The Express.
London, England, 1862-08-19 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 19.

Foa some months past the heaviest accusa-
tions have been brought against the people and
government of the Northern States for their
obstinacy in adhering to their own Niews and con-
victions of the war, in opposition, as it was re-
peatedly affirmed, not only to the opinion of this
country, but of all Europe. The refractory go-
vernment and people were urged and implored by
every variety of warning, entreaty, and per-
suasive argument to abandon their fixed idea
of defending the Enion and, listen to the prudent
and peaceable counsellors who insisted on separa-
tion. Their obduracy in refusing to listen to this
advice has called forth no small amount of noisy
lamentation and indignant reproof. A contempo-
rary who, in the interest of the South, has consti-
tuted itself the candid friend of the North, has
taken the lead in deploring and denouncing
this fatal obstinacy. Its frequent homilies on
this fruitful theme have been very varied both
in form and substance. The obdurate Americans
were at one time entreated with the unction of
sudden friendship, and by every motive of
humanity, to hear the voice of reason crying aloud
in our contemporary's open columns. At other
times they were threatened with every national
evil—the loss, to a ruinous extent, of men
and means, of wealth and territory, reputation
and position, if they still refused to be moved and
influenced by European advice. Yet all was of
no avail. The Americans, intent on the one
object before them, have pursued their course
heedless alike of warnings and entreaties. They
have persisted in taking their own view of their
own affairs, and, so far as they are concerned,
our contemporary and his allies are no better than a
voice crying in the wilderness. This was no doubt
hard to bear, especially to a disinterested patron
and critic, conscious of the best intentions, and
our contemporary was driven at length to the use
of rather strong language. The Northern govern-
ment and people were stigmatised as " besotted"
and "insensate," as " drunk with pride" and "mad
" with passion." This bitter experience was not,
however, without its uses. Our contemporary
did not fail, of course, to point the moral sug-
gested by such a mournful and instructive spec-
tacle. While the Americans were denounced in
unmeasured terms, readers on this side of the
Atlantic were bidden to mark that this brutal in-
difference to the opinions and advice of others was
the natural result of democratic institutions.

This was all very well as long as it lasted. But
those who confide in a capricious oracle must be
prepared to abandon their opinions at a moment's
notice. No sooner is this solemn lesson about the
peculiar evils of democracy well-impressed on his
mind, than the admiring reader finds it rudely
scattered to the winds by the same authority.
The very journal that for months past has
alarmed the Americans with every variety of
epithet for not showing more deference to the
views and convictions about the war prevalent in
Europe, ventured yesterday morning coolly to
assert that the Civil War had thrown an entirely
new light on this aspect of the Americans,
as instead of the self-reliance that formerly
distinguished them, we now see " such an abso-
" lute and, apparently, involuntary dependence on
" foreign opinion as was never witnessed before."
The vaunted mountebank's feat of jumping down
his own throat was surely never performed in a
more daring and successful manner. In any
journal whose responsible identity survived the
day of its issue, such an act of self-repudia-
tion would be moral suicide. The exploit is
peculiar to our contemporary, audit exacts the same
kind of interest as those self-mutilations common
amongst certain lower forms of animal life, where
on the approach of danger or out of mere caprice
the supple and happily organized creature ampu-
tates its own members. The act, though daring,
has its risks, being of course, as far as it goes, self-
destruction. To attempt any serious reply to this
last accusation against the American people would
be the merest fighting with shadows, or slaying the
slain. It is on the face of it flagrantly absurd
and self-contradictory. All the world knows that
the one great fact of the Civil War is
the persistence of the Americans in their own course
in spite of all adverse opinions, and the latest
news from Washington shows that there is not the
least prospect of any change in this respect. But
this entire independence of foreign opinion is a
comparatively new fact in their history. The
statement that while formerly indifferent to Eu-
ropean opinion, the Americans are now its vic-
tims, is singularly inexact in both particulars.
Up to the breaking out of the war, the people of
the North were, unconsciously perhaps, but still
largely influenced by foreign, and especially by
English opinion. But the kind of criticism they
have recently met with has largely
weaned them from this dependence. The un-
generous and unworthy course pursued by one
contemporary has, amongst other influences, contri-
buted to this result. Nearly a year ago one of the
most influential and widely-circulated New York
journals said :—" The strange want of judgment
"manifested by the Tinvs and other English journals
" on American affairs bids fair to for ever release
" our people from the half-colonial dependence on
" English public opinion which has characterized
" it in times past." We are not in the least sur-
prised at this result. No intelligent or reflective
American could read without a touch of scorn the
opinions which such journals as our contemporary,

and such orators as Mr. Anuurcx, set *fib'
as peculiarly English. These !lois', *cies
that claim to speak on behalf of their country-
men, delight to represent England as a
craven and selfish power, yielding to the unjust
demands of the strong through fear, insulting the
weak because she thinks it may be done with im-
punity, and exulting over the calamities of her
neighbours because she hopes they may turn to
her own advantage.
The Americans have not, however, fallen into the
mistake of confounding these unworthy ebullitions
of sectional interests or class prejudices with the
opinions of the English people at large. They have
done ample justice to the friendly spirit displayed
towards them by impartial sections of the commu-
nity on this side of the Atlantic, as well as to the
noble instinct which has led our working classes
to suffer the most terrible privations without
a murmur against the struggle that has for
the time deprived them of bread. While
recognising those deeper facts of our national life,
they have, however, ceased to pay any practical
regard to the loud-mouthed traducers of English
sentiment, or, indeed, to depend in any degree
on European opinion.

Or Qloufl.

BALMORAL, Aoauirr 17.

Mr. Theed has arrived at the Castle with the mat
of his statue of the Prince Oman* in the Highland dress,
which her Majesty has desired to be placed at the foot of she
staircase where the marble one is ultimately to be placed.

The Duke of Newcastle has left his seat, Cluanter Park,
Not* for Balmoral.
Despatched were received yesterday at the Colonial-office
from the Governors of the North American Provinces,
Vancouver's Island, British Columbia, and the Bahama'.
Despatches were sent to the Governor el Malta.

We are authorised to state that the Prince of
Wales has addressed a letter to the Earl of Derby,
as chairman of the committee appointed to advise
her Majesty in reference to the Prince Consort
Memorial, expressing the great pleasure with which
his royal highness had read the recommendations
contained in the report of the committee ; and in-
timating his intention of subscribing, at the proper
time, the sum of 2,0001. towards the erection of the
central hall suggested as one portion of the general
plan.
A correspondent of the Nord, writing on the 13th
inst. from St. Petersburg, says :—" Prince Alfred will stay
but a short time in Royals. It is said that he will embark
on board his vessel in the course of the current week. He
arrived on Friday night at Croostadt, and having at once
taken the imperial steamer Alexandria, he proceeded to
Oranienbaum, accompanied by Rear• Admiral Greigh,of the
suite of his Majesty, who was attached to the person of his
royal highness to pay him the honours of the capital.
A three-honed caleche, with yamschtchick bells, and
all the attributes of a dashing Russian 'drag,' attended
the prince at Oranienb►um, and =ducted him to Strelna,
along the line of magnificent imperial residences which suc-
ceed each other without interruption the whole distance,
at least 15 vents. At Streina his royal highness again took
a steamer, which conveyed him straight to St. Petersburg,
where he stayed at the hotel of the English embassy. The
next day but one after, namely, that of their majesties' ar-
rival, the prince was seen at Peterhoff riding in a char-a-
bane with the Emperor, the Empress, sod their eldest daugh-
ter, the Princess Mary. The royal traveller wore the aim-
* jacket of a midshipman. He has left this morning for
Moscow, where he will remain but a single day. He will
then return direct to Cronstadt."

Intelligence from Berlin of the 16th instant says :
—" The presidents of both chambers, accompanied by
deputations of the members, had an audience of the King
and the Crown Prince this morning, to present their con-
gratulations on the happy accouchemeot of the Crown
Princess. The King heartily thanked the deputations for
the sentiments expressed in their addresses, and requested
the presidents to return his thanks to the chambers. The
members of the deputations were then presented to his
Majesty. At the interview with the Crown Prince similar
courtesies were exchanged."

Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess
de Brabant and the Count di Flandre, attended by Count
Moerkerke sad suite, left Londoa•bridge station by the
8.35 p.m. Continental mail train last evening for Dover, en
route to Brussels. Their royal bight.esses would, on arrival
at Dover, embark on board one of the Belgian government
mail packets, which was specially ordered for the service,
for Ostend.

The National Zeitang states that the greater por-
tion of the hotel " Znm Mohren," at Coburg, has Leen
espied for four weeks from the commencement of

September for the

of Earl Russell and suite

dating Queen Victoria's residence at Iteinhardsbrunn.

On Saturday (say. the Dub/in &ruing Mail) the
Earl and Countess Russell, accompanied by the younger
members of the family, paid a visit to the Devil's Glen.
Earl Russell remarked on the exceeding beauty of the
richly-wooded glen, and declared his enjoyment of the
occasion. He drank a bumper of champagne to the pros-
perity of Ireland. The health of the noble earl is much
improved by his sojourn at Bray.

To-day Lord Palmerston will be presented by the
mayor and corporation of Dover with a portrait of his lord-
ship in hie capacity of Lord Warden of the Cinque Porte.
The ceremony will take place in tho fdaison Dieu Hall,
Dover.

Prince Nicholas Hohenlohe, of Weltenburg, and
mite, Prince Carl Egon of FUrstenberg, and Prince Emil of
Fiirstenberg and suites have arrived at Thomas's Hotel.
The Duke and Duchess de Padua and Mdlle. de
Padua have left Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, for
Byde, Isle of Wight.
Their Excellencies the Count and Countess
&Coate have left Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, for
Edinburgh.

His Excellency Baron Van Osten, M. Epatiene,
sod M. Dorchaleg have arrived at the Bromwich Hotel,
Jermye-street, from Paris.

Maria Marchioness of Ailesbury returned to
Hertford-sireet yreterday from the Isle of Wight.
The Bishop of Chichester has arrived at the
Queen's Hotel, Upper Norwood.

The Countess and Mdlle. d'Espeleta have arrived
at the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-etreet, from Portugal.
Sir Alexander and Lady Arabella Bannerman
have left their house in Grosvenor-place, for their seat in
Scotland.

Mr. and Lady Charlotte Lyeter have left
Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, for Rowton Castle,
Shropshire.

The Right Hoo. Charles Pelham Villiers, M.P.,
has arrived in town from Wolverhampton.
Mrs. and Mies Lockwood and Mrs. Will.. have
left Flllllllloell Hotel for Hyde, hle of Wight.

The marriage of Mr. Arthur W. Peel, youngest
son of the late Right Hon. Sir R. Peel, with Miss Dugdak,
Wee daughter of Mr. 8. Dugdale, of Merevale Hall,
Warwickshire, was solemnised at Merevale Church oa
Thursday last. The ceremony was performed by the Hon.
and Rev. Fitzhanlinge Portman, uncle of the bride. After
the ceremony Mr. and Mrs. Dugdale gave au elegant dijedaer
to about seventy friends and relations, among whom were
the Earl and Countries Howe and lady Mary Curzon, Lord
and Lady Portman and the Hon. Misses Portman, Mr. and
Lady Louisa Cotes and the Misses Coke, the Right Hoe.
H. Adddq, ILP., and Mrs. Adclerley, the Right Hon. F.
Peel, ILP., and Mrs. Peel, the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Francis
Stoner, the Hon. Moats/rue C'orzon, Mr. and the Hoe. the.
Okeover, Mr. Newdegate, M.P., Captain John Peel, &c.
The happy pair left Merevale in the afternoon for Thorn
Bank, near Malvern, the seat of Mr. George Digby, to pass
the honeymoon.

We understand a marriage is shortly to take
pleas between Yr. Henry Mervyn d'Aroy Irvine, of Castle
Iroise sous►y Fermaosgb, Ireland, and the elder► &melte .
of the 800. Francis PAW*, and dere of Lord Dusally.

The remains of the late Viscount Dungannon
were removed on Friday last from the family residence in
Grafton-street, to Brynkinalt, Chirk, Denbighshire. The
funeral is fixed to take place to-morrow.

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AMERICA.
(Per Edinburgh, rid Quesurtorni.)
NEW YORK, Auorer 7.

A band of 1,000 guerillas attacked the town of
Newark, Knox county, on August 1. The place
was defended by only 75 Federals, who were cap-
tured.

Captain Brown, commander of the Confederate
ram Arkansas, was wounded in the head while
running the gauntlet of the Federal fleet.
500 Boston merchants have pledged themselves
to give their employ& the situations they now
occupy, after they return from the wars if they
volunteer immediately.
The Edinburgh called off Cape Race on the 11th,
but received no later news than the 7th inst. The
wires were broken at Nova Bootie.

The commercial intelligence brought by the
Edinburgh has been anticipated.

QIJEENSTOWN, Ammer 19.

The Liverpool, No', York, and Philadelphia
Company's steam-ship Edinburgh, which arrived
here this morning, brought 173,690 dollars iu
specie, and 107 passengers. She had no mails.