The Express.
London, England, 1856-10-25 00:00:00

FORD.

On Thursday Major Owed Williams calved in
tthehisford, on his way he Great %lam Wane he was
proceeding spay a short oluit la lie old =Usk in arms.
Major Mir. Os Mamese, at a pethffill hissing held la
the tewa-hall, it was reell that a uomplimentery ad-
dress should be peasseal to an General on his arrival in
the town. .11S Thhhiday the Omni was met
at the railway station a amber Of biennial inhabi-
tants of the town and ant hollihstod to the Shirehall,
where the address was net by the E. C. A. Bt. John
General WILMA= NM—Ladies aad Gentlemen, in ac-
cepting the inviistias of my friend and old comrade, Major
Shinier, I was hopes that I should have beta allowed to
enter his house quietly, awn, and naaolieed—(cries of
" No, ref')—but you have willed It *therein, ; and it is my
duty to attempt to thank you la fitting tents for the honour
you have this day doss me. (Loud chem.) You hays
ben pleased to tell me you entirely approve of my conduct
in the difiletaltpoeitioa I wee placed In in the But. I can
smote you that to hear each words from my countrymen
sad my countrywomea is most conssling, and the more so
bemuse they no borae oat by the military opinion, I may
say, of a great part of Europe. I received in Russia, in
Pinson, and in Proses, proofs of the same sympathy sod
approval that you have shows me, from the military men
of then salons. (Cheers.) Therefore lam induced to
hope that the opinion you have expressed of the conduct of
myself and my aWee-denamp, one of whom is here, is •
jut one--that it was such as the occasion called for, end
that we perfumed oar duties and executed the sage instruc-
tions gives as by the allies, with all the firmness and
container that the means la our power suabled us to
do. (Load chew.) I my this because there have
been lately attempts made to detract from that
defend, or rather to prove that we win wing in de-
fending Bars at all. I will sot enter into that question
hen. It is a military one. But I will remark that in de-
fending Ban, which, as the result proved, was unasesil•
able, except by femiae, we saved from the enemy a groat
part of Asia Minor, and perhaps the Turkish capital itself.
(Cheers.) Therefore, anything that has been written, or
may be written upon that subject will not detract one iota
from the defence dist was there made. (Cheers.) I will
sty no more on that. I will now come to another sub-
joet which I wish to bring before you—that I. the oon-
stoney, enrage, and valour of the Turkish soldiers who
stood by the aide of sae In that defeat*. I think this is an
set of justice. I feel it would not be doing justice to those
who fell In the defense, if I were to remain
silent on this point. (Cheers.) 1 believe that
where there is that military virtue, courage, much
ma be hoped for. This has been questioned. I
received the other day a letter from a kind friend of mine
who her • different opinion on ibis subject, and he says—
" I saintot agree with you that there is hope for Turkey
from the mange of the soldiers, for look et tangos's, and
the way la which the Pertaguese 'oldie's fought under
British °Sean." I have net showered that letter, bat I say
he has confirmed osisioopial
Ink en that lounge shown et Sa-
ragasa, sad by the soldiers, has preserved them
is their indenadease la day. (Olesses.) Whetter they
are misgoverned se sae. they mesaillins. The French are not
in Saragossa, the Bpsstsris an soils Portugal. I enaction
this in regard to Turkey bow, I believe our policy is to
be patient with that satin when it is enlarged is reformieg
itself. We know what the difficulty was of canying out
reforms in this country, sad we must have a fellow feeling
for them. (Cheep) I will sow tutu to another point. You
say at the end of this address that you wish me prosperity
in my future Goner. Now, on my ant snivel at Diver I
(aniseed to the people, is reply to as editions there, that
all wee thinness as to the future of our military establish-
ments; end I uttered a few wird* which have echoed
through this laud, I am led to believe, withroosiderable effect
—tt Woe to the anion that neglects the military art."
(Cheers.) Now soother and a new era bee dawned on us.
We is. establistimeate formed to remodel our army ; we
see the numbers that wen preserved after the peace, and we
have every hope that such ameliorations and ngulations will
be introduced that we shall have in this country a forte that
shall be capable of keeping the enemy from us, that we may
not have our hearths polluted by foreign soldiers, and no
one during our lives or the lives of our children may hear
the foreign soldiers my, "Wee to the vaaquished I"
(Chem.) These few remarks, I trust, will not be an-
'adored irrelevant to the minion. As you had gemmed a
wish forth* prosperity of my fature career, I have said this
to show that in or out of parliament I shall support those
messes* that may give weight to these nesilerations, bare
a tendency to prodeet ourselves as a nation, and defend the
greaten accumulation of wealth ever collected in any
country. Ido not wain sae man more. (Cheer.) I will
not detain you logger; but thank you from my heart for
the homier you have dose me, and the cordiality of the re-
ception you have given me, and the sympathy yen have
upraised in the difficulties by which I wee surrounded, as
embodied in this address. (Cheets.)—Cheinisford Chsosicb.

DISMISSAL OF THE PEACTICAL JOKEILS.—One
Brighton conmpoadest informs us that a long letter has
been addressed by the Adjatsnt•Ueural of the Army, by
direction of his Royal Highness the consmaderin-Chief,
to the °film r °manuals; the 4th Light Dragoons, sta.
dosed at that place, eonnesting in no seitasseed terms upon
the lax discipline prevailing in the regiment, to which the
late most disgraceful 'ninetiese lately brought before the
pabile may be in part attributed.— Unseal Servies Gazigle.

Two Under-Secretaryship. in the War Depart-
'mat are, we (Unit! Soviet Gamine) hear, to be reduced.
Colonel Mandy and Mr. Mansell vacate their appoint-
ment'.

Advertisements of 'amitosis and annuals for 1857,
ars now making their appearance.

A oew poem, in nine books, by Mrs. Elizabeth
Barrett Browsing, entitled "Aaron Leigb," will be pub
lished seat laontb.

Toe whole of the literary productions which ap-
peared in Ramie daring the year 1856, amount bat to
1,200.

Protests bare already been made by come of the
patties blographieed by M. Ahriman (mom' ot►ers Ma-
dam* Declarant) easiest that geatlemeit's statement/ as
mythical. M. de Merl:court, however, coatings' to write
on, as the following portion cf a note published in the
Journal des Dibets will testify A biography of M.
Victor Cousin has been communicated to us, in which it
hoe pleased the author, M. de Miriaourt, to amigo as a
part. We owe it to the public and to M. Cousin to declare
that there is sot a word of truth in the two anecdotes in
which we have been Nude to figure. M. de Miricourt nar-
rates a third anscdcee, borrowed by him from L'lndepertd
awe Belga, which be attributes to M. Eugene Despots. Our
friesd, M. Dope's, begs us to declare that be has never
written a lilts in that journal, &c.—(gigged) Z. VACIIIIROT,
Jut ta BAIN!'" To this M. de Muclemart has answered by
another letter, pledging Memel( to maiatain his facts.

Amateur composers, actors, and singers, are Ming
la ambition. Among other regularly organised establish
mints of the kind, we may note at home that of the " Na-
tional Dramatic Clab, for the private amateur representation
of the works of British Authors," jest opening Its winter
warm. On the Continent the development of like tastes
and accomplishments takes higher flighta—sisoe our bre-

throb taros' the Chantal an tatting of Hastier opera pot-
fortunate &hint to H pablialy gives it Paris, with Prince
Joseph Posiatowski at their head.

The trustees of ties new fund of 2,600 L, so liberally
gives by Mr. John Shekespeare for the temptation of the
preservation end separation of the Howe at Stratford-upon.
Avon, is which Shakespeare was bore, have just purchased
the two progert,, one on each side of the house in Henley-
sweet, known as Bseke's property," for I,oooi, end es
" Warden's property," for 4401. Of thus two plots of
grayed, with the buildings span them, the trustees will be
in possession at Lady.day nest. During the spring and
tammer the trustees will apply the rest of the money in
their hands to the further isseompliehsaent of the object to
view, in order to render, se far es passible, the birthplace of
Shakespeare as Imperishable es his works.
MISTING AT DERBY IN SUPPORT OF ITALIAN
firDsrmenancs —Oa Thursday evening a crowded meeting
was held in the Town-hell, Derby, conceded by the mayor
ice oompliante with a numerously signed requisition, for the
purpose of expressing sympathy with the cause of Italian
independence. The meeting wu addressed by Mr. Cows-
cillor litchis, Mr. Charles Furtado Ache latter gentleman
having attended as ads putation from the London committee
of the :Society of Friends of Italy), Mr. Butler, and the Bev.
J. Griffiths. Betiolutioas were unanimously agreed to
deprecating the strneitles which Austria had inflicted upon
Hungary, Poland, Italy, to , protesting especially against
her interference in the latter emautry, and calling Ulk the
British nation to contribute the scout aticestary for deli.
coring, is kind, 100 cannons for Sardinia, and 10,000 trifles
for those :talians who should in duo time unfurl the national
standard; as al.o to abstain from forming alliances with
depots. Some suberriptions having been handed Ia for the
Italian fmd, the proceedings terminated with a vote of
thanks to the mayor for presidim,
ORRIN SPECULATORS IN

-We under-

stand the Oreeks of the Liverpool Bedtimes dubbed toge-
ther this week, and bevies raised 100,0001., operated in
moon ss telvastagoonsly that thy realised a petit of
30,0001.—Meadroder Citarehas.
RerRESEPTATION or HtitTrOßD.—lt hen been
ledestNotte4 reported daring the past week, that the Hon.
Mr. Cowper hes secepted the ethos of Chairman of the
Board of lolaad Beireene; and we understand that active
usemures hare been taken to provide a siscoseor to Mr.
Cowper in de representation of this borough, as he, on the
acceptance d the ofileirl wondered, would have to vacate
his mt. leader to quiet the hen of those of the inhabi-
tants who may sot desire the change which is Wing pre-
pared for them and to save the gentlemen who are specu-
lating on the :lances of an election the trouble of proms-
ten activity, we beg to state that than is not the .lightest
truth in the mom ; that, is short, it Is an utter absurdity ;
and that Mr. Cowper is sot likely to relinqaish the bonoar-
able post he Iris as representative of Hartford, so loop as
he enjoys .
tt• conedince of his mastitainsto.—Herfford
,
Mawr