The Express.
London, England, 1851-07-21 00:00:00

HORTICULTURAL FETE.

The same ill fortune as to weather which has
attended the Horticultural Society in its fetes this season
was likewise experienced on Saturday, but it did not pre-
vent very many persons from profiting by the attractions
offered to them. As on the last occasion the special boon
was the American exhibition, so on this it was permission to
enter the grounds of the Duke of Devonshire, the president.
The unpropitious state of the weather was the more to be
regretted, as the show was a very good one, the plants in
fine order, the colours clean, and the light just such as to
set them off to the best advl.ntage. The fruit show has,
perhaps, for quantity and quality not been surpassed; and
the foreign visitor!, who, having at length learned the value
of these exhibitions, assembled in unexampled numbers,
had the opportunity of seeing that England can produce
fruit of the first quality. They expressed loudly their
astonishment, not only at the pines and strawberries, but
likewise at the grapes and peaches. The flower show had
its full part in the attractions; besides collections from all
the first growers and amateurs, the Duchess Dowager of
Northumberland and Mrs. Lawrence had almost emptied
their conservatories of the choicest specimens to increase the
display.

of excellence Mr.

New pelargoniums in 8-inch pots.—Large gold,3lr.Gaines.
Picot:es. —Certificate of excellence, Mr. Lochner; large
silver, Mr. Newell; certificate of excellence, Mr. Norman ;
large silver, Mr. Bragg; silver Kuightian Mr. Whinier.
Cantatiees.—Certificate of excellence, Mr. Lochner; large
wirer, Mr. Bragg; certificate of excellence, Mr. Norman;
large silver, Mr. Newell; silver h. nightian, Mr. Williner.
Stove or greenhonsa plant.; in collections of 20 plants.—
Large gold, Mr. Cale; gold Bank•ian, Mr. Frazer; gold
Knightian,"Nir. Map; large Miser gilt, Mr. Stanley.
Store or greenhouse plants; in collections of 14 plants.—
Gold Knightian, Mr. Green; gout Banksian, Mr. Taylor.
Store or greenhouse plants; in collections of 10 plants.—
Gold liank‘i w, Mr. Speed; large silver gilt, Mr. Croxford ;
certificate oft seelleuce, Mr. Carson.
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Stove or greenhouse plants ; in collections of six plants.—
Large silver gilt, Mr. l'amplin ; large silver gilt, Mr. Bunn;
certificate of excellence, Mr. Kinghorn ; silver Knightian,
M. Over, silver Danksian, Mr. N 1 anon.
Exotic Orchids; in collections of 20 species of superior
cultivation.—Large gold, Mr. Mylam • gold Knightian,
Mr. Franklin; gold bank4:3l, Mr. Williams.
Exotic Oichids ; in collection, of 15 speeies.—Gold Bank-
sian, Messrs. Veitch ; large silver gilt, Messrs. Itollisson.
Exotic Orchids; in collections of 10 species.—Gold Bank-
sian, Mr. Blake ; large silver gilt, Mr. Canon.
Exotic Orchids; in collections of 6 species.—Large silver
gilt, Mr. Green; large silver, Mr. Woolley ; certificate of
excellence, Mr. Kiughorn.
Exotic Orchids ; single specimens, displaying very supe-
rior cultivation.—Silver Knightian, Mr. Mylam, for a
beautiful specimen of the serides °dumdum ; silver Dank-
rian, Mr. Balconer, fur a specimen of the remanthera roc-
einem; certificate, Mr. !lamp, oncidium pictum.
Calosanths ; in sixes.—Large silver, Mr. Stanley.
Achimenes ; in colleetit•ns of 6 di-tinet varicties.—Certi-
ficate of excellence, Mr. Godfrey (gardener to Dawson,
Esq.); large silver, Mr. Munro; silver Knightian, Mr.
Godfrey. (gardener to Le,ter, Esq.)
Deliehrysums.—Certificate of excellence, Mr. Taylor;
large silver, Mr. Green.
Alpines ; in twelves.—Silver Knilthtian, Mr. Turner, of
Holloway ; silver Banksian, Mr. G. Turner, of Barnet.
Statices ; in sixes.—Silver Knightian, Mr. G. A. Watson.
Shakes, single specimens, excluding everything which
can be shown singly under other heads.—Certiticate of ex-
cellence, Mr. Salter, for the Erica Shannon'. Largo
silver, Messrs. Veitch ; Erica metuliellora bicolor. Silver
Knightian, Mr. Smith ; Erica retorts major. Silver
Knightian, Mr. Constantine ; Lisianthus ltunsilianus.
Silver Knightion, Mr. Cole; Ilipladenis splendens. Silver
Banksiam Mr. Over; Itoya bills. Silver Banksiaa, Mr.
Fraser ;Kalosanthus

Miscellancnus subjects, exclusive of ferns.—Large silver
gilt, Mr. lesson; for a very fine pot of miscellaneous plants.
Large silver medal, Mr. Lee; for variegated stove plants.
Silver Knightian, Mr. Hardman; for variegated stove
plants. Silver Banksian, Mr. Henchman ; a collection of
New Holland pratiaecous plants. Large silver, Messrs.
Standish and Noble ; for hardy new shrubs and trees.
liaukvian, Mr. Williams; three species of variegated
stove orchids. Silver Banlisian, Mr. Salter ; fur a collection
of petunias. Certificate, Messrs. Henderson; for a collection
of petunias.
Ferns ; in collections of ten hothouse species.—Large sil-
ver, Mr. Williams. Silver Knightian, Mr. Woolley. Silver
Ilanksian, Mr. Carson, Certificate, Mr. Masters.

New l'iants and Flowen.—Large silver, Messrs. Hen-
derson; for Hrmiandra pungens. Silver Knightian, Mr.
Mylam ; for Epidendrum from New Grenada. Silver Bank-
sian, Mr. Rollisson ; for Cartileyagranulata, lat., Leopoldii.
Silver Banksian,Mesrs. Henderson ; Gordunia Javanieu.

Certificate, Veiteh and Co.; lloyis from Manilla. Certifi-
cate, Veiteh and Cu. ; Capsicum from Peru.
noses, in fift7 varieties.—Certificate of excellence, Messrs.
Lane; large silver, Messrs. l'aul ; silver linightian, Mr.
Francis.

Itcsies, in twenty varieties.—Large silver, Mr. Tcrrv;
silver Knightian, Mr. Rani:lntl; silver Banksian, Mr.
Carter; certificate, Mr. Parsons
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Cape Heaths, in croilcctions of ten entirely distinct species.
—Bold llanksian, Mr. Smith; large silver gilt, Mr. Cole;
certificate of excellence, Mr. May ; new gold Banksian,
Messrs. Itellisson ; large silver gift, Mr. Fairbairn ; certifi-
cate of excellence, Mr. Frazer.
Cape ll,Ahs, in it-inch tots—Large silver gilt, Mr.
Smith; eertdicate of excellence, Mr. Taylor; large rilver,
Mr. Cole ; large silver gilt, Messrs. Rollisson ; certificate of
excellence, Mr. Fairhairn.
Cape Heaths, in 8-inch mita—Certificate of excellence,
Mr. Smith; large silver medal, Mr. Taylor; silver Knightian,
Messrs. Rothman.
l'elargoniums' in six species —Certificate of excellence,
Mr. Stanley ; large silver medal, Mr. l'arker.
Fuchsias.—Large silver, Mr. Franklin ; silver Knightian,
Mr. Salter; silver Banksian, Messrs. Fraser.
FRUITS.
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For Collections of Fruit inJiiii.—Large silver gilt, Mr.
Spencer, of Itowood ; certificate of ezeellenoe, Mr. Fleming,
Trentham ; hap silver, Mr. Munro, gardener to Mrs. Oddie.
Pineapples, in single specimens—Queen's.—Large silver
medal, llr. Junes, gardener to Sir J. Guest (weight Sibs.
12os.); silver Knightian, Mr. Frost, gardener to E. Betts,
Esq. (weight :Abs. Sox) ; silver Banksian, Mr. Biggs, gar-
dener to J. liarchard, Esq. (weight fibs. 40z.)
Envilk, Cayenne, Sugarloaf, Black Jamaica, and Ota-
belie l'incs.—Large silver, Mr. Jena, Envilla (weight,
Ms. 9oz. ; silver Knightian, Mr. Bray, Cayenne (weight,
6lbs. 90z.) • silver Ilanksian, Mr. Chapman, Black Jamaica
(weight, 31.bs. 120 z.).
l'ravidencc l'ines.—Larze silver, Mr. Briddon (weight,
%be.) • silver Knightian, Mr. Jones (weight, 101bs.); silver
Banksian, Mr. Moffatt (weight, 71b. 120 z.).
Grapes in put., three specimens to be shown.—Certificate
of excellence, Mr. Smith, gardener to S. Iticardo, Esq.
Grapes, in three hunches for private growers and sin
bunches for market gardeners—Black Ilamburg.—Large
salver, Mr. Stent ; silver Knightian, Mr. Henderson, gar-
dener to Sir George Beaumont; silver Banksian, Mr.
t'mpleby, gardener to Mrs. Benson ; market gardeners'
large silver, Mr. Harrison; market gardeners' silver
Knightian, Mr. Spary ; market gardeners' silver Banksian,
Mr. Davis, Oak Hill; large silver, Mr. Elphinstone, fur
three bunches of black Hamburg, from vines in pots.
Black l'rince, or We:t St. d'eter's.—Large silver, Mr.
M'Quniter, gardener to Colonel Charmer ; silver Knightian,
Mr. Turnbull • silver Banksian, Mr. lull.
White Musiatlines, or Sweetwater.—Large silver, Mr.
Rust; silver Knightian, Mr. Wood; silver Banksian, Mr.
Williams; all for Muscadines.
Muscats.—Large viller, Mr. Taylor; silver Kiiightlan,
Mr. Campbell ; silver Banksian' Mr. Davy, gardener to I
Mrs. Smith ; market gardeners' large silver, Mr. Mitchell,
of Brifhton.
Frontignans, or other sorts, distinct from the foregoing.—
Large silver, Mr. Leonard, for chasselas mosque; silver
Knightian, Mr. Carpenter, for grizzly frontignan ; silver
Banksian, Mr. Henderson, for grizzly frontignan.
l'eaches, in sixes.—Silver Kniglitran, S. Snow, gardener
to Earl de Grey ; silver Banksian, Mr. Turnbull ; certifi-
cate, Mr. Munro; market gardeners' silver Knightian, Mr.
Wilson.
Nectarines.—Silver Knightian, Mr. Tillvard ; sfiver
Banksian, Mr. Martin •, certificate, Mr. Turnbull; market
gardeners' silver Knightian, Mr. Wilson of Warwick.
Cherries, in dishes of Ilb.—Black : Silver Banksian, Mr.
Marcham ; certificate, Mr. Busby; market gardeners
silver Banksian, Mr. Myers of Brantford; market garden-
ers' certificate, Mr. Gainsford, jun.
White.—Silver Banksian, S. Snow, for Elton cherries;
certificate, Elliot, fur biguroons ; market gardeners' silver
Banksian, Mr. Myers, for bigaroons.
Strawberries, one dish each.—British Queen and similar
kinds—Silver Banksian, Mr. Elliot, for British Queens;
certificate. Mr. Eckford, for British Queens ; market gar-
deners' silver Banksian Mr. Beach, fur British Queens ;
market gardeners' certifl., Mr. Lydiard, for British Queens.
Other kinds.—Silver Banksion, Mr. l'arson's, Myatt's
Eleanor ; certificate, Mr. Wood, for Downtons ; market
.... . .

gardeners silver Banksian, Mr. Lydiard, for Eleanoh ; cer-
tificate, Mr. Wilson, for Eleanors.
Melons, one specimen each, for the best flavoured.—
Silver linightian, Mr. Brown, for Trentham hybrid ; silver
Banloian, Mr. Munro, for Persian green fleshed ; certificate,
Mr. Brant, for llromham hall.

The folliviing will give our subscribers an idea of the
value of the different medals and rewards .—The certificate
of merit, las. ; silver Banksian medal, 1/. ; silver linightian
medal, 1/. ss. ; large silver medal, 1/. 15s. ; certificate of
excellence. 2/ 10s. ; large silver gilt medal, 41. ; gold Bank-
sian medal, 71.; gold lanightian medal, 101. ; large gold
medal, 141.

" THE MASS" IN AIMOT:4OIID.—.\ private masa
chapel is being fitted up by the present resident of Abbots-
ford, James 'lope, Esq Q.C.—Neweastle Journal.

VIOLENT THUNDERSTORMS.-LOSS OF

On Friday last, about half-past six o'clock, p.m.,
the borough of Sunderland was visited by a terrible storm
of thunder and lightning. A vessel was lying in Sunder-
land-roods, from the deck of which was plainly perceived a
large ball of fire, having the appearance of blue, tinged with
red, descending upon the lower part of Sunderland. This
was immediately followed by a tremendous peal of thunder.
The sky for several moments was completely illuminated
with sheet lightning, followed immediately by a heavy
shower of rain. The electric fluid struck the chimney of a
house situated in Durleigh-street, and shattered it to pieces,
scattering the bride., &c., in all directions, and breaking in
the roof, it paned down the chimney into a room on the
third storey, where it threw down the plaster of the wall,
tore up the hearthstone and turned it upside down, and
broke all the windows. In the second storey there was a
large metal stove in the fire-place, which probably
attracted the electric fluid, as a large atone chimney
piece was forced out of the wall upon the floor. A horse
and cart were standing in the street, and three children
were playing at a short distance ; the horse suddenly reaml,
and for a moment the cart wheels were completely illumi-
nated with a bright blue electric light. Seseral persons
bad a narrow eseape from the falling bricks, tiles, &c. Two
children received severe blows from the falling missiles. A
boy, named Bailey, received a severe cut on the toes of the
right foot, and was also struck a ith the lightning and taken
up insensible, and expired the same evening at 9 o'clock.
In a neighbouring house, in the same street, a woman was
sitting mending her husband's clothes in an upper room;
the electric fluid struck the needle and thimble from her
finger., and she received so powerful a shock that rho was
completely deprived of speech and hearing. She was
immediately attended by Mr. Dixon, surgeon, and
sec :arse was had to galvanism. The apparatus was
brought, and a gentle curreut of the electric fluid
was passed through her frame fur the space of a quarter of
an hour, and she again received her speech and hearing,
and, although extremely weak, she is likely to recover. This
violent storm was of short duration, and about two 'curs
afterwards the sky became calm, clear, and serene.
On Friday afternoon the neighbourhood of Rochester was
visited by a storm a 'deli, although of short duration, was
of an alarming character, and it is feared may have done
considerable injury in its course, as in its progress over this
ancient
n cit 7. it struck the cathedral and set fire to the
rc chuh at It uthbury, situated on an eminence above the
railway station. Clouds had for some time been gathering
to the northward, and at a quarter past four o'clock in the
afterneem, after some distant thunder, a dense max, of
clouds approached, when a Hash of lightning, accompanied
simultaneously by a loud clap of thunder, occurred, the
electric fluid striking the north pinnacle of the tower of the
cathedral, from which the point was detached, and hurled
upon the roof below, breaking through time slates. Tee por-
tion of the pinnacle detached WAS broken into fragments,
the largest piece weighing nearly a quarter of it hundred-
weight. To those near the spot the sound, when the pin-
nacle was struck, resembled the report of a g un, and, although
the thunder and lightning might be said to he illitalliMlVOUS
yet the report of the explosion was distinctly perceptible be-
fore the roll of the thunder commenced. Perrone ou the
bridge, and other open spaces, who witnessed the phenome-
non, describe it in each instance, both at the cathedral and
Frindebury, as a ball of fice falling on the edifices, mid persons
in conversation at the time, though distant from thew build-
! Mgt., as being soddenly impressed with fear for the enfety of
those with whom they were conversing, as each appeared to
the other at the moment us if enveloped in flame. Fortu-
nudely the cathedral has sustained no injury beyond that we
have described. At Iriudsbury church the clue tric fluid
appear, to have run down the spire mid sad fire to the shingle
' at its base. rrompt measures were taken to extinguish the
flames by persons who witnessed the occurrence, and by the
• active and judicious exertion!, of a few individuals the
church was saved from destruction. A stack ut Dredger,
• between Rochester and sittinglsourne, was also struck by
the electric fluid and entirely destroyed.—On Thursday a
r Relent thunderstorm also broke over the western suburbs of
Worcester, and premed fatal to it labouring man, named
• Joseph Fowler. The deceased was trussing hay on the
Crow's-nest farm, about two miles from Worcester, with his
r brother, a young lad, when the storm came on, and they
• took shelter under u tree. The boy had lett the tree fur a
• tew minutes, sad was returning, when a tremendous clap of
thunder burst over him, and he was thrown insensible to the
t ground. When he was able to rise again he found his
i brother lying upon the ground, with a portion of his clothes
on fire. Two persons came up at this juncture, who found
• the man quite dead, and time hay on which he was sitting,
r together with a heeleo close at hand, burning. The boy
was still suffering much from the effects of the shock, and
had nut recovered on Saturday. An inquest was held on
• Friday, when a verdict of " Accidental Death " was re-
- corded, lie has left a wife, and bore an excellent charac-
• ter.—On Friday a terrific storm passed over a part of Essex,
• and in some places the heavy rain and wind did einsider-
' able damage in beating down the wheat crops. At Colches-
ter a poor woman named Pettitt, who stood at a tub in her
own house wreelling, was struck dead by the lightning. The
• electric fluid entered the loom and killed her instantly ;
and at the same time the adjacent houses were injured.

DEATII OF DR. lANGARD.—It is our painful duty
to state that Dr. Lingnll, the celebrated historian of Eng-
land, died at his residence, Hornby, a few minutes before
11 o'clock on Thursday night. For some length of time
he has been breaking up, and, for the last few weeks, a fatal
result has been almost daily expected. lie was aged 81
years. We believe that, in compliance with his earnestly
expressed wish, his remains will be conveyed for interment
to tishaw College, Durham, with which he was at one
time officially cunnected.—Kendal Mercury. Speaking of
Dr. Lingard, the W 05..: says The Rev. John Lin-
gavel was an unknown and retiring priest at Newcastle-
on-Tyne, when, in 1896, he issued from the local
press in that t,wn his ' History of the Anglo-Saxon
Church'—a work which, we hesitate not to assert, was
the first and most efficient effort to attract popular attention
towards the ecclesiastical glories of our Saxon forefathers,
which are now familiar objects of study and speculation. If
we were asked from what source ono could obtain the
greatest insight into the national mind and ways of thought
of the Christian Anglo-Saxons, we should have no hesita-
tion in referring the inquirer to these pages ; and the
Athcarcum justly observes: ' Of the monastic institutions
Dr. Lingard has written in a spirit of candour and fairness ;
he points out the abuses to which such communities are
liable, and does not conceal the fact that such abuses fre-
quently prevailed.' This work was but the pilot balloon
sent forth to test the current of public taste, and
finding that an impartial and liberal-minded priest,
without a comprolnirm of any principle, could count
on a cordial popularity, he boldly conceived the design of
his ' History of England,' of which the first volume ap-
peered in 1819. It were perfectly superfluous to speak of
its merits at this time of day. We may, however, mention
that the writer visited tliti Vatican Library in the course of
various and laborious researches, and that the Stuart
records in Ito me were open to his inspection. Though en.
titled, from his acknowledged learning and piety, to the
deferential regard of the Papal court, he neither flattered
its pretensions nor valued its favours, content with conscious-
ness of truthful service to the cause of religion. De had a
positive aversion fur a priesthood of pomp and pageantry,
us may be suimisid from his writings; and till who enjoyed
his nequaintanceship were aware of the genuine modesty,
and at the same lime manly independence of his character."
MOVEMENTS OF TROOPS IN IRELAND.—The 4th
Dragoon Guards, en route from Dublin to Cahir, will arrive
at the latter place on the 24th inst. ; the 27th Regiment of
Infantry, from Belfast, will arrive at Dublin that day; the
depi'd of the 34th Regiment from Londonderry will arrive
at Mullingar on the 25th inst. ; the depUt of the tad Batta-
lion 60th Rifles from Cork will arrive at Naas to-morrow,
the 22nd inst., instead of Carlow ; the Ist Battalion 71st
Regiment, from Mullinear, will arrive at Newry on the
23rd inst., to replace thC39th, which arrived in Dublin on
the lith inst.

COUNTY ItATEs.—Mr. Milner Gibson, has
obtained a return, which was printed on Saturday, respect-
ing the county ratty. It appears that in 1849 and 18.50 there
was cape tided of the grants made by parliament in aid of
the county rates the sum of 445,6471. 145., of which
382,4531. 11s. Gd. was fur counties, and 73,1631. 194. GI for
boroughs and liberties.

'ROYAL COLLEGE or SCHGEONS.—The following
gentlemen having undergone the neeemat7 examinations,
were admitted members of the College on the 18th last. :
Mesars. C. Le Gay Brenton, Beverley; J. Urabham, Hoch-
ford; J. Mudge, Budmin; C. IL Tuvey, Bermondsey ; R. V.
Skinner, ileadcorn ; T. Ligertwood, Forerun, Aberdeen-
shire ; J. E. Davies, Stone's-..ud. Southwark ; T. D. Wheat-
ley, Carlisle ; M. C. Purnell, Pelham-place, North Bramp-
ton; and J. P. Cooper, Coborn-road. Bow, Middlesex. At
the same meeting of the court Mr. W. 11. Clarke passed
his examination as Naval Surgeon.
STRENGTH OF TILE ARMY NOW IN IRELAND.—SiN
cavalry and eighteen infantry regiments, fifteen depots of
infantry, two troops of Royal Morse Artiliery, and ten com-
panies of the Royal Artillery battalion. Numben:—
Cavalry, 3,000 ; infantry, 17,420 ; artillery, 1,150; total,
21,570.
JUVENILE DrELLERB.—At Posen a Polish school-
boy, seventeen years of age, who lately shot another boy of
thirteen in a duel, has ben condemn:A to eighteen months'
imprisonment. Three other buys, between thirteen and
fifteen, who had acted as seconds and umpire, were ac-
quitted.

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