The Express. — London, England, 1851-05-24 00:00:00

LITERATti ltE. l it, coat the whole subject of zoology in a new form. ; Its general features have been adopted and retained hit Ri , h e through most of th e special treatises which have isq towards Me East in Public Worship: se i+ ros•a second Edition. Richardson, Cornball; been published since it first saw the light. Olivier, m livier, Pall-all. Collier distrib u t e d t h e numerous species of birds This is a very sensible and ingenious pamphlet, into six orders ; viz., plunderers, or birds of written to show the absurdity of certain Puseyite prey ; climbers (like parrots and birds of paradise); Innovations. The author and fiis fellow-parishioners songsters ; gallinaccous birds; waders (as the ostrich) ppurto have been much annoyed by a new inetun- and swimmers. bent, who signalised his entry into the parish by A description of the birds of the British Islands turning to the east" in various parts of the has been frequently attempted, and with various service. Now, of course, the act of turning either to success. Donovan 's work, in ten volumes, published the east or elsewhere is, per se, harmless enough; at the commencement of the present century, is large but the adoption of forms abandoned after the to-'I without being great. Mr. John Gould has well forma( (and obviously in consequence of it), natu- illustrated our ornithology, in five sumptuous and Pally leads to a fear that the adoption of doctrines of beautiful volumes. Every one who delights to see the same class may follow : hence this pamphlet, , nature in art has read the " British Birds" of wherein the author attacks this particular innova- Bewick. It is one of those books which may tip) of the "turning." lk begins by urging the' be keenly relished without any arduous study, but narrownessi of view implied in thus localising: which tliose who study it most will best appreciate twonhip, and proceeds to show that th e cus t om it se lf I an d en j oy. Mr. Swainson gave a minute and exten-1 Ia oak a traditionary continuance of the old idols- ; sive exposition of the natural history and classifies try or the sun- -or, at best, a ceremony founded tion of birds in two volumes of I.nrclner's " Cyclo- 1 won a metaphor. The following paragraphs are predin," and Sir W. J ar di ne h as performed a similar) worth reflecting on : I service in the " Naturalist's Library." Mr. Slaney, And may it not be learnt that the "histrionic" display in the late Bishop Stanley of Norwich, and Mr. Robert some of our modern churches . of turning specially towards I Nludie, did good service in popularising the subject ; sh• east, with other forms and ceremonies, is sometimes in lb small publications. The completest manuals, how-1 traduces! fur the purpose of an imposaig appearance, in ever, combining scope and minuteness, are Tarrell . s Substitution for the pure, devout, and unostentatious wor d Lip or God " in spirit and in truth ?" " History of British Birds," Maegillivray ' a " British I An eminent plisivian and author observed that if it he Birds, Indigenous and Migratory," sod now this swished to disentnituate the characters of men in the practice o History of British Birds," by the Rev. F. 0. Morris. at' meditinc for the cure of the hotly, it may he interred Let a. us d that in proportion to the superficial display of technical buy, is the absence of deep learning and know. lion commen and liberal the latter to the careful considera patronage of readers both in town ridge of the ' profession. and countrv. It is cleverly written, is elegantly Applying a like principle to the chunh— to men who printed, and is illustrated by coloured plates, which profess the cure it!' souls, may it not he safely concluded add beauty to fidelity and completeness. that the mote conspieuous the exhibition of postures and Other theatneal display, the less the amount of pure meats religion he more of earthly unauthorised parade, the Ina of Inas• idy spirituality This paniplilet is well written, and furnishes fresh food for meditation on the singular ecclesiastical phenomena of the ay. Mit*ry , f 'girds. By the thy. b. O. MONIII% B.A. The sublime appearance's of the heavens have led Man on from vague awe to the highest processes of reasoning : the progressive changes traceable in the turfisce of the earth have carried back the thought of mankind mer a range of durat . worthy of a crea ture of large discourse looking before' anti after ; and oar daily dialing with sensible objects is one con tinual discipline to form the dexterous and efficient mind. But besides these something is wanting to emnplete man's education—some thing to mellow and refine the heart in danger of becoming rigid and insusceptible amid the sew titles of a inertly intellectual and practical life. And this generalising influence is provided in the fami liar and OA 11 /US 6110111 a of rural and svlean scenery. Let the jaded scholar, the disappointed merthunt, ur the down-trod& et .111 of toil, transport himself, at the close of the due, to stmt English eopse. As he fleece it, he is struck with au endless variety of pleasin g me round.. Ile listens to thellow redoeshymn of , the bluckbinl. to the thrush's notes, as deer gush in bursts of gladness from a hawthorn-bunt; to the cheerful lay of the lark, as he carols in the air. Be uppnmeheu. and ut list it seems us if the very birds avoided hint with aversion. A note Of alarm is git en, the blackbird raises its eery, or the wood-pigeon flaps its wings us she takes her heavy Might, startling the inmates of the wood. The rabbits send fr the path, the pheasants flit into the unit. raissl, and the screams or the jay are ex haled Iw lac romp:nee. as they fly front tree to tree. But hi him have patience; let him stand for a few minutes under that iild oak. covered with a forest of, mass. It, side him the tendrils of the briony festoon with their brilliant berries, green, yellow, and red, the deader laig of the hazel. The amide, With its lines. its shades, its variety 1/1' forms, CXIIUIIII , its cone. 'rho squirrel, now agile with like. ventures to gambol round the trunk of an ancient beech. from whime branches the wood pecker is laughing joyously. The nut-hatch is clean ing itself in the think of some dry bough. The life of the scene is rosiving. The thrush returns to her :mil the pheasant to the ride. The rabbits again show theni.ele es, and rearing themselves upon their loodquartumlook out to sr if danger's: overpaid. Theietarlill4r , :VC i nn. more in the aldemand the wood pigeon calls to his mate. The grove is again vocal with the song. the cry of delight, the bustle of animal activity. Ten thousand creatures are Nl filling the purpose of their being, and that purpose is their haw as. Who can stand in such a scene and nut fist his heart beating responsively to the universal joy litre, iu the immediate presence of a beneficent ereator, selfishness stands rebuked, dis trust is repcue eel, and love, hope, and courage return • to the fainting heart. As he pensive leaves the spot the pinasont whirrs bv, crowing as he goes to rtss.t, the call of the put-triage is heard in the dis tance. and the returning rook's eaw is heard front the heads of the loftiest trees. Pressentiv all is still, until the melancholy bird of night begins its plain.' five song. The mul.incholy bird!—oh idle thought! In nature then• is nothing melancholy. But ...Hue night-wandering man, whine heart was pierced With the remembrimay ut a grievous wrong, Or soul diitempervil with oeglerted hot— (And poor wretch! tilled all things with himself, And 111.ule all geode thing. tell back the tale Of his surrus)—and such as he Virg maw d slots,. a melancholy strain, And many :1 port rebus, the r We hale learned A different lore ; -we may not thus profmte Nature's sue, -t s, always fall of lose - And prom. 'Ti. the merry nightingale. The delight and profit of this intercourse with nature is dirtst ; it appeals nt once to the senses and emotions. It ran be shared by all without preparation or study. It has often found its most exalted expression iii the language of men like John Clare. tslucitteil no further than by the reflex opera tion of habits of observing. Yet it hat a natural ten dency to ally itself with a more intelltstuul life. Thole who hate entered into it will not stop short at sensuous or emotional enjoyment. Thee will at first be curious to know something of the ;Ammeters ofl the feathered tribes which surround them—their habits. peculiar language, domestic life, social are rangentent, fat ourite haunts, and periodical rnigra titans Those w ho learn most on these points from observation o ill be most solicitous to avail themselves , of the facts roamed by (others. 'floe kindly pages " of Gilbert White. of Selbornet of home, author of the "Cleanings in Natural History ; " and the in-! tweeting anonymous , -Journal of a Naturalist," will probably be consulted. By &Irmo the student of i nature will have come to classify and generalise' the objects of his favourite study. In this operation of comparing the birds of Great Britain he will ad vents far towards a knowledge of general ornitho- 1 logy., since curb of the great orders into which birds are distramted is represented in these islands. It is in the meat types of genera and families that! the scientific study of ornithology is alone practi cable except to professed naturalists. The different species, whelk nature pit sents for comparison and clas sification am t to upwards of 60.11011. that number being euntaintsl in the Museum of Berlin alone,a num ber four times greater than that of the class mam mas. And as it is the most numerous. so it is, with the mingle exception of fishes. the most widely distributed IA all dames of animals. For while the mammals and reptiles are more or less confined to the warm and temperate tones of the earth, birds are more or less distributed over every pout of its surface, front the equator to the poles. At least in the highest lati tudes to which travellers have attained the feathered tribes hate never been found wanting. Antiquity has bequeathed us no classification of birds worthy of the name. Aristotle's orders are only grows ' formed according to casual resemblances. The loth Book of Pliny treats of birds, but in a must meagre and unsatisliwtory manner. la the sixteenth century' Conrad ( - homer wrote a work which Curier called an excellent compilation. He clasiiat dltisobjectsalpbabetically,accordingtothe initials of their names. Ray's " Methodical Sy nopsis of Birds." published in 1713. was the first systematic treatise on the subject. and prepared the way fur Linnans. The first edition of " Sys teme Nature" of this great reformer of natural his tory was published in 1783. His classification, con sidered as the work of one man, was a wonderful monument of analysis and generalisation. The science has far outgrown the framework which he sanatracted for her, but the system of the great Swede will always command realest. The system of Clavier, destined to supplant all that had preceded A Voyage front Leith In Loptand nr, Picture, of Senn dinario in WO. By WILLIAM Heaton. Bentlry. Of the antiquities and remote history of the land of Odin as much is known as of any ancient histo rical country. Our forefathers had only too good cause to understand the character of its population. Henry of lluntingdnn has left us a very vivid pic ture of the dire old sea kings managing their ships WO the horseman his steed, boasting that the hur ricane was in their service, singing as they followed gaily the track of the swans, till they filled our' creeks with their barques. But these arc the tradi tions of another world. Between that time and ours a great gulph is fixed. Our age is too sagacious not to esteem the living present more than the dead past ; and Englishmen. more prone to sympathise with the many than to admire the few. ask concerning Scandinavia how its millions live, think, act, and feel. Events and in fluences have lately concurred to draw attention to the Danish portion of the north. The genius of Thorwalsden, the kindly writing,. of Hans C. Ander sen, and the reflected fame of Oehlensehlager powerfully . reminded us that a noble yet compara tively unvisited rum was flourishing on the ice bound shores of the Baltic. Still Denmark lay outof the track of European travel. Histories of the state were abundant, and so-called travels were not want ing ; hut a lifelike conception of the people could not be formtil trom all the descriptions extant. We may reasonably hope that this is the description of a state of things which will at once pass away. Within the last few weeks a direct line of steamers has replaced the old circuitous and uncertain modes of travel ; and from the descriptions of our own shrewd and observant countrymen we may expert, concerning 1 1 I kamark and the Danes, the same fresh and living kind of knowledge as we already possess of other European lands. In the meantime, let us listen to 1 1 Mr. Murton. Our traveller landed at Glockstadt. the third city of Holstein, situate on the left bank of the Ellie . ' about thirty miles below Hamburg. in November, IWi4, and promded thence by railway to Kiel, a distance of sixty miles. Although the charge was hat one halfpenny per mile for third class, he as.serts that the carriages were decidedly more comfortable than second-class carriages arc generally in England, being well lighted and fitted up with close .hutting windows. Ile remained in the little town just long enough to admire the noble canal, the immense brick church, the military ; and to . mark tha intense German spirit of the' inhabitants. Ile embarked with two children of the' storm on the Baltic., in a remarkably little Danish craft, captain, crew, and passenger making a total of three, and proceeded to Svendborg, in I bnimark Proper. Here he was exceedingly struck with the' prodigious number of windows in every house—the lower parts seemed ull glum. Many a little cut in Denniark has more glaziers work about it than a substantial house of three or four storeys in Eng land. The journev from Sweden to Copenhagen may be taken us un illustration of interior TUNNELLING IN DENNIAI(K. I secured n place in the ordinary perumv.posin which left the flint morning for Roskilde, which is within 16 Eng li..ll miles of Copenhagen, paying in aavenee, and receiving a written ticket and receipt. The charge was extremely moderate, being only about 14 shillings English, luggage included. No fee whatever is expected hr the driven., or by the steward of the packet across the Great Belt, and when the traveller has secured his place, he has no Sather anxiety of any kind, his luggage being responsibly for warded either by the carriage in which he is seated, or by some other on the mute. At 4 o'clock the next morning, after swallowing a cup of coffee with delicious frozen cream, I seated myself in a low, light, four-wheeled vehicle, drawn by two horses abreast, the front part much nytemhling an English stage-mash, except that the seat behind the driver only accommodated two passengers, which, with a single seat by his aide, made up the complement. The body of the carriage we...fashioned like a :hallow, shelving-sided cart, and in it the luggage anal goods were placed, and covered with a tarpaulin. We were long clearing the town. Twisting and turning from street to street, and lane to lane, the pale roiled on- I wards, and when the last straggling row of betties was cleared, the cutting blast which came from the wintry Baltic, forcibly announced that the open country was gained, and the wind blew strongly from that quarter all !the way to Nyhorer. The fellow-traveller by nay side must hase heel% an old stager, for he secured the leeward out. I I looked at him several times with a view to aildn-a him, hut he was so muffled up in his fur coma and cap, that only just the tip of his now and a corner of his mouth were visible, whence issued clouds of the weed he was consuming •in a long pipe. The driver wore a red mat and had a baffle hnrn, which he blew as we approached the villages. 'I he !country. as we advaneed, was more thickly covered with snow, and was a dead, level, treeless land, without the I least sign of the picturesque about its hysical outlines . The nudside cottages were few and far between, and the scene in the gloom preceding daybreak (which did not I happen till about 9 a.m.) was wild, desolate, and melan- I choly. I noticed on the road a simple and efficient substitute for toll-bar gates, in the shape of a beam of wood balanced acne , ' a low post by the side of the road. The short end of the beam was heavily weighted with atones, So that when the chain wench was attached to the other extremity , to hold it down in a horizontal position across the road was ! withdrawn. it instantly rose high in the air. and permitted the paswig .of the vehicle. The driver had frequently to blow hearty blasts on his bugle ere he aroused the slumber inje bar-keepers to come forth and lo u se the chain. About noon we arrived at Nyberg, a town of two or three thousand inhabitants, situated on the edge of the Great Belt, and here I staid until nightfall, waiting for the Ste:llMT which caresses over to Conner, in the island 01 Snelland, or, as we call it, Zealand, on the eastern side 01 which is Copenffiuren. The town of Nyborte is a consider able military station, and has some foreign trade. My pas sage across the B. It, which is only nine English miles wide b e t ween th e tw o towns. proved stormy enough, and we were an extraordinary time about it—the sea sweeping our decks handsomely. At Comer I remained a couple of hours or less, and then resumed my land journey in the some fashion as before. It was a glorious night, the stars shining with intense bril liancy, although at times the whole face of the heavens would become obscured almost instantanentnly. Sharp but transient mow-storms also occasionally occurred, and the wintry blast was truly bitter, piercing to the marrow of ' one's hones. Notwithstanding this. I tan honestly avow that I enjoyed the romance of the strait% and being deter mined to keep my tongue from feasting at any rate, I howled forth at the utmost stretch of my lungs every song I could enrollee, and with very commendable impartiality as to subject. for I solemnly trolled •• God earner gracious Queen !" one moment, and the next Yu:iterated the •• Mar seillaise "• _ . . _ .... .. . . At 9 a.m., I arrised at Roskilde. en exceedingly ancient old town, and formerly of high importance as the seat of government. posses It sc. • brick cathedral, in the vaults of which the Kings of Denmark are interred. After a stay here of some hours, I left by railway for Copenhagen. This is the only line in Denmark Proper. and seems exceed ingly well ordered. During my subsequent residence, much discussion took plate in the newspapers respecting the impriety of establishing electric telegraphs in various parts of the country, but I believe the project died away. The fare which I paid for a seat in a first-class carriage wan': little more than the price by the English parliamentary trains, but I was astonished to find that the gentlemen in the same carriage with me smoked pertina, iously all the way. Indesd, the SC.IIIIIiII,IVIAUS gen , rally smoke any ' where and everywhere without any notion of impropriety. At length, then, after 11 days of varied voyaging, I reached COrellhapu. The following were our traveller's FIRST HIPIDASIONS OP COPENHAGEN. Copenhagen is emphatically a city of palaces, of mu ! seisms, and of public buildings. Thi s is its distinctive fea ture, and to appreciate it fully nothing but a personal visit will suffice. No person of ordinary intelligence can walk through it without, at every step, exclaiming—MlS is a capital ! The number of grand edifices belonging to the state arc truly astonishing, and yet, taking the city all through, there is not one erection of extraordinary . gran deur—not a palace, nut a church, not a square, wh ich will bear comparison with those of many other cities. It is true thLt some of the government buildings are of amazing extent, and are well built ; but, generally speaking, they are essentially plain in their architecture, and exhibit little grandeur of conception. Some of the churches are very ex traordinary erections, and contain painting s an d scu l ptures I (especially the latter) of inestimable CANC. There are theatres, a very grand casino, and many places of exhibi tion. The generality of the streets are narrow, and the people are surprisingly- mixed up with the carriages, on the middle of the road, in the narrowest streets; but as no vehicle is allowed by law to drise at a greater rate than one Danish mile (about four-and.a.half English) per hour, accidents rarely occur. 'fle houses hare all a substantial and yet a light appearance, owing to the great number of their windows. Some are linty, especially those facing the ramparts. Although they, is not one truly grand street in Copenhagen, there are astonishingly kw mean ones. Nearly every str.et throughout the city is at least reepeet able. You will search in vain for those dirty, dismal, fetid, sweltering alleys and courts common to all English towns; and you will look equally in vain for any ot those repulsive street scenes COMMI/11 in the latter. Beggars are certainly not auk's,* n here, but they are exceedingly few—no miserable objects in rags and tatters ever disgust the eye ; and never yet have I met a drunken man in Copenhagen, although I base traversed it at all hours. There - is no lack, as I shall I;4aitt,•r show, of in-door gaiety in Copenhagen; but the general aspect of the city, to a loreigner accustomed to the stunning bustle of English towns, is decidedly dull. Partly. this arises from the ve7 little show the shcps make, the comparatively trifling busi nes.. traffic in the streets, anii also from the leisurely habits of the people themselves. The fact is, the Danes have not yet learned to live in a harry; but, although they are "slow," they are steady and sure; although they are a century hi-hind England in many of the leading improve ments of the age, they are more than a century ahead of England in generally diffused plenty and comfort ; and although they do not gallop through lite as though fur a wager, they know how to enjoy it rationally. Thc German Christmas-tree has been often de scribed. The same beautiful symbol is cherished in Denmark, and, indeed, throughout Scandinavia. Our traveller was present at and describes the affecting WNW in a family of Copenhagen, us pa rental and fraternal love displayed itself in gifts conveyed through this poi:Sear medium. Would that every wanderer might fall into as good com pany. Denmark, says our author, is really an intellec tual kingdom. Education is provided by the state. and the demands of a reading public thus created are supplied by a very strong array of native writers. Books are sold at a very moderate price ; but the remuneration of authors seems to be very low, the population not being large enough to give that great sale which makes low prices consistent with good profits in this country. Nothing astonishes the Ihines more than to be informed that their countryman, lions Christian Andersen, has at tained so unrivalleda populatity in this rountrvats he holds but a very secondary place among Danish writers. Of English authors they admire most Marrvat. Dickens, and James, whose works', they read in the cheap editions issued by the well known house of Tauehnitz, of faipzic, and translated in thePorillefons of their own newspapers. Mr. Burton's second volume is occupied with an , account of m his journey toChristiana, B e r ge n Umark,' and the North ('ape. An unusual proportion of his' description is devoted to the minute details of this and that mode of travelling. The reason of this seems to lie much more in the writer's bias than in the novelty of the subject. Being, us he seems , anxious to inform us, an amateur sailor, or MOW-. thing more, able and willing to bear a hand when wanted, he is ever stopping to de. scribe his vessel, his sea companions, with their charcaters and habits. llis picture of the Sound in a hard frost is very full and graphic, and Elsinore is described with much poetic feeling. 1 Christiana he found very dull, and Norway as sterile in intellect as in soil. The country has no native literature worthy the name. On the other hand, the Norwegians are great rcaders of Danish, Swedish, German, French, and English books. It may be satisfactory to Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton and Mr. George Prince Regent James to know that students! at the University of Norway are examined in their works, proficiency in which is one of the conditions of their pass. The faplanders, as described by Mr. Murton, even in the midst of their rein -deer, arc anything but that poetical people described by Thomson. " Walk," Rays he, "up to a Lap uncouthly squatted before his I tent, and his very first salutation is made by stretch ing forth a tawny hand, and demanding, in a whining tone, tubavvu or brandy. The very tirst Lap I saw importunately begged a couple of shil lings fur drink-money." THE ItErRE , EsT MON OP CLACKM V•NANSIIIRE.— Our correspondent intbrms ua that Mr. Johnston, of Alva, is to contest the election with Mr. Adam. In his address, issued on Tuesday afternoon, he declares that he will not give his support to any scheme calculated " to exclude re ' ligiun from the national education," and observes, that " hy thus educating and raising the moral condition of the people, they will be gradually prepared for a further ex tension of Ole suffrage." He promisiss to support measures against papal aggnssion. Free trade he regards as only an experiment; and, though "prepared to sup port the continuance" "of the great policy .of Mr. Hus kimon and Sir IL Peel," he consider+ it the " immediate duty of the legislature to relieve the agricultural as well as the shipping interest of every special and peculiar burden." Ile also declares himself favourable to the abolition of sine cures and to " strict economy," in all branches of the pub► lie expenditure. Mr. Adam had a meeting with the elm ' tor, of Alloa on 'Thursday, when he declared his semi meats to be in favour ofcootsaued and progrouive reform, an extended and national system of education, and if they could not have education with religion, they must have education without it. Ile said he thought the time had come when there should b, a wide extension of the ; but nu this subject he would give no pledge till h'• should see Lord John Russell's promised bill. He regarded the repeal of the corn laws as a wise measure, although perhaps :adopted' too suddenly, without allowing sufficient time for a re , adjustment of the contracts between landlord and tenant. Ile, however, thought that a careful inquiry should be instituted in regard to the peculiar burdens pressing on landowners and farmers, although, had he been in parlia ment, he would not have toted for Mr. Disraeli's ad rap ' 1.,,,,d am motion. The repeal of the navigation laws was also, heico h dder e il, a win• measure, but he would willingly agree to all inquire as to the burdens pressing on shipowners. He declared hilholf favourable to a reduction in the national' expenditure, although he could not go so far as Mr. Colul-n. He was favourable to equalising the franchise in counties and burghs. and to a 40s. freehold in Scotland, if, on inquiry, it seemed likely to be advantageous, but was opposed to vote by ballot. lie would support the Reelesiastical Titles As sumption Bill, but he would not interfere with nunneries if it interfered with the liberties of the subject. He would not vote for the withdrawal of the May nooth grant, but would oppose the endowment of the Rotni , h priesthood in Ireland or the eoloni( S. Ile was opposed to the mainte nance of the church establishment in Ireland, hut was not prepared to support the s•pas:c ion of the established church of Scotland from the state at present. In short, Mr. Adam appears to be a whir, and Mr. Johnston a Peelite, in their leading principles. The contest will be a close one. . . REPRESENT.%TION OF LINDSEY. —A requisition to I i Mr. Banks Stanhope has been hawked about Stow and I neighbourhood fur signatures , ti request him to heroine a candidate fur the representation of Lindsey al the next I election. There is great obieetiun to Mr. Stanhope, on ac- count of his very strong political bias in favour of toryism. As Sir Montague Cholmeli y's protectionist principles are well known amongst the constituency, there seems little chance of the return of a tory protectionist —Limolmi Afercury. THE SPEEDY P.I6SIGE OF TIIE I'.VCIFIC. —lilt ! DWI:1011o( the American line of steamers some time ago, promised a silver vase to the engineers of whichever of their 1 boats first performed the passage eitherway under ten days. This feat having been performed by the Pacific, the follow ing engineers, who were highly complimented by Captain Nye and the passengers for their exertions, will be the re cipients of the prise :—Mr. Daniel B. Martin, thief en- , eineer ; Mr. Nathan Thomson, Jun., and Mr. John C. 'Thompson, first engineers ; Mr. Alexander Cunningham and Mr. Beverly Parkis, second engineers; and Mr. William i Russell and Mr. William Harris, third engineers. We un derstand that Mr. Jacob Bell, the builder of the Pacific, , had expressed Lis intention of presenting a suitable testi- , menial to the engineers for the rapid run to New York, , which will doubtless be confirmed when he hears of the present extraordinary performance. Mr. Bell has been long famous fur the ships launched from his yard, the Garrick, Sheridan. Shakespeare, and Reccius being among the num ber. lie appenril to have been equally successful in his ocean-going steamers, the Pacific and Baltic, both built by him, having PO far dome him every credit. The perform ances of Captain Nye, in the old Independence, are still fresh in our meant"; and he can no. also boast of haring I made th.• fastest passage by steam both ways on record. The Pacific had head winds during about one-third of the passage . —Liverpool Timer. THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 24, 1851 FINE ARTS. THE DUDLEY GALLERY AT THE EGYPTIAN HALL, PICCADILLY I Lord Ward has set an example of great liberality in throwing open his collection of pictures to the iublic, without further restriction than that imposed n the national museums. Dating from Tuesday next, this gallery is to remain unreservedly open for three days in the week—on Tuesdays, Widnes days, and Thursdays; Saturdays being set apart fur :artists wishing to avail thjuiselves of the per mission to make copies or studies; such, at least are the intentions as they were com municated in their present indefinite form. The private view, yesterday afforded to the members of the press gen era lly p rev ious to the opening, en- I ables us to state that the present collection will go far to supply that long•felt desideratum, the means of t racing the Italian and Flemish schools to their source. \Ye have had pictures innumerable of the most I flourishing periods of both, but with the isolated ex ceptions afihrded by glancing into auction-rooms, the alpha and true beginning of ancient art has been completely hidden from sight and ignored. Some people of inordinate credulity might trust to the reiterated asseverations of pictorial annalists that a personage of the name of Giotto lived in Florence in !he 13th century ; but where was theproof of this? The same of a beatific monk called Fin Angelico. The name of Saudro Botticelli was if possible still more obscure, being faintly recognised as a quaint illustrator of the first edition of Dantes "Inferno." Ghirlandaio had the traditional merit assigned him of being the master of Michael Angelo, as Perugiuo that of having tutored Sanzio—yet in vain would one seek fir the slightest memento of these masters in the National Gallery, for the " Virgin and Child" ascribed to the lust master is u direct libel on the chief of the Umbrian school. All these primitive masterswillbefoundmoreorless adequately representedin LordWard'sgallet y,and if t ho works arc neither vast in dimensions nor rennutable for historical importcmce, yet they bear the undeniable stamp of their glorious origin ; and it is satisfactory to remark that seldom has the so-called restorer lett behind less traces of his painful scumblings and re touching'. The ••Last Judgment," by Amp:lieu da Piesole, will be especially pointed at by connoisseurs us preserved in all the integrity and purity which made it so conspicuous in the dismantled gallery of Cardinal Fetich, a few years since. Indisd, to those who have visited the putative of Italy, and those who have not, this is the most sutistactory suhstitute. It is pleasant to look on the sobriety of tone and calm serenity of these panels, which bring • hack to mind days spent iii old italian academies and palaces. In the Uftizi, or Academia de' Belle Arti, at Florence, Fra Angelico may be as well or better studied as in this picture of the Last Judg ment," but the overpowering attractions of sub sequent schools, blind one, in a great HMI MIEC, to his stupendous merits us the truest re presentative of that spiritualism in art which Lord Lindsay has so ably and truthfully expounded in his work un ehristiun art. Indeed, till that book is read, the mysticism of Fiesolu is apt to escape, and, us it were, evaporate in the blaze of gold with which he invested all his compositions. Whoever has studied Italian art has ever been struck with the jauntier in which the Italian masters have successively fol lowed one another in portions of their compositions. Of graceful adaptation there seems to be an instants, in this Lust Judgment " of Fiesole ; to wit, the left hand compartment, containing the horrors of the fiery state, which give a fair idea of that celebrated one executed by Oreagna, in the Campo Santo of Pisa. Another little picture, also by Fiesole, re presenting the Virgin and Child suns/waded with the angelic host, and radiant with gold, is u little gem; St. I hat li ii le, the patron saint of his convent, is kneeling in the foreground. In glancing from these performances, and others equally minute, by Man (Jima, to the picture of Saint lanais receiving the Sacrament," by Van Eyck, the first stride made to emancipate art from the somewhat wearisome tinicality of the miniaturists is visible. At a glance is per- ecived the superior lustre and lower of oil as act` hick. There may be seen the period of the highest finish, and worthily kept up about a century later by Albert Darer, whose "Entombment" is placed imme diately beneath. This, like the Van Eyck, is suiall, and probably an early specimen of the muster. (live Pinturiechio, Peruzzi, Giotto, and others of early note, ure introduced in pleasing medley with later works. Such are heads by Correggio, seemingly studies for his cupola at Purina, which are now met with , $) frequently as to shake faith in their authen ticity. A striking head of n burgomaster by Rem brandt seems to be somewhat startled by the ap pearanee of the " Greek slave," by Hiram Powers, a slightly altered duplicate of her attractive prototype in the Great Exhibition. The pictures do not amount to above 130, and are all hung closely in one large room, which is lit by three circular skylights; and us the sun collies leaming down their bevelled sides, as it did yester day, on the oldest Italian panels, the fancy is brought away to the adorned walls of Italian palaces. Those who visit them will be rather pleased with the true picture afforded of manners and customs in these 'early periods, such as are conjured up in perusing the chronicles which emanated, some of them at lewit, from the same cloisters which sheltered the painter, the manuscript writer, and illuminator. But that which cannot fail, also, to interest those who watch the different phases which our own art under goes at the present time, is to see what dif ficulties lie in the way of those who attempt pictorial phantoms of the past. To this aim and end the " Arundel Soeiety," and the Pre-Ratfuelites, who swear by the said society, are fast driving. Those who may have been disappointed by the Imble out lines of the society's maiden publication, the " Life of Fiesole," may till them up here ut least with the originals. Here will he found the art which charms !by form alone, and its singular lack of shadow: though beautiful because accompanied with the faith in the master, the mimicry of it is us absurd and in defensible us painting children deep crimson—merely cherubs were treated in this the golden age of art. REPRESENTATION 10 , NORTH NoTTINGHAAIsIIIRE. —We gave last week some particulars of a meeting held at the house of Mr. Monett, the White Hart Inn, East net- ford, on the previous Saturday, to " take into consideration the present representation of this division of the county in parliament, and on other matters of gnat and pressing moment." This meeting originated fro n t the following ex traordinary facts: In anticipation of the retirement of Mr. flouldsworth, on aetsrunt of age and increasing infirmities, many of the small landed proprietors and tenant-farmers in the neighbourhood of liettlird have for some time been casting about for his successor, but hitherto without avail. The Duke of Portland, on being applied to, declines inter- I ference, being satisfied with naming one member in the person of his youngest son. Tne Duke of Newcastle also follow the example of his brother duke, and advises his brother, Lord Charles Clinton, to have nothing to do with it. Earl Nlanvers also refuses the proffered seat for his son, L ew d Newark. Thus, with the exception of Lord Middleton, the principal landowners of the district are altogether out of the questton. In this dilemma, about 60 or 70 gentlemen met, as we have already stated, and, after discussing the matter, asked Lord Galway (who was present) to vacate hia seat fir Li tfonl, and stand for this division of the cuunty ; but his lordship, like all the others, with the fear of a contest before him, positively refused to give up a cer tainty for an uncertainty ; and thus the meeting is brought to a standstill. As a dentate resort. however, it was resolved 'to apply to Mr. Henry Bridgman Simpson, of Babworth hall, to allow himself to be put in nomination. This has been done, and the application has been equally as unsuccess ful as in the eases above mentioned. Mr. Simpson positively ' refuses to come forward ; and under these extraordinary eir• curnstances it is currently reported that Mr. Henry Moulds ' worth has been applied to, but what his answer may be we have not yet heard, although those conversant in these I matters have a shrewd guess that he will also refuse. What, asks a correspondent, say the numerous horde of voters at Basford, Lenton, Radford, and in the neighbourhood of Nottingham, to this attempted abstraction of their votes without intimation or asking for them? It certainly does ' appear most extraordinary that in the very centre of a dis trict abounding with distinguished members of the ' aristocracy end landed gentry, there should be such indif ' keener to be the representative of a constituency of which ' any man might he proud. From what has already tran• spired, it is quite evid en t th a t th e " com i ng man " is not destined to walk the field. To those generally intrusted with the duty of securing eligible candidates, it behoves them to ' think twice before they make their next offer, as the present result is not calculated to add much to the honour and credit of the representation of the northern division of Notting ! hamshire.—Lkmeaster Gazette. SACRILEGE AT A Jews' STNAGOGVE.--On Than thy night the synagogue in Maiden-lane, Covent-garden, was burglariously eat en ,' and the whole of the silver sacred vessels, bells, as., corned off. GARDENINO OFF:RATIONS FOR THE ENSUING WEEL. Mom th• Gar fence's Chromiek.) PLANT DEPAUTMENT. That interesting little tree, the Mandarin Orange, which flowers so freely during winter, may now ho pro pagated by putting cuttings into a brisk top and bottom heat, under a close handglass. As MIMI as they are fairly struck, pot them off singly in rich light SOIL and replace them iu the glass for a few weeks, when they may be gradu ally inured to the light and air. Pinch out the point. of the I leading shoots frequently, to keep Orchids them dwarf. Ohids I now require the 'met INeral treatment to induce them to fully develope their interesting characters. A good and healthy growth will be ensured by a warm humid atmo sphere, with fresh a i r so a d m i tte d • as to avoid draughts, and by shading with thin rinse during the brightest pact of ! the day. In the afternoon the plants should be gently dewed over, using a syringe, with a fine rose fur the purpose; we have often seen such work done with a coarse syring, and the water driven through it with all the force possible ; but such a practice is very injurious to the plants. Some of the stove plants which commenced their growth earliest in the season, will soon lie about completing ; and that it may be properly matured, they will require to be exposed to stronger light, and a freer admission of air than has been afforded them during their season of growth. These hints, at this time, will particularly apply to those winter-flowering plants which produce their blossoms upon the young shoots of the previous year's growth. Among these we may men ti on the delightfully fragrant and abundant blooming Fran eisreas, and the stove species of Jasminum, es- . pecially the one known as J. multitlornin or J. hirsutuna than which a more charming winter plant does not exist, if it be grown very strong during the summer, and well ripened. FORCING IMPAUTMENT. Where nines are grown on the planting out system. the soil should be entirely renewed once in three or four years. The time fur this operation must be lest to the judgment and convenience of the cultivator, but advantage should he taken of a time when all or nearly all of the older plants in any pit have perfected their fruit, and this is a very fa vourable 1C1154,11 for the purpose. The younger plants (which have been put iu one after another, as vacancies occurred) after being well watered, should be carefully lifted with balk, and set in a close shed while the soil as being changed. Hut if any rennin of those which have already shown fruit, they may be left stand ing, with a small mound ofearth about their nsits ; or, if nut very far advanced, they may he removed with hails to the back row. If this is carefully done, the plants will not receive the least injury, but will rather be improved ; fur we always find them progress much faster after being moved with halls into a fresh belt Of RM. The soil should consist of about one-third of the best peat dud can he Mr; tained, and two-thinly of rich turfy loam, with an admix • tore of sand, according to the requirements of the other uni terials. The plants fit - the bath row should be planted In'- fore the soil is put in fur the second one ; and the remaining rows proceeded with in the same order, to prevent all un necessary compression of the soil. If the new aril is mode rately moist, it will be better to withhold water from the toots for a few days, to allow the plants to commence root ing; and until they are fairly re-established. a moister at mosphere must he 'kept up and the pity shaded rather more I than usual. Vineries.—A liberal supply of air in the:Yr:houses is the last preventive against scorching. In finally regal:it lam the grapes of the latest crops, which are intended to hang ; through the winter, rather more sLnuld be cut away titan ; from those intended for earlier taw, that the bunch, when ripe, Islay hang looser. This will detract a little fnon their appearnwe, but the free circulation of air a 111111 l gst tho berries will do much to pry:wry° theta from the effects of damp weather. AND ........ Attention should now be paid to the reserve stock, in tended to supply the gaps which will occur, and especially in some of the beds which are filled ut first with transient annuals, and which in the course of the season will require entirely renewing. To meet these demands, we prepare a bed of coal attics rolled solid, and lay upon it two or three inches of twit composed of chopped turfs, leaves, and comm. sand ; in this we prick out young plants, of suet. kinds a- are likely to be required, at distances of from ti inches asunder. In the lire paration of plants for dower garden masses, we have tried various mcth.sls of erononefsu.q 1.16011( unit materials, and for several years,have adopted ill. as the Malt. fly it the plants Is-rome established much soner, and the cost of many thousands of small pots is annually ',ave.!. As the planting out will itow be nearly finished, let all the beds be gone over, picking out weeds, lagging down, or tying up such as would blow about with the wind, • and giving them every possible assistance, to enable them smadily to till the bds. Herbaceous plants of all kinds are now growing rapidly, and mmy of them, unless immediately supplied with stakes, will have grown out .of all shape, or the wind will blow them about land break them. Make everything in till , department clean and tidy ; and keep the turf and walk.. in the neatest order. Span hand lights and frames may Is• placed in shady ,ittta lions, and made use of for propagating double wallflowers, double rockets, choice dianthus, phloxes, iberis manner sirens, and many other select her baceous and half -shrubby plants. Y. ITO HEN GARDEN. Let all possible encouragement is given to growing crops of every kind, by supplying them freely with liquid manure. Asparagus, especially alter being severely cut, should have every aiwistanec to enable it to recover. • Ilandlights should I now be placed about a yard and a half asunder, upon thu trenches which arc prepared for ridge cucumbers and vege table marrows, and the plants carefully turned out the first dull day. It will Is necessary that their watering he regu larly attended too, and every tine evening they should he I sprinkled Over the foliage with a m.o• pot, till they are so far hardened as to admit of the covering being removed. A • few vegetable marrows or ornamental gourds may, with the strictest propriety, be planted against any spaces on the fruit walls which arc unoccupied. The stations should be prepansi for them by making lame holes, and placing therein a couple of barrowfuls of decomposed al or vegetable manure, merely coveriug this with sufficient of the original soil to receive the plant. UARDT ructi ()AUDEN. The summer pruning soul thinning of all fruit-hearing I plants is a vast imprusement upon the common practice I of allowing them to grow wild until winter. Tile sup,- riority of the fruit, when this practice is adopted, is very striking, and an additiornal:advantime consists in the work being done in half the time that it would require in winter. 'fie in or nail the leading shouts of pear trees as they require it, but do not, even for the sake of neatness, stop all the shoots, lest by so doing the I natural fruit-spurs for neat SI,SOII are tared into wool spun; the former are readily known by their short thick stunted appearance, and instead of producing a shout, only produce a bunch of from four to Weill leaves. Young trees which are being trained into pyramids ur other shapes, should Ire examined once a fortnight, and the shoots which are not wanted should be pinched in with the thumb and finger, by which the growth of others will be eneouraged. This pox-es. should commits, with the upper shoots, that the sap may be dirtreted intothe lower branches; and after an adequate quantity of shoots of sufficient strength is secured to form the lower part of the tree, the leading shoots may he allowed to grow and furnish woad for the top. Stopping for wood is very different from stepping for the purpose of forming fruit buds; for the latter pur pm,. it will be time enough to shorten the shoots a month hews.. Gooseberries and currants should have their young wood thinnest out by immediately stopping at least half the number of shoots to four joints, to allow the air to circulate more freely in the centre of the bushes ,• and the remainder of the shoots should he stopped during the summer, accord ing PR the shape of the plant requires it. This practice will almost entirely do away with winter pruning, while the flavour and size of the fruit will he greatly improved. FREEHOLD LAND SOCIETY AT MANCHESTER.— - A demonstration took place at Manchester on :Monday, ou the occasion of the Manchester and Northern Counties Freehold Land Society taking possession of their first estate. The plan of the society is similar to those of Birmingham and other large towns of the Midland Counties. The mem hers contribute smell sums monthly, and with the united pmeerils purchase land wholesale to divide amongst each other by allotment—each plot to give a 40s. freehold vote fur the county. This, the first estate of the C0E111117.11. FOIL l'En.fritY AT LEEDS.—It will be Manchester society, consists of 14 acres of land, on Sale remembered that a fortnight ago we stated that Mr. Wil- Moor, .5 miles from Manchester, and 4 minutest' walk liant Hodgson, of Bradford, had been remover! to Leeds on nom the Sale Station of the Manchester and Altrincham a charge of wilful and corrupt perjury, alleged to have been Railway. The soil is a rich loam, and having been found conunitted by hint !ether the Leeds Bankruptcy Court, on favourable for market gardening, lets at a stated price. the 24th of April lest, in the matter of Joshua Unwin, a The society have laid their purchase out in 100 building bankrupt. The information on which the prisoner had plots, of 500 square-yards each, and have given to it the name been apprelieuded, charged that, on the 2.lth day of April of Free Town. The estate has been so laid out as to he inter- last, in a deposition made by the prisoner on oath, in the sected by three streets, and it has the further adventure Leeds Court of Bankruptcy he did wilfully swear that on two of its sides of abutting on public roads. The public the acceptance of John Armistead and Son, indorsed on a roads and streets are 12 yards wide, anal the conveyance certain bill of exchange for 250/., was genuine, anal provides that all buildings shall, in addition to this, he set was in the handwriting of Richard Collet, a clerk hack four yards from the footpaths—giving to the etniets a of the said John Armisteiul and Son, and that the same dear width of 20 yards. The streets have been sewered, was written by him in the presence of the said John Armi and levelled, with foot - paths formed on either side, sepa - ! stead. The hill in question was dated the 4th of October, rated from the cart roads by a border of green turf planted ' 18.50, drawn by Mr. Joshua Cnwin, of Bradford, recently with young trees, and with these improvements eneourag- a bankrupt, upon Messrs. J. Armistead and Son,.cloth mew ing to builders the land has already attained a considerably chants, of Leeds, whose acceptance it purported to bear. improved value. This fact has been tested by the sale of 'l'he bill 11 , 34 dated the 4th of last October, and about De several of the plots already for building purposes. One 1 comber 17 Mr. Henry Watkinvet, who then held the hill, member, who had two plots, has sold them for 1201., which I which he had received through the prisoner, learnt that gives him a clear profit of 501., and several of the holders, , Mr. Unwin, the drawer, had abaconded, and he then in without contemplating becoming builders, have let their ; quire d of the prisoner about the acceptance upon it, which d plots at about W. each, for gardening and other purpose..., ! the latter said was written by Messrs. Armistead and Ivon • thus being content to acquire the 40s. vote for the county. I clerk. When the bill arrived at maturity it was dinho- The land is situate in the northern division of Cheshire, I noured, and on inquiry Mr. Watki o son learnt that the and would give 109 votes for that county if di!, : acceptance was a forgery. The pretence was sub trihuted in single allotments, but as some member., sequentiv apprehended on the charge of having ut hold two or three plots, the voting strength acquired ' tend this forged acceptance, tried at the last anises is something less. The members and friends of the Society ,' at York, and acquitted . At Cl,.' last examination, copies of to the number of 100 and upwards, went dawn by railway the prisoner's depositions having been put in, several wit totake formal passe inn of the estate, and were ace:crape- names were called to negative the statement of the prisoner. aced by Mr. i lson, Mr. Woolley, Mr. Mackie, Mr. W. Mr. Armistead stated that he knew nothing of the hill, had M'Call, Mr. R. Nl'Carthey, Mr. Ilickin, Mr. Wm. Shuttle-, never authorised his clerk to accept it, and that u Mr. worth, and other well-known members of the late Anti -I Unwin owed his firm a considerahle s um o f money, he laud Corn Law League, and all appeared highly pleased with the !no reason for accepting such bill. He also said. the accept judicious selection made h the committee of the property ance was not in the handwriting of Collet. Mr. Richard and with the manner in which it had been treated for ire- I Collet, bookkeeper to Messrs. Armistead, said the accepts prevenient by the surveyor and other parties connected ante of the hill was not in his handwriting, nor did he with the society. In the evening, the party, after their know anything of it. Mr. Thomas Hawkeaworth and se excursion, re-assembled in the large room of the Exchange, vent other witnesses swore that the acceptance was not in where their number was increased to upwards of 300 per- Collet's handwriting. On Wednesday, punuan, to adjourn sons of both sexes, when Mr. Bright addreined the meet- I ment, Hodgson was placed before the Leeds justices for ing in explanation of the value and importance of Freehold final examination on the charge. No fresh evidence was I Land Societies, and the beneficial influence they are Wen- offered, and the prisoner was conunitted for trial at the next lated to secure to the working classes. imirmik—Bradford Otmerrer. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS. HOUSE OF COMMONS. ECCLESIASTICAL TITLES ASSU3IPTION BILL- (Considered in Committee.) AlimoatTr.—Cluu, I (The palfl brief, rea TV, or letters 11al natulical,., . all and every e t . JuriAtetion, lw. orlty. fwe.eminence, tido roircrred, or prwen4.ll to be weiferrod thereby, are so.l shall ba and be dremtd unlawful awl vwd .—%lotbut made, and quoltioa tut: "That Ci 3.1., Ibe postponed." T h e Committee unided : Aym, 19; ioe., 2.3. AYES. Arundel and Surrey, Linless, ll on Cecil Power, Dr. ftw . l of 111 Cu I ,w;., W. T. Power, Nei .111 Bart .n. Sir /I. W. )4 Lean. Willi.rn H. Iteyroids, John Hoke, Martin J. Moho, Nicholas V. Roche, Edm on d 11. Briei.t, John Me , Ith ' er. Dionne Itoehtick. John A. Ito , ko S., T.J. M thou, The (I'll. Kalleir J o hn Clrbaiy, M. K. Monsen, William: Scully, Fr ineia lh 'virus, John T. Moore, Orsolle 11. S m. 0.. J•ibli P. Fox, Bleb .r.l M. Mania., Francis Sullivan, Michael roe, W. J. Murphy, F. S. Tall, .t. John 11. G1 . J.11. 11. n. T. M. Ninrent, Sir P. Tenieon, K. K. Gould, Wr minion (I'M irn, J. Vripih.rt, David i:raur,l).iver, Il J. O'Brien, Sir T. Vane. Lind Itirry Orattan, I leery O'Connell, John tValtualey, Sir J. II nine. George G. O'Crinell, M. J. flow, Alreander (Minn,. rearetts TV1.1.1C11,1. 1101,1 , t1. Sir H. o . l , :ahrriy, Antnony Dunenoinr, r. I,eatine, It ibert Prebell, Sir 0. M. Keogh, William MlX..llllT.—Anienlinent proposed, pore :, Bite 13, after the wmd thereby," to ih.ort the word. ' . 11.111e in iw far a. the etenire or ore of such jurbuletion, alit luirity, pre•eniinence, or title sb CI be he. er.sary for rpti ttual purpows.” iThe Earl of Arundel and Surrey.) (anew tin 1114( : "That inum. wards be there .a.Leil." the Catlllllll.ol diviilel : Ayte, 61; NAII, 314..... AYES. Ad dr, 11. F. Illitchint, K IlrAra J. Reynold*, John Arnostionw, sof A. Kenna, ltotvrt It.whe, Edmund B. Itl-ike, '.l irtill J. Keogh, Wllhain Stilletr, J hn 111. will. K.won.o:d J. I. owlet., 1t.... Cecil Sdnoltnehl. wiuiam Kurt., Sir Thom us J. 31•Cullagn, W. T. Prune, Francis CleM.4llo. Iln. C. S. Nina., W d urn 11. Smit'o, Illn. It.. V. edrhalr. Matthew E. Maher. Nich 'Lie V. snwow, John Patrick U.,woon, Ilion. T. V. ?leather. - Thou.* Sullivan, Mi. hod ikverelx, John T. Mari ni, The t PU. Talbot, J. ll> month Fagan. Jailor, Monson, William Tad..., Falwar.l K. P.O. Welt erd M. ?bore. Uvoode U. Te.wen . , IL.O.ert J. Fox, Wit lon J. Alimony, F s. 'l'. Ilen.oehe, lion. V.l Gesell, Charles Now repo, sir It. I. Totenel..7, John Gibsn. Iln. T. M. Nooseut, Sir Percy Trelawny,J..ton IL litoold, Wutillosm (Porten, John Walneoley. sir J. Brace, i hover U. J. ()licit., sir r. Wewg-Prower. F. IL tirattatt, Ilenry ll'Fortell, John Young, sir John Breese, John It'elaherty. Anthony lien. y, Alexander Ponsonby,lln.C.F.A.o Till 1.1,111.. I ligKuu, (i. t:. O. Foetal, Melvide Arundel and stormy, llhlonue. truants B. Power. Pr. Earl of II 'w, Alex sada Power. Nicholas Barran, Sir Henry W. Nilson' tr.—Another antenduren' propored, line 21, alter the word .. there .y." t o invert the word, .` f..r temper .1 pontos a" , Mr. Onto',.;Clow , i •n put : " fli or lthwe word.* he there iroserted..— The caninottee then/ea: Ayro. 5: ; Nun, St:. AYES. Al. ir. Iluzh F. !Nein% (I. G.ll. O'Connell. Moore on J. At nodal and Surrey, Ilooonotor, Tuonusl3. Wel olierty, Anthony Fart of blow, Alexander Pftlie4l, sir ti. 11. 11.irroin, sir 11. W. II .w.tr.l, sir Ralph Ponnuothy, Ito. C.F. A. lolakr, Mo tin J. Ilutchill., K. J. Vort.o, Niel. Els Newitt, /resin old J. KVAING r.,,h,rt Power, Pr. Iturko, sir I'. J. Kush, Wilton Power. Nialtol43 Cormenta, lion. C. P. 1.4w1P00 lion. C. ite) . tioolol , , John cde ,toro. a, Sir I. E. Ilto - u11.4h, W. T. Itowlor, !orotund B. Coroally, AltEtbew E. Mahan, W . 11. ecliooleileel, W union Irevereux, J. T. Mob, r, !I tcholas V. Sullivan. SI ich,..l Fairan,J.uneo lleaptlur. Thos. Tdhot, J. 11. FOrttue.. Chill! ter Malren,ThetPl iorman Teniwon, F. K. FI , I, Rot hard M. Monnell, Wiliam low rocky, John F , x, Wolluon J. Moore, U. 11. Trehowny, John 0. leiteroo, Kr. lloos.T.M. Murphy, Franets 8. Vane, land Marry Cool.l, .4 youlnain Norieyw, Sir U. J. Wepkr Prewar, F. I:. Craee, (nivel It. J. N spent, Sir l'erry tirattart. I lenry t /*linen, J. 1.1.1.1.1”.. tireene, John O'Brien, Air Tit , °thy 5.a11e1r,1,4111 Ileywood, J. 1111,1 in U nett, John scull, l'raticis OUR WEEKLY GOSSIP. (From the .11herset.ne.) At the eleventh hour, and on a very small settle, the police authorities have undertaken to do something to wank simplifying the v.ist labyrinth of London streets, on behalf or the many provincials and strangers who may he within our gates during the prey T. At a few of the points where limiting mails ssimmeuee or intersect each tither, the terminating point of each line of mute has been painted at the corner beneath the particular name of the tliiiroughfuri•. For example. at the old bend of Iligh• !street, Bloomsbury, where it communie3tes with St. Hiles s, we reud- Baud -start, lending to ('haring-cross,•' on the left.lisiiiil Broad -street, leading to Picea , dilly," on the right. Si' fur hack as it lows, this is a real improvement,-:rod one that has been Icing required. If • similar notifications were extended to the whole metropolis, it would be of ust, not only to the foreigner who visits us for a week, the provincial n lon spends with us a month every year ; and the recent islitler in the rent city, but even to tome who are "to the manner turn.' No man does, or ran, know London in all its di tails. What does ; the resident at the West End know Or the crowded streets, courts, lanes, and alleys east of the East India House? llow many dwellers in St. John's-wood email Mid their why unaided about rniondsey and Lck's-fields ? Is Is there a elan ill Lmd , m Willi haling ventunvt In•%intil his usual beat, has Ind 6111110 hunt if tdw in his rtsloning , What memory cm In• found (goal to the remembrance of 311 the oasis,. Almon.. I...irings, und geographical of twenty thousand streets? The clues, the turns, and windings of l un.don might make the study of a life-time. Each year that passes, adding its 60,000 souls to the population and 15,000 to the number of houses, uwkes the evil greater. If the statesmen of Elizabeth found I,olllllel too large to feel and govern in their slay, whit would they think of the London of MB ? Sooner or later, a change of nomenclature, an improvement of system, must take place in regard to the registry of streets; and it might be effected I now that attention is forcibly directed to the sun jest as well as hereafter. A great simplification might be obtained quickly, quietly, aml at a slight eXle'leir. with little altera tion of the present plan. merely by ad o pti ng a more minute notation. For in.tanee, we would suggest that instead of a single name tieing painted up at the roil of each street, MS at (assent, the entire topography of the street should be indieatisl, with the streets whiela empty into it on either sole, those which cross it, and that in woich it terminates. All this could be easily und briefly expressed. Take Bond stret :--At the OGI•ril-stri et end .0* this thoroughfare we would have some such inscription as the following NEW lit/NO ailtelil'.-111.11 nom) sittlita. Sawa rum? (110,-"Nttil (*OS. it .1.1.1,1W-‘ll 1(1 hasermianst j Re 1.1.1,11019,. GAIWIRIS NOCAULLY. At the Piccadilly cud of the street, the inscription would appear ill the reverse order. The advaiitages of such a system to all persons, native or stranger, in finding their way about the streets of lanntm are too obvious to need pointing out. To assist the- rattle abject at night, we would suggest—enlarging on a hint formerly thrown out--that on the lamps which stand at the corners of thoroughfares there might be paint•-d the number of the house opposite to which it ht4llll , i, and the name of the street opening into it ut that point. with the addition of that of the thoroughfare to which it lead, thus—" street (000) --Boned-street - How 11114C11 of the time of the dwellers in tides would lie saved by the perfection of such arrangernenbi am these. This week, the Police OM. miss' -rs have published a list of cab-fares -very Marro rate, by the way—from the Exhibition Palace to the clubs, theatres, and other plat,s oif resort in the metropolis; and have issued • stringent ply-lawn with a view to cheek the tendency to abuse and extortion which peculiarly character ises the London cabman. In a few days the list Will be cm , reeted of its errors, and then it will doubtless be .1 cuusi derable protection to the public. But the fares are all calculated from one eentre,—and that only a temporary centre. The rah-system needs an entire n-torm ; and we think it would not he impassible to devise some Mean, fur checking the abuses of which so many complaints are made. These things are numaged timeh bitter in Paris and in Berlin. In the main s tr e ets, if nowhere else, the mileage might be marked. 'the difficulty is to hod a proper centre: --the bunk, the post-office, or Charing-cruss i But why not have several centres ? Charing-crose fur the west—the post office for the east—the obi lick for the south. From these points the mileage might be marked on the lamp-11°,45, or at every street-corner. We throw out these biota for the consideration of those whom tiny may concern.