The Express.
London, England, 1861-07-18 00:00:00

TO OUR READIR&

SPORTING thrrnuomws.

A late olition of the &prim is published °rimy
ereuirg duriug the mein moos, containing the
re:wits of the day's Thew

Tar news from America confirms the expecta-
tions expressed by most careful observers on this
aide the Atlantic, in face of the rumours of com•
promise transmitted from New York by successive
mails. There can now be no doubt that the whole
power of the Free States will be put forth to
preserve the nationality and constitution of the
United States. In this policy the Government
will be sustained, irrespective of party connexions,
by statesmen eminent for their moderation—

even by those who have been not unjustly
accused of sacrificing throughout their public
career to Southern usurpation. The language of
such a man as the Hon. EDIVALD Evenrrr
on this subject may be regarded as
representative. In a letter to a correspondent at
Virginia which ha. been published, Mr. Evaaerr,
after observing that he had sustained the South at
the almost total sacrifice of influence and favour
at home, as long as he thought she was pursuing
constitutional courses, denounces the wanton and
piratical %mune taken by the seceding States.
lie scornfully rejects the notion that the confede-
rates can be "let alone," as they ask, while they
claim the control of the outlet of Chesapeake Bay
and its tributaries, the right to command the
most direct route to the Atlantic from Ohio,
Indiana, and Illinois—States whose population
amounts to five and a half millions—
the right to dragoon the State of Mary-
land and the western part of Virginia,
with Kentucky, Missouri, and Tennessee into
joining the Southern Confederacy ; the right to
occupy the fortresses which protect the trade of
the Gulf of Mexico ; the right to shut up the
outlet of the Ohio, Mississippi, and the Missouri;
and, finally, the right, for any State that chooses
to pass a law to that effect, to break up the Union.
After exposing the monstrous and unheard-of cha-
racter of these usurpations, he concludes :—" Cir-
cumstances, as you well know, bad led me to form
personal friendly relations at the South, more ex-
tensively than most Northern men, and the sup-
port given, especially in the border States, to the
ticket on which my name was borne at the late
election, filled me with gratitude. If the sacrifice
of all I have could have averted the present
disastrous struggle, I could have made it
willingly, joyfully ; but I pray you believe
me that I speak not only my own
conviction, but that of the entire North, when
I say that we feel that the conflict has been
forced upon us, to gratify the aspirations of am-
bitions men ; that it is our duty to ourselves, to
our children, and to the whole people, to sustain
the Government; and that it is, if possible, more
the interest of the South than of the North that
this attempt to break up the Union should fail."
There can be no doubt that Mr. Luieous will be
sustained t, the very utmost in upholding the au-
thority of thu United States Government.

THE general results of the Census of Ireland
for 1861 are before us ; and if those of the cor-
responding enumeration of the people of England
and Wales were striking and instructive, these
which relate to the sister island are still more so.
During a decennial period in which, as the Commis-
noners observe, " the country was remarkably free
"from any outbreak of famine, pestilence, or of other
" social calamities which have retarded the growth
"of population in this and other countries," the
total number of inhabitants has declined from
6,552,385 in the year 1851 to 5,764,543, being
• decrease of more than three-quarters of a
million, being at tho rate of more than 12 per
cent. The first and the most significant feature of
the case is that the decline of numbers, though une-
qual in different places, is found in each of the
four province; in each of the three great religious
denominations, in every county except one, and
in every town except two. Between 1841
and 1851, the population of Ireland had
diminished from 8,175,124 to 6,552,385;