The Express.
London, England, 1864-09-21 00:00:00

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were exposed to the wind and rain, which
would whistle through the aides of the
do what they would. Those in front with
apron,
driven were reduced to shapeless pulp. Rug.,
shawls, coats, beards, whiskers and face, were all
foreshortened by the we; and each of the two gen-
tlemen who sat there throughout the day might
have been squeezed and wrung oat by • giant-hand
like clothes from a laundress's tub. Necks were
craned out of the windows from time to time, and
dim estimates of what the view might have been
were formed, but theprincipal excitements were won-
dering as to the quality and quantity of dinner to
be supplied at Andertnatt, and whether and when
we should really touch the snow we caught glimpses
of through the mist, above us. Both problems
were satisfactorily solve(. At the Devils' Bridge
many of the men left their carriages and braved the
storm, to mystify each other with accounts (garble)
from Murray) as to the period of the thin arch of
masonry being carried by the French, and as to the
precise number of combatants, French and Austrian,
who were blown into the foaming abyss below.
Once ent, they walked up and through the portion
of the rock-cut road called the Gallery of Uri, and
after traversing its 180 feet, found themselves in the
arctic regions. The guide-books say that the con-
trast between the savage gorge of &boffin= and the
pastoral valley of Urseren has gained for the
many encomiums for its fertility and
beauty, but on Monday the change was Irmo
rain and wet to white and frozen laud and falling
snow. So sudden was this that the first peep
from the hole in the side of the rock resembled
nothing so much as one of the scenes in the Re-
gent's-park Colosseum. The little snow-crowned
village, the church spire, the broad, white-crusted
fields, the ice-covered pools, the uniform white-
nese of the landscape, sparsely dotted with
wretched herdawomen guarding the cattle and
goats, and the complete absence of any sign or
symptom of verdure or vegetation made the sud-
den transition striking in a precisely converse sense
to that usually experienced by tourists. Past the
two rude upright stones, said to be the ancient
gallows used to hang criminals on when the valley
was an independent state, and the landlord of the
Three Kings is seen frantically urging on the
drivers by waving his white napkin. The good
man's table is filled by the occupants of the first
diligenoes of the party, and we are sent to the .
Hotel St. Gothard, where a dinner is provided of
such excellence and abundance that young Flippant
compares it to a supply of manna in the wilderness.
The telegraph had warned these hotel proprietors
of the coming influx, and the result was a well-
dressed, well-served meal fur all. The next three
bows were spent in the snow. From Auderniatt to
the summit of the Pees it kept on ilicreasiug both
in depth under foot and in the rapidity and steadi-
ness of its downfall, until the roadway was three-
quarters of a foot deep and the small stone
pillars at its side were in certain places
nearly covered by the drifts. For some
little time the possibility of the roads being
made impassable was not so remote as it had
seemed when the croakers began their wail, and
as at the last place we changed drivers one of
the conveyances had been accommodated with a
drunken one, who tilted it against poets, and shouted
wildly as be jolted it round corners, the position of
its passengers was not altogether enviable. At the
Hospice the snow was blinding in its thickness, and
the cold so intense that alighting for a few mo-
ments chilled you through and through. All this
time the two outside passengers stuck to their seats,
while the butt of the party, as if to still further
distinguish himself, contrived to be left behind.
The descent towards Italy, with its series of twenty-
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eight rig-sag Unmoor—not exceeded in number
and tortuous direction on any other Alpine pass—
were perhaps never seen togreaiee advantage than
from the last of the nine diligenoes on Monday.
The shortness of the turns, and their winding stair-
case-like freqamesy, was especially noteworthy, with
one or two diligence, rattling along at full canter
upon each terrace, the first batch thereof being
some hundreds of feet below the extreme
rear of the party. The name Val Tremola,
or Trembling Valley, from its supposed effect upon
the nerves of those traversing it, was duly appre-
ciated by the gentlemen who had already had a
fright from the gyrations of their too convivial
driver, and cm stowing at Airola for tea there was
much comparison of experiences between the damp,
the cold, and the timid. The butt turned up before
we left, having (he said) ran after us all the way
down, a statement retuned with the utmost deri-
sion until Murray was referred to, and that great
authority found to declare that a pedestrian may
perhaps descend in leas time than a carriage ; and
it was found that none of our conveyances had
been honoured with his company. It continued to
rain heavily all the way to Bellintona, which rest-
ing-place was not reached until nearly four hours after
time. We were, however, fully compensated by
the next day's journey to Lugano, which was made
in the brightest sunshine, and beneath a cloudless
sky ' • while the exquisite hues and tints sur-
rounding us here, the sunny brilliance of the ca:m
lake, with its range of fertile hills, backed up and
relieved as they are by the white cap of the Monte
Rosa, and the soft influence of the true Italian at-
mosphere we are enjoying, have obliterated every
remembrance of Alpine hardship as completely a
the lessons of adversity are forgotten by the beggar
on horseback who fancies his seat secure.

DIDPATCH OF nil INDIA, CHINA, AND AUNTRA-
LIANNADJA —Ms Peninsular and Oriental Company'ssteam.
ship Poomih,Captain Field, sailed from Southampton yester-
day with the mails for Gibraltar, the Mediterranean, Egypt,
Aden, Ceylon, Indial(exeept Bombay). China, Mauritius.
Australia, and New Zealand. lin Poonah takes out, is-
eluding them proceeding via Marseilles 231 psaseugera, sad
in freight 523 boxes specie, valued 160,6041., for the follow-
ing ports—vis, Aden, gold coin, 2,9.501., chrooometer 501. ;
klauritina, gold coin, 10,000/. ; Galls, gold win, 6001.,
watches, site., 241. ; Madras. bar silver, 580/., Madras gold
cola. 1,524!., silver do., 7a. 6d., gold thread, jewellery. &a.,
2,336/. ; Calcutta silver coin, 29,100/. ; Calcutta, her silver,
56.2001. ; watches, Ac., 2,643!. 10s. ; Singapore, jewellery,
260/., dollars, 17.5001. ; Hong Kong, dollars, 5,036!.,
sovereigns, 2,000/. gold thread, jewellery, ate., 2,0061.; Shang-
hai, dollars, 14,500/. jewellery, 183/. ; King George's
Sound, watches, jewellery, 2501. ; Hobson's Bay, ditto,
2,1001. ; Melbourne, ditto, ;Mt. ; Sydney, ditto, 9381.! and
Yokohama Prussian dollars, 7201. ; also a full cargo of gene-
ral merchandise ; and for Alexandria, jewellery, 2001.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Syria, Captain Christian. with the heavy portion of the
above mails, and 88 passeagers, arrived at Southampton
yesterday. She brings oa freight 38 packages specie,
value 8001.; precious stones, value 4,500 rupees; rough
diamonds, 9,000 rupees; jewellery, 500 ropes; and a
general cargo, including 1,331 bales raw silk, valve 100,000/.
sterling. From Gibraltar the Syria bas experieared strong
N. W. Maas, bossy sass, and Nitaily weather. Os the
14th she spoke bar Majesty's ship Moaner., bound eastward;
on the 15th, off Tarifa, the steam-ship Lydia. bound for
Gibraltar ; on the 16th, the company's steamer Ripon.
boned for Alexandria ; and at 7.0a.m. on the 30th, the
Channel fleet, steering eastward. _

THE Nick's KxrgurrioN.—Kxtrsct of s despatch
addressed to the Berl Rummell, K.G.. by Dr. W. B. Ulm*
in charge of the Niger expedition, dated LekOje, 29th Jae.,
1864 Sines the burned departure of her liejmety's ship
levestigaier, last October, we have had as mown* streams
of visitors, omesseagers, sad traders, which hos kept ow very
bury lookin alter, providing for andkiwi. in order such
coseidirable Ms: of people, as well as se* any
inflames I peseta swan seighboaring tribes to keep
the reads ups sad safe. The expectations of the vs-
noes peoples scorning the sort son's trading are very
great. and already ivory se being dared up for the purpose.
I lid that leery dose an charged os all ivory pammumgdows
the deer, which of worse saterielly imams= the mom to
us ; bat if your lordship giro me illmectios, I have so doubt
but that by applicable. to King Mesa* theme easy be wea-
-1 drablyrammed. omitsis sow being regelarly brought
hers, sad II inquired for would moos greatly iscresee is qua.-
tity. The right bask of the river es which DAM% etude is
is every reimpose better adapted for trade, besides being more
healthy Hsu: lb. Isft beak. whirs the aback Lissom her
got a somee.omens.

[TWOPENCE

NAVAL AND MILITARY.

.—liar

Amu:war, 13wr. 110.
iamb 0. Oilard, tithe ; SAL Ommemy,
il".Teseer.

Mamas tit. 8. Seem. le lb. Osakalook kir
Maairds AARlldelli R. 8 81•04,W ti.
Aanialsial Papa/Asks la Clow J. Lida* t. li• &Limply.
Naval Cadets (sevoinaied) H. T. bras* F. liteslia, and
H. Ivatt.

Acting Smoot! Clem Amilleet Begineere N. H. Rove, to
the Cumberland, for the Dried ; W. Illatyte, to the
embodied, for the Terribia.

POICISNOUTH„ .tore. SO.
The &scoop 22, screw corvette, Captain the
the Count Clair-14a arrived at Spitheid bring the sight
from demland, sad came in harbour this aftwinem so be
&skid, having been where.
The Fox, screw transport, Staff Ccenathder T. C. Pullen,
arrived yesterday frees Weelwishi with snelnesir for the
liaison, screw sloop, now building. ..d the Pearl, screw
carrells.

The Himalaya will embark tacos cc Thursday for cos-
Toyama to Plymosth. aad will eiserwimis mks gold do.
forts for farther tortilla WA"'
Another trial will be made to-sight of the sew lime-light
assets betwees the Becoapben, is Portsmouth &armed,
St. Catherine's in the Isle of Wight, cad the Pigmy, whisk
will proceed into the damsel some disuses off St. Oaths.
rise's Point.

BRITISH ASsoCIATION PoR THB ADVANCR.
MENT OF SCIENCE.

BATH. Tuattar.
To-day there woe a floral fete at the Sydney
Gardens • the dowers and fruit exhibited are very hisatifid.
sod she attendance large sad fashionable. The Hoots Fusilier
Guards and Hanoverian banda have whereat nose excel •
lent music.

The;arious 'actions met as wog, and MOO intend*
plcread.
Committee of Itaxwpmandatioo met this 'harpoon
at the Poor-law Board, when the usual grants of messy
were mode for the purpose of "'nylon out micas seastitte
objects,

SANITARY CONDITION or TRIE CITY.—At & meet-
ing of the Commissioners of &wen held yesterday at Guild-
hall, Dr. Letheby, the medical officer, reported on the state
of 257 houses that bad been inspected during the week, and
he submitted a list of 71 places for sanitary igsprovenerots.
He likewise reported that the markets and slaughter-houses
had been duly inspected. and that the officers had con•
damned 20,310 lbs. of meat during the week, meet of which
was in a putrid condition. It consisted of tio sheep, 4 calves,
13 pigs, 96 quarters of beef, 112 joints of meat, and 25
cages of rabita. The mortality returns for the week are a
littleabovetheaverage for the wawa. Last week these:abet
of deaths was 53, whereas the number for the corresponding
period of the last seven years Is only 40. 21 or nearly half
of the deaths were &moan children of less lino five yens
of age, and 12 were among old persons of 60 and upwards.
The chief eau of death were phthesia, 8 ; mesenteric
disease. 4 ; hydrocephalus, 2 • bronchitis, 6 ; continued
fever, 2; scarlet fever, 4; diphtheria, 1; infantile diarrhcee,
3. As regarded the supply of gas in the City during the
week, Dr. Letheby reported that the Illuminating power
had averaged 13'5 candles, and that the properties of sul-
phur in the gas bad, except in the muse of the Great Central
Gee, been under the amount bled by the act; but that the
gas of the Great Central Company contained from 20 to 26
gams per 100 cute feet. _ _

HEALTH or LONDON.—The weekly return, pub-
lished by authority of the Registrar•Geseral, states that
the deaths registered in London declined from 1,362, the
number returned in the first week of September, to 1.136 in
the week that ended last Saturday. This decrease occurred
in the mortality of young peeaons, whose deaths were in tine
former week, 752 ; ia the latter, 626. The average somber
of deaths in the thirty-seventh week of ten years, 1854.63,
is with the exclusion of deaths from epidemic cholera in
1854, and with • canonic for amens of population, 1,192.
The actual return exceeds the estimated number by 44
deaths. The mean temperature ef the air was 5 deg. or
6 deg. below that of the two previous weeks ; the rains have
been coping ; and the result is an improvement in the
health of very young children. The deaths from diarrhoea
have deaeased from 180 and 132 is the two previous wean
to 81 last week. Those from measles, which were above 50.
asd in the rust week of August roes to lt2, ban declined
to 36. Whooping cough was fatal in only 17 cams last
week. The dents from scarlatina were numerous ;72 were
recorded, Melee 12 from diphtheria. Sonatina was fatal
in Weetaninater. measles in Bow. Seven deaths *carted
by carriage reddest' in the streets. Two women died et
the age of 94 yeah, one at 96. Two women died at 6,
Duzinnetruit, Chelsea. on the sth mad 6th inst.,
from " want or fever." A woman in the work-
hone, Westminster, from "destitution." A labourer,
aged V years, died from " hospital pastime."
Last week the births of 957 boys and 911 girls, in all 1,868
children, were registered in Loudon.
MffregiroMTAllt nig HOSPITAL, DEVON/WHIM-
SQUARE. (ATT. —A sermon in aid of the kinds of this
valuable charity was preached before the Lord Ma trthe
Sheriffs of London and Westminster, end the Aldermen
and Gomm Coned of the ward of Walbrook, in the
church of Bt. Stephen's. Wslbrook, on Sunday morning
last, by the Bee. Hugh Allen, D.D., Rector of Smarten.
The rev. gentleman took for his text a part of the 35th
verge of the 20th chapter of the Acts of the Apostles—" It'
is more blamed to give than to receive"—end In the nurse •
of • most eloquent &soma, remarked that it had been kis
harpies"' to peach for a great many charitable objects,
but that he had aver had to advocate • sane where the
advantages to the poor of the metropolis were mo acgat
to everyone as they were in the present ma. The
was instituted for the purpose of affording immediate gitta
tenons relief to the sick poor of every nation sad need, with-
out the delay of a letter of recommendation. Its dare are
always open, and only those who knew the poor of that
district of Loados, comprisiog Bishopepte, Spitaffielde.,
Shoreditch, Whirechspel, and Bethnal-green. as be knew
them, mai form any idea of the bleating conferred by his
institution upon • class of persona whose very poverty end
obscurity ptevented their getting the governor's order re-
quired at most other hospitals. The rev. gentleman went,
on to state that during the twelve years, from 1851 to 1863,.
tine aggregate attendances of patients amounted to 793,525,
and that for the year ending December 31, 1863, they had
amounted to 86,803. He reminded his hearers that the
promptness with which the sick poor were admitted and
relieved enabled the medical officers to grapple with disease.
in its earlier s , and thereby tended to prevent the
;frown aid deve t of those dire maladies, which,
having their origin in the abodes of the indigent, were not.
slow in audits their war to the boars of the iffluent.,,
bringing with them sufiering, desolation and death. He
conciuded • most powerful appeal, by rolling upon all
clams of his congregation to contribute loco-dies to their
means. The collection amounted to 23!. Os. 3d.
BILOTHSS, IGNATIUS IN THE NORTH. —Brot ber
Ignatius mad on of his brethren, whom doings in Norwich
and the neighbourhood have created so much excitement
throughout the kingdom, made their appearance in the city
of York on Saturday. The curiosity of the citizens was rsis.rd
by the singularity of their garb, each wearing their moonieal
robes. They had also sandals on their feet, and their heads
at the crown were closely shaven. They visited the e .stle
(where they made • lengthy stay), and amongst other objects
of interest, the new Roman Catholic Church of St. Wilfred.
Here they knelt for POMP time before the alter, evidently es-
gaged in prayer, after which they premed their lips to the
door. A number of Roman catholic' were in the church,
and mistaking them for high functionaries of their owe
faith, beet their knees before them for their blessing. This
the " Father " and his brother bestowed in Leib. After-
wards it was discovered who the pair really were, and then
their proceedinp mimed the character of • good joke.
Their appearance in public in canonicals should, however,
have distinoised them from priests of the Roman catholie
faith, who are precluded, under • heavy penalty from as-
suming their robes at times other than those of divine
ship.—Leeds .4fercure. —On It oday evening Brother Igna-
tius delivered • lecture at Newcastle on the revival of
moonteries. From •am athisirg report in the
meat Chrw4 ide it appease that the Rev. R. Ta ar.p.
soo, of the Caledonian c arch, protested ari'nst
the lecture being commenced with prayer; but • llet
Mr. Lyon was loudly cheered when he insisted on invoking
the Divas blessing. Mere was • good duel of interruption.
The rev, medicate said he was to preen in the theatre on
Sunday, as he was abut out of the churches. But for whets
reason be was shut out be did not know. lie believed in
the Prayer-book from beginning to end, and be wished it to
be kept intact. Be signed his name to the Prayer-book,
era as • evescieutimis person be wiahrd it to rends
as it wee. He was • church of England clergyman.
and with God's help no persecution would drive him from
the chain. He had selected the order of St. Benedict
beams he thought it was more in accordance with the prin-
ciples of the English church. It was cooducted on the Mtn
strict principles, sod if any of the brethres Winded, be
was immediately dismissed from the order. He (Brother
lagatias) was asaerlailled the so scandal should circulate
shout the doings at the amatory. "The lecturer." con-
cludes the Chronicle reporter, " was frequently applauded
to lb. clear. lucid, and eloquent maser in whin be pro.
Fronded his allot views. His strong determined :ook
an • vase seemed te enlist the &urinate in hie
favour whatever be began to speak, and all isterrupters
were nceremostionly treated with mite of • Kick him
out' sad 'Shut up.' In many parts of the lecture, Brother
lestius wand penally eloquent, and quite enraptured the
ndians. Bs bad in desk in front of hint, bat walked
about on the platform, sad he seemed quits • pro6Mest at
ORT,PAL Parrott Osrs Simms DAY. ••••
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