The Express.
London, England, 1855-06-15 00:00:00

dog else, ogres is precantioas of this nature, are
tat neglected. Is it possible that, in bitterly dwell-
Isc co the winter, either Government or people oan
have left the wormer to take oar* of itself ? This
tory of the stocks and the night dews, on the very
aPeditio° the 0,1111314% mums misgiving.
Dd oral man =tidy himself lastantly whe-
lks, ova soldiers have or here not mini-
mimosa throats, looser clothes, lighter knapsacks,
irsiri, and means of defence from mosquitoes.
co km essential matter is, that effectual warning
b, ono against the water-melons and =cambers of
as Crime, and the Bough of Russia generally. The
booty which maddened the Ten Thousand and vexed
cbeir Iswortios was nothing to the water melons
Leh will, if not interdicted, lay low other ten
aolccds, in a deadlier sickness. Wherever water-
s wet abound, there is most cholera or fever.—
Mem

igg GOVERNMENT P.
The opportunity of doing the right thing has not
been laid hold of by Ministers, and somebody else
pot thrust it upon them. Far from conceding the
re' ciple of freedom of capital or equality of trade,
Abs Gavernment propositions are devised with careful
sad even captions anxiety to limit concession to the
Sarrowest circle possible beyond that which now
nejoys the money privilege we have referred to. No
partnership, iu the opinion of Lord STAFTLET or
ALDERLET and of the Hon. Mr. Bouvaalz, is genteel
lough to be entitled to the privilege of limited lia-
bility which doe* not ponies' at starting a capital of
20,0001. Now, we say at once
.that any such
bat of mercantile honesty is, in a Bill, a
mere piece of aristocratic impertinence, and
wild be, in an Act, a most pestilent and
prrnicious aggravation of the injustice of which the
!suss opuleut classes of the community complain. To
adore the continuum of an old monopoly with
patience after it his been condemned and repudiated
by the legislature itself is suffioiently hard; but to
witness a aeliberats re-enactment after all this, of the
lavidions and insulting exclusion of ninety-nine out
of every hundred persons who claim equal liberty
of enterprise, credit, and co-operation with their
wealthier fellow-citizens, would be an experiment on
the popular temper which we should be sorry to see
tried. Ii the principle contended for be good for any
thing, the attempt to set up an arbitrary limitation of
aunt either as regards shares or subscribed capital,
is a mere mockery. It will, as it ought, be received
with no other feelings than those of ridicule and re-
vetment, should it ever obtain the imprimatur of law.
W. do not stop to argue how easily or how often a
restriction so preposterous might be evaded. The
'motion for the House of Commons to consider is,
whether they will avow that when last session they
voted the abolition of the general Law of Unlimited
Liability they were sincere, or only trifling with the
frelisp of the people. To fall beck now upon such
a new torm of restriction as that proposed under the
same of concession, would be truly deplorable, and
we cannot suffer ourselves to believe that so great an
error will be committed. We have already adverted
le what amounts to a similar abnegation of the right
principle professedly conceded in the Bill for legalising
loans of money at interest varying with profits. To
require registration of such transactions is simply
tantamount to re-enacting their prohibition.—Daily
News.

THE MORTALITY IN THE CRIMEA
MILITARY MORTALITY IN GENERAL

TO TUB norm me lUD DATLT WOWS.
Bn,—After the fearful mortality of our army in
the Crimea has ceased, it may not be amiss to sear-
tain what is the ratio of military mortality in general
in a territory commonly salubrious. I take it that
the calcareous hills in the south of the Crimean
promontory must be, on the whole, healthy—at least'
m much so as Spain. I do not, of course, allude to Pere-
hop sod the immediate borders of the Putrid Sea.
The cholera must be considered an exceptional cause
of mortality in the Crimea, when a comparison is
draws with other countries when no such visitant
brunt. In the time of Wellington, in Spain,
'attain data were famished on the subject, which,
la that climate, may be considered tolerably well
setabliabed. Thus, the mortality of the officers of
all arms, and the men of the artillery and cavalry,
seems to have been pretty ulna at all
bar emus if the year. The mortality
of the infantry, exclusive of the officers, was muck
greater than that of any other arm, and this mor-
tality wee most observable in winter. In summer,
the deaths of officers to privates INTO as one to
twenty-five, but is winter as one to seventy, the army
being thee commonly in cantonments, which seemed
more pernicious to the infantry than the field.
The only mace of information has been the returns
to the Horse Guards, which are defective from not
being uniformly made. Sometimes they report the
men rank and tile present and effective, the officers
Din omitted, in place of the whole force under each
bead being ran together in one grand total.
Ii considering the cholera 131 the Crimea atop-
Soul, the same could not be said of the Waltham
pest, because it beloaged to the country, and was not
at of the common ovum of things. The Times
elates that we had e* hty thousand men at Watchmen.
We had but thirty thousand, of which number eleven
thoseud were attacked with the fiver. The medical
staff had made DO provision against that hoevible
meant. I hate sees the pof the wounded
after an otitis°, bet they were not so fearful in my
view as the visuals of that fever is its different stages.
The learns seemed so ghastly and unnatullar
whether recumbent, sitting, or tottering through
weekoeu among the beds of their dying comrades—
there was no apparent cause for their suffering : it
seemed a mystery to an °turret. The heads of the
medical department knew nothing of the fever. Sir
John Pringle had written upon it, every smuggler
and master of a trading sloop was acquainted with it,
bat our medical staff knew nothing about the disease,
being, like our military staff, good for very little.
In the meanwhile the regimental medical men were
nearly worn out with their labours, and left destitute
of the cosisionest remedies; The expuure to wet,
cold, and hanger during a protracted stege, without
the stimulus of active warfare in the open field must
have effected the health of the soldier Me-
randy from exposure to the climate of Spain. The
latter alone furnishes something like data for forming
a judKment. Bruin Spain it reessins an opprobrium
on the medical staff that the muses of the extensive
sickness there were not investigated minutely. The
sickness which then prevailed was not made known
hers. Our talus kept their own mews. For the lest
three years and a half of the war we had 221 per cent.
of our men on the sick list, or 13,816 out of 61,611.
The illness from wounds was only 1# per sent. No
medical investigation took place into the cause of so
great an evil. Thus our active force under Welling-
trio, exclusive of allies, was hut 47,678 men.
We lavish our pity on the killed and wounded in
action. The first are beyond pain, the last suffer
severely ; but these are not altogether a third part of
the number that perish of disuse. Thus, of 33,829
private soldiers, only 8,899 were killed or died of
their wounds in Spain, while 24,6291accumbed under
privation and disease. The mortality of officers wee
10.1 per out., of privates, 16.1. In battle the officers
suffer more severely than the men si proportion.
Thus
Th, in those months when battles were fought, 6.6
Per cent. of diem perished to 4.2 privates; while
except in battle—in other words, of diseases—the
"the wen .7•.7 per cent. of officers to 11.9 prieat.t.
Of 346 officers who fell in and after flvs important
battles, 246 were killed on the field I 87 died within
ten days afterwards; 12 more within a further tee
lest
day.
days; 9in ten days more; and 13 after the thirty-
Is the Netherlands, in 1816, in five months, out of
67,430 macs the average of oar active force, the sick
..eeerege was 6,739, and the deaths in all 2,892.
meal actions are more sanguinary than land battle',

but, the wounded excepted, the incapacity from sick-
ness is comparatively very small.
From the returns furnished by the French to Sir
William Napier, for his admirable history of the Pen-
insular war, I find that the French suffered nearly as
much as we did from sickness during the Peninsular
campaigns. It is most important that the antes of
the sickness of the soldier to such au extent should
be accurately investigated, with a view to their
eniesidation. The spread of information will not
permit the secrets of prison houses Ur, be kept as here-
tofore. I have now stated enough to afford a mean.
of comparing our Peninsular and Crimean losses,
when the materials foe the summation of the latter
can be mowed. C. R.
London, hue 12.

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ROYAL DRAWING ROOM.
The Queen held a Drawing Room yesterday
noon in St. James's Palacio. Her Majesty and Prines Albert
arrived from Buckingham Palace at twenty minutes past
two o'clock, escorted by a detachment of Life Ouarda.
Her Majesty's guard of the Hon. Corps of Gentlemen at
Arms was on duty in the state saloons, under the command
of the captain. Licut..Colonois Meal and Cooke, the sub
Macon, were on duty with the corps.
The Hereditary Grand Dashers of Mecklenburg Streit*
was present, attended by Lady Canine Cut mai Bares
LON, and was received by the Viet-Chamberielm.
The Yeomen of the Guard were undertMeeeemandeg
Mein Pbibbse tho Eine in Waiting
The gases and Prises Albert entered the Threw I=
esemesesied by the Horednary Grand Duchess of
learen Strelits, and attended by the following LON.
cent (1/4114W0 in Waiting, vie ; the Dasher of Wei.
NOM Qa waiting), the Viscountess Canning, the
ignenhiethos• of Rly, the Dochses of Athell, emit
Whinedll...... Ladies of the Bedchamber ; the Rat
(is waiting), the Hon. Mary loymest Oa
waiting), —M. Hon. Carlin Cavendish, the on Lacy
Kerr, tall Hon. Flora Macdonald, the Hon. Eleanor Stan
1111. and the Hon. Beatrice Byng, Maids of Honour ; Lady
aharlotte Copley (in welting), the Hon. Mrs. Anson, the
Hen. Mrs. George Campbell' and Lady Thirsts Digby,
Woman of the Bedchamber ; the Marquis of Breadalbane,
K.T., Lord Chamberlain ; Earl Spacer, K.G., Lord
Steward ; the Duke of Wolliogton, Master of the Horse ;
the Marmite of Abercorn, K.G. Groom of the Stole to his
Royal Highness ; the Earl of &teleran, Trimmer of the
Household; Lord Ernest Bruce, Vim-Chamberlain ; Lord
do Tablsy, Lord in Wadi. g ; Lord George Lennox, Lord
in Waiting to his Royal Highness; Colonel the Hon. C. B.
Phipps, Keeper of her Majesty's Privy Para ; Sir Frederic
Stovin, Groom in Visiting ; General Wylde, Groom in
Waiting to his Royal Highness ; Major-General the Hon.
Charles Grey, &puny in Waiting; Captain the Hon. Med-
ley do B.s, Rqueny in Waiting to his Royal Highness;
and Messrs. dune Gordon Morpheme and Charles Ed-
mond Phipps, Peg.. of Honour in Waiting.
The Queen won a train of alternate stripes of light bins
moire antique and whit* satin, the whole embroidered in a
running pattern of blue and white flowers, trimmed with
whits blends and bouquets of red, white, sad yellow urns.
Wes. The petticoat was white satin, ;rimmed with white
bride, bows of white satin ribbon, and bouquets of amnia.
WIN a math IM Wes. HuMajesty's iseaddreas was
MTV GI dims* mad (catkin.
eilled Duchess of Mecklenburg Strelits
wore • traillarlilese sad white striped moirt antique,
trimmed with peed lees and bows of white satin ribbon.
The petticoat of bite elk was entirely covered with whits
point lace. The Memmitor of the dress was ornamented
with diamonds and pearls. Her Royal Highness wore a
pearl diadem, and also white ostrich feathers and Inc.
lappets.
The Foreign Miniaten were ietrodnad, when the fol-
'amiss ',itemisations to eis Queen took plies in the diplo.
made elide:
By the Prima. of Carini—The Priam. Doris NAM;
Ike Pearoblooses de Bagssao.
I By the Countess de Cellendo—The Constant de Niko.
By the Coulees et Chooden—Mn. Abbott Lawrenoe.
By the Fres& Anikeilnese—The Duke de Caderossee
Ihninnarist. elledlllllem embassy.
By the 101011118-4fince Doria Pardli de Meal;'
Uneqt t Maw.Madaelk Cams, Secretary oil
Alattlaa Minister—lks Baeallesse IL le Comte 'I
61 lota, Chamblee& et Conariller Intim. de S. U.
l'BroperearComte de Neko, Chambellas de 8. M.
l'Emperear ; M. Is melt. Peffy, Chambesa de 8. K. I
l'Esaperenr.
By the Halted States Minister—Abbot 1.44M1144,
son of the late Minister to this Court; Henry B. Davis,
Ist,. Private Secretary to the Hon. Millard Fillmore.
The diplomatic circle was attended by Count de Persigny
(French Ashamed** M. C. Baudin (First Secretary),
Count de Chandonly (First Annelid), and de Monioult
(Attaché) to the Embassy; the Belgian Minister and Ma-
dame Van ds Weyer' and M. Maurice Dello/so. lberetary
of
Ls/galas ; Baron de Cetto, Bavarian Minietur; Count
de Kielmameas, Reseverien Minister; the Saignis
arAnio, the &Aisles Minister ; Count Cortaisemeelm
esti tk• Doke Valleenkress the Turkish
Modems Mseerss, Plisse A. Vasorides (Oesmlll4, Heed
Bay (First Itomretery), sal Prises Mustaphs ; the Pier
Minister eel the Oaaat4S4 de Laureate iiN. Ilems•e•
b tae Mlekter. old the Attaché of die W.
rem Misister and die Trimeess di Carioi ; the Amides Mir
den and the Comes de Coliondo ; Senor Joaquin IL de
Neel& y Looms, assielle Minister, and M. Jose U.
Goose-
Miele Vega, First Sewreary of Lessees; Mr. Beileses.
United States Minister. sad Col. Lawmen% Amid IM; Ike
Legation, and the Hos. Millard FiUmese. Imo_tmekriLi
Ito United States; the Danish MAIM
&Whets the Pemba Meister and Oienessese=eit ;
the Bweihs seal illeneesisa Minister and Neeennes de
Meolesbild. end the Semesary of Legation ; Cense de Vita.
thins. Sense Mialeser ; M. Chartism Triconpi, dte Greek
Meld d'Affaires Ohs Countess of Clarendon and Mnjorf
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Whister of the Commodes.
Affirm the teepees of the Foreign Ministers, her Majesty
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