The Express.
London, England, 1859-07-05 00:00:00

LOCAL OHARA MALKITS.

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Anglian: 11l —lltolarat. lON.
BISMINUN AY. Jute 4.—The age. to.aay enere—Cbsetar end liata6
Wad. 40—loath Btaaords, at 10/. 166 3 i —larrolaebam Wage= Cos-
Paola "bast at II prom—Haw Dal= lallla at 1/. Its. 31. The
Delos were : Great Weeteroa. 65 to t—atour Valley OcartatAgla
to 51—Iiirmlegalm Calla* 91 le 93. ?Moss arto.

GREAT FIRE AT BELFAST.—The Northern Whig
of Saturday contains en account of a fearfully extensive fire
which took place in Belfast on Friday night. The fire broke
oat in some one of the buildings at the rear of and cond.
goons to the handsome block of offiose sad stores which form
the corner of the Victoria and Waring; streets, known as
Victoria-chanters. It was at once seen that the disseter
had taken place in a large store, throe storeys high, occupied
by Messrs. T. M'Clure, Finlay, and Co., as a yarn and corn
depot. In a few m‘nutes it was apparent that the store and
all it contained were beyond recovery. The intense heat,
socompanied by showers of spark., extended to the Victoria.
chambers, and in the mums of twenty minutes the roof of the
block of buildings was on fire. The filmes raged with incre-
dible fury, pitching the dotes from the roof, aid making
their way out of every window of the Victoria buildings
Floor after floor gave way with an alarming mesh, and the
efforts of the firemen seemed unable to yroduce the slightest
effect. There are nine separate tenements in the Victoria.
chambers, nearly all of which (not fireproof) have been con.
awned. They belong to Mr. Charles Lanyon, and, with
the stock which they contained, must have been worth much
more than 100,0001.
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SHOCKING EFFECTS OF INTOXICATION.—WiIIiam
Fowler, of Bridge Home Owe, Pateky-bridge, wes return-
ing home from Ripon, on Tuesday, in charge of a waggon.
load of own, and had only travelled about a mile and a ball
from that oily, when he fell from the waggon shaft, and was
killed by the wheel pawing one his body. Another mars
awned John Cork, a hawker, living at Stock Plain, was
sitting on the opposite shaft of the waitron, and the vehicle
had only proceeded about 100 yards further, when he also
fell under the wheels, and was crushed to death. Both mess
were intoxicated at the time.
New BRIINEMICK AND CANADA RAILWAT.
Tim directors of this railway and land company elate ha
their report that the expeadituro during the half-yam
smounted to 20,0121. for works, materiels, plant, and se
forth. They utimato the liabilities tip to the present time
at 28,636/. The only mode open to the company for raldng
the capital Will required is by tbo Immo( debentures, which
were in the first Judaea offered to the shareholders and
only very recently to the public. The directors are pre•
pared to take ■ portloo of those debenture', and they treat
that if the shareholders will take up a due praportim of
them the full amount will he speedily subscribed. They
state that unites funds see provided without delay, It will be
Impossible to complete the railway within the period pm-
scribed by the Provincial Legislature—a failure which must
nemesasily entail serious loss upon the company. The
capital account shows that 180,9361. bad been received, and
197,5721. expended, having a balance of 18,6361. against the
compmy.

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SCOTTISH CENTRAL RAILWAT.—A special meet-
of this company was held at Pattiz on Thursday, to con-
sider a hill to amend the company's acts. Mr. Bruce, via-
chairman, who presided, recavitalatixi the various objees
end provisions of the bih, and moved its approve). With
regard to the general station at Perth, tarangentents had
besn made Pr its mumgement by the difftrent c mpeeiee in-
terested, sad the bill provided that the disputes as to the
coat of the etation should be disposed of by arbitration iriatead
of barb's to go through the Sheriff's Court. The bill, Its
believed, would prove of great advantage to the compav,
they next met the shotOoldem the rummers `opens
to be able to report that It had posed the House of Lords, as
it had already parsed the COMMOId F3ollnittees
0; NO bill. Mr. NM,
sated what the pr-a-0rk.71.;a of the bill would be with se-
yard to the prefrrestre shares Mr. Bruce Meted IMh sa
offer would be erode to all the holders of the Five per Cast.
hredprosolibigmaihcbt subtieollyclwy auwid
caqtaittwanainonewitothieouirbuitte::‘. ithaThe matotawsp."

THE UNITED STATES.

(mar ors owii conatinlimml

NSW TORN, Jetes 22.
'As latest bit of excitement we have enjoyed has
lam caused by the reeeptiea of Mr. Paul Murphy,
the chess champion. TM Chess Club of this city has
presented hiss with • set of geld and silver chessmen
and a go'd watch of American maoufacture, aeL.M'
ponied, as is usual in such eases, by two - oratl,.es,"
containing sketches of the history of chess from fir
earliest time. to the present moment, besides divers
prophecies upon the future 'resume of this great
country, sod a great deed of olf•gratulation as to bar
past exploits. He has einem gone to &woo, and has
there received still greater glorification at a banquet,
at which all the leading literary, legal, and social
luminaries were preempt, Dr. Wendell Holmes reed-
ing a poem complied specially far the occasion. Oa
all these occasions Alorphy's skill in the noble
game has been unhesitatingly declared by the
speakers to indicate the possession of the highest
order of intellect, and general fitness to attain the
topmost place in any position in life. Morphy has,
however, learnt the tact and good sense to see the
absurdly of them eulogies, and to parry them by
roastsut reminders that chess is after -all but an
au;usement, and can Lever be anything but an
amusement, end that it ought to be placed in
the same rink with the more serious pursuits of life.
As ie usual, the re-action set in in a few days, and
every one who took part in these demonstrations is
now more or less ashamed of them, and try,og to
shift the blame on tome one else. The whole thing
furnishes one more illustration of the curious mixture
of rough English common sense and French suita-
bility which enters into the American character.
'nitre seems to be pent up in the bosom of the
public a supply of frantic enthusiasm which is con-
stantly on the verge of explosion, an (which does
explode whenever it gets any reasonab.e excuse.
No people was ever so devoured by that sett of
hero-worship which expends itself in eptscher, pro-
onsious, fireworks, and poetry. There is a ocartant
erasing in the breasts of the inhabitants of the large
eities, and particularly of New York, for a great
somebody to fondle and eulogise, and when they get
hold of a celebrity, no matter how small, they newer
think of proportioning their praise to his deserts.
Every one of them, whether he began to wink at
early morn or at the eleventh hour, receives preciiely
the same wages as the rest, and that at the highest
rate that the powers of language will admit of.
When Koseuth came end Jenny Lind came the ex-
citement was of the maddest kind, and ycu may
remember the wild extravaganeies that were com-
mitted in their honest. No other opportunity for
an outbreak oa ea graud a male offered itself until
the Atlantic cable wee laid, and then the tide reached
a higher point than it had ever attained before.
Cyrus Field was seised on as the specific object of the
outburst, and there was nothing too wild or absurd to
bested in his praise, lie was compared to Moses, to
Ala:ender the Great, and Cyrus the Great. All the
sonverroes, philosophers, and statesmen of the
world were declared to lose their lustre in comparison
verb hi. achievement.. The cable bad no sooner
vaniihed into thin air. than Morphy providentially
appeared on the horizon, and the enthusiasm once
more ruse to Neer beat. The persons who expended
their eloquence on him here in New York were Lot
men of much repute either tor ability or good taste ;
but Itu-ton, welch prides itself tepee its perfect wee-
p:my of habit, lour. brought its leading !1e.•6 upon
the stage, and it n.u.t he confessed they were I.
absurd and tid.imlons as any occasion could require.
Chi. i Joule, Shaw, perhope the first lawyer in the
Uni..m. hid it down e mphatically that to beat every-
body at chess was to afford practical demonstration
of pre-eminent atone fur any pursuit requiring
the highest kind of intellect. The conclusion was
obei nis, that Murphy wee the greatest man in the
world. All the other speeches were in the sum
strain.

If I had to atop here, the picture of at intelligent,
fairly ed nest ed, and gene rally very practical C 4121031-
salty, g,ving way periodically to ouch prepoittrowi
Its, would be a somewhat dieheartening one. Bo far,
all is thoroughly French, minus that which &oar
meshes French demonstrativeness pn•sab!e—the pe-
culiar toner of the language foe the expression of
this species of fervour. Bat here the old English
common rase generally breaks out in a few days
after Oa spasms are and the eruption seems to
resters people's Hanes to a healthy condition. Every
one layers at the lolly of which he das
bees guilty. tries to throw the blame on
somebody ein, nod moralises over the whole matter
ao cynically, eupereilianly, and with as much affec-
lanai of superiori4 to ordinary human Wealclleveirt,
a. 11‘..r the Saturday Re.l.4.'r could display older
the circumetsoas. The Kossuth fever, the Jenny
Lind fever, the Telegraph fever, were each followed
by • n action ; the Murphy fever has now passed
over, and Banton and New York are situps, each
elovleel in its right mind, and laughing at the ether
for tile absurdities perpetrated daring the dentinal.
There as to be • grand concert to-night at the
Opera-house, at which all the Italian artists in the
country will arid, in aid of the subscription for the
families of Italian soldiers who may fan during the
war. Thu enthusiasm in the Italian came which
pervades all classes and conditions, and which 1 think
be unquestionably genuine because it la quiet and nu-
aad Lasso tar selected no hero roe its worship,
nil, I have so doubt, sake the demonstration •
large one. The exeitemtzt with which the sews
how the seat of war is looked for is intense, sad me
doubt whatever is estertained as to the 'tool result,
se, fur es the operations in the field are conceened. if
Louis Napoleon exhibits moderation enough in the
hair of triumph to leave Italy independent and five,
I thick he n ill fairly entitle himself to the very
highest rank 'monger the benefactors of the
human !ace. The auertion is being reiterated by
the German patty on this side of the water,u well as
cal 3 ou:s, that this is after all a war of dlnesties, •
agent between two devote. But it must be coo-
fused that thi. is the Brae time a war of dynastic
was ever carried on by ore party, even professedly
in the interest of the people, and with a fornisl re-
cognition of the right of 'he masses to choose their
own rulers, gad of the iniquity of foreign domination.
This, lent, is a step in advance, and • great one.

THE LAT, RETURN Tut HilltwlClT.—lt is stilted
Cut the potitias prwostrel ermine the rears of ibo lino.
W. T. Campbell, N V., oso of the &Wish tortobrie for
Horwi h, it sot to be prootiohd wit►. Tar retilioner woo
Noo Noe. Coke 1 Itewly, the worhoorehl Castairrstive
wowildsto

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A saporaan ENOLT.B AND FRENCH '
F:s. tourer Si' ens DOWN..--11 afp.ars that Frisch
111barmoi Mee bees is eh, bible of visiting this part of the
ens. of Ryland, for the outgo.* of low has !Labia'. within
the limit. meeertbed by the d .bury ommulben ; sad is fact,
Is is, br-..a or &rise as to shoot their lines within a *hurt
Came. of the seers, to the gre.t assorts-, ea! whose
lemur ore 5-hsrues, la rosseqssace of the Fresalmes la-
eariatly thew sere whys/sow tbr7 *pea us ease
late c...tad el h their liar. A, as lastime, we ere swan
that on. of the Kings& en boats has lest sees sad gear
le the info. of two or terse hundre I timid@ withis • year
at two, ant froto the wbrole fl et it Is to a taut more
serious woos's.. they &mave the lover to the want of
protection from. the vertn.eeet in sot imelag fit lowed the
.temple of the Er sot. wiat not only piroteLt &barmen is
thole 4.11 wale., bet on the Eneteh cleat !Mewl/. by
'raises. Hardie bone thew I roes for sinus time without
obigiging redress, it appiere on Thursday toreufig lest,
obeerriap eights,. or the. F:Lesett logger. sitordisg their
Yens, it.. ere. of the Mary 131•41., • Ratting boat of time port,
deterseised sp, a *Ain( It,. bw .rvo their own halite, sad
lyarded thetwereviEraearme.haviee,hoervergrat raga MA
the edeeia of the Fteneo envier to Wit./ theta LE, who
eetind b, ist,rfam. Atom a shirt *haute,. Ili
yourh.asa drew his ha I. sad iv await Li/ 11.111•11.., they
wire tapered, sad brought es eh ire with the bi•
Wee huioedistely earroseded by three or four heedful peo-
ple It a oats of grist ezettamest. Os the followieg na
bg aa-
,he Fretaimes .laid the o ii:erier of tuitions at the
ca.ton-hosue, who, eltrr \aria; both •14. %of the iitiostl.n,
advised the Deal Sehersess sot is take ally farther step
is the umattee, ea they had eramitted • brrial I the rebel
by tithing ths few into their owe ha& ; but at the muse
ta nasals, time Treed' brat, be essilosed the ere.,
sod palsied oat IMpeddle to wilesnotional
ihozooolvos morels Mkt tho NOW, Cato. rimt Let. Ws
oorostassoo woo homellseoly reported to
the goversorat W tee edleske ef easteme, 50.5 tholilto
Ataireity eedeeed tar eeeety's 010010-kallor .rd (which
Ms data arrived) to alpdr st Noe Is tee Downs, eel read.,
web pr. 'edits to ear Yesw es WOW We
ascaratuiste our &Mewl' is !miss ad Imita obtoio,,l tbs
pro/v.4 to irtiolt *ay Iwo boo a Meg =titled ; and we
Meet the giveranteet will elation he watch over their late.
reels. .n 4 thee ae..id floes aerials dispute., which wield
law.: r, i.e taws taporteat coaseqaeases in the mast .-s•
sled ewe of the seatissatel pewors...../astuA Dories.