The Express.
London, England, 1857-05-02 00:00:00

THE MAY MAGAZINES.

FROM Snownow.—We hare eat on the highest
peek of Snowdon, whither we had climbed on our hands and
koees at early dawn to see the sun rise, with a thick fog
shrouding the whole world-vision save the few feet of rook
around us. Even our comrade by our aide leaned vague
and spectral, like anal king, a wild biennium, or a figure in
Tuner's pictures. Faithless and distrunftd, our heart be-
gan to rebel within on, as hour pared on hoer, sad still we
looked into the same gloom. Our thoughts even turned re-
gretfully to the breakfeat-table at Bagel's!, end the cakes,
the egg., the fresh trout, which we knew about that time
would appear thereon. Presently a lightness warn felt to be
penetrating the obscurity, as though the spirit of the fog
were being softened and brightened by some genial influence.;
and then, after a while, the dark shroud wee seen lifting
rising from elf the earth, like a huge bird, now poising on
its pinions, now flapping there heavily, revealing beneath a
groundwork of green, patches of lake and woodland, end
the dim outlines of lulls. As it roes, and rose higher and
higher, it seemed as though some enemy in the air were
attacking it; buffetting and rending it, and swayin It to
sad fro, until, like a discomfited hon., it broke and dd in
rolling muses, or dispersed in light clouds, like
eying equadrone, leaving no trace behind save some
fleecy drat hanging to a hill-top, or mist-wrtaths
drooping over the bosom of a lake. Our time
had tome. We looked from Snowdon's top on one of those
glorious worsens, at complete, so perfect, that they seem
worlds in miniature; a panorama wherein the different ele-
ments take not the eye singly, but blend in the proportioas
of design and utility. It was, Wind, a little world which
lay below—a world of mountain, lake, sad plain, belted and
girded by sea and cloudlands. The valhys had melted away
,
or were resognisable only la waves and dips ; the broad
rivers had become mere bright meandering lines; the woods
and plantations showed as green spots, and the town. as
homesteads scattered o'er the broad explain. Bat the height,
which dwindled the crueller features, had mellowed and
beautified the grander VIM The hills swept with a rk.ti.e,
Ml* slope, and and fell in graceful undulatiees; the
dwarfed in sire, though multiplied in number, shone like
large stars in the sunrise; and over all, now evree.&.:.lce.
broad waves, now dimpling and rippling, now
calmly, lay the wondroue harmony of hght sad shade7Sace
sun was high up in the heavens ere our ll:muerte again
turned to Bedgelert and its deshpute.—Blarkwood's Yvonne
fur May.
NINE BELL," AT Saw.—One—two—three—four

—flos—rtz—seven—eight belle, mg di* hails fist Arab
through the air with a cheerful jar, bat eight
bolls, and the ninth hell proclaim thst i=Yea
board, and that the sigbly hrsd d Ids IlisTrillosa... hr
smitten down • strong ses is hie
half-mart high clings to Ur gaI,SiTZTOSI set7sidar jY
gay colours in the air, but this blesiii Usies leak Nei
still and motionless, eh;ciedlag the hem of a eels when
death is swallortail ay in as artitly ristary ; st the Wald of
the trumpet the sea my noistraly athe
quarter-deek, their their nisi is their Dena disk bear
front the ann, whirl, Y ell ite eery, Sir drers=.lr.
glory of the sea; me mno art Sibs et ask le .
our thoughts, for they en al Slick why la here is ell Ida
terrors ; our feet it. end tall te an dad awe; to eels
leaning on his wombat ammo We eyes es death FINNS by
there Is no hared wrap_ ; no mond IN boom apes is
coin; Sore re an drespig plesst; se eheqpr atetirdl
is sable gsseely demo meta* the death le set
veiled with the else of ear, se "Wag
thee we meet seem& th4F. dame slaire li=e
fur Ye ceestry tea egaitet ihe lees uses
Wit( he its ism; then us Wiley esisd. et Mae
earth; we se an seined gram, whisk is She sieralludee
great sad was withered is the eresterg ; bat Me
mountains tell no that the gilt has pis be male
its aecount to Ono who wee ear New Stare en the
mountain, were brought forth, ad 1/111_ reyyaa that the melds
las eterny who shall be destroyed Y &VA. The NI lido
that lave been pointing le beet Y he. the re, but why
do they row so far away, when se wet an the seem will
retain a trace of the soldier's grave P—Unital Sonia Apr
:Me for May.

A LEARNED RAVEN.—LOOkillig beck throe* a
/0111ewhat long vista to our boyish dips, wed do we MOM.
ber at • fair in a western Ww, a Tama whit& we all Of ON
regarded with awe. MI Cane may be reseeed, who we
confess that, in the same falr, igherwind dielin-
guished as the isidatigable and healer sad
Egyptian eollector, owned beak tebke he fond ss
the Italian Hernia" enaggarting a pyramid ef ass, sad
exhibiting other ads dams& lateesponed with bydrantle
experiments between the ads, to car great sdnikalka.
Learned pigs had boner a dreg in tie exhibition-taidest;
but them was one 'show ea whose tempting Weide awes
was depicted a monstrous able bled aloft la the type
cam alphabetind circle, sal above blot watianknoi the
following legend in the *pa Was, " The brad
raven.' We—our whoa that le—divan to see tide thew ;
and having ascended a flight at somewhat shaky sal may
precipitous wooden step,pyger sixpences, and owe ad-
mitted into the seaelary. isie we adored, easel of the
gentler err had shady oseespkd the boot bathes. The
curtain drew up. Pater gam the stage, the elammea in a
red muter, cap faced with ha, which be nerved en his
entrance, bat instantly replaced, end, to him a raven. The
showman placed on the bards and in a circle, cards, tech
with a capital letter compionously printed on at, the raven
kenning him all the time, and standing by him in the midst.
At the word of command the bird picked out front ;the mat-
tend ante, letter by letter, the components of the desired
word or 111,113 C (among which we all remember was that of
the then reigning monarch), and arranged than with a cor-
rectness that would have delighted Dilworth an Dyche.
Then he aelected the fairest young lady and made her a bow,
and was winning all hearts and astonishing everybody. If
people would but hold their tongues! This, however, with
elderly ladies of both sexes, seems to be en impossibility.
They, at least, do not consider silence to be the gift of the
004. All was going on swimmingly, when the gov
with • patronizing air, naked if the raves had a name,
if he knew it. • Yea," said the beetle-browed showman,
rather curdy; "he knows it well enough, bat he don't like
to be asked his name." But the lady had broken the ice,
and then—whit will not femalectutosity do P--the governors,
anxious to impress upon her scholar., to say nothing of the
genera company, her superiority, looked full at the raven
and maid in an authoritative tone—" What's your name?'
"Lkolraltub," replied the raven, looking dangerous as be
rushed off the stage right at her. The show was dewed of
her and her dock in an instant. —Freser's Nagatixe for
May.

ilonnza.—}le began Latin and Greek at six,
went to a grammar school at eight, and translated the Medea
Of Euripides into Latin verse before he was matriculated at

Oxford, in the fifteenth year et his ago. At the age et
twenty he was reelonniended an tutor to Lord Caviak.
We may be allowed to wish that Hobbes had had his Boa-
well. The friend of Baum, Herbert of Chertury, kler-
sense, Galileo, Deacirics, Gmandi, Harvey, Addeo, and
Cowley, con hove been no common man. The mantic irri-
table old fellow, impatient of contradiction—purling up the
nougat bill, or running up and down the noble Falb:nee of
Chatswoith, while ancestors of " Howell and C 0.," or•
teed and doubletcd, with [(sabered-bats, and high-heeled
shoes, and high-born butes, fresh front the brush of Lely,
looked down with astonishment on the gambols of the plm
bean philosopher—trying to expel moisture by a breathing
sweat-devouring his simple dinner at twelve, and sitting
down to study with barred windows, and table ca.
yeled with tobacco.pipes—hurrying out of church

before prayers were ended, to escape the Me-
m saying, " The parsons can teach me nothing,"
would make • remarkable picture. It might, perhape„
partly dispel the panful impression of gigantic power. pm-
verted, and a life prelongol without repentance or serious
ttiought. It is some comfort to know that in an illness,
suppeeed to be feed, after stoutly declining the kind offers et
Father Mersenne, he was visited by the pinta Bishop Cody
and that be became an habitual communicant. Let m
remember this, as we stand by the grave in the aide of the
little church of Vault-Iliteknell, where the /whing. head of
the philosopher of Mulinnbury reposes.—/nefin beetertity
Negathte for May.
AN ASIATIC PLAIN.—One of these, that of the
great Peurally valley, reminded LA wont forcibly of the deso-
late miaamatie Itunitin Campagrui, In the evening, the
same grey poisonous nest rolled over it, which we had
watched from the heights of Tivoli, experienced among the
Pontine marshes, and in which it ie almost death to sleep,
unless the fare be covered with a thin cloth. The dull btu
buffaloes, with their long retreating bent berm, which came
over the gentle undulation, among the burnt-up gram and
low stunted treeewere the same no those which abound on the
Csnipagna, and were brought into Italy by Lorenzo do Me-
dici and the few birdmen to he met with se re scarcely
stranger or wilder-looking than the "golden-skinned'
Massari, who, with their nbeepekin euutn and long lamer,
are a. metunmiue ea any Belonli or Palen.. It was only
near to the Puorally river that the scene became peculiarly
Asiatic. Towards the mouth it was a large sluggish !them,
the tanks being here fringed with reeds, there opening out
into large flat meadows, and again covered with small bat
trees lively with perrocinets and smaller hada se
many brilliant hues. Greasy Wets broke the glamy swim
sides water, and on these crocodiles were men larilyeleepine
le the van, while some sudden palish or muddy gurgle Ind'•
acted more of those aullen monster.. Th./made of ducks
were floating in thickly-mattered flocks near the More, and a
dozen of them were let at every Mot, although it was te-
ther difficult to enure the boffin, for • servant, who nuked
in with great enthuse/um to some some, nearly got his kale
mapped off by a crocodile, and rushed gar* again all limbs
ling, crying "Mugger, Mugger:" Fltuiliegoes, geese, mil
other large birds were flying about, or wading in the water.
The level prairie with its blue buffaloes, the clumps of time
the marsh and reeds, the crocodiles, the flaming/ea, the had
wide valley, the dint mountains in the dieburn,with the ob.
seen of house, or hut, or human being—all went to form as.
of those striking mews of which we have suck longing day-
dreams in the years of boyhood.—Blerkword's Jlegagete far
May.
Tug BRITISH FLAG AT TRIPOLL—It SO happened
that an unfortunate Jew, whose wealth had excited thi capedity of some of his neighbo WAS brought before the
Mohammedan magistrate; charged with some feigned Mow
The wicked redi, who understood the motives of hie accusers,
end intended to participate in the plunder, condemned the
wretched Israelite to pay a large fine. The love of wealth
contended in the liesoni of the prisoner with the love of
freedom, and, after a little reflection, he refused lahe
fine. Rio exasperated accuser* seized bin; and
commented to torture the wretched creature.
alike by pain and rage, the unhappy Jew, sientisinflg
endowed with almost superhuman strength best !ea Be
hands el hie torturers, melted throug the erop4 sel
suddenly found himself in the street. He led pew
cipitately forward, his enemies, like merciless hank
clues upon his heeli. Fortunately he had taken 111
direction of the British embassy, and now, his
nearly exhausted, and hie pursuers close upon'hini, :14
ray of hope gleamed upon his mind. He was ems
British embassy. A few steps more and he was safe. By •
sudden effort, he "prang forward, was within the precincts of
the sanctuary and fell exhausted on the ground: his areas
wound round the flag-staff at the very instant that his ene-
mies bad embed the threshold. Colonel Warrington, dies
turbed by the outcry, appeared at this moment, and mopes
bending at • glance the position of affairs, advisee,' wit
stood beside the prostrate Jew. He drew forth a Intel vie
tol, and declared that the first man who advanced • step te
invade the sanctuary afforded by the British flag should
forfeit his life. The pursuing crowd paused—all glared urn
the hoped-for victim; but no one moved to molest him. It
was a striking picture. On one side the savage milder*,
whose wild yells had now subsided into Imam mmms%
and en the ether une brave man ready to peril his own lib
to save that of • poor fellow-creature, and assert that of the
rational standard. After • pause of some minutes, that wild
crew retired, overcome by the moral force of ene man's de-
termined will, and the poor Jew was able to return to hie
tame In sakty.—lnited Jerrie Magrirre for May.
JACKDAWS AT CAMBRIDOE.—Liko some other
collectors, the dews do not seem very scrupulous se to the
mouse of =riding their collection, or very nrict_ohettniell se
the distinction between ,re and Num. The memo and
colleges of Csmbridgo offer many a coign of valdege Y Glee
birds, nor are they slow to avail themselves et the op=
Malty. The botanic garden in that seat of
three of Its four sides esekeed by denesirbetet= the
town; eve perish churches end Ave alleges nod with& •
abort flight of it. Pros the sane seems mid& *Mai th•
record elute interesting essalsy meat we hers that thejmek-
dams inhaliting them and other chinches and allow bed
iaone amb kap( eye ea the wood= labie plowed afar the
mime rem they ore, mil mem to the esnelesies
thi Bey wadi owe their
_purpose inn as well
ties lbene tress, with the entidoesi advantage of
without labour. The gnat proportion i7."'l=
la
Cranteamade out of deal lathe, and were nine beim keg
by MS hob broad. Here was a mine of pest•wealek,afi
say MP bass.. Down came the dews, and away !lee dr
to the pest &dress of the =sew and all cams*
wryt the lam Mr. DI9BOII, who write' the seemni, cer•
Oates Ids isehW le give a probable idea of the nominee of
baba which the ante annually removed ; but he states Oil
Les the of we chimney in Free-school-lanej...wildit
wisdoms Milk die botanic garden, no less than
omen of these labels were taken out and brought to 7rT*,rry
tour Biggs, the tratatec, who received and counted than:.
ll oar' Meraniee ke 147.

CLENNAM'S VISITOR IN TIM MARSIIALSEA..-.
Dosing and dreamin, without the power of reckoning time,
so that • minute might have been en hour and an ham •
DAUM% some abiding impression of a garden stole ova Ida
•••-• 1,11416 of dowers, with a damp warm wind gently s
their meats. It required such a painful effort to lift his
Ihr the propose of enquiring into this, or enquiring Ye
sayeldean- that the impression appeared to have become gene
an old and heporturie one whoa he looked send- Beside
the twee* an kie bible be saw_ , than, a bleoesiag wow :
• wonialfed Whit of the &deem and most lovely ions.
Make Ind *so Rewired ft besetlful in his sight. He leek
thew* end Inhaled-tit Iberian, sad he lifted than to
Ids hotliemd, and he petal= dews and opened his peeled
heeds io them, as cold herb aw veal to mean the ohne-
leg of etre. It was net mid bo keg *l~ thena der
seam lir, thee le winkled whaled mat MIMI; SMIII
his dim IS silt the wen* who muse haw ;pet than
bow diey had eine fralle Ism ben An 80, she woe IS
mama be Moe been Iniagens_; tor the tea she hW ls 6 for
Ids ea the lelie was add, He Med to drink some, but
weld net beer the elver el It; No In (apt back to his choir
by Irma winaw, ad the flowers on the little round
bleb dell. Whim the Fat Widow consequent on having
mewl ale* bed leftldm, be subsided into his former state.
One lane alight4anes wee *Ong in the wind, when the
door el lels rows awned *opus to a light touch, and, altos
I.lOlllllOrS pars, a quiet figure mired to stand there, with a
Neck made ea it. It seemed to draw the mantle off and
drop it on the ground, sad then it seemed to be his Little
Dodd is hr old, wan dream. It seamed to tremble, and to
drop Its hank and to mule' , and to burst into team. He
mood Limed; and cried out. And then he saw, in the
brbg. pitying, meowing, dear face, as in • minor, how
cbengea he was; and she came towards him; and with her
bands laid on his breast to keep him in hie chair, and with her
knees upon the door at his feet, and with her lips raised up
to kiss him, and with her tears dropping on him as the rain
from Heaven had dropped upon tho flowers, Little Don!, •
living prematoe, called -him by his name.—Little Deceit for
.y.
HIGHLY EDUCATED. And the mention of
Mamma's object leads us to the young ladies. These, Clams
Flora, and Harriet, were very pretty, and very highly edu-
cated—that is to say, they could do everything that is useless
—play, draw, sing, dance, make wax Bowers, bead stands, do
decorative gilding, and crotchet-work; but as to knowing
Mew many ounces there are in e pound of tea, or how many
panda of meat a person should eat in • day, they were
etterly, entirely, and most elegantly ignorant. Towards the
does of the last century, and at the beginning of the present
sus, ladies ran entirely to domesticity, pickling, preserving,
and ;miming people to eat. Corded peteicoata and paned
mangles, long formed the staple of a mid life woman's eon-
vmsetion. Presently a new era erring up, which banished
everything in the shape of utilitarianism, and taught theatres
rising generation that the less they knew of domestic matters
the deer ladies they would be, until we redly believe the
daughters of the nobility are better calculated for wives,
imply because they are generally economically brought up,
setae not afraid of toeing caste, by knowing what every
woman ought to do. No man thinks the worse of a won=
for babe able to manage her *mu while few men can afford
is marry mere music stools sad embroidery frames. Mrs.
lemeeton, however, took • aserent view of the matter.
ale lied bean brought up in en patent mangle and corded
=et school, and inwardly sessived that her daughter!
Mow nothing of the set--should tx, ‘. reel *die.,"
lathe ruse Mist of the term. Hence they
were mistresese ofofd the hullo acoompliahments before enu-
merated, which, with making calls sad drinking ten formed
deeprincipal occupation of their lives. Not one of that
eoeM write a letter without a copy, and were all very uncer-
tain in Heir epelling—though they lure totday when every

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Igni and Qom b_ to mign,-and could ;peat all the
63wn. In the Now this might hare been all
very well, at lent bearable it the cockney major had hod
plenty of money to give them,: but at the time they were sc-
curing them, the contrary was the case, as the lawyers NT.
—Ask Monona, Put ILL.