The Express.
London, England, 1861-05-09 00:00:00

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LONDON, THURSDAY, MAY 9.

IT la • rare thing to see • kindred people,
speaking our language, and brought up in our tra-
ditions, eater upon • conflict which is to determine
whether they shall make good their ancient
Isliertiss‘or yield themselves to ► military despotism
and • state of society in which the modern intellect
and spirit are to be kept in order by worn•out insti-
tutions. It is probable that no man in England
doubts which will be the issue ; but, whichever it
be, it is instructive to note, by the aid of a copious
correspondence, what the citizens are doing in the
various parts of the country on the verge of the
struggle.

The battle of Lexington, of 86 years ago—
the skirmish in which the first blood of the
revolutionary war was shed—has been hitherto

commemorated on its anniversary more diligently
and warmly in New England than beyond it ; but
this year it was devoutly remembered throughout
the Free States, and even in Washington. It was
• day which will not be forgotten, on this side the
grave, by old man or young child ; for nothing
like it has been witnessed by any living generation
in America.

Beginning at the centre, what was the aspect of
Washington on the 19th of April II The tone of
confidence was lower than on the next day, for it
was uncertain how many troops would come from
the North, and how soon, while rumours of
attacks ou all hands grew fiercer and came faster,
in proportion to the alarm. At the great hotels
where everybody boards, the mood of the moment
is infectious, and usually becomes extravagant.
At one "otel everybody was soared, expecting
to bear the tramp of invaders before any
adequate defence was ready ; while at
another everybody was sure that loyalty would
easily conquer rebellion and treachery ; and groups
of the enthusiastic went out to see the shows of
the streets, and admire the perspective of Penn-
sylvania-avenue. High above all was the Capitol—
not deserted because Congress was not sitting, but
echoing with the clang and rattle of arms, and
bristling with sentinels. The interior was a-glow
with fires and lights, and occupied by one of the
first regiments which had arrived. At the railway
stations messengers were crowding in to hear any
news of coming troops. Trembling ladies were
taking their seats in departing trains in batches,
their husbands sending them awry ; and, on the
other hand, ladies were arriving with their hus-
bands—not afraid of encountering the risks ; but
few were arriving in comparison with those de-
parting. Scarcely a palmetto flag or other Southern
emblem was by that time shown anywhere ; but
there was a strong impatience for martial law to
be proclaimed, that the capital might be weeded
of traitors. Meantime the telegraph was wall
watched, and means were at hand for arresting
anyone who might attempt to send news south-
wards. The Treasury clerks were summoned to a
man to take the oath of allegiance, that depart-
ment having lost its character for loyalty.
The PRZZIDEXT and his Cabinet were
witting in soused for hours ; and there
was • crew of patient watchers outside, conveying
intelligence of every messenger who pained out or
is, and every despatch that they fancied they saw
carried, and every guess made as to what the
despatches might contain.
Where next f To Richmond t There seems to
have been more darkness and confusion there than
at say other point in the whole country. On the
whole, the belief seems to be that, at that time,
about three-fourths of the population of Virginia
were opposed to Secession, and that a not much
lonelier number was disposed to be heartily loyal
to the Cuion. The phenomena were keenly
marked and carefully reported. The magistrates
wore an air of mystery, sod talked of a majority
ell 46 for Secession ; but were not believed. Every
111111 of Northern birth or connexions was leaving
in heels ; and a firm width hung out Seismal=
edam took the opportunity of advertising that it
eepsdisted all its debts to Northern men. Money
was se scarce that boluses was at a stand. The
ethane were in dread of the two thousand free
engross belonging to the city, and of some anti-
slavery effort from the western part of the
State. The delay of • month in submitting
the genii= of Secession to the people was con-
sidered suspicious ; and those who dared speak
were saying that it would be treason to the Stale
if the authorities should abet any attempt against
Washington before the choice of a side had been
offered to the people. At Norfolk there was
great bustle about sinking a vessel in the ship-
chiliad, which would have to be taken up again
on requisition within a few hours. Surveyors
were busy, meantime, on the Virginia shore of
the Potomac, planning batteries which should pre-
vent seems by that channel to Washington. North
Carolina is usually the dullest State of the 17nicsa,
bat it is wild with excitement now. Linos of
citizens were drawing the guns which had come
from Charleston to Fort Wilmington, and troops
were marching upon the forts from all parts of the
State. The free negroes were more than watched:
they were pressed ; and pegs of them ware com-
pelled to work on the fortifications, under a vigi-
lant guard. The question was, not of ordering
away all Northern saws, who were going by every
train, but of hanging, in full view, one or two pro-
aliment citizens of Union politics. For the life of
one gentleman in particular there Wen grave fears,
though no avowal of secession had yet been made.
Down the whole lin' • of seaboard States, south
of Maryland, there were prevalent delusiona, pro-
bably derived from Charleston, which were opera-
ting strongly on the popular temper end manners.
There was a sincere and general bad that OM

sem of the Free States could not and would not
really fight ; that they have no bodily etrength,
no spirit, and no courage, because they are work-
ing men in one way or another ; end the Southern
notion of • working man is that be is skeish.
Much of the foolhardinem of the Secession to is
accounted for by this delusion. Another notion is,
that agitators are everywhere tampering with the
aggroes ; and day by day the expectation grows
clearer and stronger of • general negro rising. To
other people it seems probable that there will be
no general rising, because such an arrangement is
beyond the reach of anybody ; but that there will
be JOHN 141..,WNS penetrating every Slave State,
and bidding the negroes run, is the first thing
to be expected after the outbreak of
war. Hitherto the charge of any tamper-
ing with the slaves by Northern Aboli-
tionists has been simply false and absurd ; but
the time will have arrived for, not secret tampering,
but open liberation, if the two sections arrive at
measuring forces. Passing round by the Southern
shores, we see that everywhere the wildest fans,
ticism was raging. Not for self-defence, but in
crusading spirit, the Secession party was preparing
for the march—Methodist and other clergymen
marching at their head, holding the rank of cap-
tains, and proclaiming the scriptural institution of
slavery as their watchword. In Alabama, detach-
ments of labourers swarmed down from the in-
terior, to strengthen the harbour defences of Mo-
bde. Turning up the Mississippi, we come upon •
stone which speaks for itself. Two North-
Western farmers had come down to Natchez with
their boatload of corn, and discharged their cargo on
the wharf. The Vigilance Committee of the town
were down upon them at once, to inquire their poli-
tics. The simple fellows answered by waving their
hate for I.:scuts ; and in the shortest possible time,
their bodies were swinging from two trees on the
opposite shore, where they were a conspicuous
object to steamboat passengers, going up or
down. This is not the way for the hungering
river-States to get corn from the North-West.
There and everywhere through the whole range,
there was a strong party of Union men, heart-
wrung and inwardly raging at what wee done ;
strong. we say, in regard to numbers, but utterly
weak from terror. In the midst of the general
hubbub they were secluding themselves at home,
or arranging, in secret consultation, how long they
should wait before they should attempt to assert
their political free will.
As for the Free States, they are in the first en-
joyment of their new liberty of utterance, their
new patriotism, their new harmony. All party
differences are at an end for the time, and the
wranglers of the day before were that day marching
shoulder to shoulder. Among the incidents were
the formation of a oast guard for Massachusetts
Bay—a provision which has • ring of the last
century in it. In New York, and other chief
cities, there were movements to ensure a con-
tinuance
of pay to all clerks who should volunteer
for the war ; to induce life insurance offices to re-
move, for the occasion, the prohibition of risk in
warfare ; to form a naval brigade in emulation of
the British one ; and to institute a Patriotic
Fund. COLT'S Company had issued an Ordi/LISICS
to sell no revolvers to the South or Southern
applicants. Students were singing Union songs
in the streets : *Aims of fifty and upwards
were forming themselves into volunteer garrisons
to defend their towns while their sons marched
away. Wealthy merobants were offering their
ships, houses, and funds to the Federal Govern-
ment. Nurses were advertising their willingness
to attend the wounded. Tailor', and women with
sewing-machines, were toiling day and night to
provide outfits for the troops. Church bells were
chiming stirring airs or moving old psalm tunes ;
and the national flag was flying from every steeple,
and flapping in every street, and fluttering from
every green hill top in rural New England. Ladies
displayed the tricolour in their dress, and gentle-
men wore it in cockades. In the great squares of
the cities cheers were going up all day long as the
regiments marched through from Northern die-
tricts ; and in solemn churches in quiet back
streets the voice of the preacher told to awe-
stricken hearers bow the warnings of the Apoca-
lypse were now to be fulfilled.

The change is in some respects great since the
day of the Battle of Lexington ; but there are
points of resemblance which will make this parti-
cedar anniversary memorable and heart-stirring,
in all future time, to those who witnessed it.
Before it closed, blood had been shed, not in
battle, but yet for the cause of the country. It
was the day of the riot at Baltimore, when the
citizens in their houses were loyal, and the mob in
the streets all for rebellion. At Lexington the
skirmish was ignoble and unwished for, but great
consequences ensued. It may be so *pia.

THg INDIAN FAMINE RICLIC7 Ft/MM.—The total
amount remitted by the Laud Mayor is aid of the lath=
Panties Relief Tiled sp to Let miming wee seedy 10.0001.
The subscriptions tholes yesterday amounted to about
1,3001., Melodies 1001. from Earl fritawilliam sad • far.
• isstabossit of 901)i. from Blackburn.
Ftsmistee' PIUNISRVATION ANADCIATION. —An ad-
jimmied meeting of the members of this seely•fornied rem
adios was bald yesterday at the Theteherbboues INteuddi
Bt. Jameismreet, ler the purpose of taking into considers-
ties • elide of rules and :opiate= whisk had bees draws
up by • provisional eonmettse appointed sr the mestiss
IMs week Lord thiless, president of the ammistion,
tea the chair. Mr. Pram* the seeretary, bevies reed
the mbestes of the lot smiting, the chairman thus mo-
wed the rules serisths„ widths were adopted with • few
verbal ellerslismk end of which the following is • held
elleaset r—The essedstien w sonsiot of hie, ordiesry, red
bastamay mershere, • payment of 101. 10s. sesstitedass •
Mk =mbar ; erdissey seembses to y le. item asesse.
Ilsbenriptione te_ be pal in mimeos dm so the
ef May. Geoceml metier to to held twice raiser. The
*sole sentemploted by Ms eseseistioo en—te repwwt
the &bides of the sort and /Mee of the Ueded
se es to imereme the soppily of tick
preosseins the therusties of itheries from the
the employment of 'whim'? sad
seethe& et peithedidol to the betenete of the
thiewies ; the pelieting
iii;* of 3411111111 ; the
espethetion of menesmomble mot of ebesnenes of
repos else* times while the I.k are breeding ; sad te or
anew by an pessible meens the psethise and prointhisike
of the era ef piesistheme The Mama reported Mat Mr.
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AIII;XIATION roe THE Rzuwr or nu nut
Awo Miss.—The annual meeting rd this smociatka was
held yve.erday in the lecture thratre of the PolytecLuic In.
stitation, Regeet-street —Lord :ogertra, N.P., ill the chair.
The Secretary read the ort, which gave a very interesting
deerriptios of the proceWiege of the society, but regetted
that from the low state of the feed' they had lost the sec•
vises of one of their ablest missionaries, Yr. Rind, who had
been with them for 31 years. It was, however, hoped that
the liberality of the public would enable the society again to
even Welt ef that gestlernan's services. They had them
districts to look after, and funds were greatly required. It
wee exasidered that although the income from subscriptions
end dimations had been abi.ut the mme as last year, it would
have beep lamer had not the flow of benevolence been di-
' meted by the raisin of funds for building the chapel, hr.
The adoption of the report was moved by Lord Ebury,
weeded by the Right on. Joseph Napier, and carried.
Mem. Whateley, IL Miler, Rev. Mr. Smith, and others,
bawls( add-eased the meeting, a vote of thanks to the chair-
man concluded the meeting. An interesting feature in the
lop was the interpretation, by the clerical secretary,
rtheTddeal and dumb portion of the audience of what wee
pawing by the means of the dumb alphebet.
The twelfth anniversary meeting of the society
for establishing and maintaining missions is connexion with
the saahlished church for the convey ion of the Roman
catholics of Ireland was held yesterdey at St. James's.
hall. The Bishop of Ripoo, the Rev. W. Tate, of Rugby.
Rev. W. C. Pluukett, Rev. A. Drake, Majeelleseral
Alixander, aod many other prominent supporters of the
missioes wan upon the platform.

Cbt Court.

WHITS LODGE. RICRICOMNPABIC, lln IL
. Her ihkisety and the Prince Common drove out
yesterday wissains, and itt the aftlisoosrjter Majesty spin
went out Melo& acfewspauied Helms and
Princes, Louise. -

The Prince Consort rode on horsebeek. attended by
Major du Plat, and visited the Cambridge Asylum for
Soldiers' Widows at Kiugston•on•Thams.

Prime Arthur and Prince Leopold, Mteoded by Major
Elphinstone, visited her Majesty, and returned to London.

Her Majesty's Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1862
have received information that the following arrangements
have been made in foreign countries to reprinest the inte-
rests of intending exhibitor,.
Portugal —A commission bas been formed, of which his
Majesty the King Dom Fernando IL is president, and
Counsellor Jeaquim Lusher, directorgenenl of the De-
partment of Commerce and Manufactures, is secretary.
Belgium. —A conuniesion of eighteen influential gentle-
men has been formed, of which Lenient Dulien, chef de
bureau an ministers de l'interieur, in the secretary.
Wortemburg. —Doctor von Steinbels, director of theC'entonl
Board of Commerce and Industry, will repeverent this state.
In Baden.—The Grand Ducal Department of Commerce
glanders Ministerium).
In Hess Crawl.—The Commission Electorate of Com-
merce and Industry at Cassel.

In Labeck.—Tie Town Office, Stadt Amt, will act m

Her Majesty's Commissioners held a meeting at their
offices in the Strand yesterday.

A deputatioo, consisting of Sir B. Grogan, Bart., Mr.
li'Mahon, M.P., Mr. Sumoll, Mayor of Wexford; Mr.
Walker, deputy-lieutenant county of Wexford ; Alderman
Green, Aldermen Sheen, Dr. Madan, Mr. Pitt, and Mr.
Waddy, had an interview with the Bight 800. PrederieJt
Peel, yesterday, at the Trteaury.
Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial-office to
the Governors of the Falklaad Islands and Canada.

AMERICA.

(iv rs. szvria's mass.) -
NEW YORK, Ana 26, 2 r 44
(Per North Briton vie Londonderry.) .
Four New York regiments have arrived at
Washington.

The capital is supposed to be strong enough to
resist any attack.

The route from Annapolis to Washington is kept
open by federal troops.
The Baltimore railroad communication is still
interrupted.

Fort Smith, in Arkansas, with property of the
estimated value of 800,000 dole., has been taken by
the state troops. The confederate flag has been
hoisted on the fort.

The governor of New York has made a call for
twenty-one additional regiments.
The public buildings in Washington have been
barricaded.

The governor of Delaware has responded to Pre-
sident Lincoln's call for troops.

(most otia cent coaassrosnswr.)
PARIS, WIDNIIISDAY EVINING.
• The evening papers state, in their "Latest
News," that the French and English cabinets have
agreed to tender their good offices to the German
Diet for the settlement of the question of the
duchies. The same journals are furnished with a
paragraph making a great fuss about the military
preparations going on, at Malta.
The Bourse continues dull, and, so far from re-
covering the fall of yesterday, has sustained a fur-
ther decline. The Reute fell 5c., both for cash and
account, dosing at 69fr. 25c. and 69fr. 20c. Me-
ttler fell 31r. 75c. The Southern Railway rose sfr.
and Lyons lfr. 25c., but the other lines fell from
lfr. 25c. to 2fr. 50c. The Caisse Mires recovered
from 82fr. 50c. to 82fr. 65c. The Syrian question
is still unsettled ; the possible occupation of St.
Jean d'Acre by the English is much talked of. To-
morrow being Ascension-day there will be no
Bourse.

The Opinion Nationale regrets to see a journal
like the Debate countenancing the Spanish usurpa-
tion of San Domingo.
In consequence of the abuses of the protectoral
authority, brought to light in a particularly strik-
ing manner by the Corps Legielatif in the .course
of their inquiries into the recent elections in Savoy,
M. de Persignythae addressed a circular to the
prefects defining their duties—and, it is to be
hoped, enjoining them to interfere less than they
have hitherto been in the habit of doing.
The Pharr de la Loire of Nantes says (but wo
have not yet heard the news in Paris on any other
authority) that the privilege long since granted to
Englishmen, of entering Prance without a pass-
port, is now extended to Swedes and Norwegians.
Prince Napoleon has returned to Paris, from his
newly-acquired property, the Prangins estate, in
Switzerland.

The French Academy has not yet been able to
award the Emperor's prize of 20,000 fr. At an ad-
journed meeting yesterday the following close di-
vision took place :—For Jules Simon, 7 ; George
Sand, 6 ; Henri Martin, 6. Neither name having
rallied such a majority as the rules require, the
election is again adjourned.
M. Thomas Garcia, a wealthy member of the
Spanish Chamber of Deputies, was going along the
Rue Rivoli yesterday in a carriage, when, finding
the way blocked up by a press of vehicles, he feared
an accident and jumped out. In so doing be
dropped a pocket-book containing 60,000 fr. in bank-
notes, and a letter of credit for 200,000 fr. The
pocket-book, with its valuable contents, was picked
up by a sergent-de-ville named Louis Bordel,
who took it to the commissary of police, by whom
it was restored to the owner.

A new pamphlet by M. Veuillot, with the catch-
ing title of " Waterloo," is advertised to come out
this week.

The art of puffing is assiduously cultivated in
England, but I think the French continue to beat
us in it. Here is an instance :—A young lady of
the Faubourg St. Germain, named Mdlle.
doubtless belonging to a rich family, is about to be
married, and the maker of her wedding dresses bap
found means to get the following paragraph inserted
in the Patric :
Tbs Viseountem de Removals requests us to announce
that she hes mesa, in the house of Lebow). and Henneveu,
56, Rue du Bas, MIL Meioulle's trousseau, and that she
will write as amount of ft in her next " Courrier de la
Mode." The troumeau will be exhibited to the public oa
May 10 sad IL

Happy French shopkeepers ! Where will you
find in London a viscountess who will sign her name
to a long description of one particular young lady's
dresses ; and where will you find a young lady just
going to be married who will ask the vulgar million
to come and inspect her crinoline, stays, and
petticoats 'I
Mr. Cobden has arrived in Paris, and alighted
at the Hotel Maurice.