The Express.
London, England, 1858-04-06 00:00:00

THE LONDON FIRE BRIGADE.

TO TUB KDTTOZ Or Till =FOUR.

1148,—Yourrisinii; ;Wei; on the terrible
lb" to Eleemsbmi les led me to hope that you would spire
•ma space be Meng Westin to the above forte, end the
peat dluedventege oder whke we work. The St. Pancras
Vestry lining made some etraeg remarks on the want of
i.e Mann la the northern parte of the metropolis, with re-
hewn Its the late fetal ire le Cellege-strest, Cam-
au-hewn, end the "Society for the Prometion of
Wit ben itere" having revised the whole of their
end Depleted their machines that there is now
rattl=emeter et a mile of alcuoit every home—is
Mae lay mew idly the stations of the " Fire Brigade"
amid net he retrised end arranged more in et-
mminee with ear _ pewit requirements f By break-
ing up ow "doable elatione." we could spare gve
ee sin mean der emir is the outskirts, and thee
the vitae On app retee et the metropolis
lII= easy rani Of al. There cannot be a doubt
en the entire rat lowered would be more than saved by
the may ermiummd we should get over the ire, to say
nothing et the enter et am, Ice..
MY, Ara I. ONE OF TIIE BRIGADE.

DEATH or X. W. DOBAITe, Eng.—Oar readers
of all political parties will regret to learn that the death of Mr.
Roberta occurred on Friday last, after so ilium of two or
three days ally. Ile had been for many yews at the heed
of oar of the oldest and most respectable banking firms
in the kingdom, and held a high position for integrity and '
sound judgment in the financial world, while in private
His he was universally esteemed by those who knew him.
In several former parliaments he represented with efficiency
' and to the credit and advaatagn of the constituency and the
oaths at liege, the borough of Maidstone, to which he
was bet fat:educed in the year 1818, when he wee returned
at the head of the poll. Mr. Roberta was again returned et
the genorel election which took place on the death of George
111. in 1820, and was replered in his neat in the several
parliaments of 1826, '3l, '32—the stirring periods of oaths
lie emancipation and the Parliamentary Reform agitatioa— '
sad finally is 1835. After that period, Mr. Le tile, a tory, '
who had nasnocamfally °untested the bough in 18.32, but
W by dent sets to those which subsequently procured
the Mara end ultimate nitrating of Mr. George Dodd,
another key, acquired an secendmicy over the venal portion
of the voters, sad introduced Mr. aerarli as his coWague
in 1837, Mace which Mr. Roberta has not been re-elected.
Indeed, ts 1838, he retired altogether from political life, to
the great regret of numbers who admired his upright sad
unflinching cuiduct in the advocacy and support of liberal
measnrus, at a time when the adoption of a liberal policy by
the goverumenr seemed hopeless. Mr. Roberts had reached
the rips old see of aerinty-nise years; and at the time of
kis death was Chairman of the Committee of Bankers.—
, Soria Easters Garotte.

BCOTTISII ARTISTS TII VIE ROYAL ACADEMY
RIM Tarr t ox.—eir lobs Watson Gordon sends no fewer than
els portraits. some of these equal to anything he hes ever
pointed. Clos is • pi-mimic of the Lord Chief instine of
England—Lord Campbell—which is an excellent likseere,
and painted with great breadth and rigour; characteristics
which are equally evinced in the portrait of Professor Simp-
eon. Mr. Harvey's picture of " Dr. Guthrie Preaching in
Glenesk to the Tenants and Cotters of Lord Penman," also
goes to London. The composition is circular, and in the
foreground stands the almost living, breathing figure of
the earnest eloquent divine. Behind Dr. Guthrie
sits Hugh Miller and hie daughter the only
worthy portrait of the author of the Old Rd
Sandstone we have ever seen. Towards the centre of
the canvas • widow site surrounded by her orphan
children. In the bsckgrnnnd one of the Apostles " widows
indeed" is waiting on the Word of Life with earnest bied,
while stalwart eernest•looking men and listening cabin,
connect the orphans with the family group of Lord Parmsw.
Before Lord Panmure's family sit Professor Miller end Wes
Guthrie, equally well managed, in the general arrangement,
and the crunpesitioe is completed with a number of Scotch-
men with their wives and families. Mr. Meirolloch sends to
the Royal Academy his "View of the Clyde," with Dam-
bertca in the middle distance—a large and important picture;
and the chases of Violinists will be specially interested In
Yawing that Mr. Derid Roberts has painted a large picture
of Edinburgh from the Calton-hill. which will be exhibited
at the Royal Academy.—Art All4lO, No. I.

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