The Express.
London, England, 1865-08-25 00:00:00

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which his accusers heard that he intended to vindi-
cate his character amongst his coeinede(ui aria,
even if refused leave to do ao pita*. " Wel
" trust," concludes the Times of TiOto;,7ll&at the'
" Governor [of Bombay] will in fairness publish
-" General Giuum's reply to the charges that hays
" been made against him. At any rate, the
" enforced suppression of General Gaszre's long-
" continued correspondence against the official
" practice of marching troops in disregard of the
" excessive hest, will not avail to shield head-
" quarters in the came of the Artillery battery."
Now it is just possible—although far from pro-
bable—that Generill Gases may be to blame in
the matter of this " fatal march from Dillow ;"
bat the Bombay headquarters authorities are oer-
tainly doing their beat to make every Englishman
believe that the responsibility of the order rests
with them. And not only this—where secrecy is
enforced, where inquiry is denied, or where pub- I
licity is shunned, there must be something to con-
ceal, which, if made patent to the world, would be
to the disadvantage of those who fear that their
acts should be made public. There are
now in England two officers holding highly
responsible situations, both of whom must be fully
aware of the amount of reform required in the
Indian Staff. These two are Sir HUGH Rosa and
Sir Hors GRANT. In India the heads of these
Generals were, so to speak, tied, as unfortunately
moat official men's hands are in the East. They
I are both deservedly held in high esteem by the
COMMANDIR.IN.CHIRE. Let his ROYAL HIGHNESS
consult with them. and endeavour to put the
saddle on the right horse with respect to this
untoward business. Public opinion will never allow
this fatal march to pass over without the real delin-
quent being discovered and punished. But why
should they escape ? If by a similar official blunder
two or three Guardsmen were to die of sun-stroke
between London and Windsor, would not the officer
who was to blame be found out, and when his
fault was proved would he not be punished f Why
should we spare in India what we have no mercy
en in England 4 In April last more than thirty
English soldiers died because some official in India
did not do his duty, and that officer, whoever he
may be, ought to be most severely punished. This
is, in few words, the pith of the whole affair. Con-
cealment and secrecy will not avail the Bombay
authorities ; :he neglect of duty has been very
homicidal, and the army should be shown that
in no rank can such faults of such magnitude be
committed with impunity. No local interest
should be allowed to stand between the offender
and his dismissal from the service. It the authority
of the Horse Guards is ever to be more than a
dead letter in India, we have not heard the last of
" The Fatal March from /elbow."

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LONDON. FRIDAY, AUGUST 25.

THERE is no official delinquency which Eng.
labium are loss prone to forgive than en
attempt to conceal a fault. Al • general rule,
Jour; Bum. is by no means a bard meatier. He is
irascible, quick-tempered, apt to judge hastily,
and greatly given to insist upon immediate punish-
ment--sometimes even before an offence is fully
proved against a supposed culprit. But the
reaction is speedy, Even in grave oases of sin-
ning against the public good on the part of public
servants, your true Briton seldom bears
malice. Shortcomings are forgiven, positive faults
are forgotten, and the louder the outcry against an
offender the sooner does allthat can be urged against
him pass out of public memory. BLit there is one
sin which the English public never pardon, and
that is when—no matter from what cause—any
official attempts to bide what he has directly or
indirectly done amiss. And doubly unpardon-
able it seems to our peculiar English love of fair
play when • public servant who attempts so
show the why and the wherefore of any blunder
is hindered by his superiors from making known
what he believes to be true. This is a feeling
which happily pervades all classes amongst us. We
have many faults, but we insist upon every man
being allowed to justify himself if it be possible.
If he attempts to do so and fails, •so much the
worse for him ; if be would rather hold his tongue,
by all means let him do so. But to have any one
ordered to be silent when he asks merely to show
that he was not in error on this or that occasion,
is what never has and never will be tolerated in any
land where the Anglo-Saxon race is dominant.
It is for this reason that the Bombay military or
civil authorities--perhaps both are to blame--have
probably not heard the last of what is now as well
known in England as in India by the name of
" The Fatal March from Mhow." About three
months ago the English public were startled
by hearing that, owing to some official blunder-
ing and muddle, • battery of artillery was ordered
to march from M how, in Central India, to
Kirkee, in the Deccan, at • season when the
jungles through which the troops had to pass
were almost certain death to any European. The
artillerymen started on their march, and the re-
sult was exactly what might have been expected.
Before they bad got thirty miles on their road
Asiatic cholera of the most virulent form broke
out amongst them, and the detachment had to re-
turn to Mhow, after burying thirty per cent. of
their number in less than a week. As a matter of
course an inquiry was ordered. The story got to Eng-
land, and, notwithstanding the small amount of in-
His Highness Prince Raspigliosi and family have
terest which we are all too apt tobestow upon Indian
matters, the offence was taken up by the public here,
Wt
ch‘e Dukteenanot4diDfornebess of Newcastle have left
and the Bombay Headquarter Staff began to see that
their maidenve in Picas fitly f r Cinmber Perk, Notts.
the affair was more serious than they had at first The Marquis of Waterford and the Earl of
contemplated. Still the question " Who was to Tyrone have Ids Carraglimore for a fortnight's shooting
"blame 4" remained unanswered. Not thatmilitar
9 over the Wicklow mountains. The rejoicloge on the family
men had any doubt on the subject. The details estates take place next month to celebrate the earrsoomiag
of all changes in quarters are invariably under the of age. The precise day is not yet named.
direction of the Quartermaster-General, and unless The Earl and Countess Russell, on leaving Lord
the rules and regulations of the Bombay army were and Lady Stanley of Alderley's seat in Chesb're, go on •
entirely different from those of every other force visit to the Earl "d Count." of 2.°t°, at Min" House,
earin the British dominions, the man responsible for
n ThileaEl6at anN.dß.Countess of Howth have left Cla-
the march from Mhow was the Quartermaster-
ridges Hotel, foe How* Castle, 'relent'.
General of the Bombay army, and no other. The Earl Cowper has gone to Paris to pass a few
It appears that the officer holding that appoint- „sox.
ment is possessed of considerable local interest. The Countess Cowper and Ladies Cowper have
When the question as to who was to blame arrived at Wrest Park, Beds, from Fetishism, Harts.
began to be first mooted, there was an Lord Edward St, Maur has arrived in Paris from
evident desire to hush up the whole affair. Cherbourg.
Finding that it was impossible to de so, the blame The marriage of Lord Edward Pelham Clinton,
of marching the troops, or of allowing them to second son of the late Duke of Newcastle, and M.P. for
march, from Mhow in the middleof the hot weather North Nottinghamshire, to Mies Hartopp, third daughter
of thke late Si
lan t:
slilGliacommEleitmund sod Lady Cradockt HaT ear,
Loowas endeavoured to be cast upon Major-General
GREEN, the officer commanding at Mhow—a man In ..° u of the painful bereavements which both
who has served thirty years in India, and who gas families sustained last October the guests invited to be pre.
thered his laurels under NAPIER, Ourasm, Norr,
. sent at the marriage were almost exclusively coofinod to the
Gorox, and Rosa, none of whom were masters in members of the Newcastle and Elsztopp families.
whose schools carelessness was ever learnt. No one The marriage of the Count Munster, Hereditary
conversant withthemilitary historyof Western India Marshal of the kingdom of Hanover, with the Lady Her.
from the time of the first Affghan campaign until risit Elizabeth St. Clair Erskine, only daughter of Lieut.-
now can have omitted to notice General Gagmen General the Earl of R°44lYa (*atm.' Iota Ilimars)' took
,____rriagontotth.e.22.kody insvita,nitrk,at.dD4urtitleHoiszt, N. B.
Cola,n
name in connexion with almost every despatch of was
importance. But even if he were the worst officer domestic chaplain of the Earl of Rosily.
that ever wore • sword, the General could Mr. Joseph Howe had an interview with Mr.
not have been to blame for the Artillery battery Cardwell, at the Coloeial-offfoe, yesterday. Mr. Henry,
being moved from Mhow during the un- Attorney-General of Nova Broth, also had an interview
healthy season. His duty was simply to obey yesterday with the right hoe. gentleman.
orders, and these orders must, in the ordinary Despatches were received yesterday at the Colo-
nial-offics from the Governors of Canada, British Columbia,
course of events, have come from the Quarter-
Despatches were sent to the
master-General of the Bombay Army. It did *e
Got Vaor lee' Island*
anada.
not, however, suit the Bombay authorities that THE Buinor or Cnzersa.—Yesterday, Dr. sheik-
such an opinion should get abroad, and °°ll°°' 800 was consecrated in York Cathedral by the archbishop,
quently they published a kind of milk-and-water assisted by the Bishops of Ripon and Carlisle.
order of regret respecting the affair; at the Tits Vigra OF THE FRENCH Flamm—The corpo-
same time casting whatever blame they had the ration of Weymouth have resolved to give a splendid
courage to pronounce upon Major-General GREEN. banquet to the officers of the French and English fleets, if
The latter, of course, felt indignant at this in- the latter drop anchor in Portland-roads on their way from
justice. As a soldier be could not publicly con- reetemeeth to Plymouth'
damn the acts of his superiors, but he collected ExAmxßrnool7lCrAL—Os T.liOrWilevenirrstrohe Ta riLa. DUBLIN
and printed for distribution amongst his private sinner, Captain Cuff, hadYceesaionmeto see one of theeeoilirk-
friends • number of letters and documents, "ou of the budding, Mr. Iselin, oe Nome matter of business
"which," as we are informed by tbeTimes of India, connectedce ITiac:acecthrifittra.ilien° told Captain ti\i'ffe.°l';
he " relies to exculpate himself from the reply to en observatioo he had made, that it was "a lie."
" odium attempted to be thrown on him C‘wouldahavire ekes underopted h
thee circumstances,eheemeet and horse-
"" by the headquarters staff." This coming whipped Hr. 'who on the spot. The latter called twoe-
to the ears of the said "head-quarters staff "—one policemen end gave 010611 Cat into their charge, who at
of the chiefs of which is the Quartermaster- uses
wmre tarc rill% eldira,MblllrleveZte,l°Mr. Italia t the ilosettitce it
General, who is, therefore, at one and the same better to withdraw the &ergs. Ceptaie Cuff was soseel.
time, General GREEN'S accuser and his judge— 1
lacialreito rrarli a°
theamataterts Wass.—The —frieeTll.:49.64".
orders were issued that the General should abstain 1 Thiel II
Ilabont to put • stop to the fishing with filsen sets
tb°-
from publishing these papers in any way what- in Bouthamptoe Water. Formerly there was an allow ee-
-1
ever—" • move," as the same journal rightly ob- Poinleb;shtbuie4oramptoarntdoorperakati7 who noodle:I;
serves, which isno doubt " dictatedbythefeaewith bsiow a certain um.

THE CATTLE PLAGUE IN IRELAND.-INTER.
VIEW WITH LORD PALHEBSTON.

The subjoined important letter (says the
Dublin Evening Mail) has been received to-day (Thurs-
day) by the Manatee-house Committee, from Mr. F. W.
Hume% giving a satisfactory amount so far of hie isterview
with Lord Palmerston, and of the ilivposition of the noble
viseount to secede to the request profaned at the nume-
rous and influential meetings held throughout Ireland during
the last tee days :
" Hatfield, August 23, 1866.
" Dear Sir,—While waiting for a train to town. I beg to
atAte, for the information of the committee, that I have
had a long and iotereating interview with Lord Palmer"-
too, who has expired himself as meet anxious to meet the
emergency, the importance of which be fully admits, and is
desirous se we could hope that means should be adopted to
prevent the spread of the cattle dream into our country.
He said that the question Dna already bean under the eon-
sideratiou of the cabinet, but they could not see by what
means • partial prohibition of import can bo enforestL I
saggestal to him that the Customs should not be allowed
to Hear • vessel with cattle oo board from a British pert
into Ireland, and that no resod from a foreign pert should
be allowed to load them thins. I urged all the argunumte
that were used at the Dublin meeting at the Mamion.house
no Monday last, Sic. He has now despatched by me a
long letter to Mr. Waddington, and bay urged me most par-
ticularly to make out Hr. Waddington at hie boom if he
had left the Home-office ; and, if I cannot find him, to see
Mr. Helps. I am just going into London, and will see oee
of three gentlemen, and communicate the result to you.
Lord Palmerston bas directed Mr. Waddington to reefer
with me, mod we how the requirement' of the Dublin
meeting can be met. lam very glad that the letters, Ste.,
entrusted to me were not emit by post, as it required to be
communicated in person, sad I now regret that • small de-
, potation had not come over, ae I feel that this very im-
portant matter involves eensiderab!e technical difficulties.
' I telegraphed to yoe.—And am, dear sir. yours faithfully,
" Edward Pardon, Esq." " F. W. ElhitiELL.