The Express.
London, England, 1856-05-02 00:00:00

A RUSSIAN PRELATE'S SERMON ON PEACE,

The Expreu of April 24, contained a speech, ad-
dressed to the Emperor Alexander, by the Metropo-
litan of Moscow, on the occasion of the Imperial
visit to the cathedral of that city. In a Moscow
journal we dad a sermon with which the Russian
prelate prefaced the prayers of thanksgiving offered
up at Moscow for the conclusion of peace. The die•
course partakes more of the character of an histori-
cal exposé than of a sermon, and shows, moreover,
the manner in which the ()resit church desires that
the " faithful" shall view the events of the war.
The following are the salient passages:

Upon the day that heaven senoneced to earth the arrival,
at first mysterieue, afterwards &rice., of the divine "chief
of peace," has been aside known here the peace with
which our most pious monarch has gratified the country.
What are your thoughts upon this subject, faithful sons of
Ruda ? What is the impulse of your hearts ? Do yea
ful that peace is restored to you Or your wrath, is it still
unquenched; and your blood, rites itlyet in indignation at the
thought of the injustice which brought the war upon us and
aggravated its evils ?
Let no remember the law, let us be obedient to the chief
of peace, forget the evil which has been done us, forgive
ell injaries, out off all rancour even against those who dee
test peace, and yet more against those who have held out
the hand to us in signing peace. Let your wrath abate, let
discontent cease. Let peace be made, not only for the
armies, for fortunes, for public interests—let it also pens-
Irate your hurt•, and to the very depth of your souls.
Return thanks to God, who has sustained us in the cam..
hat, and given us peace, and let us stem to turn it to our
good. We cannot think with indifference of the difficulties
which the war presented to the Russian armies, the captain
it imposed epee the people, and the privatiote and miseries
it inflicted upon those of our fellow countrymen who were
in the vicinity of its scene,. but to the .e souvenirs are
added others great and consolieg.
When our seamen, who commuced the war by eestro, int
the Turkish fleet, had to cede to the tutees so superior, of
many empires, they did no:abandon their vessels, hut made
of them a submarine furtreu for the defence of the city and
the port. Our soldiers and mariners united, fur twelve
consecutive months resisted in Sebutopol the ailed armies
of four kingdoms, and instruments of desiructiun without •
precedent in number and pow• r. Finally, although the
enemy In the midst of the debris which we abandoned to
them were so maddened as to destroy the ruins, there is a
Russian army at Sebastopol ev n to day.
Farther to the east, a little knew, with es handful of
men, has—more by prayer than by force, as the actors
therein have said—repelled the attacks by sea and land of
enemies superior in power. To tae west, two of the
principal fleets have exhausted their strength against
single fortress, and hive threatened the ethers only at a
distance. To the north, there Las been a strange e.mha4
on one side vessels of war, wi. h caouilie of fire ; on the other
some servants of God, some monks coming to the walls
with images and prayers, and a few min Icebly armed; yet
the convent remains intact.

—Amongst the powers who have remained foreign to the
war, some have been entirely neutral, but (Atlas, by thole
equivocal attitude, have shackl d oar hands t) the profit of
the enemy, and yet, in spite of all this, we have not been
vanquished in Europe, sell in Asia have by ea oonquerers.
Glory to the Russian army !
Peon returned, we have no wish to renew the combat,

even by barbed words; we only nooll that two dim-
ing the armistice, when it was not perm.ttad to as to tight,
some dour miyerssries continued the coatcat against the
stones of oar peacafal edifies).