The Express.
London, England, 1861-05-02 00:00:00

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LONDON, THURSDAY, MAY 2.

Tim news from America which we publish this
morning shows how much the intensity of the war
feeling prevailing in the opposed States has been
underrated in this country. The course of future
e v cute is beyond human foresight, buts better know-
ledge of American character than has been mani-
fested might have been expected of some who
have to this moment treated the antagonism of the
Free and Slave States of the Union as a alight
matter to be terminated iu some facile compromise.
The secession of Virginia, which we anti-
cipated last Saturday as the probable news of the
next mail, has become a fact, not by the act ci
the people, for it is extremely doubtful whether a
majority could be obtained for such a proposition,
but by the act of the Governor, and a mob of the
Eastern section of the State, which has always
sympathised with the extreme party at the South.
In proportion to the illegality and usurpation of
his conduct is the virulence of the Governor's heati-

litytothe Federal administration. He has signalized I
his choice of a side by sinking vessels in order
to Mock up Norfolk Harbour, in which is the
United States navy yard of Gosport, doubtless in-
tending to destroy the material there. A body of
armed Virginians has also attacked the Federal
arsenal at Harper's Ferry, but the bravery of its
small bend of defenders defeated their object, for
rather than let the armoury with its arms and
manufactory fall into the hands of the enemy, they
set fire to the whole, and withdrew, with slight I
loss, into friendly Pennsylvania. The Government
of North Carolina, instead of sending the
contingent required by Mr. Lnicour, has secured
the forts in that State for the Secessionists ; and
in Maryland, or at least in Baltimore, the South-
ern party are sufficiently strong to carry out an '
attack upon Massachusetts troops on federal duty,
in which eleven persons have loud their lives. The
Governor of the State has forbidden the passage to
Washington to troops of the United States, sod the
more effectually to carry out the same purpose, the
bridges between Baltimore and Washington have
been destroyed. The North, however, no longer
allows the seceders a monopoly of vigour. Its
measures are taken. Washington cannot now be
surprised. From all parte troops are arriving to
defend that city. All the porta of the seceded
States are declared under blockade, and the trans-
poet of provisions or arms to the South is inter-
dicted. The Slave States have now in their turn
to learn the calamities of the war they have so
wantonly provoked. Even with the plunder of a
Federal Mint in hand, and with the millions they
owe to New York withheld, they are straitened.
The Free States, rich in men and money, are united
as one man, and all political differences are con-
signed to forgetfulness in the determination to
uphold the old free constitution against a haw-
born confederacy of slave-driven
The preponderating resources of the North
are in the hands of able and honest men.
Mr. Uncut:4 is trusted as no President has
been of laid years; Mr. CA)/ EKON is an energetic
War Minister ; Mr. Ceu,e has proved a most
successful financier ; more than all, the people
are prepared for any sacrifice which the com-
mon cause may require. It ia idle to bewail
this conflict ; although its date was uncertain it
was inevitable from the time when the South,
taking the enslavement of men for its most che-
rished distinction, began to develop its laws, insti-
tutions, social economy, and life, and even its
religion and morals, in a direction contrary to the
whole genius of a free Republic. A despotic
oligarchy, as the people of the South
chine to become, could not dwell in lasting
union with • true democracy like that of the
North. The worshippers of aristocratic govern-
ment may tell us, for the thousandth time, that
the great democratic experiment of the Anglo-
Saxon race has Wed because it could not find a
place for the heterogeneous elements abundant in
the Slave States ; but, if the Free States have
the virtue to terminate this war without coming
to a compromise of the principles of the Union,
we for our parts shall rejoice that, instead of
assimilating those detestable elements, they are
prepared, even by a sacrifice, to expel them and
recover their own pristine virtue.

CAN nobody frame for the Tories an amend-
ment for which they can all vote together f I
Here upon the eve of an engagement which they
themselves declare must prove the decisive battle
of the session, we find them squabbling about
the road by which they are to march to the attack,
and about the flag they are to follow. HUBBARD
won't give way to Holoirsii., and Hossrat.i. won't
give way to HUBBARD. The Liverpool broker
wants to make sure of cheapened tea, while the
London banker wants to prove a theorem of high
finance. Let us bid for the grocers in the country
towns fivepenco a pound off congou, says
one, and if all comes to the worst wo shall win
seats at next general election. Let us assert a great
financial principle, says another ; let us declare that
remission of taxes should never exceed the surplus
available within the current year; weshall then only
have to keep up the expenditure to its present
point, and may defy Retrenchment and
Bewildered Tories go about begging of
some one to tell them what they are to do. If
they could only know which ticket would win, or
which afforded the best chance of winning x We
are sorry for their sakes to be constrained to tell
them their search is in vain. The thing is not
to be done ; the Budget is not to be beaten ; and