The Express. — London, England, 1854-01-04 00:00:00

THE WEATHER, THE PARKS, AND THE RIVER. The coldest sight experienced in this country for snaey ran was on Mrday. Tb thermometer t►en fell 13 U. tu mg one degree sod • half lower than it was laai 'I bands! eight, when the saran" indicated 164 Fibre.-' tea At half-pan 8 yesterday moreing, the glue was quite. as low 14 os the readies sight, but during the middle of the day the memary rose as high as 30, sad to the errs' et "r o'clock it stood at 31, bet alertly after that hear it eras• hIl to 20. The barometer et t►e is.. time stood at deg. The wild blew very string is this early pert of t he d a y, Its. east to sorth-east, but haters 7 and 8 o'er& is the rising it veered towards the meth-west, sin irks- Gm of • change woos taking place is the weather. The different parks were naked during the day by several threes& of sliders and skaters. The Serpeatine, in Hyde put., bad the appearance of • fair or the selebratios of NM public festival, for the footpaths were crowded, sad carriages filled with members of the aristocracy lined the firs where • view could be obtained of the skaten. The greatest order prevailed throughout the day, and no •ccidest of importers reccurred, although the number of dukes and skaters is reported to Mr. Charlie, as being 11.000. The members of the Bkatiag Club mustered strongly, and amoogst those present were the Revs. Meson. Antrobus sod Crade, sod • large number of noblentes. The Round Pood had 3,000 skaters cud sliders on the ice, iselsdiag several members of the Skstiag Club, but no ercideste aroma dialog the day. The Long-water in Keriegton girder wee hers ever to the depth of 71 main, sad 3,800 gentlemen, and a member of ladies, sassed themselves by skstieg cm this pat of the park, but fortrately the only ossidere that resned were frees pumas falling upon the ice, and oevinely cutting their heeds. St. Junes sad also the Rogers Park were eio r ted by about 14,000 persons. The foot promenades errs likewise crowded by spootaton,.bot wit► the exception of a somber of pumas falling, sad nesiviag severe ►eed nu, so accideate took place. la the upper tributaries of t►e Thames the dredged Ise ha. accumulated to eac► se first as to reader the rivet almost unanngable. Os the river, sines the years limn, sects as appearance of Is. has not bees rimmed. Tlr stamen, hell above sad below bridge, tried to ply, unladiag the Margate. Bouthesd, Shernuses.and Grareend beats, with three of Woolwich, Orrawir, sad Clashes. Tr,. Besieges sad 11011 beets, after berg delayed tar sumo hours, .unneeded in arriving at their eiestrations. Preen Piclte Herring Stain to East-toe Stoles, es the meth side of the river, all vereh an blocked up. Os the south elide, from the Conorresse to St. Katherise's Doer, the river a choked with lee, as also the bight from Deptford te lest Greenwich, and at Blackwell Reach and between that sad titeenwich the ice is so sommaidated es to peeler savigo- Goo (reptile the middle par the shermele From Rich mod to areittlerd the is flak all ISM Iftleals ware seen netts' between these rUIT$3401:111, Jam. 3.—The weather ises hien ea ceediagly severe here fur the pass week, but tivelay it has been euessively so. Snow has fallen ell day loop without intermission, whilst the frost is very hard. At noon to•dsy the glass was down as low as 30, and continues at that point se,th every prospect of its continuing there, and indeed of a further fall. The wind has tallest a gale from the north- west ail tiny, and boats CIIIS hardly get ou‘of harbour. Telepaphie is reosesterily interrupted between Paris sad Rouen, the intense frest having is say places tamed the wine to snap. The Debate tatatitme a etry smiths impediment to the nauseating"' One Op. OS some of the byes—" The snow accanalates sa the wine, cad when slowly melted by the sun, fame Midis which CJIMIttt One wire with aunties. These hisses serve as eon. dooors, and blend separate despatches in inextricable con. fuion.'• I suet leave your scientific readm (says our Puss corespondent) to judge of the probability of this state ment. As osse of the and d public I was not prepared believe that the such trusted metallic threads patted with their secrets .o easily. GREAT DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY AT THE SOUTHAMPTON DOCKS. la 1546 shear. were erected on the eastern sick of the Sosthamptia Docks, for the purpose of lilting the steam machieny, such as boilsn and engines, in and oat of the mail packets. The ahem were formed of three legs, consisting of balks of timber, girded together with iron, placed triangularly. Each leg was about 70 feet high, sit to right feet in girth, sad the whale weighed between 40 sad '0 toss. They wet about 2,0001., and they were proved capable of biting 50 tows, and would lilt 70 or 80 tons if ctcersiry. For some days past the Peninsular and Ori total Company's steamer Madrid has been saeored by the sale of the shears, for the purpose of having her maehiaery pot to by them. Two legs of the shears were teed Wow to the dock wall, end almost between then the Madrid wa s ;peg. At half-pact five yesterday morales a terrific crash ass heard within slid around the docks, at • distance of half a mile. numbers of persons were alarmed is their beds by the noise. It was satin discovered that tie crash UM from the felling of the dock shears. Ili) feet of massive masoury, five feet in thick mu, beloaging to the north-eastern wail, gave way, sad fell into the dock, and is eossegamsee of the ►hears Wang their support, they tumbled down. The south ern leg losing its support, fell perpendicularly, and did no damage to the Madrid steamer. The northern leg falling Wow., just greased the paddle-box of the steamer. The other leg, although falling forward, did not reach the rettner. Oa viewing the debris of the wreck of the shears, the force of their fall appeared to have been tremendous. The gigantie legs and massive chains end wheel work mast have snapped In pieces es if they had been rotten sticks. To repair the dock and erect other shears, eo as to restore ' whit U. been destroyed, just as it was before the accident, would wet about 11,0001. Captain Peemsek, the superia• modest, het, howerne, suggested • plan by which the damage can be wade good in 3 er 4 menthe for about 4,0001. or 5,000/. It was melt providential the accident happened whin it did, for it might at other periods have caused a frghtful destruettea • r human life. As soon w possible news of the aseldant wee telegesphed as Colonel Barlow,lthe charms of the Ibintliaspeoi Dock Cowpony, and to Mr. WM, the Company's engineer. The latter arrived at hadiewpwa by express train yoWerday. The accident yeast interrupt the Imams' at she docks, except that Ilia requires the aid of the sheen. It is supposed that he water behind the desk wall wee farmed into e,e, sad swig like • wedge, tweed eat the wall, and the Weis Mang their nipper*, tall in eseesgaanee. DIORAMA OF THB WELLINGTON FUNBRAL. Yesterday a new Name illustrating the death, hag is state. funeral proclaim, and iatormast of the late Dane of WeWeston, was aimed at the St. Cissege's Gallery, Ilydapark•eoeuer. The sselmisms tissue of i these eat/malaise sad instnictivesposiosef sersesmest are , aware that the subject of thu seeewt dlseemserme as sew Mud. mese three or four dee met sivadeg mien is ' that spltadid apotheosis bevies_ bees Meaty exhibited in the kaput-street Gallery. TN &d ad,* merit of the priest paten is that it trusts of thetishiset alum sad se • whole—legiusieg with a view se Weimer Oldie sod seding with that of the funeral armory is St. rests. Weetart tuna Kamer by meeklight, having lint ma *l teem is whisk the duke died. pm through Canterbury. ever Vaults/Jr Lye*, sad deposit the maimed the gesistebiel Aker seeisg the leg-is-ststo is Obeless lisegiert a sad viva of the back of t h. Hone Gerade, elms the peuemies fanned, sad Araks" House, the spestel rlesappaasd to road at Ludgate bill, and to pm the sales of pre miss, up to Picsadilly. Having is vie irep wirsmd the satire pageant of the proemial, the epedlient le ap posed to hare rammed to lit. Paint Tim her my entity' same se given regemestime Se. Peel's t'lietchyard." with the reception aOs bed by the 'aquatint, ~ tbe save of the " Crypt;' when the body is the net, sad thu grand tune of the "funeral cersemsy" is tho interior of the thatch, with the dement of the cells. TM diorama aatams attotitber 26 views, and in the treatilallat of a ecteie 'Fos 'minding over so large a surface, greet diver tlty of eseelleate taut naturally be expected. Takes se ut.4ie. however, thu present diorama realism is a milder tory :Leaner the remarkable sass wkish Leedom preseMed co ite morale, of the proemial. TM .leases a Memel Ir. Wooly proveistotly set before thu eye, bet emellmee room with a urcumstaatial titans of &Ma 'Ma 11e hardly aspects to met with is plasm et Mb 'std. TM streets through whisk the Ihmeid proceeded are veneered with dam= sod teetatelmisra ✓ial so doubt be mock admired. It might be segessed that so elegise a sehiset as that of a literal preemies world be tee ealtmay tries far so may views, but the Matt oedemas/ dresses es the military, sad the play of I..tht Mamas is well with the sainsmful sad solemn la ment of the suhiect, that the foiling of tediums not awe 1 his diorama wee, we believe, exhibited is Dubils chaise the Eabibitio• there. To the 'housed' is Leedom • 'rimmed the reality it is calculated to repeals°, the thief Midgets of that splendid pageant. It is (rely maw easy to add that the diorama is painted by Meese. Dayton end that its incidesta amorally explained by Mr. %%Sims. GILDER MoiNTAIN OF MARIPOSA COMPANYO 1t• Ordinary half-yearly awatiwit sall ede == " P ak Vat, yesterday, at the aim, 6 , Mr. bowiss Tampion in the eltasr. n• aingsmilli SS Mgr, 'dam so ahataholdan having prowslell mow, the tutus wu formally adjourned. THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 4, 1854 ANSWER TO THE ADDRESS OF THE CORPO RATION OF LONDON TO THE MUNICIFA LITr OFFARIS. The Lord Mayor ramived the following answer to the address to the Municipality of Paris, record's; the yr/caption of the Lord Mayor, ♦lderman, and Common Colaneilumn of the City of London is the year 1861. The doesmest is homed sad emblazoned is the mom splendid sad tiatofal manner : " Le Prefet du Dipartemeat de la Seise, et lee Mew bees qui compeseat I* Cana Municipal de la Ville de Part, a Si tialipeourie le Lad Maize, et au Aldermen de la Cite do Leadma. " My Lord at Musienue,—Now areas recu l'Adeasso offlettoiso qui me am bits Toga sou fair* parmir par l'eatrausiso do as Seissoarie l'Asabeesadetr do Sa Ma *le Britanaique. Vivoniest Maeda de MU peewee coe vals de 'lists, salon qal ',late entre l'Angletene at la Preset, WWI some, sensible, an souvenir quo you area conserve de nemproressent quo eons areas dui hearse: do you tersodnier. Aiaal gat you sou apprlsioas le, Weston) do rheum, eosleatersitd ease ma poeifiqua caseates towlent i btablir *Mee lee maples abatis. Ala fame de la psis affermisseat los arts se perfection neat et 'lndustrie rdpsad use le Roads easier en biennia' et sea seemilles. Now qui avow did las timings du efforts pereininsata des as ooneitoposs I trams los fpreneas &Mew we'll a phi i L Providests Capon i sutra autos, am mow quo lean imams trauma ea eons use dive appreciation. Lai artistes et los artisans qui sat did mein, par l'Aagletem i ono luta coartolee, la Neale qui soariesse diuresis I loan greed. potpies, moat mos mamas de a limiest Mutsu(' et s'aanest i toss dam as noureliaseste. Now imam beano de roes is adman ea amnion eh loos oaa TOSZ 4. suable:4o occasion clo rappossiteocata st de mirk pocillqaes. "Paste, le li keel, 11162." - - - " iizzois. The toiletries is a copy of the letter sosempeaying the &WM : "Pakistan do la Sabre, Cabinet du Prifat "Paris, 17 Decembrs, 1853. "My Lard,—Ea falsaut . parvenk i nitre Seigneurie la reponse i redress" quo you. honorable corporation strait envoyee an Caps Municipal de Pert, en souvenir de la reception de see sialabres i I'il6ml de Ville en 1851, sea predecessor s'etalt reserve d'en fain retracer le testa en des ousetires moles Wrinables et plus dives do siagaltique tableau qui manikin les nobles et fraternelles anomie's de la Cite de londres. Ce travail vient Ware ulnae. M. Ferrier, chef demon cabinet particulier, se rend 41 Londrea pour avoir rheniumr de la presenter a nitre Seigneurie, que je prie de vouloir ben agrees. sow cote nouvelle forme Fexpreation niche des sympathies vivoces qut unis sent is capitals de la Frazee I cells de la Grande Bretagne. Reaves, ray lord, Feminine" de ma knits considera tion. " Le PMfet de la Baia% " G. P. HAUSSMAX. "A Si Seignearis b trie•boa Thelma Sidney, Lord Maize de Loathes." The fellowieg la a copy of the reply of the Lord Mayor to de letter : " Maaaiss-bease„ Llndon, Dec. 22, 1853. Sir,—l have the honour to acknowledge your End limey's kind letter, presented by M. Ferrier, accompanied by a splendidly emblazoned address from the municipality of Paris to the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London. It will devolve on the Court of Alderman is transmit to your Excellency their appreciation of this meek of your friendly sympathies with the municipality of Landes ; and I ear nestly hops that the reciprocation of Madly feelings which were cemented by the Great Exhibition of 1861, may long be cherished by two each powerful and datinguisbed onn inanities in the cities of Paris and London. With muck respect and esteem, I beg to subscribe myself, very faith fully yours, (Signed) "Taoist.. BIDN2Y. To M. le Baron Mammals, Prffet de la Seine, Coannandeur de la Legion d'Honnever, i Paris." The following are translations of the address and the letter accompanying it: "The Prefect of the Department of the Seine and the ambers exposing the Municipal Body of the City of Paris, " To Dia Lordship the Lord Mayor, sad to the Alden's& of the City of London. f. My Lord and Oentlemen,—We have received the cour teous address which you were kind enough to forwara to us through the medium of his lordship her Britannic Ma jesty's ambassador. Deeply impressed with this new proof of the close union which exists between England and France, we are sensible of the remembrance that you have preserved of the courtesy that we have beta happy in &hew ing you. Like you we appreciate the benefits of the happy brotherhood that them peaceful competitions toad to esta blish between civilised Wises. By the blessings of peace, which it strengthens, the arta Sr. perfected, sad industry spreads over the whole world her benefits and lies wonders. We, who have been the witnesses et the persevering efforts of oar fellow-citizens through the difficult trials that it has pleased Providence to impose upon our nation, have seen that their labours band in you a worthy appreciation. The artists and artisans who were invited by England to this friendly straggle, the only orte that will henceforth become two great nations, will be grateful for this gracious testimony, and will nil a with us in our thanks. We are happy to address them to you, and to seek with all our heart for suitable occasions for bringing nearer peaceful progress. (Signed) "Balsams. " Paris, August 13, 1862." "Prefecture de la Seine, Cabinet du Pnlet, "Paris, Dseasabar 17, 1853. " My Lord,—la sending to your lordship the answer to the address which your honourable corporation transmitted to the :municipality of Paris. I record the reception of its members at the Hotel do Ville in the year 1851, my prede cessor reeolvod to commemorate it is characters loss perish. able sad mere wonky of the magnificent address which ma. taned the noble and brotherly assunaors of kindness of the City of Loads& The address from the City of Paris hay ing been completed now, Y. Perrier, my principal seem tary, was to Leaden to have the honour to present it to your lordship, and I pray you to accept the reaswal of the sincere expression of the lively sympathies which wits the capital of France to that of Great Britain. " Receive, my lord, the annum of say highest consi deration. " G. P. liaxesusar. "To his Lordship, the very Hon. Thconas Sidney, Lord Mayor of London." LONDON SOCIETY FOR TEACHING THE BLIND TO READ. -•••••- Yesterday (Teesday), u Waal general meeting of the friss& SIMI sapperters of this shamehle institution was bald ia the Doeseeses, Messomad, Regent's-park, for the purse et els Mag sevevel &Wren es the foundation, sad epee ether Wass lir. STILIUMAX prodded. TM report 51.1.4 that the isedtselea was Misled 16 years Mee, for the warm purposed Imaloping the physical, intel lectual, and mseal pewees of the Wind, aad thus rendering them Islamism sad metal members of society. By the saddeses of the lapels, belmathod to the mediation, while bays Ma scrupulosity set apart for this purpose, tato Inn ef !AK (fiz e ir ego benewei as mietage, to semplees the buil hes tie. mama se MIN., thus vellsoing the misty as Ism • sum them let. yet emus he ham* of the sane ; eel be the smatittee trust, that tlemergli Mel of the FMK the debt of MK l aw n m be iteMl The Meade ressining et the bedledes, whia hes homed abase MMus years Ise the amellerade• et thee Maids& doss, will Maps to M. that their 111111• Niel stied, Ws., theism lathed Os Bible ea Lime% queen. bee am bees aid by as odapestiss of the aeons to ends eel useades. *sea. their meder, kr. Wood, ham ow bare& melons of sawed Mass he the ewe of the bliad. limbs merle Mate gnats te telfgrat blind sad other cha ritable bstitslises, and owing le lbe high prices of food, May dess des yew is heavy debt, esit esruestly appeal so theliesseelmt mills he Mumma feeds. The report mo dals' by Mita lbs. More wen at peeawt about 60 elitism le the mink ml dre the etems thanked tho im :b 2 Ishiste seri w est M b kr the Mt they bad silielel (love dm tee dm is the et the Scrip tures The steam having bees with, and those *Shea. frees a keg list et many of them very Ibusessing ems, having bees inbred duly elected, the ' swedes separated. Rzainto Item w e. Mims-11w Glade tag'& bee keg meet et a mire, wilt its sagemgme meshes, ins Is the Lerd-meet Paelimmega, ea Monday, wedge gsseidewey et Kr. Pldlilg liewera, lof Cosby PIM 1: 18 that the mesilmi lbe beil• tau number Ilk the whale if when me amine ottomans ad endow Memo he the Me mi. sag Plebs. Mt, emitting inele is vres Os. In., sad the expeeditore far the seem kederliag ineseset ea a debt of 1371., was 1691. Dis. lambs a balsam et U. 4s. 71 TM 700111 is epos dells glebe cr. till ten p.a. The ormaittee defends& M being egos on Baa der, ea the resod that if the iwelhaelea did_ seed at all it would do good on that dey se ea They did sot think it kept say one away frees akar* bud Wined that if the room were dosed the senabam wsdd pess their tine else where, sad not se prodtably. Mr. P. H. Howard, the Dose of Carlisle, the Rev. B. A. Illessissal, Dr. BUM, sad several other patients, soldiered the asushiy. COLLISION BETWEEN AN EXPRESS AND A LUGOAGE TRAIN. _....- On Monday night a collision of en alma,' Ware, alawagb fortmately usetteskal with any rare seeks, genie gloom to the pasiespee, ethieethil by Barbee.* Wields, abut three miles beim Rugby ea the Milks& °gantlet betwees as copier and a lieges' Ink& Meth deliatat l MIMI which appear to ropiest gabs kmeilgallea w Ow pa of the company. The *kg trig, geng gad the war gees Shia,, with a sharp bera, gal lho lights omit be seen but at amy IMO 111MMO• Ilk ePeuld appear that sae of the frost wheels as lesearties width was studied to a peemager-train duo is Rugby at 6.3.5, broke at the plain above mentioned and bad the effect of bringiag the train to a Wand-still. The train was behind time owing to the state of the rails, but allowing for this the engine driver , expected to be at the Rugby 'on by 7 o'clock, so that calculating the time it would take to reach that station from the spot where the wheel broke, it may fairly be presumed that the breakdown occurred Mlle seven or eight mantes before 7. A blame train coming as behind wee stepped a sheet distance from the passenger train ; and the neat train up wee the exprew, which was to leave ILE/erne station, smording to the tables, at 7.40. This train was to run through trees Leicester to Rugby without I stoop* it end, although there was ugh lima Om Ste natherlderat Rugby to have gemossaigsgel rs ibla of the *Wreaks to Leicester by tokagth, is IMO Me age= sight net go au, the only pieseedes takes wee to glego • kg sigma as the Use some °i .. below the anis. The noise e(tk• pmessget troth west get ie Zesty whoa the bon wheel broke, and retuned with assiassee,l end the agrees did set leave Lebeeere sail villas a minute of eight o'clock; so that fin ilent ea loth most have elapsed between its deperlitha gad the stoppage of the lie*. Feetssately, the ibgalpell ed not 1113—if it had, the cossagences that meet blab untied wield be frightful to eteMeaplate. After leaving lakissag the uprises teal. went es at a high rate of speed, sod the f)r4lgnal having attracted the attention of the driver, he tuned of the steam, and just as the passengers were expect ing from the slacken's, of the speed that the tr: in was about to rya into the Rugby static* a milliaion took place. The *epees, et the moment, going, it is calculated, at about 12 or 16 Islas en hoer, lea into the leggsge train, and wee brought to a deed etaad.still, sad the pmeengen were thrown abate in the carriages with great 'name, tuM without sustaining any injuries, as far as scald be ricer seined, beyond bruises and costliness. As soon as they reoseend hem the emaronation the oreemsles amesicited, some et them get oat sad proceeded along the Use to men. Ls the eases of the collision, daring whisk time the drive: Mahe menus reversed his engine and backed the train sheet 20 yards. It was soon apparent. The brake van of the luggage train meowed a singular appearance. The body oflt was knocked up perpendicularly on one sad, while the fremtoweek wee essebed to pieces, the lies being strewed wish the (nosiest& The luggage truck nest to it was all the Use and injured. Beverel of the paseengen by the OW peer went forward to the disabled train in advent% to mmertain how long they were likely to be detain's/oml ghee a short delay, they rode on to Rugby on the mob% Mr driver of which showed them the most considerate MO& Ilia. Some stayed at Rugby, and others came on to Is.. as by the Caledonian express, which left Rushy saki% sod melted Reston-square at a few minutes babe The passengers smoldered their escape almost minseilmth god tie eineetwe was repeatedly asked why the tele.* MB cast resorted to to stop the express altogether at Leiser 114 Ille Ileg signals placed down the line, at a distance which WWI hive been saScitat to enable the driver to stop his Wit less before he await up to the luggage train. It was healledl that only one fog signal was placed on the lint. At ' In* it wee said that Sir Joseph Piaui' was one of the meMpere in the impress. GREAT FIRE AND LOSS OF LIFE AT' ROCHDALE. A fire broke out yesterday morning, at Rochdale, by which nearly the whole of the extensive woollen mill of Mews. Robert Ralson and Brother was destroyed, and by which also two females lost their lives, whilst a camber of other operatives have escaped only with broken limbs sad other injuries. The mill of Messrs. Kelsall is situate in Smith-street, in Rochdale, on the right bask of the river Roach, and extends from Duncan-street to Penn street. It was a good substantial building, erected 1111 years ago, about 9C feet long by 72 wide, end vitrified of four storeys and an attic. The manufacture carried on is chiefly in flannels, and the whole of the first, second, and fourth storeys and attic were filled with machinery belong ingte Messrs. Keleall,whibt the greater part of the third floor was let off as a carding room to Mr. Thomas Stott. About 160 bands were em ployed in the concern, of whom 24 belonged to Mr. Stott.. At the Doncanotrest end of the mill, over the engine house, Mr. Stott had a machine called a "devil." It is a machine which answers much the same purpose in woollen mill that a " willow" dose in a cotton factory, tearing, cleaning, and separating the fibres of the wool. This "devil" is separated from the rest of the machinery oa the third floor only by a wooden partition. About an hour after the aria commeneed running yesterday morning, or about eaves o'clock, whilst l3runnel Stott Ow of the owees of the meetilte) and another MR were at work at the devil," the flames of a gaslight rad ical; ignited some " film," or light portion of the material flying about In the wind from the machine, and the fire communicated quickly with the wool in the ma chine itself. There is • bucket usually kept over thir shies, and a pipe from a cistern of water was agar, h~loslol be woe in ease el doe, het On this ommies the bushel ma mi of place, angled to be sought baba stain. Soars time wakes owing ge lab balm water web be thrown ea the tomes and meat ague winoble Ems owing to en abortive attempt to @stigma& do ion by them memo ere the polio* sad the fire brignienntil M ellmthailani with. The fire brigade meshed nits about a guar* pi 7, and win quickly as fire eget, bat mask ibis WO again lest, sobs to Me river beteg bum ever, as well es be water ia the street plugs, by sa lailama frost on be percullag night, .ad for some days provisaig. By the Dm be be engine. were is fall play, the fire we. bursting Item um* all the beat windows la Smith-item, is the Ytl Mom The egurativee on the third story had to paw MINN Dm& the are to reach the stamen, and were ommerball saisimil is the effort, bet those below raped yam tor muse reason those in the fourth ON OM lift skier neglected until too late this mode of senalie, or had remained in ignorance of the danger. The result was that a rush was made to the windows of the Mewed fronts of the MESS en the Earth floor and attic lathe mid the farstory by the operatives, chiefly oonsistiag of Mime wad girls, and a most appabing spectacle soon pre- Winfled itself to those outside, as the poor creatures efiihied mod bald oat their bends for succour above, the IMMO bra from the windows below. There were but Immo magnel them, but three of them, Henry Ree . Mimi Daskworth, and Thomas Taylor, ere MlNlCiljahlfrecalei most hero cally in braving the brat if illro ft IWO Is lowering the women end mai re p mils NM bOla the upper storeys before they do. romiallibussims llnfortenstely the alarm of NOM elf die berabs ireereense every firebug of danger, sad they re selnall wpm as desperate sk or a One of them walbolsolls oreatures, Hanis ri h Amber, lisped from the to, of lie mill late Smith-street, and was takes up in a Oft gi insensibility. She dWd boon afterwards, Amin broken ism beck. Margaret Seca was cloying., •Op bar the met of the building, by which aa all use made ft lower Ist, sad unfortumady let go her bead reglic =l2 •be Mt She tell is Yean-street, end wee jumped fres Ile fourth storey into ram llma la as* Ilatie hope le es ' tortoise* of borgulaimg. glib mimes sow dengurato leap, led di mil nib& music sly Mare merge sober eyes, wilds ai ti r _bona by the lime. Of them feyfeyhad to be mobil Is sk brass with fractured limb eml other WWI% the hillowles Is a list him Kershaw, throu asa i ra ve. Dareareregib, ilia Kan, Mori Ameitage,Mary liarimma, Itealres Heywood, sad Emma Slott. wee get osier with greet ~slim by 10 o'clock, stow SW= by idiom WIS, hat act till the whets ~ 11 11119 Irk 0100 0 the I.olll.4otase lied bees dit wow pert of dm liest wall faller late fr - it Tim Wire Wee aseinimod by lateen. Kigali sad 00. le eilmoled at 12,11.1., a mmiderablo pun of wilds is beim& lo be mimed by himmullON_kasi Mos ho* sollhosa Me emesst 1,01111.,0 Mich so genies Indlinftwaniy is Wand. As Id& bay is missing, nod is eggpseed to be buried osier ors. PUITTOGIIAPHIC floctenr.—The council of this misty have °posed a photographic ozhibition, open to exhibitors frogs all porta of t h e WOW* Let the rupees of Wizen Update' photographs ea paper sod glass, bath negative and positive; daguerreotypes, plain sad coloured, sad stereoscopic pictures, for the inspectica of amateurs sad ths public. This szhibition war opened last night by a soira at *a rooms of the Society of British Artists in Suffolk-street. , The stteindaus of a largo number of the asrabers and their friends showed the interest which la tam is this rapidly sdraneing art. A very large and interesting eolisstios of photographic objects was collated. HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WAHL -411- (From Or geld lirport.) Th. deaths in . Landon registered in the week that masa lest Saturday, aa•sutd to 1,666. Coroners' mess. that have ben soreaselatiag foe some time, aid are sow ' registered at the sad of the quarter to unusual slumber, have partly eoatributed to Redact the meas. The wow tality hes been vaned principally by the severity of the weather. la the tau unieposslieg weeks of the pus 184342 the tune number of deaths was 1,160, which, if raised in properties to increase of population, becomes 1,276. There is so eases It the lumber actually returned above the raladated amount of 380. The deaths arising from diseases of the respiratory organ rose last week to 347, while the corrected average foe ow respoadiag weeks is 269; to bronchitis 171 are ettribeted, to passessals 118, to bosptag•eoagb 65. Tea daubs from 'holm were registered in t►e week, of which the following Sr. the particulars: West Districts. Population, 376,427. Deaths from oho. lore, wee. Norsk Districts. Population, 490,896. Deaths from cho lera, nose. Control Districts. Population, 393.268. Deaths from cholera, 2. Clorksawell, Pentonville.—At 1, Claremont-plan, ea 21st Danaher, the widow of a corn merchant, aged 6t yens, "cholera (30 hours), collapse (10 hours)." Mr. Morass, the medical man, ways :—" On Monday morons she had spumonis pals and skkmo , which left her at soon, bet the bowels were constipated, and to obtain relief she took oz. of castor oil without effect, and the same eight a bine pill, the mint morning a black draught. Tuesday, at 6 p.m., the bowels bog= to operate, and eon tinned to do so initially until 2 p.m. On Wedissoday, on which day I Ant saw her at 9 a.m., and found her pulse leu at the wrist, buds and face livid, bowels acting invo luntarily; no vanities se cramps. !Me died at 9 p.m. is spite of vigorous atinnatias and counter-irritant treat meat. The house in whisk ►he has lived for a year is large, miry, weltdraned, and stands on high round. Her spirits were depressed from altered circumstances, and abs took but little animal food." City of 2, Old Fish-street-hiU, 28th December, the wife of • ar'•n, aged 49 years, " choler• (16 hours)." East Districts. fopulatiost,". 486,622. Dcaths from cho lera, 7. Whitechapel, Bpitaltields.—At 18, Wentwortl-street, on 27th December, a tailor, aged 60 yean, " malignant cholera (21 hours)." Whitechapel, Wbitethspel North.—At 122, Wentwort2.- "treat, on 28th December, a publican, aged 45 year', " cholera (15 boors)." Whimehapel, aldgete.—At 2, Sun-court, didgate, on 23rd December, a bricklayer'a labourer, aged 40 years, " cholera;; diarrhoea (3 days)." Stepney, Shaawell.—At 8, Clammed-square, on 27th December, the wife of a labourer, aged 60 years, " diarrhtes (one day), cholera (18 hours)." Stepney, Linteltmese.—At 40, CD lit November, a bricklayer, apd 54 years, " natural death, sudden, from cholera." In the same sub-district, akltegeat's Canal-bask), on 28th November, the mate of a ship, aged 83 years, ° found dead, cholera (12 hours)," Poplar, Bow.—Al Old Ford-lane, on 7th October, the daughter of a labourer, aged 13 years, cholera." Inquest. South Districta. Population, 618,633. Deaths from cholera, I. "Greenwich, Greenwich Eut.--Att the Union Workhouse, on 31st Getabor, a labourer, aged 28 years, " cholera (18 hours)." Inquest Two centenarians paid the debt or nature, and were re gistered in the week: Oa the 28th of December, at 17 Sherborno-street, Blandford-square, the widow of a servant, died at the ege [as stated . ] of 100 years ; and on the 23rd of December, at 45, Loadon-street, Ratcliffe, the widow of a mariner died, reported to have arrived at the extreme age of 106. Mr. Wells, the registrar, writes as follows: "This person, although at so great an age, was able to walk about and come down stairs aka' until two days before her death ; she had never suffered from any disease, and had any medical attesdant or taken any medicine, and re tained all Mr faculties to the last, with the exception of her sight. She was a native of Scotland, but had lived in Lon don-street for the last 7 years. Her youngest child now alive is 72, and has children who have also families." At 10, James-street, Ratcliffe, on 28th December, the son of a labourer, aged 2 years, died of " searlatiaa (3 weeks), gamma (14 days), convulsions." Mr. Wells states that " this is the fourth child that has died of the same disease in the same house within three weeks." At 86, Brunswick-street, Hagyntone, on 25th Duns her, an engine-driver, aged 40 yeah, was " poisoned by the fumes of lead, over exertion producing typhoid fever (7 days)." At 2, Mergaret-street, Stamford Hill, on 23rd December, the wife of a baker, aged 28 years, died of " childbirth (20 days), peritonitis (8 days), diarrhma (12 days)." The medical attendant, Mr. Kenny, states that "this woman's death was unsed more by the stench of the house where she was confined (Abney-gardens, West Haskaey) than by the peritonitis resulting from her confinement. A most in tolerable stench rises from a drain or cesspool under the door, into which run the sweepings of a butcher's slaughter house. The house is unfit for human habitation. The de mand was only removed a few minutes to Stamford Rill when she 'spired." Last week the births of 791 boys and 775 girls, in all 1,688 children, were registered in London. In the eight corresponding weeks of the years 1846-62 the average num ber was 1,299. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29236 in. The mesa temperature of the week was 29 deg., which is 8.4 deg. below the average of the same week in 38 years. On Thum day the air was added ; sad en that day the highest tan peratare was only 31.6 deg., the lowest 18 deg., and the mean 24.1 deg., which is 18.2 deg. below the average. On Monday the mesa was 10.1 deg. below the average, and on lye other days It was from 4 deg. to 8 deg. below it. The mean dew-point temperature was 24'7 deg. METROPOLITAN COMMISSION OF SEWEI Yesterday, a special court was held et the Court house, Greek-street, Soho, for the pupae of allowing deficiencies and compositions on district rates ; to hoer ap peals spinet, and to make improvement rates; and on general Ingham. The chair wu taken by Colonel Jane, and the commissions present were :—Sir C. Fellows, Mr. liaises, Mr. Q. S. Smith, Yr. L. Redhead, and Colonel Dawson. Mese the hearing of appeals, and the usual youths' buli mia, the Maims of wernate and summonses against de bases IS amnia rates, ha, presentments of nuisances wen iessived. end the necessary notices ordered to be amid he their vesievaL Yr. Woods;;;, the monetary, then read the following list of parthweestary hills he the smoke of 1854, the works lot which were likely to west these of the IXClDliallioll The Southwark and &meg Palms Railway, North Metro ;medium Railway, Kam ma Crystal Palace Junction Railway; Ch aring Ceembridge, R a ilway. London Drainage, Thames Rat t eel Railway, Welliagtoa Docks (Southwark), Divest Southern Railway and Thames Ter minus, Wesilbe Webs and Sewera Company, the Com eshissees of the Reset inhibition Gore House, Sensing lssLnemes hagememest and Westminster Terminus Them several notices of bills were referred to the engi neers, la ceder that they might ezaniMe how far their objeete @Mated the weeks if the commissioners- Leave wee to lime execute the undermentioned works, the GM= of was estimated at 8,9471. 18s.:- 060 feet of Wilk sewer, in Paradise-street. St. Mary Ro tkethlthe; 200 fast in Kier street ; 300 feet in Genti ans' ; 1160 feet in Seven-step- alley ; 863 feet and 80 of pipe, Y Res of open sewer near Ramell-street, and Lower York street,Remsessaisl Docks; 600 feet is Reidy-street, Dept ford; The het is Henry-street ; 1,060 feet in Xame-stmet ; 100 hoe of pipe sewer% in Amelia-row, Spa-road, Bar pip!M_ feet of leaff-briek barrel sewer and 80 of e, Neelisetrest, Cienmercial-road, Peckham; 800 feet barrel sewer, in Camden-grove, Peckham ; ISO het el lekk-band sewer, and 800 feet of brick sewer, at Peeklismwm; oussweleg the sewers on the west side et Psideemeemams with the main sewer ; 660 het ef Ist-lash pips, Niuthesdiemege, Peeklum ; 600 hell of brick tower, si the rear of Jammetreet, Cam berwell; 160 feet of barrel sewer, is line of open sower at Rr Villea,Peahemer; 660 feet of brick sewer, se the flashemeries-street, Camberwell ; 400 het of p. is WIPIN•4111.1811.1eithill, Norwood ; 400 het et pip e wryer is liege Sashimi, High-erect,Lam beth; 140 feet in fiehmemmetemet ; 120 feet in Princes- Meese; 60 feet in tipper ressetrest ; 130 feet is Upper Pore-street, New-street; 120 feet In Vaniball-walk 440 feet of brick fewer in Barrett street; 760 feet in New-street; 460 -feet la Park-street; 200 feet of pipe sewer in Qaeralogiami; 460 feet of brick sewer is Omen-street ; 410 fest is Fences-street; 160 het is Winks-street, Uwe Mesh I 110 feet in Robert-street' NO het he Jebesne-sheme ; het Harriet-street; IN feet Is Lseemiewireet ; 100 fret is Prosier-street - 410 het la ; 180 fist in Charles-street ; and 176 feet The niss e ll a us imeitly after adjourned. SPORTING. BETTING AT MANCHESTER—TusaDAY. Bettina bars is still vary dull, ths attendant* at the 10311 I• exceedingly limited, and speculation not expected to improve at preernt. LIVERPOOL STEEPLE CHASE. 260 to 26 apt Biter (t) CHESTER CUP. 50 to 1 apt Newittlastor (t) 60 to 1 Friday (t) 3000 to 45 Catipsw (t) 2000 to 30 Typos (9 1000 to 10 Lancashire Lass (t) 1000 to 10 Warhawk (t) 1000 to 10 Black Doctor (t) 3000 to 90 Virago (t) DERBY. 20 to 1 apt Ruby (t to 260 600 to 15 Meteors (t) EPSOM SPRING INATIONII FO THR Oa: Two lades as Yes. Horatio Adeline 3 Bracket 4 President Little David Itukspelt 4 Pancake lisagerford 6 Hen 3 Hue B=l.lBl 3 Nimes , Hammiest' 8.. to ,PrnlelSllll 4 Noweiger 6 Brookes =W 6 Warrior 5 Charity 4 Cariboo ! Dove Gamekeeper 3 Surgeon General 3 Sine qua not Toggery Br to Grey Tommy Jack Frost Jacob Petler Mayor of Hull 4 Heliogabalus Chief Justice Bit of Blue Jane? Dear Polly La Bell. Annie Sutherland Peggy . 4 Robin Hood Liadrick ....... mtentasent LT MITROP L a quarter. Veteran Lincoln's-inn Arnow 6 Vingt-un Catherine Hayes 4 Daniel O'Rourke Troy Nonsuch (It b) 5 Vixen Kiog Alfred 3 Little Je Exact .. 4 0, APRIL 6. Sumo. Yrs. Event Roug Jojoba e& 3 Punch Box Mr. Sykes 4 Brother to Little Swift ai;ref;nti Bleak Doctor Domino - Dagobert Rattle Brigadier o by Cotttoratouo, out of Dachau of Lorraine .. ---- Poodle Nightshade Talfourd C B :llg ie t Maeakinme • Peatimillos Feminism Gossip Little Tom Rata Cory bastes) Jonathan Martin 3 Maria 6 F by Versa= out of Jamul& 3 Rpandnondas Whoa Iniaad's Dosses 0' T Eye osie Maseovite Torment • 4 Adine Mortimer 3 Wiademater 5 Goldlioder Lurk, Queen's Owg 3 Royalist Shakspeare Stamford 6 Defianos Cable Midsummer 3 Arthur Weikel*, Puritan 6 Farm 3 Candlewick a Rt. Clan Brows Dam* Bridgman 3 Nabob Cat's Paw 4 Virago Billiagban Grapeshot NOMINATIONS FOR Till CITY AND SUBURBAN NANDI cop.—Weigh:s to be published on the 20th of January, and the 6 son. tt to be declared on the lit of February. Yn. Hanna:tunes Joanna Lysitea, by Sting The Nome leder 4 The Empire 3 Pollard 3 Miti Peddle 4 Itch Red Lion 6 La Belle Annie :Sutherland P Zgets Ealogisi Indian Wont', Lord Lleittearat Horatio Little David Old Noll Shipwreck Hennyeide Hero 3 liazienut 4 Toni* Hykla Grimalkin Prime WAWA, 6 Eve Raekapelt The Friar, by Cowl Orestes Twinkle ra der bob 1 3 Conspiracy Falcon (late Grub) Japhson iirockst President Vanderdeeken Bisnes The Peggy atchet 4 Mishap Nutprcker Pug Orrook Calliope Pullet O'Rourke ;:: ~ .. ~ .. s 5 ~. Ethelbert Adelaide Village Lass Vixen .. 4 King Alfred King of Trumps Cheshire Marquis Cardinal Wiseman..., Humboldt 5 3 1 ~. 6, Catspow Virago Merry Monk fby Aaeot out of Seaweed 3 r e' 3 are Antony Ireland's Eye Stonehenge Mistletoe Frantic 6 .... poll Quixote Adore Invasion Scarecrow 6 The Reim. The Queen's Own 3 Mr. Sykes 4 Brother to Little Swift 6 Tyra,. by Pyythue the _Filet Harbinger Pharos ' • 3 • 3 • 4 Mr. Sykes Brother to Little Swift 3 Voucher Sine qua nou Toggery Madame Landsat' . 4 Brother to Grey Pommy 4 ACCIPTANCE3 TOIL TH3 BROMLZT STeEPLE CHAIM .1 . 114:11: et. lb. it. lb. Ploughboy Sam Hood Noe:Wood 'tattle Orson 3 Pelion Lambton %Irina.ld Billioghun Khailidjah Winter Ptolemy Bat'bee 3 Pauline 3 The Field Men hal 3 Sestna Surprire Sandhurst Fozhanter Tieton _ lipasdnoadas ..... 3 Miasirippi GRAND NATIONAL STEEPLE CHASE. Subjoined are the entries made up to midnight on Mon day :—Blk g by Faugh-a-lsallagh, Mire Mowbray Peter Haltand• Half, Lobeter, Oscar, Daphne, Kilquade, Everton, La Gana Lade., Lady Arthur, Tom of Tuam, The Prince, Labyrinth, Comeaway, Crabbe, Beware, Jump away (late Quicketep),. Columbine (late Derby Dilly), Peter, Sir Peter Laurie, Robin Hood, Calmar, Slain of Melton, Geraldue, Ballflucher, Maurice Daley, Pride of the North, Frederick, Lucliaall, Star of England, Mountain Maid, Bpriug, Clansman, Abd-el- Rader, Vainhope, Bourton, Trout, Napoleon the Second, Cheater, Burnt Sienna, b g by Algar, dam by Wanderer, Victrew, The Colonel, Maria Day, The Old Rake, Simple Peter, Forest Lad. , NAVAL. ADMIRALTY, JAN. 3. APPOINTMENTS.—CIerks 3. T. Wells (1845), to the M. 120, guard-ship of twillsary at Devonport ; B. Harris (1 8 51), to the Suryalus ; W. H. Turner, to the impregnable. 104, flag-ship at Devon port; R. Munday (1860), to the Pipe, 40, at Pembroke ; and F. G. Poem, to the Neptune, 120, guard-ship of ordi nary at Portsmouth. Clerk in Charge H. Braxton (1860), toile Crocodile. - - —•— PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 3.—The Dauntless, 24, screw steam frigate, Captain Ryder, went out of harbour to-day to try her engines. The Conflict, screw sloop, got up item to-day preparatory to sailing for Plymouth ; she takes supernumeraries. The laying down of the keel of the Shannon, a 50-gun strew frigate, was commenced at this dockyard to chit; this vessel will be apowerful one, being of 2,661 tons. The Blenheim, 60, screw ship, was taken into the sea basin yesterday ; she i s to ge into dock to un dergo a thorough repair. The Diligence, naval transport, was towed into harbour yesterday. COMBINED FLEETS IN THE BOBEHORUI3.—The etre of the combined English and French fiesta now in the B.sphoroe amounts to 44 sail. including line-of-battle ships, frigates, and steamers. Of the the French and English have each throe thrordecken; we ham seven two deckers. (including the Agamemnon) to Ave Preach two deckers, the French 90-pan serew.ship Napalms haying, unfortunately, been mat beak to Tonloa fa espies. Each flag has, or will soon nave, 11l peddle-wheal slo mere. The Sanspareil (liaglisb) sad the Cheri ) two deckers hate auxiliary atom power . . . 1 r a=le this powerful fleet, thus are in the Bamherns M bast seven Turkish and Egyptian battle shiga s Wits frigate. and steamers ; melba the canalimod Asia may ito taken at about CO salL loom the imps sensual of slew power, the weight alga" Oa elm of them ilpi 111111ftdia to their mint. sad at parihadea to with rag - gunnery kas now hese Nadia twit la the Naglia and lima wits, this hermiitiwaht, . the Inlet naval annemest OM sent to ma c temp it mega; If nommary, be powerfully augmented by the fleet ears steams hips and frigates whist form Ad miral Corry's . squadron saw at Labia. Theme mewls are, bedi Pd•Sidd .....l l WI es the auks of the North Sea sra keet emireolemaiag prevails be- WOW tie lailitTad Preach Wee" and the signal-booka date two squadrons hate been eseimaged, with an arrange 'meat that, in nailing order, the Premeh squadron will form the weather and the English the pert lines FINE ARTS. MR. MARSHALL'S LECTURE AT MARL BOROUGH-HOUSE. Last night, Mr. John Marshall commenced a course of eight lectures on the human form. He touched lightly upon natural forms in general; os the straight line as expressive, in the abstract, of strength, the angular of weakness and interruption, the curved of richness and grace. He called atten tion to the infinite variety of form in one million kind of plants, in two million, of insects, and in every individual of the whole race of man, no one • being without a distinct and characteristic dif ference from every other. The lecturer then called attention to the wonderful resemblance, and almost identity, of all animal forms in em bryo,; to the dependence of animal beauty in great measure upon symmetrical repetitions of parts, such repetitions being an unmistakeable indication of consciously adjusted equilibrium, and the main source of the ides of totality and wholeness. Mr. Marshall then dwelt in a very general and introductory way on the;relep tions and superiority of the human to other forms. He gave it as his opinion that the horse was next in beauty to man, but did not support his view with any arguments. We are glad, however, to welcome any opinion that snubs our abominable neighbour in comparative anatomy, the ape. For the honour of mankind there ought to be a world-prize offered for the best confutation of Mooboddo. A good deal, however, is done by the mere juxta-position of the human skeleton with that of the ourang-outang its Mr. Marshall's lecture room. We at once see that there is a much more real relation between the horse or the hound and man, than between such a villanous mockery and the thing mocked. The lecturer showed that the beauty of the figure of man is founded upon its more various capacity. The sections of the trunk and limbs of the most beautiful of animals, the horse, are shown to contrast most remarkably by their narrow and elongated character with the beautiful roundness et sections of the corresponding memters in man. Tfw motion of the horse, like almost all other animals, is simply backwards and forwards; but the limbs of man can act in all direc tions, hence they are roundly sod beautifully clothed with muscles on all sides. The great supe riority of the general aspect of man depends very much on the greater thickness of his legs, this feature being necessitated by their having to perform twice the work done by those of quadrupeds. Again, the beauty of the human form could not exist under any conditions but that of a mixed diet—carnivorous and granivorous. If men had been intended to eat nothing but vegetables, their bellies would have protruded like the ape's; had they been merely carnivorous, they would have been formed lank and lean in stomach, like the lion and the wolE Mr. Marshall, in concluding his introductory lecture, spoke a word in favour of beards. He remarked very justly that nature covers nothing that is as beautiful uncovered. The masculine chin is seldom a sightly feature, for it is intended to be covered. The chins of women are, however, generally beau tiful. The lecturer supported this view by in stancing animals with and without fur. The bear, the rabbit, the cat, and the bird, ars hideous to look upon when deprived of their hairy ,and feathery decoration; but the horse, the grey hound, and other animals, so thinly clad that their shape is not altered by the fur, are beautiful in their naked forms. Yn• The lecture was, on the whole, an interesting one. The room was crowded with intelligent and atten tive students. A CURTAIN LECTURE ON THE BEARD. (Frew the North British Mad.) Tins: Haltpast Eleven. Scene . A Darkened Dedclumber —Mrs. Darling distinct'' , heard. And so, Mr. Darling, you have joined the heard movement. " Who told me that ?" I don't require any one to tell me what I see with my own eyes. Are you not shaving less and less every morning—is it not quite turned the corner of your chin already and a pretty figure you are making of yourself. I'm not blind, Mr. Darling; see plainly what you are aiming at, and I must put a stop to your folly. " Can I prove it to be Lily " Perhaps won't give myself that trouble. All that I have got to say is—if you wish to keep pout in the hctuie, you will shave to-morrow morning just as you used to do ; for you may dr pend upon it you shan't go about with your chin like a dirty shoe-brush, so long as I keep my senses, whatever may be your mad notions. "It won't be long in the shoe•brush stage, you say 2" No, I gnus not, if my scissors keep on their hinges. Master David Copperfield tried hard to sleep with, one eye open, and could not manage it ; so you will require to be a great deal smarter than him ; for, if you don't sleep with both eves open, your facial ornament, as you call it, will be trimmed a little. "1 Lad better not touch it I" Well, you can easily prevent me from touching it by shaving it right away to-morrow morning. You had better make up your mind at once, Mr. Darling. "Your mind is made up; you will shave no more 1" We shall see, Mr. Darling—we shall see. A fine hedgehog notion' this beard reform is; but I see plainly what it all means. The lords of creation mean to assort their ferocious dignity; they mean to overawe their better halves with what aunt Dina calls their " har ;" and they will succeed, oh yes, when they shake their beards. Smooth.chinned, female women, will tremble; they will think of calves in lion's skins; how could they ? I say, Mr. Darling, it won't do, so you had better give It up at once. What does Mr. Clarke say about this beard in sanity ? " Mr. Clarke quite approves of the beard." He does ? that is vesy like him. He approves, but catch him wearing his—eatch him malting a speculation of himself all over the City. Oh, Mr. Darling, but you are simple, to let yourself be made the eatspew by a poor sneak like Clarke ; but it's of muse me speaking, Mr. Darling ; if your two-faced friend approves, why don't he abandon the razor "He admits he boa not the requisite courage ?" Oh yes, Mr. Darling, I see, and you have the courage; you are very brave; you are to be. come a beard champion, warring with popular prejudice; you are quits a Samson. By the way, that strong man was shorn by his wife ; but you, Mr. Darling, are quite above female influence. " You will convert me." Very like: I am very easily converted—you can roll me round your finger. " How can I get over the physiological argument for the beard—the protection of the lungs ? " I know this, Mr. Darling, people were far stronger in the good old times, when they did not know that they had lungs. The lungs, indeed ! There's a good one. I won der what is to become of women's lungs if beards are needed for their protection? " Women who do not get husbands to protect their luugs are generally supplied by nature with beards ?" That argument. Mr. Darling, is very far fetohed, though there is some truth in it; but I say, Mr. Darling, you will shave at any rate for a while, until beards are a little more fashionable, and then I don't are how long you let it grow. Suppose now, Mr. Darling, you bad a baby to christen, how could you rise up before the whole congrega tion like a Grand Turk! " You could do it nicely 2" Well, I believe you could; but think of my feelings, as the whis pering and tittering would be going on ; you know they would have no hesitation in saying that your wife was surely far from particular. "They might say the same about their greatest grandmother live, for certainly Adam wore his beard," you say. Weil, Mr. Darling ; that se, 110 doubt, true, but the fashions of the garden of Eden would not exactly suit our times. For instance, the apron of ►eaves would be even worse received than the Bloomer cos tume. I can tell you, Mr. Darling, if you don't shave, you will be seeing your portrait in Punch some of these days. "That would not vex you. Punch &I like the rest of us; it's anything to earn a crust with him; but he is not vicious against the beard." Well, if he isn't, I am, to Mr- Darling, you will just make up your mind to shave like other decent people ; for I know this, if beards are to be come fashionable, they will do so without you making a martyr of yourself. "How would I like to have my head shaved to please popular prejudice ?" Well, Mr. Darling, I see you are not inclined to listen to reason, so you will just require, like Mrs. Dombey, to make an effort: yes. Mr. Darling, you will require to snake an effort to sleep with both eyes open, for my mind's made up. (Here Mr. Darling fell into a sound slumber, and hal a strange dream about sleeping with .lifeepbus.) UNIVERSITY OP LONDON.—The council of this University have suede the following arrangements for the various examinations of the present year :—The Matricu lation examination commences on the tint Tuesday in July. The examination for the degree of Bachelor of Arts com mandos on the fourth Monday in October. The examine ' tion for the degree of Muter of Ares commences on the first Monday in Juno. The examination for the degree of Bachelor of Laws takes place in the last foutteen days of Jule. I. I if Lt I A