The Express.
London, England, 1858-09-09 00:00:00

LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 9, 1858.

white cloth; meths king was helping bimetal a drop of honey
as large as • mustard-seed Sell on the cloth ; the king and
the bramin both saw it ; the king, maintaining his dignity, did
not wipe it up, and the twersin, it being more Immediately be-
fore the king, would not venture to stretch out his arm to do
ao ; a fly came and ate it; but neither would more to drive
it away : then • spider came and swallowed the fly; still,
though Moth saw it, neither would drive it away : sad after
this a lizard seized and swallowed the spider and, even then,
neither drove it away ; nett a rat came and swallowed the
lizard ; still, though both saw it, neither would Wafer" :
then a cat came sad ate up the rat • this • dog shocked the
cat, and the owners of the oat and dog sad stlll
the king and the breaths did cot in to put • Mop to it,
but continued thoughtlessly to enjoy themselves. The
owner of the dog west to one of the pnnces, and the owner
of the oat to another, and when both had collected a strong
party they came to blows ; sad then, though the king mad
the hernia, and the ministers tried to quiet the disturbance,
they could not, and, the strength of the parties Inoreseing,
the king, the bramis, the wealthy, sad the poor were killed
sod destroyed ; and thus the kdom of Besares raise to as
sad, as is well know's, all thro gh a single drop of hooey.
This the words of the gods of the suconsion of worlds,
Mew, the recluse, the son of the king of Bruits, revealed
to the great king Mahe. Thamadah.
Another extract is from the "Decisions of Prin-
cess Thoo-dhamma loan," a work translated from the

Burmese, by Captain iiparks, Principal Assistant
Commissioner of Arrscan. The subject is
=II RICH =AD., DAUGHTUR AND HT& TRIII JOVIAL

then lived
4erealdb iNIIIOIII atillalr a worm frioadahip.
Three of them had sadism ass, whilst the fourth hod sa
oaly daughter of pent beauty, sod to her sash of the
throe yew UM Oat a IMISSOLVM. The Ant ised
that if she ad hams she we Ahem he would perform her
biased rites with every as. To this her puma replied,
"It r wail." The mooed meat to say that in the above
tees he woold soiled bar ashes. To this also her parents
Moiled their swat The third mat to say that he would
wake Ur tomb; to which her pinata rotorsed the moss
mow as been.

11; rineeT.l da dl. Wire a. lad &Nebel her /does
year, sad her desired dm yoga( same to bay her se
they bed • wtoreapos We Snit performed the rites
of the dewed collected and removed hr maws, sad
the third kept weigh over them in the cemetery, aecordiag to
their respeetlve punier. A giro, who had come from the
Himalaya forests, happening to par that way at the time,
saw the rim mesakeeptag was* and inquired the 1111111011
of hie Mai so, to which he replied he wee +stride. over
the home of As dead. " Would you wish the deed to be
reetered to lifer salted the jogs. " I would," espied the
yea* ; upon this the game restored list clamed to ein all
her gristle' Meaty of formaad beam.
The fret Ara man. soa said (when he law her), " I bore ,1
her were to the !need Ode and burnt it, therefore oegtt
she not to be .in. 1" The second, " I collected Ism lama,
might she ael to he mine r' The third, " Whilst I wee
wasehlag in the semetery she returned to life, ought she not I
to be mine? Bet what is the nes of disputing with melt
other 1 Lot es submit to the decision of prisons Theo-
dimmer flo they all three repaired to her prennos
end railed be her the Asir. Who. she had 11•1111 a them she
Wee pvejedpseat : " I eriessend this tatter ; ono of
yen beret the corpse of the dears!, end week his way : Ws
mooed collected bar oho, and did thew. : bet the thkd
kept watch over her reniaine, although the fenny at •
watcher hi a weeskey b degraded to lb. seventh
Dying his welaing die the dosed selerald to Ifierttae:
bre, se be demeted her est in death, ist bin be her partner
la life."

The morale of the following is animpeschable:
THE POTTS.. AND THE WASHIIIMAN.

Is the ii•.aafaT.;:.•74-ba,
miateawaarinai.zsgasissl2L2Lpiestall. =lewhtoo
base the eight of the weskit e hair bed &squired
by wading Moth* he deternierd le ones to as op* rep-
tars with kin._ With this view be went to the kiog sad
said, "Tour Majesty's revel .1.0.51 is Meek ; but if you
wen to Sam the washentea to wash It white, would you sot
beams lord of the wide, elephant r' This speech wee est
iamb firma any seal fer the king's advsatage, but became
he thought that if the elder was gives to the washer's*
socordiag *hie segptelloa, rid the elephaat should not tarn
white air all, the Mhos of the washerman would come to
an NIL
The king es being the ratios of the potter, took
for grained It wee dame, beteg doh** is
winged ems, ems hr the maims mit=
bin to woe tin mil rasp** white.
The washermaa, *slag through the potter's dolga, as.
plied, " Our art esquires that, in order to Meech ilea,*
soosid first pat It is a boiler with soap sad water, awl *ea
rub it well. la Pietas/mast ably cm Majesty's elephant
be made white." The Meg, eowddr that it wee a potter's
bongos sad seta writernesa'r, le b pots, celled ter the
paw, sad sail la " Heilsole pot* • pot is noshed
to War say ele la : west rase eau lame recojejader
itt=oo•." TIM yens; ea realvter this ceder,
all hie hinds and wilatiens ; mad after they bed so-
eamisted a east easa*y stag, bmils a pet Se uTi
le the sisphat, whisk ea soespistioa be laid belleg
Wen, whir &dewed It over te Its wedserwse.
The weehatEris tha soap NA ; bet es ca as
the abashes{ h foot apes It, it broke in pier.
Mhos this potter made stay others, bet they were
Alter tee Welt, se **the water amid a* be mein to boil
la Om, err leo this, se *et the bet premiere of the el -
Meets teen Neselad them le Owen I. this maser being
seasartly unpisyst he wrath, to suand tolls boars,
and so he was attosty Wool. Therefore seek es she at the
deetnestlea ef ethers em Gad that their weapons will fail to
rash these whets elf blinded, and will only recoil ups
lair Mt barb. tios* • torsos be ever so poor, he
cagy net to India evil age bast others. Mau who ate guilty
of Pemobaress animas should be avoided.
After all, we mast fall back on the Indian mu-
tinies: they are a reality—our annexation of Bar-
m& is merely an hypothesis. Mr. Dunlop—the
brother, we believe, of the ladies whose " Timely
Retreat" received a favourable notice in this journal
not long since—as his contribution to the poen'
history of the mutiny, gives an account of
the services of the Meerut Volunteer Hone, a
small force of some forty or fifty, organised
by himself, and effective notwithstanding few
of them had any military experience, for they
" the hereditary courage of their alp*
possessedhe
could all ride ; many of them were s
some of them crack shots and admirable)=.
men." Thev were all men of the right stamp, de-
termined not to give in or be beaten, whatever die-1
oouragements they received. Take the following as
an illustratioe :
• Motes mess was MOM ant uap,p whisk did Ewa r Whir
oar swims Yves more comf rrtable. Our mum sedoson-
tesmos, Mu mu derived, were se NUM GM*
34:brobra table-servants, whose shim so ft
, or otherwise, of quitting our asfelagolllM
Welly be Pagelsesd by the way is whisk we
enders derinere. I have karma a issfelds, the
mended is shill quite restratot veer dil sisergiasil
sod read oat sisal by • yealliner. sageruScar
has the noinhers of the moray way loss he a
mowed alas to the fines asteradmiles est to the
mite aimallsts at least eked& sew wry apreesloa. A
lust of WNW/ hienel the apieskof the. reader, who, Is
slialisa be as amompos bra tilles seat the table, ex-
claknek "Melk sty Ids. whzt waitit. ewer to the worst,
we will finish 'Alb • sag ef
Considering the ssewiee done by this volunteer
force, we cannot be turprind that Mr. Dunlop finds
fault with military met Wile hold it u an axiom
that no amount of stay and campaigning, no
course of amateur evolution or drill, can gift a
civilise with the inspiration for commend which
liitriteatace acquires by purchasing his com-
ma petting oe his red coat. As oar author
hag of this opinion we are not surprised to find
MID severs strictures here and there. The general.
for instance, commanding et Meerut who suffered
the %Frilly mutineers unmolested to go to Delhi,
he issinuatea. was the cause of the delay of months
lb. attack on Delhi. Mr. Dunlop finds great
MOM with the character of the men sent out ander
Ilistrwsiztem of competitive examinations, thinks
Lag has a wonderful '
insight into
Indies statireir:,tilieTes that the mutiny was
planned by Musulmano, and deprecates the peea-
liarly cautious policy pursued, which despising
guerilla warfare and attempting to do almost every-
thing by one enormous army has protracted the
struggle to an extent which has very
seriously injured our prestige. Such is an
outline of Mr. Dunlop's views—we most add
that his narrative is clear, well expressed, and reads
like So gembie anal honest work of a genuine and
hosed are. Its slue is materially ice sassed by the
splefted drawings it contaiss of the various native
beeps. In soodading.thie adios we cannot do bettor
than quote the following antedote relative to the
STOICISM OT Tan 'SPOT.
its asse le be brag wens up Who nelbevre the sew
Mews hilillwawr *Shah reek awl Amami sun
the en-
aaaftfse awls. The pay !mender wressted the Ma mod
his ark Mimi uniswasa. Their beads, I remerked, were
net *isms& as they &sea have bees, bet whim the arts
were reed, they did set as then as they might how
dew ; they were Neehte la dying, sad vas of thew sing-
e sake sweaty Ms ideates. Often sad rhea have I esse
nativse enswated. et an ages, ef every age* sad
Ws in meekly, yet sem hue I sea st them=

at the sus Id; they died with a stoicism that in Ramps
would excite setaintineeM sad admiration ; yet the very
same men behave ia some instances with the rankest
cowardioe in the Lid; crowds of them routed and ignomi-
ninuely put to died, by mere handfuls of Europeans, few of
whom, whatever their conduct to battle would
equal walk to exe-
cution with ual indiffsrence. I hive heard of this difficult
question in metaphysics Wag put to one of themselves. "It
, live in the legs; "- he replied, the whole fault is la the legs ;
often when we have made up our minds to die, end hear the
cheer of the "Gone" (pale fame), our legs carry us off
slimiest our will."
Our remaining work is of a very different cha-
racter. The title is taking, but It is, we fear, calcu-
lated to mislead the public; indeed, we fear that it
has been selected for some such purpose. Of
the Wounded Officer we some know what to say.
It is clear that he must have had a great deal of
leisure time on his hands or he could never have
spun out his narrative into a couple of volumes.
The first volume has not a word about the mutinies.
Instead, it contains an account of his father, of his
schoolmaster, of his mother, and brother, and sisters
—of his adventures as a grill, of his bearing as an
officer in the Sikh campaign, of his return wounded
to England, and of his ardent love for that peerless
paragon, Mies hale. whose father, a very vulgar
made himself particularly disagreeable, se
only fathers of very pretty daughters tan. In
the middle of the second volume the author

commences the history of his escape. But
as we have been so deceived by the title of the
work it is not very willingly that we accord him
our confidence when he attempts to redeem his pro-
mise. When the mutiny in his regiment, long ex-
pected but delayed, breaks out at Alumpore, the
Wounded Officer escapee with two others. A terrible
time they had of it—hiding in jungles, living on
any rubbish they could find in the field, making soup
of frogs and other creatures equally loathsome.
After hairbreadth escapee and deadly perils they
reach Nynee Tal, where they exchanged their rags
and dirt and hard fare for the usages and comforts
of English society. Here he makes up his mind to
return to England—a determination to which the
knowledge that Joan ?ere was dead, and had left
his daughter twenty thousand pounds, twisted him.
Before leaving, however, he takes part in a skirmish
with the enemy, and is again wounded, this time a bullet
having penetrated the flesh of the blade bone. Our
'tailor returns with his companion Morris, finds Min
Jones lovelier than ever, and marries her, and inti-
mates that his sister bus made a captive of his friend.
We trust it may be so, and that Morris may make a
good husband. We have only to regret that the
Wounded Officer has done injustice to his family by
reporting their conversation, and injustice to himself
by assuming a form suggestive of fiction and book-
making. A bond fide narrative is one thing ; one
founded on fact—we all know what that means—is
another. If we assume this latter is the true de-
scription of the Wounded Officer's volumes, he mast
remember that he has only himself to blame for this
misconception, if such it be.