The Express. — London, England, 1867-05-06 00:00:00

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ALTIIOUGH financial affairs do nut for the mo ment wear a very promising aspect, still they afford a strong contrast to the position just a year ago. The corresponding week of 1866 was as regards commerce the gloomiest ever known within living memory. The great failure of OVEHLND, Or 'Leer, and Co., one of the moat serious that has ever occurred, served then to complete the destruction of that mutual confidence which is the life and soul of trade. Credit had been already severely shaken by the disasters of several other companies, but the downfall of the greatest monetary establishment of the kingdom gave the final blow. From that tune men ceased to trust in each other. Money washoarded and capital allowed to lie waste as completely as if the possessors, iestead of being versed in modern economical science, were as little enlightened as a Chinaman or Hindoo. To a certain extent the alarm that em e rated twelve months ago has prevailed until wow. One form of commercial difficulty, indeed, seems hardly possible to be removed. The panic of 1866 has laid bare the unsound financial management of our railway companies. Scarcely a week passes without some fresh and damaging revelation, re perhaps altogether unexpected, since it his long been surmised, if not well known, that there are many features in railway finance that could hardly bear to be publicly exposed. The London, Chatham, and Dover afforded at mu* the first and worst illustration, but it has been succeeded by several others. The London sod Brighton, which only lately stood in the highest rank, has sunk, not irretrievably low, but at least so far that it will take both time and good management to restore it to its former place. These are the vestiges of the great crisis, but they give nevertheless some consolation. It appears almost certain that the knowledge thus afforded will benefit us in the end. At all events we have the immense advantage of knowing the truth. It is no longer a question of fighting with shadows, of dealing with surmises, which on either one side or the other were probably untrue, and certainly exaggerated. The events of 1866 have com pelled US to look our troubles fairly in the face, said when once that is done the victory is more than half gained. It may fairly be predicted that the railway interests, comprising, as they do, the largest joint-stock investments in So empire, will ultimately benefit by the light that has been so rudely cast upon them. There will be a period of depression —we are going through it now—but a recovery is curtain sooner or later. The final result will doubtless be to place railway property upon a sound and antis factory basis. It will pass out of the category of ape culatiou, since there will be no chance of the start ling disclosures of loss, or the announcements of unexpected profit, which have hitherto been freely weed for operations on the Stock Exchange. The opportunity for these effects has been effectually overthrown. Everything now must be above board. The conductors of the great companies know that absolute frankness has become, not Imply advisable, but imperative. It will not do to rely on the formal statements made by a chairman or a solicitor at a Wharncliffe meeting convened to sanction a bill for an extension or branch of which the shareholders know little and care less. This sort of dictatorial policy has disappeared, and seems likely to be suc ceeded by • movement in the opposite ex• Creme. Railway proprietors, after submitting for years to a humble acquiescence in the projects of their directors, manifest now a strong desire to discredit everything their official representatives may say, and, in fact, to put trust in nobody. The error of showing excessive distrust is as great as that of granting unlimited confidence. It seems almost a hopeless task to reiterate the lesson that directors and shareholders hare at least a common Interest in the well-being of their property, and for this reason alone, to discard all other motives, should exercise a mutual forbearance. Willis. the case of " Willingale r. Maitland" is still undecided attempts have been made to punish ether peasants for copying Willingale's example. The right of lopping wood in Epping Forest from a certain day in November to another day in April in each year has been exercised from time immemo rial by the inhabitants of Loughton. A great por tion of the forest has been—properly or improperly —enclosed by the lord of the manor ; the poor people near believe their right to the wood to be Mill unimpeachable ; hence incrimination and beart•burnings on the one hand, and persecution and imprisonment on the other. It is much to be regretted with a snit still undecided in a court of equity, and after an 'a ;,#terinz injunction has been obtained which protects Willingale, that his neighbours should have been brought before THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 6, 1867. the h•cal bench on the very point in dispute. The prosecution might, one would think, in common decency have waited 6•c t!te tlecilion of the Master el the ROHR. The clergyman v. , o is :Ord of the manor t i .;•• Loughtan thinks differently. however, and nn Friday last two poor men were brought before the local magiatrat,a on the charge of tree passing upon the fore at they maintain they have common rights over, and of lopping wood therein. One at least of the magistrates present is himself in p.aseesion of a portion of the forest land in dis pute ; and, with more than questionable taste, the clerk to the bench acted as solicitor to the prose cution. Fortunately, however, care had been taken to have these 'Poor men defended by a barrister, and after a warm diacusion of several hours' du• ration the case was dismissed. For the proper understanding of the matter in dispute, and in order to fairly appreciate the position of the de fendants and their judges, it is necessary to re member that the lopping forest wood has been the means of livelihood to the former. The lord of the manor and his friends, many of them magis trates. decide sunimarily among themselves that they will wake this forest land their own, by buying off -11 other existing eights. Their poorer neighbours plead that they have never parted with their COIIIIIIIIII rights, and prefer to use the forest as heretofore to accepting compensation. For forty seven years one of them declares he has lopped wood every winter, and hopes to be allowed to do so to the end of the chapter. The answer of the gentlemen inclosing takes the extremely practical form of committing the man to prison. The question is brought before the Master of the Rolls, who is so far unconvinced of the lord of the manor's right to inclose that he takes time for consideration before giving his decision. Is it not, to say the least, unseemly that attempts should be made to force matters by awarding punishment for what the highest legal authority hesitates to call an offence 1 The local bench is to be congratulated on not having yielded to the temptation of acting arbitrarily, and on disobliging their friend and neighbour by dismissing the men he thought tit to bring before them. The odds are proverbially against peasants when landed interests are at stake and landowners are the judges ; and it is not wornierful that Friday's decision was wel comed with ev ery show of enthusiasm in the neigh bourhood, and regarded as a partial triumph for the popular cause. It may be fairly hoped in the interests of public decency that the matter will now he permitted to rest in abeyance until the decision of the court of equity is known, and that no further attempts to inflict punishment or snatch a temporary verdict will be made. Lords of manors must wait the course of justice like other people, and they at least need not fear the ad interim punishment they are sometimes able to indict— loss of employment, of character, of means of live lihood, and of home. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) on continuing the obstruction, they may remove him from the ground, and poises, themselves of hie name and address. with a view to proceeding against him for the trapa•e which he has committed. The Princess Metternich is going to give a grand international ball on May 28. The members of the committee of the tailors strike have been summoned before a judge of in struction to answer a charge of having exceeded the right of coalition granted by M. Emile 011ivier's act. and having illegally interfered with the free dom of labour. The Society of Gans de Lettres is trying to get up an international literary congress in Paris be fore the Exhibition is over. The " writers "of the whole world are called upon to join the con gress. I can find nothing else definite in the pro gramme. Would-be members who desire to know further particulars are requested to write to or call on M. Emmanuel Gonzales, the secretary of the society, 14, Citi Trevise. ftotuott. TUC HYDE-PARK MEETING ANL. THE GOVERNMENT. The Times, announcing the abandonment by the government of its opposition to the meeting in lipleo-park, abjures any wish to dispute the soundness and the diaeretion which has tempered ministerial valour, but nevertheless comments with much severity upon the eircensetanoes which have brought us to the present position, and the further descent which we now witness in the downward course of ministerial abnegation. The govenaneen, which was in too emphatic • sense the other day on the door of the House. is now on the turf of Hyde park, and where next it is impossible to say. Mr. Beale@ and his colleagues will reign in Hyde.park this evening, and may be considered the actual government of the country. Had fatal accidents occurred, her Majesty's ministers and their political friends might hays found themselves ostra cised from all power and place till the end of the century, cad so far it is • relief, though not of the most heroic kind, to know that this will be spared us. But the feeling is mixed with that which will be shared by nearly every re spectable householder, namely, of vexation that, haring screwed ourselves up to a crisis, it has been found all at ono, that the effort has been wasted. However, there will no doubt be the same preparation against the disorders which are apt to arise in • crowd from causes beyond all human controL The " roughs" will be there, and all the classes that prey on • crowd of men with parasitical vigour and alacrity. Whole trades are on the " strike," pickets are posted at every corner, and there are in everyone's month the names of obnoxious mestere and obnoxious men. Of course there is danger here, and it is a danger that immediately threatens property in its most tender form. Unless go vernment, then. has some more security for the public peace than we are acquainted with, and by some secret of policy has changed foes into friends, it will have to keep as sharp • watch, and to make as careful preparations, as if it were still a trespass to talk politics in Hyde-park. Under the new circumstances created by the decision of government. the comments of the other journals, which are for the moat part ignorant of it, become of less signi ficance. The Daily New declares the silence of the ministers when pressed in the House of Commons to declare their intentions, to have been little less than criminal, and as it produced a very general impression that the meeting will not be interfered with, it ought to prevent them from malting any attempt to interfere with the League or its followers. It is hard that the whole country should be humiliated in its government ; but the indignity may be wiped out, while blood spilt can never be removed. The Daily New mentions various illustrations of the impru dence and feebleness of the government—characteristics which may be changed at any moment to violence. It is Idle for men who retain their places simply by a series of concessions to their opponents to claim for themselves the full measure of respect which a government ought to be in a pakten to demand. Their very position invitee attack. The government journals have, as usual, been left in the dark. Both the Herald and the Standard this morning enter into elaborate arguments to show that the government have the perfect right both to prevent political meetings from being held in the park, and to clear the parks when they think tit. Showing the necessity of preventing the meeting from taking place, the Herald rather imprudently observes that no government could be worthy of the con fidence of the nation that allowed itself to give way. It is too late for the government to concede anything to those who are bent on provoking a collision, and those who trespass on the park must be removed. The League throughout has been treated with only too much indul gence. The Standard assures its readers that " the government have made ample arrangements both for asserting the po sition they have taken up. and for repressing any attempt to repeat the outrage of July last. Every m►n who enters Hyde-perk this evening will do so in opposition to the warning of the constituted authorities." The Star has some story about an arrangement based upon a legal settlement of the right of public meeting in Hyde-park, which is likely to be entered into between the Reform League and the authorities. If the police do not interfere, the proceeding., the Stu , - says, are certain to be tranquil. The Past says a resolution has been hastily taken and as hastily abandoned by the government, and the con sequence is a thorough want of confidence in its executive as well as its legislative power. At Lord Derby's meeting to-day the intermediate explanation of the treatment of the Hyde-park meeting is not likely to smooth over the obstacles which are so conspicuously threatening to arrest the present apparent progress. The Trlrmaph says that the opinion given by the law officers of the Crown is, that legally the extent of the powers of the government to prevent the meeting is limited to a civil action. If a crowd be assembled at a fixed spot f w the purpose of listening to the delivery of opeeches, the authorities can inform the orator that he must leave the Ouse which he occupies. Should be insist THE REFORM BILL. Discussing the new proposal of the government with re gard to compound hon.:holders, the Times remarks that the .theme of making compound householders who become voters pay higher rates than compound householders who are not voters is, if anything, more hopeless than that of giving compound householders different privileges among themselves. It would be well to make all compound houaebolders pay full rates, but if this be not done, partial legislation making the franchise a pecuniary burden is out of the question. The nation cannot offer votes for sale to the compound householder, who are disposed to buy them. To haggle over the question whether the burden of a corn. position of three-fourths can be accepted as good evidence of fitness for the franchise, when it is conceded that the payment of a full rate would furnish it, is a vain conten. tion, and the Times trusts that the meeting this afternoon will finally dissipate such a point of difference. The Daily Acre suspects that the administration has now to draggle with divided counsels within the cabinet awl disaffection without it—the inevitable issue of the ►ttempt of a conservative administration to pass a Reform Bill which shall content their opponents and satisfy the country without alarming their own followers. Hence forth, however, Lord Derby must rely on the conserva tives ; for the amendments of which the Chancellor of the Exchequer gave notice on Friday are fatal to the hopes of further aid from real liberals, however anxious th e y may be for legislation this session and by means of the present government. After describing the fresh difficulties which the govern ment by its new move has brought upon itself, the Pest says the truth is that, clever and versatile as he may be, Mr. Disraeli despises detail, though he loves artifice. But artifice to be successful must " hold water," and the able lawyers who have hitherto looked after these matters with consummate skill have been for once caught napping. The Telegraph cannot believe that the House of Com mons will consent to • retrograde step disfranchising • large number of actual electors ; and if it does not, what influence will an adverse decision exercise upon the govern ment and upon the bill? MR. GLADSTONE AND THE LIBERAL PARTY. TO THE EDITOR OP THE 111.11284. Snt,—The communications which have reached me since the 12th of April with reference to the division on that day, from individuals, from the provincial press, and especially from the chairmen or other acting representatives of meetings in the large towns and elsewhere throughout the country, have been, and continue to be, so numerous as to place it beyond my power to acknowledge them separately and in the manner I could wish. I therefore beg the favour of being allowed to do it by this public reply, which I trust that those who have addressed me will be so good as to accept. As respects myself, I have reason to be deeply grateful for the terms in which these communica tions have been couched ; and to feel that, if I cannot merit the confidence they express, still they impose upon me even an enhanced obligation to labour, together with others, for the prompt settlement of the question of reform " upon prin ciples liberal, intelligible, durable, and equal in their application to the various classes of persons whom they may affect."—l have the honour to be, sir, your faithful servant, W. E. GLADSTONE. 11, Carlton-house-terrace, May 4. tit* Court. OSBORNE. MAT 4. The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, accom panied by Prince Leopold sad Princess Beatrice, and her Majesty walked and drove in the grounds this morning. Countess Blucher had the honour of accompanying her Majesty. Princess Louise drove out yesterday afternoon, accom panied by Countess Blucher. sad her royal highness walked in the grounds this morning, attended by Lady Churchill. Prince Leopold and Princess Beatrice also went out this morning. Princess Christian drove out with the Queen on Thursday. The Bon. Mrs. and Miss Grey have arrived at Osborne on a visit to her Majesty. MAT 5. The Queen and Princess Louise rode on ponies yester day afternoon, attended by Lady Churchill ; and Priv ce Leopold and Princess Beatries walked in the grounds. Her :Jajesty, Primus Louise, Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice, attended Divine service at Whipping ham Church this morning. The ladies and gentlemen in waiting were also present. The Rev. George Prothero officiated. The Right Hon. Sir John Pakingtou has arrived at Osborne. The Prince of Wales, attended by Major Teeedide, rode out on Saturday forenoon. In the evening the Prince of Wales, attended by General air W. Knoll,. and Major Teesdale, honoured the Presi dent and members of the Royal Academy with his coal. pony at their annual dinner at the National Gallery, Tra• falgar-square. The Prins of Wales attended Divine serrioe at the Ch►pel Royal, St. James's, yesterday. The Communion Service was read by the Rev. Thomas Hetutore and the Rev. J. Antrobes. Anthem, " Praise the Lord ;' Gone. Sung by Master Coward, Mews. Francis, M. Smith, and Winn. Mr. Goes presided at the organ. Tho sermon was preached by the Rev. Thos. Helniore from Hebrewe, ch. 12, v. 29. The Prince and Princess of Teck attended the mein, A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Trea sury in Downing-street. The Ministers pre sent were the Earl of Derby, the Lord Chan or, the Duke of Marlborough, the Earl of Malmes bury, the Right Honourable Spencer H. Walpole, Lord Stanley, the Duke of Buckingham, Sir John Pakington, Sir S. Northcote, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right Hon. H. T. L. Corry. the Duke of Richmond, Lord J. Manners, the flight Hon. Osthorne Hardy, and Lord Naas. A deputation waited upon the Earl of Derby and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in Downing-street, on Sa turday, to call their ►ttention to the claims of the rni vanity of Glasgow to a parliamentary grant. Despatches were received on Saturday at the Colonial °eke from the Governor, of Labuan and the Falkland Islands. Despatches were sent to the Governors of Ca nada and the Bahama.. The Princess Mary Adelaide and Prince Ted have arrived at t►eir residence at Prince's-gate, from Cam bridge Cottage, Kew, for the Beason. The Duke of Sutherland has arrived at Stafford House, St. James's, from Perin The Earl and Countess of Derby will have dinner and evening parties at the family mansion in St. James's square, on Saturday, the ISth inst.. and the Ist of June. The Countess of Derby will have an assembly at the noble Premier's official residence in Downing-street, on Satur day, the 25th inst., in celebration of her Majesty's birth day. Lady Molesworth received at dinner, on Saturday evening, the Austrian Ambassador and Countess Apponyi, Maria Marchioness of Adesbury, the Marquis of Harting. ton, the Earl of Abingdon, the Right Hon. Chichester Forteaeue, M.P., and Frances Countess Waldegrave, the Earl of Dudley, Lord and Lady Otho Fitzgerald, Lord and Lady Foley, the Right Hon. Sir Hamilton and Hon. Lady Seymour. the Right Hon. Si Henry Storks, Mr. Hayward, and Mr. Bernal Osborne, M.P. Sir Roderick Murchison, Bart.. as President of the Royal Geographical Society, will have a reception on Saturday next at Willies Rooms, Ying-atreet, St. James's LATEST INTELLIGENCE. A FOREIGN VIEW OF THE HYDE-PARK QUESTION. " Let us suppose," says the Indepetuiance Beige, " that a similar conflict had arisen in France, or even in other countries where the right of meeting is guaranteed by the constitution, as in Belgium, for example ; what would have been the result I Once the government declared that it would nut tolerate the manifestation, it is certain that, in virtue of the doctrine of a strong govern ment and the necessary infallibility of authority, it would carry out its prohibition by force — were its right a thousand-fold more disputable and I were it a thousand times evident, not only that the public peace is not menaced and that no disorder' need be feared, but, on the contrary, that the inter vention of the public force must only provoke a s truggle in which blood would inevitably be shed. In England the government takes a different view of its duty and of the public interest. Notwith standing the formal order which it issued and pub lished, and without abandoning its conviction of the illegality of meeting in Hyde-park, it does not think itself bound in honour to establish its right by fusillades and sabre cuts. In presence of the posfaility of a bloody conflict, it stops short ; and authority, without abdicating any of its right or losing any of its prestige, gives place to liberty. What will be the effect of this 1 That power will be curtailed, or the necessary securities of public order weakened? Nothing of the sort. The government will only be the more respected to-morrow and the manifesta tion in Hyde-park—we may predict it without temerity—will be a real triumph of order. In this there is assuredly a useful lesson for governments, who, while theoretically professing respect for liberty, have not, in reality, enough of faith in it to let it move without fetters, and do not hesitate, in any grave circumstance, to sacrifice it to what they call authority, which, strictly speaking, means their own self-love and pride if not their lust of domination." (11K0121 . 8 TILIGIA3IB.) LUXEMBURG. LUXEMBURG, MAY 6. Fears being entertained of the disastrous effects which the dismantling of the fortress and the removal of the garrison would have upon the prosperity of this town, a petition, addressed to the President of the Conference of the Powers, is now being signed, soliciting that the neutralisation of the fortress should be effected by the annexation of the Grand Duchy to Belgium. RUSSIA. ST. PETERSBURG, MAT G. The ice on the Neva began to break to-day. The opening of navigation is fixed for the 14th inst. ITALY. FLORENCE, MAY 5. The elections at Alexandria, Savona, Sala, Vit toria, Acqui, and Bassano have resulted in the re turn of Signori Rattazzi, Peacetto, Ferrara, Chiaves, and Broglio respectively. ARRIVAL OF THE WATER NYMPH. PLYMOUTH, MAT 6. The Water Nymph, Captain Babot, from New Zealand on the 14th February, with passen gers and a general cargo, including a consignment of gold, was off this port last night. She landed one passenger. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (ram oos OWN ooanarcamirr.) PARIS, SUNDAT EVENING. There are in the papers various items of contra dictory news about military preparations. lam told that quite :recently an order issued by the Minister of War to officers on furlough to join their regiments has been rescinded. On the other hand, it appears front various symptoms that there has been a calculated dilatoriness in carrying into effect the suspensive measures announced by the Moniteur as a consequence of the conference. For instance, at Rouen a proclamation was published by the prefect of the Seine Inferieure so lately as May 2, calling upon the 2nd contingent of recruits of the class of 18154 to appear at their depots from the 15th to the 20th of May. That was a war measure ordered on April 20, and it does not seem to have been rescinded. The Strasburg papers announce that after May 4 the public will not be allowed to pass through the citadel "on account of work' about to be com menced." Advertisements for the purchase of horses for the army are to be seen in many provin cial papers. Letters from Luxemburg of May 2 and 3 speak of the attitude of the Prussian garri son there as indicating anything but a speedy eva cuation. Barrels of powder are constantly arriving there, and the fortifications are being strengthened in various places. The Prussian general com manding the fortress has made a heavy contract for victualling the place, and required the stores he has purchased to be delivered within a week. It is added that contrary to usage, and with a view to avoid publicity, this contract was not made upon sealed tenders, but was given to the son-in law of the intendant. At the same time the semi-official journals are instructed to speak as if there were no doubt of the maintenance of peace. M. Boniface announces in the Constitutionnet that pretty nearly all the Emperors and Kings of Europe, with the Pacha of Egypt into the bargain, will be here for the Exhi bition in the course of the summer. The Liberte, assuming peace to be certain, and pursuing its proclaimed policy of systematic opposition, lays itself out to demonstrate that the conditions must necessarily be humiliating to France and destruc tive of what yet remains of her prestige after the failure of her schemes in Poland, the United States, and Mexico. "If," it says, " the conference pronounces for the neutralisation of Luxemburg without the previous evacuation of the Prussians ; if it receives the Prussian ambas sador in the character of representative of Northern Germany, the question will be already decided against us. It will be understood in the face of Europe that we had no claim for any compensation, that Prussia is the legitimate heir of the confedera tion, and that we are for ever foreclosed and de barred from any rectification of our frontiers." . . . Prussia will have availed herself of the conference to obtain from Europe a recognition and confirmation of the results of her victories." I observe simultaneously in several papers a suggestion that France, in obedience to her invari ably guiding principle, will be obliged to ask that whatever may be the new destinies of Luxemburg, the populations should be consulted by a plebiscite. I see there a cloud as big as a man's hand which may break up the conference. It is out of the question that such a condition should be accepted. - The France mentions as an on dit that ' next week' the Prince Imperial, with his military household and his tutor, M. Monier, will take up his residence at St. Cloud. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA. On Saturday RossinPs It Bart iere was given at the above house, Mdlle. Adelina Patti appearing for the first time this season in one of her favourite parts, that of Rosins ; and Signor Cotogni essaying, for the first time in this country, the character of Figaro. The charm and gr►ce of Mdlle. Patti's performance, whatever parts she appears in, have long been universally recognised, and never were her gifts and acquirements more happily apparent than in the music of II Barbieri, to the brilliancy and vivacity of which she occasionally superadds a degree of pathos, by the sympathetic quality of her voice and her earnest manner, that scarcely any other singer has infused into this music. The first appearance of Mademoiselle Patti at the balcony was hailed with loud and prolonged applause, renewed and increased when she came on the stage. Signor Cutogni's Figaro, while in many respects a clever performance, scarcely satisfies us. He rings like an artist, but with some want of that light, voluble flexibility which this music especially re quires —as, for instance, in the air " Largo al factotum be has thorough command of the stage, but his acting is rather distinguished by incessant activity and excessive demonstrativeness than by any special humour. His by-play was sometimes a little too obtrusive —as, for instance, when mimicking the phrases sung by Rosins and the Count. From what we have seen of this gentleman, he appears to be more likely to succeed in serious than in comic opera. Signor Mario is still unapproeched as the Ahnaviva of It Bar birn refinement of manner—apparent even when assuming to be the drunken soldier—and the finished style of his vocal phrasing are such as we look for in vain in other stage tenors. Signor Ciampi'm Bartolo is • careful and earnest performance, but distinguished rather by angular oddity than richness of comic humour. He gained considerable applause by his singing (a little exag gerated in vocal execution) of the well known scolding song in which he upbraids Resins. Signor Tagliatioo is the same capital Builio as formerly, and gives the air " Calumnia " with excellent effect. The subordinate parts of Bertha and Fiorello are sufficiently well filled by Mademoiselle Ackermann and Signor Polo nini. Fivaro and If Barbieri, the greatest comic operas of Mozart and Rossini, could scarcely be given with better gener►l effect than they now are at the Royal Italian Opera ; and it is most interesting to compare by such performances works so analogous in subject, and the music of which offers so many points both of similarity and contrast. CRYSTAL PALACE. The first of the usual series of nine " opera concerts" took place on Saturday, in the Handel orchestra. These entertainments, at which the principal singers of both opera houses are to appear, offer a large attrac tion to those who desire to hear the great vocal artists of the opera stage in favourite extracts from popular operas, at an afternoon performance. The . . singers on Saturday were Mesdemoiselles Pauline Lucca, Priori, and Nan ; Signori Naudin and Graziani, and M. Petit ; who sang favourite detached pieces, solo and con• certed, from well-known operas by Bellini, Donizetti, Verdi, Auber, and Mozart. The performances commenced with Rosaini's overture to &miramide, brilliantly played by the orchestra ; conducted, as usual, by Mr. Manna— and the vocal selection was further varied by a solo (a tarantella) played by Signor Bottesini, whose special power over the double-bass entitles him to rank as the Paganini of that unwieldy instrument. His tone is as pure, liquid, and smooth as that of a fine violoncello, and his execution as rapid and dex terous as that of • skilful violinist. The programme closed with Auber's overture to Masanidlo. The attend ance was large, music being now • chief and permanent attraction at the Crystal Palace. ROYAL SOCIETY OF MUSICIANS. This institution, whose one hundred and twenty ninth anniversary festival was recorded in the Daily News of April 8, gave its annual performance of the Messiah at St. James's-hall on Friday night. The yearly adherence to this oratorio is a tribute due to the great composer from whom personally, as wall as from many performances of that work. the society has derived such large benefit. The oratorio, which was again this year conducted by Professor Sterndale Bennett, was very well given—the solos by Misses L. Pyne, It. Henderson, Mesdames Patey- Whytock and Talbot-Cheer, Means. Cummings, Patsy, and Weiss. The chorus was ample aed efficient ; and the orchestra, consisting chiefly of members of the society, excellent—most of the players belonging to the band of the Royal Italian Opera, and some to that of Her Ma jesty's Theatre—the principal violin being Mr. J. T. Willey, one of the best of our orchestral instrumentalists. Mr. Hopkins, of the Temple Chun+, presided at the organ, and Mr. Thomas Harper was the trumpet obbligato. The hall was well filled. THE LONDON GLEE AND MADRIGAL UNION. This compact and efficient little band of vocalists, under the direction of Mr. Land, has commenced a series of performances on Thursday afternoons, at St. James's hall. The singers are Mimeo Wells and Ryles, Mears. Barter, Coates, Winn, and Chaplin Henry, aided, in the concerted pieces, by Mr. Land, who also accompanies, on the pianoforte, the vocal solos which are occasionally in troduced. From the constant habit of singing together, and the care taken in preparation, the performances of this choir will be found interesting to the admirers of the old school of glee-writing. We (Post) have every relllloll to believe that the announcement of Lord Brougham's extreme illness at Nice u without foundation. By the last accounts received by the members of his family the illustrious and venerable lawyer was still at his villa at Cannes, and, considering his great age, in the enjoyment of perfect health and vigour. At Taunton a great quantity of human bones have been dug up, which are 'apposed to be the remains of persons killed in the civil wars daring the reign of Charles I. The operas for the current week at Covent garden are Le 1C0:.:e di Figaro (to•night), 17 Burbler, di Siriglia (to-morrow), Luria di Ltmitersoor—with Patti as Lecia, and Signor Faineant as Egardo (first time Thursday). and Pro Diaroto (Saturday). Verdi's Doe Carlos is already in preparation. The Thrienols was produced at Her Majesty's Theatre on Saturday, with Mdlle. Titiens as Valentine; Mdlle. Sinieo as the Queen ; • new singer, Mdlle. Mar. telli. as Urban° ; Signor niece as Raoul ; Mr. Sontley as Severs ; Signor Gassier as St. Bris ; and Herr Rokitansky (his first appearance this season) as Marcel. Among the operas ansouneed for the week are I Lombardi (Tuesday next), ►nd Le No - -x di Fiparo (Thursday). THE " DAY."—A Buie EXPIOJENCS. —This morning the Day, the new organ of the " constitutional liberals," vulgarly `yelept Adullamitts, 'withdrew its light from the world. Despite an amount of attraction in the shape of paper and print, to say nothing of leading article s free at all events from coarseness and vulgarity, the Day has faded into night. and an experience of seven weeks, entered upon apparently with a mitre idea of the costli ness of a daily newspaper. has left but painful recollec tions in the breasts of the promoters, who can scarcely find consolationfor their disappointment in the accomplislunent of any cherished political result. The " constitutional liberals "must have paid rather dearly for their whistle. HYDE-PARK DEMONSTRATION. LATEST PARTICULARS.-(THIS BAY.) This morning it became known that at the lss moment the government had resolved to permit the Hyde-park Demonstration, and, as long as th e peace 15 preserved, not to interfere with any of th e speakers, the processions, or the crowds that mar enter the enclosure. On the very eve of the meeting it is stated to have been discovered that the proceedings were perfectly legal, and that th e authorities had no right to interfere with them is any manner. Crowds of special constables were swor e in last Saturday, and provided with staves. A great many have been sworn in to-day. Reinforcemen ts were under orders from Aldershot, additional ca. valry were actually brought up, and though there is not any truth in the report that some batteries of Armstrong guns had been sent to London, it is perfectly true that the military commanders were consulted and a sort of plan of operations resolved upon for the park in case the police should be found inadequate to the duty of main. taming peace. In the course of yesterday all the mounted police that could be withdrawn from the suburban districts were draughted into the mete,- politan barracks, while the constabulary them selves received their orders to assemble in large masses at assigned points in the park. But at the eleventh hour it is announced that the meeting to be held this evening will be entirely unoppeesd, and that though no platforms will be allowed to be erected in the park, no obstruction will be offered to the speakers speaking as loudly as they please and as long as they can get any one to listen to them. _ _ _ The executive council met at the office of the Reform League this morning for the purpose making the final arrangements. Mr. Reales octe. pied the chair ; and there were present, th e O'Donoghue, M.P., Mr. T. Hughes, M.P., Mr. P A. Taylor, M.P., and Mr. Whalley, M.P. 'fl decision of the law officers of the crown was the subject of a long discussion. Ultimately the following resolution was put and carried wine ' mously : That in the opinion of the executive council our birds should abstain from holding any meeting except these appointed by the executive, it is also deems.' advisable that the speakers should abstain from any uneeoesionir exultant references to the conduct and position of the government with regard to the Hyde-park question. - -- . - - - The proceedings of th i s evening were afterward' dealt with, and the following resolution to be put at the meeting was adopted : That this meeting, whilst still adhering to registered and residential manhood suffrage, protected by the talks as the only really sufficient measure of reform in the representation of the people, hail with satisfaction the withdrawal last Thursday eyeing of Lord Grosvenor's proposed amendment, and the mks. city of 81 on the same evening against the two years' res. denoe clauses in the government bill, and earnestly eall upon the House of Commons to make that bill a more full and honest measure for the extension of the franchise by expunging from it the ratepaying clauses, equalising tie borough and county franchise on the principle of home hold suffrage, and introducing • provision for giving vote to lodgers, or else to reject that bill altogether. The members of the League will proceed to the park without any means of forming a stage, a being the intention of the speakers simply to select one of the stationary benches in the park from which to address the multitude. The meeting will be opened by the sound of a trumpet from No. oompany, where Mr. Beale* will preside ; and at the close of the proceedings at No 1 the trniniet will be again sounded as a signal for the rest 11 close the business of the meeting and leave the park in good order. The Holborn branch will assemble at Clerkenwell-green, and march therm preceded by a band, which it a given point will cease playing, the procession breaking into small groups and thus entering the park. The appearance of Hyde-park this morning pre sented no feature worth recording, beyond the pretty aspect of the flower beds and the remarkable num bers of equestrians brougt by the splendid weather to the several " drives . " The military are per forming double guard at the powder magazine ad at the barracks near thereto. The police are as le (2 o'clock) in ignorance as to the dutythey will lice to perform. THE LAW WITH REGARD TO THE PARES. (From the Times.) The law athilwra of the Crown in Novemb,.?, I 1856 (Sir Alexander Cockburn. Sir R. Bethell, and M:. Willes), signed an opinion to the effect that there is i right to close the gates and exclude the public ; or. tb gates being open, to exclude persons, but that persons wi) have once entered cannot be turned out without maim 1 that the licence is withdrawn. This opinion is based on the strict analogy of privae proprietorship, which tells both ways, for if a private pr prietor were to suffer for a series of years the commuagl of a neighbouring town to take the management of Ls park and lay out large sums on it, upon an express I implied understanding that they should have the enie! . meat of it at reasonable hours, he clearly could not ral• denly terminate that right of user, if, indeed, he tor.E! terminate it at all. He would be held to have greeted es modified user for a conaideratioe. The nuibion nen I oteurrit regi doctrine was virtually abolished by 9 Genf , lIL, cap. 16, which makes 60 years' possession or enjoy meet good against the Crown, and the doctrine ner:: applied to cams cif supposed or implied dedication or gran- Thus, in the Richmond Park case. a right of way was tabliahed against the Crown by user. In July, 1866, the above-mentioned opinion was al !flitted to Sir W. Bovill and Sir Hugh Cairns, who WI particularly requested to say whether there was any 14 ,1 authority to disperse by force any meeting for palatial purposes in the park. Their answer was that there is no such authority any practical purpose. They state that when penal have once mitered the park they can only be ejected aft.' notice served on or brought home to each individnal l 7. Publication, they say, is not enough, for many cannot, stl many would not read, and an express warning must 1 0 shown. They particularly impress that the right removal is a separate right against each individual who L. , had notice. No force, therefore, can be brought to bo , against bodies or masses, which might contain many & have not had notice. They also say that it would not practicable to remove any number individually and prt vent then from returning, and remark on the probabatt! of disorder if even an individual were tamed out. _ . . The effect is that the government have nothing but common law of trespass to rely upon with its incidect , which are most important. A man who in tresp3. , 4 must be turned out in the molliur manta inapAsuit no mon force than is necessary being used ; and be fr , J: be let go the moment he has passed the precincts. cannot be arrested if he is quiet. A police-officer cannyl go up and threaten to knock him down if he does not out, and no deadly weapons can be employed. In fact• persons employed to turn out trespassers were to ; armed with deadly weapons, and employ them. exctp: defence of their own lives, they would be guilty of if death were to ensue. If the assembly remain reare* l.: ' the police can do nothing but hand out man after man. I% no ems can they legally clear the park by a charge. an ,: is most important that this should be known. The military cannot be legally brought forward exalt. in case of riot, and the Riot Act cannot be read t ut; • when people have been ^ nnlawfully, riotously. and twit. • tuously assembled to the disturbance of the peace." r'- then the military must wait an bow, unless the public r • ceed to actual insurrection or felonious mischief. The opinion of Sir Hugh Cairns and Sir W. Tawill preasly states that the contemplated assembly cot itself unlawful so long as their conduct is peceable. Special oonstables cannot be sworn in unless co! , made that " tumult, riot. or felony " may be moor, , . apprehended, and two justices are of opinion that the er nail officers appointed for the preserration of the pram ► not sufficient for the purpose (1 and 2 Witham IV., C. V. The Commissioners of Works, spending public nieue!• represent the public. The rangers more properly rertc.'-' the crown. All these things are important when we ►" thrown back upon the technical law of trespa.r. GMAT NORTHIMIN HOSPITAL. CALEDONIAN -SOA P. Isuarrrow. Number of patients for t►e week r i,:af May 4, 1,020, et which "..*S7 were aew ores. THIC G( THE SWEA. This month at this court, pointed forth of messing in neat at 10 o'c Do person had the first boor ; but this *rates were sit the Vcetry-ha St. Pancras ; At 9 c;'oloei the county of ton, for the p A cohort of formed the bi by several btu military CAM Mans, surgem ataacee, sad t the Vestry-he receive " trim Hr. Paget searniag for tl none preaento &Mood that In the marls triot. The pol H Division, 2 at half-past 2 and will leave park. The di it ia believed Court is heavy be interrupted Pursuant tt the preeil4l the ground•fic f purpose on o e ma a an early h Ae!'°" qt oemg gain at the p tone. In the occurred whit formal promo A man who and who had i the day was a to be sworn. in Kr. Martin, minister the and inquired The Usher the Queen at The applies Usher—No, It then. then p . .colonel Ben o'clock, to avail mire& The appliem sad had his et e tnagiel o'clock, but w WEATI • Beira lt Aberdeen LIM Oreetematte 11 Valenti. aliPe Clear P• ll2 Minfl 111 Breit Latent St Rochefort PerZu ti & : '1 9 9 Portsmouth London l:a Yarmouth to Scarborough 29 1111104. Helder A decree:4 of north Is sout herl poled with Ins r iY been a elm Tex Lux Julian Fane, pointed proton London on the It is repor wined to set a terrace about Mr. E. K. • eonteinporm ntembers of tb hautioaa as to *specially ama lady —the wife vim desired hi In obtaining ti amendment to nursed all ber The weekli buditution we greening. p r , discourse " 0: raagneges," it ' gross, Kurt' accentuating t ne contended the vowels of t aillinst the b., Inwd " fats' --- The etude! their threat in of the hotels name time tht here not alter Press applaud of th e inpera from the " col Vacation.