The Express.
London, England, 1864-03-04 00:00:00

CRINOLINES.—GEMMA-
CRIITOLINEL-011301A, or Jewelled. 9s. 6d.
MUMS. It PICCADILLY.
C RINOLINICS.-Bansflectuins. lfts. and 21s.
PHILPOTIS. *7, PICCADILLY.
C RINOLINEB.—Oodina or Waved. lfts. 6d.
PHILPOTTS, IL PICCADILLY.
CRINOLINES.--liansftectums Jewelled. 425.
PHILPOTIS, 27. PICCADILLY.
CRlNOLlNES.—Kagnifioently Puffed. 41%.
PHILPOTIS, V, PICCADILLY.
CRINOLINES.—Drawings with Prices post free.
PHILPOTIS. *7. PICCADILLY.

How COLD IT HAS BEEN.—NEORSTTI
and UMBRA.% celebrated THIULMOYETIIB.B will cor-
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s° 6e: Corchtll : 1/01, Flerieteeet: had 122, liegeotbtreet.
Agents boated.

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—And JACK'S ARRIVAL FROM CANTON.

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LONDON, FRIDAY, MA I:CH 4.

To relieve the tedium of public business while
members are studying the Danish papers, the
House is fortunately supplied with Mr. Fasaani,
who possesses an inexhaustible stock of angry
questions always smouldering in the Notice Paper.
With the fury of hot youth and the obduracy of
that later season of life which to most men brings
calmness of temper and soberness of judgment,
that hon. member rakes up some personal
grievance, pitches it into the middle of the House
as heroically as if he were hurling a live shell, as
if the mere explosion would make him an ob-
ject of public sympathy and respect. Last night
the terrific detonating charges he flung at two
absent officers exploded in his own face. Mr.
FERRARI" accused the late and the present Con-
troller of the Navy, Admiral Sir BALDWIN
WALKER and Admiral RoniNsoN, of interfering
to prevent his election at Devonport—the former
by au abuse of his administrative patronage, the
latter by actually appearing in " full uniform" at
an electoral meeting, and waving his white hand-
kerchief for the Whig candidate.
It appears that Mr. FERRAND, in his speeches to
the electors at Devonport, had accused Sir B.
WALKER of having stopped promotions and ap-
pointments in the dockyards during the decline
and fall of the last Tory Government. This was the
construction Mr. FERRAND chose to put upon the
simple fact that Sir Baum's. WALKER, under ex-
ceeding pressure of work in his office, had delayed
some promotions in the dockyards for about three
weeks. In point of fact, the delay was perfectly
insignificant, and innocent of any political (ames
whatsoever. Only when Mr. FERRAND, in a series
of electoral harangues, marked by his usual
moderation and discretion, accused Sir B. WALKER
of having " kept back appointments " for a poli-
tical purpose, that gallant and distinguished Ad-
miral thought proper to make public, in the form
of a placard, to the Devonport electors, his own''
vindication. And this public reply to a gross
accusation Mr. FERRAND calls interfering to pre-
vent his election. Mr. F .• 'a grievance
against the present Controller, Admiral
ROBINSON, was of • lighter and more playful de-
scription ; it had not been kept smouldering so
many years, but it was meant to be quite as dan-
gerous and destructive. The present Controller
of the Navy is accused by the member for Devon-
port of having, while in command of the Steam
Reserve in flatware, and consequently resident
at Devonport, appeared " in full uniform " in the
Town-hall at the declaration of the poll, and made
himself conspicuous by waving his white hand-
kerchief and cheering the Whig candidate. Now,
from the simple explanations given to the House
by Sir JOHN liar and the Sreaersee of the AD-
MIRALTY, it results that Admiral RO•INSON, who
was at the time of the election in question simply
Captain of the Steam Reserve at Devonport, had in
fact been present (not in disguise, but in the ordi-
nary undress uniform of his rank, as within the
limits of the port), in the Town-hall, like any other
elector, to see the sport, and bad very constitution.
ally laughed, like any other mortal present, at Mr.
FERRANIA tremendous rhetoric, and otherwise
enjoyed the fun of the proceedings. To an irritable
elector who taxed him on the spot with transgressing
Admiralty orders by such a display of his senti-
ments, Captain ROBINSON had politely offered
to forward to Whitehall any complaint against
himself ; the fact being that, as Captain of
the Steam Reserve, he had at that
time no more political influence within his grasp
than any mere elector in the borough. So secure
in conscious innocence was the present Controller
that he does not recollect the MAYOR having been
appealed to against his presence in the Town-hall ;
the MAYOR to whom Mr. F►.RRA]D passed a vote
of thanks for his impartiality, and whom that hon.
member now impugns as &Whig partisan. Mr. FER-
RAN'', it is true, has the written testimony of several
"leading electors" in support of his assertions. To
unprejudiced people it is simply a case of con-
struction. Mr. FEaRAND describes a naval officer
in high command, going' to the Town-hall in full
uniform, and at a public meeting of the electors
taking an active and noisy part on the side of the
Liberal candidate. Stripped of romance the simple
fact is, that plain Captain ROBINSON, R.N., being
ashore at the time, went into the Town-hall while
Mr. FERRARI' was thundering away at an electoral
meeting, and at the declaration of the poll laughed
and cheered like any other free and independent
Briton.

As to Sir BALDWIN WALKER, the accusation
was far graver, and recoiled with double force upon
the accuser. Mr. FERNAND talked of the present
Commander-in-Chief at the Cape of Good Hope
having "fled across the seas," and contrasted the
Admiral's flight with his own triumphant presence
in the House as representative of Devonport. This
was a little too much for the good-feeling of the
House, and eiiiperiidly for the equanimity of the
friends of the gallant Admiral thus attacked in
his absence, than whom, as was eagerly testified
on both sides of the House last night, the country
does not possess a braver or more capable
otticer, or a more valuable and con-
scientious public servant. There is something
that jars upon the ear in vociferous random