The Express.
London, England, 1864-08-09 00:00:00

MR. AMID MELLON'S CONCERTS.

The fourth aeries of these entertainments own
'sexed lest night an the Royal Rehm Opera How—tb•
lame wof Covent-garden Theatre leaving been, as usual
ay them eramMem converted into • grand osnoort•room and
promosed• the enamors bolsi eroded In the oentra
Abe,* me hundred of the beet insiamearatabein belonging
Is the hands of the Royal Dalian Opera and the
Roan! Society of London play, an only snob an orahedas
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play, the aymplsonip, overtures, and damn mask
which loan the instrumental portion of the programme ;
them pima being Tamed by the vocal perfeemanom of
MEM Oaricitte Patti. The mooed of last night cein•
Mooed with Bemboves's noble ovarian to " Lemon,"
Ole mature par errelknet of the fear which be
wrote to Ids opera an-called, bat aftermath nraoldetened
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" Fideno," h." grand symphrie pier was very
finely lima • ae sera the otber ombastral prose of the
aversiag, iselodisg two ummeeneate (mediate .ad sober* of
• /Iv J. P. Batasti's symphony, rsertly produced at the
ocarris of the Mahal Society cl laradia. That smallest
riediaist, Mr. Oarrodse, played • brilliant eolo by Emir
with ornmsaste whey err the diebirtir of his most
iesinssest ; Gad Mel* Marie Kreha, th• young
piasiesefrou Dredge, displayed • dear fire. tree sad
peat egrative payer is • fasters oemsetrasted is the Thal-
, bog piers. A areity was istrodard is the perm of •
I Toddle isedarisr, is errata sore r% sir played • nolo
'r * *sr irlimaiest Whet Tuakephaso—tes teem
of sir& remseshat eessabir that of the ono di
baritte. Ad her liss-Alle-rs this arra is mused
be the pregreaume—dhplayed • pro* econcould over his

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insasuadim a %minis en she from La foes= bola,
which was resisessattaL ♦sotb, sanity of the emeing
was a quadrille am airs frem Cloesed'a " Marl hi," la which
some d the most chsrmisg @Weds of that opera
ars twisted and aimed into atm* shape with the
irreverent* usual in soak prawns. The theatre
was crowded on every park to such at *:test tacked
that yromasedlas became a matter of oessidarable difd•
salty. 4is fora, mamas, airials ~wisp are to be
dimetod M erisetices has the pest meaters, said es ot►ur
eassioes uamoompsaied saes are to ha introduced by Mr.
Yelloo's Mae Uslea—thus stlaisteriag to all degrees if
musical taste sad intalligenes.

DRAMA.

ADELPHX.

An "entirely now Wee " by Mr. T. J.Williants,
the author of id ow park/Prams* yam produced at this
theatre teat wising. with the title of My Wift s Maid. The
ghee was eoesidered moment el ; bet it. mono must be
attributed rather to the adore thsa the author. Mr.
Lytimeehue Tootles (Mr. Toole), • weak you.% sou with
romantic teadencies, has accidestaLly met is Battenne-park
Barbara Perkiss. • ssalimest•l maid-servant, with • km
faith is drti•y (Mrs. Ytilos). Tootles laving coscetied
• polies for Berbers, 'strode= himself to bar under the
roceatio pseudonym of D. Itivesetierthe ; while the maid-
Penal, peony rementio la her besdeleimparts with her sew
lover under the higheasedieg tills of Mount Paddingtoe.
Methwhile Tootle* is amps/led by hie respectable father,
Teethe, make (Mr. Paul Bedford), to pay court to Luciod•
(Mee Eleume), sad, reluctantly visiting at her house. die•
covers /a Barbara Perkins, the maidesessat, no other then
hie dead Mir Monet Paddington. The plot is further
oomplietiod by the furious jealoesy d one Captain Crack-
thorpe Cinnabar (Mr. B. Phillips). • blusteriag, bectoriag,
military gentlemsa, with black inoesteche and mutton chop
whiskers of the received type. Barbara Perking, alien
Mount Paddington, at the time of be. diet iatraview with
Tootle., alias le Itivesebounici, led attired herself without
authority in her inletrece's append, sad • very exact
description of • dress With airtime Somme sad other
article. belonging to Mrs. Crouches, brings the lambs
jealousy of the espial down upon the weak sod vacillating
Tootles. All barmisic, is evestually elegreff se, aid both
Tootles and Barbara being cured ef their romantic sea*
mots, the former is recoociled to the lady whom his father
has chosen for him, while Barbers natives to bestow her
affection. OD her original lover, r respectable vow.
The fun of the faros was almost sulkily derived from the
16.1241°1m sentiments and exaggerated action of Mr. Toole
sod Mrs. Mellon, to the course of which many • point loos
SMOG found sneceseful is mafioso drum in theatres acmes
the water woe parodied with • 'edition. sarseetees. which
drew roars of laughter from the sadist.. Mr. Paul Bed-
ford, as Tootles, essior, ocetribeted one siderably to the
drollery of the situations ; and Mr. B. Phillips intensified
the auger and bluster of the choleric captain in • way which
gave eometbiag like freshers to a somewhat hackaied part.

THE Samar AT Varentoa. —The mama at
Valance is conenaming with . favoeurelde 'prospect TM
town is Wing will vision Mao .arena parts of
tap kingdom. slowing that the old and well used
fiction of the exceptioad beat of this portion of "the
pram of Eirgiond" is ylsidlug to the fora of expori•
me and fat. Vesteer bet Thom is SO whore a spot
over which the refashion sea Imams blow in the summer
Um with mire ocastant regularity, sad • more invigorating
effect. On does sad moo; on hills and plaice • by tab as,
or amidst, the delicious that flonrielast by our
moat, there it always as maga hog the rape of the see.
And cite* in the expreedoe repeated in our henries by the
parched and weary folk, who come to is with fears and
tremble's, 'What a delightlel swan I We were told
we should be baked, and we only now bed it • comfort to
breaths." The las of Wight is the resort of hundreds of
Begleed's choicest families in the wake moths, sad Vel*4
new will, wg en pomaded, as. loss be acknowledged •
charming mart through the whole arca et tle year.—
towner Tams. - _

- Taa EiUSPNC7I- D MURDEA AT BRIITOL.—ForiII-
Daisly the mapicioes sa to the cease of the death of the
woman Bassist:a, in Partitiosetreek wire unfounded.
Thera lies been so candor committed, sad the statements
made, as Se the niters of the injuries essianed by the poor
woman, by those who pretended to keen, about the cam oo
Friday, were, as usually happens, greatly ezeuereted. Is
oases of thin tried no sae knows blow difficult a matter it is
so get at the plan unvarnished truth except those who an
actually engaged is the investigation of such cams. Who.
• woman is found dead, with her fees in her husband's bat,
' and her features stained with blood, thew who happen to
Ind her conclude, not unnaturally, that she has bees our
dared, end from very @louder materials they construes *wi-
dow* is supports' their cowl usioa which, until it is touched
by judicial hands, seems conclusive. A verdict of " Died
Ifrom sateen sous' was returned by the maser% jury.—
Western Daily Prat.
FANAL AOOIDINS IN SRN MAIN DRAINAGE
WONAL —Yr. Carter, the conein, received ninetieth's
yenned., of the death of Mrs. Martha Matthews, aged 31
31111111, who resided at 73, Albany-reed, Camberwell. which
wee esomeesed wader the following Inghtfid ciresoistaases.
Cla &nerdy sight she YIN from her door, opposite to
which—ia the roadway—wag a cause about 25 feet deep
belonging to the works of the men drainage. Having some
eurlosity to we the moo at work, elve leased over the bar.
rim' whim she lost her balance sad fell head foremost Into
thsesweir. As aeon as possible she was brought to the
surface in an insensible enclitics, and omoveyed to St.
Thomas's Hospital, when she less attended by Mr. filiddall,
lb. house wises, who found that her shall was fractured,
and that she was otherwim dreadfully injured. She as-
pired ta a few boon. The deceased has left babied a family
of See yams eldidree sod at the time of the shocking
oaservesoo was far adisamilia .
A Wines, Saar BY • 01.IINSIIIIL—on Tues-
day last, J• 111111 Winos, tailor, Coviastoa, was brought to
Wan charged with 'booting • woman at Oreille°, NM
It appears that he was a member of the Biggar company of
vohistwes. and bad been with thews at Iseark that day for
battalion drill. Before having Debark be had got talon.
Iliilld. sad he left the train at Thaskertoa Stenos, it being
rawest his home. While posing Covington Mill Farm,
which is close to the rood, some of the sernate joeshirty
said to him that he was a peer shot. He replied that he
would show them whether he weld shear not. He them
levelled his ribs at them (it being loaded at the time).
and fired. The 'emits ran into the house,
whet he drew his bayonet, arid ran into the kitchen
after them. Three of *be women were studios close to-
genies at the wall, end he darted either', bat try &deuterium
MG" they artosped, aid his bayonet stock into a ladder.
Being thus failed, he again mid he would shoot some of
them, so he lobed lin rills, and they, Misting it was all •
.itziy ado no attempt to somps. Whoa looted. be &-
aimed bin ride at lb. beast if ows et the we...
Nee smash Ming sly en Weiss teem her), sad Ind ; she
wheeled toned, sad tenements ousped with a flesh woad.
,Hpa she sot stirred at that Widest, she would ban bees
shot through the heart. Plus Is still awier medical treatment.
On maw is Jaw Rade, egad Iwasty4ms. • Wilms was
1 appellants* by Pollessowslahlui Misr mid Manley. lie
b theta renal sp. end hew • wile add two
elnidres Ohm mmanaid before the eland! as Wed.
medal, be was fekteisL—Ansesaie.

4. 4 f. 1.

[Stamped, Id. Additional

NAVAL AND MILITARY.

ANIMUS; Atrocer EL—Naval Cadet (nomi-
nated) J. A.lkarataft.

CHATHAM, AUGUST 8.
The Dore, Admiralty transport, sailed from the
dockyard this monis; with the materials for a sew downy-
tioo of tarpt which is ordered to be emoted at Ethoebery-
nese by a party. of inechardes sad artivaa from this dock-
yard, for experimental porpoele. The debris of the Lord
Warden tarp*, tried at Shosharyoess a short time sine,
will be conveyed to this stockyard in the Dove.

WOOLWICH, Awn 8.

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EXTERN,' ROBBERY AT rat ROYAL. MILITARY
Ctarelro Etmarm,—Rome ezeiteineot cow prevail, at Wool-
wich, especially in mibtary (Melee, ming from theidiasovery
that • wholesale system of robbery has for some time past
been carried as at the large manufacturing establishmeat
knows as the goverment clothing Moses, sad lista number ,
of an-cosimisesoned Witham and soldims have hese appre-
hended sad charged with posseeskis of part of the Mobs
property. It appears that the rlouto of robbery was gent
brosght to light by Ing, a &Wotan Aker of the Reclaim
and steps were then taken by the military police
to search the reedemee of a number of royal artillery
soldiam, some et whom am employed la a superior pp.
inn at the establishment. The result of this prompt actin
was, that the inspected parties was fogad to have in their
rersang a very large anionet of some, &noel, dotty calico,
leather, ha, anmaanfectered into military clothing; io addi-
tion to a number of anaautactured articles, the whole being
breaded with the breed WOW and evidently government
propeny stolen from the clot/dig Moms. At present tea of
the employee at the establishment are is custody at the
military polka, and a most searching invedigatios is now
being carried on, which it is believed will malt is the 'p-
ion of other delinquent'. A intendant of the facts
reesha sio forwarded to the authorities at the War Depart-
ment, mid a military court of enquiry will he instituted to
report on the matter.