The Express.
London, England, 1858-06-30 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 30, 1858.

periods( the voyage to an mesa of fermentation,
dung which process its odour was intolerably
nanseons and unwholesome. This fermentation, how-
ever, worked off' the putrescent organic' 'natter
suspended in the water, which subsequently became
sweet and potable. Now in those days the putre-
scent organic wetter in the Thames water was prin-
cipally the vegetable matter carried down from
fields and meadows. This vegetable matter has been
incalculably increased non the practice of high-
manuring became universal throughout the
valley of the Thames. Every rain-fall now
carries into the beds of the river and its
affluents the putrescent vegetable matter of
multitudinous farm-yards. Again, every town
and village on the banks of the Thames, and of
all its affluents, has now its cloaca' system opening
into the nearest stream. Begin at the source of the
Thames, or at the source of any rill or river that
flows into it, and walk downwards, you cannot fail
to be convinced that the materials which generate
the fermentation productive of offensive and dele-
terious gases are absorbed to an immense amount in
the upland waters long before they reach London.
These intercepted at the upper region oftidal action
contribute largely to that laboratory of foal and fatal
smells which are now poisoning the rieerain inha-
bitants of London. We, the inhabitants of the
' Metropolis, who are being stifled not only in
our own filth but in the caper-added filth of all who
live higher up stream, have assuredly a title to ask
them to contribute towards the expense of the re-
moval of a nelson in the creation of which they
are our active partners.

To us these Considerations appear to establish con-
clusively that the major part of the expense of puri-
fying the Thames, within the boundaries of the Me-
tropolis, ought to be borne by the inhabitants of the
Metropolis ; but that in virtue of London's metropo-
litan character, and also in virtue of its suffering from
the arrest in traante of all the garbage brought down
from the whole drainage basin of the Thames at the
upper tidal limits, the rest of the empire ought to
tiontribute its quota to the work. If Cirencester,
and Reading, and Windsor, and Guildford, and
Oxford, and Hertford, and Ware refuse to contri-
bute, let them keep their dirt to themselves. And
if Manchester, and Birmingham, and Glasgow, and
Edinburgh, and Dublin, and Belfast, will insist upon
our purifying our river in order that the precious
samples of legal and legislative wisdom and theo-
logical law they annually send us may return to
theirs safe from typhus and cholera, let them help
r is raising a fund for the purpose.
But the business is too urgent te admit of time
being wasted in argument on this head. Too
much time has been wasted already. Parlia-
ment ought to cut the Gordian knot of con-
troversy, and settle the matter by guaranteeing
an adequate loan for the purification of the river,
leaving it to be decided hereafter upon whom the
payment of hatred and the repayment of the ca-
pital is ultimately to fall. Every month spent in
inaction idle to the difficulty of the task, and aug-
ments the expense that will ultimately have to be
incurred. There is true economy, as well as wise
regard for the general health, in setting to work at
once.

FASHIONS FOB JULY.

(Praia L* Ana.)
Atas swag have th.patlifer of talletas dream
huh vase or *ere eleganllhass at the pesaast time.
Law flowers gad shahs are lea In favour than they wines
mama stripes, amell sprigs, spots, or stare appear to be .the
faveauite styles; <him figures an &equally of this same
Colour aa the ground, but of a filfferent shade. Bah pound,
with pink, green, or Eke figures, are also much eta. They
. .

are made fn various

• high body, with

hoopoe, trimmed with ruches ; Noontime, a body with four
points, buttoned in front, and trimmed with plaits of silk or
rows of buttons. These ornaments are usually pieced
only half-way over the body, either front the
throat to the shoulders or from the waist upwards
like a low body ; the latter style we think the more elegant.
Quilting and mohair &retainers made with very long bisques,
If rather, we may say, with large caseques, the sisevee being
either pagoda or with deep kale. In the aunty/ and at the
sea-side, they are almost indispensable for morning toilette.
The cuaques are made exactly like throe of last year. White
cotton ball fringe is much used u a trimming for quilting
dresses, which, when nude with double skirts, an improved
by the upper one being open at the sides, and ornamented
round the opening with bail fringe. Sometimes the skirt is
entirely en quints or trimmed en labile?, with a rich em-
broidery in chain-stitch or braid, mixed with ball fringe.
Double twigs, English barige. China or silk muslin, and
other light materials, are made with double skirts or 1131112018
The latter style is, however, most in favour. Drab, which
has so long been a favourite colour, is now becoming rather
common, and Is replaced by white, with brown, green, lilac,
or violet. Chins muting ere generally in stripes, varying
in width, but never very wide. Pink and whits, end lilac
and white, are vary pretty in this material.

Puumenterle b; very much used to trimming almost ell
dresses, and is arranged is various ways. Ruches sod plait-
ing a la brills, are also mach wont. A very pretty
nf &Jule dress may be made of drab ehini taffetas, trimmed
with ruches i Is rhino of the same material. We have
noticed ode dress with a double skirt, trimmed round with a
broad eroseway piece of the same imaUriaL home thin
dresses, grenadine, to., are made with a single skirt, very
full indeed. Plaid bareges, or black and white checks, us
better fn this style than almost any other. The bodies are
sometime made with berthas, trimmed with ruches or
triage, or quite pain, fastened by buttons. When made
with low bodies, a muslin or lace canasta is generally wont
also. White mantles are becoming greatly in demand; we
haul seen a very large round one with a row of guipure,
&rutin pilules and capuchou. We have also seen burnous
formed entirely of lace. At the ses-mide very thin cloth
hormone, with rounded hoods, ere worm.

For evening dries moire antique brachia to still very much
worn. We have seen several in one of our first houses, and
observed that lace and ribbon are the only trimmings worn
with these rich dresses; the only variety being In their
arrangement. Although double skirts are so much worn
Bannon are not yet discarded ; very wide ome are, primp:
the most diffitinguis. Several narrow owes its, asurtbsisss,
frequently worn, especially In thin dresses. Marro ars
mods either very wide, with puffs at the top, or quite flat,
open up the front of the arm, where a bow is Owed. Bolles
are worn with two or four points, or with blade; with thorns
latter the band is fastened in front by a small dimmed or steel
bookie.

Stow bonnet. are still trimmed with black, mired with
colour.. White ribbon, striped with pink, green, cc lino,
is, however, much used, arid has a pretty fresh appearance.
Rice-erraw bonnets are generally trimmed with eqwers.
Belgian end fancy straws are frequently made with soft
crowns, with a small flat bow across the front. This bow is
almost indispensable, even when the crown is not soft.
Brown, Napoleon blue, ma-green, mantle. arid plaid rib-
bons are the moat fashionable for than. bonnets.
Leghorn. are much worn in visiting dram, and are made
with • curtain of the same, and trimmed with a long feather
the same colour se the dress, with small ousted feathers
Londe.

Crepe, blonde, end feathers constitute the dram bonnet.
The meet fashionable colours are Aso( green, maitre, and
Chinese blue; rose odour is also worn, but the three first-
mentioned colours are the favourites.
Spotted net bonnets are Uimmad with wild poppies and
flowers, and have either black strings edged with a bright
edger, or white edged with black.
For chapeau: de erne, the meet charming wreaths are
formed with heart's-nee, double laurel, mediae, horneysuckle,
primroees, cheerier, csaUs, amigo grapes, and small plums.
The ladies Invited to Fontainebleau hare adopted the
fashion of Louis XlV.'s time; that is to say, ore wearing
round hate either of felt or straw, trimmed with feathers, rr4
white, green, blue, d:,„ We must, however, give the prefer-
ence to the chapeau Velois, which has been adopted by seve-
red ladies at the court, and is certainly more becoming and
elegant than the round hat. What can be more charming
than a white straw hat, edged with pale blue or piak, and
trimmed with a tulle scarf of the same colour as the biedieg,
carried across the crown and hetemed at the sides by bunches
of white lilac end honeysuckle.. and a small wreath of the
gains flowers under the brim ?

ItotTlidWrertiliei;r7 WIT mach worn for evening dress.
Those formed with long grass continua in favour skit the
Empress, and sre consequently very fashionable. Roses of
different shades, mixed with white blonds or black lace, and
lung bathes falling over the shoulders, form an elegant head-
dream.

We must not forget to remind oar readers that, In order
to be il• mode, the fan must be of the same colour as the
dream.

&andel-wood has repisoed ivory for the handles of ;mewls,
and as it has an agreeable perfume, must be considered a
exchange. The most recherche. are those covered with
rl:eka
Handle. of tortoiseshell, with gold at or
rhinoceros horn spotted with silver, are also very

The "Oaths Babetitution Bill" and the "Jews
Bill " stand for second reading to the House of Lords to-
21101TOW night, sod the Chunk Raton Abolition Bill en
Friday evening.

The parliamentary papers issued this morning in-
clude a aerie of amendments, occupying eight pages, to be
proposed by Lord Btaaley in the Government of India (No. 3)
BUI. Os. of them provides that " elms any order is vest
to India directing the actual commenoengst of hostilities by
her Msjeety's forms in India, the hot of such ceder having
bees sent shall be oommunicaled to both hoses. of parliament
within one month after the mean ef seek order, if perils-
mat be sitting, and, if prilemeat be ad noting, then
within one month after the neat rseedegore peellement"
THE GovenweeeT AND TIM Riviort.—ln Au-
gnat and Esprecaber all the host that mem est ?pine Die-
raeli will have melted away. "All the world ' will be wt
of town ; but there will be two minks* el people to tows
who are by no mime amixbus to go out of the world.
August the bruit M.P. wbo now nightly readies up himself
to the place of noxious exhalation will be breathing the air
of the Onutipbsa, treadine the noel oprbey step
crushing the wild thyme, mid Refusing at the whirr of the
bleekcock. Is Yeotember the beady peer, who is sow
bearing the Meech with peeps," wit. be 'imbibing invi-
gorating waters at • German spa, ee folloydsswarzekilo potato*
over • stubble Odd. But we-we sad the obsess of
the roatropelle—ehall will be in the Na el dm of the poi-
knee ; we, in the very focus of the miasma, shall_perkaps be
nothing our chewed* al MORT death..
the government is throwing • little lime Into the
river to depot she stench at Its own doors, bet doing Bubb(
Nally to remedy the evil, and amen IbY litembend pes*
hems. We do sot look for mimeo ; we have se Ilmeeke
to cleanse at a wales notice this polluted died, hat we have
• right te wipe that iota mesas ee astmee cola dewlse end
wag cousseand shall be applied without delay es the mem-
des of Ai; kag-mgleeted task. It is • sera sonamios of
babetithrto may that smbieg can be dose; te sesseete
Ems wise hatie nommeme of this et his oemmand
nothing Is impooMble. Here ia a great thmehmieg
the Urea ut the meet he met wel skalded. end the
rasponsibiNty the pedimmens of dim ity Ike ths
imperial goverment, end open on. elms..— rims.
STATE OF THE TRAhes.—Oontrel Thompson, in
• Leer to the Bradford Atirergiser on this mehlee, re-
marks:—" The firm ' greet fear 1., that oreshkedwe the
number of source* from whisk matter it woad iseiwhis
to remove must grin, there smo at least 2,000 bee pw dims
which ought to In veseemL That is to say, 11 i thee pod I
be pat Imo • .Iber gee ship daily and let pat the I
Na., the inebm weelfbe • plate se ft* Clembrames
sit therefore is media Semi preemie the wen in?
I verily be lets • fteetemkedeed who waseellerel to dem
his
world
kw the pesters Impedes this die Illeftemseeth
led lb. way wde IL Two Whom orisnly
*scenery. Jest that is eiselthy noire field be soi-
ls** is sewers, 110114 In ens ear fie kat ivy It to a
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derispiptererpme of emedleaddy Wreaks/ eel,. wed* nest be
by • wirini onweld- eellk Wow ahem
the wow All lies wild Weis seeisi iessies of
Weal ; bat then is se vein le ispieme witheel Inewhe
why. A sagas was isle as hot mei, Psi s Im-
post, and It was to by making sea neeei et
aeati, whisk ist hew bees Elm what the wadi hie ice
am fernlike with is railways. Railways al& to
omeliined with eteemper past ef the
might be ohlediewn *the esiglehoerbos4Fll2 ad peepseed
M mats se el them Weer. If levels Id, the 11111prr
=el real* lib le the *were day by the
eimem. It swim* Mill wry sway sewage at their
ova =peso be wasere, M the ; Int do not he poisoned
lee sweaty years, tithe hr W terry away the
sewage. If anybody sea show damages free any
pi of the proems, esinesse• wrests, bet de an
rive up the proem. The Plievalishoss anti • is, he
did set Miser him to Me beams so part of his body would
he the Jam of a &ewer."

itor. (INDIA.

THE CALCUTTA MAIL.

-;

We have received, by special express, via Mar-
seilles, our letter from Calcutta and Hong Kong by
the overland mail. The intelligence by this arrival
of dates not nearly so recent as the telegraphic
communication published yesterday from Bombay,
but it supplies some necessary links in the series of
communications. The Calcutta Hurkaru, of MaylB,
contains the following general review of affairs:

Our troops, which had been previously con-
centrated like a flail, to strike a great blow at
Lucknow and in Oude, have since the date* men-
tioned in our last summary, been necessarily
spread out like a fan to range and patrol as ex-
tensively as was compatible with safety over the
land through which the rebel forces have been scat-
tered. The system of grand patrols has superseded
that of grand engagements. The great body of the
revolt is broken up into a multitude of small guerilla
struggles and predatory attempts ; but, everywhere,
these off-shoots and fragments are not only instinct
with life, but instinct with the same kind of life, the
same nature, the same fell passions and brutal
ferocity which animated the original organisatioo
from which they have sprung, like a swarm of car-
rion insects from some foul decomposition.
The rebels are generally handled roughly when
met, but so like sword-thrusts in the water are some
of the advantages gained, that, for instance, no
sooner bad Sir Colin left Shabjehanpore than a large
force of the enemy attacked the little garrison of the
82nd Regiment, and a few of De Kantzow's horse
left in the plane, drove it into its defences, from which
it could not be stormed, but yet could not emerge—
and then sacked the town. On the 28th and 29thof
April, Colonel Edwardes and General Cotton wades
difficult ascent of 18 miles to the stronghold of a
noted chief in the Mohuton mountains on the right
bank of the Indus, and destroyed the fastness ; five
days afterwards, on the 4th of May, destroying Sa-
tan& after a desperate fight with the fanatics, at a
loss to ourselves of only four killed and 12 wounded.
These' small combats at great distances from each
other show the prodigious change which the whole
war has undergone.
On the 9th Gummee Singh was thoroughly
beaten in his own jungles of Jugdespoor (though
entrenched up to the teeth) by General Lugard and
Colonel Corfield, who lost not a man out of a force
of about one against seven. It is believed that both
he and his brother are dead. General Lugard occu-
pied the town and house of Kooer Singh, where he
found guns in process of being made. We must
again shift the scene. Brigadier-General Jones,
about the same time, was on his road to the relief of
the 82nd Regiment and De Kantzow's troopers, be-
sieged in Shahjeltanpore, ever since Sir Cohn had
left it to advance upon Bareilly. In front of
this last place, General Jones, operating from
Moradabad aide, had previously assisted the
Commander-in-Chief on the 7th of May in gaining a
decisive victory over a largish body of rebels whom
they drove into the town, capturing several guns.
On the 11th he relieved Shabjehanpore, and de-
feated the Moulvie. Meanwhile the Second
Brigade of the Central India Field Force had
quitted Jhanaie on the Ist of May to join the First
Brigade of that force, which was waiting for it at
Poonah up to the 3rd of May, the Ranee and four
B.ajahs being in their front about 14 miles off. At
not much more than half that distance stand a town
and mud fort, called Loharreeah, defended by some
eighty Sepoys. Major Gall, of the 14th Dragoons,
with a small detachment consisting of 80
of the 3rd Europeans and an equal num-
ber of the 25th Native Infantry, attacked
this place, blowing in the gates by means of
a powder bag made of an old parr of bellows. This
primitive petard was the contrivance of Lieutenant
Sinn', of the Bombay Engineers. One man killed,
and twenty, with five officers, including Major Gall,
wounded, constituted our loss; that of the enemy
consisted in our killing every man of the eighty
Sepoya in the fort. The Ranee'. forces, already
dispirited, were sensibly affected by this brilliant
exploit.
When the columns converging in that neigh-
bourhood towards the north-west join, the effect will
be still more complete. Sir Colin finds his future
task in Rohilcund facilitated by the explosion of
dissension between our Hindoo and Moralities
enemies. The news from Bundelcund and Central
India is, we see, satisfactory. And General
Lugard and Colonel Corfield have freed
Barer from the danger, and Bengal from
the anxiety, which the movements of Kooer Sing
had unexpectedly occasioned. On the 12th they
had fought their way to Jitopra. Sir Hugh Rases
force, according to a government message from Alla-
habad, dated May 12, had attacked the rebels at
Kooncb, driven them from their entrenchments,
taken eight guns of sizes, and occupied the town.
This was on the Bth, and a part of Sir H. Rose's
column was already on its further advance towards
Calpee.
In he Ponjaub the Chief Commissioner reports
(according to a message front Allahabad under date
May 14) that "some days before" a conspiracy had
been discovered in awing of the 4th Native Infantry
at Hoaheearpore. Six of the conspirators had been
hanged and four transported. The tainted wing was
marched at once to Jullunder. This is the last
intelligence from the tones of conflict.

A correspondent at Lucknow, in a letter to the
Englishman, dated May 6, states that defences are
in course of construction on and about the prin-
cipal entranoe to Lucknow. Thousands of hands
are employed on the works. The ground is being
cleared of buildings for a circuit of three-quarters of
a mile round the JEmambara, from the top of which
the whole of the city is visible. The thermometer
was standing at 107 deg. in the shade. .

Another correspondent, writing from the same
place to the same poison, three days later, says that
everything was quiet, but that the rebels had " sent
word to the citizens to get out of the way sharp, as
it is their determination to attack the place, and that
unless they be so good as to quit, a similar fate
might await them as it does the doomed Ferioghees.
....Small pox is raging in the town."
All the Calcutta papers mention with expressions
of more or less apprehension a circumstance akin to
the mysterious circulation of Chupatties alt over the
country, which up to this moment remains unex-
plained. but which was the immediate forerunner of
the mutiny. This is a prophecy which has been
published in various bazaars by the beat of tomtom,
that " within three months and thirteen days some-
thing white will altogether disappear."