The Express.
London, England, 1864-08-31 00:00:00

MUSIC.

FESTIVAL OF THE THREE CHOIRS.
HEREFORD, TVLUILT.

A large number of visitors have arrived to-day
by special and ordinary trains, there Wog a doable attrec•
tine in the holding of a regatta on the Wye. It was e
carious arrangement to fix the regatta for the festival week,
though probably the two gatherings, if they do not 'waist,
will not mach interfere with each other.

The festival opened this morning with early service at
the cathedral at half-peat eight. Notwithstanding the
early hut then was s large coogregatioo. The mayor,
Mr. Even retaken, and the member of the nerif Cur-
poration attended in state ; and the bishop, the capons in
residence, and minor canons wen also present. Service was
held in the choir, the clergy and choristers being seated in
the chancel, and the 000gregatioa in the transepts and
lower pat of the nave, divided frost the clergy by the mag-
nificent open screen which formed so greaten attraction in
the last Great Fahinitioe. The service was Ousley in C, and
the anthem " Blamed be Thou " (Kent). The members of
the three choirs of Worcester, Hereford, and Gloucester,
joined in the larvae. These early services will be continued
daily during the weak.
The festival sermon was preached by the Rev. W. E.
Evans, A.M., as... raidentiary, who took tor his text
2 Connthians viii. 23: " They are the umesengerej of the
*hutches and the glory of Christ."
Mr. Dose, of Worcester, presided at the organ (which
was sadly out of order), and played at the commencement
of the service an andante by Sir H. Smart, and at its coo-
elusion a fugue by Sebastian Bach.
The first oratorio wee fixed to commence this moreing in
the cathedral at noon, and punctually to time Hr. Town•
bend railed hie baton for the overture to Heyde's Creation,
which formed the first part of the morning's musical per.
formai:ma The attendance was good fora first morning, Has
principal seats being nessly all occupied. The falling
off is attendance was in the second and third
claw seats ; the latter were nearly empty. In consequence
of the opening of the tower and the erection of the open
was between the choir sad nave, it was decided to alter
the arrangement of the seats, placiig the orchestra at the
west end of the nave, instead of under the tower (by which
much of the sound would have been lost), and by this means
of ardieg room for some 400 extra sittinp in the transepta,
besides rendering the choir available. The congregation,
therefore, looked westward instead of eastward, as formerly.
By this arrangement the organ belonging to the cathedral,
which is placed in the north Male, warn too far from !the
orchestra to be available for the oratorios, sod an Metro.
meet had to be obtained from the stock of Messrs. Gray
ad Davison, of London, fee temporary us.
The programme foe this morals( embraced Parts 1 and 2
of Haydn's Creation, the Overture to Iteadelseoha's St.
Paid, sad Beethoven's Berries in C. The music was only
°occluded just before our parcel wee despatched to catch
the London train.

SoaPtclore DRATEL—Throughout the whole of
yesterday, end sp to a late hour last
N night.. large crowds of
penons congregated in front of the house o. 19, Margaret-
Street, Shoreditch, in colleagues°, of • rumour that a woman
named Mary Aan Birth had bees hood lying dead in • room
In the above house, with marks of severe violeece on her
body. On Sunday night Thomas Birch, the husband of the
dammed, had some frieeds at kin house. A quarrel thee
ROYAL GALLERY OF ILLUSTRATION.-00 Thursday I took Oath between bias and hie wife. When the tripods
next Mr. German Reed inangarates hr autumn seethe at left
hoestosevieg asleep in bed. Is the they both went to bed. Neat morning, at five o'clock,
the Gallery of Illustiation with as Opera di Camera by
the husband (who is a bricklayer) states that he left the
,
Balfe, is owe act, 'Witted Tic &eel*" Qiiens, the libretto at
half-past eight o'clock, he returned home and foundeeehhi,
het dead
being • free version of the popular Freach piece Ne touc/e in bed. There were marks on the stomach and legs of the
pas ala &tee. The sewed part of the entertainnieut deceased. Those own, it is ,feted, appeared to have bees
maim a a wee ja, one act, the music adapted from inflicted by kicks. The police ROM mat amiss engaged in
iavestigatiog the circumateaces of the affair, but they have
M. Offenbach by Mr. German Reed, called "Too Many , Dot .„, arrested any „rimnth of murdering the
Cake." Bias D'Este Finlaysoa, a new soprano, will make ' deotheed. At four o'clock yesterday a post-sioneet enemies.
her first appearance on this occasion. I tioa of the body was made by Dr. Edmunds, but the result
LoNDON PHILANTHROPIC Socuertt.—The annual has sot transpired. The deceased was 63 years of age.
general meeting of the friends and supporters of this old I FIRE PROM PAIWINO Tuarsta.-000 day last week
City charity was held last evening at the offices, Iron. two Ores occurred sear the London, Chatham. and Dover
monger-lane, Cheepside ; Mr. Clarke, churchwarden of line at Ramsgate, immediately after the liaising of trains,
Bishoragate,in the chair. Mr. T. R. Beeps, the hoe. se. the brat in a field of barley, on tJpdown Farm, in the °cell-
a:stay, rant the report, which stated that the society wee , potion of Mr. Stokes. and the latter close by the Broadstain
greatly increasing its influence and extending its operations. station. Considerable damage was done, but both less
lhrnng we past year a vast amount of distress had been were ultimately got under. There had hem three previous
relieved through its agency, and its beach' were highly fires from the roe our on loads Deer to the South Eastern
appreciated by the poor. Last whiter b 72 toes of coal sad Railway ; and the owners have made demands se the re-
-50 toss of bread had been distributed at 178 Mathes in the emotive companies for the damage. The practice of buns-
City and other parts of Loudon, at the Celt of 1,2171. for fog coal instead of coke, without any fender or other an-
imals and 6694 for bread. The society was totally onset. plummy for preventing the sparks flying through the
tabus in its operations, relief being alike afforded to the chimneys of locomotives, has attracted the attention of
poor of every denomination. The grow receipt' for the farmers to particular, and • memorial on the subject will be
past year, winding • balance of 1941. IL. Bd.. had brew drawn up and presented to parliamentearly in issuing
2,332/. is. Bd., being 1547/. more than in 18624. and the yea.—Souf• Sager* Gezeue.
espeaditure, including relief to the extent of 1,8791., had THR RILATIONS BETVIRLY SPAIN AND ITALY.—A
bees 2,1261.65. 3d., leavialt a halloos i• hand on the year Turin letter of the 25th says "Within the last few weeks
of 20ti1. 15s. ad. On the motion of the Bev. Mr. Tyler, thee relations between Spam and Italy have assumed • more
report was adopted. i fririedly character. You are aware that the two govern.
At the Court at Windsor, the 27th day of August, mow have each a charge d'affairm„ who constantly main.
1864, nt. the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in gins effkaal intercourse with the court to which be (is
• its Ibis day ordered by hoe Majesty is Omuta accredited. Not long aeon a consular agent of the Kingdom
that the parliament which steads prorogued to Thursday, ; of Italy, is a small town of Spain, thought proper to put
the 13th day of October neat, be bother prorogued to Fri- over his deer the weeds ' Italian instead of
day, the 11th day of November oath—An:HOZ Comeslate of King Victor Emmanuel.' The Spanish cos-
Gamete. servative party were greatly irritsted by thee change, sad •
MULTI' AND STRINOTH RIINTORED without. media eomplaint was addreeeed to Queen leaballa's 'overawes'.
eine, hiconnedeoce, sr expense by Du Burrs delicious health- Axes rigorous measure wan expected, and certain parties did
rostoring RewientaArabloa Food, which saves afty times lie all they could to provoke it, hat the Spanish ministry gave
out In other remedies, and cores the stomach, nerves, longs. , woofs oif ifs rokmt spina by tame( so alma of the affair,
Hoer, and intestines of all chronic or recent disorders. ocuoo cad IM • umoripare • •e pat up by the caaaaal sum raaisim This
cores manually of dyspepsia 9adigestloel, coontinstioni dlertimui
cough. consamption. 'rutty' °eighty tit old or yew*. , settough of little importance in itself, Devertbeless indi-
Berry sad No. 77, Negros-street. Lon.lon. W. In tins ' ieadly diepoeitions on«en.~f,
the part of the Spanish
b. ; gin.—Ladvertlinsosat.l goveranawat."

Thera were collections both at early morning eerrioe and
after the oratorio, but the amoant wadi not awsertained when
ear parcel was wit off.