The Express.
London, England, 1857-09-02 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER

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he felt ; and then unless we have taken care to pro-
vide ourselves with an adequate memo the cry of
an indignant people will drive Lord PALBIZRATON
from office as it onee drove Lord ABERDEEN. There-
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OWL( tM and Tevistock are vacant—the one by
the promotion of Mr. BYNO to the higher representa-
tive post of member for Middlesex—the other by the
melancholy death of Mr. I%IIEI PLATT, who was
returned, as may be recollected, along with Mr.
COMMIT at the late general election.
Oldham is one of the modern constituencies created
by the Reform Hill of 1832. It is in some sort an out-
lying farm of Niuvichesteer political husbandry ; and
as might be expected its three coarse shift is seldom
more varied than the natural diversities of sympathy
in cotton and its manufactures will allow. At one
time the master interest prevails; at another, that
of the operative. Now we have "short time"
in full blow ; again " beim: faire" predo-
minates, and gives promise of abundant fruit.
At first nothing would go down at Oldham
but Coseerr and Cobbettisro. Then came the second
stage of FILLDEN and Fieldenism—not very easily
distinguishable from the former save by its lack of
wit sod want of nervous vigour. A great change
far the better was that which gave Wit-Liam JOHN-
SON Fox to Oldham for a representative. Ts
eloquence and earnestness of purpose wu then for
the first time added a genial spirit and unaffected
toleration of difference in opinion—graces and gua-
rantees for doing justice to all men, which Lanca-
shire in general, and Oldham in particular, boa
rarely seemed to seek for in her public men. Mr.
Fox, without any connexion with the place,
other than that which admiration of his
talents as • writer and a speaker had
created for him, was twice returned by large
majorities, and sat for Oldham for the ten years
that elapsed between the carrying of Free Trade
and the recent dissolution on the China Question.
A better representative there could not be. l)ili.
gent in attendance and regardless of personal or
party prejudice is his votes, his sympathy was ever
manifested fearlessly, though moffensively, in fa-
vour of the inadequately represented class from
which he originally sprang. There was about him
not a trace of the swagger sometimes betrayed by
men who have Ibeced their way upward in life; nor
a sour,d of that canting humility in presence of opu-
lent and well-born dulness which makes the people
too frequently ashamed of the men of their own
order whom they have sent to Parliament. Mr.
Fox was unanimously renpeeted by men
of all social conditions in the House of '
Commons, because he was one of the few
men there who was recognised as thoroughly
respecting himself and never forgetting the respect
due to others. Though full of sarea.sm and fond of
timely jest, nobody ever accused him of saying a
saucy thing to an opponent; and though ready to
yield unaffected deference to greater experience in a
leader of his party or • responsible Minister, no one
ever suspected him of trimming or truckling to snit
the whim or pleasure of those in power. His views
on the great subject of education were to some ex-
tent peculiar; but they were advanced with a gentle
yet irresistible suasiveness that made many a gen-
tleman, of moderate parts and immoderate desire
not to be wheedled oat of the opinions he had swain
to live and die in, exceedingly uneasy, until ousel
loud-sounding champion of " old high and dry"l
had assured him there was nothing in it, and
ground the familiar see-saw ditty in true
barrel-organ style long enough to obliterate the
recollection of the perplexing plaueibilitice of the
plausible little radical orator fur Oldham. For our
parts, Mr. Fox was a man whom we
without a sense of pride walk into tte House of
Commons; and among the many sad and shabby
things perpetrated at last general election, none
filled us with more disappointment and disgust than
the stupid blunder of letting him remain lowest on
the poll at Oldham. How it came about, or why
exactly it was done, matters not now. Fate has
presented the constituency of that metropolitan
borough of the North with an unlocked-for oppor-
tunity to efface their error. We hope nothing will
prevent their doing so.

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 2.

WE are resolved to re-establish our empire in
India. The only instrument we can use for that par-
lors is the British .army. Is the Government using
worry mesas to place and keep this instrument
in a state of etficien:y ? Do not let us sup-
pose that the task which has been cast upon us will
be of short duration : that the straggle will be short
and decisive. We have to create a new army.
We must look to a permanent addition to the Euro-
pean torn sin the East. Nor is this all. No one
ran read of the overwhelming disparity in numbers'
between the natives and the Europeans—of the
Herculean labouni imposed on our soldiers—of the
deadly effects of cholera, fever, and sun-stroke,
without sad forebodings as to the fate of those
gallant melt who are stemming the torrent of rebel-
lion till reinforcements arrive. We tremble to
think how few of the British officers and men in
India List Jane will ever revisit our shores.
Watching and toil must inevitably make fearful
harm even amongst those who hare for some time
been in India and have become acclimatised ;
but the fate of many of those who will aeon arrive
in India, and upon whom will at once be thrown
we-emulated labour, it is not difficult to conjecture.
There are, indes 41, souse 30,000 men already on
their way to India, but we must remember that
t►ey will not reach Calcutta together. They will
not arrive in a body. Detachments will come
dropping in, and they, we presume, will be for-
warded in separate bodies up the country. It is
obvious that this will sensibly add to their fatigue.
It is one thing to advance in a compact body to un-
dertake a great operation, with ample numbers, and
with the various duties so dietnbuted that no one is
overtasked : it is another thing to join in separate
detachments an already exhausted army, decimand
by disease and war, and for a time at lewd to under-
take the *Arne mass of various duties by which
an army has already been worn out. The encoonriag
Sam ensues into the field under every disadvantage.
Even now, from private letters, we hear something
of the effects of the climate upon men landing at this
mason. No doubt the wild excitement -the filed
resolution to avenge the unutterable wrongs inflicted
on our countrymen—nlove all on British women and
British children—will do much to sastain the strength
of the m why- landed troops and to drive back even
Death fur a time. Nevertheless, our lose must
be serious. In short, to any man of common
understanding it is obvious that our ranks must be
decimated ; and it is equally obvious that they must
be recruited. It is no slight task to keep up an army
of 80.000 Europeans in India. And unless we make
preparations on such a scale we cannot 'noire our
Indian Empire. We mast leave nothing to chance.
We must subdue Bengal, and maintain Bombay
and Madre*. We mast execute a terrible vengeance,
and that promptly, on (very human being who has
lent his finger to those atrocities which disgrace
humanity. But we most do more. We must not
only revere order within our own territories : we smut
overawe every I'otentate of the Fast. We must teach
the nations—Nepaul and China, Affghanistaa and
Persia—that our arms are not yet paralysed, that
we can still wield the sceptre and the sword.
Eastern people are proverbially influenced by the
imagination. This is an opportunity for us to
teach them a lemon which will lire in their memory
for centuries. As we have said, the only instrument
by which these results are to be achieved is a
British Army of some 80.000 men. We do not say
that that nomber must of necessity be in the field.
Bat preparation must be made to bring that number
into the fleld if necessary. And how do the Govern-
ment propose to do this ?

Tavistock is in many respects the antipodes of
Oldham. Its climate, surrounding scenery, occupa-
tions, actual size, and all the inter-acting influences
that conspire to affect its political character, ere
as unlike as possible. Yet in political feeling the
Devonshire country town and the Manchester
suburb are not so wide apart. If the inhabitants of
both could vote by ballot without the interference of
either landlord or employer, we do not say that they
would select their representatives from precisely the
same intellectual class of men, but we are disposed
to think that they would send to Parliament men
who upon the most stirring and mementoes ques-
tions of the day would probably be found voting in
the same lobby. Sir Jones TRELAIANT and Mr.
J. Cosnerr, the two remaining members for their
respective boroughs, are seldom very far apart in
their parliamentary course; and were the elec-
tors left to themselves we do not see why
the two member, to be elected ss their
colleagues within the next few days should not
add to the phalanx of resoluto and progressive
reformers. But Tavistock is one of those places which
were originally held as defensive outwork. of here-
ditary privilege in this country, and which in the
conflict of 1832 were but partially dismantled. One
half of its lordly walls were levelled at that time ; the
ploughshare of reform driven over the ruins; and
good healthy ten-pound franchise sowed where they
had previously stood. The remaining half still stand
where they used to do, and out of the crumbling
and devoted gateway there is seen to emerge peri-
odically a ducal nominee, of whose fitness, claims, or
opinions the dumbfounded onlookers know about so
much u the gaping crowd that follow the Nawab of
SURAT'S carriage in our streets do of his history,
grievances, er pretensions. By the terms of a sort
of bargain said to have been come to between the
electors of Tavistock and his Orace of Benroan,
they have been graciously permitted without molest-
ation to do what the law enjoins as regards one
member, and be is permitted, without protest or mur-
mur, to do what the law forbids as regards the other.
Thus Taviatock rejoices in one representative and
one appointee. It is the people's own fault if they
choose an incompetent or undeserving person for
their member; but do what they may, prefer whom
they please, trust whom they will, they cannot in-
fluence in the least degree the inscrutable counsels
of Woburn. The Duke of BEIVOILD may ira-

We have no desire to mess unfairly on men who
are charged with the terrible revonsibility of saving
an Empire. But in all sincerity Ministers do not
seem to be aware of the magnitude of the task which
they have undertaken. Lord PALMERSTON, indeed,
is said to have declared that if tho Dela news from
India was bud he would embody every militia regi-
ment in the kingdom, and send every soldier to
India. If he did, he would deserve the thanks of
his country. But what has he done? He has
simply added another hittolion to some of the regi-
ments of the hoc. and ha, embodied seven militia
regiments. Now this is wholly iiisafficient. What
re 7,000 Militiamen ?

In a crisis such as this the Militia must not only
itself perform important military duties, but it must
be the reverse for our Army in the field. If we are
to have en Army of anything like 80,000 in India.
frees what source are its ranks to be filled except
from the ranks of the Militia ? It was idle enough
to send striplings to the Crimea. According to Lord
War, the boy offitrr had not " a bit more know-
" ledge" of his professional business than a civilian ;
and the General irt command wrote home that if the
men sent out were not soldiers, it would be better
to send none at all. The neglect of such a warning
for coos was idle enough and cruel enough ; hut to do
the same thing again would be unpardonable. We,
must have a reserve of trained soldiers, old enough
to stand the climate and the Coigne. That reserve
most be drawn from the Militia; and if it Is

pose upon them whom he will ; and an
intelligent) freedoms-loving,. and perfectly un-
eorrdellted . body a electors find themselves
apparentli too few to assert sucoassfully the full
1 measure et their undeabted rights. In the present
iewattest the exercise of ducal authority seems to be
characterised by no other purpose than that of main-
taining the arbitrary principle of nomination pure
and simple. Had his Grace thought fit he might
have used the occasion to bring into Parliament
some man of talent who had never been there before,
or some man of distinction who bad been displaced
at the last dissolution. Nothing of the kind is con-
-1 templated. A nephew utterly unknown in the poll-
• tical world is the chosen individual w hom irresponsible
I" privilege delighteth to honour. It is difficult to un-
derstand an act so gratuitously provocative of
• bitter ridicule and reproach. The electors of Mid-
r diesel, without one dissentient voice, adopt a near
relative of the House of BEDFORD as their freely
chosen representative, and in the very same week
• if not on the eery same day, the noble head of that
- house marks his sense of the compliment by throw-
ing the seat for Tavistock to a young gentleman who
has done, and said, and written nothing that any-
• body ever beard of as even a presentable passport to
public fame.

Ebt Court.

Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston left town
yesterday for Broekett-hall, Herta.

- dbanealler of the liaclisq oar left town far Harpies,
Radnorshire, yesterday.
Earl Grenville also left town yesterday.
Despatches were seat frwn the Colonial-office to the
governors of the West India 'elands yesterday.

The following distinguished visitors are now
etsyhig at the Palatine Hotel, Meneheriter i—Hla Royal
Highness Due &Aureole, Her Royal Highness Ihieherae
d'Arimele, Her Royal Higher:as the Printer of Salerno,
HY Royal Highnere Comte de Pads, the Prince de Condi,
Duo de Chartres, and wide. The es-Queen of the French
will arrive today (Wedneaday), and her Majesty will visit
the Exhibition to-morrow (Thursday).
Lord Normanby has arrived in Paris from Flo-
Tele*.

The yacht of the Queen of England, the Victoria
and Albert, left Havre yesterday with the morning tide for
Portsmouth. She is to return, it is affirmed, towards the
end of September, hoeing on board Prince Albert and some
at the young princes on their way to visit the camp at
Chalons.

The city of Berlin has voted a sum of 160,000 fr.
fnr a work of art in silver, to be offered to Prince Frederic
William on too occasion of his marriage with the Priori..
Royal of England.

Possibly we do the Duke of BEDFORD wrong. It
may be that in a real, though esoteric zeal for the
cause of Parliamentary Reform he wishes to take or
make an opportunity for showing up the hollowness
and absurdity of the nomination system. Perhaps as
he read the last number of the Edinburgh Review, he
said within himself, "I will expose the baseness and
0 falsity of its excuses for preserving a non-elective
0 scheme of representation ; 1 will demonstrate the
" folly and fatuity of keeping up nomination boroughs
" r postern-gates whereby genius may enter the
" Legislature ; I will prove what is the natural
" use of such seats by returning an unknown
" youth of my family for Tavistoek, and that will
' stir the country from its apathy to reform!"

The Suisse of Bern gays :—" Reliable accounts re-
ceived from Prussia state that the health of the King inspires
serious unewineas. He bad en attack of apoplexy OWN time
ago at Ili'nits, and a second one only a few days since at
Potsdam. This we learn by private letters."

IN REMEMBRANCE OF THE LATE MR.
DOUGLAS JEIUHMAL

TO TNT ITDITOI 07 THII BILTRISM.
Sta,—The work we have carried on being now
brought to a clam, we beg leave through your
columns briefly to make its result known to the

We have first to observe that the committee whom
we represent decided in the outset to state no case,
and to make no appeal or representation beyond the
lines which form the heading of this letter. They
considered that, in taking this course, they had a
doe regard both to the independence of literature,
and to the personal character of their deceased
friend ; and therefore they have never for a moment
deviated from it, r.or do they now depart from. it.
They have considered their personal responsibility
a sufficient refutation of any untrue and preposterous
statements that have obtained circulation, as to pro-
perty asserted to have been left by Mr. Jerrold;
sod they now merely add that unless they had
thoroughly known and, beyond all doubt, assured
themselves that their exertions were needed by the
dearest objects of Mr. Jerrold's love, those exertions
would never have been beard of.

Tho audited accounts show that the various per-
formances, readings, and lectures, have realised,
after the payment of all expense., a clear profit of
2,0001. This sum is to be expended in the purchase
(through trustees) of a government annuity for Mrs.
Jerrold and her unmarried daughter, with remainder
to the survivor.

We are happy to add, in conclusion, that although
we have been moot grncrously assisted on many
hands, and especially by members of the musical
profession, we have never conscientiously accepted a
sacrifice that could not be afforded, and have fur-
nished good employment and just remuneration to
many deserving persona—We are, &c.,
CHARLES DICKENS, Chairman.

ARTIIUR BMIIII, Ile;no;;;YSec—retary.

The St. Petersburg .16;rant records the marriage,
bet week, of the Grand Duke Michael, brotber of the Ent-
pwor Alexander 11., to the Printer. Cecile of Baden.

The reigning Empress of Russia, accompanied by
her brother, Prince Alexander of Here, and by her children,
arrived at Ingentieim on the 2&h nit. The Grand Duke of
Game likewise arrived them on the same afternoon, and
dined with the Imperial party.
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. .
The King of the Belgians left Baden-Baden for
Switzerland on the 28th ult. Whilst in that country hie
Majesty will visit his eldest sister, the Prioress Juliette,
widow of the Ortutd Duke Constantine of Russia, who died
In 1831. The King intrude to return to Belgium about the
30th September.