The Express.
London, England, 1856-01-11 00:00:00

BPOBTING.

TATTERBALLI3.—TIIOIBDAT.
There was no badness transacted worth quoting.
TIN sale of Palases herass will take place at 'rattersall's
on Monday nut.

We read in the Journal de Constantinople :—"Oa
The/slay lest the obsequies of °me of the wives of bis Impe•
nisi Majesty the Selena were celebrated with great pomp,
the body of the Primmer being interred in the Mosque(
Yeai•Djansi. All the Ministers end high functionaries of
the Porte followed the remains to their resting pleas."

" A globe of flre." says the Journal de Rouen,
" appeared in the beams* on Monday afternoon, about d
o'clock, preeeediag with greet rapidity from the north-wen
to the soath•sut. It seemed &boat as large as a man's bead;
and as it cart ered along it left behind a long train of ltush
nom partSeles."—The Carrier IN Havre speaks of the sine
meteorological phenomenon, and states that at hat, after
Whig to sight for about twenty minutes, it disappearsd
with a loud ezplosioe. _ _ _

Concluding an able and elaborate review of Mr.
Masaolay's sew volumes, the Times remarks :—" What a
Wasp\ that, with all these blemishes great and small, K,.
Kamalay bas gives as • book which will not only live, bet
which threatens by its fassiastion to supersede history.'
What • grasp it striates ; what a light it sheds frequently
es the obscurest data; what a welcome ascot it gives to
ear torpid reaalleetiess. No man living aoald have written
two such volume ; and if we hare remembered that we had
to perform a critic's duty, we must not forget that we hare
to record a nation's thanks. The source of its eajoyraset
has been eagerly acknowledged; it is read, and it will be
ra-rvad ; it will go dews to posterity ; it will pees to distant
and foreign dimes sad it will be a arrisa is &et, but it •
net the History of England."
WHAT IS • WHICH P— A vessel named the pia•
air wee droopier; her author off Liverpool ta wait the tide
for docking, when the chain parted. Boatmen from shore
were working at the tams on board, and the mom cos.
Masted with tholes to lift and ?wort the chain and 'odor
for 161. Upon their being raised mod brought alneeside the
Receiver of Units prohibited their delivery • ICtOt soon se
avast signed by him, and • deposit of 18/. with 11.10,. fees
The deposit sad fees were paid, and the chain and cable
restored, het no order, it is said, was ever listed
by the Reviver. The ownership was never db.
owed. and the questions contested sr.,Wlls tbk
• wreck, and was the Receiver @stifled to say
Seca? Kr. Y Colloch eays • wreck is email, understood
to mean any ship or goods driven ashore or found flatlet
at ma in an unmanageable condition ; hot that, according
to the legal same of the word in Ragland, it is snowed a
" wreck " mast have come to land. sines when at tea
It u
distiegnished by the barbarous appellatioce of flotsam!.
jetsam, sod lease. Is the present cam it is insis.ed use
of OMB terms are applicable, as the cable oared is the
river, sad net at an or is • roadstead, and may be sold
never foe • newest te lave been out of eoesiteafti Tta
Beard of Trade have eossidered the matter of Balkiest
eousequenee to seed down an otiose to inquire specially MS
the eireseutanees, and the decision ia looked for with tar

t;;Maln;tb by eastrebsite sad widerwrinem.
MANES EXYLJUIADE ASO RAILWAY.—The plead
and model at this esimate, which includes the embankmast
of dm Thames, the elesrage of the sewage of L oda. a
direct mud for carriages sad pedestrians on the north ride
of the river between London-bridge and Westminster, a
railway throughout the some route. as d a 0,1101'3108 on tits
Surrey side between the Bostb Western sod Smith Easters
railways, wens submitted to Prises Albert. in present* et
the Count of Fluidise end Colossi Berson,. at Wiedeig
Castle, on Tsesday, by the projector. Mr. Wieland, ea
had the hewer of explaioing the dinette to ho
highs/se. On the following day they were inspected/
Sir Benjamin Ball, at his onion in Whitehall-rime.

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