The Express.
London, England, 1856-09-17 00:00:00

LONDON, WEDNESDAY,

Tas CZ AZ was crowned in a church of very
limited dimensions ; only a sated few actually wit.
Waled the cereasoey. The thousands who waited
outside to see the crowned sod anointed Monarch
lam from the comiseratiog rite took the fast of its cele-
bration on treat. Is this the men-worship of modern
despotism bee a each of the idol-worship of old
paprika. The inmost Arises of old heathen
temples—wbsre the image of the god stood—had
room ouly for the priests who performed the sacrifice.
Thew sacrificial rites were screened from vulgar gime.
The IIDiD it isted public saw oat, the p►ocession to
and from the temple. Ono advantage the models
Meteors have over the ancient—t►e object of their
worship iron from the shrine to glad them with its
actual presence; but ancient statues did not poems
the locomotive powers of the statue of the Coo-
loudest in " Doe Joan."

" To glad thew" is not, however, the proper expires.
Um. At least not always—not on this lut mules
at Moscow. "The oosetessoos of his MAJWITY"—

says our special oorrespondent, when describing the
pomp and 0140111101141 Me of the AUTOCRAT'S exit from
the Church of the Assumption—" was most solemn ;
he bowed repeatedly but never smiled, and the them
seemed to die away for want of the Imperial sym-
pathy." An incident which occurred within the
church folly explains that icy gravity which east •
sold shade over the enthusiasm of thousands, and
bushed their rapturous acclamations. " Tithing
the crown" (we again quote trom our special ear.
respondent), " an immense on, blaming all over with
diamonds—cep with his two kande, the Exeunt
placed it on his bead ; thereby intimating that from
no earthly power, priestly or lay, did he receive his
sovereignty. Then making • sign to the Knetx•s,
Rho kneeled submissively beton him on a golden
cushion, he just touched her forehead with it, and
immediately replaced it cm his owa bead. This was
a moment of intense interest. The Urine-I
Moms, who had borne up with immense fortitude,
burst into tears, and the whole of the congregation,
as they tell ma their knees, in honour of the rite,
sobbed and cried like children." Well might the
spectaton—and above all the mother who bon him,
and who knows by experience to what be is doomed—
weep and wail for him who, from the mount that fatal
circle touched his brow, is a being set apart from
his kind. Heocelorth— with the solitary excep-
tion of the gentle being whom, by touching her
forehead with the diadem, he admitted to the partner-
ship of hie isolation—lie has only servants or antago-
niata—no friends. He has power, he has wealth
it so inclined he may have luxuries, but he can have
no fellowship. Ho wanders through his regal apart-
ments, alone amid crowds, like the inmates of the
Hall of Rhin It was the foreboding of this that
made " his countenance wear a careworn and hag-
gard look" during the ceremony, and that stamped
it with the impassive, chilling expression which acted
on the multitude without like the petrityieg head of a
Medusa.

It is, indeed, the mast cruel set of which unthinking
multitudes an guilty. when they take a man and
map an absolute monarch of him. They prostrate
themselves before him with abject servility. Per-
haps the most utter abjectness of this servility is
manifested when they talk with wonder and admire-
time of the monarch's condescending on some occasion
to talk with any one famieiarly—like another man.
They persuade him by sheer iteration of fluttery that
be is the wise, powerful, impeccable being they
affect to believe him—as the courtiers of HASOUN
ALRASSID persuaded AEON HASSAN that he was
Caliph by a similar pewee& Sleek and time-serving,
they volunteer their services to his most arbitrary
and wayward freaks of wilfulness. They in-
spire him with contempt for human nature,
by presenting to him incessantly its worst and most
abject features. And when they have fairly driven
him mad by their flattery and obsequious minis-
trations, they wsx indignant at hist:ceases, and rail
at them in philosophic phrase, even when they do
not " torn upon and rend him." It would sees as
if the subjects of despots glade moosten in order to
have the pleasure of baiting them.
We hear mode of the emancipation of the people
from the ma-treatment of absolute mosarchei whoa
will men become wise and hems= *sough to emu-
cips•e absolute monarchs from this mal-tnatisent of
the people? The murderers of a NllO OS a PAUL
were the very men who had perverted those sove-
reigns and made them what they were. Well, then,
may any new made monarch look "careworn and
enddesed" at hie coreastion--while undergoing the
hitistory ceremonies of his perversion. We have
had a Society for the Abolition of Negro Slavery—a
B•xiety for the Abolition of Segal Degradation is
mach wanted.