The Express.
London, England, 1857-09-19 00:00:00

ease; and no plan of
matt admissible which toes not involve machinery-
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for reviving the health end vitality of oor soldiers by
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periodical sojourn in a temperate climate. There are tithe;
considerations which have lass force at meant than st other
times. Exceptional remains' stand for the moment In need
of no lila iftentiOn , but, in the long ran, we shall aawaradly
chafe at the judgment which our critics In Europe sad
America will not be slow to par on our &minim, if It

allowed to rest permanently- on the bayonets of a foreign
soldiery. Oar Indian empire will be somoely more in hare
teeny with our situation in Europe, if we adopt the nutrias
principle of playing nationalities spinet each other by
committing the guardianship of the Bonged province to
Ohoorkea and Sikhs, who have no more affinity for Hindoos
than a Turk has for ea Irishman or a Swede.

The Leader enters its protest against the present
system of literary puffing, and observes that when, slier all
forms of puffing have bees tried in vein, the book remise
unsold, a fresh title page Is plated. The volume formerly
called " The War in the Punjab," is now called " The Be.
gal kintbsy." " Misery," a tale of appalling intend, reap.
pears se " Woe! Woe I" a work which should be in every
young lady's hands. It will come out next year se
" Eualine; or, the Story of an Anguished Heart." We
shall be told, "This is a fiction of surpassing power." Bat
who will tell us? One who would as willingly indite the
peeks of a pill or a paletot as promote the immortality of
" Bualine." There may be no rice, no dishonesty in the
practice; but if it misleads the public, it is at least per.
airless, and ought to be known fur what it Is.

The Press is given to understand that recruiting
for the srmy does not advance with cc much rapidity as
might be desired in the grave emergencies of the present
crisis. Whether it is that the pressure upon the labour
market, in all its various branches, is unusually severe or
that the enrolling of the militia corps, either for embodiment
or for training, has lessened the supply of that
class of men who are available for the military
service, or that the inducements to enlist in- the
form of bounty, pension, and similar advantages, have not
been raised in proportion to the exigencies of the eccaaion—
whether one or all of these canoes conjointly and in their
several degrees have contributed to tho result, we know not.
We are inclined to believe that enough has not loan done to
render the profusion of arms an object of ambition to the
industrial population. We cannot see the use of the
restrictions as to height and age which are now in force,
In an emergency of this character expedition is everything,
and we are still of opinion that if our standing army must be
hummed, the quickest and most effective mode of doing en
would be to firm an auxiliary corps of such regiments of
militia as see willing, with their officers, to be enrolled in the
Queen's irony. It would be easy to make them distinct, if
it should be thought necessary to do so, and the inducements
of half-pay pensions sod widows' allowances might verg
properly be held out to them.
The Dispatch still enforces the advantages which
the conquests of commerce have over those of armies, and
sake—" Will our people take warning! Will they say with
us, No more conquests, no more territory; contract our
liabilities, eschew all new obligations I" We are about to
renew oar Atrium expeditions. Perpetual wars with the
Kaffir. have made the Cape se yet wholly unprofitable to
us. We have cloven regiments of the line there, which
Governor Grey says he connot safely spare for India. Will
we now learn the common sense of the maxim that customers
are better than nominal subjects, and that every now oats
quest is • new care, root, and responsibility, profitable only to
• Dowb,' and throe who patronise him! We fear we have
the answer in Ibis question—We have a Lord Cough and
a Lord Keene, but who ever heard of a Baron Barth, or
a Lord Livingstone r

Herepath's Journal suggests this is the time fos
reducing railway establishmenta. The government is is
want of withers for India, and none better can be had than
railways supply. They are, for the moat part, Englishmen
of the right metal. On the occasion of the last war—
with Roast‘—the railway companies performed a very
valuable similar service for the government. Tbs
reduction recommended is in surplus hands that hays
nothing to do with the safe running of trains, but only with
the handling of varpst bags and such like, and those em-
ployed on works of construction which need not be completed
in these times of war and money tightness. At some coin•
try railway statiouti, for instance, there ars shout as many
porters as passengers, which of course cannot be needed, and
cannot pay.

The United Service Gazette says :—" The recruit.
lag sergeant cannot stand against the temptation held out by
youth ambitious of obtaining commissions. A perfect army
would have been placed at the disposal of the Com-
mander-in-Chief in a very few weeks if the system had been
continued of giving an ensigncy for one hundred men, fee
offices were immediately opened all over the country, and 21.
per head offered in addition to the bounty. Recruiting
officers stood aghast at the competition, and the militia
colonels and adjutants were about to surrender is
despair. It has been announced, therefore, that for the
present the offer of commissions so a bonus is suspended,
and the recruiting must take its usual constr. By all wombe
there is no lack of men now that the harvest has been
gathered in all over the country.
The Atlas thinks there must be come suoh weighty
reason as the personal convenience of Somebody
's Couein
or surely even our government would not, at the present
eubject the public to an unnecesaary suspense of two or
three days in waiting for Indian news, as it does, by still in.
Mating that the despatches in anticipation of the overland Mall
shall be sent rim Cagliari. Cagliari is four, if not five, days'
tail from Alexandria, even fur a quick steamer; so that,
when the mails have safely pared the perils of the Indian
Oman and the desert five days, some time must elapse eee
any telegraphic hint of their contents can be put in motion.
Now, there happens to he a city called Constantinople, which
is only two days mil from Alexandria. and from which
city there is a telegraphic communication all the way Is
London. The queetiota then arises, why not send the
nails from Alexandria to Constantinople, and telegraph the
nature of thcir contents from Constantinople to London
One objection has been urged toads, that the line of telegraphic
communication with the Turkish capital runs through Aus-
trian territory, and our Government would rather trust their
secrets in safer keeping than the bands of our great Inverts;
(we beg pardon, and Royal) German ally. Very good;
but are they are in safer keeping now? What
guarantee have we for the fidelity of the !Imit-
ator and French governments to our interests in
preference to that of the Austrian? During the Crimean
war, when Austria was more than half siding with our
enemy, she transmitted our messages foe us faithfully.
Surely, now we are on such tremendously affectionate terms
with her, she may be relied upon foe the performance of the
same friendly office? At any rate, the short cut might be
tried; and, in the event of anything like a hitch, we could
return to the old roundabout route, as before. But the het
is, Anaria ie not the objection. Depend upon it, we was
right in our miens! surmise.

VACANCIESA APPOIN77/E2178, AND nem.
TION3 IN 7112 CIVIL SERVICE.

The Foreign Department—The office of CIAO
d'Affaires end Consul-General at Lima, Pero, has become
vacant by the death of Mr. Stephen H. Saran, Salary se
ConsulrGenervil, 1.7001.; na Charg6 d'Affaires, 356/.
Customs.—Mr. W. D. Cheater has been promoted feta
clerk first class to be a chief clerk in the Secretary's Ofilelle
London. Mr. John Smith has been promoted from smug
to drat elsw clerk in the Secretary's rDfilee, London. Mr.
It. C. Hallows has been promoted from third to Emend elm
clerk in the Seeretery's Office, London. Mr. Edwin Taylor
has been promoted from wend to first clue tidewsiter
London. Mr. Benjamin Sane has been promoted from tide-
waiter first clue to be tidesorveyor fourth clue in London:
Mr. Joseph Purdy has been promoted from locoed to Si
clew inspector of patrol at Liverpool. Mr. T. Dysart but
been promoted from second to first ease searcher at Dublin.
Inland Revenue Department (Stamps and TIM. Branch).
—Mr. W. H. Roberts, of the excise eurveying brands, bar
been appointed supernumerary surveyor of taxes.
Rut indirs.—Mr. 11. W. Peer. r, Prorisional Member of
Council, Bombay Prarideney, has been appothted a Member
of Council, in the room of the Hon. James G. Lumadfor
ruriT gned.
rinidad.—The office of Receiver-General of Trinidad 'Ai
become vacant by the death of the Hon. I. A. Allen.—Del
Sonia Gautk.