The Express.
London, England, 1866-09-19 00:00:00

States—their vice as well as their virtue—

dency moves steadily on in the same directioa,
unaffected by these surface than gar. To make
the Empire Muscovite, and to ngire it socially, if'
not politically, democratic, ig the two-fold °hied
of the measures of the CZAR. To put a final"
check upon all separatist tendencies, and, there-
fore, to suppress the distinctions of race, language,
and religion, which foster them ; and to destroy
the power of the aristocracy—to these ends the
measures of expropriation which have accompanied
the emancipation of the serfs, and which have
punished rebellion in Polfind and sedition in the
western provinces, have been directed. The estar
bliahment of perfect equality among all the Est-
rizeoa's eubjocts, and • the distribution of
the soil of Russia among the peasantryp are aims
openly avowed. While the Americans have
erected the edifice of political freedom upon the
baais of social equality, the Emrsaos and his
most influential advisers dream of rearing upon the
same foundation an unchecked autocracy. But so
far as social organization is concerned, Russia sees a
precursor in the United States, and looks to itself
to be the propagandist of the same system
among what it regards as the effete feudal aris-
tocracies of Western Europe. Aa an indication
of this idea—clearly recognised and acted on by
the bureaucracy of the Empire, and obscurely fer-
menting among the maases—the reception given
to the American mission has an interest for
observers from which its ludicrous accompani-
manta should not be suffered to divert attention.

tar John Lawrence and tie lathers shoal lay aside, their
morbid jealousy of the British capitalist, end, manias to
mgard him as as intrudes. return to the trim pallets'
lierd Canniups-sneouragies easodiffed enterprise,
piecing Maeprehlio works of India upon moll a basis es wilt
allow of their being carried on without interruption, and
independent of the fluctuations of the Incase revenue.
By wit sueseeding mail, says the Herald, we have more
terrible accounts of the famine in Bengal, and. additional
proof of the neglect and mismanagement with whisk ft
has bees met. Months ago we ware told that it was a
mere passing pressure, and would soon disappear. But,
m fax from this statement being borne out, the evil has
been steadily on the increase, and has now reached a point
which has caused consternation throughout the province.
The people are still crowding into Calcutta from the sur-
rounding districts, and the number now being fed in that
city by native ebarity amounts to 20,000. But hundreds
die on the read in their efforts to snap* from the starva-
tion which has stricken their villages, while those who
remain behind perish in even larger proportions. The
conduct of the government of Madras, which has also had
a famine to contend with, has, the Herold contends, been
the exact contrary of that of Bengal. Lord Napier took
oars to be forewarned and forearmed, inaugurated effective
measures upon the first sign of danger, and was himself
foremost in theaffiioted districts seeing his remedies carried
out.

The Star thinks that the blame of the horrors must be
distributed in various degrees between the administrators I
of the India Office, the Governor-General and his council, I
and the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal, Bir Geed Beadon.
It is too early for us in England to decide in what pro-
portions this censure must be divided ; but that there has
been a shameful failure in the first duties of government
cannot be questioned. The more immediate responsibility
of having stupidly or selfishly disregarded the misery which
the scarcity had caused until it had reached an extent too
great to be grappled with by any human power must be
laid to the charge of the local government and the Liente-
nant-Governor of Bengal.

UT, Court.

BALMORAL, /Arr. 16.

The Queen, accompanied by Princess Christian
drove out yesterday morning, and went out in the after-
noon with Princess Christian and Princess Louise.

Dr. Nona= ACLeod, one of her Majesty's chaplains.
arrived at the Castle yesterday, and had the honour of
dining with this Queen and Royal Family.
Mr. Helps had also the honour of being invited.
SEPT. 17.

The Queen, Princess Louise, the Duke of Edinburgh,
and Prince Christian, and attended by the ladies and
gentlemen in waiting, were present at divine service at
the parish church of Crathie yesterday morning.
Dr. Norman M`Leod, chaplain to her Majesty, officiated.
Dr. M'Leod had the honour of dining with the Queen
and royal family last night.

At the Council Chamber, 'Whitehall, yesterday, Lord
Penrhyn took the oath as Lord Lieutenant of Carnarvoir
shire, in the presence of the Lord President, Lord Stanley,
the Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy, and the Right Hon. H.
Corry. Mr. Harrison was in attendance.
A committee of the Lords of her Majesty's most honour-
able Privy Council met yesterday at the Privy Council-
office, Whitehall, on matters relating to the cattle plague.
Present: the Lord President, the Right Hon. H. Corry,
and the Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy. Mr. Harrison and
Colonel Harness were in attendance.

A deputation from Lincolnshire, consistingof the Right
Hon. Sir John TroHope, Bart., M.P. ; Sir Montagu Choi-
rooky, Bart., M.P. ; Colonel Packe, M.P. ; Mr. Heneage,
M.P. ; the Mayor of Lincoln, Mr. Bartholomew, Mr.
Marshall Heanley, Mr. Seagrove, and Mr. Epton, had an
interview with the Lord President of the Council and the
Right Hon. H. Corry, yesterday, at the Trivy Council-
office, Whitehall, on the subject of the cattle plague.

The Duchess of fit. Albans and Lady Diana
Beanelark left Mar Lodge on Thursday for Blairgowrie,
where they expect to remain a fortnight.

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The Marquis and Marchioness of Hastings have
left the St. George's Hotel.

The Marquis and the Marchioness di Molins,
the Danish minister and the Baroness Bulow,Viscount and
Viscountess Torrington, the Right Hon. Robert Lowe,
M.P., and Mrs. Lowe, Lady Frances Gordon and Miss
Gordon, the Hon. John and Mrs. Vivian, Mr. and Mrs.
Harvey and Miss Beatrice Harvey, Mr. Hayward, and Mr.
Underdown are now at Tomorrow, on a visit to Lady
Moleaworth.

debars them from taking any such course as that
to which they are indirectly invited by the Russian
journals. To provoke European intervention in
America by American intervention in Europe—to
forfait ascendancy in their o en continent in order
to participate in the troubles of the most dis-
turbed part of the Eastern hemisphere—would be
a suicidal folly. While England is learning the ad-
vantages of her insular position, the United
States are not likely to cast away the benefits
which they derive from a moral separation from
the controversies of the Old World as much more
complete than that of England as the Atlantic
Ocean is wider than the Straits of Dover.
Fresh from the assertion of the Monroe doc-
trine against France in Mexico, they are not
likely to regulate their conduct by an opposite
doctrine in Europe. Hitherto the policy of the
Republic has been in strict conformity with
the sage advice of WASHINUTON in that letter to
hie fellow-citizens which has been called his
political testament—to avoid entangling alliances
with the Powers of Europe, or intervention in the
affairs of the Old World. The counsels of his
equity and prudence, and the ambition of some of
his less worthy successors, have marched together.
The policy of the Mexican war and the Ostend
manifesto—the lust of territorial aggrandizement
and political mastery in the New World—are as
incompatible as reason and justice themselves with
a meddling diplomacy in the Old. Whether the
American Republic follows its earlier or its later
inspiration—the practice of Waserrioros and
ADAMS, or that of POLK and Przrzea—it
is as little likely to bo tempted from its rule of
abstention from alliances or action in Europe by
an island in the ...Egean as by an island "on the
" sea-coast of Bohemia "—by the hope of acquir-
ing a portion of the Turkish Empire as by the
dream of acquiring a portion of the Empire of
France. In one particular, the people and
Government of the United States have neg-
lected the advice given them in the Fare-
well Address of the father of the Republic. The
country, he said, which cultivates persis-
tent love or hatred for particular powers forfeits
some portion of its freedom, by becoming the
slave of its own love or hate. This danger inheres
in the otherwise harmless sentimentalism of such
demonstrations as that which has misled the pub-
licists of Russia. It has taken a more serious
form in certain acts of the Federal Legislature and
Executive, which have been inspired by pique
against England—in protectionist tariffs, and in
the revocation of reciprocally beneficial treaties.
The indulgence of these preferences and animosi-
ties is the first step towards the entangling alli-
ances which WASHINGTON deprecated.
Though Muscovite journalists dream of Ameri-
can participation in the Eastern policy of Russia
as one of the results of the "alliance," the bare
possibility of which has turned their heeds, the
causes of the outburst of affection for the United
States which they record and stimulate, lie deeper ;
and they are worth studying as an indication of
moral forces at work in the Empire—forces which
may seriously affect the future of Russia and of
Europe. The policy of the CZAR may vary
with the hopes and fears of the moment and
the events which rouse them—with a Polish in-
surrection, a socialist plot, or the demand of the
nobles at Moscow for a constitution. They may
be modified as a Mousavisrs or a Mu.trrnris is
in the ascendant. But the strong current of tea-

Lady Rendlesham gave birth to a daughter on
Saturday at Rendleshani Hall, Suffolk. Her ladyship and
infant are doing well.
We have to announce the death of Mr. Russell

Charles Stanhope, only son of the late Hon. Sir Francis
Stanhope, and nephew of the Earl of Harrington. Mr,
Stanhope died on Sunday at Parsoustown Manor, county
Meath.

We hear that the Earl of Airlie is to start soon
on a second visit to America.—Dundee Advertiser.

LORD BROUGHAM. —To-day is the anniversary of
the birth of Henry Lord Brougham. According to Lodge's
Peerage his lordship was born in Edinburgh on the 19th of
September, 1775, and is, therefore, 8.0 years of age.
THE CoVRT IN THE HIGHLANDS. —The Duke of
Cambridge, who has been for a few days on a visit to the
Queen and the Prince of Wales, left Abergeldie on Friday
forenoon. His royal highness had some good sport with
the Prince of Wales in the deer forest and at the grouse
shooting. On Wednesday, the Prince of Wales, the Duke
of Edinburgh, the Duke of Cambridge, Prince Christian,
and the Prince of Saxe-Weimar, had fair sport in the
woods, killing three stags and a bind, which were after-
wards siiown at Abergeldie. On Friday night the Prince
and Princess of Wales gave a ball at Abergeldie to the
tenants and servants, which was honoured by the pre-
sence of her Majesty the Queen. The ball-room
was decorated principally with heather, and from the
roof were suspended a number of Chinese lanterns. The
outside of the ball-room was very prettily illuminated by
Chinese lanterns of every variety of colour and shape. Her
Majesty appeared in the ball-room shortly before 7, and
was received by the Prince and Princess of Wales. Accom-
panying her Majesty were the Duke of Edinburgh, Prin-
cess Helena, Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, Princess
Beatrice, Prince Christian, and the Prince of Saxe-Weimar.
There were also present in attendance upon her Maiesty
and the Prince and Princess of Wales, Lady Churchill,
Hon. Miss Cathcart, Lady Susan Melville, lion. Mrs. Cox,
General Knollys, Mrs. Knollys and family, Mr. and
Misses Gray, Colonel Keppel, &c. Lord Holmesdale, the
Duke of St. Albans, Hon. Mr. Carrington, and a few
other illustrious guests, were also present. Dancing was
commenced immediately on her Majesty's arrival, and
continued with spirit. During the evening the infant
Princes Victor and George were brought into the ball-room
by their nurses, and presented to her Majesty. Between
eight and nine o'clock her Majesty retired with the Prince
and Princess of Wales and the other royal and illustrious
guests to dinner in Abergeldie Castle. During the cessation
of dancing, the tenants, &c., also partook of dinner.
After the lapse of an hour, her Majesty and the royal
family again entered the ball-room, and dancing commenced
with renewed vigour. Her Majesty was apparently in good
health, and evidently enjoyed the dancing. Shortly before
eleven, the Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise,
Prince Leopold, Princess Beatrice, &c., retired
from the ball-room, while the Prince and Princess
of Wales, the Duke of Edinburgh, &c., continued dancing
with unflagging spirit till an early hour in the morning.
His Royal Highness Prince Arthur is expected at Balmoral
about the 20th inst. It is said that his Royal Highness the
Duke of Edinburgh will leave Balmoral about the same
time to enter on his promotion duties as commander of his
vessel. Monday, the 24th, is the day at present fixed for
the departure of the Prince and Pnmess of Wales from
Abergeldie. Her Majesty the Queen attended Divine ser-
vice in Craithie Church on Sunday. In the same pew with
her Majesty were her Royal Highness Princess Louise,
his Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince
Christian, and Lady Churchill, lady-in-waiting to her
Majesty. In the Abergeldie seat were the Prince
and Princess of Wales, Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar,
the Hon. Mrs. Cox, Duke of St. Albans, and the Hou. Mr.
Carrington. In the other pews in the front gallery were
General Grty, Mrs. Gray and family, Lord Holmesdale,
Lady Holmesdale, Sir E. Fulmer and Lady Rimer, the
Hon. Mr. Walpole, General Hood, the Hon. Miss oath-
cart, Lady Susan Melville, Colonel Keppel, &c. The
I church was well filled, especially in the gallery, where •
large number had to stand during service, the strangers
having come principally from Braemar and Ballater. Ds.
Norman Macleod officiated.—Scotteum.
VISIT OF THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES
TO DUNROBIN CASTLE.—The Prince and Princess of Wales,
we understand, will visit Dunrobin Castle on Mon. 4.7
next, travelling from Abergeldie via Inverness. Great
preparations are being made at the castle for their royal
highnesses' reception.—Stotteran.
The Brackley Agricultural Society held their
annual ploughing match yesterday, and awarded the silver
medal for the best plougbing in the All England Glass to
Messrs. Ransom's' ploughman, James Barker. In the boys'
clue the first prise was won with a plough made by
Messrs. Ransoms, of the saws pattern es the one with
which they won the chief prizes at the Southampton
meeting of the Royal Apiaultural Society in DM.

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVES; SEPTEMBER 19, IS &-

THE WAR IN THE BRAZILS.

(11RetRi's wzrassa4
RIO DX JANEIRO, Ammar N.
The follow*" daintla have been received here
szlative to the late fighting between the allies and
the Paraguayans : _ _ .
The Paraguayans had been gradually opening
trenches and surrounding the allied camp with for-
tifications which would have enfiladed elfish flank
of the army, rendering the position untenable,
when Marshal Polydoro Jordan took command of
the let oorps of the Brazilian army on the sth
July. He immediately detected the disastrous
consequences which would follow the completion,
of the works, and after a ootmoil of war it was re-
solved to attack and carry the enemy's position on 1
the following day.
At daybreak on the 16th the attack com-
menced, and the nearest trenches were taken
by the 4th division of the Brazilian army under '
Brigadier General William H. de Souza. The
Paraguayans, however, fought hard and returned
to re-take the position with strong reinforcements,
but were repulsed and driven back in disorder.
The fire lasted all day and through part of the
night, 16 consecutive hours. On the next day,
17th, there was but little firing, but on the 18thi
the attack was renewed, and the third line of forti-
fications carried by the 6th division. The general
of this division, however, directed the attack
very imprudently, and the losses of the Brazilians
wore very heavy.
Marshal Polydoro immediately fortified in an
inverse sense the positions conquered, and thus
rendered the camp much more secure and less ,
subject to bombardment. He has also opened 11
communications between the fleet and the new
positions by making a road through the woods,
not more than two miles across, separating the
naval and military forces, whereas by water the
distance was nine leagues. The commissariat and
the hospitals have also been placed on a far
better footing. General Porto Aleg.'e had arrived
with the second corps, 9,000 strong, and horses
and mules for the cavalry and artillery were also
rapidly arriving at the camp. News is now daily
expected of a great and decisive battle.
The losses of the allies on the 16th and 18th
July were 2,500 men hors de combat, the proportion
of officers being very large, as the Paraguayans
under cover of the woods pick them off with a cool
aim. Colonel Pallejas, Flores intimate friend and
companion, was among the killed.
The weather at the South has been very bois-
terous, and two Brazilian transports have been
totally wrecked, the Oyapock at the mouth of the
River Plate, and the J. S. Roman near St. Cathe-
rine. No lives were lost.
The council of state met last night under the
presidency of his Majesty the Emperor. It is
reported that it was decided that the general
elections should be adjourned for one month, as
new levies are being made, and recruiting is pro-
hibited by law within 60 days of the elections.
The chambers will also probably be prorogued till
the financial and banking law now under discus-
sion in the senate, and which will most likely pass
the third reading to-day, is adopted by both
chambers.

STRANGE SUICIDE OF AN ENGLISH GIRL IN
FRANCE.

The Temp. gives the following account of an ex-
traordinary suicide committed by a young English girl in
France :

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M. and Isladame S—, residing in the Rue du Faubourg
Saint Honore, engaged as governess for two young daugh-
ters, an orphan girl, Lucy B—, a native of lalverpooL Sbe
was well acquainted with the English and French
languages, drawing, and music. Possessing a sweet temper
and engaging manners, she was greatly respected and be-
loved by M. and Madame B—. When they went to
their country seat, in the beginning of summer,she went with
them. There she became quite melancholy, and though
every means were employed to divert her, she continued
in this state and refused to give any reason for it. At
length she attempted to commit suicide with the
fumes of charcoal, but she was discovered in time
to prevent the completion of her design. A phy-
sician was called in, who directed that she
should be carefully watched. This was done, but one slay
Lucy B— suddenly disappeared, and no one was able to
tell where she had gone. Fifteen days passed from the
period of her disappearance. At the end of that time a
disagreeable smell was noticed in the house, and
it was traced to • room which was merely used
as a lumber room and was scarcely ever en-
tered. A huge chest resting on a box containing
books were found here. The chest was opened, and in it
was discovered the half-decomposed body of Lucy. She
held fast in her right hand a photograph of M. B—,
which she asked for a few slays before, and on the back
of it was written the following words :—" M. S—, I
ask your pardon for my death. I loved you. Not daring
to tell you, and too weak to leave you, I thought that I
must die. I also ask pardon of Madame B—, who was
so good to me." The post mortem examination proved
that she must have made several attempts at suicide, for
in her stomach was found pins, nails, and poison.

A SCENE IN PARTS.— A great crowd, says the
Temps, collected yesterday, about half-past 6 in the
afternoon, on the Pout Royal and the Roe du Rae. The
following was the cause :—" Three divinities d Chignon
carried the eccentricity of the toilet Benoiton so
far that they at once attracted the notice of all
who saw them. They promenaded in the gardens of
the Tuileries, and their success was so great that the
police officers, who were anything but Anacreontic, had
to show them outside the gates. The people who
had collected, and were delighted at having a spec.
tacle gratis, followed the banished divinities of Olympus,
and at length began to jeer and hiss them. They were
presented with some vine leaves for the purpose of own-
pleting their toilet. Several of the market women got
amongst the crowd and armed with the cores of peers and
stones of peaches, and all the projectiles of which a heap
of dust could be the arsenal, they rained them on the
frightened doves, who at length were compelled to take
refuge in a sentry-box. The crowd was dispersed with
difficulty, and the ladies were sent away in a nacre."
A melancholy incident occurred the evening be-
fore last during the performance at the Opera Comique,
Paris. A lady, the wife of a merchant in the Rue de
Cla-y, was seated in one of the upper boxes, when she
was suddenly taken ill, and although taken to the corridor
and seated at an open window, in the hops that the fresh
air might revive her, she presently became quite insen-
sible, and expired about an hour after. The cause of her
death is supposed to be an aneurism. The deceased lady
had not complained of any indisposition during the day.
EXTRAORDINARY ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE AT SUN-
DESLAND.—Yertordsy, at noon, an eirisonlinary attempt at
suicide was made at Sunderland by a lady, who threw her-
self from a railway bridge right in front of an advancing
locomotive. The driver saw the occurrence when he
was about 200 yards distant, and instantly shut off the
steam, applied the 'snake, and signalled the driver of the
down train also to stop. This promptitude saved the lady's
life, for the engine was brought to a stand within four or
five yards of where she lay on the up line bleeding and
senseless. The occurrence orated a great sensation in the
neighbourhood, and had been witnessed by a great many
persona, but so sudden was it that no one could prevent it.
Medical men were summoned, and bliss Nesbitt was taken
to the Infirmary, where, though she was severely cut and
bruised, particularly about the head, she was found to
have escaped any very serious injuries.—Leeds Mercury.
WHOLESALE HornanitAireio BY A WOMAN. —At
the Manchester City Police-mart, yesterday, Mary Ellen
Steele, and her huslond,Williant Steele, were charged with
being concerned in a number of cams of housebreaking. It
was shown that the woman had plundered the houses of
a number of poor people living is the neighbourhood el
Rochdale-road and• Oldham-road, and wearing apparel,
which had been recovered from pawnbrokers, enough to
fill a handcart, was produced in court as evident* of her
guilt. Four eases were proved against bar, in each of
which she had obtained acmes to tie pecoesutors' houses
by means of false keys. It was stated that in one Indent*
she had men stripped a child while It was asleep in led,
and taken It. clethes The charge of complicity
against the husband failed, and he was discharged ; the
woman pleaded guilty, and was summarily committed for
six months.—MeadeMer Guardian.