The Express. — 1866-09-19 (London, England)

SEPT. 17.  The Queen, Princess Louise, the Duke of Edinburgh, and Prince Christian, and attended by the ladies and gentlemen in waiting, were present at divine service at the parish church of Crathie yesterday morning. Dr. Norman M`Leod, chaplain to her Majesty, officiated. Dr. M'Leod had the honour of dining with the Queen and royal family last night.  At the Council Chamber, 'Whitehall, yesterday, Lord Penrhyn took the oath as Lord Lieutenant of Carnarvoir shire, in the presence of the Lord President, Lord Stanley, the Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy, and the Right Hon. H. Corry. Mr. Harrison was in attendance. A committee of the Lords of her Majesty's most honourable Privy Council met yesterday at the Privy Counciloffice, Whitehall, on matters relating to the cattle plague. Present: the Lord President, the Right Hon. H. Corry, and the Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy. Mr. Harrison and Colonel Harness were in attendance.  A deputation from Lincolnshire, consistingof the Right Hon. Sir John TroHope, Bart., M.P. ; Sir Montagu Choirooky, Bart., M.P. ; Colonel Packe, M.P. ; Mr. Heneage, M.P. ; the Mayor of Lincoln, Mr. Bartholomew, Mr. Marshall Heanley, Mr. Seagrove, and Mr. Epton, had an interview with the Lord President of the Council and the Right Hon. H. Corry, yesterday, at the Trivy Counciloffice, Whitehall, on the subject of the cattle plague.  The Duchess of fit. Albans and Lady Diana Beanelark left Mar Lodge on Thursday for Blairgowrie, where they expect to remain a fortnight.  . . _ The Marquis and Marchioness of Hastings have left the St. George's Hotel.  The Marquis and the Marchioness di Molins, the Danish minister and the Baroness Bulow,Viscount and Viscountess Torrington, the Right Hon. Robert Lowe, M.P., and Mrs. Lowe, Lady Frances Gordon and Miss Gordon, the Hon. John and Mrs. Vivian, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey and Miss Beatrice Harvey, Mr. Hayward, and Mr. Underdown are now at Tomorrow, on a visit to Lady Moleaworth.  debars them from taking any such course as that to which they are indirectly invited by the Russian journals. To provoke European intervention in America by American intervention in Europe—to forfait ascendancy in their o en continent in order to participate in the troubles of the most disturbed part of the Eastern hemisphere—would be a suicidal folly. While England is learning the advantages of her insular position, the United States are not likely to cast away the benefits which they derive from a moral separation from the controversies of the Old World as much more complete than that of England as the Atlantic Ocean is wider than the Straits of Dover. Fresh from the assertion of the Monroe doctrine against France in Mexico, they are not likely to regulate their conduct by an opposite doctrine in Europe. Hitherto the policy of the Republic has been in strict conformity with the sage advice of WASHINUTON in that letter to hie fellow-citizens which has been called his political testament—to avoid entangling alliances with the Powers of Europe, or intervention in the affairs of the Old World. The counsels of his equity and prudence, and the ambition of some of his less worthy successors, have marched together. The policy of the Mexican war and the Ostend manifesto—the lust of territorial aggrandizement and political mastery in the New World—are as incompatible as reason and justice themselves with a meddling diplomacy in the Old. Whether the American Republic follows its earlier or its later inspiration—the practice of Waserrioros and ADAMS, or that of POLK and Przrzea—it is as little likely to bo tempted from its rule of abstention from alliances or action in Europe by an island in the ...Egean as by an island "on the " sea-coast of Bohemia "—by the hope of acquiring a portion of the Turkish Empire as by the dream of acquiring a portion of the Empire of France. In one particular, the people and Government of the United States have neglected the advice given them in the Farewell Address of the father of the Republic. The country, he said, which cultivates persistent love or hatred for particular powers forfeits some portion of its freedom, by becoming the slave of its own love or hate. This danger inheres in the otherwise harmless sentimentalism of such demonstrations as that which has misled the publicists of Russia. It has taken a more serious form in certain acts of the Federal Legislature and Executive, which have been inspired by pique against England—in protectionist tariffs, and in the revocation of reciprocally beneficial treaties. The indulgence of these preferences and animosities is the first step towards the entangling alliances which WASHINGTON deprecated. Though Muscovite journalists dream of American participation in the Eastern policy of Russia as one of the results of the "alliance," the bare possibility of which has turned their heeds, the causes of the outburst of affection for the United States which they record and stimulate, lie deeper ; and they are worth studying as an indication of moral forces at work in the Empire—forces which may seriously affect the future of Russia and of Europe. The policy of the CZAR may vary with the hopes and fears of the moment and the events which rouse them—with a Polish insurrection, a socialist plot, or the demand of the nobles at Moscow for a constitution. They may be modified as a Mousavisrs or a Mu.trrnris is in the ascendant. But the strong current of tea Lady Rendlesham gave birth to a daughter on Saturday at Rendleshani Hall, Suffolk. Her ladyship and infant are doing well. We have to announce the death of Mr. Russell  Charles Stanhope, only son of the late Hon. Sir Francis Stanhope, and nephew of the Earl of Harrington. Mr, Stanhope died on Sunday at Parsoustown Manor, county Meath.  We hear that the Earl of Airlie is to start soon on a second visit to America.—Dundee Advertiser.