The Express.
London, England, 1868-03-27 00:00:00

Mrs. Clark has lett the Castle.

to the Horse Guards that Sir
owed this valuable suggestion.

to my, to the Juooe AD'
the Liberal Government,
who is still most anxious to

rdiny expresaion of opinion for oft
*tir to whom undoubteilly, in conjunction
other Liberal Ministers of the Pat
Sir GZOROZ OUT and Mr. Cowrie,
mace of the punishment of flogging
in last year's Mutiny Bill was principall

The amended amendment was
House, by a majority of 13 only, thanks to
Mr. Orwar's perseverance. When it was pro-
posed to confine flogging in cases of mutiny and
violent insubordination to 9 per cent. only of the
army, it was argued by the abolitionists that it
could be hardly worth while to retain • punish-
ment which deterred the better class of men from
joining the service, for the sake of so small a number
whom it would be better to drum out of the ranks
than to keep dangling betwesn gaol and hospital
at the oast of the country and to the disgrace of the
service. To this the advocates of the punishment
replied that to discharge the bad men would be
no punishment at all, and that in the existing state
of the recruiting market the services even of de-
graded men could not be spared. The abolitionist
contended, as we think unanswerably, that to retala
in the ranks men who weee incessantly in gaol or
hospital for the mere sake of making an example of
them, was false economy in every sense, since it
would deter better men from joining the service,
and demoralize the good men already in the ranks,
by subjecting them for purely military offences to
a punishment inflicted in civil life only on
" cowardly garotters and convicted felons."
This obvious consideration was pressed again last
evening with great force by the member for Chatham,
but on this occasion he was enabled by the pro-
gress of legislation within the last twelve-
months to enlarge his argument. " This
" parliament," said Mr. Orwar, " has admitted
" the fathers and brothers of these men within the
" pale of the constitution ; let it also endeavour
" to elevate instead of degrade the soldier, and to

" make him feel that he is the armed citizen
" of a free country." Militarygentlemenwould per-
haps listen with some impatience to language
of this kind as more befitting the platform
of a popular meeting. But we would ask
to forget for a moment their professional
instincts and habits (it is happily not difficult
for British officers to remember that before
being " army men" they are Englishmen),
and to weigh well the sense of words
which will certainly find an echo at the next
general election if the War-office and the Horse
Guards should again presume to dispute the vote
of the Committee. We should be sorry to do injustice
to the motives or the sentiments of any gallant
officers who haveconscientionsly defended a punish-
ment which they believe to be indispensable
in certain cases, to the discipline of the army. It
cannot be a pleasant task for any Englishman,
soldier or civilian, to speak in favour of the
punishment of flogging. And we are ready to
believe that nothing but a strong—though, as we
think, a mistaken—sense of duty would induce
the gallant member for Berks—an officer
of rare distinction and experience, be-
loved no doubt by the men who served
under him in many a hard fought field who
always speaks on military subjects with
the authority of brilliant services—to insist,
with evident reluctance indeed, on the
necessity of the lash for the punishment
of offences which in the Russian army would be
visited with the stick, and in the French army with
death. Flogging in the army has never been a
party question. On both aides of the House there
have been found both civil and milituy abolition-
ists of the punishment ; and on both there have
been found—we will not say advocates of the lash
—but soldiers and civilians who have been unable
to persuade themselves that in a volunteer army, in
timeof peace, and in the present day, abarbarous and
degrading punishment can be safely dispensed with
for purely military offences. Bir CHAIM'S Itream
stated last evening that only 17 cues of flog-
ging had occurred in the whole British
army during the last twelvemonth, while
no less than 26,000 men had re-engaged,
• larger number than bad re-engaged in the seven
preceding years. This satisfactory state of the
recruiting market he attributed to the addition of
2d. a day to the soldiers' pay, which he said had
resulted in a much better and more con-
tented class joining the army. We agree with
Mr. TRIVELYAN in accepting these statements of
the member for Berks as the strongest arguments
in favour of Mr. Orway's motion, and we are in-
clined to give the gallant officer some part of the

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honour of the happy result of the diviaion. No
one desires for a moment to impair the discipline
of the army ; no one supposes that any army can
" " ' •

be kept together whether in peace or war without •
just severity. We cordially accept Sir C. Rus-
sax Cs assurance that corporal punishment
has been exercised of late with great
moderation and great reluctance ; bus
we take the liberty to congratulate him and the
whole British army on the abolition of a punish-
ment which has never deterred thieves and ruffians
from enlisting, but has certainly de-
terred that class of men whom 2d. a day
additional will not seduce from the labour
market, except in bad times, who would never be
guilty of any other than purely military offences,
and who would prefer death to degradation. Of
such a class of men, we venture to believe, the
whole British army of the future will be made,

The Quest will hold a Council at Windex Castle to- I
morrow (Saturday).
Despatches were recei►ed yesterday at the Colonial-
sSoo from the Go►ernors of the Cape of Good Hope,
Natal, and SL Helena. Despatches were sent to the
Governor-General of Canada.

A deputation front the harbour authorities of Aber-
deen, Arbroath, Beni!, Belfast, (Arneson, Dundee,
Exeter, Fraserburgh, Faversham), Great Yarmouth,
Greenock, Invernees, Ipswich, Limerick, Llanolty, Mary.
port, Montrose, Penzance, Port Glasgow, Sandwich, Sear-
borough, Sligo, Stmaraer, Swansea, Stornoway, Ti..,
Teignesouth, Wells near the Sea, Wear*, Wexford, Wiz-
beach, sad Whitby, bad an interview with the Right Hen.
H. Himmel in Downing.strest, yeaterday,on the subjectof
the proposed extension of " The Harbour and Pawing Tells
A 4, 1861." The deputation wea introduced by Sir John
Ogilry,Bart ,11. P., and accompanied by the baked Cleve-
land, the Earl of Strathmore, the Bari of Camperdown,
and a large body of the members of the House of dose-
men.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer received yesterday, in
Downingetreet, • deputation from the University of Edin-
burgh, praying for an augmentation of the salary of
Principal. Dr. Alexander Wood, Chancellor's Assessor,
represented the University, and was introduced by the
Lord Advocate, and aoeompanied by the Marquis of Lorn
and several members of the House of Commons.

CABINET Cor sm. —There will be a Cabinet
Council to-day at the First Lord of the Treasury's
official residence in Downing-street.

VISIT OF THE PICINOE OF WALLS TO lERLAND.
It has been arranged that his Royal Highness the Prince
of Wallin shall proceed to Inland in her Majesty's yacht
Enchantrem, Commander Petly,whieh has been Mikan into
basin at Woolwich Dockyard, where she is undergoing re-
pair and embellishment for the purpose.

A large party will assemble at Althorp Hall 'next
week foe the Northamptonshire races. The Fart and
Countess of Westmorland and Lord and Lady Charlie
Bruce will be amoug the visitors.

Lady Sarah Spenoer, Lady Cecilia Molyneux,
Captain Seymour, and Captain Boyle have annespented the
Earl and Countess Spenoer in their visit to Spain. The
Earl and Opuntia Spencer intend to be absent until • fort-
night after loafer.
Sir John Ogilvy entertained at dinner on Wed-
nesday, at his residence in Grafton-street—Earl Hassell,
the Bari and Countess of Airlie, the Sid of Carnarvon,
Sir Samuel and Lady Baker, Lord Ronald Levevon-Gower,
ELY., Mr. and Mrs. Medford, Mr. Elliott, Kr. F. Dutton,
&a.

Mr. Whitmore, M.P., and Mrs. Whitmore
entertained at dinner on Wednesday evening, is Eaton-
place, Viscount Hawardea and the Hon. Miss Maude, the
Hon. Henry Law, Mrs. sod Miss Law, Sir John and Lady
liartopp, the Solicitor-General and Lady Brett, Mr.
Ormsby Gore, General Lawrenson, Kr. GoMburti, Sc.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer received yes-
terday, in Downfutg-street, s deputation from the Univer-
sity of Edinburgh, praying for an augmentation of the
salary of the principal. Dr. Alex. Wood, Chancellor's
armor, represented the university, and wu introduoed
by the Lord Attu's* and untepanied by the Marquis
of Lorn and many members of the Rouse of Commons.

A change for the better has taken plaoe in the
condition of the venerable Earl of Roden, and hopes are
now entertained, advanced in age though he is, that his
lordship will recover.

Tae SPEAKER'. DINNER.—The Right Hon. the
Speaker gave his sixth parliamentary full-dress dinner oo
Wedeeday evening to the following noblemen and gen-
tlemen :—Zeri of Restive, Lord Hobo, Lord Bingham,
Lord Battu* Cecil, Hon. Colonel Annerdey, Hon. H.
Cole, Hon. Colonel Bernard, Hon. Colonel Knox, Sir
George Bowyer, Sir M. White Ridley, Sir Thomas Hes.'
birth, Sir Lemma Palk. Sir John Walsh, Colonel Fees,
Colonel Gray, Colonel N. Start, Colonel Cartwright, Colo.
nel Leslie, Major Cornwell Leglo, Major Windsor Parker,
Captain D. P. Bamford, Mr. R. York, Mr. &widen, Mr.
St. Anbyn, Mr. N. de Rothschild, Mr. !lepton, Mr. Pugh,
Mr. W. Lowther, Mr. O'Neill, Mr. Laird, Mr. Braes, M.
Kekewich, Mr. Winterbotham, Mr. Maley, Mr. Warner,
Mr. Potter ; Rev. Dr. Merivale, chaplain ; Mr. Alfred
Denison, private secretary. The right hon. gentleman
afterwards held a levee, which was well attended.

The marriage of the young Countess Zamoyaka
with Count Wadgoski is looked upon with groat interest
by the fashionable world of Poland. The ceremony is to
bike place in that country, and the bride and bridegroom
will leave the same day for Paris. Up to the present time
the mantes, has occupied bet father's mansion, the Moat•
morenoy Villa, at AnteoiL

Mr. Blake has given notice of a singular quest-
' non on Heade, night. He intends to ask tbeChiet Secre-
tary far Inland, " whether he has seen an aooeunt of the
government authorities at Cork having ompelled two re-
spectable girls, who were present at Ifeekny's trial (me
the sister-in-law to the prisms") to undress in an exposed
mem, in diemprd of their entreaties that the blind of the
window Amid be drawn down while Waymire mdreasing;
and to ask if he will direct inquiries to be made as so
whether that essoent is tree."

On Mond*y Mr. Cowper will ask the Tint Com-
missioner of Works whether arrangements am in pro-
gram at Burlhigtee-heoes to enable the Royal Academy
to vacate in the early part of next year, the parries
occupied by then in Tratalpriquare.

After taster Kr. Fawcett will move "That, in
the opinion of this house, ostballos, posbyterians and other
Inhabitants in Inland, will not be plated in a position of
equality, in reference to univenity saneatioe, with members
of the established church, until all religious disabilities are
removed from the fellowships, sebelerships, and other
honours and eniolumenta of Trinity College, Dublin. That
this house, is order to give men 'complete affect to the
foregoing reestudea, is et 'pinks that an emotive amp
mimics should be appointed, views duty it should he so to
marriage the existing mersanes el Trinity College,
that it may be ambled setinfaetorlly to fuldi the functions
of a national institution."

at Queenstown at 6 a.m. to-day, with 76 cabin pas-
senger, and 121,913 dole. in specie. She landed
106 sacks of mails and eight passengers, and pro-
ceeded for Liverpool at 6.15, all well, carrying on
with her the Liveipool and Scotch mails.

NSW YORK. Dimwit 18, Noo,.

It is reported that Mr. Stanton, apprehending a
guerilla raid upon the War-office from Virginia,
has ordered the garrison of Washington to be held
in readiness.

Major-General Thomas has notified to General
Grant that an armed organisation is being effected
in Tennessee to take forcible possession of the Cen-
tral State Government. General Grant has au-
thorised General Thomas to use all the force at his
disposal to protect the State authorities.
The bill to admit Alabama representatives to
Congress has been re-committed by the House of
Representatives to the Reconstruction Committee.
Mr. Thaddeus Stevens opposed the bill. Messrs.
Brooks and Beck,democrata,submitted the minority '
report of the Reconstruction Committee, opposing
the new constitution in Alabama as grossly unjust
in enfranchising masses of ignorant negroes, dis-
franchising intelligent whites, giving non tax-
paying negroes the power of imposing taxes, and
generally being framed in the interest of Northern
office-seekers.

A bill has been introduced in the house,
and referred to the Committee for Ways and
Means, providing for the re-issue of legal tenders
that have been withdrawn from circulation.
General Hancock has left New Orleans for Wash-
ington to confer with the President relative to his
resignation of the command of the Fifth Military
District, leaving General Reynolds in temporary
command.

St. Patrick's Day has been enthusiastically ob-
served by the Irish residents in the principal cities of
the Union, and passed off without disturbance.

Advice' from Cuba state that General Lersundi
had ordered the Bishop of Cuba to leave the
island for insubordination.

THE AMERICAN SQUADRON IN THE
MEDITERRANEAN.
ROMS, BURCH 26.
Admiral Farragut left for Naples yesterday. On
Tuesday, the Americanbanker, Mr. Hooker, gave a
splendid soirée in honour of the Admiral. Most
of the members of the diplomatic body and the Pre-
fect of Naples were present.

NAPLES, MAId 26.

Admiral Farragut has arrived here. He will
leave Naples shortly with the American squadron
to visit Messina, Palermo, Malta, and Constanti-
nople.

FRANCE.
NICE, MAIM 2G, EVENING.

The Czarewitch presided to-day at the inaugura-
tion of the Mortuary Chapel erected in memory of
his late brother. Invitations to be present at the
ceremony were issued to the French authorities, the
Russian subjects, and the resident notabilities.
The Cvarewitch will leave for St. Petersburg on
Saturday.

THE DISTURBANCE/3 IN BELGIUM.
BRUBBELB, MAICH 27.

A merlons conflict took place at midnight at
Chateliiaeau between the troops and the rioters,
in which eight men were killed and ten wounded.

The Council of Ministers assembled twice in the
course of last evening.

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