The Express.
London, England, 1863-06-04 00:00:00

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

(armee razazufs.)
THE POLISH INSURRECTION.
ICALI9CH, Alm 2.

A sanguinary engagement has taken place near
Orochow. A large number of waggons with
wounded Russians arrived here to-day. The
Russians returned from the engagement consider-
ably reduced in numbers. The fight appears to
continue, since fresh troops were despatched from
this town to-day fur the scene of action. Up to
the present time the insurgents have remained
masters of the field, having captured two cannons.

THE GREEK THRONE.
OOPENHAGEN, It= 3.

On Saturday next the King will reoeive the
Greek deputation at Christiatieburg in solemn
audience, in order to announce to them the accept-
ance of the crown by Prince William. A grand
State banquet will afterwards take place.

TURKEY.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Joint L

Emir Pacha has been appointed Chancellor of the
Divan and Commissioner in the Conference on the
affairs of the Herzegovina in the place of Zia Bey.

THE BOMBAY AND MAURITIUS MAILS.

The following telegram has been received at Mr.
Renter's office from the Peninsular and Oriental
Steam Navigation Company :

" MARSEILLES, JutE 3.

" The Vectis, with the above mails, arrived here
at 2 p.m. this day. The mails leave for London
by the 4 p.m. train."

THE ACCIDENT ON THE BRIGHTON RAILWAY.

At the Grenadiers' Hospital, Westminster, there
are altogether 27 men at present, and moms 10 or 12 are
temporarily confined to barracks with bad asetasions. The
wont caw was that of Prime, whoa. ribs were badly frac-
tured. At first he was given over, bat he rallied under the
@kill and attention bestowed on him, and is now well on
the road to recovery. The poor fellowi feel moat deeply
the sympathy felt for them by all cleans, from royalty it-
self down to their owe comrades. Her Majesty and the
Prince of Wales have made continual inquiries after the con-
dition of the sufferers, and a special report is made daily to
the Commander-in-Chief by the general in command of the
district, Lieutenant-General Craufurd.
Yesterday afternoon Colonel Yollancl, government in-
of railways, held an examination of the pined,
Tecalrer., who was in charge of the train. He also examined
the driver of the 6 p.m. train from the Victoria station. It
had passed over the down line a few minutes before the ac-
cident took place, and also passed the train to which the
accident happened. The driver did not notice any swills-
lion, and everything seemed right. At 4 o'clock Colonel
Tolland was conveyed by a special train from Victoria sta-
tion to Strestbarn-eomnion, accompanied by the following
officials:—Mr. J. C. Craven, locomotive superintendent;
Mr. Francis, superinteedent of Victoria station ; Mr. Hield,
chief impeder Yr. Rigby. inspector of the permanent
way; and Mr. Joseph Craven, locomotive superintendent
at Hew-ernes. After • minute and careful examination of
every part of the line, the old rails that had been torn up,
the signals, sleepers, chain, kc.. the party returned about
tea minutes to 7 o'clock. ins investigation into the cause
of the accident is still being proceeded with.
A passenger by the ill-fated train Isis :—" At Croydon
we were said to be 20 minutes late. To have made good
this time in the short distance of 10 miles was an imposed-
bility ; but the effort to do so was terrific. Never in my
experience of 20 years' railway travelling, by express or
special trains, do I remember having been driest at such a
pace. For many hundred yards before the accident took
place I had been compelled to stretch my feet to the edge
of the opposite seat, and to hold firmly to the carriage to
keep my body steady, such was the oscillation from the
paw we were going, when suddenly, with very little
increase to the violence of the motion, the dust, peb-
Mee, and stones arose in clouds, and told too plainly
that we were at last off the lines. On rushed the
train, little apparently impeded in its rate of speed
—the rails had ceased to rattle ; each second. how-
ever, added violently to the movements ; the carriage I
was in bounded and rebounded from the up line on to the
down line, end back again, and then, turning on its side,
was dragged for another second, when • terrific crash
broughtt the entire train to • etorge,lnatantaneously heap-
ing•
found ourselvese
at Sr and t
thsamaYcolerunigonm, aonnytreWyeary 8020.
or 900 yards of the line, of all others, where the speed ought
to have been slackened, in consequence of the great curve
which here exists as necessary for the construction of the
line, and the safety of which was not amply provided for
by the proportionate elevation of the outer rail. The engine
had run against an embankment of about seven feet high, and,
suddenly being overturned, bad as suddenly burst.
This instantaneous stoppage at the pace we were going
no doubt increased the shock After the accident,
the first orders were to take steps to prevent the approach
of other trains; at the same time • party were sent to
Streatham, • distance of • quarter of a mile, to procure axes
and other Implements to extricate those who were forming
part of a living heap, groaning with the agony of their
broken limbs, which they were unable to extricate from the
closed teeth of the splintered woodwork that held them
fast. Heartrending, indeed, was it to be • witness to such
suffering, and to be unable to render assistance. The de-
sired means of succour speedily arrived—some of the party
following with a supply of water temporarily to relieve
the sufferings of the wounded. Well-judged axe-blows
succeeded each other, and as each sufferer was re-
leased, with the last utterance of the fainting voice, be
thanked his God. Many lay apparently deed, and for some
I time the loss of life was thought to be great. Preparations
I were in the meantime going on for transporting the wounded ;
I with portions of the broken fragments of the ironwork the
doors of carriages were being wrenched off, and on these
each wounded person was cooveyeel a few hundred yards up
the line, there to await the arrival of Use train which had
been telegraphed for, to convey them to London. It was
a distressing sight to see the long line of wounded
groaning under their sufferings. Soldiers, old women, and
children were beside each other. Mrs. Chilvers lived to
suffer for nearly half an hour. and with many others was
conveyed to the village of Streatham. The first train ar-
rived about one hour after the accident, and was entirely
devoted to the wounded, who proceeded to London under
the charge of surgeons sent for that purpose. The scene
that now presented itself was one of great confusion, for
trains that had been stopped sent forth their restless pas-
sengers in hundreds, who flocked to the spot, greatly to
the discomfiture of those still on the ground. It was half-
past 9 before I reached London. Although I am unin-
jured I experience au indescribable feeling of giddiness..
accompanied by • restlessness of my entire nervous system."
The funeral of the two soldiers, privates of the led com-
pany of the Grenadier Guards, who lost their lives on the
occasion of the above accident took place yesterday, at
Kemal-green. The bodies of the deceased men were
conveyed in separate hearses from the military hospital,
Rochester-row, between one and two o'clock, followed by a
cab, containing the widow of Stone, who was married, but
has left no children, and friends of the deceased. At the
cemetery they were met by the major part of the company,
and volunteers from other companies of the regiment. The
bodies were carried to their final resting place by eight
Grenadien. A firing party was formed under the command
of the sergeant of the company to which the deceased were
attached, who at the close of the service fired three volleys
of musketry, the usual military Mamma oci the burial of
a soldier. A number of panting had assembled in the
cemetery to witness the ceremony.

EMIGRATION PROM MANCHIVITRIL TO VICTORIA.—
The following is an extract of a letter received from Mr. J.
G. Knight, acting emigration agent for Victoria :—" Man-
chester, June 2.—This morning, 100 (single) young women
will take their departure from the London-road station
for Southampton, whence they are to sail for Melbourne
(Australia), in the Robert Small, one of the vessels char-
tered by government for the special eis of emigrant..
It has a surgeon-superintendent and n atron, and on the
arrival of the girls at Melbourne they will be re-
ceived, not into • hamck of the objectionable kind
described by Miss Rye as an institution at Dunedin,
but in a government depot, which consists of •
series of rooms and buildings securely protected from in-
tension of every kind, and to which access can only be ob-
tained
by an order from the emigration agent in Melbourne,
The ship has a libeary of 500 volumes, part of a stock of '
many thousands which has been contributed within the last
month by the public benevolence, in response to my
in the London papers for • ' few books.' I have also-
fur-
nished the ship with copybooks and other educational
materials, to be made nee of during the voyage. Sane of
the girls are well qualified to instruct their companions. I
have selected them from the rooks of those receiving relief,
but as much as possible from a class not closely ideelified
with the work of cotton mills, and well suited for domestic
lonics on their arrival in the colony. I ern sanguine of
being able to take from Lancashire and Cheshire large
bodies of emigrants whose withdrawal will sot be felt as •
Ices by the cotton ends, and who are sure to &Aida sol-
o ployment in Victoria."

MUSIC.

NEW PHILHARMONIC CONCERTS.

The fourth of these coucerts took place at St.
James shall hmt:aight. coder the direetioa of Dr. Wylaos
The programme was as follows :

PAIS I.

-- -.
Overhue 'Oenoven)
Zia, .• In al barbara" IStniramine). Madams
Ahonl

Dpubt Sympbo!)y ard!icbes untl.od44.llellas

irn kletisen Ilse Good SiodEsil
Passions ")
Aria, "AA non area" (Marls dl lisideno,
Mr. Renwick
Serenade and Rondo Ololoso, pianoforte, Mr
Charles Rolle Mrndelasohn.
Variazione "Al doles!, canto," Wain. Alboul Rode.

Overture (Oberon)
_
The Pastoralnymphouy Beethoven.
Brßußst, ..!!! vugreto" !Laurent, Borgia) _

PART 11.

Weber.

Overton (II Mato Itagtoo)

DoulzattL
Mosul.

This programme does not call for much remark, as all the
pieces which it motels/ are more or lees known to the mablio,
Schumann's overture to Gi norena is a specimen of the ultra
modem German school, a school which has many partisans
in this as wall as its native country. It does not take
however, with the English public, for we have not beard
any of its production■ otherwise than coldly re-
ceived. A constant straining after the profound
and the mysterious comes in place of the
simple and natural beauties of melody and harmony.
The "Double Symphony" of Spohr, too, though it Iva many
admirers, has always seemed to us one of the mistakes of a
great man. In the latter period of his career, Spohr took to
writing descriptive music, and produced several orchestral
works in which he far exceeded the legitimate powers of
music as a descriptive art ; and this symphony seems to be
one of them. It is in three parts, or movements. In the
&et the composer endeavours to paint the freedom of child-
hood from bad and stormy passions ; in thi
second he represents—or profanes to represent—the
evil passions and influences of manhood ; and in the third he
describes the calm of virtue and devotion after the storms of
human life have passed away. It must be evident that
Spohr, with all his knowledge of the philosophy of his art,
mistook, in this instance, He powers and objects, at-
tempting to employ it in the expression of abstract
ideas and moral sentiments, to which musical sounds
have no greater analogy than to a mathematical demonstra-
tion in Euclid. Accordingly, this symphony, though
lutenedio with the respect due to the illustrious name of its
author, never excites the slightest emotion, nor, indeed,
creates any other feeling than weariness, though this is
seldom avowed in words. Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony,
likewise in the above programme, is also descriptive music.
But how different is its effect ! It is within the limits of true
musical description, and fills the mind with • train of the
most delightful images. Of the other tostmmental pieces
it is sufficient to say that they were played superbly, and
received accordingly. biadame Alboni Nang three of her
favourite pieces. and wen eel .inied to the echo. The hall,
as usual, was crowded to the down