The Express.
London, England, 1851-06-07 00:00:00

ethsh theturbad deadened their asteroid lassitude-

tee.
Ur did net seek to rival his blether in Me eta ke—be
th.oKht that be never coals sat bitterly resigned to •
sari of his own inferiority of sad Wed, he Rtve
klui•elf up to idleness, sad himself to be what .
ethers said he was. His shereeter, too, unappreciated by'
tho,c arond him, was asd harshly acted apes;
far tear t .1 a child's real and form • system of
education Inked to it, eney timid has a distinct in-
to,,....thsVsa. charatter, +WA. le he *led developed, ought
....4
.. 'tidied. Bat is egeseal educate children
in a whoi,nile way, as if a set ef with which they
set on one child'. dispoaise de ell.
Toe humph vet's was peened.
lit mind womb his
indohnee not al so issumanontedslo m it appeared to
be; but, by injudicious treatment, and actual tinkled's.=
at time., he bad been cowed down into a state of despair,
sad it wi. only jealousy that ever aroused him from his
seeming iniLfUrence. It was jealomy that urged him to
his eight fr ea home ; be had sickened for kis parents'
love, felt that be did not pousees it, sad is the
seam of his slighted affection he lied from their protenkst,
cave up the rights that, yoaag though he was, be knew he
possessed to the brother they so fe.dl7 loved, and resolved
to work, and to corn his own living, that they may not,"
he thought. . wish fur my death!
Poor child—the shaft of sorrow had stricken his bead
right early' and though his eight was open tocensure, that
step was well expiated in alFsr years by many a pang of
bitter grief.
!low this forlorn truant goes through all kinds of
hardship, is befriended by a doctor at the request
of a young. lady and gentleman, who casually
meet ciim in the street—how he becomes
in time, a medical practitioner, is called upon to
attend some relative—how he is brought back to his
family—assumes the parental title—(whichhis hand-
some brother had worn in the meantime)—how be
is still snubbed till he saves his brother from ship-
wreck—and how. finally, be marries tne young lady
who befriended him when he was a beggar in the
streets—are matters which the reader will find duly
unravelled before he closes the third volume. The
dissipated brother, also. has a love affair with a
young peasant girl, while he is engaged to the
heiress of the eccentric old gentleman, and,
atter having made dishonourable proposals, offers
marriage. The indignant peasant girl (who is no
less a person than the heiress in disguise) lectures
the young man, imposes penalties, consisting of ab-
stmence from di,siputions of various kinds, and ulti-
mately agrees to marry him. The scene between the
disi.mised young lady and Lord Itavenshill is grace-
fully written. We extract it :
THE HIIIISIS IN DISGUISE.
Annie lifted her dark eyes to his face.
" Do ou love me so much, then ?" asked she.
" Do I not ?" replied Lord B,avenshill, " Annie, it is the
depth of my passion fur you which renders me miserable."
The young girl paue for a moment ere she answered
him; she glanced towards him half mournfully, then •
quiet, singular smile paned over her features, and she said,
. Why so ? What reasons are there that your love for
no should render you unhappy ?"
His lordship turned away from the inquiring, yet trust-
ing look oflove, expressed within her dark, clear eyes, and
answered in a low, constrained voice,
" It would not, if I could do as my own heart prompts
me to do, Annie ; for then I would make you my bride ;
and you, dearest, should share with me the scanty honours ,
and riches I poseen. But this I cannot do; my father .
would never forgive me if 1 did—because he wishes me to
wed a rich bride, a Miss Childe, one whom I have been
partially engaged to since childhood, so that her wealth may
arrest the downfall of our house—which rumour and truth
say is near at hand. Do not start—do not glance towards
me in terror, Annie—l never will—is not my heart already
yours? And yet—and yet—his irrevocable anger would he
directed against me did I, during his lifetime, follow the
wishes ray love for you teaches me--did I make you my
wife—dare 1, at present, do so, dearest Anr.ie ?"
" No," replied the young girl, verse quietly ; but Lord
Raveushill saw by the distinct light oldie ninon that her
brow was contracted as it were with pain. " No, we should
obey our parents conic what will. Must we part then?"
she added, more hurriedly, and her breath seemed more
suddenly and shortly drawn, while her utterance became
partially impeded, 4. Must we never meet again i"
" Annie," answered Lord Itavenshill, and not unwil-
lingly she suffered him to draw her to his side. " Annie,
do not say that—l cannot beat it." And there was •
reuses an embarrass d one it seemed on the Hart of his lent-
ship, and then--" Annie," he murmured. as the younggirl
lent her large soft eyes still trustingly, still lovingly on his
countenance, " dearest, in some things you are shove the
prejudices of your tea, you have views of your own—are
nobler, wrier—are there not other links that can bind us
together. more truly, more disinterestedly than those which
the ...rid deems so indispensable the links of true, self-
meritieing election ? Come with me, Annie; reign over
my h, art— make cue your slave fur ever—you shall be my
hi arf• idol."
Ile made a slight pause of a few neon& in which Annie
might have spoken; yet she did not ,lo so. Still leaning on
his ann, utterly niotiouless, perfectly silent, but with her
eyes cast downward on the ground, she appeared to listen
to him half dreamingly, and he, seeing that the had as yet
testified no displeasure at his words, imagined she demurred
over them, listened to his tempting., and he continued—
" Part—must we part? Ilan not my spirit sought yowl?
is on my heart knit to yours ? has not my every thought
and feeling bent of late bound up in you ? to part will be
death to you, deed* to me. Think of the long dreary
morrows that will bring us uo hope of seeing each other,
when the loved tome of the voice we were once wont to
hear will be remembered but as dream-music of tho past,—
sad the Mare and the past alike must be clothed with woe.
Annie, will you doom us both to suffer this ? no, no, you
cannot, you will not, be mine ; let not the paltry censure
at the world =trammel you with its idle blame; be the
brght star of my destiny, my heart's only dear cue! love.
Amin, lon each as ours will hallow the tie; ever faithful,
ever losing through life, it will bear us an to pinions—joy.
Where the spirit of the beautiful lingers, there will we
rows—i• the lands of the east we will wander; these
bright eyes now =sing on me shall shine amidst the glories
of southern dimes, amidst their orange and myrtle bower,
their silver fountains, rippling river... moonlight seas; there
others hate loved as we will love—happily, enduringly—
bound by no tie. but these of everlasting affection, only
fettered by the heart's own chain. Annie, even uow in
yonder distance wait fleet steeds to bear us far away
AII,IIIV. my own, my beautiful, shall not this glorious life
he oun
Still motionleu, utterly motioning, Annie continued to
lean upon Lord Itavenshill's arm the while he spoke .. but
gradually she slightly turued her head more directly
towards Isis face, and bent her eyes upon his with an in-
quiring. wonder-stricken look; then, as he proceeded to
unfold his views more eagerly, more clearly, they grew
almost stony in their perfect immobility of expression.
When his last words died away in the moonlight solitude
around them, that look slowly changed to one of grief,
whet, grew upon her features almost imperceptibly at Hest,
es iffier feelings were only gradually awakening from a
slnth.like chill ; yet the strength of its expression, though
it gathered slowly, never slackened in its increase, and at
length the actual depth of her emotion was fully manifested
in a heed and dreamy gaze of intense suffering. She did
sot speak, she did not move, nor did Lord Itavenshill im-
mediately ; for. surprised by her strange change of coun-
tenance, which exhibited neither anger. pride, nor even a
reluctant assent to his wishes, he hesitated for a moment
before here-urged his suit, that he might aim his words with
more efface Wanderingly attest one of Annie's little hands
was retried to her face, while the other still rested in Lord
Itavenshill's; pasting it over her eyes she seemed to collect
her scattered thoughts, and as she did so, she turned her
head 'aide, " Pawed, passed:" she murmured, in an almost
YOlactilli whisper—" The dream has paesed—ab ! God for-
give him ."
Aud fully herself, she attempted to leave him, with the
intention of eutering the house, but be yet detained her
hand. and she could not. The utter absence of all anger in
her words or gestures misled him into a wrong appreciation
of the feelings his words created in her mind.
" We meet met part—at least not now," he said, " you
must promise to ease me again—bear me. You are the life
of guy seal-1 swum live without you. You do not know the
mad melon whisk peewees me. Annie• have com-
paenua; me one sweet weed of distant hope."
The col
with which Annie had tried to dis-
engage her =NS Lard Rarenshill's ceased, sa he
uttered the lan weed, sad she stood quietly by his side,
ao she answered him
- Hope'" ski repeved, half bitterly, sad dm best her
dark bright eyes tesersedilds fees, while the Isms Where&
slowly within them, and fall alma her pals *eft deep by
drop. " yea ask thus I should give yen beget eel of
what ? of my besewsiee the frailty thing yes wilt see le
be. You weal tempt sae —*ore me—dzede me-40 ii
thus you love ? Wes it for this you soe
ITmintrup p
for this yesa ted my heart to centre its w em
you. and mead a truth and honour, so tart . ...._
_Pa
showed your falseness, and urged me to alowdes ell I wee
hitherto held dear, the struggle on my past might be the
more cruel—your success more easy ? And I love you—and
my heart which clang to yours as something nobler than
itself must brook this—brook the knowledge that you are
false, dishonourable, selfish—guilty before Heaven emu
now--and would be so on earth where she whom you
.!rat
so Idly as weak as . you imagine her. Lord Rae
Lord Ravenshill, loving you as I do, can any earthly
be more bitter than this .?"
/lad with bar last words Annie's calmness pared away,
ma she wept psenismaft Me bitterly.
" Let me pan," abe aded, • moment afterwarb, "way
Mbar wit' fee me—let me_psis."
o Am..," rejoiesd Lard Hamelin, not hie re.
speak Aside, ii we trembling, weeping—pm me
yet! ibis par is • hittersee to you even sew ; sad its
east peeps an to ems."
ss AD, as, *s went an pest already," mgrieved she.
"slew 1 Mew yes te be a that 1 ever preyed you We*
ast be ; sad if I wasp, beware my life's happier' is soy
gam me, tenses I Pad hat yes ate sot what I t
pera wee•—it I leanikki knew my heart is sick from
hive it has neon* yet. Dad of Renee ! I do not waver
is ay abbesses, eat whet 1 hers bstseed to. De oat pr-
im be dossiolog ms bare—de set let me ends bear that
weisiLl diabikkesa bear* ; if pa knew Me my heart
bleeds et easy De* word yes VW yea wield Wpm le
dm* egellee. Lent Beevillk, I veld gamut keen W

you to implore your silmsee, for my 'OM Aims beneath
the truths it is sow disarming, my heart is mitberbse se
yours is laurelled to its rim"
In conclusion, let us ask the author if he believes
'that there exists in the world a woman so lost to
parental feeling as the mother of his heroine? Has
not he read the records of nature with more truth,
who declares that the lame child is doubly dear to
all about it?

How to See Ow Exhibit:ow. By W. IliAscaoao JszooLo.
Bradbury sad Emma
To master an exhibition of dimensions and variety
so unparalleled u that of the Crystal Palace is no
easy task to the visitor who is introduced there for
the Bret time; as the crowds of bewildered s tators
who may be encountered any morning in the tran-
sept of that building amply prove. To supply •
straightforward guide to the building is the ob-
ject of the series of four sixpenny of which
the above-mentioned is the first. Mr. Jerrold here
describes the more remarkable articles to be seen in
the transept, nave, and south-western section of the
British department, and certainly lave out work
enough for one visit. With this methodical little
book in his hand, the stranger need not be lost
amid the multiplicity of objects which surround him
in the Glass Palace.

Davidson's Musical Treasury. London : Doc-
tors'-commons.
Little Pines for Little Players, arranged to mat SISOU
Hands. ]lord.
Little Songs for Little Singers, Easy to Sing and Easy to
clay. -Ibid.
Classical Songs of Germany. Book 1., with German and
English Words. Ibid.
Davidson's Standard Oratorios Ibid.
The Messiah. By HANDEL. Parts Ito 5.
Davidson's Illustrated Libretto Books. With English Ver-
sion, and the Music of the principal Airs. " Don Pas-
quilt," by Donisetti • Norma," by. Bellini ; Gustavus
III.," by Auber ; " Giovanni, ' by Kogan; " Der
Freisrbuts," by Weber; "Cinderella," by Rossini;
" Kasarnello "by Scribe and Anber ; Barber of Se-
silk," by RMaini ; Piano Forte Duets, part 19; " The
Battle of Prague," by Rot:wars. Ibid.
Operatic Gems. Arranged as pianoforte pieces. " Norma"
by flguasi. Ibid.
England's Wekome to all Nation,. Words by Mr. F. A.
DAVIDSON. Music by 11. Russell. Ibid.
Polkas. "The British Queen," composed by FILLY!.
"The Great Exhibition" Polka and Galop, composed by
S. Pansy. "The Paxton and Crystal Palace Polkas,
by B . KILLER and Josern Von JoeL. " The
Quadrille of all Nations," commemorative of the Great
Exhibition. Composed by itchier Wier. Ibid.
One of the " signs of our times" is the manifest ir-
grease of a taste for music, and the consequent spread
' d musical education. The middle classes now seek
kr their children some tuition in an art formerly
cared for by few, and, indeed, heretofore almost ex-
elusively confined, as a general educational rule,. to
the very wealthy. Now-a-drys a piano is beginning
to be a part of the fittings of all comfortable houses ;
the girls all learn to play, whilst amongst the people
to whom such refinements are forbidden by want of
means—amongst the really poor—we find the child-
ren by tens of thousands being taught in the national
schools the art of singing upon Hullah's method. In
truth, we are in a fair way for becoming a really
musical people, and the day is probably not very far
distant when we may rival in this respect some of
the continental nations, who have hitherto been so
far in advance of us in the knowledge and enjoyment
of the " heaven of sweet sounds." Before, however,
this anticipated national musical millennium can ar-
rive in England we must change a few of our pre-
sent arrangements, and one which cries loudly for
reform is the mode of publishing new music. When
the musical public was a very small body, it MO
easy to understand why a publisher should demand
for a single ballad, or a short instrumental piece, a
sum so large as two or four shillings. The market
was limited, and those who wanted musical
novelty must, amongst them, make up a sum
sufficient to repay those who produced it. But that
is all changed, however, and, as we have just said,
the musical portion of the English nation has grown
enormously. The constituency has been enlarged—
the patrons are now told in thousands instead of
tens—and the ancient fee of two shilling is no
longer justified or justifiable upon the old plea of the
musical public being deficient in numbers. We live
in an age of cheapness. The loaf, that was once
worth eighteenpence, is now to be bought for six-
pence ; s swayed by tho influences that have thus
ands ths WO necessary of life more easily par-
dossablab dont all other commodities are obtain-
able krlsgswas_ is 7 than they commanded a few years
rlipChop Nisi brigs lo its wake cheap clothes,
balm and Amp books. Before us we have
new dna, though slowly, the same law of
=Pallk paving this way for giving us cheap
.The old established music sellers still hold
to the old extrasagaat charges, and to them at pre-
sent we owe no thraka. If they see the error of
digit ways, sod &mid reform them, the merit of
*air @sovereign will be largely due to Mr. Novelle
kr big typoidnlod music, and:to Mr. Davidson, the
pubisher— of the works at the lead of this notice—
who offers ths sesisical world selections from various
excellent masters—popular operas—good exercises
for pupils and ballads for players, both young and
old--all well and cleanly printed from types—
at a price infinitely below the rates at whichsethpro-
ductions have heretofore been and are still glgswhers
charged. The publisher who ventures his caphol and
his skill in such a work of musical reform, Arsarvee
all praise and support. •It will be seen by the list
given above, that Mr. Davidson's publications are
sufficiently numerous to suit all tastes and all classes
of players, ranging from the chef-crceurres of Wood
sod Rossini to the humble simplicities of "Little
Fasces for Little Players." Let those who are mo-
ire, therefore, show their estimation of the effort to
supply cheap and good music by patronizing such
Gibbons. We do not now seek to criticise their
logistic character, but wish merely to draw
earnest attention to the evidence they give of progress
in a right direction, and to claim for them the public
support they richly deserve.

His Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen arrived in
town yesterday from the residence of her Royal Highness
the Duchess of Kent, Frogmore, nem Windsor. His Se-
rene Highness visited her Majesty's Maths last evening.

A deputation from the Royal ha: Improvement Society
of Ireland had an interview with thr Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, yesterday, at his °facial nsidence in Downing
street. The deputation :consisted of Yr. Tennant, Y.F.,
Mr. Marshall, 11. P., Lord A. E. Hill, M.P., Colonel Bow-
don, M.P., Mr. Crawford, M.P., Hon. T. Veiny puma,
M.P., Sir A. B. Brooke, Bart., M.P., Viscount Bernard, M.P.,
Slr.Conolly, M.P., Mr. O'Flaherty, M.P., Mr. McCullagh,
M.P., Mr. M. J. O'Connell, M.P., Mr. Corbally, M.P., lir.
Greene, M.P., Colonel Dunne, M.P., Dr. Power, M.P., Mr.
Herbert, M.P., Mr. G.A. Hamilton, M.P., Viscount Jocelyn,
M.P., Mr. Sadlear, M.P., Mr. Scully, M.P., Mr. O'Brten,
M.P., Mr. Tenison, M.P., Mr. Monsell, M.P., Mr. Grace,
/CP., Mr. J. S. Crawford, Mr. Hancock, Dr. M'Kibbin,
and Mr. Macadam.

Mr. Whyte Melville had an interview yesterday with Sir
Charge Grey at the Home-oMee.

The Rector of Liverpool, chairman of the select vestry,
aoeinapaaied by Mr. Cardwell, M.P., had an interview
with the Hight Hon. H. Laboachens yeeterday, at the Board
of Trade.

Mr. Grenville Berkeley, M.P., and Mr. G. E. Williams,
a deputation from Cheltenham, had an interview with the
General Board of Health yesterday at their one., White-
hall.

Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-oaks
from the Governor of Van Dieman's Land. Dispatches
were mat of yesterday from the Colonial-office to the Clover- I
nor of the Canada. and the governon of the other North
American colonies.

Bagwzit's COVET RAGGED SCHOOL—The third
masa meeting of the supporters of the Brewers-smut,
Drury-lane, Ragged School, was held on Thursday night
at the Mule Hall. Stort-street, liusselloinare, to moo
the report of the past year, and floe Ober boluses ; Lord
Kimura is the chair. After tei=rodiefaizz
had hos goo through, the
secretary to read the report, whisk Noe& that Zwilahers'
weekly scion ow well and regshety asardsd, and that
the best dhelgibe sad order gesesied Ibis as in the
ettfte digartmesh ; the avenge sehaduse la the girls'
day selest had bus 33, whin' &rod a putgoes.
The regs!t farther stated that ia the sea* ef her
last as meat abed bad hem estabibied whisk was
w
well, and that elm the deg sisal was ageesda
Allem entered, widths smalswia withy's inereesed
M Id, and dose the swift fM stgpd ehildsts were ad-
witted. the avenge author st deitg aftsadesis was 130; it
wseterhar sesiedthet by the @whams shim salweihsis mad
Meads of the saes", tin sambise bed bees sided to
seed oat ow lic* Ausiesis. The south dohs the
year bed beta sod the swgeadhese WA b. Id..
{sarisg a lishrsola boob of thelleaftweeed Milk IL
The newt wessimbroady adopted, sod sllwiss=
he the easslai we, after which retelatioas la
et the oldish et the abode way shyest