The Express.
London, England, 1858-03-20 00:00:00

(Stamped ld. Additional.) [TWOPENCE;

THE EASTER HOLIDAYS.
In answer to Colonel V yule,

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER rid that
on Monday he should be able to inform the house on what
day he would move the adjournment fur the Easter recess.
EAST INDIA ARMY REGULATION.
The adjournment of the house till Monday having boa
moved,
Mr. FAGAN rose to call the attention of the Secretory of
the Board of Control to the army regulation made by the
Governor-General in India in council in 1866, which
requires that children of soldiers over four yews of age
should be sent to the regimental schoolr, in order to entitle
such soldiers to draw for each child subsistence mosey of
five shillings per month; and to ask whether, during the
last year, any modification or alteration of that regulation
had been made so sa to allow the Roman catholic soldier
now serving in India, who conscientiously objeet•to send
their children to these regimental schools, to have them
educated in schools of their own faith without the forfeiture
of their subsistence money ; and to ask further, if no such
modification had been made, whether it was the intention
of her Majesty's present government to afford that just re-
ticle° the consciences of Roman catholic soldiers now serving
their country in India.
Mr. B. BAILLIE said that, as far as he could learn, no
alteration whatever had been made in the regulation referred
to. But the hon. gentleman did not leas to be aware that
these regulations of the government of India were iden-
tically the same, word for word, as the regulations
in the British army at home. bear.) It was
in these terms : " The children of Roman catholic sold.=
arof soldiers dissentleg trots the Church
be allowed to &boast themselves at the time when
instruction is afforded, provided their parent. signify their
wish to that effect in writing to the schoolmaster or ichoolmis-
trees, and such children mast attend at the opening of the
school for general instruction." The fact was that the reli-
gious instruction commenced at the beginning of the day, and
that the Roman catholic children were not required to attend
the schools till that portion of the instruction wee concluded ;
then they came in solely for the secular instruction. That
was the regulation at present, and he did not believe that
there was any intention of changing it.

COMMISSIONS IN THE ARMY.
Mr. BAG WELL, pursuant to notice, rose to bring before
the house the subject of certain parties professing to ob-
tain commissions in the army without purchase or examina-
tion by raising men for her Majesty's service. Since he last
brought this subject before the house he had had communi-
cations with different people complaining of the system of
giving commissions without examination. There was no-
thing in this country of which people were more justly jea-
lous than the administration and patronage of the army.
That very morning an article had appeared in one of the
papers on the late General Havelock, which raid, " General
Havelock had not attained to high rank or high command,
for be had no family influence nor political interest at his
back." (Hear, hey.) Ho also held in his hand a letter
from a fellow of Trinity College, Dublin. the Rey. Mr. Gal-
braith, one of the most distinguished scholars In the Uni-
versity, complaining of the withdrawal of competition and
examination for the higher branches in the scientific service.
After referring to a letter which had appeared that morning,
from Mesas. Armstrong and Co., of Russell-court, St.
James's Palace, the hon. member stated that the young gen-
tleman referred to in that letter had been taken by Captain
Hunt to the office of Messrs. Armstrong, where a
letter was put into his hands that he might fill up
an application to the anthorttiee for leave to raise 50 men for
the cavalry. He was than taken down by Captain Hunt to
the Horse Guards to leave the letter. He said he would
take him to the Commander-In-Chief's office, but left him in
the lobby, end himself went upstairs, when be inter-
view with some person— it was not known with whom.
After that was done, he came down, and went to Sir Charles
Wetherell's office. An answer was returned, saying that the
young man would not be permitted to raise the men in the
way proposed. He then went to Melon. Armstrong, who
said in effect—" It is not of the least consequence; we ex-
pected you would be refused ; but we will get you the com-
mission." There was another letter of the date of March 9.
2, Russell-court, St. James's-place, March 9.—Dear Sir,—
As we shall make the application in the proper quarter In
order to receive the permission to raise fifty men for the ca-
valry, and thus obtain a cornetcy, we beg you will have the
deposit made at our bankers' according to the arrangement
we made with you. We trust that you will pardon our re-
minding you of the necessity of °emptying without conditions,
as we have to make ourselves responsible to other parties.'
He (Mr. Bagwell) then came to London, and went to /dears.
Armstrong's office, end he was ready, as a member of that
house, on honour, or before the common tribunals of the
country on his oath, to state exactly the propositions that
were made by these gentlemen. There was no disguise on
their part ; he asked what they proposed to do, and how they
would do it. They merely said 'No matter how we will
get you fifty men, and you will get the commission. As
soon as the commission is got you will pay the 5501. • we
don't require a shilling before." He asked them whether he
should go to Sir Charles Yorke or Mr. Airey; but thesolid
not seem to like the ides of an application to either of ffiess
authorities. He afterwards wrote to them, and received
in reply thls letter.—" Russell-court, St. James's-place,
March 12, 1868.—Messrs. Armstrong and Co. have
received Mr. Begwell's letter, declining to accept the pro-
posal they had made to Mr. —. Meese. Armstrong
would suggest the unpriety of Mr. Bagwell cautioning his
ward not to enter into arrangements entailing a vast amount
of trouble and expense on these with whom he is
in treaty, unless ho ie prepared to carry out his pro-
posals. It was fortunate that Messrs. Armstrong did not
rely solely on promises, or they might have been seriously
compromised in high quarters, and feel greatly indebted to
Mr. Bagwell for having saved them from a dilemma."
On Thursday he received a letter from this Captain Hunt, In
which he said :—" Patten Arms, Warrington, Lancashire.
Dear Sir,—Having known you some years ago, end having
enjoyed myself frequently on you beautiful grounds at
Marlfield—(laughter)—besides having been in communica-
tion with your ward shout raising men for his commission,
I beg to inform you that you have made some grave errors
and mis-statements in your address to the house. What
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could your object have been in standing between your ward
and his commission ? Surely you are not so verdant' as not
to know that in London money is everythinp—(laughter)—
and that for money, properly applied, any desire can be gra-
tified. (Great laughter.) Now, sir, if you are disposed to
forward your ward's wishes, I repeat—what has been already
told you—that for 6601. I will procure him fifty men, and
thus entitle him to a commission in the cavalry, and will also
furnish him with two first.elsas chargers for 2201.—Yours
fsithfitlly. DR ERE AUNT. It may be well to acquaint
you that I posers the highest infinencein very high quarters,
and to impress upon you that I require no money, not one
shilling, until Mr. shall have been garotted. Yon are at
perfect liberty to publish this letterr." The grem-
mes of the charge was this. Here was a man who
signed himself a captain of the recruiting service,
who went to sod from the public offices, and
said, and repeated, that he had authority to get commis-
' dons for sums under the regulation price. He thought after
the appeal he made the other night to the right lint. and
gallant general that some notice would be taken of these
opiate, but it did not apr that any notice had been taken
of them since then. When the proper time canto he should
move for the appointment of a select committee, to inquire
into the general subject of the appointment of commiseions
without examination. Meantime he was content to leave
the matter in the hands of the house. (Hear, hear.)
Colonel KNOX felt obliged to the hors. gentleman for
bringing forward this subject, for a more scandalous system
than was going on at the present moment in the army could
not well be conceived. (Hear, hear.) Every word which
the hon. gentleman stated with regard to the army agents be
knew for a fact to be true. The system wee ruining the
army. ((Hear. beer.)
Sir V. CODRINOTON thought it would be necessary
in the first place to asoertsin whether theme agents were au-
thorised by the government at all. He believed that these
agents put these advertisements in the papers just as persona
advertised the sale of horses, and got money for articles
which were found not to be genuine at last. The army
agents who were acknowledged by the Horse Onarda should
be separated from those who were now complained of. He
thought it erroneous to suppose that recruits got in this way
interfered with the general recruiting of the army.
General PEEL remarked that some commissions had
been ted to gentlemen who brought a certain number of
le without obliging them to pass through any examina-
tion. The principle was, he admitted, ohjectionsble, and
only to he sanctioned at periods when soldiers were much
wanted. The agency system should, however, be imme-
diately stopped.
Lord BURY and Lord GODERICH having briefly. spoken,
the subject dropped.

Ithe Intumbered Estates Court, the answer he had already
given to the hon. member for Kildare ; namely, that the
matter was under the conaidaration of the government. The
4tiorney-Gleneral for Ireland or himself would be prepared
at the earliest opportunity after Easter to state whet course
thegovernment meant to pursue. With regard to the ques-
tion of the hon. member for Tipperary, he had to say
that a riotous assembly did take place in Dublin on
Thursday night, the day after the unfortunate
collision between the police and the students of
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city. He had ?waived a telegraphic menage that day,
which stated that the excitement had nearly died away
With respect to the remark of the hon. gentlemtut, he could
arum him that no effort would be spared by the government
to discourage everything of a
party or Bactrian. character.
The only desire of the government would be to de equal
justice to all. (Hear, hear.)
Bona conversation ensued upon the subject of the Imam-
bared Estates Court, and upon the expediency of extenuate
the princittf giving a parliamentary title to Amine:Me=
estates in countries, in which Mr. J. D. Fitzgerald, Mr.
Vance, Mr. Walpole, and Mr. Ellice participated, and the
motion for adjournment was agreed to.
The Consolidated Fund Bills pared through committee.
The hones then west into committee upon the Customs
Acts, when resolutions repealing and altering the import
duties upon certain articles were agreed to.
The Marine Mutiny Bill, the Militia Act Continuance
Bill,
and and the Commons Enclosure Bill were read a third
time passed.
The General Board of Health (Skipton, &e.) Bill, and
the Cambridge tinivendty Matriculation and Degrees Bill.
pared through committee.
Mr. BAXTER moved for leave to bring in a bill to
abolish the ministers' money or annuity tax levied within
the city of Edinburgh, perish of Canongste, and burgh of
Montrose, as vacancies occur among the present ministers,
and to make provision for their successors.
After a few words from the LORD ADVOCATE, leave
wasgiven.

The dense adjourned, at twenty minutes after eix o'clock,
until Monday.

TRUELOVE DBFBNCB FUND.

The following circular has been widely dis-
tributed

Comotittee.room, 3, Falcon-court, Fleetareet, 8.C.,
March, 18511.

"The late government having instituted a prosecution for
seditious libel against Mr. Edward Truelove, publisher, of
240, Strand, a committee has been formed for the purpose of
raising a fund to defray the expenses of Mr. Truelove's de-
fence. It is not on private or personal conaiderations, but
on public groands of the highest important*, that this com-
mittee has been formed. Its object is not merely to protect
an individual from the oppression of a prosecution conducted
with the weight and authority of the crown, having at its
disposal the purse-strings of the nation to oppose to the slender
means of a private citizen, but this committee deem it a
public duty to intervene lest the sacred principle
of the liberty of the press should suffer in his person.
In this country, where we are accustomed to discuss without
reserve first principles where even new and startling
theories are freely investigated—it is felt to be intolerable
that a government should institute proceedings, characterised
by much harshness, against a respectable tradesman for the
publication of a pamphlet which discusses in a spirit of specu-
tire inquiry a question which has been an open subject of de-
bate for ages. Believing that the prosecution of Mr. True-
love is an insidious attack upon the liberty of the press, the
committee urge upon the public to come for ward promptly
with their subscriptions, and thus protest against the re-
vival of that iniquitous system with which, in the darker
pages of our history, our rulers vainly attempted to fetter
thought and suppress discussion. The trial of Mr. Truelove
is fixed to take place at the ensuing sessions at the Central
Criminal Court, commencing on the 6th of April next;
there is thus no time to lose, and all persons willing to aid
this movement are earnestly invited to forward their sub-
scriptions without delay. Crossed post-office orders and
cheques should be forwarded to Messrs. Webster and Co.,
3, Falcon-court, Fleet-street, where the treasurer will
attend daily from 12 till 2 p.m., to receive subscriptions and
answer inquiries.

" By order of the Committee,
"JAMES WATSON, Treasurer."

MURDER OF A WIFE TO REVENGE A FORCED
I MARRIAGE.—At the Galway wive before Mr. Justice
Christian, on Wednesday, Patrick Leyden and John Leyden
were tried for the murder of Mary Leyden, wife of Patrick,
on the 27th of August last, at Derry. It appeared that the
deceased had been in the service of the prisoner's father.
She made a charge of rape against Pat. Leyden in January,
1838. Ho wee bailed out, and then married her. They both
went to the 'seizes in March alter. On their way there was
a talk in a public-house. John Leyden was there, end
taunted his brother with being obliged to marry Mary or go
over the sea. He replied, " I'll give her a abort life for that,
before you see three quarters." Her cousin who was pre-
sent, stood up and said, "You rascal, how dare you say that r'
Mary Leyden replied, " Don't mind him, he only said it to
please his brother John, for he would not give an inch of
me for gold." It was proved, however, that he said
to another person that • the marriage would not do
her much good, as she bad sworn a lie . against him, and he
would give her a short life for so doing.' John Leyden had
said that, if she was good enough for Pat. she would not
be killed." After the marriage and the grazes they never
lived together. She lived in the house of her brother, Law-
rence Connealy, and her husband lived with his father. On
the night of the 27th of August he came to her brother's
door and called her out. Tbey were seen going towards
Lough Mark, and ahe was never seen alive afterwards. A
day or two afterwards her body was found buried in the
sand of the shore of the lake. There was a mark of strang-
ling on the neck, and a cut on the temple. Spota of blood
were on the prisoner's shirt when he was arrested. The
jury found Patrick Leyden guilty, and acquitted John Ley-
den. Sentence was not immediately pa
EXTRAORDINARY MARRIAGE AND SODDEN DEATH
OP THE .4 BRIDIC—A highly respectable tradesman of
Dawlish, named Oliver, died some years since, leaving to his
widow by will a considerate property ; with the proviso,
however, that in the event of her re-marrying, the whole
should revert to their children. During her widowhood,
Mrs. Oliver, it appears, became surety to the amount of 4001,,
for a son-in-law, who bad obtained some responsible situation
in a large metropolitan brewery establishment. The young
man misbehaving himself, the bond was forfeited, and the
mother-in-law was called on to pay the money. To evade this
loss to her family, the poor woman (acting no doubt upon
advice) adopted a course as misguided as it was repugnant
to every sentiment of morality and decency. A dissipated
youth, about twenty years of age, named Crews, who wee
residing at Torquay, and gaining a livelihood as a builders'
labourer, was induced to marry the widow, who was fifty
-
sight years of ap upon the understanding that be should
redeye 301. for the "yob " and start off at once for Australia,
where he is said to have friends residing. The impious
ceremony took plate at the Registry-office, Newton Abbot;
the bridegroom received his money, signed some deeds of
the nature of whit!' he prefaced to be totally Ignorant, and
eat off for Plymouth. whence he wee to have sailed ; and the
bride returned to Devilish with her friends. The young
man, however soon altered his determination, for very few
hours afterwards saw him once more at Torquay, where with
boon companions he proceeded, as Jong as the money lasted,
to give full vent to his drunken propensities. His return
was of cows* a source of great snilsty to the parties con-
cerned, not the least so, It may well be Imagined, to his wife,
and now we arrive at the melancholy sequel to this strange
wrh. W. Carter,
obtain the signature of Mrs. Crews to an affidavit relating to
acted pro
the property. She had returned from the residemos of the
allCtaleartery.thro'Ll"uslgiteihWomuednri Torquay,
fleas, proceeded to Dawlialt to
commissioner (before whom she had sworn to the truth of its
contents) to her own house, in company with Mr. Carter,
jun., sad wee in the act of searching for some paper in
whisk to wrap the document, when she fell down and ex-
. The COMET for the district IW. A. Cockey, Fen)
deemed that these circumstances demanded an enquiry; and
at the inquest, en Friday and Staunlay, most of the shove
fates were elicited by the examination of the young man,
James WillianiOsbornelPlamlyn Crews, Mr. Carter, jun.,
and Mr. 8. R. Oliva, the deceased's son. Ties evidence of
Mr. John F. Knighton, surgeon, showed that her death
arose from natural onuses "Produced by the excitement and
terror she wee soblected to. The jury in returning that
verdict severely mewed the parties who had been concerned
in the trenseetions.— Waters Times.

PUBLIC-11017SIS LICTIISES.—ST. PANCRAS Dill-
sion.—Tataday ea adjourned sessions was held at the
V/007 BA Lag's-road. Camden-town. Lmenses were
refused in the caw of W. Newpott, Southampton Arms,
Wlat,lotpary-atnet; W. Phelps, of Gloaceeer-road W.
Parr. Cromar.alreet ;B. Clark, Clod's-row; and granted to
T. H. Woodward, Owehee-lens; T. Brea York-wed;
G. Hill, Mankka-road ; R. Holding, lakcersann-road.
Seventeen applications for am Wary were rdiumrl.
FRIGITTIT, ALuAzcipALAIC9I. Jrd ONII 81114aLLIlfa DAT.
reminiTss;
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