The Express.
London, England, 1858-09-24 00:00:00

GRAND NATIONAL DAHLIA SHOW.

This show, open to all exhibitors, was inaugurated
yesterday at Bt. James's Hall. Eighty grower., from every
county in England, addidted, and at least 200 varieties of
the dahlia ware shown. Prises, amounting to • hundred
ware awarded. There were four classes to growers
Ice sale, four to amateurs, and three to all growers. The
flowers wws exhibited on stands painted green, similar to
thole adopted by the Crystal Palace Company, and known as
the metropolitan dahlia stands. The blooms were shown in
rows of 60_, 26, 12, and 6. The most successful inthibitor
wee 1(f. Cbgries Turner, who carried off the first 9rius
in three out of the four classes to growers for
eels, and in the three *lessee open to all errors*. In
wandering round the room, where the mat Moons. wan
placed for Inspection,we were struck by the decorations,
one of which was a Prime of Wales's feathers on • royal
mown, reeds( on • crimson sadden with. golden Mods,
composed entirely of white, yellow, red, and purple dghliaa,
and the ether was a large VaireelOte looking candelabrum,
composed of dahlias of all slows. Besides dahlias there
were other flowers brought together on the ceowdon. At
the upper end were some beautiful hollyhocks, and roses
of mime hoes, the het, of eimetrite perfume exhibited
by Messrs. A. Paull end Bon, of C Mahout, in Bert-
fordaldre. An agreeable variety was also given to the
exhibition by a number of splendid bouquets of natural
dowers, dried by moms ahnnioal process, which reentered
them durable for years without their losing the original
Marty of their colours, shown by NI Theodore IlifellWO, of
Weithemstow, ha Essex. Nor should we forget the self-
&Wag fountains for the preservation of ferns, a very pretty
collection, by M. Edmond Pospin, of Pan.. Mr. Underhill,
of Edgtmeosi, mar Birmingham, exhibited the second fruit-
ing this year of their very fine strawberries, the .` 81r
Harry ;" and Messrs. Sprig and Campbell, of the Queen's
sad nursery, at Brighton, showed a magnificent
lever, a knerams rah A mistimes% of a doable smi-
ths Godes If wet, oommandad admiration
fir fileiliseenyriesehry, and. mbar.
The es do will he casdausil to-day, whoa the bend of
dm Coldstream Guards MN be in attesdeson.

DWI! OP BIS OFYLST WAKEMAN. Bess.-.We
regret to annousee the death of Sir °Bey Wakeman. Bart.,
'of Pordbaell, sear Woreetater, which took place as Tatooday,
at Somehant Covet met of Jana Arthur Titylor,ileq.
ITU We Sir Oney Wahiawa wee educated at Rugby. from
whew* be proceedad to Oxford, sod was for .owe years
again of the Wormier squadron of the Queen's Own
Woomstereldre Yeomanry Cavalry. Ile married, is 1801,
Maly Smith, daughter et the lota Thema' Adlingtog Vaq.,
who died IsOeesbf, 1888, • he days after giving birth to
a sexed ma. 8 Why Waimea b eamosided Is the
barmy b hie alit Ks. Or bent 1860, besides whom
be hams mother Em_ry Miry, elk years old. Be wie
a minewvathe bi bat took so active part in political
mattes or public Woressior CAroessege.
A3SUID Mace ACIAINeI" A FRENCH ERECHRE.—
if. Bealwala O moot the Jena, ezpilat, was arrested
in Owirsasy saiimmilay ovemlog hat weak ow a chine of
having °Seed 100 *.nos to the " Woes," nomed Nab, of
thetas of W. Lan Leval, In that island, if he would go to
Cberbassi it the Maw of the Faaperee's sojourn Mtge and
peeks as, of We Mahal of the lawn& table with prude
add, a phial of which Morin deedared was given him by K.
Cobalt, that purpose ; but no proof whatever of the AM
awed has, it is mid, bees ihrtkeoatina. TM (htertugy
&sr at Saturday says :—" We naderstand that IL
who had been arrested by K. Mork hat returned the own-
phloem in Wad. Both parties, *neigh sow ester
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