The Express.
London, England, 1851-04-21 00:00:00

send you the detnib as won as I can have them from
a comet wuzcv.
The Welland Canal is open, and American vessels
ps.. through as usual. It WUb telkirted it had been
shut to thvin.

BOSTON, Arum 4.

You will observe in the Boston papers of to-day an
set oun: of the arrest of another fugitive slave, his
examination this forenoon, and his being remanded
over till toonorrow, to give his counsel time for eosi-
n:talon, and to prepare for his d. fence.
Shortly after the arrest of this negro last night
there was an alarm of the, and the watchmen, as
uoial, tolled the various church hells. &e. While in
the performance of this duty one of them was at-
tacked by Mr. Fletcher Vs elroter, it is presumed
under the idea that the watchman was ringing an
alarm for the rescue of the poor negro, which re-
tu!ted in the watchman's being knocked down, and
the arrest and commitment of Mr. Webster to smol,
where he was kept till this morning, when he was
brought bel'ore the police-court, and gave bail
for -his appearance on a future due. Mr.
Fletcher ‘‘ chster is the only son a Daniel
Webster, the secretary of state, and besides
being a member of the bur. is Surveyor of the
Port, a hurative office in connexion with the Cus-
tom-house. The pipers say he was drunk when the
tumuli was committed.

You will likewise find a report of an address by
Mr. Rantoul last evening at Lynn. in this neighbour-
hood, in which he takes high &maimd against the
fugitive slave law. Mr. Itantoul is a man of high
standing in the democratic ranks, and was Attorney-
General for this district under Mr. Pull-'s adminis-
tration.
A meeting of citizens is ailled for this afternoon
in trout of the State House, to take into considera-
tion what ought to he dune in relation to the negro
unikr arrest. They are requested to assemble "with-
out aims:. The military are ordered to be in readi-
ness this escning in ease of any attempt at rescue.

FATHER OAVAZZFS SIXTEENTH ORA 110 N,
YESTERDAY, LN THE PRINCEas s CON-
CERT HALL

" EASTER THOUGHTS."
The great Christian solemnity found an able and
effective exponent of its consolatory reminiscences,
and we question whether from any of our metropoli-
tan pulpits were put forth more forcible appeals to
the deep einivictions and warm feelings of a sympa-
thising auditory. All the time-hallowed and myste-
Thais assueiuti )))) s commits' with the great festival of ,
the lielirtw Passover were conjured up to illustrate'
our hopes of deliverance from every' degrading yoke
of moral us well us social mid political oppression.
From the rescue °fan enslaved andsuffering tnla: out of
the thraldom of the Pharaohs to the bright enjoyment
of independent nationality he derived encouraging
inferences of Providential interposition on behalf of
similar victims to alien cruelty and bondage, in every
utter age ; dwelling with suggestive emphasis on the
denewrativ diameter of the Mosaic liberator, his
hauglity worn and defiance of the Egyptian court,
and his assertion of Isriers right to tin• long arrears
of retribution for accumulated wrongs. When the
liabyl 111 l ion captivity lid in chains the chosen peo-
ple, a people meant us a type and nmdel tier every
roweetsling rave of nutitkinel placed in analogous cir-
cumstance* of coutpuisory serfdom, he pointed out
the uneompromising anti stubborn nationality of
Daniel, its well as the pious piitriotisin of Estrus ; and
when Ant iiichas tyrannewil over the land,
he traced out with fi:rvid and vigorous elo-
cution the struggles and self-sacrificing devo-
tion of the spirited and illustrious Muctabees.
Coming down to the advent of the universal Re-
deemer, whose hficssed presence on this earth was a
divine effort to raise the fallen, to comfort the
afflicted. to redress the grievances of gemming and
grovelling humanity, he showed how antagonistic
were all the precepts of his divine teaching to the
vicious and vile pretensions of worldly and profane
misrule; bite fearfully he denounced the violation
of the poor HUM. and the weak man's claim to full
brotherhood with the rich and the strong; how he
went so far as to identify himself in no especial
declaration with the lowly and the outcast, making
personal to himself the outrages of pampered pride,
perpetrated against the least of his representatives.
The great and salutary remembrances of his suffer-
ings and death at the hands and at the instigation of
the constituted authorities, urged on to the deieidal
deed by a corrupt, a pompous, and overbearing
prirs.thinsil, were (Invalid with wholesome truths
right upplieatile to emitemporary occurrences, and
calculated to impress kindred (Minders (if nut callous
to all but tangible and temporal influences) with the
dismal consciousness of their flagrant hostility to the
gospel ; while the victims of their disregard for that
Christianity sun which they thrives! and trafficked
found mime and soothing sticeintr in the tae-
nom Ws this awful anniversary firings round.
The sp aker proceeded to demonstrate the importance
of Christ*. nsuirreetion am the groundwork of our
belii 1. and us the must astounding of all the miracles
attendant at the inals-god's career on the earth he
et 111“. to regent:nit.: and reform. The evidences of
the fact itself wen: sifted and set forth with power-
ful cites-Land the various cavils of the Sadducte, of
the sceptic, and the rationalist. grappled with and
discontlitisL This portion of the discourse, how-
ever terse and to the PuT'' was not perhapa dis-
tinguishable from the sup argument held through-
out the thousand pulpits of London during the day,
but the I n shay and promptitude of his reference* to
scriptural propiney, as well as scientific illustration
and philosophic itulueti ~,, . gave testimony to the
amount of studious inquiry he had brought to bear
on the subj. et. He established the connexion be-
(retell that great doctrinal truth and our own hopes
of it glorious uprising in the immortality of body and
soul, which was the ennobling aspiration as well as
the cornetive and stimulating belief, the safegnatd
as well us comfort of humanity. It taught lessons of
endurance, to the downtrudden, commended a hem
virily antidote to the lip's of despair, infused a balm'
into tlw cup of sorrow. whik, it mingled a wholes'
sonic wormwood in the draught of the thoughtless
and hearties* voluptuary.
Thole wAS abundant w arrant in the vision of Ezekiel to
extonil the prom's-els of resurreetion, and from the 1:11Cre in-
die idual contemplation of the just man's palingeuesis to
OM. It a atimparotaggrepte and national resuscitation. A field
covered with dry Wills.. where the vulture and the obscene
'anion dog had d ' thi it work, was spread out before the
gaze ut the prophet; when, with rustling and rattling
sound, at the suite ut Omnipotence, the oseuary expanse
became animate with motion, muscles and integuments
were resumed, and a mighty array of reconstructed
manhood stood erect at the bidding of the Must High.
a consummation it required not the gill of prophecy
to anticipate, in the deigns of a just Providence, fur our
lung-sufferiag country. The cry of centuries has reached
the ear of mercy, and the hour of redress and revival is ut
hand. The fragmentary. articulations and disjected mem-
bers of Italian nationality have shown an unmistakeable
tendency w coslesce and combine into a living body, and
rtvatne once inure an attitude of vigorous vitality. A lie ing
Italy burst of late on the siew ui startled Europe', auif,
however briet the apparition,:it sufficed to belie the Saddu-
man theory of a non-existent tile beyond the political grave.
it is true that by the combined agency of foreign potentates
and a wilier priesthood, the sell-same hideous instrumen-
tality by which the divine Redeemer was put to death, our
nationhood ILLS beta forcibly immolated and reconsigned
to a temporary tomb: hut we scout the silly and fastidious
imputation ui profanity, when we profess our sure and
certain hope 114 well as fond reliance on the justice of
heaven, our sticulfast belief in the ultimate renewal of that
vitality. Was the innocence of the Just One or his life-
long carver of benefkamee any bar to his death as a crimi-
nal ? None. Then let not Italy murmur at such requital
fur the lesson* of civilisation. A Pope and his cardinals
could not be expected to wet otherwise than the high priest
and tine Sanednin. nor the Jesuits than their predecessors
the Pharisees. A leading agent in the dread business of
Calvary was Pilate, the nrocousul. Tradition had handed
down his origin : he was a Frenchman. (Shouts of adhe-
sion.) They show en the bunks of the Rhone the
place' of his birth dud of his retributive suicide,
ou returning to the fitting land of his nativity.
A book published years ago in Hoar, from the pen of a Do-
minican friar, labours to prove the cohort of soldiers which
did duty on that occasion to have consisted of recruits front
UAW, and that the crowing of the rink merely indicated
the sound of the Oallic trumpet. (Cheers.) To conciliate ;
the emperor was Pilate's apology for this official murder—
to propitiate, the Czar was u sufficient incentive for the pre-
indent of republican France. (Cheers.) Was there no
/modern impersonation of Herod the Tetrarch, an in-
tro ive potentate, claiming kingly authority within
the very precincts of Judasa, with his hands deeply
imbrued in the blood of her children ? Is not the usurper
of Lombardy that man? (Cheers.) And need we indicate
the Vatican as the locality of Caiphro, or identify as the de-
liberate betrayer of Italy the Iscariot Neapolitan. (Pro-
longed cheers.) Foul confederacy of ignoble plotters, look
well to your handiwork! strengthen your army of occupa-
tion! double the guard ut the Sepulchre! A year is but a
day in the history of nations 1549 was that of Italy's im-
molation. She may yet sleep in
earlshe tomb over which you
keep sentinel—but the third y advancing, the merit-
able 111d2. (Continued cheers.)