The Express.
London, England, 1862-01-16 00:00:00

IXPLAIfiTION.

IL—Barometer corrected and reamed to 9! deg. at mean
Level ; each 10 feet, of vertical riga, emsslog about one-hundredth
et an Inch dhnlnettlos ; and mob 19 deg., above St deg., canting
marly three-hundredths booms& IL—Exposed thermometer
In shade. IL—lteleasmed bulb (for *vaporettos and
paint). D.—Direction of wind (tree—two point. WI of t
mite). l: Tome (1 to 19--estOnated). C.—Cloud (I Joni.
Initials b, bins sky clouds (deisobed) ; topaall •
lightning; in, misty (hair) o. overcast (dull) :r, min mor_.
thunder. S.—Ser dlaturbanos II to 9). W.—Wet, ralumE
er snow, or hall, since last report, In Maass and do-tmals.
Cala

Tea DITFICITLTY or BIIOINNING.—D, is
easiest thing in the world to write a book : but its Di
impossible to begin one. That is the reason why every a
who can sign his name does not belong to the " (Auld
Literature.' His kelioge are as acute, his maims
tense and imaginative as your own ; he can fuse them i
eloquent deeds, into eloquent speech ; he can charge
enemy at the head of hie column, he can ask the woman s
loves to give him back his heart, or her own ; but he mat
write a book. And why Because he does not know how
to begin. The incapacity is no doubt a merciful provisiou
for if we all wrote, there would be none to read.
authors resemble the late mild-eyed laureate; they
read anything—heartily at least—that is written by
people. Wadsworth, indeed, professed to study
family and admire keenly the Book of Nature ; bin
erne-examination it would no doubt have appeared that .
did not think nearly so well of it as of his owe account
it. Moreover, none would be left to work. There would be
no eloquent statesmen, no gallant soldiers, no indefatigable
explorers ; the fire-struck words would never again, like
hailstones, strike upon the upturned faces of the people
the five hundred would never again sweep through the
cloudy valley, and dream as they fell of the triumphant
team that were wept for them in the Holy Land. The
swot we all took to writing, nothing would remain to
about ; for the career of a writing man is the moat p
of all careers, and bass telling least of any. Iwould
Lear of Columbus, or of Drake, or of Wellinn, or i
meanest trooper in his army, than learn bow Walter
wrote Mangum, or how &akspeare wrote MarfiriA.
those take us with them into the vivid pressure
living men, and under the smoky glare of battle, or the
twilight of defeat, human nature acquires a powerful
bewitching interest. " The Duke's" life is our great
tional epic ; and it wan a better epic acted by him
tl
written by Tennyson. This incapacity to begin is E
however, confined to the writing of books. Most men wouk
be estimable, charitable, religious, successful, if they ale
knew how to begin. Jones really desires to do something
for the working classes ; bat he does not know where rr
how to begin ; and so he does nothing. Robinson, r
fouodly versed in the principles of jurisprudence, I
the bar ; when Brown, who knows only, but knows ex
where to fled the page be wants, succeeds. The tiot
trroS
be at hand ; bat they won't work of themeless.
life is a soiesee to which there is no index ; and \ -
how to use our weapons—in other wo how to
is the most perplexieg of all studies.—
for Jemmy.
Glastaißrs IS RAILWAY TRAINS.—A few mot
since we noticed an Meseta's of Mr. Newell, of Bury,
lighting railway trains with gas, which had been applied
several of the pawner trains of the Lancashire end ork
shire Company, with which Mr. Newell has long been air'
oectel. The trains to which these lights have been app
include the fast trains between Manchester and Bradford
and Manchester and Blackpool. We learn that the Loodoe
and North Western Company are about to avail themselves
of this invention for lighting some of their fast trains, d
among ahem, to the limited express between Loudon
Holyhead. Mr. Newell ill now fitting up carriages for
last-mimed train at Bury. By means of 00:11pf.8000,
bYdTIIOIII3 power, the quantity of gas required for.on
these trains is contained in a box of entail sise
gmud's vas. sod the advantage and comfort derived
these lights by the premien is spoken of in high
Mr. Newell is the investor of a brake used by k
Lancashire Company which was tested several years
one of the government railway inspectors, and woken
one ri the Wit yet applied to that purpose.