The Express.
London, England, 1853-11-09 00:00:00

IN EASC AND NORTH.

(From Pooch.)
Two sisters stand by Stamboul's sunny waters,
Two sisters sit where Arctic ice-winds rave—
fiends clasped, the first watch a fleet's craw at qtuartcrs ;,.
Elands clasped, the second weep be,ide a grave,
The same two sisters. t—Tong upon each other,
Stern have they frowned across their Channel.sea ;
But now all rivalries and base they smother, .-
And sit thus, hand in head laid lovingly. I
Why, sisters, rest ye thus et peace tcgether,
Your ancient feuds and factions all laid by!—
Why smile you in that purple Asian woathes?
Why weep yom'heath that leaden Polar sky?
4. Two causes, stranger, hold us thus united—
Both fit to make tree friends of enable foes :
In the bright East me Mast to see wrong righted,
In the black. North, a hero's eyes. we close.
"Those bail& flags that side by side are swelling
Sperik of brute force defied, of law maintained,
Those funeral lags that side by side are trailing,
Speak both of loss endured and triumph gained.
"'Yon banded fleet to all the nations teaches
lie that datb wrong his wring shall sore abbe;
The icy monument of Bede.: preaches
Item nobly love can tare, how grandly faith can die.
" Are not these leisons worthy of the giving ?
To give them is't rolell we use our might
Then leave us to our gess and our grieving,
I Under the Eastern sun, beneath the Polar night."

Two HUNDRED HILES IN A QUARTER OF AN
HOUR.—A Mr. ltictritnicon is maintaining in New lurk
that it is entirely practicable to build an atmospheric tube
from that city to Boston (200 miles), through which mail
bags or p.lrcels of any description may be regularly, cer-
tainly, and safely sent in fifteen minutes. Ile has perfectly
obviated the most apparent difficulty, which consisted in the
collision of the parcel desp etched on reaching its termina-
tion. This he has accomplished by the counter-pressure,
arising from the elaetieoy of unezhausted air, thereby
reducing the shock until it Incomes absolutely itsperceptt-
We. A considerable part of the stock for the building of
his mail-tube has already been subscribea by Ataoricaa

capitalists.
?SIONt'MENT TO Da. Mont.—The foundation atone
of the monument about to be erected to the memory of
Dr. Moir, of Musselburuh (" Delta") was laid on Tues-
day on the site at the cud of Bridge•street in that town.—
Scotsman.

SWINT)" OF ARTS.

TILE I'ILEMICM LIST.

The cvriNcil of the Society of Arts has just issued
its prego,u:o i•• for thelthh •eetien, and to it is appended
s ! r..t uut c...ulprthkosits stattuatut ut tti objeete of the

'the list of subject' now put forth, in all 135 (exclusive
of the Ste iney prise of ?Wt., and which is to be awarded in
Es STU ire tie z•), de manstrotes to a certain eateut the man-
ner in ohirh the society's uhjec:s are in future to be pro-
naded—ubjects the importance of which Mere's, with the
lemming commerce of the country.
We have recently observed in the jetties' of the society
that several important communications have been received
relative to the raw produce of Inglis, New Zealand, and
the Cape of Good Hope, and the list contains several pre-
miums which have direct reference to those countries ; but
in the clae. of raw produce, the Council also ask for com-
munications on "the existing M 041211 of crushing and deem-
ing hard rocks containing metalliferous ores,' and au ac-
count of the manufacture of tin end of receut discoveries of
new source• of supply. The latter doubtless refers to the
important discoveries recently made in Germany and Aug-
tralia, and when the limited sources of supply,
at present available in 'his country are eons,-
dered, it cannot but be louked upon as a subject
of considerably interest and importance. There are also
yrentiumc offered fur the import:item of dried Duke, such as
the plantain and banana from the British posse eious; of
wines, dried fruits and olive oil, from Australia, smell and
good bampl, •of which have already been received by the
mien ty ; fur the manufacture of oil and other substances
from the refuse cumin aced; fur improvements in the dyes
of woollen clothes, whereby the colours may be rendered
permanent and capable of ri sating the action of acids ;
and for an essay on the flex plants of India, the purposes
to which they are at preaeut applied, and the best means of
utilising and employing the refuse. At a time when so
much attention is bring devoted to the culture of
flax, it appears somewhat surprising that so small a portion
of the Imes. rise cruise of flax grown in India are made avail
able fur commerce, little being done beyond the export to
this country of the linseed obtained therefrom, the fibre
being allowed to rot on the ground.
There are several premiums having reference to the
manutacture of paper, which would show that the council
have not list sight of that important manufacture, and this
section of the list is closed with the following interesting and
novel subject: For the hest account of the mode in which
eis• from seaweed is prepared and used by the Chinere."
The next divisions on the list are those of machinery,
manefictures (include,* textile, metallic, vitreous, cera-
mic, and macellatirstu.nienutaidures). and the fine arts ;
from which it appears that the council ere still following
out tt.e adopted at the Great Exhibition.
It may be doubted whether some of the subjects asked
for can he looked upon as wants at the present time, but the
greater proportion of the eft °Otis having been suggested by
the member of the thirty stantling committees of the 53-
ctcy, upon which are found the names of Professor Am-
sted Prufecsor T t, Joseph Glyn., C.E , Alfred Smee,
T. Creswiek, K A., John Bell, and others
'quaky well knows to the public—the council is no doubt
faily j•sstitied in urging open members of society and others,
the importance of communicating detailed accounts of new,
protegees in the ar:s ur 'meads of manufacture of any new
mee..aircal arrangesnen-e, by which these may be
fled, or labour saved, sad of any novel application of raw
materials. whether previously known or not, to useful
PurPowes-
lc i. the object of the society to provoke discussion on the
sh!.jects with wlach it deals, so as to take care that nothing
is c sled wh ch may its any way tend to promote the
good of al!, and to record the facts and opinions them
*WWI, . .

Uri do an remember ever to have seen so comprehensive
as the present isrurd by the &misty of Arty, and
slstuki the necessary efforts be made to carry out the
suegtstim• now put before the public, it caanot be doubted
lb it the lirdth se...ion of the society will prove that it has
not attained old ape without having laboured to be useful
in its day—and that the present council are unwilling to
allow the position attained for it by its (minden to be is
any sty impaired.

THE CHOLERA.
Mom übs Oeseral Bawd of fierltb. Nev. L)
METROPOLIS.
From the returns of the Metropolitan Commis-
sioners of Police for the Divisions C, K, L, M, P, T,
V, and the Thames Police, fur the 6th and sth iost.,
it appears there were discovered 21 cues of cholera,
of which 13 had terminated fatally. This is the
highest number yet returned by the police in the
same period of time. Of the deaths, seven occurred
in the wealthy parish of St. James Westminster. In
Peacock-street, Newingtou, a death occurred after
hours' illness.
With reference to a death in Long-lane, Bermond-
sey, the poi cc report that adjoining the house where
it took place there is a slaughter-house, and a heap
of dung, offal, and blood in a decomposed state, the
stench from which is dreadfuL
In a house in St. Ann's-place, in the same parish,
a second death has occurred during the present
week.
The mortality in the metropolis, according to the
Registrar-General, appears to continue on the in-
crease ; the deaths for the week ending November 6
being—from cholera, 102; diarrhms, 38; compared
with 62 from cholera and 28 from diarrhoea for the
corresponding week of 1848.
The comparative mortality for the 14 past weeks
in the two periods is as under :
Deaths from Chokra during Death. from Cholera in eor-
the period of 14 weeks, responding period of 14
ending the •sth of Nevem- weeko, 1849.
ber, 18.53.

Week.mina Aug. 8 .. 4 Correep week, 1848.... 19
" " 13 .. 19
" 20 .. 10
'• " 27 .. 18
" Sept. 3 . 16
•• • ' 10 . / 7
" 17 .. 16
21 .. 29
• • Oct 1 .. 48
' 8..66
" 15 .. 46
" " 22 .. OS
. " 29 .. 96
" Nov. 5 ..102

Total 659 3'23
SoitAm.—The foggy damp atmosphere and cloudy
needier which have prevailed in this district during
the last two days, appears to have favoured the
spread of the epidemic. At a meeting of the sanitary
committee held yesterday, a resolution was unani-
mously passed to erect two or three large booths or
other buildings of wood, to receive the sick and their
families from the infected localities, as no measure
short of this appeared likely to prevent many of the
poorer classes who inhabited that polluted district
from falling a victim to the pestilence. But it is
stated that both workmen and materials are so diffi-
cult to procure in this place, that much time must
necessarily elapse before any place fit to receive
cholera patients can be erected. In the meantime,
says Dr. Waller Lewis, there is a constant addition
of fresh cuss, amongst which children—the most
delicate tests of impure air—form a large proportion.
All the children attacked suffer from incessant vomit-
ing, this symptom being rarely absent. No nurses
having been procured or likely to be obtained from
town or from Newmarket, two have been sent from
Addenbroke's Hospital at Cambridge. Thirty fresh
cases of premonitory symptoms have been c!eveloped
cues last night, and another bad case or cholera.

NORTH AYLENFURD, STRooD.—Four fresh cases
of cholera hare occurred since the last report in the
Cuxtonc brickfields, in an adjoining cottage to the
one from which the previous cases were reported.
The subjects are two ciaildreu—one died in ten hours
from the commencement of the attack, and the other
is since dead. The cottages in which all these cases
of cholera hare occurred consist of two rooms only on
the ground floor paved w ith bricks, badly ventilated,
and exceedingly damp • the family consists of eight
persons—eating, drinking, sleeping, lac., in two
rooms. On measuring the rooms one was found to
be 11 feet by 11 feet, a few inches more or less ; the
height about i feet. The cottagers themselves, as
also the cottages, are remarkably clean.
Putrrosem.o.—Since the last report from Easter

Itudilingston there has been only one other case xi
Joppe. It is stated that all the cases are now con-
valescent, and the promptitude in removing the
family where the cases occurred from an over-
crowded apartment, was the means of arresting and
preventing the farther extension of the disease.
Cases of diarrbrea continue to occur, but not, how-
ever, confined to any locality' and more among
the better clams of people than among the poor,
and not more prevalent than usual at this season of
the year.

OtTEbIIZAD (Ilteroaru).—Nor. 5. Deaths—
Cholera, 1 : diarrhoea, 1.

Smut Sinn.Ds UNION.—Oct. 30 to Nov. 6.
oatho--Cholera, 6; diarrhoea, 1.
I:C7O...IL—NOy. 7. Deaths—Cholera, 2.