The Express.
London, England, 1863-12-12 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12.

ALTHOUGH the tenour of the latest telegrams 1
from India had left very little doubt of the inevi-
table termination of Lord ELGIN's illness, the news
which reached London yesterday of the death of
the Viceroy of India, on the 20th of November, will ,
strike the public this morning with a pang of sor- 1
rowfnl surprise. So true it is that, in public as in
private life, there are griefs and losses which, how- I
ever lingering in their approach or long delayed,
come at last with all the violence of a sudden and
unlooked-for blow. Lord ELGIN, though the
companion and friend at the University, the aur- I
vivor and successor in the highest delegation of
authority in the world, of Lord CANNING and Lord I
Dar um:raiz—who it seems but the • other day
were spoken of as promising statesmen, and are
now names in history—was, compared with our
chiefs of parties at home, scarcely more than
in the prime of an active and vigorous lire,
when he took leave of England for the last
time to enjoy the magnificent penalty of a gene-
rous ambition. Like several of his predeces-
sors, Lord ELGIN went out to India to inaugu-
rate an era of imperial beneficence and pacification;
to heal, to appease, to reconcile, to unite. There
waa nothing very dazzling in such a prospect to a
vain, a restless, or an adventurous spirit ; to a
man of passionate or romantic temperament,
weary of the parochial politics of our western
world. But it may be fairly said that no one
within the privileged circle could have been found
more fit for the sovereignty he was called to exercise
in India than the statesman who has now been
carried away at the dawn of a noble destiny un-
fulfilled. In truth, Lord ELGIN belonged to that
order of aristocracy which justifies the Con-
servative belief in the vitality and per-
manence of an aristocratic order in
this country ; to the order, that is, of modest,
useful, ready, and indefatigable professional poli-
ticians and administrators ; men who work as hard
in their vocation as the sergeant-major of a
marching regiment or &conveyancer in good practice.
These men, no doubt, are often the superiors only
in the accidents of birth and fortune to hundreds
of their fellow-countrymen of meaner rank; but
it is by the use of their advantages, by their
superiority to the accidents of birth and fortune,
that they deserve to be judged ; by the example of
laborious responsibilities deliberately preferred to
selfish idleness and ease, and of a debt of
hereditary honour acknowledged and fulfilled
wida a proud humility. It would be a poor com-
pliment to the services of such a man as Lord ELGIN
to pretend that he rose to the highest dignities by
the right of extraordinary merit or capacity ; it
is a higher, because a purer and juster, tribute to
his memory to speak of him as of an English
gentleman who, being born to greatness, was
anxious to deserve and content to achieve it, and
who died as he lived—at work.

Ws understand that Captain &saute has been
reinstated in her MAJESTY'S service, by being
plsoed upon the half-pay of his rank from the date
at which he was struck off the strength of his regi-
ment, the 6th Dragoons. Under this arrangement
Captain SMALLS does not lose the advantage of any
of his service, nor is his title to • future pension
impaired. The reinstatement annuls entirely the
effect of the Mhow court-martial, although not the
proceedings of the court-martial itself, and it une-
quivocally condemns the treatment to which he has
been subjected. Justice has at length triumphed,
but after one of the most obstinate contests that
we can remember. This measure of reparation to
Captain SMALEB is mainly due to the enlightened
development and persistent manifestation of pub-
lic opinion. While claiming this credit for
the public press we desire to recognise the
honourable part which Earl Da GAIT has taken
in this matter. He had to contend against
the opposition of the Indian authorities, who
had committed themselves to • doubtful de-
oiaion. Ile bad to undertake a careful in-
quiry into a large body of facts which had
occurred at a distance, before he could pronounce
a final judgment. The delay has provoked some
expression of impatience, but the deliberateness,
to which it was owing, adds to the value of
the decision. The Indian authorities, and parti-
cularly Sir If t:en Rosy, Commander-in-Chief, will
understand in future that although they are reputed
omnipotent in their sphere, there being no legal
appeal from any irregularity they may commit,
• power greater than theirs observes their acts
and will overthrow their injustice.

HER MaJisrir.—Yesterday the Queen attended
evening service at St. George's Chapel, Windsor, and emu-
pied the royal closet. Her Royal Highness the Princess
Helena was also present, and occupied the stall of the late
Prince Consort as Knight of the Garter. Her Majesty
and the princess were attired in deep mourning. The
Crown Priam and Princess of Prussia have attended
Divine service at the chapel several days during the week.
Dr. Elvey presided at the organ.
Their Serene Highnesses the Prince and Princess
Edward of Saxe-Weimar will join the company visiting
the Marquis and Marchioness of Bath at Longleat, Wilts,
on Monday neat. .

His Excellency the Austrian Ambassador and
the Countess Apponyi leave town early in the ensuing
week on a tour of eta.

lady Lyndhurst has left town for the residence
of Mr. Du Case, ALP., and Hoe. Mrs. Da Cane, in Esser.
Her ladyship is in better health.

Lord Stanley, DEP., has left town for Knowsley,
after visiting the Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury, at
Hatfield House, Herts.

The Marquis of Bristol left town yesterday for
Ickworth Park, where • large family circle have assembled,
and will remain until Christmas.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Bath have been
entertaining during the week the Marquis and Marchioness
of Ailosbury, Maria, Marchioness of Ailesbury, Viscount
Oauterbury, the Countess of Ellesmere, and other visitors.

The Earl of Dudley has left his house in Park-
lone for Bco thud.

The Right Hon. Sir Charles Wood has arrived
at Etiokletoe Hall, Yorkshire, where the right boo. bsrooet
will receive a select party of visitors duriog the ensuing
week.

His Excellency the Turkish Ambassador and Mr.
Manna are expected at the rendeeee of the embus early
next week, from the Oeatinent. Madame Mumma and
family are poising the sewn at St. Leonard's.

Mr. James Stanafeld, M.P., the Junior Lord of
the Admiralty, who has been actively emplo►ed all the
week at Davenport amkyard examining the public m-
ama* paid an official visit on Thursday to the Royal Wil-
liam Victualling-yard at Stoneham.

The new royal paddle yacht Alberta has a large
number of hands employed upon her in the steam basin of
Portsmouth Dockyard, making her ready to convey her
Majesty from the R''l Clarence Victualling-yard to Os-
borne on the 16th init. The yacht, as a royal yacht and
constructed especially for the Q men's use, has created con-
siderable surprise in the minis of all who have visited her.
The upper deck is almost entirely cavered with saloons,
hatchways, &c., and bat a very confined space indeed be-
tween the after saloon and bulwarks is set apart for pro-
menading in fine weather. She is deeper in the water than
she was intended to be when laid down, and is anything
but a credit to her Admiralty designers.

We (Army and Nary Gazttt;) are told that Rear-
Admiral Decree has orders to proceed with the Channel
Squadron as far as Madeira. The opportunity will be thus
afforded him of making a valuable report of the sea•goiog
qualitam of the different descriptions of iron-clads under ha
command.

We (Army and Nary Gazette) understand Sir
Hugh Rose has been authorised to recommend a limited
number of officers for brevet majority on account of their
distinguished conduct in the field. Some captains in India
have certainly been overlooked in a remarkable manner.

The Emperor of Russia has commanded a large
supply of heavy steel shot and shell to be forthwith for-
warded to the imperial arsenals. The manufacture of thee.
missiles is partly to be carried on in Russia and partly in
England, MUST/. John Brown and Co., of the Atlas Work.,
Sheffield, have already received directions to prepare with
all despatch for shipment 5,000 large shot, carefully pre-
pared under the Bessemer process.

_
Mr. Grote, the historian of Greece, who is one
of the eonnell of Univenity College, London, and at present
islawirer of the college, has offered to put up at his own
expos* no the walls of the cloister of the college in Gower-
street, a mosaic representation of scenes and persons of the
Homeric poems, to be executed by the Parisian sculptor the
Baron de Trigneti.

We (Reader) learn that the chair of chemistry at
Berlin, rendered vacant by the death of M. Mitscherßch,
has been offered to Dr. Hofmann, the able chemist of Lon-
doe, who has thus the alternative of • choice between Boon
and Berlin, for the University of Bo•n has already made
him a similar offer, and has placed at his disposal a sum of
20,01:0.4 for the establishment of • laboratory.
Tan VACANT Junoasair.—The circumstances at-
tending Mr. Justice Wightman's death ware much spoken
of is the courts of law yesterday, sod many speculations
were, of mama, hazarded as to his probable successor in the
Court of Queen's Bench. The claims of Mr. Berjeant Shoe
were again urged by his friends, but an opinion generally
prevailed that the Lord Chancellor will offer the judgeship
to Mr. Serjeaut Kinglike, who, as member for Rochester.
has for • long time been a firm adherent of the liberal
party in the House of Commons. Among ether names which
were freely mentioned were those of Sir R. P. Collier, M.P.,
the Solicitor•Geoaral, Mr. Lush, Q.C., and Mr. Welsby.—
Tines.

MR. LATARD'A LATE SPEECH.—Mr. Layard met
his constituents on Thursday, and made a wandering speech,
which was palpably intended to have been au attack on
Mews. Cobden and Bright ; but constituents not liking
that lice. he had to avoid it, and make a new speech on the
spot. The old one, however, kept rising to his throat like
an anew of bile, producing the oddest teasebited kind of
effect. Mr. Layard did not say anything very noticeable
beyond calling for farther inquiry in the matter of Kago-
sima, which was destroyed, he believed, unavoidably, and
fiercely denouncing Mr. Coldwin Smith. "He bed prosti-
tuted the chair of history by mingling in the dirty arena of
party strifa" Mr. Layard doubtless knows the character
of the place in which his own contest is fought ; but why
it should be dirtier for the Oxford professor than for the
member for Southwark is not explaioni.—Spertalor.
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MUNIFICENT Garr.—At anleeting of the Glasgow
Faculty of Procuratorson Thursday, Mr. A. Bennatyne,Nsin
of the Faculty presiding, it was announced that Mr. George
BMWs, late sheriff-substitute of the southern district of
Perthshire, bad executed certain deed., conveying the sum
of 18,0001. to the Dean and Council of the Faculty, u trus.
tees, for the erection of free libraries and public schools.
The sum so conveyed is at present vested in good movable
vacuities, and the income derivable from the estate le
to be accumulated for 21 years. At the end of that period
it is expected that the sum conveyed will, at comi.ouod
interest, amount to fully 40,0001. With this sum Mr.
Baillie contemplates the erection of one or more free public
libraries, as the trustees shall then deem expedient, to be
constructed on the principle of the public free library
established by Mr. Brown, in Liverpool. Another °fleet
which Mr. Baillie has in view, if the funds should admit of
its being carried out, in the establishment of public schools
for the poorer classes, in which education will be given at
such moderate leases the trustees may think fit to exact.—
Scotsman.
0161118[0Y/8 IN READING THE BURIAL SERVICE.—
A complaint was made last week by a local dissenting con-
temporary that the Rev. C. B. Hulbert, A.M., the We-
fatigable and popular clergyman of the Marsh district,
Grimsby, bad omitted several portions of the Bend Ser-
vice over the body of one Elizabeth Hien, and we therefore
think it only right to state the grounds of this omission.
The woman in question was a notorious character, who
kept a house of ill-fame in Lower Burgess-street. During
her illness she scot for the Roman catholic priest, and he,
after her death, refused to bury her, ne doubt regarding her
as as excommunicate, which she unquestionably was, even
amording to the Cason Law of the Church of England,
which, unfortunately for the consciencesof the clergy, is a
dead letter as far as its working goes. The unfortusate
creature was taken to the cemetery, and an she was living
at the time of her death in open adultery with a race
named Hine, the Rev. Mr. Hulbert exercised a dial:retina-
ary power and omitted some portions of the servicie,wisiek
even if he had been Archbishop of Canterbury, it would
have gone against his conscience to have med.—Lincoln-
shire CArosicte.