on this
latter topic he was suddenly interrupted by General
&pinnace, who exclaimed loudly in a sarcastic tone,
"Oh ! have we got an Italian patriot here ?" M.
Pietri, who is a Corsican, changed colour at this
ominous reproof from the rising star of the Imperial
Court. He said, with some confusion, that he;„wsa
not ashamed of the appellation, but then looking at
the generally illegible countenance of the exalted
personage who occupied the chair, he read in it
distinctly an approbation of General F.spinasse's
sally, and sat down convinced that his tenure of
office was at an end. It is quite certain that one
among many other important results of Orsini's
bombs was to give a new direction to the policy of
the Tuileries, which may be expected to manifest
itself by yet further changes in the personnel of
the administration. Both M. Billault and M. Pietri

were understood to represent in the cabinet what is
called the Pallas Royal interest, by which expres-
sion is meant that they were more or less influenced
by suggestions made by Prince Napoleon or his
father. It is not the first time that jealousies of
interference from that quarter have been spoken of.
The dismissal of M. Pietri, following closely upon
that of M. Billault, is considered a decided blow to
the Palais Royal, and I am assured that it is by way
of a salve for the vexation caused by it that the
Prince Napoleon has been appointed president of a
commiesion to define the exact limits between the
jurisdiction of the Prefect of Police and that of the
Prefect of the Seine—a subject upon which there have
been frequent conflicts. The Prefect of the Seine (M.
Hauserman) complains, it appears, that the muni-
cipality of Paris has in some respects less power
than the town councils of other places, in consequence
of long-aanctioned usurpation by the Prefect of
Police. It will matter very little now how the
difference may be settled, as in any case the whole
thing is likely to be conducted altogether en jamille,
M. Boittelle being not only an intimate friend of
Counts Moray and Persigny, and an old comrade of
General Espinasse, but also a cousin (by marriage)
of M. Hausmann. What is called the "political
direction" of the Prefecture of Police is now to be
absorbed by the Ministry of the Interior, so that the
new prefect is shorn of a good deal of the old power
and dignity of the office. General Espinosa° is in
fact, though not in name, Minister of Police. He,
I am told, is very little seen by his subordinates.
He has frequent interviews with the Emperor, works
by himself, and issues his orders in writing.
I have heard a curious, and perfectly authentic
anecdote, illustrative of the state of things during
the last days of M. Pietri's administration. It is
usual when the Emperor is going out to telegraph
the fact from the Tuileries to the Prefecture in the
Rue de Jerusalem, and then numerous police agents
in and out of uniform are despatched to the line of
route which he takes. But it very frequently
happens that the notice given is so short that the
Emperor is outside the barrier and in the Bois de
Boulogne before the police have arrived in the
Champs Elystes. M. Pietri, deeply feeling the
weight of his responsibility, represented these facts
and asked to be furnished every morning with a
programme of the Emperor's movements, so that he
might be enabled to make proper arrangements in
time. The request was refused.
An hour before the arrival of their Majesties at
the Opera on Wednesday evening, all the houses in
the Rue Lepelletier, opposite the building, were
searched by the police.
An English gentleman of my acquaintance, who
has long had apartments in Paris, with his own
furniture in them, came over from England in a
French mail boat three days ago, and observed on
the passage that the captain seemed to be more than
usually inquisitive about him. Last night he
received at his house a summons to appear
at the Prefecture of Police, for "matters con-
cerning Lira." lie went there this morning and after
being asked a good many questions as to what he
had been doing lately, and what he intended to do
for the future, was politely sent about his business,
without any explanation. His passport being regu-
lar he can only suppose that, as he wears a beard
and speaks French well, doubts were entertained
about his identity.
Marshal Canrobert has taken possession of his
command at Nancy, and has issued an order of the
day to the troops ; but a local journal says that this
his first visit will be very short as he returns to
Paris in three days.
At the Bourse very little business was done, but
it was rather firm at the close, the Rento rising 10e.
both for cash and account, and closing at 69fr. 500.
Mobilier was nearly stationary. Railways were
rather lower.

ARRIVAL OF
THE BOMBAY MAIL.

We have received our advice§ from Bombay in
anticipation of the Overland Mail. The date is
Bombay, Feb. 24.
The following is from the Bombay Times:

The trial of leshomed Bahadoor Shah, the ex-King of
Delhi, by the military commiasion appointed for that pur-
pose, has been the most interesting event, news of
which has reached us from the North-West, during
the last fortnight. The evidence adduced leaves no
reasonable doubt whatever that the charge which con-
stitutes the gravamen of this miserable man's offenos against
us is fully sustained, and that It was by his order that forty-
nine of our race, chiefly women and children, were cruelly
butchered in the Palace at Delhi on the 16th of May last.
Meantime the life of the guilty wretch in whose skirts the
blood of our innocents is found, is guaranteed, and we cannot
wonder that the interned indignation is felt and expressed
on all hands at the fact. A contemporary assures us, on
the strength we suppose of a telegraphic despatch, that the
' royal murderer has been found guilty by his judges, and is
sentenced to transportation to the Andaman/ for life. So
este the sun of the last of the Moguls!
Sir Colin Campbell, contrary to the general expectation
that he would cross the Ganges at Furruckabed, end direct
Ms march through Oude upon Lucknow, has moved from
that place down the right bank of the river again to Cairn-
pore, where he seems to have been accumulating stores and
troops for his final advance to join Outram at the Alumbagh
and commence the siege of Lucknow. There can be no
question that the position so gallantly held by the latter
°Doer during the last three months has been the
post of honour as of danger, during the opera-
tions which have characterised them ; and we shall
look impatiently for the notice that is to be taken of General
Ontram's brilliant services in this campaign. With his small
lone, not 4,000 strong, he has had to watch a city covering
aa area of twenty-eight miles, and garrisoned by disciplined
troops twenty times his strength, has had to keep communi-
cations open with Cawnpore, and bold Donnas, while attack
after attach has been repelled by him, entailing the severest
leas upon his assailants.
The Commander-ice-Chid was at Commute on the 12th
February, waiting for the siege trails from Agra, which had
not arrived. Troops had been croadisg the Ganges since the
Ist February, and a large force is now assembled at Alum-
high, to commence operations against Lucknow on Sir Colin'e
arrival from Cawupore. The attack would take place about
the 19th or 20th of February.
The Goorkhu are advancing towards Onde on the eastern
side, and are clearing the country in that direction. On the
7th February, they attacked the enemy, about 10,000 strong,
under the Rajah of Gondah, whom they defeated, with the
lees of fifty killed. The remainder were completely dispersal
Central India is being rapidly cleared of the rebels. The
strong fort of Rainnuggur has been taken and dismantled by
a force from Jubbulpore, and we have now uninterrupted
communication with Calcutta. On the 11 th February the force
under General Rose left Saugor, and advanced towards the
fort of Garraketta, which was evacuated ,by the enemy. A
flying detachment was emit after them, which cut up their
nor, killing about 100.

An action took place at Shorapore, in the Nisam's terri-
tories on the Bth of February, between the Madras troops
end a body of Rolullae, in which Captain Newbury was
killed, and Lieutenant Stewart badly wounded. The town
of Shorapere was evacuated in the night, and taken posses-
sion of by Colonel Malcolm. Ths Rajah, who had fled,
was subsequently oaptnred at Hyderabad.
The 71st Highlanders and 18th Royal Irish hays arrived
at Bentbay, and still remain at the presidency.
The Governor-General, with the full powers of the council
oonliorred upon him for six months, ia now on his way up to
the North-West Provinces, the desirableness of his presence
in the disturbed districts having been generally recognised,
and the seat of government has been removed from Agra to
Allahabad.
The

left Calcutta on the 31st December,
and arrived at Allahabad on the 7th February. The Lieu-
tenant-Governorship of the Central Provinces, and the Chief
Commissionership of the North-West, have been abolished,
and Mr. Grant has returned to Calcutta, to resume his seat
in council.

A very respectable and influential meeting of the native
gentry of Bombay voted an address to ►er Majesty a few days
ago, expressive of their abhorrence of the crime. committed in
this rebellion, and their loyal wishes for the establishment of
the Brit fah power in India on a lasting foundation. The address
goes home by the present mail, signed, u we believe, by all
the leading members of the Bombay native community.

The Bombay Standard of tho 24th ult. says.
By this time the force in the immediate neighbourhood
of Lucknow, including that under Outram, but excluding
detachments left to guard the rear, will amount to at least
20,000 men, with 100 pieces of ordnance, many of them of
the largest calibre. The policy of the chief obviously is, to
have no more hand-to-hand conflicts; his guns are of
inch enormous size as to be employed with des-
tructive effect beyond the longest range of the heaviest
of those of the enemy. The fire poured by them
as Lucknow must at once become so frightful and so crush-
ing as to coonskin ruin and conflagration everywhere, and
compel its occupants to take their chance of escape by flight,
poor as this may be, rather than suffer the certainty of being
roasted or blown to gloom in their den. The only fear is
that they may disperse before we get within reach of them ;
but with eight or ten mounted corps, regular or irregular,
we shall still be able to give a good account of a very large
proportion of them, the rest being left without a single place
of refuge.

We take the following also from the Bombay
Standard:

The Mysore Field Force, as it was originally termed, wee
organised near Kurnool in the middle of July. It has been
elided to from time to time, and last month confided of the
fAlowing troops :—H.ll.'s 12th Lancers, H.ll.'s 43rd, a
heavy siege train from Ramptee, 2 troops of Horse
Artillery, 3rd Com. of Foot Artillery, 2 light field
batteries, 6th and 7th Madras Light Cavalry, let
M. N. 1., 3rd M. N. 1., 6th Y. N. 1., 19th M. N. 1., 60th
M. N. 1., and two company's Madras Sappers and Miners.
Proceeding northward and westward they reached Masowly,
where on the 21st January • party of the rebels were over-
taken and cut up by them. The fugitives escaped
into the fortress of Rarnnuggor, the existeoce of
which was never dreamt of. Mortars were sent for,
but as they were not accompanied by Artillerymen, the
bombardment which ensued was ineffective. The main body
of the force having arrived next thy, the rebels were found
to have fled, and the place was destroyed. The troops
returned to &hots en the 24th. On the 26th they
made • dash on Bodeen, where some of the re-
bels got wounded in • skirmish. On the 29th they
arrived et Chalks, sixty miles from Jubbulpore, and
within the limits of the district. On the let of February
they came back to Moonaire, a well fortified stronghold oc-
cupied by the rebels in force. On the 7th they were
attacked by the insurgents at Sleemanabad. The fight
was of short duration ; the enemy, having after their first
onslaught retired to a grove of mango trees, were
speedily driven from this and dispersed. The columns
both of Whitlock and Rose, during their advance, were in
oommunleation with the troops of the Rajahs of Punna and
Rewa, under command of Capt. Osborne, who had about this
time captured M ishere and Bijrajooghur. He seemed anxious
fora heavy force near Rears, as the troops commanded by
him were deemed so little trustworthy, that he could not
venture on the execution of the prisoners he bed captured,
despatching them after trial to Jubbulpore for execution. A
detachment of Whitlock's force marched out to meet the
prisoners, 94 in number, with • guard of 600 matchlock-
men and 100 troopers. The culprits were all a:rated in the
evening, two were hanged, and 92 shot.
About the end of January, the Negpore Irregulars
mutinied at Ryepore, 17 of them were executed on the spot,
when tranquillity was restored. The 33rd Madras Native '
Infantry left Jubbulpore on the 3rd to bring the disorderly
to their senses, but found themselves anticipated and the
work performed to their hands. The whole of Whitlock's
force reached Jubbtdpore betwixt the 7th and 10th.
On the 11th the 4th and 6th Madras Light Cavalry left
for Allahabed and Misrepore to co-operate with the troops
entering Oude from the south-west. The main force was to
follow about the 13th, and will probably take the direction
of Cawnpons, the three great column, each about 6,000
strong, with close on • hundred guns amongst them under
Oen. Roberts, Oen. Sir Hugh Rose, and General Whitlock,
closing up on the Amine, as the Commander-iu•Chiel
crosses the Ganges. Having swept the country before them
and around on their advance, it is probable that about the
present date Lucknow is being invested. The inthrgents
know how bootless it is to try to enter Natant when they are
daybed as much ea they are hated. A wall of Ike

is gathering all around, to the west, north-west, and 'outli-
ers*, so that they is nothing for it bat to abide their fate.
It is said that the Governor-General is willing to pardon the

people of Oode who hairs rises in rebellion on their laying
down their arms. The promise of clemency does not include
the mutineers or times convicted of any special act of atro-
city. The resolution mans wise.

CAWNPORE.

FEB. 5, 1858,-1 mentioned in my but that his
Excellency the Commander-in-Chief was expected in camp
on the 4th of February. His Excellency and suit*, with a
body guard of Lancers, arrived on the evening of that day,
and have taken up quarters Ina bungalow adjacent to Cap-
tain Brien's, which is satiated on the banks of the Ganges,
and close to the entrenchment. The force is expected here on

the 6th (to-seorrow). A small brigade warn detached and has
marched towards Umbellah. The 'anent etth, ISM informed,
forma • pert of the brigade. Colonel Campbells brigade,
consisting of H. H. 7th Humors, a troop of Royal one
Artillery, end H. H.'s 79th, moved across the river this
morning and marched towards the village of Onso. This
brigade will remain there till the arrival of the force from
Fatteghur, which. on its snivel at Cawnpory will make
preparations for crossing the Owes at once. The force at
Alumbagh is still very much tuu-rssed by the menses,
whose Are is now incessant; our troops are obliged to be
constantly under arms, not knowing the moment the wretches
will =Air • nigh. Some three days since, the
rebels attacked our position in three different points,
but our fellows were prepared for them, and
gave them a warm reoeptioe. The rebels were forced to
retire, suffering very much in killed and wounded. We had
but cos killed ; the unfortunate men belonged to H. M. 90th
regiment. We have the road hence to Alumtegh well-
, much go that individuals go to and from so Alum-
unmolested.. We give them lots of shell and shrapnel
from our bakeries--roved shot they would return. This
morning two more 10-inch howitzers arrived from Allahabsd,
under Marge of a small detachment. These are the boys
for jack espoy : • couple of shot from their batteries per
minute will most assuredly put our sable foes in a tremor,
which con be got rid of only by a bolt—and ran they will.
Lacknow is to be ours without fail by the 15th current, and
the poor eepoy rendered a boneless wanderer. It is cur-
rently reported that we have an army of from 10 to 12,000
marching towards Calpee from Bangor, and another force of
about 7,000 from Jhansie. Should these armies join the
Cawnpore force woe be to the rebels now at Lucknow,
who, it is said, number one hundred and eighty thousand.
The light brigade that proceeded to Calpee has returned—
nothing worthy of remark trenspired beyond having to en-
camp out there. For so many days, not a rebel was to be
seen. The gentlefolks about here drive out in the evening
in their open carriage*, or take an airing on horseback. We
have our bands on the Esplanade every evening, and every-
thing here now denotes a life sa in times of peace. lam
told there is a large number of sick in the General Hospital,
and that an influx is impacted on the arrival of the force
from Furruckabad.—Boniboy Tiara.