The Express.
London, England, 1857-10-08 00:00:00

REGENT *-• -r tag Cii ‘red...—At the. conclusion of
the piper lan night, :.• the Rorie eilark Chapol, the IWv.
Lambls, the Wilt i.iiing tumbler, a 4.1 tLat a near Dilative,
rho 14 .thortintlew .4 t,cm ril Havelock, wished to 'Wm.
to them a few 'NOMA upon the present elate of affairs M Millet
J. C. Mambas, Eau, then into forward. ...I in thi, yours.,
iif • few rent it prougod agairtat ii •• . went which pal
been made in "nue quarter" to the Mart 1b... -: • revolt in India
could be traced to the efforts of the tufeeduaii ti •. Within the last
few dtlt Le had retr:ved • 14.1, I (rum 11,:f . which threw
emisiderti•to light lii...rt the *Ow, and Idol. 't ..r-ei eonteimoi
in tee report a • towline of the hritith Initial Assciation,
bell in Calruti.. en the 2.7.ith of July 1,4, alwa Lab..
Duckinartmjun Mookerjoe merle the following r. ,foment is
r foonee to the ,forte of lo,rdonorirf in fah" —" If owing
to 9UO yews off Mattometan tyranny and misrule, this great
nation has sunk in alotta and lethargy, ii. bat, thank (Jul,
not lost Its melon, and is able to make • difference between
the followers of a religion what inculcates the doctrine
that it alcoula Le propagated at the point of Hie .ward,
and that which ohs. compulsion to none, hut oduiply Invites
'tzli:lZ Hoverer we may differ with the Christ mie.
i in religion, I speak the minds of the society, wad
gauntly of these of the people, when I ray that, Li roger&
their teaming, purity of mon* end disineervetedness of
intention to twomote our weal, no doubt is entert•hted
throughout My land—nay, they are held by m in the
highest esteem. European hhtory does not bate on
he records the mention of a class of men who rung:red
et, many sacrifices in the cause of humanity and educa-
tion as the Christian mhaiiinarim in ItOliA , and though
the native community differ with them in the opinion
that Iliadostan will one day to included in ekuiskui-
dotn—for the worship of Alnught) OW in Hit Unity,
.a laid down In the Holy Vede, is and has been our religion
for thonesnds of peen, and is enough to mild/ all our
spiritual wants—yet we mnnot furbefa doing juatice to the
,atarable ministers of 1 religion, who, I do hen, most
eolemnly neseverste, In piety and righteoueness alone, see
lit to be deemed with those ritheee and holy saw of anti-
quity who derived their support and than of their charitable
boarding-schools front voluntary subscription", and come-
mated MMr lives to the muse of (Jed and knowledge." That
betimony was borne to the ilmrseter of their mimionarke In
t oratertiou with tide revolt by Ilindooo, which waa worth I
• hundred diatribes coining tram old Indians in landenhallt
etreet, who want out flay roes ego, sad who hod forritten
nothing, and reruemburad meting.

MR. SPUROBON 4T TILE CRYSTAL
PALACE.

For mind days prior to the Citntral Fast Day, it
had Wee aanoweeed, to the usual form', that Mr. Spurgeon
would preach In the morning at the Cr) eel Palma and that
after divine service • collection would be made in aid of the
Indian Relief Fund. The celebrity of the preacher, thus
swocuited with the attractions el the building and grounds,
produced, as might have been rope led, on enormous!
seatiblagr. T• else o'cloik being the hour appointed fur the
esrvicc, the trains commenced running As early as half-past
WeVtll, and in the course of the zooming about 16,000 ponces
availed themselves of the accommodation presided, while
owing to the admirable character of the arrangements, no
riots inconvenience of any kind appears to hove beim vas-
%Lined.

The poetise ti the budding set inert for this novel purpose
was the monk transept, where by neon, it wee estinistod,
upward' of 20,000 poison. were mumbled. It wee remerk-
able that, in conindininction to religious pothering' gene-
rally, the goals sex decidedly predominated. The pulpit wee
that which Is °depend by the preacher in the musie-hall at
the Surrey-pardene, whence It had been removed for the one-
dos. It was placed at the north-out corner of the amtrel
tzeneept, at its Junction with the nave. Mr. E. T. Chipp
presided at the organ, ands. the duping was not choral, but
congregational, the utility of the net instrument in harmo-
nising each a multitude of voices wee strikingly manifested.
Mr. Spurgeon seconded the pulpit at ire minutes poet
12, and immediately proceeded to open the NlTiOtl
wlth—
to use the words of a printed programme tithe service—a brief
invocation, the audience, or tether, congregation, exhibiting,
without eueptios, the moot reverential decorum, as indeed it
continued to do throughout the serene. This era followed
by the siaging of the well-knurls hymn commencing with
the line "Before Jehovah'. awful throne," the tune 'elected
being the Old Ilundredth, Mr. Spurgeon then read a scrip-
tore kenos, connoting of a part of the 9th chapter of the
Prophecies of Daniel, relating to the nine of the Ideates,
sad the judgments which betel them in consequence--the
reeding being accompenied with en exposition and en enn-
ead= of several pumps to the past conduct and peanut
punka of the English nation. Towsrda the conclusion of
the Issue he complained of what he forcibly end natty
tinned the " thundering noise" in the galleries im-
mediately behind him, observing that it frustrated hie
atteeepts to make himself heard by the whole mum*
and, owing, ee was interned, to some oMcial interference the
manance sun afterwsnie ceased. The prayer, which followed
the reading and exposition, contained many emphatic Alla-
; deen to the Indian mutiny. In one of the most remarkable,
the minister, invoking the Almighty, laid, "Thou couldst
ad endure the sin of Sodom, and we are sure Thou mast not
endue the dna which have been committed in the cities of
Ind " and thee, sitar briefly glancing at the atrocities per-
petrated by the mutineers upon the wives and daughters of
Britain, he besought the Almighty that our avenging soldiers
in India might remember that they were not warrion merely
but eaccutionsra. Alter the payer came another hymn, '
con feting, en Mr. Spurgeon announced, of versos selected by
himself from &Serest psalms on account of their appropriate-
Kees to the occasion, the first verse being the following
" Our tied, our hels fa ape past,
Our hope for years to coma,
Our shelter from the stormy blast,
And our eternal home."
The sermon then eornmenned, the text being taken from
the 9th verse of the iota chapter of Micah, and madding of
the follewing words
. .

" Hear ye the rod, and who bath appointed it."
" This world," said the preacher in his intredection, "is
ir... net the place of mlahment for aim—notMe place. It way
sometimes ben , but it is not usually. It is very mato.
!nary among religious pride to talk of every accident which
happens to men the indulgence of sin, as if It were &judg-
ment. The upsetting of a Lost upon a river on •
Sunday is, according to some people, a judgment
for the sin of Sabbath breaking. After the accidental
falling of • bootee in which person, were engaged
in any unlawful occupation, the inferenee is at once
drawn that the house fell because the inhabitant. were
wicked. Now, however moms ngigioniate may hope to im-
peen people by such childish atones as those. I, for one, for-
swear them all. I believe that what my Hamer said is
true when be declared, concerning the men on whom the
tower of Siloam fell, that they were ' not sinners alcove all
the men that were upon the face of the earth.' They were
sinners, there M no doubt of that, but the falling of the tower
wee not nerastioned by their sin, nor we their premature
death the consequence of their excessive wickednees. There
are many, however, who carry this doctrine to an extreme.
Deceuee God does not tamely visit each 'animater offence In
this lite on the tranagreeter, men are apt to deny that there
arc any judgments at all. Bet herein they are misteken. I
(el persuaded that there are etch things as national judg-
ments, national t heti/temente for national eine, great
blows from the rod of God which every Ili/0 man most
acknowledge to be intlietel on account of some cm which has
been committed, sad which fall in order that, by Ond'a gram
we may humble ourselves and repent. Oh, my friends, what
a rod is that which bast just fallen upon our country I My
poor words will fall infinitely short of the &Ariel tale of
misery owl woe which most he told before you can know
how eint.rtly Gel ban smitten as, end boor sternly be has
chidden. We have to-day to lament over revolted subjects
of this country; we have to lament over thousands of our
fellow-subjects in open arras egainet the government." Attie
remarking that thin country WAS preserved by the happy eon-
otitution of its government from internal anarchy, the
preacher ..br^r•rel that the erpoys were rightfully tehreta of
I;reeiti. Whatever, be said, might be the ran with regard
t . the inhabitants of India ruefully, the mama bed voluntarily
taken Ache of fealty to ber Majesty, and they bad no own
to end fault, for they were always petted, alersys dandled
on the knee of farm:widen. Yet what climes had these men
teittiiittect ! He would not dent.' their sets of de
bloodalsed, and wore than bestiality. That tongeseb=
net venture to utter whet they had dared to do ; U.. emasubly
would rise from their rests and him him Into the place be
then necnpied if he but hintot at some of the things which
had been done, not in secret, but fn the open street. of
Indian eitiee. Here, then, were rebels to be executed.
The senesity of executing them was in thesll to be
refereed so a seam. ateittion to the noo but
Heaven and earth demanded punishment. He we.
no moldier, and he loved not war. 116 did not, Indeed, bY-
beve tint this was a war in the proper genie of the term ;
they were not lighting with enemies; their troops were
re.ing forth sgeinet murderer*, against men who by murder
and unmentionable Pins had incurred the punishment of
death. As the meet of • murderer by the authority of law
was not war, so the arrest and utter de erection of the Indian
wpm.. WY not war; it ••• eimply • punishment that earth
demanded. end he believed God sanctioned. Still it was a
dreadful thing to eke away the lived thee' fellow•subjeeta;
end amongst the evils which they had to bemoan that day
we the neceseXhoe.usabeathing the sword for etch a pee-
per. The rod bad indeed fallen heavily.
No mortal tongue could tell the anguish it bad
tensed, nor could they yet dream where Its
effects would end. Let them remember, however, the
erode of the tett. Not only welt • rod, bet "an appointed
rod." Every deed that bad bean done against them had been
appointed by God. God was free from the slant it, but He
had orerrulel end permitted it on account of the nation's
sin. it would hove been well if they bad teed this rod be-
fore it fell upon them. He who understoed Gore morel go-
vernment knew that sin carried punishment In ita bowel,.
A wire man believing revelation might have foretold that
God would visit we. The eats of the government of hide
hid been black and deep; and he who Ind heard the sbeiek
of tortured natives and the anima render of dethaned
prince, might have popbmid that it would not be long be-
fore Go I would nnahesoD. the sword to avenge the eppreseed.
As regarded the less themselves, their reelect ad-
mitted of no ape . After pledging their oaths
they had revolted, let them suffer the punishment
of their Vegan ; bat bad It ben the Indian nation that had

revolted, though he skesuld have prayed that they might be
brought under the rule of England again for the sake of
.iviliestion, he would not havertreachedaerusedespinst them
lest they should light against patriots. "As to the religions
of the Hindoes," said the rev. gentleman, " we never ought
to hove telereted them at ell. I believe myself entitled to any•
religion, but if ley religion consorted of bestiality, inheri-
t-tile, And merle', shun her, no right to it, though I
might he me/wed to be banged for it. The religions of
the, !Fro! .tre nothing more nor lees than a mass of the
nmkest lil•h that imaginetem could conceive. The gods
tbcy .orphip ere not =titled to the heat attire of reelset.
Ilet 'hey „Jet u a decent chariottr to their deities, we
mlght Lee fob toted their idolatry, but when their religion
neemsitetes everything that le evil, lot religion merely,
but me:witty requires that it should be put deem."
In elm, idation of Ilie views on this point, the preacher re-
marked that Le did not think there ought to be in this land
any teleratien of eueh a place es the Agepemone, or of any
eystem Nchi.:ll taught immorality; and then, reverting to
India and the I lindoe religions, he said if it were any man's
religion to do whet the Thugs bad done, or to commit
bestial act. in public, he, for one would not have it tolerated.
Such a religion, he mid, was that of the Mediae, and the
Indian government were bound, an In the sight of God, to
put it detest with all the at their commend. They
Mid, however, allowed, and in some rears aided and abetted,
1G filthy deeds, and now 6.1 had visited them. Would it
not, then have been well if they had heard the red ere it fell,
and avoided the remorse of having oecaaloned its fall 1' But
it hod falka. TM rod had smitten there, the emerge had
ploughed deep farrows in England's side& and let them
bear the red that ;had fallen. It had been proclaimed on
enthority that one muse of thin dreadful visitation was the
sin of the people of England themselves. They were
exhorted that day to humble themselves for sin. Now,
wanting the truth of whet was stated in the proclantanon,
he would honestly tell them what sins were, in his opinion,
most likely to have brought this calamity upon them. First,
there were sins in that community that ought never to have
been allowed. Britain bed to weep for deeds which her
governor. hal not yet had strength of mind to stop. They
had long been allowing the Infamous nuisances of Tielywell-
street. Thank 0.1, these were pretty nearly done for ,• but
In the Ilaymerket and in Regent-street they still allowed
infamy to walk before their eyes publicly. This arra said to
be the fault of the police. It wee somebody's fault, and
Against that semebotly's conduct be now protested. A most
fearful thing It was that honest persons could not
walk the street without being insulted by sin
clothed and garnished in the robes of the harlot.
Then, again, es regarded amusements. God forbid that these
should be denied to them ; but they should always be moral,
and when they knew that lords and ladies of the land hadeat at
playhouses listening to plays that were a long way from de-
cency, they must feel that it was time that some voice should
Le lifted up against them. Them were Flaring sire, There
Were some who had dared to protest memo them long age;
and those sins of the community had, he said, partly brought
the rod upon them. But ho was inclined to think that their
clue eine were the moot grlevoue. Let them behold that day
the sins of the rich. How were the poor oppressed 1 how
were the needy down-Madden ! In many a place the aver-
age wage of men was far below their value to their masters.
In that 140 there was many a great man who looked upon his
fellows as only stepping stenos to wealth. He built
• factory as ho would prepare a cauldron, and
pitched into the vessel pone clerks end &Miran,
without the least regard for anything but gain. Let such
mesons remember that there was • God who said that he
would execute righteounnis end judgment for all that were
and. that the semporees in her garret, and the
M'ined hle den, and the artisan in the crowded factory, and
the Bennet. who attended on the greet ones of the earth and
greened under their oppression, would get the ear of Oed,
end God would visit thew oppressor.. Let there "beer the
rod." Again, let them mark the ries of merchants. Was
there ever an age when the merchants of England had more
fallen from the right P The mar, of there were, he believed,
hottest w the ors; but he did not knew who among them
were so. There was • time when in this respect at leant
England could net be called " Perfidious Albion " but
now, alas, wale. she recovered from her fell, whn could trust
her It God would visit the tuition for We, end it might be that
that wae one of the reamss for which God would have them
" hear the red." There were many M that assembly who
were poor. He maw them Amite when he 'peke of the rich
he would have at than elan. (A suppressed laugh.) If they
had to hamble thetwelvee that day aa • nation, the peer
meat humble themselves. What million, of stseipersme there
were who were mere eye-servers and men- Oeuvre, and who did
not know what it mu bleak up to God for help in seeking
to dierltarge their duty with all their might. Many were the
sine of the poor, and for these thing. God had vidted them
and ethers. It was impossible for him that day to enter into
all the sin* of illiberality, deceit, carnality, pride, and oPPrest
Mee, which were committed in this land. He had tried to
Indicate some of the chief, and he prayed God to humble
them in spirit on their account. And now let them
" hear the rod." The rod had fallen, and the
church ought to hear it. He was afraid It was
the church that bad been the 'neatest sinner. Did he
mean by "the church" that ostsblished by law ? No, he
• meant the Christian church as a body. They had, he be-
tiered, been remise in their duty. For many and many •
year pulpits never readoesended to men of low estate; the
Detesters understood the polish of ?before. and the handling
of logic but to the people they were blind guides and dumb
doge. While Satan was roving the world and taking his
prey, the church sat still and said, " Who is my neighbour 1"
and did not arouse herself to serve her Ga. He bayed
that they had already seen a revival begun. The leg yew
had seen more preaching then say other year since the days
of the Aeostles, and they were stirring In retired-schools and
In various efforts for doing good. Still the church was only
half awake, and verily the rod bad fallen for her sake. They
had had many great afflicting, and they did bear them
far a time; and now he would elms his sermon by
calling epee them to "hear the rod," which might
again soon be still. We tenet, (mid the preacher,)
that In a little while our soldiers will eerie out for us victory
end peace with their triumphant swords ; we trust that--
pe ham ft is this very day— • greet tight is being fought, a
great victory won. I rem by faith to her lo.day the shout
of the triumphant warrior. At any rate we may hope that
ere long• the black cloud before us will be dispersed. And
then, mettape, you will all forget what has been done for
you by God', You will buy some drewerks and, se was the
case some time ago (alludinn to the festivities which fol-
lowed the termination of the Russian war), your votive offer-
ings on amount of victory will consist of rockets and illumi-
nation& Grand offerings to the Great Supreme!! After
refeerieg to the visitation of cholera and the feelings which It
evoked on the part of the nation generally, the rev. gentleman
remarked that the obeervanie of 'hot day would be •
solemn mockery if the humiliation ended there, and
flnally:made a dose personal application of the sub-
ject to the realritDCWl of his hearers. He concluded
with a brief, but earnest and powerful appeal to the costes-
gation on behalf of the special object for which he had under-
taken is plead. For this purpose, adapting and applying to
the orimion the well-known parted • challenge of Scott, he
asked whether there " breathed the man with soul so dead "
as not te eympathise in the eufferings of his fellow-eubjects
in Indio P and said he was convinced there did not live melt
• man, or at least not ouch • Briton. Was there, he con-
tinued, in that arembly a miser so utterly without beast,
that, having had enough and to spare given to him by Gad,
he coull abut up the bowels of rempeerion against those
whose ?datives had been merdered, end who had themselves
escaped, as it were, by the din of their teeth ? No, he
would eel slander them by the supposition that there we.
such a monster present. When the Moe mimed round
let them all give as they could afford. llf the
workfue man could only afford • penny, let him give it.
But they who were rich must not give pence, Many • man
gave what he celled his mite, when if he gore a thee:eland
pounds he would give no more than he could afford. Let all,
then, Fry« according to their ability.
The -ollection was then made, and it was subsequently
aarertailea that the Remote amount obtained wee
17.1 e Ha. 11 Id., in addition to which the Cereal Folsom
Compaay itself gave the liberal contribution of WOOL
The service concluded with the singing of the words.
"Glory, honour, mime, and power," am.; and the usual
brioadicine.

The delivery of the memos nernp'el thirty-eight minntea,
while the entire sonc* was perfism, d within an hoar-and-
s-hall 8o powerful was the rev. acad.-ma's voice that
moons stationed at the (bribed portion of the large
orchestra, the greatest dietanne to which it wee required to
were, except when the speaker's face happened to
Ctettn:naeled in en opposite direction, enabled In hear almost
every word distinctly—en oratorical feat which is, perhaps,
mepsrallad in history,
After the conoluoinn of tbn ermrr • large portion of the
clionwrsed nmeirewation applied theniselww vororoutly to the
renovating ingotwernents of the refreehment department;
and, en the other hand, vast number' muiifedid by their
earroeva to catch an truly return train, that the 11011111011
WY the magnet which had drawn thorn to Sydonhant.
Fmm thy usual official return made by the Crystal Palace
Company, It appears that the admitaiims on payment
amounted to 22,160. and by mason tickets to 1,501; making
• total peasant of 23,661, easily the whale of whom were
during the semke cosafonably aocconnodated is the central
trantept.

INDIAN MUTINY RELIEF FUND.
The following figures chow the results of the col-
lection. made yester&y morning at tbo undermentioned
ehurrhee -St. Luke's, 12/. ; St. Ann'e, Heston, 13!. 14e ;
Spitaltlelde (morning and afternoon), 101. 4e. Bt.
Jude'., Whitechapel, 14/. : Conituarcial-sheet Chapel,
Id. 14s. ; Shoreditch, 61. be. 9,1. Lida/don churches :
Mary's, 431. os. 11d. ; Trinity Church, Clouded/rem/ars,
451. ; Chapel of Peer, Holloway, 481. ; St. Hol-
loway, 761. Is. fd. ; fft. John's, Upper Holloway,
4111.185. 94d. ; St. Mark's, Tollinaton-park, 331.
Paul's, Ball's-pond. 66!. ; Bt. Matthew's, 22!. ; St. Ste-
tteVe, 36!. 9.. ; St. Philip's, 141. ; Christchurch. Hint-
-1021, 24/. 3.. 2d. St. James's Parieh Jamee's Chunk,
14a. 100. ; Archbishop Tenismie Chapel, 191. 10s. ;
Bt. Luke's, 8/. 19.. ; St. Plulip's, 167!. 4s. 6d. ; York-street,
87.6.. ed. ; total Lu St. James's, 2941. 13s. 100.
CanDIFF.-A meeting wu held in the town-hall,
Cardiff, on Monday, in aid of the sufferers by the Indian
mutiny. The Mayor, J. D. Jenkins, Esq., took the chair.
Letters were reed bear the Bishop of Llandaff, Sir G.
Tyler, Captain K. Tynte, Colonel Rhona, and other gentle-
Men. inducing cheque*, and regretting their Inability to at-
tend. The meeting wan addressed by W. 13 Moiled, Esq.,
Rev. T. Stacey, C. C. Williams. Esq., and other gentle-
men. Resolutions of sympathy were passed and • committee
•pointed. It was resolved to bold another meeting on
Thursday (this day).