The Express.
London, England, 1857-10-02 00:00:00

THE OCTOBER MAGAZINES.

DUCK-tiIIoOVING IN ALlt.t\lA.—Let as encamp
on this tussock of rushes, Int first carefully part them in
the middle (as the British youth does his back hair), and
then sit very delicately down, lest any of the spear-like
points should impinge on your delicate true. Ste I here
they come, right over our beads, but out of shot, fourteen
great mallards, twioe the nee of any we ever see in Eng-
land; and there to the left is another flock of double the
number. Here is one alone, flying low, straight to us. Ah I
you moved your arm, and with one sweep of his wing he
has flown off in • different direction. Never mind, hero
comes another: don't move, don't wink even, till you intend
to flee. Now— You were too late; you waited till he
pawed; you should have fired as he WU coming towards
you Yon may think that shot penetratem more easily
through the thick feathers of • duck as Lo flies from you ;
bat consider his pace—that tells all against him if he meets
the shot, whereas If the shot follows him, his speed in so
great that it ahoost cancels its force. But, never mind
there are plenty more; try that fellow to the right—you fired
at least two yards behind him; quick—give the other L ore!
to the foremost of the next two. There you see you have
killed the rear-rank man—that wM serve to give you an idea
of the distance to allow for speed. Herr they come, thicker
than ever; click, click; both caps snapped; by Jove, I've
got two charges of shot en each barrel, and no powder ; and
now comes that flock of gargantes (summer teal) which we
have seen whirling and darting about in the distance in a
compact cloud—u if their movement. were directed by
steam, both as to proeittion and speed—right over our bead.,
of course, the azure wings of the cock birds Sishing in the
sunlight. What a pace they go I--tt would be about u eery
to knock over a single one going down wind, as to hit a
bullet from a Itiiair oft. But to-day It is calm ; I will try
this straggler— He's none the worse; see how the in-
stant I fired, he fumed up into the air like a rocket; and now
again dashes off like lightning in the track of his coin-
felllolls.—Fremer's Mega:int, for October.

TUE LANDLADY'S GUEST.—The landlady de-
scended the stairs. Wee her guest a candidate for the repre-
sentation of the town at the neat election ? " March with the
times—spread of intelligence :" AL candidates she ever
knew had that way of expadng
r,
tlrist—'' March "
and " Spread." Not an bed entary aspirant
put forth to the freemen and electors o Oataboro, but what
March" had b en introduced by the candidate, and
" Spread " been suggested by the committee. Still she
thought that her gnat, upon the whole, looked and bowed
more like a member of the tipper House. Perhaps one of
the amiable though occasionally prosy peers who devote the
teeth of wisdom to the cracking of those very hard ants—
" How to educate the masses," • What to do with our cri-
minals," and suchlike
.problems, upon which already have
been broken so many Jawbones tough as that with which
Samson slew the Philiatines.—Sir E. Bulwer Lytton, in
Bliekscood's Magegrims, for October.

INDIAN INTELLIGENCE—DEMAND AND SUPPLT.—.
Every scrap of news, every gossiping letter, is printed and de-
voured by thousands. Even the offal and sweepings of India
are dished up as delicate morsels at home. The flying reports
at bazaars, the dialings of native merchants—even the com-
ment', of French and American journals, are raked together
to still the cravings of this not unnatural hunger. To
meet this cry for food, an army of 000 ks hoe arisen to
dress up u la Cl...noise all the remainders, unsaleable edi-
tions, and other lumber on India which lie in pyramid heap.
of gaper in the back premises of Paten:water-row.
finch an occasion may not soon occur again; so, like
Hypatia, we have " old friends with new fares"
Mrs. Colin Mackenzie's "Mission, the Camp, and the
&mans," for instance, reappears Ina yellow cover u
"Delhi, the City of the Great Mogul." In " Our Indian
Army," we detect a crusty old Indian who lived end died
during the short excitement of the charter of 1853, but who
revives egoist under the stimulating news from India of
1857. Whether more drawlers in India will call out more
ghosts of forgotten books, like the rape of the table-
turner calling up the spirits of departed men, remains to be
wen. We shall welcome dear old Marco Polo once more,
freak from a visit to Pouter John. And Sir Thomas Roe
will revive, to tell ua of the Court of the Gnat Mogul, of his
peacock throne, and hangings stiff with gold. Arden will
to tell ua of elephants with castles on their becks,
ande reven old Herodotas will be listened to with respect when
telling ux of eats eo large and ferocious, that the strongest
men, mounted on the fleetest camels, are sent to seize the
gad which these ants dig op.—Dublin University Magazine,
for October.

Do BIRDS UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY LEARN ?
And now comes the question whether birds do not, in some
degree at least, understand what they learn. It cannot be
denied that, in a state of nature, their notes and intonations
are significative to each other, and convey intelligence on
which they act; nor does it require pooch observation or
credulity to lead one to the conclusion that they are not alto-
gether ignorant of the meaning of the words which they are
taught. They apply them, at least, very often, very oppor-
tunely. We knew of a parrot that wsa very fond of • bone—
not a good thing to give a parrot, by the way—and when the
bird had racked it, he would whistle to and call by no the
spaniel that was suffered to run about the house. When the
dog came, as he always did when within hearing, the parrot
would drop the bone out of his cage ; and the dog very com-
placently picked it up and proceeded then and there to feed
uPen it, the parrot looking "
calling him
Pretty Beau;' ever and anond' during wn on 'game 'opeenradtion. When
dinner was brought, the parrot would climb up the bar of
its age, and there remain crying "Bring Polly's sop," till
something was given to it. If • bottle of ale or wine was
brought in it would eay, "Waiter! Waiter! • bottle of
wine and R cigar." This parrot, which was an excellent
talker, had not ben taught to call the doF, but he had been
in the habit of hearing him called to receive bones and bits,
and did likewise.—Freser's Maga:ine, fur October.
THE FUTURE OF INDIA.—Our own opinion in,
from what we know of the Oriental character—lts frenzied
violence and utter want of endurance—that the fall of Delhi
will be followed by the most crouching submission, and that
it would be to the power of the government to reinstate a
native army on en entirely new footing; that we will con-
tinue non-interference with the religious doctrines of the
Hindoos ; but their prejudices in matters not essentially
religions, will, in the military sphere, receive a strong im-
press of British supremacy and British strength of will.
As for the petition of the Calcutta residents to absorb the
company by the government, even were it desirable, the
time for it has not come. Nobody dismantles a ship for re-
pairs while the gale is still blowing.—United Service Maga-
sone, fur October.
' CRIMINALS IN AUSTRALlA.—Wainwright, who
was one of the contributors to the London Magazine. under
the name of Janus, and met frequently with Lam", De
Quincy, Coleridge, Scott, and other stars of the &nary
firmament, died but very recently in Hobart Town. Hie
crimes are well known, and far exceeded in atrocity those of
Palmer, who was recently executed at home. Yhe worst
instance, however, was that of a criminal executed about fif-
teen years since in:Sydney, who used to go up the country
and meet the bullock drays coming down with wool. He
would .amp with theses In charge, and make them drunk,
when he murdered them, and making an enormous fire, he
burned the bodies, took the bullock drays on to Sydney, and
sold them and the wool. He had canted on this postern for
some time before it was traced. I remember yearling this
roan's confeseion, and I thought it the most horrible thing
that I had ever heard or rmd oF No offences or crimes that
I have read of mince approach those of which this men bad
been guilty. Could any but a demon approach five human
beings camped in the wild bush, hold out to them tho band
of fnendship, smoke the pipe of peas, and drink w ith them
es brethren, but when he found them stupefied or asleep,
deliberately murder the whole of them, and burn the re-
mains and everrhing connected with their encampment
Some will exclaim " can these thieve be r•—but I believe
that in the hulk President already alluded to there are inlay
men so melont as this man was, end capable of perpetrating
climes, quite we atrocious ashecoultuittM.— Toirs Edinburgh

Magazine, for October.
" SOLFA " IN liOrni AND AGE.—Do you see that
blear-eyed, wixen-faced, white-haired roan, shambling up
the many side of the street, and rubbing his short and
dingy bine coot agonise the area roiling. as be poems? That
is oh! Solis and old Solfa's cloak I lie is never seen without
that cloak : in it he takes his walk abroad ; in it he pits at
home; and, eueireled in its eronly folds, it is firmly believed
he takes his mat Jack Gobbler, who knows everything
sad everybody—at all events who pretends to if he does not
—my" he called upon Sulfa very early one morning—that
&Ilk • voice answered him as from beneath distant
bedclothes, and that on his demanding an interview
Sulfa came out to him, enveloped in him cloak,
and apparently nothing elm! He in a very old mon
now, but In his day be was great. An admirable musi-
cian, a phsseaut singer, master of every instrument, and
being neither too proud to accompany a gong nor too modest
to sit in the middle of a crowded room and Mng pretty little
French >01.11.11' accompanying himself on a guitar, eking
round his neck by a brood blue ribbon, Sulfa was a greet
acquisition in a country-house, and want into very excellent
society. He did not wear the bluo cloak then, se you would
readily peroeive in the portrait which hangs OVCr his looking-
gloms, and which he always shows to every new friend. There
he is gorgeous in a huge-collared coat, in pantaloons tied with
string. at the Andes, in ribbed stockings and pumps.. °
dens lee jour, de ona pressiire jonsesse . • says the old
man, pointing to it with a trembling hund," I wog
old Sulfa, as m)- call me now.' And he will tell you a long
maudlin story obont his wife whom he adored—"Olt Sophie!
eonnne je (somas," sad who ia dead. I should, however,
advise you not to believe this part of the nominee, so rumour
whisipers that he utterly neglected Sophie, that be was
always out at portico, leming hie wife moping rat home
(quite like Tom Moore in a email way, isn't it ?) sod it was
firmly believed that he woo in the habit of correcting bee by
clutationnent. Now his day is over, (Mends
geera7:sl r grown very steady, and his place in society occupied
by younger men. Hi. yoke is enockna ; owl at on evening
party a man with a guitar and blue ribbon would only be
laughed at; so Solf has retired into private life and given
himself op entirely to what has long been bin ruling passion,
the desire for tanking money. He would go anywhere or do
anything which would torn out remunerutiie; he buys
things ate wonderfully low rate, and sell. them for large
prices ; be can beat down the otiregeetoninded Jews, sad
vanquish them in their own exclusive lerritorii o, the private
roles and auction-rooms of London. Ile attends the peri-
odical auction. with the utmost regularity, and I have men
him coming up Hotapetr-street in the gloom of the evening
with the scanty cloak extended to its utmnet limits, to act am
a covering for a large pier glass which he woo carrying be•
nestle It.-17te Train, for October.

TH POLICk COU
gum DAY.)

MANSION-HOUSE.

Tlit CP MOIL Or ATTER...TING TO RITORT MO\LT FROM

•ll I. CA/LUIVI.

jf r. Mom Plant lose, of 102, Cox's-terrace, Lower-
reel, llermatelsey, apparel in answer Mem:mom obtained
by sr R. W. Carden, charging Win with having attempted
to Wart mew, by threatening to print and publieh, or oQee-
yg
in skalds am phonic and wW iag, a certain libel,
Jetting the said 81r R. W. Carden.
TM cm mind considerable Lateran both in itself and
re reasequenos cf this comeetka of the defendant with the
orrprecin, miler wham be bolds Mike as deputy bride.
Dm, .ag is, besides, comeeted with the alawehip•porten,
.
simbreys append In sapped of the summon% and
Is, Lawry eta., condneted the defence.
allealduele, ni %waist die Pomading', Tr-Seated, is
ass, eM eNtemeht made by him when applying for this
sad which has howdy appeared In our minima,
n▪
ail lbws proceeded to call his winsome.
' • ' '

I t. G."l. P. Potter (ow of the City serondaras) —ln the
soy pert d lert week, the claimant, Mr. Rose, came to
my oda I Nisi him U there w likely to be any °m-
idden to Mr R. Carden, and he sad carudaly, there
wad," that he bed been appointed spat for the pubtksos,
ma cast 4,0001. at 6,0001. had ben nand for the purpose,
mad fist s pen would earlautly be demended. I mud, " I
wa, Kit y kw it, as it wee a pity time amid be say oppoei-
tk.," der R. Carden attorwards aped at my dike, sad I
told lac about it.

Mr. Lerris—Ustfl I inked the proetion, whether then
weal b. say oplaeldos, so ocaverostion ee had ou the
resat I Ind previously head • ninon that there would
be seessitka.
di Routh= ncullittiargt".4 Chisitathairmaa
of the Navigation ttes—l hen tautly ona
ne delndeat la the lobby it Guildhall lardy,
ind bed sone esevenatios with lin about the forthcoming
Aetna of Lard Mayor. Os on omits I raked him if &r
R. Cada weld be oc ned, sad ha mid he thought so, se
LAMIL tamed*n raised by the *liken to do so, sad el
own it take 1,11001. to best it, while ffir Robin did
est sun disponi to oprad ray neney. He Mid also that
be wee sorry that each was the ere, se els Robert was a
nry good nem sad ought
ennerwitka. to eons I afterwards told
Mr IL Gr in aeon this
By Mr. Lewie-1 onuseaced the commandos with Rose,
of which all that followed took place, 1 bad
Ywisatly nerd frees niers &boat the Weeded oppontka.
I Yd mat beer aims say that ett R. evades wee • very rick
aroma ought le spend a little massy sang his fellow

Yen.bdomen Hale—About • bridled before the election
I lied sewn °contention with tie dehooloat gout IL
iambi that he had bed conseska with previous chokes,
I Wood him if time would be en Opposition sow, and he rid
thee wesid,se to B. Carden wee very obetinste.
lb. Lewis twat *seine to evidence being ncsived seer
&non the eines* Is the ..meow wend • specific nets"
ad is/end to a penindsr asp, to which the evidence ought
to be onleted,

Tbe Lortor crannied W *mike, and Ow email-
Kmilesr. =Hale-1U said there would be ea cap:oaks
V as arreagreerat row net node with him. I then salmi
if there ten any sow raked for opposition, and be
mid tam woe 2,0001 , sad amok SOON albtake to the
{need rietsaVera. A day or two sitar I mentioned the
eanotrettie to !Mr R. CFdra. _

Xr. Leuris—l bad previously bad so tion
Inn Sir R.X.Ciardie,widt 'Arran to an* c
tLo ommunicadoloadsat.
I tosimisood the coaviroutiou. I did so, partly tram inqui-
sitive motives, sad partly home I hod as &sire to see •
masa. IL woe art proffering to of as s Mead to Sir
Carla

This cos• ens proftedbag wilds ye mat to prem.)

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01:1USHALL.
rain. Dousd • solariasay &waken reprobate, was
pima at the bar Wore Sir Magma liarataU, charged with
beimg dirk rad leeddag Newel pear at gimes is
the via-
-67•11 of the West blades Undo&

Ik. Webb, the rebeettig cater, mad Mr. Parker, lied ad-
met, 'Med We the prisoner lad keen repeatedly relieved,
let Jet be creak inlayer week It die laboar-yard,
auk employmeat tar • living. Ile bed been fumbled
vitt clauses mad tools from thee to thee, mad sat-
vislimbadog every erbtaeoe, beeteiably reward, old,
ea this aceseica, be applied be Mild lade to a Vale olf
Voiotia.

The primmer denied belag *mak.
la=the gooier, maid the primmer lad been frermattly
fer ►Ueda( his haw, methat, is fart, he hod
Ism seastastly trouble dm die lent twenty pore.
The laapsetor said the pri•O•4l bed ban eostvieted tide
...t. The teat scovictios wee foe sessilag a ladder about
recothe
der CitEt Marshall add am the rimers eras sorb..
idle sad ed character be weal( soaks ea trample of
W dhim kr twenty-or dal •to prison.