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

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 4, 1857.

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W pleura her he,. Wei we Mind hen noes lisp;
he elmaike at the people—shen her nine; es., it dr
idt r nem le help ebsss ihmer, teepee's, hen did tat
nen he ea age. The di deg bed nand; •ht only-
Mewl dig heated us nil\ hie asemmay he sues an hat
bag nellbeled a with home ask es ere were Mt dews.
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seeds es el men esdhelable
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met eneeselkm is as dull at nth timpani
thin we eiggesch he et in W— form thee it we \
poet them ad we MI Manse se nem sir bones. No
yenned eg tangenned bed her *peen le ley es
a visit in Ace snag; end the ell gnomes hedger hewed
saes nee ham Ms doh teem gen-bye, we retained to
helm and deb he bed at ear way Yr men&
We need Net perm the story farther. After
gnat reluctant, the htber's consent was obtained
to Charlotte's meniege with the Rev. Mr. Nicholls.
Then came nine mand of almost unalloyed happi-
ness:—then, on the Met March, 1855, in the 39th
year of her age, the end. Let those who would
know more, who would know all that can be told,
and ought to be told, hasten to read this history
which a woman of kindred genius has fearlessly and
truthfully written of Charlotte Bronte.
A Pilgrimage into DeaspAini. By the ltcv. 0. M.
MUnGnAve, M.A. Hunt and Filackett.
Mr. Musgrave is ono of the plea/mutest of tra-
vellers. He is insatiably inquisitive ;he is =suscept-
ible of fatigue ; he never objects to turn out of his
line of road to visit a spot consecrated by historical
recollections; he is conscientious, amusing, and
graphic. lie has an eye for everything literary,
historical, or industrial. lie ions much at home in
a farm as in a library or a cathedral. The conse-
quence is, that he has given us a book in which he
not only carries us along with him in his travels
easily and without fatigue, but sows instruction
broad-cast. Here, for instance, is a piece of agricul-
tural information, which will be new to many of our
scientific agriculturists. It relates to an artificial
manure manufactured at Bondy by a company
established for the purpose. Surely, if the sewage
of l'aris can be so profitably employed, something
might be done with that of London :
The firm console of a rich and powerful company, mono-
polising all the night-soil of Paris (fifteen miles dolma),
and r. lesestres exhibit an accumulation of deposits from
tiny and brilliant capital, from which the nose of a
what se tone grower mold alone inhale grateful aromate.
Then emiseens a thaniegh incorpuration ; and the &r-
-aging vegetable end Inn matters, wash, by slow
acmes, a engin Siemindissi; the whole procoas occupy-
ieg a 'ed at hem nen nee yams when, at length, a
natural, bolharbeens, semi unvarying manure I.
ceneseted, five he. smeh en shin to increase, is, an
neat hitherto weinembie by seklialel admixtures, the
=Svan et i=entisetese bad, sod, a fortiori,
t a genes*
The eerigispe et slide of the Seine and
Men (he nitrite,. se I siesned, by the proximity of
hi Inn Is the greet sedespalls) haw ash experiments
wide' the het throe yaws alb twigs pro sad the pul-
vein madder above mmelseek sa allernete breadths of
whist growth ; esteedizieshe tad ewer a very oonankvable
width, an derked di stash; sad the result has in-
variably shown that this aeanand with the
Bundy &elevated isigb• sag aaeseai by twenty per cent.
that which was min ice'umgeringlv bestrewn
writ!' boss enst, seat, rage, di milm and gun. 'This seull
led us Min Mien that lbs inns this eirmintly projected ,
ham retabaaia.seneirs et Deny, anis ter mon. than
a owe espeassig. An to onset awn Is Weed into the
ask, taearestin et win is hm haughtily. tin that if
the anbory indieshelee kern .4 nt dog ; and ale. r. the
agars, to eai miser dn. soil open which it acts as
en ellseative, Ili k improves and enriches it with fresh
apps e& matter sad smostleas of highly fertiliaing quality. A
hamar orropying a moll estate in the notglibourbend of
Emus had just bervend his crop of Coles rape, whim I
we returning in August, lkib, from Central France;
sad his testimony was conclusive on this sub-
ject. Having set apart a tract of land corresponding
exactly in extent with one on which a fellow-agriculturist
had sewn Coln and foreign guano, ho deemed it with the
Beady pounder exchisively. The average product from the
gaavoed Geld was sixteen bushel. to the English acre; that
hose the freer paldrer, fifty-four; without any appraninces
of that exhaustion which the Preach cultivators impute as •
anima objection to the employment of the Chinihs Islands'
&un.
lie is attracted by the sight of a large chimney,
and immediately sets on foot inquiries as to its pur-
pow, when he learns that the building to which it
belongs is a manufactory of dried soups. I lydruulic
pressure is brought to bear upon large quantities, of
mixed vegetables, which are compressed into a solid
substance, a cake of which of the size of the palm of
the hand would make a potage for eight persons. The
promise he found would be as applicable to the banks
of the Thames as to those of the Canul de Mureq.
In this way he travels over the whole of hi+ route,
picking up all kinds of facts which can by anv pos-
sibility have an interest in the eyes of Englishmen,
and of which they have little knowledge, on account
of the countries through which he travelled being
little frequented by travellers. Ile describes SL
Meet's mansion and the making of champagne with
the samegusto ns that which distinguishes his account
of Rheims Cathedral. Perhaps his architectural
and historical tendencies are more manifested than
any other which he possesses. He turns out of his
direct course to visit a " Mehemet or mosque, built
by Pierre l'Anglure, by virtue of a comport made
between him and the Sultan in the days of the cru-
sades, which obliged him to raise a Turkish temple
in his native home, in consideration of his release
from captivite as a prisoner-of-war living among
the Saracens! He starts off to Varennes foe the
sole purpose of seeing the spot where the unfor-
tunate Loins XVI. was detained, and inquires into
all the circumstances connected with the detention.
The people stare at him, for he is the first English-
man they have seen. They press round him to have
a look at Queen Victoria a head on a sovereign.
There is no banker in the town, and no merchant or
I shopkeeper will give money for what they persist in
calling a medal, as there to no indication of value
upon it. Luckily he meets with an Herculean abbe,
a scholar and an excellent fellow. lie gives the
' author change and excellent cheer. our indefatig-
able traveller then proceeds to sketch the spots con-
nected with the history of the detention of Louis.
While thus occupied he makes an acquaintance
most fortunately with a who procures him
permission to inspect the proves rerbal, or entry
of all the proceedings accompanying the arrest.
This document had been examined by one person
only since the Revolution—M. Lamartine. From
this he makes curious extracts printed in the work.
Having learned that at St. Mihiel-en-Lorraine, on
the road to Commerey, there ix "the finest group of
sculpture in its peculiar genre in Catholic Christen-
dom," he starts off in that direction. When he
reaches it he is enchanted:

TY of thirteen figure., Life see, stands In • shallow
am or rooms, wrought in the thkkuses of the wall,
deerdeism het long, nine feet high, and du deep hoses
trod in Offteladod to nee seen the sew tomb hewn
Ple dthe solid rock), and exhibda the body of our Lord in%
parlat at the head end ahotddere bye turbaned
1Y odor of the East, evidently meant To7T.tn, affs'aeph of
Arimatima; the lap and feet resting on the projected knee
of a simileity tied lore in the costume of a ruler of the
Jews; "muter el Israel." wbo " came to Jesus by
night" A inialo figure in moot elaborately adorned at-
tire, miting Mary Magdalene (where the foreign
artiste iably depict thus extravagantly dressed,)
le an her imisek bearing • napkin on her right wrist,
aid seem r lt• approaching the feet to kiwi them.
A mall win stands just under the napkin. Immediately
behind bar Is an angel standing with head inclined towards
Ile led Indy, as if In adoration; and holding the large
rib wile we 'anneal to have been recently drawn out
of lie limed hands and feet. Close on the left of the ce-
lestial ?Wand is a eras meet; and behind, er, rather, at
the mirtromity of the cave, toward" the front, is a female,
intended for Mary, wife of Ckopos, bending over
rim:i blito which she appears to be emptying a vessel, sup-
pond to have contained water employed to wash the holy
ink and the wounds wherewith it had been marred. Ito-
seedidely behind Ni demos, who is bending on his right
Irmo, while supporting the legs of the body en hie left, is
am lie Ramming Mother of Christ, whose left arm rests
sm tie outstretched arm of John. The beloved disciple
elieek beside her, arlorbs her en the left with kis=
mat A fcmale Bono imisitately behind the moss,
tea ioneentela would min* nowise to be Beim Vero-
▪ ie seem fie_ 11. his by the Virgin
Neff IS the tad OA Mid JM d Arimatture are
area two haMmaksi lows, AeeelYg the midi= who
east lots for tie ammiem tad, goring Mn As von a
military drum-head: Promiment ha sort at tient is a
leak figure (Mary, psrimps, the mother of Jams and
Judah holding the moan edam with both beak and

pains on it in mg nosy of sorrow ; and behind her ia •
rated figure, the Ronan Centurion, in doep and mournful
meditation ; sad tide eamplete: the group.
• • • •

I have WS salting la Europe awereshio with ibis 'se-
duction. The Imes ea the sane MOM la the Apes of at.
Koch in Park, vim • isproselliks ef the Sepulchre in
the rock is =siabiry
b= heleatig ills ia •
CORM ON ; Mt 11847 ran? so-
with Ilia bee est dierahlted the inkiest
ilia Ihi hail era flay emo atiffileg sell it-
pranks ; bet the Abet le aimed. the igen@ big=
entre eed throw, tesse
amine of
a *lie promelow
the huh. Now, I. the awe of it. Mild lbserg tibia ill
shad within a apace of is yeti by twat net swat In
awe nal cad triable' la aeressuele of sib bloody
arm positions. The espollioll ef ban Min the Iher
lose of etch porstospoit to tecialboly es babel
the Molar with •no of it et • Each
sesue to le biestly end painfully ocsu Mimi of
seelldlet to be ease;losnmteg WA net
tegraike.
1
as Is tho prima is minisbeing mei Iwo ilp is =I.
No ass yesesioge 6 reptoombil efikossiag eseder.
The missy iiiseet In the Vhshes es estossies b mos
towline. The .awed" bee Weal lime* Ad "se•L"
The potty weasel al of St last vie mom so he deeply
Mossent with the ma of the Soder amp •• ioseetly
spill hint by bb heir, Sam de Coves, is eibeir-
ably fediested Sy dr oratar sin In whkh be
✓em to be nibs pepsin to ens* the ha et Ur a bet
hitothog mother dor le egitsid hoe by any
busk btaillottemspoor welled esa==
herb the hot et ail body '
=ins sot wei me conspeks." The hod nod bead
of the ether Mazy, who holda set the. crows of
&
at ease hr in a downward direction, ea
perks* es the cruelty that could devise and 1
sosisabisbnomM of tortnre—sad on the bums-
titbits leessoace of dr moSeer--is sninssUy beautiful.
The owswallee of trove Is disomeed la the iaolation
of Nioodems sad J sencerisi by tires who were
the iikerieta. sou of the divine is et Mary et
wite..
mining le ert armadillos sr him .
Jaseph of Adassiscs appears to be wrapt la thou ton
the wellagney of his illordiag to that Holy Ono the nice
of aspeihre ; ss if bislang, is that moment, the ful-
filment of ths prophecy that am% big menden might sp-
ill, their victim • grave is owoura with the wicked
eve with the irapmitsee amblercast hung by Ilia
rem), the crurined Lard iseld lie with a rich man in his
death. Tams is a vest oolliersnios In this persosage
which beoposks deep item* sad empowering conviebona,
sesecieleil will eels delleit is bob( rabid to seo this, hie
ownotew toes is stab sow wMI beam laid, thus con-
sortia sedi saectlid. If lesismszres Me air, as if in-
capable of area. With COM lip be sons to pee-
red whit might result, if, in eed, all Met be boid !lewd in
declaration, or implied in no sablgeses pr?dictine,
:1 121Lhatlinterview by night, " for tear of the Jews' (which
Joseph, at Ida side, had also evinced) should come to paw;
even as this lifting up to the Crew of suffering bad been
realised. The Centurion, who had, only a few hours before,
Mir(4 "this Man" to be truly the Sun of God, it ekil-
lseed en as not to &ppm in immediate wieocistii n
with any of the individuals above mentioned. He sits as if
awe-struck and confounded. Having witnessed that good
enufefteinn at the foot of the Cross, he seems to have shrunk
into hinmelf, and "Old things we passed away" in that
man. All this scriptural chameteriaticalnesa is predicable of
the several statues here dewribed ; and if to this wonderful
fidelity of representation be imperadded the merit of exqui-
site handling in all the dread, sad of a harmony which would
admit of no improvement in the disposition of the whole,
though one meet* the introduction of the modern drum,
the claim of this obscure and comparatively unknown mu-
terpiece of genius to the homage of the world's rorosernti,
and of every sincere lover of taste and truthfulnese in rombi-
melees, cannot but be fully acknowledged.
There is an inexhaustible fund of amusement and
knowledge in this work. The author has gone over
new. ground, and has allowed nothing to escape
bin' I.

AN ERA IN ENGLISH LITERATURE.—How bitter
was the interval between the em of patronage and the era of
the public, is well known, from a famous passage in Macau-
lay. Johnson—whose immortal " Letter to Chesterfield"
(more cutting in its lofty and reflood satire than any letter of
Junius, to our mind), first sounded the doom of the old
system—wait a stout pilgrim through that valley towards the
iklectslile mountains of large editions and opulent reviews.
A bad age was that which followed on the hey-day of Addi-
son and l'rior. Fielding and tiroollett were poor. Church-
hill had to tell the world, of the former days, that—

" —WWI thus
Want@ b. rowel 'mows nobleman"
Horace Walpotre experience could justify him in observing
of Burke—'• Ifs ha. • little of the airs of authorship about
him—a• if he thought it a great thing to be an suthar—ho
trill Aid our hi. insitlakt." Smollett had known the misery
of dealing with "dorm little fellows who are called great
men." Nino, in allonym," exclaims Burke, in

his aid __ "is lbs soli; b a ma
David Hos fool Os osier au sewlldast
though David was @Frog of incsmarably nobler
blued than nine-tenths of thsseisloersey of England. Lite-
rature continued to cow mai influence, and to improve as
a profession ; but intli =My k slid not stand so well, in
pmportion, as in Whir lIMB. The mmt Johnson himself,
as Mr. Grolier tells tla, IBM 111:4114 mach attention from
the high world. There Irae, Weed. a podostrev ; but it am
rather as that ugly modern o=moms—Vs M. He was
net loved as lien Jenson was by Paraltelue, or Swift by Bo-
lingbnike. By the middle of Mt notary society had be-
moo more outrictad in its sympatlite—nuire fastidious is
its demands for exactly that kiM of amt and of manner
which belonged to Melt. • • A great dad, of couno,
depends on the fashion at any given tune, and the fashion
very much depends on the court. Now, the Hanover fa-
tally has never loved letters, and has done very little for
them since it. Recession. Gouge the Second would do no-
thing Air Gay, became, as Chesterfield Rays, " he thought a
poet a mechanic." George the Third only loved mislio•
rrity. George the Fourth was polite to Ste Walter Scott,
certainly; hut Sir Walter rather had the balance of obliga-
tion in his favour. The Duke of Cumberland of Gibbon's
time iodated him, onto, in this fine polite way, " Well, Mr.
Gibbon, still piing on as usual—scribble—scribble—scrib-
ble !" Rtrisw, now number.

TM KEE PER OF WI lIT en Nl.P.—Bot the White
of the So. Jamea'estreet house wan a mythical personage.
Mackmth was the original keeper of the club. Ile retired in
1768, in which year he recommends to George Selwyn's pa-
tronage hie near relation and successor "the Cherubim."
We afterwards hear of him speculating in the Alley ; and in
1774, Lord Oxford returned him en member for his borough
of Cantle-hieing, with no lees a °chemise than Mr. Wed-
derburn. Arent seers. isolator eosins. Horace Walpole
write. to Mann on this occasion, "This, I suppose, will
offend the Seottish consul. . . . . . For nay part,
waiter fer waiter; I do little difference; they are all equally
reedy to cry, 'coming, coming, air:'" The truth la, that
mud nephew owed Macbeth money, and took this
means of repaying him. But Bob's presence in the House
of C 01111.113 was disagreeable to many of his old customers.
Before the end of the year he wee persuaded to be uudeef,
and give up, or rather sell, his sent. That the keeper of
White'', should have risen to be a member of parliament,
was, after all, not no extraordinary. A waitershig at one of
the St. Janice's-street clubs was the road to fortune.
Thomas. Runibuld, originally a waiter at White's, gut au ap-
point meat in India, and subsequently rope to be Sir Thomas,
and governor of Madrid. On his return, with 1111111,11•0
wealth, a bill of pains and penalties we, brought into the
Ilutue by Dundee, with the view of stripping Sir Thome
of hip ill-gotten pate. The bill sae briskly pushed through
the earlier stages; Budded], the proceedings upon
it were arrested by adjournment, and the mea-
sure fell to the ground. The rumour of the day
attributed the nebo r's escape to the corrupt adistance
of Rigby; who, In 1782, found himself, by Lord North's ro-
eignation, deprived of his place in the Pay-ofttos, and called
upon to refund a large amount of public moneys unaccounted
for. In this strait Rigby was behoved to have bad recourse
to Itumleld. Their nequaintmare had commenced in earlier
days, under very different circumstances; when Rigby was
one of the boldest "premed" at White's, and Rumbold
bowed to him for half-crawns.—Nalietist Berko., new
number.

NIONCIIENT TO THE OFFICERS AND LIEN Or THE
ROYAL NAVAL BRlOADE.—Through the exertions of Sir
Stephen Lushington, K.C.8., who commanded the Naval
Brigade before Sebastopol, and the other surviving officers of
the brigade, • handsome monument has just been erected in
the Kensal 'green Cemetery, the site having been kindly pre-
sented by the directors of the company fur the purpose. The
monument, which hes been erected by Mr. T. Oafiln, of
Regent-quadrant, is most beautifully executed in white Car-
rara marble. On its top are carved in solid warble repre-
sentations of the tents oldie men, and in their front are •
group of flags with • broken cannon. The sides of the
monument are made to represent broken made, on which
ore recorded the names of the skips and of the men
who fell so gloriondy defending their country. In
the centre are the words 'To the of the
undermentioned oaken and men of the Royal Navel Bri-
gade who fell at the siege of Sebastopol, A.D. 1864 and 1836.
This is erected by the survirMg oSears;" and then are
given the names of the following deoessed calkers Cons.
L. W. Hammett, Limit Thee. 0. Kidd, 16.111.8. Albion;
Lient. 0. Oreathed, Britannia; Lieut. Hen. C. B. H.
Rutheen, Lieut. S. Typical!, Mate J. H. Spalding, Lon-
don; Lieut. H. W. Douglas, Queen; Acting Mate J. H.
Kerslake, Redney..... ear not, for I am with thee; I
will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the
west ; I will say to the north, (Jive up; and to the mouth,
Keep set beck; bring my sons from far —lsaiah ziiii., v. 6
and 6: " At the base tke following melancholy statistics
are given : —Total loss of Royal Naval Brigade, averaging
1.200 men and Akan. Moms : 8 killed, 3 died of disease,30 wounded. Men: killed, 116; died of disease, 41 ;
wounded, 431.

The Egyptian mummy, which has been lying at
Southampton docks, was *old by auction yesterday. It me
knocked down for * small sum. Some Bedouin, or Copt, bad,
it oppsre, unrolled it, end diminished its value. The bons*
and skull ware visible. The latter was of small size. TM
cod% was well preserved, and on its lid was raised the re-
semblance of • beautiful human face, the intact* of which
had that sphinz•like repose so characteristic of Egyptian at
It was vinous to notice persons, amidst the levity of imide's
suction room, lookaat a skull, the living eyes of which
might
have seen Jan. the progenitor of the Jewish nation,
enter Egpyt, or be Pharaoh, at the head of his_army, ea
conic to the Red &a, in penult of thssmancirated Lwaslitss.