The Express.
London, England, 1865-01-07 00:00:00

RICHMOND JOURNALS AND PRESIDENT
DAVIS.
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(From the Richmond Examiner.)
The news from Tenitemee is bad. The situation
is bad ; bet II is far fines Wag irremediable. The army
is Tennessee has bees terribly misused and has suffered
awful injury, but it is not lost. and may be restored to
I fall silloisooy by the same hand which redeemed it after
Missioeary Rldgs. But to change the farina of the country
the executive and legislature must champ their °ha-
-1 raster and abandon the road to ruin hitherto systematise/1y
punned by both. The opening of the compaga farad oat
two beat ease I. real oommand and is the two primal's'
palliate—Leo is Vbgisiii, Jakarta' is Georgia. The mili-
tary coodition of this country was sever so prosperous as
it wee at Ithlsummer, for these two men bed so does their
work that it was then morally arias that the last swam
effort of the enemy was goiag to fail, and bad it failed
it is impossible to doubt that this year would have
been the hat year of the war. The unexpected and
isommqeset freak of the executive, sad the removal of
Joheston, permitted is silence by the eountry, has pro-
duoed fruits such as inooneequeot folly sod selserrisery
sour before produced. Although greet evils might have
been, sad win apprehended at the time, the results have
so much surpassed expectation. that they mussed the

appearance of a judgment. But let the Mt go. The best
remedy for present evil is imply to stop the comes which
have caused km. Let the executive owe to interim
with the armies ; send Johnston to the wreck of that army
which he surrendered to Hood la such mageiflosot eantillioe ;
give him carte blanche to do what he thinks proper for
its salvation, and for the defame of the (*entry, and a
guarantee that au aar his emendation nor his plans will
be soy more meddled with ; give to Beaureprd 'owlets
discretios of Mice on the cast ; have to Lee his whole
army and full powers Is Virginia, and prosperity will Mena
good fortune will again betel the array of the South, sod the
great denim which sow menace the Confederacy will vanish
like the clouds of the last rain. But good sense, modesty, and
justice will never actual* the executive while congers abdi-
cates its Inaction' and publics opinion its rights. Nations will
suffer just punishment whenever they entrust power to posy
bands, pad up the conoeit and montage the prim of their
rulers, by fulsome flattery a snout submiesion. We have
dm so. The follies of the goverment are manifest to all ;
but if anyone wbo pays their coot promos oppositios, or
even a recncestrance, the amiable majority my " Hoak r
" Oh, busk we osn't pt rid of him ; and he will do thea
and do all the more if he is oppmed. Don't say anything.
Ws must have emord—usaniroity—sed there must be

no opposities to factualist." Tl;crefote, the ally •aiao
which Is head at all I the ales of ilattawn—the voico of

Wes who have neither bead or heart, neither Imo'lap
ter principle. Hence the Executive is encouraged to
pursue its fascias ; and although every military misfortune of
this °pantry is palpably and ooefeseedly due to the perermal in-
terferemesof Mr. Davis, the legislature continues at each ass-
aka to betels subservient tool,and to furnish new incentives to
perversity, new maw of mbehief. It will not be sufficient
for the executive to have lucid intervah. Congress and
the Southern public must change their attitude, adept a
more distinct and manly toes, deal with their own affairs
with more resolution, keep the executive in the path of
duty, and curb it with a peremptory heed
when it interferes with thinp beyond its asperity.
Cheat adversity bee fallen upon us ; but the power of
the Southern State' is not broken. The moons* are

enormous and on no midi is the breach irreparable. Of
all external dangers, there is sot one that cannot be wee-
manfully met. But a greater danger is within ; folly vested
with licenses, and flattery to encourage folly. No calamity
which ban happened is in itself ruinous ; but what will rain
ne is this—that the government should go as to do, sad
continue to do, the identical acts which have made calamity
by the necessary sequence of came and effect. The more
harmony and the mare concord, and the more self-abnega-
tion we do evince under such circumstances, the more :lipid
is our progreis to destruction. Let as determine that the
course of the ship shall be altered ; with that determination
will in found the means to poespel the change.

APPOINTMENTS IN THE ARMY.

(From the Army avid Navy gamete.)

We believe that we may state that the arrange-
mean likely to be made for filling up the more important
of the great military posts to become vacant deriag the
present Tear are sow near completion. We mentioned
some two months since that Sir William Mansfield was to
have the command-in-chief of the army in India, and it
may be as well for tie to repeat the statement, insomuch as
the Lilian journals just received are unauimously orroesone
in "anteing the post to Sir Hope Grant. We have also
announced the approximate appointment of Lord William
Paulin to be Adjutant-General.
We may sow state that Sir Hugh Roes will be ream-
mended to her Majesty for the command of the force" in
Ireland, to be vacated by Sig George Brown in lApriL We
trust that Sir Hugh will accept the appointment. What-
ever may have been his faults or indiscretions in one or two
instances, his Indian administration has bees most honour-
able to him, and most beneficial to the service, sad we feel
quite lure that his enlightenment and vigour would be
most advantageously felt among the important portion of
the army ciaszienri in the sister isle.
We also learn that a similar recommendation will be
made of Sir Hope Grant for the post of Quartermaster-
General, about to be given up by Sir Richard Airey.
The oommand-iyobief at Bombay, in suneesion to Sir
Mansfield, will, we believe, be filled by Major
General Sit Robert Napier. of the Bengal Regimes's. As a
compliment to the old Indian service and the sciestillo
corps, e well as a reward to one of our twit able and pi-
tied officers in the East, this appointment is worthy of all
prlise.
t is most probable that Sir James Yorke Searle* will be
vpointed to the Aldershot command, upon the expiration
of Sir John Pennefather's term of office in the early part of
the summer ; and, although it is not quite settled, we believe
it is exceedingly likely that Sir Richard Airey will be the
sew Governor of Gibraltar, is succession to Sir William
Godrington.

We have authority to stifithit— the next exami-
nation for Direct Commissions will not take place
before the month of May.
The ceremony of opening the Memorial Ward of
the late lamented Dr. Elm,ly, in eoenexion with the Meath
Hospital, took One at Dublin, on Thursday, in the PreleDoo
of his Excellency the Lord-Lintel:ant, Lady Wodshouse,
and a large number of ladies and gentlemen. Dr. Stokes
read an address, in which the objects of the ward were est
forth. It was established for the purpose of accommodating
children labouring under disease. It was believed that a
great advantage arose from having a separate ward attached
to a general hospital, instead of having a distinct hospital
for the diseases of children. His Exeelleary eddrand
Welly the meeting, and concurred as to the a:sadism of
having certain cleans of diseases kept distinct, and treated
in aspirate hospitals.
LITERARY AND Scuerrinc MEETINGS TOR TEE
ENSUING Wuz. —Wend : Geographical, 84, " VIA to
Sources of Tigris and Euphrates," Mr. Taylor ,• " lake
Nor Tsai-sae,' M. Abramof. Architects, 8. Psembay
Actuaries, 41, Council. Byre-E./sodas, 74. Moen.
mental Lists of Egyptian Kings," Mr. Noah. Ethsologi-
oal, 8, " Natural History of the Iranians," H. Khasi-
kof ; Artillaial Eyes of Peruvian Menunles, • Sir
Woodbine Parish " Scythian'," Doc de Roussillon ;
" Collimation in North Celebes," Mr. Wakes. Engi-
neers, 8, "River Tees," Mr. Taylor. Zoological, 84,
" Anatomy and Habits of the Water-Ousel," Dr. Crisp ;
" Fishes of Coals," Dr. Day ; " hiking Oercopithecun
sabieum," Mr. St. G. Mivart. Wednesday : Mionsoopical,
8, " Vinegar Pleat," Mr. Sleek ; Graphic, 8 ; Geological,
8 " Lias Knowle, &a," Rev. P. B. Erode ;
'!last Geological Changes te Scotland," Mr. Jamieson ,•
"Excavation of Valleys by foe," Dr. Mast ; Archeological
Association, 84, "Roof of Winchester College, Illustrative
of its Founder sad Benfankes," Mr. Batmen. Thursday
Royal Academy, 8, "Architecture." Professor Smirks ;
Royal 84, "Notes of Researches on Acids of Lanie Series,"
" Anion of Zino on Mixture of lodide of Eth7l sod Oxalate
of Methyl," Dr. Franldand and Mr. Deeps ;
Ilsokiaty, Sines Collage. Windsor, Nova Bee* Fre-
i tenor Everett. Friday : Astoononskal, 8.

•
A Morzr, CONGRIGATION Scorwer.—The
Aberdeen oornsmondent of the Banffshire Journal write
For a long, long period there has been regular Sum*
evening amines is the East Church, the air city pubes, or
their assistants surd substitutes, perkwroing the duties.
This was last week brought to as sad, and °saintly, es
things were ocedueted, not before time. It is cot too such
to say that the memo enacted and the behaviour of mists
of those who ;mot to these eveciog services were a
@medal to say body of Christi.* wonbippers. • The
majority of the ittssdees were young as. sad
young women, who Midi the church a plum of
resort for the sole purpose, apparently, of having
1•a lark' and meeting afterwards. Laughing aloud,
paper-paid throwing. lurifer-asateh lighting. sod whole
matt ale of lads sad Lams, In= opposite sides of the
church, walking out in dosses by proecoosrlod
ware common ooeurrssoes. So bad, is foot, did
become latterly that the male sod female portieu*sq
pthering were kept separate, by the cue ea bells only
allowed to ths galleries ri the Aura, while the ether
wen coadosd below. Eno this did not owe the evil,
and so os Sabbath night the church well, elsoluties
of the city elergrose, shut ; and eery piebald, the sir-
vioss will he dierostlossd allopathic. Of esetrok. yes
most understood that the IMPOlllabiagell whose sessissi is
compelled this mowers are la Ds way to be ideetillidi with
the very large sad respectable oregrsgatios proper of the
East Ohursh."