The Express.
London, England, 1861-07-03 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 3, 1861.

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TAILING BY STORM. Mr. C. Maillews.—Mall TUX GALICIAN
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Ms Immo, A ThrosT. —AM HAMEL
Won nebtxr, Ryder, Shoes, Hamm Vials, Meadows, and
Potter; Miss Elswurthy sad thee Nssla.

This is, bow to provide for the vast
bodies of the poorest industrial class that
are periodically dislodged from their old
haunts by the progress of what are called, and
what really often are, metropolitan improvements.
The plan for securing this object which the So-
ciety is disposed to favour, or at least is anxious to
try, is that of going a little way out of town, and
' endeavouring to find in the rural suburbs a conve-
nient site for the establishment of a kind of indus-
trial colony. Lord SHAYTESBURY referred to this
project in the short but admirable speech he deli-
vered as chairman of the meeting on Friday. Of
course it would be necessary for the spot selected
to be within cheap and easy distance of the great
metropolitan centres of activity, where the work
of the colonists would mainly be found. To
this end it must be on some line of railway,
either of those already established or of those in
process of formation. And it might perhaps be
desirable to come to some understanding with the
Company with regard to the cheap transmission of
the labourers to and from their work. These,
however, are questions of detail, which it would be
for the Society to consider. Lord SnArrnseuer
expressed his conviction that if some such experi-
ment were tried, it would most likely be successful
with two classes of labourers—those who come up
fresh from the country, and are unused to the
squalor and dissipation of low lodging-house life in
London, and those who are violently dislodged in
masses from their old haunts. To provide for
both these classes is unquestionably a problem of
the first importance, and we earnestly hope the
Society may succeed in devising some plan that
may at least contribute towards its solution.

THE GREAT COMET OF 1861.

TO TEI [MOIL 01 MB EXPRESS.
5111,.--1 have no doubt you have received other
communications relative to the comet so strikingly visible in
the north-north-western sky last evening. At half-past 11
o'clock it was about 15 degrees from the horizon. As I had
previously been °thieving Jupiter with a small telescope, I
was enabled to ascertain that the nucleus of the comet ap-
peared quite as bright ss that planet had done an hour and
a half before. Indeed the nucleus wasvv,a much brighter
and larger than that of the comet of 1 and at a more
favourable season of the year the tail probably have
appeared quite as long aad of greater breadth. If this comet,
then, does not turn out the most remarkable of any that
have appeared during the present century, it will be difficult
to explain the phenomenon of last evening.—I am, Ac.,
Bangor, North Wale*, July 1. D. M.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIFTIZOB.
SlR,—The sun set last evening in masses of
dark clouds, which stretched like a mountain range on the
opposite coast. At ten o'clock I observed a star of the hest
magnitude, and irregular form,
" Whose tearful light gleamed tremulously far,"
resting on the summit of one of the mountains of clond-land
I have described. The star then was decidedly north•west.
At midnight, ere retiring to rest, I again looked forth on the
celestial scenery. The cloud. bad dispersed—the moon had
rhen and was reflected on the eabn waters—the stare were
bright, and "the star" I looked for displayed the rep' train
of light which at coos elsehred its character. It was a
comet. The nucleus was quits as large as that of Donald's
comet; ita train almost as long, but more greed, and much
paler. The present comet travels at a far more rapid pate
than the comet of 1858, which was seen by astronomers long
before it was visible to the naked eye. The celestial tra-
veller now passing over our planet is an unexpected but
most welcome sod interesting visitor, and those who desire
to see this splendid comet must watch for its appearance in
the north-west at sunset. It is vary probable that having
appeared so suddenly, it will as rapidly peas from mortal
ken, hastening to accomplish its greet mission to realms
unknown to men.-1 am, L 4., A STAB-GAZER.
Ryde, July 1.