The Express.
London, England, 1856-08-25 00:00:00

TSB DARE ARCHES IN THE ADELPHI.

Nearly opposite Betll;rd-street, is the etraad
then is s marrow street, with • deep &neat, which
at a very short distamee from the 13tned widens, sad
is covered by ea Wows sub. TM eye eau orgy
putrid* few llst the Mewls of the arch ;
horsed 'prate areaded la impensbable darkeese.
Ocossiasally may be seen large waggon draws by
Issesuse teens of Wean nasegiogisom the south
U of tb• such, sad appeasing es were prow&
is from the Media the earth. Wank en
may be urged up the steep meat by the unsparing
emetiese of the whip sod voles of the driver.
Chmerally, however, there amen se alga of life
abent the yawns( 'straw to the gloomy depth. Most
psalms intent nameless with • panne glum at
tide plate, sad walk ea with perhaps a slight helm
et milisky as le die mature of the region to eilleb
the arable se wale*
_Miseld say enn bsossosr,
asses to sae* Ms annuity, be will led matter for
swap reilanne. After progenies a few yezde
dome the covered way, the.. will be whist
before him hat thick darkame, skims" if be leeks
beeck, he say see
the the full tide of bums emblem la
th Snead. la midst of Me •
he is bet s few yard. from oes of the Melee wan
is the world. Let him ministers a lIUM MOW sad
he will discover that the covered way beamobse off to
the right sad left, sad that foist gleams at light
weeionally break le from s few springer Simla
hie minty tempt him to penetrate awn
the dim vistas, we whin him to paw. Were
he to ramble about unneeded he would rem the
several risks of lodes himself, rambling is his son
or Deng murdered or plundered. Then is an IM
.lightest exaggeration is this Materaset. Let him
wait—be will generally kw to wait • time keg
*sough to
Yo
try the meet mosapplary patina—midi •
pelicans awl Os tress ng Ms
trinity TM damp, of leateg himselfOs or
tumeables is hie MI he will soon dkossar. se lb.
grter part ef titice7zeitekes pies is Fishy
darkens ; that Of or ?Wised be will
kw Mee Ms guileoe will tell him that at sr
time, bs snide of tie seirisseisi eelswere NI sot, do plass tienssisse aft Mend Is
groups. M A
plow= alms wield Iwo Imam linger
et bin life. The permsenseteatallineents ban ism
=piled, and the salindeiser sow is Men the *ta-
nsy bsadittL This is set to be estindemn
▪ The Adler may all probability have seals:
testimony elk. Net Vi=tauly b=billSbweill IN
• sr winistdoslrer

daylight, about to take up a position, from whose,
the, may peones uponinz unwary traveller who is
"Wdl robbing. The , pbilosopher, and friend,"
to Whale guardianship ban committed himself will
tell illeepeobster that the newaomers bare not yet
peistrated the thick darkness in w the two
walibers an amended. Should the hiehy
dissever the
preessee of the guardMn of tbe lives and properties of
bet Majesty% subjests, they will beat a leisurely
retreat. If the visit is made at night, the
visits, is slued certain to see some in.
fatuated individual, helpless ander the fewinstion
of a dewy, being led as a victim to the predatory
propossidet of the decoy's friends. Unless a pair.man were present, the robbery would certainly
take plea, and in tbe event of resistance ill treatment
—if not murder—might be the result. At the ap-
peases of the policeman the dewy vanishes into the
gloom, and the rescued blookbeed sneaks stupidly—
et us item thankfully—away.

Merit4th, explorer follow the stepsof tliepollerman.
He will ass tern up arse" into whisk no light ever
makes its way. A Laufer match is lighted, and lo ! on
ties Mdp of the suer are sees seems iatsadsti. yr.
kiiiago,ssmba he ailed as warehouses, bet obi*
as now fgegiestly the alesplarpleess of wrellibsiiba-
man Whip, whose poverty, oacsitioocd by attshrtame
or vies, has deprived them of every other i
place. A layer of rotten straw, filled wrtvall
kinds of vermin, is the only covering of the leak
floor. What infinite pcsibtlities of murder open
upon the mind as it surveys thew retests sew
visited by daylight ! What tborough_prNeedgm do
they afford to the (mitts criminal! psilessan
will tell his guest that if a thief who hue essamittsd
a robbery in the neighbourhood rashes Ste tits dark
arches for cenisealment his seas is almost whin.
The darkness is so intesss, the number of radio.
noes so great, the boles cm the side' of the vassalage
11M1f0011, that a search is almost futile. AM=
two Fleapit satreates to the place ia the
the mast ameba theosophism in Londe. mod Tab,
beildismsysithiltotell-lighted strestilsedisedewn
to *ether. Hess are missy mad Tim tempera in the
=slat et homy aad bisb sivillomdea As the
pusses& farther, he will, if it is early in the
meraing sr late in the ',wimp, find that his prewar
den of met watering alone was not enseetosiry.
Meet of tits passes are in a state of nearly total
darkesie, bat his sys gets accustomed to the glass,
and in those places where the obscurity is
he will be assist.d by the friendly lasifeme=
thus, be will see human beings flitting abed es the
whole of wk.. hese Misery kr. laid ad indelible
mark. Vice and pesky are bat Isis arias* *a-
pt...ad ea the esantsmasem ef may Ire b is the
midst of a sabismeases *odd. which has lot all
sympathy with tin wadi Ibsen. gems sr the pri-
mps WV lighted by helms jleassil hem the sat
to the sodas of the esrpft math, hat the pre-
vailing eheasierieds b glees. The air le murky,
and seems SO SiMilliel• Stied if the beings who
have made it their dwelllarplose. We listen
without any suptigg to the toles of women being
found in those ressms half calm ap with vermin.
It is only the lowest ardent of media who would
volnamrny take up Omit abode dam And yet
some base dose so, involentosily, who were es
capable es the Modred. who lived- ewe their beads
of taking a kosesrable part is She Antics el Mk
A literary seam of lames. Waimea% new alive,
bed fer a leap the. se other home than was
sfrorded to him by these wreathed raverae. He
is new esentliy, sod honorably emplared, but
11%4 .riablievrwe spa& g Wan made him
with 1011.111nro win; would Moo plum
timed him without reagens had he bees worth pow-
dering. Cintabig venom fitter. His emptypone
gays him security. The visitor will at leo smsqp
epos a paved walk running by the side of the Theme,
and as he premeds along this he will gee that thee
very arches which are now the shelter fist the
wretched sad the vile, and storehouses of pestilence,
was really inteeded by the builders to be a mesas of
carrying es the treat of the rivet, while the /sherd-
tants of the beaks might be protested hots the
naissates with which the hanks are sew orewdsd.

At if; tia when the Adams to* the alto
of the Adslphi it was a sloping ground
running down to the Thames from the Strand. It
was a portion et the bed occupied kemerly by
Dubs® Hoene and muds. Nobs, seemed to
have prospered sum this proud, sad the sone tato
appears to hue followed it until sow. Durham
Hoses wee ease the seat of the revels of Homy VIIL
Here tenesursole bed bees held spinet all soars
here tir Weber Beleigh bed lived here Dolby
Earl of Nortlosabirlead persuaded Jane &moor to
erupt the ours. Is the souse et thee it had
bonus reissue. sad had bees pulled down. Nam it
▪ k the solo ot lames I the New Zasu,
apnea by the Le g
ie poses, and sailed WENN
" SIMIAN Ikerms." Ifi Mee ten to rules. At the
time the Mouse bah the opt it was a wretched
plasm sovend with dligiesed homes, /smalls,
conies, sod solo. These prohibits mossived
the bad peso d aware over this polluted
groond. end bonito es the tops ot the grebes streets
of iseguideest homes, the ground floor of which
Auld be as a level with the Strand. A mad ter
rase was is run la Itnekeed the tread teent the river
was to be curia as saivamh. Geode were to be
leaded on the wkselsosieemeesd through the oreltes.
The piss tk. areldbeas anted our, ead=tort
whit hasln modem those ban so ohm a
thud Untie elespitthe river sod whines Wimp
wee madly teseible. to that the odes of the
property abeg the two bobs et the rim has as
smog leiressed slue Stodge et the Adams's that as
Mud* of their pies to the whole rare
of the rim whisk rue through
weal eset anteest of sassy perfectly In-
erodible. The Admen suesseded even as
primes armeissen merely, is spite of the most
wises eppoitlem The City threw every obstacle is
the wayit the lespoument. arena, Sheep
It with the wide vt of his abigoseem 7L"41
1..
*rod the City to asfoad their wasted rights is the
river. The ieaten were beading irese. sod
the rubbish throws away sight same the bed st
the river. Weald the City, the natural semenater
et the river t steed timely by aid as their rights at-
tasked P He ddiseled the set et parliemsot. No
set, se klub sub perpetuate evokes we es. The
Oho of the pies would be to remove so mow
bodies* obi this was as seenresd Mae spinet
the law se (lad. And so on. The City was melted.
The gaud betimes the government and the City
W Wowed the Wade of the eitisees who were
almost emesimewe in favour of Wilkes. the
City
wasgled el on opportuity stespitqlsi he
It west to law with the Out% ilea barig yeastits
MIS& The amiss were beat The drub sad ter-
rue um reined epee them. The Leese sew essepied
by the lissiely et Arts was bulk foe the mode. of
tee society. It. houses as the tense, were sompied
by the beet elms etre*. Gmbh lived HIM I and
there, atter the rotors dos* weld Johnson sod
Boswell make sod. isenieg over the
=fs, dismissed over the lose et their
The tide of halos has relied tar
to the west, sad the handsome house are
sew issetl seed einem They OW stud
etas the bold ides of the
lIIINITes. Ned vile seines Midi Its meetings
sad the prehmiene sad minmeree see at week above
vise, wend, 11th, mid mierry in Tempest Weir.
And whM is the nem for all thi P The Assam et
=Ned. A tor geOgitte and a pollees= sus.
at head weal entbs piste oaf& Oses.
modal ass would be pied be see the webbed on
mom sa wiwoheners, were they ease abated wet. hod
the d lighted. As It is, the *eel. air
pros meleuly spelis. It le dearness sod dark• as
estb Oatemmite. wittiest say of the peentbrillee
ehateater derived trees tstliaa. sad ether emus
Alta MIA Is On Oilman* sod phrase tad,