The Express.
London, England, 1848-11-22 00:00:00

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WINDSOR. TEIVIDA7.—The royal dinner party at
the Castle Shia arming will ine'tid• the Dueller of Kent,
the Pries.. Amelia or Hotwalohe Sahillinpfant, the
Marebianew of Nonnaaby, Lady Alma Maria Dawson,
Bassesde Bpoth, Dowager Lady Lyttaltoo, Major Gene-
ral and Lady Labelle Weer,Lkut..Col. the Hon. C. B.
and Mrs. Phipps, Sir Gawp and Lady Cooper, and Mr.
Glover.

Bir Hobart Gardiner, Governor of Gibraltar, had an
interview with Karl Grey yesterday at the Colosial•office.
Visoonnt Palmerston left town yesterday afternoon
he the seat of Varmint Melbourne, Bracket Nall, Herta.
te were received yesterday at the Colonial-
offitehetbt Governor of Canada, and also from the
governors of the ether North America colonies.

ALLZGED DEATH Or was
reported la town, last night, that government had received
intelligence ad the death of Ibrahim Paha, whose imme-
diate demos was man& by ea attack of cholera.

(Prom last
Nov.
Gazette.)
Bowen:co-enure, Nov. 21.—Tbe Queen has been
appoint Major•Osneral 84r R. W. Gardiner.
tna to
~ to be Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and
over the city and garrison of Gibraltar, P. D. limper,
Esq., to be liegetrar of the Court of First Instance for the
, Island of Mauritius. J. &tout, Esq., to be Deputy Queen's
Advocate for the Wand of Ceylon. B. Palmer, Esq., to be
her Majesty's Solicitor-General for Prince Edward Island ;
sad to place the Turks and Caicos Islands under the super-
vision of the Governor of J41E1111:11 end to appoint P. II A.
Forth, Esq., to be President of the Council of Government
of the said islands.

Downixo-orazirr, Nov. 21.—The Queen ban been
plebeianly pleased to give orders for the appointment of Paul
Edmund de fitneleeki, Esq. to be an Ordinary Member of
the Civil Division 05 the Third Clue or Companions of the
Most Honourable Order of the Bath.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, Nov. 18.—The Queen 11112 been
pleased to approve of Mr. John Taggart, u Consul at
Demurer% for her Majesty the Queen of Portugal and the
A/garves.
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, Nov. 20.
Royal nest. or Ara—Firs. Lind. A. V. Cannel to be ore. eapt.,
vier Thorailike, ; Staff-Fetid. G. Cl idle to be iptertermantet ;
Staffeeret. W. b['Kowa to be quartermaster.

CALLS TO VIE BAB, LINCOLN'S-INN.—Yesterday
the Michaelmas term calls to the bar of Linoobiainn were
made, and ineludt d the titer-mentioned gentlemen :—R. C.
Care, M.A. • W. H. Hodgson, M.A. ; R. T. litnt, M A. ;
H. P. Woke, Esq. ;C. Sargent, B.A. ;T. J. Herey, ;
and R. H. Frank, lisg . _ .

Tim l'oos is Sr. PANCIAL—At a meeting of the
board of direr:toes held at 441 workhouse ynterday to in-
quire into champs made at ea inquest reported in our papa
of Monday, se to the death of a child, whose father, it was
mid, bad net bees informed of its dines/ until after the
child's burial, It was resolved:
Tit the breed elm with much regret the circumstance that the
meter of the wiwklionse should have neglected to hare informed Syl-
vester Shaw of the death of hit son ; and that in all eavw of ocath in
the workhouse the master be requested immediately to inform the
nearest relative tithe deo:soul thereof, and that this decision uf the
board be reed to the muter.
_

Efec tanr.—Yeateeday. a public meeting, at
the requisition of the above society, was held at the Mall of
Commerce, for the purpose of hearing a lecture from the
Rev. Dr. Burnet, on the evils of standing armies and their
antagonism to the liberties of nations. The large room was
crowded in every part. The chair was taken by H.
Clapp, Erq., of Massachusetts. The lecturer said
the question to be decided by the meeting was,
whether standing armies were or were not tae best
security for governments, or the true bulwarks of a
nation. In his opinion they were an unmixed evil. He
might be told that in this country the standing army was
dependent on the House of Commons, and that the House
of Commons might put it down any time at the end of the
Tear. Bat what was the House of Commons ? There were
in that house ISO officers in the army and nary—and osuld
you ask them to put down themselves ? There were 200
more in that house, either noblemen, or connected
with the aristocracy, to whom the army was an
open field for the employment of their families. Could
you expect them to take the bread out of the mouths of their
relations? Therefore they had notkinglo expert. from the
Hones of Commons unless such a (ores of public opinion was
broht to bear as it would be impossible to resist. But for
vending armies there would have been no bombardment of
Vienna, nee would the King of Prussia dare invite his con-
stitutional parliament to hold their sittings in the fortress of
I[We:ism, whore he might at any moment make them all
state prisoners. But for standing armies we should net groan
. under 1,000 millions of debt, the interest of which swallowed
up nearly half the revenues of the country. But public
opinion was beginning to smart its influence. Although the
continent was in an uproar, Lord Palmerston dared not stir ;
and why ? Bonus the people of this country bad grown
wiser, and would not permit him. Ho trusted that standing
armies would eventually be put down, and that sovereigns,
by governing wisely and well, would find that the bat
armies were the affections of the people.
MALTA, Nov. 12.—TRAVELLEB8 IN THE MEDI-
. . . .

byor her Majesty's steam-
packets am greatly ineoavenienad want of a packet-office
in Valletta, Muller to the French packet-offiee, where they
could go =demure their berths without the trouble of going
on board, without, probably from the absence of the com-
mander or clerk, being enabled to effect their object. Six-
teen of the India passengers who mme in the Sultan went on
to Alrxandria in the Preach steamer Nil: had there been an
authorised admiralty mosey they would have been looked
after by the agent's people, and would, probably, have
waited to go by the man of war steamer on Eh. 13th.—A.
Toe Oovniieoa or CETLON.—Sir,—Lord Tor-
rington was the last man who ought to have been sent out
as Governor of Ceylon. Every one who knew him prognos-
ticated his incompetence and failure. During has rather
lengthened stay in Southampton before be went out to India
hi gaieties and defiance of public opinion created prejudices
against him. It wu jocosely remarked that r one Mr. Glad-
stone, who was so shocked at Sir Eardlev Wilmot, would
have been thrown into hysteria by his lordship. When he
embarked kr India, people shrugged up their shoulders and
maderfeasess, as much as to ay I wish the Cingalese joy
of governor." When Lord Torrington was on beard
the Haddington steamer, on his passa.• to India, he insisted
that his servant, for whom he had paid as a second•class pas-
senger, should enjoy Rat-ease atelier I, and had a violent
quarrel with the captain because it was not allowed. His
lordship was sulky during the quarrel, and locked himself
and family in their cabins. If the aristocracy we to be
selected foe the important psi of governors of distant pro
vines, throe pomesssed of the aost suitable qualifications
should be sleeted. The appointment of Lord Torrington
was " too bad." What would the whirs have said, if the
tones had sent oat Lard Cardigan as governor of Ceylon /
Reform Club.—A WHIG AND SOMETHING MORN.

A REMONSTRANCE AND AN EXPLANATION.—Sir,
—To a MSS living some 200 miles from London, as I do, in
a retired country house, a daily paper is almost a necessary
of life. The Meriting Chronicle supplied this want to me
nearly 30 yean, when its teriiveriatm obliged me to look
out for another paper; the dishonest Tines was out of the
question, when fortunately in the Express I found ex.
actly the publication which l wanted—great talent, just and
enlightened political principles, and entire honesty of pur-
pose. It an scarcely be imagined, then, the surprise and
vexation that I felt in reading the following passage in the
Express of the 14th inst. :—" The increase of dissent, and
the augmentation of vice and ignorance." Sorely you do
not mean deliberately to abide by this unwarrantable asser-
tion ; or that the two can have the remotest connexion; such,
however, appears to be the eau, as yen hove put " the in-
crease of dialing and the augmentation of vice and
ignorance" in the same category; and this too when
the gist of your argument is the deprecation of
an abuse libel, ti be perpetrated by a bishop of
that church which you represent as the Palladium
against vice and ignorance. If this be a correct assumption on
your part, then it memo to me that aU which you have
written lately with such force and effect upon the shameless
robberies of the Durban clergy is insincere and incorrect ;
whereas all the world knows that the charges which you have
brought against these men are perfectly true. And when
you can, with equal truth, bring such charges against an
body of dissenting Weide", then, and not till then, will
yes be justified in stating that the increase of dissent, and
the augmentation of ignorance, have any connexion.—l hope
king to remain your constant subscriber and reader, A MS-
saznixo LAY MAN —Ntas fiuddenfield? Nov. 18, 1848.—[We
thought, and, on reverting to the article, we still think it
obvious, that the expression here complained of is given, sot
as the opinion of the Express, but as one of the" rant
phrases of the clam of clergymen at whom the article was
levelled. Since, hawever, SO intelligent a reader Se our
correspondent has overlooked this, others may have done the
same, and therefore we beg leave most explicitly to dealers
that we do not think ' the increase of dissent" and the
eacaentation of vino and ignorance " synonymous expen-
der.]
Tun PADDINGTON VESTET.—Sir,—Ae there have
been of late so mane onsjiaints against the Abuses of parish
vestries, I am induced to hi g a corner in your journal for a
feet it two connected with the Paddington vestry, elected
land*? Sturges Bourne's Act. About a year ego a partially
sow ISISISIONIS for parochial rates wee made, but it was eon-
'lamed to be so unequal and aejust (house of theme's value
and similarly
.eireumstapeed very differently assessed) that
many When against it—some were relieved end some not.
This ceramists/bre, together with great dissatisfaction at the
general management of the affairs of the parish, and the ex-
traordinary way in which its funds were disbursed, gave rise
to the formation dna "association " for " the establishment
of an equal assessment in the parish, and securing a due ad.
ministration of its funds." This association was soon joined
by many influential rate.payers (tannest whnm are seedy
twenty harristers and other member. of the legal profesrVm)
who occasionally held public meetings, and became so name-
sous, active, and formidable, that many appeals were made
against the rate st.d the money returned a
gear proof that it b,,,1 bees unjustly levied. So
much Mr the influence of the association, which
is still at work, and hamming in magnitude sad
importance. I de not like to Vespers too much
epos your valuable space, and shall, therefore, eontent my-
self at present with then few partiesdan, hoping that others
may be induced to attack these abuses, which press most
heavily upon the smaller rate.payere, who have not tills to