The Express.
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THE CUTLERS' FEAST.

MR. REVERDY JOYINSON'S first public appear-
ance in England, at the Sheffield Cutlers' Feast,
confirms most happily all the hopes and expecta-
tions that saluted his appointment on both sides
of the Atlantic. Nothing could be more cordial,
or more decided, than his language with respect to
the character and the objects of his mission to this
country. " I come to you," he said, "as a mes-
" senger of peace. That messenger I moan to be.
" I could not be otherwise if I carried out
'• the instructions of my government." The cheers
which greeted these words at Sheffield will be
echoed throughout the British islands, and that
unity of sentiment and purpose which ought, ac-
cording to the American Minister, to be " indivi-
" sible," founded as it is on community of blood,of
language, and of freedom, will, we fully believe,
be more and more strengthened and secured in
proportion to the growth of national
and popular as opposed to sectional and
oligarchical power among us. It was mainly due
to the persistent sympathy of the great body
of the British people with the cause of the
American Union that peace between the United
States and Great Britain was maintained during
the civil war, and the recognition of the slavehold-
ing confederacy by our governing classes averted.
When the newly enfranchised eleaors come to feel
their power and to exert it at a general election
we believe the foreign policy of England will
finally abandon the old diplomatic tradition of
entangling European alliances, and join hands
with our kinsmen in the New World for the de-
fence of the common civilisation. Mr. ROEBUCK,
whose eloquence is always a tonic and appetising
bitter at a feast, struck a note of his own on this
occasion, and as usual thenote, if not abeolutelydis-
cordant, was somewhat inharmonious. He described
the American Minister as the representative of
" the haughty offspring of a haughty parent,"
which seems to suggest that the people of both
countries are made in the image of Mr. ROEBUCK.
Referring to the Reform Bill and the new con-
stituencies, Mr. ROEBUCK characteristically enough
describes the change in terms of apprehension if
not of dislike. Just as he voted for Mr. GLAD-
STONE'S Irish Church Resolutions after making a
speech into which he had condensed every argu-
ment and every prejudice against them that could
possibly occur to Mr. GLADSTONE'S angriest oppo-
nents, so he enlarges at the Cutler's Feast on the
dangers of this LAPerintent of enfranchising the
ratepaying householders. " The goveniment
" of this country," h says, " is now in Ow hands of
" the working classes. 'We most not. conceal this
fact from ourselves." If Mr. Romices means
by the " working classes" the 111411 who earn wages