The Express.
London, England, 1857-08-27 00:00:00

tinecrs' triumph. The prospect is digitd enough at
best : the druid eye of the Brills& upon every move-
ment, and the halter roe.nd every manic neck till
order and civil law OVA be restored; the fields laid
waste, and the biasses sacked; roads broken up,
bridges broken d Jwn ; the tanks filled up with over-
turned guns I the prisons disgorging their
criminals, to prey on the weak and the
industri•Jue ; present horror and slaughter—impend-
ing F-otilence from the heaps of dead and the spoil-
ing of the water-supply ; famine next season, and
a homeless banaitti infesting the country for a gene-
ration
oyertheir
ttfteirivtehi,e
lately revoltsoismupeuht down—such
tle than
is thean
at any time within the memory of man. The Sepoys
must be beginning to be dubious of the estimation
change which the mutineers have caused to pass
in which they are held by the industrious classes
among their countrymen.
Meantime, the British arc nobly—we will not say

wonderfully—cheerful. Wo like to hear of evening
drives, even at Meerut, when the overworked offi-
em can command an hour for refreshment and the
companionship of the anxious ladies. We like to
hear of the intention to afford one more surprise to
the insurgents, by meeting them, at any odds, in the
Held, if they come up, instead of crowding into the
fortifications, u the Sepoys expect. We like to
hear

___ of the ladies having become inured to danger
and hardship by the sufferings of their flight, so that
they are spared the worst agony of suspense. We like
to hear of the impatience of young officers,pepetually
volunteering for Delhi, and complaining of the Fates
fur not letting them get there. hut we own we
sympathise with them in the one trouble which
makes them really heart-sick—the having to work
with native soldiers hereafter. They recoil from the
lilts' of ever trusting Sepoys again. This considera-
tion, however, may stand over at present. Delhi
taken, and razed to the ground, and every Mohan.
medan hope buried in its ruins, the next phase of
military life in India will become clear—illustrated
by the errors of the past.

Mtnntisex finds itself unexpectedly in want of a
candidate, to surply the place vacated in its repre-
sentation. Lord ROBERT GROSVENOR, the tried and
trusted representative of five-and-thirty years, is
about to be summoned to the House of Lords; and
his constituents have consequently been, during the
last few days, in quest of a suitable successor.
Without descending to any Ale flattery of their late
member, we venture to doubt whether anyone is
likely to be found ready and willing to take his place
who will so aptly or adtquately fill it. Lord
ROBERT, without any pretension to shining qualities
in debate, or fancy principles at the hustings, was
essentially a popular member, and, what was much
more to the purpose, a diligent and efficient
one. The senior membership for Middlesex is no

easy place fur any geuileuuin with nosisiiite peas,
or for anybody, whatever be his talents, who does
not happen to have at his command more than
twenty-four hours in the day. This remark did
not of come apply to Jansen Hein, whose
day, it was well known, contained at least twelve
working hours more than any other man's, and
whom, neverthelccs, the Middlcica...ns ►u&:ed to
be hustled away from them, to make room for come
Wood-en representative of the Carlton creed.
Luckily for them, Lord ROBERT GROSVENOR escaped
on that and every other occasion daring more
than • third of a century. It would be
absurd to deny that for this be and they
were, in some degree, indebted to the
moderation of his opinions and the imperturbable
urbanity which uniformly characterised their ex-
pression. In no constituency in the empire are these
qualities of higher specific value than in the metro-
politan county. A political orthographer might be
tempted to derive its name from that which, with a
little variation of sound, would fitly describe
the confluence of social and other streams of
sentiment amid whose concourse the elect of the
Capital Shire is obliged to ride at anchor and yet
carry full sail. It is above all other counties the
county of mined sects. There are the votaries of
High Church, with their latest phantasies and newest
Belgravian fashions; and there are the adherents
of Low Church, pressed ever onward by the sharp
competition of orthodox dissent, and by many hardly
less formidable varieties of episcopalian noncon-

formity. Above the head of the would-be man of
the people stretches • promiseful bow of many
colours, wherein every tint of faith and every bue of
philosophic incredulity are unmistakeably mingled.
leaially, the extremes and infinite shades between
insolent idleness and :utermittent industry—the
habits of the West-end and the East-end of ',on-
es—are not leas notable. Politically, it is 'aper-
ients to say that we have every gradation of
mory from the icy and inarticulate inclination to
sweep hrward that impels BROOKS'S gouty chair,
to the out-and-out fervour of sympathy with foreign
refugees that animates Notting-hill and the Tower
Hamlets. How a man like Lord Wrsustssezes
brother has been able for half • lifetime to satisfy
and serve all these conflicting sections and send-
meats it is no easy matter to conceive, much less to
explain. That he has done so, however, with rare
and brief exceptions, is incontestable ; and the chief
puzzle hew is accordingly to find such another sen.
sale, spable, and indefatigable man. For, as we
have asdd, the mere routine duties of the place make
it um sinenue. Letters beyond count, subscriptions
ebbed limit, deputations without assignable pur-
poser sad talkitteation of all sorts without end—
Aweigh to out-task the patience of old Joe.
bat eves popular members tire at length of
nrebelltp, sod the meet painstaking of aristocratic
supoontethres alghe at last for the irresponsibility
NIA obscurity of the Chamber where so many
d his kindred vote by proxy or in person without
saybody being conscious of the difference. Lord
Poem wishes to subside into a Peer ; and, as it is
his wish, we are bound to my that few men have
mod the peerage better. We only wish we may
WON NO We worthy or less fit men added
the let of legislative lords. And then
ems the question, who is to succeed him
as asember fee the county ? There has been
talk of Sir WILLIAK CLAY, of Mr. MILNER 011040 SI,
dIANd ROBERT'S eldest son, of Mr. HENRY FITZ-
BOY, and finally of Mr. Arco, M.P. for Tavistock.
We hope we shall not be expected to compute the
enact eamparatire weight of public worth which
then video gentlemen may be thought to possess.
The trek weak' be an invidious and a thankless one.
It Is no dbparagement to any of these well-known
bdividoob we have named to say that we think it
acit impoodble the youngest and least distinguished
d thou wag happen to prove the favourite with the
deem generally. For one reason or other
there will constantly be difficulties to surmount and
prejudices to overcome on the part of a politicise
who has angled prominently in the fray, which a
be earobond sad, for that matter, less capable
L'imma Mini have to encounter. Young Mr.
c 7 by ve toe always been snared, one °JONI
Ind 111.16111 aim d the old Whig stock. Hs
washing* late IMA/msent the other day for the,
close half of the boost of Tavistock by the Duke
of BEDFORD. Hs hes sot yet made my Spire in
public life ; but then it must be said that be has not
tried. We do ant my this in blame ; far otherwise.