The Express.
London, England, 1865-04-20 00:00:00

FEDERATE CAUSE.

Of the London daily journals which have sup-
ported the Coafedsrate muse, the THUS alone accepts the
recent sucomes of the North as decisive of the iglu of the
war. The Tines to-day regards the surreeder of General
Lee and the total destruction of the chief Southern army as
quite possible, for Northein armies, which probably out-
number his remaining forces ten to one, are pressing on him
and cluing round him. "It remains to be eillO," adds the
Tina, " what course the chiefs of the Confederacy and the
Congress will take m this extremity. The obstinacy of
purpose of Mr. Jefferson Denis and the majority of
the men whom the South ohms as its representatives
is well known, and doubtless there are not wasting
many who even in this hour of desperate fortune are
willieg still to persevere. Bat it rosy be that some of
them, desirous to atop shedding of blood and the miseries
which • savage partiran warfare would bring on the
Southern population, may prefer to give the power of,
negotiation to the genera' who, in a IN :es of gigantic
battles, has oommude I the admiration of the world, and
whom even hie adversaa:es regard e:th • feeling very far
removed from animmity. The Confederates certainly can
now expect to make but poor terms compered with what
they might have smutted • yes- ago ; but even sow
they have the means of infPcting such losses on
the North by meMtaining the- resistance that the
Washington government may not be unwilling to
grant honourable peace to those who Inn fought
and felled with honour. Even a hopeless contest kept up
by guerilla bands without r,ity of purpoee, or any object
tut revenge, may form the North to ma'nten vest armies
throughout the expanse of the Southern States for many
years to come. Such • was:are must be deplored by every
humane man. Everyone most hops that it the South
shall be no longer able to conned lk :a its adversary by
mans of regular armies in the field, it will accept the sr-
-116 %flint/4N VISIT TO OSBORNE.—(THrs DAY.)
bitrament of war, and retina even to • hated political con-
INDBOII, THIJIMDIT.—Thus afternoon shortly after 3
sexion rather than shed blood to no purpose. But it is
o'clock, her Majesty the Queen, moompasied by her Royal
impossible to say what desperate resolve may be taken by Highness maroon Helens. Louise, sod the other members
men under the influence of such threats as the North hen
of the royal family, and Weeded by the ladies end gentle-
continually uttered,
and of such laws IS
Congress hoe men of the **art, will leave Windsor Castle and proceed to
enacted. For this reason we hope that the leaders of the the Isle
of Wight.
Cmdmieratal may consent to bring the struggle to close The Duke of Sutherland left town last evening
if they really believe their military power at an end, and
for 1 orig. The duchess and family leave town at the clue
that the North may meet them as conquerors shou'd one
of the week.
an honourable foe,"
The Marchioness of Salisbury has issued invite-
The Morning Post, even whin assuming the worst for .
bons for an assembly on the 28th Lost., and another on the
Ousel Lee and his army, cannot admit that the task of
3rd the North has been achieved. "Mr. Seward already speaks of the ersaing month.
.
as if not ooly the war was at an end, but the reconstruction Lieutenant-Colonel and Mrs Herbert and family,
of the Union actually accomplished. Wipe out Mr. Davis, Mini Spud Hum" All, Mira Spud 11°°•gig All, and
together with big ministers end parliament, and Generals Mina Synd Maltommed Ali, sons of his Highness the Nawab
Lee and &nonagon], together with their armies, and there Nazim of Bengal, and suite, have arrived at the South
will still remain the Southern people. Grautiog that the Kusiogtoo Hotel, Queen'sgate-temos, South Kensington,
Confederacy has been overrun, dose it therefore follow that it from Cr•cutta.
has been subdued ? Surely the ill mew which has et. Sir Robert F. Turing, Bart., her Britannic Ma-
tended the efforts of the Federal government to utilise jesty's Consul at Rotterdam, and family, embarked yes-
the conquests it has hitherto made in the South might nada) morning at the St. Katherine's Wharf, on board the
have taught Mr. Seward to speak with lees confidence of Genus' Steam Navigation Compaay'e steamship Leo, for
the results of the recent operations in Virginia. Of what Rotterdam.
use is New Orleans, or Savannah, or Richmond to the go- Mr. Charles Lyster Ryan, private secretary to
vernment or people of the North ? The experience of the the Chancellor of the Exchequer, has, it is said, been just
Old World might teach the denizens of the New that appointed secretary of the Audit Board, in room of Chas.
though human creatures may, like cattle, be placed Zachary Macaulay, who has retired.
wader a yoke, they cannot be compelled, like A requisition is being got up at Chester to ask
the latter, to labour so as to benefit their Mr. Gladstone, jam, the son of the Chancellor of the Ex-
employee. Allowing that the Confederates would be cheque, to succeed Mr, Boinfonton„
unable say longer to maintain • regular war against the At a large meeting of the governors of St.
North, to what extant is the latter • gainer by that remit ?
Is the Confederacy to be a second Poland? Do the people Thoures's Hospital held yesterday, Mr. Samuel Sully,
F.A.S., of Saville-row, was re-elected senior surgeon to the
of the Nor.hern States really believe that their quondam hospital.
fellow-citizens in the South can in an instant forget the The gentlemen cadets of the Royal Military
event" of the put foes years, and extend their hands in
Academy, Woolwich, returned on Tuesday evening, sod re-
amity over the still gluing embers of their homes and the
commenced their usual course of studies yesterday morning,
still warm corpses of their fathers, their brothers, their
soar,
. some three or four, whose.riesds
and their friends? The eisil war,assuming even that
with the exception of
reside at • distance, and whose period of stews has been
the anticipations of the North as to the fate of the Confide-
exteeded in ornmequeoce to Saturday next.
rate government and armies will be realised, is simply en- .
The friends of the Permissive Bill movement
teeing on another phase."
bad • banquet at Manchester last evesiog. Upwards of 700
The Herald and the Standard have last but little of their Sir Walter Trevelyan presided,
confidence. The Herald says that if at last Richmond has
randlitehmeenmwen
eetingp was ment.addi...-.4 by Mr. Wilfred Law '
been given up, it has not bean conquered. The camp of its
hLP , Sir Robert Briscoe Mr. Joseph Thorpe, Rev. W. M.
defenders has only been transplanted to a more propitious •
Molesworth, Mr. S. Pope, Bev. Professor Kirk, the Mayor
moll. "Sapposiog that the Confederates have still an army of Wakefield. Dr. Loos. sm.
is the geld, and in the reported nulls of the late
Mr. Goodwin, the only lay writer in the cele-
battles there is nothing to convince us to the
=Miry, there are still • hundred plum in the bested " Essays end Reviews," and formerly editor of the
South where that army can maintain itself with ample Likrore Gazette and Parthenon, is married, and has left
mesas of provision, and present • good front to its as. Rue" for Shanghai, where he has just obtained • legal
gallant& We still believe—farther sews will soon inform appointment under government.—Guardian.
us whether weans correct or net—that the bulk of the army Mr. Charles Kean was to commence his engage.
of Lee has effected its retreat from Richmond in good order, meet at the Broadway Theatre, New York, on the 17th
with • Ices which, under the circumstances of the three iost., and was to appear as Cardinal Webs), in King Henry
days' desperate fighting on the Appomattox, cannot be VIII.
considered heavy. It the Federal' follow him into the in. The tide of emigration continues to flow from
tenor they will do so under the greatest disadvantages. They Ireland with fully as much briefness as in any of the three
will leave behind them their water base and their railroad last masons. No train, writes a correspondent of the Dublin
lines, they will have to drag their gees and baggage-waggons Express, arrives from the Meath districts that does not
to and fro in the mountainous region of Cenral Virginia. convey from a dozen to thirty emigrants, mete and female,
Whether Lynchburg or • more distant tows be the position nor does there sail • steamer from Drogheda for Liverpool
next chosen by Lee, the Federal. will have to approach without fifty passengers at least, bound for either Queens-
' fortifications of a formidable kind avid at a great distance land or the States, and who belong to the counties of Meath,
from their natural base of operations." Westmeath, or Cavan.
The Standard " fully believes " that the army of Gene. A few days since a number of oxen were landed
sal Lee will be saved. " The evacuation of the lines at Southampton from Portugal. They did not meet with
hitherto occupied was no sudden and unforeseen movement, • ready sale, owing to the high price put upon them.
bred of alarm and hurried on by disaster. It had been de- Sellers abroad are now intimately acquainted with the
termined on long before ;it had been carefully prepared English markets by means of the electric telegraph. A
and gradually executed, as is proved by the removal not number of oxen are landed every week at Southampton
only of the army, artillery, and baggage, but of the govern. from France. The price of meat, however, 'till keeps up,
meut, its archives, an immense mass of stores and materials, partly owing to the scarcity of beasts through neat of
and • large proportion of the people. The two cities were food lest winter, and partly from the cheapness of Wend,
not stormed ; theysurrendered,aed when the enemy marched by which poor people are enabled to buy a little betehen
in they found that the defenders were gone. . . We do meat, and which increases the demand for it.
not believe that the army of Virginia has ceased to I Thomas Lund, late secretary of the Blackburn
exist. If not, the Confederate cause is very far from Co-operative Cotton Spinning and Weaving Company, was
hopeless. With Johnston's army usbroken ; with Lee's committed for trial at Blackburn, yesterday, on several
still in good order, however diminished in somber' ; with charges of forgery and easheulement. Hie frauds upon the
considerable detached forces in the cotton states ; with company are mid to amount to from 2,0001. to 3,0004
negro troops in mum of tsaising, the Southern people) DEATH or Viscourr IJrrinorox.—The eldest
may, if after all their 'offering their hearts still hold, , son of the Earl sod Countess of Craven expired oa Toes-
maintain more than one campaign east of the Mississippi, day at his father's house in Charles-street, Berkaleyequans,
in which a single success would enable them at once to carry aThe.diectearisset nobleman,
was who
born ifnorlsome weeks
838, and capast has betssed the e:
the war into the enemy's country. Defeated, they may Regiment of Foot Guards (Grenadiers) Is 1858. The Hon.
cross the river, and, combining the remnant of the eastern George Grimston, of the Soots Fusilier Guards, is now heir
forms with that raider Kirby Smith, said to number nearly apparent to the earldom of Craven.