The Express.
London, England, 1858-01-14 00:00:00

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Bli OF NOMATIMIIt IL —Really btriay
Its many *mut•OTYt pima wwet wind Meng pist river
silk; mid omens great breadths of naattenstine motelend,
and go down amospt dreary w el "hod." le the
Aerie of the NeMbern Sea. nwe ee we inn ems ie knew
the terratad deka of the Bp.y, with its wide pebl/1 Mahe.
he eanierled ollsonals, and th,s furze white
we
mei her Ile
lieu. tie eke rusk of its threatening mew we shall I
wind up Me spa valley through risk enkindles and elhemilal
Imereeeteeis, end reeks 'Mediate ben and thin awn(tin
Yes NO a finer air end Its lasembe waters la as how
it we have am aid, and Caingrem, with Oh WI meow of
wiser pmeinureseare la the July mist, Min dews on
the pte of the fthhells Or 1 e climbing up through
the pine pods, or &weft the peat moss., which
give an shame I ish ellemeler to the we shall
reach the brood moor which wends resod I, all
pewpkd with the heather, and ompled, es we see wham
▪ leek ekes, with loag twiebell waft el the Alpine
rad the OMR= deeds-eras, whine lighter oar
in strongly with the dark team of the . Or
eke, is months and lees crateful awed, we may deecend the
dark gory of the Findborn. The SWOT river, more awribie
la its sager than any of the kostikk etresum, is •
turbot pot us through walla el otaketed peisew,e=
epees sem peculiarly Stied le he the prima et
retawild waters. But the Findltora, Maittitul at all times
le most beautiful perhaps in • macaw hear. It is • stil
Meek October day. The run, which keis lean battling with
toe mists through all the early morning hum, he. et lest
pbtsised •
reedcto and its beam glint warmly
athwart the oak., through the showers of beech.
leaves, which, nipped by last night's frost, are now the .port
of every little breeze which trembles over the glimmering
river. The yellow brake-fern, the Bret plant of the woodland
to feel the approach of winter, is withering by our path,
over which the praiser has woven its countless threads,
which breaking as we pore, twist together and float through
the sir In long white fonts, the .` fliereadeuure "of
the Oenneas, the herald of the later autumn Weston
eel OmerelkelEb.. The salmon splashes is the
Penury, of the reign of terror which sztaside tram
Penury le . The baron wings hie heavy light
does tells hoar at ; and the river, iihe a herons-
natured earpeat," elk. quietly down to the level district,
which ems the lies rijpie and Mare the lest fall of its molar
tale-been Woratasnotter Amino, Jan. amber.
ON HOISIBAcx ix MADEIR.L—The 'treat enjoy-
meat chi Madeira life is, unquestionably, the out-of-dome
mistene• which you teed. Your horse is about the first
*dem thing you see In the morning, and the last at night.
Tsar while esimence is peed upon his beck; you even go
eat to dieser upon Ma, black-owed, whitreravated and
all—a dromashmes whist usually involves an early invest-
ment in )lletelem emirs, either se • precaution or • remedy.
Nothing on le men hospitable than are the English me-
ekest@ seeldhed in the Mead, or more pleasant than their
Beeslast panne only iaegi the morning, luncheon
=in Me allot at the vme
to asighltaesa.emised of Funchal, ere
ping an ; where emeybedy arrives on honiebarin7st
Bit, Use egad to that, to peleaquip, stay as lag as it is
pisemat, wade( in 'mete sheet the lovely gut Meas, and
eimPs till elciewor tiro% wiles which those lean en thinr
reteen hme wile may be espied to dine "in tows ;" the
mat stay, ham smote or a demos, and wind up a wry plas-
ma& day with alsoalight ride home. But awe rook I I
ham been push myself for some time, wham' mitts; this,
• ' hew 1 &Meld describe them. I fear It is ba-
le r seer es I out come to it. In the first
plaos, they ere an nearly pertperreboular as is consistent with
Gordon'.
at all. The pried* road N., peaks Mr.
piens, looks like a pole set on end as you Ord see
It; the idea of ping up that thing on horseback is absurd;
and etrypeig eves yea did, why, consistently with ea un-
broken aselk, yea al/Par mould come down man. Than such
a pavement !—•11 hveltna, hill of holes, loose, felling &mato
and shingly ; frak Meese rooted up and kicked down the
hill at every step; k Is sot to be done on any aomitutt I
Well, set ply de yes Ms up it at a quick pre, holdiag on
by the meat het you should elide over the tail, but )ou rids
down it too at full canter or fall gallop, without one dip or
hue step. This is the great road, the beet to the island ; the
ethers are all as steep or steeper—many of them ermeal
pees more so, sad in far worse order; yet yeerb.S-shed
bans unfailingly dambers up and over all o end
seaters gaily down what, in any other country, be
ailed precipices, and la fact really are so. A moleskin sum
hundred feet above oa one side, the ma many husked het
Wow en the other ; your petit some eight or to. kakis
wider tall of holes and gape, loom stones or big rocks, and
every ether imaginable impediment. Your Madeira hems,
like a eat, picks his way through all, and at a land pikp
without ono false alp—which would be de 7Ciu
WM, at the bottom.— /MA Wets pout s Yafi.we, Jan.
emealem.

THE SOVECE OP PERSECUTION.—The process is
clear enough. Yen did not doubt, they knew that God we.
raking the world and them. They leaned upon Him ; they
knew that He we.. There is nothing that gl Vell ouch edge,
such keener, such promptitude to self-convictionof right
and armee@ this. Till you believe that God la in you, you
do sot feel clear about your own meekness at all , you will
take any one's word that you are right, any Sae's word that
you are wrong, however much it confess. the simple paddled
perceptions of your heart ; you hope that you believe, you
heifer. that you think, you think that yea lasi. All is in a
mist. Any one's word is better dm your own, for it adds
bare to the confodon. bust rimes; and then,
.if your heart condemns you, is power than your
bow, and knoweth all things." It Is a weed of commend ;
If a rehabs. it is an inevitable imadranation,—a sentence to
be onssomil and accepted. Every sentence that fleabag
dusegle the boast is written also la the heavens ; and, even
We. see/sees here is but half legible, still elsewhere—with
Osii—it is dear as the nu. Here is the foundation of every
babargeletm— of that instant and unflinching obedience,
that Mrs that death itself is service, that anariticising
sake& of Mal Mardi the superior. that severity of ex-
pand= ilia yourself sad your subordinate,—which is the
semse of manly essidlist. And only add to it blind con-
fidante that year eansalence and spirit I. the measure of
meg Moe ; that you may judge for him what it
km to do—and you have all the horrors of
Iggary of witch kir. HMIs speaks as one of the two worst
ante al Musa society. If evil be pleasured by suffering, no
babe is evilisseo • but the most pitiless persecutor, who
Wear he the times ids ova cruel will with that of God,
Oars ler simedy at eiviliestios than many who help to
apes& ft Itliethia of a soft sneering renunciation of all
kw mope the km of selfish pleteure. But fortunately there
Is he WO be choose between the two.—Ratimull &Mew,

J_. ainhui.

" 81.11/TCALIS3I" ix ENOLAND.—We
dri be mob to row if we ammo* that lobe-torolag, or
tasamp sasiebod *ammo which, la this estuary, is
s ado dot sad which is America srusies
Os Mir deo id mirk to wash/ to occupy the at •
mins ar to poift gateway, has she MOW to occupy the
sand= of scary port of it. TOP het is wry much other-
wise. Our miss would bo isOsialtal wars we to lay be-
hoe dosthe mar of osorsi of lbw lobo are and ing
blame la It, sr are &weft theasakes to the welly or
roprodoodso of ho wands. Not oily dos it 'orris, hut
ararolostvlik r ilks aria aski ad Ihs sabaulatlas oho:-
thaws of a soot solsoo VON the rill* Milli la Zar
lead alkali bo wpm. as min llt as mill lba svileass asa
be is a Asps Is aim top
survistia, pew*
pot is to awes it gailat, asi mbar Ss drab if b-
fi ammo, by a spin mid= minas. Abair ibis
policy old be socashil moils Is be asst ; but than MO be
as baba disk droll war Os Ilms oohs for a relied of
the masstasi. lb OM bad wail be mss sal
.coca ohm toto ossalloodos on Mows to no
odds. sod lobs Nom issiinse rl selso.— West-
sobillar BIM% arimisr.