The Express.
London, England, 1868-08-08 00:00:00

q mesons are dell, nod that the remade for +his de.
Prot would be to give up the habit or neadink
flow numnsoript. But ciergynseo wise have'
nothing to say. which unfortunately is the ease in
many iristanoeqi, are quite as Lie, to be dell if
they speak extempore or repeat their sermon by
rote as they are when reading it, and in the ease
of extempore preaching there is the additional
risk of volubility and diffuseness. A preacher
without a manuscript rarely knows where to ond,
and often spoils an effective sermon by
dawdling at the oonclusion. It is a grievous
disadvantage to the Church of England
clergyman that his morning sermon fol-
lows an exhaustive service •of an hour and a
half, and that after the severest mental exercise In
which people can engage--supposing, of course,
that they do engage in it—a fresh tax should be
made upon their attention. Human nature in
them modern day, is singularly trail, and the strain
imposed upon it on Sundays is sometimes more
than it can bear. If the Church service were
shorter, as it was intended to be, and ought to be,
complaint, with regard to the sermon would be
fewer and less reasonable. As it is, children are
utterly wearied, and grown up people, instead of
leaving church in a better frame of mind than
they entered it, are apt to " Let their angry
" passions rise," which Dr. WATTS Bari is a very
naughty thing to do.

MIS QUOTATIONS.

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from month to mon zubstoutfitions tp
found in magasines ; but nowimid *sin they ore
particularly amusing. 'This mesa a peputat,
novelist, whb has se broad abash Oa% hip can
beer a little joke at his expense. interims us in
opening a new story, that " Hugh, Earl
" of Nithsdale, held Pore to be the very chief of
" English poets, simply for having penned the
"words,

" pod made the country, but men made the teem."

The substitution here of " but" for " and " is
nothing ; but that this " hackneyed line," as
the author goes on to call it, should be hackneyed
till POPE gets credit for what COWPIE wrote is
not without significance. The next oonspionous
offender this month has not so broad a back ;
but has some reputation as a novelist. Here is
the misquotation: " I heard his voles reading
" within, and he read those lines of Mwrotr at the
" conclusion of the Masque of °emus' :
" Mode& that would happy be,
" Love Virtue ; she alone is free ,
" Bhe will kook you how to chub
" Higher than the aphery clime ,
" Or if virtue feeble were
" Heaven itself would stoop to her.
" I withdrew unobserved, but the linos went
" ringing like a long-forgotten melody through
" my busy brain; and the next morning I lifted
" up my voioo, and sang mechanically, and the
" words I chanted almost unwittingly to myself
" were those Tel sea."

It is surely a pity after all this fuss about them,
that " those verses " should be so grotesquely
wrong that MILTON, in the Elysian fields, may
fancy, if he gets hold of the magazine, that our
opinion, yea or no, about the disinterred epitaph
is not of much consequenoe. There is one more
conspicuous misquotation this month, and by a
writer of semsibility and good taste, who is usually
quite accurate. Notice this :
I, the heir of all the ages, in the foremost ranks of time.
The mistake here is very small, but is it not
curious that the alliteration of the original—
" foremost files"—did not keep the line accurately
in the author's memory ?

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
(THIS DAY.)

THE EXPRESS; SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 8,

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PA ItlB, AtkilltlT (i.

The Queen, travelling as Countess of Kent,
acomnpanied by Princess Louise, Princess Bestrioes and
Prince Leopold, arrived at the Station St. Lasare, at
Paris, by railroad, from Cherbourg, at seven o'clock this
morning.
Sis Eseellesoy Lord Lyons rewired the Queen at tie
station, and monomania her Majesty to the Embassy,
where her Majesty remained quietly all day, being muoh
fatigued.
The !hiked Edinburgh arrived at Paris this morning,
and visited the Queen.
Princess Louise, Princess Basin**, and Prism Leopold
drove out.

The Emprem of the French visited the Queen et the
Embassy.
Her Majesty drove to the station in the evening, ac-
companied by Lord Lyons. end left Paris for Lucerne.

The Lord Mayor, attended by the City officers of state,
and accompanied by Mr. Sheriff McArthur, the Town
Clerk, the Common Serjeant, Mr. Alderman Carter, Mr.
Alderlhan Owden, and thirty-five commoners of the Core-
mop council, with Mr. Hadland (the keeper of the Guild-
hall), arrived at Marlborough-house shortly after one
o'clock yesterday, and preeented to the Prince and Princess
of Wales an address of oongratulation from the Corpora-
tionof the City of London upon the birth of a Princess.
A deputation from the Court of Lieutenancy of the
City of London, headed by Mr. Thomas Parker, F.S.A.,
and consisting of Mr. J. M. Hey, Mr. Alderman Owden,
Mr. Deputy Obbard, Mr. J. E. Johnson, Mr. M. B.
Sampson, Mr. W. Vivian, and Mr. G. Smith (clerk),
arrived at Marlborough-house at the same hour, and also

presented an addrea; of congratulation to their Royal
Higbnesses upon the birth of the Princess,
The Hon. Mrs. Harding% Lord Harris, Viaoount Hamil-
ton, General Sir William Knollis, the Hon. A. T. Pita-
malaise, and Major Grey were in attendance upon the
Prince and Princess of Wales during the presentation of
the addressee.

The Princess of Wales drove out, attended by the
Hon. 11.11. Harding..