The Express.
London, England, 1857-09-25 00:00:00

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LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPT. 23.

Fes eat et ab host* doeeri. We may learn some-
thing even from SENA SAntu. Our readers will or
course have made themselves acquainted with the
Proclamation by which this consummate scoundrel
developed to his followers his own version of the
history of the rising and the designs of the English.
The document, however absurd in our eyes, was
artfully enough framed for accomplishing the pur-
pose it had in view. A solemn council, the Sepoys
were mewed, had been convened in Calcutta, at
which it was deliberately determined to christianise
by force all the natives of Hiodostan. The plan
had been approved by Queen Vlc-rnatA, and orders
were given in London to despatch the troops which
it was foreseen would be necessary to carry out the
resolution of the authorities. The Vakeel (or atn-
bemador) of the Sultan of Rout (Turkey) sent word
to the SULTAN that thousands of European soldiers
were on their way to make Christians of all the
people of Ilindostan. Then the Sultan of Roux
issued his firman to the King of EGYPT, directing
him to deceive Queen Vlcvont.i, and quietly prepare
for the destruction of her army. When the firma
reached the King of Eurrr, be accordingly pre-
pared his troops before the arrival of the British
at Alexandria, "for Mis is Me runt* to
" India," and succeeded in annihilating the
whole " army of London." The English in
Calcutta, when the mutiny grew great, were in
"hourly expectation of the arrival of this army, and
" when the news of its destruction was received the
"OOTefinott-OxNesAn WWI plunged in grief and
" sorrow, sad beat his held."

It is of mums easy enough to laugh at the
obvious absurdities of this mendacious Proclama-
tion ; bat aboard and atrocious as it is, there is one
point in which NINA S.tnts has seen more clearly
than our own rulers. "ilie.reiseirio is the route to
" /podia." He has mastered at all events so much of
the hornbook of strategy as to be aware that the
route of an army from a wisely-governed empire to
an imperilled dependency in along the shortest and
directcst cut that can be taken. Mr. SMIIII, of
Cannon•row, has not yet got so far as this. Bert e
&ma evidently places some reliance on the credu-
lity of his followers, but he could never have ex-
pected them to believe that the sagacious Vizier, of
Queen Viro'st t, when commissioned to extinguish
with all speed the flames of a raging mutiny, had
despatched an army which they might have landed
at the shores of India in tire weeks, by an ocean
purge the lowest average of whose duration is
three months. It was referred fur Mr. Vaamom
23man and his colleagues to prove to the world—
what would d priori have been deemed incredible—
the possibility of accomplishing ►uch an exploit as
this.

When the Governor of Calcutta found the Army
of London was destroyed by the King of EGV er " ho
• beat hie head." Lord CANNING we have every
reason to believe to be a mild man, otdinarily incap-
able of the more violent outward demonstrations.
Hs has gone through a long course of official training,
and has himself been the Head of a Department :
still we are inclined to think that even this serene
and gentlemanly personage must have made the
nearest approach towards ••beating his head" ever
yet ventured upon by any of his official forerunners,
when he heard that the Army of London had been
thus fatally retarded, not, indeed, by the resistance of
Egypt, but by the visitation of—VtaxoN Sutra. If
the crafty yet credulous soldiery for whom this Pro-
clamation was drawn up could have been told that
the King of Ecs l'T courted instead of opposing the
passage of the army of London through his
dominions, they might have cursed him as a traitor
to Islam; could they have been informed that the
Great Soltan of Roust himself, instead of seeking
the demolition of that army, had just sent 1,0001.
to aid the Feringhee sufferers whom it was
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tommissioned to avenge, the strain on their faith
would have been considerable, and the dismay of their
souls would has e been deep; but if the narrator
had gone on to assure them that instead of rending
this avengin4 host by a thirty-five days' passage
arrow the Isthmao. the Government of Great Britain
had sent it a ninety days' voyage round the Cape—
the limits of belief would have been at owe peened.
The rascals would have returned to their first con-
viction, their faith in NRMA Bantu's Proclamation
would hese been restored intact, and the story of the
SCLT IN'l4 finnan and the liteeany's victory would
have seemed credible and natural, compered to the
prodigious blundering of Mr. Sates and his col-
leagues.

But really the thing is far too grave for ritlicale.
Who can measure the mischief that tnay be produced
in India by the delay of these terrible weeks ? Who
can tell how far such fictions as those of Nit S tulia
may have iufected the popclar Witt'? Who is to
estimate the fearful confirmation thn y may derive la
the popular mind from thin most unfortunate re-
tardation of reinforcement' ? " Where is it, then,
" this Army of London ? The Sultan of Ron, has
" then of a truth interposed in the muss of the
"faithful, and the Kiog of F,Gyi-r has scattered
the hosts of the Feringhees !" And as this spreads
through the length and breadth of the land, can we
contemplate without a ell-funnded alarm the effeet
that such suspicions may have on that Asiatic nature
so rapid in its transfer of homage frees the falling to
the rising power, PO abjectly deferential to all that
is established, so haughtily contumacious of all that
is tottering?

Earnestly do we trust, in common with every
Englishman whose heart bests high for the honotlr
and welfare of his country, that the neat news from
India may falay those anxious forebodings with
which the public mind of England is now clouted.
The calculations of the closet ern ne%er affect to set
a limit to the exploits of the field, and the fortunate