The Express.
London, England, 1855-08-06 00:00:00

before Sebastopol without delay. This he wag only I
too glad to do, and withia thirty days.' neeiving the
order, in the far meth-west cd India, be repeated him-
self to General Sutraow, and resolved the command
of the Second Division of the *nay. Subsequently
General &minim; intimated to the Hoess-Ourds that

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be feared hiabealth would oblige hint shortly to retire,l
and Lord HARMING; as we are informed, sent out
directions that should he do so, Major-General
Mutant was to take the command of the army
serving in the Crimea.
If having a commander with youth,energy, and acti-
vity should encourage an army, the troops serving be-
foreSebastopol ought to gain fresh vigour and determi-
nation forthwith. General MAIMILUI is no "feather-
bed soldier." Although comparatively well off in the
world, he has made his calling a profession for its
own sake, and has never shirked following hie corps
wherever it might be ordered. So long ago as 1849
he bad gained the highest rank—that of full colonel
—which could be conferred on a regimental officer,
and might, with all honour, have either retired from
the service or retired apen half-pay, is the latter
sue waiting for his turn to be made Major-General.
But he stuck to his sword, and is now likely to
reap his reward, one that will give universal
satisfaction throughout the ranks of the British
army, both amongst the men and the junior officers
in the service. The former will rejoice to see
a man promoted to lead an army in the Sold,
who but yesterday was commanding • regi-
ment, and must therefore know more of the wants
of the army than elderly gentlemen whose scene of
action has foe thirty years been the London clubs,
Held ; and the latter will begin to think
that the day is at last ooming when merit and not
extreme old age is the rice qua con required for the
most important posts in the service. The moral
effect of this appointment upon the whole army will
be excellent. Although, with General Surrsos, we
think that the best school for Sebastopol is Sebastopol
itself, nevertheless General Msaitnait's antecedents
fully warrant his being placed at the head of the
force, whatever the octogenarians of the Senior
United Service Club may say to the contrary. It is
certainly singular enough that, in spite of all the
I •
sneering by anti-army-reformers at "mere Indian

officers,; India has, in point of fact, furnished the man
who is probably destined to take Sebastopol.
There is an old well-known story about General
Picrott threatening to hang a oommissariat officer
who did not perform his duties. From all we have
heard of General ALtaxzem, he is not a man to be,
trifled with. Since he entered the service he hail
done his duty, and expects all those under him to do
theirs. Should the army under his command remain
another winter in the Crimea, we should recommend
the commissariat (Aiken to pay more attention to
their work than they did in Lord Rina.str's days.
There are occasions when severity becomes a duty,
and leniency a positive crime ; had the late FIELD-
' MARSHAL acted with a little more determination the
army he commanded might have been saved a vast
deal of hardship, and many valuable lives might
have been spared. And, what is more to the pur-
pose, there is hardly any degree of punishment that
a general officer could inflict upon such delinquents
which the nation would not, u one man, uphold.

POLISH MEETING.

We learn, with sincere pleasure, that the meeting
in behalf of Poland is positively fixed for Wednesday,
and that Lord Harrington, whose whole life has been
honourably and consistently marked by devotion to
the great principles of national independence, takes
the chair. The following letter from Lord Breadal-
' bane leaves no room to doubt that the contretemps of
Wednesday last was simply and solely owing to mis-
take. We do, therefore, hope that all groundless
suspicions and little exasperations will be laid aside,
in order that the demonstration in favour of Poland
may be worthy of the metropolis of England.

TO THII TOMO' Or Till DAILY NUM
Sie,—Although I concur with you in the opinion
expressed in your paper of this date as to the inex-
pediency of continuing the controversy regarding
the circumstances attending the postponement of the
Polish meeting, yet, in justice to myself, I feel called
upon to notice that part of Sir De Lacy Evana'sletter,
published in the Daily News of to-day, in which he
makes a direct personal appeal to me.
The fact is simply this, that before any definitive
arrangement as to the meeting had been made, I was
taken so seriously ill as to be incapacitated from at-
tending to any business whatever. I was therefore
not even informed that the meeting was positively to
take place, nor of any circumstances connected with
it, till a day or two before that on which it was pro-
posed to be held. On the morning of that day I
wrote a letter to Sir De Lacy Evans, stating my
great regret that, owing to illness, I would be unable
to attend, and expressing my sympathy with the
objects of the meeting.
That letter Sir De Lacy has probably not received,
on account of the meeting not having taken place ;
and it is indeed, I understand, still in the hands of
the gentleman to whose charge it was given to be
delivered personally to the chairman of the meeting.
I remain, Sir, your obedient servant,
BREADALBANE.
21, Park-lane, August 4, 1855.

RESIGNATION OF MR. M. T. BAINES, PRESI-
DENT OF TEE POOR LAW BOARD.

The Leeds Mercury of Saturday last contains the
following address to the electors of the borough of Leeds,
signed by Mr. M. T. Baines, and dated Poor-law Board,
Whitehall, August 2, 1855:—" Gentlemen,--You are on
every account entitlel to learn directly from myself a step
which, after great consideration, I have thought it right to
take. The recent state of my health has forced upon me
the conviction that I can no longer hope to perform, in a
satisfactory to my own mind, the laborious and
highly responsible duties of President of the Poor•law
Baird, in conjunction with those other numerous and im-
portant duties which necessarily devolve upon the perlia
limitary representative of a borough like Ludt. Under
this conviction, I have thought it right to place the resigns-
%lon of my office in the hands of the Prime Minister, and
I now retain it only till the end of the present session.
My most grateful thanks are due to you for your peat in-
dulgence; and I entertain a confident hope that I may be
able, when uneonneoted with office, to devote myself with
increased seal and assiduity to my duties as your repaints
five in the House of Commons."

MR. W. S. LINDSAY AND THE RBPRESRNTA•

VON OF TIN/MOUTH.

TYNEMOUTH, SATO/DAY NIGHT.
Captain Lioskill, cattail) to Mr. R. W. Grey, M.P.,
the latter gentleman btiog privrta secretary to Lord Pal- 1
'sermon previous to his election for Ltskeard, having
announced his intention to contest this borough at the next
election in the somewhat uncertain character of a liberal ,
conservative, Mr. Lindsay bas hued an ladens to the
electors With regard to the motives inducing Captain
Lieskill to contest the borough with him, he says :
t. Considering that there is not lkrly to be a general
election before neat session, I should 'Link, to say the least
of it, that gentleman's address has been somewhat prema-
ture; as there is, however, a great deal Willa the scene—
far more than I can tell you in a letter—l will postpone
what I have to say till I have the pleasure of seeiog you
when the business of this session is over. Till then, I ask
you (sod in common ju 40. I feel you will grant my request)
to withhold your pledges to one who has hitherto made pro
fessions of friendship, but who now appears as my opponent,
should he adopt the unusual course of personally wetting
upon you to invite votes, long before there is any prospect
of an election. I will then ask from you, in public, a inn
intuition of that support as your representative, which
am sore the nisitrity of all sections will ruddy grant,
when they hoar from my own lips a full explanation of my
conduct as a public man ; and more especially when I tell
them the extraordinary way in which I have been dealt
with.,,
There is a rumour that Mr. Hugh Taylor, of the Daudet'
Coal Raehaese, who it will be remembered was usseatod
by a committee of the House of Commons for treating, will:
be brought forward by the noise I. contest the borough.