The Express.
London, England, 1863-05-08 00:00:00

TEN VIADUCT ACROSS LUDGATWHILL.

A report was brought up from the Improvement Com-
mittee relative to the several references in respect to the
proposed viaduct acres Ludgate-hill. which after referring
to the proceed‘tsken in the year 1860, in opposition to
the company's wed on to state that with reference to
the present bill, ey bad conferred with the company, but
bad not succeeded in obtaining the rgdred deviation so as
to enable the line of railway to be eeerfei out by means of a
tunnel rather than a viaduct. At the same time while so
forming the viaduct, they have expressed every anxiety to
hawsee the accommodation, and have submitted proposition
to the committee to that effect, to be carried out by clauses to
be binned in the bill now before parliament. The com-
mittee had also had under their canderation the proceed-
lap recently taken by the Oommisuoßoll of &Men upon
the same subject, and they lad under the instructions of
the court given the necessary direction to the City
solicitor, soling as the resiembranrar, to oppose the bill
in parliameet, in order to prevent the formation of
the viadnet ; and they had felt it their duty, under
the present peculiar circunistasces of the case, and in
view of the decision arrived at by the Court of Sewers
• to the propotitione of the company, to report the
woh le deeumateneet in order that the court might express
an opinion as to the steps most desirable to be taken by the
committee. The proposa&s of the company were that they
would undertake to make the toridp 60 feet wide instead of 40
to allow for the improvement of the street, and to pull
down ostain houses to the end of Bridge-etreet and Ferries-
don-Area, end also to offer to the corporation sneh of the
ground as they might require for the improvement of the
street, the price to be decided between the surveyor of the
company and the surveyor of the corporation, sad in the
event of their not being able to come to terms soother sur-
veyor to be called in whose award should determine the
quedioe. The report added that the company had that
morning offered to make the bridge seventy feet instead of
°hit. Deputy Per, the chairman of the Improvements Com-
mittee, said the committee merely wanted to receive the
instructions of the court u to whether they were to eon-
, tin= the opposition since the company had made that offer
which they had deemed it their duty to lay before the
sours.

Some discussion ensued, sod upoc the motion of Mr.
Lusk it ems unanimously agreed that the report should
be received, sod that the committee should be instructed
to continua the opposition.
THE APPOINTMENT OP CORMISSIONRR OP POLICE.

Mr. LOWMAN TATLOR salted, for she information of the
court, whether the town clerk had, in conformity with the
fourth section of the Police Act, traosruitted to the Secre-
tary of Male for the Herne Department copies et the testi-
monials of the candidates for the chief commirsionenhip.
Mr. WOODTHORPT, the town clerk, informed the court
that, pursuant to directions which bad been given him, and
under the authority of the set of parliament, he bad trans-
mitted on Saturday last the names, nominations, and testi-
monials of the candidates for the office of chief commis-
dotterel police, to the Secretary of State, and be bad re-
ceived a letter from Hr. Bruce, on 'behalf of Sir George
Grey, acknowledging the receipt of the same.
Mr. Lowmag TAiLos'mid the act prescribed that the
election ahould be made at the expiration of fourteen days
after the testimonials, he., had been transmitted, and
be thought the sooner the matter was settled the better.
He therefore moved that that day fortnight should be ap-
pointed for the election.
The motion was agreed to, and
The LORD MATOR informed the court that he yoga have
a special court convened for that purpose.
• The court then adjourned.

♦ Nrw Yong AVTROLOGLEIT. —My next visit was
to the "beautiful and accomplished Signorina X., the far-
famed Zingarella of Castillo." This time, there was very
tittle pretence at mystery. I was shown at once into a
clean and respectably-furnished room ; and, In a very short
time, the lady, wbo was advertised as hating crested a
met unprecedented swatters in the Quaker City of Pride-
&Aphis, made her appearaooe. She was not very young,
sad I dare say had been good-looking enough some yeas be-
fore. As it was, in a strong light, sad with the aid of paint,
she would still have been a handsome woman on the stage,
end her complexion was just brown enough to give some
show of probability to her Enigmas origin. She assumed
' at once I wanted my fortune told, and began laying out the
cards. There was something so ludicrous in the sone, that
• Emile passed over my lips. All of a 'adders. to my amaze-
mint, my fortroweteller tamed round to me with the words,
" You don't believe all this stupid nonsense ?" Thus inter-
rogated, I cockeyed I did not. " Well, then," she an-
swered, "no more do I." After this, all ides of learning
the mysteries of the future was laid aside. But I fancied
I might learn something of the preset. So, on mewing
the lady that I did not know • soul io the town, I told ber
that I bad only come there as a literary man, anxious to
make out something about the profenlion of fortunetellers.
The Signorina appeared flattered by the confidence, and
proceeded to tell me a most rocoantse story about her own
birth, and life, and marriage, of which I believed as much
as I thought fit ; and then, after explaining how reduced
curcurostaneee had induced her to take up the trade, she
stated that since the war began her business had been a
v good one. Ladies, she rail, were her chief customers,
sadaltkeir object in visiting her was to obtain news of their
eons and relatives who were in the war. She always made
• rule, she stated, of telling them that the persons they
were anxious about were safe and well ; and so, at any
rate, she sent them away happy for a time, and there was
no great harm dose to anybody. Her poorer customers
came for lucky numbers in the lottery. sod, as she truly
added, she was es likely to guess them as anybody. Every
DOW and then people visited her to know their past and
future, and then she made the beet guars she could ; and
what astonished her moat was to find how often she guessed
right. People bad told her frequently that she most pos-
sess the power of second sight ; but her own impression
was—though she did not exactly put it in these words—
that she only possessed • power of boundless impudence.
Altogether, she impressed me as a very harmless importer
cud, if people are to fool away their mosey so fortune-triers,
I think it might have gone into many worse hands than
those of the Zingarella of Castillo. —Alarm/lan's Maga:ine
for May.

Noma AND Bourn. —I think the beauty of the
South generally is to our northern oyes, at first might, of
this antipathetic eon. If it he bean (as so often happens) in
dl-health, or after some great sorrow, the effect of the
slating sunlight, the sbadowless unfamiliar olive groves, the
sharply cut outlines of rocks and towers, the glittering
metallic Mediterranean, nay, even the over-rich odour of the
I lemoo and the orange—all dame things impress m antegoo-
' laically. The sweet, 'oft mother nature we have known
sod loved seems left fer away, audio her place stands& dark,
bold woman who throws back her veil, and mys, with
scornful tone and flashing eyes. "Look in my tlOl/, and
answer—am I not beautiful!" When we journey through
the lauds of the North it is all the reverse of this. Muth
beauty has to be sought out, each feature studied. It might
almost be said we must love the country first, and after-
wards disecver that it is fair. We look round (my in Ire-
land, for instance, the mod perfect contrast conceivable
with the Isles of the groan), sea there is little before us
which can be called scenery in any eines The far-off
mountains are low, and rounded like clouds on the horizon ;
the lines of the landsaps are faint and broal and distant ;
the foreground n only a mass of richest herbage and golden
kins.cups, into which the heavy-foliaged elms are drooping
their boughs, sad the white hawthoras snowing with blos-
soms. Over the swages sky the large white cumuli float
heavily. The sea itself never glitters, but ibises soft and
blue through a transparent haze, like an eye in which
tears yet tantalite° ars gathering. To a stranger the view of
such a land speaks, at the utmost, only of sweetness and
repose, not of beauty or grandeur. But la Lim dwell
therein, and commune for • time with that soft, rich, tender
nature, and she will wia on his heart eves like some gentle
Lay in • happy home whom her presence is au atmosphere
of love and peace • and where as he watches the little chil-
dren clamoring meted her, and the old father leaning on her
arm, and her smile meeting her husband's loving eyes, be
sees at last that "her face is as the face of an angel, for
there rests thence the visible benediction of God. But the
South also inns us at last. The sunshine, which only
dazzled us at first, fills our veins by degrees. We lift up our
drooping beads and gaze around, and the bright, full tide of
southern life flows round and draws us into new human
interests, end all the history, all the poetry of the past,
echoes in the memory as one grand name surges up after
another. At last the work is done. We bast pined •
new home and country. Henesferth eVeNDINIP we bare two
Amur,l existemos, and ran sage from one to another as
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