The Express.
London, England, 1855-05-10 00:00:00

SOCIETY OF ARTS.

FRANCE.

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07 TEN DAILY NEWS)
PARIS, WEDNESDAY 73•17/114L
The day has paned without news, or fresh restore
of any kind, relating either to war or diplomacy. M.
Walewaki, summoned by telegraph, arrived in Paris
lan Monday, and has taken the oath as Minister of
Maw* Attire.
The Dares bas been very wile, and, in eoesequenos
et Se great firmness of railways, the Rents bas ex-
pelling& a slight improvement, although but little
lwism was done. The closing price was Mr. 550.,
Wag a rise of 13c. Lyons and Mediterranean and
Lyons were the favourite railways. The one rose
12fr. 55c., and the other Bfr. 75c. Three or four other
lines rose 6fr.

A fact has been communicated to me, which goes
far to explain how it happens that there is a rapid
and enormous rise in the price of meat in Paris con-
currently with increased supplies of cattle at the
great markets of Benue and Poissy. For some
weeks past from 1,000 to 1,200 of the best beasts
have been purchased weekly in those markets for the
account of the government. These beasts have been
slaughtered in Paris, and the flesh (the bones being
taken out) having been first subjected to a preserv-
ing process, has been puked up in oases for expor-
tation to the Crimea. Thus it appears that not the
Great Exhibition alone, but the war, and that in a
most direct form, has something to do with the high
price of provisions.
Every visitor to Paris must have observed on the
Boulevard, near the corner of the Chaussea d'Antio,
and opposite the Rue de la Paix, the sculptured
fa9ade of a splendid mansion, built several yards
within the line of frontage of the Rue Buse du Rem-
part, and protected from the street by a range of
offices one story high, the flat leaden roof of which
serves as a terrace to the drawing-room. This was
the envied residence of the rich and fashionable Mar-
quise d'Osmoud, who died a short time since. Many
times while passing by I have wondered what the
interior might be of a house whose outward appear.
ance indicated taste, comfort, and luxury, such as is
rarely met with out of the Faubourg St. Germain.
To-day my curiosity was unexpectedly gratified.
Over the sumptuous first-floor windows, aseetiated
la my mind with ideas of aristocratic privacy, aid
suapproaohably select society, I was startled to read
is glaring gold letters, the words " Cercle de rExpo-
&ion." On inquiry I found that a company has
taken this house from the executors of the Mar-
ehioness for the purpose of fitting it up as a club, to
which it is expected foreigners coming to Paris foe
the Exhibition will neon for the purpose of com-
paring ideas, in like manner as they will compare
the material products of their industry in the Champs
Elysees. On being (thanks to the civility of the man-
aging director) shown over the vast suites of apart-
ments, I found them nearly as full of workmen as
the Palace of Industry itself, and to all appearance
it essesil as impossible that the club should be ready
fee the reception of members by the 15th as that the
Exhibition should open on that day. However, lam
assured that all has been nicely calculated, and that
the empty rooms whose lofty proportions and taste-
, ful ornamentation I was permitted to admire, will
be filled with luxurious furniture before three or tour
days are over. If the scheme be executed according
to the programme, Englishmen coming to Paris need
no longer sigh, as many now do, after the comforts
of the Athecreum, the Union, or the Reform. Hi-
therto there has been no such thing in Paris as a
club, in the Pall-mall sense of the term. There en
gorgeous saloons called "circles," where people meet
to talk and play cards, and where, by putting down
their names beforehand, a certain number of mem-
bers mey dine together in a formal way. Bat that
peseliat combination of the independence of a coffee-
room with the luxury of. palace and the comfort and
economy of a home, which Londoners have invented in
the course of the present century under the
name of a " club," is as yet unknown here. A good
club is very much wanted. When the first charm of
novelty in over, it takes many years before an Eng-
lishman can reconcile himsell to tk• the
Icalevards. He cannot take his ease on the little
rush-bottomed chair of the cafe. He is always afraid
of upsetting the small round table on which he ass
find no room to spread out his newspaper, and be
stains his shirt from the drippings of the coffee cup
which the waiters will fill to running over. The
rattling of the dominoes and the incessant chatter of
the habitues jar upon his nerves. He endures this
sort of existence, but he enjoys it not. That feeling
of contentment which he remembers at the anticipa-
tion of a " pleasant evening " after a good dinner, is
a stranger to his bosom when be sets his foot on the
threshold of a café. To Englishmen in Paris, the
Hotel Osmond, should it be permanentlyestablished as
a club, will be a precious boon. The only luxury
which the managers do not promise at the commence-
ment is that of exclusiveness. There is no ballotting
box, and, as far as I can understand, the subscription
money will require no other passport to the treasury
box than a respectable proposer and seconder. The
amount of the subscription, although not large,
eresidering the expensive character of the
dab, will probably prevent it from being over.
run by excessive numbers. 200 fr. is the tariff
for the entire period of the Exhibition, 100 fr. for
two months, 60fr. foe one month, and 40fr. for a
fortnight. There are in what is called the "little
hotel" at the end of the garden a certain number of
bedrooms, in which it is proposed to accommodate
members of the club temporarily while they i
may be
looking for lodgings. In the garden, which s a
great futon of the place, dining tables will be laid
when the weather is fine.
A detachment of one hundred naval gunners ar-
rived at Havre yesterday from Toulon, on their way
to Cherbourg, where they are to be placed on bola
the floating batteries and gun-boats of the Baltic
het. A detachment of 500 had previously been sent
Ibis Toilet to different ports; and there still remain
1,400 rims at Toulon.
ThiTalny. line-of-battle ship, left Toulon on the
eth fate Onstantinople, with troops, provisions, and
ammunition for the army of the East.

The paper read before the society last evenieg wee
"On the manufacture of steel, as curial en in this aid
lathes countries."

The lecturer, Mr. Cgainze kaNDIIIBO74, commenced by I;
observing that steel was produced by two processes. The
first and earliest method is by working pig-iron in a far.
nate until the carbon it contains is reduced from 4 to 1 per
cent. The second method is to heat wrought-iron in bars
(which contain little or no carbon) in contact with some ,
carbonaceous matter, until it has abeorbed that quantity of ,
carbon which may be required for hard or soft steel pur-
poses. The three kinds of steel now manufactured an— ,
firstly, natural or raw steel, made from crude iron, as ob-
tained from the blast furnace ; secondly, cemented ot con-
verted steel, produced by the carbonisation of wrought-iron;
thirdly, east steel obtained by the fusion of natural or cemented
steeL The lecturer then entered iato a detailed description
of the mode of manufacture of steel, and stated that a quar-
ter of a century back it was a question whether wood could
be used as a feel in the furnaces for manufacturing steel.
He Itinteelf had arrived at a practical solution of the ques-
tion. During his residence in Carinthia he made use of a
farms, in which wood was the only fuel employed. The
process had not become general, although it had been adopted
n several plum in Sweden and Austria. The various
kinds of steel were theft adverted to. These were natural
steel, Paal steel, cemented or converted steel, cut steel, and
puddled steel. The manufactere of them different kinds of
metal occupied a great portion of the lecture, but it would
be impossible to give an adequate description of the pro-
. segues without the aid of diagrams. The lecturer concluded
by giving some interesting statistical details concerning the
, manufacture of steel in wins couatries, of which the fol-
lowing is a rename :
Trams pc:ducts 14,934 tau, amp value cl g IMAM 0 0
' Prowls ~ 4,413 tar, a 170,514 0 0
Magid, 13,017 tar, 311,473 0 0
111,100 0 0
UalladStatair„ 10,000 tor,
1 Eagiaad „ 40,000 taw, ~1,470,000 0 0
Sash I. the entreat of the manufacturing power of the

steelicoducing countries : it stows the esniiant position
of Instead, in both weight and vela,. This can only SAN
from the prsetisal skill sad sciestifis knowledge which we
keve brought to bear upon its sesnufacture and the active
energywhich hes enabled es to produe• steel suitable for
every perms in the arts. The superiority not only enables
our measfeeturen to maintain the high position they now

bold, but to income it yet farther, Mr we daily see out pro-
dastioa of that ezpiaidlerb not only to supply the weals of
oar hose iseaufeetares, but also for the continent of
Europe, se well as the United Buda of Awwries sad
Cariedit

PRENSLY SOCIETIES BILL, AND STAMP
DUTIES ON BUILDING SOCIETY MORTGAGES.

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Accounts from Asia apnoea°, that Mehemet Warsif
Puha had advanced on Kars at the head of his Staff
Letters from Trebiaond, of the 25th, state that the
Milan of X.ltiva, who bad been committing depreda-
tions on the Persian territory, had been raptured,
and, with 27 of his followers, beheaded at Teheran.
It is also mentioned that Persia would declare in
favour of the Porte immediately after the arrival at
Teheran of the French and English Eavoys.

TO THI IDITOI OF TRI DLILT wows.
811,—Another attempt to injure institutions gon-
adal with the istteft• ial dames Ms snoseeded is the 1
Home of Cowmen& The 39th okras (slab sepals ea
szaapties his stamp dada es all to Owosso of '
buddies sesisties duly esgel we PUMA a majority of
B:44thit 11 . Whet are the -Sales a thus seawies doing
that es Willy see these digs labs gam ? Kr.
ems d air 11.P.'s, vigesesdy egging it, se he
does that hos a wants to miff waking mes,
but tisheNk' , dil _ _set sessssi. Kr. Wass soatended
against lik. Islieleielft sassimest,:asi dodsred " that
building issisaa j4atiatielloi to await the peer
were us& he dee speechless to the hijary of ?the
reams." 'Well, sir, thus ? Why. amp the paw
ma's mortgage to lay held of the gas s*. says lir.
Wilson.
In Binainghant we have 8,000 sambas a them societies,
sad I aver it to be ay ess
•• 'victies that there are sot fifty of
thew " wealthy speculatege co that a moat will be done
to 7,960 ant-working as, for the purpose of easing 601
Is this right?
Wean struggling, sir. to become swum of mu " home."
We are battling with digitate's, and fight goad obstacles
hnimerable. None but ourselves know the depriatioss
we undergo and has undergoes to keep up our payments
to the.. societies, sad Kr. Wilson feels dialoged to cheek
aderta.
*see
Will yes use your alums to aid us to resist the wa-
des. 89th 1111111•9 P—a dame that is hats to the agate of
the bill, but disastrous to the pnakkat =sallow sr head-
log sesieties. You have IS may smosins hiss est saw
eels ; pray be go agam._ dial ad your mast to all than
, maths so iweely peat= the boas to voted the
Slaw. Ne date is to be lat. A few deg% smi the bill
I will become lest_ tat what is to be dose meet be dose
quiekly.—Yameilm JAL TAYLOR, jun.
Birmingham. Mg.

THE BALTIC.
HAMBURG, ILer 8.

The Aland Islands are denuded of Raman troops.
Several English ships have already arrived before
&sdhamm, near Labia.

The blockading the Golf of Finland, ham Hangoe
Head to Dorsett, mammal ea the 28th alt. ; Naha of
which has ben eves to the Danish Goverameat.

SOLDIER/I' FRIEND AND ARMY SCRIPTUILI
BILDIII/' 80417/WlT.—Yesteriay evening the assivareary
meeting of this moiety was held ia the large room of Baster
Hall, Lad Robert Gewgaw presldlag. From tke report
ft append that the moiety bad bees some ran is mist.
=Zed that it was only during the post 70111 that it had
soy winged Imps& It win Yurour, at the
young thee is a pullini mist esupsudively admit
milieu those. its sash is owe solar= a
ablynd mienwal ise,
the Ha& TR withla the past year it hod her
sad Ism susbered twenty la Begin& ant ewes is Ile
I. hoes state of debt it had seesuid to the
Mhavisg a balsam o
pted,u SAW Is the huhu'
The report wee ado sod the aloft Issa sub-
agents* seined by suseeldoupiant and diedegabited
stsubsase the hdry.
Ramos Taooes.—On Satarday a parliamentary
paper, MIMI hr by Mr. Budissk, M.Y., was
as pablidied, of
the sun of iseney assully upended la payouts of
foreign beeps employed is the nuke of the Caned
Miami= hoe the year MN is 1814 Weledu. Ia the
lad year, the amines voted esasenttM to 21,314, sad the
easiest sated ern m 41.
Th. affray betmuween the military and militia in
Cork von renewed on Moeda, sight, sad aural of the
I
I sensed deem 'Wired
O wasidoesendbly. They were,
pined under Nino however, Malay
by tin lken

Tax Ifsw aas Baz.—Tho petition from the
isbehltiole of this teens pm*" foe a repeal of the New
Bur 1" aliallallEspivirde of 26,000 eigseteres bee
bees howeeleil * 3
$e Ilsedlea. Beg., XX., kir
peessiellea be the of Cas* Nossufle
Overiien.
• Buz ox MASRlAolll.—Yesterdm
• bill is the Sego of Ostesteas wee Fisted, to muse
*hats pith the esseehodut of the Cast of Cherteey, to
sake Meats sesibleale *dr teal sad isteesal *tau
es The Ms lees pupated by Ms llalh*
▪ lls WNW% es heesislies

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 10, 1855.