The Express.
London, England, 1855-12-21 00:00:00

THB UNITED STATES AND THE SOUND DUBS.

Ina despatch which hes hem addressed by the
Felliso Maims of the tralaid Skates to the Deals' go.
vesnesset resoesting lb. Sewed Dees, Ms. Morey expressly
Mlle his Miasma et Oepeelisgea that he has no iatentioa of
argithw farther rthe qaestioe eseegli. he this's'. hes
been ad-.4merisa has arrived at its seaslasiso. whit% is
that it is net bested te pay. The &entity of State them
to speak of the proposal whieb Damask has made
rreoill lutien of the difkaslty ; vie. that the *otiose Wm
used shaft seed represeatatiees to a smarm at Copeallagee,
se width it shell be debased .bat is shall he ;aid to Des-
sert, is es to eapitalies the Booed messes. sad Wane
Damask to free the eosaaotree of the wield. Mr. Ifiramee
&sewer is that to seed a repressatative to rash a soap=
would be to yield the whole qesesioe, which is, whether
!snipe widow esti bowed to pay at all, sad set hew sea
it a paper Whew.
There it IMAM petted of 'Nadas to joiaiag la Ma
lowed emeestime quite es eoetrolliag as tither of the taw
goes. The governesses of the Visited fiestas will suet
~eat to the pretension that the New Weal is to he ep
pep stud to adjust the panties' balsas* of the Old. It Is
dearly stated is the proposition which Damask has sub.
silted to the United States that the osneesties I. to ask
ups the pieties nlsties to the lisewl Is.. is squawks
WWI the mom of the Mimeses helms et power. It ie I
um the& teeMeled that the dtntee_l to be seberdieensl
Se the knee. Of the utility se 'Men of the palled
theany of the helmet of pewee is Its amilleaties te the
Impels family of seem It it sot pimple leimptew en
Modes; bet meet el eperatiese hes bees Ma ID Ii
samstriestes .1106.11•14 s Sited deuwwinalim le Mil
within he wawa. It hie less bas the,
polity of this pasesessat to weld web der
pvBB6 emplisity ; sod the Pvesident will sot yield is any
woe to the allatattel missed= of it."
Ihsve is walvelvedly a awe •ity to keep up at • end.
Merle 'spews bwp, De., for the Newitp if
ita navigates. ;renellut.6l4easse in fame," di
from a slain lee ennanderist a premded slarlittsarg
the swittatios ef bee sad sad 1161•6," the United
an wUllai se eater Iwo es mennwhest with Deenewk,
sod to pay •Mr ansioaleet for emy eilheo:srat, their
eessawas wbkh le derived ben time " yes
are Mandeve hastnemed to Waite Doewiek esbifet,
sod to men her that It will resehe dee sewideratioa trams
wow Oweeseisitilut she mast est. that it will be
thessrably It Weald tither ewes*
or 18'141411y. sammedes Stift Burr
of tie pre-
teeded right to NNW the free see ywir ship of the
Owed sad the 11.116 ef the Dattle."

As Banal ?Sant on rss RoILL—The Loft-
log es ugb bon Hell t llsartbsstsr, ea Wsdaesday,
es via is • paw lisswess Wriatbead mad Until*,
seer the neasbaserr wrestles reserveirs. was Wein
..*ft se *flea by aloft la seating wigs due sad of •
rail sls bad wareatiy ban braes sad dligiased by •
pry lig bob. TM driver was retain as Weis as a
spied of AM le albs per Men sad ogv tho odl plat's(
u~ bat of Yu, bat ow noble to atop la doe to avoid
I die • gorttusageo. Irattgoatoly ono of tho poonagen veto
osoig lust ;
to
gad they won 65 NM iherftwas aimed
ffatos by sink et goalgraliguggisi boa bum.

LITERATURE.

Prow sssd Pwrar W. IL TIACIIDAT.
Bradbury eel as&
hfruor:"teeehtstertpety
tinteritarliaprolleeowYveindt:Tiaseleuhiltet.hteoTheeheTenbeandyillowkne'lofaseehidisee
rivals, ancient or modern. The element that ho ex-
tract,
is
humour.ha
yl
hi the ofit isfiehttuo, :surd proftheoudenpdththsoft
isßetereesinitYiehn from
the
mil*"
social
body
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(be poyinsfaltim. it is
ness °f theneointehe:ofdan net;,thekilwiltiaibonyt
ofit as
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"casiseotil:isrnegallsialynd,otanfomiasit4estwye.ionngd
whiskat
ah
n. s
11,r
el is pionw er oc"
ethic.
can can sever reach. 110030 WW does set esunciste
a priweiple, still less point a moral, but it chews in-
eausetatbenlieruelYttd,auseidereuw:illhiampel tire:posaidrioierieeedriorn:7:he,ibilchthrltilwelyfial
re
imminotively ied to understand the principie Miele
We want us sum to paint the morel for us. As an
exemplificatioe of this, take the minaireble etwy of
"The Fatal Boots," is this first velums of Mr.
Thaekeray's weeks. This tale, whisk we remember
os
as old friend in the amnia Alumna& soles yeses
bask, is an exquisite specimen of the greet
power of homier in stripping of all cunningly
contrived masks and veils with which 'elfishness
is clothed who it is wished to be passed off as
a virtue. The hero of this tale tells his own story
with the most inimitable WPM,. He writes him-
self down knave and fool with the greatest rare, and
fancies he has described himself man holiest man. He
chuckles knowingly over every dirty little bit of
knavery he commits, and asks you to think him a
clever fellow. He take* every possible base advantage
of a doting mother, and asks you to join with him in
laughing at bar. He abandons the girl to whom he
is betrothed when she loses 6,0001. of her fortune,
and knows that you will agree with him in thinking
his conduct that of a clever sensible fellow. The
last incident is so rich that we cannot forbear quot-
ing it.
Dos's fumy I looked fee beauty l Pith! I wasn't sash a
fool. Nor for temper; I doe's can about a bad Sew
I mould break say wesaa's bean is two years. Whet I
wasted was to get as is the world. Of castle I dna%
prefer as ugly woman, as a shrew ; said, whin the skein
altered, would oirtaialy. put up with a Madness, good.
humoured girl, with plenty of esesey, as asy honest seas
would.
Now then wore two tolerably rich girls is our
parts : Min Magdalen Cluny, with twelve thousand pounds
(and, to do her justice, as plain a girl as aver I saw), sad
Mies Mary Waters, a des, tall, plump, sailing, posh.
chinked, goldes.haired, whiterskiened less, with only ten.
Mary Waters lived with her seek, the looter who had
helped me Ste the world, sad who was trusted with this
little orphan charge very sees after. My mother, as you
bays heard, was so toed of Bates, sad Bates so feed of little
Mary, that both, at dist, were einem always in oar hose;
sod I used to all bee sty little wife as soon as I could
speak, and hence she set hl walk, almost. It was beautiful
to see es, the neighbours said.
Well, whs. her Welber, the liesteasat of an India ship,
ease to be mods, sad Mealy says Mary five thousand
sonde, whoa else was about 10 years old, and promised her
dw theseesd mean, there was a great talkie' and bebbisg,
sad maths, batons the Doctor sad my strata, and Maly
and I were left together more than ever. , sad she ins tetl4
te all se her little hothead ; asd she did and it Welles
adored a settled thing from that day. She was really,
sausially feed el me.
Ca. say metal me mereesary after that ? Though Miss
Crotty bad twelve thousand, sad Mary oily tea (five Ia
head, and five is the bush), 1 meek faithfully to Mary. As
e natter of IMMO, Miss Crotty bated Miss W The
let was. Misty bed ell the cousin dangling after her, and
set a seal would ease to Magentas, foe all bar 12,00 W 1
seed to be Westin to her, though (ss it's always useful to
be); and Mary would sometimes laugh and eenstisse cry
stay areas with Magian& This I thoeght proper very
ealably he shook. " X u 7," said I, "you snow that my
love for you is dtsiaterested,—for I as faithful to you,'
those h Miss Crotty is Seller then you. Don't fly into a
rep, then, bosun I pay her attestions, when you know
that my heart sad my mane are segased to you." • •
The feet is, to tell • little bit of • secret, there is nothing
like the having two whip to your bow. "Who knows,
thought I," Nary may die ; and then where assay 10,0001 r.
Se I seed to be very Mid Wised to Mire Crotty ; and well
it nes that I on so; fee when I was twisty, and Mary
*lnns, I's blast If aims did set arrive that Captain
Widen. who was sense base to inglead with all his
messy is rupees, had been takes—ship, rupees, self and all
—by a Frees\ privateer; and Mary, instead of 10,0001,
had wail 6,0001., making a diffusers of so Ism than 3601.
per awls betwixt her sad Was Crotty.
I hod jest joined Si re/lama (the (seem Neeth Basis,
Feasible, Colonel Craw essusasdbig) when this news
noshed file aed you may faney how a young sus. ia as
explosive m;imeos sad as., baying uniform sad what
set is pay for, sad a 1t... to set is the world, felt at
bearing sash sews " dearest Behan," wrote Yin
WOWS." will deplore my deer Mother% loss; but sot, I
as ewe, the nosey which►that hied sad generous soul had
promised me. I have still Ave thesmatt pounds, sad with
this sad your sirs little lenses (I had 1,0001. is the Five
per Ousts. I) wombed be ea happy and satiated es pssibble
Sappy end aostested, indeed I Dida't I know how Sy
Whir get es with his KM a year, sad how it was all IN
esshl de set of it VI add • basind • year to my same,
WIWI% sad live himself I My mind was reeds up—l is.
seedy mewled the eseeb, and flew to war village—to Mr.
Cremes, ei esersa It was next deer to Doctor Bata's; bat
I hod as twines. there.
I hosed Meade.. is the garde.. t. Memos, Mr.
Slobber said abe, m is my new stiffens I appeared before
her, " I rally
did sever—sash a handsome olleer—espest
to see yes;" sad she made as if she would blush, and
begs totremble violently. I led her to a garde. seat. I
onsed her head—it was sot withdraws. I pressed it—l
ilisoght the prewar. was retiarsed. I fang myself my
Won and iltes I poured lan her ear a little speech whin,
I be/made ea the top of the coach. " Diens Miss Crafty,"
gig ; " ideipostai !It wee bet to eat& one glimpse
of les that I through tlth rides. I a intenued
OWNS, the secret pram (oh, so ; of souse sot) which
wee weedsg my life away. Toe knew ay uefortutete pre.
esgegesseutit is Wass, sad for ever ! I ant free—tree,
list to be your slave—ywar bushiest, fondest, truest slant"
salsa.
"0, Mr. Stubbs," said the, as I insisted a kiss epee
ber dock, " I stet refuse yes f• but I fear you are a led,
wargman." ••• • •
2bed is the deltic'se reverie which was muted by the
~ggreresten'a eonfatioe, we were bent silent for a while,
and anal& ban rersamied so for limn, perhaps, se lost
wage we is baroness. bed I set bees midway roused by
I a valet mislabel; from bellied as,
"Doa'tery, Mary , he Is a awisdling, sneaking seessitell
and you are well fie of his l"
I tarsal retied l 0, leaves! there stood Maly, weeping
en Dormer Dames snit, while that miserable apothecary was
looking at se with the at lest sacra. The gardener who
bailee se is had told them of my arrival, and sow stood
bddied them " Immune!" wee's; Magdalan's
'sly as she lassoed by with the utmost self-
•Csriewhim Easels; daggers at the spies, followed
life embed seihe pas Mar, where she repeated to me
the strespest esereass el her love.
To times who have set read it, " The Fatal Boots"
will be a beat of the highest kind. The volume
Woe en matains, besides "The Fatal Boot.,"
• Ballade MIA of which appeared in Prowls ; The
leek ef lathe also from Pored Cox's Diary,:
sad "Tim Tgemsndous Adroitness of llojor thehagas.
The letter is one of the most amusing pine. of blus-
tering bravado ever written. We are glad to see
the commencement et an httospt to gather
up
those rich morsels of humour which Mr.
Thatheray has mattered in his peeress with such an
unsparing band. Many persons say ftly know him
by his later and Sots ambitions sake. They will be
glad to learn that years before the appearanos
of them raseterrawes, he produced works in no dgree
inferior, exespt in length, and consequently in eevolu-
tion of incident and character, to " Nodennis," or
" The NeernOrnee.* There is evident is these smaller
works theses. admirable humour, the same delicacy
of touch, the same knowledge of human nature, the
sues sewn of what is mean and morellos for whet is
lofty sad elevating. The present volume, the m-
eaner we hope of many more, is a sufficient warrant
foe the correctness of oar assertion.

Simms or Corms Aim or Was. A cone-
spoodest, wk. bums is dated fen loud, December 4,
states that the Marlow Wig Robert Penn has bees
seised by the Seedielt Mitheritim blealtbrAny nod flood
to.ilazdtiltrfibisers'llleir
nosisikkh re= tablet
Qapen
Mies, *Melnik the departure et the Zeglish *goodies.—
Pipseuth MIA

BT. PAUL'S SCHOOL.-THE WINTER

CPBECHES.

A engirded audience assembled yesterday at St.
Pears graioot to goon to the speeches delivered according
to usual Ashes by the scholars; at this Period of the Year.
The promediage easameneod by the recited= of three
prize poems, written for the Thistles Memorial Prim
The eubjeet wee the Visit of the Emperor and Empress of
the French to London; sad the embryo poets made the
mat of their theme. Is noticing osmpseitioas of this hind.
the critic is disarmed by the reflection that it is sot poetry
that is required from the candidate, but pure Latinity.
Dem Cohn hhaself—ebe founder of the scheol—and his
friend Enseeme, would have found few faults with the
Latin of eh win poems ; and we have sees SWIM area
by anthem Wbo haw achieved a cartels repsiaties, which
have had Ism poetry in Men them the thew pommy which
WON resitedyeaterday,ead which were ee equoil la meritthat
the Head Kean reseed m give one madam over the
other. Where des prism were delkerod. Hyseeten
addressed the wediesce est the primmest is a sena wire.
bad reihmace melte present Klee of she imbed end mem
event, esusseted with he Mem during the pmt year.
Drawing the shooters of tie eediesee to some warlike
Cruelties which wesesespended at me ma of the ball, he
ads some graaefinhesione to the struggie in whisk we
were engeged, and se the actions of the scholars oil Bt.
Paul's who were cm wheel moraine is the lileaL Theriel-
lowing speeches were thee recited :
_ _

- -
Atristepheees. Acdtersesses. M 5-429. Diesepois,
Miller; Euripides. Steel; Servol, Little.
Stiekepeare, Merelsaut el Venice, Art iv. Su I.—Dake,
Miller ; Antonio, Grabens ; Bkyleek, Maskbeirer;:Baselaio,
How ; Portia. Lawrence ; °radius°, Orilla

Shakspeare, Twelfth•Nisht, Let it. Be. 6.—Sir Toby
Beloit. Orfila ; Sir Aid's* Massimo's. Sweatier,: Mal-
vollo, Little.
.Essitylas, Prometkess 'Fiestas, 944-1036. Bremen,
Fliatoff; Prometheus. Beeler.
Stese de Medeels malgr4 Moak.
house; Wrests, Graham ; Whyley ; Lasted',
Butler.
The yeast aeon were well Ili la their Parts, sad some of
them masifeeted histrionic powers of sousiderabie 'Meat.
The representative of Bassani% Is the se se from Ifolifre's
Mildesso sesigrd Gel displayed vest 1131i0 West. sad was
estitasisetimily applauded.
The Letts Ivies mated by the whams ere vista, sad
at the esd of the corneal= is subjoierd a.Latis bassist isms
by Dr. Hysastou ef wonderfal mast:
" Ana's, 0 Lord, thy slassister'd mists."

Milton, it will be remembered, wee a stniant at at.
Pears. The recant visit of the Hisig of Budiais to the
country hes teamed others besides Dr. Krakatoa to perste
with interest the verses of the treat post es the niferiass
of the protestant@ In Piedmont. The version which we
subjoin is remarkably felicitous:
Clsoneqvie nos ulaiseeris herridis
reek** ressoran era sub MOW%
Divine Viadsa I qui perusal
Ts Dominus cohere rifts,
Qom fortaiti seelpmet Ulm
Gees Nostra dives ? Scribe espaelbus
Chartist quereates, gum
Imemritma peens, Intermit
Twasinu Won, per jup prorness
Dm metro prelim ; non sine cellists
Chasers, riebsiges mantis,
Bt graham reheats saga
I, sureptaseis sparge erearibus
Meta lets run &bandies •
Eimptro ttiumpbstuss trifermi
Sperp seism cisme ineepulto ;
Gene node .resat cede fender
Istarainsta, quip Bebylonii,
Deana Tr, tandem tyrsani
• Ezeetlat jugs luetnoss.