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LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPT. N.

One of our War Ministers hes been far seise time
angsged Is the destruction of grocer. The other,
id= easeesures and better taste, is relaxing himself
wig the arrtlsl revelries of the Camp at Chilean.
Yu Pint= CONSORT is diligently stalking deer
and the Karim of England is keeping state in her
=sustain palate, beyond the limits of the telegraph,
sad oat of reach of her responsible ode fliers. And
all this time hr away then, ander the sun of India,
le being fought oat the deadly struggle on which
the heart of this country is est with a deed so-
licitude—upon whew chances and changes from day
to day depend the foetuses of our great Eastern
Empire, the imperilled lives of the sees of Eng-
Sod, sod the tassel chastity of her daughters.
A gallant Chief, appraised with fistful odds, is doing
heroic battle for us in the thick of this tremendous
strife. li►rgt.octt and his indomitable little
army =dead in numbers, encumbered by
sick, encumbered even by the spoils of victory—have
by this time either succeeded in an enterprise almost
beyond the limits of military prowess, or eucembed
to diScaltim which no human valour and endurance
could surmount. We shall soon know the exact
truth. We will not speculate en what hes a month
ago been untied one wiry se the ether in India, and
in a few hours or a low days will become history
here. But there is one feet connected with the deeds
of this gallant band and its commander which we in
England do know, and on which, through all rinks
of Moiety, comment of a certain description is pretty
*item/jetty current. In the intervals of
leisure, in the few days allowed from the more
premier ewers of grow and deer, Aathseity hen
band tints to reward the deeds of Major-General
Hasttoen with a good tents pension of lON. a
you•

The head of the British Army ham said practically
to t►is brilliant British soldier, " You have done well,
•ad we mean to indicate our sense of it. With •
couple of thousand men, in the wont season of the
Indian year, yet advaneed wiliest a force ten times
MI numerous me your own—a force trained in the
exact discipline of the British service, and fur-
idshed with • formidable artillery, which It
knew well how to manage. In nine days
yea marched 120 miles, you fought four actions,
you captured 21 guns. You occupied the city
of the miscreant RAJAH, you drove him beyond
the Ganges. After a few hours' pause, you followed
him across the stream, fighting every step of the
way, through • land of swamps and marshes; yes
mimed your victorious career to within • day's
march of Lucknow ; end when the last despatches
lett, you were preparing--undismayed by the gather-
ing cloud of year enemies, the ravages of names,
and the havoc of the sword—to renew your march
after a temporary retreat which the presesee
of • mortal disease in your camp had
rendered en absolute necessity. Whatever may
be tho ultimate malt of your present campaign,
whether Locknow be relieved or not, we think these
estrriees so eminently meritorious, that we have
without hesitation awarded you— • good service
pe ision of 1001. a year for life' We have takes
care that this fact shall be praninently announced
in the Ministerial prints, sad we trust, when the
report of this ready and liberal recognition of your
nerviest shall reach Ind* it will be the means of in-
citing others to emulate those deeds which •
grateful country is thus prompt to acknowledge."
One bandied pounds • year for one of the most
brilliant and timely services that has ever been
achieved! One hundred pounds • year foe the fleet
decided check that has been given to this mutiny,
which without check would in • few months deprive
as of India! One hundred pounds for • campaign
which will take its place in history with the ex-
ploits of Ct.tvz, and WELLENLEY, and NAPHIA

But then we are told by the Ministerial prints
that this penaioe is only an instalment of honour—
that far more is in store—that we have only to
give the authorities time, and that some more
adequate recognition will be accorded. Just
now, unluckily, every ono is away—it is the
most inconvenient season in another month or

so, when business can be attended to, General
HAVELOCK, rely upon it, will not be forgotten.
Be it so; bat that is preeiaely our complaint;
everybody is away at the very moment when every-
body ought to be herr, whine presence is, at any
time, of any importance at all. As the Times of
yesterday maid with perfect truth, " there ia
" merely • Minister in London : even the 'fkron-
6. • lain of Honour' itself ie far away in the High-
" lands, out of reach even of Telegraph."
It iv so, and it ought not to be so. Go when you
will this topic is daily growing into more painful
prominence. and it becomes the imperative
duty of independent Journalism again and again to
remind the holden of high office and the inheritors
of exalted rank, that great power imposes grave re-
amiability ; that public personages cannot live for
themelen; and that an apparent indifference to
the public letters*, which in a private person might
pre unreproved, soon becomes fatal to the popularity
of • finister or • Sovereign. There is nothing
which the people so little tolerate as any overt want
of sympathy on the part of their rulers with any
pumice that stirs theta deeply. The higher the
station the deeper the woend. On that night in
I•perial Item, when the names of a vast con-
flagration spread rapidly from temple to tower,
there was doubtless many a splendid supper
party as the Familia( Hill, and many • wild scene
of debauch in the casinos of the Sabena. In that
vast end 'daemons city the dance and the song
ceased not though the Capitol ma in a blaze. Their

ZXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, ?Mai ivrowee.
The following telegraphic &wadies have been
reeeived from Eitraahurg and. ataugarit :

Orsaismio, Sire. U.

The Emperor set out this sang et eight deli*
ctapnid by hht adwomlas Wei iisersidsi. "Wei Olga
gtw .g thmedves Y awls r.wry ON at Ids Ws
Mety's mule, ad mina Ma Ida asibriedie sediertissi
from Strasburg M LW. The Rapier esM leesklast it
Baden, at the eseldeees al the Grand DRAMS Slipirais.
eed Amami here for Mattered; where the lospear of
Rorie has Mindy arrived. ilia Majesty sear' deeply
Impressed by the profoundly sympathetic reception even
him by the population of Alsace.
STUTTGART); SIM. 25.

The Emperor Napoleon arrived here this Mermen at
half•peat four o'clock. The King of Wurterabiew received
him et the railway oration, and conducted him to the pa-
lace, where they were immediately joined by the Emperor
of Runk. The Empress of Eerie, it is expected, will
join the imperial perry to-morrow.

Some of the German journals comment on the
singular coincidence of dates which marks the inter-
view of the two Emperors at Stuttgardt, it laving
been on the 27th of Sept., NOS, that Napoleon I.
and Alexander of Russia met at Erfarth. Forty-
nine years later, very nearly to a day, Napoleon 111.
and the Emperor Alexander will meet at Stuttgardt.
The conferences of Erfurth lasted from the 27th all
Sept. to the 14th of Oct. But a more striking coin-
cidence still is that, to-morrow, Sept. 20, is the forty-
second anniversary of the day on which the treaty
I of the Holy Alliance at Paris (Sept. 26, 181 d) by
Russia, Austria, and Prussia.
The Petrie, in a paragraph, ushered with all the
honours of position and type, draws a favourable
augury for the peace of Europe from the news that
the Prince of Prussia is to pay his respects to the
Emperor Napoleon at Stuttgardt, and that the
Car will meet the Emperor of Austria at Weimar
on the 30th :

Thum two facts warm the hopes which we have always
entertained of the wisdom of the great German pewees.
They prove that both Vienna and Berlin have understood the
necessity of that non-isolation from European union of which
the interview of fittings/de is the moat striking testimony.
We mu hot applaud this doutile resolution of the Emperor
of Avatrla end the King of Penmen, and we see In It s new
gweranter for the award of the great European powers, and
lkir the maintenance of the peace of the world. _ _

The Bourse continues to be extremely buoyant.
The Rents rose 40c. both for cash and account, clos-
ing at 137 fr. 70c. and 137 fr. 75c. Mobilier roe
12fr. 70c. The railways were not quite so active,
but most of the lines rose from 2fr. 30c. to life.
Southern fell Ur. 30e.
A telegraphic despatch from St. Petersburg, of
Sept. 23, states that a terrible Sri bad occurred on

the 19th among the 'hipping in Lake Ladoga, and
had destroyed 200 outward-bound vessels laden with
merchandise. 'This disaster has caused great excite-
ment in the Russian capital.
A public subscription is likely to be set on foot for

the erection of a sepulchral monument to Mania.
I believe the government will make no opposition.
The &side complains that because Menlo'. funer►l
was ordered on a humble scale of expense, the
clergy of the Trinity Church said only a low mar,
and that in a lateral chapel. It could, however,
hardly have been expected that priests of the Catho-
lic church would go out of their way to honour the
memory of the most eminent champion of the inde-
pendence in Italy.
The French government has received advice. that
the Emperor of Russia has sent his aide-de-camp
Prince Gallitrin, to Sebastopol, to inquire into a
charge made sgathst certain Russians of having de-
secreted tombs in the French and English cemeteries
there, and to punish the guilty parties.
The parti priers having circulated a great many
untruths about the death of Lamennaia, his nephew,
M. Blaixe, has published a circumstantial account of
the closing scenes of his life, from which it appears
that the illustrious author of the Paroles dam
Creyant, when hard premed by the priests, whom
the late Archbishop Sibour sent to his bedside to
endeavour to obtain a retractation of his free-
thinking opinions, dictated a memorandum to M.
'lend Martin, the historian, which he afterwards
found strength to correct and sign with his own
hand, in which he expressly declared his intention
to die " out of the bosom of the catholic church."
Ate later period, and when he was nearly at the
last extremity, his niece and residuary legatee, deter-
mined to make a last effort, came to the death bed,
and calling him by an endearing abbreviation
of his Christian name said, " Fell, do you ask
ter a priest! you want a priest, do you
not ?" "Amerman raised himself op in the bed,
and answered emphatically, "No, no, no!" To the
question how it could have happened that so vigor-
ous a mind as that of Lemennais, after having
daring the first half of his life eloquently defended
ultramontane doctrines and the sovereign preroga-
tives of the papacy, should have ultimately broken
with Catholicism, of which he was one of the most
ardent apostles, his nephew replies that " so long as
M. Lamennais wrote in support of Romish doctrine
be was the idol of the clergy, who lived upon the
eruitis of his genius; but when he espoused
the cause of the people, and enunciated
opinions which, if acted upon, would have
ruined the temporal interests of Rome, he
was placed in the index and pursued with every
species of calumny." M. Maize describes at length
the progress of his uncle's religious convictions, and
affirms that he died as ho had long lived, a firm
believer in God, but a God who does not regard the
mediation of any exclusive church as a passport
to his presence.

M. ilaise's book establishes beyond all doubt
that the story which the priesthood would fain
have accredited, that Lamennais renounced in ex-
trenua the matured opinions of his life, is as un-
founded as the similar tale that they tell in
regard to Chateaubriand and Beranger.
The Slick pays the following tribute to the ser-
vices rendered by England to civilisation :

We most say to the merit of England that she the Rest
renounced European coequals. Bhe transported her ambi-
tion to other elimn, sad has bad the immense honour of
giving birth to one of the greeted nations of the world—to
America, the land of liberty par czeoltrotre. Iles con-
quests have almost always been conquest' of ear
metre and civilisation. Russia, Austria, Pros* lave
extended their dominions at the expense of fete
European antiorts whose nationality they have dsmeeyed,
whose development they have stifled. The English here
not committed this crime. In this respect they resemble
France and bare nothing to restore. They have sought for
the element, of their expansion beyond Europe. They ham
peopled the solitudes of Americo, and have called to life the
new world of Oceania. U, to becoming masters of India
by the course of events, they have not changed its condition,
we must likewise take into account time and the immen-
sity of the difflcultice But they have eibteted great
deeds in India, and in order to appreciate English
rule in that prainaula, we must reflect on its erudition
previous to the conquest, when million, of men perished in
tellgiona wars, ea in the rise and decline of empires. The
martens which now inspire horror in all Europe would
hays been comidend mere pastime before the advent ed
British rule.

The Stele concludes by stating that the greataem
of Englend foams, at the present mom( nt, one of
the conditions of universal security, and that her
disappearance from the rank of great nations
4. would produce aa inconceivable cataclysm, foe

THE EXIPRESEI, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 26, 1857.