The Express.
London, England, 1857-07-13 00:00:00

11F1 EXPRESS, MONDAY EVE ZING, JULY l3, 1867...

of the Indian Army. If it were nenessary
that the Commander-in-Chief in India should
be an officer of the Quitex's Army, probably no
better choice could have been made than Sir CoLtr
CAMPBELL. The promptitude with which that gal-
lant soldier baa responded to the call of Government
Is of itself sufficient to justify the choice made of
him. Still there can be no doubt that Sir PATRICK
GRANT is, in all that constitutes the soldier, at least
the equal of Sir COLIN CAnreexi, or of any
olden in the QUEE:eB Army. He is on the spot ;
and he may have quelled the mutiny by his
efforts before another arrives to reap the harvest
of his labours. This is unjust ; it cannot fail to
irritate and alienate the officers of the Com-
pany. service; and it is only rendered necessary
by the traditional narrow-mindedness and super-
ciliousness of the Horse Guards as respects the In-
dian Army. There must be a peremptory stop put to
that insolent spirit, which is understood to have
prevented Lord HARDINGE from attending the
dinner given by the India Company to Sir PATRICK
GRANT, and which now prevents Sir PATRICK
GRANT from being appointed to the chief
command in India. At this time there is
more to be done than merely to suppress a
mutiny: an Army has to be regenerated; and the
officer who has acquired all his military distinction
and experience in connexion with that Army is surely
the man best fitted for the task. The other measure
to which we have alluded is the adoption of a sys-
tem by which the English officer shall be brought
into more frequent and unreserved commutnia-
tion with the native soldiery he commands.
Retrospective criticism will, in • C 3.43 like
the present, be better avoided. The fact,
however, cannot be denied, that there has of
late been too little freedom of communication
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tercen the English officer and the native soldier.
The manner in which the Meerut mutiny took the
English officers by surprise is of itself sufficient
proof of this. For this evil the Company's
Government appear to have been principally to
blame. They have hampered the intercourse
between the officers and the men by all kinds
of pedantic restrictions. This must has, an
end. The men must be accustomed to look up to
their officers as powerful friends ; the officers accus-
tomed to rely upon the men as attached followers.
All this is compatible with the sternest discipline. It
is the severe, but just, and not harsh or passionate
officer who can make anything he pleues
of his soldiers. As subsidiary to the two measures
here recommended, the mischievous system of re-
warding meritorious officers by political appoint-
ments ought to be abolished. The army ought not
to be deprived of its best officers by converting them
into hybrids between the soldier and civilian ; the
officer ought to be taught to look for distinction in
his professional avocations alone. In this manner
the heterogeneous materials of which our native
armies ought to be composed may be fused into a
harmonious whole; our Indian soldiers of all castes,
religions, and races will come to be animated by
one common feeling of devotim to their standards.
Item we pause for the present. There are many
other reforms called for in our Indian pulley ; but
the regeneration of the Bengal .krtny is the imme-
diate task to be grappled with. To this end it is to
be hoped that Sir COLIN CAMPBELL goes out pre-
pared to let the Indian officers see that he, with the
feeling of a true soldier and a true gentleman. recog-
nises the Indian officer as in every respect the equal
of the officer in the Queen's army. It is also to be
hoped that the authority of the Govfinson-
GKNERAL over the COMM %MAR-IN-CHIEF is
for the time being to bc reduced to a medium. It
may be doubted whether in an emergency like the
present the offices of Governor-General and Com-
mander-in-Chief ought not to be vested in the same
person. But we suppose it would be (red-topically
speaking) impossible to recall Lord COINING imme-
diately; and assuredly his lordship would make
a queer Commander-in-Chief.

Ateliez,uor I‘VIIALE, during his late exami-
nation as a witness before the Mayo Election
Committee, declined to say what he considered to be
personal denunciation (ron the altar, assigning as

his reason for such refusal that he could lint till
whether the priest accusad of such offence might
not bo brought befor..., non a specific charge
of having so offended, and that he was unwilling
to commit himself till then to any opinion on a case
which he might have to decide as an ecclesiastical
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judge. No civil injury, however grave—no infrac-
tion of the public law, however serious—no vindica-
tion of race, creed, or country, however called for—
can be permitted to find place in the mind of this
Most Reverend Prelate, when the maintenance of
Romish discipline and teaching is or may colourably
be said to be involved. He was asked if declaring
that " the curse of the ALMIGHTY would rest on a
man if he voted for Colonel IitGGIN4 " would come
within the scope of the inhibition which he admitted
forbade political or personal denunciation' His
answer was, that until he had sufficient proof to
satisfy him that such words were actually uttered,
and until he bad satisfied himself regarding all the
circumstances of the case, ho would not say whether
he considered such an imprecation unjustifiable or not.
In other words, the priesthood, according to their
archiepiscopal chief, arc not to be condemned fur any
amount of interference at elections, however mis-
chievous or monstrous, until the accusation has been
removed from the ordinary tribunals of the laud to
that private and irresponsible court over which one
of their own order presides. We can conceive few
things more adeulated to injure the Roman Catholic
body in the estimation of their fellow-subjects than
the avowal of doctrines like these by uno of the
heads of their church.
There is something yet more strange and per-
plexing. It would appear from the admissions in ale
by the ATTOI.N E -GEN ERIL fur I D, in answer
to certain questions put to him in the ❑ouse
the other day, that not only have the witnesses
been bullied and menaced by certain persons within
the very precincts of the Representative Palate,
when leaving the Committee Room, but that upon

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their return to the iccoo of electoral eta,' hi ►re-

land they have been openly waylaid and amsaikd
with stick.; and stone.,andthat in some instances they

have sustained very mat, rial injuries. It is evident
that, under the enlightened teaching of a particular

school of episcopal and priestly pastoes of the
Roman Catholic Church, the people hove got into
their heads that the ultimate determination of all
election contests rests, and ought to rest, with the
anointed arbiters of all earthly right, and with
them or their push° instruments alone. We du no;
' mean to say that this theory of appellate jurisdic-
tion vested in the mob of Mayo and their ghostly
counsellors, is actually or openly promulgated by the
latter in so many words. Still less would we be
understood as intending to insinuate that such pre-
tensions are either recognised or sanctioned by the
more civilised portions of the Catholic, community in
other parts of the kingdom. But it is unhappily
too plain that in the remote region specially subject
to the erecier of St. iAtLATII, ideas and notions
regarding civil and ecclesiastical authority are
absolutely at variance with all we know and
reverence as the paramount claims of the former to

sieved obedience. In 114104 and, we believe, up*
tlsc oilier put of Irelinii,tteivery Beene orParlial
mast Ili. signal of submiagolland ne man dreams
el setting aside or setting at sought its sovereign
will. Connaught, or at least that portion of it which
oorunitutes the episcopal region of Tuam, appears to
have still to learn the duty of submission to the
orders and behests of the Legislature. Public opinion
there, if such it can be called, would applaud the
courage of the iron who would formally set at de-
fiance tho Se••••tes warrant to appear and give
evidence at the bar before a Committee of the House.
It will unquestionably extol as heroic and sublime
the evasions to which Archbishop M.Mte resorted
when examined, in order to avoid admitting disagree-
able truths ; and it but too plainly approves of the sum-
mary methods resorted to for punishing tlw humbler
witnesses from Mayo on their return home. Mr. FITZ-
UERALD persuaded the I loose of Commons the other
evening to entrust him, as Attorney-General fer
Ireland, with the vindication of its outraged autho-
rity. The hon. and learned gentleman quitted Lon-
don soon afterwards for the avowed purpose of car-
rying into effect Lis undertaking. We hope he may
succeed through the medium of the ordinary tribunals
of the realm; but if he fails, it will in our judgment
behove Parliament not to separate without taking
peremptory steps for the solution of its insulted
power and dignity.

PRESENTATION OF THE FREEDOM OF
TITS CITY TO knm-cs FREDERICK WILLIAM
OF PRUSSIA.-(THIS RAT)

This artenioon, according to arrangement, the
Prince Frederick William of Prussia, the affianced husband
of the Pen. as Royal of Englund, arrivod at tho Ouil.lh .11,
at one o'clock, for the purpose of hosing conferred upon biro
the freedom of the City of London, according to the es.-

mooed vish of the Court of Common Council, intimated to

his Royal Highness a fortnight eine..
Mr. Bunning Oho City architect) but fitted up the Guild-
hall to repreeent ■ chamber for the nesemliting of tho Court
of Common Council wed decorated it to do honour to tho

Prince of Prussia. Flap flail nations were ntopmled from the
Urge cornices. In the centre of the eastern window wu a bold
medallion of I ler Majesty dummied with golden lions, wreathe,
I and flag., beneath which, and at the &Res of the gallery for
the ladies, were euelanded heraldic ehielde of the several
nations. In the contra of the western window was a trophy

compnani of flags. The several oumpartraeuis un oacli o.s.e
of the hall were Alm° decorated with trophies of flap and

wreathe.
Immediately beneath the ladies' gallery at the cast end,
and in the moire of the hull, the chair from the Court of
Aldermen was phoied for the Lord Mayor, on the right of
which was a chair of state, comported of gal.! nail crimson
velvet, for the. Priem) of Pruaiiia; and ou the left was placed
a chair for his Royal Highness the Duke of Cam-
bridge, and oat either aide scats for the eldermon.
In the font were arranged scats fir the distin-
guished guest.. Oa the north and Keith *idea of
the Hall were stages in radiating lines in three heighta for
the gentlemen of the Common Council, behind which writs
ware provided fur ladies. lo the centre of the platform were
placed a table and wets for the onlecni, on a lower level than
the flor, so as in no way to impede the sight of the very
numerous company.
At the south entrance of the Groat Hall was Impended a
large curtain. On gothic jedeetals on each side of the
opposite d•tor on the north of the hall, were hurl two golden
figures of plenty. The lobbies and passages throughout
wero derontled with and the bertutiful Lust of her
Majesty, Ly Durham, to the Common Council Chamber was
alga derurAtod. _

Vain numtcra of people assembled in the neighbourhood
of the Guildhall at an early hoer, and by half pest twelve
eche+ every seat, except those appropriated to the priw pal
guests, was occupied.
Among the most distinguished panes were bin 'lyal
Highness the Doke of Cambridge, the French Ambasetior,
Earl of II arrowby, the Marquis of Breadalbane, Earl
Clarendon, the Fr wwian Minister and Countess Bern4nrlt the
Turkish Atuba.eador, Duke and Duch, me of Argyll, the
Shawl, of London awl Mrs. Tait, Sir George and Lady
Grey, the Belgian Miuiater, the American Minister, the
Greek Minister, &e.

Ilia royal highness hnving taken his scot upon n
chair of stale on the right of the Lord Mayor (the Duke
of Cambridge being on Lis kb), the court woo formally
opened, and the terolution of the court in favour of present-
ing the fnedocci of the City to l'rinosferia Wilhum of
Fruasie h.iving been read,
Sir John Key, city chamberlain, ad•lrcorod his Roysl
11i4Iiess Prince Frederick William, dcl.cting, at the rom-
menerment t.I his speech, upon the prertign attending the
freedom of the City, and then proceeded personally to apply
his remarks. The corporation could not forget (ho said)
that the guest whom their Quoin had delighted to honour