The Express.
London, England, 1859-08-29 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVEIMIG. AUGUST 29, 1850.

J)34ra OP LVOV HUJI.
We naval to announce the 40E11 at tha
giosylin let molar weber, La* Hon . For lam elm
put Ideboblik bad boon olooltnlng, me at on surly bent r►
torday owning ha died.

Leigh Hunt was the son of a clergyroas ef the Church
of Ragland, and was born at Southgate, In I,W . Oct.
the 19th, 1784. Hls father was a West India, sad his
mother a Philadelphian; bat at the podia of the Ame-
rican revolatkm, hie father, who yes tbset l• the law, hook
the British side In politics, end manifested hie typify to the
mown so windy that he was forced to fly le Nagleud.
Having taw cedillas, Its yes for some time MOW to Mr.
Ugh, the asphew of the Duke of Chandos, who had a seat
at Southgate. Leigh Rent received his education at Christ's
Respitel, like his friends Coleridge and Lunt.. About the
dies of his coming of age ha assisted his brother John In the

antablishment of a Sunday mar, the Niue, to which he
coatributed theatrical andoisme. He had previously be
employed In the office of Ids bream Stephen, an atiorasy,
bat had relinquished that segierneed far a situation in the
War-otilee, which he gars up en bscoeslag, in 1808, Mode
and joint-proprietor of the /sassier. This jewel he
edited for many suliesquist years, and readiest ezesediagly
popular. His fortmess is It, however, ullimenly trß into
reverse, partly owing to his macquaintance with matters of
business, for which set aseheion In education had singularly
nettled him, and prey to the thin triumphant stets
of the tons., wbs, hem the first establishment of
the Issreiror hat dime their utmost to be., down their
maternal. The eye of the Attorney-General, fa particular,
had keg hem epos him, and the following peep from
es of his political articles in the year 1810, relative to the
proposed regency, wee thought worthy of a government pro-
stration t What • crowd of blessings rush upon one's
mind, that sight bet bestowed upon the country In the event
of such a change l Mall monarchs, indeed, since the Rec•
lotion, the secnemor of George 111. will have the Onset
opportunity of biassing nobly popular." Informations
were Bled spine Leigh Hart and his brother, and also
against Mr. Perry al the liferosing Chronicle, who had re-
printed the remark. The Kerning (Ironicb was tried first ;
Mr. Parry defended himself with spirit, justifying the pea-
sage, and we. engrafted; upon which the information
against the liroetaser we. withdrawn. Another opportunity
soon presented itself to the officers of the crown. Some re-
marks, by no mesas of • personal character, directed against
the practice of dogging in the army, banana* the subject of a
second prosecution, and the trial erne on before Lord Elle-
borough, 22nd February, 1811. Lord (the Mr.) Brougham
wee engaged for the defence, sod having cited the opinions
of Abartromby and other illustrious generals to condemna-
tion of the use of the lash, declared that the real question
with the jury was, whether on the most important subedit
an Englishman had the prlvilege of expresang himself ac-
cording to his feelings and opinions—. question which the
jury amend in the affirmative by • verdict of not guilty.
But this was eat to be the last of the Hunts appearances In
the law courts. A fashionable newspaper having called the
Prince Regent en Adonis, Leigh Hoot, in a fit of indigna-
tion at the Regent's having broken his promise to the whin
added, "of fifty." The Prince's vanity triumphed over his
discretion, and on the preteaded ground of some words of
more onion* import, • third prosecution was instituted. The
Jury upon this eocasica found a verdict of guilty spiel
Leigh Hunt and hie brother John, and tech was sentenced
to pay a Be. of 6001. and to suffer two years' imprientnent.
Offers not to peer the penalties were matte on condition that
no similar &Basks should appear, but were with constancy
rejected. Upon their liberation the Hunts continued
to wale as bohn, and maintained the Areetimer
at the had of the weekly metropolitan press, tip
its foresee paled for • while before the tory wet-
Oxley aboementioned, from which it was redeemed by the
wit et Mr. Fontilanque. Meanwhile, Leigh Haat, on the
invitees of hie treads Shelley and Loed Byre, went to
see up the Lama In Italy, where, after the almost imme-
diate Ices of the former, be continued to reside fee about four
years, a small portion of which we posted under the same
roof with Lord Byrom, but not happily. In the year 1847
the Queen, at the rectommendeuon of Lord Jobe Russell,
bestowed on him • peke of 2001, a year.
Among the more important of his works are the
"Story of Rimini;' " Captain Sword andpoetical Captain Pen,"
The Palfrey;" the oollection of hie narrative poems en-
titled "Start in Versa;" and his" Lilted of Florence," •
play in five acts, which we may mention as Wag • favourite
with her Majesty, who went several times to see it performed
at Covent-garden, and moreover bed it played before her at
Windsor. Finite the lust of his prom worts we may place
hie " Sir Ralph Esher," a novel, or, rather, fictitious autobio-
',splay of • gentlease of the wort of Charles the Second.
Thee follows a long list of volumes—the " Indloater" the
" Coast:maim," the " &sr," " Mea, Women, and Books"
(the latter fueled lug articles from the Edinburgh and
other Reviews); " Stories from the Italian Poeta, with
Crites' Lives of there ;" " Table Talk ;" the melange of cri-
ticism sad Mary, entitled " A Jar of Hooey from Mount
Hybl& ;" the critical allays and selections entitled " Imagism-
the eat Fancy," sad " Wit and Humour," three volumes
of asteblograpay, comprising • corrected end final account
of his relates with Lord Byron ; the " Religion of the
Head," a mama' of faith and duty, according to the
aneher's opinion en the subjects; the " Town, its Memorable
Charmers and /vents " (two volumes of metropolitan see-
des nod earvey),_ and other two volumes of • like nears,
moderate Weal The Old Court Suburb." Among the long list
et hie tennoledona msy be masthead Teasces " Amihts," sad
IteWe. Ihette Temene," ken the Frosoh. Tohhcritkal
pradmitione may be aided (by ream of their copious retina
and isomments) hie edition el the plays of Wy comity, Cos-
grove. end Farquhar, mid kis collections from prone
writes amid poets, seder the various titles of " •
Ilendred Illessearee of Seel "A Book for a Coe-
am," eed Beeneeeni mod Fletcher," which last is
mitesides of the lams elitretionable passages from those
writers, scab fur the prime of enabling families to become
scquaieted with them. Many of the essays and poems
gettered by Leigh Hunt late some of the volumes ab )ve•
and es' enely sneered te various periodical publications
elide edisseg, week as the "Refleater," the " Liberal," the
Landon loured," and the "Tailor ;" in some of which he
Limb, Hulks, Lost Byron, and Shelley for his end-

Zia Atom larintrnorr.—HL Royal Highness
the Primes Consort has consented to be patron of the Albert
limitation, consisting of reading nom, schools, dormitories,
for the working closes, in Gravel-lane, Blackfrisu-
road, which was opened by the Lord Mayor and Sheriff. on
Wednesday last. This pleasing fact we. communicated us-
terdey to the Rev. Jueoh Brown, by Colonel air C. B.
Phipps. Four thousand persons visited the building as
Thursday.

Sir John Lawrence, accompanied by Lady Low-
rance .ad four members of big family, arrived In Cock on
Thursday. The following morning they left for the Labe of
Killarney.

Tae First Lord of the Admiralty will bold a levee
oa Friday next, the 2nd of September, at the Commander-
in•Chmt 's cake, Admiralty House, Portsmouth Dockyard.
Apy °Herr who may be desirous of attending moat leave hia
name, rank, and @ctn., il at the ale) of the Commander•
in-Chief, at Portsmouth, by 3 p.m. of Wednesday, the Slat
Instant.

The author of " Rome and ita Rulers" makes the
following annor-iceineat la the Cork Examiner:—" We Sit
happy to state that slops have been already takes to on-
yea a meeting of the Irish liberal members on as early day
fa Dublin, for the purpose of promoting the policy ema-
ciated by the a ',hulk archbishop, and bishops m their per
total address.,•

The annual meeting of the Acadi.mie Francais?,
(or the distribution of prizes for literary perturm■non sad
meritorious eondact, talk pieta a day or two ego at the feed-
lots. It wee presided over by M. Guiz ,t, who delivered ma
address mated to the occasion. Not a political allusion wee
to be heard, bat some eloquent periods were introduced ape
the marcher hoomni, y and eivilisstioa, snd upon the nuclei
by the humbler classes of virtues that proved that good ex-
empla of dfidetereetednere and of courage were to be food

the raelhet villages ; inetanning thepristo havieg beef
piled by two females of the poorest condition for the admit-
rabiefohlissest of their duties towards their &mil es. In the
litethey department two Wise were victorious. The silting
wee tersthsated by the nonage( the poem which had Weed
the Immure et the day, estithid, "The Sister of Charity is
the Nineteesth Cestory," by IldUe. Ernestine Drawl.

Oa Friday, the Bth oiluly, the CalcuttaBw ad
Remade Society hell its bat eubearption performasce in
the Tows Hal. It Inn very onerously warded by the
Elite of Calcutta, and the performance was • "great 111001118."
It Is intended to lure on oratorio once a vows', mad we
loag the Town 11.11 or some other public building, will
have an organ._

A letter from Boston, United States, says :-
0 Mere is a strong Sabbatical feeling griming up in Ibis
conntry, and which principally exhibits itself is the large
lu New York the liquor shops are dosed, nominally
at least, on the Sabbath, the experiment having been corn-
men,ied about a month ago, and persevered in. The Phila-
delphians have stopped the ruining of cars in their hoses
railways oa Sunday., sod purpoes to compel the steamboats
on the Delaware end the Schuylkill to lay up on that day.
The people of Sr. Louie have formally voted, by a large
mejunty, that liquor shall not be sold there on the Sabbath.
Some of the lines of railway have discontinued trains that
used to run on tbst day. A 'similar feeling to that of
Philadelphia is o:Whitt:is limit ba Baltimore.