The Express.
London, England, 1858-10-09 00:00:00

CHESS.

The Era publishes a letter frets Mr. Morphy to
Mr. Staunton, la which the young American repeats his
oitalleage to the ingliah champion. "Permit las," he
sale—anticipating certain objections—" to repeat what I
have invariably declared in every chess oomainaltg I has
had the barns of entering, that I am not a prehmkral
player—hat I aver wished to nolo say hill I poem the
mew of pemodiry advsnoisimit—ead that my sanest
desire fen law is play Si say stabs bat honour. My fried.
is New Odom, however, sabsoribid a certain sun, width'
say countemase hem me, sad that stun his been ready for
you to meet a masidemble time past. Since my withal in
Paris I have hem cawed by mammal gentlemen that the
value of hose Mites aim be istimiNathy iiteremid to any
amount ; but, for myself parsimony, repelaisa is the only
incentive I rempie. The matter of NOM& OM* Mr-
offer say ailloally. I had the plumes of beleg Int
received is Leaks by the St. Owes Ohm flab, of
whisk yea see se diallagaieted a member; and of those
peen= I segmet he beam al swift( WI mom*
to whom I elm the as ts, In mallag
Hem Asheville, thi willeksewa victor la Ihe toomet-
mese et testear- an Y. -wee -d Nom, W enured
against the ping ample& ham Amax We may
reckon, tharehm, an a farther beat, in militias to that
promised na in the wasillag of Mr. Morphy and the iodised
German muter, liplehrant. than the arrival of them
athletes, Mr. M. la baying his adly huts st the CMG de la
Regent» against ell enure. Ia the mesh with Mr. Harr-
iett, the young Autism meowed Ids "paint with the
greatest mm. Mr. Morphy's aoreptease of the realgsation
and refusal of the mikes "le bat what we should have
anticipated (says the Ira) of an who is es hesoarehle es
he is chivalrous."

The Illustrated London News states that a highly
respectable booksailiag arm has made ■ palest agebst the
Poet-ofece In the smatter of the book put. Tbie mast
valuable boon—and that It is one, thooasads d pews, who
avail themselves of It to sod, lend, sad (semethem) return
books, can testify-1a very largely dieselersted by theomehiss
treatment which book pickets mono. "No book that is
bound can be sent without Its corms Wag beat and
broken, and its beck wrenched ; sad, though It metiers leas
what Is mewed by unbound books, doe is as smase• why
even these should be snhlecksd to eons sisaigelation—we
nee too delicate a word for a prose which laolades the
stamping on booker, sad forcing them into sacks too ..all to
ccatain them."

A grotesque notion of Charivaris about the
Atlentio Cable Is '*he moription of the failure to the
Americans, who, according to the carloaturist, have mistaken
the tail of their favourite ser serpent for the real article, and
aooordingly we have the creature's tail coming through the
roof of the electrician's but, where the latter is ooavulat•g the
animal with his shocks, the bead of the serpent, who to is •
tearful rage, being eon mike away, hie month distorted with
sager at the impudence of man. In another cut Neptune is
using the Atlantic cable for • awing, to the great delight of
his merman courtiers.

WHAT IS A henry!—By 1111111er0111 tad, it hill
beta haat tsspowdblo to Mho say eight In it aelleisat to
abet the makes ale pared or a Walla Bat yr this we
shoed& bate hall eye owe year &gently lengthier& sal
shatend le each ea mist se to throw all our shrimelegy
oat of gem, sad ragenteis the shames meet es • Memo-
baton doge ear Nkerllkasasahry Compoloo." Owr shadowy
visitors thaisives pry the prekandeet Maar to car
emporia gawky ; they hew to this pkast, they Wryer he
that;tholl ham ohodtar ;.with • swims el week out-
they eases /heir maid, their orbits, era their
ammo imam le Sr oshavolar hams. Bat siII datum,
la see 4EI ashwhi pHs, we badge sot ea lash of
ear taste or wer pewees for thins silarkatte of
spas. Tot the natl. meet have parity, fhe how else
OWN it gravitate or nada hold of It. MI, If, Weed, it
dem ? Is the tail solid or War ? Is taro say of
k dines enough to shot out the light of the tele-
male star ? Bra that le doubtful. Tot the balk of the
had half is soatellass lemage—a miWoa of mite agrees.
As tor the ail, it ales al Swiss of valance, el light,
or of heat, Is it a Gm? Is it • smoa ? it • maim ?
Is It • babble ? Is the whole ask • bakes, of Titbit this
imam is the car t Dees that stream of light shosta
they tea as, at the rate of an millions of saes ,
mere to the persist amok, or is it Ist b
Doss it precipitate bail, es sane say, bark solo at the
otttwabotted nude= ? Is it • MIS illesioa P We Mar
• good deal of the heavenly erehltectars sad celestial
issobselsre. Is it ocetpallbk with our Brakes on three
potato that • column of impondwablo nutter fitty etatiao. of
Mika WO Amid stove thavegh spree, Gitlin sad sadist-
idsir
at the rats of two or three minus of mass a-day ?
ojeset
of ISA the newt wonderful on reoord, whisks&
roma& the sea, ices to It, at with • rate that its tall, a
withal of lass long, dowaibed ia two hove the half of
as oak egad to the earth's. Emproateg the tad to
here held together diaries this Prboovit the tstremity
cif it west over se mask slew fa two boars se we do In half •
pier, a she raft at about duos Wiliam of MAN 11l
sae almaL die aeggere ell Whey, ire met cowhide
that a gaol dui el the was left heeled, bashed of la
ether, if ether there he. alas the tall Itself was coadavally
motored ark( those weadreas two boars by bath imam
Iron the wakes, however, to do the work woad
bans to do the scareuhat Lie speed of is. ha sad akar
of aka la twes=yor shoot emWaiveif sake is a
abate. Ca cow that there is to
iL be keret, male, more to Ciledeleifellid ill the Irks ?
war,

On Thursday evening Mr. Knatchbull Hugamem
M.P., addressed a narrow amemblece al his octrodlsoals
at the Guildhall, D..L Mr. Coustedlor Dom ossaplot
dr rids. A vote of retired ordidsoos fa *de
tare, sad oar of thanks to Ur obrressa, es Waded ttta pro-
coding* or the morass.
THE CONAZD eiltAlLaß PERSTA.—The annonaos-
air Ire r• Cared Warm Persia was off the port of
Liverpool yasaislay. was somattiro, or of the undernitare
mania hallos rolords lie voreaL