The Express.
London, England, 1864-12-22 00:00:00

(COMMODORE NTJTT wad M.INNIE WARREN.
XYXBY KYENING thla week. at sight olock, at Bt.
James's Ball, Piccadilly. 011 BOXING-DAY and during the
Holidays, THAL& LEY= DAILY, via., 11, S. and 8 o clock.—
Admission, Is, and Pa reserved atolls, 3s. Children under 10,
half price to b. and as. places.

TIDE LONDON PAVILION.-LAST WEEK
of Protestor RIDMOND—the Great Vanoe—the Lawn
andly—Operatie selections, every evening. Astounding novel-
tis in preparation for Lltristataa Re-appearance of Madame
onaner.

THE OXFORD.-ORPHEZ AUX ENFERB.
Comic Open, Offenbath, in enimequence of ita great
/WPM. will be EVERY ZWEN 'NO. Director, Mr. F.
Jonghmans. The AUBANS, end aR other available talent.—
Mastodon : Arm ed. stalls and balcony. la. : private boxes,
Its. ad.—The Oxford and Canterbury Rail Meow (Limited:.

SOUTH LONDON WORKING CLASSES
INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION.

/SPECIAL soricsi
INTENDING 00)1PETIT0118 tar MEDAL DESIGN'. Designs
must be lodged by December Elst, 19AL
Intending Exhibitors should send In tbeh• application for space
on or before Jemmy End, 1616.
GICUSGS M. MURPHY, now secs.
J. J. FILF.DESICIE,
66, Ifinchley.roed. S.

WOOLPACK TAVERN, St. Peter's-alley,
Cornhill —A capacious and handsome Room, with
GRIDIRON on the first door, has been lately opened, where
Luncheons, Dinners, and every requirement are served with
the same excellence that haa obtained for the house Its WO
reputatlos. N.B.—She best MORINO ROOM to London.

VALUABLE PHILOSOPHICAL INSTRUMENTS.
MR. J. C. STEVENS will SELL by AUCTION,
at his greet Rooms, SS, Ring-street, Covent-garden, TO-
M. 'BROW (Friday), Dec. 38, at !tattooist IS precisely, a Ant-clams
ASSORTMENT of MICRIMCuPFS, telescopes, steam engines,
electrical machines, theodolites, magic lanterns and slides, air
and
pumpcatidogness, guns, photographs, de. On view the morning of sale,

Thls day is published, In a handsome 4to volume, with a Portrait
of Mr. Leech, Woe 21a,
LATER PENCILLINGS FROM PUNCH.
By Jona Laacu. With Explanatory Notes by MAIL
LTMON, Editor of Punch.
Also, uniform with the above, pries Its.,
EARLY PENCILLI NOS FROM PIINCIL By Jona LIMML
Bradbury and Evans, 11, Bouverie-street, EC.

1317NCH'S ALMANAC K for 1865,
Illushsted by J. Z. MIUJIS, RA.. Jona Team, C.
KEINE, F. WaLcsa, and O. Mumma, la noir ready.

PENNY READINGS.—POPULAR SONGS,
*t of easy compass. " Happy he thy drams," 2a ed.
" Chime again. beautiful bells." Is. Id. "Ithylis Hawn." 2s. dd.
"The Liquid Gem," 2... lid. "Her bright smile Daunts me still,-
21. CI Miss M. Lindsay's "Bridge, to Pd. "What are tha
wild waves saying?' (duet`, Ss. "The Village Chorister"
Ss. "The Flower Gatherers" (duet), Ss. "The Gipsy Coun-
tess" (duet', Mt "Jenny of the Mill," ga "0 love my Willie,"
2a ed Kathleen anon." Ss. Id. "Oh, ye tears." 2s. Id. " Your
boy in blue," Ss " God bier the Prince of Wales," 35.; ditto,
four part song, 2d, Ibe above compositions are always received
with applause.

Catalogue mar be had gratis and pod free,
containing the Hest four bars and words of each song. also n
large Cats-love of Glee., Part Stings, Anthems, Ac.
London Robert Cocks and Co., New Burlington-street, W.
All musicsellews.

THE COMPANIES ACT, 1862. The Forms
ud Amount Books required under the above not, ale*
all other Elude of discount Book., with every Stationery re-
quisite for Subtle Companies, the Counting-house, Re., rap-
plied on the beet term. PrinUng of every dataription.
Share Certinactee Zogrand and Printed; Odicial emla de-
igned and meets&

lah sad nat. Atbetalsost. 1.C.. and Loudon Ma" e. &

SOCIETY OP ARTS.

Last night the usual weekly meeting of the
society was held ; Mr. W. HAWES, chairman of the council,
in the chair. The attendance was very tumorous.
The articles emit in competition for the art workmanship
prises offered by the society were arranged In the room for
the inspection of members. and attracted much attention.
This is the wood exhibition of the kind which has taken
place in the society's room, the first having been held in
October, 1863, when 72 works were received in competition.
The subject on which the council decided to award prises
were modelling in terracotta, plaster, and wax ; reponse
work in any metal ; hammered work in IMO
braes, or copper ; carving in ivory chasing in metal,
enamel painting on metal, copper, anJ gold ; painting on
porcelain, inlays in wood (marquelit7 huhl), ivory or
metal ; gagman as Pro, and embroidery. The prosiest
exhibition showed • marked improvement over the last one,
and will well repay a visit to the society's room.
Mr. FOSTER read "A short review of the society's past
and present action in the promotion of industrial educa-
tion," on behalf of Mr. S. T. Davenport, the writer of the
Pe Per.
In the discussion which followed, Mr. COLE took camp.
tion to that portion of the paper in which Mr. Davenport re-
commended that manufacturers should be compelled
to send in specimens of what they had to sell
to a great national museum. He thought it was even
a mistake to compel authors and publishers to seed oop es
of their works to the national libraries. With regard to
the present exhibition, although it was not whet, it was
• great improvement on the last, and promised more for the
future. There were many of the articles which would
probably be sold ; and be was not sure that some of them
would not go to the Kensington Museum. The specimens
of wood carving were very good, and the samples of glass
mosaics afforded the prospect of moth future excellence.
It was hi;bly probable, from what he saw, that
glass mosaics would be largely used for decorative purposes,
and as this was a branch of industrial art which could be
successfully cultivated by females, as was evident from the
productions before them, it was peculiarly desirable that it
should be encouraged. There might be commissions for the
purchase of some of the articles in wood and glass on the
peat of the Kensington Museum. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. BLARE. Mr. GRAHAM, Mr. WLECKWORTH, Mr. GOD-
WIN, Hr. WATERROESE HAWKERS, MI...JONES, Mr.SLIIONDS,
Mr. PALMER, A:. continued the discussion. Most of the
speaker; admitted that there was an improvement
in the present over the last exhibition, but some
of them, especially Mr. Godwin, considered that
the contributions did not answer the expectations
of the originators of the scheme, or the ioducernents which
were held out by the council in the shape of prizes, which
amounted to between eM. and titkit. Suggestions were
thrown out that the artisans should be allowed more liberty
than the conditions imposed by the mooed allowed, and
that the great City companies should be asked to co-
operate in the fostering of • higher degree of industrial art.
On the conclusion of the discussion a vote of thanks was
passed on Mr. Davenport, for his paper.

Tex CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY AND THE LONDON
Bangs.—An effort is being MOlitt to close the London Banks
on Monday at noon, and the following paper is in course of
signature :—" We, the undersigned merchants and tredets
of London, desiring that the clerks of the various hanks be
not excluded, at the close of a laborious year, from the p-
oem' holiday, on the 26th inst., hereby signify our readiness
to co-operate in the effort to close the banks of the metro-
polises 12 at noon on that day."
The establishments of Sari and Sons, 45, 46, and
47, Cornhill, will be closed fromi Saturday afternoon until
Tuesday moraine.
ROYAL GALLERY OF ILLUSTRATIDN.—Mr. Reed,
without interfering with his own entertainment, in which
he is assisted by Lis clever wife and Mr. John Parry, will
revive the opera di camera of The Soldier's Legacy, and
the adaptation from Offenbach, called Too Many Cooks,
on Tuesday morning next. Every Tuesday sod Thursday
will he set aside for the representation of these works. The
performance will commence at three.
THAuKERAY AND LEEt:l3.—At a meeting of old
Caribou:ins, recently held in the library at the Charter-
house, it was resolved to erect two tablets within the Hos-
pital to the memories of Theckeray sod Leech, and also to
fund two annual prizes in the school (or proficiency in
English literature and drawiog respectively. The funds at
present in hand for the purpose, collected wholly among
old Carthusiana, amount to about 300L—Ouardian.
Nrri.EY iluserrAL.—Mr. W. B. Page, the land-
scape gardener of Southampton, has received orders to lay
out sad plant the grounds surrounding Netley Hospital.
An extensive terms in front of the hospital tea been
domed with edam. A cemetery has also been ordered to
be laid out and planted at the back of the hospital stout a
quarter of a mile distant. The Queen takes considerable
uttered io these improvements.
FAT POULTRY IN PARIS.—The exhibition of fat
poultry, which opened yesterday at the Petals de Plodus-
trie in the Champs Elysees, was very numerously attended.
The rooms appropriated for the purpose an the seven which
were devoted to the exhibition of paintings. The birds are
laid out oa shelves covered with blue paper, which shows off
their whiter's's to edvantage. The different row. are orna-
mented with garlands, and each has an escutcheon bearing
the some of the department in 'Lich the poultry has been
bred. There are in all 306 lots, comprising 5,067 animals;
mot by 167 exhibitors from 22 departmeatia—Gdignaai.
EATERS Or HORSE MEAT.—ID the last sitting of
the Paris Society for the Protection of Animas, the vim-
president, Dr. Blatin, announced that be 'net proposed to
the government that the sale of borseffeeh as an article of
food should be permitted in the French capital. The subject,
he said, had hem submitted to the Council of State for
decisMe, but in the meantime the Simms of St. Viaisset-de-
Paid, Rue de Foncoceier, distribute every Someday to the
poor one or two hones, in addition to the beef distributed
by the Bureau de Beiolaimam The applicants for that
meat are so numerous, the hon. gentleman stated, that all
cannot be setiabsd.