The Express. — 1865-04-24 (London, England)

THE DAILY PRESS ON THE SURRENDER OF LEE.  " The great war," says the Times, "on which the eyes of the world have been fixed for the last four years has been brought virtually to a aloes by the surrender of General Lee with the chief army of the Southern States." While giving the Confederate army its due mod of praise in the hour of its miafortuae, the +Tim es does not deny the Federal pearls end their troops the eredit of agree' achieve' meet. "Whether the Southerners have or have not fought better than la former yews there or be so doabt that the Fedente have surpassed all their preceding efforts. Slowly but surely troy have brought their armies to perfection. If the lima has not gained in this struggle that mortice for desperate valour which has been achieved by the Omfederates, they bar shown a patieone, a fortitude, and as energy which entitle them to rank among the very fast of military nations. nay have now sufficiently shown that the attempt to establish the Southern Oenfeelerssey must be •b•adend." The Times, Ls the full glow of the Federal sucesesse, has • frisadly wed ern for Mr. Seward. "There seems to be on the part of President Lincoln • desire to conciliate vanquished fellow-citizens. Under the guidance of Mr. Seward, who has creditably distinguished himself in the Cabinet by his moderate counsels, and whose life will, we trust, be spared at this crisis to the Union, he may by gentle measures restore tranquillity, and, perhaps, before his term of °Moe expires, calm in some degree the 1111111106 i. tir which have been raised by these years of war." The Mornisy Post rye lees of the aloes of the war than of the difficulties whisk it believes are about to appear. "If the Union is to be recoustractri, is slavery to be abolished? Mr. Lincoln foresees the difficulty, but doss not venture to suggest a solution." But this is no► the only or the greatest difficulty with which the North will have to rioted. "The Confederate gover•seat, as such, may have ceased to exist, sod its armies may have beau dissolved, but there still remain six millions of people whose spirit of resistance is unbroken, and who posers now • greater aver. aide from Northern rule than they did mar than four years ago, when they sprang to arms to assert their independence. The Federal Government have proved themselves able to overrun a vast extent of territory, to capture cities, and to compel armies to capitulate, but they have still before them • more difficult task than all—that of subduing a brave, • stubborn, and an intelligent people." The Mrrninp Herald, more Confederate than the Confederates themselves, appears unwilling to wort the opinion of General Lee as definite concerning the chances of the war. " The answer of General Mosby," says the Herald, " may be the answer given by • hundred period °menders in the Confederate BMW, There may be, and doubt's* will be, thousands wbo will scout the idea that the fate of the army of Virginia should decide that of her sister states. When we hear the voice of the Caribou and of Georgia, of Mississippi and Alabama, of Texas and Western Louisiana, raised in supplication for peace—then, and not till then, shall we believe that the end is come, and that the wood war of independence in America is over.' We h►ve been false to our principles, and neglected our opportunity. "We have been guilty of a crime as well as • blunder, and assuredly we or cur children will have to pay for froth." The Standard, which has always maintained that the Southern people would prolong their resistance while they had a regiment or a fortress left, sow says th►t General Lee is nut a man to take this view of his duty. "A thorough-bred soldier, be abhors all unsoldiarly practices, and would never sanction a war which had ceased to have • definite military object, and degenerated into a mere endeavour to inflict as severe • vengeance as possible among the conquerors. He accepts the fortune of war, and cur. renders his army when he is hopelessly beaten as he would surrender • fortress when defence had become obviously impossible. As • Christian commander be shrinks from a battle which would have been virtually the suicide of his army." - - - - - •  no Advertiser remarks that the Confederate cause has been crashed ; bat •' it the Southerners have been vanquished, they have the satisfaction of knowing not only that they had to fight against overpowering numerical and Material odds, but that they retire from the coollict amid the sympathies sad ►dmiratioa of the whole civilised world."