The Express.
London, England, 1857-11-04 00:00:00

lIANITAKT PTATF OF THE ITT.

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The following are extract, from the report of the metlicall
111.01 W al Wahl

.1 h meths satiefartloll to report that your newly-appointed
Impeder deems= lodgingthonme has mitered no ths du-
des at his Ake, sad has daring the last musk visited 164
roar In 31 bows, in ese Is of which be has etwprodad a
copy at this ohs foe the management of such plane. I hope
that this will enable you to deal very beneficially with
a sauce of mischief which bee hitherto been oat
of JJour reorh. The mortality table for the week does not
iadfeN any unfavounible state of the public health. The
betel weber of desths u 62, of wttich 19 were among chil
en if ben than eve peers of age, end eight among old
ponces 44 70 years of age and upwards. Their ntimered
ages were 633 years, and one man, a labourer, reached the
aaggem of 100. The chime moose of death were disesso of &chromic
cheraetgr. Then were 13 deaths from disease of the respi-
ratory arenas, lee if which were from phthisie, buy from
paeumeeis, them hem bronchitis, and rine from hopping
mach. There wen also three deaths from fever, one from
Wandler Membeee, sod we from dysentery."

SVPFLT OP IiATIRIL hT THE S.F.. COMPANY.
DIY. Raw, tbe thief clerk, read a report from the General
Pulping Cosuities, ehetin that the diming.. of the New
Quqpiany bad to the request of the commieeion
that is nadittonal supply of water might be tarnished to the
limo is AMMO court, on Saturday nights.
Depsty LoTT and Mr. Petri strongly eetuured the
company for not igopplg Me an additional quantity of water
generally to poor lonslittea, instead of reetrieting It to one
auk court.
The report wig usaningotwly agreed to.

TII NEW ITT vi-vr.rr.tor.
The General Purioera Committee brought ape report
Meting that the Bishop of London bad appointed the 16th
Mat. aa the day on which the new cemetery at Ilford would
be commented.

►I!IAYCLN Txr.c•Nviissiorr.

The foliating report,addressed to the court, arm read sad
unanimonaly n r.d to.
" We, to whore it Inn, en the 27th October, referred to
oaosrtals the mode in which the cash and petty cash occonnte
ere kept by the clerk, and to report, do certify that we have
had ilia teoke kept by the clerk laid ter. re no, and hero
rarefully examined the some. We find that in a nab. book
kept with a debtor and ciecliior account, the clerk eaten to
hie debtor the monies drawn by the court on the chamber.
lain fur him to pay wages at the Mom-yard, the cemetery,
sad other disbursements, and on the other side he eaters to
his creditor all monies paid by him for the mid TerklOS dis-
bursements, which payments are fnim theme entrwejnateri
to their respective proper accounts in the . we ire
of opinion Oast this system is perfectly clear iweetisactory.
t. We have also examined the various entries In use same
book of monies received sad peeling through the altos to the
cheater, sad ham, as on former ocesems, mangsed the
sem with the vouchers, and dad them ennect.
"Ws have fottber examined the clerk's emeent of dis-
hevelmente from the 29th fleptember, arils we last audited
Om, to the 31st October lest, end have seta the vouchers
fir an IHOvie• paid by him, end find the sews ammo.
"W. CHRIIITI V, J 111 B . O. WALTFR,
G. AITCHISON, 0. ROSS, M. Dr Jittery,
O. Boss."
lb wet adjourned.

Tire HOP Dr 7 T.-The following account of the
duty on hop of the growth of the year 1867, dietingulshing
the districts, and the old from the new duty, is 'applied from
the Inland Remus Office -Bernotaple, 661.8 e. 814.; Canter-
hay. 64.7491. Ide. Std. ; Contrail, 2./. le. oft ; Covestry,
14. 914.; Essex, 1,6241. 14.. tOid ; Gloucester, SU. 31.1..r4;,
Oreatham, 81. 4. ; Hants, 22,8691. 176. 114. ; .
41,7071. Is. 6.1. ; 14.0 f Wight, 18,4381. So. 1114.; Leeds,
2134 16.. 814. ; Lynn, 8/. 16.. 111 d. ; Nottltemptes, 411.
(114.; Nottingham, 801. 3.. lid.; Reading, 1171. 18.. 7d.;
Itabaster, 171,9241. 4.. 11d. ; Sheffield, 1.3281. 9e. 4.;61
Seourbridge, 11,3271. 9s. 21d. ; Sffolk, 1.6781. 14.. 114.;
ghee y, 1,6701. 14.71 d.; Senora, 68,4924 fk. 844 ; Tomtits,
691.125. 9d.; Wales (Middle), 1961. Te. 2d.; Wank 831.
81d. ; Worcester, 12,3811. 18s. 314-418.8871. 4.. 24.
Old duty, at 1 12-20 d. per lb, 228,2941. la. 11 4-20 d.; on.
duty, at / 8-20 d. pm lb., 168,7391. la. 114 18-M.
_additional
/4y of 5 pa cent. par Act Stdo. 7,19,360 i. Is. 44.
-418,8834 as. 2d.-Craw. 8. HAlrraionns, Ardidant to
lie Catapttoller-Ooniral.-lalmi &vow 00loa, Hot. 3,

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" The public (says the Bdirsburgh Courant) la
kern with repot the dealt of Mr. Mackay, our only pest
&sottish actor, which took plies about noon on Monday, at
kis residence ham Mr. Mackay on. in his sammty-!at
year, haring been born in the High-street of Edinburgh,. itt
October, 1787. He left that city for Glasgow wises only Was
years of age; but long afterwards, when a claim was sat ttp
for him as a genuine mu of Et. Mungo, he hastens:lb NEM*
the calumny, making affidavit, before a Justice of the Poem
that he was 'a real Ed inburgh gutter bluid.' He finally Monad

about the end of BIS and took the leading Scotch peels In
the merles of plays from the Waverley Novels, on which llle
fame chiefly rests. Some years ago, while Milling an en-
gagement at the Adolph' Theatre, he had a shook of
paralysis, and from that time till him lamented decease,
though still able to go about, ha could not treat himself
again upon the stage ."

The lame which Mr. Mackay achieved by his embodimmt
of the principal eke:actin delineated by the psn of
Sir Walter Scott, gave Ito first signal in his re-
perePlation of Domini. Sampson. This was fol-
lowed shortly after by his impersonation of Bailie Nkol
Jarvis, at the Edinburgh Theatre, then under the mange-
inept of Mr. Murray, end which called forth—not only In
the Scottish metropolis, but throughout the whole exicaP7.—
an eathrisam rarely evinced by oar northern pipelines.
'Lockhart. In his Life of Scott, remarks that "the great sad
I unrivalled attraction wee the personification of Bailie Janie
by Charles Mackay, who entered into the minutest
peculiarities of the character with high gusto, and gave the
west country dialect In its moot racy perfection. It wee ex-
tremely diverting to watch the play of Scott's features daring
this admirable realisation of his conception."
The delight with which the great novelist saw hie un-
rivalled creations clothed with life and vigour by the ad-
mirable skill of the setae, was expressed at varier tiers
with grateful ardour. Oa this subject Mr. Mackay relates
" On the first night that .114 Roy waa performed on this
stage, the Oreat Unknown (for though peat, he was then
unknown) was or of the audience. At this moment, as
Homlot says, I re lam is my mind's eye, as he sat leaning
on his step on the back seat of one of the boxes. Nev.,
shall I Sweet the sparkle of hi. eye, and the good-humoured
rule on his face, on that, to me, momentous night. It is
to the pen of the mighty dead I owe my theatrical repute.
lion. Had he never written, I sever /should have bass
noticed a. an actor. The kindness of Sir Walter Scott was
only equalled by his genius—and on the night when hs de-
clared himself to be the author of the novels, you may
judge of my surprise, when he was pieced to my before the
then resembled hundred..., that the skeleton he had drawn
bad been so faithfully clothed by hie friend Bailey Nicol
Jamie that he was gratefuL' My conacience l' grateful to
sae. There was • compliment, and from such • man. No
woodar, then, I have always lose proud of the cognomen of
Bailie Niue! Jarvis."

sir Walter himself, on the seeesarable night when he
ethnic, the authorship of the Wavlelay Novels, thus allude,
to the actor

I would fain dedicate a bumper to the health of me
who has represented several of those characters of which
I had eadeavoured to give the skeleton, with a trelit and
livalnuna for which I may well he grateful ; I bet have to
propose the health of my friend Bmlie Nicol Jarvis ; amid I
am sure that whin the author of Wererley end Mak Jim
drinks to Nieol Jarvis, It will be received with the just
applause to which that gentleman has always bra acme-
Lined —say, that you will take care that on the pewee
ocaudoe It shall be eau-ur•oi.oos ;" to which Mr. MIL,
kay replied My oonsrioal My worthy haw the
deacon could never have believed that his son would has ski
a compliment paid to Ifflo by the Great Unknown l "
The histrionic talents of Mr. Mackay were =sallied by
any unworthy adjuncts. Hia reputation as an actor was
well sustained by hie character as a man, and secured for
him tho affection sod esteem of a very extensive circle. He
haa tett two sons, one of whom has adopted his father's
profession.

MIRZA IBRAHIM, PROFESSOR OF PARISIAN AT

irelLEre BST.

(From the Homeward Mad from India and the Ernst, Oct. T 9.)
We have to record the death of Mina Mohammed
Ibrahim. at Teheran, in July lase Mims Ibrahim was •
Persian gentleman who, haring for fifteen years been
feesor of his native language at Haileybury, retired, in 1844,
on a pension from the Beat India Company, to spend the re-
mainder of his days in his own land, having previously mar-
ried a Dutch lady. The Mina will be regretted by a large
circle of literary and distinguished friends in this country.
Few foreigner, ever mastered the idiom and accent of the
English language so completely as Mina Ibrahim. If his
forms origin could be detected at all, it was by his
phys nomy, not by hie speech. lie bad accurately
etudi many of our standard authors, and few
English scholars could discourse more critically or mom
luminously than himself on the beauties or difficulties of
Shakespeare. Although, as • very young men, he left his
own country in consequence of some suspicion the Mollaha
entertained of his orthodoxy, yet he never abandoned his
creed, but uniformly profemed, during his sojourn in Eng-
land, that Mohammed was his prophet. Nerertheless, we
have beard one of the most distinguished Oriental linguists
of the day inert that the treaslation of Isaiah into Persian,
made by the Mire. for one of the religious societies, was the
moot faithful and spirited version of any portion of Scripture
to be found in • modern language. The Mims wee also
author of en English and Persian grammar, which attained
some celebrity, and was for some time before his death am-
' ployed in writing in Fenian • history of Home for the present
Shah of Persia, whose tutor he became after leaving Hoag-
bury. To show how completely this clever foreigner had
mustered English, we will cite one or two of his re-
partme, which boades well Illustrate the l'ersion lore
of equivoque. Dining one day with a gentleman
well known for his conviviality, the decanters halted
so long before the Mires, that the brat exclaimed with a
! little impatience, " Pam the bottle, Mires—what do you call
in Persian the man that stop. the wine " We call Wm
Mohammed," said the Mires witha quiet smile. Th• same
person was one day disputing with the Mims about the ex-
cellence of his cook, of whom. fame be was very jealous, end
wound up with, " He ought to know something about cook-
ing, for be basbetil forty years before the fire." " Well," said
the Mints, "ter may have been forty, care takes the fire, but he
craw yet." A colleague, who was rather celebrated forhiegood
appetite, one day told the Miens he i
meant to dine on soup or
RM. " Indeed," wee the reply. "It s not often you make •
superfi tal dinner." We could record many other 'armies,
which, had they been uttered by a chief justice, would hare
been immortalised in Campbell's Lives ; but enough has
been said to show that Mohammed Ibrahim was • man of abi-
lities beyond the comas herd.

SIR J. FRANKLIN'S ARCIIO RIPEDI7IO7I.—The
following letter has bees naked from Capt. M`Clintoet :
"Yacht Fox, let. 71 deg., off Cap. Creastoun clad at
Vppereavik, Aug. 6. My dear Barrow,—Although I hare
but little news to relate, 1 am sere you will be none the less
rejoiced to hear hum the poor little F.. Here she is off
Cape Crenecoun, in lat. 71 deg., having on board an Eiqui-
crux and ten very fins dogs obtained at Disco. She also is
complete with coals, having fillet up at the coal cliffs in
Wafgat Strait. I have sent home one of my crew, who
proved to be consumptive, sad, having proved the Whine
pretty well, I can answer for their soundness and willing
cheerfuluees. We got uu admirably—exactly se In the old
Intrepid. At Lieerly I sow two whaler captains, whose
ships sere crushed is Melville Bay last June. They seemed
to think I should not experience say difficulty. I cannot
find that we have to/viten anything, great .a was the
hurry of tailing. We are very comfortable; our
puvwleins are most excellent. The Fox mils well,
but steams Jowly; In consequence of the screw
being too small. As she gets lighter she will go better. I
have tried her among the ice, and Ind that bee sharp bow
readily opens a pukes when a bluff one would knock In
vain. I did not amp at Atonkerdluk, where the Swell wood
sad leaves are, so have nose to bring home for your friend.
I write by this opportuni,y to beg that the Admiralty may
grant to my OW upon their return, If mucceesful, that thew
time for pension may be allowed to count. lam most for-
tunate is my officers and crew; all dawns my praise alike.
—Aug. 6. Mowing strong from the southward. Hove to off
Uppernavik. We have got 30 dogs, and are about to proceed
on our voyage, so I must end rather hambly.—Yotue very
sincerely, F. L. M'extirroci."

RARE PLANT OF THE ALOE TRIBE AT Oarottn.
Professor Mobley, of the Botanical Gardens, oxford, bee
called the attention of the public to a rare specimen of the
aloe tribe now on exhibition. It is sailed the Agave or
Linens Jerniniflore, and the flower stem which It has for the
Arm time this autumn pushed forth is 13 feet in height, end
beans profusion of flower. not expending, arranged in pairs,
somewhat In the mariner of the American Aloe, but with
this diffirenots that the flowers are here set closely upon the
seeps, whereas in the other cure they originate from heunches
proceeding from the mein stem. The warmth of the summer
has silo caused the pomegranate to produce fruit, which is a
sere occurrence in this country. It may be ism= the WWI
wall GC the pedalo baby the madow.

A public meeting of the inhabitants of the Tower
Hamlets was held yesterday evening at the Beaumont insti-
tution, Beaumont-spare' Mile-end, to hear from Mr.
Ayrton, H.P. a statement of his proceeding. a• a represen-
tative of the borough in parliament. The attendance wee
veazittete. Mr. R. CHLALIS, jam., wan railed to the chair.
a few introductory remark, from the chairman,
Mr. ATUTON rose, amidst loud cheered,: address the
easetably. He oommeneed by observing be had come
there to appeal to them whet or not he had fulfilled the
pledges which he gave at the last election. (Cheers.) The
complaint had been made that he was too active a member of
the new parliament. (Laughter.) H. could not admit that
it was hi. duty to sit in the House of Commons with his
arms folded, merely endeavouring to kern something from
the wisdom of older members—Nu., kw); and mooed-
!ugly. though • young member, hi bed felt bound to
teas pert in the dim-maim of questions in which
those whom he represented were deeply interested. Alluding
to the question of the equalisation of poor noes, be observed
that it must be pressed until the rich had been made to bear
then tall share of the burden. (Hear, hear.) With respect
b the owe of the coalwhippers he defended the course:Cl:
be had pursued, and remarked that it had been supported
by • committee of the House of Lords after a full inquiry.
H. DIM adverted to the proposed abolition of grand jusim
sad his oppoitlon to that scheme. It was not merely that
the grind jury system was to have been abolished, but there
was to have been substituted for it • proceeding by which
any man might have been placed on trial at the will of the
Attorney-General. With respect to the measure for the sam-
e( obscene publications, he contended that he was
IhtarlitlM in opposing • bill which, as it Snit stood, would
elmabled a policeman to enter any private house, and,
finding • print which he considered indecent, at once to destroy
It. The bUI wee aflame& altered and the objectionable portions
removed. Agin with regard to the new measure for the
regulation oflodging-housee, he remarked that so carelemly
was the bill fratned,that its promoters even forgot the relation
Of husband land wife. (Laughter.) The hon. gentleman
quoted the clause specifying the relations who might live in
the same house without being subjected to impaction, the
marital relationship not being included in the fiat. The
question was not, he laid, whether this or that relationship
was to be included, but whether all persons should be liable
to be summoned before • magistrate to prove that they did
not come within the law. It was not by roamed the police
hat men were to be improved, but by appeals to their swam
of right and propriety. (Hear, hear.) It was a matter of
opinion and of taste how you chime to live in your house, and
he would not have people fined because their opinions and
tastes differed from his own. (Cheers.) The government
appeared to mender the present House of Commons like the
lam, perfectly reedy to sanction the creation of any number
of beard., end accordingly they came forward last ...mime
with various schemes of centraliaanon. First, there wee
the schwa with regard to saving. banki. He at ores
declared his opposition to the proposal of • government sys-
tem of management end the Chancellor of the Exchequer
was se worried in the matter that be ultimately withdrew
the bill. Next, the government proposed that all the burial
nerds should be under the control of the Secretary of State.
To that innovation also he was opposed, and the scheme in
the aid was abandoned. A similar premixed was made with
roped to the various boards of health, and it wee ultimately
il st= It wee satisfactory to know that the government
It
sad carried some measures which were hew
'dal is their lessisacy. Amongst these was the Divorce
Bill. Al regarded this bill, he contended in parliament, and
maintained still, that it it ware required for the rich, It was
eke enquired for the port ; end he hoped that if it worked well
Is pennon. would soon be brought within the reach of all
theme of the community. (Cheers.) To meet the enve-
nimds • large number of parochial clergymen, he mig-
rated that if they objected to marry divorced pervona
other clergymen, who did not share in their
icruples, should be allowed to perform the ceremony,
and the raised a great outcry from • large class of clergy-
men whose besets were very near to Rome, though they re-
oohed the of the church of England. (Hear, beer.)
With regmd to India, it enigbt be supposed that as be had
spent some years in that country he was mewed to pre-
miums an opinion on the causes of the outbreak . but he
coakesed that he felt the greatest difficulty in approaching
thee subject. The government seemed to think they were
not responsible, because there was a Court of Directon;
the Coen of Directors threw the reeponsibility on the
Governor-Omen] ; and perhaps the Governor-General
would disclaim all responliility because he did not
nominate parsons to the great offices in India.
Thus the calamity was ascribed to Providence, indeed
of being attributed to • want of capacity and anent, on We
pert of those in authority. (Hear, beer.) He ventured to
say that there were many concurring emces of the immune,
lion. and be thought great nalesppreheasion had arisen from
confounding the immediate came. with the remote oaes.
The firm great cause was the system of eggreeoion pursued in
reference to surrounding states, commencing with the fatal
expedition to Cabal, and terminating with the Persian ez-
pedition. The annexation of Oude was an event of the
utmost morel importance in reference boor position In
The King of Onde, indeed, went away quietly ; but he made
an appeal to the Queen of England, and on the failure of
this appal began that fermentation of opinion which in the
result was fatal to the allegiance of the Bengal array,
the greater pinion of which came from Dude and sympathised
with its Inhabitant.. When the Persian expedition left
Indiait might naturally have been expected that the Persians
would endeavour to rouse the Mehomedans of India to ',-
Menace, to an attempt to throw off the British yoke ; and it
was at this tiros that the great magazine of Delhi was left
exclusively in the pessimist of native troops. Another
cause of the outbreak, which had been greatly overlooked,
was the examine deference which was too often paid to cer-
tain classes of society. The chief command in India was
the greatest military prim in the gift of the government, and
when It NI vacant two years fines, it was not filled up bythe
app3lnthent oft wellknown veteran who bid faithfully served
has country, but was bestowed upon an officer who was a boy
at Waterloo, but had seen little service since. In ten yesr.
he attained the rank of lieutenant-colonel, and for thirty
years after be was • faithful follower of the while party in
parliament, which was held by a whig government to be •
sufficientqualification for the chief command in India.
The selection of such a man of course presented • great
temptation to those who wished to ,hake off our rule in
Inds; and they no doubt said to each other "Now is our
time ; the army is commanded, not by an experienced sol-
dier, but by a political civilian, and let us seize the opportu-
nity to free ourselvem." (Hear, hear.) Another came was
the injury which had been done to the religious feelings of
the natives of India. He acquitted the government of any
desire to convert the people of that country ; but they were
not the bar criminal in having given canes for apprehensions
on the part of the native population. It woe now manifest to
all that this outbreak was not what the government first
styled it, • tome military mutiny, but what Mr. Disraeli bad
teemed It—erevolutien. (Hear, bear.) It was • revolution
attempted la the only manner that was possible in India,
namely, by the native armed forces transferring their Mis-
talc?treat the East India Company to the Emperor of
. That revolution. however, would fail, end this not
only bum the valour of British temps, but bemuse we had
not completed our work of the destruction of the native prince.
of India, and because those whom we had yet mewed had
proved our firmest bulwark. Whilst be entertained
the strongest feelings of horror and detestation at the
atrocities which had been perpetrated, be most exprne
his greet regret that any person in this country altoold have
recommended a mitres of revenge end retaliation to our
soldier., which would disgrace our flag and dishonour our
army. (Hear, hest.) If it were true, as he bad Peen stated
in native papers, that an officer having been tired upon in •
village which Catered sloe, immediately ordered it to be
buret down, sad destroyed Nome 300 men, women, and
Children, he (Mr. Ayrton) must say that he could not rens
pathise with the feelings of sorb • man. lie had been
mob pleated te see the proclamation 'soled by Lord Can-
ning en that subject, although he confessed it seemed to him
somewhat impracticable. It was to be biped that our re-
conqueet of India would not be followed by whet we, n-
em...needed oar otertstiratforme, namely, a determined
ail-:opt to compel the vet of India to adopt our religious
nettle. Unless the natives of India were allowed to
follow their own notions on religious subjects, we should
dad the posesseion of that empire a drag upon our prosperity
and • danger to our greatness. (Hear, hear.) The
ever-recurring difilmilty in this and other matters was
that great offices were filled not by merit, but by
other grenade of selection, and this evil could only be re-
medied by • reefly free and popular House of C 017.0.1111.
(Hear, bier.) A masers of parliamentary reform had been
poetised for the next session, and he hoped would be brought
, notwithstanding the excitement caused by the
ledian outbreak ; and if that memure should be what it
aught to be—ous to secure an extended and untrammelled re-
presentation of thepeolde in parliament—he would give it his
supped. The hon. member concluded by expressing • hope
that his past conduct and the opicions which her had then
expreeseti met with the approval and accorded with the magi-
meets of those who sent him to parliament.
A resolution was nnanimoualy pealed expensing ap-
proval of the parliamentary conduct of Mr. Ayrton, and
after a vote oft hanks to the chairman, the meeting se-
parated.