The Express.
London, England, 1861-09-10 00:00:00

BRILLIANT lOLTBOR.

TO TIM TOMO or Tax MMUS.

Sts,—On Saturday night, about half-past 10
dela*, whilst rising ►ame with a friend, my attention was
livened by • epleedid object that met my gaze in the sky,
sad which I at Mt took to be a very fine rocket, but which
I loos dimoverisd to be a meteor of extraordinary site and
brilliancy. It was a bright yellow colour, and as it floated
along left • Wiliam% rid tail to its course. It was certaittly
the lanced and most brilliant I had ever seem Its position
was nearly due south, at ►u elevation of about 30 degrees.
Thinking that the above may nut be uninteresting to some
of your readers, I am, &c., F. B.

ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SocterT.—An ordinary
gement roestiog of this society, for the election of fellows,
was held yesterilay afternoon in the council-room at the
Darden, South Kensington, C. Wentworth Wks, Esq.,
rice-president, in the chair. A oonsiderable utilities was
nude to the list of fellows. The following amongst others
were balloted for awl duly elected, viz. :—The Earl of Car.
narroa, Major Wm. Jams, Right Hon. James MoocrsilT,
Major Richard Phibbs, Lieut.. Colonel Wield, Sir George
Crest Softie, Bart, Ilion. Dudley Ward, Colonel itr
gram, As.

ritiurs K rimscrrow Mcrezuat.—During the week
ending Sept. 7, 1861, the visitors ion been as follow.:
' On Holiday, Tsewlay, sod Saturday, free days, 5,734 1 on
Monday and Tuesday, free evenings, 4,316. On the three
students' days fadmierios to the public 6d.), 1,3351 one
students' evening, Wideseilay„ 159 ; total, 11,541. From
the opening of the museum, 2,229.414.
MEMO MAT BRCOME A NRORO NATION.—The
Mexican Extmortlinirre of Jess 27 has the following
article setting forth this possibility :—"A certain class of
people is Mexico look with satisfaction upon the civil war
now raging in the neighbotidag republic to the North.
They regard it as the certain humbling of a power that
threatened the nationality of Mexico, and therefore as on
omen of the secure future of this country. Let us look at
this matter as it is. Let us stare facta in the face. The coo-
tinuance of the civil war naturally will result in the eman-
cipation of most of the necmes of the Slave Staten If the
war go os, the spirit of liberty will get abroad amongst the
slaves, but as they are not capable of offering& bohl front to the
superior talent of their marten, they will seek liberty by re-
volts sod alight. Their natural asylum will be Mexico, on
account of its convenience sod tLe consideration and sym-
pathy here enjoyed by the °Ogre race. Besides, the
climate and soil are hoth favourable. Hen the wipe can
hope to have a future, whilst at the North he is certain
to remain the senile, as both the climate end institution.
of the noethers people place a barrier to his raising mush
above the mil station he irejoyn is the slave States.
if the civil war at the North continue, Mexico will as-
suredly be overrun by the slaves from the Southern States.
Let mi reflect upon the consequences of ao inundation of
refugee slaves from the Ceded States. The slave popula-
tion of the South is four millions something sear the
actual population of the republic of Mexico at the pre.
sent day. Should those millions of slaves come to Mexico,
they will naturally fall upon the low lands of Tamauli-
pas. Veraerns, Nam Tehuantepec, Nuevo Leon, sod
Coahuila. Meeting with a cordial reception, as they are
pretty certain to find, they will very soon amalgamate with
the Mexican population and at no distant day become im-
bued with the revolutionary and diesesteated spirit of the
eseetry. They will control the districts they at ant settle
le, sad tarry their &anemias, Upon others that stioimp4, to
wieres,theso, sod it is not unpanabbitthey may succeed in
erectiag • segro dynasty iu Mexico. We hay. not sees this
view of the results of the Americas civil year ae yet &deemed
by any contemporary ; bet, am we see the qualm, we
believe it wren and quite certain to be verlied if the Wet
is the United Staten be continued. Them who peke black
meters to white friends may oestinse to glary Is the free-
poets of • destruction of slavery to the United Mein ; but
we Shedd advise such to think well of winkle am patio&
sad the natural consequences.