The Express.
London, England, 1858-03-04 00:00:00

LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 4, 1858.

ClaZ• dish the men vipa his dinner-table—nothing
t. Not that I irmin lo weak ditreopecifully ;
assuredly not of vothea, Alb or dp, well dressed, well
served, well wind, and well . I here no pa-
tience with these wise pretend not to care for their dinner,
on the lud lore= oseantption that " " negation' imply
superior soak it man who is mre shoat hie dinner fa
generally a man of &odd body and of feeble mind; as old
Samuel Johnson antboriMthAy said. "Sir, • men seldom
thinks with more someone= ot anything than ha does of his
dinner; and if he cannot get that well dremped, be =mid be
suspected of inaccuracy in other things.' Homo sore. et
=Ad, fr. I respect man and all his appetites. When the
man is not burly insensible to the hunger of soul, the hem
Intellectual vorecities and emotional desires, he is all the
healthier, all the stronger, ell the better for • noble capacity
for food—a capacity which becomes noble when it ministers
to a fins, end not merely a gluttonous nature. Moreover,
I observe this constant fact, which ie worth flinging at the
heads of all depar-rettned superfine. sciritalista, who talk
about our God-given mess me goose —namely, that
whenever we get authentic details • great man, we
always find him to have been a generous eater. If I, who
write thin niust confess to Ming • small eater, I meat also
coshes to net being a great man. Had nature willed it
otherwhe • • • • but she did not so will it ; and only
gave me
e. inaledent rocky to perceiveperceivethat dishes are in no
mad deephoehl
Whoa, thereder% I think of the hunter's finale as merely
an extra dish, and mamma, that to be an anti-climax to has
day's work, hip=sif of being, as my finale Is, an ascending
crescending culmination of delight, this reflection is not sug-
gested by any worn of eating in itself, but is suggested by
the obtrasive fact, tint eating is at the best a finite plea-
sure. It has no savour of the infinite, which all true and
meat poems. It is vigorous in simpatico
&mt ir t gUldrals. ',Abed ;it throws out no feelers tats other,
wider regions ; It generates no thoughts; it both newhithnt ;
it is terminst Therefore, I say the finale of the table is an
anticlimax far • hunter ,• anises, indeed, he is hunting for
anbaisdence, and then of course his finale become iroportion-
Maly aggrandleed.
leo Pooh antiolimax we mine; no each terminal atisji;
me= ; my finale was not final. If, ea a matter of fact,
dissecting-table was the New on which my captures made •
last appearance, this last appearance was the end of a loog
series cd episodes intermediate between the capture of prey
and the incision of the scalpel. And even this finale wee
=itoslskSlY elresttisfi • finis ; for when the last shred of
dose had bein examined under the microscope,
when nolo= parts of the animal had been made Into "re-
paratioas" for after-study, when everything to the physical
eye may have seemed concluded, no end was reached, no
dead wall of terminal blankness on the contrary, the meta-
physical eye followed the chino= pas of speculation, into
which new facts conducted ; and thus the heat of reason and
the flow of physiology generated pleasures superior to the
of the ordinary hunter by quite transcendent
reS.
I dined as well as Brown, thanks to my poultorer
dassonger. If the truth were know, my game was
pertope better than his. We both dined,

" But oh I the didentatas to Ma I"

On an equality as regards mere plenitude and digestive
beadtude, how far below the " reaches of my soul" were any
thoughts which he could extricate from order that oppres-
sion of venison. •

The British Expedition to the Crimea. By W. R.
RUSSELL, LL.D. A Revised Edition. London :
G. Routledge and Co., Farringdon-street.
Undoubtedly the most graphic delineation of
the hardships and victories of the war in the
Crimea was that from the pen of Mr. Russell.
Wonderful indeed were his letters, oonsidering the
circumstances under which they were composed.
That they were appreciated as they deserved is
clear from the reception they met with when
()Diluted and republished. We are glad
to receive a new edition of than,which—forming as it
does one handsome volume, with the author's latest
additions and oorrections, illustrated with appro.
priate plans and woodcute—will be a memorial of
the campaign in the East, and which every English-
man who loves to read of the indomitable pluck of
his 'countrymen will endeavour to pones.

DRAMA.

LYCEUM.

A new twee, entitled Doodle Dummy, was pro-
duced hare lea sight with complete moms. The piece be-
longs to a claws which depends for its effects rather on broad
situations and demonstrative action than novelty of plot or
dovetailing of incident, and to which the actors have at least
as large a share as the author in eliciting the mirth of
their audience. Double Dewey rests its interest in the
jealous squabbles of Mr. Wellington Priddle (Mr.
J. L. Toole), and Mrs. Priddle (Mn. A. Mellon, late Miss
Woolgar). The husband, a hairdresser and perfumer, and the
wife, a milliner and dressmaker, have one shop, each half of
which is appropriated to their respective occupations. The
wife's absence on business excites the husband's jealousy,
and in order to follow her he leaves one of her own work-
women in charge of the shop, transformed into an apparent
" dummy" by this aid of a wig and mantle. No sooner doss
the husband go out than an inebriated medical student miters
in the endeavour to escape from the police, and, the wits
returning at the moment, is concealed behind one of her dress
dummies. The jealous hairdresser, having suspicion of
the medical student, fetus= disguised as a German,
one of his own customers, and, learning that the
medical student is in biding, conceals himself in order to
watch. Of course it Is speedily diaoovered that there Sc, no
real can. for jealousy on either side; and all being
amicably arranged the curtain falls to an appropriate " tag
Mr. Took, as spared no efforts to make the most of his
part, and hisstmijeggfeg vivacity and grotesque humour
11617 powerful ads to raceme. He wee well seconded by
Mrs. Mellon as the pert affected dressmaker ; and their united
efforts brought the curtain down amid unmixed applause.
Mr. Toole, in announcing the farce for repetition every even-
ing, stated it to be the joint production of Maws.
tan and Yates.

INTELLIGENCJI.

OXFORD, Mutat 3.
INDIA ISIISSION6.—The Vice-Chancellor will pre-
side at a meeting of the members of the university and their
Meade to-morrow, in the Sheldonian Theatre, at two o'clock,
in aid of the India Minions Extension Fund of the Society
for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. The
meeting protium to be of a highly influential nature, for, in-
dependent of the meaty heads of houses and other university
authorities who will be present, the following distinguished
r=liwill talks part in the proceeding', via—His
hgeDtthe of Marlborough; the Right Rev. Dr. Orgy,
University College, Lord Bishop of Cape Town; the Right
Rev. Dr. Riga 4 Exeter College, Lord Bishop of Antigua;
the Rev. Dr. Moberley, Balliol Caw, heed meter of WM-
chestee School; sad the Rev. J. T. Rommel!, rector of Si.
Peter's, Stepney.
Orate Scuoxeusetr.—An election to a L 0,07 Scholar-
ship, at Magdalen Hall, will take plate about the 26th Mush
(the samisen= begins on the 23rd inst..), tenable for three
years, and is open to all aladidatas, without regard to place
of birth or education.

STAGE PAT FON AUTIIOI6.-.-Rather more than
• hundred ran ego, Doctor Johnson wrote a very bad play
called /rose, toldsh proved • total failure on representation,
and which totaled than " ran." for just nine nights, to
wretched houses. Excluding his Illersay copyright of •
hundred pounds. Ito doctor's dnuaatle prat on • play that
was a hinsinsubsr dot J—sustamiul to one hundred

;1;1 ;doso;Er• peomk, b
hety-d re ve pounds wore
than the evanseratles sow peak to my eelt•in knowledge,
for many • play within the lea Go yews, which ham beds sno-
ossful run of sixty,and, in owe aim MOW a hashed nights.
I can Irani= your ameamsest at Nadia' dthe—but I
can also aware you that any higher rale O wassoostko I.
exoeptkoml. Lst ase, however, give theeromgeo the MOE
of the womptim. SSINNOWIIIII two Madrid pods have beam
paid, wilt& No bit few yew% be a pity ; sad, 111 OM or
two run —three iniadred. If Meer pare came to
life again Macbeth to an English theatre, In this
Year delfts hundred sad My-eight, that is the highest
msrkst rerrairatko he °NM get for it. Yea so to under-
stand that Me mbelabb Melba la the nitory-reward held
out to drama* Iltoallami is maw to our on day. With-
out gots( bade sob me bog as a enter, without
Ong loch bar dna So Now et Omer Colman the
reueger—l slay roilpea That the temody of lohn Burl
brought the avast Woke hoard peones. Since thin,
six or seven Imagral pounds Out lima paid for a new ploy ;
sad, later ret, foe hundred ponds. We hove now
got to these loaired pew" or the (lan,
sad to owe Inaba' and tiny, Ms tale. lam coding,
remember, of plays la met leo then Yoe sets, whi srv, or
ore mooed to bit, estabel--at lap alba run bons silty to
• lumina nights, emfvtleh tad thiebaed (buttered thickly
on both add m) into the months of sebum aid managers. As to
the remuneration foweelbery translation from the French,
I would rather art bodes what that she. And, biked, thee
Is no seal I &Gall& OR Ants blklog of the stage la
its poem* ribehn Is Iffwegame. Suppose I woes
fee at, sew ems GI wo....l.l6mauXabenid; end
I could lONS pl ty, witlisME
of ado laveallea,-- chembee of my own
Nary yew. The ateaceteami booms Ur English
Wars wealdisat premat Vil2, pay me, attar ealmaithe my
he Wes Madrid pomade 1
li=l rime.