The Express.
London, England, 1863-09-01 00:00:00

DRAMATIC, NQUESTRIAN AND MUSICAL
SICK POND ASSOCIATION.

Yesterday the eighth annual meeting of mam-
bos sod saloseihers use held in the saloon of Drary.leee
Theatre (by permission of Mr. Edward Falconer, the lessee) ;
Yr. 8. Ryas. the preadest of the inatitation, is the
ask. There wee a coosidstahle attends see of monbors of
the prelsmics sod patrons of the dramatic att. swept
shwa wese—Meednioss Reddish, Mudded, Maeda s,

sea, and Tanis; Mines Julis.Westoe, Lead, J. Lod,
Moo Clide, J. Bina. Unsaid, Pitt. Conway, sad M.
Mills ; Messrs. Nelsen Lee, Aloe, T. 800, Ocieza R.
E. Phillip, W. H. Elmo, Menages. P.
Poe, L. Ball. J. Pluraptos, Norouis,Ak,lttio, C. Rica,
Dunbar; Captain Dampier, Mr. R. Churchill, Mr. Middle-
mist Omani screen to the charity), de.

The Sultan has peremptorily refused to pay the
prenhur debts of the ex Schema and of the daughters of
the Isle halts.. His sister, the wife of Mehemet Ali, peti-
tioned for a eon of 70,0001. to pay her liabilities, and she
mine mower hes been refereed as to the others—that they
must IA their jewels and their property, but that Dot a
yhotre will be riven from the public caws in additioe to
An liberal allowance which they receive.
The third section of the congress of German
jurtemesidis at Moots has rejected, by a majority of ooe vote
Daly, • proposition made by M. Friss, • barrister at
is favour of abolishing the peosity of desalt, 40
members having voted for the mottos and it spinet it.

"We regret to announce," Bays the Memorial
Diploma " that the state of the Bing of Spain causes
swim unsmaisses. The strength of the august patiset,
after be had undergone a very *slat operation, hem NO-
sibly dinsialebed, a symptom the more alarming, that his
lialsety's constitatioe has never been robust."
Tac ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIRTY.-011 Fri-
day a meeting of the Masons of Easter and ineblemen and
gesaleeme of the omsety of lamas met at the Guildhall, the
megor te the chair, sad unanimously agreed to take active
semeares to invite the Roval Agricultural Society to bold
Ills mooing is Exeter in 1865. 600 i. was sabeeribed hi the
MU.

DINTITILBANCE PT EXCIIRSIONTSTS, AT MATTOCK.
A party. principally composed of men connected with the
iron trade, visited Matlock on Saturday. Shortly after
their arrival, by reason of their copious libations, a regular
tie' centmegoed, and it wu computed that at one time
there were not leas then a thousand men engaged in it.
The shops and public- houses were closed, and the inhabi-
tants betook themselves to the upper portion of their
houses, from the windows of which they looked down upon
the scene below. The efforts of the police were compara-
tively useless. Attempts were made to (ores admission
into several public-houses, and, in one instance. it is said
that two censtahlee were locked in a mom by the mob.
This state of things continued for several hours, when it
was toned seeemiry to send for a reinforcement of consta-
bles from Helper, who were speedily In attendance. The
men were ultimately iodaced to desist, and made their 'ray
to the station, many with their clothes torn from their
hackle, and bearing upon their faces unmistakeable traces of
the free. Tbetiot delayed the departure of the train. eon-
miderably beyond the time specified.

, I SIR B. B. LYITON ON ANZRICAN AUTHOR/L.-
7%0 United State' of America have produced authors re.
markablo for somber sod exoellesoe, cocaidsrlott the brief*
nese of period during which the American Republic hes
. existed—remarkable even for astimial originality, cos-
! sidering th• disadvantage of writing in • language apps
priated already to eodoring masterpieoes in the ;wrest
I Mate. Bat while I. science and philosophical dimes-
, Moo, in theology, is poetry, sod prose fiction, &me-
i erotic America is nib is works which comment :1
admiratios, the main fault of her authorship, and
of her etateernanahlp, In dealing with foreign cooatries, be
base the want of that comity—that ineffably urbane
widow which baa its expremion in good Weeding, sad
without which lisowiedse of the world has Um air of •
clever armee, is sharp practice. The alarms of • filed
&mg t order of reflood society, with its none at
s. 6evettM and balderdash that eaptirats the vulgar.
seem to Issue the mei& pen:optics of genius to the
beendmies between good trite aad bad ; so that, whim I
yawl tair prated orations of Alamitos slatamors, I and
• astitienos of which • Grattan might have bees greed
followed by • tawdry claptrap of which even a Hunt
weakl have been sahamed.—Sir E. B. Lytton, in Black-
wood's Magazine for September.