The Express.
London, England, 1850-06-10 00:00:00

SERPENTINE PURIFYING MOVEMENT.

Oa Saturday a deputation oons:sti LI of Drs. Cop.
land, Wil•oa, leaskester. Tilt, and Woolley, and Mr. Lam
Li'wall. waited Oil Lod Seymour, a' the . &mot Woods and
Forests, Whitehall, up->n the se:ject of the prising condition
of the Serpentine.
la reply to thy tour imitations of the deputation.
Lord SEYMOUR said that the corailit.on of the Serpentine
had act easaped ku atteatiot, ea. there could be no daub:
as to the necessity of there being a constant stream ptsaine
through it. Toe only question in his mud was as to the
b,st mode of obtaining the neovorov increased supply of
water. His lordship hoped that a soft:lent quantity would
in the course of a short time be ()Stained from the Artesian
well recently sunk at the Orangrestreat.Works. These works
were now out of order, which wu one of the causes of the
present low state of the water in the Serpentine. In repay
to Dr. Tiles epsilon, his lordship could not say whether or
tot ski Chelsea Waterworks had of late supplied the same
tputuary as heretofore; but it was a 'never info which it was
hie intentloa to impair.. He did r.ot deny the necessity
which was said to tales ter thormighly roptyirg the river
ot its mud. Gad vim 8 r resrlering it more .ate, but said that
it would be imporiblip to do so before the great eattibmioa of
1861 took place. H s lordship punniud, however, that no
time should be is affording the n.cistary increased
supply of water.

is; deputation th, a thanked kis lordship dad withdrew.

HORTICULTURAL SOCIKTIF OF LONDON.

Oa Saturday, the second feta of the season took
Otte et the societv'egardeas, Chiswick, and was attended by
a very large camber of vi-itors, amongst whom were the
Duke and Decoeee of Northumberland, the Duko and
Duchess of Bedford, the Duke of Devor.thire. the Mar-
chioness of Westminster, the MareEioase of Exeter, the
Marchioness of Waterf'rd, the Countess of Macclesfield, th.
Coastal of Jersey, and Lady Clementine Villiers, Lord and
Lady Bridport, the Russian Ambsimador, the Bishop of Wis.
abater, Lord and Lady Cenaiesz, Lady B,tile, &c. The
weather towards the latter part of the afternoon was ex-
tremely Ike, and the morning's rain haying imparted a
freshness to the trees and Aruba the gardens were seen to
great advantage. The display of ewers was equal to any
that we have witnessed on former ceessions, and to mention
any particular specimens would be a wirk of
supererogation, as the beauty of the extlibition depended
ups its Wad end rowel affect. The pelargaimas, sal-
eateries, Judea, sad Cape heaths, sppeet.d In rich pr,fu•
sloe, and many of the lintasetioned flowers were ratty
admired, both for their elegance of term and extreme deb
may of colour.
la the course of the afternoon te attractions of the day
were iaereased by the arrival of the N• ()tuba ambassador
and his saki., whoa rich and striking costumes were well
adapted to the gaiety of the scene. These intenstieg person-
ages were, el court*, the objects of general observation, so
amok en that the Mira exhibition itself became (or a time a
matter of etwondary inip.ctsacit.
The bends of the let Life Gnarls, the Horse Hoards
(Blase), sad the Coldstream*, were in attendance, and their
performances imparted Increased vitality to the scene, The
izhibitiou was en the whole a most satisfactory one, and the
arrsagesairnts were such as to prec:nlis the posibility of any
inconvenience happening to the visitors, either on their
arrival at the gaiderc or at the time of their departure.

FtzTau CtLIA To TIM BAIL—A further all to
the bar of students of the Midas Temple was made on
Saturday evening last, comprising the following gen-
tlemen Alfred Cason, Est. • Wil,isec Howard Resell,
E.g.; Edward ire re Grafitti, Etq • John William Tattle,
THEJules Loins Colin. Eiq. ; and late Onden, Sq.
CHINESE It:Mi.—This interesting specimen
of naval architecture having been remove-1 from its original
mutiny at Blackwall, is row snugly located at the Temple
Stairs, and having thereby berme severable to a new audi-
ence, we may call public attention to its numerous attrac-
tions. Modem entnprise and modern literature have
strongly din eted public attention to that vast empire, which,
situated in the far east, and secluded from the rest of the
world by rigorously jesious lastitutiort, had for 3,00 C years
bid &Items,* wacern curiosity, to crinnearce, or to invasion.
Waraike empires have rises, dszs:ed, and then crumbled
away; stern reptilian' have invented he* institutions,
flourished tend?, thus and met destruction is their
stomp ; the various logics of art, of .ciences and of litera-
ture. bau shed their light abroad over the world
and then become extlegnished ; but old China, with its
gro'nque barbarism, its puede eustome, its anti- 'ye
tendi•ncies, and it • %gumlike population, has sill " held its
own" against the world, preserved by some mystic principle
of cohesion known only to itself, and &Miming that sect of
memos civilisation which oasis% in the perfection to which
the rudest processes may be brought, simply by doing the
same thing over acid over again fur en almost interminable
period. Who that has ever reed a book or pondered over the
various finchistions in human destinies sad their causes but
mint have had hi annuity excited in the most lively man-
ner all to the arts, knob., sad manners, by the presence of
which etch an extraordinary amount of rational stability as
that of the Cbigees empire la been attained ? Te all inch,
sad they meet be numerous in this age of unitised
intelligence, we sea cordially recommend a visit to
the Keying. She is, in some ri speets, a type of
the woadrius empire from which she emu Her
figure, curved like a hugs shell, seems
Ittrt:se
defiance to all the principles by whisk strengeb
' is obtained in naval architecture, and yet the km of the
voyage home shows that few vessels could exhibit better
qualities as a seaboat. A more minute inspection would
seal an English; j.)ider toe lunatic asylum. The beams are
unpinned atid unmorticed, simply laid against each other, or
overlimptd merely an inek or two, and resting against rather
than supporting the outward sheathing. The plank' are
Literally sewed tosretiter, and the seams are filled with
cement. Apparently. the whole waster* is more clumsy
than strong, bat it ',vended the Cape amid storms and tem.
pelts without giak:eg a drots,of water, sad bush an age of
upwards of 100 years. It in fact, a gigantic Chinese
pusale. The hold has enmity ft 800 tore of good', sad is
divided into those watertight compartments which with us
aye been deemed the meek discovery in ate= naval archi.
testate. The saloon tams a lofty sad elegant drawing-
room, and the denies assommodielone for the mom
ma sailors might well melee our Brent shipowners
Wash. Everything is in appeenees rude ;ready and gee-
tens% but substantially, admirably adapted fee he pete,
while Macular to say, it is dews to the smallest belt
diessetrieelly opposed In esestramioa to its sealogoue
European vessel.. The snideness Jos. Houle meet est be
f spites. At each lad el die vessel is a small news not un-
Me Potash's theatre, clan net half the else, met TIMM are
pissed the Melee of the Callum those. Two sr three
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