The Express.
London, England, 1864-10-10 00:00:00

SADLER'S WELLS.

An original romantic play by Mr. Robert
Bochum, the author of " Undertoure"—a volume of
poetry of more than ordinary beauty and promies—wee
produced at Sedlien Wells on Saturday eight, under the title
of The Witch Pinder, with a fair =mat of moms.

INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION AT THE AORICUL•
s rrataz, HALL.

Great preparations are making at tNe Agricultural
Hall, Islington, for a North London Working Clause Indus-
trial Er.hibitioD, to be opened at that establishment oa Moo-
day, the 17th inst., by Earl Russell, who has undertaken to
preside. The object. of this exhibition, which is node the
patronage of the Earl of Shaftesbury and a host of distin-
guished and philanthropic) gentlemen connected with the
metropolis, is to bring together as large an aserudgege as
possible of works of an artistic, scientific, and useful
character, the production of the artisan who is the exhi-
bitor, manufactured in the ordinary way of busies's,
being specimens of superior workmanship, or of novelty
in design, new inventions or original contrivances
Ito 'encomia* labour or time, and useful, artistic, or
ornamental articles which may have been produced
is spore hours, whether by working oleo or working women.
For the most superior productions in the various depart-
ments prizes are to be awarded in the respective ditems,
and although during some of the day exhibitioue the Agri-
cultural Hall is to be opened to the general public at *charge
of sixpeoce, with a view of enabling worktog people to see
it, and to bring its advantages within the reach of every
member of the industrious and humbler claws of society,
the admission fee is to be reduced each sewing from seven
till tee o'clock to twopeaoe. • series of public meetiuge
have been held in various parte of the metropolis in support
of the project, and at the last, held on Friday everting at
the Parochial School-rooms, Amwellutreet, ClerkenwelL
Mr. W. Watts, of the general superistendeet's department of
the London sod North Western Railway, the hoe. secretary,
gave some interesting details of the progress and prospects
of the forthcoming exhibition. He stated that the society
had disposed of 1500 'pub papers ripple application for
awe, sad upwards of 900 had been already returned, duly
filled up, stating the IMMO of space required and the
character of the work to be exhibited, and no doubt the
whole of the remainder would be received by the day and
boar specified in the ensiling week, so as to be included in
the catalogue. The Agricultural Hall was almost reedy
for the reception of article*, and on Monday morning (to-
morrow) the committee would commence with the reception
of pictures, which would require artistic arraDgensent, sod
the whole of the preparations would have to be completed by
eight o'clock on the monis' of the opening day, Monday,
the 17th. The guarantee fund, from noblemen, gentlemen,
and others supporting the movement, now ',Downed to
over 3504, and Mr. Samuel Morley had also gives his
summates personally for 1001. The programme of the
inaugural ceremony includes the services of Miss Louisa
Fyne, Miss Lerner, Mr. E. Gale', Mr. Lewis Thomas, and
other of our first-rote prokeekaal artistes, and a choir of
upwards of one thousand voices, the sessical armegerneste
being conducted by Dr. James Wesley, of Wirsahester
Cathedral, who will preside at Willie's grand organ. Earl
Russell, K.G., will be conducted to the platform, as chair-
ere, at 3 p.m., by the committee and akar% and on
being seated the choir will sing the husdredth m, " All
e that on earth,"Ac. At its conclusion Mr. .J. Watts,
cot see., will read the report, and the chairman and com-
pany inspect the exhibition. Oe Mani' to the platform
Earl Bmmell will deliver as address, sad dsaLre the exhibi-
tion ogres. A special ode, composed by W. IL Bellamy,
Faq., and set to music by Dr. Wesley, will then be song by
Miss Louisa Pyne and others, and prayer having berm offered
up by the Rev. Robert Maguire, M.A., incumbent of Clerk-
en well, the inaugural ceremooy will imealude by the char
and assembly singing the National Anthem. The object is
as excellent one, and the support it is receiving from the
industrious classes themselves, as well as the general tinblic,
is calculated to insure for this novel and useful exhibition
the mast perfect sticcees.-06server.

NAVAL AND MILITABT.

ADurnw.r:' Ocr. B.—Ancor/m(II2M —llv:t-
-umult H. Roes, remedy promoted from the Detteoe to the

Engineer J. Mears, to the Asia gnardahip at Portsmouth,
for special charge of the machinery of the Fairy Royal
Yacht Moder.
Midshipman L. L. L. Bevan, to the AAIUN.

PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 9.
The Vesuvius, 6, steam sloop, Commander R.
V. Hamilton, arrived at Spithood this reorniag Iran the
Wen Indies. She has only been is 00011Mallea about two
yell&
The Porchaeter, movict-eltip, arrived at *pithead yostoe,
day from the eastward, and will to-morrow tanbark about
80 prieoners from the convict prima for conveyamm to Gib-
raltar.

Tb Royal Allred, which wu laid down as a two-deck
liso-of•battleahip, bat has been built se a friirato to be
hited with iron, will b. Lucked from this dockyard ori
Batarday west.

The following ship are now on their way home,
or have been ordered to Imre theft statiose for England :
The Marlborough, 121 guna, sod the Foxbousd, 4, from
the Mediterranean ; the Jason, 21 guns, the Riaaldo, 17,
the Greyhound, 17, and the Berraeouta, 6, from Nail
America and the West Indies ; the Ariel, 7 gum, from the
Fast Indian cad Cape of Good Hope stations ; the Tartar,
20 inns, the Weirdos% 4, and the Vulcan, 6, from Chloe ;
the Minuada, 15 guns, and the Monier, 17, from
Australi►

A Silt' &won= FOR Barnett CoLi:Nem—lt I
has bees weaned that alum bishopric shall he forthwith
formed for the extensive colony of British Columbia, about
7,5001. having hen reined for its indowmeet. At the seat
mann of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel it
will be proposed that LOCO& shall be appropriated towards
the endowment of lb. sew see. The Bishop of Columbia.
in making an application for the rush stated that the
colooy had now two governors, and it was most desirable
that the ecclesiastical and civil divisions should be canter-
mines. The seat of the newlynoestituted see will be at
New Westminster. from which place the bishop will desire
his title. The Bishop of Columbia has appointed tne Rev.
S. Gilson, M.A., of Gratwich, Staffodahirs, to the arch-
deanery of Varsooever.
RZLItI lOUS 13121VICIM IN TH ZATRIII4. —Yesterday
evening several of the Loodoe theatre. were opened for pill- I
gious services. At Sedler's Wells Theatre there was an
ovarwbalniiing annijragation, the enviee being endeeted by 1
the Rev. Joshua Kirkman, 11. A., of Queen. College, Cam.
bridge, incumbent of St. John's Episcopal Chapel,Hamp-
stead. At the Pavilion Theatre, Whitechapel-roarLtheseeries
was conducted by the Rev. Henry Madam, M.A., rector of
New Beckenham, seat Norwich. At the Maryleboae
Theatre there were present as many people as the plan
would hold, the service being conducted by the Rev. J.
Cliffqed, M.A., minister of the Baptist Chapel, Preed.street,
Paddington. At the Standard Theatre, Sboreditcb, which
was very full. the service was conducted by the Rev. J.
Beasley, minister of the Congregational Church, Black.
heath. The Surrey Theatre was filled in every part, and the
service was conducted by the Rev. J. H. Hutchens. retainer
of theCoogregatiottal Church, Peckham. ry e. At the Britanaia
1 Theatre, Hostoe, the service w..s conducted by the Rev. A.
M'Auelend. All the services were very heartily rendered,
' and the people who assembled were almost entirely of the
working dowel. These were two special services yesterday
at St. Jantes'ahall, that in the morning being contacted by
the Rey. James Fleming. Coegregatiooal minister, of
Knotish-town, end that in the afternoon by the Rev. Lake
Tyermas, a minister of the Wesleyan Methodist &moraine-
lion. The last series of theatre services manned of 115,
mender, by about 161,800 pawns, making so all from the
commenement of the effort to bring the poor to theatres
on Sunday evenings, 559 services, etteeded by 865,100 per-
son. These have beets seclusive of the services at St.
James's-hall, which are promoted by other pagodas.
&mous Gus ACC [DIGIT. —On Thursday Mr.
Bothell, a nephew of the Lord Chandler, was out with a
shooting party at Captain Sawyer's, Ravenewood-pest, soar
Wellington College, whoa be met with a severe aseideat,
and shattered his left bud by the discherp of the menet.
of a gee. The thieved part was amputated by Mr. Buford.
nisdkal *Meer to Weillegton College, and so fez Mr. Bethel
is Deepening favourably.—Reediwg Mercury.
OILYMIIAL PAL•OII6. HALT-CROWN DAT. —I3ATInt-
DAT. Ocr. B.—Achninces on menet, 1,193; ditto by
slam Wine, 3,108 ; total, 4,301.

The boisterous gusts which Mr. dArndyce, of
"Bleak House," hated, and only Professor Kings-
ley loves, have been raging here during the week.
Whatever may be the comparative merits of a
winter's wind and man's ingratitude, au autumnal
one, if it does not outweigh the latter in unkind-
ness, is certainly more difficult to beat. Philo-
sophy, reading sacred and secular, or personal
experience has prepared most of us for the one,
but as everybody is ruefully deviating, we have
no business here with the other in the present
month. Blowing as it listeth, destroying comfort,
reddening noses, rudely exposing aucles, and moist-
ening eyes, this most sturdy of Boreases and most
blustering of ratters has affected all amusements
and interfered with our out-dour pursuits. The
bathers from a boat who, spurning the boxes upon
wheels, are rowed out to sea, have perforce foregone
their morning's dip—the machiura themselves have
been comparatively tenantless—theft has not been
a sail in sight, both fishing-boats and yachts being
weatberbound in the basin at Shoreham—and
full as Brighton undoubtedly is, both morning
promenade and afternoon drive suffered in the
early part of the week, from the unseasonable
inclemency of the days. "If it were March
now it would be different, but in October it's too
bad," said a fair *resigner of the decrees of Nature,
and her sentiment has been widely echoed by
shivering mortals who, in every variety of gay
attire, have been regretting and pining after warm
sunshine, or, in default of that, their winter clothes.
Bright and clear it has been throughout, fair and
smiling to the eye, but cruel and pinion withal, as
is • heartless beauty to the victims within her toils.
Indoor amusements, such as shopping, novel reading,
and crochet or Berlin wool-work, have progressed
a pace. Pretences at the two latter occupations
have been, however, despite the cold, gone through
in public as well, and it is comical enough to mark
how every available bit of she:ter has been dis-
covered and invested by the invading horde
of ladies, nurse girls, and children. Not a shingly
hillock, nor an old boat. nor a heap of stones, nor a
bathing machine, but is treated as an alcove and
protects its constituents from their common enemy,
the wind. But the shops 1 Are there are any better
in the world I Is there a set of tradesmen in any
place of fashionable resort in Europe who exhibit
choicer taste in their selection of goods, or more
thoroughly understand their customers' needs 1
Such of them as have branch establishments
in London seem to keep the cream of their
stock here, and it is not the least curious
item in Brighton life that fur articles of luxury you
seem to have an equal and more convenient because
more concentrated set of depots here than in the
metropolis. Lounging in and out of shops without
purchasing is elevated into a science. No white fibs
about "calling another day," or hypothetic refer-
ences to some absent Mrs. Harris are necessary.
Ladies and gentlemen may and do look round, ask
prices, and walk out without even alluding to the
possibility of becoming purchasers, and in almost
every instance are smilingly welcomed as people who
conform to the metope; of the place. But, happily by
the Thursday afternoon the wind has lost some of
its bitterness, the sunshine has fair play, the bands
and itinerante have goodly audiences, and science,
literature, and the town yield in attractiveness to
music, wind, and stringed Ethiopians, male and
female, performing birds, fancy puppies, and the
shore. After fire days' imprisonment, the yachts,
the dredging and fishing boats, are released from
their durance, and dance over the sparkling waves
towards Newhaven and Dover ; the bathing is re-
sumed, and the open air flirting, lounging, and
goasipping are carried on under less adverse circum-
stances than before. Stroll along by the esplanade,
and you are surrounded by familiar London faces.
The lady playing with the black Newfoundland,
and playfully initiating him into the arts of fetch-
ing and carrying, is a celebrated actress ; the
quiet-looking gentleman throwing stones into the
water has performed prodigies of valour, and
wears the Victoria cross ; here is the most popular
lady novelist of the day; there the youth-
ful co-respondent in one of the most
notorious divorce cases of the year. The children
of Judah are especially prominent. Liquid-eyed,
glossy-haired, and beauteous, as well as fat, oleagi-
nous, and coarsely gorgeous, they constantly
suggest the problems : how is it that perfectly
lovely girls become such plain middle-aged women,
and by what mysterious dispensation is beauty so
often attended by the beast in the shape of • repul-
sive looking male relative or friend, who is curled
and oiled like the oft-quoted Align= bull I Leda
and Phryne are here, of course. Exquisitely neat
sad simple hi morning attire, more elaborately but
still tastefully got up for the afternoon drive, they
might easily be taken for the high-born daughters
of a noble house, were it not for certain subtle
indications gleaming through and about the veneer
of simplicity, and suggesting Pompadour playing
at dairymaid, or Dubarry pastorally paying the
homage of vice to virtue. Over and show,
all these are the regular family types in great
variety. Papas whom you have not seen since
Monday turn up again to-day. Children, loving
couples, ancient ladies, pretty girls and swells make
up the rank and file of the procession. The fee-
-1 famed Jasper and his brother boatmen, in great
spirits at the change of weather, tout for custom
with urbane pertinacity, hoarsely whispering " A
fine day for ground fishing, Miss," into the as-
tonished ears of young lady deep iu "The Doctor's
Wife," who turns timidly away, like • modern
Andromeda terrified at • sea monster. Sbylock,
in straw bat and seaside suit, makes a pretty
pendant to Lai; in her robe of white, or to Phryne,
with lilies in her flaxen hair. Beyond him, again,
stroll • newly-married couple, lady glossy icliant,
self-conscious, and • little proud, gentleman rather
taciturn, and full of the sheepish arrogance which is
a characteristic of the bridegroom of weak mind.
Such are the figures daily to beaten strolling to and
fro above the shingle and on the brown-patched
green. " Cockneified" is the gravest charge brought
against Brighton, and as long as Cockaigne is the
chosen capital of the wealth, intelligence, and refine-
ment of the first country in the world, its favourite
sea-shore may proudly welcome the reproach. A
shrewd observer recently remarking on the contrast
between Scarborough and Biarritz declared the
rosy happy children visible at the former place to
more than compensate for the absence of the brit-
liaut dames, whose extravagant toilettes and fasci-
nating airs are so noteworthy on the French sands.
To a holiday-maker fresh from sunnier climes, the
healthy beauty and "thoroughness" of the Euglish
girls seen here at every turn form a charmiug con-
trast to the sallow attractionsaud coquettish graces
o
f the Southern belles, and should be a sufficient
anodyne even for the pains and petulance due to
. the biting wind.

SEITIOTS ACCIDENT TN CTIELIESIDE.—On Saturday
morning, as Sergeant Timms, am of the City polies force,
who has not been more than six months promoted to the
superior otHos, was attempting to oroesCheepside, near Bow
church, be was knocked down by the horses belonging to a
comes omnibus, sod trampled upon. He was so wanotisly
injured th►t It was found secomary to remove him at once
to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, whirs be new lies in a criti-
cal stem _ _

—irlllE IN Fuar-srairr.—On Saturday morning,
shortly before two o'clock, a fire broke out oe the premises
of Mr. O•orge Meek, embosser sad pricier. No. 2, Crows-
mart, Fleet-street. The dim:ovary was etude by SOU, of
the imams cm the premises beiag measly suffocated by the
basted smoke, who they discovered the premises to be ow
fire. By dist at eery pest 11.11101•16111 it was subdued. a good
supply at water Wag at hoed. bat not until dame.. wee
dome mound% to nearly LOON.
ROYAL Pita BOSPITAL, ORAT'S-TNN-ROAD.—The
mambo, of palms relieved at this hospital during the weak
emits( Bth October was 3,726, at which 1,314 were new