The Express.
London, England, 1868-07-25 00:00:00

NEWSPAPER. C'ORREZPONDENTM.

THERE must be far mon "mute, inglorious
" Nlwrons" in the ocumtry than even GRAY sup-
posed. Lot any subject, or theory, or canard be
started in the newspapers, and, presto ! up starts
a crowd of people whose lives have been appa-
.rently devoted to that one topic—who trump the
first player's trick four-fold, and who out-herod
lIIROD in their ruthless massacre of established
facts. Nothing is too extravagant, or unreal for
the newspaper correspondent. He knows all about
it, to begin with, and would not hesitate to teach
political economy to Mr. MILL, natural history to
Professor OwEN, or the art of popular oratory to
Mr. BRIGHT. The otherdaysomeonethoughthesaw
a mosquito, and promptly communicated the fact
to the Timea, in evidence of the tropical heat we
have undergone. But his effusion was no sooner
published than a cloud of mosquito letters
appeared. A number of respectable people
seemed positively indignant at its being supposed
that they had gone through life unstung. They
bared their wounds, as it wore, and boasted of
their honourable sears. Southsea-common, among
other places in England, was declared to be con-
siderably fuller of mosquitoes than any other
tropical country we have read of, and such
was the exultant tenor of these notes,
that not to have been bitten made the
average reader ask himself whether he had
anything the matter with his akin. All this
fund of knowledge, this wealth of private expe-
rience, sprang from the one announcement that a

mosquito had been seen in England. It is possible
this original and limited statement was correct.
But if these noxious insects are as common here as
is said, what has become of them during the last
eight and forty hours? When the cricketers at
Lords shiver in their flannels, when the
volunteers at Wimbledon look out their
thickest and heaviest wraps, and when
croquet-parties are suspended, that the wearers of
light muslin may seek refuge by a coal fire—
where are the mosquitoes then ? Southsea-eom-
raon and the other fancy-places should be strewed
with their bodies as a forest is with leaves in
autumn-time. The Yorkshire Incumbent who
writes to the Times to-day--we observe that there
is generally a " Yorkshire Incumbent" who comes
to the fore when these fits of newspaper corres-
pondence are raging—announces the profound
discovery that " covering tanks, water-works,
" and other receptacles for stagnant water, with a
" closely fitting lid," effectually prevents " this
" pestilent little insect " from annoying us.
What an extraordinary thing that the world
should go on so long without thinking of this
before ? If covering up basins with a lid will do
all that is necessary, what an immense deal of
annoyance and misery has been needlessly borne !
But we suppose if a newspaper were to print
a letter saying the lion on Northumberland House
once wagged its tail, correspondents would be
found to assert this to be a common peculiarity
among stone animals, and others, again, to show
how the levity could be prevented by tying them
down with a string.

BIRMINGHAM, the metropolis of the Black
country, the centre of s thousand industrial
occupations, is also not without reputation in the
domain of art. There DAVID Cox, a true poet-
artist, was born, and there, before he died, in 1859,
he founded a school of artists, some of whom
have attained a more than local celebrity. The
painter is in large measure dependent on the
skill of the engraver, and the art of engraving
has been cultivated with singular success at
Birmingham. We note, therefore, with interest,
that one of the oldest art societies in the pro-
vinces has just had an honourable title conferred
upon it by her MAJESTY, and will be known
henceforth as the Royai Birmingham Society of
Artists.

Woorwlcu, JULY 24.—Lord Robert Napier of
Magdala has accepted an invitation to dine with the
commandant of the garrison and the officers of the
Royal Artillery and other corps at the barracks to-
morrow ; and he will probably inspect the troops and
various departments of the Royal Arsenal

The Palmyra and Nebraika sailed on Wednesday
from Queenstown for New York with 210 emigrants.
Notwithstanding that the Channel Islands have
not suffered so much from the drought as England, owing
to the heavy dews that have been experienced in the
Islands, vegetable and dairy produce are rising in price.
♦ small cabbage fetches 3d., and butter is ls. 7d. per lb.—
a moat extraordinary pries for Guernsey and Jersey.
Butter in England will, it is expected, be above the reach
of the working classes as the winter comes on.

Several flies, one of them an extenive one, took
place on Southampton-common during the races there on
Thursday, by whicka greatepantity of tune was destroyed.
The furze was very dry and hot, owing to the weather,
and the tires are believed to have originated from smokers
carelessly or wilfully throwing lighted matches on the
furze.

In about a week or ten days, if the present
weather continues, corn harvest will, it is expected, have
been concluded in the south of England.

Curesmortarres Faxcnotc—A meeting of the
members of the County Liberal Registration Aasociation
was held yesterday afternoon at Mr. Wieby's Rooms in
Cambridge, under the presidency of C. W. Townley, Eaq.,
when about 60 gentlemen attended, representing all rb
of the county, and it was xmanimouslyresolved that a second
liberal candidate for the county should be brought for-
ward, all parties present agreeing that there was a fair
prospect of success. The meeting further resolved that
the present member, Mr. Young, and the Right
Hon. Henry Brand, who filled the office of political
secretary to the Treasury, under the late liberal adminis-
traffion, and who lately received so splendid a testimonial
for hie services to the -liberal party, should be the candi-
dates. Mr. Brand is brother to Lord Deere, who has con-
siderable property in the county, in the neighbourhood of
Newmarket and elsewhere, with large estates on the
borders, in Herta and Essex. The two candidates were at
once introduced and most warmly received. They both
stated that they were prepared to give a cordial support
to Mr. Gladstone as the leader of the liberal party. The
meeting resolved itself into a provisional committee to
secure the return of the liberal candidates, who it was
understood would address an to meeting of the
liberal electors immediately after west.—Cembridie In-
dependent.