The Express.
London, England, 1857-08-13 00:00:00

(Stamped Id. AdditianaL) [TWOPENCE.

which to others appears the crown of the nobleness
of the Montmorencies. He proposed to grant no-
thing to any popular demand, because something
might at length be demanded which it would be im-
possible to grant ; and before the shadows of the pos-
sible evils which he conjured up, be retired from
public life, leaving its actual diflicultice to be dealt
with by men of a higher courage and a more diein-
terested patriotism. Hu political action, for the
rest of his life, consisted merely in the rticles be
put forth in the Quarterly Review—articles which
(to say nothing of their temper) show we bible-
nem of insight, such a total meapaity be etimpeo
head the spirit and needs of the time, anima& utter
recklessness about truth of both statement sad prin-
ciple, that elderly readers are puzzled to amount for
the expectations they once had of the writer.
He wee the author, editor, and translator of various
works, the chief of which is his edition of " Boswell's
Johnson," a book en which he spent much labour,
and which was regarded with high and trustful
' favour till Mr. Macaulay overthrew its reputation
for accuracy by
an exposure of a singular series of
mistakes, attributable to indolence, carelessness, or ig-
serum That review (which is republished among
Mr. Mantels 's Honeys) destroyed such reputation
forfors p as Mr. Croker had previously ep
and a good deal impaired that of his industry.
His other works of bulk are the " Suffolk Papers,"
the "Military Events of the French Revolution of
1830," a translation of " Bassompierre's Embassy to
England," the " Letters of Lady Hervey," and
" Lord Hervey's Memoirs of the Reign of George
IL" Mr. Croker was an intimate of the late Lord
Hertford; and his social footing was not improved
by the choice of such friendships, and the revelations
made on the trial of Lord Hertford's valet. In brief,
his best place was his desk at the Admiralty ; his
best action was in his once ; and the most painful
part of his life wee the latter part, amidst an Ignoble
social reputation, and the political odium attached to
him by -Mr. Dierseli's delineation of him in " Co-
ninpby." The virulent reviewer found in his old
age the truth of the Eastern proverb—" Curses are
Bike chickens, they always come home to roost."
He tried to send them abroad again—tried
his utmost severity in attacks in the Quarterly on
Disraeles Budget. Bat it was too late, and the
painter of the portrait of Rigby remained master of
that field in which the completest victory is the least'
enviable.

Looking round for something pleasanter on which
to rest the eye in the career of the unhappy old man
who has just departed, we may point out that his
name stands honourably on our new maps and
He was Secretary to the Admiralty during
Vearlier of the Polar expeditions of this century ;
and it is understood that the most active and
silkiest assistance was always given by him in the
work of Polar discovery. Long after political un-
scrupulousness and rancour are forgotten, those
higher landmarks of his voyage of life will remain,
and tell a future generation, to whom h• will be
otherwise unknown, that there was one of his name
to whom our great navigators felt grateful ter mat-
ance in the noble service they rendered to their
country and all future time.

queues of those railways having bean completed in the
Mem& Ls the Litres, to June, 1866, the sum pa out
af seam he intemot was 286,833 L, whereas ft
has
eseembel W 11111,11141.13 the lest half-year. This review
• thi `aril Liar of the half-year eleerly show* thee
while the trails et am hese ct that description wW not,
at het, meet the Wrest era the capital expended, the
ass meithrilseahave, Is this ems, been needy die-
hard br lbe hale. era et the host famerable
sasses et the rear, fiehlr heft to the apecteelon that
the agreed= hi the theihni, leserawer dhippolmhor fat
the mmeA, h hat • Imposer, delidensycee to compen-
seled ter ask of the progreedve eindege of these millreeo,
sidithe to that homes whir& semen the ordinary
bestow et the ether lime beim*/ le the sempsny. Every
it than be reds, without fiamtehr any coesidembie
oath, et capitol, to steals ask Werra those sources of
Wile
the *kith it is well Wan Ilhet the future mem
wily et the imilereaking meet he mahly based. The
Great Women imam, ober each *mere gm
Maces made by the is someptible,
as your directme barna mask swami ism
pow
not asly wth preepiells• of sew ilsee, sew
is their Wray (Whir amilik-sifies Ml* impend in dm
Use, to • hie amount of roams Neil" het tea Vale
will flow in every direction hole them env the comeether
am:LaY. wirkhcor=l,l:
era laisaia
gradual' mace product' and credulity to ha-
proving &Tidied'. la Whales, he ingtesek
n
pardon see at the pigeon mareout working seme=
wee .theemered to Veit musty, coutireom to the railway,
which one me sow in came of heinnalseent to South Sta&
hada** and Seale Wale& They proud= ohs an exten-
t's hide is other directime, end espechily Gewalt/mg fur-
naces an evened, me duty propose, for the maaniholere of iron
on the Ire. TheywoeM thereby become heirbesie area like
railway at cossidomble supplies at coal, se wall as arum-
factored hoe, is Miklos to the teethe is the my
The devotees see happy to say that they hem serried in
reshot a ceishict bi- the commas et real W eiesider-
abinges ham %Mk Wales over their her, mien the
pmegelleid kr the leserd, mud semi ether anithge-
ret • elhalier name me oder dimmith. The ady
compielle• et the Ilehewheed Docks, under the pwrielese
an et Woe ,merest in the preernt swim, any sow
to eagarded se usseaiii
wields, hi width ems a lawn amesehe
of width me be with caniknee over the Meths
am Ikea el the Great elm Rawer to led Atha Ow poet
of the Plerety. Aa unlitherninei emmunbiatima with the
Ceadeoet through Bean sad Folksier, by a short
eemserling link of wore pugs at Ibtelteg, is cohabited,
M the sungoidee week hemsmiously, and without melee
compellien, seam she a good portion of the hide
betermi the meth et luglsei sad Fames
over your num
Two bah for that sired were introduced into =
mei dude/ this au the South.
Mhite
ile thole Jr aLI by
other by Ibis Patllt7e alabeezire
Cemper, le whisk_ mar directors
.gam their
on
snook mien whim weed emelhises. A portion el the
onmentsg Ink Mil bees le be embll eat by this compeny,
and the p mblees et their esA mew peesene a pees
per meths' emir the teethe. The mug report of the es-
=iggenthd he the Ihiegemilau of the
the theetheed Reihney mil Docks are I=sebel:-
Myelin by an indepladent emsgsmy, without contribegio•
of esphi hem gbh cowpony, it ammot be superdnees to
wheel to that and se one et the greaten heresies*
to the Great Waiters hderests. It will provide cheap end
pomp amens of railway conveying* kit an heavy cradle
the river Thaws, or deidered for the docks in the
lerorll to
Lseelles. For cook and tinsels it will prove in-
valuable, immtuck as the want of • item wharf, especially
for the Mean coals has South Shim has been severely
Mi, end the empathise to nosey .thee tmeolies of trade
has boa wrathy eishseted the Ames et bathe Imam
et seism le the Themes. The whilisiles with the Pet-
Mee
e seined in the last resse eizi=oras
se pew In it, by the rtl et
erbilealer Ik=e
Omsk awl the E et the Poilemelem
Gamed_ le weW mothee, whisk his dial the Mentors
is the Mind to make ea adman, he the services per-
forned, while her been bottled to the parent mem&
"TM SOO& Woke Railway COlllllllll7 haw givaia ship
et tisk hesetios to proceed to a sew aelikotiou in
of thalami the the use of loccimolive plot, provided
this downy be worlds, that lin& the peeled of Sir Wil-
liam Caltge award hewn expired an the 30th June. They
haw -Mild also thst the &Mile Has et mils Memos Cat-
aloging wed Illithed MOM om°marble, whisk bible eits
opersibm bees the lit et July, MST the, hese of ill railway
athaleo,underlieagn of Uwe 10, UR. MO
Wet*: veto, et cegitel el esselladom r mega amiss,
still eusamin spgroplii, the semi mil tor logiesetive
ani other Maim ea the Ovest
trains paw; tuft right to asethou thee the
sepagele veil he leceesethre plant will sat be sulkiest es
cover the reseighe espeaditure under thee head. sad the
hoed neemmeml, theetere, a bedew 'eh of 40,0001.,
make So meths ae I,llol,thth The dliestate, recogaighg
as of this utmost forartsace, under the themistances of the
omper, that emery should to imbleil upon in every
breath et the smite, have appointed • emegaittee to imitate
frigild=quhiler may hem of earnediturs, whether &t-
-heft the or mum seagoing& Since the lost half-
= graft Iles.llPnihrkk Ponsonby bee
• theaseer is the lige et the late Mr Russell,
and heitir it bass 11611114 the oheirmen of the company.
Owlets Themes Beiltdry has segeseded to a vacancy node
by the sedpshen Utttehets, Esq."
l'he report et Kr. Irmisel, the states that the
whale et the Fleeted works, _gym,Veer, and extensioca
which Ind hem 11311111011111111 by the eseepasy, and have been
under .wales f&, durhg the bat trew years, are now
compided, these portions et the Mr which were still ineora-
pier at the doh at thehet molt having bees opened for tr.!-
, ho lade the post boltrese ; these were the Washy Breach,
%mod ea the It of Jose; sad the Drama breech of the
W ills, thenirest, sad Weymouth Railway armed en the Ist
of Jody. At Pedihrlos the wash@ et the new
tenths' nation meg an be comidemi es amorist& The
Didcog avoiding thee le now nod bed the through trains,
as well es be the avow-gaap
M gesdeteakeleMi simDesur=
nisei big se as nd
for it Iteethoolge the metes trethe, end the new loom
maim sham -toi full occupation. Tri Reeky and UR-
=We lines are in good working osier In every ea.
The sarrow.gauge tranie:hee hider the last Oa
amilie leen worked through the lines in con-
em with the northern lime over the South.
Wetsm Railway without any or difeculty ;
sad mime additions and improvements ham been nude in
the Mawr Yaoonedoa with the system for the development
of the