The Express.
London, England, 1857-10-02 00:00:00

SOLDIERS BY NBASUBB.

Soldiers are wanted by thousands, " for Chris-
tian service and true chivalry," to 811 the ranks of an
army that shall revenge swiftly and eurely atrocious outrages
committed on English women and English children. Yet re-
cruiting goes on but !thusly, considering the urgency of our
need end the loud cry fur vengeance on the Indian miscreants
that mounds throughout the land. Already suggestions
are being made for augmenting the number of recruits and
one practical hint front a recruiting officer (The noes,
Sept. 30th) eapecially claims attention. "During my
service," ho writes, " I have purled by many hundreds
of fine, sturdy fellows as unit to serve her Majesty, be-
cause Nature had denied them in length what she
had bountifully given them in strength of limb. Many a time
have I seen a stout, broad-shouldered lad go away disap-
pointed, and envying the good fortune of his lanky comrade,
the former being worth • doses of the latter."
The absurdity of the present system of selecting soldiers by
height, and making a regiment consist of so many feet of
human nature—long measure—cannot be too forcibly con-
demned. The physical qualifications of • good soldier do not
alone ennsist In his Lenten of leg, by which height is princi-
pally made up. Those tremendous fellows who "dazzle the
eye, and bewilder the brain" of aspiring housemaids, and who
look like the evening “liadows of somebody else, ere not always
proportionally endowed with strength.
We earnestly trust that the nee/tufty of allowing a
far larger dierretioury power to eurgeons exemin-
ling recruits will soon be admitted, that they
may take into consideration the weight, the chart
measurement, and the development of adult volunteers, fur
these are often of more importance than mere height.
It might be that thus we should obtain regiments in our Per-
ak* of lees awful aspect, but it remains to be proved that
they would be leas efficacious. One of the greatest feats of
modem warfare was accomplished by that troop of sturdy
mannikins known u tho Chasseure de Vincennes. How they
swanned like ben up apparently inseeemible heights, and
fought like heroes at the summit, is a well-remembered inci-
dent in the Crimean campaign. Tho exercise of bravery, the
physical working out of personal courage, requires certain
corporeal endowments which only physiological knowledge
can accurately gauge. Yet this is set aside, and the soldier
is measured by a stanciard about as reasonable and inexorable
as the bed employed by crusts to insure uniformity
amongst his gueeta.—The Lanett.

FRO/I CAwIePORE TO LUCKYTOW.—Let us ex-
amine the route. The stags' then to Lucknow are as follows:
From Cavnipore to Ouse, 10} miles, over a bad and hoavy
road, it being neetesary first to cross the Ganges, which rs
gyred nut to great width opposite Cawnpore. On. is a
large tillage ; and here, on the 30th of July, General Have-
lock engaged :md defeated on immensely superior force. The
nest stage is On. to Rehmatganj, 11l mile., over a bed and
much cot up rad, Noising the large village of Rtimganj half
way. Here again a second action was fought on the 31st
July and the enemy routed. A bad road leads to the nest
stage, Noelganj, 12 miles, The river Sys must be crossed
halfway on this stage, where Havelock was stopped by its
swollen stream, the opposite bank being lined with the enemy.
Had he succeeded in criwaing he would still have bad to
travel ten miles to Hadli K o Takiysh, at the entrance of the
city of Lucknow, whence to cantonments is nine miles
through the narrow streets of the city, acres the Ghoamtee
river by a bridge, which might be destmeed, end thence over
heavy sands.—Frren the Homeward Mail from India, China,
ad the East, of Oct. 1.

AGRA.—In a letter from the Fort, dated July 16,
owe of the ofiloers writes." We are in the Fort, but the
gates are c. pee, and supplies come in in abundance. Should we
be besieged, we have sun lent to feed 3,000 Europeans and
1,500 notice fur pin months, and by that time we ought to
be relieved "

I'REC%VTION AT CALCUTTA.—SeveraI European
firma and private individual. in Calcutta, who imported
revolvers and other fire-arms by the Peninsular and Oriemtal
Company's Steamer Bengal,. were refused delivery of the
lame by the Customs authorities on Saturday Lust. The im-
porters were informed, however, that they would obtain
delivery if they produced "special orders" from Mr. Cecil
Becton.—lir aged Hotrkerw, Aug. 20.

A PIIOIIIETLSS AT MUM—During one of the
recent engagements before Delhi, a female, dressed in green,
wee ISM leading on the rebels. She was at first taken for
the Buse Bale, and a rumour, of course, spread that elm
headed the OweUor troops; she, however, bad not left
Garaliar et the time, and may still be there. The female in
green, or the very green female, was taken prisoner and
confinea in secure quarters in our camp. She is described as
an ugly old woman, 'hart, and fut, end is mid to be a pro-
phetess of some note in the degraded city. It was first in-
tended to release this woman, but by the last accounts she
was still kept a prisoner, in the hope, we presume, of elicit-
ing some important information from her.
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A letter from Cannes, of the 29th ult., says :
" I regret to be obliged to inform you that Madame Rachel
still lies in • very desperate elate. tier fever and cough,
after having in a great measure disappeared, returned some
days Lack with redoubled violence, and prevent her enjoying
the slightest repose. Tier father, norther. and one of Ler
two eons have arrived Lere. The other boy in exported im-
mediately. The pm-Knee of her family has, however, pro-
duced a alight chsoge for the bitter in the {anent."
An immense vulture was shot last week in the
Gast of liierpe, near Lute. The naturalist. of that place
stte it to be • specimen of the grand condor of the

A USEFUL Ex.tmrtE.—A trial for • bank fraud
on Thursday at Stirling resulted in a verdict which promitics
to form * von useful example. Mr. Salmon, the manager
of the Falkirk branch of the Commercial Bank of Sootiest!,
was recently discovered to have misappropriated between
2.5,0001. and 30,0001. of the sum entrusted to him. Ile was
• justice of the peace, and elder of the church, an ex-provost
of the town, and a prominent {edified leader. When Le
found that hie delinquency had become known he ab-
sconded, and hanged himself in the stable of •
pub/whence. The mime of legal justice was therefore in
his case ended. lint there had been two clerks in the eetali-
lishment named Reid and Gentle', who Lad been fully cog-
, Meant of his ptomaines, so they had abetted him in falai-
fy the books, although they au not appear to have parti-
cipated in the slightest degree in the plunder. These seen
the bank were advised to prosecute criminelly, and the jury
by a majority of nine to sax has just pronounced them guilty.
The ecemiderationa that as very young men they were
greatly under the influence lit a personage enjoying
the local position of Mr. Salmon ; that they had
hitherto conducted themselves respectably, and that
they had not personally had a single farthing of the money,
were at the same time allowed due weight, and they were
recommended in the strongest possible manner to the leni-
ency of the court. Lord liandyside, the judge, concurred in
this view within proper limits, and instead of transportation
their etsteace wen eighteen months imprisonment in Perth
Penitentiary. The wholesome lemon will ereordingly go
forth that all persons who wilfully assist in concealing pecu-
niary midpractiees, even though they may themselves take
an share of the proceeds of the fraud, are ignouti•
Mous punishment.—Times.
FATAL BICLL FIGTIT.—A bull fight, accompanied
with fatal results, occurred last week near the Orange sta-
tion on the Gloucester and Dean Forest Ittilwey. Twu
bulls, the property of different farmer*, were greslug on op-
posite Aide* of tic line, and seem to have conceived & deadly
enmity toward, each other. They each Lisped over a five-
lamed gate upon the railway, and a tierce vended ensued,
when the down express•train approached, end immediately
put on end to the tight, and to the existence of the combat-
onto. One of the intim]; was sent ationiog into • ditch by
the aide of the railway, and the other was Stuck full in the
side by the engine, and knocked a distance of at least twenty
yards upon the metals of the up-lice. We understand the
owners of the cattle hare made •chsira upon the company for
compensation.-2lWfistpAsts Scrim.