The Express.
London, England, 1855-08-27 00:00:00

MUSIC.

L ILUDIGHAM MU4TCAL FRSTIVAL.

BIRMINGHAM, SUNDAY Monirtnit.
This C::lsbrated trimoial music tasetiog C0111111Met•
Da Tee.. Issuing. T. puparstioas—this year on a
noir of t....„7.altsrie Iwyond those of asy furore wastes—
Wrest the festival with snit more than tho ordiaary Waren
whist' always attached le thIMIB• litsetttl 01 oar
meetings 'he Birmingham Talks] has always essabianl
tha thsro.s of nevelty with the splendid chatteter of the
parforesseee; an this sessokos th• imam suss& say sleet
in that wsy saw atomised. Of seams lb. greatest of all
is C.sta's laaSfilb Oh). abdalt I. usderpiag as simosst sf
reparation Is pospartisa to the squats& sad Impactsaos
of am awl. •

out Lee of the yregraants has already been gives ia
Its Harm & £ word sr two may 'sew be said in r►
forwme tke *herd and onboard streagth. The lestru-
mental bn I ie at least am stress it was is 1852; it numbers
145 perks men, die balk .1 them being minted from Um
mom eminent metropolitan artists. The " quested" of
.triaged iustramener is 1011 stroag ;'the poste fee the Sates,
abate, sksirstm, tramps% and kerns are doubled, there
beteg Mut of each lastrament ; there us three trombones
mil three him, an ophecleide, two semen% sad the used
beenseast!. of poreassioe. The list laded*. all the orehmtral
is.. of the motsepolia Bat lb. peeuliarity of the aweigh-
lag feedval will. in all probability, be the perfection' of the
Mad arrungesuats. The highly moomplished gondola**
wile sets v. achestral steward saw how little addenda& had
beta paid t. this matter, and resolved to remedy it. Oa
this 0110114311 every raise has bees easefully molested, sad
the room. rat panes( the choir areaapd with the inmost
nirety. 'At reed host will coadst of 321 velem, thu
: -80 sopreass, 80 sit is, 82 teaors, and 82 balms.
Of the et.•...te lumber seedy two bandied are ambers
of the Biriniagbasa Choral Society, who--bsiag kept wrier
active and chalet perpotaal drill by es 'moot sad pins-
tatting &Ma& is Mr. iltimpeon, the Tows-hall orgmaist, is—
mey be presumed to be well up to the yak ; indeed, they
are la &vital diseiplime and eillciesey. Is addition to these,
el are Mooed Irma leradsta, sad rather more than that
number frau the asighbourboed el Bradford, in Yorkshire,
them Livia( gaud for thernadvee a deektally high rept.
tattoo. Mr. Gate arrived here last Wednesday; Mr.
Stimpeon bed boss hard at work leas before, mad he sad
Caste have rehearsed their "thuds" several dates dam;
and there have hoes many rehearsals both is Lariat sad inl
Yorkshire, the great aim being to secure dellesey sad peed-
nica in the execatioa of the shorter*.

The thermoset Kr. Costa's oratorio Eli have been Dermal
tines rehearsed withia the last few drys. The feeliag appears
to be gathering sung* far sad wide that it le to he s most
massestal feint, mad that to his gnatjane as a readmits
Costa is now to mid the aerie el having added something of
a Leong Monster to oar amiss' Baikal literature. Ap-
plisatioas token ite lest pufernean have Moen remind
fro ansiesl amateurs I. all parts of the souatry. The
applications far tickets fir Wedaseday morning mat
fez mooed what they have one hoax for more than
twenty jean, which is the summit of the seam we have had
ts °Manias Miasmatic"' ou that mbject.

The buli“ting for reserved mats wameninseed na Friday,
and closed lest night. Oa the first day the ballot was for
the perforousame of Tinsley and Weds/day; the mete
applied fir exceeded by nearly four hundred pounds the
elm• two i:ays of the festival of 1052 To-day the ballot was
fa. the Oates of Thursday sad Friday. The Messiest is
always performed oa the Thursday morning at this festival,
and the 11411 has, as invariably, been full. Three years slime
the suet:saes was larger than it had ever been before—the
Hall was crammed; but eve, then there had been Is. them
thirteen t swirled tickets balloted for. This morning there
were fifteen beached guinea Whets applied for at the ant
ballot. These are sachtaive of the Presides{ sad Vice.
President's tickets. Reserved:places are out of the gaieties ;
but what it to he don. is respect of strangers who are
pouring into the town, and bays not yet applied for tickets
for that particular 'morals& nobody can till ; at least it
shows this, that people will att ad a musical mania,
when it is notaries@ that the mule la date well, and it is to
the decline in this that we may eseribe the dachas of the
rest of our rovincial festivals. For the performer... of
Friday marring the applicatioas for tickets have bees very
aumereas ; is fact, notwithstanding all the complaints
about the depression of trade, and so forth, it is a feet that
op td last (vitals( the places positively taken for the four
days' performances exceeded by a thousand those of 1862,
sitbbugh, ev we' have shows above, the meant received at
that festival was, with oast exception (the year the hall was
optima), the aswest amount ever taken.

It boa Wes Doted that strangers are lacking into the
town ; iD loot, the plate le already crowded with visitots.
The nob:e president, Lord Willoughby die broke, has
arrived in the neighbourhood; and the nobility and gentry,
and wet *see Ilene, but the tradesfolk are filling their II
bouts, end dispensing their hospitality with that profs's.,
sees which is se eharnateristie a festers in the Bireinghans
festivals.

Then is to he au latereetiog eeresemy here le•moirrew.
The statue of the late Sir Robert Peel ie to be Inaugurated
le tb. pregame ef the mayor sad orepeestion ; and though,
there le little to be Jose %lead the preseatetion, bu the,
Row. sad RIM. °nothing Yorke Or Admen ef the sew
mitre.), of the statue to tbo botosib, Urn bp we to be a
voty 'mamas siorablop.

THE CRIMEAN SANITARY COMMISSION AND
THR ARMY HOSPITALS.

That governateat are alive to the certainty of
anther w.e•ee easpeigs the Crimea i apparent Rant
atrargessests now Sias carried on is thr smiatry, sailer
Mr R. &pillages, civil nagisen to the flealtary Connie-
st,o, and to whom is due those improvements in the stoats
of the coop sad hookah lately described by his serdisal
brother CollitniPiOnef, Dr. Satherlsad, is the seirepaptirs.
Lord Possess bas jest directed Mr. Rawlinaos to sleet
sweb seen sod materials u shall, is his judgment, reader
the British hospitals ia the Etat as eespMte es suitary
!swirled's sad 'age log shill as devise. Fortunately
the savers wooed from • sans' ball sastaia•d by Mr. Raw-
iiasokaader this extraordinary circumstances described by
Lot Rani,..n, sad which compelled his stars, is sentiently
healed to permit of sons attendant* to these duties ; for
though portion el the boss contests to exfoliate from the
aostused hip, be is able to son about and sperintend
the eseentioa at the direction he say give. Tiro fret
effort to be wade is for the cur* of the abomination
which abound ia the Turkish quarts:o4 oar establishments.
For this purpose Ware. Dalton, of Limbed', are =akin'
200 -oil pane, with 10.000 feet of drain pipes and junction.
The sou to set these, and aid in introducing the needful
hyrionic tames' throughout the sphere of our operations
on the Bosphorus, will consist of about thirty-four, divided
into miaow, oarpeaters, blacksmiths, end assistants, and
will he at:ached by Mr. Rairlineon to Sir Joseph Pastoa's
Avery Works Corp., or selected from that body, and
estruitcd with the special are of the hospital., ttc., S these
met Its.

Piston's •otp• will set osly take the place of flit
'Calms reta's tumults is maiotaiaing the rail, ay, bat are to
make reedit, dig treaches, put up hats, and perform all the
lath at amnesty for the comfort and well-being of the
army.

Mg/ENOS° MUSICAL FESTIVAL.—The Hereford
fts•iv,6l broveht to a close on Friday night by a fall
drin bell at the Cosaty-ball Dutiec the week there was
collected at the cathedral 7981.114.9 d.

EXUIBITION or PAINTINGS AT BRIGHTON.—We
rejoice to BA that the town of Brighton has taken a step in
the right directioo for the promotion of the fine arts. A
society with this ctueet has been formed, under the patron-
age of the Lake of Richmond, the Lord Lieutenant, sad of
many other leading noblemen and gentlemen of the county
of SYMMS. They intend to bold acne,/ exhibitioos of works
of a: t, and bees commenced their operations by annovecting
an 4 xhibillin of paintings by living store, to be held in the
Pavilion, in the months of September, October, and No-
weener, the town council having liberally placed at their
rele,Tal • large room in that unique palace. Nanserous
art's*e of etrOnsnoe have already promised to contribute to
the exhibitioo, and every day is addiogeo the liat ; end from
what we learn, we have no euisht that the strenuous efforts
meteing by tke committee of management will be crowned ,
with seacerr:s.

DAM 011, ORNERAL TORRESS, K.C.B.—Wo mpg
to airsonner the death of Najor•Qenersl Sir Arthur Welles-
ley furring, 8.C.8., who expind at Paris ea Friday last,
21th inst. Osumi Tomas was Imo of her Majesty's
Unalieissioners I. Paris. Ile was the wooed *ono( the lat.
K•jor-Q I Sir Hoary Torsos, K.C.8., sad Adjutant to
the Pones. and we, hansom the is b of August, 1809, awl
anasetuseatly In his 47th year. H. eossenanded a brindle
of the Fourth Division In the Swim *lmpairs of 1811.
Inehediad the battles of Salukis's& *ad lakenaana. I. tat
lamp battle be was serrrely wounded, sad to the result se
legalism's, attended with istAtiavaation, hie &ask b 'outbid.