The Express.
London, England, 1863-09-18 00:00:00

THE MEXICAN THRONE.

PARIS, Syr. IT.

The Nation of this evening believes itself able to
state that the English cabinet, .fearing that France
inay talcs possession of Mexico, is strongly endea-
vouring to persuade the Emperor of Austria, to
consent to the acceptance of the Mexican throne by
the Archduke Maximilian.

The same paper says :--" A Mexican loan is
poken of, to be effected in London as soon as the
Archduke Maximilian has been officially pro-
claimed Emperor of Mexico. It is also said that
8,000 Irishmen will be enrolled for service in the
new empire."

ITALY.

TURIN, Barr. IT.

The Abb4 Mont Casein has addressed a ciretilar.
to the clergy of his district, urging them to second
the government in suppressing brigandage.

INDIA AND CHINA.
(By telegraph from Boas.)
CALCUTTA, Accost 29.
Grey skirtings and mule twist dull. The pros-
pects of the indigo crop are unchanged. Exchange
on London, 2a Ond. Government securities—
Four per Cent., 994 ; Five per Cent., 108/ ; Five-
and-a-Half per Cent., 118 i. Freights improving.
BOMBAY, Aowsrr 29.
Exchange on London, 21. Oid. Government
securities—Four per Cent., ; Five per Cent.,
1081 ; Five-and-a-Half per Cent., 1184. Freights
advancing.
CANTON, Amer 11.
Grey skirtings lower. Tea active. Total export
to date 31,600,0001b5. Exchange on London,
4a. 10.1.
SHANGHAI, Amon 4.
(hey shirting, active. Silk, higher prime de-
manded. Settlements, 2,000 balm. Export to
date 7,000 bales. Exchange on London, 6s. did.
Freight, 60..

• A ROYLN CATHOLIC CNAPLAIN POl WALTON GAol.
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loader die Fee .of the neatly paned bless Maiden
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nano polieneoeree redereen to pidgin Moen ; sad
which owe earned me man S. the Wend distant.% sad
aboaleted tem use* pidenee the nano( the mininntee.
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MN NAM? KINTINDIOD.—A. *set Lidesthei
keel enteathee a the Ildeddia wee bead a Ile
Tends, Wed. is the wane whin it wee stein that thm
verigb IWh risk anssaied Si abed 1.400 .

I recently informal you that the most desperate
of the brigand leaders were disposed to lay down
their arms, and, the. papers have confirmed this in-
telligence. Some time ago Colonel Fume: found
out that in addition to the assistance the brigands
received from Rome they, were aided considerably
at home ; that very frequently they merely obeyed
orders and instructions given to them by wealthy
and influential persons who speculated in this social
war, by which, in other days, many families became
enriched from preying upon others. Colonel Fumel I
had succeeded in putting his hands upon these
instigators of brigandage, and in a very short time
the brigandage itself ceased in the province of
Cosenza ; but powerful influence was immediately
exerted against this gentleman ; he was calues•
'dated in parliament and in the papers, and was
compelled to resign. Thereupon brigandage at
once revived. Meanwhile the committee of inquiry,
which consisted of Generals Bixio and Sirtori, the
advent* Oaelegnele, and other intelligent mane
ben, became itself convinced that the brigand*
wan undoubtedly the instruments of others.
The report of Signor Maamri proved this
amid many useless and doubtful details, and the
parliament accordingly passed a temporary mea-
sure which gave the government greater authority
over the abettors of the brigands. This law was no
sooner passed than steps were taken similar to
those Colonel Fumel wished to take, and which
would have put a stop to brigandage a couple of
years ago. Their instigators once terrified, the
brigands saw that the game was up, and it is for
that reason they are now surrendering.
Ose of the most active agents in discovering and
arresting the brigands and their backers is a new
police official, who aces in the province of Potent:a,
and of whom I think you will like to have a short
biography. This singular person is a powerful
luau not quite fifty years of age. He was born at
Brescia, that city of bold and strong men which fur-
&abed the Brain to the republic of Venice. He was
sent to the college of Pavia, but ran away from it and
joined a travelling equestrian company. After this
he played the ante in a musical company of the
same wandering character. We next find him at
Milan, where in 1837 he published a small volume
of poems, entitled "My First Verses." His name
subsequently became more widely known from
being associated with the earlier successes of Verdi.
He wrote, infect, the libretti of those celebrated
musical creations, the Webster° and the Lombardi ;
and on the title-page you will set his name, Temistocle
Solera, for such is the name of the present police
delegate of Potence. This strange character also
composed a musical work that was performed. at
Milan. After many vicissitudes, be married a
prima donna named Rosmini, and went with her to
Spain. There be was mixed up in some court in-
trigue, and was obliged to return to Italy. I do
not know how it canoe into his bead to enter the
police, but it appears that he did so out of hatred
to the reactionaries, and because he had heard
that the police could do nothing in the
Southern provinces. He first went into Sicily,
and rendered some services there. At Po-
tense he diaplays marvellous energy and
intelligence, and it is mainly due to him that the
brigands are surrendering. The name of Temistocle
Solera will doubtless furnish titles to dramas and
novels which may perhaps be the delight of our
children. At Potenza he was once attacked by night,
and a bullet from a revolver passed through his hat.
Nothing daunted, he pursued his assailants, who
quickly took to their heels under cover of the dark-
ness. It would have fared ill with the fellows had
he overtaken them. He has an iron hand, a lion's
heart, and a poet's mind.

I told you, at the time, of the republican mani-
festation which took place in the Ravenna Theatre
when Prince Humbert was there. The churlishness
and stupidity of this demonstration caused great
annoyance in all the neighbouring towns, and even
in Ravenna itself. The municipality of that place
has now sent a deputation of its principal citizens
to express to the Prince the annoyance of the inha-
bitants at this unpleasant occurrence, which was
all the more reprehensible from the fact that it
took place at a moment of public rejoicing, when
the Prince bad courteously come to preside at the
inauguration of a railway, which Ravenna would
not have possessed for the next twenty years bad it
remained under the government of the Pope.
Much surprise has been caused here by the report
on the Paris Bourse of the severe and dangerous
illness of King Victor Emmanuel. He is in the
best of health. I saw him two days ago go out
through the Porta Milano. Yesterday morning be
presided at a council of ministers, and in about a
week he will leave for the camp of Somme..

DZIPATCIIOI THE Win INDIA AND PACIFIC MAIM
The Royal Mal Company'm ateenuhip Shannon, Captain
Abbott, wiled from Southampton yesterday afternoon, at
three o'clock, with the fortnightly inane for the Britiah and
Foreign Watt Indies, the Node, California, Central
Ammirm, ko., topther with 183 peasengen. The Shannon
took eat ea freight. gold coca, 1,0001. ; silver coin, 2031.
French jewellery, 1,1884 ; Emboli jewellery, 1.7471. ;
vans 1701. ; and a fall cargo of French and Reglad'
merehairdire.

THE FRENCH EMPEROR'S SHIT:P.—II may be
remembered that the French Emperor some time sine nut
to itts tarn Exhibition and Cattle Show of Odense*
(Des ) • lot of sheep from the fold of Rambouiliet,
which excited general admiratioo. After the ciao, of the
exhibition, the Agricultural Society, as a mark of gratitude
to his Majesty, mat hiss a gold medal secompann by the
following letter :—"Sir.,—The population of
Drumm* hare been justly of the high (non with
which your Majesty has mowed them, by diming
to seed to their exhibition • 'penmen of the cel•-
hinted lock of the Imperial fold of Rambouillet. They
hare repined that menus bet sot oaly as a mark of
Magnum iolntldiegrisudtare is general, the envelopment of
which your Manny so stroagly enourages I. • Frans, bat
also as • mark of friendly interat for Deomark. They, sod
with them the satire onstry, have therefore felt a sen-
timeat of deep gratitude, the homage of which, is the
named the society, I beg to lay at the feet of your Ma-
inly. To. porpstuate the nerossabranoe of the exhibition
of 1863, the society decided in striking off medals, two o/
1 them is gold—or Wended foe the Kiag of Denroark,:and
the other for your lesporied Majesty. Our sovereign has
already deigned basun this gift, sod it is with his outlier
rinks that I dam Sim is the same of my fellowmen-
Inas. to solisit•your Manny's aoriaptisoce of this tribute
of profound respect sad of normal gratitude.—lraq Sire,
eta,
T. Foliresaeoff, Praidost et the Agricultural So-
; o."
A ITsw WIER-00E2MT RAILWAY. There is
every probability that the alreadtFisting facilities for
ng the pletemesque watering on the North Dana
enandi West floseennenst will ere be hugely incensed by
W formaties of the sonlemldolil North Dm", sod
Somerset Railway, hreselusg off frost • pain near the
Taman slain al the Bristol sad Enter Rail war, via
Soutluselton sad Bernatelde, to Ilfracombe. At as tailors-
tin minting remetly hid at ficaannoltos, the musty town
al North Dena. Marl Faetecetie is the chair, meantime
tuella( forth the claims of the distrist to railway aceouirno-
dstioth and the smaselag to wenort them, were
by the ger. L Bawden Mr. J. L
=the Mow L FL lioethissolsk Mr. br. G. Smyth,
lend abets. • The sommary lands ors la a fair way of Whig
spsedily raised, and the bffl is to be applied for in the
ssenimg essies.—istA (Arendt.

NORWICH, TNOREIDAL
• Yesterday we mentioned the production of M.
Silaa's oratorio (or, as he coils it, "Sacred Drama")
Jonah, and the subject of the work, which is the
same with that of Racine's tragedy of elthatie, and
Handers oratorio, A thabak. •M. Silas, accord-
ingly, has to (sauteed not only with the genius of
Handel, but with that of Mendelssohn, whose mag-
nighoent choral music, written for Rasine's play, is
now familiar to the English public. Even inde-
pendently of any such (*Maori the composition
of as oratorio ia the meet arduous task
which • musician can undertake. It is like
writing a Shakespearian tragedy or soothe:Paradise
Lost. Few composers have been successful in the
composition of an oratorio. When we have named
Bach, Handel, Haydn, Spohr, and Mendelssohn,
we have nearly exhausted the list. We can scarcely
add to it the name of Beethoven ; for his Mount
of Olises•—ofigiAal and beautiful as it is—is hardly
entitled to the denomination of an oratorio.
K Sits, who is a native of Holland, has been for
many years domiciled in this country, and holds an
eminent
He
in the London modest pro-
fession. Ile has produced many compositions which
are esteemed by musicians. An orchestral symphony
performed last season at one of the concerts of the
Mualcal Society of London, was received with die-
tiuguished favour, and was unanimously pro-
nounced to be a work of a very high order, arguing
not only a thorough mastery of his art, but origi-
nality and genius. Thesuceess of that symphony has
doubtless led to the acceptance of this oratorio by
the Norwich Festival Committee, and their pro-
duction of it on this occasion has been a judicious
as well as a liberal act ; for though it cannot be
called a chef &alma, yet it has considerable merit,
and gives earuest of greater things hereafter. The
overture is calculated to make a favourable impres-
sion. A grave and soft fugato subject gradually rises
to au impetuous fortissimo, in which the whole
strength of the orchestra is employed. A sudden
pause is followed by a sweet and flowing cantabile
in a major key, which contrasts pleasingly with the
stormy character of the opening ; and the overture
concludes with a chorale of considerable grandeur.
The impression thus made is well sustained by the
introductory chorus of Levine, which, though of
simple
plain and construction, is lofty in style and
expression. After some dialogue in recitativa there
is an air of Jehoiada, the High Priest (Mr. Weiss),
narrating the massacre of the royal children by
the command of the usurping Queen, and the
rescue of the infant Joash. This is 000
of the best things in the work, and is
especially remarkable for the richness and
beauty of the instrumentation. But we must
here observe that M. Silas, though he writes skil-
fully for the orchestra, is too much given to the
besetting sin of the modern school—the desire to
produce powerful effects by the mere accumulation
of loud sounds. With the above and a few other
exceptions, the ear is fatigued and stunned by the
beating of drums and braying of trombones, which
often drown the voices of the singers ; and we are
convinced that were M. Silas to "thin" his score
by a wholesale excision of his " powerful " area
the real power of his music would be greatly en-
hanced. • Throughout the work the author, as it ap-
pears to us, has been most successful iv the airs and
solo concerted pieces ; while in the choruses and
the scenes of dialogue in recitative lie has been
much leer happy. In the choruses, from the coin-
poser's antecedent', we expected to find masterly
counterpoint and well-constructed fives. In thia
we have been disappointed. Fugue subjects are
frequently given out and followed by their answers
secuadent astern; but the attempt to carry out the
fugue through all its intricate involutions, as prac-
tised by the great masters, is speedily abandoned,
and in place of a fugue we have only a fugafo.
Better not to attempt fugue writing at all, Nor
do we think M. Silas happy in his recita-
tives; they are not sufficiently rapid, nor have
they the pointed accent and emphasis of musical
speech. Most of the scenes of dialogue, conse-
quently, are slow and heavy, even when meant to
be animated and impassioned. The choruses, more-
over, often suggest reminiscences of Spohr and
Mendelsohn. The chorus of the Priests of Baal,
" Aid and save us, mighty Baal," at once brings
to mind Elijah ; and the chorus of Bsalites,
" Strike, kill, burn," must inevitably call to re- I
inembranoe the chorus, " Stone him to death," in
St. Paul. On the other hand, we derived much
pleasure from the air, sung by Miss Palmer,
'
I do remember hat you told me," •
sweet and flowing melody with a fine accom-
paniment of wind instruments • from the chorus of
pagan maidens, " Dry thy bras, 0 daughter of
Jerusalem," in which the sweet harmony of the
female voices is delicately supported by the orches-
tra ; from the air of Joe* "Teach me, 0 Lord,"
a quiet and subdued strain ; and, above all, from
the quartet and chorus, "The Lord bath been
mindful of as," which might have come from the
pen of Mendelssohn. Notwithstanding, however,
these and other beauties, the work as a whole can-
not be regarded aa • success, for it certainly does
not come up to that elevated standard by which
every new contribution to this, the highest class
of musical composition must be measured. The
performance was careful and admirable in every
respect. The character of Athalia was sung by
M idle. Titieas with great vocal and tragic power.
Mr. Weiss sustained the part of the high priest,
Jeboisda ; Mise.ralmer that of the youthful King ;
Madame Lemmens-Sherrington that of Zebiab, his
mother • and Mr. Smythson the small, but not
unimportant, part of Mattan, the chief priest of
Baal. All exerted themselves to the utmost ; the
orchestra and chorus were firm and correct ; and
every person engaged in the performance, from the
able conductor downwards, showed the utmost real
for the success of the work. We hope M. Silas
will persevere in the career on which he has"entered.
He has the qualities calculated to succeed, and we
have no doubt that, profiting by experience, he will
do so.

Juash was followed by an extract from Henry
Leslie's oratorio Immanuel ; the scene of the
miraculous restoration to life of the son of the
widow of Nein. This very beautiful and pathetic
passage wasgiven with great effect ; the part of the
widow being sung by Miss Palmer, and that of ber
son by Mr. Wens. Lastly, the Stahel .hater was
performed after a singular fashion, the music being
taken from the three dtabats of Pergolesi, Haydn,
and Rossini, the different stanzas of the poem
being divided among these three composers.
Rossini had the lion's share of the selection • his
1 portion including the opening quartet ; the " dojos
I aniumm," which was sung by Sims Reeves ; the
"Quin eat homo' " sung by Madame Sherrington
! and Mdlle. Tretuilli ; the "Pro peen-•ti•," sung by
Santley ; the quartet, "Sancta Mater ,'1 sung by
Sherrington, Palmer, Reeves, and Boni ; the air I
and chorus, "Infianmatns et accensus," sung by
Titiens •, and tbe quartet " Quando corpus morio-
tor." There was thus very little left fur Pergolesi
and Haydn, and their stanzas were heard to great
disadvantage, their antique and simple, though
besutiful passages being completely overwhelmed
by the brilliant operatic music of Rossini. A per
formance of the entire work of any one of these .
three great masters would have been in much
better taste than this incongruous piece of patch-
work, for which we do not believe that such a mu-
'kiwi as Mr. Benedict can be responsible.
The second evening concert, last night, was again
of enormous length and of a very miscellaneous do-
scription. The programme contained a vast quantity
of popular vocal places, yang by the performers who
have been in the habit of doing so at the various
London oneseris of the past season. Most of
them, however, Vera pretty things, and had .
an interest for a provincial audience which they

would not have in the capital. But they were
intermingled with things of higher mark, and
greater interest for the musician. The only instru-
mental pieoe in the programme was Spohr's Sym-
phony in D, which, performed entire, opened the
concert. Placed in this position, this beautiful
work was in a peat measure lust, as it served only
to play the talking and laughing company into their
east', just as Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony had
done the evening before. This is a bad arrange-
moot. Those large works which demand attention
from the sedienee ought to be placed where that
attention is most likely to be bestowed—the end of
the first part or beginning of the second part of the
concert. The most pleasing feature of this concert
was a selection from the works of Mozart. It included
the fine quartet and chorus, " Placido h it mar,"
from 'dome's.° ; the air " Quando mire," sung by
Madame Weiss ; " Vol *he @vets," from Figaro,
sung by Mdlle. Trebelli ; " Della sus pace," from
Dew Giovanni, sung by Sims Reeves ; " Deh
vieni," sung by Mdlle. Titian ; and the quintet
"Di sorivermiogni giorno," from Cod fan taiga.
These gems of melody were delightfully given
and enthusiastically appLinded. There were several
pieces selected from Mr. Sullivan's music to Shia-
spears's Tempest. Mr. Sullivan is a young musi-
cian, several of whose compositions (particularly
this Tempest music) have lately attracted atlas-
tion. Mr. Sullivan has talent ; but we
cannot forgive the. exceeding self-conceit shown
by his attempt to supersede the music of
Purcell and Arne. Take " Where the bee sucks, there
lurk I," for example ; we cannot but wonder that
Mr. Sullivan himself could not discover the enor-
mous difference between his own and Arne's in-
imitable melody. The hall was very full, and pre-
sented a brilliant and imposing seen..
This morning's performance has consisted of
Elijah, and is just concluded. The hall was
crowded to the doors, and Mendelesohn's chef
d'asere has been given with a degree of magnifioeuce
rarely surpassed. Respecting the performance of
a work so frequently heard, and so well known to
the English public, there is very little to be said ;
and the few remarks we lave to make must be de-
ferred till to-morrow.

Bitionron.—The Bavarian Minister and Batmen
de Oatto sad sou have arrived at the Ballad Hotel.
meat Ingmar% /L P.. and lady Ingestre, after a three wean'
stay at the Norfolk Hotel, have loft for laptop Rail,
Stafford. lady Gray has arrived at 6, If dra-tecneria. lad,
Victoria N. L. Kirwan has arrived at 17, Poribiad.plaes.
Lady Flower has armed at Skil Bedford Hotel. Baron I
Victiooff has arrived at the Royal Allies Hotel. The lion.
R. Forbes has arrived at the Royal Allis's Hotel. The Dow.
seer Coaster of Fortowne has arrived at the Bristol Note/.
So John P. Boileau, Bart., sad ill. MIMS Boileau are stay.
at the Bristol Hotel. Kr Stuart A. sod Lady Do-
med fancily have wind at the Bristol Hotel. Lady
Gerard sad Niel Standish are at the Bristol Hotel. SIT
Georgie Shoe, Bart, and lady Shoe have strived at the
Bedford Reid. Tice Be., Rio Share hes retunied to hr
reeideuos 16, Yorkaend. General Gordon has arrived at
all Bedford blesel. Yea. has arrived at
time Royal Alban BoteL Mosel Brovnalow HIM and Mn,
Naos hare arrived at the Bedford Hotel. Colonel sad
Yrs. Plunkett Buries bare arrived at 3, fleasavoquare.
BripAres Oesone.
Nsw AVOTIL41,1•1( Buiworsic.—A new bishopric
is forthwith to be founded in Australia, to be desiguated
"The Bishoptio of Grottos sod Aruadale," and to be take.
out of the present diooess of Newcastle. fir. Clark Irving,
a wealthy solosint, pew is Boglawd, has sent out a bill of
exchange fat 2,0001. to la Wasted in the names of the
Bishop of Newcastle (Dr. Tyrrell), Use Hos. U. Heap, sod
the Ray. A. E. Selwyn, sdil the bishop of the saw see is
noisiasted.

Tai RIPT. BRYAN XING AND Sr. Goosen's-ur-hair
BAWL—We have good authority far staling that Mr. Him,
has effected as excluisge with a clergyman is Wiltshire, sod
that the future motor of St. Georges-in-the-East will be
poe•reeideet. The sew rector is the Rev. John Lockhart
Roes, Vicar of Arehury, Wilts. There yet vessels cam &M.
Gutty. via, whether the patronsof St. °Penes filesseseas
College) will sees to the exebsage ; kayoed this wary.
thing is settled. Asd so gads the eighteen years' dispute
between Mr. Ring and his parishioners ; Red with whet
result!—the leeeminious defeat of the rector, owing to his
placing himself in the Moods of youog men without any dig.
cretion.—Rnolisk CAnrchseast._

REPRIBCNTATION OF WEST WORCISTKIUMIZE.—
The Worcester Chronick of setesday says :—" It is under-
stood that the Han. Freder Lygoc. at presset member
for Tewkesbury, will accept the stewardship of the Chilton
Hundreds, sod offer himself as a candidate for the
.repris-
eentatioa of the Western Division of Woroertenhare, in
the room of his brother, Viscount Elmley, now Earl
Beauchamp. There is not likely to be any oppositioe ; but,
in the event of Mr. Lygoe standing for the divirien. it is
generally underetood that Mr. John George Talbot, of Fel-
' coehurst, near Toehndge, will stand for Tewkesbury in the
conservative interest. Mr. Talbot, who is a seg.'s-law of
Lord Lytteltou, Lord•Lientenant of Worcestershire, and
aephew b marrisge to the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
um idly coeteeted Kidderminster in tion to the
Hon. Coked White, the Irish Lord of the Tre eery. He
is nog of the late Hoe. J. C. Talbot, Q.C., the eminent
parliamentary lawyer. Mr. Edward Logsp, a gentleman
of some loud Maros, is idao named as a probable can-
didate:" _ _ _

itirTllol3l7•7lloN 07 T.U7WORTII. Mr. John
Pead has acoMad to the requisition prematad to him to come
forward as • candidata, and to was oa Wednesday met by
shoat seventy of the electors. who accompanied knit round
the tows. It is mid that as many am 100 ,on ham pro.
mind him their tuff ragas. In his midyear Mr. Pail lays
that, if sleeted, he shall eater puitameat as an iodepandest
member, =pledged to the uscooditional support of say
individual statesman. Oa all occasions in public affairs, he
adds, he has acted in concert with the party who acknow-
ledged the late Sir Robert Peel 44 their leader, aad that Pit
Mill adhere, to Um oriselpho ot that greet stAarnao. Be
also adds :—" lam firmly attached to the constitution of
this country, and dare to proooreo to posterity the admit.
tagss which we enjoy under la At the mom time I shall be
the Nerdy aupporter of all real and practical ?eon:oz."—
Birmingham Poet. . .

ThIiRSOISTILATIONL—Tbe revision of the lists of
voters for New Windsor took plus oo Wednesday, before
Mr. Hoary Blescowe Churchill, the banister appointed to
bold the same. le the parish of Closer, the conservatives
mode 6 claims, of which 3 were allowed, and 3 failed ; and
the liberal, seeds and ustaiud 3 chums. In the same
parish, the useervatives mode 4 objeotioes, all of which
were sustained; and the liberals made 12 objections, of
which 5 were successful and 7 failed. In the parish of
New Windsor, the conservative, made 14 claims, of which
12 were allowed and 2 failed ; end the liberal. made 2
claims, of which 1 was sucesseful and the other felled. The
objections made by the conservatives in New Windsor
parish were 10 in number, of which 9 were sustained and 1
failed. The liberals made 12 obfeetions in that perish, of
which 7 were sooossMul end 5 failed. The result of the
mimics is therefore stabil cosesevative gain of 12.
ROYAL ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL, OXIOSDATSZET.
—Yesterday afternece the half-yearly Court of Gormmon
of this hospital far deformities took plus in the hospital,
315, Oxford-street. The report as read and unanimously
adopted, showed that is the half-year 1,313 patients had
been admitted, beteg 481 more than the previous six
mouths, and makieg • total since the first opening of 31,600.
Among the suossdally treated cases were adults who but
never previously had the use of their limbs, and thousands
of ideate had, by timely sod proper treatment, been pre-
vested from becoming cripples. Although the funds had
improved, yet they were ler from sufficient to meet the
heavy necessary expenditure. It wen impossible at protect,
owing to the !meows of the funds, to admit nearly 100
severe mem waiting to be received. In reduction of the
mortgage debt lest year 1,000!. bad been raised is sums of
25 musses each, and 30 like costributiou had base obtained
towards • snood instalment of 1.000 guise's, aid it was
hoped the remaining ten same, would be obtained before
Christmas. His Royal Highness the Priors of Wales had
sow become patron is sucemion to the late Prises Consort.
WOII.[LNO Min's CLus.—Mr. Henry Hoare has
consented to weldor at a public meeting, which is to be held
at the Boys' liatiosel School, Adelaide-place, is the parish
of St. !-ice-the-Fields, on Tuesday ironies next, foe
the purpose of skiing the foundation of • Working Men's
Club sod Institute for that parish, which it is proposed to
open at Michaelmas. The establishment of the club was
determined upon at • meeting held at St. Martin's-ball os
the 201.1 t of Jay, seder the presidency of the Hon. Sir
Frederick Orey, 8.C.8., and it. object is to provide
rooms fee social conversation, newspapers, library, classes.
=lectures, readings, entertainments, games,"
wets for the working cleans. A committee of
influestlal inhebitants ben bete formed, and with • view of
making it as inviting and useful as possible they hue soli-
cited doubtless, such as hook., prints, amateur drawls
picture frames, or any articles of ifersiten suitable for the
RZesnof the club. The clergy of St. Ilattio-in.the-
have Jar a long time pest been devoting their
ettestios to the beet =sea of supplying a great wait in
every lerge parish—namely, proper and coogenial recrea-
tive for working mes is their leisure hours, and the Jeff,
which wal be fairly launched at the meeting of
NOM to combise all the eleaseste aeseeeary to woos;
Rev. Beery Bershey, on. of the' clergy of the parish. and
who le mainly assneWed with the school chapel I. Bedford-
buy, he kindly undertekee the Aloe of Swearer.

Yt 01141 LES NATIIEWS IN ALM
In the course of 100 mussing letter fridli Paris,
Mr. Charlie Mathews oustrwiseta the that on the
Bret sight of his spwersime at the des Verides
there we. say organieed opposition" Let 111:161
yea,* he says. "to dismiss the idea fide your
There was wither °abet nor orgesieed oppinitios of any
kid, and the fault, such es it was, was entirely my own,
sod set that of the audience. I believe they one with
every isles dos to be dewed, se I metwith • most cordial
needles, end two-thirde of the pied west elf with
shouts of laughter and every sip d god humor; belt
the alter potties was not to their tests—it drugged, end
I moos dnewersd the; they were getting bored. But is
wee sot any owe Wintered fellow as the pit.' The
beesseity for explandies as the sod of every pima err.
adios to our English alms of dramatic proprietzt
mods everybody married mid settled, sod all the
dente of the plot metheniatically cleared lop before drop-
the. muted—is set only not required by the Treed
PuNte. but is deemed tiresome ; they lihe to drop the cur-
dle brhes the he s over and gem the reel ; sod certain
Ape, *hid led nothhai to do with we, bet with the pied
only, showed me that they hod boil incegh, and were get-
ting oat of patience at the keg wiediskup. I ret, the
fault we. mho, aid sot theirs ; sad had is, of their ewe
layouts, miters played the part. I belied he weeld be..
bees treated is the seem way, ' Pl-will' I am sure there
we. sole; for when, is the midst of their dimostest, I mad
seddeely to the old Mb of the piece, ' Ouse, 001044 few
godlier' sake. make baste sod merry. the Treing people
I met you see that the public ia gamer impatimit the
worse !pooh wee received with the greatest good humour,
sad wee followed by a tremendous said of applause. Os
the sad ateht, after wholesale ending, shad the ma-
I sager hsd advised previous to the Ant performance,
hst to which I objected, ha 'og payed the piles (Cool as a
Oticsileterb d Mideeecsistuyr is Ludes—es obstinacy
for which I paid the paddy —it week at from beginning to
sod with what edam call •on rem' and I ess playing it
sightly to • widowing mid so theidedie widiemese.' There
is • procersicm every aneenvegiothe had:offteit, sod, in sheet,
I may venture to may that I scri—postacaddzior. nd sg—thir
of ' talk Paris.' I had only reason to be with the
perfect swore of my experimeot. I have sinnived daisy
but oomplimeete and !Maumee from adore, authors, masa-
geni:lic, everybody ; sod the criticisms is the sewspapers
en in fladerieg sad cordial that I son resists siding
you es Towhees for the truth of roydatemeet. Imu
ing
asoillsot salmi, sod as my engspeneet at the
mowed sty resseis 'here beyond the aid of
the mouth, I sot levied di mesa deer Obrisenua, when a
ordedy will be written by a ?ma author espresely for
as."

EyERTBODY KNOWS Mr. MILES.
Awed weft Mika RIMOVID FROM BOND.TRYIT
ant* I-STRUT 11 Oint4QUlre, In 1860.
ne 14R
Ttlaa°4aillai" by him) in all ills New Tstisros.
ILII ESIT TRAM R