The Express.
London, England, 1866-12-03 00:00:00

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MONEY WI(3RAM and SONS (col fiHRISTY MINSTRELS, ST. JAMES'S HALL,
l' London) LINE of STEAM and PACE= ILI NOW OPEN for the SEASON, every night at fdehe;
ws to Avargiue.—Far kIELBOUILNE (Port Phillip) Direct wadnaidara end SmurdaYs. throe and t. Hall amity end
w'',....-- tbc pocks on Thursday, December El, calling at Ph. bountifully decorated ; company greatly ; new rum-
-I—th. sylendld clipper ship TRUE BRITON, 1.100 tow. Um twenty performers of known excellence and ability. in-
FrAiirs, Commander • lOW to the Zig • India Doan. ' chain all We original mambas: everything new for the 'new
ions for ail chases of penmen arwunsur- mama Fauteuils, 65.: Malls, U. ; masa, ft ; gallery, le
rookie wtill carry
Eararimancliaallahlr= Yale: eta at A
Billet'.♦ustln's oflice2_l633i Picesd.t.-11ceribloore, Crocker,
c Bursar.
Xy RAH end SONS. 7, Leallenhvn --•-
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( aunFa to NEW YORK—UNITED STATES ,
LLNE—ANDIICED YAR/M.—Tho sphodid sad
idm-wksei stammers of the /low York sod Nano Mown
ot wpm ere sppointed to Isom for New York as follows :
m......... Slaw.. 1 rm.. Mammoth_

NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ROOMS, 218, High
Nolbora.—This very elegant and spacious catablishment
having boss entirely redecorated, OPEN EVERY EVENING. TM
grand bead, oonducted by Mr. W. M. Padua., will perform nightly
• choice salactioa of operatia and dance musk. Ora at half
wit 8 ; clam at IL Admhskon. la.

Wednesay
Wednesday. Feb. 13 Thursday, Feb. 14
Wednesday, Mar. 13 arsday, Mar. 14

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THE BOY AT MUOBY.
[From " Mushy Junction," by Charles Dickens.]
lam the boy at Mugby. That's about what I am.
You don't know what I mean? What a pity ! But I
think you do. I think you must. Look here. lam the
boy at what is called the refreshment room at Dinghy
LiTiarooy Qui:Timm" i Junction, and what's proudest boast is, that it never yet
oui nom
ORK TWICI A win.. refreshed a mortal being
NEW Y
LIVERPOOL, NEW YORK, and Up in a corner of the Downßefreahment Room at Mushy
rrlinnuDgypgu gumg.giap corpAify wand • Junction, in the height of twenty-seven cross draughts
zit*yau-poweros...adkossus iron germ issoagiftios, I [Pre often counted 'em while they brush the First Class
United Stated; • bath twenty-seven ways), behind the bottles, among the
PROM LIVERPOOL fee NSW YORK: glasses, bounded on the nor'-west by the beer, stood pretty
CITY ON NEW YORK, Wednesday, Dec. S. far to the right of a metallic object that's at imes the tea-
CITY OF DUBLLY, Dec. 8. urn and at tames the soup-tureen, according to the nature of
CITY OF BOSTON, W Dec. It
And every Wednesday
him the but twang imparted to its contents which are the
by the nma steamers mom miry wodnasday, carne groundwork, fended off from the traveller by a bar-
Otr guineas, scoordtng to the aceemmodation. I rier of stale erected atop of the winte
qe
r, and
Agigisientadacrades a fall Imest tgagOrm i.lasaly Who glass eie Oashitmia's
to=nfor and the United Mates on Lou ask a Boy so eitiwated next time you stop in a hurry at
Lot =ft. 22, viatP4ruetMerProrlasandb Hl ttugby, for anything to drink ,• you take particular notice
ORACIY, 61, King William-Week Lando ;'that he'll try to seem not to hear you, that he'll appear
j in a absent manner to survey the Line through a trans-
ROUTE. COMMUNICATION Fluent medium composed of your head and body, and that
won't serve you as long as you can possibly bear it.
eIIEND&M to INDIA, ADSTRALLA, &a, via EGY la
• tootbiunmon and 3lsr*eilles.—The PILNINSULAR and
' That's
iserTAL STEAM NAVIGATION OOMPANY BOOK FAMES- 1 What a tare it is We e.
are the Model Establishment, we
Mood receive cargo and Paresis for Gibraltar, Malta, WA are, at Magby. Other Refreshment Rooms send their
Ceylon, Madras, Calcutta, the Straits, cues, and Japan imperfect young ladies up to be finished off by our Minis.
isless', W their steamers leaving Southampton on the 4th . For some of the yoUng ladies, when the 're
,new to the
ifeith of every month ; for Gibraltar, Malta Nina ides, • bumnon, come into it •
mild Ab Our • she soon
igigtobay, by those of the 12th and 27th of each month; and
titKovie's Sound, Melbourne, and Sydney, by ch,, takes that out of 'em. Why, I orsgueally come into the
fI~~Bg
leaversoeteuepk• on the ow of every meth. business meek myself. But Our 'flasks she soon took that
ans Isavlo~
51 limner leave Marseilles on the Bth, 12th, 20th, and Dith out of sae.
lye sieeth—Fer further particulars Lull at the Company's ; What a delightful lark it is ! I look upon us
lace 10, Laidephall"re", Loodon. as " mentors as ookipying the only proudly independent footing
1110"0"' lon the Line. There's Papers for instanoe—my honourable
friend if he will allow me to call him so—him as belongs to
Smith's bookstall. Why he no more dares to be up to
our Refreshmenting games, than he dares to jump atop of
a locomotive with her steam at full pressure, and
cut away upon her alone, driving himself, at
mail speed. Papers, he'd get his head punched at every com-
partment, first second and third, the whole length of a
train, if he was to ventur to imitate my demeanour. It's
the same with the porters, the same with the guards, the
same with the ticket cleriui, the same the whole way up to
the secretary, traffic manager, or very chairman. There
ain't a one among 'em on the nobly independent footing we
are. Did you ever catch one of them, when you wanted any-
thing of him, making a system of surveying you
wanted
a transparent medium composed of your head and body ?
I should hope not.
You should see our Bandolining-room at Mugby
Junction. It's led to, by the door behind the counter
which you'll notice usually stands ajar, and it's the room
where Our Missis and our young ladies Bandolines
their hair. You should see 'em at it, betwixt trains,
Bandolining away, as if they was anointing themselves
for the combat. When you're telegraphed, you should
see their noses all a going up with scorn, as if it
was a part of the working of the same Cooke and Wheat-
stone electrical machinery. You should bear Our Millais
give the word " Here comes the Beast to be Fed !" and
then you should see 'em indignantly skipping across the
Line, from the lip to the Down, or Wicer Warsaw, and
begin to pitch the stale pastry into the plates, and chuck
the sawdust sangwiches under the glass covers, and get
out the—ha ha ha !—the Sherry-0 my eye, my eye !—for
your Refreshment.
It's only in the Isle of the Brave and Land of the Free
(by which of course I mean to say Britannia) that Refresh-
menting is so effective, so 'olerome, so consitutional, a
check upon the public. There was a foreigner,
_which
having politely, with his hat off. beseeched our
young ladies and Our Missis for " a leetel gloss
Koff prandee," and having had the Line surveyed
through him by all and no other acknowledgment, was a
proceeding at last to help himself, as seems to be the
custom in his own country, when Our Misses with her
hair almost a coming un•Bandolined with rage, and her
eyes omitting sparks, dew at him, cotched the decanter out
of his hand, and said : " Put it down ! I won't allow that!"
The foreigner turned pale, stepped back with his arms
stretched out in front of him, his hands clasped, and his
shoulders riz, and exclaimed :"Ah ! Is it possible this !
That these distlaincous females and this ferocious
old woman are placed here by the administration, not
only to (=poison the voyagers, but to affront them !
Great Heaven ! How arrives it? The English people.
Or is he then a slave? Or idiot ?" Another time,
a men y wideawake American gent had tried the sawdust
and spit it out, and had tried the Sherry and spit that
out, and Si tried in vain to sustain exhausted natur
upon Butter-Scotch, mid had been rather extm Bande•
lined and Line-surveyed through, when as the bell was
ringing and he paid Our Missis, he says, very loud and
good-tempered : I tell Yew what 'tie, ma'arm. I la'af.
Theer ! 1 Leaf. I Dew. I oughter ha' seen most things,
for I hail from the Unlimited side of the Atlantic Ocean,
and I halve travelled right slick over the Limited,
head on through Jet-rusalemin and the East, and
likeways France and Italy, Europe Ohl World, and
am now upon the track to the Chief Europian
; but such an Institution as Yew, and Yewer
young ladies, and Yewer fixin's solid and liquid, afore the
glorious Tama! I never did see yet ! And if I hain't
found the eighth wonder of monarchical Creation, in find-
ing Yew, and Yewer young ladies, and Yewer fixin's
solid and liquid, all as aforesaid, established in
a country where the people air not absolute
Loo-naticka, I am Extra Double Darned with
a Nip and Frizzle to the innerrnostest grit! Wheerfur—
Theer !—I la'af ! I Dew, ma'arm. I !" And so he
he went, stamping and shaking his sides, along the plat-
form all the way to hie own compartment.

~o:--Flistelook Ma and £l9; second aims, tl4 siod
1/i birtholl ligargirlaraE., tr.
Now*: or H. STASS and Co., 146, Chrowoldo. Loudon

DREMEN.—Direct Route to Hanover, Bruns-
wick, and Central Germany.—The North German Lloyd's
litsz•ctass screw steamer FALCZ, Captain BUNDESEN,
tcrke:lesiatehed from llonelydown on TLIVBSDAY, Dec. 6,
germitttm; , at 10 am., calling at Brunswick Pier,
gong, for passengers, at 12 mom—Fares to Bremen, £2
dal. return utkets, LS and 41 10a —apply at CILA.PLOVS
llama: °Dice, Itegent-circus, W. ; or to Ylin.Lll'll, GRAVES,
rP9 and Co., St. Dunstan's-house, St. Dunstan's-hill. E.C.

LIBEAT TRADES' REFORM MEETING will
to hekl in St. James's-hall, Piccadilly, on TV EZDAY
=O, Dec. lth. John Bright, , the Metropolitan
Mr. Edmond 'Wales, Mr. Mason Jones, the Leaden of
iisfesin societies, and other gentlemen, will take part in the
Feedings. Icons open at 7 o'clock. chair to be taken at hall-
os, by Mr. GE' PEAIE POTTER. Tickets, Reserved Seats, ts.
6rnl, b. ed. : area, Is. ; to be had of the Demonstration Corn-
eae, the Tra,les' Delegates, and the Secretary, 10, Bolt-court,
Blestreet—The proceeds arising from the sale of tickets will
to mood towards defraying the expenses of the Meeting and
the Ora-air Demonstration.

rrEE FOREST-GATE ESTATE.--TheCONSER-
i VATIVE LAND SOCIETY.—The Awn STEM' of the first
Wien ul this valuable building property, &Hording eligible sites
islaisses and villas, ti suit all classes of the community, will
le commenced on Tll l' itSDAY, the 13th Inst., at the offices, No.
Swfolketreet, Strand, London, W.C., where plans and par-
inabra may be übtaitte4.
CHARLES LEWIS GRUNEISEN, Secretary.
Pwasectsses of the investment Departments, Share and Depo-
d, Will be sent free of dump

To IMPORTERS, Shippers, Steam Shipping
.1. Companies, and Consignees of Foreign Goode, by steamers
r etherwtes into the Fort of London.—The proprietors of
barred, Wharf, Radcliff, and Upper Free Trade Wharf, Dow-
pie Dock, Upper Thames-street, OFFER FACILITIES to the
kora —Farther information may be obtained on application, by
War or in prison, to IL CLAY and Lb., wharfingera and ware-
Irene keepers.—Otik.es, A tipper Thatnee-street.

TTNITED STATES 5-20 COUPONS BOUGHT.
V American Government and Railway Securities of all
ascriptions purchased and for sale, by GLENN and Co., S 2.
Taw Broad-street. L 40,000,000 Debt of the United States paid
d dace Ist January. 1866. OLLNN and Co.'s American Man-
ta Circular, umed every Friday, forwarded on application.

rpo be LET, or SOLD a bargain, at a very mode-
-1 rite ground-rent. an elegant detached VI I.LA RESIDENCE
tied with Voietian blinds, gas fittings, etc., and situate No. 7,
Warmer Villas, J unction-road, Upper Holloway, with charming
pales, with mekworh funtain, rustic summerhouse, &e. The
dila captains liabilsome entrance-hall, dining room, drawing
aim 30 ft. by 17. ft. 6 in., opening upon the lawn, good domestic
Res, four bel bedrooms and dressing room, two servants' ditto.
hat 91iminc, iwr MIIIIIIII. —Apply un the premises, or to Mr.
WILLIANIS, Surveyor, Is, Queen-street, Cheapalde, EX.

VO. 9, GREAT RUSSELL-STREET,
Price Lists free.

GAUTION. The PERMANENT STEAM
MIN() PA N YSW ATER BRANCH is 2 t. West-
qams.gr, ,rid the chief °Mee, 9, Great itussell-street,Totten-
11.everi.k1 Price Lists free.

TTINAHAN'S LL 'WHISKY.
DUBLIN EXHIBITION, BM
celebrated old IRISH W HLSKY gained the DUBLIN
• MEDAL—It 6 pure, mild, mellow, delicious, and very
aelesome. bold in Lottles, 3a. each, at the retail houses In
ledte; by the agents in the principal towns In England ; or
Wank at 8. Great windmill-street, London, W. Observe the
et nal, pink label, and cork branded "Klnahan's LL

OSBORNE'S STILTON iB THE Cheese.

THE GUINEA CIGAR.
A A 1..% 4 WO really goosl HAVAN NAG CIGARS sent ear-
ns free to an parts of the United Kingdom on receipt of Post-
‘6..t order or ...amps for 21s. ; or sample boa of ZS.) for lls.
W. C. 10 isl ER, Importer of Cigars,
2, Tichbonieditreet. Piccadilly, W.

AVERCOATS for the present Season.—The
V NEW M INTER OVERCOATS, of best materials, us kept
clad sad made to 4d,ler, at
IiAMILLON and KIIIPTON'S,
Tailors and Overcoat Makers,
1O:., STRAND, opposite Exeter-hall.

A LECTURER'S EiremENon.—Talking the other
day with an able and popular lecturer, who seldom failed
in getting a full and attentive audience, we veutdred to
ask him what kind of subjects and what style of treatment
he thought the public liked best. " Well, was his reply,
" I hardly know; but there'd one secret I've found out—
what the public hates is information."—B/ackicousl's Ma-
guzi Ile for December.
THE MISERIES OF MARRIED ,SOLDIERS.—Although
it is most expedient to prevent soldiers from marrying
women of diarep'itable character, yet marriage is sanc-
tioned on far too small a scale ; and even those who are
married with leave have to undergo very great privations,
owing to insufficient barrack arrangements, and the fre-
quent changes of quarters. In one barrack iu the writer's
neighbourhood there have been four regiments in less
than three years ; and a regiment in the same district is
said to have been removed live times in two years. Such
instances are numerous. We will take the case of a steady
soldier in either of those regiments, will assume that he is
married, and probably has at least one child. His wife is
respectable and industrious, but of what avail is her in-
dustry? She may strive to the utmort to obtain work,
but what chance has she, a stranger, of com-
peting in the labour market with resident work-
women? If she even contrives to preserve her self-re-
spect, she is doomed to compulsory idleness, and a state
or semi-starvation. After a few more months of this
degrading life, the route comes' the regiment marches,
and the same kind of life has to be repeated at another
station. At what personal sacrifice and privation must
those poor people be able to pay the wife's journey to the
new station? And for those unable to do so, what must
be the fate ? The answer is a short one—the workhouse.
The soldier eagerly looks forward to the expiration of his
limited service, and carries to his own village a bitter
sense that his best years have been utterly wasted. The
expense incurred by the nation on account of the move- I
went of troops in the United Kingdom is 60,000/. per
annum ; of which at least half might well be saved, and
the duty be performed more efficiently. Military Mal-
thueieus might very probably obje...t to part of the fore-
going statement, and say that " soldiers have no business
to marry." To such the writer would answer that, from
his own experience, extending over many years, those men
who are respectably married invariably give thee least
trouble, and that tho time is past when any men an be
treated as outcasts from society.—Arucmillan's Magazine
for December.
TRAt:TARIANS ON THEIR TRAVELS.—The moat
good-natured and simple of the French clergy do not always
spare themselves a bit of quiet fun at the expense of the
traveling Anglicans. There is an amusing anecdote of the
Archbishop of —, who was entertaining a party of true-
tarians, among whom was *Scotch " bishop, travelling
under the simple name of Doctor The archbishop
asked one of the party, whom be had known before,
whether Doctor was a relative of the Scotch "bishop"
in question. The guest was disconcerted, and thought it
better to throw himself on the mercy of his host. ' Mon-
seigneur," he said, " I will tell you the truth. This is the
bishop,' but he wishes to maintain the strictest incognito.
" Soge iranquille I" said the archbishop ; " I assure you
that I will not treat him in any way as a bishop." And
he kept his word. It was either on the same or another
like occasion that, when the petite* effect came in after
dinner, there being a large party of canons and other eccle-
siastics to meet the strangers, who of course helped them-
selves first, one of the canons, when asked by the arch-
bishop what liqueur he would take, replied, "Mend, Mon-
seigneur, je vale communieravec omMessienrs—sa eseocOar
—ru Noah (Boma oatholis).

KEIT IN G'S COUGH LOZENGES
COUGHS.

EATING'S COUGH LOZENGES
ASTHMA.

KEATING'S COUGH LOZENGES:
INCIPIENT CoNSUNIPTION.

KEATING'S COUGH LOZENGES
LItoNCIIIAL AFFECTIONS.

KEATING'S COUGH LOZENGES;
which • are daily recommended by the faculty. Testi-
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41 in bose.4. le. ; and tins, :it. ed. and 4a. ed. each, by
.LITIM;, lin:mkt, a. St. gaurs.churchyard, London. Sold
retail by all Druggists, ate.

GOUT or RHEUMATISM ill quickly relieved
.. and carol in a few days by that celebrated 3ledfciue,
suite 601 r and RAU' MATIC PILLS. Obtained through
1174enist, at to lid. &ad 2s. 9d. per bos.

LAMBERT'S ASTHMATIC BALSAM,
nn efh—bial remedy, without confining the bowels or
*Obi", th, truly etticsin,ns and pleasant, is admitted to
.4 the best nt,lic:ne for Immediately relieving coughs, colds,
tralirrae,l ra >of asthma. and incipient consumption. It ire-
(Parody curt, pet whom the faculty pronounce incurable
admirably the tickling which provokes frequent coughing.
11_1188rischiii ilimimption its etfects are truly beneficial.
finuns deprived of :..11c,p, or even lying down for fear of rufloca-
kw, . may il,p, rot icha in a few minutes after taking it
",Psted only rind sold 11 W. LANIDERT, chemist, 8, King Wit-
tataitreet. t hario.f cross, London. and by all druggists, In
battles. , and three quantities in one, Os. Pd. Be particular
Lid ask for lamhert*:, Asthmatic lialsatu. The name and address
lholtrared on the stamp.

DEMATE and CLEAR. COMPLEXIONS,
with a dchrldful and lusting Fragrance, by using the
attested UN 11 EB NERVICE SL/AP TABLETS, ed. and bd.
—llanufaattred by J. C. and J. FIELD, Upper Marsh,
"nbeth. Ordzr of your chemist, grocer, or chandler.

MAW(' LANTERN AND DISSOLVING VIEWS.
EGRETTI and ZAMBRA'S NEW ILLUS-
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'4l-CALult*Nl LICIITS, painting on glus, spectral elfect
LsdeNts. shillin..-1, Ilatton-garden ; 59, C.rohill ;
; and 153, Sleet-street. Catalogues of lanterns,
wes, c., p„-t free.

likbeeeiuher 10 will he published, stitched In a noses. Price td..
UGBY JUNCTION, the Extra Christmas
:Number ni ALL TUE YEAR BOUND. Conducted by
Inchatia.

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The Boy at klugby. By Charted Mama
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4,',°. 2 Branch Line. The Engine Driver. By Andrew n'111417-
rt 3 Branch Line. The Compensatkni House. By Charles Collins.
Broach Line. The Travelling Post-Oma. By nubs Sint"
iela
~ 3 Branch Line. The Engineer. By Amelia B. Edwards.
u°6lot : M. Wellington-street, Strand, W.C. ; Chapman and
493, 11"3411Y, W. ; and all railway book-Mal* hOOlO6l-
and oedema.