The Express.
London, England, 1857-06-13 00:00:00

A SAGE INQUIRY.

(From the -Essiniser.)
In the parliamentary reports of list Saturday ap-
peared the heading, Cows in Hyde Perk i What could this
preface mean Wee it like fah in water or birds in air,
or Sowers in June ? Or was it like bulls in China
shops, or pigs in flower gardens, or bores in parliament!
Was It a matter of grievance or congratulatica ? Was It •
public wrong or a public right ? Wee it an encroachment
on the rights of the subject, or was it • gracious boon of the
Crown ? Who, on reading such • heading, knew what to
think of cows in Hyde-park ? It was • bran-new palls-
mental, question. Ought the idea of cows in Hyde-park to
excite anger or pleasure ? Should it Inspire constitutional
jealousy mad Warm, or should it be 'relearned is pleasant
bucolic news P

.
There was much in the question. Mr. K. firmer had
made the discovery that there were cows in Hyde-park, and
he was full of satiety to know by what authority anisuab of
that strange sort were in a park, and whether any of the
Ranger's °Seers were permitted to have the run of cows
free of charge, and If so, whet we the allowance of cows to
each man? These iambic. were answered with all gravity
by Sir B. Hall. How happy it is for no that we have mem-
bees who will know all about everything, and who think
nothing too small or ineignificant for their inquiring minds.
As every Jack has his Jill, so every question has its mover
in parliament. Them little things ere indeed great to little
men. But after all, why was the mind of Mr. H. Seymer
troubled by the presence of cows in Hyde-park f It ought to
have been cheered and solaced. How useful and pleasant it
la in this metropolis to keep alive by visible evidence the
belief in the cow. What would become of our filth
in that curious compound which is delivered at our doors
mooning and evening if we had not the evidenoe of the exis-
tence of the cow within easy reach of no f The cows in Hyde-
park answer a conaerverive purpose. They are conaervittivo
of our natural history. The idea of the cow would alto-
gether pans away VT= the metropolitan mind if it were
left to nothing but the production of London milk. In
such ease the notion of the cow would sous be that it

was a tin pail bound with brew, of a certain figure and
capacity, or that it wee a primitive formation of chalk, or
that it was a bullock's brain. The current phrase, milk
from the cow, indicates the precariousness of our tenure of
the animal. We do not say wine from the vineyard, or beer
from the brewing-vat. Bat we do my ad& from the cow,
because we instinctively feel how necessary it is to keep tip
the connection of ides between the milk and the cow. In
the civil service ezerninationa, what is milk? should
be a standing question, end any scepticism should be
combated by reference to the animals to be seen alive and
grazing in Hydepuk. It has become a current saying, he
knows no more of the matter than a London milk maid
knows of a cow. La a French encyclopedia the lobster was
described ea a shell•gd of a lively red colour, and if our
cite went° take upon thenseelves to give a definition of milk,
we apprehend they would not be more suomadul than the
French soma with the lobster. .

What, that, can be Mr. K. Beymer's qtarrel with the
animals in the park which give the London world
assurance of a cow, notwithstanding ail the other evi-
dences tending to prove its non-existeate? The worst oh•

jection is that they make a mese here and there, but let
us tell Mr. K. Seymer that no mesa they make in the
Park is so bad as the muse they do not make in the
milk-pails, and foully they are libelled in having the said
mew charged to their account. First impressions being
always curious and interesting, the first view of the sea,
the first view of the Alpe, &c., we should like much to
know what a London dairyman would think of the cows
risible in the flesh In Hyde-perk! Would be recognise
them, or would he be like the herald-painter, who, before
he died, bad the curiosity to go to see the lions in the
Tower, end flatly denied that they were lion, saying, I
ought to know what lions are for I have been painting
them ell my life, rampant, coolant, and parsant, and these
creatures are not in the least degree like the lions I have
~
In consideration of the eminent service Mr. K. Seymer
has rendered in moving this momentous vaccine question, a
slight change should be suede in his name, and henceforth he
shoed be known by the addition, not of Mr. Her, but of Mr.
Cow Seymer.

MR. W. H. RUSSELL—This gentleman is now
engaged in giving his "Personal Narrative" at Liverpool,
where he has achieved great and deserved succor.
CRYSTAL PALACE. ONE SHILLING DAY.
JrNIE 12. Admissions on payment, 2,353;
ditto by demos tickets, 620 ; total visitors, 2,873.
THE EXHIBITION OF ART TREASURE-S.—On
Thursday, the half-crown day, 8,489 weans entered the
Exhibition, 3,652 on payment, and 4,837 with season tickets.
Of theme, 2,607 arrived by railway.
TRINITY DISTRICT, MARYLEBONE, NATIONAL AND
I'ANT SCROOLB.—A bazaar took ?are on the 9th and 10th
inst., in the beautiful gardens of ark-ereacent, Portland-
place, in aid of the above wheels, which have been recently
completed at a cost of 6,0001. The attendance of visitors ca
both darn was very numerous and fashionable. Testa were
erected in various
atat .isizta of the gardens, in the larva of
which the print sale of useful and ornamental work took
place. The were arranged with excellent taste, and
were Liman, supplied. They were presided over by the
following ladies :—The Counters of WaldegraTe. Lady
Charles EnambliimLadzygria7id Stephenson, Lady Caroline
Clanksrs. Thomson flan.kq', Mrs.
Itimeell Sturgis, is. thrift, re Little, Mrs. Maud., ?Arm-
and M. limy Gustier. It will be gratifying
to rs
are interested in the valuable institution fur
which the bazaar was held to learn that the stun realised, after
paying ell enemies, is 6001.