The Express.
London, England, 1864-08-02 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 2, 1864.

not compel the men to attend, there is no reason
why the want of quiclmees and arsooreey at •
Volunteer review should not be charged upon the

officers and

offionni as con-

elusively u it would be in a review of a divisioiti
of troops of the line. At least they are open II
this charge unless they can prove, what we fear
few can do, that they have worked at drill to the
extent in the rough proportion we have assumed, of
at least three times aa much as the men in the ranks.

This view of the subject has an application to
the second as well as to the first part of the Cox-
YANDER-18-CHIEF'B letter. In it he complains of
the small attendance at Wimbledon, and suggests
that if there were fewer public reviews it might
be more easy to obtain the requisite time for
attending them. The result of the arrangement,
his Royal Highness suggests, might very probably
be a larger tarn out on any given day. But it
would probably also diminish the aggregate
attendance during the year, for it would cut oft
from those who oould not attend on the few great
days the opportunity of attending on a minor day.
Bat the surer means of increasing the numbers of
the Volunteers on all occasions is to increase the
efficiency of their leaders. They will not come
up to be the vile bodies on which
inefficient officers make their experiments.
They grow sick of repeating the same movements
for the sake of driving the correct word and posi-
tion into the head of some negligent captain or
sergeant. And when the habit of absence from
drill commences it destroys the spirit, the energy,
the pride in the service, the esprit do corps, which
are the effectual recruiting sergeants of the Volun-
teer force. We commend, then, to the Duke of
CAMBRIDGE'S appreciation two questions. The first
is, whether the troops he handled at Wimbledon
would not have seemed made of very different ma-
terial if they had been officered on the spot by
sergeants of the Guards ? The seconds, whether
he has not recognised that the Volunteer regiments
which turn out on all occasions the strongest are
evidently those which are most efficiently
officered t A candid reflection on these two ques-
tions will aid him and the public in coming to a just
conclusion as to what can best be done to maintain
and increase Volunteer numbers and efficiency.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

fumes rigamwe.)
THE PILCH NEGOTIATIONS.
81D11.124, Aims? 2.
♦ telegram received hen from Vines of yester-
day's date says :

"An armistice has been concluded for three
months, terminable at six weeks' notice from either
party. Tke levy of contributions in Jutland to be
suspended. Goods that have been seized but which
are still unsold shall be returned. The cession of
the Duchies has notby any means been unreservedly
decided upon in the preliminaries, but merely laid
down in principle."

SPAIN.
MADRID, Auouerr ?.
The ex-Duke of Parma is expected at Valladolid.
M. Mon will visit their Majesties at La Granja
before the departure of the King for France.

I Paris. Here was a regularly drilled oorpe of vaga-
-1 bonds, who, having deserted the paternal roof,
were found existing on plunder and sleeping with
, snob bedfellows as rata. The chief of these "free

and easy sparrows" was a lad of 9; the other
gentlemen of the "troupe" averaged 6 years of
age. Having effected a good stroke of business,
they went to a public bath, and afterwards in-
dulged in hot wine, and demanded then stronger
stimulants. The suspicions of the master of the
baths was aroused ; he gave information, and, as
the youths could not amount for the money in their
possession, they were taken before a magistrate.
For six months this band had been living on
what it could steal. Louis Jourdan not only
calls on the government to afford greater facilities
to the poor to obtain instruction, but desires
that instruction should be forced on them. The
last imperial speech showed that 600,000 infants
remain without even elementary instruction.
" Instruction," says the writer, "should be
thrown amongst the people as buckets of water are
dashed over a burning house. It is more econo-
mical to make good subjects, honest working men,
and peaceable citizens, than to have to repress
marauders." lam not aware that any objection
would be raised to the good people of Paris esta-
blishing schools without waiting for the action of a
paternal government. The man in the " Vicar of
Wakefield" who was always bewailing the state of
the census was quietly told that be would do much
better to take a wire and have children. The
" Franca Moinoaux" had been preceded by another
band called the " Swallows of the Bridge of
Arcola," who for a long time had roosted under a
bridge which M. Heinemann, Prefect of the Seine,
can see from his bedroom windows at the Hotel de
Ville.

MEMORIAL TO THE CRIMEAN MEDICAL
OFFICERS AT NETLEY.

Yesterday his Royal Highness the Prince of
Wales laid the foundation stone of a memcsial cross to those
medical officers of the army who lost their lives during the
war in the Crimea. The military officers who fell in that
campaign are honoured by mornimmits erected in those
localities with which they were in their lifetime sssociated
by education or by residence, and in London the Guards
Memorial sod the Monument to the Westminster Scholars
mark, in conspicuous position', the loss which the country
sustained in the Russian war. The army medical department,
whose exertions were never more called for, and whose aid
was never more serviceable than during the earlydimatersof
that struggle, in now to have a record of its heroic members
whose lives were secrisced in ministering to the ease of
others. Upon the high ground in front of the Royal
Victoria Hospital at Batley, a conspicuous object by land,
and to be seen for miles from the Southampton-water, a
cross is to be erected in the style of the early part of the
13th dietary, rising from the foundation, which is circular,
and near about six feet above the level of the surrounding
ground, to a height of 56 feet. The design is by Mr. T. H. Lewis.
The lower part consists of a series of arches forming an
octagonal arcade, supported by coupled columns of Derby-
shire marble. The other parts of the cross will be of Port-
land stone. Under the arcade there will be tablets
marble, stating the object of the memorial and the names of
the medical officers who fell in the Crimea. 'Above this will
be smaller arcades of similar octagonal form, taperieg up
gradually so the large eras which will form the summit.
Her Majesty's government have provided the foundation.
The cross itself, which will be erected by Messrs. Myers,
who built the noble hospital, is the result of the joint sub-
seriptions of the army medical department, officers of the
army, and of many
A guard of honour of the 26th Regiment (Cameronians),
from Portsmouth, was drawn up to receive the Prince.
Amongst the distinguished visitors were Major-General
Lord William Paulet, C. 8., and staff, Major-General
Lieut.-General Dye*, Admiral Sir Michael Seymour,
Colonel Shadwell, Admiral Tinling, Capt. J. B. Dickson,
the Mayor of Southampton. G. S. Brinton, Esq. ; the late
mayor, Alderman F. Perkin; Colonel Wilbraham, C. 8.,
Commandant of the Hospital ; Major Phillips Ravenhill,
; Dr. A. Anderson, Inspector-General of Hospitals ;
Dr. J. B. Gibson, Director•Geeeral of the Army Medical
Department ; Dr. Graham Balfour, F.B.S. ; and Surgeon-
Major Wyatt, Coldstream Guards.

The raised mound on which the cross is to be erected was
surrounded by a species of evergreen pavilion, of scaffold
poles twined with laurels and flowers. In the centre was a
pole the height of the intended cross, on the top of which
the crest of the Prince, in gilt, wee displayed.
The ceremony was announced to take place at half-past
12 o'clock, and a few minutes before that time, the royal
yacht Fairy steamed rapidly up Southampton-water, and
rounded to off the pier belonging to the hospital. His Royal
Highness the Prince of Wales, accompanied by Prince Louis
of Hesse and Gramm' Keollys, disembarked in the Fair's
gig, and was received on landing by Lord William Pettlet,
Camel Wilbraham, and the remainder of the offirers
present, the guard presenting arms, and the bead play-
ing "God save the Qtteeo." Proceeding to the main ou-
tran*, of the hospital, a procession was formed of the candi-
dates for medical appointments who are studying at the hos.
pital, the medical officers of the eatablishmeet, the nurses
and the lad► superintendent (Min Steward), the chaplain
(the Rev. Mr. Rollands), and the body of officers of both ea-
viola who were present, the Mayor of Southampton, and the
other officers of the corporation who ware present. On
reaching the foundation-stone the guard of honour ai sin
presented arms, and their band played the Natit nal
Anthem.

Dr. J. B. GIBSON, the chairman of the memorial m-
antle°, then read the address to the Prince of Wales.
His ROYAL HIGHNLS. said—lt gi►es me great pleasure to
repaid to your request to inaugurate this well-deserved
tribute to the memory of those medical officers who lost
their lives in the performance of their onerous and impor-
tant duties io her Majesty' service through the war in the
Crimes. It IN also particularly agreeable to me
to assist in the lot:iodation of your memorial sear
this building, connected as it is with this =gni&
cent hospital, in the mastics of which my beloved
and lamented father took so deep an interest, and in the
maintenance of which the Queen also feels a like interest.
The site chosen seems to be peculiarly appropriate, as,
although the main object of the establishment of this BOIL,
hospital was for the sick and wounded of the army return-
ing from the colonies, there is connected lei% it a pert. ct
medical school for the special instruction of young medical
officers who are to have the future care of our army in all
climates and in all parts of the world wherein our troops
may be called upon to serve. The names of those medical
officers inscribed on the memorial will be inseparably con-
nected with our great Military Hospital and Army Medical
School.

The Prince signed • parchment copy of the address,
which, together with copies of newspapers and the current
coins of the realm, was deposited in • bottle and placed in
the cavity of the lower stone that bad been prepared for the
purpose. The Prince, tekiog • silver trowel from the h►nds
of the architect, spread the mortar in a business-like manner,
and the stooe wee lowered into its place. The band played
the National Anthem. The architect, Mr. T. Hayti,'
Lewis, presented the Prime with • photograph copy of a
drawing of the memorial CMS. Ilia royal higher/is then
accompanied Colonel Wilbraham to the staff-officeremeas-
room. and partook of luncheon.

Although it was sot positively made known until yester-
day morning that the Prince of Wales bad consented to
perform the ceremony. a great number of persons hod col-
lected about the hospital grounds loog before the hour at
which the event took pleas, sad the top of the hill which
the building surmounts was crowded with vehicles of every
description.
His royal highness was escorted by the medical officers to
the Fairy's gig shortly before three o'clock, sod left the
'bore amidst enthusiastic cheers renewed again and again
until the royal yacht was fairly as her way steaming for
Osborne.

ACCIDLNTR tH Musa.—ln the year 1863 there
were 907 deaths mend by snidest@ is and about the coal
mime of Great Britain, 228 less thee is the year 1862. 163
of the deaths were caused by explosions of firedamp, 407
by falls in mines, 147 by so sob is shafts, 134 by miscel-
llamas noderground socideuta. sod 66 by &oddest. at the
surface. There were also in 1863 91 deaths mused by sad-
dest. in sod about the inspected irmarteme mime of Great
Britain, 14 leis than in 1862 ; nim of Mese we,. from ex-
plosions of Are damp, 39 from falls is mines, 27 from ami-
d/ate is shafts, 9 from miscellaseom widest. undergroued,
and 7 from accidents on the surface. In Routh Wales me
life was loft to 4.07 45.390 tons of coals raised, and that
W bees about the average of the last sight years ; in Boot
Os astir ire so low as al per 1,000,000 toms nad.