The Express.
London, England, 1855-10-29 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 39.

Tas impression made upon the majority of that
class is society to which Sir Jonx DEAN PAUL and
hie partners belonged, by the sentence parsed upon
them, seems almost to border epos penia Nowhere
do you hear the justice of the sentence impugned—
nowhere do you bear its necessity denied—but on all
sides you hear a muttering about its being terribly
severe. Well : it is severe. It falls far more heavily
upon men who have occupied the social position from
which they have fallen than s similar sentence would
upon men of the class to whom it is most frequently
awarded. The three convicts are no longer young;
they have all their lives been accustomed to the
indulgences of the wealthier classes—to be
waited upon with respect or obsequiosseem. The
change in their condition will be terrible. The
poor Mon who has all his life been accustomed to
play at hide and seek with the police, who has been
one day on the verge of starvation, the nest rioting
in vulgar snores, is scarcely aware of a change.
Fourteen years traseportation to such a sea some-
times will be the mesas of making him more com-
fortable; to Pout., STEM:IAN, and BATES it is a living
death. And yet who is there that does not feel in his
heart that justice could not have been satisfied with.,
more lenient sentence? These me have missed
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against their better knowledge. The motive which
impelled them to crime—the vanity of appearing
more prosperous in the eyes of the world than they
really were, ought to have been as nothing to the
motive which held them beck from its perpetration
—the desire to retain the fair reputation they en.
joyed. Yet, to gratify this poor and paltry vanity,
they stooped to breach of trust ; they incurred the
meta* risk of beggaring many widows and orphans
—of robbing the poor. Aid their crime was not, es
it has been sought to be represented, a yielding to a
sudden and irresistible pressure; it was deliberately
set about, end persevered in for months, if not fee
years. If they were to be punished at all, any pm.
nishment *rut of that pronounced against them
would hare been a barefaced mockery. Nor as we
conceal from ourselves that, at the present me.
meat, such an expression of the moral nose
of the community as the °mistiest sad sen-
tence of PAUL, &MAHAN, and BATES, has
been urgently needed. It is only necessary to recall
the history of railway speculation, and metals roast
die' (domes respecting the manner in which monetary
negotiations are (*educed, the payment of Customs
duties evaded, and articles of food systematically
adalteested, to be oonvinced that a moral plague-sore
is spreading through oar commercial community.
Nay, listen to the sessi.apologetio tone in which the
made* of PAUL, BTLIMAN, sad BATES, and of others
who have recently been the town talk, is spoken of
by nom in fair credit with their fellow-citizens
bemuse they have, or are 'apposed to have, plenty
of money in their pockets. We have little faith
in, and lees charity for, that morality Whisk shows
itself in seven smears of those who fall from the
paths of virtu. We know that snare pro-
fissions of principle are sometimes coupled with
great laxity in 'prudes. Still, experience teaches
us that when the lased teas of a community is
lowered—when it gets accustomed to look upon
knavery with indulgence and to speak of it with
levity—the vigour of wheal Mara** is relaxed,
and the degraded people slat in the scale of nations.
England has of late been insensibly gliding down
this perilous inclined plane; and some such startling
incident as the conviction and septum of the three
bankers was needed to rouse as to the necessity of
an effort to regain our old standing-ground.
The impression made upon the majority of what
are conventionally termed the lower classes, by the
conviction and materna of Sir Joan DEAN PauL and
his partners, is somewhat different. Before the trial
took place we had noticed a disposition among them
to repel with incredulity the belief that a jury could
be found to convict " geotlemes." Since the trial we
are not certain that there has not existed amen
them a considerable amount of diseppeintwonet at
finding their depreciatory anticipation regarding our
Courts of Justice falsified. Many appear to be half
sorry that an opportunity for grumbling and sew
sun has not been afforded to them. But still
more extensively may be found to prevail
• serptioun as to the possibility of the
sentence being carried into effect with its
full severity. And we frankly metes. that to some
extent we ourselves share in this sceptical hellos.
We have had some opportunity of observing how the
Bome-oece is at all times pestered with applications
for remissions of sentences, in behalf of any convicts
who have the good luck to possess friends and
patrons. Such applications are waived, in the great
majority of oases, not by any belief that the convict
has been harshly or unfairly oondemned, or that he
his shown any unequivocal signs of amendment, bat
simply by a foolish, unreasoning good-nalema ar a
silly vanity of teiag thought to pewees WWII* 10
high quarters. The pert/weft elf 4116101111
this hied is iscomeivable. Meath iftse smith, and
year after year, they retire to the charge. Every
change of Ministry—a frequent enough event in our
days—stimulates theta to try whether the new man Their Royal Highnesses the Dashes. of Cambridge
sad the Princess Eery ere 'Rented is leaveKsoweley
is not more impressible than his prodesessov. And
day, sitar • week's vlait to the Earl sad Countess of Derby,
a.
generally they emceed in tiring out the resistance of 6, cambial,. camas.. £...
the Nuamalikah Whoever occupies that &Fart' Viscountess Jocelyn end family left Viscount sat
meet may make up his mind to be bombarded Vincent's* Paineratoes seat, near Botesey, on Thursday
by memorials in behalf of PAUL, STRAKA'S, and lag, to visit the Early sad Collates et fittaftesbery, at 118.
BATES. The bombardment of Sebastopol wee • Ones's. Dormt.
joke to the bombardment that awaits him. The Earl and Ludy Constance Grammy are ex-
We can scarcely conceive any amount of matha Se irri" la twea super igHserrow ire Widnewlar,
human obstinacy sufkient to withstand the f". Pal*. after • shoat visit is that capital
Lord Beciagloon has left lowa foe Palls cm- his
vigorous and incessant fire that will be kept up, end
his seat at Ceases, when the noble wed horsed tort
shall be soways •surprised to lean a year or two way Nome antll the ices
purposes to Ming et perliamsat.
hence that the convict. ire quietly rusticating at We „awaited that maim Owes, who during
Boulogne, or that they have opened • bank at Perth the *SO of Sebastopol loot hie right Mg is the tresehes by a
or Presmaatle, is Wonsan Australia. At the same bag** at a snail, sad who daring the lest week had the
time we shall deeply regret such • emeammation, as *near et aerie( two days ea a visit is ler Majesty at
calculated to destroy the egret of the vary necessary Wl•4"g Castle. is on the eve of tooling to she 117oloolot
lesson that has just been read to oar Indio, cos-
sitar Kiss Cabin, daughter of Sir Wm. Cabin It will be
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The possibility of an appeal from the sentence of ag
the Coast has bees spoken of. It is not vary likely The Bishop of London lie in a preemie= stator, at
that such en appeal will be made r taking into soesint the phew at Fathom.
the stern, bat dipified, lemon, held towards the A biographical elestab of Lord Palmerston in ,the
prisoners by the presiding judge, it is all but certain B•witwy Own*** sere flaw hie lordship lea dessieedeet
that it 'meld fail. Its MOONS would be to be depta at loahrlOgarterMr/°Ol4 b?Ali 4.111,1111111" l adT
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robwsba,throosh which big wasps and hornets break ;
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The royal dinner party yesterday evening included
the Duchess of Kent. Prince Edward of Baas Weimar, the
Portuguese Minister sad the Countess Lacredie, Lady
Aegean 8y..., Baroness do Speth, Bit Charles and L..dy
Mary Weed. and Mejor Chanel Sir Riehard England.
The hind M the 2sd Life Claude performed daring
dieser; ler Majesty's pinta band aftuwarde played in
tits Oath. _ _ _

I The Chore, eseemyaated by the Primate Royal, walked
is the Hese Puk t►ia nevelt*. .

Prises Edward of Sane Wiliam- 1 took leave of hu Majesty
tb•dey sad left the Castle.
The Portuguese Minister sad the Coastem Unsafe, Sir
Charles sad Lady Mary Wood, sad Major Omni Sir
disbud Upload have ebb takes their departure.
Prises Albert, attended by Majer•Cieserol the Hos.
Cluelee Grey and Colossi Seymour, west to Pisan this
day, to preside at the formal copulas of the Commercial
Vowelises' fielseed, sad mused to Wiadsor at a quarter
past fear Vela*.
Her Majesty, otteaded by t►e Dachas of Athol], drove
Imo Ma. oyes mules*.
The dieser party is the tressisi isoladed the Prisms
Royal, the Belgian Misister sod Madame Vas de Weyer,
and Mr James Mark.

The bead of the Sod life Guards played defies dieser.
The Claes% privets bead efterwude performed.
SIMDLY. OCT. 28.

ma Claim sad Prises, the Prism of Wain, the Princess
Royal, Priam Alfred, sad Primes.. Alias, the iodise and
gentlemen of tie mart, and the domestic hoesehidd at-
tended divine genies this tams* la the private chapel of
the Castle. Tbe Dmitri of Kest was also at the service.
The Res. sad ♦ery Rev. the Dean of Windsor performed
the maim sad administered the eamastat of the Roll
Comanakm.

I Despite*less tN the Gorman a Yea Dleatea's Lead,
flostl Australia. sad Via°lia was neared yesterday at
lb' Osiealal-sSes.

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