The Express.
London, England, 1865-08-16 00:00:00

THE CAMP AT CHALONS.

(nom a onararomassr.)
THE CAMP, AUGUST 13.
I have just coins from hearing the military mass,
the service taking piste in the open air, and not lees
than twenty-five thousand men being present. The
musio of the mass was performed by the united
bands of five regiments, amounting to about a hun-
dred and fifty performer.. The sight end sound
were alike splendid. Tome this vest corps d'arnsee
—the Emperor himself being present—kneel at the -
elevation of the host was of itself a sight worth
coming all the way from London to me. After CRYOSAL PAWL ..111 conseqnsince of the wet
the
=Rs was over the Ilm r and Marshal Niel w*tbst *Mgt I°°°sitsd Yeststat''th• bellies ti
inspected the troops, or rather inspected the leading monied rttettant tick is will be
admitted en Monday week,
company of each brigade, the force being drawn up iia Apiu
Fost2B.ow-ormez, Ammer 10.--The Queen has been
close columns of brigades. On leaving, and as the tisciously pleased to appoiet the Bled Hes. Lord Lynn,
troops filed off past him, the Emperor was loudly 0.0.8., so be betrolc...zeinstemlisesader;xrie
thusselie
ad
cheered. The little Prince was present ; and girtraph graoicogy nieena app bee aimed
very fine-looking lad he Is, though was much more ton:Req., C. 8., now her Majeety'sjamnaster plenipotentiary
hie an English than a French boy. to the Argeetine Republic, to be lbw Majesty's savoy ex-
rreoldiaen sad minister plesipoisaliary to the Emperor
This is a very pleasant place by day, but a very of Brazil ; the
.Qneeo has siso bolO OTINkoodY
dog-bole to sleep in. There it but one decent hotel pleased to appoutt the Mo. Biellerd Edward's,
hair liejeny's ohs* &Whims and consul-
in the place, and to hires bed there is ruination, ainZronl to the United States R
of Yeessoela, to be ker
even if you can dose, which you can't, for the chances Majesty's minister plecipotenty to the Anemias e.
are that somebody else has been before you. I ~i assrta the' Fops, rE.g. ° beta strrie7egmtg t°
pay 10f. a night for a bed in a room where there desires and conenhgemrsito the republic of the Equator,
are three other Englishmen, two from Aldershot, st;:ljhalLlVelnY'es soicift.cwLe tratrthis; she Queens" "MI allt°llll t°
and one, like myself, from the Curragh. We dine graciously pleased to appoint the use. ?stasis John
how and where we can. There is a very fair table Palatal. sow tosirtary te to hersOkkehille.s.e.weellt
Bwaes
er We at the Hotel de PEurope, and neither dinner it uto Ayres, et ; the Quirais k aloe boregro
nor wine is dear. The French officers are exceed- pleased to appoint Frannie Clare aarli, Hag., sow seassawy
iogly civil to us, but they are not given so much her:ris Latta kr tit Japan te be maretia" hr
unto hospitality alio thecae° with us. The regiments =am. Mastskteoirren.—Lut evening Mr. W.
of the Imperial Guard have messes very much the J. Payne, deputy-ooroner for the city of London, held ea
same as in our own service, bat these are by no I:icollairveno,,,alfniALosPekl tstertiapethe frog bests/
means popular. The other corps( don't dine by ranks 'the partleulan of the outrage are ell:scribed is the fel.
when in camp, as is done when they are in quarters. I;7,i°' "Idswa. '—;teiagratheStiMlTZe2e. Hulitt°64°l•6l.
LA, bet 11
Each two companies of infantry (that is, the and 12 o'clock in the day, be was la Puddinsame,
officers of these) and each squadron of cavalry when he saw Eugene Sweeney Midis' the deceased's
mess together. They form little parties of six or hands. The deceased strugled,
_sod smoseded in break.
eight in each mess, and very comfortable and snug ilig.away,,• /1" rapf down.sni"a,.. and
and t..gui_ bvidult_
they are. I have dined two or three times with aus,,Tt-i„;dwitt7 skim the toad▪ gateway."
them, but no one mess asks more than a couple of He thee seized him by the ti-meets sad the want, sad
strangers at a time. Each time I dined at these lifting him bodily off the ground, threw him on his hoed ce
messes the dinner was plain but good, well cooked, the pavensect. the back of his head struck upon the stones
and well served no luxuries, but everything of w.4:,ll:sillea jame. Ill'uwa° *mild milk Whit saa ittel
the best. In the cavalry there are many more mound the accused stLtiY over him, ma Jag, " I will ▪ °l:e the
wealthy. men than in the infantry corps. The death of you. you —." some pelf e then came up to
Bth Cuirassiers,' the tat Lancers, and the 4th the assistaeos of the deceased, sad worry west fate •
Chasseurs u chews], have each several decided public-house. The police got a cab mad put the deceased into
it to take him to the hospitaL Tee seamed Onto it to
"swells " amongst them, men who in quarters have
hold the dc:eased's head, bat the polio* ordered him out end
their livery servants, broughams, riding horses, took him Into custody. James madman said mine he
dec. But 'weldor' is not much esteemed in the saw tieooned rash after the deceased and pall him vie-
French army. In camp no officer is allowed to have leerily back sad fling him on the ground. The wheelie mid
any thing that shows he is richer than his neighbours, to Sweeney, " You have done something sow ; you have
ao
and it is the fashion amongst them not to show any higteidit:',4°L Sweeney " ht°6 6", tet• 'we Tim said
signsof being "swells" when witlitheiroorpa I made with the sensed we" arrested wee not sea ; said,
the acquaintance of some officers of the 74th of the "1 keel, I did it ; I pushed him dews ; had beat
line the other day, and accepted an invitation to a drinkleg together all the morels& and I did it is a lark."
"pouch" one evening. This "pouch" is something The deceased was. sober. Tb. witness BiarmAise, recalled,
like the hospitality that takes plus with us when lbestthsittr igeisted delithleasly; tit:re"
one regiment invites another to dinner, only it does lwof re sheet for the lest 14 menthe, sad was a very fens-
not cost a twentieth part of the money. At sous character. Mr. Beery Cooley, mien, said that de-
s " poach" all the officers of the regiment ceased died the day after his edmissian todolmens], from
that gives it meet together at the cafd where it is fracture of the back of the skull, and effusion of bleed oe
the brain, caused by a tall rob as that deneribed by the
g*.ven. In the camp each regiment has its own
segative
injuries
smoke and talk in
oaf& The officers sit down to //°"181' The °et"?' said
that the
"their. ash'
that he iallioted tinjuries in a lark was d by his
groups, just WI they feel inclined. Hot " pouch" is own stalemate at the time, " that be would he the death
served round, as are also coffee, liqueurs, or what- of the deemed." The jury returned • verdict of " Man-
ever one likes to call for. It is in short nothing more slaughter modest Zaps. Sweeney for foloolooolY
kill sg
or less than a social gathering of the whole corps of ind
SsialiagV M 14.51 OP." MAx.—last week
officers in an informal manner ; or if a second the inhabitants of um
Ramsey and district wits favoured with
regiment is present the one corps is partaking of the opportunity of „ilesoner the moat swearseet mum
the hospitality of the other. It is a very cheap and meet in naval architecture which has occurred I. oar insular
sensible way of regiments showing good feeling to- annals, namely, the launch of a leviathan
stun situ
from the
wards each other, without the expense, bore, great shipbuilding yards North Booloot• For WOO mouths pest
eating, and'greater drinking which a mess dinner
Lea he be
s bareLeabasliea vaeleilsd bug. ari etladialtbe wal
rack
involves with us. But French customs will never being seaweed, forward to „wept the stem* wales.
gain ground in our army. day last we toed noon for the laanehing. At as early
The French cavalry is decidedly inferior to oun, hour, in honour of the caveat, the vessels la the harbour
except in numbers. The best oorps they have in s_kisplaYlid their while the Dahl* ship itself exhibited
is
a
my opinion are the Chasseurs h Obeyed, or r,"47.1.471btr""6",f1uir quay, ad epee
mounted light troops. They are certainly the with"
spectators; in shipyard
weequeens of dead tree Jra:
lightest of light horsemen, but extremely well vessel, some anxiety was felt respecting the base. Such
mounted. All that I have seen have Algerian however,
there the excellent arrangements of °uptake
horses, entire animals, stallions, very like the
saltßeneett, peiateedat of the eriaddialiniest, sad his
eimeniiismiceszrinAt high water
...
Awrearebemoonunwthedichwthheenlo:hheylluarearsirevadaudatl2thsebuLanzoratexperience
the steam wlthialliee Waasomadadto mad. available 'blob shill awl
from India overland. The horses of the Chassieurs Gain that the Winch was Ghost hike ta=
Cheval are not more than 14 hands 2 inches spec which Mn. Pothocier, the wife of Mr. m. 0. Potho-
nter, of Liverpool, hurled the bottle of slue at the
of of the ship and named her the " Damara" The
Taiglieh measurement, but they.look fully 15 hands
owing . Bs( wu then ant, the daggers fell, sod is • moms t.
to the men bring 80 very small. lam told
without the lases percepuble amid, the mousier ship
the French have 17 of these corps, each of which
consists of six squadrons of a hundred men. That was in motion, sod glided slowly and steadily into the
would make ten thousand men of the most work- water, never halting in her uatil eke reached the
, manlike light horse I have seen in Europe. There (limy cm the opposite rid* of the hour. No laanch could
IS nothing to be compered with them in the Austrian we.
hatideatt:aire rid*
f
the thousands end
ofi speetatare
ahrof men. They After the launch several interested radium and friends
them, tech numbering lunched with Claptaia Bennett in the laigs Draft Room o
have eight
eigThthence regimentsn zee
o a t
fine
body
six hundred men and horses. The men are much the premises, whet all joined in tingling seems to the
,4710.0.preeper:zytysio7:thhe
se"vßaerlamseyll
j.glselesal
va.zmaa
larger than the °hemlines h Choral, more like our
hussar regiments. The Cuirassiers are great heavy serstp;ilervenedit.
fellows, as lumbering, but much more provincial !Geed the NM:: considerablyme•t arres l:laeZar
than our Life Guards, and I should think quite as scesereaeork She splendid sr„-Wile eweeti.lY4 vary
useless. The dragoons I don't admire, although See eroportiose, measuring in extreme length nits and
the French think so highly of them. They are between perpesdionlese 312 ft, bevies a breadth of Ifitt,
trained to set as cavalry as well as infantry, and I s°4 R dePth err 26th. 1° o°6lll 2,000 tows Ws MA has •• carrying acity of fall. 3,000 toes. Ws lira
consequently spoil both. The artillery cannot hold eight watertight cosperunssis. ,Her mom am wag
a candle to our fellows. Even the crack corps, the oonstruoted by Messrs. James Jimic and Co., of Uwe-
horse artillery of the Imperial Guard, cannot bed peel, mid ars of 250
seminal hone power. The sables me
compared fora moment to our horse artillery. The I pelt Stied ,ulio with hinicee maele aml walnut timea,
Infantry, I must admit, is magnificent, and is oar- ! T.nigerircmsl r and bares
now the best dressed infantry in Enr•pe. In oo the most impro Tbd in
ved aes-
- of naval mime est• "..estrene
their firing, their gymnastic exercise, their bayonet, , lime furnished by Mr. James Nid of
fencingg, and every b
ring h the Emperor the fine of Mr. Dikes, of Liverpool, for wbom she I
seemsdatermined to bring the whole infantry up to has
hen bah She is aimed 93 yens is the
thelerwriten' book end AA is Lloyd's, thol=l
the standard of exulleume which once was to be
, class given to any 'hip. The Delaware, however, is a mesh
seen exclusively with the Emmet
awk.
_ , attester built vessel thee is exited
by Oho Wei
You would be astonished to see how beautifully ,of either of those societies Is the UDE.. neig.
the whole course is decorated with gardens, statues, in fact. to all the imporket details of bet soiree-
arches, and other matters, all the work of soldier., Sloe. Her ereatlielt else mush exceeds thole maw
Indeed, such skill and core have been mod-
who take to this kind of amusement in their spare °weal ;
tested is the mosteneties at this vessel as to elide
tine. There is,. of course, much more of this in the tb, pew ey the emcee encs,eywe who beee fees time ee
infantry than in the cavalry !lees, for the latter i tam inspected boo, art we repateler the erases is pos•
have to look after their horses and have convey emeles settfaitidelly-beitt drip. The Wawa" is elo-
quently but little time on their 'hands. I simnel Ur tits Amapa Made. sad se doubt will lea •
There are macyremarks, not very flattering to us Ur
sefflidthr° the acids al" re Ism* etesei-ehtPs
Wing trews the sat of liseirml. With rawest is me
as a nation,nade here about the way in which Abd- Emmy 814.baiim anew, veins (um, the New
el-Bader was utterly ignored in London, whereas . iamb of sew lad senwsmity osimml4 f. wieldier gnu.
when Garibaldi—no favourite with the French— atendest seems, sod tient they tell 90 OM to rill pair
went there, everyone ran after him. And even two aableeamreM PraMOSH. id Arroa7 Ind thaw
weeks ago, they say, we mot a vice-admiral with "eta less yea„Mwww
saws d erolswstles, Gal
w,„.
two ships to *envoy the Order of the Bath to the thPnr j:;1t 7
Bey of Tunis. Jaw.