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ILONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 30.

TO OUR READERS.

i A DOUBLE NUMBER of the EXPRESS will
be published on SATURDAY NEXT, and eon-
.
tinued on such Saturdays Si the length of the
I Parliamentary Debates shall render desirable.

ACCORDING to • Telegraphic Despatch received
last night at the India House, the Tamar arrived at
Malta yesterday from Alexandria with dates from
Bombay to the 9th inst.—eleven days later than those
received by last maiL

Sir bins. OVTRAM, at Alumbagh, instead of wait-
ing to be attacked by the enemy, attacked them on
the 22nd of December, and captured four guns, with
little low The disposition of the Division under Sir
JAM es, as made by Sir Court Clllllll/14 previous to
hie departure for Cawnpore, is described in Sir
Cowes despatch of 2nd December, which appears
in another part of this day's issue. Some farther
details respecting this force will be found in the
letter from an officer attached to it, which we also
publish to-day—the same whose minutely graphic
account of the Leaguer of Lucknow we published
on the 16th inst.

On the 12th of December Sir C. CAurazu. ad-
vanced towards Farruckabad, and intended to pro-
ceed thence to Agra. Colonel Sexton's column re-
occupied Ntynpoorie on the 27th ult., after defeating
the rebels and taking six guns. Brigadier-General
CHAMBERLAIN proceeds with a column Into &U-
-nand, and afterwards joins Sir C. CAMPBELL at
Agra.

We are now in possession of Sir COLIN CAMP-
BELL'S narrative of his own operations from the
time he evacuated Lucknow to the 10th of De-
cember. There is nothing so grand in mi-
litary history as a great General arriving at •
critical moment and restoring the fight which has
been almost lost by inadequate subordinates. To
gain a victory when time has been left the com-
mander to make all his own arrangements is a
great effort; but to snatch a victory from the enemy•
when he is on the eve of completing it—to fight and
conquer him with a broken sword—is to triumph over
Fate itself. And on the present occasion Sir COLIN had
an opportunity of displaying the most eseential quali-
ties of a truly great General—patience to bide his time,
and rapid irresistible impetuosity when that time.
came. For the present we must refer our readers
to his own simple unpretending narrative, and to
the Reports of General MANSFIELD—worthy to be
Head of the Staff to such a Commander, and Bri-
gadier-General HOPE GRANT. A deep interest at-
taches to the earlier part of Sir CottY's despatch,
from the sympathy it awakens in the sick, the
women and children, who, after their escape from
Lucknow, must have felt, on arriving at Cawn-
pore, is if they had only been snatched from one
horde of ruffians to fall into the hands of another.
In the continuation of the narrative we feel borne up-
wards and onwards upon a spring tide wave of
victory, over the enemy's guns and entrench-
ments, over the bodies of the fugitives falling at
every step, till we find ourselves far advanced on the
road to Cathie'. The assault on the Subabader's
Tank, as described by General lifassrthi.o, is a
thrilling tale of a gallant and imeessaful assault of a
strong position. Yet perhaps the most interesting
of all is Brigadier-General Hope GRANT'S account of
the difficulties his men had to contend with
among the quicksands of the Ganges, at the same
time that they were engaged in • hand to hand
contest with the foe. There is an epic unity in the
three tales ; for every movement emanated from the
scientific prescience of a master of strategy. There
is a headlong absorbing interest in the rapidity of
the movements. And there is rich variety in the
episodical notices of deed' of individual heroism.
The whole operations are worthy to take rank
amongst the records of the bravest efforts of English
soldiers.

East. GIRT has jest given to the world the
remelts of his experience as a Minister, end his re-
flections as as iadependent Whig so longer con-
nected with Ales, on the 'abject of Parliamentary
Reform. It will hardly surprise thine who are W.
piainted with the man that, on the eve of a renewed
excitement and contention regarding the composition
of the House of Cowman, his lordship should confer
upon hie thin octavo the untempting title of
" an &say." Al a volume of admonition, di.
dactic and dry, we cinestion not the appro-
priateness of the chilly epithet employed
and yet if we had happened to read the five short
pamphlets which make up the book before we had,

tat: 2rWr7 THE I
read the title-page, it would never have missed to
us to bestow on it the name its alurympathetis
parent has chosen. The first and sewed of this
series of collected pamphlets comprise a brief,
and not very original, string of remarks on the
origin and excellence of Parliamentary Government,
on which we need not dwell. The third is devoted
to an enumeration and analysis of the prevalent and
obvious evils of our constitutional system of
rule, and a passing comparison of them with
those to which other forms of free govern-
ment are liable. Lord Garr contends that,
in tai constitutional system, the conflict and alterna-
tion of party is an indispensable and useful element.
In this we are disposed to agree with him ; but in his
desire to throw a Conservative him over nearly every-
thing that now exists he characteristically presses the
argument too far, and protests against any severance
of individual amenability to the censure of Perlin.
went, without entailingthedisgrace of colleagues who
may be, and we know often arc, unconscious of the
neglect or blunder committed in one particular depart-
ment until too late to rectify it. Instances of this will
recur to every one at all conversant with the
departmental conduct of foreign, colonial, and
even home &airs; and, practically, we all
know that because the condemnation of one
idle or wrong-headed Minister is hied to in-
volve the collective responsibility of the entire Ad-
ministratioo, his oolleagues are obliged to defend
what they never advised as if it were their joint
deliberate act ; and, what is far worse, the whole
Parliamentary connexion that usually supports
them is driven to choose between suffering the ge-
neral policy they approve to be overthrown, or
voting solemnly some specific act to be right which
they perfectly well know to be wrong.
Lord GREY enters with the seal of a eulogist into
the general character of anomaly which marks the
existing structure of the House of Commons. Dis-
dainful of anything resembling an apologetic tone,
he rather seems disposed to congratulate the coun-
try on its still being ruled by a body a numerous
and powerful section of which are practically irre-
sponsible to public opinion. , True to the rail
of an intrepid advocate of paradox, he rejoices that
artificial means of providing seats in that Assembly
for men who hold unpopular opinions still exist.
Nothing, thinks Lord GREY, contributes so mate-
rially to improve the tone and heighten the
interest of its deliberations. One of its chief func-
tions, according to the Noble Pamphleteer, is
that of a great public instructor, and in the
progress 'and developeent of the national mind
nothing, therefore, he contends, is more de-
sirable than that great facilities should be legis-
latively afforded to the ventilation of sentiments
repugnant to the feelings and at variance with the
wishes of the community at large. Far from assent-
ing to the prevalent idea that the presence of a
nominated element in the House, of Commons
hinders the discharge of business, and Prevent.
good measures being passed when they: are called fur
by the national will, Lord GREY assnrerus that frus-
tration is eminently useful, delay nick salutary, and
that the tendency of the House of Ciminfons has of
late been too much towards undertaking works of
supererogation, especially in the control and super-
vision of the Executive in matters of expenditure.
Some stricture on the aim and general effect of
the Reform Act of 1832 form the subject of another
chapter. Its purport is defined to be that of re-
dressing the supposed balance of political powers—
not in the Constitution, but in the House of Com-
mons. We have heard this lordly definition of the
measure oftentimes before, and we know pretty
well what it means. It is, in fact, the stereo-
typed formula of direct interference on the
part of the Crown and the Peers with the choice
of persons who are called the Representatives of the
people. But when the noble author comes to deal
with the results of the change wrought by his
father's measure of 1832 be does not affect to com-
plain of any diminution of power in the hands of his
order. His regrets take another turn. It is the
sensible diminution of the power of the Crown
that he deplores. Ministers can no longer sit
for rotten boroughs as the ordinary rule. A
Cabinet of peers and nominee members is no
longer possible. It is grown difficult to fill up
the secondary offices with men that constituencies
will not have at any price. What a pity, and
what a bore ! But, store ern, Lord GREY rides this
crotchet, like the rest, till it drops. Mr. Duew IWO;
memorable resolution of 1780, that the influence of
the Executive Government had increased, was in-
creasing, and ought to be diminished, ought now, he
assures us, to be inverted ; in other words, that the
influence of centralised and oligarchic 'Walla istration
has diminished, is diminishing, and ought to be
increased !

Separate consideration is devoted in two subse-
Tient chapters to the question of Civil and Military
Patronage—concerning which the Esel declares open
r.-ar against the principle of "competitive exami-
" nation" as a test—and to the somewhat irrelevant
question of Colonial government upon the Parlia-
mentary system. Only one paper of the aeries is
occupied with observations on the immediate text
prefixed to the whole, namely, Reform of Parliament
as at present constituted. Under this head, when
at length we get to it, we find several incon-
testable commonplaces about the Legislature not
being quite omnipotent ; remedies not always
answering their intent ; the mischiefs of too
frequent change, and so forth. But for definite
suggestions of any kind we look in vain. Lord Our
pronounces bribery at elections to be a much Weevil
than flattering the passions of the multitude; and
he strongly recommends that in any further attempt
to lessen the distrihntion of hard cash at elections
great care should be taken not to give increased
currency to the promissory notes of demagogues.
To interest a larger portion of the commuoity in
public affairs, by the extension of electoral rights,
would, be owns, be desirable ; but this must be
done without disturbing the balance of power in
favour of Democracy On the contrary, he
urges a strengthening of the authority of the Execu-
tive Government as required by the circumstances
of the time. Finally, he has no objection to the
obliteration of electoral anomalies by a re-diatribe-
tion to a certain (unexplained) extent of seats in
Parliament, provided the change can be effected
without modifying the characteristic aspect of our
present House of Commons. We need scarcely add
that the entire production is couched in terms so
diplomatically vague and guarded that its author
leaves himself as free as if it never had been written
' to vote for or against any conceivable measure;
and leaves his readers as much in the dark as they
were before on all matters of detail as to what Ur
form and tenor of the forthcoming Bill ought to be.

A &spate& from Berne my,:—" The Minister of
'NORM Ma presented . verbal Imes hem Coot Wakareld
meatts•• Tito cetaaeU was otespird with
ihs amber yesterday."

•
DOWNING-STRLET. JAN. 28.—The Qum by boon
Smog to appoint the Right Hon. Owego AVIAN QOM
stadia' Frappe. oommnaly called 'be Earl ot Nalim to
lea Usaranani-Govenior of tha Province al Nova
Galena

29.—The QOM bag boss
&EA a enstkato sad appoint WII/lera name Robb.,"
sm., to be Major In the Artillery Company et ar4lka,
Os roam of Joeeph Baythorne ad- Zig., rediptel
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SA'
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(bt eaurt.

The Queen. the Prince Oonaort, with the Prince 1
sad Princess Frederick William of Prussia, left Windsor
Castle shortly before three o'clock yesterday afternoon. Her
Majesty was accompanied by the Prince of Wales, Princes
Arthur and Leopold, the Princesses Alice, Helena, LoWsa,
and Beatrice, and the Duke of Saue Coburg.
The Queen was received at the railway station of the Great
Wcetern Railway by • guard of honour of the Soots Fusilier
Guide, and the band played the National Anthem upon her
Majesty's arrival.
The party travelled by a special train to town, and from
the Paddington Terminus proceeded in a number of the
Queen's carriages, escorted by a detachment of Light Dra-
rto Buckingham-palace, where her Majesty arrived at
rtnittee part four 0 clock, and was received by the Earl
nr St. Germans, the Marquis of Breadalbane, Lord Ernest
Brom and Colonel Francis Seymour.
Prince Alfred, attended by Lieutenant Cowell, arrived at
Buckingham-pals= from Alverbank.
The Queen went in State in the even* to honour the
perforasenoe at her Majesty's Theatre with her Museum.
The Royal procession left Buckingham-palace at twenty-
five minutes past 7 o'clock, Insley= dries carriages, mooned
by a detachment of Life Guards.
The first carriage conveyed Messrs. Farquharson and Mao-
tenon, the Pages of Honour, Lieutenant von Zaetrow, and
Captain von Lindarn.
The second carriage conveyed Dr. Wagner Colonel Frea•
cisSeymour, C. 8., and Lieutenant-Colonel Ponsonby.
The third e conveyed Hon. Misses Byng and CAM-
' awl, and Colonel Hon. A. N. Hood.
The fourth carriage conveyed two Maids of Honour tad
Baron Ernest Stockman.
The fifth carriage conveyed Lady Churchill, Viscounts=
Chrwton, Sir Fredenck Storm, and Captain von Schweinita
The Math carriage conveyed Countess Wally von Rohn-
tha4 Counter Mario to Lynar, and Lad Alfred Paget,
Clerk Marshal.
The seventh tannage cenveyed Count and Counts= Per-
poacher, and Lord de Tabley, Lord in Welting.
The eighth carriage conveyed the Counties of Damn, VW-
count Sydney, Captain of the Yeoman of the Gaud, and
Viscount Combermee, Gold Stick in Waiting.
The ninth carriage cones* the Duchess of Athol' (act-
ing for the Mistress of the itches), General von Schrt•cken-
stein, and the Marquis of Ab rcom, Groom of the Stole to
the Prince Consort.
The tenth carriage conveyed the Duke of Wellington,
Master of the Horse ; the Earl of St Germans, Lord
Steward ; and the Marqats of Breadaltene, Lord Chun-

The eleventh Sege conveyed the Q the Prince
Proeida.Consort, Prime
end the Pnce end Prisms' Frederick Willie= of

The Yeomen of the Guard lined the Grand Hall, and a
Guard of Honour mounted in the Quadrangle of the Pokes,
the band playing the National Anthem when Her Majesty
appeared at the entrance.
The eriao• of Wiles, Prince Alfred, Prince Arthur, mad
the Prinoesses Alice, Helena, and Louisa, Welded by Lady
Caroline Barrington Major -Gams! the Han. C. Grey, Mx.
the Gibbs andlAwatenant Cowsll, receded the Qom to the
ws.

The Dachas, of Kent (attended by Lay Anna Maria
Dawson and Sir George Courier), the Duchies of Cambridge,
the Prinoses Mary and the Duke of Cambridge, sod Prime
Edward of Sash Mebane met the Queen at the theatre.
I Her Majesty wore a whirs silk dress, with mams
brocaded with gold branch, s and roses, trimmed with
blonde; a diamond necklace and earrinp. The Outsell
headdress was "'diodes of diamonds and Wan.
The Prboses Pndsriok William of Prank wore a dress
of light bine tulle over blue silk, trimmed with white blonde ;
a keep diamond brooch with pendants ; a necklace and
eenhip of diamonds. Her Royal Highness wore a wreath
of sweet peas as a headdress.
The Duchess of Kent wore a dress of white moire antique
Manned with whits blonde, mile, and satin ribbon. Her
Royal Highness's headdress was formed of white ostrich
fisathare, with roses.
The Duchess of Cambridge wore a dress of white a=
three flounces, embroidered in gold ; •
and ornaments. 11 or Royal Highness's headdress was coop
posed of a small tiers of diamonds and white teatime.
The Princess Mary of Cambridge wore • whits silk dress,
with three donnoes, trimmed with light blue isn7 velvet,' •
diamond stomacher ; a diamond necklaces and wrings. The
Prisms's headdress was formed of • tiara dawned stets,
bins dowers, end brown lama.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterdaireasitsut4s
official residence of the First Lord of the •
in Downing-street. The Ministers present were—
Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl
Granville, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Marquis
of ClanriCarde, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Claren-
don, Mr. Secretary Labouchere, Lord Panmure, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Charles Wood,
the Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith, Lord Stanley
of Alderley, the Bight Hon. M. T. Baines, and the
Duke of Argyll

Despatches wens mat yeeterday from the Colosiel-elhett
the Governors of the North American Provisoes end the
Governor of Western Anatrla.

Her Majesty has commissioned Mr. J. rbillipele
to paint s grand historical picture of the marriage of Rag-
land and Proaela. The mane will be laid, at the Quomes
own suggestion, we (At/m*4nm) believe, in the Chapel—a
mane of usequalled brilliance, colour, and animation, and the
picture will contain a series of illustrious portraits.
Hi. Royal Highness Prime Albert of Prussia
(brother of the King) gave a dinner party, lut overdue, at
**Brunswick Hotel (St. James's). This morning, the
prince take. his departure, accompealed by the cams d
his suite, for Dover, en roam for Par*. His royal high's.=
proceeds direct to the Tuileries, oa a visit to his Majesty the
Emperor of the French.

The noblemen and gentlemen in the suite of hi
Loral Highness Prince Fradtriek William of Prussia bins
raturniot to Faittoa's Hotal from Windier Outdo.

Sir Charles and Lady Lamb hare left the Cho-
mutes for Beaufort, Battle, Boom.

BALL AT WILLIS'S ROOMS.—An elegant heal took
place on Thursday night at Rooms, in honour
of the rosaries* of the Primer RoyaL The names of
the ladies petramoro ware sullicant to command • I
brilliant /Pr, bat the cowpony far exceeded the
brightad anticipations of its projectors. The following
list indicates a few of the distinguished car psny who
honoured the ball with their promos :—Their Excel-
lencies the Count and Corder de Pendsay, Primo
JOIN of Holstein Oluckaburg, Dramas of Sear net end
lady Dirks St. Maar, Duchies of Rickard and Lady
Crain Gordon Lennox, Lord Georg* Gordon Lenox,
Meriden= of Simard, Maria Marchioness of Ailesbury,
Comdr. of Jerry and Lady Clarendon Villiers, Countess
of Shaftesbury and Lady Victoria Ashley, End Cowper,
Countoss of Sefton and Lady Cecilia Molynom, awl of
Sefton, Counter of Wilton and Lady Kadminis Renton,
Countess of Crams and Lady Elizabeth Crayon, Counter
of Morro and lady Gertrude Douglas, Corte Branden-
burg, Marquis d'AzegUo, Baron Perron!, Earl of Listovel,
Lord B. Clinton, Lady Edith Boniest, Lord Boyle, Lis 1
Loughborough, Count Louis Corti, Lord Henry Gordon
Lemnos, Lady Agnes Graham, Lord Gaffer* Viscount
Hinchingbroke, Lord and Lady Overdone and lion. Mir
Jones Loyd, the Earl °marina, Viimuntere Stratford de
Radcliffe, Ron. Mires Canning (2), Lord Bingham, Lady
Games, Baron and Barmier Lionel de Rothschild and
Wm de Rothschild, Baron Nathaniel de Rothschild,
Euchre and Mir de Rothschild, &a.

A lottse film Vienna of the 22nd says :—" M. do
Rothschild yesterday gave a grand banquet to ealsbesse the
signing of the treaty relative to the free navigettee of dr
Dsztutn, end It tau at:ended by two members of ths ca-
binet—M. de Bruck and M. de Toggestateg—and by Or
antbassedors of Reverie, Wurtemberg, and Turkey. It is
Nord that the Prat& representative was invited to stand,
bat that, by direction of his government, he decliel."
. __ _ _

Aa Lord Elcho (says the Illustrated Loam New)
takes the chair at the annual dinner of that sees-mererd
charity, " The Artfals' General Benevolent Fond,' his lard.
ship will Eyelash', avail him alf of the opportardly d Wing
his audience what has Lisa, or Is ban, dame respeedess •
arm National Gallery. It was Lad lad" our mdse•
corker, who Waded the successfal ciasiaught at the
Kanslnglan she.

The Last art commission given by the late Duke of
DeemsWm Ins to Sir Georg* Hayter, for a marble bast 4
bis WOOS for Chatsworth. Sir Georp bad oompletel
maid ably two arts below the dohs diet

The liryal BoiJaty has grantedaeam of stony to
Mr. Retort Mallet, to the Government Greet nod, it
amide beat inittonaa be utake rerearchea into the Anna
maw et tie recent eartiqoata in Italy. Kr. MAR, lib* le
preprlded via kakis I. tie Notpolltaa geverearst, kola&
Ing law aoessets et kaportance front Cardiaal Whom"
LA Larks kat Toady for the as el the late dkestets.

General Haysiosi—ore (Atheneum) be.,, Lanl;ft
behind ldm vehwhie papers wore or has "aatobiegnipleirel •
perms ileweiplivo of him Whigs es a relleotte awn .appal
be wee, of ble solo el thaw with hie troop. sal ef hie ro-
botism he post garewsiag ellefoh. We njoles ts het the
these popes ere Is nog beads, sad the my keg the opal
be la ownytody's bra.
_ _ _ _ _

Mr. Richard P. Ebdea, 8.A., of Christ's College,
Quakelips, hes arra are lest vacant clerkship ii the
Osksid Me tram a Isms body et sosspstltass.

A new pietism by Rase lienhenr, " Cattle in the
ifigteleige," has Mrs athibithig with greet applause in the
previews.

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►AT EVENING, I