The Express.
London, England, 1860-06-08 00:00:00

LONDONDERRY CITY.

Thie committee met again thie day ; Mr. S.
Fitzgerald in the chair.
Mir F. Slade replied on the part of the sitting member,
Mr. W. MVarmick, and pmceeded to show that the con-
tract fietween Mr. MY2ormick and the PoModlee wax not a
contract within the meaning of the act upon which the peti-
tion pnicesend, and that even it were a contract Mr. M'flor-
mirk had not concluded it with the Pint-office, nor was
there any privity hetwiem him andthe railway company,
The room was then cleared, and when it was re-opined
the chairnme announced that the committee were of minion
that Mr. M'Cormick was duly elected to serve in the pre-
meat parliament.

THE FENI•LI WHOM. or ART AND DEAD:CH.—A
emirergazione in fixed to take place at the South Kensing-
ton Museum, for the parpoee of raising a fund foe erecting
the building for Use Femme School of Art. The east-eras.
11110( will ba held, by permission of the Lotd President
of the Council, co Thursday evening, June 21, at 9 o'clock.
By the gracious permission of the Queen, the Koh-i-noor
diamond, which has been recut since the Exhibition of ISM,
will be exhibited ; together with a collection of ancient and
modern jewellery, which the council of the Fine Arta Club
has kindly consented to provide for this occsaion. The
Marquis of Salisbury will liberally contribute the services
of the band of the Plertfunishire Militia for the night. The
admission will be by tip kets which may be obtained of
any member of the umlintaboe of the Female School of Art;
or of Miss Gann, the superintendeot of the school, 37,
Gower-street ; or of Mr. Philip Cunliffe Owes, at the
South Kensington Museum, nil of whom will also receive
donations.

°HAND NATIONAL PHONON SHOOTING HANDICAP.
—Arrangements are now toeing made for a handicap shooting
ewaprkr epee to all the world. Competitors are to be
mooed* to past performances, but
wino be net woo a sweepetakes dunng the =La
years MO be heated as non•wuniers. They are to shoot at
1.5 Muds sash, free snips, and to have the use of both barrel/4
The priseeseney will be apportioned thus - let prise, 100
awes. ; bd psirt 30 sows ; 3rd prier, 20 wan.4th prise,
Hews. • 10 sows. ; and Gth prize, 5 sows. The
IMINIEF;INaIIy be sow., nod 5 ans. in case of se-
espienei• The competitors will be handicapped by the
,ate gentleman who lies recently bad scattier; to display
his skill. A grand day's sport may be anticipated.
THE STIITRIT OF WA NlNotno No TOBACCO IN
LINTRFooL AND LONDoIt. -At the weekly meeting of the
Ilemey Dock Hoard yestenlay (Thursday) a long discussion
took plant conmeloent on the complaint of several importers
el tobacco into Liverpool against the charges for wate-
tobaco a
t thaw t
Va. 'As tobaccoe
twltrah""' lessee i vtehre.
een's tobacco warehouse, has recently made his warehouse
ages the subject of much dimatisfaction amongst the tin-
porters of tobacco in Liverpool, Inasmuch u his charges are
much more than those of the Victoria Docks in London.
Mr. Derbyshire a member of the board and importer of to-
bacco, showed that the charges for warehousing and porter-
age of the same amount of tobacco in Liverpool and Lon-
don amounted in the former place to upwards of 11,0001.•
while is Loudon it did not amount to mock more than;
4,000 r. The chairman (Mr. Tomer) denounced the coo-
duct of tire gomniment is pima( ea act which allowed a
private iaMv is become the Immo of government re.
cease, sad the as mercies a mug inioeldevene sad unfair
luanPni other members cenigkled of the con-
duct of the prreramest in snowing a private individual
to monopolies • position which might either to be • govern-
ment office or else thrown open to any person who clue
to license hie warehouse for the storing and bonding of
tobacco.

°LIMA AND BATTZR. —A man would be very
much mortified to think that at fifty be did not write ma-
terially better sermons, &rays, or articles than be did at
fiveandtwenty. In many thwilite know. the autumn of
life is • falling off from its a time. He hae ceased to
dance ; Lis voice quavers ahnenina y when he tries to sing;
he has potency Sow for climbing hills, sadheshirks walks of
forty miles a day. Perhaps deeper wrinkles have been
travel by time ma the heart than on the forehead, and the
early freshmen of feeling is
,trone. But surely in mellowed
exprrieoce, a sobered and *mad views of things, in tem-
p.-red eape.ta ion., flu patience, in sympathy, in kindly
charity. in insight into Gore wars sad dealings, he is
better now a thousand time* than be was then. He has
worked hie war through the hectic stage in which even
able and thoughtful men fancy that Byron we. a great poet.
A ~,wcler jWgwent end • severer team direct him now ;
in all things, in short, that make the essence of the mealy
eater*, be is • better and further advanced man than lie
ever was before. The physnul nature says, by many
little sigma, we are going down hill; the spiritual
nature testiffes by many mottle piles and aequirerneata, •
we are gulag uoward and upward! It mama to me
that the cleegyman's state of feeling meet be a serious
nue, who, on • tae Monday morning, when he is slaty, out
take out of his drawer a sermon which he wrote at five-and-
twenty, and go sod preach it with perfect approval and
without the alteration .4 • word. It la somewhat mortify.
lag no doubt, to look at • sermon which he wrote eight years
gibe*, sad wWich you then thought hellbent eloqueuce, and
to fuel that is your prevent Judgment it la no better than
tawdry histhia. Hut still, Iv friend, even though you
to lad that ycu must throw the sermon suede sad
peseL it ao more, are you not secretly pleased at this proof
mach your maul has grown in these ie."? It is Or-
ient to think that you have nut been falling off—nut stead-
ing still. The wings of your inuigivatiou are somewhat
dipped indeed, sad your style has lest something of that
phi which goes with want of coosideration. time youth-
lel judges may think that you have sadly fallen uff ;• but
us re content in the Arm eoyou avietioe that have will
unproved. It was veal thee- it is beef now.— Prefer •
Ifferszine for June.
THE New FOOTW A Y AT WIWTIMOITIOL-1111IDOS.--
' Yeetenlay morning the tomporary wooden bridge or foot.
way over the central •aches of Weetmiaster-bridge, to
facilitate the works of the aew bridge, was erased for
', general traffic,