The Express.
London, England, 1863-07-10 00:00:00

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.

Mdlle. Adeline Patti appeared last night,for the
first time this season, in the character of Nods, in Don
Pasquale. Her very delightful performance of this put
last sawn is still freshly remembered, and the announce-
ment ,of her re-appearance in it drew a very full Doane.
She now m►kes it more charming than ever; richer in
comic humour, end more brilliant and beautiful is vocal
execution. Her acting and singing, from the first scene to
the lut, were accompanied by a chorus of plaudita, which
scarcely intermitted for a moment. Mario was !announced
as Ernesto, but he wen disabled from singing by indisposi-
tion, and the part was performed by Naudin with perfect
success. The favourite romance, "Com' a gentil," was
vehemently applauded and encored. Ciampi, es formerly,
was the Don Pasquale, a part in which he is always very
happy. Romani was the Doctor Malatesta, and acted the
part with his original and peculiar vein of humour.

THE WANDERING MINSTRELS AND THE
HOME FOR INCURABLES.

The Home for Incurables has been called into
Winn* for the benefit of a clam of persons who cannot
obtain 11161t•ZIC• in our general hanitale. The rule which
haeishes from the hospital or infirmary these for whose male-
dies miens has no remedy, seems a hard one, but it is ne
oessary in order tint the proper business of those eatab-
lishments, the cure of dines*, should go on. The situation
of the disband incurables is a sad one, the more sad that
they are thus banished from public notice. Without hope
—often without the power of performing the most ordinary
offices for themselves—amidst days of wretchedness, and

nights of agonizing pejo, thee guffaws are in truth a
burden to their friends, who, frequently, are as brainier."
and poor as themselves. Of three only out of the many
terms of incurable disease, 80,000 persons die annually in
England. If to these be added the victims of other forma of
irremediable malady, the number becomes truly appalling.
It is to meet Cana of this description, and especially the
meat of those who, formerly in prosperity, are now re-
duced, by sickness and reverses, to a state of helplessness
and destitution, that the British Home for Incurables has
been founded, under the patronage of the Prince of Wales.
The board of management have bought the very eligible
promisee long known as the British Orphan Aaylnm, Clap-
ham-rise, which hes the advantage of being near the best
medical assistance and easily accessible to the friends of
patients and to subscribers. The new " Home " is capable
of containing about 120 petiolate. It will require a sum of
4,0001. to pay fur the lease and various expenses attendant
on furnishing, repairing, and making the necemary alter-
ations, and it is for these excellent eject* that an effort is
now being made, and in aid of which the " Wandering
Minstrels" gave their services last night.
"The Wandering Minstrels" are a society of amateun
of both sexes, belonging to the most fashionable clams of
society, who, having cultivated music as an elegant accom-
plishment, turn their knowledge and skill as artists to the
account of charity and benevolence. They haveformed a well-
organised instrumental orchestra, complete in all its parts,
and containing many members who emulate professional per-
formers in steadiness sad execution, and play the
best orchestral compositions with spirit and effect.
As on previous occasions, they readily came forward to
serve the excellent institution we have described, and they
have served it very effectually ; for the Henoverequare
concert-room was crowded to the doors by one of the most
elegant audiences ever assembled within its walls ; and, from
the high price of admission, them= realir.ed must have been
very considerable. An entertainment of this kind is not •
subject of criticism : but it is due to the " Wandering
Minstrels" to say that their concert was arranged with
taste and judgment, and that an excellent selection of
music was executed in a very agreeable manner. The
programme included the overtures to Le Cheval de Bronze,
Figaro, and Buy Blau; a election from Guillaume Tell.
with solos (nicely played) for the flute and cornet; the an-
dante of Mozart's pianoforte sonata is B flat, very grace-
fully executed by Lady Katharine Coke, and well accompa-
nied on the violin by the Hon. Seymour Egerton ; and solos
of Chopin and Stephen Heller, played by the same lady,
who, with a professional education, would have been a first-
rate pianist. Miss 31 endes sang airs from the Puritani
and Biyoletto, with a beautiful voice and perfect purity of
style ; and Mr. A.D. Coleridge was very successful in the
" Cujus einem" from Rossini's " Stele Mater." The
performances, taken altogether, well deserved the applause
bestowed upon them.

COXWZLL'S BALLOON. —The ascent from the
Cqstal Palace mounds on Wednesday at 3.30 wee a remark-
ably ene one. It wan made with the "Everdsg Max," the
ems balloon with which Mr. Colwell motoded no the 3rd
inst. before the Prince of Wales. The greatest altitude
attained on Wednesday was one mile sod a quarter. Capt.
Woodgate and Lieut. Grenville accompanied the aeronaut.
sod a steady dement was made in Chevering-park, Deer
Severmaks, at 4.30. Messrs. Glaisher and Cozwell medi-
tate a scientific high ascent from the Crystal Palace au Sa-
turday or Moods
Too Nsw ZMAI.AND Cilium—The New Zealand
chief taloa who are at presto' on a visit to this country
visited the House of Lords last night at its sitting, and
were accommodated with seats below the bar. There were
eight males and three females of the Forty. Lord Brougham
and several other peers were introduced to them, aad con-
versed with them through their interpreter. They re-
mained fur an boar, and watched the proceedings with much
apparent intertet.

LATEST 14TELLIOENCh.

POLAND.

The French and continental press is now
occupying itself exclusively with the Polish
question. The language of the Austrian jour-
nals is significant. With the Wonderer,
war is only a question of time, any arrange-
ment appearing impossible. The Prose of Vienna,
prejudging the answer of the cabinet of St.
Petersburg, says that the Czar will neither reject
nor accept the propositions of the powers, and that
if Austria assents to diplomatic delays, Russia will
gain time, crush the insurrection, and at a con-
venient moment throw the responsibility upon
Vienna. The Prase urges Austria to declare the
reply of Russia unsatisfactory—the only means,
according to the Viennese journal, of arriving at
the framing of an ultimatum and at a decisive

measure
A Frankfort journal, the Europe, believes that
the draft of the reply prepared by Prinoe Gortcha-
koff, and submitted to the Emperor Alexander on
the 4th July, was discussed in a council of minis-
ters last Tuesday. An important section
of the council, it says, declared itself
strongly in favour of conoessions and against war.
The Minister of the Interior, M. Waloniew, sup-
ported this view by referring to the internal con-
dition of the empire. MM. de Golovine and de
Reutern, Ministers of Instruction and Finances,
spoke in the same sense. On the other hand, the
generals who are members of the council expressed
themselves very energetically in favour of an armed
resistance.

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EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS. THERMO/a EMCEEING.

Nothing can be more certain than that the Em-
peror did sometime since purpose to pass a grand
naval review at Cherbourg this summer. The aews
was given over and over again in all the organs
usually employed to forestall official intelligence,
and was allowed to pass uncontradicted. The
date of the excursion has been from time to time
changed, but until within the last three or four
days nobody doubted that it would take place. On
Monday last I mentioned, as one of several symp-
toms which struck me as pacific, a report that it
IMO doubtful whether the Emperor would go to
Cherbourg at all. The tardy contradiction of the
rumoured review in the Monsteur of this morning
must be regarded as a confirmation of the opinion
that all thoughts of war on behalf of Poland
are abandoned. I have no doubt that this was the
determination come to at the council held at Fon-
tainebleau just before the Emperor's departure for
Vichy. IL Gu4roult, who has been one of the
most sanguine partisans of war, admits with
lamentation, in the Opinion Nationale, this evening,
that the game is up. He heads his article " tine
belle psrtie manqude," and taunts France with
allowing it to be said that she " wished" to help
the Poles, but " could not."
The semi-official journals seem to have orders to
speak in the most moderate and unaggressive tone
about Madagascar. The papers which speak of
the old pretensions of France to the sovereignty
of the island and propose an immediate military
occupation are rebuked by the Pays and Constitu-
tionnel, and reminded that speculative expeditions to
distant countries are quite uncongenial to the policy
of the imperial government. This evening the
Pays says that even if the state of affairs in Mada-
gascar should assume a gravity which, judging
from the reports of M. Laborde, the French consul,
there is no resew to expect, there would be no oc-
casion to send out any regiments, since the marine
force of the naval station already in the neighbour-
hood would be able to make a sufficient demon-
stration. In its "Latest news," however, it says
that although Queen Rabodo has informed the French
and English consuls that they have no occasion to
take any steps in favour of their countrymen,
because the new government intends to provide for
their safety, Mr. Pakenbam and M. Laborde had
thought it expedient to send to the governors of
Mauritius and Reunion for some more ships.

M. Fould is at Vichy, and will pass ten days
with the Emperor.

" A fatal accident," says the Moniteur, " oc-
curred the day before yesterday on the heights
above St. Cloud. A carriage, in which were
Mdlle. Augustine Brohan, of the Thiatre Francais,
and two gentlemen, was returning from Montre-
tout, when, in descending a steep incline which
forms also a curve, the horse took fright, ran
away, and upset the carriage. One of the persons
who were travelling with Mdlle. Brohan was
killed on the spot ; the other had his shoulder put
out, and the coachman received some injuries on
the head. Mdlle. Brohan jumped out of the car-
riage and escaped unhurt. The horse broke away,
leaped the parapet which borders the road, and
broke its back." _ _

From further particulars, published by the
evening papers, it appears that Mdlle. Brohan
herself was not altogether uninjured. She
jumped out of the carriage just as the horse was
going over the parapet and was severely bruised.
Her less fortunate companions fell with the horse
and carriage into the gardens, which lie far below
the road. The owner of the carriage, M. de
Romeuf, a young gentleman of 28, had his skull
split open, and died instantaneously. The name
of his companion, whose shoulder was put out,
is M. de Colt 4. The coachman is in a desperate
state. _ _ .

It is announced that the Bishop of Nimes is
about to publish a refutation of M. Renim's Life of
Jesus.
The Bourse is dull, with scarcely any change in
quotations.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, JULY 9.

MIDDLE-CLASS EXAMINATION. ...1111 cOnvocation
holden this day at 2 o'clock, a decree was proposed and
unanimously accepted by the house authorising the dale-
ptes, under the statute "De examination* candidatorum
qui non sun'. de corpore universitatis," to grant certificates,
for the present year only, to candidates who may not have
fully complied with that part of the statute which relates
to the examination in the rudiments of faith and religion.
This decree was requisite in consequence of the Weems of
the tune at which the notice was issued, requiring all can-
, didates to show some knowledge in the liturgical portion of
the examination before they could obtain certificates, unless
their parents should have declined on their behalf en ex-
emanation in such portion.