The Express.
London, England, 1855-06-05 00:00:00

RUSSL4-N ACCOUNTS.

of the reality; and oily 233 fewer recorded their votes
for Trre and WHATELEY on the present occasion than
for PHINN and WHATELEY at the last election. Mr.
TITE'S total fell short of Mr. PHINN'S by 111 votes;
Mr. WHATELEY'S of his own previous poll by 124.
The half-hourly returns show that Mr. Tire
took and kept the lead till half-past 10 ctn.;
Mr. WHATELEY then shot ahead of him and
remained first on the poll till 2 p.m. ; Mr. Tire
after time that regained his majority and kept it
till the close. This is a phenomenon we have often wit-
nessed in boas fide earnest electoral contests between
the independent Liberals and Conservatives. The
former, consisting principally of the substantial
middle classes and the electors less favoured by for-
tune, are on the alert early in the morning and gain
the advantage. As the day advances, the easy and
genteel classes creep out and bring their dependents
to the poll, and the Liberals drop behind. But soon
after midday the " gentlemanly interest " has polled
itself out, and if the Liberals are in earnest they re-
gain the lead and keep it. In the Bath election the
real Liberals have put forth their strength under
every disadvantage, and carried their candidate.
Mr. TITE, though favourably known as a man of
high talent and energy, has yet to win
his spurs as a politician. Politics are in a
great measure a new field for him. Hie career will
be watched by the Liberals with hope, but not at
first with implicit confidence. The Liberal electors
of Bath have returned, not Mr. TITE, but the Admi-
nistrative Reformer. The old Highlaaders had a
tupentition that in war the party which drew the
first blood was sure to conquer in the fray. In the
great struggle for Administrative Reform which is
now commencing, the Administrative Reformers have
drawn the first blood. We accept the omen.—Daily
News.

PRACTICAL JOKING IN THE ARMY.

LORD HARDINGE has lately published an order,
which will meet with the cordial approval of every
well-wisher of the English Army. During the last
few months more than one instance, of low practical
joking ,

amongst military men has come before the
pablis, and the officers mixed up in one at lent of
thus &imputable affrays have now been punished
in a manner that they will not soon forget. The
MOO WO allude to is one which happened in the
depot of the 30th Regiment, stationed at Fermoy, in
Ireland; and the delinquents who have caused
the COMIUNDIER-IN-CHlElell order to be issued are

Ensigns SANDERS and NEVILLE of the, aforesaid
corps. It is foreign to our purpose to enter again
Into the details of the barrack disturbance, which was
nisch ventilated in the month of March last; what
we would now point out is the punishment which
Lord HARDINGE has inflicted on these officers, and
the very effectual manner in which it is calculated to
stop anything like a repetition of such offences
throughout the service. Hitherto there have been
but two modes of punishing officers in the
English Army, besides the more serious one
of having recourse to courts-martial. Of these
the first was making the offender sell out of the
serviee, and thus—for, perhaps, some very trivial or
boyish offence—ruining his prospects for life. The
second was more unjust—and, certainly, equally in-
effectual as a means of reforming thole who had
offended. It was to stop promotion in the Regi-
ment, and to fill up all vacancies from other Regiments
or from half-pay. The injustice of this system lay in
the fact that not only were the guilty punished, but
all officers junior to them whether innocent
or guilty—suffered equally with those who
were in fault. So universal had these two methods
of military chastisement for commissioned officers
become in the Army, that they were almost regarded
as roles of the service. When the Duke of WELLINO-
TON was Commander-in-Chief, no deviation what-
ever took place from these quasi regulations. Lord
HARDINGE has, however, now broken through these
aboard customs, and has established a precedent
which will go far towards improving the dis-
cipline of the junior commissioned ranks in the
English Army. Two Lieutenancies in the 30th
Regiment became vacant a short time ago, upon
which the Commander-in-Chief wrote to Lord
SEATON, commanding the troops in Ireland, that
in consequence of the misconduct of the two senior
Ensigns—Messrs. SANDERS and NEVILLE—his Lord-
ship could not recommend either of these gentlemen
to her MAJESTY for promotion to the higher grade;
and that they must not expect or look for promotion
until their conduct had been favourably reported upon
by their superior officers for at least two successive
quarters. His Lordship, however, adds, that "as it is
not just that the other Ensigns of the corps, junior to
these, should suffer for the misconduct of their
seniors, the said juniors would 'successively pass
over them' whenever vacant Lieutenancies may be
filled up in the Regiment, till the period of probation
laid down shall have expired." And, further, Lord
HARDINGE ends his official letter or order, by stating
that he is determined "to take this course in every
similar cue that may not appear to require a still more
severe punishment."—Daily Newt.

—.—
The following despatch has been published at St.
Petersburg :

J oxt 1.

„On the 27th ult. the enemy burnt, at Berdianaki,
two houses, some coasting vessels, and a large depot
of wheat.
” Oa the 29th, 17 of the enemy's vessels cannona-
ded Genitscherk, and burnt there some transports and
some oorn upon the coast. Two of our pieces forced
the enemy's longboats, from which the fire proceeded,
to retire.
" On the 30th, the enemy had not undertaken any
thing new against Genitscherk.”--Daily News.

END OF THE
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DRINKING IN THE ARMY.

OF TIES DOILY NINOL)
VIENNA, MONDAY.

A final sitting of the Conference was held to-day,
sad the negotiations have been formally terminated.

RUSSIA.
Prince Oortchakoff reports by telegraph that on
the 26th his outpost' were in possession of the right
bank of the Tchernaya.—Daily News.

THE BATH ELECTION.

Ton election for Bath is the first in which a can-
didate has rested his claims to electoral support on
Me being an Administrative Reformer. Mr. WRATH-
/1M it is true, professed to be friendly to the caws
hinigstrestive Reform, bat not till after Mr. TITZ
hid heisribed that device on his banners. And Mr.
WHATTLY kept puling about not making Adminis-
trative Mann " a party question r which means not
urging it in a manner and at times that might incon-
venience his Mend Lord MOIST. The Adminis-
trative Reformer hes only carried the day after a
close contest, but he was placed miff peat dis-
advantages. Government had played theism of the
Tory candidate by sending down as their miss a
man whom no sincere Liberal said son f. Is
much time was lost in consumes*, *se as pew
dotal politician of recognised standing as die Lbw-
ral side would risk a contest. At the lAA heir the
Administrative Reformer called upon ths Alusganised
and desponding 'Liberals to rally around him; and

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 5, 1855.