The Express.
London, England, 1862-04-15 00:00:00

London : T. Ilicluuxts, 37, Great Qieen-aereet,

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LITERATURE.

Remains of the late Mrs. hichard Trench ; being
Selections front her Journals., Letters, and other
Papp,. Edited by her Sox, the Dean of West-
minster. London : Parker, Son, and Bourn.

Thevitief value of this book lies in the insight it
gives us into the habits of the higher classes during
the first quarter of the present century and a short
portion of the last. The literary remaius are inte-
resting so far as they reveal to us the thoughts and
feelings of a very accomplished and pious woman,
het they are of too fugitive a character to Gall for
,critical examination. The subject of the memoir
shrank from the public exhibition of her literary
powers during her life, and we ought not, now that
she is dead, to subject them to any severe ordeal.
As the utterances of a very pure and refined mind
they will be welcome to increasing numbers, and
they serve admirably to complete the picture which
the editor has given us of his revered mother. It
is tp besgretted that the papers she left behind,
and especially her journals, reached the hands of
the editor only after the lapse of thirty-five years
from the date of the latest, and then in a very mu-
, =and fregmentari The
nta contains WS records of irriAlleir
many during the years 1799-1801, a most important
era in the history of that country. It includes
notices of some of the chief political and fashionable
celebrities of the period. The account of the little
cost at Hanover is extremely lively, and amongst
other csiosities albedo us a glimpse of the
Dfa-
richal de Walmoden, the son of George IL and
Lady Yarmouth. The terrors of the French Revo-
lution had produced extraordinary effects in Chi-
mney, and its influence upon the interior life of
the warts are moat graphically depicted in these
papers The Emperor of Russia appears to have
beat the bite noir of diplomacy at that time. Mr.
Elliott at Dresden, declared him to be a greater
Jacobin than Robespierre. A horrible story is
given, upon what appears to have been good autho-
rity, of the savage cruelty of the imperial madman.
Two aumau beings were seen, in one of the carriages
for transporting prisoner!, fastened together by it
chaie passed through their cheeks, and secured by
a padlock ; one of them was actually a corpse, and
his unhappy companion was dying with thirst.
Amongst the noted characters met with by the
anther was Madame de Cachet, the heroine of Le
Vault* who commanded 22,000 men, and was re-
peatedly wounded in battle—about hose achieve-
ments and pretensions the editor expresses very
serious doubts. Miss Cornelia Knight also turns
up in company with Lord Nelaou and the Hamil-
tens, gad the author's opinion of her position by no
measoorroborates Miss Knight's own statements
in bet recently published volume. Lady Hamilton
is described as bold, forward, coarse, assuming,
end vain, with a colossal figure, large bones, and
hideous feet." Lord Nelson "is a little man with-
out any dignity." Sir William Hamilton "is
old, infirm, full of admiration for his wife,
and sever spoke to-day but to applaud
her." Miss Cornelia Knight "seems the de-
cided flatterer of the two, and never opens her
mouth but to show forth their praise." There is a
good deal more about the Hamilton party ol an
incisive bet very graphic kind. From 1801 to 1806
them are few memoranda, but the deficiency is made
up by a description of Mrs. Trench, from the con-
temporary pen of her intimate friend Mary Lead-
beater, a member of the Society of Friends. The
remainder of the volume is made up of scraps of
journals and correspondence with various persons.
Mrs. Trench travelled a good deal on the continent,
and neglected no opportunity el seeing all persona,
plaoes!and °Weds of intiess,_ /*setter not quite'
so easy in days anterior to Murray Se that great
guide of dilletanti and lad sheep has made it.
Amongst other portions which will well repay peru-
sal in an account of the famous Abbe Siccard's
method of teaching the deaf and dumb, and bow
he explained his construction of "Le pont qui
conduit du monde visible au monde intellectuel."
The letters to Mr. Trench, who was detained in
France by the perfidious act of Napoleon after the
short peace of Amiens, are very lively and enter-
taining. They contain abort notices from personal
observation of many celebrities—amongst others of
Napoleon and Josephine, the Abbe; Debi* Isabey
the painter, Madame Recamier, Mdlle. Rancourt,
Mdlle. Duchesnois, and Berthier ' • and numbers of
piquant anecdotes, which do not redound always
to the credit of those to whom they refer. The
volume, on the whole, is one that will be sure to be
read ; for although it is strongly tinged with the
old aristocratic spirit in church and state, it is
written with much ease and gracefulness. The
great charm of the work, however, is its endless
variety, and the consciousness with which it im-
precise the reader that its statements are true, and
its reflections and sentiments the utterance of an
accomplished and pure-minded woman of the period.

CHURCH VOLUNTARTIBM IN CLIIRKILKWILLL.—The
church of St. Phillip, Granville-sqnsze, possesses no endow-
ment whatever, and bas no pew-rents, all the seat, being
free, the stipend of the incumbent, the church expenses,
and gifts to the poor, being wholly derived from the free-
will offerings of the people; and Mr. Austin, the church-
warden, states that the amount so received for the past
month hes been:—Offertory, 211. 14s. Oid.; evening collec-
tion, 9/. ls. 94d.; alms boxes, HS. 10d.—total, 31!. 4..
This sum has been divided, to the incumbent, 17/. Ils. 10d. ;
church expenses, 101. Bs. 7d.; poor, 2/. 4s. 3d.; choir fund,
N.; blanket fund, sc; and district church fund, IN.—total.
31/. 4s. Bd. The offertory during the put year amounted
to 4771 6s. 00.—fflerkentoen Dial.

GREAT has AT FALMOUTIL—The busy little
seaport town of Falmouth has just been the scam of a
terrible conflagratioo, which threatened to destroy the prin-
cipal part of the borough, and which bas resulted in the
total destruction of thirty houses' together with a large
amount of property isootained therein, and entailing
the greatest distress on many families. The fire broke
out on Ludgate-hill, it is supposed, in the store
at the back of • grocer's shop, about 1 o'clock
ou the morning of Saturday. The wind was blow-
ing strongly . from the harbour at the time, end
the flames rapidly spread to the houses on the right and left,
and ultimately to those on the opposite side of the way,
Ludgate-hill being a very marrow and ancient street. Theirs
quickly assumed such magnitude that it became manifest that
to extinguish it was hopeless, and all efforts were therefore
conesatrated to the limiting it to as small an area as possible.
With this view four houses were pulled down, one on either
side at both ends of the street. These measures were so far
successful, and the loss was limited to 2ti houses buret and
four pulled down. Prompt steps have been taken to relieve
the immediate wants of the homeless families, and their
pecuniary losses sill, in some measure, be met ultimately by
the insurance Oka. The Sun, Alliance, and County, are,
it is believed, the companies most largely interested.
FATAL MACHINERY ACCIDENT.—On Saturday,
Mr. Louis Bolton, plasterer, of Great Horton, near Brad-
ford, and a man in his emolument., were standing no a
plank, engaged in whitewashiog the ceiling in a room of
the works of Mr. George Hodgson' machine maker, Thorn-
ton-road, Bradford. One end of the plank suddenly
the moo, who was upon it, was thrown upon the ground ;
while his master, Mr. Bolton, being thrown slightl7 n.F"
wards by the coocumaion at the other end, was caught my
the ends of his necktie by a revolving shaft with whisk he
came in contact, and latently strangled. He was shock-
ingly mutilated by the violence with which he was drawn
round. The engine was stopped in two trainutea, and the
body immediately removed, but life was extinct. A peat
portion of his clothing was torn from the body, and lei
wrapped tightly round the shaft.
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FATAL AccinaNT.—Yesterday morning a well-
known dissenting minister, named Henry Wheeler, who
had reached the advanced age of Ol years, and who Gelded
at Greenetreet, Bethualireen, slipped and fell to the
bottom on to the landing of the stairs with fearful Tidied&
When picked up it was found that the unfortunate roan bed
fractured the upper portion of the vertebra) of the meek.
A cab was at once procured, end the deceased was removed
to the London Hospital, where every aid that skill could dri-
ves was rendered, but he expired shortly after hisadiniasios.
The deceased was the author of weevil religious works, and
cue publication bad rattled its 13th edition. It was entitled,
"A CollfalliOn of the Glorious Troths of the Gospel." He
was universally respected in the district' of Bethnal-green
slid Milwand.

. Rox&i 7w HosprrAL, GRAY'S-INN-IN:MD.-
71n Dumber of petiolate relieved at this hospital &win the
week tediai April 12 wee 2,882, of which 790 were DOW
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