The Express.
London, England, 1861-10-18 00:00:00

(Prom the Toronto (Robe.)
Not withataudiug I haiot writ much for the pawn%
of late, nobody needn't flatter themselves that the under--
mud is dol. tln the contniry, " I still live," which worth
was 'Token be Danyil Weleiter, who was an able man.
Even the old lies whigs of Broker will admit that. Web-
ster now, bowsever, and his mantle has prohly falleo
into the halide of sum dealer in 'lnd band elo.e, who can't
cell it, Loasticays nobody pears to be goin round wearin
it to any particular extent, now lay:. The rig:nient of
whom 1 was kurnal burly eonci they wan better
adapted as Home Garda, which account* for you not heario
of me, eir tide. where the haulm is the thickest and where
the cannon dull, nor. i3ut w • Amerhan citizeu 1 shall
never cues to admire the masterly advance our troops
made ou Washingtou from Bull Hun a short time ago. It
w... well dun I spoke to my wife 'bout it at the time.
My wife sod it was well dun.
It Livia there( bin detarniincd to perfect Itildinsville at
all ha:rods...od as there was no apprehensions of any
imniejit danger, I thought I would go erf onto a pleasure
tower. Accordingly 1 put on c clean /tiled Shirt and
started for Warliintoo. I went there to see the Prude
Napoleon and not to see the place, which I will here take
ecru:gine to observe is about as uointere6tin a locality as
there is this side oil. Davis's filter home, if he ever does
and where I reckon they'll nuke it so warm for him
that he will si fur his summer close. It is easy (muff to
see why a MAO gneti to the poor house or the peuitentary.
It's beans he cub% help it. But why he should wolun-
tarily gu aed live in Waahinton, is intirely beyond my COM-
prehnlAioli, and I can't say nu fairer our that.
put up to a Media hotel. 1 saw the Landlord and end,
"How d'ye do. Nurser
" Fifty cents, sir," wee his reply.
"Ike!"

" We dune twenty-fire cents for lookia
at the landlord and fifty maul for speaking to him. If you
want supper. a boy will show you to the dinin room for
tweet)-lice routs. Your room Win in the tenth story, it
will cost you a dollar to be shown up there."
"How much 43 you at a man for breathing in this aqui-
amnia.' tavola?" sod I.

" Teo mote a Brea" was his reply.
Washiotou hotels is very reasonable in their charges.
[S. B. - -This is *ANNUM.]
I sent up my keen' to the rriets, and was immejitly
usborwl before hint. He received me kindly and asked me
to sit down.

•• I hare enni to pay my reepecka to you, Mister Napo-
loos, hopin to sae you hale and batty."
Imu quite well," be ma "Air you well, air!"
" Sound as a ensa !" I answered.
He seemed to be pleased with my ways, and we entered
into conversation to ~net.

" How. Levi. V' lased. and he sed the Emperor was
well. Eugeny was likewise well, he med. Then I asked
him was Lewis a good provider! Did lie cum home arly niter!
Did he perfoom her bedroom at an onseasonable hour with
gin end tanzy 7 Did be go "the Lodge" on niter when
there won't any lodge? Did he often bay to go down town
to meet • friend! Did he hay • exteneiv acquaintance
among vouog 'molders wheel husbands was in Calitorny Tu
all of chieb questions the Prints perbtely replied, giving
me to undenitan that the Emperor wu behavin well
"lan these questions my nyal duke and most sold. high.
nem and imperials. lumen 1 m anxious to know bow he
stand, as a man. I know Ime's smart. He is gamin, be is
long bedded, he is deep—he is grate. But coulees he is good
he'll come down with • crash one of these days, and the
Boityparts will be Busted up agin. Bet yin life r
"Air you • preacher, air!' be inquired, .litely ear-
knitted.

•• No, sir. Hut I hlceve in morality. I likewise taker°
in meetin houses. Meow me a place where there isn't ant
mettin lauwats, and where pramcheca is never seen, and
show you a place where old het, air stuffed in broken win•
dela, whore the children air dirty and ragged, where gates
have no hinges, where wimmin are slip shod, sad where
maps of the • wild land' ore painted upon men's
shirt &mums with tobacco joce! That's what I'll show
you. Let us amsider what the preachers do fur us befure
we abouse 'ent."

Ile raid he didn't mean to &boom the :lergy. Nut at all ;
and he was happy to sea that I was interested in the Bony-
part family.
It's a grate family," sad I. " But they scooped the okl
wan in."

"-flow, sir!"
"Napoleon the Grand. The Britisher, scooped him at
Waterloo. He wanted to do too much, and he did_ .it '
' They scooped him in at Waterloo, and be submkestly died
at Mt. Holeey ! Then', where the greatest military MAO
this world ever prejueed pegged out. It wee rather Mud to
consume curb • man so Lim to St. }felony, to spend his last
days in eittellin maekeril, and welkin up and down the
dreary beach in a military cloak drawn Mel,' round him
(see pieture-books); but so it was. • Had of the army!
them was hie last words. So he had bin. He was grate!
Don't I vied, we had a pair of his okl boots to remand sum
of our brigades's"
This pleased Jerome, and be took me warmly by the
hood.
"Alirander the Grate was punkin'," I itostinered, "but
Napoleon was punkin..?! Alic wept hearts there was so
ROOM worlds to scoop, and then took to ihinkin. He
drowntlid his warm in the dowin bole, and the &win hole
was too numb for him. It
,ginrally is. He undertook to
give a snake imbibition in his Quota, but it killed him. That
was a had joke for Abe !"
" Since you sir solicitous about France and the Emperor.
say I ask )ou how your own country is getting along!'
maid Jerome. in a pleasant Yoke.
" aimed." I sod. "But I think we shall cum out all
Tight"
"Columbus. when he iliakivered this magnificent conti-
nent, eggild have no ides of the grandeur it would one day
smoorn," mai the Rite.

" It coot Columbus twenty thoua•nd dollars to fit out his
explorifni expedition." sed I. "If he bad bin o sensible
man he'd her put the money io a hem railroad or a pa
company, and left this magnificent confiuent to the in.
tellgest savages, who, when they g.. 4 hold of • gond thieg,
knew scuff to keep it, and who wouldn't have seceded, nor
rebelled, or ksockt liberty in the lied with • elm:Aut.
Coluoibus wane% much of a feller, after all. It would has,
bin moue) in my pocket if he'd staid to horns. Chris.
meat well, bat he put hie foot in it when Inc wind fur
Anieriel."

We talked sum more about matters and thioga, and at
hist 1 riz to go. " I will now say good-Lee to you, noble
sir, and good luck to you. Likewise the same to Clntldv
Also to the gorgeous persons which compose your soot. If
the Emperors buy don't like living at the Touleries, when
he is older, and would like to embark in the show bizness,
let him corn with ms and 111 make a man of him. You
bad us IRIUIWhAt mined, as I before observed, but cum &gin
mat year and you'll fiat us clearer nor ever." • •
Then advisin biro to keep away f►om the Peter Funks auc-
tions of the East, and the proprietors of corner lots is the
Wait, 1 bid him farewell, and went ►way • • •
Yours muchlv,
WARD,
(Artemis.)

On Tueaday, at the oonclusion of the Quarter
florlos• bald .t Walla, • testimonial was presented by the
irsuabbiel magistrates, in the Crow•Conrit, to their esteemed
Agnew. Sir William Miles, in recopition of his long
serrietei in the admiuistratioo of public justice. The tea.
tisonial oonsistad of a portrait of the worthy baronet,
pilled by Mr. Prank Grant, R.A.

Mr. Law LEY. the chairman of the Coal, Corm and Finance
Committee, brought up a report from that committee,
which reconiniended that certain additional inspectors,
three in number. should be appointed at whines not
exceeding 1:kl. per annum each, for the better securing the
revenues of the coal dues, under the provisions of the sere-
' ral anal acts, and also that the increased duties and minas-
eibilities of certain officers, by the passing of the London
Coal and trine Dues Continuance Act, 1861, should be
taken into consideration, with a view to the raising of their
salaries. lie said the court was aware that, by the act of
parliament in (lunation, a great alteration bad been made
in the buundancs within which the tolls were to be levied,
and the committee, after a most careful consideration of the
matter, hurl felt that it was absolutely necessary, for the
proper collection of the coal and other dues, that three
additional inspector, *lmola he appointed ; the duties
of the other officers would also be very much
ioeresiaed, and the committee were of opinion that
they were fairly entitled to some additional remunera-
tion. It hail hitherto been conceded that the corporation
had faithfully performed its duty in the collection of those
dues, and the government had permitted that power still
to remain in their hustle, and be thought the court would
agree with him that it was their duty to perform it in the
same effectual manner they had hitherto done. Mr. lAwley
then proceeded to go into a number of details to show the
neneiwity for an increase in their staff of officers, audit's° that
there ahoitlii be an increase in the amount of remuneration
paid to those who were already employed, and he concluded
by moving the adoption of the report.
Mr. H. L. T►YLOR moved as an amendment, that the
portion of the report which referred to the increase of
salaries of the offioers should not be agreed to.
A division was deinaoded, when there appeared—
For the amendment 57
Against it
Majority against the amendment
The original motion was then put and carried
THE CORPORATIoN AND THE BOARD OT WORRY.

Mr. lit JCICMET moved that it be referred to the Im-
provement Committee to obtain a copy of the correspond-
ence of the Bight Hon. Wrn. Cowper, M.P., her Majesty's
Chief Commissioner of Works, and John Thwaites, Esq.,
chairman of the Metropolitan Board of Works, relative to
the propumed Thames embankment and new street to the
Manniomliouse, and that the committee he authorised to
confer with her Majesty's Chief Commissioner of Works
upon the subject, sod report thereon to this court forth-
with. He add the court was aware of the alteration that
had recently been made with regard to the coal,
corn, nod wino dues, and that for ten years the
collection of those dues was placed in the hands of the
corporation. A portion of the amount was to be ap-
plied to the Thames Embankment Fund, and another to the
payment of certain debts that had been iocurred by the
corporation in making improvements in the ( 'ity of London.
lt was perfectly understood, as it appeared to him, that
when these debts were laid the corporation were entitled to
use this looney for the purpose of making further improve-
ments in the City ; but it appeared by letters that hail re-
cently been published in the newspapers, which bad passed
between the Board of Works and the Chief Commissioner,
that the former body intended to set up a claim to this
money, and intended to apply it towards the expense of
making the new street to the Mansion-house. He
thought that this was a very bold request on the part
the Board of Work,. The Corpoiation of London
had never failed in the performance of its duty
in expending money upon public improvements, sad
he denied that the Board of Works had any
right to put forward such • claim, or to deprive
the corporation of the privileges to which they were entitled.
lie concluded by observing. that the Board of Works ought
not to forget that they had only been in existence six years,
and that the corporation had existed for six hundred, and
that during that long period it had never neglected its public
duties.

Mr. BEMI.ZY eecontled the elation, which was carried
unanimously.

THE CAM QUENTION IN THE CITY.

Mr. Cox brought up • report from the Law, Parlia-
mentary, and City Court Committee upon the subject of the
Use Act of 1860.

The report was to the effect that the committee hail
anxiously and carefully considered the matterhad, and they had
taken counsel's opinion with regard to the question whether
the corporation was responsible for the sum of 7,001 W. which
was claimed as a portion of the expense of obtaining the
above act, sod this opinion was to the effect that under the
circumstances the corporation wasnot liable. With regard to
the proposed increase in the pnc of gas to 4s. lid. per
thousand feet, counsel were of opinion that the gas com-
panies were legally entitled to make this charge. The report
went on to state that the whole subject was still under con-
sideration by the committee, and they rezommended that
the matter should be referred back to them fur further
consideration.

Mr. DEPUTY Pmears also presented • petition from the in •
habitants of the ward of Bisbopsgate, praying the court to
consider the subject of gas supply to the City, and the pro-
priety of muting an application to parliament for the amend-
ment of the existing act, or for exempting the City from its
operation, or for the erection of works by the City of Lon•
don to supply the inhabitants with pa.
Mr. ItoewooD, in seconding the motion, said he thought
there bad never been a case of greater breach of faith than
had been exhibited by the gas companies of the City of
London in the prevent instance. At Ira there was a talk
about gas being provided at le. 9d. per thousand, and a
positive promise was made that under no circumstances
would it exceed te. ; but every one of these engagements had
been broken.

Mr. Cox, in suggesting that the report and the petition
should both be referred to the same committee, said it
appeared to him that it was not necessary for the corpo-
ration to go to the expense of applying to parliArnent or to
enter into an expensive opposition to the gsa cum kw
If the charge of 4e. lid. per thousand was ' in by
the Great Central, and they were obliged to pay that
amount, they should give notice to one of the other com-
panies that they would take the gas from them ; and if a
certain number of gas coeauniers were all to agree to do
this, he thought the Great Ceutral Company would soon be
glad to reduce their price.
Dr. ABRAHAM addiessed the court at coosidemblewlgeenth,
aed repeated the objections hu Las mo frequently to
the Gas Act pared durum the last season, and also re-
marked upon the unfair manner in which the
citizens of Landon bail been treated by the pe emu-
Nowa, anal the means they adopted to procure the paring
of that measure without the knowledge of any el the pee-
wee most interested in it.

Alderman DAUS. the chairman of the Great Central
(lac Company, said he gladly joined in the hope
that had been expressed by ROHM gentlemen who had ad-
dressed the court, that this matter would be referred to a
committee, and that it would be thoroughly sifted and M-
I iired into by those who understood the subject ; and if
this were done he ventured to say that a very different
opinion would be formed to that w hich had been expressed
by some members of the court on the present occasion,
With regard to what hail been said with referents
to the use of cannel coal, be could inform the
court that instead of the feet beta as had been
stated by Dr. Abraham, the gas p wed from this
coal was the cheapest pas for consumers and the lead
profitable to the maker of it; and as to the proceed-
rep that had Leen taken by the company, they had
done nothing but carry out the requirements of the
act of parliament, which they were bound to do. It was
true there was an increase in the price of the gas of 6d. per
thousand ; but it should be recollected that there was an
increase of illuminating power of from that of ten to twelve
eperm candles, which alone amounted to • boons of
200,000 f. &leer to the gas consumers of the company. As
to what had been said upon the present and other occasions
as to the amount of profits derived by the company with
which he was connected, he would only observe that they
had • capital of 250,0001. engaged in the undertaking, and
although it was true that upon one occasion a dividend of
10 per cent. WAS paid, since then the dividend had come
down to 24 percent.
Ties motion was then put and agreed to unanimously, said
the court adjourned after • lentlesned sitting.

CRYSTAL PALLCH.-Ors SHILLING DAT.--THURS-
DAT, OCT. 17.—Admisboodo on paymart, 3,700 ; ditto by
maim Whets, 1,702 ; total 'Wises. 5.102.