The Express.
London, England, 1857-07-31 00:00:00

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Ml. CHARLES DICKENS 4ND TEI BDINBUBOII

REVIEW.

(From Dickene's Ifousslieid Ewe.")
The Edinburyh Ream, in an article in its last
number, on "Thy License of Modern Novelists," is angry
with Mr. Dickens eel other modern novelists, for not con-
fining thenurlves to the more aneunmesat of their readers,
and for testifying in their works that they anomaly feel the
interest of true Englishmen is the welfen and honour of
their country. To them should be left the making of easy
occasional books for idle yaaag gentlamen end Lads to take
up and lay down on aurae, wing-roons tables, and
win-
dow•seate; to the Edinburgh Resists should be reserved the
settlement of all social and political questions, sad the
strangulation of ail complainers. Mr. Thackevay nosy write
upon snobs, but them must be none in the superior govern-
ment departments. Then is no positive objection to Mr.
Heade having to do, in • Platonic way, with a Scottish ash-
woman or au; but be must by no means connect himself with
prison discipline. That is the inalienable property of idicial
personages; and until Mr. Itesde can show that he has so
much a year, paid quarterly, fur undo Landing (or nut lill•
derstmding) the subject, it is none of his, and it is impossible
that he con lie snowed to deal with it.
The name of Mr. Dickens is at the head of this pegs,
and the band of Mr. Dickens wntes this paper. It. will
shelter himself under no affectation of being any one elm, in
having • few words Of earnest but temperate remonstrance
with the Edinburgh Esthete, before pointing out its curious
misprint. Temperate, for the honour of Literature, tempe-
rate, Leman of the gnat services which the Edinburgh
Review has rendered in its time to good literature and good
government ; temperate, in nosembrance of the loving slee-
t= of Jeffrey, the friendship of Sydney Smith, sad the
feithful tic'"

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in • novelist. Will the Syr A R:o
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catastrophe in 'l,lllle Aunt' is evidently
baniai hen the recent tea et homes in Tottenham-court-
seed, width Moue es have appested hthe snospopers et
• ca•••sistpulled."
TUN tbs lkoter•_r. The Notelet boo to ask Ida
whether these if as Son* ia lie asthma tUee yeah ea.
me trete, when say OMR Mdse.
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sywkin we. adopted. Than, of comae, the Circumlocution-
office gave Mr. Rowland Hill " the leading chore in cur-
rying ft cot r. Not exactly; but it gave him the leading
&en In tarrying _himself out ; for in 1842 it &mutat* dis-
missed Mr. Rowland Hill altogether.
When the Circumlocution-cam had come to that pass in
its patriotic course, so muck admired by the EtiteL,tyA Rr
view, of Fotecting and patronising Mr. Rowland fl ill, whom
any and who is not • novelist can perceive to hare been its
peculiar protipt, the public mind (always perverle) became
much excited on the subject. Sir Thomas Wilde mowed for
another committee; Circumlocution -ethos interpvad. Nothing
was done. The public subscribed and prevented to Mr.
Rowland Hill 18,0001. Circumlocution-office remained
Iron to itself and its functions. Did nothing ; would
do nothing. It was not until 1816, hair }cars
afterwards, that Mr. Rowland 11411 was appointed
to a place in the Poet-office. Wu he appointed,
gran then, to the " leading share in carrying out'
his scheme? He was permitted to creep into the Post-office
up the back stairs, through having a place created for him.
Thbe post of dignity sad honour, this Circumlocution-office
crown, was called " Secretary to the Postmeeter-Grocrat ,"
there bung already a secretary to the Poet-office, of whom
the Circumlocution-office had declared, as its marten for die-
miming Mr. Rowland Hill, that his functions and Mr.
Rowland Hill's could not be made to haxmooise.

They did not harmonies. They WPM in perpetual discord.
Pauly postage he but one reform of a number of Punt-ottioo
Worms effected by Mr. Rowland Hill ; and thew.. Mr right
catk.
orsilonger, were thwarted and opposed by the Circtun-
-office tooth and nail. It wee ant until eighteen
handed and idly-four, fourteen years after the appoint-
ment et It,. Wallace'. consmiuse, that Mr. Roo land Hill
(having, as was openly tutted at the time, threeteued to re-
miss aid te give his reasons for. doing so) was at ha made
sole -- -• at the Post-ellen Mid the Mbar:anima
- no more shall he add was other wise die- I
t Mad* d reforms
he WNW sail Wntlbe ' "i'""0" - - -rix.,.
• In iniani, lime el
Mein all over the country, the hick And faris port, the 1
lemense at letter reoeivimphrearm everywhere, and the ma-
sepsetint et the Poet-ease milk • greatly increased efficiency, •
laws Yea laught dm by Mr. Rowland Hill Mr the public ,
mad Os Oda assemime.
Ude Jilidanyh llorlira MU meriously want to know
°bier Mr. Dienes etesamte Mr the career of Mr. Rowland •
her.
Idr. Dienes midi amod de fa by his being a
man at atmk Imputtininae
.elendisess and
ad purpose, Ida OS aieginiestirm-utlice, by
eedeleallM, .1,417 Orly did, amid not weaken
Id Ammo Ida ismer sr brisk his heart.
w imp. a men le whew Mbar the public gallenuy
mats reemd, and the podia spit ambushed. By his b twine is
=refis nature so del* and directly tending to the
isseadt of every mm and child in the
Male, art the Circumlocutions-Asa not blind them,
ems* it odd isr a dos cripple h. By his having thus,
heaths bet le the lest, medal& way In spies of the Circum-
lantionniliss, emildand against it aside natural enemy.
`aunt is evidently a curious misprint and en un-
ii welefales. The Novelist will await the Reviewer's
j.
ecereetke tithe and substitution of the tight mime.
WM the A Review also take its next opportunity
of mentally its regret that in too distempered •
real for the C lion-offioe, it has been betrayed, u
to that Tottenham-court-road assertion, into • hasty/nabob-
taloa of untruth for truth, the discredit of whirl, it might
have sand itself, if it had born sufficiently cool and carWo-
rate to be simply jut? It will, too, possibly have meat to do
by that time fa championing its Circumlocution-office in
new trinropba on the voyage out to India (Ood knows that
the Novelist has Ms private as well ea his public reasons for
writing the foreboding with no triumphant heart !) ; bat
Lzmiarty compatiou. the Reviewer's licanae,or the editorial
does not absolve a gentleman from a gentleman's
;il7.aDlektiemaent:lslens Ztaig'lt; edndo hateghttleXff s
s "ZeTt. ',?';.
any me can of Circumlocution-office protection that the
Boris'', may make a gauntlet of. Ile may he trusted to do
ea, he hopes, with a just respect for the Hecate, for himself,
and fur his ailing beyond the sound, healthy, legitimate
ass and induenoes of which he has no purpose to serve
sad no ambition in life to gratify.

TILE LATE SIR ROBERT CARSWELL.—We regret
to announce the death of Sir Robert Carew_ ,ell physician in
ordinary to his Majesty the King of the &algae's., which
event took place a few days since at his residence at Laken,
one. Brussels. The learned knight waa • native of Scot.
lend, and at the tine of his decease had not quite completed
his 64th year. He formerly bold the poet of Professor of
Morbid Anatomy in the University of London, end was the
author of a treathe on " Pathological Anatomy." Ile wee
appointed to hie foreign peel of distinction in 1840, since
which time he has mauled almost entirely 'Mood, and
received the honour of knighthood in 1850.
COLNEY-RATC7I LUNATIC ASYLUAL—Yesterday
aLamral meeting of Middlesex magistrates, held at Clerk-
s harms Tooolved after much dienamion and by a lame
majority : That the plans which were laid before the court
on the 16th Jelly inet , for altering and enlarging the county
lunatic saylarn at Colney-llatch, be approved, and that the
same be carried into execution, at an expense nut exceeding
20.000/. It warn explained that the increased outlay asked
for would be in mine measure compensated for by provision
being made for 124 more patients, than was contemplated when
the court voted 50,000/. The Commissioners in Lunacy had
insisted on certain alterations, nut originally proposed by the
menmittee,_

Tug FIRE IN HIGH 110LBOltN. CORONER'S
leue met. Yesterday Mr. Walley proceeded with the
Inquiry touching the death of William Chepple, tined 72,
who lost his life in the late fire at No. 14, High Holborn.
Mr. Toplia attended for the Alliance Insurance Company,
and Mr. Badderley, superintendent of the Society for the
Protection of Lifetree' lire, was alsoin attendance, ao well
as Mr. Colf. foreman of the B Fire Brigade. The wife of
the deemed stated that her husband was • brush manufac-
turer, and landlord of the premises destroyed. On Monday
morning, about two o'clock, she was awoke by a smell of
smoke, and as she was about to quit the room she was take.*
by the firemen down the escape. She could in no way
account for the fire, but believed it originated in the
shop directly under their bedroom. The house wee tenanted
by three other persona, Mr. Maidmist, saddler, who occupied
the shop and basement floor, with two rooms at the top of
the house; Mr. Orey, writing muster, and Mr. Misery,
photographiet. She and her huslemd slept on the saint
floor but hada sitting room on the first floor. They were
insured. The polieculan who gave the alarm stated that be
had no doubt the fire originated in the shop. In reply to
the coroner, Mr. Stripling, the summoning officer of the
court, stated that he had been unable to discover Mr. Maid-
mild, and he was not present. An addrese where it waa
elated he was staying at Pimlico, was given him, but be mold
her nothing of Mr. Maidmiet there. Several parties resident
in the house were portent, but they were unable to give any
secount as to the origin of the fire. The coroner sail under
the eircumatancee an adjournment wee necessary, and if Mr.
Maidmist did not attend willingly a warrant would be made
out for his attendance. The inquiry was then adjourned.
PROPOSED OPENING Or SOPTIIWARK. BRIDGE,
FRER.—Yesterday, a conference between the Bridge-house
Estates Committee of the Corporation and the Gemmel Pur-
enes Committee of the Metropolitan Boned of Works was
held at the Guildhall. the object of the interview being to
ascertain whether the Corporation would be willing to co-
operate with the Board in purchasing the interest of the pro-
prietors of the bridge. An attempt to do so wee made some
time since by the Improvement Committee of the Corporation,
but that failed in consequence of two things; the fleet was
the large amount (200,0000 required by the directors for
the property, and the second the indisposition of the govern-
ment to render any financial moisten'r to the Corporation
In the event of an agreement being entered into. 300,0001-
111 now wanted for the bridge, and the policy of deeming
this sun' jointly on the part of both bodies formed one element
in the diseussion of yeeterday. Fur otrious reasons the con-
versation which took place is not given Imre; but from what
we have heard it appears probable that a much less suns will
have to be taken before this neeeteetry boon to the public
can be given, and the bridge exempted from all kinds of toll.
With reference to the joint agreement to purchase, we are
informed that the beat feeling exults between both bodies,
and if the director' will but consent to moderate their terms,
the toll for foot passengers will be shortly eboliebeel, and a
general, free, and direct thoroughfare be opened lion, the
City to the northern and southern suburbs of the metropolis.
AS UNEXPECTED DISCHARGE.—At Norfolk, Vit.-

• -.--.
gin* on the afternoon of the 2nd of July, an old cannon
which had not been cleaned out since the revolutionary war
was primed, and the match applied, when, to the surprise of
all prewar, en unexpectedly smart espleritm took place from
the mouth of the piece, something whizzed across the street,
and there was a crashing et the wood in the door of the
United lire entriatehouse opposite. An investigation showed
a respectable-sized bole in the panel of the door, and inside six
old six-pound cannon bull was found on the floor. The old
cannon had not been used since the last time it was loaded
for the especial benefit of the British troops, seventy years
ago, and the artillerymen who then rammed homy the ban
little expected how many limes the grass would grow and
wither again above their graves before the missile should be
disc
laigNTY CONSTABLE NIPPED.—The newly ap-
pointed police at Chittlehamptrin and its neighbourhood are
like the rest of their fraternity in the county, wide awake in
the discharge of their duties. One of these officials, it is said,
met the other night a poor rustic with a bag borne upon Ms
shoulder. The policeman in a loud tone of voice, began—
" When are you going to ?" Ots that tuyu. " Where
did you come from?' "Shout tell 'e." "You are impu-
dent ; but I must know what's in your bag; what have you
Cti" " Shwa militia 'e." "Then I must take away your
• but if you will let me feel what you have it will 110."
" thee mayst do," maid the rustic, "put thee hand in
then, mum, make haste." In goes tinhand of the detective,
no sooner in than out, for the bag contained • full grown
badger, where carnivorous propensities instantly caused it to
fasten on the top of three of the 001,14 flagerc —Pyramid
Jam.