The Express.
London, England, 1855-07-30 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JULY ;JO, 1855.

of thousands, sad gives thins anew is it. She
bad clothed the dead bones of the old tinged,
with Seel, bad breathed into them a living
spirit. She had peopled the vacant halls of inraginatica
with forms of excelling !nasty. What conqueror him done
so much as this ? The nobles of intellect as well as thou
of the fashionable world bowed down in homage before
her. Chateaabriand, after hearing her recite some pieces,

laid to boy in tones of touching melancholy, "It is sad,
Mademoiselle, to know that things like these are born at
the moment one is abort to die."

After having established her reputation by her per
of Camille, she went through the whole range of
the old elastic French theatre, and undertook the principal
parts in various modern plays. Amongst the former were
Esther, Landis, Ariadne, Berenice, Electra, Ptcedra, Her-
'alone. la the latter may be mentioned Fredegonde,
Judith, Thisbe, and Adrienne Moon . We shall not
dwell upon the peculiarities of her performance
of any of these characters, as we shall have to
notice her appearance at the St. James's Theists'',
tour times during the present week. One of her perform-
ances, however, which it is not likely will ever be repeated,
is too remarkable to be passed over. We ells* to her
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This took place during the hot fever of the revolution of
1848. As if the totals of the Fithian' were not enough ex.
cited, Rachel drove them almost to madness by her tinging
of the great revolutionary ode. She need to appear before
her auditors with dishevelled hair, &eased in a whits classic
drew, bound round at the waist with a ttheoloured;searf.
She gazed silently on the audience for a short time, during
which her countenance gradually changed from an espies.
sion of at jest humiliation to that of withering scorn. Bad•
denly the face lit up with the inspiration of
tremendous wrath. Glowing fires of revenge burned
fiercely in her dark eyes. From a slave, she had
sprung up ta the condition of Fury, whose duty it
was to lash wretched men to deeds of vengeance. She was
no longer a woman—eke was an incarnation of one mad

feeling: Those who heard her recite this wonderful ode
tell us that nothing could exceed the touching change in the
expression of her countenance, lrom scorn to compassion,
al, with one hand pointing to the far distance, she sang
slowly sad softly the opening words—" Ile viennent juique
dans y“ bras ismer vos file, &a." But her stature seemed
to grow, her veins to fill with blood, as she addressed the
imaginary tyrants loudly and confidently in the words:
" Trembles, roe projets parricides
Vont 'LER recevoir tear prin."
She reached still higher degrees of confidence sa she went
on, seta she expressed the most unlimited scorn of the
enemy both in words end looks. Whilst the enthusiasm of
the audience was being raised to its utmost height, she
seized a tricolored banner and, holding it high in the air,
addressed it with veneration In the words—
" Amour semi de la patrie,
Conde'', soutiens nco bras vengeurs
Liberte, liber.6 skirls,
Combats aver tee defenseurs."
No power of language, we are tuld, can ever do justice to
the wonderful expression with which she sang the words
" Libert6, liberti ebirie." A storm of violent passion
swept through the souls of the auditors, and at the con-
clusion of the ode the singer stood panting and triumphant
in the midst of hundred, of listeners, over whom sho
was exercising a power for the moment little leu than
supernatural.

Thom who have not yet seen Rachel and wish to know
what genius and art can accomplish in the way of acting,
should not lose the opportunity afforded them during her
present stay in London. She appears this evening as Camille.

The conditions relative to her visit to the United
States, secure to lidlle. Rachel the sum of 48,0001., with
four basalts, guaranteed to produce 8001. each, and 2001.
per month for hotel expense.. nor representations are to
extend to 200, being at the rata of 2401. each ; ezclosive
of hotel and travelling expenses. Mdlle. Rachel's siaters
receive 2,4001. eacL, and the salaries and expense' of the
entire company, to be paid by the dirsetor during the
tour, antouct to no less a sum than 106,0001.
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The Prophete hu been produced for the first time
at Venice, at La Notice, with Mdme. Banchioli as nap,
and M. Negrini u Jean. The success, according to the
local journals, was greater than on any other stags in Italy.

land reported its appearanos in some plasm, there seemed to
be a general eoncarresee in opinion that if to* maths/
should now take up, this dried visitant will commit few or
no tango' in this year's crop. The exhibition of new

inventions in agricultural mechanics was not 5() numerous
this year as usual, the principal features being Lord Den-
donald's steam tile-draining machine, and an i•geciem
working model of a steam digging machine, exhibited by a
Mr. Philips, en English engineer employed in a Belgian
foundry. Lord Dendonald's invention was pronounced a
success, but there was a difference of opinion as to the
efficiency of Mr. Phillips's, the valuable testimony of Mr.
Muhl himself being, however, entirely in its favour. Any
one, indeed, can see that the substitution of steam power for
horses in agriculture is merely a question of time and de-
tail, u the principle has long been ascertained, and there-
fore every attempt like that of Mr. Phillips should be kindly
received, and, at all events, not condemned without full
and fair trial under circumstances calculated fairly to test
its applicability. In the afternoon upwards of two hundred
noblemen and gentlemen sat down in • spacious pavilion
fitted up by Messrs. Edgington, of Smithfield-bars, to a
lusurious and abundant entertainment furnished by Mr.

Donal, of the City of London Tavern. The hoat's health
wsaggepowsdenmanaly.esemplimentary tarns by the Earl
of Essex, and suitably acknowleJged by Mr. Muhl. Ap-
propriate music was provided by Mr. Young, and nothing
was wanting to wind up the day's proceedings in the most
pleasant and satisfactory manner.