The Express.
London, England, 1855-05-30 00:00:00

TO 7111 IDITOI Or 7111 DAILY WIWI.

SlR,—May I request the insertion of these lines in
your paper; and although I am not a member of the faculty,
do how that arms attention may be paid to the suggestion
I offer, and that good may result from calling the attention
of thee* interested to a fact which has, I believe, hitherto
escaped the notice of our medical men.

It was notorious that in the years 1813.14-15, hundreds
of officers, of all nations, who had been wounded, and
otherwise disabled in the wars of that period, resorted to
Wiesbaden, where the mineral springs healed their wounds,
as if by magic, and speedily restored them to health. In
fevers, and debility resulting therefrom, the effects of those
waters were, if possible, still more wonderful. With this
fact before us, is it not a duty to make known to our brave I
fellows who have returned from the East, wounded and en-
, feebled, and who hare not derived the hoped-for benefit
from their native air, that relief can speedily be afforded
thorn, by the use of the mineral waters of Wiesbaden ? I,
therefore, suggest that a hospital for our wounded soldier
be established there. They could be transported easily, and
at a trifling cost, by water from London, and landed within
half an hour's drive from their new abode.

To curtail their sufferings, even a few month', il a matter
of no little importance to the wounded beroem of Alma and
Balaklava.—l am, &c., 0. E. WATERTON.
Thanet Cottage, Regent'e-park.

ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM.

MEETING IN LAMBETH.

Last night a public meeting of the inhabitants of
tie Beseegn of Lambeth was held at the Hewes Tamen,
innallnekee, for the purpose of adopting inessinna Is eh
epanitisa with the Central Administrative Rehm
atlas, to effect an entire alteration in the present system et
representation and administration.
Mr. ELLINGTON, having been called to the chair, briefly
adverted to the objeete for which the meeting had been con•
vaned—that of the support of the Central Association in the
I City of London; and he wished the meeting to andmtand
that this was no party or ezelasive question, but one of pro.
gnus and reform. These they would have until the
people were fairly representedand the government not tram-
melled be the Pelhama, the Grahams, the Russells, and such
names ; but Ist them select men from among the represen-
t dives of the people, and by these means they might have
some hope of success. After some further observations the
ehalmsaa:ealled on
Mr. L. A. CEsmitiouss, who moved the first resolution,
to the effect "That, in the opinion of the meeting, the
honour of the country was imperilled by the proved inca-
pacity of those by whom, as a clue, the management of its
affairs has been too long usurped ; that successive minis-
, tries are inducted into power by parliamentary majorities
procured by the bestowal of promise of governmental
patronage on dependents of importunate members of the
legislature ; th.tt the eons, brothers, cousins, and nephews
of corruptiunists are thus thrust into offies, and quartered
upon the public purse in preference to the meritorious and
I competent; that the result of such a system has entailed
I disgrace upon the British name; and that nothing abort of
the must sweeping administrative reform can restore the
British empireto tte rightful position among the nations of
the earth, renew public confidence in in fatura destinies.
Of avert still heavier disasters, and yet greater degradation.l
J. P. Munnoian, Esq., M.P., eeooaded the resolution.
I He said he was one of the ten members of the Howof
I Commons who had felt it their duty to coma forward ie
support of the original association, and he felt it his duty
as an elector and resident of the borough to came forward
that might. It must be understood he objected not to the
nobility, for he looked upon the nobility as the great attes-
tation that by great and glorious deeds they had earned that
nobility , bat with respect to the House of Commons, it
was not a true representation of the people. One great
fault of the people wee, that the people themselves would
not look after their representatives; it was only
the other night he kept the House of Commons
together on the question of the property qualification
f.,r members of parliament ; not a single petition was sent
in, and he lost the motion by one only, and that was by a
metropolitan representative leaving the bones. The hors.
member then commented upon the vacillating anion of
Lord Palmerston, Lord John Russell, and other members of
the guvernment, and urgrd the meeting to support the pre-
sent movement.
Mr. Frxxxcis Bassoon, Deputy-Chairman of the Asso-
ciation. supported the resolution, which was adopted ma-
nimousl_y.
IF Mori& Doulton, Mr. Henry lames Slack, Mr.
Themes Webber, and several other gentlemen, addressed
the monies ; and resolutions to the effect that a prompt and
=reformation of all administrative abuses can only
lit about by a wide extension of the suffrage and
the wee by ballot, having been adopted, a vote of
thaahe was passed to the chairman, mud the meeting sepa-
rated.

Dr. Cumming informed an audienoe assembled in
lieltia.street, Belgravreqaue, ea Tuesday evening, Will

Resale would sooner or later poems the Mediterraneaa, seise
Palestina, and on its plains, "in the lananage of the pro•
phet," finally perish amid the judgments of Reaves.