The Express.
London, England, 1858-07-30 00:00:00

AN ABCNNT OP MONTI' .RO3A.

"It may interest your readers," writes a corres-
pondent, who dates from Brims, July 25, "to hear that
the ascent of Monte Rosa has been successfully moan-
plishad this year more than once by parties of Bugnehmen.
The two Masers. Norman had ascended the mountain the
week before we reached the hotel on the R.ffelberg, and on
the 20th inst. my brother and myself achieved the under-
taking in most splendid weather. The whole ascent, going
and recurniog, took exactly fifteen hours. It might well be
accomplished in fourteen hours if the guides would only
abstain from overloading themselves with provisions and
stopping unaseessertly to consume them by the way. We
were induced by the threatening appearanee of the weather
to defer our setting out from 2 a.m. until 4.15 a.m., at
which hour the sky end the mountains cleated before a
magnificent sunrise. We reached the Garner glacier in one
hour, and steered due 8.8. E. for another hour over the
ice, and crossing the deeply-fissured skirt of the Lys-kamm
glacier, reached the granite base of Monte Rosa, where the
ascent properly begins. Here the guides took a more
easterly direction for about half an hour, and passed over
the lower steps of the west stack, of Monte Rom. From
this point we reached another grease bed on the left, higher
up the mountain. Hence we steered again 8.8. E., and
crossing a shallow basin of snow, much Soured with small
crevices, began to ascend snowy elopes, that seemed
molly endless, and increased in steepness until we
reached a shoulder of the mountain between two of
the principal peaks. Oa our lett rose • steep frozen
slope, which we ascended by sister, the leading guide
cutting steps in the ice all the way. This steep brought us
to • granite ridge, • mild preparation for the tremendous
affair higher up. Here, too, we encountered • frown
slope still more awful than the last. Beyond it we found a
kind of arlie blanche, which had lately formed ea the edge
of the mountains, like the snow on the rLare of a
house, leaving just room enough fur the foot. Another
and smaller ice-slope brought us to the crowniag hor-
rors of Monte Rosa. The passage of this fearful wall, with
it, seemingly impassable coping-stones of granite, was both
long and laborious. All the energy and presence of mind of
the two guides seemed to be celled forth In conducting our
little party safely over this most awful of all bridges, '
which,
without a spot to rise the hand, the knee or the foot, crossed
• glaring abyss of glaciers thousands of feet below. It was
about midday when we reached the Hochate Spitze. The air
was almost emits still, and, in the noontide sunabine cf July
we scarcely felt the cold, althonah Fahrenheit's thermometer
marked 2.5 deg. in the shadow of a block of granite. On the
Swim aide the Alpe were rerfeotly clear, she atmosphere of
the valleys beingiust flecked with infant thunder-clouds
which lamblike s beneath a hundred snowy peaks. Mont
Corwin stocd teeth frost heal its naked grandeur, eclipsing
"the Monarch of Mountain.," who would whimsies
be visible from Monte Rosa. Then followed in grand suc-
cession Beet Blare, Gabel Horn, Weiss Horn, and Mis-
chats', with a dazzling beckground of numberless distant
peaks. The Italian aide wee partially obscured. The valley
of Aosta was clear, and, gleaming through the fleecy curtain
in a fusion of the richest tints, we had most glorious glimpses
of the plains of Piedmont and Lorebsidy. The passage of
the lower terraces of Monte Roes was both toilsome end
dangerous in the afternoon. In the morning we had crossed
the glaciers before they awoke from their icy slumbers, but
when we returned these drag. us of the Alta had everywhere
opened their jaws to swallow the unwary mountaineer. Each
of our party enjoyed in his turn the perilous privilege of
being hoisted out of • crevasse by the rest. I wilt, with your
permission, add a few hints for the benefit of others who
may wish to make this sweet. No person should attempt
the ascent singly with fewer than two guides. If the
party amount to two or more persons one guide for each will
suffice ; and let them take care to provide themselves with
snow gloves, blue :peptides, end thick veils, or they will
suffer fur their neglect as we did."

A THEATRICAL DISPUTE.—MdIIe. &merle, an
'them, is eogeged at the Anittgu Theatre et 6,000 fr. a year
and 20fr. foe each performance. to play first parte" In
melodramse. The theatre Well produced a melodrama called
the Bigiqa the " first part" of which, finnan, has been
performed by Mm., Lscreecienitre. As this lady'. mime-
want at the theatre was abut to men, and as the ran"
of the piece Is not yet at an end, the director of the theatre,
M. Chilly, requeeted MdUe. Lernicle to learn the part ; but
Mdlie. Lemerle refried, on the ground that, being engaged
to eat Rat parts," she could not be required to double"
a part first played by another. The director having 'misted,
she yesterday (Wedaesday) brought an action against him
before the Tribunal of Commerce, to hare it declared that, for
the re stated, be lied ne right to require her to play the
part. But the tribunal, after bearing argument". decided
that to emceed to a part is not the saute as to double it, end
that u it was es sneoessor to Mule. Laereennit':re, not as her
double, that the *Mit( wee required to piny the part, her
attics must be rejected with mato—Galloons.
AN AMERICAN " OttArtore."—A correspondent of
the Yew York nitarne, dmeribinp the celebration at Boston
of the 4th of July, writes Mr. Chnate's oration before the
assembled demoorato and their boot-blacks, the old-line
whir, VMS a wonderful pearly: ion. The rely first paragraph
contained two hundred and eivy-eix word., uttered by Mr.
Choate without panting for Me m/. Archer nentence
costaies over five hundred words is twelve inches long In
print, and is decorated with about two hundred end fifty
edjectivee. If that be not oratory, I should like to know
whet is! There wee a sentence containing directions to
mothers for the patriotic culture of infante, so precise
and explicit that no recipe for caudle or for gruel
was ever plainer. Mr. Choate thought that infants in the
cradle should be first tonight to say 'Washington; and then
I suppose' mamma.' There were directions for piecing
about the neck of the child upon its birth-day a Mount
Vernon medal, end for biking torn upon abort excurshu.s to
the graves of revolutionary patriots, and for swearing him,
re nine years old, to support the institution. The art of
bringing op babies is one in which we ell feel an interest ;
aid Mr. Choate will prove, like Godfrey's Cordial, &Mining
to parents. lilt erection", however, need abridgement. A
boy might grow to be a Benedict Arnold before hie mother
could finish reading them. Mr. Choate should abridge them
for the use of the nanny end the primary school."
ELECTRIC COMMCNICtTION BETWEEN LIVER-
TOOL AND HOLTHEAD.-05 tbe 10011011 of Mr. Mendel,
amccmppoind.dtedbay Mcome.milit.'teebbackto e'otoh.7 e Mderir"theY feep?ibilbrtyrd Yandesct.:aradtay
of
an improved spite'. of communication between Liverpool
and Hot hued. Mr. Mandel showed that in coserquence of
the varieble weather end other canons the prevent semaphore
system was utterly unless for about 100 days is every yeer.
sad he pointed out many inapertent advantages which would
arise both to the convenience of commerce and to the pro-
tection of life end property by an electric chain of memo-
siltation.
THE HEALTH or raroor.—At a meting of
the Liverpool Health Committee yesterday (Thursday), Dr.
Duncan, the medical officer of said that his enaction
lad berm called to • work by Dr. Greenhorn, in which it was
stated that Liverpool was the unhealthiest town In the kimp
dna, and that the pereentage of deaths woe 38 In 1,000. Dr.
Dusan mid that such statements would have been tree 16
years ago, but they were not now,' the recent sanitary open-
tine of the corporation having need at least 2,000 lives a
year. The percentage of deaths was about ZIO in 1,000, and
since 18.51 Liverpool had been healthier than Manchester. ,
The deaths in Liverpool test week were below the corrected
average of the same week of the preceding ten years.
We quoted in our impresstonal. yesterday a para-
erspli from the Moraiag Tea, tote effect that Sir Juan
Dean Paul had beano a lunatic in Pentonville Prison. We
are informed that our contemporary is mistaken. Sir John
Dean Paul is In Pentonville Prison, but is Ws urusl
Postal es wet u paysiesl.