The Express.
London, England, 1861-10-12 00:00:00

THEORLEANIST PRINCES AND TREAMERICAN

ARMY.

The following letter, which may probably be
taken u an " official " explanation of the step lately taken
by the two French princes in America, appears in the Delete
of to-day : _ .

" A correspondent writes to us from New York
os September 24:—' It is quite true, as you have
already heard, that the Count of Paris and the
Duke of Chartres have been admitted as officers
of the staff into the Federal army. The two young princes
left England at the commencement of the month in the

company of their uncle, the Prince de Joined's. The prince
Intended to take his young um, the Duke of Penthii:vre,
to the United States Naval School. His two nephews
went to America simply on a tour of pleasure
and information. Received at New York with the most
'Mitering distinction, they went to Washington to thank
the heads of the Federal government for such a receptiou.
Thence it was their intention to proceed to the far west as
one of the first halting places in their trip. But once in
Washington, the scene by which they were surrounded, the
exciting spectacle of a numerous army of volunteers, formed,
so to speak, under the fire of the enemy, impelled them
to bummer:tors in the great events which are preparing.
Moreover, how many reasons more serious attach them to
the cause which they serve! The cause, no one can doubt,
V good. Although they do not proclaim it very loudly as
yet, the abolition of slavery is at the bottom of the
quarrel which arms the volunteers of the north.
It is a war in which humanity itself is coo-
awned. Besides, that which is also at stake is the
government of the great American Union, which the
blood of France contributed to found nearly 100 years ago.
The llama of the sons of the Duke of Orleans, of the
grandsons of the King Louis Philippe, may figure with
honour upon the glorious list where shine already
those of Rochambeau, of Mathieu Dumas, of Seger,
and of Lafayette. The Count of Paris and the Duke
of Chartres are, then, included from this time in the
ranks of the Federal army as aides-de-cempe of the General-
in-Chief, McClellan. The node of the young princes, the
Prince de Joinville, present when their determination was
taken, has approved it. The eldest of the two brothers
has frankly avowed that he was unable to resist this
opportunity, unique, perhaps, of acquiring as a soldier a
practical experience of which, more than say thing else, be
felt the desire end the need.' "

The Lerma Herald of October 2 says Very
many of our readers will regret to be apprised of the death
of Mr. Wilkinsou, fur many years her Majesty's Consul
at Syra. The deceased gentleman was one of the oldest
members of our consular service in the Levant, and in the
long muster-roll of his colleagues had no superior, and but
few equals. in sterling excellence of character."
The Levant IferaM of the 2nd says :—" His
Royal Highness the Count de Chambord arrived at Con-
stantinople by the Kustendjie steamer of Saturday from
'Vienna, cm rmatc for the Holy Land and Egypt, accompanied
by the following suite :—The Duke de Levis, the Count de
Monti, the Count de la Ferronays, the Count de Blacas,
the Count de Nana, the Abbe 'l'rebuquet, Dr. Flock,
and M. Monett, besides a numerous company of inferior
attendants. The illustrious party proceeded at once
from the steamer to Misserie's Hotel, where apartments
bad previously been engaged by telegraph. Since &dui,
day, his royal highness has diligently 'done' the sights of
the capital and Bosphorus, but, out of a readily intelligible
delicacy, hag declined to avail himself of the brute, carriages,
and attendant officers which the Porte promptly placed at
his disposal. More than one of the resident foreign minis-
tate ham, we are informed, privately tendered their respects
to the illustrious visitor. His royal highness continues his
voyage to Berme. by the Austrian Lloyds' steamer of to-
day."
A letter from St. Petersburg, dated the 6th,
says :—" I learn, to my astonishment, that the University
og Ss. Petersburg has been closed. Admiral Count
Pigtail received the professors to-day for the first time
stage his appointmeut, and spoke to them of the necessity
of gippreasiog a movement on the part of the students
which the professors think ought to he, not suppressed,
but directed. After a very unsatisfactory interview the
Minister of Instruction declared that the lectures must be
discontiourd, and for the preswt, sad until an indefinite
period, Do more domes will be held at the chief educational
establishment of Roads. This step is looked upon as the
beginning of. a great readies, and has already caused
immeam austarwiaß"