The Express.
London, England, 1857-03-05 00:00:00

NAVAL AND MILITARY

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THI La .—Gunner and Driver William Gibson,
of the lak &Wade Ro)al Hotse Artillery, was tried at
Woolwlelt ea fie 27th ult. by • ganend court-martial (Lieu-
tenant-Coked Faddy, lt.A., pang dent), for stoalingwert-
Aloe order, wins 10s., the property of • comrade, end
tits poem& to -141 ova use. He was accoT
.......11..rep tbs punblieent of 50 lashes and
11 bsprlerearnt. The emporia punishment was in-
dicted's litowlsy, filter the motel nweaer, in the Riding-
reheat, la tbe reseshos of the entire brigade to which the
era Wags, with the whole of the primers under tempo-
rem esolsawint at harlymarisik sal 10 wen from each of
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chid monimmi al Usalswent-Coissill llowtrwor. The cul-
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For twenty years poet the missionaries of the
American Board of Commissioner, for Foreign Missions have
been tinnily and Ilureottfully engazed in missionary labours
among the Nmeorians iu Persia. The scat of their missions
is the province of OrmuMb, where the Nestorians chiefly
reside.

DIIf illg thin period the entire Bible h. boon tratudatedi
and puWished by thew, ea well lot many other good and
awful books. The language of these publicatina u that
which in commonly spoken by the Nestorian. of the present,
day—a language wbieh hnd never boea written bolero the
bisionaries went to these pain.

Schools and aeteinariel, of learning have been established in
every part of the pros invest, in which matey hundreds of
Nestorian children and youth of both sexes have been edu-
cated. By these meatus, and through the preaching of the
Gospel, light, truth, general intelligence, and moral and
religioua implevewents have been rapidly apreeding over the
Nestorian conummity, and the iniseiunariee have enjoyed the
flavour and the gratitude of nearly all the leading ecclesiastics.
and of thouaands of their people. Oue Sari is sufficient to
shrew the extent to which this is true neruely, that all the
eeboele in Oeoomiab have town thrown open to the Illimiurallien
MA all the Nestorian bishops,. with only two exceptions, have
ben their firm and constant friends. The exceptions referred
•acv individuak of bad e. homier, being given to open and
ahamekes drunkenness and debauchery.
It should further be stated iu this phase, that from
time to time the Persian government has expensed the
most derided approbation of the labours of the lainSiolllllieg.
The former king, Mohammed Shah, without tine least
solicitation, issued a high Heenan, strongly emuniending them
and their work, and ordering all his utile:cis to give them
every facility and protection they might need, and other leas
formal expressions of approbation have Leen repeatedly made
by other Persian fauctionariess, among whom is included the
present king himself.
There can be no doubt that the favour with which the mis-
sionaries were regarded by these high dignitaries wee in great
measure owing to the kind represented ior• and powerful influ-
ence of the British ambassadors who have resided near the court
of Pavia. Sir John Campbell, Sir John M'Neill, Colonel
Shed, and latterly Mr. Murray, have all manifested the
kindest feelings towards the men who have been labouring
with so much perseverance and self-denial fur the intellectual
and spirituel improvement of that distant end degraded
people, and have always shown the greatest readiness to
afford them all Decemery conntenance and protection. Thus,
for a score of years, the ruissionieries have been permitted
quietly to prosecute their various, peaceful, and beneficient
labours, having "none to molest or to make them afraid."
The preened Badrazam (Prizue Miniater) of the king, for
some reasons or other, is their enemy. Most likely, it is
beeline of his general hostility to English iutluenee in the
country, the missionaries always being considered as English-
men, from their speaking and tea. hing the Euglieh language,
and being under English protection.
It is supposed also that Miter-Khan, the commander-in-
chief of the Persian torero on the frontiers of Kurdistan,
has had much to do with exciting the enmity of the Prime
Minister against the missionaries. Being the military
governor of Oroomieh, be became well an quainted with the
character and labours of those men. Ile row that they were
likely to be a mellows cheek upon his rapacity, ns they were
witnesss of all he did in Oroomiah, and could easily report
every ease of tyranny and oppression.
Tin years ago, while this individual was at court, a firman
was breed, which was intended to fetter all the operations
d the missionaries. It prohibited them from teaching
honks, and virtually, from having schools of any
bed. They were forbidden to teach the English language to
say one, to employ or authorise any native Nestorian to
reach, or to send preachers to any ober place ; and the
people were ordered not to attend the preaching of the mis-
sionaries. A censor was to be placed over their presets, to see
that nothing should be printed against the previous religious
notions of the Nestorian people; and, to crown all, the two
dissolute and abandoned bishops already referred to were
constituted general directors of everything pertaining to the
American mission. Artier Ali Kinn, who is a very fit
instrument for such a purpose, was sent to Orsoniith by the
government, for the sole purpose of seeing that the finnan was
carried into effect. For some reason or other he has not, how-
ever, until recently, shown much vigour in the execution of
his wicked task; but since the war he. fairly broken out
with England, he oversteps in signet, even the finnan
itself. Parents are strongly threatened with the
'eeriest punishment if they send their children to
the school,. Native teachers are fined, imprisoned, or
beaten, oven than who arc not actually engaged in
teaching; native preachers are also cruelly seized and
bastinadorl, sometimes without even the pretense of a fault.
Indeed, every individual among the people who Is known as
haring become enlightened in his religious views, and in-
telligent, under the training of the missionaries, is now a
marked man, and liable to suffer every species of abuse and
violence which a vile, capricious, and malevolent government

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agent chooses to inflict.
Fifty village schools that were doing incalculable good to
the Nestorian race have thus been broken up; the people
ale forbidden to road the books that have issued from the
missionpress; andenlightened and piccueNeetorianecelesiastics
see ordered, on pain of imprieonment and the baatinado, not
to enter their own churches, and not even to preach to in-
dividuals in their own houses.
Two excellent bishops, Yohannan and Elias, who
are constantly seeking to raise and improve their people,
ere to be deprived of their dioceses, over whit h are to be
placed the two miserable men mentioned above, whore sole
care is to have the Deena of gratifying to the utmost their
own carnal passions. To these two last everything is sub-
jected, and all who do not übey them in all things ate to be
punished.
It is impossible to believe that the l'ersian government,
unaided and alone, has elaborated the, clever eelaeme for the
annihilation of the Amerksin mission in Orocctuiah. In all
probability both St. l'etersburg and St. Peter's have had to
do with it, and now, in the absence of the British legation
from Persia, and when the evil passions of war aro excited,
they find it no difficult matter to persuade the Persians to
make short work of it. And Acker Ali Khan openly declares
that helms private orders, independent of the injunctions in
the finnan, directing him to do everything in his power to
excite the people against the missionaries, and he is going
about his work with truly Satanic energy.
Just at this juncture a circumstance has occurred which
may possibly have a favourable bearing upon the interceta of
the mMelon, and at any rate mast bo regarded as providen-
tial. Acker Khan, the commander-in-chief of Ormanish,
already alluded to at the sworn enemy of the iiii1001.141:
and who was probably the dictator of the finnan against
them, bas been asasseinated by a Koord ear the
Orocaniah frontier.
A letter written by a French correspondent in Persia, to
the I'fee,e d'Ortient, a paper in that language, published in
Constantinople, in alluding to this event asserts, " That it
is suspected that the American MilikiOnnriell in Oroomiah,
who are alwayatrouble-makere,had something to do with the
death of this man." This vile iueinuation, accompanied sa
it is by other remarks of a disparaging =lure. is euffielent to
show its Josuitkal origin, and it also confirms the suspicion
that the Jesuits have had more or has to do with the present
meet against the American mission.

1.01718 NAPOLEON AND IiORTENSE.—WhAteTer
may be thought of Louis Napoleon in the other relations of
withor public life, he elwaya appear. to have behaved
with singular dutifulness and affection towards his mother,
who on iier part was such • mother es is not often seen. In
mune of the oreceding narrative it must have appeared
hat she frequandy risked her life in order to watch over
his, while her thoughts were constantly employed in the
&.eavour to promote his welfare. This maternal affliction
awskenened in him a corresponding feeling. From the w-
heat childhood he looked up to her with reverence, and
through life preserved the most tender attachment to her.
and:: are opposed to hint on political grounds need not
ien this praise. To have been nurtured in noble
to have acquired high notions ofjustice,truth and
mene=to have impreewed on our mind. the great ear-
• virtue of doing to others what we would they
should do to us i and therefore republitun writers ohould be
goes all othercereful to give eve 7 man his due.
Ills s
very certain that even tyranny itself ts not always bl t
quench the feelings of the heart. A man rendered cruel by
ambition towerde a whole community, may nevertheless be
susceptible of filial piety towards his father or his mother.
At any rate Louis Napoleon appears to have been always •
good gentle, tender, and alimtionate in the highest de-
gree seon,adif ever mother was calculated to inspire these feel-
ings in a brave and true son it was Ilortmuw.—Loris bile-
' ken, A Hiogreplay, by Jarmo Augustus St. 7ehn.

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