The Express.
London, England, 1857-10-02 00:00:00

etc expreoA.

TO CORRISPONDINTL
11••••10.we muse. leg "The Itarsea.° Laolas &Wag papa,
it at ata• MON 10. Ilenerberirerl. by Two (Mut an Ye
Of el righeas.

~rd■N~ 11.sinak 11111 110111118. liamr•
asdiChkgrraytetTNlS ATE11:17.:8.9114:. U. "AM
TIE GALIOI.I3 Flllll.—Ommeass T. ---

11111TIngtaill.
111,7WZ.—0 TILATIATA. W —Yd
QUIET

HIGH WATII AT LONDON DRIDOL
Tee o..—Mesa.. iI. LW. Aftanirs. 111..
foregumr—rignisi. I. Marsima.

LONDON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2.

Tne mueh-talked•of interview of the Emperor of
the FRENCH and the Emperor of All the Rtotne,

the banquet', the fetes, the illuminations of Stutt-
gardt, the private conferences of the two Sovereigns,
art over. One object of Louts NArOLEON in
paying the visit was, it is said, to bring
about a better understanding between England
and Russia. If this were so, we moat accept
the intervention in the spirit in which i

was intended, as another contribution to the tran-
quillity of Europe. But one thing we would ven-
ture to point out to our Imperial Ally. In one of
those conversations with Sir HAMILTON SEYMOUR.,
which the public of England required the publica-
tion of, the late CZAR remarked that he was well
aware it was not, on great occasions, the Sovereign
ar the Cabinet of England be had to deal with, but
the English nation. And this is the truth. Lord
CLULNDON may ignominiously fritter away the
Treaty of Paris on such minor, although far from
unimportant, questions as commercial intercourse
with Cirvassia. But the policy of England towards
Russia is a popular question, on which, if Lord
CLiariccox run counter to popular opinion, he will
soon ems to be Foreign Minister.
Now, with Russia as Russia, that is, within its
own dominions, as • Government attending to and
devoted to the development of the great resources of
its own territories, we in England desire nothing but
peace, friendship, and good relations. But that is
not the aspect which Russia presents to Europe ;
those are not the limits or the duties to which she
confines herself. We see the Czar Atramsnest pur-
suing in Germany the same policy as that the Csar
NICIWLAA so fatally pursued. We find him not
only confirming but extending his influence over the
petty States. And we know that it is this influence
which prevents and retards the growth, the happi-
ness, the prosperity, and, shove all, the liberties and
nationality of Germany. We see gradually approach-
ing the period when the Daniah Crown and the mouth
of the Baltic will fall to the artificially acquiredinhe-
ritance of a prince, German in title, but Russian in
reality. Weer., in fact, nothing changed or d iminished
in Russia but its finances and its military strength.
And, although we do not desire to rush into another
war, until on all these points Russia is other than she
now is, the people of England will regard that Power
with jealousy, suspicion, and dislike; and in the
main the policy of the English Government will
have to accord with the feelings of the English
Nation. It is not a Revolt in India, however painful,
and even alarming, that can change the views of the
nation, or alter the policy of the State.

Am* a delay attributable to the absence of the
Court and Cabinet from London, a Fast Day has
been appointed sad an appropriate Service prepared.
The Farm of Prayer, which was published in our co-
lumns on Wednesday, will no doubt have met with
genoaral approval, as upon the whole an adequate ex-
pression of those solemn feelings with which the more
earnest part of the nation is at this momentous crisis
pervaded. Few will hesitate to join in expressions
of penitence, both for what we have done and for
what we have left undone in India; to implore that
the natives of British India may learn to prise the
blessings of our supremacy, and that " our empire in
" that distant land may be established on a surer
" foundation than heretofore." Nose will dispute
the propriety of the petition which asks direction
for • the counsels of those who rale in this hour of
" danger." AU will join cordially in offering
prayers and intercessions for " our armies now
"engaged in defence of their Sovereign's right
s. and of the lives of our brethren who are
"in peril through violence and treachery"—all,
as w ith one heart and soul, will respond to the sup-
pli,ations offered for the fatherless and widows, that
their hearts may be " lifted up towards that heavenly
" kingdom where pain, and sorrow, and war, and
" hatred shall be no more." No Christian man ran
dispute the perfect propriety of the petition which
asks for mercy " even on those who have shown no

" mercy," and all may earnestly join in the desire that
those who have risen against us may be delivered
from that blind superstition " which has encouraged
" their murderous rebellion." It is, mmeorer,
quite fitting and right, that among these peti-
tions for the future, acknowledgments for past
goodnras should not be forgotten, and that due
thankfulness should he expressed for the abundance
of the harreet sad the internal tranquillity of the
kingdom.

There is nothing, we thick, in any portion of this
Servtee which will not command the ready assent of
the vast majority of these for whale use it ham been
framed. We arino doubt in India the victims of as un-
justifiable a revolt as ever bent on a people, and
this revolt is mainly directed against us as Chris-
tians. For this treason, and all its cruelties and

__-
atrocities, punishment must be inflicted and propi-
tiation offered. This is oar bit consideration.
But we must not forget that, in India especially,
oftentimes " we have done those things which we
ought not to have done, and left undone those
" things which we ought to have done." In praying
for victory and protection for ourselves, we do so, not
in a vindictive or a Selfish spirit, but that we may be
enabled to restore peace and prosperity, and to shed
among the peoples of Asia the blinking* of civilisa-
tion and true religion. There may be great diffe-
rences of opinion amongst us as to how far or bow
actively we ought to play the past of missionaries of
the Gospel in India ; but no human being can, we
apprehend, have any doubt that philanthropy is
more concerned than ambition in the success of our
arms.

The cue of India is not that of a natiou or a people
asserting their independence and rising to free them-
selves of their conquerors. If it were, the world
would have some sympathy with the revolt, even'
though it shrank with horror from the crime of the
revolters. It is, on the contrary, the case of a
pampered and trained soldiery seeking to substitute
nit license and its ravages for the peace which we,
through its agency, maintained ; seeking to throw
back the cultivation, the industry, and the property
of the country under the plunder, pillage, and
servitude of the sword. It is a military rebellion,
the triumph of which would bring on the native
population woe and horror such as it has just
inflicted on us. No doubt we are fighting
for ourselves in India; but we fight more
for others. Leaving India to-morrow, we should
remain great and powerful, a civilised and pros-
perous nation, a first-rate European Power.
But we should leave 130,000,000 of people to a fate
at which humanity shudders. We seek, therefore,
to re-establish our authority in India, because we
have great duties to perform there from which it
would be misery and degradation to shrink, duties
ripen whose vital importance to the welfare of those
we rule, this terrible insurrection has thrown a new
and lurid light.
And now one word to the Clergy, by whose pulpit
ministrations this solemn service is to be brought
home to the hearts of the people. The only hint we
shall venture to give, and it is one applying more
especially to those whose sphere of duty lies amid
poorer districts and rustic populations, is simply
this—to speak plain. Let those who are de-
void of literary culture, who have not the
r time or ability to read those vivid narratives of
the horrors and the heroism of this war
which have filled the columns of the peer and
roused the zeal of the educated—let them learn some
plain, stem facts, conveyed in the simple and
, striking language of nature and troth, about this
war—about the sufferings of their countrymen and
countrywomen, and the need their country has of
their services.

The pulpit is never so influential as when it con-
descends to be interesting. The successful preacher
is he who, without violating taste, discards conven-
tion. If old LATIYER had had to preach a Fast Day

sermon on such an occasion es this, he would have
raised more recruits for this war against the heathen
than all the Sergeant KITES from the Land's End to
John o'Oreats. And he would have done this by
speaking out and thrusting home. No didactic
generalities; but Delhi, and Cawapore, and HAVE-
LOCK, would have done his work. Let our clergy
take the hint. The oblation of stout hearts and
ready arms will not be the worst test of the sincerity
with which their congregations humble themselves
in this solemn service. The young Englishman.
who, while he implores GOD'A aid for his country,
withholds his own, will not be an inatance of the

soccer with which his spiritual teacher has improved
the ooemims of this Fut Day.

gbe Court.

-
BALMORAL, SIP?. 30.
The tansen drew out yesterday, ecoloysaled by the
Ninon Revel and Prince Albed, and attended by Lady
Chiteel UM. Oenek 11.10.
The Memo party wee inal to the leitsa and gentlemen
dthe mite. Ls the wee invited Lord and lily
Ratemen end the Ran. Wes , Mules- General Via-
com* Wevflle, Mt..d Mrs. sal Weer Farquharson,
the How Mrs. A. Omits, Mr Frederlek and Lady Titoism
mid Wee Maker, lb. and Mrs. (Moro Hope and Mime
Rope, the an. R. Eliot, Mr. and Mrs. [)mdse, Mr. A.
Lanky (2nd Lite (ieerds), CmpWa Farquharson (Scots Fo-
Oise Gortia), Mr. 0. Facquharsoo, and Mr. J. A.
Farquharson.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the
oecial residence of the First Lord of the Treasury,
in Downing-street. The Ministers present were—
Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl
Granville, the Earl of Harrowby, Sir George Grey,
the Earl of Clarendon, Mr. Secretary Labouehere,
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Charles
Wood, the Right Has. R. Vernon Smith, and the
Right Han. M. T. Baines.

Degatelate ware natelved et the Celesisl•ofilce yesterday
Iteaa the Gatemen et Hoag Leo& Ceylon, and abnan.
Demealelme pm ant le lb. Ocorareors el the Weet India
Wanda.

His Royal Highness Prince Alfred (rays the
AMrdeee longs() was peetridp 'booting in Beater Bat-
man and Molt of Tandems, end bed smallest sport. Both
os Bawds). and Marley the Prince Caron was deer stalk.
lag, bat, like (Alma epottinaes, be Reel occasionally etabruit
'to bad hack. Not a 'nig wee to In ewe either of the two
days. HET Majesty received es Monday evening, by special
elpreiss from Aberdeen, telegraphic despatches containing
the nicest news from India.

RLTt RN OF FIRE COURT FROM TEL NORTH.-
The Queen, the Prince Consort, and the Royal Fatally and
snits will Mara from &Wend on the 14th hut., but ft is
understood that, oaring be the continued fadispodtion of Earl
Fitswilliarn, the intended royal visit to Wentworth House
will be poerpotted. I ler Royal !Delmer the Duchess of
Kant and Suite will proceed from Eilintniegb to York to-day
(Friday), and from York to Windsor by epr-ial trr'i to-
inornsw.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge
and the Primer Mary, attended by Mare Home Pones and
Lady Geraldine Somenet, lean to-day fur Heaton Hall, near
Manchester, to honour the Earl and Countess of Wilton by
a Irk&

Prince and Princess A. C. Czartoryski leave the
Bresseirk Hotel, Jerroyn-street, to•morrow, for Paris.

•
The Duke and llueheal of Sutherland have during
the last few weeks entertained a encression of distinguished
bind. st Dunrobin Castle, N.B. Awing thc pleats bays
►eea Go Due of Newcastle and Lady Susan Pelham Clinton,
the Duebess (Dowager) of Norfolk, the Duke and Duellers of
Arg7ll sod family, the Marquis and Mitrchioneas of Staff ord,
Ike Marquis and Merchioooes of Westminster, the Earl awl
Lady Conatance Grosvenor, Lord and Lady Blantyre, Lady
Agnes Grosvenor, Lord end Lady Edward F. Howard, Lord
and Lady Begot, Sr.

The bake of Ikeon►bire has left Buxton to ‘isit
the Art Treasures Exhibition, at Dlsacheater.

The Airless (Emily) of Beaufort and the Ladies
Ifewereet, who have been staying for several wee►s on a rode
le Visceeat end Lady Blanche Dupplin, et Dapplin Comte,
Perthshire, left for the south on Wednesday loot, intending
to pay a orbs of visits on their limy to London.
_ _

His Excellency the Marquis d'Areglio is expected
torture to the Sardinian Lotion at the does of the en-
rols( week, from STUssrland, hie Excellency haring left
Sys laat seek.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter leave
Burghley Boma. Staked, to-day, for Leamington, We•-
rrkhBire, fora short period.

'rho Beni end Coantes. of Derby are entertaining
• aelact party at Kaarreley Park. Thu Coasts= of Jemmy
and Lady elongation Villiers hays jniaed thr circle from
Ikariad.

The Earl and Countess of Shaftesbury have left
Sgs, /or a tour in Switaerland, previous to returning to St.
GOWN Dorset, for the autumn.
Th. Ear, and Countess of Durham are expected
Y Men shanty from Copeland Castle.
The Countess (Dow.) Granville, who came to
town es Sueedsy, from visiting the Countem of Carlisle. at
Conk Howard, Yorkshire, left yesterday on • visit to Mr
and Lady Ge irgiana Fulkrtoe, at their eoustry meet.
Viscount and Viscountess Emlyn end family are
It present on a visit midi Hr. and lady Georgians Balfour,
et Balbirnlr, Famhire, bat will leave shortly for Golden-
rove, Souk Wales, where they wiU pan the whiter.
Lord oil Lady ltaglan left tarn yesterday for
the Earl Besocharap'e met In Woroesterabire,
The Right lion. James Stuart Wortley, M.P., and
the Hon. Mr.. Wortley have left Carlton-gardens for lialy,
the right urn. end learned gentleman having been advised to
men to • more genial &owe for the winter. It is the
right has. gentleman'. intention to return early in the spring,
to attend to hi. parlisausetaryldutiss.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

likh„