The Express.
London, England, 1863-01-17 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 17.

Tea lovers of light reading have no cause to
complain of the new practice, begun, we believe,
by Mr. Bzwaen, of tumbling out pell-mell into
the newspapers the fugitive reports and airy gossip
which mingle with grave memoranda and solemn
despatches in the accumulations of a Foreign-office.
The French Government is just now publishing
some diplomatic letters which illustrate some im-
portant points of its policy, and which will become
material for history. By the aide of these the two
despatches of M. DROUYi DE LIMYB and M. LA-
TOUR D'AITVEMONEs about England and the POPL,
from the same collection, have an odd appearance.
We ought to feel obliged to • foreign Government
which enlightens us respecting British policy abroad,
especially when the subject is so interesting as an
offer to place the island of Malta at the service of
the Pore. At the same time we hope we may
say without offence that we should feel more con-
fidence in Mr. ODO Rueseit's account of what
passed between him and the POPE last year—
written as it was immediately after the event
—than in the curious report which the diligence of
M. LATOUID'AIIVIHONE has compiled after a long
interval from various sources. We expect that when
in due time the English official papers appear, the
despatches now published will bear much the same
relation to the French, as the wonderful diplomatic
revelations of Mr. DISRAILI or Lord NOIDWIET OD
the first night of a Session usually bear to the
Ministerial explanations that follow. The thought
of the barque of Sr. Per= convoyed by the
British Mediterranean fleet appears to have awa-
kened in M. Dsourw Di LHOYB • susceptibility
highly honourable to him as a Catholic and a
Frenchman, but not altogether favourable to the
calmness and clearness of view so desirable in his-
torical papers.
It need not be difficult, we should think, for
anyone who will separate the positive statements
contained in these despatches from the suppositions
and conjectures which the vivacity of the writers
has mingled with them, and will compare them
with what is well known of the disposition of the
British Government and the situation of the Pore,
to estimate, with great probability, the character of
the offer which was made by Mr. Roseau. Ac-
cording to M. LaTorre D'Auvestoite, the offer
to provide the Pors with a suitable residence
on British territory was suggested by an ob-
servation made by the Pons with reference
to his own' safety. The POPE, in taking leave
of Mr. Russets, said, " Who knows if I shall
" not be forced some day to seek your hospi-
" tality ! " The thought does not seem so very
far-fetched. It is now explained that the HOLY
Fame meant nothing at all by those words, and
we are left to suppose that he was merely in-
dulging • habit of contemplating ideal sufferings
in his own person for the Church, as when he talks
of withdrawing to the catacombs, or dying at the
foot of the altar. This explanation does not seem
sufficiently respectful to the character of the POPE.
Perhaps one more natural may be found
in the difference between the circumstances
in which the words were uttered and those in
which they are now remembered. Last summer
M. THOUVENEL was Foreign Minister at Paris, M.
Di LAveterra was French Ambassador at Rome,
and the French Government was representing to
the POPE the urgencyof a settlementof the Roman
question, and declaring for its own part that it
must find its way out of a situation " qui, en se
" prolongeant au deli d'un certain terme, fausserait
" ss politique et ne servirsit qu' h jeter lee 'sprits
" dans un plus grand ddsordre." Times have
changed since then, and the Pore is now induced
to believe in the permanence of the protection of
French bayonets.
The despatch of M. Larove D'Auvramee shows
that M. Deocyrr DE Le UYB had been misled by those
informants who induced him to believe that the Bri-
tish Government wanted to monopolise the honour
of doing a service to an old man broken with the
storms of State. The British Government has
never concealed from the Pors its opinion that
since the revival of Italian nationality his position
las Temporal Sovereign of Rows has been a false
one. The advice to retire with dignity for a
time will be differently judged according as men
agree with or reject this opinion. At all
events, it was friendly advice. The offer was
not simply and absolutely • residence at Malta.
M. LAToue D'Auvritass writes that it was
one " to convey him (the Pore) either to
t " France, Spain, oe Malta, where • palace would

IN a certain wax work establishment which shall
be nameless a very excellent plan exists for getting
rid of characters who begin to weary the public.
When a celebrated murderer, a celebrated forger,
a celebrated king, or patriot, or general has out-
lived his popubuity, he is stripped of his finery or
his characteristic trappings and placed in a copper
over a large furnace. The author of his being
presides over his melting with very little artistic
remorse, and helps to turn the bubbling fluid into
a new mould to form a new hero. Very few
general regrets accompany the disappearance of
the old character, because every one is heartily
tired of it, and disposed to welcome the new with
that hope which is one of the greatest charms and
weaknesses of human nature.

If this boiling-down process could be applied to
two or three notorious characters who are now
constantly thrusting themselves before the public,
we think it would secure the greatest happiness of
the greatest number. We have all had enough of
Mr. EDWIN Jxxxs—we have hunted him out of
England, and we are not surprised to bear that he
is fulfilling his mission in America. The foolish
woman who married him has already discovered
her mistake, and has obtained a divorce in the
Supreme Court of New York on the ground of his
adultery. If ahe should return to England, which
k not improbable, we hope that she will leave all
traces of the hated name behind her. She may
come as Mrs. Buggey, Pish, Cat, Faggot, Gallops,
or in any of the other absurd names which have
justly excited the horror of fastidious title fanciers,
but not as the late Mrs. EDWIN JAMEs. Let that
title be thrown into the cauldron to be boiled
down, as we cannot melt its owner, and let us try
to forget that such a blot upon a respectable pro-
fession ever existed.

The name of YaLvarroN is also one that we have
almost had enough of. In any turn of affairs it
can hardly dignify its wearer, and we should be
glad to hear that it had disappeared in the melting
pot. We are no admirers of the attractive Major
who is battled for so vigorously by two women :
we are no admirers of Mrs. LONOWORTH YELVER-
TON'S publication of her gushing correspondence,
nor even of Mrs. Forums YZINEKTON'S letter-
writing in answer to that correspondence. We
shall be very glad to hear that justice has been
done where justice is due, but we shall be more
glad to hear no more of the name of YELVESTON.
The name, however, which we are moat heartily
sick of is that of Wislnuast. The wretched simple-
ton and the abandoned woman who have dragged it
through half the stews and dens of London have
been far too long before the public. Drunkenness,
impudence, debauchery, and folly are not so scarce
that we need pet them in this particular instance.
The man has seen life as most fools see it ; the
woman has been advertised beyond the wildest
dreams of the Haymarket. Let them be both
bundled into the cauldron and heard no more of.
11 The woman has been true to her trade; and the
mau has applied for a divorce. We hope that no
legal scruples will lead to unnecessary examina-
tions, and find food for the reporters. The sooner
the case is disposed of, and the divided performers
are each sent to the obscurity they ought never to
have emerged from, the better for public decency.

TEE MEMOEILL TO THE LATE PRINCE CONEOB.T.—
The E.rl of Clarendon, Sir Chitties Eastlake, and Mr.
Alderman Cabitt, held a meeting yesterday, when arrange-
ments were made for displaying the designs prepared by
the seven competing architects for the Prince Consort me-
morial in St. George's Hall, Windsor Castle, to be reedy for
her Majesty's inspection on her return from Osborne.

A paragraph has obtained currency to the effect
that Mr. M. Wood has received a commission to execute
a colossal marble bust of the Prince of Wales, to be
placed in the Town-ball of Manchester. We are in-
formed that a few weeks ago, in compliance with a
request made by the Mayor of Manchester (Mr. Abel Hey-
wood), through Sir Charles Phipps, big Royal Highness the
Prince of Wales graciously consented to honour Mr. Marshall
Wood, the sculptor of " Daphne," with sittings for a mar-
ble bust, to be placed in the Manchester Town-hall, and
which the mayor proposes to present to the corporation.
The bust is to be of the same dimensions as that of the late
Prince Consort, which was presented by the executive com-
mittee of the Art Treasures Exhibition, and is now in the
vestibule of the Town-ball.

Mr. P. A. Taylor, M.P., has intimated the
intention of addressing his constituents at Leicester on the
26th inst.

The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, M.P., will
preside at a public meeting at the London Tavern, at three
o'clock on Thursday, Jan. 20, on behalf of the George-
yard Ragged Schools and Church, and shelter for matelot
boys, High-street, WldtachapeL His lordship will be sop-
ported by the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Londoe and
other eminent noblemen and gentlemen.

It is understood that in the ensuing session of
parliament a bill will be introduced by government for the
establishment of a regular staff of firemen, with engines, in
conjunction with the metropolitan police, and incorporating
the existing brigade. _

FoezioN-oirics, JAN. 10.—The Queen has been
to approve cif Count Filippo Mancini as consul at
Vlets.Vatle upon-Tyne. of Mr. Carlo Clatter)." as consul at
Cardiff, and of Mr. Giacomo Sigg an consul at Bombay, for
bin Majesty the King of Italy. The Queen has also been
pleased to approve of Mr. Hippolyte Limier* as consul in
the Mauritius, for the King of Madagascar.—Gererre.
INDIA-OFFICE, J•N. 13.—The Queen has been
pleased to appoint Henry Newton, Eq., of the Bombay Civil
Service, to be a Judge of the High Court at Bombay.—
Gamite.

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ASCENT or SNOWDON.—The A thesesuFS gives
the following eztraot from • letter addressed to Professor
Tyndall by Mr. James Hall :—" Lad week, on the 2nd of
January, accompanied by • guide, I made the ascent of
Soowdon from the Victoria Hotel at Lk:Aerie. There had
beat • heavy fall of snow the previous night, which circum-
stance I hoped would give me an opportunity of repeating
your experiments relative to the blue oolour of newly-fallen
11001, in Switzerland ; nor was I disappointed. Aa soon as
I arrived st • sufficient altitude for the snow to be
one foot thick, viz., 1,900 feet above the sea, on
making a bole with the biton I was delighted
to find the blue colour, but rather pale. As we
ascended the mountein, we came into a douse mist
with the snow deeper; and the blue colour became darker
every step until we reached the summit, when the colour
eras IS dark DD that of the firmament. The most beautiful
colour, however, was in the natural cracks and belie in the
drifted wreaths of snow, caused, I suppose, by the particles
of snow not having been compressed oe each side the cracks
or holes, and the reflections consequently more numerous.
The light In the crevices of the snow on the side of the
!maintain overlooking °laden was exceedingly beautiful.
The thermometer on the summit war 28 deg. Fah., and the
e•lculated height by an aneroid 3,596 feet above the *ea"