The Express.
London, England, 1857-09-12 00:00:00

(Stamped id. Additional.) [TWOPENCE.

Uri, remunerative prim. glassy, however, be right to add
that the quality and weight of the wheat of this year's crop
are so good as fully to justify an expectation that the price of
bread may be reduced more in proportion than the price of
wheat.

The Dispatch takes a gloomy view of our present
material prosperity. Wages are inordinately high, and a
fair day's work is by no means supplied in the same pro-
portion. Labourers are ao " saucy," as farmers say, from
the extreme demand for their services, that employers are to
a great extent at their mercy. At the slightest word they
leave their employment, quite certain that they can at once
obtain a new engagement at not improbably higher wages.
Let us go on, as we have began to undertake to conquer and
rule by the sword, daily increasing our territory and main-
Limning the armed attitude of conquerors, and we feel assured
that the enfranchised operatives and labourers of such a
country, strengthening materially their political power, will
go on to that point which has invariably been arrived at by
every nation which pursues a policy of aggression, conquest,
and military domination; that every citizen will discover
he is a gentleman, that labour is disgraceful, and the
life of • soldier, sailor, or colonist alone fitting
the dignity of a freeman of an imperial state; that
slaves alone ought to submit to servitude and the lower
employments of life; and that Saxon blood is too precious for
the drudgery of mechanical employment, At this moment
our pram is busily inculcating the doctrines that directly
lead to this result. We are urged to swallow up China and
Lusa it; wa are told of the telly of leaving unhatebed into
our system • single rood or ► single soul of the territory or
population of the Indian peninsula; we are called upon to
rale by the sword what we have 5' won" by the sword; we
are plainly told that, as the scimitar cut out the way for the
Koran, the =Mb": rife and the park of artillery are the only
true propagandists of the cross; that the civilising maxima
of Christianity are impracticable cant and speculative mysti-
Mem, totally unsdepted to the real Initiates of this world ;
that we must work out our " destiny" by the means
which former conquerors of the world have alone found to
bo predicable; to treat Utriotiam wo rebellion and self-
respect as proud insolence, and the love of liberty as
treachery, and the shame of the vanquished as ingratitude,
and the devotion of others to their faith as ignorant super-
stition or priestly hypocrisy. Work out this—foster this
spirit—accustom our people to the love of arms, and our
nation to the lust of conquest ; go on invading, intriguing,
conquering, holding nations in subjection by large standing
armies, and u there is • God in heaven to whom the
oppreeoed are as precious as oppressors, who is the Father
of tho poorest pariah as truly as of the proudest Englishman,
and who hu made the wretchedness of the vanquished as
immortal ma the mightrest victor, we shall share the fato
which has in all ages overtaken that

anthAtlon which fir:sleeps Ralf,
And(Wto thc other.
In the Interest of the masses we give this warning.

The Saturday Reticle pronounces against open-
sir presetting. Considered in the abstract, it is certainly a
thing which we ham no right to condemn. Undoubtedly it,
may be an instrument of much spiritual good. It belongs to
no particular system. It is as old ss christianity, and older—
it is in favour with Roman catholic., and with dissenters
and with churchmen of all sort.. In short, merely a. is
mode of communicating truth, or announcing opinions,
open.air preaching is not a speciality of religion at all.
It belongs to politics as well as to religion—ao that,
theoretically, there is not a word to say against it But
everybody of common tense feels that, when it
comes to be need in religion, it is a very difficult
tool to use. It looks as if It could not be misusod, but it
is very apt to play tricks in unskilful hands. Not one
preacher in ten thousand is fit to preach to a mob; and, in
fact, as Mom who have paid any attention to the matter
know, not one street preacher in ten ever gets fifty people—
..

at least in London—to listen to him. For onroirn pert,
we believe that, wherever tried—at least of late daps—lt

fails egregiously in its object of converting the irreligious.
But in default of what is called "reaching the masses," the

experiment, it has been thought by good and worthy
people, might safely be trim'. And so it was tried in the parks,
until the apostles of blasphemy and indecency got the largest

audiences ;, and open-air preaching is now a mere question of
police. Still the thing le, in a certain sense, popular in the
religions world. A very mild form of the complaint appeared
recently in Exeter Hall, where a course of sermons was de-
livered to a genteel audience, who, however, happened to Pe

saythhsg but the working and irreligious Men for whom the

discourata were intended. And roar and then we ace para-
graphs that, on "fine Sandaya," wind and weather penult-
ting, an open•►ir sermon will be deliver& Or course ibis
epidemic has spread to Ireland; and there it has taken *very
characterietic form.

The John Dull says:--.‘ With a laudable desire to
meet the spiritual wants of the dente populations crowded
together in many districts of this vast city, or rather, this
agglomeration of citiee, and to rescue them from the moral
and religious degradation into which they hare sunk down,
the new bishop of this monster diocese is engaged in forming
plans for a religious aggression. For thin purpose he has
surrounded himself with a council, composed of clergymen
and laymen of his own selection, whose names have been
made public in an official announcement. At this point,
however, the matter has, apparently, come to a dead lock ;
there is, evidently, a hitch somewhere. We now feel it to
be our duty to the aunt and to the bishop to give ex-
pression to what we know to be the views and mini-
, meats of a large portion, probably of no inconsiderable
urajonty, of the clergy and the influential church laity in
regard to this matter. An apprehension is abroad, lest the
plans in contemplation should be deficient in that continency
with the order and spirit of the church, without which it is
selluvident that no chunk movement ma, or, indeed,
ought to be succeasfid. That apprehension is grounded to
great extent on the party-colouring which the bbhop has
contrived to give to his council, especially to the clerical por-
tion of it; and in some measure also to what we fear we
must call the injudicious experiment of the Exeter Roll sir-
vices, with which Bishop Tait unhappily inaugurated his
episcopate; and the continuance of which, notwithstanding
its notorious failure as a mains of influencing the mares,
and the offence which it has given to tho minds of church-
men, is stated to be—though we still hope without autho-
rity—pert sad parcel of the proposed measure of metropoli-
tan orvaageltestioa."

The United Service Gazette does not credit the
report dot a Weeks Legion tor India is in contemplation.
Whetover asap le the laletatims of gevernment," it eaye,

"in respect to the means to be adepted for increasing the
fano at its disposal, we outset believe that it meditates
anything so suicidal so the asapiernrat of foreign troops
'in Indis. We have quite tremble enough on our heads
with the people who have eaten of our salt, and have
teen trained to arms by ourselvon, without intra-
dos:rag a new element of danger in the shape of
the soldiery of another nation. Not sixty yeas ago
Lord Wellesley found it sorry to direst all the
French radars in the service of the Nina: of Hydenhad,
bosun there were manifestations of their intention to sup-
port Tippoo Sahib. Bat for the ofdeers, Italian and French,
admitted into the army of Ruejeet Bing, we never should
have had so drapers* a foe to encounter en the banks of the
Saticj. The Portuguese *dicers who disciplined the °traitor
force, gave us some trouble at Pannier and Naharsjpere,
and It is at this moment uncertain whether there be not
Europeans in Delhi, directing the openness of the muti-
neers. Was not the General D'Orgoni (of whom the French
men prank aa ex rout* to India to t►ke advantage of the
present disturbances) in the employ of the Bormera monarch
during the last war ?"

Mr. Glaiehcr states, in the Journal of the Royal
Agricultural Society, thet the price of potatoes in the emend
quarter of the present year wag 60 per cent. higher in London
than in the eprii4 quarter of 1866. What will the prioe be
nest spring? It is too soca to otter any docided opinion men
this important question, but it is nit too anon to say that the
disease is alrmdy making progress in all directions. Reports
each us (Gardeners' CAroatele) firma so many places, and
are so consistent with our personal knowledge, that we begin
to leer something lilts a return of 1846.
The "European Statistics of Suicide" recently
published in Frazee by M. Lisle, show thet England is no
larger at the heed of the cheery poll. The French author
proves that France is highest in the emdc, end Russia lowest.
In London we have one &Weide in 8.210 people. Peri. eves
nee is 1,22 L For the whole English population the suicides
reckon use in 16,900; France, one in 14489. The north of
Frame is the neat prolific in enicidire. that district yielding
mealy half of the whole number in the claire empire.