The Express.
London, England, 1855-09-15 00:00:00

TEE ROYAL EXCHANGE.

This edifice is now further disfigured by the shop-
keepen being allowed to thrust out awnings before their
windows, and to do so without any regard to uniformity.
they being her; at different heights: at any rate, they are
positive deformitier, anti very unare.sary ones also, because
the ma might just as well be screened out by 'sternal
blinds. Those swains are such ugly things that the shop
fronts on the shady side of a street, when they ire not
required, show greatly better than those on the opposite
ens, encumbered with and half concealed by theca. la the
etrasture itself it was merely an oversight, and no small
one, to leave the inner condi, or " Merchants' Ares," as it is
galled, upoesd to the weather, when it might have been
sheltered by being raveled over by a glazed roof eo plain
and iseobtrasive in appearance as scarcely at all to inter-
fere with its present character. So protected, the tear-
lard pavement—about which so much feu was made
at first, but sow ezerianged for rough paving—might bar
been preserved. But the merchants had notions, fortieth,
of being "smothered," as of course they must have been
had the court been gland over, notwithstanding that,
somehow or other, people crape being smothered in public
rooms considerably less lofty than the height there from the
pavnuat to the cornice ; nor would scything have been I
easier than to brave a aeries of open or nnelased comport-
waste immediately above the latter, whereby ample cirri-
lathe would bar been provided. The ei.izens seem to
have treated their new Exchange very much as a
child does its new toy, who, highly delighted with and I
proud of it at first, very soon gets tired of it, and flings it
browse corner. Not °sly they, but those more immedi-
ately ocreneeted with it, car not • rush—not even so math r
a farthing rush-light—how it is new treated. The present
appearance of the edifice, with its by hr too oasepionone
display of shops, certainly goes far to confirm the reproach
thrown oat against we by Napoleon I. as being a wish of
shopkeeper —Lend owl Balding News, Sept. 15.

EXTRAORDINARY Aecisalirr TO AN 01710ER.-00
Sunday Int, jest after the troops bad left the chunk in
Templeton' barracks, cue of the officers. Ilir. Clarke, of the
47th Begloseat, was lookieg at a One stag, which hie been I
kept in *the square for some years, when the saissal quite
ileddnly bounded at him, and beton be scald amid him
strask him to the nomad with his ashen, which wen of
gnat um. Mr. Clarke, who is a powerful young as.
indeavoured to turn the anitael'ii bead and hold him, bat
he bad kW planed so firmly to the ground it wee impossible
to do se. The struggle was tearful, and might ban ended
dissetneely, oaly soma Olken nu up sad neeseded, at
great penal risk to themselves, in estricatiog Ik. Clarke,
she W seeeked • matt severe Jagged wound is the thigh,
severe seitmles to the breast, and bruises. Colossi Toms-
esd iwurraMotolp eadend the salsa to be killed. Mach
moiety one mosifested for Kr. Clarke, who is • general
tereetlie. oft slily la the large gerrisea of Tampions's., bat
with al ethers who best had the pious» of hie lognalat-
ases—itsilg Brows.
APONSCAtiute HAu..—Xemee of gentlemen who
paned their inanimation is the mime aid proetioe of
sad rewind certificates to practise, ad Thenisso
Bmpa,lll, :—Major Kirk bpßobinesaytiemb ; Alessedier
Weems, Welisetreet, neckties; Jobs Dowbust Beerrelt,
Podllhoon. Lopmehist; Willies Lase Noott, Cucligea ;
ILeatiel-Mena.