The Express.
London, England, 1856-11-01 00:00:00

(Stamped id. Additional.) [TWOPENCE.

METROPOLITAN BOARD OP WORICB.
The ordinary weekly meeting of the Metropolitan
Board of Works was held yesterday is the Conseil Chamber,
Guildhall. Mr. I. Tawarrie is the chair.
Tbe daasolal account showed a total penal balance of
114_,1711. 17e. 11d.
Oa the mho is the ppaappeerr beteg reed it eabositateg tha
plasheasew Mee et hem Geashasesalreet, Lrissrlar-
the Climsmir
=slim! stye Work. PubisßuWip for
approval, peeseat to the 144th NNW 06 the Metropolis
Leeel Miasgemest hat,
Mr. Waging awed "That the phis of the mewed
weeks*/ saking the sew street bet's= wt,
Lsiesisraare, lad Lb= Cored
by tale beard es the nth MI6 m estimate
et thenset of eassyleg sash weeksVemessWea, be sob-
NOM he the appeevel-et the eummiehame of hrher
WwiTsksli anal iltieffeeenab lit. the
vim* els
le syglindes Isid-i—eat for MA
palms es may be envy est es& seeks"
ilar.lfivr
1 meads& the mein, wbielt wee pat mad muted
le=.tliss Wail is dest a disteist =MIR flif
lais Maoist el , Nowleptess astalli SNOW se
Lambeth, sad the divides ar MaMemse, rear the
Metrephis Bendier Am. There were 96 candidates for
the swishiest, bat Mr. lola Hoary Taylor, late district
surveyor et Telhabeas, was theft , after repeated
shows el liese•
Mr. Baas/gene, the meager ipresentai a report ca the
Men of the GradJanstioa aid Grosvenor Canal Com
pules to give three ohm days amiss of their intention to
ran off water from their welts late the metropobtaa sewers.
Mr. Deputy HASIDIM( moved that the engineer be
intrusted to moult with the parties with a view of pre-
mann damage, and to report the result to a (Man board.
Kr. B. T•m.oa smaaded the mottos, which was pet sad
%Pea bik
Oa the spitisatim (remind 19th September) of Mr. Wm.
P. Mask our apperral of essetramies ast hoa bridp
from ha asegarbeeme se his warehouse is Tleseue-street, St.
Geseperia.tharlare, a mean was powered trots the
mperiateadleg lesitteet, St tbs sleet Ibis be ha
examined
the plan 'MN* soil sseslieral that the materials would
be sallelese ter Ste perms
The egplisatiss was refereed by a large majority.
Oa the miss st Ilse. Lysits, it wu agreed that sepia
of the pdatmed minutes of this hoard be supplied to the
different diarist hoards._

rlotter wasreosivnifrora Mr. Herbert Stormy, district
clerk, St. Saviour's, applying for pirtainioa to the district
board to borrow btu cos of 10,00 W. on the security of the
veto. The letter Stated teat it was proposed to apply 6,00 W.
foe the perpoes of masking • now sewer In the district, 6,0001.
for sow paving works, and the reminds: for seesaw
wits la the district.

TM Tut;; wee refund to the engineer for his report
thereon.

Mr. Howe etrly mod the amenity of preens*/
Fsheatibeath Im the !meat of the overgrowing and
of this metropolb, sad said he gristly
nj Cialtri4fidatala had came forward to aid the
misterity, that he desimd to snare that place to the public.
Be concluded by Isoviat a naolutioa that would have the
'fleet of resciadiag the detarsaisatioa already norm to arm
this subject.
Mr. Sauce= 111110011dia a/ Uptioll. .

L.i•vx,c7MVaniM favour of °pea 'passe befog
pieserved for the romeation aad health of the public, bat
thought thst,easallerfog the vast mamba of other subjects
that pressed apes the attaation of the board, they
&mid not embarrass JUL" action by taking up the gelation
of the formation of pubis parks. If a park was required at
Ilsimpetead, let government take the subject in hand sad
pay for it out of the motional loads ; bat he thought it would
be simnel' sabot to tax the ratepayers of the metropolis
for any such object.
Mr. DOOLTOX MS opposed to ptomain with such
gumbo, while so way other subjects demanded their most
meow attention.
Mr. Timm supported them:4lm
Mr. Couutsow- hoped that they would sot be deterred,
as the more of meaosay, from ciadcirtaking great and most
important works, believing as he did that a vast amount of
immorality sad vies was produced from the want of proper
plates of recreation and asaassmeat.
Kr. HAWKS' opposed the motto..
Mr. Deputy HAZZISOX thought if the subject was to be
gone tato, it ought to be raised on a proper notice of motion,
sad sot brought on in the way proposed by Mr. Howe in his
present resolution. He thought the vote was assets's'''.
Mr. flazzxv said he was most dosing' to say a few words
apes this (pestles, especially after the opinion of Mr.
Deputy Harrison teat this vote was mamma/eery. The
chairman bad cleared by that poi" bat still there
was smother difficulty in the way. After all, the
questioa woe, were they to take up the subject
of perks or sot, and whether they should be formed
at Hampstead, Mingo's, and Rotherhithe, for team were
already before them. A great field of improvemeat was
there open to them, and the ezpenditure would be fevered
by an outlay of half a million of money for the whole of the
metropolis. Groat seaway was now aS the order of the
hoard, bat they contrasted greatly with the thongs halls-
isiaetioas of some gentleman a few days ago, who wished to
spend • millioa and a half of money for the bosefit of the
people of Gravesend, with which the people of the metro-
polis had nothing to do. That mosey was to be spout in
earryiag the sewage 41 mike instead of 12, sad that not for
the benefit of the metropolis. Ho mum from a dintriet
where then were no parks, sad reosatly he had asked the
people there whether they were prepared to bear the es.
peeve of a park for Islington, and they ananimeuely told
his that they would eheerfally pay the 'spew of it. He
felt sawed that if they were to ask every part of the metro-
polis lithe people Wald spend half a million for three parks,
they would have an allrasstive majority of seven to out.
Lately Lord reinstates had azprossod to a deputation his
willingness to put his band late the Treasury, and to give
some of the public mosey for the pompom of forming a park,
and he (Mr. Bosley) wee not Ism supelmod than gratified at
this set of his lordship's henessismoe. He should really
fool deeply grieved if the board ammo to a vote that they
would ant aadertake the giantism of parks, feeling con-
clamed that if they did so they would oppose the wishes of
theft tioastltssals._ _

After a few words from Mr. Wane, Mr. Howe replied.
The Commute put the gamin, when there appeared,
For remeladiag the rawhides h
Against it lll-1
The original moduli= stood thus
"That this board adwiewledce the importance of re.
taints( spas spasms fa the metropolis, sad the peat
improvement sad &dosages which would amuse to the
sentient maloub by the preservation of Hampstead-
heath, sad Its appropriation ma a plies of recreation
for the public, but i. of opiates that isprovesseste of math
greater ammeity sad advestap to the general pubis are
more groat sad desirable, sad, therefore, resolves sot to
ratertsiu the question of the purchase el laud for the purpose
of a park. Aced, moreover, it im the opinion of this board
that the power* matured by the Metropolis Local Mintage-
neat Act do sot authorise them to gas tits ratepayers for
sash *Nemo."
The board adjourned at 6 o'cloek

DasisATlC FAlLustm.—A correspondent of the
Athemaseas abeam@ that a curious chapter in the " Curiosi-
ties of Literature" could be made of " dramatic failures."
We should hays in such a chapter pour Golousith
"The little old Woman tossed up in a blankst,"—swallow.
lag doers his tears ore the first night of" The Good-natured
Mae," and Bliejoialeg with those who Wield to death his
owes Godwin sitting bolt upright in the pit
on the first n4ht of hit tragedy, as act after act ended in
most ominous wad sepulchral silence, declaring that "this
was precisely the effect which he had desired to produce,"—
that "he would sot for the world hare had the excite-
ment set in too gaily," and the like. But there
are sot many anecdotes of coolness and resigns.
ties cadet the deforms* in question more whimsical this
that told the other day by 11. Janis, in hisfeuilkunt, where
ha remonstrated with a young dramatist in Fresco, who
seems to hays been ill-lased by the public, and to hate bees
rating them very imprudently. The story is of Dumont',
we of the minor dramatists of old Faso., who.* pieces
were eery apt to fail ore the stage. When each an event
happened, he was in the habit of consoling himself with •
j oriel supper among his Mail of the Quests at the "Bag-
pipe." Bo well was this habit knows, that when his
aaughter went to one of her father's " first nights," she
used to say to him, philosophically, as even al ejnaptome of
disapprobation began to be heard, " Ah, father, you'll hate
to go end see at the Bagpipe' again to-night I"
A Fsw TEAM IN THE LIFE OF • JOHA—lot
year. It bouude laughingly Into the world at a meeting of
shots* spirits, and is saleerially proclaimed (3 e m) to be
" the best joke is the world." Tod It is repeated at all the
Clubs, isolading the Orieatal. 3rd. It reaches the draw-
lag-row of Heueellequate, and the tea sanctuaries of
Clapham. 4th. It Item on a provincial tour. loth.
a faros. 6:h. It appears In all the pantomimes, and all the
burlesques. 7th. It la quoted In the Morning Advertiser as
"Sydney Beath% last." • • 10th. It becomes understood at
blisaehester. 11th. It forms the subject of a beg parr read
at the Arcbgeoloakal fbeisty, in which Mr. Planctid proem
that It was first used in the Coliseum at Rome by no lees a
parson than Nero, who, at a moment's notice had Kindly
undertaken the part of the groat Widdicombe. 12th. It
appears as (mislaid in a 3s. 6d. monthly megasise. 13th.
The Lind John of the pitied incladaa it in the " Memoirs
sad Cones dense of Joseph Miller," wbleb he bee gene-
ma, ssdartaltea to edit In 10 Tab.—Pariah's Pohl
Desk lug.

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LONDON, 84TURD4Y, NOVEMBER 1.

THE intelligence jest received from the Caps is
anything but reassuring. The upect of affain when
the last despatches left the colony rendered it only
too probable that the turbuleet and warlike tribr of
Kallirlaad were on the eve of once more pushing their
predatory and murderous inroads across the frontier
and it is sot impossible that the defenders of the
border may ere this have been engaged in repelling
hostilities which, if not promptly and decisively sup-
pressed at the outset, may ultimately eventuate in
another Kaffir war. The accounts which have
reached us of the immediate origin and exciting cause
of the present disturbed state of the tribes are so ex-
traordinary u almost to pass credibili:y. They are
in fact only credible when we reflect that the Kaffir
has in a more than ordinary degree the proneness of
all semi•saysge races to a belief in the marvellous.
His fai►h once gained, the whole man becomes a slave
to its dominion, and acts under its influence with an
absolute disdain of consequences, which no other
stimulus is capable of producing. In most, it not in
all, of the previous Kaffir wars Dome prophet or
witch.doctor" has been, as an icstrument in the
hands of the leading chiefs, the i■mediate stirrer
up of strife. These impostors have been the
Jefferson Bricks or " war editors" of a race without
newspapers, and vigorously have they plied their
calling of " making Queen VICTORIA shake in her
shoes." The spirit of MAXIDINA and iliastaomet,
the instigators of pest disturbances, appears on this oat.
casion to have descended on the prophet UMELAILIZA,
a clever barbarian, who is stated to have been at one
time in the service of Archdnecn MIRRIXAN, of
Graham's Town, and has probably learnt enough,
by being thus brought into contact with Christian
ideas and civilised practices, to have fitted him the
better for the function of acting on the fears and
hopes of hieing' instructed fellow-conntryinen.

The doctrise preached by this prophet, and
implicitly believed in by thousands of the Kaffir
race, has at all events, as far as we are aware,
the merit of originality. A Kafir millennium,
according to UNIILAIAZA, is close at hand; all
the iflnitrions warriors who have fought and
perished in conflict with the white man are to rise
from their graves at the sound of • great trumpet,
and with them are to coots forth, from a vest
cavern near the mouth of the river Bei, innu-
merable multitudes of slain cattle, which shall
snake the tribessen rich with herds beyond
the limits of their wildest imagination : at the
woe moment • mighty tempest is to descend from
the mountains and sweep before it from the face of
the earth the intrusive strangers who have robbed the
Bair of his broad pesters lands. All this is promised
on one modifies ; and that oonditioa is, that the
tribes shall give proof of their faith by slaying or
selling all their existing cattle, scats, and poultry,
emptying all their grain pits, and in fact leaving
themselves without any ViSibla Wane of present sub-
mistimes. This proof, at the date of the last
&swam, bad literally been given by thousands of
the great tribes of the Tfilambies and Geleikast the
(hikes seder SAIODILLI had shown lie/ alacrity of
belief, but no great confidence can be placed in the
pertinence of their iaeredality, if it be true, as re-
ported, that their wary chief has stated to the British
Commissioner that "If he disobeys UNIMAK, Li, it is a
sin of ignorance, and he hopes GOD will not punish
him too severely." If we ask, is astonishment,
by what moans the " witch-doctor' has thee persuaded
the tribes to part with their present means of sub-
einem' in exchange for hie promised paradise of
restored affection, boundless moronice and boondlees
wealth, the reply is ready. Have not thouseade of
Baffin who have visited the prophet, declared
solemnly " that they could hear distinctly the bel-
lowing of the cattle underground and the noise of
their horns clangs' one against the other ? ' Such is
the force of imagination, aided probably by some
familiar trick of ventriloquism, over an ardent, ex-
citable, sod semi-neap vacs. Ica an age of Mor-
racreism and spirit-rapping, civilisation cannot afford
to indslp in too lofty a contempt for the enthusiastic
eagerness with whisk, on sash slender seldom *,l
barbarians runs into the belief of what with the
whale energy of their wild nature they passionately
deans to be true.
It is more important to ormaider Low far the
practical results of their &hakes may not operate,
almost as of neesmity, to bring about the calamity of
a Kaffir invasion. la this point of view the thing
looks serious. Their own grimed let astilled—their
meals pits empty—their cattle slain or sold, the
Whs, in order to live, must obvioanly have recourse

to the cattle and harvests of their neighboun.
ELAZAZA has of course been the tool of the chiefs,
and the astonishing success of his imposture hi.
materially advanced the policy of those leaders" who
delight in war." At the date of the last despatches,
the Prophet wait Meted to be with Komi, who,
though locally only chief of the Galeikaa, is virtually
the acknowledged and paramount heed of all the
Kaffir tribes. Bearing in mind the well-known
duplicity of these semi•barbarous rulers, we are
more disposed to attach importance to a fact
like this than to any professions of amity
and peace which the different local chiefs
may have conveyed to the Colonial Government.
Those who were on the spot, and whose perceptions
were naturally sharpened by a remembrance of past
perils, represented the state of thing. in British
Kaffraria at the end of last August as decidedly
menacing. The people were killing off their cattle
as fast as they could, and when Naked their reason
for doing so were sullenly silent; they were striking
work where they had been employed; they were busy
in sharpening their assegais; ocossienal rumours
were heard that "the Rsasi•ae were oomi•g to help
them," and mysterious allusions were made to some
forthcoming event as to which they evaded all
definite explanation. The general impression pro-
dead on those beet able to judge was that "a war
was in process of getting up."
It is indeed possible that if the colonial border be
early put in • state of efficient defence, actual
hostilities may be averted, or at all events speedily
suppressed. In this point of view it is satisfactory
to find that not only is the military force on the
frontier stated to be far more efficient than it has
been on the occasion of any periwig outbreak, but
that the colonists were showing themselves alive to
the duty and necessity of arming in their own de-
fence. The mounted polies were is a perfect state of
discipline: volunteer companies were forming at
Graham's Town and a rifle corps at Bathurst. This
is as it should be. The defence of the colonial
►order ought to be regarded rather Na a colonial
than an imperial concern. Responsible Govern-
ment has its privileges as well as its du-
ties, and though the forces of the mother
country could not of course be withheld in any crisis
of imminent danger, yet it is high time that the
colonists should learn to trust mainly to their own
right arms and their own resources for defence against
every class of enemies, except those which attack the
colony merely as forming a portion of the empire.
As long as the ties of colonial dependence subsist in
any shape, Great Britain is of course bound to protect
the settlers of Southern Africa from the hostile
aggression of any power with which, on her own
account, she may bosomed in hostilities. But the
obligation is somewhat different in the cue of the
inroads of native tribes. With regard to these it is
not just that the entire cost of protecting the Cape
colonists should be thrown on the British taxpayer.
Let us trust that we shall not be called upon to honour
another draft en the public purse for the expense of a
fresh Kaffir war.

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