The Express.
London, England, 1858-10-15 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 15, 1858.

grounds of ultra-spiritualism, have hitherto been
disposed to regard with indifference, if not with dia.
like, the efforts which have recently been making
to raise the physical oondition of our prole-
' twists). Let those who would trust exclu-
sively to spiritual appliances, and object to
this energetic devotion to physical improvement,
attend to Lord SnArrequmfe reply: " My answer

" to that objection is this—that spiritual appliances
" ie the state of things to which I allude are taiga-
" &Ur iewpossible.• And so they are. It is the
simple truth. Instruct your child in his ragged
school—ply him with any amount you plasm of
spiritual and moral training—cram him with Cate-
chism—imbue him with history—tinge him with
geography—what does it all come to, if he must go
bask to that daily, and still worse that nightly, life
is the attic or the cellar, where filth reeks, and
drunkenness revels, and vice unmentionable holds its
saturnalia? Lord SHAFTESBURY is right : in the true
order of Christian effort the first endeavour must be
to change for the better the wore than barbarous—
the bestial, mode of life to which the shameful con-
dition of the dwellings of our poorer urban and rural
population inevitably leads. Yes, inevitably. Lord
SHAFTRIBURY, whose active and persevering philan-
thropy has given him the best right to speak with
authority on the point, declares unhesitatingly that
no other canesqesnose can result from such a state of
things than those which do result—utter corruption
of thought, of language, and of practice.
It is, indeed, high time that vigorous and con-
certed efforts should be made to remove from
amongst us so crying an evil. It is the plague spot
on our prosperity ; it is our reproach among the
nations. The condition of the dwellings of our
lower orders—in towns, through the long neglect of

Dovernment—in the country, owing to the baleful
operation of our laws of Settlement—is utterly dis-
creditable to the high state of civilisation which in
efts respects we have attained. The Arab of the
Desert is out and out better lodged than the Arab
of the streets. Primitive and pastoral man in his
tents was infinitely better off than the labourer or
operative of the nineteenth century in his crowded
garret, or his reeking, ruinous cottage. You are bound
'to instruct the mind, train the moral, elevate the
spiritual nature ; but that you may be able to do
those things do not neglect the wants, the health,
the decent lodgment of the body. Such is the text
of one of the best lay sermons that has ever yet been
preached—the address of Lord SHAFTESBURY at
Liverpool. That he has practised what he preaches,
will give him an honourable place in British history
when the party quarrels of the day, and the reli-
gious animosities of the day, have died away into
forgetfulness and silence.

FRANCE AND PORTUGAL.

'The Dtibats of this morning states that the
Marquis de Piennu, Second Secretary of the
French Legation at Lisbon, will embark to-day at
Lorient, in the steam corvette Coligny, as the bearer
of the final instructions from the French govern-
ment to Admiral Lavaud and to M. de Lisle de Siry
the French Ambassador at the Portuguese Court.
Th. Nord of to-day says, that these instructions are
energetic and decisive. "la cue of refusal the
French minister will demand his passports, and ad-
miral Lavaud will have recourse to rigorous mea-
sures."

On the other hand, the Debate says that Viscount
de Pair', envoy extraordinary and minister pleni-
potentiary of the King of Portugal in France, was
to quit Paris last evening for Nantes, there to take
the packet for Lisbon, where he will submit, for the
acceptance of his government, a project of concilia-
tion, which will terminate in an honourable way
for both countries the difficulties arising from the
affair of the Charles Georges.

The Nord persists in its statement that England
is pensive in the matter.

INDIA.

EAST INDIA HOUSE TELEGRAM.
The following telegram has been reoeived at the
East India-hones :
To THE SECRETARY, EAST INDIA-HOUSE, LONDON,
PROM 0. F. EDMONETONE, EEO., SECRETARY TO
THE GOVERNMENT OP INDIA, WITH THE GOVER-
NOR-GENERAL.

ALLAHABAD, Bar?. 12.

OUDE.

The Cantonment of Sultanpore was occupied by
our forces without opposition on the 29th August,
the rebels having retired, some in the direction of
AlllOOOO (qy P), and others towards the Oogra.
Madho Singh is at his fort of Amens*, and is re-
ported to have with him 1,000 men and 22 guns.
Some of the rebel troops from Bondee (?), on the
north of the Gogra, had crossed the Gogra at Bairam
chant, and there were rumours of an intended attack
on Nawab Gunge, on the Fyzabad ro►d, which had
consequently been strengthened from Lucknow. The
Nana, Bala Rao, and the Begnm are still on the
north of the (ogre. The Fyzabad district reported
to be undisturbed.

The disarmed troops at Mooltan, consisting of the
62nd and 69th Bengal Native Infantry, mutinied on
31st August. Their almost total extermination was
the nonnequenon.
An officer and four men were killed in the out-
break.

Lieutenant-Colonel Robertson came up with the
fugitives from Powree on the sth September.
The rebels were defeated with great slaughter.
Pour emissaries of the Nana have been captured
at Gwalior, endeavouring to tamper with the 25th
Bombay Native Infantry, who informed their
officers of their proceedings. The culprits were
executed.

The Gwalior fugitives, under their leader Tenth
Topee, after their defeat by General Roberts, turned
towards Malwa, and occupied the town of Juke
Pawn ; the Rajah's troops deserting him, the rebels
secured a large amount of treasure, and about forty
guns. Tantia Topee then moved towards Bhopal,
but was met and defeated by the Mhow Field Force
under General Michel, between Bogahg and
Bearo, on the 13th September. The rebels were
dispersed in all directions, and thirty guns cap-
tured, with trifling loss on our part.
This telegram arrived at Malta from Alexandria
by the contract steam-packet, 10.30 a.m., on the
14th October, 1868.
M. STOPFORD, Vice-Admiral.

(710IC OUR OWN COI

AND Barium TRLIORAPH.)
MALTA, THURSDAY.
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Adviose from Bombay of the 24th rat. report the
money market easy, imports and exports improved.
Freights to London, 28a. ; to Liverpool, 20s. Ri-
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