The Express.
London, England, 1850-09-03 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 3, 1850.

that the ass was se obviously latindeated when
brought eat Sat it maid act Neaps the Minutiae
of the amistrat-sermosa mad the adjutant. Bat in
the allar theme of evidisese, sae way or the other,
we ore dm diked te mink the possibility that the
oaken may have halals se agree to blame for what
=pad at Chillie, then the ditch and lam M
Maui is a =sneer
thatiWl /rairthat the wshowed no
ayes s tide until the lash, so-operating
with the drove him into a state of busy. Oa
all these. *late, it I. at meant impound* to pre-
acmes ail-Opinion. fir CnaiLime may have been
defog lid setke to the oaken of the 14th, ar be stay have
said no mere of them than they have deserved. Tits
matter cannot be allowed to rest here.: it mast be
theroughly sifted; bat with the no-ovidence se yet
patent to the public, it would be folly sad iejastiee to
decide in thew of either party.
Bat whatever may be the meek of Out inquiry that
is now obviously inevitable, it is not easy to au how
Sir CHABLIS Wiris an exculpate hiroseU from the
charges of neglecting his duty, of imprudently asiag
language in public calculated to excite insabardies-
nos, and of ermaton cruelty. If the coadacit of the
dither at Chtllianwallah was such se to
jest* the addremed by Sir CithaLas to the
14th be t, as commander-in-chief to have
brought the colossi to a trial. If tits iisoiplias of
the 14th was so lax, and the conduct of the O.OSES so
oppressive as they mast have been to justify his pro-
«tidier in the eau of Maur, he ought to have in-
stituted ma inquiry with a view to
.puitish offenders
and remodel tits regiment. But having dose wither
the one nor the ether he had no right to hold the kta-
gasge midget he has systematically and relent-
lessly held.
There can be little doubt left, we should think, in
the mind of any man who has read what baa trans-
pired respecting this melancholy affair that it was
the language and conduct of Sir CniatLes Rum
that drove Colonel Biro to commit suicide. The
language held by Sir CHARM to the 14th, in
hie speech to them at Lahore,' was as great
and cruel an insult to the commanding Aker as
Cu mu could offer to another. By granting
.a
free pardon to binur, and ordering him to rejoin
his troop after that person had publicly addreased
Colonel o almost in Sir CtLearne's own lan-
guage, the commander-in-Chief after an in-
terval of months, deliberatel repeated, by hie
actions, the insult to which he had formerly
given utterance in words. Such systematic per-
seriatim was sufficient to unhinge the mind of any
man subjected to it. And persecution it must be
called, inasmuch as Sir CHARM:, by not bringing
a formal charge against Colonel LEO, moat be held
to admit that the evidence upon which be based his'
imputations could not stand the scrutiny of a triaL
Again, Sir Climates cannot but be aware that
telling men publicly that they were lying under an
auseeited idea in consequence of their being badly
Aisne& was metals to stir up insubordinate and
essithese in their breasts. He first prompted
the ropes& k was addressed by M.Lr.em to his
commenting Aber, and than justified the man's in-
subordination by granting him a free pardon, and
ordering him to rejoin his troop.!
Lastly, if Sir CHARLES really believes the allege,
time upon which he ordered MsLux to rejoin his
troop unpainted, he ought, without losing a mo-
ment's time, to have adopted measures for re-
orpaleing the regiment. If what he has alleged was
true, a mutiny might be provoked at any moment
by the aims who first tempted men to commit
offences, then allowed them opportunities to commit
them, and lastly pushes& ilia for Use offences for
what properly they themselves aught to have been held
responsible. It la impossible he eonjecture how the
officers could have pour wed thenpline, after a man,
guilty of such an ontrageone met of insubordination
as that of *Leer, was replotted in the ranks
unpunished, and themselves stigmatised in the
way they are in Sir CHausts remark. It will
not do to say that the officers 'said dammed a trial :
no man can be called upon to Drove his innocence is
the first place; it is the dutj of the amen to sub-
stantiate his charge.
We cordially admit the eminently soldierly qualities
which Sir GIiARLIS NAPIRR has over and over again
displayed is the field of battle. We do all honour to
the segeoity of many of the remarks which
be bum pabibbed on military affairs in general. We
eves scores that we have enjoyed the quint and
'totems forms in which it phases him to present his
aritialsme. Bat in the midst of our enjoyment, we have
been somplisil to question the judgment of the at-
tempt to bleed the character of an humourist with that
of a military reformer—of that ambition which aspired
to compile a " Ctenio " code of military rerulauons.
And when we see, in the suicide of Colonel BING, the
melancholy
et= to which Sir CHARLES is disposed
to push his and acted witticisms, we begin to
fear that the ve soldier and shrewd observer is de-
ficient in that sense of justice which prompts a dais
regard for the rights of others, and that sympathy for
his kind without which no man can be good or really
great. When the self-will of a sarcastic wit and sharp
critic, intoxicated by • secomfal career, breaks the
hearts and spirits of men, and sedangers the discipline
of an army, it is time that some check ware imposed
upon it.

teeming the death ef the **king. This lady states
that the Qum kneeled eentiaselly by the body with
a Prayer-balk is her had ding twenty-fear hours,
without to spy aserisissent. Her ems did mot
quit bar kr es WSW. The Demises of Orleans was
deeply diesehri: The ilmareeeezuentely grateful
for the medal gnu ley the Hagfish gummed that
Xll the wishes of Marie Amodio Waive to the fetters!
should be complied with, s well as for the diaereses
shown to the booms of Orleans is the mooning el.
etiquette adopted by the English court.
The Befissesma mations a report that the Duchene
d'Orleans has written to IL Thlers to inform him
that the goose,
_her Bober-in-law, and the other
meabers of the family, an. &irons of his presume at
a cowed de faults, to be held at Cluseseet ia the
wane of the present month.
There has beset lived deal of talk latterly about
negotiations fora Fremee•Beigian Zollversin i but I
suspect that the truth musts to nothing more than
a little uquetey of the Belgian government relatively
to Prussia, to bring that power to more liberal and
reasonable views. M. Rawer, the minister of Leo-
pold, can hardly be lees sea/ilia then he was on the
Let attempt to arty this plan into execution of the
difficulties attending it. What proves the little pro-
bability of there bd.( any merlons inclination on the
put of Belgium, is the refuel of the latter to grant
the authorisation to the North Railway Company to
organise trains of Osamu* between Paris and broseals,
from the necessity of dispensing with some formalities
about paseports.
The councils-general of the Oita Pas de Calais and
Basses Pyrenees, have expreseed their wishes for the
maims of the oenstitnti.n also those of Calvados,
Dordogne, Lot, Moused Corsica.
After a rather lour close, the doors of the opera,
which has been nutted, will be re-opened to the
public this evening. Mdllu Albooi will lead off with
the part of "La Favorite," in which she will appear
for the first time.

Yesterday afternoon a man committed suicide by
throwing himself from the top of the Column of
the Place Vendome. A young lady who was peel-
ing at the moment narrowly escaped being crushed
by his fall. The guardian of the monument imme-
diately brought the polies to the spot. The body
of the unfortunate man, dashed to pieces on the
asphelte pavement, wee borne away amid a dense
crowd of people, who hurried to the spot.
Two decrees of the President of the Republic, dated
yesterday, declare the professorship of mathematics
at the College de France and the chair in the
Academie des Science., section of geometry, occupied
by M. Libri, to be vacant, is consequence of that
person's condemnation by the Court of Assizes for
different robberies in the libraries. The stuns due to
Libri for the two places are, it is declared, to be
restored to the treamery..
M. Berger, in pealing through Brussels on his
return from Wiesbadso had a long interview with
the Prince de Metternioli.
The rise which has taken Oath in the pries of
corn in some markets, and especially in the districts
from which Paris is supplied, has not had much
influents on the general average prices of all France.
Aooording to the return drawn up on the 31st August
by the Mullet's of Agriculture. the general average,
which was 13fr. 900. the 31st July, had risen to
14fr. lle. This is a rise of 24e., and extends to
nearly all the markets except those of Mulhouse and
Btrusbourg,.in which than is a decline of Ifr. per
hectolitre.

The Archbishop of Paris has published a putoral
letter of enormous length for the promulgation of the
decree of the last Comas of Paris with respect to
writers on religious affairs.
General Castellano left Paris on Saturday to re-
sume his command.

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776 25 ; and Bale, 1111 76; Orleans and Simon, 380;
Orin= and 387 le ; Norte, 440; Paris and Otresoeny,
$42 60 ; Tours sad Nantes, 243 ; Mantorean and Trors, Id 50.