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LONDuX, TUEsDAY, SEPT. 24.

TO OUR READRRzL
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SPORTING INTELLIGENCE-

A '.ate editiou d the E.rpress w publishe.l every
everliNg during the racing mamma, cutitaiiiiisg the
results the dar'n ream

It is easy to see why the letter of the Emperor
of RI • s has given so much satisfaction at Wuli-
ine,,ton. It is simple and sincere. It is little
indeed that oven an Emperor can do to show his
friendly fueli...g fur a great and free people sorely
tried by adversity; but that little ALRXANDER
has done, and .lone with grace and heart. It will not
surprise reflecting Americans, nor indeed reflecting
Englishmen, Hutt a monarch reputed absolute
should be the first to express his sympathy with
them in their trials. Character is greater than
furies of govenunerit ; and a sole ruler whose
power has its justification in the necessities of his
people is freer to rejoice in the prosperity of a
nation enjoying greater liberty than his
own, than the politician who under constitutional
goveniwint has spent his life in cultivating
artificial sentiments and theories at the
expense of truth and greedoni. The prerogatives
which the Eseesillinherits do not blind him to
the superior advantages of free institutions. He
can admire, as our own best statesmen have at all
times been ready to admire, a form of Govern-
ment which has proved a blessing to the American
people, because it was the one best suited to their
circumstances and character. He sees, moreover,
what amine among us have failed to see, that pre-
cisely in proportion to the benefits of the Union
was the power of its unfaithful and unnatural
members to injure it. And hence the appeal
he iiiikes is pm-eminently moral. Truly
he says that " the Union has exhibited
" to the world the spectacle of a prosperity with-
" out example in the annals of history." The in-
stitutions of the United States, bossy., provided a
Covernment under which the greatest liberty
could be reconciled with the faculty of common
action. Observe how the Euratom distributes
the merit of this success. The institutions were
good, not for any antomatic excellency, but be-
cause they were suited to serve as the organs of
such public virtue as w•o might expect of a
people having such an origin and history
as that of the United States. Until now
these expectations have been fulfilled. The
independence, the towering rise, and the pro-
gress of the nation have been due to the con-
cord of the people, the readiness of the parts to
make sacrifices for ono another and for the whole.
No wonder that a Christian sovereign, despot
though ho be, laments over the cessation of this
concord. Those who have formed mechanical
notions of government, and believe that human
society is possible without virtue, may see in the
present war merely the break down of institutions ;
but the Emperor of Russia has worthier concep-
tions of the life of a state.

If any European counsel could have been of use
to the United States, it would have been that of
his Imperial Maitasvv. Other sovereigns have
dottbdoss desired ardently an opportunity of ex-
pressing to the Government and people of America
the couccin with which they are spectates of
their trials. In the case of the English
Government this was manifestly impas-
sible, if from no other cause from the
mean and base passions which found prominent
expression in our newspapers from the beginning
of the .Americin troubles, which have providel
a malignant and unfailing commentary on every
phase of their development, and in the light of
which every official manifestation would be
judged. l'ilhappily, however, good advice
from any quarter would hare arrived too late
if given months earlier than the date of the
Euricann'A letter. The project of a great slave
empire, to be built in defiance of the conscience of
Christendom, bad been formed and was to be
carried out at all risks. The contest had become
inevitable ; and the only way in which the North
can now show its respect for the EMPEROR is in
extinguishing once for all the institution of
Slavery, which in leading some members of the
the Union further and further away from the
maxims of Ws:immures and Jarressox, has
placed the freedom and independence of the whole
nation in extremist pea

How moon our 'bed hopes perish ! Last week
We were all celebrating the restored union of town
and isometry. The fox was to lie down with the
goose, and tho Agricultural meetings had done it
all. The news was too good to be trans : the
" happy family " is not finally constituted. This
we karts from the proceedings of the Staf-
fordshire Agricultural Society, last Wednes-
day, at Wolverhampton. At this meeting
the new practice of including ladies was fol-
lowed, and, as it will be aeon, their presence
was adroitly turned to account. The Earl of
D•IT]I..UTH filled the chair, and was animated,
if not eloquent, on the chief political question of
the day—the relations of England and France.
" God grant," exclaimed his Lordship, with the
air of a gossip hoping that some terrible scandal
may not prove true," God grant that peace between
" those two great nations may be preserved;"
and then he appealed to that best of all politiesl
evidences, men'sconsciousness of theirown suspicion.
" At the present time there was a feeling of un-
" easiness "—and so on. It is generally under-
stood, however, that talk of this kind is a matter
of course, and means nothing : besides his lordship
was proposing the Army and Navy, and some
Volunteer officers were eagerly waiting to respond.
Then came Admiral the Earl of SHRRWSBUItY and
'hum to answer for the Navy. The noble earl
Lad his fears shout the discipline on board our
ships. This he thinks is bad because the othcers are