The Express.
London, England, 1857-09-26 00:00:00

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mem, under showers of perfume% to the
of iSlCiViOtli lutes, the sons tl BMA!, "
" with insolence end wine," drained deep tl
rhino goblets and chanted their Ilseehic songs
on that night as on others. Contemporary
/minket took no heed of the untimely re-
vellers ; the bread stream of history spreads
cabs and onrippled over their noteless graves.
But there was one concert and one solo performance
cm that memor►ble night which Rome never forgave,
end the world has not yet forgotten. That " Neao
" addled while Rome wee burning "—this, more
they ell his follies end all his crimes, was the thing
that and shook the inveterate attachment of the
Ramses populace for the far descended heir of the
Curtin.

Queen Vletoatt is the most deservedly popular
Sovereign that has ever se on the British Throne,
but we doubt whether all the felicities of her reign
and the virtues of her character have rooted her so
firmly in the harts of her people as the deep and
noble sympathy she showed with the heroism and
the "offerings of the Crimean war. We are confi-
dent she feels not less for the heroism and the suf-
ferings of this great struggle in India. But we, who
have means of knowing what is said, and whispered,
and written in many departments of society—we
who are sedulously eager that no breath of unpopu-
larity should for a moment dim the clear mirror of
our English loyalty—think it our bounden duty to
tell the confidential advisers of the Crown that
in this season of extreme public solicitude, the pro-
tracted residence of her MAJESTY "beyond the reach
" eves of the telegraph," is only too likely to be misin-
terpreted by a large section of the public into a proof
of indifference and want of sympathy, which we are
quite certain u as remote as possible from the truth.
Ilse MAJESTY will not hear these things from the
courtiers who surround her, nor from the flatterers—
of all others, perhaps, the most dangerous in a
lettered age—who cry " Peace, peace, when there is
" no peace," through the servile medium of depen-
dant journalism. We, who are independent, can, and
ought to speak out. We have done so. Of course,
we shall give offence; for that we arc well prepared,
but we know that we have done our duty.

Han MAJESTY'S 32ND REGIM ENT IN Lcritow.—
Five officers of this gallant regiment were promoted
without
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in the Gazette of Friday last;
three of the number—Major Lowe, Captain M'Cabs,
and Lieutenant Charlton—to vacancies caused by
" killed in action,"—a sad but significant proof of the
dangerous service in which the gallant fellows have
been neently engaged. The 32nd constitutes the
chief European force in the garrison of Lucknow,
numbers about 1;00 rank and le, and is exceedingly
sheet in its complement of officers. Nearly all the
trim and families of the men and officers were
sainifieed in the Cawnpore massacre, together with
the poor invalid soldiers and pensioners ; but there
are, notwithstanding, upwards of 300 women and
children, and helpless people, under the protection
of the garrison. Since the 27th of May, the day of
the first outbreak, this heroic band, with their Eu-
ropean companions, have been shut up within the
walls of the Residency Fort, incessantly harassed by
the ire of shot and shell coming from the well-
served artillery of the 20,000 mutineers by whom
they are invested. The casualties which have taken
place are mainly owing to the conies which the
measure of famine and absolute necessity render
imperative. It was in one of these desperate sallies
that the gallant and noble Sir Henry Lawrence re-
ceived his mortal wound ; and by the last mail it is
reported his successor in the Political Residency,
Major Banks, bad abased a similar fate.