The Express.
London, England, 1855-03-12 00:00:00

BESTANTIL

TO TKO EDITOR. 01 TII DAILY MIL
BM—With refereaos to your Paris correspond_
sot's notice of the proposed post-eilee in the Champs,
Itlied«, permit an old band to give English eiremependenta
and visitors • hint or two. AU travellers know that at
blest one in every three linen directed poets natant* never
eases to band, and at once premed to dissents the French
Post pace, and land oar own superiority, when the
illegible writing of their correspondents is the traumas*.
Always, when parable, hare a letter directed to a betel
or banker. When this cannot be done, impress on your
correspondents, especially ladies, le writs the Initial letter
of your name as plain sprint ; suety as M. has been sorted
i•to the W.s, 8. into P.s, sad so on. Always direct Moan.
to a genuin', instead et Esq., which, being often written
at length, is sorted into the 11.'s.

Sint No. 2, as to Eoglish Bank Notes.—Always provide
yourself on tbie side the borriog-pond with two or throe
pounds' worth of Frenob mammy, to sorry you to Paris, and
eo accustom your eye to the, coin, and ovoid fleecing on the
other side ; for rod safety and convenience, take circular
notes of 101. each.

Haat No. 3.—Never ask for • letaar at a foreign post-
ale* ; write the name, or show the passport, se our prams-
ciatice differs widely from that of a post-oaks inseplopt.
Fumy a Hr. Cholmoadeley getting a latter asked for as
" Chasake."—Yoan, &e., AN OLD HAND.

RO TAL INSTITUTION.

At the evening meeting of the members of the
Royal Institution on Friday, the subject of the lecture was,
" Oa the Minims Districts of the North of Ragland," by
Kr. flepwith. Re ant deserfts2Alte general features of
the country, including the slept* of Northumberland,
Durham, Westmoreland, CamheeltastyLattesehire, and the
North Riding of Yorkshire, and issirof the meteorological
olastomeaa at ditere•t 'loyalists ; the average height of
the mountainous part of the district being about 2,000 feet.
With the nature of the most valuable of the minstrel pea
dues of Northumberland, he said, the ishatatants are well
acquainted, and he principally coasted his observations to
the position of the strata in which the seal of that loamy
is found, sad to the peculiarities they resist. The " Walls.
end " cool, from which Leads. was MN supplied, was so
called because the colliery whose, It was 'abetted was
situated at the western tersiaation of thus great Row
wall. That colliery is new exhausted, bet as the teal was
hasten for its very sepsis quality, other 0011 k, iel profit/ass
to supply the ►at household sal have assumed the same of
" Wallsend," which, from being a local term, has been
extended to signify exalts% household Goal generally,
without reference to locality. IL,. Sopwith pointed out on
• large map, drawn for the purpose, the reap of the sorth
eastern coal Beide, and he explained their Ihmitatios to a
distance inland of from 20 to 40 miles to be owing to the
seat strata being balloted at an eagle, sad thus riming
gradually till they sueemeively come to the surfers, or
" crop out," as the miners all it. In seas parts of the
district, almost adjoining each other, there is a differeace of
may miles between the points at which the same Ism of
oral Grope out, i• ornsequense of a great " fault," or slip of
the strata, extendiag from east to west, which, wordlist to
Mr. flopwith's view of the asks of " faults," has thrown
do►n the strata on the north side several hundred feet, and
by thus lowering the beds of melbas protested the dismiss
before they rise to the seurfsee. The dielocatioa of
the strata by faults was illustrated by models, and
by several diagrams; Du • large male. There was also
represented on a very imp diagram Useetion of the series
of strata of which the "sod measures " of Northumberland

ue composed. The thickness of the whole is one thwsnd
fret, of which only about 2 per eat sonata of osal strata,
many of which are too this to be worked. At the bottom
of the ceel nimeares is the mountain limestone, which to
the west of diet district rises to the sashes and is developed
in the lofty 11110UlliaiSIS of Cumberland and Westmoreland.
It is in the mountain limestone that lead is priacipally
found ; sad et Armandale, whirs Mr. flopwith resides, the
annual predate of the lead mines monists to six thousand
toss, which is equal to esto-Italf the lead produce of the
whin districts in the north. Time d;d not permit Mr.
Bopwith to eater into a description of the peculiarities of the
lead veins, sae into the modes of working, and he eoneluded
hie general perm of the alearester of the works of Nature
underground by exhibiting some of the areltiteetaral ».
mains of the Norman, that have been found in • high state
of preservation on different parts of the surface of the min.
lag districts of the north of Ragland.

BIZ CAAI 1.0 NAPIII AND 81a JANES GRAHAM.
—ln the amine of a long letter occasioned by the debate
raised in the Hoare of Commons by Mr. fdalias, Sir Charles
Napier gays :—" Why did the French admiral and myself
refine to attack Sweaborg i Bosun we had net means,
and because the narrow entrance woo blocked up. Had it
been opened (even without gunboats) the allied flags would
have been flying on the inner road of Sweaborg. A ship
attack on a strong fortress is at all Dame dilBcalt ; add to
that the iatricaey of the navigation and bed weather, and
it becomes impeeeible I admit that ones, and

own oaly, I did write harshly, but I apologised to Adjahal
Berkeley for so dotal'. Altar the 4th of October, whoa I
was insulted, I did writs strong letters, but they were
neither insubordinate or turbulent; they were not a bit
*wager than a man of spirit ought to write when he felt
his bower attacked. As to keeping say lag up ander Bit
halms Graham, no sawaideratioa oa earth would have to
dated se to do it. No otiose of honour and character is
safe is his hands. I bin sow Wen the public, so•
cased by sae of wilfully pervertiag my letters sad goading
ate to risk her Majesty's Amt. I haws ►oar reused redress
by the Admiralty and the Prime Yielder, sad I mast trust
to dm puercesity of the people of Ragland till peace *sables
mai to folly state ay outs."

Gomunuarr ArPonamarrs.—Mr. Chu. Spends
is appointed meting ilrat-eiess stork; Mr. John Wets= is
appointed settee mond-olass sink ; and Kr. J.J. Erskine
is sprouted third-class clerk in the Aeoosatent-lisseral's
_ _ _ _ . . .

Demential. It,. C. H. Shearld is appoistad third-elain
clerk in the Comptroller of Vineslieges Department el the
Admiralty at Somerset Noses. The Quoin has pressated
the Bev. Niel ld'latyre to the perish of Rothismorshas, is
the presbytery of Abernethy. Kr. J. Wanly/tea Bogen
is smutted Solicitor-General in Via Dlemint's Land. Kr.

I. Wearataak is appointed nolataat polies magistrate at
Werra Loans.

Tas Bruin.

•Ths Fab by man

of this Whales bas been earned is dosing trat wink,
silks rams dMews. Christie and Mamas, has best
east amno* awl Weeded. The lent Mos
days' oh seselseed et Os sea minable spellwille
of possible eel alma, he all at the
most ts& osi the tollseriag sonsnate waybriLlP:
sash days sais—ein., Meshy, 1,4311 ; Tuesday, e
Wednesday, 2,7311. ; Thaseday, 41,7M1. ; Prelim ee,lllllL e
total, 17,109 L Oas lot, soinsistlag at a pair el vases 1111
rushee lil whist were sold Se bays boss obtain NIX:
late Mr. Ismialke 11.11,ssalied so Ins thaa 1,1,40
Seethes pair st wsm tasked UM gala, seri Us keg
is lots et the pansedin, searriotlag eltogothra st 10 sunk
;ended& PINS onaserating together te yll.l.
the puesbanse son tats Moonvai.s fieriterd."llln
gagls, Lead 111.7aransis,10I4 Palma* 31,1*
NY. asp, Wit IL It. C..anspbell, Mr. Vella
Oeles4 Weep, ors. ; and ems of the ran op=
sappmedte le sesasel to the Mraberstisousen
Oa Ilatuidal the oak et the 6'4 wake din pipluireb•
1 cussed, sad 110 IMe yeodeted MOIL