The Express.
London, England, 1862-09-12 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 12, 1862.

STEVENSON, was that " lie had negotiated and
" managed M. VEILLLED'iI financial affairs, and
" kept up a general superintendence over the
" entire undertaking, " with the result, as we me,
of a total deficiency of 42,0001. Mr. DAVIS, the
solicitor of M. VEILLARD, gave it as his opinion
at the meeting on Wednesday, that with-
out assistance such as Mr. Csnoosx ren-
dered his client could not have carried on his
business at all. Taere must have been some
present who secretly wished M. Veru.san had been
from the first without the temptation of those
facilities.

Apart, however, from this not unnatural ex-
crescence, the case of M. VEILLARD does not
differ materially from common insolvency, arising
out of faulty management. The opportunity of
making profit at Kensington has been all that it
promised to be. Mr. Mossunt, the English con-
tractor, is understood to have done well, and M.
VEILLARD himself has received the large sum of
73,000/. over his counter. But many people fall
into the mistake of supposing that in order to make
money they have only got to secure a certain
position, a shop in this or that street, or a par-
ticular contract. iloy get it, and find too
late that, whereas ability and energy will
often enough triumph over adverse circumstances,
the attainment of a coveted position may prove
only the beginning of an ordeal in which personal
qualifications are to be most severely tested.

MUSIC.

GLOUCESTER MUSICAL FESTIVAL.
OLOUCIZSTER, THURBDAY.

The attendance at the concert was better than
on the fint evening ; but the audience was anything but
enthusiastic in their reception of the splendid music of the
Mozart selection, which formed the leading feature of the
first part of the concert ; even the wonderful vocalisation
of the prima donna, iu the air "Che pur upro al cnore,"
with the extratodinary florid concluding passages, hardly
elicited a cheer. After the customary half-hour's interval
between the two parts the company appeared, however, to
wake up, and seemed greatly to enjoy Sterndale Ben-
nett's Inauguration Ode, written for the opening
of the International Exhibition. Although new to
the great majority of the` executants, the work
had full justice rendered to it by the choir.
The oratorios appointed for to-day were Mendelssohn's
Hymn f Praise and a selection from Handel's Judas
Marl-above. The principal treble songs in the former were
given to Mdlle. ?arena, and the tenor songs to Mr. Montem
Smith. The fine work was performed throughout in a
manner reflecting the highest credit on all parties. In the
long sustained passages given to the tenor Mr. M. Smith's
declamation of the dramatic appeal, " Watchman, will the
night soon pass!" was chaste and oxpreseive, and the answer
by Mdlle. Parepa, "The night is departing," preluding
the chorus on the same words, was equally effective. The
chorale, "Let all men praise the Lord," was deliciously ren-
dered, ►nd the grand chorus in unison which succeeds,
" Glory and Praise," was very flue. While it was being sung,
as also during the singing of the concluding chorus of the
cantata, "Ye nations," the audience remained standing.

The selection from Judas Maccabees included all the
most attractive portion of the oratorio, but through sows
misunderstanding with the band as to the pasaages to be
omitted, there was an occasional hitch ; otherwise the
performance was a most satisfactory one. The principal
soprano airs, " Pious Orgies," and " From mighty Kings,"
in which Madame Novell() shone so much, were given with
great feeling by her worthy follower, Mdlle. Titian/. The
halo songs, "Arm, arm, ye brave" and "The Lard worketh
wonders," were gloriously given by Weiss, as also were the
songs given to Sims Reeves, "Call forth thy powers" and
" Sound an alarm." These were the gems of the perfor-
mance, as was to be expected. Of the choruses we should
briefly say that they were admirable.
To-night, Uncline will form the chief feature of the last
concert ; and to-morrow, the Messiah will be given at the
cathedral, for which a large number of tickets have been
sold.

FUNERAL OF THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTER-
BURY.-(THIS DAY.)

To-day having been fixed for the interment of
the remains of the Most Rev. Dr. Sumner, late Archbishop
of Canterbury, large numbers of persons flocked from Croy-
don and pieces cootiguous to Addington in order to be pre-
sent at the ceremony. The proceedings were in themselves
strictly private, but many private carriages followed the
mourning procession, and there were also a large number of
clergymen present from various parts of the diocese of Can-
terbury..
The procession, which started from the palace to the
church, which is just outside the perk gates, and in the
village of Addington. consisted of the Bishop of Loudon,
the Bishop of Winchester (the late archbishop's brother),
the Bishop of Oxford, Dr. Alford, Dean of Canterbury, the
Lord Advocate (a nephew of the archbishop's), Canon
Thomas (his son-in-law), Prebendary Venn, the Rev.
John Lingham, Rector of Lambeth, Mr. I). Halford,
of Bergholt (a distant relative of the arehhishop),
the Rev. Mr. Colpoys (a relative of the archbishop); the
Rev. Dr. Thurlow, Chancellor of Chester; the Rev. J.
Nisbett, Incumbent of Ramsgate; the Rev. J. Hodgson,
Vicar of Croydon ; and Mr. Kay vett. A considerable num-
ber of the prioripsl inhabitants of Croydon followed the
procession. The coffin was an extremely handsome one,
of :Vanish mahogany, covered with purple velvet, and
hearing a simple insenption recording the date of the birth
and death of its inmate. It was decorated with appro-
priate gilt ornaments, the most conspicuous of which was
the archiepiscopal mitre.
Ou arriving et the church the body was conveyed to •
newly-constructed vault near to the chancel, awl close to
that in which the late Archbishop of Canterbury (Dr.
Howley) lies interred. The coffin was lowered, and the
prescribed bailiel service of the Cbnrcb of England was im-
pressively read by the Rev. M. T. Ferrer, the vicar of the
perish of Addington.
At the close of these proceedings the procession returned
to Addington, where the mourners dispersed.
Messrs. Ehbutts, of Croydon, conducted the funeral, and
everything was done mast efficiently.

STATUE OF THE LATE PRINCE CONSORT FOR SIR-
MINGRAIL —At a meeting on Wednesday evening it was re-
solved that a statue of tho Prince, seven feet high, in Sici-
lian marble, surmounted by an appropriate canopy, and ac-
companied by such architectural accessories as the site
might sagged, should beerected between the New Exchange-
buildings and the Free Grammar School, in New-street, and
that the commission should be entrusted to Mr. Foley.

His Highness the Prince of Reuse and the
reigning Count of Stolberg Varnijerode, attended by Bann
de Tettao, hare returned to Thomas's Hotel, Charles-street,
St. James's-squsre, from the Isle of Wight.

Prince Adalbert d'Ysenburg Las left Thomas's
Hotel for • permanent residence in town.

His Excellency the Prince Doria Pamphily,
Prince Don Grannetti, and Princess Guaodeliaa Dovia
Pamphily have arrived at Claridge's Hotel from Scotland.
The Duke de Frias has left Long's Hotel fur
Paris.

The Countess of Strafford was safely delivered
of a son on Thursday at Wrothatn Park. Her ladyship
and infant are progressing favourably.

Viscount Vaughan has left Long's Hotel.
The Levant Herald of the 3rd says :—" In con-
sequence of there not being any protestant place of worship
at the Princes' islands, and the number of English and
American families, who spend a considerable portion of the
year in that charming locality feeling the want of some
spiritual provision, a movement has been set on foot for the
erection of a mashie edifice. We have heel, informed that
the plan is being pr.pared by Mr. J. H. Hutchinson, who
has also promised a handsome donttion. Much credit is doe
to this gentleman for his zeal and liberality in connection
with the matter ; the Rev. Mr. Tion will, it is expected,
take temporary charge of the newly formed megregation."
THE PREMIER AND THE CORPORATION Or
SHEFFIELD.— At the monthly meeting of the Sheffield Town
Council on Wednesday, the Mayorreadthefollowiegletter:
"
Weimer Castle, 24th August, 1862.—My dear air 1 have
received with high gratification the addrees from the mayor
aldermen, and burgesses of the borough of Sheffield, which
was transmitted to me some days ago by the Town Clerk,
and I have to request that you will have the goodness toms.
vey toithe members of the corporation my very sinceretbanks
for this interesting and flattering record of their good will
and approbation. Such testimonies of kind feeling from im-
portant sod 101 l ueotial communities are great rewards to
public men for any labours they may havegone through in the
service of their country. and constitute strong incentives to
continued exertions.—My dear sir, yours faithfully, Pm,-
=snort. —John Brown, Eaq., Mayor of Sheffield.'

LATEST IN V ELL WENCH'.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(non OTIZ OWN colamerompurr.)
PARIS, rIIOIBDAT EVENING.
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Both the France and the Prase notice as a
rumour worth attention that the general elections
will take place at the end of October ; the latter
journal fixes the 2fith of that mouth as the precise
date. This news is highly important if true, as it
would imply that the Emperor means to go to the
country upon the Roman question ; and as long as
M. de Persigny remains in office there can be no
doubt in what sense the ballot-box would be "di-
rected." M. Ravin (writing this morning in the
hit;cle, before the news of a proximate dissolution
was exciting attention), looks very hopefully upon
the result of an appeal to " manufacturers, mer-
chants, and artisans," upon the simple question
" whether the French army should remain at
Rome 1"

Notwithstanding all the efforts of La France,
and in spite of a report in the Post Ampt Gazette
of a very reactionary conversation of the Duke de
Orammont at a diplomatic dinner at Vienna, the
Emperor continues to inspire a good many people
who have access to him with a belief that he is
not only sincerely desirous of evacuating Rome,
but firmly determined to do so.
The liberal papers, as I observed a few days ago,
but faintly share this belief. The Opinion
Nationale still laments to-night that the Italian
national motto, Italia fare da se, should
be effaced by the " mysterious will of the
cabinet of the Tuileries." It now re-
commends, inasmuch as Victor Emmanuel cannot
make war upon France, that Italy, by • peaceful
and legal plebiscite, rise as one man, and protest
against the continuance of the French occupation.
Such • manifestation, backed as it would be by the
public opinion of Esrope, would, it thinks, be of
a nature to influence the mind of the French
Emperor. The Opinion notices, as very useful,
the public meetings on the subject which are
beginning to be held in England.
The Patric denies the truth of a report that the
French Mediterranean squadron now in the Bay
of Naples is to stop there all the winter, and
affirms that it will return to Toulon at the usual
time, namely, about the end of October.
There is a rumour that the Princess of Savoy
will pass through France on her way to Lisbon to
be married to the King of Portugal, and will stay
three days with the imperial family. The report
of a visit of Victor Emmanuel to Paris is revived
on this occasion, and it is said he will, after escort-
ing his daughter, be present at the baptism of his
grandchild, Prince Napoleon's son. The Prince
Napoleon will go to Lisbon for the wedding fetes.
The Tcn&ps, referring to the paragraph in the Patric
on Mexican affairs which I noticed yesterday, says :
The overtures of President Juarez., if the French govern-
ment would accept them, seem to us of a nature to simplify
the situation. They would not only terminate our quarrel
with Mexico, but if we persist in our project to regenerate
that country would furnish us with the means of accom-
plishing it. It is not by a simple operation of universal
suffrage, but by radical reforms, that Mexico can be reetoract
to progress and civilisation ; it is not the clerical party,
our present ally, but the liberal party alone which is desi-
rous to see reforms realised.

The famous Jecker,the Swiss banker whose great
bubble loan to Mexico at several hundred per cent.
interest justly excited the diplomatic indignation
of Lord Russell, has been declared a naturalised
French citizen by an imperial decree just published
in the Bulletin des Lois. The object of this impu-
dent proceeding is obviously the better to qualify
him to realise the scrip which is notoriously held
in large quantities by certain parties at court who
have fomented the present most unrighteous and
impolitic war.
The Bourse remains firm, but is somewhat less
active. The only variation in the Route is a rise
of 5e for cash. The closing quotations were
69fr. 65c. both for time and money. Mobilier rose
12Fr. 50c., and the Italian Loan 26c. The Lyons
Railway rose 10fr. ; there was scarcely any change
in the other lines.

The publishers of the " Misdnibles" have invited
Victor Hugo to a grand cosmopolitan banquet at
Brussels on the 16th. It is not true that the go-
vernment has prohibited the production iu Paris of
a drama founded on the novel. A version of the
" Misirablee" will doubtless be brought out at the
Ambigu this winter, and very large receipts are
expected from it ; but the censors have proposed
various alterations, some of them rather violent,
which M. V. Hugo ban thought it expedient to
assent to. Thus the good bishop of the novel, M.
Myriel, is to be made a doctor of medicine in order
that the clergy may not be scandalised, and the con-
vict hero of the piece, Jean Valjean, will not be
allowed to be represented as mayor of a village, for
fear of bringing authority into disrepute. The cha-
racter of Javert, the detective, is retained, but
very much toned down.
As an instance of the extraordinary popularity of
the "Miadrables," I will mention here an anecdote
which somehow slipped out of my letter describing
the last fetes of August 18 :—At the door of the
Vaudeville Theatre, while the patient queue,
attracted by the gratis admission, was getting wet
through, under the pitiless pelting of a heavy rain
which lasted two hours, I noticed a lad in a blue
' round frock, a veritable gamin de Paris, who
stood with his back placed in the very centre
of the folding doors, which were to be presently
opened, so that he would be the first for the rush,
and had his arms comfortably leaning upon the rail
placed to prevent overcrowding. He was, more-
over, sheltered from the rain by the canopy over
the entrance to the theatre. To have acquired his
enviable position he must have stood there about
five hours. But he whiled away the time by reading
a volume of the " Miarables," which he had got
half through when I saw him.
The Daily News is seized.

The Emperor Napoleon has given orders to place
in the Mua(e dee Sonverains, at the Louvre, the tombstone
and iron railing brought from St. Helena along with the
Emperor's remains in 1840, and which have been at Cher-
bourg ever sine*.
_ . .

A duel with swords was fought at 8 o'clock on
Saturday morning but on the cross road from Arcueil to
Bourg la Reine, near Paris. The combatants, who appeared
by their dress to belong to the upper clam of society,
arrived at the ground in private carriages. The principals
were attended each by two seooods, and two others kept
watch. After a combat which lasted only • few minute,
One of the parties fell severely wounded. His ;wands
carried him to his carriage, which proceeded at great speed
towards Paris, followed by the others.

It would appear from the Sport, a Parisian jour-
nal, that the French have taken up in watering•places the
thread of Altion's wisely abandoned eccentricity in drew.
A writer to the fashionable journal in question observes :
" One cannot fail to observe, with regret, many French
ladies whose rank and frame require more than ordinary
propriety of costume, no less than demeanour, adopting a
style of dress fall of phantasy and eccentricity, inch as
belongs only to that clue of ladies to whom the incense of
gold rather than of respect is most welcome. Amongst
men, too, of good social position, one often sees similar
examples of bad tote. They adopt for travelling or
country life a toilette the very reverse of that which they
consider essential at other times ; short jackets, for ex-
ample, ill-made trousers of strange shades ; hats, round,
grotesque, absurd, and startling, befitting a clown or an
English labourer. Beneath such garments the beet bred
gentleman successfully hides all traces of his original
appearance,"

THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.

The attendance of schools and other organised
parties was, as will be seen by the following list,
exceedingly numerous yesterday. Amongst others
were-1,060 persons employed at Huntley and
Palmer's biscuit factory, Reading, with their wives
and families, expenses paid by the firm (including
refreshments) ; 52 pensioners from Chelsea Hospital,
Commissioners ; 17 persons employed by Autell
and Co., undertakers, of Euston-road, the firm ;50
inmates of Bancroft's Almshouses,
Drapers' Company ; 40 labourers from Lord Me-
thuen's estate of Comtism, Wilts, Lord Methuen ;
60 inmates of St. George's, Hanover-square, Work-
house, committee ; 35 scholars from Denham En-
dowed School, Mr. and Mrs. Mason ; 13 scholars
from St. Stephen's Home, St. George's East, Lady
Superior ; 35 scholars from Leigh, Essex, National
School, Rev. Mr. King ; 71 scholars from Ware-
housemen and Clerks' Orphan School, New Cross,
Messrs. Oppenheim and Sons ; 136 scholars from
Ealing National School, Messrs. Rothschild and
friends ; 13 scholars from Egham St. Giles' choir,
Rev. Vincent ; 26 scholars from Kennington
Oval private school, subscription ; 23 scholars
from Boxgrove, Sussex, parochial school, Rev. W.
Barnet ; 70 scholars from Streatham National
School, subscription ; 18 scholars from East London
Shoeblucks' School, Mr. Wise; 26 scholars from

Beaminster Natiomil School ardChoir, R. Phippin,
Esq. ; 92 scholars from Bancroft's Hospital School,
Drapers' Company ; 14 scholars from All Saints,
Blackheath, School, Rev. J. S. Clark ; 24 scholars
from Langley, Bucks, winter evening school, sub
scription ; 59 scholars from Ruislie National School,
committe ; 14 scholars from hotting-hill (Miss
Hawley's) School, Miss Hawley ; 10 scholars from
Franciscan, Notting-hill, School, J. Chandler,
Esq. • 10 scholars from Hackney Unitarian School,
subscription ; 10 scholars from Bayswater Female
Orphan Asylum, Miss H. Cullingford.
Whilst noting the present it may not be out of
place to say a word or two also for the absent.
Habitues of the Exhibition cannot fail to have been
struck with the scarcity of blue or red jackets
amongst the admiring crowds. It is true that a
very few naval and military officers have, by the
exercise of their personal liberality, enabled their
men to see' the world's show, but as a general rule
it has been a sealed book to both services. There
are from twelve to fifteen thousand men at Alder-
'Lott, within an hour and a half of London—what
steps have been taken to secure to them an Exhibi-
tion holiday T Has it ever occurred to the illustrious
and distinguished personages for whose pleasure the
men have been reviewed to death during the
summer to give the initiative to some organised
arrangement T There are alsoColchester and Shorn-
cliffe, also at very short distances, but, as far as we
van see or learn, the men might as well be a thou-
sand miles distant from the Exhibition. From the
Curragh the soldiers have been willing to come at
their own expense, but have been informed that
they must submit to stoppages until their return.
Surely it is not meant that the Exhibition should
close without as many of our soldiers and sailors
as may be within reach having an opportunity of
seeing it.
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Monti's statuary group "The Dream of Sorrow
and Birth of Joy," has lately been published by the
London Stereoscopic Company among their slides
of the International Exhibition, and has been one
of the most popular subjects. This week they have
published " The Veiled Bride" by the same artist,
exhibited by the Crystal Palace Art Union.
The highest temperature yesterday, as shown
by Negretti and Zambra's patent thermometers,
was :—ln the nave, 62.1 deg. ; in the galleries, (i 3.8
deg. ; in the western annex, 66.7 deg. The tem-
perature was rather higher yesterday.
The following were the total numbers admitted
yesterday, compared with the corresponding day
in 1851 :

Thursday, Sept. 11 Wesson tickets
1 Payment
Total b4,191

7iiessori tickets 2,0611
Payment