The Express.
London, England, 1857-03-18 00:00:00

Staff will lts sepia le pleu Ile this is not easel.
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for an milks flee a amides. A mere test
of ocsagsbmg Ms bees found beelleient in every
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glen le lbs eelly ime tibia ought to command the
emotellhe Been 'Uhlman or of the public.
we emit bat regret that Army Reform yeast
peitateillimeerrisser bring the war, or theism*
loodellem we set Moped at that period
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le de emilidep Now we me told that we isms
111 relbeljeet es we ware leld that the eloyel
run gielkoes iehe betemi the Chwelmeset
dime saw pi& DM we lime so doubt that fY
the imewledge it Asses were tweed they would be
bad r lessialtly salt for thdr duties se the
telesled melliatea for demehee he the Civil be-
vice. beheelloo Civil Sonia llsamisers bed peli•
lished their Ilepset, in which they reseedsispolnime
of what hank creatures, soppolei tabs odemiled.
ore achieve le the way of lea" it wool hive
bon impedlie r pawarie people thee cornet open-
hasdbdeWawas essigsratively a
nee aim t. Bat the thimble been proved
berate daft The confident teas sesseeed by the
sppoessleefete Civil Service examination may well
I mho s harts to adopt the assertion of the Horse
0•111411 as he the competency of those officers—
eepesidly acs Staff °dicer& But this is not all. By
the gyms d mewed= introdemed into the Civil
Service able wag men have been brought into
that service wbe weal etkerwisermwthave had the
ehance of an eggllMMlNets Old it SO bads of de-
partments ars asinettely harked these young men
will obtain promellea use the heads of their lees
able colleagues. If seopetition were introduced
into the Army the elm ensits would follow. The
Army would be AM by men who entered it from
devotion to the gesdeedon ; the morale of officers
would be improved the Staff would be supplied
with able and well-instructed officers, and the
British Army would become the finest army ita the
world.

ONE day last month the people in the streets of
New York observed a litter, evidently containing a
sick person, carried up from the shipping to the
Battery HoteL Beside the litter walked a young
creature who, but for her careworn countenance and
her being near her confinement, might have been
taken for a little school girl Her story soon be-
came known, and it had presently reached all hearts.
She is now twenty. At seventeen she had married
a sea captain—a gallant young man of five-and-
' twenty, she being a softly-reared young lady of
East Boston. Just alter the marriage Captain Parrom
was offered the command of a ship—the Neptune's
Car—prepared for the circumnavigation of the globe,
and ready to sail that day but for the illness
of the commander. Captain PATTON declined
the offer, declaring it impossible to leave his
bride so soon and suddenly for so long a
time. He was told that he would be allowed to
take her with him. She agreed ; and they were on
board within twelve boars from the first question
asked. During that voyage she learned whatever
her husband could teach her ; and especially she be-

came practised in taking observations, and in keep-
ing the reckoning of the ship. She studied naviga-
tion, in short, to some purpose. The voyage lasted
eventeen months. Last August the captain and his
wills sailed in their old ship for San Francisco, being
so proud of the vessel as to pique themselves on
reaehing California sooner than two others which
took their departure at the same time. It was this
rival** which first disclosed to Captain Parson
the evil quality of his first mate, who was not only
lazy sod negligent to a dangerous degree, bat in-
disposed. He was evidently bent on carrying the
ship into Valparaiso, for purposes of his own.
. . .

Anxiety and toil told on the captain's health before '
Cape lloru was reached. He there deposed
the first mate from office, and, in the effort
to discharge the duty himself, sank down in
fever which soon issued in congestion of the brain.
Before he lost his reason he declared positively
against going into Valparaiso, saying that the men
would desert, and the cargo be lost before the con-
signees could arrive ; and his honour and conscience
were concerned in going on to the right port. This
was enough. His wife determined that it should be
done. As soon as her husband became hopelessly
delirious the first mate attempted to assume autho-
rity, and wrote a letter to Mrs. Psrrox, charging
her with the responsibility of all their lives if she
opposed him. She told him that her husband had not
trusted him while he was well; and that she would
not trust him now her husband was ill. She
assembled the crew, told them the facts, and ap-
pealed to them to disregard the first mate, to accept
her authority in her husband's place, and to obey the
second mate in the working of the ship. Every
man of them agreed; and they sustained her
well, as far as their power of support went.
They looked with pity and reverence upon
her as they saw her through the cabin-
windows at her desk, keeping the reckoning,
and making entries in the log. Noon and midnight
she was on deck taking observations. She marked
the charts, made no mistakes, and carried the ship
into port in the beet condition me the 13th of Novem-
ber. She had studied the medical books on board,
to learn how beet to treat her husband's ease; and
she never left him, day or night, but to perform hie
duties.

Happily he was a Freemason his brother mamas
at San Francisco were kind, and sent them back by
the first practicable opportunity to New York.
There they arrived wholly destitute—the husband
blind, deaf, delirious, dying—the wife worn and
grave, bat active and composed. She was anxious
to reach Boston before her confinement ; but, by the
last accounts, she was disappointed by her husband
being too ill to be removed.

The New York underwriters sent her an imme-
diate gift of 1,000 dollars ; and the owners of the
yew' and others are taking measures to testify their
sense of the conduct by which a vast amount of pro-
perty has been saved, and their interests and these
of their crew have been conscientiously considered
under singular extremity. With our Lady FAR-
M:EASE/4 Leer HUTCHINNONe, and CATHERINE
MOMPEMONS may now rank the MART Parrox of
a kindred nation. It needs no other Freemasonry
than that of the universal human heart to secure her
reverence and vrelanne in every port she may pet
into henceforth in the rough voyage of life.

INJUNCTION AGAINOT Sta WILLIJIM
today Ole WU& Don end Mr. Imam As Yew et
Marylabem Theatre, Were semi with • espy Man Wane-
don, issued by Vice-Clumealler Wood, os the upplimalen at
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Mr Wa Daa bas been partormiag at •V librylebans
theatre. The appease was made by Mt. Lark (Lll.k
and Lamb), the solicitor to Oa Dawes* Minn' Society,
..d inthwilb issued and nes area by Hat mama
embeds parties the woe allsousea. Ti. puttee
merle lam an opportunity le mem the court ea wad
seal day to &solve the usaandion °Maud on ea peaks
application.