The Express.
London, England, 1852-09-17 00:00:00

THE COMMANDERSHIP-IN-MIER

Rumour declares that the friends of Prince Albert
and of tEe Duke of Cambridge are b ho•
guinely anticipating the appointment of one or other
of those royal personages to the post of Commainbr.
in-Chief. Any such appointment can actively bi
desired by those best able to estimate the prop,
qualifications of any man who is to rule tin
military force of a great nation. What the isibl4
would say—should such an appointment ta::e pas*.
may be easily anticipated.
The following is a probable view of the !agar,
changes likely to arise in consequence of the lhaa
of Wellington's death. Of counter—sine nothing a
decided—we can only give the supposition., of those
best acquainted with the tendencies of the Ilan,
Guards:

Possibly—if politics have not too much influence_
the Earl of Stair may get the Guards.
Lord Hardinge, Constable of the Tower.
Sir Andrew Barnard, Colonel in Chief of Rine
Brigade.
Sir George Brown, Commandant of a Battalion oi
Rifle Brigad-, vice Barnard.
The claims of Lord Fitzroy Somerset to the dip:.
fled post now vacant are—his great expetietat
the duties to be performed. lle has,
for years the moving man at the Ironic Guards. He
is math son of the fifth Duke of Beaufort, mid ,t3e
born in 1784. He entered the army in P.m as
cornet in the 4th Dragoons, and served with 1:a
I take of Wellington in the Peninsula. 11, w 4,4:
the Battle of Waterloo, where he lost an aria. lie
was afterwards Secretary of Embassy in Pmis, and
for eight years Secretary to the Muter-Go:mt.'',
Ordnance.

Lord Itardinge, who is also named as eligible ft
the Cummandership-iti-Chief, was born in 1;15:,, text
is, consequently, a few years older than Lord F. !.4).
menet. He also is one of the veterans of the caita
sula, and has had much experience, both in the htli
and in military official hfe. lie has been Cle:k.d
the Ordnance, Secretaxv at War, thiet &Twat). l'u!
Ireland, and Governor-general. lie fought at \Va.
terloo, where he lost his left hand. Lord ILudizgt
has strong Tory pre.judices.

THE DUKE OF WELLINGIK

(PItO/4 A SPECIAL CoItItI:APOSWENT).
DOVES., tiVNADAY
Although it was expected that the Marquis of
Douro, the new duke, would arrive here in the
course of the night, yet this morning arrived withet
bringing so much as tidings of his approach, as
meanwhile none but the most obvious arratimmen:
can be made for the obsequies of the departed. It.
a well known fact that the Duke was in the leak
of mentioning Stmthfieldsaye with preference s
his final resting place where he might repel
by the side of his duchess, and that he was desisa
of extending the military severity of his lite to the
manner of his funeral. But alttiongla there
scarcely a wish of the great departed which it woad
not be almost a religious duty to fulfil, no one hes
seems to expect for a moment that the remains d
Wellington will pass to the giavo without the
highest honour which a nation can bestow, or that
any but a public monument, like St. Pau
or Westminster Abbey, can be permitted to
receive his ashes. It is, of course, right to resput
the wishes of his 80D, so far as to await leis
arrival before making any mortuary dispositions
as delay is, indeed, for other reasons, imperative; but
it is generally felt that public, far inure than prisms
considerations, should determine the Duke's finahral.
At Widmer the most solemn stillness prevails: the
" numerous equipages of the resident gentry," whidi
figure at the castle gate in the description of one I
your contemporaries, have been seen by no oce
that I have met. Tho death followed so close
upon the first manifestation of illness, that there was
no time for visits of inquiry, and certainly since the
solemn event no unbidden stranger has dared to in-
vade the solemn gloom. This morning the Isle's
solicitor, Mr. Parkinson, arrived at Wahines Castle,
but nothing fell from him concerning the arrange-
molts of the funeral. Mr. Parkinson has the will
of the Duke and the papers concerning his property.
The documents and correspondence which belong to
his public life will be placed in the hands of Lord
Mahon, who, it will be remembered, was thc literary
executor of Sir Robert Peel. I think I stated in my
yesterday's despatch that the telegraphic summons to
the Marquis of Douro was transmitted immediately
after the mournful event. It was, in fact, sera off at five
minutes before three, half an hour before the Duke
expired, and it consisted of a simple ri quest that the
Marquis would come to Weimer Castle immediately.
Doubts have been expressed whether the Manm
had not left Frankfort for Vienna ; but, even if that
were the fact, the message, being sent to the British
embassy at Frankfort, would bo subject to no un-
avoidable delay.
The village of Widmer, which is within half a
mile of the castle, and the town of Deal, which is a
continuation of that village, ate pervaded by tokens
of respect for the memory of their great neighbour.
There arc few shops which have not one or tea
shutters up, and a similar manifestation is made at
many of the private houses. It is a remarkabo
Let that Dover is almost entirely wanting in such
tokers; the more remarkable, inasmuch as the
inhabitants universally speak of the deceased Duke
in terms of unqualified respect and regret, while. 3
is at the same time confessed that Dover derived
benefit at least equal to that which was obtaiirdll
Deal from the Duke's residence in the vicinity.
From the Castle-keep at Dover, as well as at Desalt
the Harbour-house, and all the public establish-
ments, as well as from the shipping, there has her:
no lack of homage to the memory of the departed.
At the present moment the follow ins fact may tot
be unwelcome as illustrative of that quiet and un-
ostentatious generosity which the Duke habitual!)
practised :—A few days before he died, his grace,
while standing on the platform of the Folkestone
station, met with an old pensioner, and at once
entered into conversation with him. His graven&
tioned the veteran as to what regiment he had served
in, and so on, and, after hearing the replies, fitr
minated the affair by quietly putting his hand in tits
pocket and giving the man a sovereign. Ott this
occasion, as on others, the Duke was unattended hl
a single servant.

(BY ILNCTILIC TELKORAPII.)
DOVER, Fittuay Nwtxic
The Marquis of Douro arrived hero about thirp
five minutes past five this morning, from (Wend,
the Belgian government packet ltuhy.

ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE DUKE'S CAREER.