The Express.
London, England, 1863-06-20 00:00:00

THE TRIAL OP LIEUT.-COL. CRAWLEY.

(From Um Army and NoryGarota)

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The Judge-Advocate-General hag now before
him all the circumstances oeceary to enable him to frame ,
charges for the trial of Lieut.-Col. Crawley, and we may
expect that the course of procedure will be settled so that
instructions may be sent to India by the next loan. It has
been urged that it would be more satisfactory to the public
and more conducive to the ends of justice, that Colonel
Crawley should be tried in England than in India,
and we believe that the authorities are so far
in favour of this view that it has been left to
, the proper legal. authority whether there are any tech-
mical difficulties in the way of a trial at home. Some of the
necessary witnesses—Adjutant Fitz Simon, Dr. Barnett,
Sergeant-Major Wakefield, and others—are in England. but
we take it that the majority are with the regiment, and it
may yet be worthy of consideration whether a court of in-
quuy, conaisting of three officers, of whose experience, ca-
pacity, and judgment there could be no doubt, should actin
sent out to investigate the ease at Mhow and complete it
at home. Tbere would certainly be some awkwaris in
having a court-martial on the spot, for the first step must
necessarily be a direction to General Mansfield to unstable
a court to try an officer for ao offence, for the coassignee.=
i of which he cannot but be held respoesible so far as we
know of his action in the matter. 'rho remarks made by
1 his Royal Higbee= the Field-Marshal Commending-is-
Chief in the Mouse of Lords on Monday afford ground
for grave reflection. It appears that it was oily within the
last week or two that be was placed in pewee= of the
facts attending the imprisonment of Sergeant-Major Lilley.
Now these facts were known to say one in England who
Icared to inquire into them for many months. They were
recounted as fully as need be for purposes of further in-
quiry in our impression of August 9, 1862 ; the wart-
roarrial and its horrible episodes having taken place in the
April and May previously. There are now over 70,000
European troops in India, and we think it is high time that
some change should be made in a system which permits the
officer responsible for the discipline of the whole army of
the Queen to remain for ten months in ignorance of facts
having a most important bearing not only upon that dis-
cipline, but upon the reputation of the country for justice
and humanity.

WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.)

SATURDAY, JUU to, 8 ...x.

18. X' U, w. I.iLIQ. L in.IR &
Nairn 29.85 561 8 N.N.W. 2 3 8 c 1
Aberdeen 29.86 67' 4 S. K. 2 4 6 o 2
Leith 19.85'04' 3 N.& 1 2 8 0 1
Ardromin ;19.87'561 2 N.& . 3 8 o 1
W. II i; 1;
Valenti, 29.97.61 7 N.W. 1 1 2 30 b 1
Queenstown 29.97 57 2 N.W. 3 8 8 b 3 0.11 2
Melds 29.8866 9 1 N.E. 12 2 4 c-1 2
Scarborough 29.19 65 1 N. 3 1 2 m - 3
Liverpool 29.84 50 3 1 W.N.W. I 1 ' 3 2 c 10. 2
Holyhead 29.84 641 2 N. i 2 632 b -1
Pembroke 29.87 58 3 N. 1 1 130 m - 1
POUIMIICO 29.89 59 1 N. 6 332 c - 3
Brest mire 67 2 j N.W. 16 6 e 6 ,0.82, 6
L'Orivß.ochetilotl.4 52:92.02; 2 1 W. 724
2 iiro. 9 16.16 ;
Plymouth 29.8162 5 N. , 6 428 blO 0.25' 2
Weymouth 29.7960 3 N.N.IL ' 3 1 26 0 6 0.122
Portsmouth 29.72 00 8 ' N. I 3 320 c - 12
London 29.73 59 4 j N. * 1 3 116 c 3 0.50 -
Dover 29.7365 3 1 E. 1• 2 118 c -1 1
Yarmouth 29.73 58 2 ' N.E. I 3 ' 4 116 c 3 ' 0.60. 3
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82EDAT. MONDAY.
B.W. to N.W., mode- 8002LLIID W. to N. and back,

BCNDAT.
S.W. to N.W., node-
rate, ftne.

A/labOve. !ISLAND A. above.
Westerly. moderate, W Critraan. W.B.W. to N.N.W.
showery. fresh. fine.
N.W.to S.W. and to W.Panttell. Westerly, moderate.

N. W., fresh. line. --
As next above. it.W.Enewin. As next above.
Similar. S.S YNOLMILI. Similar.
S.S.W. to N.N.W. and E. COAST w. to N. frail, fine.
back, moderate. Sae.

INCREASING INFLUENCE OF THE POLISH NA-
TIONAL GOVERNMENT. —The Temps of yesterday eels :
" Poland is decidedly slipping away from Russia. The
meet striking fact is not the incapacity, now completely de-
monstrated, of the Russians in the open field, but the power
of the occult national government sitting at Warsaw in the
very midst of the Russian bayonets. That government
works regularly ; it has its newspapers, it imposes its taxes,
and, what is more significant, it sends its summonses even
to the Russians residing in Poland, and those persons con.
eider it unsafe not to bow to them. One of than Russians
could think of no better plan of avoiding payment of the
tax levied upon him than that of quitting the country.
These significant facts are admitted by the Russian located.
The same journal, under the pretence of giving a lesson to
parents and teachers, acnowledges that young people,' almost
children,' it says, are leaving their colleges to join the in-
surgents. Noris this all ; the national government has or-
dered all the Polish officers in the Russian army to quit the
service, and to act as becomes true patriots. Acting upon these
orders several very distinguished officers of the garrison, and
amongst them General de Berg's own nephew, at once dis-
appeared. Such symptoms speak for themselves, and need
no comment."

The Giornale della Marina of Turin, of the 16th,
announces that, by order of the Minister of Marine, all
vessels sailing under pontifical colours shall henceforth, on
entering an Italian port, furl up their colours, and not be
allowed to hoist them so long as they remain in Italian
waters.

The Indicator of Wurzburg states that a French-
man who was descending the Rhine, one evening last week,
in the Hereditary Prince steamer, when passing the great
mill at Mentz, told the passengers that he was about to
show them an excellent practical joke. He had scaroely
uttered the words when he put his hat on a bench, jumped
into the river, and was drowned. In his hat was a letter
stating that he had lost all he poisoned at the gaming.
tables of Wiesbaden, and cautioning the public against
playing there. When his body was recovered, his purse was
found to contain only Hr. 27c.

The accounts from America regarding the petro-
leum trade show that it continues to augment so as to
realise the predictions put forth at its commencement. The
total exportation of the produce of the Pennsylvania wells,
from the Ist of January to the end of May, bail been
15.169,363 gallons against 4,231,630 gallons in the con e-
spooding months of 1862, and the consumption, it is said,
will now receive a further impulse from success having been
attained in adapting the moderator lamp to its use and in
the preparation of the oil so as to render it entirely ino-
dorous. . . . .

Mr. Rarey has been varying his attendance on
the sick horses of the Federal. with a trip in a reconnoiter-
ing balloon. The sensation wee, for "purely strategic rea.
sons," not long indulged in. as a rifle-ball through the edge
of the car gave him sharp notice to quit cloudland.
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Accordiog to the report of the Pacific Mail
Steamship Company for the year ending May 1, the com-
pany have built two new steamers at a root of 1,250,000
dollars, added 490,000 dollars to their surplus fund, paid a
dividend of 20 per cent., and are now building another
first-class steamer.

"AFFAIR or HoNoutc."—The recent cam in
the Court of Queen's Beech, in which the Balaklava charge
was re-enacted on paper, has given rise to a hostile feeling
between a distinguished veteran general of cavalry and a
noble lord who served in the Crimea, and who lately filed
an affidavit respecting the action on behalf of Colonel Cal-
thorpe. It was mainly in consequence of that misunder-
standing the affidavit was filed. The noble lord, on reoeiving
a challenge from the general, repaired to Paris, and waited
there for some time, hut returned to London just am the
general proceeded to France, where he still remains. It is
understood that steps have been taken to prevent any accom-
plishment of the designs entertained by the generals to
arrange their differences alter a style which has now very
much gone out of fashioo. —Army and Navy Gazelle.
CORPORAL Punk. illidENT IN SCHOOL& —The follow-
ing is a copy of a bill which has just, been brought into the
House of Commons by Viscount Raynham and Mr. Dunlop,
entitled " A hill to regulate corporal punishment in schools
and elsewhere :" • Whereas it is expedient that
prevision should be made for regulating the use
of corporal punishment by schoolmasters, tutors,
and other persons having the charge of young
persona for the purposes of tuition or training he it
enacted by the Queen's most excellent Majesty, by and
with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and tem-
poral, sad commons, in this present parliament assembled,
and by the authority of the same, as follows:-1. From and
after the peados of this act it shall not be lawful for any
schoolmaster, usher, tutor, or other person having the chsrp,
management, custody, or control of young peewee for the
purposes of tuition or training, and not being the parents,
guardians, or nearest surviving relatives of such young per-
sons, to inflict any corporal punishment on any such young
persons otherwise than by the use of a birch rod ; and every
=who shall act in contravention of this act shall be
to be guilty of an assault, and shall be punishable
scoordiegly."
A short time since there were 608 merchant
steamers mud other vessels in harbour at New York, 128 at
Boston, 155 at Philadelphia, KG at Baltimore, and 63 at
New Oriesua—New York Herald.

A Jamaica paper says that pimento, which was at
one time a remunerative article of commerce in that island,
has been at such a low figure during the last few year as to
muse much distress amongst +mall proprietor.

MUSIC.

HERR NOLIQUE'S CONCERT.

This excellent artist, one of our most estimable
resident professors, gave his annual concert yesterday Cpcn,
ins at the Hanover-square Room'. Herr Moligne's ono
performances were limited to the leading of one of Hai n%
quartet* and two characteristic (solo) pieces for the violin;
la all of which his sterling and solid style and artistic hi.
log were admirably displayed. Mr. Carrodus (a former pupa,
we believe, of Herr Molique) wed* a marked impression
by his excellent performance of a feudalism for a(n)ti
solo, the composition of Herr Molique. Mdlle. Asps
Maligns, a daughter of the ooucert•giver, displayed vsn
powers as a pianist in a trio of her father's ooraceptin
This young lady's playing is very far above the aversg._
she has great force and elasticity of touch, sad a ft...hag for
rhythmical phrasing which is not always found in the play*,
of 110M11 artists of greater pretensions. Mdlle. Mobque
sterling pianist who Mould be heard more frequently. yea
other instrumentalists were Mr. Bastms (viola). Sligoq
Pi►tti (violoncello), and Signor llegondi (concertina). Swot
good vocal music contributed to make up a very satisfactory
chamber concert.