The Express.
London, England, 1856-04-28 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 28, 1856.

THE INVISIBLE ARMADA.

IT SEUILIT 1100111.
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Mlles It bad fired ball instead of blank Cartridge,
tho noble Dried last wild bully lad eassiosed sore
disoonflture to tho gamer Ede& pulls than it eased
on et. Georp's sad et. Badmen a day. It has fully
sagged itself for all the impresses's of !gnomic laadn
ad, who had son # p forth t WWI to saaihilata Bare* sad.
not hada( seawards heard, as addible authority, that the
feat bad bees performod, wed rads onosgh to remessbar
Caligula sad the Mills that be, toe, brought hose is) par-
fait safety, tested of trophies. Nothing odd be non sam-
pled thaa Oa overthrow of the tes•payhg area on
Wodleaday. Craftily lard frost ell their fastaisses, awes
• Weird miles off, to the inhospitable dans of Haapshirs,
they fsu es easy prey to bathe, taiga, and disappoint-
asst. Theis,saly Mast was la the brads of the somata
away of masked, the railway seked, who shared no
sassy ; sad to eaniplots the rent. do had of Peradowth,
smalines weeklegly called " alas lied," fall urea this
wit► the ell Rage& weeps. that frightful Bill, whish, as
at Bastin% wept all Odors It. Lot thu unhappy throng
that (radially dragged he way into the Waterloo-road at
the lows of Thursday tastily to the miasma of the
[ltalia' Armada. .

If I thought that what I au piss to say would is the
meet lakeiteslatal deem imperil the nautical position of ear
beloved Britaaala ; if the Allies's were likely to be isjercd
thereby, or the Iscor-Nethlep to naive enoosregement ;
asy, if the smallest sea-bey that clomb on Wednesday to the
dim tank could feel dissearaged at my statemeat, it
should be for arm Bassselt—sine mil. Bat, not finis,
say of these regal% I propose to record that the British
petite proarmasse the review a Failure.
• Failure, yes, sad, es lie late Duke of Asilingtes ob-
served in the ease of M. linshisses (I as sot swore that
the words have ever been quoted), "sad se mistake." I
say this, homes I lisow that great abets have bees made
to penes& people, sad la many hostesses by people to pee-
ned. themeless, that they saw a splendid sight, were
deeply impressed, sad will wenn the recollesties of that
day to the sod of their lives. They know is their hearts
that they sew astking of the laud, that they were net Im-
pressed at all, 'amyl with a rise that they bad bees
" dose," sad, if they Weis the reselleetiss of the day,
heed! be as am nusembers the date whoa these Foolish-Vir-
gin The Mae shares went raddesly doss the shaft, or whoa
the defter intimated that one's Minims usable to read air
thistly was set, to be eared by Whe•pills, bat by a pair of
.peeteeles--" year time of life, sh"—a, Weed, wise cue's
wife's father% widow amassed her ultimatum, her tattle-
d's, *reside is her daaghtees Muse fee the remainder of
her wasetural life. I have read what his been written
absinthe seem, sad I have bees south pleised with the
fuel, m well as lagesioes attempt', which gifted sad pines-
throple whets he,. made to (amassment* the day—a
white chalks; ess—elos awls nonseds, as our Mead Cali-
gula would have sell bat the skulk will not adhere.

Tam say mile mad palaver that dela es you
'thee haw of a 'whets will shit a tt still.
Coss, let se be yreetiaal ; 144 as se ha for Ws. Let vs
have that most mashies of all lavestigatioas, that fa-
deems of all myelitis, that unveils, of all Uses, • Select
Oinselthe to iaquire into the sabjeet. Well, you dally
selpithe that. Yost west to bellevothst you were highly de-
lOW, sad that year true Bridal boom heaved high with
—(ae, too I luster yogi are • good sallar)—keaved
I my, with prise at ths sight of the wooden wells al al
Bashed, sad at Maria( the thuadere hest her agate Oa
gullies the heeds below. Lad yes knew NN et Me
eadr•kstps wislek—• mere Who—pasha two alibi as
if the realm eat if the whole ask, sill p
year id*s judo le the New Palma. Paellemene
la as unspeakably bed bumper, sad has prejudged thq
WWI& Sense people say tht Maiden will get sere
Maser agonseggo of Naotfortaaate melt of the
fay even sew, bat that wean &flesh. • PalliSallra•
tory Cestatithe would he unfavoureNe. Take the abate
purely, sad eon what whores you Ult Thai's tar, I
tryst. Wks mare ant ?
Lord Paoloom—l as a British statems.n. Got up
very early ia the moans, which is quite ano.'bet Oleg
from beteg up until very lets ia the night, WI went
dews to see the review. WILL act had halt with the
orrsagemeate, brassie I have • ehivalrous habit of
ohms ishadiag seek* but I will set say they
were eanotly whet, blesses I 'myself was twin
takes as eastody by peliessea toe huts* trying le obtain
a sat in • eerriage. Was I delighted with what I saw
gratlfriag to whams the Leval prowess if
the stuatry—ao pressed was, all -
loyal belies towards the
with the

of notional

eaderwasileg with ether enetries—eb ? I be, ion pat;
dere% w are wet IA the How. Well, ft wee a bit of a
bare, bet we nal ell be bend far du seed of the peblie.
Yetehleaus of Bwatenoww—Roview 1 0 doe% talk abort

it. I shell sow forget it as loan es I live. We kid a par-
fait seriable—filiere Ywe odor weird Is, it—to get late es

railway. We loud oneutlese fa a eseesil else carriage
without oeshiess, sad some horrid sass, seedissies or some.
Meg, mettles. They esstaiely were very reeptettel, end
sallagelebed their wheelie pips. when they mw a lady, het
*ere was the smell, sad thee lb. deplorable aegeninso-
dstios all through the keg journey I Bee ? There
was solids, to see, sad we kidthe worst
useleteas on. our staasibeat that wire ever listened to. The
Cowes regatta ? 0, laileitely superior. As for the ntura.
leg, our miseries begone downright ladisrous. We amid
have erled—best foe laegbieg. We were alas Men coning
isp. and Lady IC:emelt,* was separated hem ale le the
trowd, and was walking alone up aad lowa the Waterloo-
read at few la the Moraieg. lea glad the war is over,

it «sly biases these will be as taere-of this had et thins.
Baum, Barwelrows, I—deset sek me. I
mesas to him the whole thins out is the Hesse, by Jove
Why, .Is, the satire alai was sesadhotte—strodeas 1 Bit,
thwe we halm. is ea but a panel el ships; sad wheel
thly wasted powder (whisk they'll her at echo, I sea tall
yea) you could apt ism see them Bat tbst's sot what
I had spa. It's the Intend diwespest wit► whelk at
Besse was weeded by the aevsnaeat. The oasis, the were
stow win similar—it was the palatal.; sad, by Jove !it
I deal Wag Wad and the rest et then to talk, l'a
(wham was teemed, baviag a teatime, to delethlaatioa

of stem bagasse tithe boa).
Cs pteis Frusta's. R N.—Commode sae of the vessels
that took part is the review. the Olaisoisids, 60. Vary sled
ti see the asses, sad very right, of swam that the fleet
should be laspested, bat as for irking the Mat a skew to
brl.g deem thews& of people who on see seat to aotbiag,
aad saderetasi welkin at ell, I sisal see the ewe of It.
However. I had sows heads sad visitors as beard, sail
wade these se roafertable se I meld. sad I deal think the
OPiesisides shastpsise was fogad halt with. Yee, they
asked foolish quietism', of 'sane, bat there was so barn
is that, es we had platy of tine to tamer thus. Wish
we were pies oat agaia ? No ase Whin about that.
DAVDLII 81T111, $W.—As Clerk ill a pablis elks.

Lark'm hen, aow,yoet moats% eat au whish,you how. Had
a ticket, of warm ; men (*nab bad this, te. Mai was for
the Pireseirlster steam-boat Didn't p to bed over Mph%
for fear of am Wog up la town, but made It out botweea
the Adolpbl. tho Proad Hymen (that's a club). Bram% sad
so ea. I thlak h bad a Milady at the Mobs. bet I was ray
gamy, sad slept all the way lbws. Metaalliag do
rummest ea cis Poretriselekr. The review was ell brats,
sad sub too loop, bit we bad gnat faa. I doal lank
rameashost ocmlag up, bat somebody took say womb, withal
woe rather a bore for a fellal.

K,.. CtasLa. CLITSWID —No. we Lave ut bus
married wry /sag, sod Charles his sot yet lamed to leave
is. at bona wise bo goes Ist for pleasure. He weraod au
that wo might kayo to rough It, as La saki, but I did'at
salad, sad I would go. I was a gold deal Irlstetemed at tie
et also, but we got don safely; sad se I would cot kayo
psi os board oas of times draw:Melly crowded stum•'xate
lot Si! tbs world, we walkwl about Ms bomb at houtleses.
elelpe wore sass oir, aad we Lad sees saes all Uwe was
to wet, sad alma they lead it'd tha Wats we kid a !resettle'
walk islead, sad at lest Hand oarealvse at a *west plaeo-1
fagot the salso—wbego we awed, esa we same 1p spied,

',ter breakfast is the wain. I thiak the review was •
paint messes, an so does Charles, an I hope then will
be a gnat man mere this warmer.
Jura BROWN, lisq..—Nothin Is partioular—a ha`
ester se mull as &nth's,. It was Shannon's birthday,
sad we had a dimmer And is hie honor, bat as then night
sot be nether review fee ss age, while Bbekspeare no sot
for es op, but for all time, west to lipithead. Wish I had
stayed is tows sad dose homage to "the &vise Williams."
NNW' to roe ; en though It wee all very Ilse to onside:
that tha Ant wee • tremenous Power, an all that, you
ein that the Power had mere iota see • day
disr On ate, of IRIS ries to be laid up is waken. Thu
Perk mere wan • debt, bat everybody eomplalan that
Wing wee &moth I ens sloped off for Brighton. Nod •
kin, sod and.
OWN= eiturrsn.—Amt a greenroom is the Bonsgh.
ma (AIM thought she'd like as out, so we west both cm us.
Took this' elm ikkett of wares, being as ways roes, bat
thejam tined bee into a fin elms, an myself likewise.
kOisly bind leek we bad ins Oita sushioss. The ships wee
^the fir WM mss, and who wean to Man at • lot of smoke ?
Wain* pretty well is the witliag lime, bet soulds't get so
likes la the Iran, end had to tamp it about Peesseth all
night. Old Woo= as ways agreeable thereto, bet I had
my pipe sad so basin dose, but doer rota old (reasoner@
nik doff anis.
Bast COLA—Ara 18. The stupidest day I eve/ had fa
mil my life, sot • soul to speak to except pa, sad ma, and
my brother, sad it was so cult sitting la that greed
thin ea the booth. The only fia wee is twain up, whoa
pa pot sio iota a carriage, sad we himself pushed right oat
di the way, sad the carriage filled is a minute, sad
sne of the gentlemen tuned oat to be Caplets
bst his same I. soiling to yea. I net htm at the Yoshi
ball. 0 tow erns peps was at Water:os, but it wasn't my
faun, was It mow ?
Bass WTIX.Sit cossostad with the prams.
Wen dews to the review, nein snared to supply a re.
port, to appear the known; mersiag. Will you now sair
to read what I wrote t (Beade)—" The satin of the West
yesterday presented no of three glorious spooled's width,
while they oursetan the eye of the minks, hash noble
food for the imaillsot of the thoughtful few. There lay
semi, three bmadnd nab of war, selostideally built,
sompletely armed, en prepared to miry death mad der
trusties into the portefisf any tones lathe world. Awaiting
the present oleo finerein of these isles, they reposed Is
their gips& stremnb, but whets a idgmel annseed to
that smelted fad estlinestis =skits& that the
Gases bad some, the Beek leaped from the pat
lob, the white cloud flew forth like • lag,
en
the deafens( roar of • unman seams farmed
a shore worthy of the nose. No patriot, so
statinum, so shims, caddies* wirmoved—so Bullish wife,
throe, or mother, scull forget that is thole majesty strai-
tens were the tree guardian of their hearths sad bone—
n grommet, "—eh ? so, it's sot (magenta—l Isn't read
my own writing —what is it ? I 00111clet have written
gresugneer.
Mills the witness is inns est, let ss admit that be and
the press gesevelly have urines what people ought to ken
felt—otatermen, wives, mothers, pesegroosn, an all. And
its a neat thing for Jobs 801 l that he km somebody, who,
like Kr. lisgset's Old Girl, ma let the world ksow hie reel
*pinker. Aad the Old Girl will met go very wing la my-
ths that Jolla Is justly proud of his sable men, but that
the ekes of • hindered wet has hoes appropriately sole-
bested by as unsalable Nall.]

THB EXHIBITION OF THE SOCIETY OF
PAINTERS IN WATER-COLOURS.

The epring exhibitions of water-esker paintings
afford means of the most delightful and refreshing
hours that s poor involuntary denizen of London Gan
enjoy throughout the year. Comiog with the pro-
mise of the early blossom, they, with their fresh and
verdant banes, nem to strengthen our anticipations
of the various forms of inviting loveliness nature Pi
about to semme, or else, praises, recall scenes in-
terwoven with oar earliest sad holiest affections.
The expectation of gratifitetioa we derive from this
source was, however, samephat diminished this year
in respect to the Exhibition of the (Old) Water-
Colour Society, far it has of late suffered the loss of
several members—first of Thieriot, then Prone, then
Copley Fielding, then ,Osorge Barret, besides other.
of less note. There was, moreover, net much to ex-
pect from David Cox, or Joseph Nash, or Cat-
tiest:de. They are no loom young, and
may be allowed to rest content with their
well-earned reputation. Remembering, however,
that the dead leaves of departed seisms fertilise the
soil for meowed and increased abundance, we took
heart, and at the private view of the society's exhibi-
tion oa Saturday we are happy
.to say we were not
disappointed.TU first impression was indeed some-
what faint, but it grows upon cue with soquintanes,
sad although it will not bear comparison with the
New Society's exhibition in the figure department,
the landscapes are numerous and excellent. The
gallery opens to-day to the public, and we can pro-
mise them a rich trest—in fact, a feast for the ima-
gination.

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