The Express.
London, England, 1865-03-14 00:00:00

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Irmo IDEIrciIIYSIS lr
LAW MORT% DiairE. •
Irma the Tates.)
Whether however, the Americana be peraselb le
or warlike, Whether they laved* Canada or refrain from [e-
vading it, the duty of this country is plain. As long as the
North Amelicea eolosies remain atiethed to the British
empire, it le lasambess ea as to furnish them with efficient
help la the best yammer we ma. Whether this help can
be best gives by resew of fleets, or by rade. fortifications.
or by Nadia( out troops, to • military rather Uwe a politi-
cal gemlike. Kr. Lows thislu the withdrawal of the
British reglemste would be the palest policy. Lord fel.
monks, speak* for the government, is of a different
opiates, sad thieks that this country an maintain as
effectual defamed the provinces by mesas of such f
estices as have bees rermesetesded sad seek troops se we
are able to mad oat. AU parties, indeed, will agree that
we soma either sever the connexion between the American
colonies sad the crows, or be ready to boar In some way our
part in defend* the liberties of oar fellow-sableds. Ac-
cording to our pewee we most take ewe that they
are sever subjected •by force to a foreign yoke.
It is sameied by the friends of the Americas* that
they hive no leleatiou of oommittiag snob an outrage. We
trust that they will look spas the deed with the IMO
horror as their advocates, and, eves with half • million of
men in arms, bear la mind that their neighbours have a
nationality sad rights of self-govseurnest like their own.
In that ogee there is ao fear of the peace being broken.
Neither le Oaaada sot in England is there a " War Party."
Not eves la the darkest hour of Federal distress was there
ever a voice beard is this country In favour of an aimed
interference against the North. The future rests not with
us, bat with the Americans, and these who serve us of
their modisratioa and pareefulame will de well to lamb:ale
swag their clients the gentle qualities they claim for them.

(Frees the Morning Peet.)
It Is sralstectory to learn, on the authority of the Colo.
trial Secretary, that with the oeoperatlea of the Canadian
people, the requisite defensive works my be reined at •
r,et which the English mike will not essider women-
able. Whether the Macleana intend invading Canada or
set, we have resolved on not leaving such town as Quote o
and Montreal be • tooditiou which—reprdbeiug lad to the
remit Mugu is the Mum of warfare—would properly
be regarded as absolutely defenceless. It is estimated that
the cost of fortifying Quebec will be 200,0001., of which
sum it is proposed to oak for 50,0001. in the current
year. The objection takes tow small a vote—on the
ground that the danger which threateas Ossetia is Jam'.
neat—were conclusively answered by Kr. Cardwell. It
would be impossible, he told the bottle, to upend more
than that um daring the nut twelve maths ; but in the
semeedisi year a vomiter the balms* would be taken, and
the weeks world most probably be completed within twos
years hem the Sim of their commencement. The question
of defeedieg Canada is, however, tube voluted out, not one
fee the mother toiletry alom. We may be under obligations
to stead by Chas& ia the hour of duster, but the Cenedlems
are equally miler obilgaticsee to defend *maim&
And it is but just to my that the Oolonil Le
tore do sot attempt to ignore ors shirk this &Mem bay.
They have undertakes to provide for the fortfficiatioa of
liKeerireal aed for the erection of any works which may be
bond suessary to the westward of that town. Aralyw
pesparations are also being made for putting the militia fa
1101111 a dale of of as to enable the • gotrensmel
to have at their commend in the event of Is
'mho • sumo= sad well-appointed army. la •
I word, Great Britain bee resolved on oratiming to
make the muse of Canada her own, and is detoxifies!,
so long es the coloey acknowledges her supremacy, to
regard the ramie. of its territory as an act of war
atgasel
herself. This, then, being the declared policy
British government. mottling remains but to comma end
posh forward towel& completion with all nsomary speed
those works which, is the opinion of competent engineers,
are eamidered aseemary for the defence of the Canadian
frostier. Noldraeg, as Mr. Se) .nottr Fitzgerald justly ob-
mud, would be more likely to provoke • war then a
coafeesicrn ea gm part that we were unprepared for lt, sad
we may therefore regard the zuseures which we now
pupas to adopt u the best guarantees for the mum.
tiea of pesos.
(From the Morning Herald.)
It is hardly to be disguised that the danger of a ocilliaion
with the Federal Metes la grouts' daily. The extreditioe,
or betrayal, of the brave Confederate °Moen, who, in carry-
ing on she war la the American lakes were carrying out at I
greet peril to themselves the order, of their goveromeet, is
likely now& to be followed by a tragedy which will mite
in this emery • feeling of the deepest tatiimation
act anzateglied with remotes. The tidings of the Judi-
cial murder of the brave Captain Beale, reported by
the last mil, have been listened to with horror
sash sa that whisk our forefathers felt whoa they
Mud of the imeration of Andre, this one black spot
me the stainless eoutehem of Wuldsgtou. Burley sad
Be nett, given up by the Canadians to the tender mercies
of the Fedoras, are &raised, we fear, to meet WWI the
fate of the hapless Virginian who went to hie death with
so undaunted a mein. Their death, if they die, will ring
through England and America like a clarion sounding to
arms—a cry tor vengeance to wipe out a burning shame.
These nun have been seized by oar colonists, and deli-
vered up by them into the hands of thee:outlaws.. If mercy
is them, it will be well ; but if net, there will be
a new cause of hostility between us and the Americans—a
spark which, fanned by the breath of popular indignation,
may develop into a lame of war which years will not
extinguish.

14-40145%
4, 1865.

tlectioo, which is aubstantially the came II that
which occurred to me when I manned the Marquis .
de &Amy last week ;
How unintelligent h the law which mopes the journals
to publish the reports of the legislative debates textually.
Every newspaper was compelled to reprodnee in ammo
this incoherent din:came to which a reporter free tb exit.
eles his own judgment would only bare devoted a few Ulm
What an the Senate gain by thus propagating the lfarsrde
d• Boiesy's lucubration.? sod what must the country Walt
wawa such speeches Gil the raps&
The Bourne was almost deserted in °owe:piano°
of the funeral of the Doke de Morny ; there is no
change worth mentioning in quotations.

NEGRO SOLDIERS.

LETTER OF GENERAL LEE.
The Richmoni &Mind, of the 23rd ult., con-
tents the following letter from the Confederate
Commander-in-Chief, embodying his views on the
question of negro soldiers :
Readout'', 0. B. Armies, Feb. 18..11865.
Hoe. E. Barksdale, Haase of Bspeeeette*kus, Rimond.
Sir —I have the honour to soksowledge the receipt of
your letter, of the 12th inst., with abeam to the
employment of &grow as soldiers. I think the mutenwe
sot only expedient but osseeetry. The enemy will
certainly ups them spinet ne if he ma gat pominsion
of them, end ea his present immerleal supeeiseity will
amble him to penetrate ,many parts of the orentry, I
cannot fees the wisdom of the play el had* them
to await hie arrival, when we may by timely nation and
judicious management um them to wrist hie proper. I
do act think that our whits population con supply the se-
amities of a long war without overtaidag its asperity and
imposing peat sahnieg upon oar peeele, and I beams we
should provide resources far n protreated Meggle, not
merely for • battle or • campaign. .
In answer to your mimed wean, I me only say tket,
is my opinion, the segmea, under proper eirmunstanoss,
will make efficient madam I we weld, at lee*, do
as well with them es the enemy, and he stieches peat- im-
portance to their ambiance. Usder good oaten and good
instructiou 1 do not see why they discoid sot become 'oldies*.
They power all the physleal qualduations, and their
habits of obedience constitute a good foundation for disci-
pile.. They furnish a more promising material than many
armies of which we read is history, shah owed their
alloismay to discipline alone. I think these who are em-
ployed should be freed. It would be neither jtret *or wise
in my glean, to require than to save as slaves. The
test course to pursais, it seems in ma, would be be all far
such as are willing to come with the oatmeal of their
owners. An impaserneot or draft would not be Hedy
to bring oat the beet clime, and the nee of concise would
make the measure dietasteful to this sad to their owners.
I have no doubt that if Grogram would authorise their
esoeption into service, sod empower the president
to call upon individual' or states for aches they are willing
he sentribote, with the oondition of eumeripation to all
mulled, a sufficient number would be forthcoming to
Seale us to try the experiment. If it prove soreendo%
moll al the obJeoldros to the measure would disappear, end
individuals Mill remained =villa( to egad their notroes
to the army, the faros of public opinion ie the Motes would
soon bring about such legislation as would remove all *h-
amlet. I think the matter should be left as fares possible
toNhe people and to the states, which slam can legislate
as the noceselties of this parambr service may minim
A. to the mode of agonising them, it should be left se
free from restraint as possible. Experience will suggest
the best aurae, end, it would be inexpedient to trammel
the mihiset with provides, that malt, is the end, pre-
vent the ideates of reforms suggested by actual trial.—
With great respect, your obedient esrmat,
R. E. Lzs. Chain%

CONVENT SCHOOLS IN NAPLES.
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The subjoined iiifrom • Naples letter, quoted by
Gefignara, daMd the 7th:
" The whole city is excited by an looklent, which.
althea& it her its per dia elsewhere, is the bet of the
kind hem. A few days beak four young aged about
13 or 14 Teem, sad ass of 20, who attended the wheel of
the dieters of Charity, instead of return* home. each
mat • similar latter to her family, Meting that,
Mildred suddealy by (paw, she had resolved le
go and Is,. in • distant duet where to find her
would be impomilie, and that oenesqueetly to ems*
far them would be legless. The paresis, litele nattered
by the divine favour of whisk they wen the object. imme-
diately applied to the police to lad a remedy for this
abduction. The first efforts made were without result.
The nuns on being laterrepted declared their ignoraeos
ea the matter, sad proof reeks, • mak of the
Order of the Virgested that he tom swain
about it. However, when the director of the
polka informed him that the affair might lead
to comequescas mach more gerioes thee the goad father
imagined, the latter allowed to escape lie lips the wont
Vistri, which is the same of • illestat at • short diseases
from Salerno, and where the eiders have soother ceavest.
A search was made there, sad the young girls were disco
sees
vered, ensiling sosmeeio• of being met
where. The following day they were brought
back by the supetior. Os being iatarepted
iep aratelv they each declared that after reedits(
the life of St. Genevieve they had been toughed by
grace, and resolved to go mid lire palimony in muss desire
far from the world. The Manest has but little wed of
oommeatary. Is the 11l plies, who meld have seat the
girls away from Naples? Who premed Wages 'amigos
aal I Who paid their Marsilius apogees? It is
des proved that a Sider of Charity itecempialed them
on their Mussy."

WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.

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