The Express.
London, England, 1858-02-08 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 8, 1858.

• Wahl Bei* eTwoyfbetideria rese botadj.ft
quiet s =Zit the tabeeb, ad enema It Worn
at what they tae Mee taeireskd than then who alihdd•
The notes Ana to this paper are apt illustrations
of what we have marked" oitnocorning the maw'
in which this "ohm is annotated.- To the
"it leas agreed to give to every came hordli
comanion ado, the Company on fhacisa:f
emend= otheatilitheat Oaddelere,
mission Sem ea Nis drum that day; no heft
a note inforadag not the as ado bog&
MIN at Cuddalemo, Gs of segoikaiAd
that Cuddalore Is as town on the ]lei
&a." The mid= of Lord Cornwallis.
brings out the hinnies! erudition of tfte sifter, whe;
tells us that his lordship was " Gevemorasend d
Indiaprevions to the administration at lir lan
Shore"—which, if it were neceessey to date at all,
ought to have been stated before , as there is earlier
mention in the volume of Lord Oontwallia. Fat
example, at page 16 we find " Arthur Weiler writ-
ing, under date July 12, to his broiler, Lad Mor-
uington4 "Lea Oorrrwallh is daily impend. It is
impala's to dessribe the adosidsfted and
oonsternation which the news of the impintessst
medusa."Lord
Coen Nowt hoe is reatirM Mies tot a
ate about
soon afterwards told thatwitti we
an
was appointed Governor-Genera A well-infoneed
editor would have told us how it was that Lord Corn-
wallis was daily expected, and how it happened that,
at that time, he did not go outL a second time, as
Clovernce•(isseral of India. The story is worth
telling, he (as for, at hest, se we know) it has not
yet been told. But we pass on to the mat note—To
the wage " The next essential part, however, of
thin arrangements, that in which, in ace opinion,
the public, as well as the alone, are most Interested,
has not been adopted, as Sir Robert Abercromby
gave his opinion in a minute against it; this part is
the promotion of officers in regiments as far as the
rank of major • instead of by senieriq-,
throughout the whole of the establishment." To
the passage, we say, printed thin, with a blank
after the word "major," we have this note:
" • Something is here omitted in the manuscript.
It may be the words 'by merit,' or the words 'by
purchase.'-11DO We on hardly conceive a more
astonishing display of igneanos of the subject
than this note, which alone is sufficient to convince
us that the present Duke of Wellington, himself •
soldier, is not the annotator. The passage except
that there is a comma misplaced, is perfectly 'oerrect.
There is not a word "omitted." The last lines
should run thus: " Thin part is the promotion of
officers, in regiments, as far as the rank a or, in-
stead of by seniority throughout the whole ester
blishment." The question was, whether. when the
aowasreorganseed, the promotions (up, to the
f major) consequent upon the reorgannatitnt,
be regimental or line promotions. Beery
alliger in the army unclesstaads this ; and no one,
better, we are sure, than the present Deka of Wel-
lington. The question of " purchase* or of " merit"
was never considered for a moment. In the next
note, to the words " Coast army," or "Army on the
eclat," we have this note : " The troop employed
eat the of Coromandel rad Malabar belonged
to the and to the Bombay Preeldendes."
Now, we should have thought that every reader
of Indian history and biography knew, although
Malabar was not transfenedfrom the Bombay to the
Madras Presidency, until a year or two after the
date of Colonel Welleders paper, that the army
essmonly known as " Omit army,' sad to which
the writer throe bout rehrred ishis memorandum
was simply the Madras army. Bat enough of this:
Gladlwa:at the annotations, we peas on to the
mere matents of the rmions. Thehllow-
ing, relates to Welllftitasif faun, has
some hiereehiell interest; it contains his own ver-
sion of a mushesavessed affair :
Os the den et he Mk we wade an nisei ens the
estamr=ene, winth, se Wan me as, wee an ph,
es anal ban boa Irina The het was that
* was Wyk, that tbe mon upend us, end
win dmitey ta ea eltaost Inyeasthelth beagle. We
hat ea Meer NM oath NM lase Baer marled (el
ele sal et kat, es legal act 1M eat the pa whisk
it Meltable thedesaM campy, I wee Algal ee Mitt
pestle Mai, athey oleo having retiree ter the
loth Is he mamba sky re-tempted
seat
I Mead tt
soil at dayllobt, eai alerted it with ems eat little lei,
la
the sam star *it of the 6th end the day of Chetah the
gem eel um eater to occupy aWe of al=
nartly to his camp till the nesa
stsirsame die that they enable lime leeemidatisallia
meta-
tithe thrthease with advantage I get a dtgla teal ea
the lemet% ten which I Mt as hollellpl SILOS dolt
of the Rh; tad I have oaths be a whoa la
my mar, arm to thaw ea Mee at be ma by night
ma ea army who h pewee eat sad
Math peas have set beta wommottred by
A great pert of the 001111111101161111011 111 TOW=
relates to arrangements made by Colonel Wel-
lesley after the capture of Seringapatam. An extra-
ordinary mastery of details is exhibited in this
eonespondenos. The more immediate trainees that
a man has to do, the less he is disposed to generalise.
There are not many quotable passages, therefore, is
the latter part of the volume. The book, however,
is one the currency of which no recommendations
will aid, and no detractions obstruct. Everyone will
look at it ; few will read it; but a large amber of
people will place it on the shelves, which contain the
former volumes of despatches edited by Colonel Gar-
wood, and esteem it as one of their best literary
possessions.

The drawing sad Ibrodunbang aw rot arelerly, though
paten aMk Anaderde, Wo math regret, homer, that
the per Mr* fa ma k& tt Is pined does sot admit a es-
lag the plane conookody, snob* to the abaft it
very low fa to to emit the most Mat. Ilaci a amble
week at ort, though as brio op* should ban undoubtedly
kw pined ca "the Sae."
"thaeleer plane Masai keel; of tannin le Can-
ine and Pathos, a rens la • lemlelrie in the 17th 0n-
(436), by No. Bal. The amen of tumor= W-
and shee be nbuladleory ; thot, thr al mend
the on Lasnear onnicansel mai the odor over-
enertled. But the *lure wth reps, allsodve nenthedso
The matters ogee on ass side is, Infanta assign
think* one, isabing, querolltea, Mang ale the volt-
sena hang al theatre of lamllate's Purilerso Tim
nes la bra to the opposite die an adesrvin omplend,
okkar twang up drk news with emenson at the bawling
of the nes la boa, or dlepoithig with oath oder, or holding
Ikea ea a steur, or ale pselekkar of a frugal reset, fa-
bling beer err pew Moon Wotan gospel b thersibs
the nasty of Wink, bat enetiloadag llandleadothe err
here his. no lo therseintha sepalfilly droll. Hewn
sums to his ape lid blo lath Ile half sad his bessoplen,
1111 b• Wan is Vet a Par d War Caraiiithialrie•
stgeriaged veldt pint
wed sesideal *no ke no 70. la /ha
A. The belamt depleted le the mese of • simy of a Medea savant to the Ws of In
Win Other, wbo, ono do palos at Warn bed re-
ddest WNW to &spar, woo the bet to bar (aka so one
des amid thalegnek aeon the raw it war) the old familiar
lone of dr beet" pined by theveleck's redraft High-
bolas. Ti. suseution cf de Odom neoesserey shoos
moles of baste, No Hopay'e plena of a dada
suldsot-0 An Allan is India" (613), tenth atter
dot, and as baba der graphic wed seems. We sad like-
oleo mend Mr. 14thennues *Moral promonniat of
" The Leasthan" (I 2), with the oddly-doped Own brought
oat hits pecollar rad by die ad ,light of the mea at work
by skid wader the dada of the mater. Where, however,
the Morass lass iffareadisla, endow to speak, we park,
and the 'rad is supposed to hare more time, we mast, It he
attempt to harm* us with what fs ersalsonoremy, neat that
it elan not be ocasmonplea. Rs mast Whig Moen m-
onths of darader or hamar to his work, or raider It
predoet, like do Doak tamewe, by his essoutios. With
uadsokble matt, much Mimes, and promise, we must
thanka remark that two pictures by ilfr. Ritc.ble—" A
Water's Day In Bt. Tsoens-perk" (281), and " Sure-
iner's Day is H,edelperk" (440), scarcely hldl these con-
Mem Tine to a teadimey to caricature sad ever-elabo.
reties, tweet the dot of outfight In the Otto it very
adintable.

Mr. Ana II oontribetes a eyelash " The Road to
thaPle" OWN still Om, bathes pillars old painting, Swabia
' prodnothasta theßshildtkaof theßopidatheayleitythr. It
somas beredthis, deaths ulnae originality of each a work
as 114 that the inetherstible treasury el material for the
artist to be thead la lipthe Maid have Draw Rale drawn
al we. Ware Individeelity of ably Abet in this pio-
awe it quite indomitable, whether the bothering high
wleded cart with its net-work awning, sad tbA carious
ustheli el yoking the arm, or the &Mr with hie barbarous
drew, lb hide bogie's, mahrere sad berame geed—
wbsther the astir, with their peahen !added erilh miens
sad mem at Se dimmed, Spud& awed" of the
bleak model ms waisepaspieg thew. widewitheir *Dr'
odes, as well es War artiosale el the earl. The ekes by the
raed-add the cathodal et Seethe to the Mime% and the
deep blue sity, escapists • piolatalehmge se the some th
about the local •CCRIT•ey of width s esseveradon can be
masted without neassearal belze sequblied with SPWW,
A. large work by Ms. Githert, rep wardiss a visit by
Roberts to the studio of the yeaththlTathes bat die"-
painting. There are emielathable power sad breath ci
oded, dame rd taw lad bobbies of touch, pat dam
seem. be the slat of the piste% • owida esepthenee
lidisiXt. Ina is depend wed ampiele on a mall web
biomes swastbase almost come mil inadequate ea • Leger.
Rare, too, the dimersal of biddethre of rap of light b aaly
eseusable whoa forced by the Meath, of a *Mts. Be-
fore patadng the great Plead& weber, Mr. Gilbert maid
also hare dose well to have meisthered the pals intellec-
tual heed OM him by hb idadelons pupil, Vsadyok,
la the talithegib portrait lady Wafted at Manebeeter.
It is obviate that Tedrs sever seed brushes of the else, or
pint to the "waft serpnwested, With • little more loving
ease lb. Gilbert wadi have time it, batter.

Tire adage by bier. L. Highs an a daided advance.
Tbelr ma** are not powertaßy rirbl. or delightfully sad,
bet they are very planing and latareeting. dna le
"Pear Bad avenging bi. model" (66)—the mama
Find& doemapeater peeping dowers is nob an makes
vase ea he loved to pant The ataractic of the hoe le ad-
mirably thin, and all the acammeriel are amorists is they
are wet* and midi* panted. Time other—" The vidi
to the MAW (13).-is very nimely es aceßart.
The Bahliakii Is, is we have aid, a amok bast than
wad that we lad me meet reline ..viral Igen melleste et
shwa wan Ishmeat, If novelty—nob fir momegleas the
cattleatimme 1 Ilseen, Sew, Diane, Beakner mad
Bights. The hedempee Miewlee demi enothir vlalt.
But vs awed with ham miliambig the very rimierkade
large piano eel the "Hew Hear ei Poltava; Wiegman
ago" (MO), width agog k alma itypeele almost to Whale
that in have ram Tuna, bt Xt. Devote.

We lune WS oar toot awe for Ur lod. It is a OWN of
intalligobs wldti wit deed Al our maws. We have bed
Ur post mama= lb Awl la Nos. 4 food 78 two weal
molded, by awls Lindowor, yid& ISM to cower dr
motoosos that Ito his mama from t►r arms Maui d led
Isomer.

MUSIC.

818 YAIHBI'PB THINTRIL

The Bohemia. Oirl, the lust popular of Baits's
operas, end probsitylio mod popular opera ever mitten for
the English sage, was predated ca Saturday amain la an
Delia dries, mist tin Ms of La Lisigara. The Behosaari
OW was origladly primal, Sheet yews yo, at Drury
tea*, whirs eantimed for sine' moons to keep almost
etchave poessados albs stage, wills it was produced at
any thesis la tha arm lindens that bad any pretension
to a medal clismetor. Ito =is was GIS lb. pianoforte in
every drawing-roan, and its Wart* airs wen
own fiddled., whieded by made- loving gdmosiu, sad ground
barrei-sevese V wary stress. Timonium& the United
Sites sad in our principal ookeies, its popsdarity has bees
ninny great; sad—what has never happeued to as Itagask
opera bdore-11 has literally made the grad Is. of Binope.
It has obtained the applause of then idiots Galen public,
sad the eacndems cd the best Gomm whim, fries the
Rhine sad the Ma le lie Danube ; it has bees chains for
the spoil eatirtainamat of convene' of sovereigns; and
at Vienna it has beta performed at three diarist theatres
cm the mess eventag. And to Italy, when a trimarans*"
music is so rarity admitted, its welcome has been alonet
squally gel. The Itsltea maim pertimed on Saturday
is not new, bat has {sag berm well known to that country.

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All this berg the MS, tbs open berg so teriak; to
everybody who haws anything about owes, and H. chars.
to being so thoroughly establithed by the senses deb.
whole musical world, ft would bs merles. and aboard new to
✓ake ft the slayer either of desurytka or oriliebea. A Ikrw
remarks on its eppenutos fa a bees mow to the E
radio are an we eassider to be called kw.
The Itallin vision le very weal deneori aldlddlyedepled
to the muele. That perdue at Oa due width la the
aetehal le gob= lathed auk to seised kid vat
reek sod the wok ag Se Mesta timpimer kale-
pig plates mime M serrewbat day end map% This le
• easequate or the Weak* el the hetet step whisk
dor ad mak aphis diabase; eel die divot, whoa •
Freak re Genus mile "era eseems w Dalian garb, is
always aalswerralds. Irina keliees Alf if' mem, Los
Dawns do le Omintesi, IMO pedaled to haw Lae het
....era—theeph a kw mpg* get sp. sad 'dabs* per-
heed—yet theplely d the salpet aired sadly team the
elliktatits et elajpeess reatetreit take eforkliap otredt7
elks IPeacitootapielpini. 1041:lis are is thaw with 114
Deksinfro Oil. The 1410•1940 mei sliellotbor
sad both Alamo* Stile adepoii,la tharldslima nyeamoi
• (boil eperk, a Oars& spathe et rellattw —4he dr*
recitative used on the older halm asp. ea which ve tad
the condo ernes at Ifoort, Cicala, sad Waal, where
the phrase ar the dielegee. lateral am lightly rad vapidly es
k tedkrey speetk are areeladdld seedy by et scud