The Express.
London, England, 1862-03-11 00:00:00

THE OUTWARD BRAZILIAN AND RIVER

PLATE NALL&

SOUTHAMPTON, MARCH 10.

The Royal Mail Company's steamship Magda-
lena. Captain Sawyer, sailed hence this afternoon with the
monthly mail/ for Bahia. Pernambuco, Hio de Janeiro,
Buenos Ayres. Monte Video, &c. She took 41 passengers,
and on (night—gold coin, 5001. ; silver coin, 2,0001. ;
jewellery, plate, kr., 2,0841. ; French jewellery, watches,
he., 5383/. ; also a full cargo of French and English mer-
chandise.

On Saturday the sth of April and thenceforward
lettere for paosengen on board the Cuiranl Mail Packets for
America touching at Queenstow u, provided they be &amused
to the care of the officer iu charge of the mails ors board of
such packets, and be registered, may be posted in any part
of the United Kingdom, up to the time at which registered
letters intended for transmission to America by the same
packets ate received, and they will be delivered ea board
the packets at Queenstown. After the same data, lettuce
for passengers on board the Mediterranean packets about to
sail from Smthatnptoe with the mails for India may, ander
similar conditions, be posted up to the DIMS time as regis-
tered tertian for India. The letters should be addressed
thus : Mr. , on board the mail packet
at Queenstown (or Southampton). "Care of the Aker in
charge of the mails.:

THE GETHIN (MERTHYR TY DYIL) ACCIDENT FOND.
—As there hi ea impression in the public mind that • per.
tion of the surplus fund, received on behalf of the sufferer*
at the Hartley Colliery accident, will be appropriated to the
general relief of sufferers from mining accidents throughout
the country, end therefore that the sufferers at Merthyr
Tydril will be bloodied thereby, we deem it necessary to
state, that the iseesstittee at Newcastle, having cl'e of
the food, have resolved to apply it only to cars occurring in
Northumberland and Durham. Noble aseistence has been
rendered to the sufferers in the north, sod we now plena
for an equally distressing cause, although sot so extensive,
in Wales, and trust that this explanation will eooduoe to
help on the fund being reined at the Manakedionse. Loa-
don, for the sufferers at Merthyr Tvdvil, on behalf of whom
1601. bed ban reoelved by the Loyd Kars to Wig IBA

mrrsic.

PHILHARMONIC SOOiHTY.
Lest Mgt the Philharmonic 'Society entered
upon its fiftieth season. It was founded in the year 1813
by a lion body of the meet eminsitt English musloisna of
that day, and during half a esatury bar done more for the
progrees of music, particularly orchestral music—the special
object of its being—than any other .sasociation or insti-
tution that we have ever heard of ; its influence not
having been confined to this country, but having
extended over the whole notsicel world. This suf-
ficiently shows that it wan originally based on a solid
foundation, and that its ovum of mansgonent, into what-
ever emus it may occasionally have fallen, has been upon
the whole wand and judicious. Had it been otherwise
the Philharmonic Society could not have reached its
fiftieth year with unabated strength, vigour, and reputa-
tion; sad this notwithstanding the growing rivalry of
younger bodies of a similar kind. That this is truly the
society's condition—that it enjoys "a green old age "

must have been apparent to wiry one who visited the
Eanoversquare Rooms La sight; for ware* the coo-
art was as brilliant and ea autenerful es any that the
snakily has given at any point of its existanor.
We observe that at the nest coasert, on tbs 24th se this
math, flgahr's gnat eynipliony, DieWeilte der Time Ohs
Pawed Ism% and }batboy's's Eighth Symphony, sib to
ba gives i mil that Kiss Arabella Goddard is to play Bless.
eh Bessut'sCLprioe in E major, sad arraigns and logos
of Eishistinn Bath.

BIRMINGHAM MUSICAL FINTITAL. —An official
Mara was published yesterday, showing the resets of the
last Itheningham FeetivaL heat this It 'poem that the
amebae at persons &Mead* tie four days' performances
was 11,800 ; the total naives amounted to 11,453/. 10s. 3d.
The amount at the " dosatloas and oollections" received
duriag the festival was 1,35 W. 10a. sd. ; subsequent to it,
1.54 W. 4e. 3d. The total expenditure was 8,2891. Ilk lid.,
there having beliculailV upwards of 500 whams.
Of this amount " received 2,3171. ; orchestra,
2,322/. 7s. 6d. ; chorus, 1051. 15e. As to the " net pro-
ceeds," 3,0001. has boss handed over to the " Gaseral
Hospital." sad the Wiese el 1631. 16e. 4d. will be Mad-
larly appropriated is due mum.