The Express.
London, England, 1857-08-08 00:00:00

exmddle MIA hal =A ler Ilia, but his yoke
betrays hhkend MB Wiliam' are either too lirmgr fokre
legs, or Me hoe Ms Ina for them—another sign of age.
"Ile has a ton dbms; whispers Hooker te one of his
gnats, "sad may pop ant any monseat."
The " alums" of New York are here depicted:
We will go through Chatham-street, toward, the flowery.
' What a quantity of "old elu". shops I The cunning,
tough, cheating, lying, deathless Hebrews ere here, ready to
thank the God of Moors for the smallest victor/ over your
purse. Did item strike you, my *Wad, that if the Jews
wore gathered together out of every dirty earner of the world,
they would be the greatest and richest nation under the
situ r That never ran be; they slew the Itedeamer, and
God, too groat to slay in return, hes put a teeth upon ;beta,
and soot thorn vagabonding like Cain. let us hum on;
them is pestilence in the air; carrion le walking about here,
in the human Conn divine. Must every city under heaven
have its quarter of death and infamy P Take en occasional
stroll here, you that believe in the divinity_ of human nature.
A long deleilate street is this Bowery. Hem we are, in the
vicinity of the lox and Crow; let us go In and see the
favounte resort of the ilite of scoundrels. That
lung bar, behind which stand' tempting bottle.,
can't be the fatuous place? Wait a little, and we
alma fled that the vestibuleis not the whole tem-
ple. There coma Bully Bill, the Agamemnon of rowdies,
the king of kiege among the Fox and Crow
heroes; wo will follow him. " Supper-room, waiter: " A
bell is beard in tho distance, and a door opens out of the
wall. Bill, Bomnanibules, and Co., eater. sad we will fol-
low. They eye us sharply, make signs, and hem ; but we
me only " lookennon in Yates." Through thin walls we
hear the rattling of dice, and "see of heart.," "knave of
dubs," lie., mingled with oaths. Waiters as coming and
going; they are the locomotive taps of the brandy mud. A
pipe of had brandy is consumed every day at the Fox
and Crow. If you are • politician, you can purchase
votes hero for a drink apiece. The judicious expenditure
of ten dollars here will produce a sham election riot,
which will entre • hundred respectable timid adman
away from Cho poll.. If you have • mortal enemy,
you can here bargain to have his ribs broken, at the rate
of dye dollars apiece. If you have a rind, yes can here
hire a penny-a-hoer to blast his reputation. If you would
Ike to play tho thud, and break some good ma's heart, you
may Wing here hits inexperienced son. If you wish to he-
roine • drunkard at a small cost, stop here these times a day
and get a drink of brandy. If you see fond of a fight, come
here with your mind made up not to receive en insult. There
are other things at the Fox and Crow to which not even
allusion can be made.
Not a touch of humour enlivens the book from be-
ginning to end. Still it has a strength and spirit
about it that have a ring of the truo metal, and we
shall not be sorry to meet with another work by tho
same writer, whoever he may be.
Life and its Realities. By 13EORGIANA, Lady
CHATTERTON. Loudon : Hurst and Blackett.
Here is a novel of the good old school, three
volumed, heavy-priced, leaded-typed broad-mar-
gined, crammed full of incident, utterly void of the
slightest interest. It is written in jerky, uncon-
nected sentences, and was evidently commenced
without plot or plan ; the characters are unnatural,
the incidents exaggerated, the dialogue common-
place and dull.
Tallengetla : or, the Squatter's Home. By WILLIAM
lIOWITT. London: Longmans.
Mr. Howitt has woven his experience of emigrant
life into a novel, containing many vivid and pic-
turesque descriptions, and a good deal of general
practical advice and sound common sense.
Used up in statistical and political works, in tra-
veller's tales and books for boys, Australian colonies
have as yet scarcely been seized upon by the novel
writer as the (orate for his plot and action. Mr.
Howitt is the pioneer, but we doubt whether many
of hie compeers will follow him with so much ear-
nestness, and, in default of that, with so much
success.

TATTLE Meteors.—lt ie a pretty surprise when
ono visits an elderly couple to see a little figure enter in •
white frock, with a blonde head as smooth sr satin, round
blue eyes, and • cheek like an apple bloseem. A toddling
little girl is • centre of CODWOOD feeling which makes the
most dissimilar people understand each other; and Mr.
Tryon looked at Lizzie with that quiet pleasure which la
always genuine. " Here we are, bum we are :" said proud
grendpar. "You didn't think we'd got such a little gell
as this, id you, Mr. Trysts t Why, it reams but di other
day lisle her mother was just such another. This is our
little Lirvie, this is. Corns an' shake bands wi Mr. Tryon,
Lizzie, conic." Lizzie advanced without hesitation, end
put out one hand, while she fingered her ceral necklets with
the other, and looked up into Mr. Tryan's bee with • recon-
noitring gaze. He stroked the satin head, end said in his
gentlest voice, " How do you do Lizrie? will you give toe a
kiss t" She put up her little bud of a month, and then re-
treating a little, and glancing down at her frock, said, "ISt
id my noo frock. I put it on 'tad you wed touting. Tally
taid you wouldn't 'ook at it."—Blackweorre Maya:Use, for
August.
Fottn-WHEidYna IN ItOTTYS-Row.—lf the drive
tinsome to real people of [tuition, what must it be to
Jones and his wife, in their bumble little machine, driven
by the gardenersoachmin, crawling up end down for hours
without meeting a soul to how to, end their only satisfaction
to tell their friends to-morrow that they were in the perk.
Oh, donee be importable and keep a gig, rather than he
jointed end nointein that wretched "osnee," which costs
you such painful efforts to keep up. Nothing makes U.
more inimitable than to see five persona in a four-wheeler in
the Hyde-perk drive. We pity while we despise she peo-
ple; we know whet it nseene—it is the beginning of the
struggle of gentility, the outimencement of a weary life of
appearances. —Conine retal nineteen' Magazine, for August.
'nig LATE LORD MELBOURNE AND TUE CURS-
Lswii.—ln 1846 Lord Melbourne sought and obtained a
specie! audience from the highest personage. Royalty had
continued to look with a favouring regard on out of the moat
faithful servants whom Queen Victoria had ever employed.
The interview was appointed at Windsor Castle; its object,
that of uttering a wspeetful protest against the total repeal
of the corn.lewr, and of demurring te the peculiar mode of
operation followed by Sir R. I'ocl, wee known to the rove-
reign. It u not now, nor woe it then, any secret, that the
Court had been always in favour of cheap cons. Lord Mel-
bourne was received graciously, with the courteey ever ex-
tended to him. After a time the old statesmen and ex-mi-
nister began upon the political subject of the day. lie gave
his "pinion, and it wee listened to with a gracious intimation
that the highest perwmage in the realm was of an entirely
opposite way of thinking. Lord Melbourne, in a grave
mood (and recent illness had then much shaken hie
health), promoted ircopectfully to argue his views; but,
though the personal interview was not rut short, a playful
but pcnniptory veto (which Lord Melbourne well undm-
stood) wen rived on further remonstrances. "You have
not seen my sew improvement., my lord "—wee the grace-
fully pleasant mode in which Majesty relieved itself from the
old courtier's warning voice, and the Queen herself lad the
way to show Loot Melbourne the new alterations at the
Castle. Pal of his subject--conecious that he could not ex-
pect many such opportunities—profoundly loyal to hie sove-
reign—Lord Melbourne again essayed an attempt to win the
ear of Ms royal mistress, but again canto the veto—" Oh, but
I forgot; you have not teen the other changes which I have
made here. There I. much more that your lordship has to
em"—and the old courtier had to give up the hope of fur-
ther argument on the great question of the time.—. New
Quarterly Iterate, for Among.
LAWYERS IN PARLIAIIIF.N7—We trust that the
New Reform Bill will contain provisions for enabling the
profession to elect its elite am numbers of parliament, so that
we should not be wholly indebted to the haphezard eleums.
apiary aid of other constituencies to give us a fair supply of
perliamestery lewyers tar our future judgeships. A batch
of tiro reprmentativee of the profeamion sleeted by the mild-
tore m well es by the bar, for emit of the three kingdoms,
would Dive us a body of picked men, from whom our judges
might be selected without reference to party views, hat for
the eminence they should attain in parliament, ea well es the
somewhat questionable eminence they attsia by advocacy in
the profession.—Lou' .Iloauri tie, for August.
ltorrEN ]tour.—lt's amusing to watch the dif-
(milt style.. of riding; hero comes a young swell, sitting
easily on hie hero', awl with is sort of military Pink of the
beet 'end a clot clip at the knee, that tells of some connexion
with household troop. or a dashing crack cavalry regi-
ment ; then wicenees the old gentleman, with the aquiline
nom, white hair, and tight trousers strapped over his bouts;
he rides in a tunthle-down sort of at)•le, am if he wise trying
to carry out by his body the curve of his home's neck; then
gaily canters clung, with body thrown back and legs stuck
out etraight, that devil may-care young gentleman, whom
hat is rakishly stuck on one wide; nest Ricans.eo a eerie.-
looking, middle-aged men, who pounds away at a sharp
I trot, labouring with arm., legs, end body as if he was doing
duty upon n new-fashioned sort of treadmill. Here die. a lady
bumping up on her saddle at least Walla foot at every bound
of the horse; there centers along that girl with the dark hair,
end refined, statuesque face, sitting tinny on her horse, her
body well thrown bock, and pride and high birth shown in
every movement ; next comes that elderly poly, in the black
hat and coasted feather., and very corkscrew curl; her
back is very round, her Feat is very unsafe, and the whole
expression of her fare plums that she learnt to ride late in
life, and has not yet succeeded in getting herself to lika the
operation; then, ...simpering on the meet beautiful little
ponies, groups of young children, riding se if every one of
then, was a creature enjoying the fresh air, and giving to the
thronz of faded fashion that freshness and innocence which
it redly stands in need of. The horsemen and women go by
in all sorts of groups—sometimes you see ten or eleven
&beset. Then come. a solitary horseman, dashing along with
• look of earnestness, that shows yen he is performing a
sort of duty which he wants to get through es soon as pos-
sible. Then comet. papa and his daughter, and that young
rascally couain, Charlie; papa thinks of the debate, and the
young couple have it all to themselves, and flirt in a way
that wonted horrify dear mamma, who is rolling along in the
carriege in the other drive. Up and down they all ride—
peers and nterchante, statesmen end Ouardemen, ruined
honourable., rich ptrrenue—all taking it.: in the grand
show of Vanity Fair, turning the social troadwhisel with
their weary beet, although this is the meet healthful and
coated part of the labour.—Commereial Travellers' Mars-
:int, for August.