The Express.
London, England, 1857-03-07 00:00:00

A BALL AT Tilt the crenirig a
ball took place at the hotel I was etnying at, where,
though none of the fair sea were present, dancing
war kept up with groat epirit fur several hours. For
music the company were indebted to two amateurs,
one of whom played the fiddle and the other the flute.
It is customary m the mines for the fiddler to take the re-
spoaribility of keeping the dancers all right. He goes
through the dame orally, and at the proper intervals hia
voter is heard above the ohmic and conversation, ahouting
loudly hie dire-Mans to the dancer., " Lady's chain," "Set to
your partner." with other stewing-school words of command;
and after all the legitimate figures of the dance had been
performed, out
and of cotetetrii. tfiotcht fori the thhiersleppetites.cf th;
iin aleoltler ohr the
thaaguel:alothr .esuplilen'tentstry ofays n'llerco-
memade to the hoe end treat your partnere." This injunction,
a. 9 nuy be supposed. woo mo.t ngenaisly obeyed, and the
" ladies, " after their feigner, toned off their cocktails, and
lighted their pipes, just se in more poliehed circles they eat
ice-creems and rap lemonade. It was a strange sight to see
a party of long-liesurled Dire, in heavy boots and flannel
shirts, going throat:lt all the steps and figures of the dance
with so much eo and often with a great deal of grille.
hearty enjoy-meth depicted on their dried-up, sun-bunted
tem, and revolvers and bowie-knives glancing in
their belts, wluls a crowd of the same rough-
looking customers stool around, cheering them on to
greater efforts. and occudonslly dancing n step or two
=llYen thew own anwunt. Dancing parties bath as
were vary common, especially in email ramps where
there was no su.di general resort as the gambling-saloons of
the larger town*. Wherever a fiddler tout! be found to
play, a dance wag got up. trait:es and polkas were not so
mush in fashion as the "Lancers," which appeared to be
very generally known, and, beside*, gave play; v of exercise
to the light Mato:tic toes of the dancer* ; for here men
danced, as they did everything else, with all thrir might;
and to go thiough the 'Lancets" in such company was a
eery severe gvninasti" exercise. The ahem,* of ladies was*
diffieulty whi. very easily ovorome, by a simple
I arrangement. whereby it Wall unsientutd that every grad
luau who had a patch on a certain pert of hie inexprneibles
should be considered a lady for the time being. These
patches were rather faehiewthle cod were usually largo
squares of ranee,„ ihowing brightly on a dark ground,
so that the ladies "of the ersy were as cousin-
. enous as if they had been surrounded by the usual quantity
of white thualm.—TArce hare in 0,110,,,:a. By J. D.
Borthwick.
LUND-HILL Ex rho. pas.—The slowness with which
the water Is rising in the pit renders it impossible for any im-
medlate b'fortatikr.e water'il'"h
toel nls.b,ct to
lli.he:Ph it
pit, before corethne-
sideid
fire e tetaNy extingahh:d, ir 30 feet. at present it reaches but
little more than half this height. The reason why it fills so
slowly is, that the stream of w.tet which i. twining into the
pit has decreased daily in volume daring the dry weather.
The number of those ascertained to be dead in the pit is con-
stantly found to be greater; was the number last an-
mouthed. Several more names bar, been. sent la, and it is
feared
C.

POsitt

Smith,
shire am
renrniri

• peosente hew pe.—
Engt.ed, woo ettptured
of the Bedforchhire '

that the dreadful total will ultimakly mach 200.
:APTURE OF " JACKISON," Tilt: AUnTSALIAN
IY-
,ton.—The man who called hint Bell Janus • alse
ith, and who imposed upon several pi. • • 3.10
and otbm ninnies, by pretendld. ..;t*
tested from AustralM, tot. was maw tr,
present' hem persons in Austra •
Klima, miptuml by Superint [ • • ni.lc
he Bedfordshire conit bulary,. on "^"' fLr
inst. Th.. superinuntleut having "I.lllat r:
n at Shambrwel inquiring about pe
kustralia, and pretending to have 11V
u that colony lot two widows, el. 17 5 '
I apprehended him. He wan take '• `' 11
I remanded. It suppuned from bsr s'
imposed upon humlitils of pe.rsom.