The Express.
London, England, 1862-09-06 00:00:00

arWDAT.
Variable, W.S. W.
N., light to mode
generally tine.
As above, with some WUXI). W.B.W. to N. \.W.,

MONDAY.
W. to N. and N.E,
rtable, moderate.

rale. moderate.
S.W. to N., variable, W. CERIUM. W.S.W. to N.N.W. and
light to moderate, to N.N.E., moderate.
S. Jule showers.
A, uest above,

B.W.ENOLVM. W.S.W. to N., fresh to
light.
SW. to N.W. and to S.E. i.NOLAND. As next above.
N.E. iu some places,
moderate, generally
fine.

to W., variable, L COAST. W.S.W. to N. N. E., rind-
moderate. able, moderate, gene-
rally tine.

We are requested to state that the announcement
which was copied from the Sherburne Journal into our
columns to the effect that Lord Portman is about to be
made Earl of Dorset is Meanest.

We (Army and Navy Gazette) understand that
Major• General Sir John Michel and two officers of the
Ordnance Corps are about to leave for Copenhagen, and will
act as the military representatives of England at the forth.
coming man euvree of the Danish army.

Yesterday the Preston festivities were favoured
with fine weather, and the processions ectersqnently ap-
peared to much greater advantage. The Sunday-school
children walked is large numbers, and furuiatted one of the
most agreeable sights of the whole week.

It ie understood, says the Era, that arrangements
are in progress that will probably enable the metropolis to
boast of two Royal English Operas this season. The
" Eoglish Opera A saociation" directors have been negotiating
for Her Majesty's Theatre, and it would appear that there is
every prospect of the offer they have made being accepted.
In this case the company will commence operations probably
about Christmas.

The annual benefit for the funds of the Royal
Dramatic College will,this year take plane at Her Majesty's
Theatre, on Wednesday, October 9.
Sonic biographical notices of Beethoven have been
translated from the German. The unpublished letters
exhibit the great musician more preoccupied than bas been
hitherto generally supposed with his material intercede.
He writes to his London agent, while acknowledging the
receipt of the price of hie works :—" You have received
guineas, and you send me pounds; I hope you will not
fad to credit me with the difference."

The highland moors give extraordinary returns
of slaughter among the grouse, and our northern sportsmen
cannot but wonder at the sorry prospects of partridge shoot-
ing in England. Mr. Horatio Roes and his son Edward,
the ex•champion shot, are doing great execution among the
deer ; the comes and ravines of Killelan, in K Minn, Ross-
shire, echo the cracks of their rifles each day, whether sun-
shine, mist, or rain prevail.

---
The A thenctunt of to-day contains a letter from
Mr. Anthony Trollope to Mr. James Russell Lowell, on the
subject of an international copyright. Mr. Trollope meo-
lions some circumstances in connexion with his own pub-
lications, which are discreditable to Messrs. Harper, of New
York. " I have told the st vy,"says Mr. Trollope, " because
I could not otherwise illustrate the grievance under which
authors lie in our two countries. It is not that tricks such
as these are often played, but that the possibility of such
tricks takes away all security both from the author and from
the publisher. In the above case there was a determination
on my part to escape from the trammels of the Marrs.
Harper, and a determination on their part, better based,
that I should not escape. There was also on their part • de-
termination that their brothers in the trade should he taught
that they were not to be touched with impunity. It is
against the exercise of such power that I make my protest."
DEATH OF JAMES JOHN BERKLEY, Ems., C. E.
We regret to have to record the death of another of our rail-
way engineers of the Stephenson school. Mr. James John
Berkley, the chief resident engineer of the Great Indian
Peninsula Railway, died at his residence at Sydenham on
the 25th August, at the early age of 43. Besides the Great
Indian Peninsula, Mr. Berkley was the chief resident engi-
neer to our Churnet Valley, Trent Valley, ice , railways
in Ragland. In his profession be was eminently skilful and
conscientiously economical, and not more esteemed for his
professional talent than respected for his private worth.—
Brraparh.

DEATH OP LORD WENTWORTH. —lt is with sin-
cere regret that we have to announce the death of the
above nobleman, better known in this neighbourhood as
Vicount (kkimm, which took place at Wimbledon on
31ontLy la.st, from the bursting of a blood reeled. The
deceased, Byron Noel. King Noel, was eldest son and
heir of the Ist Earl of Lovelace, the Lord Lieutenant of
Surrey lir Ada, only daughter of the celebrated Lord Byron.
He von born in St. dames a-square in 1836, and in 1844 suc-
ceeded his grandmother, who was widow of Lord Byron, in
the ancient barony of Wentworth, being the tenth lotion
of that name. The deceased, who was an ardent lover of
liberty, and advocate of popular rights, inherited some of
the eccentricities of h 6 grandfather. Instead of associating
with his equals in rank and fortune, he preferred the in-
dependence of honest labour, and maintained himself for
many years by his earnings as a shipwright, at Dept-
lord, where he worked sod received wages as an ordinary
mechanic. He does not appear to have been exactly imbued
with the feelings which induced Peter the Great to labour
in a similar capacity ; but, being of an ingenious tun of
mind, and entertaining certain abstract theories on the
eunal rights of man, he spurned the advantages which the
accident of birth conferred upon him, sod lived on the pro-
ceeds of his own industry and handicraft. He died io the
27th year of his age, and we believe urea not married.—.
Wcst Surrey Times,