The Express.
London, England, 1863-12-29 00:00:00

of sapplybg the rank and file of that army
from the " lower orders" of the British people.

No one denies that Lieuk-Colonel Ciewtay
has been put to a very serious expense and to con-
siderable inconvenience in being summoned from
India to take his trial at Aldershot, and that he
must have suffered almost as much in mind as in
pocket. But Lieut.-Colonel CRAWLEY has power.
ful influences, able advocates, the moral support
of his equals and superiors in rank, and of the
highest authorities iu the army, and even
the passion of high society for subscribing testimo-
nials to worthy objects, on his side.
Besides, he has been triumphantly acquitted.
All the malignity of low newspapers can do him
no further harm ; all the generosity of the moat
powerful organ of good society can, neither by its
reticenoes nor by its authoritative announcements,
advance his canoe. But now that Colonel
CaAwLEv is safe, there remain two questions be-
fore the British public.
1. How is that discipline, without which no army
can exist, to be maintained if the commanding officer
of a regiment on a distant station is liable to be
sent home in obedience to vulgar and ignorant
clamour to take his trial on • false and frivolous
charge 1
2. Supposing the charge to be not altogether
false or frivolous--supposing, at least, that some-
body is to blame for the illegal confinement which
ended in a sergeant-major's death, and that the
somebody to blame remains undiscovered and un-
sought for—how is the British army to be re-
molted for the future from that class of the popu-
lation from which its 'ALLEYS—not its CRAWLZYS

Or it' CARDIGANS—must come, if they are to
come at allf

Che Court.

OSBORNE, Due. 2&
The Right Hon. C. P. Villiers arrived at Osborne
on Saturday, and had an makes@ of her Majesty.
Dr. Watson aad Dr. Joiner also arrived from Loudon.

The Queen and Prinorm of Wales drove out this morning.

The Atom of Wales and Prime Alfred went oat shooting,
attended by Lieatenant•General the Hoe. C. Grey, Liea-
teaant•Colonel the Hon. D. de Ras, sad Lieatenaat•Coloael

Koppel.

We are sorry to bear that Lord Broughton, who is
residing as Tedworlh, is seriously indispresd.
_ _ _ _

The guardians of the Marquis of Bute are about
to lay out about two millions sterling in making new docks
at Cardiff. The marquis already owns two docks there,
each about a mile loeg, and vessels are lying in them six
and eight deep. Bev lord of the manor of the country
round Cardiff. In his father's time tbia property was
valuelsse—it would not even feed sheep ; but steam oral
WM. were &seemed there, "think have proved to be of
etionsweis value. The royalty of these mines and the dock
rowans bring in a princely income. The marquis's water-
side property was given his father by the town for the pur-
pose of making docks. . .

On the 15th of this month a piece of silver plate
was peresated to Kr. lirMahas, /LP., on behalf of the
fishermen and others inters s& is the salmon fisheries of
Galway and Mayo, in the form al a silver salver, 19 inches
in length, and weighing 90 ounces, with the following in-
scription in Irish and English :—" Presented to Patrick
IPMehos, Eon., ILP., by 172 fishermen and others in Con-
nemara, and in other porticos of the =intim of Galway

and Mayo, Ireland, in acknowledgment of his invaluable
services is obtaining the Act of Parliament to amend the
Fishery Laws (Ireland), 18E3."
The Morning Herald says :—"We are authorised
to state that there is so truth in the report that the Earl of
Cardigan had subscribed either 1001. or 500 i. towards payiag
Colonel Crawley's expense., or that, pending the proceed-
`ings of the general eourtmartial, he has placed himself at
the bead of a list of subscribers."