The Express.
London, England, 1851-12-19 00:00:00

MILITARY.

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11FAT I or LIKUToCOLONEL N. BE.tx.—Licut.-
Colmet Bean, formerly of the 17th Regiment of Foot, died
at Cheltenham CM the 13:h instant, tett d 73 years. Ile
entend that regiment a• an en►ign in 1799, bemuse a lieu-
tenant in 1:••81, a captain is 18111, a brevet-major in 1811,
and a bri t lieut-colenel in 1837. Is 181.3 this °these
way placed on the h fiat as a captain of the 49th
regiment. and he had nut since served on full pay.
1111: 1111 tll'ATmAttrEBVEitmom,3sTtiltEta.—Capt.
Vernon, Paymaster of the arith Regiment, died at Win.
elics:er, on Ow 13th innant. aged 32 years. In 18211, he ob-
tained an ..i101.• eommi-inn in the It3yal African Corp..
In July. 18./7, he b, came r brut, mint, and in th.• following
November was placed on lialtpay. In 1128 lw obtained ■
lieutenancy in the :kith Reid., and in IMO was appointed
its payinasti.r. lye served with the reginent in the Rost
Indies, the Mediterranean. the West Indies, and Nova
Ncotia, firm which latter station the 38th returned home in
August last. 117 the &Mate of this officer, who was much
respected in the responsible appointment he held fur nearly
21 years, the paymastership of the 38th Regiment is vacant

ALE:tAxnaz Dux '.s' M EMOIR4 OF lilt/ 4I.LF.
—This industrious writer, the most ounring egotist in
France. has just commenced the p 'titivation of hi. auto-
biography in thefeutletter of the PIF,St. In his first
chapter, devoted to Ma Famille. he informs the wield with
great raaetittale that be " was horn at Vtilers-Catterets, a
small town in the department ot the Aisne, situate on the
road from Paris to Lou, two hundred Nero from the Hue
de la New, when Desmoustien died, two leagues from La
Ferte•Milos, where Racine was born, and seven front Cha-
teau Thierry, the birth-place of La Fontaine. 1," he
=dB (nine out of the first ten paragraphs
with this monosyllable) " was born on the
24th day of July, Into_, in the Rue de Leemet
in the house, now the property of my friend Cartier, who
offers to sell it to ate, so that I may return into the night
of the future in the chamber where `I issued from the night
ot the past. I was burn July 21, 1882, at half-pest five in
the afternoon, so that at the hour of commencing these
memoirs—that is to say, Monday, October 18, 1147, I em
forty-five years and three month. old." He then notices that
he ta one of those men with whom the world contests ever
point, and that thus his name has been disputed. It is
Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie. Apropos of this
statement he dernands—and of course obtains—permissiou
to insert the registry of his birth, from which we learn that
on the day aforesaid the infant son of T. Alexandre Dumas
de la railleterie,Oeneral of Division, was duly inspected, and
found to be of the masculine gender, de. Here follow the
sasses of several respectable householders. Suddenly re-
collecting that somebody had called, not his, but his father's
legitimacy to question, he again begs leave to insert a demi-
sseat registry. This brings him to the middle of his
fifth column. Then his grandfather was maitre d'Aota
to Louis Philippe d'Orleans, whereupon hr azain seiaas
his CI,SOIA, this time embaldent cl by suceese, to take three
soli4 columns front the life of that illustrious parsonage, sad
the laa draw ha nabbed. la Prams, an drape ez-
' IkkasAnDiass.