The Express.
London, England, 1848-08-03 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 3, 1848.

moor from the body of the meeting, the assembly dispersed,
cheering loudly for the charter and repeal.
ANOTHER MODEL LODOING-1101J8L—The Society
foe improving the condition of the labouring clams have
taken an extensive range of premises at the back of the Lon-
don and SL Katharine. Dock Hotel, East Smithfield, which
they intend to open as one of t►eir model lodging• houses on
Saturday next. The building is sufficiently capacious to
afford aceommodatiir for 100 persons.

TSB POTATO ROT Ili AMERICA.—The Newbury-
port Kerald states that the potato disease has made its sp.
pittance in that:vielniry. The Herald says : " Its advent is
earlier this year than last, and thus far with greeter viru-
lence. This is the first intimation we have seen of the
breaking out of this disease, which we hoped had ceased its
ravages."
A NEW Poocess OF SILVERING GLASS and other
materials has recently been patented, and now challenges
competition with the method horetofore in use. The new
process appears to be a vs ry simple one, the basis being the
known properties of nitric acid to dissolve pure silver, which
being held in solution is subsequently deposited on the glen
or other substance to be silvered. The old material (naer
eury) is thus dispensed with altogether. The agents for pre-
cipitating the onzolved silver are understood to be certain
essential oils. Some experiments, tried yesterday by the
inventor, Mr. Drayton, in the presence of a numerous
circle of spectators, were successful to a most satisfactory ex-
tent; and further experiments, which the scientific world
awaits, are promised. The result will, it is anticipated, prove
the great utility of this ingenious invention, the value of
which, in a decorative point of view, promises to be very
r groat.
Tile REAL FARINA.—A famous distiller (if not
the famous one), Jean Marie Farina, died several years ago,
and left his receipt and his business to two daughters, both
married. The husband of one of these only carried on the
business, and his establishment is at No. 129, Hoch Strasse.
It is certain that the name has been multiplied in some cas.•
at Cologne by hunting out persons named Farina in Italy,
who were made use of to give a pretext for putting that name
on the bottles. But no descent will secure a supremacy in
a manufacture which depends both on the quality of the ea
sen ial oils used, and the proportions in which they are mixed,
circumstances in which it seems likely that no two batches
made by the same hand can ever pertoctly agree. There ore
at least three manufacturers who stand pretty much alike in
favour with the public, and altogether we believe the candi-
dates for that favour number fourteen, of whom ten hear the
name of Farina. Several receipts have been published of
this fatuous water ; one by Dr. Ure was said to have been
obtained from the inventor, M. Farina. According to this,
sage, mint, thyme, admits, angelica, camphor, rote-leaves,
violets, lavender, orange-flowers, wormwood, all the spices,
and no lege than eight ethereal oils, combine their flavours
to produce the unrivalled scent of the water. Another re-
ceipt names only the essential oils, leaving out the herbs and
the spices. These are mixed with alcohol, and the whole
gently distilled. There are now distillers of eau de Cologne
in every large town, and every considerable chemist's estab-
lishment makes its own. Still the quantity made and sold
at Cologne is very large. We did not hear a positive state-
ment respecting it that could be relied upon.—Banjfees
Industry of she Rhine.
ALLEGED EMBEZZLEMENT BY OFFICIALS.—A cor-
respondent at Ringwood, on the borders of the New Forest,
says :—The following, I believe, are the particulars of the
malpracices in the official management of the New Forest,
and the origin of their detection. A young men, a son of a
land surveyor and timber auctioneer, who resided near the
New Forest, and was usually employed to sell the forest tim-
ber, having obtained a situation in the Woods end Forests,
through the ineuence of Lord Duncan, " peached" upon
the dishonest practices pursued by the inferior officers be-
longing to the forest. It appears that at the periodical sales
of forest timber, when the purchaser came to clear away he
found about double the quantity cut that he had purchased.
Of course he took the extra qui.ntity at his own valuation,
aad:the money was divided amongst the officials. About
two years ago there was a contest for a regazdership,
and the successful candidate spent 7001. Special trains were
employed from Portsmouth and Southampton to Winchester
Ito convey the freeholders to vote, and taverns were made
open houses to provide refreshments for the voters ; in fact.
the excitement and the expense were as great as at a county
election upon the small scale now. The ostensible aalary of a
rewarder of the New Forest is about 201. a year ! Lieut.-Col.
Thornhill, who held almost the highest office in the New
Forest, under the Duke of Cambridge, has resigned. There
is not the slightest suspicion that Lieut. Col. Thornhill was
cognisant of, much leas profited by, the malpractices above
described. It is believed his age and feebleness would render
him incapable of enduring the fatigue and annoyance which
the institution of • searching investigation would subject
him to.

IMMORAL ADVERTISEMENTB.—Our contemporary,
the Scotch &farmers' Gazette, is refusing to insert a certain
clam of advertisements, to which it is not necessary to make
• more particular allusion. "We have," says the editor of
the above paper, " been offend two entire columns of these
this week, and for six weeks ensuing. But we have set our
faces against them as we have uniformly done, being dew-
mined that our readers shall not be imposed upon by spurious
and indelicate advertisements of any kind.' The Gazette
goes on to observe that by such refusal they " may perhaps
lee several hundreds per annum," and trusts that the public,
who have respectable advertisements to spare, will not forget
to send them. In this wish we heartily concur, at the same
time we do not believe that any newspaper proprietor, or
any other person, can ever be a sufferer by refusing to circu-
lase indecency. A newspaper ought to be met with in every
domestic circlo, and we would wish those newspapers who
insert indelicate advertisements to consider to what extent
their circulation is cramped by such a practice. We have,
over and over again, met with parties, with fathers, with
husbands, with brothers, who have said " I would take in
the newspai.er, but for those advertisements." With-
out wishing to assume the part of a censor, or to impute
motives to any one, we respectfully submit the above re-
marks, fully confident that nothing would more elevate the
general character of the press than a bold stand against in-
decent announcements.—Trade Protection Circular.

SUSPECTED VISIT OF IRISH CONFEDERATES.—For
several days past the authorities of Liverpool have be'zn on
the qui vise regarding the 'An R. Skiddy ship (from New
York), in which it was suspected several repealer from the
other side of the Atlantic were coming as passengers. She
arrived, at length, early yesterday morning, and was boarded
by a number of detectives, who were disappointed iu th ir
expectations, for no one answering to the descripti:n of
" confederates " were to be seen.

Fanners of this branch were also styled drivers, and re-
quired to perform the same duty, expressed • wish
to see it exemphfied ,• whereupon, after manceuvring
for some time the whole were halted, and the gunners
changed places with the driven: the maaceuvring was again
continued equally as well.. We ask, could the Horse Artil-
lery ever do it ? We distinctly say, No; it is not their sys
tem to teach both duties. There is much esprit de corps in
the horse Artillery no one will deny, and that
they are smart soldiers also; but this is what we tom.
plain of—it is obtained at the sacrifice of eleven-
twelfths of the regiment. It is impossible, then, from
what has been shiner), to expect, under present circum-
stances, anything like a comprehensive or powerful field
artillery. We shall now compare expenses; and having
done so, we will leave the matter, on this point, to rest
between the finance committee and the country.
For the three troops of hoist arti.kry, there are as many
horses as for t • four field batteries. What is the result? On
the day of the last review taere were six guns of the former,
and sixteen of the latter, though only twelve exercised.
Ask any cavalry officer which he would choose, the six or
sixteen guns; and what would be the effect of these forces
in opposition to each other, and attached to an army?
Suppose a fire was sustained for half an hour, and each
gun during that time fired fifty rounds independently
the result would be that one army would sustain
the shuck from 300, and the other front 800 pieces ! No.
Da away with this penumbra of a horse artillery, and reor
plain tee whole regiment into brigades on an equal footing,
and unite the interests of all (or the general good, not only ut
the service, but of the country. The borie of the horse artil-
lery,
when merged into a general br;gade,would afforded the
additional instruction at present required by the battalions,
and save the expense to the country of further outlay at a
time when it can least affard it. Thus at Woolwich alone
there are enough horses for eight field batteries: this
would be ample for the instruction there, and present
also • formidable front of thirty.two guns at a
field.day or review. These properly equipped would
have a far more imposing appearance than the pre-
sent disfixta membra. The horse artillery costs an.
nually not less than 60,0001. If tkey be continued now we
shall nit cease to insist on two or three points—viz., their
being put on the same pay and allowances as the battalions,
which is, in tact, the actual pay or our cavalry; next, their
being dressed like them; ard, lastly, to take their tour of
colonial service wherever they can be employed.
Major-General Sir Robert Gardiner has printed a pam-
phlet, addressed to the chairman of the finance
committee, and circulated it amongst the aristo-
cracy, with the object of taking John Bull by the
horns. We protest against such an unfair proceeding:
tee public have a right to judge in this matter so well as the
interested parties for whose benefit the publication would
appear to be intended. Sir Robert dreaded that the unre-
stricted publication of his pamphlet would expose to hi,
countrymen the nakedness of our colonial and home de-
fence; he never could have intended it against our
continental neighbours wilt are better aware than
most of ourselves of our state. Are they not ashore in every
port of the Mediterranean and the West Indies as much as
we are ? _ _ _

Tne present limited number of seven troops of Horse
Artillery does not afford sufficient patronage fur the sons of
the more affluent of the aristocracy ; so three more troops
were demanded by Sir Robert, and an increase of five bat-
talions. Ho has raised high hopes in the great
family circle. All the young captains are to be imme
dia.ely field officers, and the country is to provide for 2GO
more sons, who are wavering which of the two professions
will fall to their lot—the army or the church. Such
wtta the coup de main to be effected in our slumber-
ing dreams of economy and retrenchment. But the
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,entinels of the country, " Hume " and "Coladee,"
in whom we have high hopes, are, we trust, not asleep
on their post. S:r Robert Gardiner bases his hopes
for an augmentation of Horse Artillery on the ex-
ploded principle of attaching to them 6-pounders. We
expect that the experience of our last campaign in the
Peninsula and France has annihilated for ever the mention
of 6-pounders. Sir Robert would give his hobby corps
playthings, and, what he terms " brigades," the heavier
pieces—those is fine who have the harder work the less
pay. He forgets that those who are competent for heavy
work are the more able for the light. The Duke
at Waterloo dismantled the " flying artillery," and gay*
them 0-pounders : and we require no better data than
the battles of the Sutlej, where the frightful effect of the
Sikh artillery on our troops and the puerile attempt of the
6-pounders to make any impression was so manifest. On
this occasion oar brave cavalry and in'antry with frightful
loss rushed not to the breach but to the mouth of • mighty
volcano, pouring its undiminished resources on the unco-
vered but determinedad vaace, and the Sikh guns were silenced
only at the point of the bayonet and sabre. This terrible
lesson cannot be effaced, and ought not to be forgotten. The
advocates of such a protective sys,em should quake for the
consequences.
Why is it that our naval and military officers are in such
fear for the safety of their country ?—they are unceasing
in their efforts to obtain further extensions, it is their con-
tinuous policy, and our taxes have been increased from time
to time to meet these demands. It is impossible to look
upon the promoters of such schemes as disinterested indivi
duals. Five more new battalions would make Sir Robert's
son, now a second ciptain in the horse artillery, a first cap-
tain, and probably give him a troop—what would it not do
for Sir Robert himself ? Make him a commandant, er
nearly so.
Sir Robert would have us find artillerymen for all the
new guns and mountings the Ordnance may think proper
to create on all the insignificant places we might take
a fancy to. It may be the interest of the Ordnance to create
guns ad libitum, and then find some disinterested individual
to show the public how many guns are lying idle.
We de not deny that there is a want of artillerymen, and
it is immaterial to us whether the number of Infantry be
decreased by five thousand and added to the artillery •
bet this much we know, there are more than 5fK;
officers in the artillery, a number sufficient far 15,000
men at least. There are 20 full colonels that (with the ex-
ception of two or three) are never required to join the regi-
ment.

Sir Robert speaks of the old age of the captains ; but did
he ever tell the reason ? No. We must. The artillery, '
contrary to the principle of the army, have first and
second captains ; but it rarely happens that more
than one captain is present. Hence the old age
e.f the senior captains. Sir Robert did not mention that the
junior captains were not more than 28 years of age. It it be
necessary then to create new battalions, abolish the second
captains which will give 80 officers for the purpose.
It cannot be denied that there are many respectable
and educated men enlisting now into the artillery. We ate
not content, theref.re, that the aristocracy should too.
nopolise the entire officering it. We could recol-
lect when they were all from the ranks, i.e., before
the establishment of the present exclusive system.
Many of those recently commissioned are mere boys,
who have passed a few months in an academical transit in
the Royal Military Academy to qualify them for nomination.
Respectable men having their sons enlisting into the army
have In clear a right, and probably more so, from their tried
conduct meriting it, to commissions in this service ; and so
long as we find the present unjust exclusion of respectable
and talented non-commissioned officers at variance with the
rest of the army we shall continue to advocate their cause,
and we :now we shalt be supported by the public voice ; and
we hope some member will take the opportunity to make a
motion, and elicit the intention of the government on the
subject.