The Express.
London, England, 1866-10-13 00:00:00

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. male Lessee
and Manager, Mr. VINING.—WINTKR. SEASON.—
N.B. Open at half-past 6 commesee at 7 o'clock.—THLS BYRN-
ISO, and during the week, a Comedy in Three Any by John
Osonford, Eaq., entitled THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE. Characters
by Mr. Vining, Mr. J. O. Shona Was Katherine Rodgers, Miss
hells" and Mrs. Buckingham White. To be followed by, at 9
glnoZaiThlß BOWKNOT CAPTAIN, by Watts Phillips, Esq.
characters :—Mrs. Stirling, Silas Neilson, Miss Augusta
Thompson, ?dr. George Ratio, and Mr. J. G. Shore. Grand
Ballet of Bohemians, in which Meadeurs Ciodocke
Comets, and Normande will appear. New ry by Mr. F.,
Lloyds. .

MINSTRELS, ST. JAMES'S HALL,
ClEitirr arm for the &WON, every night at eight:
Wednesdays and Saturdays, three and eight. Hall newly and
beautifully decorated ; company greatly increased ; new mem-
bers, twenty performers of known excellence and ability, In-
cludlog all the original members ; everything new for the new
action. Fauteuils, ss. ; eialL, si, ; area, its ; gallery, la.
Tickets at Austin's °nice, 213, Piccadilly. —Messrs. Moore, Crocker,
and Sitter, proprietors.—][anger, Mr. Frederic Boner.

NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ROOMS, 218, High
Holborm—Thie very OPEN spacious estabUsluneut
Meths beenentlrely redecorated, EVERY EVEN O. The
grand band, conducted by Mr. W. N. Packer, will perform nightly
• choke lieleCOon ot operatic and dance made. Open at ha-
pset 8 ; glow at 11 AdmiaMon. la.

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livery. C'euntry orders paid in advance. Forwarded by YRIEDE.
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UNITED SERVICE QUADRILLE, by FEED.
Goemr, will be performed THIS EVENING at COVENT
GARDEN TREATRE, by Mr. Alfred Mellon's distinguished
orchestra, strengthened by the hand of the coldstreani Guard‘
Admission Is. Piano Solo and Duets and Quadrille Band, each
free by post for 20 stamps, at Robert Cocks sad Co.'s, NOW
BurUngtonatreet.

TH E QUARTERLY REVIEW,
No. MIL., will be published next Thursday.

00112.2 Tel :
L Ancient Literature of France.
2. The Luta School of Criticism.
3. Homes without Hants.
6. Life of Our Lord.
6. Fergusson's History of Architecture.
t Operations of Modern Warfare.
7. Central Asia.
& England and her Institutions
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LEECH, DOYLE, AND TENNIEL.—Leech, Doyle,
and Tenniel are our last triad of workmen in black and
white. The first was supreme in observation and correct
rapidity. The second combines originality with high re-
finement, and wonderful power of seizing and exaggerating
the leading feature of a face. This probably is great part
of the reason why his works always make one laugh so
very much. He is the inventor, we rather think, of
mediaeval burlesque caricature (lately revived by others
with the greatest spirit in the " Ballad of Branninghindia"
in Puna). His " Continental Tour of Brown, Jones, and
Robinson" showed great power over national expression, of
face ; and his Derby and Brighton crowds seem to us a
good deal better than Mr. Ynth's, at a much cheaper rate.
Mr. Tenniel is in many respects the moat accomplished
character draughtsman who is left to us. Like John
Lewis, he seems to have learned very much from careful
study of animals, at some early point of his career in the
way of subtle expression ; and as Punch is in the hands of
all adults, and " Alice's Adventures" are the delight of all
children (and parents), the illustrator of both those works
need' little comment from us. It is hard to say how great
• loss we have sustained by Leech's early death. Had he
been honoured as well as paid—had he been recognised by
the Academy as the head of our modern school of domestic
character drawing in black and white, he would not have
passed away, as he seems to have done, unaware of his great
powers and their possible influence for good. We may be
said to have lost in him the man of all the world who
produced the greatest amount of beauty with the least
amount of trouble ; who showed the greatest rapidity and
the greatest subtlety; who could create without seeming
to know it ; who could draw a woman in her beauty, a
man in his strength, and a horse in his stride ; who could
treat degrading subject without being degraded, and often
lift things out of vulgarity. or imbecility by humour, or
tenderness, or pathos, or righteous indignation, or even
sublimity—or by inextinguishable laughter; whose range
of feeling was never ascertained or spanned, who drew
and delighted old, young, and mildle-aged, and never
g ace a hint of evil pleasure ; and yet who seems to have
had no notion but that it was good for him to illustrate
the adventures of Mr. Soapey Sponge. —Contaniora ry
Review, October number.
THE INDIAN CIVIL SERVICE. —The total of the
account will then stand thus:—An Indian career in the
civil service holds out • certainty. of interesting work,
good pay, honourable position, fair pension, and reason-
able independence. But these secular advantages
are purchased by twenty-two years of actual exile,
by loneliness and isolation, by the endurance of
the numberless trials of a tropical climate, by
the chances of death or of impaired health and energy,
and by the more than chance of separation from children
and wife. The disadvantages are so manifold as to almost
outweigh the solid benefits, emoluments, or curtail the
privileges, and we feel quite certain that any measures
tending to lower the emolument of the Indian civil ser-
vice would still more diminish the number of candidates
for admission to that body. The system of competition
has been just eleven years before the public, and on its
triaL The time will soon come when an impartial re.
view of its merits and demerits will no longer be impos-
sible. All we need now say is, that the competitive exa-
mination pretends to do no more than to test the qualities
which can be fairly brought within the compass of ques-
tion and answer, and that, by this criterion, dulness and
incapacity, such as were formerly allowed to pass through
•Harleybury into the service, have been properly excluded.
On the other hand, it is, we believe, fully admitted that
the candidates who have headed the lists of the compe-
titionen are not one whit superior to the best men for-
merly turned out from the East India College, in point of
scholarship, refinement of taste, variety of accomplish-
ments, or of solidity and depth of knowledge.—Fmocr's
Magazine for October.
Br a AFRICAN RIVER. —The soil is firm and
dry on these open tracts of jungle, and they abound in
every part with a variety of insect life. Huge beetles drone
past, and threaten to extinguish one of your eyes in thiir
reckless flight. Richly-coloured dragon-flies dart about,
and settle coquettishly on dead branches and earth heaps,
for which they seem here to have a decided preference.
The busiest of tiresome flies in every possible shape and
colour buzz around with obtrusive intimacy, while elegant
and beautiful butterflies float in the sunlight, or vanish
over the palms and shrubs like living gems. The great
green mangrove fly, with his yellow head, skims past,
keeping up a continued moan ; and it is very well if he
does pass, let me tell you, or a pang like that of some one
slowly pressing a thorn into your flesh will teach you to
keep a sharp look out when his moaning suddenly Mops
another time. Large locusts with red wings rise with a
whizz at your feet, apparently possessed with the idea of
soon becoming a species of partridge • it is the likeliest
thing in the world that you will at first mistake them for
quails, which rise with a similar noise, and are really only
a size larger. Then, what myriads of ants on the ground—
seine lively little red or black fellows, others with red
bodies and grey-coloured extremities. It is most amusing
to watch their movements as they seem to run to and fro
on impossible errands, and come into violent collision,
afterwards amicably arranged in brief conferences on sandy
patches, where they bustle and wind shout in an everlast-
ing maze of motion. These ants are harmless, and may
be seen wherever the surface is dry and exposed ; but
others of a most ferocious character, half an inch long,and
armed with a formidable pair of jaws likehookedandsharp-
pointed forceps, are to be found in moist and sheltered
places. They travel in long compact lines about a couple
of inches in width, and by all means give them a wide
berth if they are seen crossing the path, or perhaps making
their way by your shaded resting-place; otherwise you will
probably discover their propensities in a rather unpleasant
way. Only touch one of them with your boot, and—if you
are foolish enough to despise " knickerbockers "—not less
than a hundred will be up inside your trousers and over
your person in an instant, where fixing their nippers in the
parts you mast cherish,they will writhe, and pull, and wrench
like absolute little fiends, and seem as if they would tear
out your very flesh if their rage could give them the power.
There is nothingfor it but to strip yourself of every particle
of clothing, and pick them off one by one with your fingers
as patiently as the pain permits. —The Argosy for
October.