The Express.
London, England, 1860-05-14 00:00:00

TO THZ ZDITOR OF TIM 117,11138.

Sra,—Major-General the Hon. Charles Grey,
Equerry to the Queen, is now " Colonel" of the 3rd
Buffs. He appeared in last night's Gazette
Lthe side of Major-General Sir John Inglis,
C. 8., appointed Colonel of the 32nd Foot ; but
how different the two men ! General Grey never
saw the beard of an enemy ; General Inglis saved
Lucknow : the former has been long employed at
Buckingham-palace ; the latter has fought against
terrific odds in Oudh—both, however, receive the
same reward ! Is justice blind I
There is amongst us a noble old soldier, Major-
General John Alves. He has the rank of a General,
with the emoluments of • half-pay Lieut.-Colonel.
He entered the army in 1807 ; and Hort devotes
14 lines to the record of hie splendid career. Its
chief points are as follows :
" Major-General Alves served the whole of the
campaigns in Spain, Portugal and France of 1810,
1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814, with the 74th in
Picton's division, without having ever been absent
from it a single day. He has received the war
medal, with 11 chum for Busaco, Fuentes &Once,
Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajor, Salamanca, Vittoria,
Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, and Toulouse."
Served with Picton's fighting division for five
years " without having been absent from it a single
day !" and only a nominal major-general with 11
Peninsular clasps, no other decoration of any kind!
So much for John Alves.
Served at Buckingham Palace many long years,
and at last colonel of the gallant Buffs ! So much
for the Hon. Charles Grey.
Is justice even-banded
The public will one of these days begin to ask
why the sinecure but lucrative colonelciee of regi-
ments are conferred at all on gentlemen without
war service l—why such handsome prizes are not
kept as recompences for wounds—for dangers in the
" imminent deadly breach "—for presence with a
fighting regiment for five compares, without hav-
ing been sent a single day I
Until our countrymen take to pondering over
questions of this practical sort, " fiesh'd soldiers"
have nothing for it but to growl out Addison's
remark, " One campaign at court is worth two in
the field." Soldiers want a reform bill as well as
eivilians.—k am, &c.,
May 12. A FIELD OFFICER.

The Loral Mayor has fixed Saturday next, at 1
o'clock, for the presentation of the freedom of the city to
Fix Leopold lUClintock, at the Guildhall. His lordship
hm invited a large and distinguished company to the Mao-
don House on the evening of that day, to meet Lady Frank-
lin, Captain ll'Clintock, and hie gallant comrades of the
yacht Fox.

It is reported (says the Observer) that the govern-
neat intends to adopt Captain Fowke's plan for altering
the National Gellert' in Trafalgarequara one of the mein
features of which is supposed to be to make the present
building large enotsgh for the national pictures without
farming out the Royal Academy.

Mr. Holman Hunt's picture " The Saviour in the
Temple," is attracting large numbers of persons to the
Omura Gallery, in Bond-Amt. On Friday upwards a(
700 people saw the picture, and the numbers appear to
Memos every day. There is a proposition made by some
labesetial men of Manchester, which is meatioaed by the
Guavelien newspaper at that city, to the affect, that the
*ban should be purchaaed for their New Free Art Gal-
lery, and that 11,0001. should be subscribed by eight In&
viduaLi residing in Manchester, with the view at gaming
that sum for the picture. Already three gentlemen have
put down their names for the amount.

The favourable turning point in our agricultural
Iwcayeete appcars to have been reached. The dosing part
of last week was everything that the agricultural heart
amid desire--abundance of rain, soft and penetrating, and

a very liberal allowance of hot sunshine.
It is stated that the tremendous recoil from the
Anarizeog gnu experienced during recent trial' on board
the Redwing gunboat renders it imperatively neoemary
that some other form of carriage should be substituted for
the one at present in use, should the smaller clam of gun.
beats be armed with these weapons. The greased wad that
was introduced for the purpose of cleansing the gnn when
bed is said to have remedied the matter to a certain ex-
tent, but the fouling of the gun is still very great.

A correepondeut of the Tipperary Free Prey
writes :—" Lord Derby is about to build a house and diem
for the pariah priest of Solohead, the Rev. Thomas Idahmiy,
which is to revert to each successive pastor of that parish.
To the house will be attached twelve acres of land at merely
a nominal rent. His lordship is also about to give about
as acre of ground for a chapel and yard, together with the
IBM of a splendid quarry and SIM for the building gnus,
and I shall not be surprised if he should give a handsome
donation likewise to that object. I am in no way connected
with the Derby estates, and a love of justice alone compels
me to record those acts of kindness."

THII PAPII Dun RNIMAL BILL AND
House or Loans.—The Maw/tearer Zia Lover says :—" The
council of the lancaaliire Reformer.' Units will meet on
Tuesday afternoon (to-morrow) at Newsirs-buildings, to
consider what manures should be adopted to meet the
threatened opposition to the Paper Duties Bill in the
Lords. A public meeting will also be held on Tuesday
evening next, at half-put seven, in the Assembly-room,Free Trade Hall, to adopt resolutions e ptaw~ve of
the feelings of this past of the country eg=aist tie sr
greasiest of the peers upon the constitutional wages of
the country. It is to be hoped that the attendance will be
large, and that Lord Derby will not be allowed to suppose
that he can, without censure, adopt such a acne
as will interfere with the well•known rwoopierd
the repreewitatiree of the people in the Howse of
Commons."

k;;;78 COLLI3I CIAPIL, CAMBIUM& —A new
mess is to be °posed iu a few days in this beautiful chapeL
Great expectations ere entertaMed with reference to the
instrument, the opening of which will be celebrated by a
choral festival, to be conducted by titerndale Bennett, and
in which members of the choirs of Rt. Paul's, Westminster
Abbey, the Chapel Royal, the Temple Church, St. George's
Chapel, Windsor, and the cathedrals of the eastern district
—Norwich, Peterborough, Lincoln, and Ely—will take pert
The proceeds will be devoted to the Choir Benevolent
Puget established a few years since for the relief of the
widows and orphans of organists and lay clerks of cathedral
and collegiate choirs.