The Express.
London, England, 1863-08-21 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 21,

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LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 21.

MOD is, beyond •doubt, the native element of
tAre Londoner. Questions may be raised with
intelligent foreigners as to his preference of an
atmosphere mingled of smoke and fog, but there
can be no dispute that, in scientific language, by
terrestrial habitat is mud. Else why should he so
carefully and constantly create it 1' For half the
year the skies ensure its continuance ; for two
months out of the other half the frequent showers
of spring and autumn keep it still fresh and
moist ; during the four remaining months only
would the streets be occasionally dry and w holesome,
but that every day during these months are deluges
of water poured upon them on the plausible pre-
text of laying the dust. It may be ignorantly sur-
mised, that if the dust were alone the annoyance it
could be swept up and removed. But this is never
done. The fact is, it is too precious ; for without
its presence there would be nothing to make mud
of, and the true Londoner would sometimes cross
in August on dry paving-stones instead of being
reminded of November by the ancle-deep
sludge, the pools of liquid ooze in the hol-
lows, the greasy coating which makes the tran-
sit of the crowded thoroughfares a feat of dexte-
rity and danger not much inferior to a performance
on the slack rope. We are accustomed to these
things, and like them. But they are certainly un-
pleasant to those who have not got used to them
by a lifetime of experience, and there can be no
doubt that we indulge our tastes to the loss of our
pockets, for these peculiarities are not the least
among the causes which every year drive out of
town, as soon as dry hot weather sets in, as many
as can contrive to make their escape.
A little also perhaps, besides the loss to the
pocket, we may suffer in health by this ill-regulated
passion for mud. Few of us like to wear double-
soled boots in summer, but the moment we step
across the gutter in a London street we need
leather as stout as in mid-winter. A few colds,
possibly the seeds of consumption, are the an-
nual results of indulging in thin soles in the bogs
and fens of London streets. But a subtler
revenge tracks our footsteps. This mud, as we
have shown before, is a compound of all sorts of
decaying animal and vegetable matter, kept open
and porous by a sufficient admixture of sand, and by
the care of the water-carts retained in an alternate
Mate of semi-dryness and fluidity. Under a July
and August sun these are precisely the conditions
in which a chemist would wish to place it if hi
object were to evolve from it with the utmost rapi-
dity the gases of decomposition. These gases, then,
WO inevitably breathe as we walk along. Pallid
faces, weariness of mind and body, headaches,
sickness are their primary effects—but too common
in the experience of Londoners at this season. Fevers
of all sorts, measles, and small-pox, a general debi-
lity predisposing to whatever form of disease the
frame may be least able to resist, are their moon-
dary effects. If the Pirozsrsau-Gnsitirsir, could
only show us how many lives and bow much of
extra poor-rates this love of mud in summer costs
us annually, we should indeed be startled. But
anyone may form some idea of the potency of the
evil who will only compare the fresh air of the
streets at dawn with their oppressive and offen-
sive odour at noon. The sole difference is that
the sun is up, and is exercising his decomposing
power. But it would not operate unless there
were matter to decompose, and this matter is
supplied almost wholly by our favourite street
mud.

if these were all necessary and natural evils we
should of course have to bear them, as we do the
inclemency of the heavens. But they are not
our inevitable and predestined fate ; they are of
our own volition. Mud would not lie an inch
thick on our principal streets unless we left it
there. Dust would not need the incessant water-
ing-cart unless we left it there. Anyone who
doubts the truth of these extremely practical and
simple propositions had better spend his holiday
in a run to Paris, and observe how they manage
these things in France. In that city the streets
are swept every night. Early in the morning the street
mains are opened, and a copious current is made to
course along the gutters on each side. Men with
brooms sweep this flow of water a couple of
yards in width over the adjacent roadway, until the
water runs off perfectly pure. All filth is thus
carried off, the lighter particles into the sewer with
the water, the clean sand and grit which remain
after being thus washed being formed into a heap
and carted off during the forenoon. The result is
a gutter as clean es the stone floor of a country
kitchen, a fresh pure atmosphere, in which it is a
pleasure to sit and watch the tide of life from the
very position where the stench of a million com-
bined abominations would salute the Londoner's
nose. Wby cannot we follow the example t It would
be cheaper to sweep up and carry off the dust
every night in a dry state than after it has had
the weight of the next thunderstorm added, and,
thus reduced to fluidity, has to be scooped up in
the state of dirty water by the normal scavenger's
shovel, a process analogous in convenience and
rapidity to the eating peas with a two-pronged
fork, or the injection of rice into the month with a
chopstick. And again, we must repeat, that it
would be a ter more effectual method of relieving
ourselves from the annoyance and damage of dust
if we were regularly to remove it than if we were
to leave it to accumulate, and turn it into mud'
with our water-carts. The daily attrition of a
granite pavement amounts to very little duet, and
the horse droppings would not be reduced into im-
palpable powder before nightfall. Attended to
nightly, therefore, our streets might be kept
not only relatively but absolutely pure, '
and the water which would be saved
from the process of mud-making by day might
be usefully expended, as in Paris, in flush-
ing the gutters every morning. If the water-cart I
intermits its, rounds it is the ;masses of accumula-
ted doe of many days or weeks which rise in
clouds; the slight wear and tear of a forenoon's
traffic would need no precautionary measure before
its removal at night. We feel very certain that
any parish which would adopt the change would find
little increase of expense in road-preserving, and
an almost incalculable profit in the relief from the
injury caused by dust and the custom-deterring
annoy-secs of mud. Nor can there be a doubt
that the general adoption of the system would so

greatly benefit the health of rick and poor as
largely to reimburse whatever outlay it might
involve.

THE LATE FIHLD-MARRHAL LORD CIEDL—We
(Timer) have great pismire in announcing that, by desire
of bee Majesty's 'pessimist, the remains of the late Field-
Marshal Lord Clyde are to be buried in the most private
manner in Westminster Abbey, instead of at Kens►bgreen ;
and that they will leave Berkeley-square by 11 o'clock on
Satarday. All the other arrangements already made re.
main undisturbed. _ .

The Duke of Atli°ll in, we are informed, suffering
from very severe illness, and the condition of his grace
occsaioos much anxiety to his family. The noble duke is
residing at Dunkeld, Perthshire, with his duchess. The
Marquis of Tullib►rdine is at present serving with his regi-
ment, the Scot. Fusilier Guards, in Goads.
The Duchess (Emily) of Beaufort and Lady
Edith S.,merset are about to leave town for Yorkshire, sod
will visit fora few days Lord Loodesborough, at Grimston
Park, neer Tadcaster. _ .

The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield, Sir Henry
end Lady Sophia Des Voraz, ►nd the select party who have
been stayiog with NAM° and the Hon. Hrs. Fortes at
Grimaton Park, near Tadcaster (Lord Loodesboroagh's
sect), during the week, for the York racers, 'operate to-day.
The Earl and Countess Somers arrived in town
yesterday from a protracted sojourn in Spain, and will
shortly go to Esatnor Castle for the autumn.
Lord Louth has arrived at Cherbourg in his
yacht from Ryde, Isle of Wight.
Lord Loodesborongh is expected to leave town
to-morrow, for his seat in Yorkshire, for the 'mace.
Vice-Admiral the Hon. Sir Frederick Grey,
H.C.8., and Lady Grey left Spring-gardens yesterday for a
tour of visits.

Colonel Peers Williams, M.P., and Mrs. and the
Mimeo Williams have left Berkeley-squire for their met In
Berkshire. _ _

The Rev. Henry Thomas Lee, vicar of Hai-
tian:atom with Haankuun St. Harlin, barn been appointed by
the Lord Bishop of Norwich rural dean of the deaoerier of
Brialy and Toftrese, iu conjoaction with the Hon. and
Rey. Kenebn H. Dishy.

Tax LAT' RoyaLViarr To Rzrow.—The mayor of
Ripon leas received the following letter in referee°, to the
late visit of their Royal Highnesses the Priem and Priem*
of Wales to their city :—" Abergeldie, Ballater, N. 8., 14th
Ana* 1863.—Lisut•Gmeral Koollys has moseyed the
commends of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Prin-
cess of Wales to thank the mayor, aldermen, and burgers'
of the city and borough of Ripon, for their sadism on the
01:010011 of their royal highnesses passing through their city.
Their royal highnesses are very sensible of the loyal attach
moot which animates the inhabitants of Ripon towards
the Queen and the royal family; and the warmth of feeling
which they have exhibited towards themselves will lam be
appreciated by their royal highnesses. They offer their
best 'label for the prosperity and welfare of the city of
Ripon and its inhabitants" _ _

ZootooicALSocirrr or LONDON. —Atthe monthly
general meeting, held yesterday, at the Society's-house, in
Hanover-square ; Dr. J. E. Gray, F.R.8., in the chair; the
Duke of Rutland, the Earl of Pembroke, the Earl Brown-
low, the Earl Grenard, Sir John Gardiner, Bart., the Hon.
Adalbert Cuat, the Hoe. H. Lowther, M.P., Lient.-Colooel
J. D. Astley, Lieut.-Colonel J. R. Farquharson, Major
Wombwell, Captain W. G. Draper, Captain Archibald
Spiels. Captain E. S. Fitzhardinge Berkeley, Mrs. James
Holland, and Messrs. Henry W. Bates, H. Joheeoo, H.
Chaplin, H. J. Aveling, F. D. Lambe t, 0.
tern T. L Blaoe, S. E. Collings E. L Oot-
earn jos., and C. N. Begot were elected fellows ;
W. H.Ashosall, Eq., and W. Doom, Eq., as con's=
iog members of the society. Sir James Ferguson, ,
IL P., Means. J. W. Tegg, W. Manakin Andalucia, sod
H. G. Poole, were prepaid as esadidates for the fellow-
ship, and M. Auguste Salle, of Paris, as a corresponding
member. Amongst the docatioes to the society's soonegetie
&iris( the moatS of July was particularly noticed a Der
Eby Amami, (Chasm derWamtl, from New Graaada, pre-
meted to the society by Mr. R. Greey, corresponding
member.

THE ROYAL Scorns!! ACADEMY AND THE SOCIAL
SCIENCE CONGIUnns. —The National Aesociatios for the Pro-
motion of Social Science, which is to meet at Edinburgh in
the beginning of October, has, among others, invited the
co-operation of the President and Council of the Royal ,
Scottish Academy, to whom they have suggested, ma a
'
matter which could not fail to be highly appreciated, the
bringing together on the walls of their galleries each a col-
lection of the works of dammed and living Scottish artiste
as shall in some measure illustrate the past history and
progress, u well as the present condition, of Scottish
art. The president and council, after giving this pro-
posal their beet consideration, have come to a unanimous
resolution, since confirmed by the general body of the
Academy, to adopt this suggestion, as being in entire
accordance with intentions they have frequently ester-
Wined. They believe that such an exhibition might add its
own peculiar grace sad value to an occasion so interesting,
might provide to the inhabitants generally, not leas than to
the strangers present, an instructive retrospect of art is
Scotland, and, together with the collection in the National
Gallery, with which the Academy is so intimately
muted, might originate during the Congress important
curious as to the ,place of art in abs social economy, the in-
flueoce of its productions on the prosperity and progress a
oommusitias, the practical effect of inch institutions as
the Royal Scottish Academy sad National Gallery on the
national refinement in taste, and might, at the name time,
elicit the best modes by which artistic refinement and int.!.
ligenee can be brought to bear nponars national architecture
and public monuments, sad upon beauty of design in oar
various decorative manufactures and handicrafts. The sca-
demy trust they may calculate on the effic:ent aid of the pen-
prieton of some of the moat Potable works of Scottish art,
and especially of tbs works of living artists who are members
of the academy. The Royal Academy Galleries areto be
devoted to the purposes of this exhibition witb the toe-
corrence of the Honourable the Commissioner, of the
Board of Manufactures sad of the Lords Commis.
dooms other Majesty's Treasury. The exhibition will be
open
(free)
to the members of the emigre.. during the whole
°i
of its meetings in Edinburgh ; and on the evade( of
edaeeday, the 7th October, when the Honourable the
Board of if &nut acturers are to erste' Win the members sad
associates of the National Association in the National
lacy, the Academy have offered to place the exhibition,
en smite with that institution, at the servioe of the Honour-
able Board, with the view of iocreasing the interest and
splendour of their reception. This offer on the part of the
Academy has been courteously accepted by the Honourable
Board, who at the same time have signified their satire sans-
faetiou, and that of the Treasury, with the 'holed the pro-
posed arnagements.—Sademan.

VOLUNTRIER FS= AT HAXISTIAD.—IL i 8 intended
to hold a volunteer fete at Hampstead on Monday next
enrpnoee an extensive scads It appears that the 29th Ninth
Mtddlssx Rifle Volunteers bad projected a volunteer fete
to have taken place on the 4th instant at Werten's
at Kentish-town, that place having been inamitouallyte=
at the disposal of the regiment for tba purpose. At the
arena hour, however, in comminute of the pro-
oesdinp instituted in chancery by Mr. Copestake sad others
spinet Mr. Weston, the fete was postponed and peat law
was entailed thereby upon the committer, and duppoint-
meat to the friends of the corps. In this emergency, Mr.
Donald Niooll, the chairman, and the directors of the Sub-
urban Hotel Company liberally offered to place the grounds
of their New Rampeteed.heath Hotel at the service of
the corps, to illuminate them at their own aurae,
and fit them up specially for such se occasion. They eke
volunteered the use, if completed, of the sew pavilion they
are erecting, fitted with the decorations used es
the occasion of the recent civic ball to the
Prince and Pliable, of Wales at Gaildhaß, which
the oompany have purchased. The offer was accepted.
and the fire is auricled to take place oa Monday nest, the
24th instant. The setorrienseata will be somewhat similar
to those of the Dramatic College fete at the Crystal Palace,
but without adopting the principle of riskier the public pay
extra for ever after roe paying for admission. Is
addition to band of the North Middle/rt, the hand of
the 19th (Working Men's College) inlaid that of the 36111
Middlesox (Paddington) Bide Volunteers have given Asir
services and will perform dance and operatic mete for the
gratilicatios of all classes of visitor. The North Loodott
Raflway will ran special trains front Hampstead Heath-
striae, and the omaibuses to town up to nearly_midnjilit.
HONOURABLE ARTILLERY COMPANY.--The Horse
Troop, cadet the command of Captain Ja mastered early
' on Wednesday morning at the barnacks In rursbury and
marched direct to the Bricklayers' Arms station of the
Brighton and South Corr Railway, whence they proceeded
by special train to Brighton. They then remounted, and
taking with them two of their guns, they marched to the
tors of Seaford, near Eastbourne, where they porpoise re-
:edging for tan days or a fortnight to avail themselves of
the °enormity of constant drill and ball practice.
The let company of the Robin Howl Rifles bu
South
Austra V
Four hundred and seventy emigrants left
:Iwwe on Tuesday for Quark's', OD board the
gerivSti°
Star, one of the Black Ball line. specially chartered
ththe &dyad°. Aseriation. Just before the yeses! riled
ree respectable-looking men, said to be from Menthes-
ter, were arrested on urinate granted by the whirr
rare of that city for briar forged retry doenersta by
which they obtained cheap passages. Bach of them had a
wife and a large quantity of luggage
, with him.
MR. SANDAY'B SALE OF LEICESTER" Small...—.
On Wednesday, the 19th inst.. the sale of the last of the
celebrated dock of Mr. Sudsy's pare bred " Labourite"
took place at Helms Pierrepniot, Nottinghamshire. Mr.
Sunday is retiring from the professioa of sheep breeder. in
which he has for a great number of yeses bre so emingetly
successful. There were 88 ebestling ewes and 64 @heading
rams offered for sale. Mr. Stafford was the auctioneer.
The nuns realised vg and the ewes 443 ruiner,
making a total el 1,2L0f.

LATEST INTELIAGENCZ.

AMERICA.

(=MI% Ticrow!.)

r. Aucarerr 21.

The Royal Mail steamer Scotia, from New York
on the 12th inst., arrival here at 7 a.m. She brings
116 passengers and 696,000 dole. in specie. She
landed all mails and 17 passengers, and proceeded
immediately. All welL She made the passage in
eight days sixteen hours.

(Per the Soak.)

NEW YORK,Aoaver 10, Evamio.

It is reported that General Meade has twice ten-
dered his resignation, and now insists upon its ac-
ceptance. General Grant is spoken of al his suc-
cessor.

The army of the Potomac is to be reorganised.
Drafted men and substitutes are now reinforcing it.

The Faders.ls have arrested all the inhabitants
north of the Rappahannock as far as Belle Plaine.
They have occupied Beverley Ford.
Malty's guerillas are still committing depreda-
tions between Alexandria and Fairfax.

It was reported that the land and naval forces
would attack Fort Sumter on the Bth inst.
A Faders'. force has marched down the centre of
Arkansas. Other forces are preparing to clear the
territory west of the Mississippi of the organised
Confederate forces.
General Foster has made a reconnaissance with
three gunboats up James River.
The Secretary of War has ordered Confederate
prisoners to be confined and held as hostages for
three negroes captured on board the steamer Isaacs
Smith, whom the Confederates refuse to -xchange.
_ .

The Governor of New York has written to Presi-
dent Lincoln complaining of the injustice done to
the state by the mode of enrolment, and asking for
a suspension of the draft until the errors are cor-
rected. He urges volunteering to be substituted
for the draft, and claims that, by the constitution,
the Conscription Act should be tested in the state
court& President Lincoln replied that the
draft must be enforced, but that the districts
where there is any irregularity could be re-
enrolled. The President does not object to submit
the constitutionality of the Conscription Act to
the decision of the courts, but cannot consent to
lose time while obtaining judgment, "as the
enemy is driving every man into his ranks very
much as a butcher drives bullocks into his
slaughter pen, thus producing an army which will
soon turn upon the victorious Federal' if not
sustained by recruits. The volunteer system is
so far exhausted as to be inadequate."
The Washington correspondent of the New York
Herald anemia that reports had reached Wash-
ington that Mr. Cassius M. Clay had entered into
an offensive and defensive treaty with Russia,
ensuring to that power that in the event of the
Western powers declaring war against her, the
United States would declare war against France
and England.
Blockade running at Wilmington is said to be
carried on to an enormous extent at present.
The steamer Georgia, from New York for Liver-
pool, ran ashore on the 4th inst., in a fog, on the
north-east bar, Sable Island. It is supposed that
she will be a total wrsok. The passengers and bag-
gage were saved.
The mail steamer China was intercepted off Cape
Rees on the Bth inst.
NEW YORK. Accuse 11, Evioruto.

The Confederate pickets extend along the south
bank of the Rappahannock, though the Federal
cavalry occasionally scour the country as far as the
lower fords of the Rapidan. Stafford Court-house
and Acquia Creek are within the Federal lines.
It is reported that 8,000 Federal reinforcements
arrived at Charleston on the Ist inst., and would
land on the south end of Folly Island.
General Bragg is at Chattanooga. Part of Lis
army is at Rome, Georgia. It is rumoured that
Bishop Polk has superseded General Bragg.
During General Foster's reconnaissance up the
James River his vessels were fired at by artillery
and sharpshooters stationed along the banks. A
torpedo exploded under one of the vessels, doing
considerable damage.
Admiral Farragut has arrived at New York in
the steamer Hartford.

A battle is imminent at Fort Blunt, Indian ter-
ritory.
Governor Seymour has addressed another letter
to President Lincoln, reasserting that there was in-
justice and fraud in the enrolment, and furnishing
statistics proving that more persona were enrolled
in the democratic than in the republican districts.
Governor Seymour says be is sure that the President
cannot fail to right these gross wrongs.
The Kentucky democratic press assert that the
election in Kentucky was carried by military autho-
rity.
President Davis has rescinded the furlough
granted to the prisoners captured and parolled at
Vicksburg.
The Governor of Alabama has called a special
session of the legislature.

The Richmond Examiner denounces the military
appointments made by President Davis, and says :
"The spirit of resistance to the North is as strong
as ever, but the Sobthern people are weary of the
flagrant mismanagement of the government by
President Davis's administration."

There is a large increase in the mortality of New
York. There were 970 deaths last week, being 400
more than in the same period last year.

NEW YORK, Ammer 12, Nownra.

General Lee's bead-quartera are at Gordonsville,
and his main body is on the line of the Rapidan.
The New York Herald asserts that a convention
of prominent republicans will be held at Washing-
ton next week. The object of the meeting is not
known, but the Herald asserts that information has
reached Washington that the Confederates were
willing to return to the union if terms were offered
them, and that the republican party is desirous to
atop the war, and to avoid the unpopularity of the
conscription ; hence a meeting has been called.
President .11..ineoln has written a second letter to
Governor Seymour, confirming his determination to
enforce the draft.

It is reported that Confederate General Richard-
son is conscripting all light-coloured negroes in
West Tennessee to serve as soldiers for three years,
at the expiration of which they will receive their
freedom, but no pay.
Mr. C. B. Sedgewick, late chairman of the Con-
gressional Naval Committee, has written a letter,
stating that Mr. Howard, of New York, came to
him in July, IMO, saying he came at the instance
lof Messrs. Laird to make proposals to the navy
department. Mr. Sedgewick referred him to the
Secretary of the Navy, who declined entering into
negotiations. Mr. Howard was either Mr. Laird's
agent or a volunteer expecting a commission, but
was not an agent of the navy department.
The New York Herald states that several cabinet
meetings have been held at Washington at which
the Mexican question was discussed.
It was decided to demand from France the entire
abandonment of the monarchial scheme.

The China, Baxonia, and the Glasgow have
arrived out.

kkoaamm
SATURDAY. 01 TIM SUNDAY.
N.E. to W., moderate, Notra-Erir. N.E. toN.W. and S.W.
fine. tight to freakS.W.
NAL to N.W. and W., WEST 00MITS. I. W. to W.a.W.,
tight to freak IMO moderate to fresh.
W.N.W. to N.N.E., BocreCOUre. N.L. to N.W., mode-
moderate to fresh, rate to fresh, fine.
fine.
N.W. to Nit., mode- aorra-PAST. N.N.E. to W N.W.,
rate to fresh, fine.
fiene. oderate to fresh,
Niieth-ristsCalthnesa to Norfolk. Weet=Donegal to Cora.
wall. Sooth=Chanoel and Bay Comte. South•Esat=Stralt of
Dover to Norfolt

THE BATHINti SEAWN AT 013 TEND.—A letter from
this favourite Belgian watering•place says that dining
Saturday and Sunday last the streets of the city were
crowded with visitors, and that excursions from all dine-
Cum continually brought MVOIIIIIIOOII to the number. In
the evening it was found necessary to run special trains to
Bruges, in order to convey thither thousands who could
not obtain accommodation at Osteed. On Saturday up-
wards of 5,000 persons 'maid, and on Sunday the number
was more thee doubled. Although several persons were
carried away by the currents, the boatmen stationed at the
place to prevent widest' succeeded is provesting los of
life.