The Express.
London, England, 1856-01-14 00:00:00

THE MALVERN BONFIRB.

This experiment appears to have been a failure.
The mossier bonfire, on the summit of the Woreestenhirst
Beaton, in. of the highest potato of the magnificent Mal-
vern range, was lit, says the Worcester formal, on
Thareday night, according to previous arrangements. Ten
lords of wood, or a waggon load of split tree stamps, formed
the clrealsr grousd work, 20 fest In diameter, two toes of
coal iLdag from the 'entre, layer spoil layer of more than
700 faggots, intsreeeted with a waggon lead of lop-ales, 20
tar barrels, a damn sugar casks, sad blocks of Umber well
saturated with naphtha, tar, and tarantula raised the
entire mss to abut $0 fact, the whole being wanly kept
together at the sides by 12 poplar trees (40 feet long) task
deeply late the ground. • oak of tar crowned the top, sad,
as may he imagined, crested no little additional flare-up
when the insatiable games received its coolants The mate-
rial and labour will together cost about 601.
At 6 o'clock the eonunitta and their friends were ob-
served threading *sir way to the scene of blase, most of
them bearing terehee. Crowds followed their track. At
6.40 the int light pelae) wee exhibited. and its aim
was= well le lee surmised by the beast!.
fel ewe (Oda meseeded at 6.46. thus Insidad uP
far keg time. The !attar shot forth resplendent rays, and
endued • graad pascal not easily to be forgotten.
Abodes wadies ditweeagto • line of Cosgrove rockets.
At Iseeleely ice wad tows given, and simultaneously 49
of the dlmp mpubs )wend b is the pal* starlight night.
TM Maim was new igalied; byskilful management the
dames Mahe frees all alio" la bilrable regular order, and
shortly Win eight ts'elsoit Wee ferhed Imam which, bet
for the wind, would May east giegemdisalariy to perhaps
forty feet, had miaowed the mire mess. Again was the
effect here destroyed, se the Mem tows blows horasontaDy
towards the Herefoedshire die, k which and the adjacent
viewed.
aunties, we should say, the Ire Bus
Ire teen 'desirably

.
Rebinds" helmsmen's we last Ist night of the bonfire
at halt-peat 9, at Tabberet's Pitch, teen whose. it bateau
invisible, so that there is little hope of its having bun at
say tine sun teeny Enke ea the Wenneter Id. of the kills.
Mush disappolatateat wan felt is the "Faithful City,"
where hundreds in vein tamed out is the Landon and
Gbrinester roads. _ _ _

A ty emeadoi the Barden, seer Lasseter, and a
slight glare was tanned a the direetion of the Malvern.
• sang puty Mee esmeameed the sweat et Itaewdem bat
Gal, one, • Mr. Meemes rumba thowommdt. UM hot Ma
the quay at Canine& NZ. Hamra repelled that he die
tacitly saw a halt minden et a Ire to the &motion of
Malvin, which, as the 'row Si.., is distant about 100 miles.
A correspondent, nimbi( to Mr. Hamer's swat of
Ektowdee, slave alluded to, says : Mr. Hamer amended
alone, all amateurs having deserted him. The thermo-
meter fell from 35 at foot to 20 depose. Towards the
summit was one sheet of hoses imp, a mile to extent.
The cold was intense, bat the night glorious. Mr. Hamer
wss provided with a thermometer, sampan, lantern and
matches, and suitable provisions. In the Insist he had to
suer his way by compass, attuning by the spot when Mr.
Stan was last, and arriving eddy at the Royal Victoria,
Llanberh, at 9.16 p a.
A party of abut shay teatimes (says the Laicals,. Ater
tory) started from this town by the 616 p.m. train on
Thanday afternooc. The train arrived at Seam station
at cis o'clock, sad the inunionists at oace prepared to
ascend the bill. Arrived at the top, they distributed them-
selves in group, and about eight o'clock a tight was descried
is the hoes= in a tither more southerly direction tbs.
Malvern was at first looked for; it was 'boat the sin of •
star, but redder in Moor, sad though sometimes mareily
visible, at others It Ilickired to three times the sin*. By
most it TM distiaody sea with the asked eye, sad with
the aid of the telescope the Same was more risible
u a red come of light, mostestly veryiag both in heicht
and intensity. At first there was a good dial of seeptielsaa,
bat ultimately the °patios that this wee tbe Malmo beacon
beams pretty general, though there were few who wen not
to some 'hawse disappointed, a greater light lied a brighter
redection la the sky laving been anticipated.
No glimpm of the Pairs (says the Mks Siendord) wee
visible from Ciransester Charelktower, whore metal pumas
had imagreastod.