The Express.
London, England, 1862-12-25 00:00:00

AMERICA.

The Hamburg and American Company's steamer
Saxon* from NOW York on the 13th init., arrived
at Southampton yesterday wit► 113 passengers and
260,000 dole. for England, 76,831 dole. for Prance,
and 51,808 dole. for Hamburg.
The Canadian screw steamer Hibernian, from
Portland, on the 13th, arrived at Liverpool yester-
day morning with New York journals of the 12th
inst., and telegraphic news to the 13th.
The City of Manchester Arrived at Queenatowd
from New York last evening. She brings 146 pas-
sengers, and 576,070 dole. in speeie.

FROCK/WINGS IN CONGRESS.
A bill wsa to be introduoed into Congress sub-
mitting a proposition to the effect that if Missouri
would adopt a system for the immediate abolition of
slavery in January, 1864, the Federal government
would compensate the loyal citizens to the extent of
twenty million of dollars in thirty-year bonds.
The committee on ways and' means have
agreed upon three appropriation bills for the
next fiscal year, which will be reported to
the house —the Army Bill, which appro-
priates 741,000,000 dollars ; the West Point
Bill, which is essentially as usual, and the Fortifi-
cation Bill, which makes unusually large appro-
priations, especially for New York Barbour, vari-
ous points on the coast of Maine, and the Tortugas
and other Florida forte.

The following is a further summary of the pro-
ceedings of Congress :
In the Senate on the 11th a resolution was adopted in-
structing the committee on finance to inqr,re into the ea-
prdiency of allowing Surat cotton to be imported into the
United States upon the payment of the same dunes as for
cotton imported from beyond the Cape of Good Hope. The
bill relating to the confirmation by the Senate of volunteer
appointments in the navy wee indefinitely postponed. The
President sent in a manage recommending a vote of thanks
to Lieutenant George W. Morrie . and Lieutenant John L.
Worden. the commanders, respectively, of the sloop-of-war
Cumberland and iron battery Monitor, for gallant conduct
in the action with the rebid steamer Merrimac. The sub-
ject ws referred to the naval committee. A communica-
tion was also received from the President in answer to the
resolution of the Senate calling for information end evidence
relative to the Indian barbarities in the State of Minnesota ;
ordered to be printed. The resolution relative to the arbi-
trary arrests of certain citizens of Delaware was then taken
up and diseuesed till the adjournment.
In the House of Rerrreesetatives a bill to adjust the ep-1
propriatione for the civil service of the Navy Department
was paned. The bill makes no new appropriations.
A resolution, providing armed vessels to convoy ships
laden with provnions for the starving of England, was in-
troduced, but objection was made to its consideration. The
bill appropriating 9,500 dole. indemnity for damages re-
ceived by the French ship Jules et Marie by collision with
the United States steamer San Jacinto was passed. A mes-
sage from the President recommending that John L. Norden
receive the thanks of Congress, by resolution, for his gallant
conduct on the Monitor in combat with the Merrimac, such
thanks being necessary under the law to advance him one
grade in the naval list of officers of the navy, was referred
to the naval committee. Mr. Roscoe Conkling asked leave
to report a bill to establish a uniform system of
bankruptcy, with an amendment Is the nature of a
atilietitute, and desired that a day should be =signed
for its consideration. The Speaker mid that the select
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committee on that subject had expired with the former
session of Congress, and would have to be revived. A reso-
lution calling fora statement of the number of Men in the
army, both regulars and volunteers, what regiments have
rewired pay since the Ist inst., what regiments remain un-
paid, and bow long they have been without pay ; also
whether the money appropriated for the pay, clothing, and
subsistence of the troops has been spent for any other
was adopted. Resolutions were offered declming the
President's emancipation not warranted byy the constitution;
that the policy et emancipation as ptrdiated in the pro-
°lunation is not calculated to beaten the restoration of peace,
not well chosen as a war measure, and is an assumption
of power dangerous to the rights of citizens, and the perpe-
tuity of a free government. On the motion of Mr. Lovejoy,
the resolutions were laid on the table by a vote of nickel),
four against forty-five. The house then went into com-
mittee of the whole, and diacussed the President's plan of
negro emancipation.
Both honace adjourned till Monday.

WAR NEWS.
THE CROSSING OF THE RAPPAHANNOCK.
_ _

The following appreciation of the situation at
Fredericksburg is from the New York Herald of
Dec. 13:

The main body of General Burnskle's army crossed the
Rappahannock yesterday, and now occupies the south side
of the river. The enemy still (maintain their position on
the hills, and exhibited no signs of evaima;ing it
up to last night. Nothing but a terrific battle
coo dislodge them if they are ready for that
Woe. During the pumage of our troops yesterday
at the different points., General Sherman's oorps leading the
way in front of the city of Fredericksburg, the enemy
poured a constant fire upon our troops in the city and on the
forces who were crossing on the two lower bridges, although
they did very little damage. _ General Bayartts cavalry,
which crossed on the lower bridge, had five men killed while
endeavouring to ascertain the enemy's position.
Our lessee in all were very slight, considering the import-
ance of the movement and the danger to which our troop,
were necessarily exposed. We give a list of the °mashie,
as far as can be ascertained. A stirring description of
the bombardment and assault is given in our special
to my (correspondence, accompanied by a tine map of
Fredericksburg and its vicinity. After occupying the
river front of the city on Thursday night we boat
about 100 men in killed and wounded while driving the
rebels through the city. They fired on our men as they ad.
mimed through the streets while secreted in and behind
houses. Yesterday morning a dense fag hid everything
from view, but cleared away in the afternoon. Meantime
the enemy was rapidly pa sing over the river, and before
nightfall nearly the whole force occupied the south bank.
At latest amounts the remaining portion was ready to follow
at care.
The same paper eaye :
The destination of the Banks expedition is clearly defined
Ly an officer on board one of the tranepoi s as follows
"ft will not go as far as some think, and yet further than
others suspect." . . _

General Rosencranz has ordered that no more flap of
trace shall leave Nashville for the conveyance of parties
detiring to go South. The privilege has been abased by
women.

The following is from the New York Times of the
Fame date :

Headquarters, Army of Potomac,
Deo. 12, Evening.
At 10 ei clock this meaning the fog began to clear away,
bat bal'ore 11 the air was again thick, which continued until
two, when the fog entirely cliaapper-ed.
At a quarter peat two the rebels opened with all their
guns posted on the first ridge of hills. Their main fire
was directed upon the city, which was filled with our troops.
Those guns which were posted on the left of the ridge
were opened on the larger body of troops which emeeed on the
two lower bridges and bad formed in line of battle, and were
moving obliquely down the liver fronting the Idaseaponax.
Although several of their shells exploded, none of our men
were injured.
General Bayard's cavalry, which crossed on the lower
bridge, bad five men killed while endeavouring to ascertain
the enany's position.
The troops which craned below are sleeping on their
arms tonight, the advance being within three-quarters of a
mile of Maseaponax creek, their left resting on the Rappa-
hannock.

The enemy occupy the opposite side of the creek iu force.
The guns posted on the bank this side of the river silenoed ,
the enemy's artillery after a duel of half an hour. This
ended the firing for the day.
The only damage done by the rebel shells thrown into the
city was to add so much to its destruction. Twenty-five of
our men wets killed last night in the streets while driving
the enemy out.
Nearly every house in the city has been damaged more or
less by the firing of the pest two days. Several splendid
residences have been completely riddled, as also all the
churches. The fire appeared to be directed to the most
prominent edifices.
Severe. cams of wanton destruction of property by our
troops occurred when they entered—property which could
be of no use to the enemy. In many homes the furniture
all remained, showing that their occupants left in baste.
Some of our troops mistook the British flag fora Secession
gag, and tore it from the residence of the British consul.
This looming the owner came over to recover it, and it was
returned to him.
_ . .

The main body of the ahny is now over the river, the
remainder being in pozition to cross at aryl time. There
are no indications of the enemy evacuating. If he remain a
battle must immediately Naze.
News from Washington of the 12th inst. states that the
Navy Department has received a letter from Lieutenant
Commander English, dated off the oust of Florida, stating
that the boat. belonging to his vessel had captured in
Marian River the English schooners Agnes and Ellen, and
sent them to Key West for adjudication.
In the M'Dowell cue nothing o: importance had farther
been elicited. In the cue of General Porter General
ll'Dowell was examined, testifying as to orders of the 29th,
dirroting Porter to advance, which order was similar in
'Eton° 000 he, as senior officer, had already given to
General Porter. _

The .tamer Kensington has captured the British schooner
Maria, from Belize., and 'chooser Came, from Harammh,
while trying to run the blockade at Sabine Pisa.

Special Washington despatches of the 12th state
that General Slocum'a command participates in the
general movement He ham left Harper's Ferry,
and at last advicea was between Manassas and
Strasburg.
Major-General Sedgwick has been assigned to
the command of the 9th army corps, late General
Burnside's, and will join the army on Monday or
Tuesday.

The news from the army of the Potomac is suddenly is
vested with the most startling interest. Yesterday moral
al
movement forcrossing the Rappahannock coinianell
and List night the city of Fredericksburg was in possession
of our forces, with comparatively trifling loss. During
Wednesday night pontoon bridges were got in readiness for
throwing across the river, and at 5 o'clock yesterday emu-
og the construction of three of them commenced in front of
the city. When they were about half completed the erectly
opened a murderous fire of musketry upon the engineers,
and forced them to desist from their work ; 143
pieces of our artillery then opened upon the city,
and the fire was responded to by the rebels,
but without much carnage. The city was set 01 fire
in several places by our shells. The attempt was then made
to finish the bridges, when the enemy's sharpshooters again ,
opened and compelled • retreat. Finally, volunteers to
CMS the river in small boats were called for, and sprang
out of the ranks by thousands. Only jOO, however, were
chosen, who crossed the river in the most dashing style,
drove out the sharpshooters at the poini, of the bayonet, and
captured a large number of them, who were brought over
the river and secured. The bridges were then completed,
and the city was immediately occupied by our forces, the
rebels being driven back to their defensive worm Meantime
General Franklin was also engaged in the construction of
bridges about three miles below the city, in which work be
met with little opposition. He did not cross, bowers?,
until he heard that the city was in our possession. The
gunboats were also engaged in shelling the enemy about 15
miles below, where they ,had collected in considerable force,
last night everything was reported quiet, with the prospect
of a great battle to lie fought to-day.
A correspondent of the Barlow Journal states the
Franklin's division was under orders to make a rapid move-
ment on the sth inst., and to fall upon one of the flanks of
the rebel army stretched along the Rappahannock. A
storm of rain sod snow came on, making the roads so nearly
impassable, that iostead;of marchiogisisteen"rnilesjas was in-
tended, the division made bat nine miles the first day, and
the movement had to be ahsndoned.

A despatch from Nashville, dated the 10th inst., leads us
to expect a battle in that vicinity before long. The rebels
under Joe Johnson, Bragg. Cheatham, Forrest, and Morgan,
• lvanoed and drove in the national picket. on the
morning of the 10th, at all points. A collisioo was expected
weer Hartsville, the scene of the recent disgrace, and rein-
forcements were being hurried toward that point. The
guerilla Forrest wee said to hold Clarluiville with a con-
sideiable force.

--",ifiTribereiespatch from General Curtis to General pal-
leek regarding the recent battle at Fayetteville proves it to
have been one of the first magnitude, and that ire results
were even more disastrous to the enemy than at first re-
ported. Their forces are now ascertaioed to have been
28,000 strong. Our loss is killed and wounded is estimated
at 1,000, and that of the rebels at over 2,000. They left
nosey of their dead and most of their wounded on the field,
and moved off in the night with muffled wheels. They are
believed to have erosed the Arksams River.
A despatch from Cairo states that General Hovey, who
meetly occupied Grenada, Mississippi, arrived with his staff
at Friar's Point, on the Mississippi, ou Sunday morning. It
menet known whether his entire command returned with
bits. A pnboat recounaissasee had been made up by the
Yazoo River, but the result, are not made public.
The loyal Tennessee regiments which have bees Tr=
around Louisville for some time received maraldag

ea Monday, rod Amato& their *a:tare. Direction not employed it, at least not towards the French con-
sisted. sill. The corrected telegram from Mr. Reuter
The Washington correspondent of the Pkila• / reads in fact as follows :—"ln May last the French
delphia Ledger writes under date Dn. 11 : , consul at New Orleans wrote to M. Mercier, the
The Banks and tot tress Monroe expedition were sot for French minister at Washington, that fieneral Butler
the 'ta" River, that il aerial°, het fee • mare seethe"' used towards the most respectable people against
whomhe oug e . held a "emu.'" The "Peditt" earned kerne". the ht h had cause of complaint the
quantities of coal, and provisions for 60 days, which would
imply that a Gulf port was the destination of the squadron. most extraordinary language. Ma first words were
It is pcennle that Texas is the paint in view, in furtherance I almost always, ' I will bang you,' or 'I will send
of the project alluded to yesttrday, of dis:ding it up into ' von to Fort Jookoon., e
four states. A portion of the expedition was pared off '
Hatteras on Sunday last.
The pirate Medium' has again been heard of. She
recently captured the ship Levi Starbuck, from New Bed- '
ford, bound to the Pacific, in lat. 35.10, long. 66, and
burnt her, also the ship T. B. Wales, of Boston, from
Calcutta for Boston, with a full cargo of ealtpstre and
gunny cloth, which she also burnt. This capture was made
in lat. 28.30, long. 58.
We have &deices from Newborn, N.C., to the Bth inet.,
which are interesting. The message of the rebel Governor
Vance had been received. It contains no Indication of il
unionism, but, on the coetrary, appeals for a stern and
determined devotion to the rebel ranee. He, however, re-
Recta severely upon the rebel conscript law, and is rather
disposed to grumble gererally at the condition of affairs in
the State and in the ofederely. From the rebel journals
it is learned that General Whiting has been Opined in com-
mand of • rebel forte at Wilmington, which point is be-
lieved to be one of these aimed at by the expeditions fitting
out by the National Government. Union and free Moue
meeting' were being held in Newborn and Beaufort.
The following are the latest telegrams published
in the Boston papers of the 13th inst. :
Headquarters, Ai my of the Potomac,
Dec. 12, 10 a.m.
After occupying the river front of the city lad night we
lost about ICO men in killed and wounded while driving the
enemy through the city. They fired on our men as they
advanced through the Amine while secreted in and behind
houses. Not much mercy was shown to those who were
caught.
This morning a dense fog bid everything from view, but
now it is partially passing away.
The troops commenced moving at an early hour, General
Sumner's grand division leading the way over in front of
the city, to be followed by Major-General Hooker's grand
division. General Franklin's grand division, which crowns
nearly three miles below the city, is almost over.
At a quarter past 9 the first gun was fired, the engage-
ment lasting about half an hour, the rebels not making a
very spirited reply:
Information received during the night and this morning
from deserters and prisoners shows that the rebels have two
strong lines of bakra:m in the rear of the city, the first one
being one mile back, and the second a mile from the first.
The wheie army is in rapid motion, and well concentrated.
The troops are in eandlent spirits, and maxims to be led
upon the works.

SOUTHERN EXECUTIONS IN TEXAS.

(From the Texas

Paper.)

A week or two ago we gave a brief account
of the trouble is Cook County, growing out of the
&emery of a treasonable plot to su. render that
partial of the state to Fedeesl authority. Cook
County k • border county, coatignous to the Indian
laeribary, and is thinly inhabited, • great portion of the
settlers being originally from Ohio ad Indiana. It seems
there was • secret organisation formed, having ripe, pipe,
and pm/swords. The members are swage to secrecy, and
those found worthy were entrusted with three degrees.
The first degree bound the member to setavey, sad to
avenge • brother member's blood. The second degree was
confined to robbing, jay-bawking, tcc. The third ocontem-
' plated the re-establishment of the old Union.

By lame means the whole plot was discovered, sod
created intense excitement. About seventy men were
arrested, the most of them, as we understand, low cha-
racters, with here and there a man of limited influenoe.
About twenty-four of them were tried and executed, when
the eonimenity was freshly excited by the intelligence that
the soo of an hotel-keeper at Gainesville (whose =mews do
not reoollect) bad been waylaid and moseyed several miles
from town.

Colonel W. C. Young and several others went out to
get the body, but had not reached the spot when some one
in ambush shot Young through the head, killing him
instantly. Such was the exasperation caused by these
assassinations that the community hung several others.
The number executed in Gook county, at hst accounts,
reached forty-two, and two others were shot in attempting
to make their escape. The extent of the plot was not
known, bat it was not stippeeed to be very extensive.
How could it be, when there are probably not a thousand
013i011 men, if so many, in the state! It was trued, how-
ever, to Grayson county ; some few arrests had been made
at Sherman, and one man was condemned to be hang.
Others, it was expected, would be summarily dealt with.
Sines writing the foregoing it is rumoured that several
persons have been hung in Grayson county, and among
them a Dr. Lively.

NEW "vatic CONVENTION.

We referred briefly yesterday to a new table of
rates lamed by the Post-office, carryfeg into effect the pro.
visions of a convention with Russia, Hamburg and Bremen,
which will come into operation on the let January next.
The following are fuller details of the new table. The
postage to the German States is throughout 13d. for letters
not exceeding half an ounce in weight, and the letters will
all be forwarded viii Belgium, unless for Bavai:a, Wnrtem.
berg, Baden, and Luxemburg, which will be sent otherwise
unlessspecially superscribed via Belgium. The post-
age to Heligoland is also 6d. The postage to
other states for letters under half an ounce will
be as follows : Denmark, 9d. ; Norway, is. 2d. ;
Sweden, Is. ; lonian Islands, 10d. ; Italy, Ild. [Letters
for Italy and Papal States intended to be forwarded via Bel-
tlwor must be superscribed "vs Be4ium.l—Greece, is.
f eta Belgium, must be superscribed "via Belgium:l—
and Poland, 10d. ; lainenbum, 7d. ; Switzerland,
64 [if via Belgium, must be euperecrihed "via Belgiuml ;
rapt, by Australian packets, 101., except Cairo, Ac.,
h. Id. ; &gear, Zfta, kiiholla, and Bamanud, Is. 2d. ;
Maissoura and Damietta, is. 3d. ; Saes and Ports Saida,
la. 6d. ; Alexandria, 10d. [Letters for EV pt, if via Bel-
gium, must be superscribed " via Belgium. 1 The postage
to the most important places in Turkey, Moldavia, Sere*
and the Levant, in which Austria maintains post-of6oes, is
as follows, viz. :—Belgrade, 6d. ; Jamey and Bucharest, 9d. ;
Galati, 10d. ; Bsyrout, Constantinople, Dardanelles, Galli-
poli, 11d. ; Jerusalem, ' ; Adnanople, lid. ; Alexan-
dretta, Tripoli (in Syria), Aleppo, and Damascus, lid. Letters
for places in Turkey, Moldavia, Wallachia, Berrie, and the
Levant, at which Austria does not maintain post.oflicee,
should in all cases be addressed to the care of an agent at
one of the ports at which there is an Austrian post-office.
Letters for Galata, Beyrout, Constantinople, Dardanellea,
Gallipoli, Alessndretta. Tripoli, and Damascus, if
to intended be forwarded via Belgium, must be superscribed
" via Belgium." The postage or newspapers and book
packets is for each newspaper to the German States, foreign
countries in Europe and Heligoland, s:a Belgium, and if not
exceeding 4 oz. in weight, 2d. ; each packet, 4d. The
postage or newspapers a she like weight to the lonian
lands, Alexandria (Egypt) Turkey, Moldavia, Wallachia,
Servia, and the Levant, and to Greece and Egypt (Alexandria
excepted), is 3d. The book and newspaper postage to the
German States must be paid in advance.

AMERICAN SYMPATHY WITH LANCASHIRL -
Some conversation took place upon this subject at the
meeting of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board yesterday,
during which it was recommended that the vessels which
are freighted 'CI provisions for the relief of the distressed
operatives should be exempted from dock end town dues. A
very general feeling was expressed in favour of such ex-
emption, though the ultimate decision of the board upon
the subject was messed until next week.

A shocking accident occurred three days back in
the church of St. Catinat at klaneilles, during the perform-
anos of weepers. An anthem was being sung, accompanied
by the occasional tolling of the bells, when the clapper of
one of them suddenly detaching itself, fell through the roof
into the choir, lolled one of the musicians, and broke the
leg of another.

A letter from Naples says :—" The excavations
of Pompeii are every day producing reruns which attract
crowds of visitors. The price of admission, fixed at 2fr.,
produces on an average from 1501 r. to 200 fr. a day, and that
so= applied to the works makes them progress to the great
advantage of arclueology. The adm;esion is free on Sun-
days only. Foreigners are tooth% both to this city and to
Rome."

0171 " GIIILT GARDIU(S." —ID a second letter
to the Times "S. G. 0." 'Lite' :—" We have no right
in this matter to seek ' a sign,' to demand of Heaven minim.
low aid to help in work in reality of a very commonplace
character. You would discharge the scoilerymaid whom
you saw wiping out a rink with • dinner napkin. Can
any religious power, however aided by church and
dissent's highest united prasare, hope rally to
prevail over the hearts and habits of people forced
to dwell in these foul lanes and alleys? I declare 1 have
been, in one city, in places so vile that I should have felt a
Bible as much out of place sea pack of cards in a pulpit.
Religious zeal, by Heaven's aid, may steal a soul or
two now end then from these Guilt-Gardens, but
the mama you never will affect until you dis-
perse it. I call out for rigid inquiry into the actual
state of them places—honest evidence how they came to
be what they are, for whose profit they are sustained.
1 ask, in the oame of common humanity, on what prin-
ciple of justice ground is to be for ever covered with dwell-
logs for therich while the poorer our towns, who must exist
is a certain proportion to those dwellings, have no provision
made for their physical or moral healthy existence. If we
are for ever to be told that such places must be—that there
most be a ' criminal quarter' in our metropolis,—
then I say let it be so girt about with those
whose duty it is to protect us from criminals that to leave
that quarter will be to do so under such watchful vigilance
as shall make the crimes of the professional offenders as
difficult as hazardous. I do not believe you can deal by
education, by help of missionaries of church or any deno-
mination, or of both in union, by any known machinery for
' good,' with beings such as these, herded together in such
places. Yon may starve them out by police action. It is
vain to hope to do much more."
THE SPAWNING SEASON IN THE ETTRIGH.-0/1
Thursday and Friday last the wind blew a violent gale from
the westward, and was accompanied by heavy showers of rain
which had the effect of raising the waters to heavy floc L As
they began to subside, the preemies of immense numbers of
newly-run fish was observable, especial'', in the Ettrick,
where no fewer than fifty heavy salmon were counted
making the sweat of Selkirk Cauld at one time. On Friday
evening a hard frost set in, and by Sunday the waters were
mooing pretty clear, and the salmon had freely token
to the spawning beds. Immediately opposite the town
of Selkirk an interesting scene is now attracting great num.
hers of spectators. On • reach of fine spawning water,
the fish, mostly of from 161 b. to 30Ib. weight, are liter
rally fighting for room to deposit the spawn ; and many
of the " kippers " beer evidence that they are far from
having escaped scatJalem, large wounds being noticeable
on their holies. Since the commencement of the
season, when the fish arrive from the sea, they have
continued unusually numerous, but at no time have
they at all approached, either in size or number, what they
are at present. Whether the increase is fully accounted for
by the more efficient means taken for the protection of the
fish during the last two seasons, may be a matter for specu-
lation ; but the fact is unmistakeably apperent, that each
. returning spawning season—at least so far sthe Ettrick is
1 concerned—shows that fish of the salmon kind are rapidly
inereasing.—RdinGurgia Courant.
THE STAFFORDSHIRE IRON TRA DE. —BIRMING-
HAL DWI 24.—The preliminary meeting of the ironmuters
of South Staffordshire and Said Warwickshire was held to.
day at the Swan Hotel, Wolverhampton, Philip Williams,p
Esq., in the chair. A resolution was unanimously
to adhere to the old scale of prices for all descriptions of
(imbibed boa

MUSIC.

• HER MAJESTY'S- THEATRE.
ingthion to the usual Christmas performances
el the Messieth, there was one last night (Christmas eve) at
Her Majesty's Theatre. In one respect—the quality of the
principal iogsre—it was by far the most effective perform-
ance of the season. There was Mullis. MMus, now unrivalled
lv oratorio gauging u in everything else ; there was Mr.
Sims Reeves, "the great English tenor," and
there were Miss Palmer and Mr. Bentley, who
have no superiors in their respective capacities
of contralto and bus. The chorus was not egos'
to the thoroughly trained voices of the Seared Harmonic
Society, who are accustomed always to sing together,
whereas this was a body of singers got together fora carti-
osier ocessioo. But their singing, nevertheless, thanks to
Mr. Benedict's skill and Sunned% was on the whole very
eaddsotory. The instrumental band, too, was of adequate
strength, end contained many of our most eminent per-
formers. Titiens was in splendid voice, and sang with all
her accustomed power and pads= Sims Reeves also pat
forth all his strength ; and Mies Palmer and Mr. Bentley
acquitted themselves admirably. All the performers were
loudly applauded, bat there were happily no encores.
There was an immense audience, every part of the theatre
bedng crowded to exam.