The Express.
London, England, 1865-06-30 00:00:00

THE JULY MAGAZINES.

Paosuccialdramis —Our peasants still speak good
old English words pregnant with mewing. Lite( out of
doors, their words breaths an out-of-door sir. Their images
are picturesque and full of life. In the northara &trier
• stare* mao it said to be " hunger.uoisoaed," sad people
ore " bone treed-" Crops when spoilt by rata ow* said is
the Eastern counties to bs " warmers," end to West-
moreland when they sirs well, ere said to "addle
well," as if a notion at working and , Gera-
ipg were implied. In Laitepierhsire, a permit will
talk el a bee " kicking.' Wm hoitisd al sting' him,
;lost as the Greeks - rad wAlrypia. In he
will say that he " frig • ansel`," just r is 1k060.1 the
.Israelites "saw the throning's.' at 11000 a &Ili. Our
parade, still remain in main respects in an early stage of
Society. Hence they retails so many of the • primitive
words, laeguage-marks, by which we may atetwase the flow
sod ebb of ear language. On the other hand, our e-tille'-1
life in large town is einucolating our writ The strong
metaphor has become faded. The °Orr. is imbed oat
with rose-water. Lake Chancer's frier, we Inp from
waetoneses. How differently eith grade et s wiry Kaska
may be seen in the fret that In the sesta London "roar."
are always advertised, towards Holborn "lodgings,* bat
west of Be3sat-strest nothing shorter than '• ap Aimee',"
would seem to let. Most cerkioly the 'shower now, more
then anyone elee, "speaks the toner that Makeovers
spoke." Could be, in these days of competitive aromas -
Was, be tested is a knowledge of English, he would to-
'tiredly make more marks—we behave that is the coal •••
Skive elansioatioa phrase—than the donor of Pel'-nir"
sod the fair dwellers in Belgravia.—CornAill Mcja:iee her
July.
Ithwraxwzr ADSIIILATION.—It is an awful thing to
mist at even this mash of one's own autopsy. end t i her-
all the imp:Mart things that the vet f stupidest of Tor-
acqueStanoes ma easy Of yon. Bin there is dal wreathes
this ; there fa a depth lower than abase; these to a peng
infinitely more pried than all that weaves or malovolres
eau leftist ; and this is, the brag obliried to Wis. patiently
while some addlarbealed imbecile relates the srgepsnt or
the stray of yo* book ; mistaking rbiabaracten, episode ta
lag the event., totally inyertiog your morel, sod erhitating
you, in the wartooment ef his oommastatioa, ins tartar
so cruelly skis is himself that you mfgbt 'lshii barber—
to be scroll assured that though the tenet of tribe*
be slow, and author uuoseetionably a dn't rens, there
of
gleans now and en littlegleans of inteltigeneo io Wm, rod
little signs ' id-be smartness. Theo cone the geaseP4,
srbetbsayon set be lb. Idarlisclioneh-ly.
or perhaps a ale writer. It is twenty-one yews, corn-
passiorte reader, since I noderwest all this, sad the suf.
trines as fresh se if it was yesterday. I remember the
very table where they cut me up-1 can recall the choir'
on which I sat to be lesaeratal—l can bring to mind the
drivelling idiot that bed got bin of my unhappy produe-
Um), rg he thought, by heart, sod declaimed them, with
interpolated balderdash of his own, till my or -son note ely
warlord under the indiction. I decle-e it, and dr dale it
advisedly, that though few men are ever kill( 3 by severe
criticism, eumbere drop into an siesly (,save, or, wore
'rain, into d•ivelliog incapacity, from the effects of a mis-
token sdmiration. The people who go about advertising
your deformities, pronto( to. hump on your bad-, your
squint, your hare-lip, these ane your nil dr•troyeis.
The ler of my anonymous miseries wee the sesing my
volume—the work over which I hat toiled sad laboured
portend over by day, dreimed of at night, revolved in
such shapes that it became part of my very sedum, sad
in characters denser to me tbsa kith and kit.— sang this
bell aloft by a h•de auctioneer an be said, " Whorl eha'i
we r y for this, pi: wail? I have not read it, but lam
told that it ore had a considerable voasi,, e ; it is hand-
somely boned ia calf, with gilt edges. Will any geatle-
man say two shillings—hell the met of the Mediae ?
—Thick you, sir! At liar mew it I. going—gone!' Oh,
Friss ! what a terrible ipais format you pee; arid, dear
me! what cruel "croppers" some of us do mast in pursuit
of you!—"Conwlius O'Dowd" in Blackwood's Magazine
for July.
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FROI4 THE Tor OF ST. PAITL'S.--OhOe or twice
I have been at the top of St. Paul's, to have a view
from that height of the great city of which, for some
eighteen years now, 1 have been an inhabitant. The I^st
time was only a few days ago. After a.lkiag about among
the "intact in the Cathedral below, red this-eking I h.. t
never seen the interior of any great and seared building in
such a diegi.teefal condition of anticline* I paid the half.
crown which they have sti'l the biA taste to eh--ge for the
lib arty of farther accent and inapection. They exact earn,
indeed, for the crypt and the clock ; but the biulfmrosJ
franks you all the way up the desk and dirty set-ireme •
from play to gallery, to the highest ote atthe apex of the
dome, or, for that matter, to the bell itself. It is from the
highest gallery, nearly four hundred feet up is the ei-,
that you have the beet view of Loudon lying beneath yon
and all round yen to the berisoc. Merely ass sight, unle it
be for the first time, it is hi..Py worth half-a•ciJWC There
is vastness, extent, confusion; hut, with the exception of
the river, hardly a single feature that the eye r: to em or
follows on account of its beauty. From the river, wito it-
bildges, and the steamboats moving up and doses in it, the
eye pauses to the nearer "Werth beneath, sp raked with
annibeses, cobs, and footmemengars. Banging thence, in
any direction, over steeples, hoose-roofe, tool chimney-
sta-kv, jumbled denser and denser in seeming as the disiance
inert .eer, it is beaten back always by the bone, oriels
whom from the state of the anted, a low woe of dark
hilly ground, or a crest of vacant-looking fist, is descried,
end you know that thereabouts London "haggles to an end,
and solves its outskirts in the open coontt y. All this how-
ever, you could have imagined pretty much as it is, without
the trouble of going up to les it. In order, therefore, to
get the fall worth of your half-crown at the top of St.
Paul's, you must carry up some d priori ides of Laudon
with you, which you may mix with the vast skim of
underlying and away-atretchieLleagare of brick and mortar,
ve-led with steeples and pinnre.tles, and divided by the
shining liver. This is what I did myself. I carried op an
a priori idea of London with me, and I did not come doled
tat I had worked the actual violas end the idea into com-
plete anion. How long it took me is nobody's business.
The reader may suppose, if he chooses, that I am s citing
this article at the top of St. Peal's—that, by special per-
mission from the Dean and Ohaptar, er by dexterously
lablieg myself among the interior timber-work at clearing-
time every day, I have been "event days mid nights al-
ready a deuiren of the dome, comeanaiug at leisure with
the genius foci, seeing the stare of these fine summer nights
over roll me au:d the sleeping city, snatching each *leap for
myself as the bells and other eircumstarsem permit, and
every necesieg sad all day long going mood and round the
gaiter► with en opera-glass, or Inning against the parapet
dreamily in compeuy with such fresh half-arowners ea
chalice brings up. Strange acrounte I could give of these
up-osmeie to the top of St. Paul's. That most of them
emibble or scrape their names op here is natural enough.
They will never main be so near Heaven, and, peer area.
tares, they know it 1 Bat they ..lastly smoke cigars sod
short pipes up here, the eassilegious villains, sad lighg.
their matches tor the purpose by robbing them anywhesta
If Ett,,. Paul's is burnt down after this warning it will awe
be edy fault —Macininari's Magazine tot July.
A TALK WITH THE LATE SIR BILNJAkIN BIIODIL
—We have permission to avail ourselves of the diary of a
lady, which contains an *try of • meeting with Broil.,
probably ca one of the very last oceseicas that he wee out
in general company. It shows how iateresting kin talk
could be ; and contain some opinions which's" wall worth
recording :—" Sat at dinner next Sir Benjamin Brodie.
Some general conversation no works of fiction led him into
retlectioss upon the high nee* and ineneeees of the imagi-
nation • and he said he thought this faculty was too math
neglected in edueatios, sad ought net merely to be tolerated
but should be cultivated in youth. Hardly any other mental
force, he said, was complete without lie avittikce. Yet it
was a usual plop in parental and in school discipline to at-
tempt to cramp its growth. It ought, on the COW
trary, to be freely enconraged end exercised ; and
1 the best way to avoid aberrattoos and disease
was to give it wholesome nutriment, avoiding, of
mune, injudicious stimulaata He would give a