The Express.
London, England, 1857-10-12 00:00:00

NIOHTING4LE.

The committee for the erection of the Crimean
monument In Sheffield ars making arrangements to peewit
to Mks Florence Nightingale a set of tabk cutlery, the
manufacture of members of the committee. The ismuniitthe
having communicated their intentions to that lady through
her Mabee, Mile Shore of blemebrook, have jute received
through the same channel the following characterktic
"q
ara exceedingly sorry to have allowed your letter to re-
main so long unanswered. bat my oempatione have of late
been so greasing that it bee been unavoidabk. The po-
pped which your letter contains la peculiarly gratifying
to me, as coming twain a place connected with which I have
esodations that will always be dear tow ; and I should at
once frankly accept the offered kindness if I court secure me
point which would be essential to my comfort Mao doing—viz.
that theamouut of contributions should be fixed on made which
could not p middy prove burdensome to any one. It is not
for me w dictate, butt shall be greatly oblld to you, if
possible, to prom this point, and to assure my friends that it
is not a spiended specimen of what I already know Sheffield
can accomplish that would be gratifying to me, but merely a
token, and the simpler the better, of good will and sympathy
from • body in whose welfare I shall always feel an especial
interest. So strong was my feeling on this point, that my
first impulse on receiving the proposal was to recant that
thme who had had this kind thought would content them-
selves by simply appending their names to a testimony of
god-will; and month this be so, I should be more than
aatiefled. Ilmt this I must leave for other, to decide.

PIA/IMM NIORTINOASIL"
The case of cutlery is now on view at the free library, in
the room where the designs for a Crimean monument
are being exhibited. The cue containing the cutlery Is
polished oak bound with silver, and on the top there is an
ornamental inlaid device, consisting of silver, with a centre-
piece of gold, on which is etched a representation of the good
tan. At ono end of the silver device there is en etch-
ing of a dove with the olive branch, and at the ether an etch-
ing representing the pelican feeding her young. There is
also the following inscription This MAO of cutlery ma-
nufactured exiviesly for presentation to Florence Nightin-
gale, by the working men composing the Crimean monument
committee, sea mark of their esteem for her noble and unso-
licited .tube,-ription and sympathy in aid of their monument
to be erected in Sheffield. A.D. 1857." Round the gold
centrepitve there are the words, " Inasmuch as yit have done
it unto one of the least of these, my brethren, ye have dins
it unto me, Matthew, zay. 40." The cutlery is Ma supe-
rior description, being composed of the toot steel, and ivory
bandies. Each blade is stamped, not with the maker's name,
but with the words, " Presented to Florence Nightingale,
184."—liall lacks,.

GOVERNM ENT ArroDtruENTS.—Mr. E. M. Archi-
bald is appointed her Majesty's cooeul at New York. The
selection of Mr. Archibald for this important and debate
office demands a special notice. Mr. Archibald is a colonial
subject of the Queen—and his appointment mast be eminently
gratifying to the colonists, especially to our British North
American fellow-subjects. He woe born in Nova Scotia,
where biz father was Master of the Rolla. He has been
himself Attorney-General of Newfoundland, and member of
the Legidative Council of that province. His being called
to "other clutita" is a new feature in the foot* appoint
moots of Great Britain. Mr. Archibald's testimonials we,.
most numerowt end commendatory; and be was selected
entirely for hie character, and without any pet-pored favour
whatever. Major Norman Pringle, her Majesty's consul at
Stockholm, is appointed count at Dunkirk, Mr. Carew
Rant, consul at the Atoms, is appointed consul at Stock-
holm. Mr. John Tyrrell la appointed Recorder of Bideford
end of South Motion, in the room of Mr. Warkworth freed,
doceered.-06server.

A NEw CA? Nos.—The Jimrnal:de Gencre gives
an account of an experiment made • few days dna
of • mechanical cannon, which loads itself and One
twenty shots a minute. The inventor thinks that he
ill be able to arrive at thirty. The balls crewed
the Rhone, without the gun, which wen mounted ca
a plateau, asking any recoil worth speaking of. Thin
cannon is the invention of M. Ravel, a manufacturer of mu-
sical instruments; and among the p.eraons present et the ex-
periments we. an old voend of the empee, who proposes
to send a report of the affair to the French Artillery Cosa-
mittee, as well as several other officers, engineers, &c. who
were all astonished at what they saw, and warmly emirate.
Wed the inventor on his success.

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