The Express.
London, England, 1856-08-21 00:00:00

TER =PRA THURSDAY MIMING, AUGUST li, 1868:

Gownes abbe, that battle should las gives to
the Rumba Owed before ha could abet
the kinetics in ijoseden, was finally adopted.
Oar Nadas may YOINOSINN what followed.
Owlet to the esperstitions fears of the Menhir the
Week was pat off till the amain after Be: wren
bad received his expected reielbresmsat, and when
it at lost took pies, the gross sows:dim of the wise
worthy, and thea►fsarths at his aviator Asses,
made the army a ready prey to an enemy of
Lm than half its strength. In vain did GUYON and
XIMIT do all that mortal men could do to retrieve
the lost fortune of the day t whole regiments sad
brigades were left without commanders, and oat of
the 42,000 men who went forth that morning to
battle, not ocafourth would have answered to the
master-eall the same evening under the walls of Ease,
bat for the energy and skill displayed by these two
of alone in arming the retreat. False as be had
been cowardly, ZARIN FAUNA endeavoured to throw
the bliss of this disgraceful defeat on his chef d'ltat
major, and in his reports to his patron, Rtes► PACHt,
the Minister of War, charged GUYON with being the
mused it all. The nosupported Forth. to when Lord
8211M7011D. though well and credibly blamed of
the actual feats, lent not the beet protesting help,
was amordingly included in the general wail of the
Mesh'r and some four or five other Pathos, end his
remained ever sines unemployed and neglected In
Stamboul.

Such, then, an the service§ of the two oaken
whom oar own H benne of Ban" have, both in
their speeches and their writings, altogether ignored.
With one exception, we believe—when a hint was
delicately administered to General WILLIAMS at the
Mansion-hour —not the remotest MAIM to MIMI
has ever been made in any tee of their self-lastdatery
orations; whilst both in these, and the two books of
Dr. SANDWITII and Calomel LAM; Otrecar and his
services are similarly kept oat of eight. Grasser or
more ungenerous illiberality it is difficult to ameein.
Is »kering to the state in which General Waucis
found Bus, sad to what he himself did to improve
its fortifications, Colonel Lana modestly informs us,
in his reseatly-publiebed volume The position of
Hers is stroag, and to some retest tenable. . . .
In the caedidea is whisk we found it, it
is questionable whether they could have held
it for three hose'—s pins of intelligence
which the previous caution of the Russians
prone to be as erroneous as the following is
amusingly egotistical Boffin it to my that with
the able eighteen of Captain THOMPSON. /did all in
my power to make the place impregnable." After
oar personal knowledge of what GITYON had already
contributed to the same sod under disolventages
against few or aces of which those heroes had to eon-
tend, this pins of oomplaerat self-praise reads—we
shall not my bow, and we might add to It many other
extracts 4sceden paw*. Having already offered
so many and sash warm What's of praise to General
WILLTAMB and his comrades for what they did do,
we can the better afford to speak plainly on
this =generous oversight of others whose services
were little, if at all, inferior I. point of merit
to their own. Daring the program of the siege with
which their names stand so haaourably sesociated we
were behind some of our contemporaries in making
pendant mention of the untiring energy and heroics
sedum.* they displayed, or in the frequency and
earoestaam of oar appeals for support on their be-
half, and elan their return we have not failed to add
our ample used of laudatory welcome to the over-
flowing assure of bosoms and triumphal greetings
beeped upon them by the Bovine:lax, the pram, and
the poblie, but on the coomelea of each on of these
have don our best to enhance the distinction, by
giving it all the publicity our column could
afford. Had we, Indeed, at the same time
had to record me/Ruins achievements by
our general officers and their staffs in the
Crimes, it is more than probable that the pert
meted by Sir W. WILLTAIIe and his companions at
Hers would have elicited more moderate laudation ;
bat having only to tell of apathy and blundering
incapacity ea the part of the former, the performsorm
of the latter acquired, in comparison, a claim upon
their ocantrynson's admiration and gratitude snob
above the actual worth of the seniors rendered. After
all, the defense of Isis was only an episode—bril-
liant, it ifs tree, though answeresfal—la the great
drama of the war I the main struggle was far away
elsewhere; sad on that other and larger Sold of sake
and suffering occurred many an instance of tut •
warded heroism as intrinsically meritorious u any
achievement of General WILLIAM and his four Bri-
tish Downes la the defeat* of their Armenian
fortress. Still, though justice to the @sores of regi-
mental odious in oar Crimean army—whose only re-
compense for bravery yet censer celled into adios,
and for seduamse hardly leis sorely put to trial, has
been at most a step*, brevet rank or em iadiseriminate
medal—compels as to my this mash, we are far from
wishing to isms the well-earned honours the gallant
baronet and his minnow have received. Yet no
nose that we =tenths of their merits can mitigate
the feelings of regret and dissatiefamion with which
we—ia OtieillKO, we doubt not, with many thousands
of oar jutios-loving soutrymes—have noted their

ungenerous- and eusadierly ignoring of blether offi-
cers whose @lslam upon oar adabstion are is no
degree inferior to their own. The manly protest of
General Keerrr, however. administers a rebuke
that will go far to set himself where he so well de-
serves to be in public estimation; and the memory of
what the not lees gallant though still more wow
worded Gurus has maned, but has not received, at the
hands both of hie mentrymen and of the Turks, impels
us to lend oar aid in doing se mush foe ham

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OSBORNE, Avevrt 20.

Plisse Albert malaria is the Elfin isstsrday sad
west up the Boothewpws Weise to Impost the maw of
the works enrols, at the Boyd Vittoria Hospital.
Her Ilidesty afterwards Nisei the Prime, who retuned
with the Close& la the Palsy.

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M bar Majesty, sad rends It Odom&
Lord Munn Brass had the honour of dialog with the
QOM.

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dames& that bar Noteety bee oriatetmeaded the mkt
fernery gives to the railway ellelalo the !teeth haters
eat North British Rafter, is tefeteres to the reels to be
tokat by the met petty es the otesolsa of the Clooes'e
Title to Ileedael this seem. Diesel of preeseetlag by the
!forth loolers Balmy, aid the ZAN brush of the Meth
Whisk Railway. op the Vale of the Tinted to Edlebosib,
the royal trots will premed to Idiabergb by the mete Loo
et the North SAM Zoilwey so ea the preview' oesedate
epee whisk the Qom tidied Ilioshad. Her Majesty, It
It Is mooted, win anive l• ildlobotili ea the melee of
the 2841 Avila, sod lens der bawl out auoisi.—
lobo 1.0.

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LONDON AFTER THE BEASON.

PINT/MON OP PIOATTA
PRIZE&

Mr. Disraeli is reported to have said, after paying
a visit to Cremes% that the establishment might be
esnalsred a 'Missal institution. Them is some
teeth in the remark. The admirable adaptation of
the manessaints to the testes of the thousaade who
!regent the prims.the thorough enjoyment visible
in their bass, thew that the pine has male a great
impremisa on the popular mind. The situatioa is
geed. The appreashes to it are numerous, and
sad cheap. What was ewe the "silent
way," but is now every hear resonant
th the rear of Use steera-paille and the
osesteat plash of the waves, affierds an expeditious
end sheep mode of Ism* fee Osumi& who would
ettriewfse new be ails is meek the pima There is
Beebe Oct the Loamy's enjoys more, after being
in "perukes city peat; then taking his ease amidst
trees amt abeam gammas gives Din both. The
palms am maims, end well laid oat with walks
se saddled es to give the plantations the appearance
of washy seem ground than it messily the ease.
Thai there is a marrellene quantity of first-rate
satuasmat to be had for the mossy. The music is
good and plentiful, sad of a quality which
twenty years ago could not be heard ex-
cept by paying heavily for the pleasure.
The great increase of the quantity and the
quality of music is our public plums of amusement
is one of the best features of the time. There are
two bands at &emcees which have been wall disci-
plined. Then Mon is a theatre capable of containing
many hundreds of spectators, in which ballets and
other elanes of pines are acted—profuse illumine-
time—balloon swats—artistes who excel in mar.
Toilette feats of agility themselves, or who teach
animals to perform them instead—and the finest out-
wool... waned Meters in the we'll. The view of
Berne is a meaMigesse of deceptive painting. A
stranger breeght Win it for the first time would
scarcely lidl to be Mated into the belief that what he
saw wasadewneighersality. Thebim steuntainsin the

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lisin7s-dietains to melt into the eky, while the
artistie dispraise ef the foregrovnd adds greatly to
the AM& AU them attractions combined in one
be em tee a prim whioh calls for no rest
from &sparest order of operatives, amount
ter the extensive popularity of the gardens. Ws
should bs sorry had the speculation sot succeeded.
Venzhall mite-1W a spark or two of its ancient Wi-
llowy a taw times in the year. Ranelsgh has been,
and is so more. Osimuse sontlnuss the traditions
whisk slow the English boo fresh air, and dowers,
andinnemst mime s& &morns looks over the
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water at her mid deter Vauxhall; she sees no
wedge of Ifh ia the eget dose by where the
other sister Illemiegh wee ems le gay u she herself,
and without lesslollog Woolf with sentimental re•
st. ri_is her belie to all who wish to partake
of herlsetivities. We ham small sympathy with
those who me afraid that festivity, mach less lone
mat amassment, leads neenuarily to mime. Haman
'wimp seder the degree of lords and Wise, and
without haviag as lugs an amount at the bankers' as
their superiors, may yet feel that the overtaxed
mind requires mw tbst the highly-worked body
Deeds rest, the( the feseldm tco much need
to basica need esmeleoally to ha nutmeg.
While to the via meet to left the luxury
of mbeldielog the alien to supply their theatres
ma Ode amesselesems with the most illastrime

artiets. while they Mk, the exclusive pleasure of
health allwiiatteo in vast private parks,
and a redid private picture gal cries, we must will
get them to allow that the same faculties which they
feed with hinnies exist in the minds of tbcze who
areas se 111211111011 ClllllOlllll is the park
and " of the jaded workman, the tired
of the matron who hat. with her
shitpassed days without tasting pare air. All
relandisa may bad to an extreme self-indulgence •
but then is no used that it should do so. All large
scsemiiihe of human beings present temptations to
the ebbs% bat vise is net seceesexily generated in
sash sessnablies. Because some come into crowded
societies to sejoy or to seek for opportunities of en-
joying unhallowed pleasures, the merrity are found
there-for no other purpose but that of fulfilling the
duties of buboes or ammemeny which is the true
object of thee, meetings. A striking proof of the
humanising blames@ exercised by giving the
people the opportunity of taking relaxation is
shown in the Sunday meetings at Creteorne.
From seven thousand to eight thousand persons
attend Creators' on that day and listen to a hand of
sacred mode from 6to 7 o'clock. Refreshments may
be procured as usual; but a crowd to the number of
6,000 has been seen standing round the orchestra
with their attention completely occupied by the music
alone. The orderly evaded of the crowd is tweed
all praise. It is possible that objections well founded
may be raised against Sunday music I but nose era
be found based upon the conduct of the members
composing the &adieus&
Creams has other claims to public attention than
that of being a place of relaxation for the middle
clews. The tavern department is of immense extent,
and there would be no difficulty in dining 2,000
persons in the great pavilion lately erected. This
raisin is a feature of the pleas. It is one of the
aerie covered buildings in London, and when filled
with flowers, as was the ease some time back, is a
remarkable sight. It is ululated to be capable of
containing 35,000 persons. The ordinary number of
visitors in the evening daring the sums er rouges
from 6,000 to 8,000. This b exclusive of those
who attend for the purpose of dining plain 4 at
the table d'hots, or luxuriously in private parties.
We attended yesterday at CIVEOMS
princi-
pally for the purpose of seeing the priers,
6001. in value, given to the winners in the
great regatta ; but we took the opportunity of
witnessing the ordinary amusements. At the present
tints the programme is a concert, ballet. and arouse-
meets in the argue. The concert was well performed
and &comb singer, named Ford, stuck as as remark-
able for having introdued something novel in the
practice of his art. Mademoiselle Therese, the prim-
cipal dancer. is extremely pretty and graceful, and is
a perfect mistress of the intricacies of bee art.
The presentation of the prises to the successful
competitors in the regatta took place under the
superintendence of Sir James Disks. the Lord Mayor
being unavoidably absent. The anus, which wee
used for the purpose of the emeasony,wu ornamented
with the remands of the flower show. Bir
James Duke, who we, supported by the com-
mittee whisk &melded on the prises, accom-
panied sack dislieery with • short appropriate
speech. The diet mesessent, however, of the
wee derived fuss the appearance
ntaerr:feadeneleempetitors themselves. The gen-
tlemen amateers laughed away their own issehfulness
on medving the prime, or else reseed to go up. The
wetness& en the contrary, endeavoured to conceal
their oasis§ by a realms leaping down the
bombes, reilleklag strides mem the arena, and
abated highs et the rade wit with which they
were greeted by their companions. It wee evident.
however, that the short walk which they had to take
wee nearly me laborious to them as the strenuous
electing they had made to gala their imams.
The prime were et a meet seedy description.
Gilt and silver Imps of all aims were pissed on a
large table beautifully ornamented with flowers. In
the centre was the renowned coat and badge, which
has been for to bug an *Meet of sash oosipetitioa
moor* Thames wanness. The see were all re-
ceived with shoats ti apple's% and there was no
interruption to the gensual harmony of the MOO,
swept that seseismed by ens of the amateurs who was
dierestomMl with his prism The iooknany of the
weather poswomisi sulk= from attending who
would otherwise bathes inn takes the opportunity
of winning ow tmlesenks. aeronomy. As it woe. the
eptetateru wenlollll, eserpesed of lbs
binds of the
wetness theneelree• te. as they
generally an at Cremorao en Re the pro-
ses,. wen admirable. •

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