The Express.
London, England, 1863-04-01 00:00:00

A THEATRICAL KISS.

A French journal gives the report before a jus-
tice de pail! of a claim made on an actor of one of the small
theatres of the suburbs of Paris, for a certain number of
kisses, and • certain amount of tender squeezing on the stage.
We get to know exactly by this amusing incident of real
life the cost of a theatrical kin, aooordiog to the dramatic
laws of ih• stage in Femme. A high and noble authority
has aid—
The Mu you take la pall by that you glee :
The joy le mutual.
That is a poetical estimation, a love's young dream sort
of estimation of embracing. Hear the prose story. One
M. Narcissi" appears before a justice of the peace, sed,address.
Mg the judge, says—" Monsieur Is juge, I'm • dramatic
actor. I play the parts of lovers in • theatre of the Ban-
lime. My parts oblige me to be extravagantly paniooate,
excited, and enthusiastic. I'm obliged oceasioaally to love
women of all ages, of all conditions of life, actively and
weeveriegly sometimes for a couple of hours together.
Love-making may become laborious, Monsieur is juge. and
even repulsive and annoying, if one is obliged to make love.
Well, sir, and will you believe it, all my lire, devotion, my
artistic amorous skill, so unceasingly addreesed to the pit,
has got me into grief." Judge—`• How so?" Nudism—
" Parbleu! I gain only 100 fr. a mouth for running away
with young ladies, making love to confirmed coquette',
and often seducing unsuspecting innocence, and they want
to make me pay 150 fr. for articles delivered." Judge—
" Articles delivered; sod pray what were they'" Nar-
eine—" Kinn— (much laughter)-150fr. for one man to
pay for such trifles ! That is what M. \Wein demands of
me for, in fact, kissing hie wife on the stage whilst playing
my rile." Judge—" How is thls ?" Valsia—" It is a very
simple affair. There are certain regulations which belong
to all theatres on the subject in questien. Art. I says,
' When an actor playing his rat is called upon to kin • lady,
he shall only appear to do so.' Art. 2. ' Any actor who
shall really Mee aa seines without her previous formal
consent, shall be fined Mr.' Art. 3. ' Pressing sincerely
to the heart pays a Gee of 2fr. 50c.' Now, Marches has
. vigorously eeibeaedmy wife ten times, and unmistakably
. kneed her 25 times, for wig.* I demand 150 fr."
Nar-
ctsse--"The pries is beyond all reason!" (Laughter.)
Vs/sie—" I deemed that we, according to the usages of
the dramatic law." Narcisse—" Come, let us compromise
the matter; there are faults on both sides." Voisin—
, "Good !" Narciase—"l stole 25 kisses!' Vann—
" Yes." Nareisse—" Well, thee, I offer to return them !"
Here the wart lost all its gravity and the judge dismissed
the case, referring the matter to • higher oonrt of justice.

Under the impale and guidance of the Working
Yeas Club and Institute Union, the movement for the
formation of clubs nod institutes for the industrial climes
makes steady progress. Additional clubs are almost daily
being established, and there is s growing desire among the
managers of oicohaaice institutes to modify their constitu-
tion so aa to allow al the adoption of club features.

GLASGOW, TIMIDAT Moira
Early this morning Lord Palmerston ;wood
ponied doe Lord Provost and the trustees of the Clyde
navigation in an inspection of the Riser Clyde. One
Ram Rams' memoilked etas ships, the Royal
steamer Wolf, was plied at tie disposal of the condom kei
the purpose of the iaspeolim. The noble lord arrived at
the pay is an owes carriage at half-met tea. amompuned
by the Lord proved, with when be has hero idyls& and
the Right Ron. W.
was
His prdgreso
through the city: to the q was a perfect ovation ; shoed
all Glasgow smembled to do to him, and the noble
I lord apprized greatly gratified at the warmth of do mem.
firm Ameeg doom invited
mere the anient Ara%
Lord Doeferoolino, the Lr
Hope, Sir 11., Almon. Kr
M.P.. Ma Cram Ewing,
Right Rea. W. Corm,
Colonel Sfr J. R. Almisadow,
the Ron. 3. Artily, Prl
Ilimbew and Ddinharlist,

bake,
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hired 9,IPIP•Pk,
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oh rewe
Wen, whose warm cheers
the Premier. Upon reaching

ipid her Majestys ■hlp Hogue, carrying Lord Palniarstoa's
flog as Lard Warden of the Cinque Ports at the fore.
The yank of the Hague were mooned, and • sal•te
of 19 gnu was Arad, which was responded to by the
hand of the 29th Begimest, which was stationed on board
the Wolf, playing "Bale Britansia." A dejener was pro-
vided on board by Mesas. Ferguson and Forrester, through
the liberality of Mews. Barns, the owners of the veineL
The ship itself was an abject of great interest, being nearly
new, and having been built on the lines of • sister vessel
which bas sot been equalled in speed, and which has re.
peatadly run the American blockade.
Lord Palmerstoo landed at Greenock, where be was re-
ceived with immense enthusiasm. Upon reaching the Tows-

The Provost of CREMPOCK presented an address. He
reminded Lord Palmerston that ten years ago, when
Lord Russell visited Greenock, be was the Art to as-
Donna approaching troubles with Reasia. The coati-
nental horizon now appeared doodad ; but he trusted that
on this oocsion, through the armed of his lordship and
the moral inflame of the great powers, the sword would
be returned to the scabbard with honour, sod that sub-
stantial beadle would accrue to the appeared Poles.
Lord Paxicoureon, in reply, expressed hie deep sense of
the kindly way is which Lis SirriollB had been estimated.
He was glad to say that he had only to hold out the " me-
sdames pada arrangement. with of her udder"
His lordship wee subsequently entertained at a luncheon,
at which Proved Grieve presided. The hall was crowded
in every part, and the galleries were mod by the presence
of a goodly gathering of the lactic* of Greenock. A band
played various popular airs at Litovsk, and great enthu-
siasm was excited by the performance of a Highland piper—
the piper major to the Highland Rifle Corps.
The usual loyal and patriotic toasts having been drunk,
Provost GRIMM proposed "The health of Lord Palmerston."
Lord Pause:won, who was received with great cheering,
dwelt upon his attachment to Scotland, and his admiration
for her creative genius and her industry. "If, " continued
the noble lord, " I have succeeded in obtaining the
goodwill and approbation of my fellow-countrymen
—if, in soy respect, my public laLoure have been &Ivan-
terms to the country, it has been owing to two
things alone—it has been owing, in the Ant place, to a
needy dean to perform my duty is whatever position I may
have happened to be placed. It is owing in the next
place, and mainly and principally owing, to that generous
and enlightened support which the people sad parliament
of this country have always afforded, and always will afford,
to any minister who endeavours to do that which shall be
most consistent with the interests of the country at borne,
and with its honour and dignity and security
.abroad."
(Cheers.)

In the evening Lord Palmerston attended a
soiree of the working chums in the City-hall. About
2,000 masons were present ; Mr. B. atUaLlllll., Y.P. for the
city, occupied the chair. The chairman haring opened the
proceedings, an address on behalf of the working men of
Glasgow was presented by Mr. Cullen.
. . .

Lord PaLisiMerni, in reply, said—lt is one of the best
privileges of those who are charged with the
conduct of affairs in a free country to have the happiness
of meeting—as I do to-night—large bodies of their fellow-
countrymen. (Cheers.) Those who conduct despotic go-
vernments are separated by impassable barriers from the
greet bulk of their fellow-subjects. They have not those
opportunities which we have of coming face to face—of
making personal acquaintance—of obliterating those pre-
*Dom which often are created by want of mutual acquaint-
rice—and they suffer from it in • way which ought to
make them desirous to convert their system of go.
verument into one similar to our own. We, who are charged
with the government of the country, are obliged, as a
matter of duty—and we have opportunities for doing so—to
become acquainted without perhaps much personal incon-
venience with the wants, the wishes, and the feelings of
the great mane of our fellow-countrymen. But the great
masa of our fellow-cluntrymen are not so mach is the habit
of personal intercourse with those whose duties keep them
away, and who are engaged in other spheres, and many of
them no doubt believe that a minister of state is a tort of
prim, etiff•looking gentleman—(a leugh)—looking as if be
had swallowed a poker—(a laugh)—and not animated
by those feelings of sympathetic congeniality which ought
to inspire the heart of every man who has the
conduct of the affairs of his fellow•eoantrymeo. Bat
when you get a live minister, as I hops you often will, you
see that he is very much like one of yourselves, and that
mutual intercourse is beneficial to both ; that it increases
his sympalltywith you, sod that it augment' your confidence
in him. (Cheers.) After referring to the spread and
operation of free trade, his lordship went on to show
the mutual dependence of capital and labour. He con-
tinued :—Now I address you to-night in a double capacity.
I think I may be entitled to all you friends, good friends,
and fellow-labourers : good friends you are, and such you
have amply shown yourselves to be. Fellow-labourers, I
contend, we are, because we all of us labour assiduously,
end we hope not without eneoess, In the service of our com-
mon country. (Cheers.) Our sphere of action mry not be
the same, but we both labour in the same way; we
labour with our bands and brains ; and I out tell you that
though our labour is of a different hind, it is not very
different in degree that our halos are constantly working
and our hands are hardly ever without a pen in their
fingers—(cheers)—and therefore I feel that there is a
sympathy between us, that we ought totters mutual regard
one for the other, that you ought to feel that those who are
working for the service of their country to the
best of their belief and to the best of their ability, are
doing the same thing that you yourselves are
doing, namely, exerting the faculties with which God hes
endowed us, for the benefit of the country to which they
have beau allotted. (Cheers.) You have been
pleased in that address which I have had the
honour to receive to advert to the course
which I have pursued together with those whom I have had
the honour of having as colleagues in the transaction of
those affairs which we have had to manage. Well, really
gentlemen, we have done no more than I believe any one
of you under similar circumstances would have dose. We
have had the good of our country at heart. (Cheers.) We
love and adore our country. (Loud cheers.) We believe, as
I hope you do, whether rightly or wrongly, that it is the
first country in the world, sod we have upon all occasioss,
to the beet of oar omvictiou and oar ability, endeavoured to
promote its welfare and interests, whether at
home or abroad. (Loud cheers.) We have bees,
think, successful in the first place in main-
taining peace whenever and ea long as peace could
be maintained. There have Idea odesionally interruptions,
bzotmtvhoosi.:
oifn
theterru people of
otwelenguaciiktrthwhaledgveedbeebyntetwunaafori•
by a due regard to the interest, the boom, and the dignity
of the country, and upon those occasions we have bees, sup-
ported by the voice of the nation and ifs representatives is

commie el England Gould thee he Bielemed to with
moms. (Cheers.) lam persuaded that you, gentlemen.
and the rest of the people at England think that we Wed
right le taking that decision. (Cheers.) That war lama, in-
deed, Milleted deep suffering and privation upon a large par-
tial' of this amustary—lase perhaps in point of extent here
I. Glasgow than in Manchester and other tows* in the me-
neacturieg districts ; but even here it must have been
grievously felt, and many persons might have thought that
we, by taking part in the °Detest and declaring ourselves for
one side or the other, might have put an end to that
privation and terminated those sufferings. But that
would have been a abort-sighted view ; and depend
upon it, if we had taken that course we should have failed
In our project, and isicreseed Instead of diminishing the suf-
ferings which we intended to alleviate. (Cheers.) We
have always endeavoured to mast by all legitimate means
in our power the development of those principles of govern-
ment, which form the happbsees mid prosperity of this coun-
try among other natioto who are willing to adopt them.
And the success of oar endeavours has been great, became
where some 20 years ago there was hardly a state on the
continent of Europe which enjoyed nos titutional govern-
meat, there as now heavily a state which is ow shape or
another has not the advantage of some met of popular re-
, presentetion.

Biz lordship resumed hie seat shortly slug 10 o'clock
amid great cheering.
The proosediap were brought to a elms with addresses
from Mr. Sheriff NU sad Mr. A. Hinosird, Y.P.

THE BARTER MONDAY VOLUNTEER REVIEW.

The volunteer review appoinied to take place
at Brighton os Monday next does not draw forth anything
like the amount of excitement which was manifested re-
specting its predecessors. The came interest may be, and,
we believe, really is, takes is the display; but there is
nothing new to talk about, and the quiet way in which the
arrengemente are being carried out gives no scope for popu-
lar ocevematios. Of course domestic preparations are
busy, and any person who comprehends in the least what's
what, must have come to the right conclusion respecting
those heavy Pickferd vane which were rumbling through
the streets yesterday end Monday, and were eagerly dis-
gorging their loads of beer down plethoric cellars. Metro-
politan volunteers will apparently and no lack of their ac-
enstacied malt breads in Brighton- At Present this is the
moat notable sign of the "coming event."—Brightme
accordion.

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