The Express.
London, England, 1850-02-20 00:00:00

of the prisoners at Ghana. in 1842; he warn arca-
wards quartermaster to his regiment, and %bap
qosatly attached to the commissariat. I.le was
present at Moodkhee and Ferozeshah, rata after-
wards became assistant to the Resident of Lahore.'
He was one of the dawn employed to drill the
army of Goolanb Singh in 1846. In 1847 he was
at Hassan Abdal, near Monk, and by his
energy and bravery saved the fort in August. 1848.
For Sys months from this date he kept constantly In
the field, watching and harming the eser& i:
p Ball information all their movements as ap-
proached the areamb, and provided Sir J.
well with the means of fording the river,
just before Samara, when he found the fee'
where he had been directed to cross lapsible.
He was present at Chillianwalla and Goojerat, sad
his horse were the only troops that aseompanied lir
W. Gilbert to Attack when he ontrode his army and
placed himself and staff within reach of the Alike&
The two diAtingniebsd man return on a twelvemonth%
Lave to England, to take breath after their adven-
tures.—The commander-in-ehaf of the Indian navy

ii;;eadr;;lsfa viny able letter to gourearmat ea
subplot of ship-bsrsieg; polnreaits that in the
majority of vessels no proper are observed;
that there is no fleeting enginebelonging to the har-
bour such as is considered requisite et every extensive
shipping port; and that there auto neaps of compel
ling the services of the seamen in the harbour in oases
of emergenq. A remedy for all these is suggested,
which if adopted would most assuredly go far to
diminish the magnitude of the mischief or danger.
—The results of the census taken in May last have
been published, and it appears that in the little
island of Bombay, comprising in all twenty square
miles of ground—four-filths of which at least is
uninhabitable swamp or rook, there are in all no
fewer than 568,119 inhabitants, of whom 334,090
are males, and 212,019 females. Of these, 8,936
are Brahmins, 289,995 are of other castes of
Hindoos; 1,902 are Jain', or Bhuddists; 124,155
are Mahomedans ; 114,698 Parsee.; 1.132 Jews;
7,456 native Christians; 1,333 Indo-Britains ; 5,417
Indo-Portuguese ; 6,088 pure Europeans; 889 Sid-
dam Negroes, and Africans; and 7,138 of other
castes unspecified. The Europeans ere thus less
than one in a hundred of the whole population.—
Cholera has greatly abated, but has not yet quite
ceased.—The staff of engineers for the railway is
expected by next mail. Mr. T. J. A. Scott has been
appointed secretary on a salary of 1,0001. a year, and
there are five directors who receive each 1001. per
annum. So much of the season has been lost by delays
at home that little will be done before October.—The
inhabitants of Calcutta have presented Sir John
Littler with a splendid piece of plate, in testimony of
their esteem.

The following is the general order of Sir C. Napier
referred to above :

Head Quarten, Camp, Lahore, 15th Dee., 1849.
At the late review of the troops on the plats of Maim
Meer, the following egregious deficiencies were evident
to all: _ . .

Ist. That some ommanders of regiments were unable to
bring their regiments properly into the general line.
god. One commanding officer of a regiment attempted to
wheel his whole regiment as he would a company !
3rd. Several officers commanding companies well MU
disordering their companies by attempting to dress them
from the wrong flank.
4th. When the line was ordered to be firmed on the left
column, some commanders deployed too soon, and ordered
their lines (thus improperly formed) to " double quick," in
order to regain their position. This wee all bad ; but it wu
worse to see the regiments, on receiving the word to " double
quick," at once charge with loud shouts,—no such ord. rto
charge having been riven by any one, nor the words " Pre-
pare to charge :" nor did anything occur to give a pretext for
such a disgraceful smite, exhibiting both want of drill and
want of discipline.
6th. Bad as this was, it was not the worst. Whet these
regiments chose to "charge," the commander-in-ehief, to
his astonishment, beheld the men discharging their firelocks
straight up in the air, sad tee saw Nam men alas rear-rank
actually firing off their muskets to the rear over their should-
ers as their beaten (he will not call them soldiers) were
running to the front! He feels amend that no such scene
could have oecarred in any other regiments in the army : if
ever such again happens, he will expose the oommandiag
officer of any regiment that so disgraces itself, ia public
orden, to the whole Indian army. In the course of his service
he never before witnessed such a scene. No commander
could go into action with a regiment capable of such conduct
without feeling certain that it would behave ill. The com-
mander-in•thief will, therefore, hold commanding officers
responsible (for they alone are to blame) that any soldier who
shouts, or charges, or fires, without orders, be lost 'oily
seised, tried at once by a drum-head court-martial, and
the sentence executed on the spot Courts-martial which
try such dangerous offenders will, the commander-in
chief has no doubt, uphold military discipline and
military honour against outrageous and criminal din.
order. This order may be deemed severe—the commander.
in-chief moans it to be so, for he will not pass over with-
out animadversion, faults which, if tolerated, would, in the
event of war produce certain defeat to this army. 'The re-
views which the commander-in chief makes of the troop are
not to be taken as so many "chips in porridge." They are
made for the purpose of ascertaining what officers are fit to
command battalions, and there being no want of such in
the Indian army, he will feel it to be his bounden duty to
remove these who are not ; and whenever he finds a regiment
" firs," " shout," or " charge" without orders from its corn
wander, he will, after this warning, remove the latter from
his command. _ _

The sem is both a brave and an obedient soldier ; and
whenever he behaves ill, it is in a gnat measure the halt
of his commending officer.
The drill and discipline of all main rest mainly with the
commanders of regiments and of companies. They are In
immediate contact with the cabers, non-emmeskniened
officers, and private soldiers; and to them general officers
must look for that perfect obedience without which any
army is an armed mob, dangenas to its Meade, and con-
temptible to its enemies.
The commander in-chief does not hereby tail on cos-
standing officers to torment those under their orders by
long and hamming drilling. But he does call upon them
to instruct their °Seers, and to instruct themselves, and
also their supernumerary ranks, that they are to men
any man in their front who dares to shout, or talk, or firs,
or run, without ceders. General °Seers commanding divi-
sions and brigaded in this army are called upon to en that
commanders of regiments do their duty on those points.
The commander-in-chief don not apply this order to all
commanders—he well knows that there are abundant
first rats soldiers, and first-rate regiments, in the Indian
army; but he applies it to thole whose regiments are in bad
order.
C. J. Narita, General, Commander-in-dist.

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