The Express.
London, England, 1855-07-16 00:00:00

NAVAL AND MILITARY.

BHHERNIIBB, 'via 14.
A aoart-martial aasalabled this mornings, at Dine
Lot on board the detehip, Waterloo, to try lir. Maths*
Eiclarde, seater of the Gleams thretbsy battery, on a Marge
of being droak and incapable of performias his duty us
the 4th What, when the Glance was at me, and ea a
trial trip.
The toUouring Olken eovepteed the mart: Commodore
Christopher Pi, Prreldent ; Captain tlaperie•endent
Jeha Jerrie Tooker ; Copula Lord Frederiek Herr •
Ospania the 800. Arthur A. Cochrane, C.B. • Csptaio
resiedek B. I'. &neon • sad W. W. Henpeck, Depety
JedpAdlogyate. Lest. Henry L Holder elleisted es the
ellearal thesauri. _ _ _ . .

Inatigili.77Fa plosded 17 years' service,
ed by kapoopir meals& He prodseed seventies
esolGeates el rued eisitser. sad stated is eziematios of the
sharp beasts asabetblik dot be bed oo that day, from
OR
tidy base is the betels, bees is Jose &swiss atwes,
wle diembod with heavy rain, bad sot Si opporimity 01
=vaa meal up to 8 p. of that day, sad that the dnok
tales bed • doable effect upon Ma. He threw
MERU ea Me siereihil seasideradosi of the sours, sod
urged Ids aro yeses of savior, stated that he had oaly
the servile to look to few has subsist's'., sad bum* hoped
the emit would deal Isaiestly with hilesse, sear bevies
bakes Overt eases to be hawed before a naval bibsaal,
Theeleasesper set
settee was cleared, sad, after a abort ielittratina,
the wart was °posed. TM JedgerAdvosste read the sa-
tiate of the court, whisk was, that, situ Raters considers
Ms, duly weighing the evidence gives, sad aloe what the
primmer had to say is his defeat*, they ware dearly of
*plaice that tbe slangs was tally proved, sad that the pit-
sow In Maimed ben hoe Mossy's 11411f•ite and ha was
essordiortly dirmiseed.
The Ades atero-ehtp sailed at 12.46 p.n. yesterday for
the Bads Wiled 8. W., is fora 4 ; clear mean.

80IITHAMPTON, JULY lb.

Order* have been received hers to prepare berths
on board the Orinoco, for Lieutenant flieressn, of the 48,h
Regiment, Lirutenant-Coloael Benbary, of the 23rd
Regiment, Colossi Lewis, of the Grenadier Guard', and
Lientesaat Calomel Hay, of the 93rd Regiment, all bound
for the Climes ; sad for Captain Hoak*, of the 49:b Rent-
none, sad for U. Or Campbell, of the 71st Regiment, boned
fur Halm; also for some ladies, wives of ‘mars and
officials, medical clerks, Orr amass armovren, peymasters,
foremen, mechanics, servants, and hones bowed for Con.
staatineple, Varna, Scutari, the Black See, sad the Crimea.
Tha Orinoco is to leave Southempton on the 20th that Or-
ders have aloe been received hare to prepare for the em-
barkation of teas of ►ea Gabbro, Ms., 4 tau•inch pea., on
board the Himalaya, and 3 silty-sight possdars of 95 cwt.
oath on board the ()risme.

DUBLIN, Jinx 14.
The Royal Charlie transport arrived in Cork
►arbour from London on Teenutuy, end %ekes oat th. fol•
lonia( drafts to Malta, via 2 captains, 4 , 5 ser-
geants, 2 drummers, and 130 rank and 81. of the 17th
Regiment, and 3 eaptalar, 3 sehalteres, 6 sergeant*, 2 drum-
mers, sad 113 rank end ale of the 39ta Romment. During
the latter portion of the preeest met the following tamps,
emissive of those meatiosed above, ►ate embarked at Cork
for the mat of war, via.: 17 ofiLe in, 64 iiittaiumag, 66 ser.
Raab, 10 Stuntmen, and 1,437 rank sad Ale ; ankieg
together, with them who were to embark la the 11"yel
Charlie yesterday, nearly 2,000 sea. The work of es-
' barkation was seeded on *washout with th. atm 4tfasilify
and la a manner moet satisfactory to the military them
selves.

Captalu Rath, Aide-de-Camp to hie uncle, Major General
Ede., arrived ben yesterday from Ki'teeny to join his re-
glacial, the 68th, shoat to embark the the Crimea.
Captain Teddy, remedy returned invalided from the
Crimea, has taken the irommaad of the Royal Le. filmy el
the Kilkenny diarist, is t►e &mos oa leave of Lieut.-
Colossi Rowse.
The 40th aithilt at Gelway,. sad the &Ott of the 80th
Rifles, have received orders of preparation for removal to
Athiciais.

GIBRALTAR, JOLT 6.
News is now received here very quickly from the
seat of war via Madrid ; through Paris It reaches is six
days by telegraph.
The large* Allied Powers Is engaged to take shot end
shell to the Crimea. _

it,e4s trioaport Raolate passed the B*y from B. to
W_. au the 6th inst.

TM Northamptonshire militia disembarked en the 27th
ult. from the Shooting Star. and marched to the South Bar-
man, with their band playing.
The Echunge (No. 44) transport took on board home,
Its., fm the laed massportoorpe, and was towed out by the
Matheson the lad last.

AO* the
Rear-Admiral of theßla Sir C. H. Fremantle 'Mad in
the Preesetbess, and the garrison saluted with 1l sans.
He is& Ha Halaklava on the 4th inst.. where be takes the
plasm vaunt by the death of Admiral Boz.r.
TM Wipe Ashley, from Liverpool, waa discovered on
In IS *oath alt., et 6 am. The alarms peal of the tapper
signal sbillsa were fired. All efforts to sztinpaish the
llama safe weasiling, so alm was towed oat sod wattled.
Her ellaram, hell, de. are now advertised foe sale, as well se
her esoma et 700 bonitos's, 4fte.
Oa Ile 4th inst. arrived the liaphrate, French worn.
meatehesiner. The Medusa steamer) is at Gibraltar.

The metract for the barrack hate at Pembroke has
been mitered into by Mr. Jackson, of Pimlico. They are to
assommelate 1.000 tars, with an adequate staff, sad an to
M ennebela within 40 days. The militia regiments of
Pembroke emi the 'dissent comities wiU thes be brigaded
there, and the Martell. towers on the hams massed from
them is month), reliefs. At prune there is sot a soldier
is sae of them ems to answer signals.
The contract for the erection of the Martell°
tower at Ds* blockhouse, Milford Hams, has bees
tikes by Mr. Fleetwood. It is to thi, • Gress ere with
others situated about the entrance of the haves' and is a
portion of a scheme leaf sines decided apes by the sem.
ulnae of fortileatices for the protection of the pert sad
asseaal.

TER LATE COLONEL BEOCIL—Therm is not one of
oar =Chary friends who will reeeive the tidings of the
death of Colossi Jobs Raab, of the Cloartevairtsr
(sisal's Dspertmeat at Read.qatters, with say other
thee bap of the deepest Imre. He died yesterday, at
bls essidenes, is Colesall- Pimlico, of lainerstina
a tabs.. aka a at the rip. aim of 72.
▪ beams a esnraleslissa 'Stet the Royal Waleli Pal-
las. eel salad via tat sea disllsesisha at
Pad-
sup Wag himself a aatir of Oriireaslire, at Wel-
shers% ad bin servals are thee rearded la Hart. " Avsy
LW:" "Colonel Zarb served with the eimeditioa to Wel--
Asses, sad at the awe of Plublag, a 1809 ; is the Pr-
eli& teen 1810 to 1818. Waft tbs aim of aisles
ssti Ofiveene. la 1811; bras of meses• attar of Fasts
aredis„ 25th, 26th. sad 17dk Ihrosslisr, 1811; arra of
• Retrivo sad Bielsko, battle of SolanaDea (severely
weeded). &mad also the aseirian a 1812, Mahar
lbeta of Wawa% asemies a Omaha,. sad sayers
ada." lie wee anermesdi et the Clearterasatar-
Oemeits staff is the yew NA sad awe east wee a Rove
erase avd manna vitas those walls, Dia
yea kaiser of boat shows to all with whom
bit dean bash* Is ambit. Naas &massy, of
as 11th Ihrsara, se after "be anal bade. beams
at thalliesat, is hag dap at the Rona Goma sulk to
t of Naafi Basib's easessar.
aßaDlllllll.—The flat hell labile reading in,
Leheles, es the astast of the war, took plass la UN pew
Tons Nall, os False mass, was Dr. &abed easiatod
as mike. esi G. L. litalsoss, as., aid beat se shah,
Os • emend resift wee /ass en Weft em,.
bah these eseadess the eassieses nee Imp ir
, sad the
Wald hk by all present k the peesseibe Uy
dap. lbws Is ovary mesa is hops Oa lbs 905 Soso
for vital seek maw are alabilasie—ast et aelMilatt
early istemestlaa ea the skaluessing Impiesepipte=
tri weaker elasses—wM be rennet sad
aqfbraWro abertimr.
CROW Boaltrrai..—We understand that, is
seat Is pram so mash se pomalo the heads of Ur above
ebony hem Was sailessly waited la law expoeses, a pro-
peaks has bets made to have the whams, Ss the flea
eisa e 1 the Lords Instiller. by sown' Wan aid far'
this =I a seriocomical, has takes plass beams Hr.
Pares, the solicitor to the Attoney Oared ear peals
elmatiss, sad the Rev. H. Holloway, of 5t Pda, thelester
asketen that the angst of the assi of raw 25 wlda ass
Meat of the Rolls has already dares& Lied ealilbsi bee
with swag most amettene mallet
fasis▪ liandion:ssl boseabe Is his Mesa% sellsas
wall as as ;sada Iselatelles se Is the maelembles
as sedeirail Maeda. shell bas the abases for
=5551+5. ; or. if the Anersey.assesi is walla
tbe asisdasliest saute of the betat, mad as Or
ankh amp& el a. PIM, sr Ouldhed aft a
Ish sad bansaietie ineemeaks, Mt. Seaway Is aslant,
is behalf of the jorla eta Palb sad the mak% Wargo
IntlW pressedleus is the =stem .
WAN EITIUMIZIOLUIT. —The Iffilikat
Auras!, i sellsb. the Neal mamba slab, sestaileg 79
:=balsa swarms. &a, aye :—The Asa masa
te take pima es Omar sat, a seas Valk
whim arty assaber will Masan Ispareleet the 'spit
la the ram
The steamer Queen strived at eh
=with •aria a save 210 ,Lt,
. This bosses have boss
ed
tat the elan at Aliaskott.

LITARATUBA

&ketches of tAa Ina% Bar, with Bow, Literary
Poittia4 By WILLILX BZNIT COMS, Baq.
Volum*, 8,0. Colbsra.

Two volumes of essays and personal sketches from,
the pen of Mr. William Curran oomplete Hs=
of publications for which we are this seamen
to Mr. Colburn. We have taken masks tepid*
the previous portions of the series which derive *del
interest from recollecinos of Mr. SheiL His ea*
friend and fellow•laboorer has survived him, aid hoe
added to the reprint of his own contritontisas M shat*
joint gallery of forensic portraits an interesting
sketch, biographic, rather than critical, of 'Hepburn
Woolf*, late Chief Baron of the Exchequer in belga&
We cannot may that we entirely approve of tin in‘
Irangement by which this supplemental portion of
the work has been made to precede those which ht
point of time--and we think in omit also—would
more naturally have been plated in their origimal
order. Woolf' a to have ban amongst the
many mos of tinted mind and excellent nede:l-
- whom these who knew•hlm regionally fl
it laird to make others understand why they so much
deplore his premature lose. No materials exist for a
monument such as affectionate admiration would
raise; and yet it will be content with no other. Mr.
Curran confesses frankly his muse of this, and quotes
somewhat largely from a pamphlet on the catholic
claims, written fl his friend in 1819, which Lord
Oreoville pronounced to be the ablest production of
the kind which had appeared since the days of Mr.
Burke. It bears, indeed, the stamp of what may,
perhaps, be designated as logial originality of
thought, and is an excellent epecimen of masculine
and lucid eloquence. But of the imagined,e oolour-
ing, in which Burke habitually clothed his subtlest
and closest argumentation, there is not a trace.
One of the most elaborate pictures of Mr. Curran's
early pencil is that of Mr. North, a name almost for-
gotten now on t his side of the channel, except amongst
the survivors of the Canningites, by whom he was
warmly welcomed as a valuable recruit on entering
publiclile. Like others of his school and party Mr.
North's reputation, unfortunately for himself, was
raised in the forcing-bed of University applause. He
bad been fed with the unripe fruit of fame, until his
capacity for better things had become impaired ; and
as the realisation of the promise of his youth con-
tinued to be adjourned d. die its diem throughout his
career, both at the bar and in the senate, Mr. Curran
is fully j .stifled in saying that at its commencement
he alighted on a pedestal and remained there. The
analysis of his character is admirably drawn, and
many traits and touches cannot fail, we think, to
mimed a curious resemblance to an eminent living
politician who, like the original of the sketch, has
always seemed to us to have been spoiled by over-
, learning and over-caution—too much reading and too
much refinement:

The early admirers of this acoempliehed young man were
fully warranted at the time in their prelim and predictions.
His mind was one of rapid growth, and put forth in its fleet-
intim, the same qualitios, Loth in kind and degree, which
are the sithj, et 01 jut admiration at the present day. His
intellect is singululy eased and clear. For the arquiremint
of knowli dot, It may be said to be well perfect. It le
vigorous, esatioas, and oomprekeusive. The power of si-
t/etas, Oat master-key to science. Is nadir his absolute
canna. Whatever is capable of demonstration is 'rithia
his grasp. Give him any system toe:plots, sad no matter
bow intricate the paths, wherever a disco has gone be•
Me, be will be set* to follow In hie track. His nude rstand-
lag, is a word, is eminently docile; at least so I would
infer from the early tritest and rapidity of his scientific
attaiameata, and Pogo the hebits of order end perspicacity,
with which be hie masts red the lees manageable dogmas
of our national jurispradrlNlS.
In the power of imparting what be lb thus acquired,
Mr. North has also mush that is uncommon. Ole quell&
c.tion of a speaker he possesses in an extraordlouy degree.
For extemporaneous sweetmeats and sopionsems of phrase,
I would piece him in the very highest rank. All that he
utters, wherever the suasion justifies the excitement of hie
faculties, might be safely printed without revision. Perltd
after period rolls or, gleans, measured, and complete. There
is a paternal solicitude—perhaps a alight tinge of aria°.
antis pride, in his d.termiaation that the chadors of his
fancy should appear abroad is ono vulgar garb. He is aot
like O'Connell, who with the imp, tvidenee of his country,
has so othspanetioZ ia hinging a brood of robust young
thoughts upon the mold, with tut a rag to cover them. Mr.
N trth's are all teetotally and comfortably clad. But this
extraordinary ears Is unmarked by any laborious effort. In
the article of awes of diction, his mind is evidently in
'lsaac einionessons, and betrays no lurking apprehension
that the eland. WS it may exoteed hie res %IMO. There
are no eseesteliese burn of untreated expenditure to keep
up the reputation of his eolvesey. Beanies alter sentence
is distressed with the familiar air of unconcern, which
meth the possessor of the amplest funds.
With qualifleations each se these, unequivocally meal.
tested at a very early age, and aided by a graceful and im-
posing manner, and a personal character, which stamped a
°Mit upon all he uttered. and these natural exoelleneies
stimulated by a generate ambition to mower the general
call that was made upon him to be a teremast man in his
day, it was asturally to be anticipated that Mr. Mirth would
do great things; bat his ondownthate, however rare, have
beta greatly marred, as to all the purposes of his fuse, by a
radical defect of temperament, to the dal ing influence of
which I eat trate the failure of the splendid hopes that
attended his entrance upon public life. Mr. North has
abundant strength of intellect, but he has not equal energy
of will. His miad waste boldness sad determination of
character. It was that hardihood of purpose, and coa-
tempt of anwevateees, without which nothing groat la
thought or action can be accomplished. He is trammelled
by a fastidious taste, and by &disastrous deferent* to every
nett, opinion that say be pronounced upon him. He guil-
tless his fens to hi, dignity. P.m., he should have remem-
bered, is like ether fair lodise, sad faint beset won her.
Like the rest, she must be warmly and importunately
wooed. He shrieks, however, from tee notion of commit-
ting himself as her suitor, exeopt spots a classical recision.
I hath been often risked " if I esseidered Mr. North to be
a man of genius ?" My answer les bee, he would be, if
he dared." If it were passible tie tramodase into his system a
few quarts of that impetuses bib bleed which revels in
O'Conash's veins—if le mould he isrenht to bestir himself,
sad bent asunder the conventional fetters that 'snob his
spirit, he has sissy et the other quelities that would maids
him to that mined appellation. But as it is, his peens be
enthralled is a state of maven respesaios benne tie
conflicting la 811411101 PS of his ambition and his opperheseina
With all the desire in the world he be an linnet mast gild
esassions that the elements of greatness are within Ma,
an of Its most neesesery attributes he still is witkoat—a
esslnest of msesullee selktellesee ad aloes with it a
eels sad settled bents be the ;grind= of little kinds,
sal the gleams alb* asesise. mod the murmurs of the
tea-table, and the issek-hetelegravity with which mediocrity
is ever sure to bows upon a style of language or endue
above its eromprehosties.
Henn it Is. that hens never yet redeemed the pledgee of
his youth. Is hb paille displays, whiek the ens
scrupulous tests, have hewn fax less *nun thes they
ought, he has been nines, graceful, lastnedve, and in
geseval, almost faultless to a fault. But the lefty spirit of
heroin oratory wse wanting—" there wag no petite nor pas-
sion there." He is se afraid of testing a pawns to
tatters," he'll scarcely venter* to tomb it. He distrusts
even light from beano, for fear it should lead astray. I am
he from attributing these dedeincies to any inherent
Ineepeodty of lofty emotions is ldr. North; I should rather
esp that he hoe twee, In sou sae the spoiled child of
pmmstare mow*. The applause that followed his fist
ailliegle taught him too soon to propose himself es a medal
to linear, sad to shudder at the danger of deg.
hem that ideal standard. He speculated" too evi=i
upon bow mash elsreeter he might lees, without cossikee
leg hew meek mon might yet beed. In this respect
he r strived too soon at his years of discretion.
As a specimen of judicial appreciation of amoebic
and exquisite fidelity of delineation, nothing ems be
better than the sketch of Pimlico. Bat, by most of
oar readers, that of O'Connell will be more readily
recognisable. We cannot afford space for more than
one or two fragments. It is only necessary to pre-
mise that it was written while the great agitator was
at the zenith of his popularity as an advocate at the
bar, and several years before he found his way into
St. Stephen's.
If say ose el yee, me English readers, being a strellgar
la Dahlia, tbsteM nisei, as you return upon a wheel,'
tutaltimal of the ." sad early" swam of
that to to my, biter's& *ig bears of
two en 'a
=tugs along the sank side of Monter
are, yes suilleet ilia te ebbe% thi= that spies•
did asedne, there is emp • • pens
won U
Ike nisteeiaUvr..l.zl histblosable
The r, thd tba light
Wit=lll.ll.imsenee chit semi sae ire,* there, when time
to too reins Or pen* Ma to regulate his rising with the

saws. SWIM yeer earlift Imp yea to .send the steps,
gad, nadir sever of -leek to geeseseitre the Lawlor,
=L em a tan able-WM* man Wading at • desk, and
In eatery etoOpiless Upon they'll is froat of
idotilisto Imp a ontallls: nom this, and frees tlte calm
ettnedeelliopeesso 4fro a metals mosestiovo-
liimally she
tat
ID suet Ids seek sod
ems idtws, your first impression
bo that Is digaitary
of ismsisms absorbed kW milk &WoesMims. of the Church
SW this esejestore will het whited almost as goes as
lamed. Newsier saa tie eye take in the other hunker*
of the aperta ssi, the buck-sores *legged with tomes in
plain calf skis boding, the blue-covered octavos that lie
shoat ea the tables sad the floor, the reams of manu-
script in oblong folds, and begirt with wrimeon tape, than it
bee-gees evident that the party, meditatiag amidst such ob-
it:ate, mast be thinking fag more of the law than the pro-
phets. He is, as quivosally, a berrister, bat empiric', of
that tmeely, chamber-hoopla', plodding east, who labour
hard to make up by assiduity what they want in wit—who
are up and stirring before the bird of the morning has
soanded the retreat to the wandering spostre—and are
already brain deep its the diseyieg vortex of mortgages a- d
eram-remainden and mergers and remittals; while his
clients, still L
apped is sweet obdvioa of tat law's delay, are
for a
Mac deet=wilmt their saw persaptorily wt down
Nog •
liacfag Mao totilLeoitudruilut, you pea en for home,
bineivyster more es way that you are sot a lawyer,
sad dasizely wit apariasatiog the sedentary drudge, whom
you Yaw jest dotostsd in the performance of his cheerless
toil. Sot should rut happen is the eourse of the same day
to stroll down to the Hall of the Four Courts, you well be
not a little surprised to fled the object of your pity mimeo-
lonely traasferred from the severe recluse of the morons',
into one of the most bustling, important, and joyous per.
magas in that busy wens. Uwe you oil be sure to see
him, his countenance braced up sad &teeing with health
•ead spirits—with a Isms plethoric hag, which his robust
areas can warmly sustain clasped with paternal fondn' se to
his breast—end eneirosed by a living palisade of clients and
moneys, with outstretched necks, and mouths and
ears agape, to eateh up any (dunce opinion that may be
coaxed ont of him in a colloquial way, or bussing to what
• the client relishes still better, for in e nn eau they be
t elided into a bill of costs, the counsellor's bursts of jovial and
familiar humour, or, when he touches on a sadder strain,
his prophetic awareness that the hour of Ireland's redemp-
tion is at hand.

Toth perceive at oath that you have lighted upon a great
popular advocate, and If you take the trouble to follow hie
=permeate for a couple of Imre through the several courts,
you will not fail to discover the qualities that have made
him eo—his legal competency—kis badness like habits—hie
sangethe thoperionent, which renders him not merely the
advocate bat the partisan of, his client—his acatenem—hls
fluency of thought and healthy—his unconquerable good
humour—and, above all, his versatility. By the hour of
three, when the judges usually rise, you will have:seen him
go through a quantity of business, the preparation for, gad
performance of which, would be sufficient to wear down an
ordlearr eonatitution, and you naturally suppose that the
remaining portion of the day mast et necessity be devoted to
recreation or repose: but here again jou will be mistaken;
for should you feel disposed, ea you return from the courts.
to drop In to any of the public meetings, that are almost
daily held for sumo purpose, or to no porticos, In Dublin, to
a ontainty you will find " the counsellor" there before you,
the presiding spirit of the sane, riding in the whirlwiad,
sad directing the storm of popular debate, with a strength
of longs, and redundancy of Wasting, ea if he had that
moment started fresh for the labours of the day. There he
remains, until, by dint of strength or dexterity, he has car-
ried every point; and from thence, if you would see bins to
the close of the "day's eventful history," you will, in all like-
lihood, have to follow him to a public dinner, from which,
after haying awed a conspicuous part in the turbulent testi
city of the evening, and thrown off half a dozen speeches in
praise of Ireland, he retires at a late boar to repair the weer
and tear of the day by • short interval of repose, and is sure
to be found, bef ve dawn break next morning, at his soli-
tary post, reeemseeneieg the oodles of his method =Within.
Now, any one who has ones seen, in the prosodist situa-
tions, the able-bodied, earisg, talkie', multi-
farious person I have been just ffeeselbthg, has no coession
to inquire his name—be may be e=ared that he is, and can
be so other than " Kerry's pride sod Manster's glory," the
fer.famed,ladefeelgable, sad iatissitable Dasiell O'Coanall.
The second volume of the work before us oonsists
of miscellaneous contributions to the literary depart-
moot of the New Monthly. !Me interest which at-
' tech.. to current criticism is proverbially short-livedi
and we cannot any that we have derived the male
pleasure from the perusal of Mr. Curran's eseays mid
reviews that we have from that of hie bar sketches.
The truth is, however, that his peculiar function seems
to have at all times been that of biography. Few
works of our time possess a greater charm than his
life of his father, the celebrated advocate and wit,
whose conversation Byron declared to he more full
of humour and imagination than that of any man he
had ever met with. The volumitto which we refer
are, we believe, out of print; but in these days of
universal re-publication, we may hope that they will
not long remain so. Many incidental traits and
anecdotes of Curran have transpired from various
quarters since the biography in question was written ;
and no one can be so well qualified to incorporate
them with the original substance of the biography as
he by whom it was thirty years ago composed.