The Express. — London, England, 1851-02-01 00:00:00

ADMISSION TO THE GLASS PALACE. TO TKO Sta,—Mr. Paxton le right, and the prise generally, espeeialty the Tina, wing; leased of obetnetlos, the firm admiston might easily be made the mans (anion the only means) of pnventleg otetrnotios. Let it be observed, daring the Out fortnight, that Paxton proposes I. admit by payment How many ma eavo feria* be adeittrd ce any one day. This ces be easily found, midis all that is wonted to be band. Sapp.s the samba to be 10,000, then let 10 Acts be ,opened is Leados from Whisehapel to Hyd.•parh for greatirg free adnindess ; let awn dam grant 1,000 only es say use day, and the job is dose. 100 tradesses in London would willingly Mier to give the tickets, bat 10 or 20 might be band who would certainly ba glad enough to do so if they were Mee permitted to sail the catalogues, sad to get fee sleamelete a penny ar twopence profit —1 ass, do, A CONSTANT RELDER. ADMISSION TO THB BUILDING. TO TIM •DtTOI or VIZ IMBIBITION sir,—Amongst the various prop estioas *gloated to the 110NOBIBIBMINI lOC the admission of visitors to the world's emporium, whit* Is so shortly to display its attractive wooden to admiring thousands, I cannot coseeive any of so ableotionable a character as that of free admission. Allow me to make a suggestion. From the gnat influx end variety of Melton throughout the whole day, a gnat quantity of duet and dirt mut unavoidably be brought into, and carried through every portion of the buildiog, and which will require more rims for hung cleansed and kept in order, than toe few noun before the opening, and atter the closing of the door,—morniog and evening—will admit of being effectually performed. I would therefore, with this ohject la view, open the exhibition five days in the week ealy, sad every lia'utday it should be closed for the purpose of cleansing and arreoging say articles which may require It. I would divide the week into f clause, each of which shall be open to gray person who may choose to pay the fee of admission for that day ; and, as the whole of the establishment may be presumed to be cleaner on Monday taiga on any other day, 1 would tame Monday for the first dam, Tuesday for the second, Wednesday for the third, and They'd*, and Friday foe the fourth clam, while the rates of admission world. I Wok, be quite unobjectionable, and as the names of all who have already contributed towards the eapeaso of the building are known to their respective com mitters, I would eugg.at that free tickets of admission be given to t►e amount of the whole or hell their contribution, commencing with thou who have ►aid fire shillings and upwards Soch tickets not to be traasfsrable, and to admit the subscriber and hie party for one day only, and the somber of the party may h., to the fell amount of the insburiptioe ; no tickets of this kind to embrace a second day, though the full mallet may not have been required for t►e first itsy's admission. The classes should be arnagal tha.:— Monday Treads, ...... Wedne-day Thumlay . 1 rriday 71unt Fourth 21,300 1.1.0 I tome* Sir, your obedient morvant, B. J. LOVELESS. Oneawich, 27th Jimmy, IKSI. At t►e Norwich Loaf Committee, oa Saturday, the follow. lag regulation wee pained Marina notio.d to the public ruts a latter at reseed to Lord John ltuwell by Mr. Pitz'oa, amig upon hie lordship t, use his influence is order that the inhibition rosy be throws opeo fro of ilium this cinsaittse take tha earliest opportunity of ealuoitiing to the executive committee that tea a pro. *Wing would be, in their opinion, very isjoricnte to the obbiet for which the exhibition ham bees instituted." (Signed) lt. LIMA, Secretary to the Norwich Lwal mats«. ADMISSION TO THE GLASS PALACE. (Tn• Or Ithowsts.) • Mr. Pantos has aidreseeera Inter he Lad John Russell— propoundiag • 'these of admission to the Palace of Glass which is likely, we ferny, to have km moor titan his plea 1 for the palace Wolf. Mr. Paxton eentielon that our prof. 1 fared hoepinlities aliculd not tins • prise —sad that hewing oohed all the world to roe us, all the world should have free ad. 6 1 101 1. We are inclined to think that is his desire to be samidessr, Mr. Pantos has esteroely given a wood thought to dm tubjeet-matter of his proposal. Us must have been Men at grave coseideratios by a:hoet of argamoute, any one se dirk is sufficient to negative it. We presume the thing ' essaly semis discussing seriously—but one or two of these NOM may be broadly stated. In the first place, it is all hands—Mr. Paton not dissenting— Voma es 'body most pay for the Exhibition ; and the natural assassenuat would seam to be that they should pay for • Mktg who see it. Mr. Penton, however, proposes that the est AA be defrayed by a somisterial grant, which simply mew that the thousands who have no chance of ening the Exhibition shall pay. in the dope of time, for the free ad. mission of those who aro more fortunate. Been if this itheardity (and something worse) were not iovvieed in the priacipl• of a misitterie greet, It would yet have to be remembered that the promoters of the scheme are pledged over end over again not to go to the minister for aid—that the scheme is ementielly a self.eupporting and anti-patronage scheme. Bat the greatest objection remains behind, and it le one so huge that we know not how any one henna had hie attentive in any . degree called to the arrangements for the monster Exhibi tion can have overlooked it. Bye mot curious infelicity, Me. Pexton'e plan seems actually as if it had been deeind expreoly to multiply filtv.tuld that which is its simplest proportions is the great difficulty against which Me executive have to contend. Some millions at persons u• coming here expressly to visit a angle house, whtch Is to be kept open a certaia numb rof months. The groat problem is, to distribute the whole of these numben over the whole of this time--so se to render the exhibition eves puffin. Now, • morn passport at the doors even of small amount is to • certain silent a check upon the multitudes ; and • high rate of charge at first—it should be very high to effect all its objecte—varyiug through a gradually descending soak down to the low. point at which it shall be toned possible hereafter to admit the people—is a machinery so admirably adapted to divide the pressure, and to pot the overwhelming numbers in relation with the whole available time. rather than with any limited part of it, that it muse, we think, have been expressly in eeaeed for the popes', even if there had been no need el a hand to In Meld by this mews. Mr. Pexton's proppyl keg sass to abrades thin nod, and to reader the dimculty Of simobers wlisey arsismaseable. The %hones& who can ~bpi. by midi, say three timee, he would enable riavory day. Or - to take, for the argument's sake, the remains lime of his mistake—subject of course to sossifira hem ethic rouron—that uakaows multitude add* Is is premed is distribute by artificial Deniers over ablaths, be woad pour through the Palace of Glass U their leisure sad cariosity should happen to coincide in a grday. In • word, Mr. Paxton having sewn his Palace i fairly up. would seem le have set about deviling how he might best render It wholly useless for all the put posse lot which it was constructed. of Woods sad Forests ordered Ono of the the trete inside of the Crystal Palo» to be watered—two area were occupied the whole of Thursday afternoon la heleg it. 13•mn packsges of English goods wen merited ytaterday at the Crystal Pelson—they being the Brat arrival. The Duchies of limit will be then to-eley at 12 o'clock. At the Institution of Civil Engineen on Wednesday lest, WILLIAM Cunt rr, Esq., Pneident, in the chair, the discussion on Mr. D. Wyatt's Paper Oa the Construe tios of the Building for the Ell:tibial' of the Works of Indurtry of all Nations, is 1851," wee essewed, and was continued threalighout the meeting. bass es seleelatioa, MOO addeeed to show, that the beading was early milikdont for resisting any verdoei %whin It might be siabjectod, it was not so well ealealamea as mitt the horizostal farm exerted by the wind, wig* Webs be taken as sometimes equalling 251 b.. per square feet. The baltdieg in Hyde Park was the most extensive example in dames a the "pan reetangilim construction ' " bat as It did not roma the strong gable end walls of the Imasealthe Gates Wills, white were also rectangular struetorm, sea paid of salmons sad girdms—the stability of the glen Women snot depend entirely OR the simple Lem, which maid oaly be malatalsed by th pa r ts= cost Si the Orden to the alma. It wag astanda that its saps by which this was siesta were wasting Is and the columns not being attacked to, et meted rat Im e d, might be suppamd to admit of lateral maim. The aidiiioa of saws diagonal bracing wee Amami reemossededora being swam to insure that 111110Uit et stabil* mad, k a beadle' intended for the imagism Si sea aniliske etyma, as would attend the Itadlatia. The pant lima et *be, admitted around a roof astir* awned et ilea wee considered objectionable foe the air play et was et eat and it wee esmisaded that a reef par tial masa wia air Teat he se been betas Le /semi papaw. 11qhmaisms MOB SOMA aft be shoe that the sags fee appall* the Oast yea empty *am set say Les she puma aides Illey ha l Is palm, bus at ler es, lenella as a sidasai Saar whisk saga be beeseht an lhan * law say absent GRA larterase wage salmi et tie osesseasa et Nadeau parte dais the nesse Si ametrassisa, whisk bat limos' tkr Ptel'aaa as be asses& It was esasterad. INS the awe w•G sallietesal shish, sad That In an intent at red bp et show* Lett' mres, manated by ON arm anis Its, lass twelve yeses, waists se alma meals( the welt* et 16 OIL pie stun Net he b u s&l el loyest ed, searea,y est Weasse Ina saw 111 wee to ea ed. airW. Boma' , slam d allseelea by a sat, to prevent as esekleatal et the swab SR the tool. Tba eon aseassien et tit lea g peatal Nr the 'foto of statrao , stns sad aparisa, assecaeas w the share of taspne. 1 tow la realm the dieseesios, It was ispeased se the meeting, am se halation was not La any way =lbit tee the 'speedos isavidnal *Wow, the a die dinsedese betas usroly to adieu Meta has via eat mane Ella tray hie ewe easilesioa. RAILWA' TO TIT SIR,—I beg to your . which may be offered foe ties transit of penes, amiss took the salt and north of Lemke to Agit the Eshiblieo. A rail way, called the West Loam, leaving he seating at ILloalso tea and fottlevisiU, and within eaorestot of as boar's walk of the exhibition, Lae tosalshorainterisolw 1 trifle only, sad I as of opinion, if it were im passeagere, that it maid be fogad of great advantage to all ponces rowing to the Exhibition from Germany, the sorties( Europe, iteealasa,:the north of England, and the mantles of Kent and Booz, as penmen ma now be brought hem Blackwell to Camden Town by the new line, which I believe is sow open, thence en to Willesden and Notting .121, and Konsingted, which I think might be doss is half on hew fronxillackwall, and would afford the peapsistom amyl/ wed dividend for their cutley, while it would be of great unite to the inhabitants of Shepherds' Bush, Konsiegtos, dts. I beg to submit that a deputation of the Keraingtso Legal Exhibition Committee Amid be formed, jointly with the Directors of the West London Railway anti influent's' whitionen of Kensington, to wait upon the directors of the North Western Railway, and also the Great Western, nip, sting thrm to send their pureagen for the Exhibition direct to Nottieg-hill and Kensington, indeed of ts klas them out of their way to Buston.rqsar• or Paddinston, and stop their country trains at Willesden for Kensington, and at the same place to attach the West London up.train, to theirs, in order to the public being forwarded from Keating ton to Bleekwall by the Beat and West India Docks and' Birmingham Junction Railway. I thick if this should be aeoompliehed, It would save foreigners and country people a greet deal of trouble, engem., and inconvenience. I heard something said upon the nbjeet about six mooths ago at the Kensington L3cal Committee, but although Kensington is so does to the Eakibitics, move apathy seems to prevail here (as far as regards accommodating the public) than at any other lecal sommittee. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, C. W. DUNFORD. Wert RIDING TINTILI PANIPICIL—A deputation from Huddersfield, acesieting of Wm. Willies, E‘ q. (the esmetable), Frederick ffighwann, Beg, and Joseph Norton, leg has been in London dorieg the week, and in several interviews have ascertained from the executive committee the particulars of the reset locality and sous assigned to the textile biotic* of the West Riding, and such other in fermation as will enable the several local committees to meet and agree upon their respective appropriations. The division of the space amongst themselves is left, by the London executive, entirely in the hands of the local con mitten of the riding. A meeting of deputations from Leeds,' Bradford, Halifax, and other towns in the riding, ie to be held this day (Saturday) in the Commissioner. Rooms, Iluddenfitld ; the appropriation of specs preparatory to fitting up requiring iu„iate attention. We.ST RIDING AGENCY FOR VISITING CLUBS TO TUN EXHIBITION.—Tbe Leeds executive have appointed the fallowing gentlemen to act as a committee for the West aiding, to sari/intend the Central Agency Office, for belli , sting the visit of the working classes to the exhibit ion, vie. :—Geo. Goodman, En. Mayor of Leeds ; Thomu Cask, E q. (of the eminent firm of MOMS. Hague', Cork, end Worinald), Dewsbury ; Thomas Wilson, Esq., president of the Leeds Meebanim ' Institution ; It. S. Church. EM. and Ald. Richard Wilson, of Brantley ; Ald. Joseph Sate en, of Leeds, treasurer; and Mr. Cawood, and Mr. Henry Plied, the secretaries—Office, No. 4, Beason's-buildings, Park-row, Leeds. In conformity with the arrangements previously made, the committee have put themselves in llNtemunication with the several railway companies—the proprieties of boarding and lodging houses—and are pre• pared to furnish any information and instruction to the various clubs. The committee ere also prepared to render imp a.riatance for the organisation of clubs in the several IPeaships comprised in the Leeds district. A "LOST FRIENDS' DEPARTMENT" AT THE °RUT alalSlTlON.—Considering the great number of persons lens the provinces, totally unacquainted with London, that will visit the Great Exhibition; considering that • great peportioe will be meempanied by relative. or intimate Meads; considering that many of these will be young per inea not quite capable of taking we of themselves; c dieing the fregaelet liability of parties to get parted in the =el eisitt-seen by momentary lingering, at attractive ; glesidsries that **pleasures of the day would, in meat seek be Meeimeably interfered with; considering die advisee. to scene from the " Los t Lagmge Depart meme railways ; —would not • "Lost Friends' Department" be a desideratum at the Great Exhibition; sr. a conveniently *Muted spew, slightly elevated and railed iso es to present the " lost ones" in a well-defined row or one, uatil called for I"—Builder. marrAwf.—The 22nd Company of Royal Sappers and Miners, under the command of Captain Gibbs, have re. *lived orders to praised to London, to be employed at the Great Exhibition—lientigh Advertiser. LONDON TVAillo.—(To the Editor of the Express.) —Sir —I read la oar paper of to *ley, that in London, where eedinirilyl,oooposensgen page per hour,l,6llowill pan during the time of the ensuing exhibition hillyde-park ; ' end it may be reasonably measeed that the number of vehicles will Maws in • ratio onsiseensurate with the demand for them. The scene which Piccadilly, the Strand, Fleet-street, and Chloride will probably present, about 1 o'clock in the day, can is this way be partly imagined." Now, air, allow me to peas upon the minds of the gentlemen who have under. taken the esnduct of affairs throughout the progress of the great experiment which is at hand, that they ought not to lees • moment in urging upon the corporation of London the absolute necessity for the immediate :move of Templebar, which will greatly facilitate the traffic between St. Peel's Cathedral and Casing-crow, and tend to the ultimate widenieg and improving of that part of Fleitatrciet.--A CONSTANT RIADSIL—Jan. 21, 1851. WHAM IS JIBING DONE IN IaIIAND.—A num geerily.attesded and highly influential meeting et the shines of Dublin, who are desirous of having the artistic and mannhatnring mina and skill of this eeeetry creditably repressated at the Great Exhibition of MI, was held on Saturday, in the Board-room of the Royal Dahlia Society. Tao chair wee taken by the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor. The attendance at the meeting comprised a Imes amber of scientific and professional gentlemen, and IiMMENOMS body of the leading manufacturers of Dahlia. Ibe igen a the committee appointed to make arrange. UMW kr the transmission and collection of specimens from lib timothy at the forthcoming exhibition, was read by Dr. Earrietoo (hon. see. of the committee). This report dr Idled • variety of interesting information relative to the =Meats sleeted by the committee in securing a epees y extimaive for the advantageous display of the lidos risme transmitted from this country. The Mad MOM VAS stated to cover 10,480 feet, gas thie Ile lml divided into compartments for the assemmtekilles of the specimens of 217 exhibitors. Ala edam Ina she read, calling on the @inure of Dub lin, natal Irish public generally, to co-operate with the emainitteee in facilitating the transmission of Irish aril's= @Ed exhibitors to this great scene of improvement, and to awry out the proposed object of rendering the motion ann. Woke the permanent improvement of arts and manures ls Ireland.; The meeting wee addressed be Dr. Barrio. =km Reynolds, Esq., M.P., hie Grace the Archbishop of , Mr. Fry, Sir E. Borough, Mr. Ferrier, Sir George Meeen, Mr. James Haughton, and several other The report and eddrees were adopted unanimou.ly, and after several resolutions of • practical character were paned, the meeting adjourned. LOP" JON PLACES OF AMUSEMENT. ILLLT Greenwich Beanies', fns on Monday and Friday; Society of Arts Mimeo Wedneslsy ; British Museum, Great Russell-street, hiciuday, Wednesday, and Friday ; Saab's Mew= of Geology, Aldarsgate-strut, Thursday; But In dia Company's Museum Saturday; Mum= of Ewnicunic Geology; Gres/11C6708, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday; Hampton ham C l ourt, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday; National Gallery, Monday, Tees. day, Wednesday, and Tbaroday; Vanes Gallery, Marl. borough Howe; Kew Gardena, daily; Ludas' Miselosm Mueeura, Bloosafieldetreet, Finsbury; Pantheon, o:ford. atnet; St. Katherine's Docks, London Docks, West India Dock, and Castries Roue. OZATBITOCI. By tickets, to be obtained from respectable reamers, or lumbers of the wad toutitaticets. Antiquarian Musaum, Guildhall. daily; Ashburton Col lefties, Piecadlly. daily; Asiatic Museum, New Burlington. street, Wedgy, Wednesday, end Friday; Botanie Gardens, Chaim, daily • Sciatic Gardena, Regent's Park ; College et Surgeens, lltisesa, Monday, Teseday, Wednesday, sad Thursday; Dulwich ()slimy, Monday, Tuesday, Medals/s i t Thursday, aid Saturday; Ratentelogicel Museum, street, Temstay ; Orcseenor Gallery, Upper Greareactretrest, I daily; Rarticalteral Gardena, Chlsinck, dilly ; Huntsville Mumma, College of Bargeoae, daily; Lime m Collations, Boho-eqmw, dads ; Roy lamitution Musses, Alboaaulsr swat, daily ; United Berrie, Museum, Scotiend-yard, daily; Si, John Soane's lloseum, Tuesday and Friday ; Flazassa's Hall and the Ilduessm. Caivenity College ; Museum of King's College ; Royal Veterinary College, Mamma; Anti gush= So •thty's Museum, Somerset How; Geological 83elety, Somerset Rouse. _____ CRAW)! 1.01 —.- Botanical Cantata, ratan d ul y; c balsa Militay Ammilsay, Friday • British leatitation, Pall Mall, daily; Cholas Hospital, daily; Caamoraaa, Caimans, Dioramas, gni facie l of An., Adelptil; Monday, Tasday, Thanday, Ptigay and !Mayday ; Madam Tufted and Sons', Baker sliest; Burford's Panorama, Polytechnic Institution, Paso rear el the Nile, St. Pars Cathedral, sad Thames Teasel, Mothabitke, daily ; the Tower, daily • Malatesta Abbey, daily; Woolwich Arsenal, daily; Zciologioal Gardens, PA.. gest'. Pub, daily ; Basra Zoological Gardens, daily ; Banli et Ragland; Guildhall Council liaoa. FLAX CULTIVATION NZAI Laicism.—Mr. Bar row, of Husboratoso, has Wren r a swine& of flax mod, the prodac• of flax of kis own growth at Batista°. He °Maud els seed (two straw and three pecks) how Yr. Boole Browne, of Hoops, near Awdovenford, Glower tenkirs, which ho a owed on so aro sad threelnartero, en the lit day of March, 1860. It yielded 47 maks (621bs. to the strike) of good rod, rides *a straw, wsigrag two rat and • half, whir so talabrat of this town has bought to nee in his trade. The rapt is of excellent grati s sad freer hog mhos that tie ordinary maples we have sowa—lowrator Chrowair. Goan a Gipsey's life— ben to-day, and there tomorrow. The preparations miner maker fee his own canfort are few : he has neither the time on the inclination. Some few have good tents, but the great majority content them selves with a good tree as a shelter, or, at most, by erecting a small brush-house, or covering—a work of ten mantes only—and this, in reality, is all that is required, for little oe no dew falls from the com mencement of June, and the ground is without • particle of moisture for several feet downwards. A light tent, sufficient for 2 or 3 people, is certainly a comfort, but is by no means necessary, and a very great trouble to carry about. The miner is up at the latest by the time the sun has risen, very frequently earlier. Breakfast is soon prepared, and he immediately goes to work, if in summer as early as halipast 4, continuing until 10 or 11 o'clock. Diarer, simple and substantial , does not occupy mach time, and a short siesta follows (for the nights are short in June and two following months), and he sgain commences at half-past 2 or 3 o'clock, continuing until sundown, and as he has risen with the sun he is glad enough to rest himself by the time that luminary goes down. In September and October work is continued the whole day, that is to say, the miner works the same number of hours as the labourer in England; the days being shorter, and the sun not so powerful. Sunday is the grand day for the miner. In the morning he will wash and mend hie clothes, and his person. If he possesses a mule, as numbers do, he is certain to dress himself in his beet and make an excursion, either to see his friends, or to " prospect"— that is to say, to try other diggings; but I am sorry to mike known to you that vast numbers also make a practice of getting drank as regularly as God's holy day comes round. Then may be seen scenes of debauchery and quarrels, which render some of the stores veritable hells. Men who srequietly disposed and do not wish to be engaged in; • quarrel, avoid such places, as I would do a London gin palace. The dress of the miner is ridiculous : I enure yore most positively that ninety-nine out of every hundred have their inexpressible." patched in every direo tion. I myself have worn clothes so old and torn that an English labourer would have been ashamed to wear. As to stockings or socks they are quite un necessary, and no one ever thinks of putting on a coat, waistcoat, or even neck handkerchief. Such is the beauty of the climate that a single shirt is suffi cient, and this is generally left unbuttoned at the neck, and possibly the sleeves turned up to the elbow. I have occasionally been convulsed with laughter at the droll costumes one sees. The sailor, above all other parties, rejoices in the mines ; he is here in his glory, and the life is exactly to his taste. Accustomed to hard work, and possibly to still harder usage, he does not find at; great diffi culty in handling the pick and shovel. Here he is his own master,spending, with their usual generosity as freely u they get; but few have any money, though some turn steady and make first-rate work men. Their great delight is to scour the country on mules, excite d to full galop by the repeated applica tion of the large Mexican spurs. Poor mule, I pity you who are so unfortunate as to have a sailor for a muter. THE 4,XPRESS, SATURDAI W .4( TRAroR imaitarnoN.. . - tin . p_„„ roraua: Tina. • a A ` qiflrriANC,llod: Nov., 1 Emma tiaw emirramis imam. - Liitt He ;an furft. - Notliag list t!,.._•• 221 1, 186 , 1 ; _ r Th. lib in the aim is more than a Gipoey's Tto Oa Yon? att°ll6°° t he ''"t''''g here to -day. and there to-morrow. The arena' CHIMES AND LAW IN TUE MINES. Both law and justice can be obtained, but it is an expensive and uncertain process. The country is divided into districts, and county sessions are held at short intervals, while there are sheriffs and judges at every place of importance, and be it understood that these of themselves are very often miners, who consequently require large fees, so that 100 dole. does not go very tar. Hitherto the mines have:been quiet and peaceable enough, and few persons thought it necessary to carry arms. Now, on the contrary, nearly every man has • knife or pistols either openly or concealed about his person, not that I can say I have seen much use for them ; but it is a wise pre caution. There are men here who will pick a quarrel on a slight pretence, and " shoot him," or " I'll kill him," are expressions of by no means un common occurrenee, and no one is taken to task who uses them. Robberies occasionally take place, and are rarely discovered ; the punishment is severs. Men have been murdered in their tents, but murders are also committed in England, and if a man will only keep proper associates, and avoid drinking and play ing at cards, he is as safe in the mines as at home. To be sure a grizzly bear may pick him up, or an Indian may salute him with an arrow, but the chances are that no such mishap will arrive. I have travelled in the most secluded spots without the slightest apprehension of danger. The risk is in leaving the mine, to go to Stockton and other towns; then it is bot safe to travel alone, parties lying in wait there to shoot the poor miner, on the supposi tion of his having gold about him, and escape is easy in the woods and fastnesses along the road. I can not say, however, that I think this tranquillity will be of long duration. To get gold now, hard work is necessary, and that does not quite suit the ideas of some of our friends, who have been ' hare when it was to be obtained by making a small hole with a knife, and who have spent all their mosey, and who still must have drink and must gamble. Ido not want to look too far for ward, or to ;speak too harshly, but I plainly see that sooner or later bands of robbers will infest the coun try, obliging the miners to associate for mutual pro ; tection. I would hope that that day was far distant, . but still I feu; for already I know of a roadside house, ostensibly a store, where I recently observed with dread, for I was alone, unmistakeable signs and means of executing deeds of robbery and murder. Everything is in character here, and the store is nothing more than • simple tent, with a small coun ter and • rough table for playing cards. A good store ought to contain everything requisite for the miner, but this requires capital, and, in general, be yond a few boots and red shirts, the store contains , nothing but provisions, and wines, and spirits—these I latter being the great source of profit—so much so, that some stores are little better than so many pot houses. The storekeeper himself is a curiosity, and quits a different man to the miner, although nearly all have, at one time, been miners. His great de light is to decorate his bat with large brooches, or perhaps with a string of beads, in the Indian fashion. Stores abound everywhere, but the profits are not in proportion to that!e of the miner. Prices vary according to locality, but I annex for curiosity a list which is as fair as possible. These prices have been maintained all the summer, but have advanced 50 per cent. within a fortnight past, and provisions will again be very dear during the winter. For conve nience I have reduced the prices to English money. Flour, Is. per lb.; biscuit IL 3d. per lb. ; barley (for horses), is, Bd. per lb. ; oats (ditto), Is. 6d. par lb.; sugar, 2s. per lb. ; 10e. per lb.; coffee, 31. per lb.; chocolate, 61. per lb. ; causes!. te. 3d. per lb. ; pork (salt), Is. 34. per lb. • best (fresh), Is. per lb. ; theme Is. per lb. ; butter, helm lb.; tibias, 4s. per lb.; dried apples, 2s. per lb. ; ham or bacon, 2s. ad. per lb. ; sperm eandleL Bs. per lb.; wears, 21. each; brandy, 6,. to 10e. per bottle; gin, 6e. to Bs, ditto ; whiskey, 6s. ditto; elder, Be. to 10e. ditto ; ale. Is. to 10e. ditto; porter . 41. to 10s. ditto ; via ordinate, fa. to Be. ditto; port wine, situ., ea. to 10s. ditto; pickle., Be. to 10.. ditto; ewes of spirits, Wine, ale, porter, or lemonade, Is. per glass; =ions, 3s. 6d. per lb.; potatoes, la. Bd. per lb. ; nee, Is. pee lb.; vegetables, none. Moles cost from lOC to 261. ; 1101141, 81. to 161.; asses, 124 to 164 : oasis (weighing from 360th.. to 4001 be.), 101. to 121. ; sheep, none. • WORD AS TO WHAT IS TO BE FOUND IN THE VINES BESIDES THE 11 GOLD." Fintly, 7 —The native Indians, a num erons r EVENING, FEBRUARY 1, 1851. Wolves are occasionally met with but not in troops, and no danger exists from them ; a small species of wolf or wild dog, found in great numbers, are a complete source of annoyance to the miners, coming round the encampments and stealing anything within reach; they howl too all night. Deer and quailabound and afford excellent sport and feed. The insect tribe is most beautiful and curious, but not too many to incommode ore. I feel assured a collection would well repay the labour of the natu ralist. The scorpions and tarantell4 spider exist, but are not numerous. The greatest annoyance is expe rienced from the wasp (called here "yellow jacket"), which abound in incredible quantities, and sting severely ; they prefer fresh beef and sugar to anything else. I have counted no less than eight descriptions of snakes, nearly the whole of which are venomous; and, sleeping on the ground, as the miners do, care is requisite to avoid them. I assisted in killing a rattle snake about six weeks age, from which we took no less than 23 rattles. In general, however, the snakes are small, but very numerous. There are thousands and thousands of small liz ads, which every one seems to have taken a liking for, and they are allowed to run everywhere without molestation. Birds, as in all North America, are very scarce, if I except the woodpecker (two species), tho Turkey buzzard, and the quail. The mines are beateffally wooded, rendering the scenery charming ; still, I do not recollect to have seen anything much beyond the various descriptions of pine and the black and white oak, and the timber is of no great size. Some of the shrubs are pretty, especially that called the " Blood-red Tree," on ac count of the colour of the bark. Wild cherries, raspberries, and nuts are found in a few localities. Thus I have endeavoured to give to your readers a slight sketch of this very curious and important country ; and, with an anxious desire to benefit my countrymen, I shall be glad indeed if it can be of ass to any of them. Why it is that so few, comparatively, are here direct from England still remains to me a mystery. I know exaggerated accounts have long prevailed at home with respect to California, and that one's life was in danger, that it was unhealthy, Br,o. On these subjects I have ;already touched, and must leave you to form your own conclusions; but there is one thing I would wish particularly to im press upon the minds of parties who intend to come out here to dig for gold, and that is let them be thoroughly satisfied, before leaving home, that they are coming to a " hard" country ; and that they will have to work u hard or harder than at home, and they are not going to make their fortune in 6 mouths. If men would only fix these ideas in their heads we should not see half the disappointment and vexation that is now experienced. People have come here from every corner of the globe, misled by newspaper accounts, thinking to pick up the gold with out labour, and to return home with a sufficiency for life in a year or two. What a mistaken idea ! and how sorry I have been to see men who have left their homes, their families, and good busi nesses, to come to a wild country like this. I have ' known men to cry, sir, at the miseries they have thea experienced. Why is it that so many hundreds are weekly leaving the country? Why is it that es many come up to the mines, and only remain a day or two, preferring to do anything rather than dig ? Because, as I said before, this is a hard country, and above all, the annoyances, vexations, and disappoint meats attendant upon gold digging, are of ouch a Curious nature as to require the exercise of the greatest good temper, patience, and perseverance. The best friends will quarrel in the " diggios," c weed from the irritable temper the gold digger gets. lam rare it will hardly be believed when I state that it is pos sible for a man to remain two years in the mines with out making enough to carry him home; and yet I know of such instances, and I know of thousands is the mines without one cent. in their pockets. lam almost afraid to state such faces, fearing people may be incredulous and begin to doubt that I hardly know what I am writing about when I state in the face of such truths that I consider this a good country for a poor man to come to, and that he will make more money in the mines than ho can do in any other part of the globe. I have seen common labouring men, who perhaps could hardly get any living at all at home, grumble in the mines because they could not make sore than dole. a day. And why? Because they came with the idea that they were going to make a fortune at once—are disappointed, and cannot get the idea out of their head., and the small sober reality of 11. per day does not exactly suit the views of one who had pictured thousands to himself. He sells his things and leaves the mines for San Francisco. If he was badly off in the mines with five dollars a day, he is mach worse off in town. He finds work difficult to be obtained. He is no longer his own master ; he misses the fresh air and beautiful climate ; gets dis gusted ; returns again to the mires with more mode rate ideas, and wittr the intenticn of not leaving them again until he does make some money, will probably accumulate sufficient in a year or two to enable him to commence business on his own ac count. The first view of the mines is most disheartening, and it requires a good deal of courage (as the French say) to stand the shock one receives. You see a sort of ditch or rivulet, with holes on each side the whole way down; some places put one in mind of newly opened graves in a cemetery . Yon approach and look into them, discovering nothing but a lot of muddy water; you go lower down, hoping to find some grannd untouched. Vain delusion ! You determine to go to other diggine, where no one else has been—money is getting scarce ' the whole country seems overrun in every direction, as with locusts; you get in derpeir and fear you will starve ; fear compels you to begin. You make perhaps le. the first day—perhaps 21. You still go on—get wet and muddy—hear of other people who are making 15 or 20 dollars a day, while you are just paying expenses. You think you are not working in the right way I your partner perhaps gives one opinion, you entertain a different one; your hands are sore and blistered • yon are angry and ' quarrel with your partner, a nd think you have been a great fool to come 20,000 miles for such a purpose, fcc. &c. All this is ao exaggeration Lit happens to every party coming : great numbers, of course, want ing. sufficient fortitude, return immediately, but the majority remain. I Should men unaccustomed to manual labour visitthe mines? This is a question which I know many young men will ask themselves, and I shall enlighten them to the best of my ability, leaving them to form their own judgment. Every one is aware how many there are all over England, bat more especially in London, who have received a good education, and are of respectable parentage, but are always most un happy, being willing to work as clerks, &e., for nothing, and who can get nothing at all t o d o . Large numbers emigrate to Australia, New Zealand, &c., and there are compelled to accept employ ment in the police, as shepherds &c. ;—so me have come to San Franci sco , an d been forced to the mines. Such young men, provided they pos sess good health, an ardent temperament, persever ance and patience, and will leave home with the in tention of remaining two or three years in the mines, live economically and steady, and be satisfied with an avenge of 12s. per diem, Els. of which they could save with the determination so to do,'would, in my opinion, do better than by going to our own colonies, for they have always• the chance of striking a rich place. Bat I would advise them well to *milder all the hardships and disappointments they meat encoun ter. I have met with English alms, d doctors, &c. &c., working is the mines . Oa= will say , and that ia that there is no danger of stare infesting the whole country , and about as ugly and dirty a people as can be imagined. Previously to the disoovery of the gold mines their wont was to go about in a state of nudity, and even now they can hardly be said to wear any clothing; their food con sists almost entirely of acorns, but as the whole of them e squaws and children and all, now occupy them akes in hunting after gold, they are enabled to buy a lbw luxuries in the shape of float biscuits, sugar, Alt, &c., and more especially fresh beef, of which the 7 eat large quantities ; bat nearly the lebda of butt earnings (and they are sot much), are eineemml in whiskey, which, as well as all other Irises, they love to excess, and frequently get dna. On the tint entrance of the whites into the country the Indians were in the habit of committing numerous depredations and even murders, but in con. sequence dooms serious examples having bees made, may now be mid to be properly tamed and harmless, A. tonna antooget all savage nations, the women or squaws are compelled to do all the work, even to dig. ging gold, while the lazy husband lies down and isg; any man in health can always keep himself with looks on. I have often pitied these pool creatures. ease. Next in importance is the grizzly bear, a very fierce Communication with San Francisco is easy and and formidable gentleman, and about whose powers frequent, and to difficulty exists with regard to coin. some almost incredible stories are related; certain it is municetion with home, regular expresses being es that he is of an enormous s'z.-, weighing up to as high tablished foe the receipt and delivery of letters. These as 2,600 lbs. The boldest hunter will hardly attack, express men have made large fortunes. hfm sin g ly, and far my Pare, from what I have seen I shall now finish, and I think I have proved, as I and heard, I should be very sorry to encounter him stated in my first letter, that though the life in the unless with at least two well-armed companions. minas an adventurous one end fall of novelties, it is These bears are numerous and dangerous, and a man still a hard one, but there is gold, and those who are has no chance with them unless on a good horse or lucky can get it. mule, their speed being great ; and, notwithstanding _ ____ _ _ what has been stated to the oontrary, they can run down hill as fast as any other way. Everybody holds them in awe, and with reason, for the " grizzly " is a fearful animal to look at. I WINDOW TAX AND HOUSE TAX. TO TUN IMITOI OP THE IMPRESS. Six,—No tax was ever in universally condemned as the window tax, but on its abolition I trust the legislature will be careful not to commit injuries. It is said that a hoses tax is to be substituted, and that for this to be effectual it mast be levied on landlords, and as many pubic writer, and several newspapers are in favcur of this proposition I beg to state my position, in the way of protest. My net income is a little more than 4001. per annum, and is barely sufficient to support myself and family ; it arises from the rental of four houses in London, all of which are let on lease. The window tax now paid in respect of these four houses 'mounts to about 401. per annum, and the proposed house tax at 2s. in the pound will amount to the same sum as nearly as pas sib'', but the proposed alteration will remove the payment of the tax of 401. per annum from the shou:ders of my tenants to my own, and the effect of this alteration will be that in relieviog my tenants from the window tax the legis. lotus will at the same time relieve my country from my presence, for I mast go with my family, most unwillingly, to spend what may ba left of my income in France sr Ger many.—l am, sir, your obedient servant, OBSERVER. A CALIFORNIAN ADVENTURF.R.—Yesterday Mr. D. M. Waleley held an inquest on James Bayley, egad 33. Eighteen months ego deceased went to Sydney es a chiet mate on board the Anne. Upon reaching Syd'.ey he and the crew deserted the brig and male off to California, in the hope of being suddenly enriched. At California they worked incessantly, and in a short time amused a large quantity of gold dust. Deceased left the "diggings" to spend his trea. sure in drink and riot. While so indulging himself, chokers cut down all his meesmates, which so terrified him, that he returned as quickly as possible to Landon, bringing with him 4,000 dollars in gold, which he sold in Cornbill, and then pursued a course of dissipation, until he had spent ell his money, with the exception of 301. On Wednesday he was attacked with apoplexy, of which he died in a few hours. Just before his death he made hie brother promise to buy the Union Jack, and lay it over his body, which the brother did, and the union flag was spread over the body in the cot En. Mr. Fogarty, surgeon, said that the lipoid, ay was produced by dissipation, and that it caused death. Verdict, "Natural death." Tug CiIEsIIIRE MURDER.—A cruel and wickcd story which came to the knowledge of the police at Man chester, led to the expectalon that a clue had been obtained to the perpetrators of this murder. A. youth named Morrell bad told some emipecions in a public house that a pions man named Bailey h►d stated to him that he and another man (whose name he mentioned) had been into Cheshire on Thursday week (the day of the murder), and had gone into a farm house to sell some tbieg, which Bailey carried in his basket, when an old woman attempted to drive them out, which led Bailey's companion to %trate her on the head three times with a heavy piece of iron, which killed her. When the police made inquiries into this story from Morrell, they attached some credit to it because he appeared to be quite ignorant of the murder of Mrs. Kinder. They have since ap• prehended both Bailey and hie alleged companion (a reepee table farmer's son), and have investigated the case thoroughly. The result is, that the farmer's son shows satisfactorily be was at work the whole of the day of the murder, ploughing a field at Altrinattam—many miles from the scene of the crime— and that Bailey also proves himself to have been at work at Manchester on the day in question. The lad now turns ' round and says, that Bailey, who has been apprehend. d, is not the person (though he answer, exactly to the description he first gave to the police) who told him of the murder. There is reason to believe that his whole story is a wicked falsehood, but it has been the cause of much trouble to the polies, and of pain to the parties more nearly affected by it, and to their friends. CRUELTY TO CHILDREN.—At Stonrbridge, on Wednesday, Joseph Goodman, of Stourbridge, carpenter, and Anne his wife, were charged with ill-treating :heir child, a little boy, apparently about nine years of age. From the evidence of Phoebe Wood, a married woman, it appeared that the child celled at her house on Sunday ' evening last, ►nd asked for a piece of bread, and from the wretched appearance of the poor child she was induced to take it into the house to the fire, and give it something' to eat. She gave it some bread, which the poor child ate ravenously. She observed a severe bruise on the child's head, which he stated his father did with a stick; that his stepmother sent him out to beg for food, and that if he did not get enough to satisfy himself he was beaten. She examined the child, and found severe bruises all over its back. These still remained when examined by the magis trates, who required the father to eater into sureties to appear to any charge that might be preferred against h.= when called upon. The only defence set up was that the child was unruly and dirty in its habits. Superintendent Burton stated that about twelve months back he found one of their children in a starving state, confined in the top part of their house, and that a month back &little girl, who also appeared starved, was detected in stealing some bread from a baker's shop, which she said she was driven to do by her parents. The magistrates desired that the parish officers might be In formed of the circumstance, in order that proceedings might be instituted to prosecute the parente.-IVoiver liompton Chronicle. A PLAN OF RATHER A NOVEL CHARACTER has been lately adopted by a fellow from this county, by which he continues to combine agreeable exercise with healty diet and pleasant quarters. He regularly visits the police stations within a circuit of some twenty or thirty miles of the city ; he gives himself np as a deserter, and, es the police are en , titled to compensation on delivering up a deserter, the honest fellow gets his night's lodging, a good breakfast, and a pleasant drive to the next military station. He went into the police office, at Watergrau Hill, one evening last week, and gave himself up as a deserter; he got some food before going to bed, he got his night's lodging, and after making a hearty breakfast next morning, he war driven to Fumy, when the police found, to their disappointment, that their prisoner was completely innocent of any breach of military discipline.—Cork Examiner. MADIMOISELLE RACHEL AND DER SISTER.—The indrytendance of Brussels has the following in a letter from Faris:—lt is known that Mille. Rachel has several sir. tere who are, like her, actresses. The one who is most likely to establish a solid reputation is Mille. Rebecca, who wi4 recently received as a socidaire by the Comedie Fraugaise. For this young and charming titer, Mille. Rachel has a lively and almost maternal affect on. Mille. Rebecca has lately been performing with success the part of Catarini B►agadine in Victor lingo's Angelo, in which her sister has personated the principal character. The last time the two sisters performed together, Mille. Rachel said, as they were leaving the stage after an enthusiastic recall, "My dear child, you have played like an angel; I will recom pense you—let us go and sup at your house." "At my house!" exclaimed the young actress, greatly surprised, " you mean at my father's." " No, no lat your re sidence I say ! " answered Mille. Rachel. " What! are you embarrassed? Well, here's the key." Shortly after the two sisters arrived in Mille. Rachel's car riage in a pretty house in the Rue Mogador, close to the charming hotel which the grant tragedian occupies in the Rue Trudon. Mille. Rebecca (meted that she was in a dream, or playing a put in some fantastic comedy. They ascended to the second floor, and Mall,. Rachel then said, "Now open!" At the same moment the doer was opened, and a venerable looking female servant appeared with • light. " What, is that you, Marguerite I" said the young actress, glad to me an old friend. " Now enter !" nried fddlle. Riche), " and all is yours!" Mille. Rebeecs, almost stupified, entered, and found ante room, dining-room, drawing, bed, and dressing rooms, furnished in the most elegant style, and decorated with exquisite taste. On returning to the dieing-room, a nice supper was seen smoking on the table, and MdUe. Rachel said, "The drawers are full of household linen—in the dressing-room you will find every article of linen and dress you can possibly require—one cellar Is stocked with wood, another with wine, and the rent is paid a you in advance ! Now let us sup, sad do the honours!" SOUTHAMPTON Is OVEII-RUN WITH BEGGARS AND Tinsves. A oorrespondent says:—Two persons cannot stop to speak in the street but what they are interrupted by some sturdy or miserable !coking beggar asking alms. In fact the latter act u an auxiliary polio*, for the instant a group is funned, it is scattered because the appeal to the pocket acts as an authoritative "move on." Bat the great , est Mims are the street sweepers. Daring the whole of this winter not lees than 160 dirty boys have taken possession of the Southampton crossings, and have levied mud mail at the point of the broom. It is laughable to see these Impu dent urchins, broom in hand, chasing the pedestrians along the pavement, importunately begging " a ha'penny for the poor sweeper." As soon as the poor pedestrian gets rid of one, another comes on, so that he finds himself esoorted through the town by a guard of juvenile scavengers. Some experienced and metropolitan burglar, are on a visit to Southampton. They entered a coming-bones, near the PosCoffla, close to the High-street, one night and found a patent iron cheat. It is supposed that they had no tools to open it. The owner, although he knew of the visit, had such confidence in the security of his chest, that he continued to keep money there. The thieves paid another visit, and, although there was not a crevice in the chest where the blade of a penknife could be bound, it was broken open and a lugs sum of saw stolen. A few nights ago • guest's shop Tea broken into la the High-street; the thieves were disturbed, and they decamped, leaving their housebreaking initeaments behind. Two of the crowbars were quite new, sad were no doubt made in the Pam It ie openly rumoured in Southampton that the thievu en kar bowed by the proprietor of an apparently extends' and re spectable establishment in that tows. LITERATU RE. " The Forty. Five." By Loan ldartoN. Murray. This compact volume present., in an elegant and portable form, half a &nen chapter. from • Lord Ma bon's "History of England," containing the narrative of the Pretender's expedition in 1745. It is a very judicious reprint. Now that Jacobitiern bag sunk into something which produces a spasmodic ballad occasionally, or au extenuation of Clavering's butch eries,—which is learned in tartans, and sings " Hey Johnnie Cope" at the second tumbler,—all mankind can read the stery with much the same impartiality as they do that of the flight of Ic .ros. Perhaps the two best remembered scenes in the whole drama are the gallantry of Fl)ra Macdonald and the buffoonery of Lord Lovat at his trial. Let us glance once more back at this historical romance of the last century. Lord Mahon begins by introducing Charles Eduard, akhe appeared in the beginning of this memorable year. He had a fine oval face; blue eye.; wore his hair in long ringlets. So far, we see, the opening is precisely that of a novel ; while, with a candour which novelists would do well to imitate, we are in formed that the Prince had not learned to spell. Hie lordship, who examined the " Stuart Papers" in Windsor Castle, found that Charles wrote his father's name Gems — which reminds the modern reader of the hero of " Buckley-equare." It is really melan choly to think that no hater provision should have been made for the education of this youth, wh with naturally fine qualities, bad been brought up to con sider himself entitled to the throne of England' Bat he was left in the hands of " monks and bigots." The Stuarts, after they left Scotland, never could steer between extremes—they were always either pedants or profligates. These are just the contrasts that make the attraction of emnedy—and comedy the &auto played, for which the spectators had a high price to pay. %I'earitd with the degradation of hanging on on a French court which would do nothing, and suffering from all those petty cares of exile which Macaulay has described so well, Charles seems to have grown desperate at last. Against the advice of all his sup porters in Scotland, who intimated that they n could do nothing in his behalf unless he came with a body of at least 6,000 troops and 10,000 stand of arms'—he resolved, "at all hazards," to attempt the enterprise. What arms he did raise were conveyed in a French ' frigate, which, however, got uisubled by an English man-of-war, and had to put back. His own little brig was " clamed," but got away. At last, after a fortnight's sailing, he reached the West ern Wards, and landed at Moidart. Everybody's first impulse seems to have been to look on the expedition as an insane one. Macdonald, of Boiedale, refused to have anything to say to him. Clanrenald and other Macdonald. prophesied lain; but they were brave men and enthusiastic men—the Stuart family have always been fatal to such men—and they joined. Charles established himself in a farm-house, and sent letters to the Jacobite chiefs, who now found them selves called from their homes to risk their lives, with ruin staring them in the face. Again and again ono admires their gallant enthusiasm; and, indeed, their conduct quite outshines whatever beauty there was in that of Charles. lie implored their blood front them with greedy selfi,hness—and they gave it. lie was unquestionably brave; but we cannot discern that there was anything in his views worthy of a man who had a "divine right." He seems to have had no nobler notion of his cause than if the crown were some private propert y be had been ejected from, and was to get back by levying a posse comitatus. He used the hereditary arta of attraction, so as to degrade them into clap-trap ; and his eagereess for a fray smacked of the excitement of the sportsman. The standard was raised, and troops began to drop in day by day, and at last Charles was on his march southward. The people in Edinburgh opened their eyes at last (tor up to this time the aw horities had behaved very much like the Dutch governors in Knickerbocker), and Sir John Cope was sent out against the enemy. Cope seems to have been a solid, sturdy man, ready to fight in a blind, heavy wa y w h en needful, but to have had no more genius than a wag goner. The solid man set out, passed the enemy, and went off to Inverness. Charles at once marched towards the Lowlands, joined by " Grants of Glen morriston,"—bis army swelled by little tribes of blue eyed, kilted Highlanders from glen to glen,—and reached Blair, the seat of the Duke of Atha:. Lord George Murray, that duke's brother, joined him, and was the most valuable officer he had from first to last. Charles got into Edinburgh after prodigies of —cowardice from those who ought to have resisted him, and there he gave a great ball. Let us hear Lord Mahon for a senteeee or two, and try and pic ture our brave young adventurous friend just having a little taste of kingship—as /Eneas enjoyed an inter view with his parent and got a sight of the ghosts of old Trojans in the Elysian fields ! " His noble t:iritt and hie graceful horsemanship could not fail to strike even the moat indifferent spectators, and they were seemly less pleased at his national d •ess—a tartan out, a blue bonnet, with a white cockade, and a star of the order of St. Andrew. . . Charles showed that neither the fatigue of the previous march, nor the anxiety of the coming conflict, 0..u1d impair his natural vivacity and powers of pleasing; and the ladies were loud in his praises, many of the younger, perhaps, thinking that the cause of so handsome a prince and so graceful a dancer could not possibly be wrong." His lordship, by-the-bye , me/yr4 the good natuted sneer in the tail of hta sentence, is a little inclined to think with the young ladies himself, which tendency, clearly perceptible in conflict with his sense and protestantism, has a half-amusing effect. We are very much mistaken, indeed, if he would not have joined in the dance that night,—if not in the more serious "country dance," which went "down the middle," as far as Derby, and "back again," in a melancholy state, to the glens. The Earl of Kellie, Lord 13almerino, Sir David Murray, and others, meanwhile joined the rising. Solid Cope who was " wauking," as the song says, at last, marched down; Charles thrashed him at Preston Pans in about six minutes, after which— " The Highlanders wreaked their whole fury on such dragoon horses as they could reach, believing that these animals were trained to bite and tear in battle," and then " most of the rioters disbanded for plunder." On the last day of October Charles set out to the southward and entered England. His army officers were divided by squabbles among themselves; a for midable force was marching against him. By a de vice of Lord Murray's, his force deceived the Duke of Cumberland, and reached Derby on the 4th December. But what impression did all this make in London Charles was now at Derby, with 5,000 fighting men, an the march open before him. We have an account of the impression from a writer to whom one is always glad to return—a man who observed like Mephis topheles, and described like Voltaire—a man who has made pleasantry classical in English—that great high priest of the god of wit—Horace Walpole. lioraceWal pole was at this time about twenty-eight year' , of age, and was living comfortably (on three fat alumina) in Arlington-street. " I look upon Scotland," he says, in September, "u gone !" In the next letter he has the following amusing paragraph (Letters to Sir Horace Mann, vol. ii., p. 31) : Every new and then a Scotchman cornea and pulls the boy ((this is his name for the Pretender) by the sleeve; " Prince, here is another mon taken !" Tnen, with all the dignity in the world, the boy hopes nobody was killed in the action. Lord Buts has made a piece of a ballad of the Duke of Newcastle's speech to the regency. I have heard but these two lines of it : "Pray consider, my lords, how disastrous a thing, To have two Prince of Wales'', and • king!" At first, it was the fashion in London to speak of the rebellion as an affair of no consequence ; but when the news of the arrival at Derby reached town, it threw London "into great consternation," says Wal pole. "There never was so melancholy a town," ho also states. Charles had evaded the armies both of the Duke of Cumberland and Wade, and it now seemed probable that he could reach the metropolis before either could intercept him. This, in fact, was the crisis of the expedition,—of the fate of Charles, and of the fortunes of the house of Stuart. A very decided measure of success had been obtained; an advantage over a dangerous opposition had been established. March on, or not march on, was the question upon which everything depended. Charles, in consistence with his spirit throughout, was for advancing on London. His °Meer' were decidedly opposed to it. He implored and entreated, but they were inflexible. On the 6th began that re L d. II 0 1 0 2 0 1 0 1,000 %o• GAN 1%00 de Lo Hi hit az eni lie Did lo• Ji