The Express. — 1851-04-21 (London, England)

HUM. and the weak man's claim to full brotherhood with the rich and the strong; how he went so far as to identify himself in no especial declaration with the lowly and the outcast, making personal to himself the outrages of pampered pride, perpetrated against the least of his representatives. The great and salutary remembrances of his sufferings and death at the hands and at the instigation of the constituted authorities, urged on to the deieidal deed by a corrupt, a pompous, and overbearing prirs.thinsil, were (Invalid with wholesome truths right upplieatile to emitemporary occurrences, and calculated to impress kindred (Minders (if nut callous to all but tangible and temporal influences) with the dismal consciousness of their flagrant hostility to the gospel ; while the victims of their disregard for that Christianity sun which they thrives! and trafficked found mime and soothing sticeintr in the taenom Ws this awful anniversary firings round. The sp aker proceeded to demonstrate the importance of Christ*. nsuirreetion am the groundwork of our belii 1. and us the must astounding of all the miracles attendant at the inals-god's career on the earth he et 111“. to regent:nit.: and reform. The evidences of the fact itself wen: sifted and set forth with powerful cites-Land the various cavils of the Sadducte, of the sceptic, and the rationalist. grappled with and discontlitisL This portion of the discourse, however terse and to the PuT'' was not perhapa distinguishable from the sup argument held throughout the thousand pulpits of London during the day, but the I n shay and promptitude of his reference* to scriptural propiney, as well as scientific illustration and philosophic itulueti ~,, . gave testimony to the amount of studious inquiry he had brought to bear on the subj. et. He established the connexion be(retell that great doctrinal truth and our own hopes of it glorious uprising in the immortality of body and soul, which was the ennobling aspiration as well as the cornetive and stimulating belief, the safegnatd as well us comfort of humanity. It taught lessons of endurance, to the downtrudden, commended a hem virily antidote to the lip's of despair, infused a balm' into tlw cup of sorrow. whik, it mingled a wholes' sonic wormwood in the draught of the thoughtless and hearties* voluptuary. Thole wAS abundant w arrant in the vision of Ezekiel to extonil the prom's-els of resurreetion, and from the 1:11Cre indie idual contemplation of the just man's palingeuesis to OM. It a atimparotaggrepte and national resuscitation. A field covered with dry Wills.. where the vulture and the obscene 'anion dog had d ' thi it work, was spread out before the gaze ut the prophet; when, with rustling and rattling sound, at the suite ut Omnipotence, the oseuary expanse became animate with motion, muscles and integuments were resumed, and a mighty array of reconstructed manhood stood erect at the bidding of the Must High. a consummation it required not the gill of prophecy to anticipate, in the deigns of a just Providence, fur our lung-sufferiag country. The cry of centuries has reached the ear of mercy, and the hour of redress and revival is ut hand. The fragmentary. articulations and disjected members of Italian nationality have shown an unmistakeable tendency w coslesce and combine into a living body, and rtvatne once inure an attitude of vigorous vitality. A lie ing Italy burst of late on the siew ui startled Europe', auif, however briet the apparition,:it sufficed to belie the Sadduman theory of a non-existent tile beyond the political grave. it is true that by the combined agency of foreign potentates and a wilier priesthood, the sell-same hideous instrumentality by which the divine Redeemer was put to death, our nationhood ILLS beta forcibly immolated and reconsigned to a temporary tomb: hut we scout the silly and fastidious imputation ui profanity, when we profess our sure and certain hope 114 well as fond reliance on the justice of heaven, our sticulfast belief in the ultimate renewal of that vitality. Was the innocence of the Just One or his lifelong carver of benefkamee any bar to his death as a criminal ? None. Then let not Italy murmur at such requital fur the lesson* of civilisation. A Pope and his cardinals could not be expected to wet otherwise than the high priest and tine Sanednin. nor the Jesuits than their predecessors the Pharisees. A leading agent in the dread business of Calvary was Pilate, the nrocousul. Tradition had handed down his origin : he was a Frenchman. (Shouts of adhesion.) They show en the bunks of the Rhone the place' of his birth dud of his retributive suicide, ou returning to the fitting land of his nativity. A book published years ago in Hoar, from the pen of a Dominican friar, labours to prove the cohort of soldiers which did duty on that occasion to have consisted of recruits front UAW, and that the crowing of the rink merely indicated the sound of the Oallic trumpet. (Cheers.) To conciliate ; the emperor was Pilate's apology for this official murder— to propitiate, the Czar was u sufficient incentive for the preindent of republican France. (Cheers.) Was there no /modern impersonation of Herod the Tetrarch, an intro ive potentate, claiming kingly authority within the very precincts of Judasa, with his hands deeply imbrued in the blood of her children ? Is not the usurper of Lombardy that man? (Cheers.) And need we indicate the Vatican as the locality of Caiphro, or identify as the deliberate betrayer of Italy the Iscariot Neapolitan. (Prolonged cheers.) Foul confederacy of ignoble plotters, look well to your handiwork! strengthen your army of occupation! double the guard ut the Sepulchre! A year is but a day in the history of nations 1549 was that of Italy's immolation. She may yet sleep in earlshe tomb over which you keep sentinel—but the third y advancing, the meritable 111d2. (Continued cheers.)