The Express.
London, England, 1856-08-09 00:00:00

(Stamped ld. Additional.) [TWOPENCE.

LONDON IN THE AFTER SEASON.

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Oysters are the most democratic of luxuries. They
eons into season just as " the exolusives" have left or
are leaving Leaden. They dedicate their prisnilide
to the obsce•e who are compelled to reside in Lon-
don all the year round. The ?atria of fashion must
forego them while they are a novelty. Yet even
oysters may be suspected of that henkering after fine
people which is the besetting weakness of everything
English. It is so contrived that Oyster-day falls
earlier now than it used to do. In oar youth the old
rhyme enosnoed a belief which was universal and
acted upon :
Meath' with as S to
Good eyeless selves Is;
Bet whets the B.'s oat. we
&oppose they ere naughty.

Bat now Otter-day oases in an R-lees month—es
early as the 4th or bth of August.
Oar it:perky.* of cyders, we had our star, is
pretty wide sad varied. We haws sot indeed had
the pod lamas to expwireeat apes the mammoth
=New York, of whist+ 00180 of ear vendor
tie endss afros that it Oho fear 1008 to
detwlllielf see. Battle pselisillarst Balm' are
hiallier to ow/ armee as Ahesoeheid wide' the'

Preemption oysters of Edinburgh are aseseiated
with whey n Nappy memory ; sod we have rum the
guest of all the varieties of Loadoe's oyeterri.
We have ravish to disparage the optimal oar own
metrapolii. We owe • too much of the happluem of
oar lib to theta far that. Still we meet Naha
that they leek the maim era Amur, while im-
parts mask a racy relish to the absesmsellisned
" powidoxlias of Barran" and *lobes of Prestompurm
And it is a repreeek r swamies gastronome= that
the delicate small Ostend gram, so mask primal in
Peril, is aim man in Legato. Oar ancestors
knew bettor. A Mood of ogre, who visited a tow
years ago the ruins of Fostevrated.abbri, had his
abrades drawn to ea imaor deposit of oyster
shells which bad recently bees 'miaowed. He re.
esgebed at awe the shells of the prised dello:odes of
the first Parisian restessreare. The holy fathers
mut have coomowned an eaormaras quantity of than.
It is shocking that, with all our steamboats, we sam-
ara precool from Ostend what the good friars had
eantrived to obtain under seek difealties as were
is their op opposed to locoseotioa.
We are not certaia that we altogether approve of
making the oyster oreoadary or subserviest to any
ether molest. It is derogatory to the dignity of thb
best of luxuries. And yet it met be confereed that
oysters in butter are admirable emeesories to a ood's
head sad shoulders. or a delicate boi4d turkey. The
most pardonable sakediaation of the oyster is that in
whisk he is roads to oroperate with ham, bard
belled eggs, and a soetpree of rump steak, in giving
a Amer to a ooldveal pm, rich with jelly.
Or Ugandan for all the disguises ender which the
cook INITVIMI up oysters is unbounded. Many minutes
of felicitous flirtation with oyster patties here we en-
Irortnel during our sublunary career. But the scal-
loped with its down fat natives, made the ia-
' mates slow shell (like the labouring poor of Looks
in their over. orowderkdomiciles), jodieiosely smothered
with mambo, rich in the effusion of theb own deli.
' este joism—bsare the bell.
Teem tree seas, however, of opium—as Lard
Epos asp of ishaese—" mos admires their asked
bands... A ineyedisainate bates used to peereil
in Landes Tames it eallag ler" a denim of opetsre."
The mehns of pulplis and Edisto* teat
to brenmadeMerd 'sae meaty meeeues, mod to
inosills. Waimea biy ~sr
_halMmadeds.
who have isour day ---end not alirw neensamer
felly—with Christopher North and other Homeric
heroes of the Nodes in the deglutition of oysters, bold
with the patrons of the more liberal supply, and
approve therefore entirely of the irocepriatively
modern innovation of advancing a militia of oysters
to the elbow of the eater, and tioatiosing to open
without viatica until he is satiated.
"How many things by season mooned are!"
Thin is preassieently true of oysters. Njght is the
time for eating u for catching them. What Nye
the old Notch mg

beetkei Imes the mew iematighte
TM seektra levee the Mag.
Bat the oyster levee the beetles mg.
Fee eeelie eta smith WM.
Yee, at Doom of night is the time to gulp opters.
Aid in comadence be it said they never tads asy-
where half no well es in wane tams with a wailed
door. A good play is the best whet for such a ban-
quet. The provincial oysters wham name are
known to bump are nadoebtedly most &lidos. in
their own bday Jul... without any 'akin. Bet the
plump white Ssnodoor oysters (we may almost call
them so without 'metaphor) et London require same
I simple muse. Vinegar and pepper are the mast
common, bat wo may be allowed to suggest that the
sees
sr d a lemma is an animals subedtute far the
Begging our !Head George Crimicshank's pardon,
meat without drink is nought. Dearly though we
love oysters, they lose half their 'tans what end-
companied by bathing pots of sad nutty brown
stout. And sanitary considerations imperatively de-
mand that they should be followed by a made* sip
of Holleads diluted with wates—" odd without' _

Oar
fall-fsediag oyster feast. Far be it from es toe
demise ib. ants prandial flirtation with a few is
which some love to indulge with land sisewastanou
Oa this some our sympathise are so @Wag, that we
maw' see a bleeeeat boy, at large oe a builds& Wel..
Me in his Miklosw at a stall, without being IssapMd
tele& him.
It is ea armada that fortune ewes as who are not
mesa; his Inners& end who ere compelled to linger
drariag dr bet asstir is town, that the surliest sad
the fdlest seiwpmest of the wrier should be amerced
he us. Bat these whe sm thee favoured aught to
think charitably of those who are at a diteees ekes
the oyster ammo opine. A barrel sC wean is net
to be despised by him who has sot an eyeter'stese at
head to step into. Let snob be y
despatched in charity to absent • ,7
to mob se have gees to ma bathing when
no fish of say kind is ever to be had.
We hope our Protestant friends will bear with us
when we ouches that something akin to Pouryite
tansies has possessed as in the matter of oysters.
We have been accustomed to contribute liberally to
"the grotto," and regret that we now so rarely meet
with it—at least in those inner recesses of London to
which we are weaned. Perhaps it may mill be met
with I. the nberbs.

Tin BISHOP or DIISHAII'II EPISCOPAL RESIDICICS-
-Wanner my es Bishop ot Ito will not, in all
probability, be leas the compost of Asekland Ctstio, It
being widens(' al that the Becioriartio 1 Coossaissioaors
have datoralsed to apply that e;atsl pulses, with its so-
ma., park sad lases, to perk ors list will waist the
midi for the erestioa as t ealsigesasot of bassfles•
alters. la whisk eon • mite A* epiosopal resident* for oar
dies eau will haw to be preeidol la or soot the ety of
Dothan. The pork at Melissa is believed to be fall of
valuable nasaerala.—aritiffirisiod Borabl.

JODOMIITS Dirana 111 TIM 00MITY Comas.
the llsw Comity Omani As. tibia eel owe iota fares
ea the let of October. as altaridea et twedOseeble import-
saes will take afi.k Y aaffeaa. wbereisjelowest N seffeted
by default. It is awastel by the lilt asetlea. that la say
ratios la a Onaaey Owe kw a debt essitilag Ms plu s.
tiff ay wir tkielladwat ea sloe Mies et Me leheaffee
to /stead. Alarwleejaigneat la be eaffsff op without post
a lb.

Tse Boon Ours AT COTENTRT.—TM Cbtratah7
Herald stostalas as seems of a 'stoat) &laser gives co
Wedisoolay last, by tias lahabitests of Caveats', to Oa
nub Seep. TM tame sal sass of the 110th Hseeare, sow
steseler•l is tbe bartseka, sad the psaabaaere of diet**
INNS ohs astwßet the meta, TM mammy at Maser
asr
bowl abss446o, of whets 300 arm privates, 30 taws, sad,
121 *Om TM Asir wee sonyisi by las Ewa.