The Express.
London, England, 1853-12-12 00:00:00

! It proceeds to insinuate aspersions against the Tar-
j Irish, and laudation of the Russian Government, with
' a view to prepossess its readers ageing the former, i
and in tevour of the latter. It boldly asserts, that
the policy of the Divan is not so much to
Itermicate tile war, as to involve France ar.d
England in it ;" and indirectly caution, the Western
Governments to beware of boin.; led astray from
the policy of supporting the rights of Turkey for'
the sake of great European interests," into that of
eacrific:ng great European interests merely for the
sake of Turkish pretensions." Again, the Tinto
asserts that, "at Constantinople the motives of
European policy are confused, remote, and almost
unintelligible to Turks defending their own exist-
ence; at St. Petersburg the influence of European
policy and connexions is the main instrument to
send the Emperor NICHOLAS to conciliation and to
peace." The audacious falsity of these averments
and insinuations is such that they could not have
been hazarded by any journal but the one already
sufficiently lust to shame to broach the idea of
leaving Russia in possession of its usurpations in
Wallachia and Moldavia, and " making believe" to
compensate Turkey by some sterile mountain
lands near the Caspian. The CZAR has committed a
burglary, and the 'limes would have us leave him in
the quiet possession of his spoil. The Porte has played
no insidious game to involve France and England is
war to support its " pretensions ;" on the contrary,
the Porte has with unprecedented forbearance and
equity asked no more from first to last than that an
unprovoked seizure of its territory should be relin-
quished, and its rights of independent sovereignty
respected. Again, as to the comparative powers of
understanding and appreciating the policy of free
and civilised nations evinced by the Porte and the
Russian Government, there is not a step that has been
tai ce by the former—not a word it has pttered—
that has not been in conformity with the strictest
rules of international law : while there is scarcely
one principle of international law that has not been
outraged and set at defiance by the latter.
These considerations ought to have their weight
with the Governments of France and England.
Russia, it is obvious, is too well aware of its comps-
, naive poverty and want of disciplined effectise
troops to rely upon armed force for the maintenance
of its usurpation on the Danube. It trusts to a
system of mendacity and obstinate shuffling,
' which it knows civilised Governments could not
condescend to adopt, and therefore are slow
o suspect in others. Every moment lost
j in negotiation is favourable to the success of the
f, :onion.% shuffling policy of Russia. France and
England, when they allow themselves to be again
r and again seduced by Russia's jackal, Austria, into
• vain and elusory negotiations, are prolonging the
• term during which Russia hopes to Cossack-ise Mel-
• davia and Wallachia, and establish a shadowy plea of
I prescriptive right to retain them; or, if driven out
• this time. to organise a permanent Russian party there
that may seek to regain office, by inviting the C/AR to
' adze the sovereignty of the Provinces on some fu-
ture occasion, when fewer obstacles present them-
: selves to the realisation of his ambitious wishes. The
Gordian knot of Russian and Austrian diplomatic
intrigue must be cut ; it is sheer waste of time to
dream of undoing it by less summary means. It is
clear the SULTAN ought not, and cannot, negotiate
without a previous evacuation of the Principalities.
When the hand of a burglar is on the throat of his
prey, nobody talks about what is to be done for the
restoration of order till the felonious grip is rem oved
So in this case. If Austria and Prussia are honest
in their desire for peace, let them join England and
France in saying bluntly to the CZAR, " You must
go back to your own soil, as the first step
towards a settlement." Once put the Cossacks be-
yuLd the Proth, and the settlement of peace will be
simple enough. The Turks want nothing but justice
and their own—they cannot, and will not, be con-
' tented with less One line in tho letter of our Con-
staatinople correspondent (published in another
column) shows the temper in which the subjects of
Afintl.-Mr.artn are prepared to deal with the invader
of their soil. Thirty thousand redifs were required
from the district of Adrianople, and seventy thou-
sand were on their way to join the army. When a
people display a patriotism of this sort, the secret
cajolery of the diplomatists will not altogether have
its own way. The Sufras must have justice.

Tilt Charter House Estates, or a part of them, are
the identical lands with which Sir WALTER MANNY,
the preuz chevalier of the reign of EDWARD 111., en-
dowed a community of Carthusian monks, followers
of ST. Bat so, who established that remarkable insti-
tution of self-torture, known by the name of the Grand
Charlreux. At the dissolution of the monasteries,
the monks lost their money and the various prin-
kr, of flogging themselves, starving themselves,
ail °tinr congenial occupations. Their place
is at the present day occupied in part by
a kin! of lay I'rotestant monks, who, aged
men as they are, have some seventies exercised
upon them in the shape of short stipends, denial of
the so:ace of female society, and other vexa-
tions, which, although they do not put them on
the cam: rank of vo'matary ascetism as the monks of
St. Bruno attained, are still sufficient to excite sym-
pathy. Wee all come to this, however, presently.
Ia process of time—as we have before had occasion
to reper.—this estate fell into the hands of Titomas
SUTTON, who, by various successes in war, bargain-
ing and marriage, accumulated one of the largest
fortunes enjoyed by any private individual of the
reivi of 1131E3 I. That canny Monarch was so struck
with the colossal proportions of the lucky adven-
turer's wealth that he caused propositions to be
made to SUTTON, the gist of which was to entice the
latter by the promise of a Peerage to make CHARLES
1., then Doke of York, his heir. Surto", knew
better what to do with his money. He had already
carArred many benefits on his country, one of
which may be mentioned as peculiar. At the time
of the projected invasion of England by the Spanish
Armada, he had drained the Bank of Genoa of its
money, and thus by diverting to another purpose the
fonds with which PHILIP intended to equip the fleet,
he succeeded in delaying the invasion for a whole
i veer.

There is no intention here, however, of writing
the history of THOMAS Surrote, still less of the
Charter House, which, as it stands, is a wonderful
monument of his liberality. He founded this institu-
tion. and endowed it with such magnificence that
Stowe speaks of it as the greatest gift in England,
either in Protestant or Catholic times, ever
bestowed by any individual until we come
down to that of Guy's Hospital. All that we have to
do with at present is the strange contrast one portion
of the Hospital presents to that which might have
been expected if the views of the founder had
bees carried out. MAITIAND, writing nearly a
hundred years ago, complained that, although the
revenue then amounted to 11,0001. per annum, yet he
could not :earn that any other addition was made to
the number of peracm% on the foundation than ten
hove to the number of saholitra in the house, and
five to that of the students at the Uni-
vt he vs, " mak( .3 the firmer
0r..; -tom. and the hitter twenty -aioe, which,
together with eighty old pensionerd, makes the
total clamber of membm 143, besides the servants
of t'vi aouse."

tacrue of the Charter House has now increased: