The Express.
London, England, 1862-10-25 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS* SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 25, 1862.

ratably expresses. Ass Duke, his Grace sumo%
for remedy the giving of a prise to the best drilled
company in Nottinghamshire
.= but as Oalouill
Secretary he must be prepared to support siltonger
measures than such as would be applicable to the

encouragement of turnip 'ausbandry. Neither the
country nor the Volunteers themselves are dis-
posed longer to submit their efficiency to the
caprices of some km among them who are content
with playing at 'soldiers. There is, indeed, a real
danger even in time of peace, arising out of the
sufferance of irsoompetent officers. Not merely do
they destroy the Volunteer spirit and effectually
disband mraky a gallant company or bat-
talion ; not merely do they draw the
ridicule of soldiers and civilians alike upon
the very name of Volunteer, but they actually
invite the enemies of the country to attack it,
There may or may not be a possibility of our
seeing realized the imagination which Lord
Pautmerron annually conjures up when proposing
the estimates, that some fine morning we may wake
ep and find 30,000 Zousves thrown on our coast ;
bat it is very certain that if anything could make
that scheme appear practicable to a hostile general,
it would be the knowledge that in the ranks of the
opposing army there would be found regiments
whose officers were incompetent, who might be
safely relied upon to misunderstand and misperform
the orders they received, and finally to lose their
heads when the danger became most pressing.
Better far were it for us that we were without
Volunteers than that we should rely, or be sup-
posed to rely, in over so small a degree, upon
Volunteers so led. And better far, if an invasion
should take place, were it that our scanty force of
regulars should be compelled to retire, than that
it should be reinforced by the flower of England,
to be mowed down in ranks because its leaders, as
in America, knew not those simple rules of forma-
tion which are requisite for the safety of troops
under hostile fire.

The true remedy for this terrible peril is not far
Ito seek. Every officer of the army has to stand
an examination before a military board not merely
on his first appointment but on every step of pro-
motion, and we do not usually consider officers of
the army at all too highly educated for their work.
Can we be content with less knowledge in Volunteer
officers if we are to place them with regulars in
the field ? Every officer in the army is moreover
called upon daily to exercise his knowledge in the
presence of a thoroughly qualified commander. It
is, of course, impossible to obtain a like regularity
of practice from Volunteer officers, but the neces-
sity is therefore the greater for securing the per-
fect efficiency of their colonels. Unfortunately, as
a rule, the Volunteer colonels are the weakest
links in the chain. Many never see their
men, many are absent on all except some
crack days of the season, still more habitually
leave their corps to the command of a major or
senior captain for months together. Thus negli-
gent, they cannot reprove negligence in others,
nor have they even the opportunity of observing
the faults of those below them. It is with them
that the reform and the enforcing of responsibility
must commence. Cost what it may in loss of
political support to Government—in loss even
of paper numbers of Volunteers—the country
must have security—security for itself and for the
lives of its defenders. We trust that the Duke
of NEwcorrtz's speech indicates that Ministers
have considered and resolved on this course. They
may depend upon its receiving the unqualified
support of all thorough Volunteers ; and they may
depend also upon that class being largely aug-
mented so soon as they relieve it from the incubus
and disgrace of those whose Volunteer service is a
pretence and a sham.

ebe Court.

BRUSSELS, Ocr. 24, 11.5 A.m.

The weather having somewhat moderated, the
Queen will embark at Antwerp in the Victoria and Albert
at ooe o'clock.

It is expected that the yacht will anchor in the Scheldt
to-night.

Dlr. Schuh! M.P., had an interview with the Duke or
Newcastle at the Colonial•ofce yesterday. Sir William
Byam had also an interview with hia grace at the Cole-
nial-office.

The Duke of Argyll left town yesterday for Roesneath.

THE PRINCE OF WALES'S MAJORITY.

We understand that thia event is to be cele-
brated with great splendour by the members of the York-
shire Union Club on the 12th of November. The members
of this club comprise the leading aristocracy and gentry of
the county, and the entertainment will take place in the York
Assembly-rooms, which, as a suite of apartments for ruch
a gathering, are perhaps unequalled in the provinoes. These
rooms, designed by the Earl of Burlington, have been re.
ceutly decorated at a great expense, under the direction of
Owen Jones. The supper will be served in the Festival
Concert-hall, which communicates internally with the
Assembly.roorna. The decoration of the Concert-hall has
been placed in the hands of first-rate artists. Conte and
Tinney's quadrille band, comprising many of the best
instrumentalists in the metropolis, have been retained
to occupy the orchestra in the ball-room. The supper
and other refreshments will be upon the most liberal
scale ; and we hear that the various arrangements con-
ducive to the gratification of the visitors are being ener-
getically carried out by the gentlemen who form the com-
mittee of management. The invitation cards to the fele
have been most extensively sent out, and, as may be ex •
peeled, the fashionable world is looking forward to the event
with considerable gratification. The festivities will be kept
up by a second ball on the following evening, in aid of the
County Hospital.

The Lyons journals announce that the Prince
of Wales and the Prince Royal of Prussia, during their
late visit to that city, made considerable purchases of alike
and velvets from the principal manufacturers.
The Duke and Duchess of Somerset left the
Admiralty, Whitehall, last evening, for Stover Park, Devon.
shire.

The Duchess (Dow.) cf Sutherland has arrived
st Stafford House, St. Jame's, front visiting the Duke and
Dothan of Argyll at Roeeneath, Argyllshire, and Lord and
Lady Blantyre at Erskine House, N.B.

The Earl and Countess of Donoughmore have
arrived in town from Ireland ; the noble lord and her lady-
ship will shortly leave town for the Continent.

The Earl of Coventry will leave town early next
week for Newmarket.

The Countess of Guilford has arrived in Lower
Gramme-street from a tour of visits.

Viscount and Viscountess Stratford de Redcliffe
and the Hon. Mies Canning have arrived at their residence
in Grosveuor-square.

The Lord Chancellor leaves town to-day for his
seat near Basingstoke. The noble and learned lord has
taken a mansion in Upper Hydepark -gardens.

Lord and Lady§outistuPtou-left town a few
days since for their seat, Wltittlebury Lodge, Northamp-
tonshire.

Lord and Lady Chardon have left Farrance's
Hotel for Luptoo, Devoashire.

Lord and Lady Bloomfield have left London for
!Timms, where his lordship resumes his diplomatic duties
as Ambassador at dm Court of Austria.

The Bishop of London is expected to arrive ist
Fulham Palace on Wednesday seat for the whiter. He
will preach in Cromer Church to-morrow morning in aid of
the restoration fund.

Mrs. Thomson, wife of the Lord Bishop of
Glouosster and Bristol, was safely dsliversd of a daughter
yesterday at Prewsa Hall, Ozford.

LA.TFir: INTELLICIENOL

(oasis's Timaaamaj
GREECK

AMEN% Oor. 24.
T. garrison of Vonitza has revolted, and esta-
blished a provisional government, under the pre-
sidency of Boulgaria. The names of the other
members of the provisional government are
Zaimes, Muoghiuss, Marromichalis, Diamanto-
poultvs, Deligiorgis, Kalifronas, and Komon-
douras.

ARRIVAL OF PRINCE NAPOLEON AND
THE PRINCESS CLOTHILDE AT SOUTH-
AMPTON.

SOUTHAMPTON, Ocr. li.

The screw yacht Jerome Napoleon, having on
board Prince Napoleon and Princess Clothilde and
suite, arrived here this morning from Cherbourg.
Their imperial highnesses will proceed to London
by an early train.

ITALY.
THE HEALTH OF GARIBALDI.
TURIN, Ocr. 24, Evi-unc.
The alarming rumours respecting the health of
Garibaldi are exaggerated.
The General continues better.
A consultation of medical men will be held on
Wednesday.

rms wariurss IN LANCASHIRE.

The Londonaommittee of the Lancashire Opera-
tives Relief Fa:IMM their weekly meeting yesterday, at the
Mantes-house, The Lord Mayor presided, and Mr. Alder-
rasa Has, the lord mayor elect, Mr. Lye" Mr. Hower',
Mr. Morley, Mr. Armitage, and Mr. Otbbs were preesek
It appeared from the floancial statement, that the leis/
amount which had been received up to Thursday afternoon,
was 88,7421. 19s. 7d., of which sum the week's receipts
amounted to 16,1951. Is. 6d. The total amount which the
Landon committee have already remitted for distri•
butioa exclusive of the grants made ymterday, was 43,4841.
It was reported by the superintendent of the clothing
dep6t at Bridewell Hospital, that eiuoe the establishment
has been opened 240 bundles of clothing of every description
had been received. For some time past the attention of
the committee has been occupied by a difference which has
arisen between two committees at Ashton-under•Lyne. It
appears that a committee has been formed under Mr.
Gartaide the town clerk of Ashtou-under-Lyue, which
committee distribute relief round the out-districts of
Ashton, as well as those in the immediate vicinity
of the borough itself ; whereas the other com-
mittee, of which Mr. Hugh Mason is the secre-
tary, merely afford relief to the distressed in
the borough itself. A deputation from the gene-
ral committee waited upon the Lord Mayor on Thursday
afternoon, for the purpose of obtaining some assistance, and
those gentlemen attended yesterday at the meeting of the
' committee, and after some discussion it was decided to
make a grant of 1,000/. to the general committee of which
Mr. Outside was secretary, sad 5001. to Mr. Mason's com-
mittee, with the understanding that the latter would have
been 1,0001. but that they received 1,0001. from the central
committee on Monday. Just as this arrangement was
concluded, two gentlemen of Mr. Mason's committee
arrived, and wished the grant of 1,0001. to the
general committee to be deferred until after a meeting had
been held which was convened for next Wednesday.
The Lord Mayor and the committee, however, were of
opinion that they could not go into the matter between the
two committees, inasmuch as their only duty was to relieve
the poor. in addition to the above grants to Ashtoomoder-
Lyne the committee directed the following sums to be for-
warded :—Healey, 1001. ; Greet and Little Marsden, 2001. ;
Birch, 75/. ; Failsworth, 200/. ; Haslingden and Musberry,
200/. ; St. Catherine's and St. Os vral4 2001. • Blsckley,
100/. ; Tongs, 100/. ; Baxeoden' 1001. ; Heyward, 500/. ;
Ilawtenstall, 2501. ; St. George's, Oldham-road, 1501. ;
Droylesdeo, 150/. ; Hulme sewing elms, 150/. • Massey,
200/. ; Salebury, 501. ; St. John's, Chadderton, 501.; Hahne,
500/. ; St. Peter's, Oldham-rod, 3001. ; Glossop, 2501. ;
Preston, 1,0001.. Blackburn, 600/. ; Stockport, EOM ;
Staley bridge, 51501. ; Royton, 1501. • Oldham, 1,0001. ;
Rochdale, 5001. ; Waltou-le-Dale, 2001. ; making a total of
10,175/.

The committee have already received several applies-
time for clothing since the late change in the weather,
but they cannot be entertained until they can command •
greater supply than they have as yet. A bundle of coats,
trowsers, boots and shoes, and women's gowns was, however,
directed to be sent for the assistance of a clothing depot
which has been established at Preston—that being the first
issue of clothing by the London cummittee ; but they hope
within a very short period to be able, through the assis-
tance of the public, to send large quantities. A letter was
received from the Relief Committee at Hyde, stating that
they wished, if possible, to release the bedding, clothing,
he., which had been pledged by the distressed inhabitants,
acd they bad applied to all the pawnbrokers where the
articles lay, asking them to give up the articles upon pay-
ment of the money advanced, without charging any inte-
rest, and they had all, without one exception, agreed to
do so.

BOOKS OF THE COMING SEASON.

(From the Atheereret.)

By a typographical error in the first part of our
list of the "Books of the Cominr Season," given on Satur.
day last, four of Messrs. Smith, Elder, and Co.'s forthcoming
publications were added to Maws. Hurst and Blackett's list.
We shall rectify the mistake by appending a full list of the
principal works preparing by the Cornhill house :
Messrs. Smith, Elder, and Ca have in the pram for imme-
diate publication—" The New Forest. its History and
Scenery," by John B. Wise ; "Journal of a Political Mis-
sion to Afghanistan, with an Account of the Country and
People," by H. W. Bellew ; " Waterloo : the Downfall of
the First Napoleon,' by George Hooper; " Life in Nature,"
by James Hinton ; "Ten Years io the fruited States : being
an Englishman's Views of Men and Things in the North
and South," by D. W. Mitchell ; "Sisterhoods in the Church
of England," by Margaret Goodman ; " England under
God," by the Venerable Archdeacon Evans ; and "London
People : Sketched from Life," by Charles Bennett.
Messrs. Parker. Son, and Bourn announce for publica-
tion—" Christian Names, their History and Derivation,"
by the author of the " Heir of Redclyffe," in 2 vols.; " A
Treatise on the Continued Fevers of Great Britain," by Dr.
Charles Murchison; "An Essay on the Origin and Forma-
tion of the Romance Languages," by Sir George Cornwall
Lewis.

Meson. Lovell Reeve and Co. bare in prepsration—
" Phoepborence ; or, the Emission of Light by Mistrals,
Plants, and Animals," by Dr. Phipson ; "Illustrated
Handbook of British Lod and Fresh•nater Mollusks." by
Lovell Items ; " Illustrated Handbook of the British Flora,'"
by Bentham ; " Illustrated Handbook of British Mosses,"
by Berkeley ; " Curtis's British Coleoptera, Lepidopters.
Hymenoptera, and Diptem ;" "Flora of the Viti or Fiji
Islands," by Dr. Beemann ; and " Horn Ferales ; or,
Studies in the Arcbmology of the Northern Nations," by
the late Rev. J. Keinble, edited by Dr. Latham and A. W.
Franks.

-
Messrs. Sampson Low. Son, and Co., are prepeeng a com.
paniou volume to their Favourite English Poems, entitled
" Early English Poems," with one hundred illustrations ;
" Selected Songs and Sonnet* from Shakspeare" '• In the
Woods with the Poets ;"'• A Boy Life of Martin Luther,"
by Henry Mayhew ; " Peter Parley's Own Story," told by
Himself and edited by a Friend.
Messrs. Bell and Daldv are preparing "Jerusalem Ex-
plored," by Dr. Erinete Pierotti ; "Songs of Praise for the
Church's Year," by the Rev. J. S. B. Maisel] ; the final
volume of the Rev. W. Denton's " Commeotary on the
Gospels," "The Cotton. Flax. and other Chief Fibre.
yielding Plants" by Dr. Forbes Watson.
limier*. Williams and Norgate will produce " Evidence
as to Man's Place in Nature," by Professor Huxley ; " Re-
searches in Newer Pliocene and Past-tertiary Geology," by
James Smith, ; the concluding volume of Dr. David-
son' " Introduction to the Old Testament ;" and " The
Tubingen School and its Antecedents ; an Historical View
of Modern Theology," by R. W. Mackay, M.A.

Crosby Hall,Bishopsgate-street,after its elaborate
restoration, baying been need for several years as a lecture
and concert ball, has recently been converted into a wine-
merchant's store.

A warning to plagiarists has just been given by
the punishment inflicted oo two authors in Prussia, con-
victed of haviog sold as original a play which was merely •
copy of one existing already. They were sentenced to two
months' imprisonment and • fine of 13L. each.
Mr. Leech's collection of sketches in oil, after
having been exhibited with remarkable success in the
Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, is about to be removed to Corn.
hill fora similar purpose, and afterwards will reappear at
Manchester, by way of commencing a provincial tour.

The Lola Collection of Works of Art, now at
the South Kensington Museum, wiU remain open in its mo-
ment entirety until about the time when the International
Exhibition closes. Shortly after this date, a certain num-
ber of the articles, such as the gold and silver plate belong.
ing to the numerous corporate bodies contributing, will be
returned.

The response made to Mr. Dion Boucicault's ap-
peal for new theatre' has, we (MAerierues) understand, sot
only been prompt, but ample. Already money 'cough
has been offered for the erection of some half-dosen. In •
few weeks, • scheme in relation to the project will be made
public. Meanwhile, the nveliffastion of Astley's is in
progress, to which, in due time, The Relief of Liteknoeo
will be transferred.
The University of Cambridge (says the A thenerum)
is getting on in arithmetic, and learning bow to
apply it to the affairs of life and the topics of the day. The
following questions are extracted from among those given
at the " previous examination," • " little go," on the 14th
instant:—" Lord Dundreary is now twentyais years of
age, and be is two years older than his brother. In what
year was his lordship half 'as old again as his brother? A
publican sells beer at 21 a glass to University mon, and at
lid. • glass to townsmen ; an undergraduate by not wearing
his gown peones with the publics' for • townsman, bat
but being caught by the proctors at the end of forty day;
he finds his savings in beer will only just ray his fine of
6s. Bd. How much beer did he drink per evening? The
fees to the University for the previous examination are 50a.
per man. In consequence of the resent alteration, 250 men
will for the future be examined six months and • half
earlier than ia previous years ; but the eight examiners for
the present year each receives 301. instead of 211. What is
the value of the University's pis by the alteration, suppos-
ing the expense for ink. &c., to be 4s. per min l"
It is said that when the cabinet of the Tuileries
complained to that of St. James's of the aid sent out to
Garibaldi, when in Sicily, by his English friends, Lord
Palmerston replied that he could not prevent the sending
out of private assistance to Osribaldi any more than the
sending of several millions to the Pope.
Count de Paris awl the Duke de Chartres arrived
at Hamburg on Tuesday from Mecklenburg.
Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial-office
to the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Island..