The Express.
London, England, 1858-12-07 00:00:00

LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 7, 1858.

XIII 4ND 11211710011110 30018.

?Mm the 1481sihers' Ling.)

If trade subscription lists are any criterion, we
may quote The Booming of the While Bone, Ellis's Ilia-
Maary Narrative of Madagemar, and the glory of Beth-
lehem, as the most popular of the works issued glees our
lest. Of the first, some 6,000 copies wars Mhos : it le the
new book by the author of Tam BMWS'S School Days, sad
thersizre not mach te he wandered et: It is likely to
hold its way too, sad sell termed the !reds although but
an antiquarian story, the reader is coaxed Into It by coo who
uadentands the sympathies of his age, and what with the
11111 &atm= of the slight tale of modern times
that mairlos to, and Doylies serio-oomio illustrations,
it la an admirable book ix the mom Of the
..aced, what ma be said more than that the edition
was sold at most and, to quote the words of the Atheneum,
"We pndlot br It a mouses scarcely mood to that of Dr.
LiMaptcme's bowinsl." Of the think betimes 3,000 sad
4,000 were tsions, and it pronamo to be as popular as the
other minim by Ms row author (the Bev. John Mar:da),
Memories of Ciseswerst, Footage of it. Paul, to.
But our amumsry of this babe books ahem mere im-
portant wake them they H net lOW, to be se posteler. It
betwies, la Diepephy sal liblery—A Mew* of Themes
tole% by bin Wow; a LA of hem Web, by Muir-
bud (esellossdkesa tb• II rob two , 1066, sempsietri
. .

liettedelealMhspeed Nes ; the Peel V4nenad
Les said Rimer, of his Time, by Professor Mem; a sheep
edition of Motley's Ries of the Deitch Republic. la Fine
Atte and the Soisnose—a beautiful work on Colour, and the
Necessity for the Cultivation of Taste among all Cheese,
by Sir I. G. Wilkinson, with coloured illustrations; and an ac-
quisition to Natural History is Nioholles Forest of Dean, with
Illustration.. In Travel and Reaseroh—The Third Volmme
of the new translation of Hamden& ; a cheaper 'ditto, of
the Abbe H tic's work on Chine; Mr. Minturn's New
York to Delhi (reprinted from the American) ; Ring's
Italian Valleys of the Alps, be the style of Lord Dufieria'a
Letters from High Latitudes, of which we have a smaller
and cheaper edition, very slightly lees menstive than the
original; MOilltausen's Mississippi to the Coasts of the
Pacific; Rilia's Three Visits to Madagascar, defog 1863,
64, and 66 ; Medley's Year's Campaigning la India, with
Plans. In Theology—Dr. Outhrie's Christ and the Inbe
Mance of the Saints; a Second Series of Mr. Blast's
Pee Sermons; sod a volume of Literary Remains of the Iste
Rev. Frederick Robertson, of Brighton. In Tales sad
Romans—Days of Old, by the author of Ruth and bar
Friends ; Tales front " Blackwood," Vol. 3 ; The Mill in
the Valley, by the author of Moravia. Life is the Black
Forest; The Maiden Sister, by the author of Dorothy;
The Foster Brothers, a History of School arid College Life;
Agnes HopeteMs School and Holidays, by Mrs. Oliphant.
Ws will now briefly recapitulate the list of Christmas
Books published during the pest two months, becausse they
form, according to annual custom, the leading feature of our
Number for December.

Of the grit-clue 10 sppearance, sad price ringing from
10s. to the orthodox guinea, are The Merritt Days of Burp
land, with 20 engravinp of the Sports and Pastimes from
drawings by N soh, hc. • Byron's Child. Harold, illustrated
by Parries' Bksiton from drselop =prosily taken from the
scenes described • Favourite English Poems, with 200 Was-
nations by the ant artists ; Wordsworth's Poems, selected
sad edited by Mr. Willmott, with 100 illustrations; Gold-
' smith's Posses, with 40 illustration printed in colours; The
Hamlet, by Thome Wharton. with 14 etchingsby Birk=
Foster ; The Posts of the West, an edretrable amection of
thniericen poetry, Mistrated by dm but artists of both Rog-
had mud ert • Thompson Poetical Works, illustrated
unarm with Griper sad Herbert by Birk= Foster sad
Noel Humphreys; Wardsworth's White Doe of Rylatotte,
illestnited by the ems artists; Odes and econsts, with WILY.
bedew la fiat.
_ _

Of themaikw arm books, varying from fie. to 10a, al-
though seem* eitrootive in eppearance, Gray's Poem.,
illustreini ereemented by Birket Foster and Harry
Engem mut Mod the trot—ft is • little green ; Gram,
illestrendby Fiske; Light from the Path of Life,=
and appraprialsly illeminated ; Wordsworth's
Cottage (keudoig the Gird illuminated volume of the post's
weeks for this sews); Our Little Gem in Heaves, with a
frintispiess eller Wr Joint Reynolds.
And elite Jima& Ilse—but its nacos is legion, and whom
all are so geed, It memo almost invidious to mention any :
but of the grater kind there is Illustrated Songs and Hymns
for the little Ones ;• Min Corner's Sunday-Book ; The
Triumph. ofaises; The Boy Miasionary ; Li Busy at d
her Six Birthdays, 100. And for the laughter-loving, them
are two editions of almost • forgotten favourite, Baron
Munchen.= ; • freeway_ of nursery toy-books under lb.
title of TM Favourite Flom» Book., with 100 ooloured
plates ; The Beeilseg Omar and Wont' Ending of Pre-
cocious Piggy, one eithe lets Thomas Hood's whimsicalities,
resuscitated with gust effect for the benefit of juveniles
by Messrs. Griffith end Farm ; it was originally told
by the post to his children, onto of whom now Illustrates it,
and the other efts it. The earns firm, se usual, have •
aortal selection of books for the young. The same may be
said of Misers. Dorton and Co., Dean and Co., Rent and
Co., Low, Son, and Co., and Tegg and Son consultation of
ham from these homes will give both buyers and sellers a
good °holm.
Messrs. Loogmee and Commny emesnce a long list of
new books and ear *Ohm. Thefts." Include a memoir
of Captain Thernient Doty R.N., who kil cit the storming of
Cantoo, by the Rm. John B.lllfs ; the Letters of Sir
Augustus Frew during the Peninsalar end Waterloo Cam-
paigns; the Chmified Contents snd Copious lades to Todd's
C 1 clopielia of lliedialne; A Handbook of Hospital Prectioe,
by Dr. Lyons, of the Dublin Hospital ; Same from the
ler Fieids, being Illustrations of the Upper los-World of
Mont Blanc, by Mr. B T. Colima • an Emmy on CUM&
cation, by Professor Louis Avails. IPM latter includes a
edition of Abb4 fledic work an China ; • People's
Edl of the Rev. Sydney Smith's Works, in la. monthly
numbers; • second edition of Madame Schimmel Petutick's
Memoir, in one volume; a third edition of the RIOT. Canon
Moseley's work on Popular Astronomy.
The new edition of Carlyle's Frederick will be reedy on the
6th inst. The second volume of Wilhelm Meister, coin•
plating tho new 10-vol. edition of this great author's works,
i. published to-day.

Our readers are aware that a memorial to General
Havelock has e.gb bees projected, and that governmest
offered es the are for its erection the 'pot on the unoccupied
side of the Nelsen odium, etererponding with that upon
which rands the stars of soother of our Inhere heroes—the
great Napier. The models have, we brier, bees seat in to
the Gallery of British Artiste, in Suffolk-~net, newly •
month, sad ars to be exhibited to the public on Thursday
neat sad fallowing days.
PIUINTATION TO MM. CliAltUrs DlCSitits.--Che
Saturday events, the inbabitaate et Coventry restinierd
Mr. Charles Dickens at a public dinner. held at the Case le
Noir in that city, at which they preseased him with • valu-
able gold watch, of their own mannfeennes, bearsg the fed-
levies inscription .—'• Prorated is Merles Diotear, Esq.,
by his friends at Coventry, In testimony of his kla~rr to
there, and his eminent services to the interests of bn=:.
Ia December last year Mr. Dickens favoured the M
Institute with • gratuitous reading of his Cluistmes
Carol," audit wash acknowledgment of this serer, that
the above presentation was made. Mr. Charles Wrea
Hoskins occupied the chair, and there wen present many
of the most influential inhabitants of Coventry. The pre-
mutation was made after dinner by the chairman in an
able speech highly eulogistic of Mr. Dirkena's eminent est. I
vices to Ms country by the development of his literary genius.
Yr. Dicker briefly replied. He soured them the watch
the bad to him would be deeply prised by him,
be ble es epssion in all kis sedentary world's" at
hoes, sod his restless wasdarlaira abroad; It sherd sever be
ablest hew hie ails le .cant, be hoped, the Were et many
laborious days. Whoa he bel dons with Uwe awl with its
weamerassat, that wait ahuYisim is hie shag es, aid
r be bed sere awl as they Wolfer thets ism .serve
their eenniry aml Menai were is be Waal is do so,
and as they bad hewn is sisal lab what dished
they should seek tisk Muses, be bear. piewwle I.l=
!fining that It wan MO cay possible, bat sew Vie, Its
voicetueo VnZ be baud years lease Wig ibes is
11011,11 City hl the Valk el Aselisila, et, who
knew, It might be ie Coventry-caress, Japsa. (Lwow
sad ahem.)
DEATH OF A CZNTliff ARIAlf.—Mr. hut. &IMAM died
at East Berkwitli, Liacolurirs, on the Zed torrent. The
deostteed was bows as the Stith of Jane. 1760. sad thus lived
is the reigns of George 11., 111., IV., Willis. IV., sod
Vkitoria. Fr 76 pen he was treat el the glebe Yee
seder six socurive meows of Best Barkwith. He was
man of remerkable strength sad industry, brag known,ern Ale he wee ea old ear, to woek ia the aside all day
and rimer an seerlyal eight Unyoking tees ler the rearket.
When erre them 95 years of age be world war le church
and beck, a &Wass of aserly thew wiles, teed less than two
=go be took tho Pio* Iliallibed be about two
lib heir was sell Wet et the Uses al his deem,
sad his eyesWt we. se geed that be weld MI men grist,
Is rhri always ibliewber the airflow, and Jambs is the
sterisowe with pert pnebles. Be was wen irk awl Levee
Wine &Mem bees with ea Weevil el tea years between
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THZ SMITHFIHLD CLUB CATTLE
SHOW.

There is a good deal of difference of opinion as to
the merits of this year's show, some persons contend-
ing that it will not bear comparison with last year's,
and much lees with that of the previous year, while
others are equally strenuous in asserting that,
although the number of animals exhibited is less
them on the last anniversary, quality this year makes
up fir quantity, and a higher general level of ex-
cellence is obtained than on any previous occasion
For ourselves, we must confess that we rather lean to
the first class of opinions above enumerated, and should
hesitate to say that this year's exhibition displays
any marked progress moompared with previous years,
oar fret impression being, on the contrary, that to
mall it a fair average show would be doing ample
justice to its merits. To begin with the Devour—
always so attractive, not only on account of their in-
trinsic excellence, but because they are the favourite
stock of the Prince Consort, and the fruitful source
of prise, and silver medals to his Royal High-
ness--it is universally admitted that neither
in numbers nor quality do the spm7erens now
exhibited come up to those of former shows.
In the first class (three-year-old steers) there are
iluitliate,lla filled, the soma being °Dimpled
hiPrince's medallist, whose swam with the
judges, we must obrerve, is not at all ratified by
public opinion. The murmurs at the private view
yesterday evening were cot only loud but deep, and
many were the comparisons made between the: for-
tunate beast and Mr. Farthing's, which stood next,
the verdicts in favour of the latter being certainly
ten to one. Allowance must however be made for
the ill-temper of the keen, and little credit can be
given to the now almost stereotyped complaints of
favouritism on the part of the judge?, against whose
knowledge of the names of proprietors every pre-
caution is taken by the managers of the show. It is
eras that the Prince paid a private visit previous
to the inspection of the judges, and it is
also true that his ox occupied precisely the
same stall as is last year's show, but this,
although giving some colour of reasonableness
to the allegations of disappointed candidates, is.not
to be taken hastily as any proof that persons
charged with so responsible a duty as the decision
of the best stook in all England would allow them.
selves to be influenced by considerations other than
an earnest desire to do impartial justice. From the
decisions given through every class, and every
variety of stock exhibited, without exception, it
would appear that the leading idea of the judges
has been to prefer blood and breeding before every-
thing ; and in all mace where there was a close run
as to excellence, to
i give the preference to the animal
ce whose appearanndicated, the purest pedigree.
Looked at from this point of view, the decision in
favour of the Prince Consort's steer can be honestly
I accounted for. For although the animal next to it
is of a better presence, stands more firmly on its
legs, and measures better for the butcher, it does not
on close examination exhibit the fine points which
are never wanting in the Windsor specimens.
Number one is perhaps a better ox, but number
two is a more thoroughbred bovine gentleman, and
if the judges were determined to give the prefer-
ence to pur sany—a determination in which they
would be fully justified, there can be no doubt that
they acted conscientiously in allowing the Prince
Consort to be once more the successful exhibitor.
There were but three other animals in this class,
of which one exhibited by the Earl of Leicester
obtained the 101. prise, and all appeared to be of a
good but not remarkable quality. The enviable
" hack like a kitchen table" was well developed
throughout, but in the less prominent but more prized
points of symmetry in head and limbs, it could
hardly be said that there was any advance on the
shows of previous years.

Of the Herefords a mach more favourable re-
port may be made. The select audience ad-
mitted yesterday evening were loud in their
commendations, and especially for the " old"
members of this highly respectable family, and
• marked improvement was declared to be
observable in this year's specimens. Mr. Heath's
beast, two years and ten months old, which obtained
the silver medal and WI., is a tine animal, not re-
markable for size but for great symmetry and a
maturity of appearance rarely obtained in so short a
time. The highest prize in Herefords was carried off
by Mr. Swinnerton, of Weddington, Warwick, in
Class 6, for one of the " old " specimens, and there
was a general oonourrence of opinion as to the jus-
tice of the award. The singularity of Class 7, foe
Hereford heifers, is the only circumstance con-
nected with it that calls for any remark. Mr. Philip
Turner, of the Leen, Leominster, obtained the prize;
but as his beast was the only one exhibited in the
class the judges could not have had much diffi-
culty in the way of comparison.

In Short Horns, which this year us not con-
sidered to present any peculiar features of ex-
cellence, Mr. Stratton still wears the champion's
belt, his steer of three years and eleven months
taking the gold medal and 251. There could
be no doubt about the comparative excellence
of this animal, all things considered ; but still
it must be admitted that Mr. Marriot's Si, which
obtained the 251. and the silver medal, had also •
considerable party of enthusiastic supporters. But
the animal which, we were informed, most excited
the admiration of the judges, and which was p-
nonneed to be the best in any class, woe Mr. Brown's
Sussex cow, and great curiosity was of course
excited by so flattering a report. The visi-
tors were, however, disappointed, as the doctors
pronounced the Paragon to have caught the dis-
temper, and she was summarily removed to a
neighbouring stable, lest this dreaded disease should
spread through the bazaar. Her stall was vacant
yesterday evening, and the visitors were obliged to
content themselves with reading the advertisement,
in red lettere, which declared that there should hare
wood the winner of the much prized gold medal. Of
the Scotch cattle there was nothing that attracted
particular attention, and in the class allotted to Irish
beeves we have again to report, "No entry." It is
certainly very remarkable that from a country like
Ireland, whole traditional staple is black cattle,
not one specimen could be sent to the most noted
cattle show in the world.

IN sheep, the Leiontershave made an immense ad-
vance this year. Mr. Jordan's pen, which obtained the
gold medal, was universally admitted to be every-
thing in mutton and wool that the most fastidious
critic oonld desire, and in one particular they ex-
celled all their predecessors that we have seen in this
claws. Although flitted almost to bunting, and
oovered with a most redundant fleece, they were
quite active and lively--a pleasing contrast to the
panting, distrased-looking animals of former shows.
The most remarkable excellence about this pen was
the beauty of the wool, which in quality and colour
might compete with the beet Southdown, and which
was &eland to In of itself quite enough to warrant
the favourable award. It is hardly eeserary to
my that the pen of Bouthdowns that obtained the
gold medal came from Goodwood. We believe that
this is the duke's year, and of mune the next will
be Mr. Rigden's, as beyond these two famous
breeders weweldom hear of a gold medal for South-
downs. As a class, the t3outhdowns must this year
give place to the long wools.

The pigs darns-a
paragraph to themselves, as
never did they advance upon London in greater
force than in this year's show. It was stated that
this year his been mart prolific in
elle u over the
United Kingdom, and if we are to ju frimi the flife
of this amiable family sent up for exhibition, we should
may that it bee been as remarkable for quality u for
quaatitxt Let the visitor of to-day by all muse
luny off to pen 336, exhibited by Mr. Beale, a
Ledoesterehire breeder, and contemplate in wander
the 1111/DISIM cylinders of park which breeding and
feeding have produced. The three immense animals
reclined in the moat perfect ease and comfort during

the whole of yesterday evening's inspection, and
treated with the greatest nonchalance and contempt
the curious crowds who attempted to poke and
punch them into an erect posture. We were so for-
tunate as to arrive at the moment when the Daniel
Lambert of the family was having his portrait
taken, and can truly state that his sublime composure
much facilitated the artist's efforts to catch
the exact expression of his placid countenance.
Of this most useful class we may generally say, that
the decisions seem to have been guided by a rule
somewhat different from that which obtained with
respect to the horned cattle. With the oxen, breed,
symmetry, and grace appeared to be the desiderata,
but amongst the pigs bulk carried all before it.
There were in fact no small pigs exhibited, and
those which obtained the gold medal were certainly
if not the 'tryst boned, at least the fattest of the
whole lot. We have only further to remark, that in
many cases the decisions of the judges completely
reversed the previous ones at Birmuigham, and that
the gold medals of the Midland Counties were " no-
where" at the Smithfield Show. The ►rrangements
of the show-yard exhibited this year their
usual excellence, and the ventilation was so per-
fect as to keep even the most obese animals
in a state of comfort. The result was that all
preserved positions the mast favourable for inspec-
tion, and there was none of that panting and other
symptoms of distress which sometimes form amnions
drawback on the enjoyment derivable from contem-
plating what is generally admitted to be the finest
collection of live stock in the world.
The galleries of the Bazaar are this year furnished
with their usual mysterious looking array of agri-
cultural implements for ploughing, and harrowing,
and crushing, and pulverising, and otherwise fer-
tilising the -land. If they all be necessary, tillage
farming must be indeed a most serious un-
dertaking, as the management of any one of
them would appear to be a business in itself.
As, however, they form no part of the show,
but are exhibited by the manufacturers merely for
sale, their detailed description and the due glori-
fication of their merits belong properly to our
advertising columns. But there is in the gallery
one stand otherwise occupied, and which, as it ob-
tained the marked attention of the Prince Consort
and his suite on the day of the private visit, it
would not be proper to pass without some notice.
We mean the samples of mangold wurzel, beet
and turnips, exhibited by Mr. Corrigan on behalf
of the Royal Dublin Society, and which had been
carefully collected from the various leading agricul-
turista in Ireland. The'perfection to which the moist
soil of the sister country brings these valuable
green crops has already attracted at-
tention ; but this year they possess new
interest, because they include proofs of the entire
success of Mr. Pollock's immense agricultural expe-
riments in the hitherto desolate west of Ireland.
Turnips were shown by Mr. Corrigan—and it must
be remembered that, generally, throughout Ireland
turnips have been a failing crop this year—of enor-
mous size and high quality, the produce of Mr.
Pollock's farm, and certified to have been pulled
without selection from a plot of fifteen hundred
acres, probably the largest field of turnips ever
known in the whole history of agriculture. Let us
hope that the good which Mr. Pollock is evidently
doing for the most impoverished part of Ireland
may not be interrupted by any of those outrages
which recently have disgraced some of its midland
counties.

The following is a list of the animals which have
taken the first prizes in each class, with the names of
the exhibitors and breeders: