The Express.
London, England, 1859-11-07 00:00:00

LONDON RIFLE 81e10.1.D.N.

On Saturday the members of the London Ride
Brigade, numbering between 400 and 600, aneernMed lathe
Man•ioo-bonee lot the rupees of having the oath of alle-
giance administered to them by the Lord Mayor. The corp.
readisvoneed at Sion Collage, and at hell past two &dock
they marched from thence to the fdansion-hone, preceded
by their band. They prevented • very One and martial
bearing, and their general eppi waste was the theme of
highly laudatory remarks.
The Lord Mayor received the corps in the Egyptian Roma,
sad amonpt those prereat with him were flir F: Doyle,
Aldermen Rea, Allen, hlenhi, Waive, Fiona', ber.Gardaer,
Dr. Croly, Mr. Kennard, M.P., Mr..l. Griffiths Frith, Cap-
tain &a.

Mr. lioilunson reed the following address to the Lord
Mayne as president of the London R fie Brigade
' May it please your Lordebip,—The understned mem-
bers of the Lend °. Rifle Brigade being sauenooed by your
lordship, on this 6th of November, 1859, publicly to take the
oath of true and faithful allegiance to our beloved Sovereign,
do consider that ceremony • moat important festive in the
history et the brigade, • point wheel' masks the moment2d
its swoon, whoa ell thWalties Ming 0.11011100, jived
hundreds of loyal beans are shout to receive at year-UM-
ship's heads what they have aaliettudy sought, sod what the
council, and especially your lordship ea is president, hove
only by the exertion of great seal and energy, obtained for
than, the privilege or Mending forth among the armed
&feeders of our QUM, our country, and our constituison.
We, therefore, take this happy opportunity of publicly
thanking the lords end gentlemen of the council,
and especially your lordship, as its president, for the
ie.portast services thareley reearred to as, and Male
we cannot but regret that such services, owing to the
additional burden of your high °Moe, and of ill health,
moat have weighed with more they ordinary severity upon
your lordship, it is our earnest hope and expectation that in
the comparative rest and retirement upon which year lord-
ship will sow soon enter, you will enjoy among many other
inch and lasting gratification, the insurance that you have
mined the sincere gratitude of the undersigned, and the far
more valuable conviction that when England %delay, sons
arise, you noblythd your duty."
The LORD 81ATOle seed he could assure the volunteers that
ha received this eddies§ with unfeigned eatisfuctios, and that
Ii he hod done anything doting the coulees of his year of
°face to stimulate his fellow citizens to join in
this movement, and to induce the young non of
that great City to form themselves into a bri-
gade, he was amply repaid by the income that
had attended their efforts. (Cheers,) This movement
originating in patriotism and In the desire to defend
the Queen sad °maenads, was one that would have much
effect on that body he had the honour to see before him.
(Cheers.) He could not but congratulate the City of London
that nearly five hundred petlemont of rank and poeltioa, and
all of respectable and good character, came forward oat of
the walks of private lite to enlist in this corps ; thus showing
their determination—(be was going to my, to act se a body-
guard to the Queen)—bet at all events to deiced the me-
tropolis and to protect it from an invading enemy. (Cheers.) It
was something in the history of • man to be at the head of
such a movement. (Cheer.) He thanked his fellow Mebane
for electing him to be the first president of the body,
and he thanked the gentlemen present for the zeal
with which they had attended to their duties there that day.
(Cheers.) He trusted that by their obedience to their
officers, and by their attention to their duties, they would
hereafter show that they did not feel that the taking of
the oath of allegiance was an idle ceremony, but considered
that it was a lasting obligation. (Cheers.) He knew It wee
not seaessary to rewind them that military discipline required
that this estk should be sdnaininered, and be should be glad
to recollect hereafter the enthusiasm with which the oath
was taken, and the determination that was evinced to abide
by ft. (Cheers.) He regarded the day as a favourable one
for giving expression to their sentiments of loyalty to the
Queen. (Chasm) Their fedlow soldiers—for such they now
were--grind on that day of the month immortal honour.
(Cheers.) It was the anniversary of the battle of Inker-
mann—(cbeere)—and if there should be another Inkermann,
be hoped the British army would pee through it with the
same glorious result. that hitherto had been obtained by the
bravery of the English troops, whether at home or abroad.
(Cheers.) He was about to retire from the Liam of Lord
'tapir, but should be identified with the movement where-
ever be was, sad wished that God would give long life,
heath, and prosperity to every member of the London
Ride Brigade. (Cheers.)
' The following address,. presented to Captain Montague
' Hithe oa the part of the Brigade, was reed by Mr. LLDD :
" o Captain George Montague Hicks.
" Sir —The undersigned members of the London Ride
Brigade; manabled at the summons of the Right Hon. the
Lord Mayor, on this sth November, 1869, to take the oqh of
allegiance to her Majesty the Queen, by his lordehip'fiper-
! mission, take the opportunity of publicly acknowledging and
thanking you for the manor you have rendered in first
originating, and thea melonely aiding in the formation of
the brigade, to which we have now the honour of belonging.
We cannot bet assure you thst our independeat judgment and
desire confirm the opinion expressed by those of our fellow-
, citizens, who in Common-hell, called for the establishment
, of the brigade, viz, that you, eir, the founder
of the brigade, and already experienced in her
I Majesty's service, should reteive as a tribute to
, military experience, and an honourable reward for
your readasat matelots in the present cause, that high
rank in the brigade to which you acre on that occasion nomi-
nated, subject to her Majesty's grscious approval. We will
only add to this simple but emcees atlatowkdemeat of your
'endow, that it Is our earnest wish you may for many years
see, and largely share the honour end post silty of the Lon-
! dun Rifle Brigade."
Captain IL HICK'. returned thanks, and reminded the
volunteers that Moult they ever be called into the field, it
would be for the puree of righting to protect Mom they
fltoved..diisftchriooptulint.wde:theillijairdtdtineieceye.i.7.7uird.too:Tyahu.e.ytihem.o...didir.odd submit to
The volunteer. then came forward and took the oath In
batches. The epitome is similar to that worn by the Ride
Brigade.

TEE LOB 3 OP TEE ROYAL CHARTER.

When the jury had delivered their verdiet on
Friday durum' Mr. A. 11. Snith, collector of customs at
Beewassia read the following COUIIIIOIIIPOOD, which he said
had that moment reached him
Custom-house, London, Nov. 3, 1839.
To the Collector of Customs at Besumaris.
Sir,—The Board of Trade having directed an inquiry
into the 1014 of the Royal Charter, I beg to acquaint yon
that I proposa leaving London for Beautuaris by to-morrow
evening 'a train, and hove to request you will to the mean-
time notify to the witnesses new under examination before
the ecireser thet such inquiry is about to be held, end that
their attendance will be required. You will also be so good
as to Inform Meson. Gibbs, Bright, and Co., of Llverpool,
that this Inquiry has been directed.
"J. O'Dowe solicitor,
Merchant Shipping Department."

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LONDON. .VONDAY, NOV. 7.

Tim proverb which bids us go abroad to hear
tidings of home is receiving ample justification,
Loring the limit week or ten days all the most im-
portant foreign news hair referred to the resolution
and actions of England, especially with reference to
her participation in • projected Congress. The Minis-
terisl Paris press, overleaping all intermediaG
difficulties, announces that England has agreed to
enter the Congress; and the Dresden Journal, more
Austrian than even the Viewsa Gazette, proclaims that
we have agreed to do so without any condition. The
simple fact is, that the conditions which must he
settled before England can enter a Congress are
not yet agreed on. With this fact before
him, the daily reader will be in no
denser of being misled by the bewildering
statements of the foreign press. The British Govern-
ment has never objected to discuss Italian affairs in
a European Congrese. It could not consistently do so
after having raised its voice in the Congress of 1866
oo behalf of Italy. Bat England has never
pretended to regulate the internal concerns of the
Peninsula. On the contrary, the Earl of CI. Minos
founded his right to speak of Italy on the occasion
referred to on the fact that non-Italian States were
inter:meddling there: and the policy he represented
had for its sole object to pat an end to the interven-
tion of foreign Power, in the affairs of that country.
and replace its component States in possession of the
independence contemplated in European treaties
Much that then needed undoing in Italy has since
disappeared. A large portion of Central Italy
is in actual enjoyment of that self-rep-
toting, self•disposing power which was then
rather desired than hoped for. We tare seen the
Duchies when freed from the menace of Austria,
and deserted by sovereigns who could not enders the
cooseious (saner of their position, formiag oiliness
and confederacies, and disposing of their allegi-
ance in the orderly exercise of national moneeignty.
W. see them now free to moil their truant Priam,
with or without cooditioes, or to forbid their return.
So far, then. as concerns Tuscany, Parma, Modena,
and Boloins, oar moderate wishes are taltilled is
the mere feet that the people of those states and pro.
vinces an left to manage their own affairs. They
will be faitilled in the rest of Italy whenever
the Princes and people are left to settle their
differences by themselves. If the people of any State
acquiesce is the dental of consecrated political rights
as the Neapolitans rippler to do, we do not object
it is sot ear brumes to decide for other people how
much henna they oeed. If people of another
State, like the subjects of the POPE, find themselves
held dawn by a foreign army, we matt in ensile-
tency seek the removal of that strange campreesion.
Foreign states:see sad publicists who pay us the
compliment to discus our policy will do well to
remember that these simple sod intelligible prim
ciples an Bat those of a party is this country—they
are hold by the great body of Englishmen. A Tory

Admiaistratien would net be allowed to violet;
them sad a Literal Ministry that should de se
could mat hes Pasbeasset. They are tee plain to
be utienedernsed, tee esivenal to be questioned,
sad tee menses to be inerreadsmd to the most
valued Ally. We ham natural sympathise with
Sardinia as a Cannibalism! State, most of us have
our pinions as to the needful guarantees of Italia*
iodevendence ; but esesiderations of this kind are bat
secondary. and WO ananimouely postponed to the
supreme and simple drain that the affairs el Italy
may be lift to tee Italians.
With these profound convictions and sentiments It
is simply impossible that we mss become partite to
any grand *themes for giving away t►e crowns of
Italy irrespective of the wishes of the pespie. We
repudiate the least pretension to dispose ef the
allegiance of Inseam or Madame,. It libidos. mid
theirs only, to give to the most worthy. If the Tr-
ans think that the Amines Archduke FIRDINASID
Ind defend their independence ageism their heredi-
tary enemy as ardently as he fought at &Merino to
destroy it, we shall sot question their opinion. If
the Modem's can satisfy themielves that the young
Bourbon whom father and grandfather Parma could
not and would not endure will blossom into a pa-
triot Duke, we have not a word to object. Only
let them decide.

Once more, before the opportunity shall have
passed away, let as, as la oar duty, seriously
remind oar own Ministers of the dangers
they will run if they enter a Congress without
the most positive stipulatioes ttat the populations
of Italy shall be left free to decide their own
destinies. The danger is, we say, not to Italy, for
the fate of that country is in the handset( Providence,
but to ourselves, if through weskit's., or deluded by
treacherous hopes, we abandon the solid vantage-
ground we now occupy to venturesome( the swamps
and quicksands of diplomacy. In any European
Congress that can assemble the representatives of
free and constitutional government most be in a
minority, and, although it might be well worth the
while of despotic powers to make some material coaii
cessions for the sake of entangling us in complicity
with the principles on which they have always pre-
tended a right to dispose of the nghts of peoples and

nation', the resolutions of such a body, if not re-
strained by preliminary engagements, mast be in-
imical to liberty, and therefor* amatory to this
country. Oar Plenipotentiary may nourish a thea-
trical protest, be may make • some, he may with-
draw, but it will then be too late. We shall not be
able to subtract hoes the European Areopagus
all the authority we brought to it. The
Ilsaperor of the Pitescti has warned us of
what we may expect. In his letter to the King of
SARDINIA he develops a plan not only for imposing
i the GRAND Dear on Tuscany and the young Duke
of resist on Modena, hut for constructing a system
under which the national life of Italy shall be
chained to the corpse of Papal, Austrian, and Nea-
politan tyranny. He has provided, as fart his will
extends, against the consolidation of the free govern-
ments of Central and Northern Italy, and although
we are told that no force is to be used to destroy the
independence of the Central states, force is employed
at this moment to prevent their annexation to Sar-
dinia, unanimously voted by the people, who wish to
have their independence established by an Italian
instead of by a French guarantee. The country
look. to Lord PALMERSTON, to Lord JOHN Rue-
WELL, and to Mr. GLADSTONE to uphold its dignity
is face of these pretensions ; for if we comet now
nuke a stand for the mese of nos-intervention and
self-government, it is time " to deplore "—in the
words of M. DE MONTALEMSERT—" the gradual
destrestioe of that public and social spirit which
peed:seed our great men."