The Express. — London, England, 1858-04-06 00:00:00

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Tbe paintings wio undoubtedly Yemen Mr. Ciamer'a well-gamed reputation. Though hieli re utile reties, thcy an so dissimilar in character el W show I. • marked degree tbe rrrarilily of Mr. Omper's pencil. The larger picture will be the mad gorier bat we are inclined to think that an artist would pre the. awe. The flenowing ie the motto of tb• nip *an : at. b r - me birth OM. WI S ity r U, roe 11:.= stn's dimmed tim vese ilivabrma I •• Will vise et CotaLry iris he. the 114de new St. ilihrbf • thumb. TM enthsdrai and the city ere dimly _llbilthel the hem of a war suoirsow's day. I. the mil middle arms ore grouped • rarer of Wfwg rid tusk, yelerl r ars* but 14r. Sidney Cower anawint lbws. Where b• gets hie wool from I. a pure %Cr ire Mr hid brush re sr/sr ea gram life-My ere Ms *rep that children NS r err Owe by them r refs elders, and that we ratan 6▪ 1, Y vwf7 pads. &re of the cattle are lying ler% =mew with sir the pry ed the light Arm le rush ewer dielicecy. The ereller bower le of err Meters sir—le a stew "le Min amots. Is whir is illephied • pietweemee al sill. Wthe Date►h Worth's perk which hr rag err arr. The wed bee pee dein with the ass, the if serer er Irt prat* ere tbe hmilelefflo led st i e b f made we bring rhea lei weer tie • peel whip ► b 11 . Is • bellow is Mis fergeserd. 41181,111. re Orr le mart, sad tb• erciereg al Piss We teller re opinion le gmeril the= Patfirge eeepem may of Mr. Cooper's perm gegreseker. /err Geode. RASTER ENTERTAINMENTS. What were known to oor forefathers, and, indeed, to the middle-aged of our own time "Beater Entertain ments" have had their day, end vanished with great-coals, etsge-coechas, watchmen, prine-fighta, Corinthianiant, end other &rho of the past. Greenwich Feb, put down by the MOM W ot perstradei dagoottem, Chalk Farm built °m end mimed eat We seadeabestoa retreats and bowling-green posseering Immo. en to the rowloriog mob bat badly com plained kr by ere llies la Greenwich Park, donkey-reciag ue ibikkilalb. m taedgfag la gymnastics on those plows orielicas tar tie yeemeties of health end activity at the bet er Pebereso4llll. Nor an the theatrical attractions lees itL et. No Gam" art lab &or, no blase of gee ma Itimph, as apetede with interminable procenkaa mad wow* giseeme es la the ell days, no burlesques •Ith Mo. *Oft Am lei atrelobliag parodies as la maw meet dues, am sew pesdacod as special alien i s it dr Sake baltiarsagesse. Ti. ; we tog perdue, ltr. Ilwiteme did rebus • berbegeo last sight, from the pea elf Mr. Fmk TANA me et the most daring poseurs of lhaday;bedfordswdtbe great Drury-leas sad the pretty, sysigbtly Lyman we duet ; the Priseeres limited its 'greeds= legbe yeidaslieset two sew farm sad the revive& at ea oM diesuripieee ; Oa We °felts Olympic remained lea ehaoged, sad the Ailielpii—etreagest phase ot all—pare a mow awoke of ea oil eyeesela. The gimes of Bailin. Isesey, Remits, ma ether hogesatere 41 Andes Lamb's sapper Wide weald Weil be weleashelys If paultled is re vise the gimp= of the maille-at woe sad look ea at our deraessay ; bet If goestimed as to the alteration, massagers would wham point to their receipt-accounta, and from the roar is which the arbor places of amusement were ormemed hut aight, we met allow that such pantomimic I reply, awash angle, valid be decidedly conclusive. PRINCE6i9 THEATRE. The perferieesese esoneeseed lut night with a new faros mead The !Nosh larhave, or, Me Griefs Buri n/es, by Mr. Cloche Donn sad written with all that seat nese of diatom mid knowladgie of wage requirements for which this geademea le resowimil. The incidents are not particularly seer, bat they way wry mirth-provoking; and if the laughter midge bad rolled bicesesntly through two thirds of the pins rather flagged towards the end, • very slight euctilimast will bring the little piece to • sporklimg IreisretWa , and remove the anti-climas which appeared bas le extol. The plot is laid in Landon, at the pluent day. This Mit piece, which w so adadrably acted by all coa semed that M would be 'wittier es what one character for palmate aggrebdise, wee Mewed by the revival of the megited dams ef Ault amid Marguerite, ia which Mr. Mahe Kra appeased se Blaghleeegbeler, and delighted tbe seam* by hie adadiebbe msbe-up (looking the very usaballeaset of Retech's ouillese), hie quaint make& irue- Illd his picturesque puma The final eons, too, the apothem& of Marguerite, created the usual =thulium Tbesebirtsfaments concluded with a face, entitled Samuel tia aeirtth of Himatlf which probably is founded on E Harm fld w eAereAs, produced at the Vandesdle in 11148, but which in ita English dress is full of the broadest sans- Naas, is excellently acted by Messrs. Harley, Fisher, and fisher, and was received with the greatest applause and loogloirot throughout. HAYMARRET THEATRE. At this theatre, the manager, more adventurous Ana meset ethers, did produce an Easter piece, end on • stele of considerable splendour. It is a burlesque of which Talfourd is the author—one of titre quasi-mythologioq dramas which arouse the least learned of holiday audiesor, Wmply because there is nothing clerical about than, except the war, and perhaps a modicum of the driers ; sad through which run • thin line of story and a mornewlest Wender vein of humour, but which, plentifully aprielded with the r,rr.t. outrageous puns, dashed with a little slang, and roompaaled by a few smart parodies on popular sow aim as an adequate vehicle for elaborate acemerr rich iscoration, and graceful grotipinp. Tba piece ow this sees is entitled Pluto and l'roserpine, soil the tale is the Warder outline of the old legend of the abduction of the daiserlsre of Ceres from the midst of her flowers by the Monarch of Tartarus. The pried* parts were reader/4 by Mrs. Burlingham White, Mr. Compton, and Mrs Leclercq, with every disposition to do justice to them. ADELPHI THPATRE. 274 Poor Strollers (in which Mr. Webster and Masao Celeste made their marl', and were welcomed with the newel atediality) was followed by the Easter novelty—" A grand oriental spectacular operatic drama" in two acts, called The Csiligge/ ilerded, end staled to be founded on Boieldieu's opera of thee mac It is, in truth, jnot Boieldiett'e opera, enlarged in dimensions by the introduction of a gond deal of Adeiphi humour, and with swat portion of Boieldien's music cut out to mate room for several modern interpolations which, having an incongruous effect, might well have been spared. The piece, however, was admirably got up, went off with the greatest spirit, was moat heartily ap plauded, and will prove a bighly acceptable addition to the Adelphi report/mi. STRAND THEATRE. This little theatre, which has so long been self banished beyond the pale of dramatic criticism, re-opened let night order the direction of Miss Swanborough, who bag taken upon herself the task of resuscitating the days ren dered memorable in theatrical Runde by the two manage. meets of Mr. Hammond and Mr. Ferree. To aid her in bat undertaking she has called in the eminence of a small sad affective company, comprieleg many well-known, parlor, sad respected names, 'elected with the view oeper twain these small, nest, apinted vaudeville dramas that ateawasaded to her by personal taste and forced upon her by the mechanical exigencies of a circumscribed theatre. Everything that can render the audience part of the hoses ermentediourt and agreeable has been carefully and judiciiaely doss, while the decorations are light end elegant, suited to the miniature character of the piece. The entertainments of the evening commenced with a new comedy In two eats, by Mr. Stirling Coyne, called Not Aims Venture, NotAing lire. The story Is short and concise. There was an unanimous call for the author at the end, and the piece was announced for repetition amidst the applause M a crowded and sympathising bow.. The burlesque that followed is a comic. barite& up= the wall-known subject of " Fes Diavolo;" well filled with songs, deem, operatic concerted pieces, and all the popular acces sories of this form of entertainment. After the comedy, Mies Swanborough came forward, and delivered the following short address, written by Mr. Albert Smith When in the forum of old Rome they found One morn a mighty chasm in the ground, And Mama Curette to the margin ran, fleeing an opening for a nbse y flung man, So I, to sight, prepared to be self-hurled Into tide void in the dramatic world, Appear before you, old familiar friends— Bat bare, I tsar, analogy all ends: Into tAis gulf, unless your will oppree It, I plunge to keep It open—not to awe it Yet not without much trembling do I come To welcome you to this, our little home. " The Drama's Home," I might long winos hare said, But the poor drama—bankrupt and half dad— !s homeless, friendles., drifting to decay, And her poor ettildnn live as best t hay may ; So that the Dmma's Temple now might claim ",The Thema'. Alinahou.e." ss fitter name. I found our Belo craft in its wore days, When It was settling down upon its ways : Bat the Leviathan was launched at last, And so, by minor worriet ne'er downcast, Taking advantage of the first spring tide, late the stresmoit length, I saw her glide, Thee got her under weigh—saw land grow fainter, Set all 011, armee, and cast of the " painter." Our crew b mall, but they have been all tried— On the good will of each I ewe confide ; TM, la war verge, trommeneing full of fear, Unseetain yet se to which way to steer. Dy your aristasee sled the little band To lend at lee upon a friendly &rout Let a. hope, on ibis our opening night, Twee aware will hearty bar your maim light, And tee will make, all 'domes tides to weather, 14 ♦ keg pall, strong poll, and pall all together. LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 6, 1858. receivoi, will no doubt become established favourites. Another attraction provided for this season is the per formance of Mr. I. 0. Ogden, the delineator of Irish cha racter; he sang several curious songs, and his assumption of the vertu= characters wee marked by considerable humour and • command of voice and c ou n t e n ance w hi c h exc it e d hearty applause. Liter in the evening the favourite ballet of The Vine Draws of Cow wee performed by the corps de ballet, which has received numerous additions, and is now remarkably elliciset, A brilliant display of fireworks took place &Lout ten o'clock. Dancing was kept up with the vigour which always characterises the frequeaters of Cie neents, but owing to the roughness of the weather it was Im possible fur them to moue this pleasure on the crystal plat form ; they were obliged to adjourn to the theatre,where they kept it up to a late hour. _ _ Os Kidity next a gas trial, to trot the comparative ell cisocy of various dame of breech and muzzle load*/ muskets, is to take place, under the management of • com mittee of gentleman ; It has already excited much interest in the sporting and protemional world, and will donbthro attract • large attendance. Arrangements are also bung made to repeat this mum the show of American Plante by Meson. Waterer and Godfrey, which excited so much atten tion in former years, awl wee honoured by a visit from bar Majesty. The approachiag display premises to be still mon worthy of notioe, and will lake place as soon as the Mate of the plants will admit of their removal from Witney. Alas andileat Mussum.—We apt remember having seen the heals and galleries of tide national institution so thronged en any previous holiday as they were yenherday. There was soarcely room to move. The Tibrarien, and espe cially the remansoript room, were much frequented, lent, as invariably happens, the natant history &portended* ware most thronged. A very large number of ponces also pawed through to see the new feeding-room with its males* dame, haring first provided themselves with the pant* which are liberally given on application. Tit; eoLosszo;L—The attractions of this favourite public resort were eettsacett yesterday by the presentation e a new musical entertainment by Mr. George Buckiand, entitled, "Lays,Legoads, End Fairy Tales," in which, by the combination of keintormis and grotesque views, interspersed with songs, sneodotse, &a., all the reminiscences of juvenile fancy were realised before the audience, the youthful portion of which were delighted with the apparition, on • gigantic scale, of the heroes and heroines of their well-conned tale books. " Red Riding Hood" is the subject of • very amusing meg, in which her story I. traced down to the foal catastrophe with comic effect ; end " Aladdin's Lamp" and " Whittington and hie Cat" are presented in similar fashion. The entertainment is altogether • vivacious one, and afforded manifest satiefaction to than who witnessed it. It was given both in the morning and in the evening. Conjuring tricky and clairvoyance are among the other portions of the sem& menu, and appeared to excite very great interest ; and the performances fitly terminated with the diorama of Lisbon before and after the celebrated earthquake, which has lost none of its charms, being in fact one of the best dioramas ever produced. CHRISTI'S MINSTRELS.--Of all musical novelties none has enjoyed for so long a period the patronage of the public se the " nigger" melodist.. It la many years sines that gyroscopic celebrity, Mr. Crow, first won the popular ear; but from that mooing the colured minstrel bee never quitted our streets, sad sisterly a .neon hes peened without witnessing the imprimis, is one or other of the theatres, of • more polished hasps ass Moms who daily delight the habituis of the taproom. Mr. Christy's " band of brothers," at the Polygraphic Hall, in King William-street, are not keg popular than tha best of their tuneful predecessors, at least If we may judge from the crowded and sympathising audiences which attended their performance. yesterday. GALLERY OE ILLUSTILATION:Mrs. German Reed's (VW P. Horton's) entertainment continues to attract a numerous audience, and the recurrence of Buter made the attendatoe of yesterday evening larger than usual. The variona transformations, and the rigorous impersonation of eharaeters of the meet opposite description, appeared u re markable se at the grit; and the asaernbiy, which comprised an admixture of all claims, manifested their satisfaction by frequent applause. .. PROFESSOR WILIALBA FRIKELL.—This eminent professor of the black art re-opened the St. James's Theatre yesterday for a short concluding season of three weeks ; and succeeded in obtaining his fuU share of the overflow at the population of London on pleasure bent. B RFORD'S PANORAMA.—Not wt he tand in g that summer is setting in "with its usual severity," this favourite place of entertainment attracted a large amount of public patronage yesterday. The views of Delhi and Look:now had an audience whose interest in them u scenes of localities now famous to the history of our Butern empire was only ex ceeded by the delight which they afforded as works of art. We oan maws the loungers of the metropolis that, while this aseterly wind and dreary sky continue, they cannot do better than pass their time in the warm atmosphere and beneath the "blue empyrean" of Mr. Buford's Lucknow. MADAME TuelAUD's.—The scene which this esta blishment presented yesterday would have struck the famous Mrs. Jarley as a touching evidence of the esteem in which a discerning British public holds that noblest of the fine arts, wax work. The suite of apartments, spacious as they are, were crowded with admiring spectators, who gazed with equal reverence upon the effigies of living and departed sovereigns and sages, poets and statesmen, knights and ladles, philan thropists who have devoted their lives to the general good, and gentlemen whose oily claim to distinction has been the public character of their final exit. By the bye, it is to he hoped that M. de la Ouerroniire will not find a new griev ance to the fact that the Napoleon Museum is made a sort of lobby to the Chamber of Horrors. WYLD's GREAT Otoss.—Mr. Wyld, faithful to his principle of exhibiting the right thing at the right timer attracted a crowded hone yesterday by hie eerie+ of ad mirable panoramic pictures, illustrating the chief places In our East Indian territories. The views received the earnest attention of the audience, and frequently drew down loud ap plause. In addition, the ordinary resources of the Great Globs were at the visitors' command, and, judging from appearances, the tout twonble left on the minds of those present an impression beyond which nothing can be desired by the spirited proprietor. . . - . . . THE EASIER HUNT.—Her Majesty'. stag-hounds tort yesterday for the famous Heater hunt, at Maidenhead thicket, The public mustered in strong force, and vehicles of every description, from the splendid drag, with Ito ele gantly.dreseed ladies, and dealing dog-carts, to the humble country " four-whseler," were on the ground. The sports men mustered in full force; many were from town ; and among those present we noticed the Earl of Sandwich, the present noble muter ; the Earl of Beseboroagh, the Reel Oranrille, many of the °Moss of the Royal Hone and Foot Guards, the Mews. Cox, fres Hillingdon; Miss Gilbert, in warlet ; and most of the sporting gentlemen of the neigh bourhood. At half-put eleven the celebrated Surat hind was unoarted. On leaving the thicket the hind made for Shotteebreok , then, turning to the right, took the direction of Bisham- woods, sad round towards Henley, crossing the Thames *bent a mile from thelatter place. The hoes& were trotted over the bridge and through the town of Henley, end laid on a little to the left of Fawley-coust,when they went &trey across the country to StokenChurelt, the hind pursuing herold track in the direction of Tring, where we left them in their glory, in order to get oar report off by the lest train. It was expected the hounds would not reach the kennel much before ten o'clock at night. ROYAL brain:MON OP GREAT BRITAIIi.—At tie general monthly niestker held last evening, William Pole, Req., M.A., F.RB., treasarer and Moe- president, in the chair; the Lord Stanley of Alderley, the Marchioness et Londonderry, Henry Diedrich Jencken, Req., William Jones Loyd, Reg , Sir Thomas Phillips, Major-General Wertropp Within., were duly elected members of the Royal Unita don ; Herbert Barnard, John Pile, T. H. Hill, and W. Southey, Jos., Rm.. were admitted members et the Royal Dimitutlen ; seven Oandidates were proposed for antics at the next meeting. Thanks were voted to Profersor C. Plead Smyth, Dr. W. B. Carpenter, Ham Thome. Buckle, Req., and the Rer. John Barlow, in thin discourses on March 6th, 12th, 19th, sad 26th. Tie presorts received dime the list meeting were laid ea the table, and the thanks of the members returned for the same. CITOTAL PALOS. ONE SHILLING DAL MONDAY, Arad. 6.—A4 O. wit, lesniN AIM lq soros elaksb, 1,189 ; Wish 17,415. SURREY THEATRE. Lot night formed no exception to the experience which usually ands a crowded audience at the Surrey, on Hester Monday. This is not to be wondered at. On thee helve occasiona4London turns out for excitement, and at 110 pion of public resort are such stimulant scenes to i.e wit nemed se from the pit, boxes, and gallery of the Surrey Three. The Turkish government has been as cribed as " despotism tempered by the bow-string' and be Surrey holiday dram* may be said to be extravegenna tempered by excitement. In The Corefeenies, the first piece performed lest night, there were something tile half-e -dema amomthationa. The badmen of everybody seemed to be to ammeinate everybody. Indeed, the piece, to an on impremice of ono of the characters—my well repremaled by Mr. Misplierd—" rains daggers." 2241 Amur if LIMN the second piece of the seem la theethed as "an original dramatic opera, to two ado" beg there rues be so greet weer in the inren dre faculties in take the We of e Ammer evicted from his laud by proems of law, drawn for the emacription, and then eared from Nig shot by the diaethery that it was one bear ing a warty simile name on whom the conscription lot fell. It eared, hemmer, to evoke the wade humour of Mr. Wid &comb, who permeated the farmer's servant and iodated on Mewing hi. leastor in all things, be his "melancholy," his "Men," bin "marriage," his "soldiering," and his "pre sentiments." On Mr. Henry Phillips, who personated the hese, sad Mrs. Z. P. Oreseroor, who played the wits, tell the hordes of the epee& portion of the piece. The even- Ines eetertatemeses mencluded with the extrevingenze of Iredeeies mid Teeleelor; er, the Ores! Boor sad the Ass Soya. ASTLET'B THEATRE. The Easter pimp at Aat ley's eassistatt of a grand spectacle feauded apes bridals of the present war with China, and salliked The Beasierdowil suet Captors of Geritas. The preprieber of Amok,* It seems, knows well the pegnacious propensidee of the British multitude for whose entertslemeat he eaters, and that nothing is more !Body to "draw" then a admetio roma/maw ion of a glosiose feat of same. Hems the great battles of our recant wan have been fought over again at this amphitheatre, and always with renewed glory hs the British army. The pre seat pine, however, is somewhat of • novelty in this fine, the peculiarities of the Chinon being turned to socount in order to produce that aeon. Altogether the piece with the kelp of the horese—who bed the siege as well es the ring to perform in—want off well; sad the priori* (human) thwarters were celled for, and hewed their acknow ledgments before the certain. The performanee of Herr Christoff on the tight-reps, sad the sets feats of Big. Rant!' followed, both of them clever in their way ; and these were wacoseded by the usual name in the arena, which appeared to give as mush gratihrotloa as ever to a well-filled house. THE ALHAMBRA. For mine weeks past the inhabitants of the me tropolis and its suburbs have had their curiosity excited by immaw coloured representations upon all the blank walls large enengh to admit them, of certain impossible feats of herwriding and emboli= executed In an arena of dimen sions scarcely less limited than those at the Colimum at Rams. Yesterday the scene of these extraordinary per ibramaces was discovemal to be the new building on the eastern side of Iwieseter•egnase—originally known as the Penopticon, and devoted to exhibition.] purposes connected with the arts and sciences generally which, at the commencement of the present year, changed its name to the Palace of the Alhambra, to become for a short time a temple of music—?d which, under going another mutation, has become an equestrian circus. However convenient it might have been for either of the former purposes, for that for which it is now employed it is without exception the most commodious and in every way appropriate building in London. Circular In its interior form, lofty, capacious, and at the same time light and airy in its character, it affords ample space for a riding ground, about as large as that of Maria, with room for spectators on the ground door and in the spacious galleries which tower up one above another almost to the beautiful dome roof, far exceeding that of any theatre we have. Yesterday not less than 3,500 spectators visited the opening performances, yet there was no crowding, but, on the contrary, many hundreds more might have found comfortable sitting room, while from the form of the building, and the admirable arrangement of the mats, the arena is commanded from every part of the interior, It is the equestrian company of Messrs. Howes and Cushing of the United finites (who have, we are informed, beets* making quite a sensation in Liverpool and some of our greet provincial towns), by whom the Alhambra has been chosen as the Leek in which they hope to win metro politan favour. The troupe is extensive, and the members. bipedal and quadrupedal, fully up to their work ; and, if the results of a first representation be sty criterion, the managers will have little cause to regret the speculation into which they have catered. The riding of Master James Madigan, Messrs. Batchelor and Holland, and especially Mr. James Robinson (who is not altogether new to London, having ful filled a short engagement last year at Astley's with great success), was something wonderful, and marked by all that daring which characteriees American horsemanship. Meows. Murray and Holland also execute some extraordinary and classically grouped acrobatic feats ; and the clowns of the ring, Messrs. Pentland and Myers—the former being one of the best horsemen and the most daring matters of the whole company—are quite as amusing as their motley brethren, whose wit is of cockney origin, and their jokes quite as familiar. An American-bred horse, "Black Eagle," deserves mention for the ireuty of his form and his extreme docility, as exhibited in a variety of polkas and waltzes, which he dance' with the master of the ring, keeping time with singular precision, and attitudinising with the grace of an accomplished dancer. And a couple of mules, Peter and Barney—the equine clowns—are entitled to hare their names recorded as being in their mulish obstinacy the hilliest of their race. THE CRYSTAL PALACE. The Faster revels at the Palace attracted a large crowd of the holiday visitors, nearly 17,000 persona being present during the day. The published programme wee strictly adhered to, with the exception of the rope ascent ever the central basin, the high wind prevailing rendering it extremely dangerous. In the grounds there was a continued round of amusements from 11 o'clock until 1, concluding with a display of the upper series of fountains , while in the Palace the music performed by tit+ orchestra of the company, and the Coldstream band afforded ample to those who did not are to eisounster the cool breeze without. At half-peat four the two bands, accompanied by Mr. Coward on the great organ, played "Role Britannia," "Auld Luse Syne," and " God Save the Queen," the assembled thousands joining in the chortle, which had a remarkable effect, and was received with thunders of applause. The music played until It was quite dusk, and the visitors had nearly all departed. The revels are to be repeated this day and to-morrow, with the addition of the lops seated, wind and weather permitting. ROYAL CREMOItNE GARDENS. The Royal Cremorne Gardena were opened on Friday and Sunday for promenade, but the regal .r opening far the season did not take place until lest night. For some lima beck the lessee, Mr. Simpson, has been bwnly engaged he preparation for the approaching summer. The grounds have been carefully attended to, all the decorations have been renewed, the theatre has been entirely redecorated within and without, and is now one of tLe prettiest in or near London. One object kept In view in the new down times has been to illustrate Indian events. The trenspa reed., will now represent either Indian localities or scam of the war. A large Indian picture is in preparation to taken the place of the Swiss view, so well known to all visitors. A states of General Havelock Is In course of erection, Sir Colin Campbell, and the other heroes of the war, will be represented in the different traeoporlaciat. Notwithstand ing that the weather yesterday wee not the met fevosrahle for ont-of-door masementa, a very large warabor of per ▪ elated the gardens. From no early hour in the after noon a military band performed a selection of made. Doting the evening the antartainmesta were of the usual varied and attractive character. At half-pest di a vocal and Instrumental concert took place Ia the theatre, at yid& Was Ellis and Mies Fitzgerald made their ant appeereme before a Cremorne audience, sad, from the reception they (Stamped ld. Additional.) [T W OPENCE. awake, bat, powerless as she was in her sleep and sielows, she became en easy victim. Leering this room, indifferent so to the concealment or disport of the bodice of those with whom be had determined to share a similar fate, his nest proossdiag was to rush up-stairs to the apartment occupied by the time other children. Awakened either by the ineom preheasible mile of the struggling in the room 'below, or by the sudden entry o f th e i r man i ao f a th er into their apa rtment, they endeavoured, as be approached the bedside, to elude his grasp, and for a time they encored. I. It was only for a time, however. The elder boy was seized, numerous and serious cuts were inflicted upon his head, either with the katobet-edge of the cleaver or with the razor-blade, and with thelatter interment a fearful wound was made upon hiL _throat • bat, before the coneumroation of his intended fate, he m anage d to Paean himself from hi s f a th er ' s h an d s, and made emepe down stairs. Upon the youngest of the three—the sleeping infant—the lame elaborate attack was made as in the we of the two fleet and steamer victims. With Its heed smashed, end almost severed as it was from the body, its death most have been instantaneous. The terminating mew of the sickening tragedy was carried out in the other room on the same door on which them transaction, took place. To this room the second eon, JOllO, had made his weeps in his night-drers. He could ecaroaly however, have done more than reached the apartment when his father, following in hot pursuit, overtook him and, seizing hi m as he vain y attempted to elude his hold by leaping into an unoccupied bed, dragged him out by his superior strewth. A repetition of the same treatment—one or more stonniug Wawa upon the skull—soon served to make him reenter, and, by a deep neor-out in the throat, he was In the next Ins ant deprived of life as speedily as the innocents who had preceded him. Dropping the mutilated corpse at his het, the infatuated man sett addmmed himself so ssdbtbit+ delibmate deeknollem aF Wems IWs. Peekehty is the aacembe ohmmeter of the monads Whined upon his eldest boy, he did not imek to puree'e him, but at once pro ceeded to pat the deal sot upon which be had determined into execadon. This he did with an amount of coolness and ceanatem which is most remarkable. Throwing himself upon his leek on the middle of the floor of the some room he Which he stood, he placed his mock against the kg of the table, them preventing any chance of the wound being partial, and, drawing towards him a chair which stood in the apart =he prowl hie arm round ciao of its lower supports, sowing equal steadiness of the hand as of the neck. His neck was laid open from ear to w, and the blade of the razor penetrated the very bone. He must have died in an instant. The servant in the house, it I. said, was Ignorant of what was going on in the room above her own apartment until the eldest boy of the family as be escaped from the murderous attack of his father, and was repelled from his mother's bed room by the horrible spectacle which there met his affrighted gam, melted hit° the kitchen, sad, wounded and bleeding, Einto the bed beside her ; and it was only by the re etreams by which she naturally gave vent to her at candranting such an object, that some workmen who were abroad tn the neighbourhood at that hour L the morn ing had their fairs codrmed that all was not right in the house. But no one was bold enough to venture in. In this emergency the town policeman was sent for, and in the meantime some of the more respectable neighbours, who had been aroused, congregated, and with a medical gen tleman, made bold to enter the house, when they were shocked by encountering the horrible sena described above. The maid servant wits naturally beside herself with fright, and the poor boy who had been the innocent cause of her terror was found so desperately wounded that his life was at first despaired of. Besides being deeply cut In the heed in several place*, and ammo the chin, he had received in the throat • most seriatim wound , which had severed his windpipe, and only narrowly missed the vital parts. When the first bedroom was entered Mrs. Williamson was still alive, and she continued to breathe Ice some little time after, but her injuries were of so fearful • ' character that she was beyond all human aid, and the only sign of oonsciousness which she exhibited was one wist ful look of her half-closed eyes at the rpectatori, u they bent over her bleeding and mutilated form. Around her were evident indications of a severe struggle having taken place. her body having fallen partially beneath the table, whiLi lbs bed-clothes and furniture were displaced, and much of it bathed in blood. The scenes in the other rooms were equally horrifying. and, In each case, the spirits of the poor victims had fled. The motive which Williamson had for committing so wholes& • massacre of those nearest and dearest to hun he yet an utter mystsry. He had ever sujoyed the reputation of an estimable kind-hearted man. With all those with whom he bad business transactions he was honourable in his deal ings ; among those wound him he was t steereed as a worthy neighbour; and by those who knew him beet he is said to have been an affectionate husband and father. The per petration of such a crime was, therefore, at utter variants with his general character. The surmise that he mbrkt be urged to such extremities by undue fear as to his worldly eiroarastances seems also to be unfounded. There is reason, however, to suspect that for some little tiros past the man's mind had been affected, and that the per petration of this tragedy was the crowning act of his In creasing insanity. Though to the majority of hie fellow townsmen he appeared unchanged, those with whom be had most frequent intercourse now come to think that for some weeks before this occurrence they could detect in his manner a serious alteration. He is known also to have bass, con temporaneously with this change in his manner, much affected by the sudden death of one who was his ntimate friend, and with whom he had had frequent bunneme transactions. Boma time ago he is alleged to have been rather a hard drinker, bat latterly he is known either to have ceased altogether the use of ardent spirits, or at any rate to have become much more abstemious than before. While, however, there is this ;;;;;;;; to the immedlaY impulse to the crime, there does not appear to be any room for doubt se to whether it was premeditated or not. It ie true that on the day immediately preceding his decease he transacted business as usual, gave some large orders to com mercial gentlemen at the time in Lerwick, and appeared to make the usual provision for the summer trade. In the oatmeal the evening, however, and not more than an hour or two boon be retired to met, he bed a conversation with some friends, which was, to as the least, peculiar. Two geatlansin, reprseentatives of Glasgow and Aberdeen house, with whom he was intimately acquainted, and to whom he had given orders during the day, called at his shop about the hour of closing. In the course of their conversation, and =z refeeenom to the current topics of the day, the de inquired with some abruptness if the rentlemen had seen fa the papers a report as to the hangman Cale:raft having been mobbed in Liverpool after a recent execution. Thus introduced, the convertatlon turned upon the pr iers! subject of murders and executions, the gentlemen to whore he spoke endeavouring more than once to change the topic to one more congenial, but without Emotes; so soon aii the conversation flagged, he reverted to it by putting some gime don or uttering en exchunation of surprise at some incidents in the lives of great criminals. Asking if either of them had whammed an execution, and receiving only some jocular reply, be alluded to the eases of the famous Burke andln spoke of the number of their victims, and especially r to the means by whic h they were deprived of life. With most oldish. crimes he ap pears( to be familiar, and he seemed to take peculiar interest in the incidents of the murder of Daft Jamie, making allusion to his superior strength, and the difficulty which his murderers consequently had in disposing of him. Apparently incidental to all this, he was inqubd tive as to the most effective method of taking away life, and gave it as his opinion that death could be most easily end quickly accomplished by a sound stroke from a hemmer on the skull of the intended victim. The request that be would join them in their room after he had cloaca the shop was declined; and when they left him he was apparently in his usual spirits, and, as he bade them good night, betrayed neither in his tone nor manner the slightest emotion calcu lated to excite suspicion as to his sanity, or the determination which he must by that time have made. Another incident, from which it may be drawn that the murders were preme ditated, is that connected with his possession of the hammer br which he inflicted the preliminary injuries upon his meth's& This hammer or cleaver usually hung upon a nail in the kitchen, where it was used fur ordinary domestic' purposes. dome time before the tragedy it is said to have been taken from its place—by whom it was not known—and to have afterwards been returned; bat a day or two previous to Thursday it was again removed, and was not seen until it was discovered covered with the blood and heir of the innocent inmates whose death had been accomplished by die ald. The tragedy has bees made the subject of investigation by the local authorities, who have examined the interior of the house, and precognosced several pore ins who bad evidence to give. Of the five victims of his demoniac flay, the only survivor (his eldest son) has been carefully tended since his maps, and, by the aid of the surgeon, his dangerous wounds are dearly healing. He is not yet, however, altogether out of danger, and it is doubtful if he will ever sufficiently recover recover hie mato& strength. The bodies of the others, with that of the deceased himself, were not interred until Tuesday, sad a more mournful cordge was never seen in the sheets o f Lerwick. RAILWAY TUNNEL AT TILE DOVER HEIGHTS.— The tattled in course of construction by the Rut Bent Rail. way Catapany under the heights is in rapid pmgraos, the workmen being at Esuant employed in bricking the arch wad sides, as fast as the miners remove the chalk and earth from the tunnel. A clear pawn through has been for some time abated ; sad about thre•-fourtha of the completed tunnel have been coestracted, so as to require little more than ths ballast and rifle to be in a working eanditlon. The entrance from Canterbury Is on the Follosetnew-reed, which ere long will be lowered 11 ft. The lama of the tumid I. about 660 yards; the clear breadth at £ I Is.. and the Welt from the rail to the of the melt 21 ft. 6 in., ail of wall talethel brit& 16ii tt. thick. Tie Stowe depth from the mhos et the Watts to the Nib le Risk 270 to ft. Ia trtheequesee of soma sem of smallpox halving bambas oat seam the keep heleesies te the Mil &opt W4h..l°""asimath:thbilimaYmaliNlehrethileestandiCabelibibmilluilawasehtl7dielisasurairsee•adajiPlaidimmigthealli.44="l" Ablimaballimima" BARTER ELECTIONS. ST. PANCRAS. Yesterday there was a special meeting of the atriof St. Pancras in the Vesirrhall, King's-road, en-iowa for the purposed eleodag two churchwardens and forty director, of the poor ior the year ensuing. W. H. Wyatt, Esq., the retiring churchwarden, occupied the chair, and the attendance wee eery numerous. Upon a show of hands the numbas ware— Mr. Attenboroogh Mr. Cameron 4B Mr. Cooper 3l Mr. Attenborough was then declared duly elected senior churchwarden. ,I.iirhloi;then took place open the two other candidates, when the munliers spouted— For Mx. Cameros Mr. Cooper 33 Majority for Mr. Cameron The vestry thee proceeded to elect by ballot 40 directors of the poor. The following le the official return :—John Austin, Glosoesow-road, 69; W. B. Carter, Mornington- road, 43; 8.. Champ, Burton-crescent, 60; IL Charles, Taviton eters*, 42; I. R. Collins, Caroline-place, 69 ; C. Ellis, M.D., Rewired street, 60; J. A. Fisher, Seymour-plea 61; H. H. Fleming, Hawley-rood, 46; J. Glazier, Tcdasaean coort.eued. 61; H. Howes, St. Augustine:road, 48; Thos. Jackson, Malawi-Ism, 68; E. A. Kirby, M.D., Boston-square, 47; Bev. BOA. Littler, Glonoester nod, 62; G. Lupton, George-street, 42; G. I. Lyon, Albert-street, 61; 0. H. Mitebsiniere, Qt w 67; T. B. Pea Mookientbaset-strotre. u t e rrit 111144 Brecknock=47L B. Pratt. AMP- sere, 02; J. Csmihniemd-Oalsee, 45; W. ]Bokser, High-etrest, 61; .B. a Tetto. terrace, 68; J. Shtlield. Albany-street. 62; . Speedy, Ctomer-street, 42 ; G. Wailer, Charrington-otreet, 41; J. Zffld Cro 8. 8.. ton, Acton-etrest, ' oespit Stubbs, 41; Stock h-square, 60 ; G. Sont- TOWN Oloacootor-crirosat, 64 ;J. harsh" Chads-row, 43 ; W. Tiashurat, Oloocestor-rand, 48 ; M. Timpson. &Lollop &oi, 64 ; W. Tuner, Ranter-atreat, 63 ; 0. Tocallana, I. Aaguatin•-reed, 61 ; H. Wedgwood Cumberland-ter ism, 69 • M. Wilson, II D., Upper 02 ; John Wilton, M.D., Quodit'irrood, 42 ; 6. Walsh, Bassoll teems, 43; B. J. B. Wright, Banton-road, 61; G. A. Young, Camden-road Villsa, 49. The election of vestrymen was then fined to take place on the 19th of May—the Derby Day—and the meeting sepa rated. OLD ST. PANCRAS DISTRICT.—A meeting of the parishioners of thls Matzke was held yesterday, In the Veen. of the 044 Church, 81. Pancras-rued, when E. J. P. Willi ford and J. Resew, Zinc were unanimously re-elected, the former for the sixth, and t he latter for the third time, church wardens for the district. ST. ANDREW, HoLeouN.—Y••terday, at the meeting of the trustees, held at the Inquest-room, St. Andrew-court, Holborn-kill, the Her. J. J. Toogood in the chair, Mr. Robert Boat, of 44, Fetter-lane, was elected as the eenlor churchwarden, end Mr. Robert Abbott, of 23, High Holborn, the junior churchyard= for the year • lentos. ST. MART, WarrEcmtrat..—At a vestry meet ing held at the Trustee's office, Heat aud Hasex-yerd, High street, Whitechapel, Mr. C. H. Freeman, the churchwarden is the chair, Mr. James flpenceley, of the Road-aftle, Whit r ! chapel, was duly elected u upper warded; Mr. Joseph Seddon, of Hirh•street, and Mr. Thomas Bberdwood, of Castlrstreet, Wellchme-square, were elected as reefer wardens; Mr. H. 8. Mitchell, solicitor ' was re-elected as vestry clerk; Mr. C. H. Freeman was elected a member of the Whiteohapal Bard of Works in the room of a member resigned. HOLY TRINITY ; GRAT'S-INN-ROAD.—The vestry meeting of this perish was held yesterday morning at the Board-room, Links Orers-inn-lase, the Rev. Dr. Worthing ton in the chair. The Rev. Dr. Worthington ap pointed Mr. Stephen Pearson, of Lamb's Conduit-street, the rector's churchwarden; and Mr. W. littriston, of Waimea street, was elected the perish churchwarden. The sidemen elected wee—Mears. Abram, Beardwell, Beckett, Cook, °erred, Haider, Inge, Ledbetter, Mather, Messenger, Palmer, 0. Taylor, and Willmott. The thanks of the meet log were unanimously pseud to Mr. W. Melton, as his re tirement front the office of churchwarden, and also to Mr. S. Pearson, for his long services. THE HAMLET OF RATCLlFF.—Yesterday forenoon, at 10 o'clock, a meeting of the inhabitant ratepayers and the vestrymen of the Banda of Rateliff wise held at the Green -mat School-room, Whltalsores-street, Commercial-road Bast, Ratcliß, fur the purpose of electing churchwarden, siver• seers, and trustees for the ensuing twelve months ; Mr. B. A. Crier was unaabnously elected to the chair. After a emus which baffles dercription, the following gentlemen were duty appointed :—Churchwardm, Mr. Rollinson ; overseers, Mr. William Barrett, and Mr. J. Donovan • trustees, Merry. Redpoth, Derby, Kemprßarrett, Dale, Rsvenhill Good win, Long , Woolver, Longstaf,Parkinson, and Gimmen. Various resolution were proposed and unanimously adopted, and after a misy discussion, the meeting tceminauxL THE LATE TRAGEDY AT LERWICK. The John o'Groat Journal gives a very full ac count of the terrible murders and suicide at Lerwick, which we briefly announced on Friday last. The following are some of the further details : On the morning of Thursday the 25th ult., the inhabitants of Lerwick were abetted by the anaounoenient that during the previous night the house of one of the most respectsble of their townsmen had been the scene of a tragedy more horri • We in ia details than any that had ever, within the memory of man, occurred in the northern counties. As the news spread from house to house, numbers of persona proceeded in the direction of the hones in which the foul deed was alleged to have been contained, and to the eyes of those who were first bold enough to enter a horrifying scene wee indeed pre meted. Five of the inmates had met a violent death, while the sixth had only narrowly escaped from the melancholy fate et the others; and, from an examination of the position of the different bodies, it was too apparent that the tragedy had been the deed of no stranger to the house but of the misguided fa th er of the lnoooent and murdered f amily. The house in which this (aerial crime hes been committed stands in the principal street of Lerwick, and in one of the most frequented parts of the thoroughfare. It is the house of Mr. Peter Williamson, the principal actor in the tragedy, who hes been resident in Lerwick for a number of yearn past, diving which he had carried on business as • general mer chant with all the moms which a life of activity and pen deuce deserved, hie attention having latterly been divided between his own trade, the management of a farm in the rural parte of the island, end the agency for the Peterhead whaling vessels which annually visit Zetland for the purpose of completing the number of their mews. The household consisted of Mr. Williamson himself, who was a man of about forty years of age ; Mr/. Williamson who was about two years his junior; William Williamion, the eldest on, aged sixteen; John Williamson, aged fourteen; Agnes Williamson, the only daughter, aged twelve; Peter Williamson, a child about four and a-half years of age ; end the maid servant ; another of the younger members of the family, named Gilbert, who wee second in age to his sister Agnes, having, fortunately for himself, been for some time peat on a visit to relatives in Northnitivine. of which place his father wee a native. Throughout Wednesday tho deceased, whom shop stood on the opposite side of the street, and within view of his dwelling-house, attended to his business es usual without any apparent change in his conduct or demeanour • and in the evening his premises were closed at the regalia: hour, when he la known to have Immediately joined the family cirele, the medical attendant of the family Irsving subsequently con ', versed eith him In the hones, while visiting the little girl, and prescribing for her sickness. About 11 o'clock he in structed the servant, as he occasionally did, to make fast the door, for the night and to refire to bed, and this the girl obeyed; but it is supposed that it was some time afterwards before he himself retired. It is supposed that he bad risen about 'ix, when his victims would sleep most soundly, and when that would be sufficient daylight to enable him to execute effectually his fearful work. The Instruments of death, there is too much reason to premme, he had already at hand; but, for the purpose of preventing any chance of discovery, he seems, after vacating his bed, to have proceeded down stirs to morn/tin if the servant girl was asleep, for when she awoke embeequently, either the doors of her room and bed, or a small pane by which light wee communicated to the latter, were found open. Assured that all was safe in that direction, be had then armed himself with a heavy iron hammer or cleaver, used for kitchen poses, with a knife, and with a razor, sad deliberately proose to the work of murder. His first Adam was his wile—en exemplary and superior penes, who was reepeated by all acquainted with her, and whom th >repp fieesseed is known to haws affectionately sad desertdly lived. To effect bee death be had recsonet to the most thermate muss. Making use of the cleaver bet, be bad miumatly streak bar fearful Wow to the had. 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