The Express.
London, England, 1863-05-30 00:00:00

BOMBAY AND MAURITIUS MAILS..

The followiug telegram has been received at
Mr. Reuter's office from the Peninsular and
Oriental Steam Navigation Company, May 29 :

ALEXANDRIA, RAY 72.

The Vectis and Ellora left here with the above
mails at 7 p.m. yesterday. The former may be ex-
pected at Marseilles about the 3rd, and the latter at
Southampton about the 10th June. The Sultan,
from the Mauritius, reached Suez on the 25th, and
the Jeddo, from Bombay, on the 27th instant. The
Salsette left Suez, with the English mails of 12th
to the 18th May, on the 27th ideal.

A correspondent of the indipessdance Beige says :
—"The chapter of Milan Cathedral have resolved to take
part in the totes of the Statuto, which occur on the first
Sunday in June. This decision will probably be adopted by
all the clergy of Lombardy, but in the other provinces of
Italy, except perhaps in Sicily, the Name result must not be
expected."
Tax HEALTH or GARIBALDI.—A resident in
Labia, Signor Giacomo di Lurie, having sent an invitatige
to Garibaldi to pay a visit to that island for the benefit of
his health, recently received the following reply :—" Signor
di Lusio, I thank you for your kind letter, and for the
Interest you take is my health. For the present I cannot
stir from Ospreys. Here my wound is healing day by day,
and I hope to be soon well."
Tim Sum CANAL Nubar Pacha, the new
Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs, is expected from
Alexandria during the coming or following week, to settle
once for all on behalf of the Viceroy the question of the
' Suez Canal. The answers of the Britiah and French govern-
ments to the despatch of A'ali Pasha on the subject are
looked for about the same time. It is likely, therefore,
that in three weeks or a month this long-vexed " diffi-
culty " will hare received its solution. From the tone of
the Forte's note, it is easy to forecast the probable nature
of the settlement.—Leosat Herald, May 20.
REDUCTION or POMACE ON LETTERE TO SWEDEN,
FORWARDED ST SWEDISH MAIL PACEITT.—OH the Ist Jaw
next, and thenceforward. the postage of Wises for Sweden,
I forwarded by the Swedish mail paateta from Hull to Got-
tenburg, will be reduced to the SARIS a as that now
levied epos letters seat via Belgium and via :
F letter not exceeding , L. ; above aral ent
eexceeding ox., 2a. ; above 1 os. and not exceeding 2 oak,
fa. ; every ounce after the drat, 2s.

[TWOPENCE'

MUSIC.

SACRED HA.II.MONIC SOCIETY.
The Creation wan performed at Exeter-hall last
evening, and drew an immense andienes. The ball was so
crowded that seats were extemporised by placing chairs
wherever it wu possible to And roan for one. Nor was
this surprising, for no work of its class is so fresh, so beau-
tiful, so full of sunshine, as The Creation. Of its beset,
there never has been any question, though its claim
to sublimity has been disputed. Bet if " Tbe bosoms
are telling the glory of God • is not sublime. •
then we cannot imagine when sublimity is to be
found. The solo-singers were Madame Lemmem Shaming.
ton, Mr. Swift, and Mr. Weiss. All of them did full
forties to their parts. Madame Sherrington new adds to
her other aceompliskments that of being a sound oratorio

singer ; and her style of singing " With vu don clad" and
"On mighty wings " was as pure as it was beantifaL Mr.
reputation is thoroughly established, and be well
maintained it on this occasion. The Sacred Haremaie
Society, no longer having Mr. Sims Reeves for their timer.
probably could not find a more satidactery eubstituto than
Mr. Swift. He is not a showy, demonstrative singer, and
may perhaps be deemed rather tame. Bat this, we Waite
would be a mistake. His manner is quiet, and his style is
per. sad simple. Hs ham a full mellow voice, sad passoes
khellt Sails sod sepssoier - -