The Express.
London, England, 1857-08-28 00:00:00

LONDON, I,laDdir, AUGUST 28.

Os the 20th of ffeySirHExav loorawct wrote,
from Locknorr, ' a Sir HICGII WM:6Ln, it COMO-

pore, " You arc a pillar of strength to us at this
juncture." In little more than a month both of these
pillar* of the British empire in India bad fallen.
WtLcovone r, the brave and modest—Wit,
LOVOBBY, w ho tired the powder magazine at Delhi
—is no e. There have been other, though less
important, lenses in high quarters. ANSON has
already b een followed by BARN ARD ; and both of the
two iner .pables who faltered in the face of mutiny
at Anne .ngabad and Benares appear to have retired
on the plea of sickness. There is reason to fear for
the survivor.. NulL, worthy to be • fellow-
eeldvs of LAWRENCE and WHEELER, WIN

bought almost to the doors of death while
wialdng his heroic exertions for the defence
of Allahabad and the relief of Cawnpore.
And both at Delhi and Allahabad disease
would appear to have occasioned more deaths among
the rank and file of our European army than the
mutineers. It is this thought that weighs upon the
heart of the nation whenever India is mentioned.
Tribe the mutineers recoil and reel backward when-
ever they are compelled to cross bayonets with the
loyal troops. But battle, pestilenoe,and famine con-
spire against the European nucleus of that portion
of the soldiery upon whom we can rely, and unless
their numbers be speedily augmented they may melt '
away even in the midst of victories. It is this
that makes every earnest man writhe with
impatience when the flippant mouthpieces of
Government, in the Press or in Parliament, prate
about the great things to be done when the army,
now scattered in small detachments over the ocean,
shall assemble in India in the cool season of the
year. Let us see : the first troop-ship for India
sailed from England on the last of June. Since that
time troopships have been taking their departure
almost daily for Calcutta and Eurrachee. The average
voyage to India round the Cape cannot be estimated
under three months. About the end of Sep-
tember the first reinforcements may begin to
reach Calcutta and Kurraeher, and they will
keep dropping in there throughout the menthe
of October, November, and December. But Weeps
cannot be forwarded from Calcutta to Allahabad, or
from Kurrschee to Mooltan, in less than three weeks.
It will, therefore, be the beginning of Numb.
before the first driblets of these vaunted refialherm•
meets reach the theatre of war. Our rues? Nee*
accounts from that quarter reach only to the IMMO
of July. What egrets may not battle, retilence,
and famine have wrought in the course ef three
months upon the small European force that is se
gallantly making head against insurgent multitudes?
Vutrs, give me back my legions," Aura:nes is
said to have cried in his sleep, after the slaughter
of the Romans in the insurrection of the
Germans on the Lower Rhine. In like manner,
England, while tossing in the dreams of distempered
sleep, may, ere long, call in vain for those gallant
legions whose bones may then whiten all the region
of Hiodostan.

We would not have our readers imagine that we
have for one moment doubted the re-conquest of Hin-
dustan. Having from the first moment of the
mutiny looked the danger full in the free, we know
that strong thanes the ineargenb be they are unable
to contend against the might of England. If any
one will take the map of India in hie hand
be will see at a glance over how much
territory the mutiny extends in its full
power. About Disarm., he will see the Ganges
venires two cemeklerable aMuents—the Saone from
the south, and the Coors or Dewitt from the north.
To the east of these rivers the mutiny has proved
impotent. Again, except at Delhi, Muttre, Neemon,
Nameerabad, and moms ether points, the annum
have been suable to mats any imposing display on
the west of the lawn The region in which revolt
is nun is bounded by the Janina on the west, by
the Saone and the Ocigra on the east. The spirit of
inminection has not caught the Hill tribes on the
lower acclivities of the Himalaya, on the
north = nor does it appear to ban yet made as-
rims inroads on any district south of the
Nerbudda. The region within which England has
to trample oat the fiancee and spina of insurrection
is distinctly defined. It is a wide and populous
region, but England has repeatedly grappled sae-
cessfully with more dangerous antagonists en mow.

Tn. present state of Religion Liberty in Swedes
b a scandal to that faith which has the Bible fee its
foundation, and the free exercise of the right of
private lodgment for its impregnable defense. :
By the laws of Sweden, exile b the punish-
meat of all who diment hum the Whom
Church; all functionaries high and low, in or
oat of Sweden, are sompelied ems a year to
testify their oostinued atlbseenee to it by taking the '
seerement noway to its ritual 1 and Swedes me-
sombling together hr weeskip elsewhere than in its
shandies ere Hebb to imprisonment on lined and
water. Nee are these obsolete lawn. They are in
wadi fell rigour that nemisel esammity at hest is
strictly entered in Sweden. Nay, a recent attempt
to meaty them lawn, sad to introduce to some mall
extent theprinelpis and pasties of ragtime liberty,
he been reissink &hawk resseemended to the Dist
by the Itso ; se that Sweden hes net the MOM
et merely retaining ell logidaties in hoe leatans
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